The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-03 00:00:00

treat either the rising provoked by the mandate of
Prince DANIEL, or the insurrection encouraged,
notoriously encouraged, if not actually originated,
by King OTHO and Queen AMELIA, as other than
of the gravest importance in the present extraor-
dinary complication of affairs in those parts of
Christendom. _ _

We have said that there is a certain resemblance
between the movements made almost at the same
time against Turkey by order of the Montenegrin,
and with the connivance, or let us repeat plainly,
at the 'express instigation of the Greek, Govern-
ment. It is, however, as we have already ob-
served, a resemblance with a difference. The
VLADIKA of Montenegro acts against the Sublime
Porte with the daring of an open foe, a
foe not afraid to draw the sword and not
ashamed to unfurl the standard. The KING and
QUEEN of Greece oppose the SULTAN and his
Divan somewhat differently. They oppose him
after the fashion not of valiant antagonists, but
rather of cowardly conspirators. They work
under a screen of pretended neutrality as they
had previously done under the blind of an affected
indifference. Latterly, their hostility to the
Ottoman rule has become more flagrantly mani-
fested. This was only, however, when the con-
cealment of their sympathies with the AUTOCRAT
had come at length to Le altogether impracticable.
The truth in this matter is at last notorious. It
can no longer be doubted. It has been asserted
in the House of Commons by Lord JOHN RUS-
SELL. It has been proclaimed through an
official circular addressed to the British Consuls
in the Levant, 'by her Britannic MAJESTY'S
Ambassador at Constantinople. We scarcely
require the blue-book promised to be soon laid
before Parliament. It can only furnish us with
additional details in the way of corroboration.
In corroboration, that is to say, of the circum-
stances already before the public—circumstances
demonstrative of the fact that the KING and
QUEEN of Greece have given the fullest encourage-
ment to the Insurrection.
That insurrection is so far formidable that its
incentive is fanaticism ; that it is directly in aid
of all the known or suspected plans of the CZAR ;
that it is openly and notoriously made in common
cause with Russia for the carrying on of a war in
defence of the Greek Church, or, as it is called,
the Orthodox Religion. It is the same, as we
have seen, with the rising of the Montenegrins.
Upwards of 4,000 of the latter have been enrolled,
as we learn by intelligence coming to us by way of
Vienna, news, dated from that capital as recently
as yesterday (May 2), stating that these 4,000
subjects of the VLADIKA are determined to op-
pose the Turks in Albania and Herzegovina.

As to the identity of the course adopted respec-
tively by the EMPEROR of All the Russias, by the
KING of Greece, and by the VLADIKA of Monte-
negro—that cannot now for a single instant be
questioned. It is demonstrated clearly and boldly
by facts altogether removed beyond the reach of
contradiction. By the whole conduct of the Court
of Athens, in regard to the risings in Thessaly and
Epirus ! By the Manifesto addressed by Prince
DANIEL to his political and spiritual subjects, the
Montenegrins ! By the Proclamation recently
issued by the CZAR from St. Petersburg ! Every-
thing proves that the AUTOCRAT has undertaken
this war as a religious war against Turkey, sup-
ported by France and England. Everything proves
no less clearly, that in declaring this religious war
with the Ottoman empire and her allies from the
west of Europe, the Emperor NICHOLAS is sup-
ported by King OTHO from the direction of
Greec by way of Thessaly and Epirus, and by
Prince DANIEL from the direction of Montenegro,
by way of Albania and Herzegovina. This, we
maintain, is altogether undeniable. It is a com-
plication of affairs that should not be overlooked
by the Allied Governments of France and Great
Britain. Now is the time to test the sincerity of
the Austrian alliance. It should be required
from the Imperial Councils at Vienna that mea-
sures should be at once adopted for the march-
ing of Austrian troops across the frontiers
of Montenegro to crush out at once, and
effectually, this new crusade preached by the
disloyal VLADIRA♦ As for the course which
should be adopted towards the Athenian Govern-
ment, that rests entirely, we conceive, in the hands
of the allies of Turkey—not in the hands of any
allies of the allies, but in those, we repeat, of the
allies themselves. Arrangements, let us hope,
have already been made by England and France
for the prevention of further ill consequences from
these deplorable insurrections. Of this we shall
rest confident, until the nature of our proceedings
with regard to Greece have been explained. For
indifference upon the matter of these lawless
risings in Epirus and Thessaly would, according
to the phrase of TALLEYRAND, be worse than a
crime : they would be a mistake on the part of
the allied Governments.

The bubble has burst ! The insane delusion,
so long and so fondly cherished, is dispelled I The
operatives of Preston have again "struck," but
this time for a very different purpose. The pre-
sent is merely the abandonment of their former
strike—the acknowledgment of their decisive and
unequivocal defeat. We have, in common with
every unprejudiced person, long foreseen the in-
evitable result, and endeavoured to induce the
misguided men to abridge the term of privation
and suffering to which they had subjected them-
selves and their families by their unjustifiable pro-
ceedings. It required, indeed, no extraordinary
powers of vaticination to predict the discomfiture
of the delegates and committeemen, who, while
their dupes obtained barely sufficient to support
existence on the coarsest and commonest food, were
living on the fat of the land, and receiving, for
spouting in public-houses or making platform ora-
tions, more than twice as much as they could have
earned by honest industry at their legitimate occupa-
tions. They exercised, too, the most despotic autho-
rity, permitting neither opposition nor remonstrance
to their dictates, flattering their victims with
untenable hopes of a triumphant termination to
the internecine conflict, and putting forward
claims that rendered an amicable arrangement, or
anything like submission on the pact of the
employers, impossible. If they did not directly
avow their ultimate end and object, they at least
indicated it so plainly that no possibility of doubt
or misconception remained. - They clearly show
that the concession of the " ten per cent." wourd"
not by any means have led to the settlement of
the dispute. They had determined, in fact, to
keep " the ball rolling," by putting forward claim
after claim, interfering in every possible way
between the employers and their working people,
so that a certain number should Always be on the
"turn out." By such means they hoped to achieve
their real purpose, namely, to "control the destinies
of trade," and to reduce the nominal masters to
the condition of mere puppets, the obedient execu-
tants of their decrees, without a voice in the
management of their own affairs, but liable to
serious loss, if not absolute ruin, at the caprice
of an irresponsible and grossly ignorant body.
These audacious demands, these blustering
bravados, compelled the masters to defend them-
selvtls vigorously and energetically. They saw
that anything approaching to concession would be
fatal to their own interests—that it would lead to
the > vithdiawal of capital from these branches of
itnudre t
u ste rivals who
the transfer of the entire manufac-
valesua who would speedily n
whoare alreadytreadinugtsctlroisp n
closely
in
on
our I heels,
the race of competition if we were so unduly
we igh ted. It is true that the working classes
the tm selves would be involved in one common de-
stri teriion with their employers—that, like the
ma: t represented by ROGARTII as sawitu, the sign-
p„l ;, the success of their attempt would occasion
ada ugerous fall to themselves. But that would be
butt. 'tile consolation to the bankrupt mill owners,and
even iceling of philanthropy, as well as the in-
stinct A )f self-defence, not only prompted a deter-
mined resistance, but that they in turn should
le war into the enemy's country. The
carry tzl
union a f the operatives was met by the union of
the ma, it
ers ; the " turn-out" of the hands by the
"lock-< )1 It" from all mills belonging to the asso-
ciated e t al3l°Yers* Thus the secession from some
half-doz
lan factories led to the closing of almost
every es
tablishment in Preston.
Under ordinary
oircumati memo-this Dove would have proved deci-