The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-26 00:00:00

which it was couched, in language that unVa'
tionably betrayed the Ministerial spirit. If Lord
NORTH could be resuscitated, and a new petition
were presented from the North American depend-
encies before they had ventured on a declaration
of independence, greater indignation could not
have been exhibited at the impertinence—the
audacity that induced persons smarting under
serious grievances, to express their feelings in
strong, and unmistakeable language. They should
have appeared as serfs—
" With bated breath, and deep humility,"
to represent not their " complaints." What right
had they to complain of anything sanctioned by
the collective wisdom—but their modest requests
that the matters put forward should be inveeti-
gated, and that no irretrievable step should be
taken until the result of that stringent inquiry
should be ascertained. LEGRER himself was not
more astounded at Uncle ToM's absurd idea, that
lie was not a slave, in soul as well as in bedYl
than the Noble Duke at the tone and manner of
the petitioners. They dared to use such exPres-

sions as the following :
" Your petitioners submit that it is the bounden dati
of the State, which reduces them to their miserable con-
dition, and keeps them in it from charter to charter, t°
spend a far larger portion of the revenues upon the ilia'
provement of the country whence they are derived than
it does at present. It can find money to carry on wad
to
for self-aggrandisement, to allow immoderate salaries
its civil service, to pension off the whole of its member:
on five hundred pounds a year each, and to pay inteSt r:k
at ten per cent. to the proprietors of East India o
—all from the labour of the ryot ; and when be re
quires roads by which he might find the means of bette-
ing his condition, and that of the revenue, he is told that
he must make them for himself." •
This is one of the three selections from a vcii
long document, consisting of forty-one 010019
printed octavo pages, and when this is put_ for-
ward as a specimen of the boldness and audaelv
that renders their memorial unworthy of notice'
we can easily conceive the spirit of virtuous inclig;
nation that actuated the Duke in his protes
against its reception.

Another point is their objection to support

couple of State Establishments for the Prefe°^.
sors of a foreign creed." This, with their
reasonable and ridiculous application that the
establishment at Haileybury should be abolisbecil
or rather that " the educational institutions, re'
quisite for training persons for Government eral3l4o
might be established and maintained in Inclia).L
that the money derived from the revenues of t4'7
country by which they are supported, maY 1
spent within it," was characterised as " the ow
monstrous request ever addressed. to a British
Parliament." It is necessary, then, for the friend
of India to be up and doing.
It is clear that the Government measure will
have to be resisted. Let all, then, I
love Equity and Justice, who desire mat
we should. administer the affairs of our °rl;
ental Empire with a mild and beneficent
rule, look to the petition of the Madras Natjsr,,
i
Association (which has been referred to the select
committee on the affairs of India), and see how f3e
the statements therein contained warrant tilt
demand for further inquiry, and a postponsulelif
of any permanent legislation until the result .°
that inquiry be ascertained.

Embroiled as the Viennese Government hss
recently become with the Government of Cons"
at
tinople, it is essential that amongst ourselves,
least, there should be- no misapprehension vrli %
ever as to the real origin of the quarrel betweem,
the •KAISER and the SULTAN-CALIPH--MOre egli;
cially seeing that the contention referred to c`'ef
stitutes a new and very formidable source
anxiety to the rulers of Christendom. It bebesl lA
every conscientious Journalist to submit the nall
truth in this important question to the calm, te
deliberate, and conscientious judgment of "ive
British population. Such, moreover, we conee,,,,
should be done at the very earliest opportim„l4
and with the utmost possible degree of lucialr,
and explicitness. Fortunately it no longer
those
islands to be averred that the people of co
islands are at all times required in pruclell
to keep a watchful eye upon the relation:
maintained between the various countries of th
European Continent. The day has long sinepassed by when it was deemed rational onlyfor ov"
community to restrict attention to whatever °ill'
cerned its internal welfare, leaving the color!
cated system of foreign affairs to its official o'4;
dians, the diplomatists. Historians have tauso
us the lamentable consequences flowing front
habitual negligence on the part of the intelligL
multitude. Among the latest illustrations of
was the atrocious war which for twenty-two Y
deluged the eastern hemisphere in blood, and
_i
this nation an immense increase of its 917,-01,
enormous debt—that increase of 500,000,0ufei
sterling, of which we have within the last of
weeks been so .very forcibly reminded by on t¢'
the most gifted of the popular repret
of living tle
tives, as he is also one of the most remar7 it
--Pamphleteers. No ---we rePe3".l,o rs
there, happily, does
__not remain novtaut,4
any necessity for explaining that the inhabits,,
a a free State, like the United Kingdom, l'orcr
direct and peculiar interest in observing the
gress of events beyond the waters of the Chti.tiroe
supposing
even that those events are transrl oter
(as in the present instance) in one of the rerc4
corners of the Continent, The fact has beet to
mated by our statesmen. It has come at lag 0,,0
be universally appreciated. England P°E;'s,o4*
advantages, no doubt, in her geographical tact
tion, advantages insulating her from direct °° ten'
with the rest of the civilised peoples of Cl'o all
dom— but the circumstance of her beiev
the
island does not exonerate her inhabitants fr°l3lo,l
duty of scrutinising whatever occurreneesal
take place of a purely external or interOtioaroet
character._ How far the community ill to it°
Britain
has already contrived to apprewa'lo,lo
responsibilities in this particular, w6notigot
been lately enabled to recognise dealt' the
from the extraordinary interest shown by
of"
humbler and less educated classes in the
ments of distant, and until very re
them) but vaguely comprehended nation;oo
That a better understanding should be sProf
up amongst its, as to-I,lle inalienabiet tights oits
immediate neighbours, tile French, was a.
could alone have been reasonably anticipate 0 yth°
was inevitable that the descendants of tll°Centti
were deluded towards the close of the last
101
by the rhetorical rant of Mr. BURKE, Sh° oite
derstand at length that the French have c 1 efir
much right to select their own form of °J. per
ment as we had to select ours, and sh°.eatiool
ceive, in spite of prejudices and preys° libel'
the honesty and manliness of those t t for
arguments which have been lately nog
ward in the exquisitely logical reac° Dri
Mr. COBDEN. But, while all this 1141:rbile
what might have been expected, _it
was in a manner, so to speak, inevitable:oloW
encouraging, it was exhilarating, it wa,..5
every Pt
justifying the pride and admiration 0140007,
triotic observer when weremarkel the 81`"00010030
with which the industrial masses of our 01.110,4
nity participated in the hopes and fears tat rt°v
than one of those far-removed continelitic,3l of
who, in 1848-49, were struggling for P°d. solo° of
provements, for social ameliorations, an „,that
them even for the highest boon of all t ve"
„„no
national independence ! Yes--we „oti, t,
readily forget the manner in which t'et otoolefiie
population of England displayed at thard to "0
ous period so much anxiety in regatho visl°o.
dreams of Italian Unity, in regard
it° to the
of Hungarian Freedom, regard
for the
pirations of the sons of Germany4.her""o, f
Fav
nisation of a grand and homogeneotw e
peopl
Yes—we remember with joy bow t cliety iv. tile
these islands, the humbler ranks of s° ing Of ~0,1
United Kingdom, exulted in the opt hie
theY roe
Congress of imperialFranlifort—he . fo
with breathless solicitude the
A. B' de fie
of the heroic and patriotic CABL°"---- elr
scarc 11,
fluctnating_o,-110
they followed with a profound an"- of the.,ttcy
able admiration the dauntless armies .ons
Dcb r
t
,heir strength by seven gyars as they drove the Austriannleragiagoifierec,cu"
'on) fr° o
victories gained in rapid success]. d ;40,
zin to the walls of Vienna.
tartling IlLu- Pt'
in recollection yet more s G. 600 ,144#
they loathed the unnatural barD r
How they execrated the treason 0.1 f