The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1853.

trality in the event of war eminently advantageous
to his designs upon Constantinople.
A little while longer, and the world will be able
to appreciate more confidently the relative merits
and demerits of these conflicting Governments.
A little while longer, and impartial spectators will
recognise the arrogance of Russia more clearly
I than through the insolent bearing of MENS-
CIIIXOFF - her contempt for trea ties more
clearly than through her occupation of Moldo-
Wallachia her insincerity towards France
and England more clearly than through her
recent efforts at Olmfitz to secure the formal with-
drawal of Prussia and Austria from the Viennese
Conference. Exactly in the same way, as we be-
lieve, that a little while longer will qualify the
public at large to understand, what we regret to
think is only conjectured as yet by the generality
—the formidable strength and magnanimous for-
bearance of the Mahometan Government at Con-

countrymen, and induce them to submit their
claims to arbitration. We fear that a leglislative
remedy will be required for the domestic evil,
while in our foreign relations we must still rely
on the old-fashioned operations effected by cold
steel and dry gunpowder—by stately ships and
well-disciplined troops.

DRURY LANE THEATRE.

MR. E. T. SMITH'S BENEFIT.

There are few who will not readily acknowledge that
Mr. E. T. Smith is entitled to the highest praise for
planting once more the legitimate drama on the boards
of Old Drury. The experiment was a hazardous one,
after the repeated failures of other managers, but,
thanks to Mr. Smith, he foresaw that if talent of a high
order could be obtained, the public would not fail to
bestow their patronage upon him, and this has really
been the cue ; for though Mr. Brooke's engagement
has been short, Drury-lane has not seen a more
brilliant season for many a year than the pre-
sent. All honour then is due to Mr. Smith, and
although we have no doubt that his expectations have
been amply met, we confidently trust that to-night,
which lie has fixed for his benefit, and when Mr. Brooke,
as we have already announced, appears for the first and
last time in Macbeth, will present as crowded and well-
paying a house as any during the palmiest days of the
theatre. Such a mark of approbation on the part of the
public would encourage him to renewed exertions when
the departure of Mr. Brooke for America will compel
him to look around for other attractions.

stantinople.
At this critical juncture two facts at least are
altogether indisputable—that war is unavoidable,
and that there is an end, at any rate for the time
being, of these preposterous negotiations.

It is difficult to say whether the nation has
suffered the more serious injury from the unpro-
voked and wanton aggression of the Great North-

ern despot on his inoffensive neighbour, or from

the disturbed and excited state of the labour

market. Our foreign trade has been deeply in-

ured by the one. Our domestic peace has been

greatly endangered by the other. If the CzA. R
has occasioned a material falling off in the de-
mand for our various manufactures, the equally
unjustifiable proceedings of the operatives have
diminished production in a still larger propor-
tion. The occupation of the Danubian Princi-
palities has contributed in no ordinary degree to
enhancing the rate of interest and the diminution
of the circulating medium, the very life-blood of
industry, the clamour for increased wages, and the
numerous strikes that have occurred throughout
the entire country have led to a general cessation
of employment, and threaten a deplorable reduc-
tion in the Excise returns, which indicate the con-

dition of the labouring population, and the
amount of comforts enjoyed by those who earn
their bread by the sweat of their brows.

The employer, as we have long since stated, is
placed between two fires. On the one side he finds
a monetary screw applied, which restricts the pecu-
niary accommodation essential to the success of his
operations. Should he be even so fortunate as to
obtain an adequate supply, he has to submit to an
enormous increase in the rate of discount, and
may be well contented if he gets what he requires
at double or even three times the amount paid
last year for similar advances. It is unnecessary
to show how this formidable addition to his
expenditure increases his risk and cuts down
the margin of profit. Its effects must be obvious
to any person having the slightest acquaintance
with business, or experience of the many difficul-
ties that obstruct the path of the master manufac-
turer. He might, however, contrive to struggle
on if supported by his men. But, unfortunately,
those who should sustain and support him in the
arduous struggle, have, with strange and unac-
countable indiscretion, become his most formid-
able assailants. It is almost needless to say, then,
that he must succumb when simultaneously miler-

ing under so many injurious influences, that he
must relinquish the attempt to provide remunera-
tive occupation for those who are so totally oblivi-
ous of their own interests. He may save some
remnant of his capital from the storm ; but what
will become of those who have driven him from his
position by their unjustifiable demands ? They will
have ample cause to deplore their short-sighted
infatuation—their unreasoning as well as un-
grateful folly—betokening a similar infirmity of
head and heart, a deficiency of intellect, and of
kindliness of feeling.

It ought to be obvious to those parties that the
prime cost of the article is made up of the several
items of raw material, interest of money, and
workmen's wages ; and if the two former elements
in the calculation are materially increased, the
latter must be, if practicable, reduced in a cor-
responding ratio, to admit of the supply being
continued at such prices as to lead to a continued
demand. Experience teaches that the demand is
in an inverse ratio to the price—that as the latter
increases the former declines, till there is slack-
ness, then paralysis of trade, and ultimately a
commercial crisis—from which the labouring po-
pulation are, as in every disturbaance, the chief
sufferers. We do not believe that a strike for
wages could be beneficial to those for
whose alleged benefit it is made. Under
any circumstances, and we believe that a
successful strike is even more injurious to the
operatives than an unsuccessful one ; but those
who fancy otherwise, if possessed of the smallest
portion of common sense, should surely select a
time when money was cheap and trade active for
such attempts, in place of a period the most in-
auspicious that could be chosen, and which could
not have been more unfavourable if determined
by a committee of masters.
Meanwhile the contest proceeds with increased
virulence on either side. The employers are
animated by a strong sense of the impropriety
and unfairness of the movement, while the work-
men are displaying a degree of arrogance and
insolence proportioned to the badness of their
cause. They will not listen to reason, because
conscious that their cause cannot bear in-
vestigation. Like NICHOLAS, they rely on
their supposed strength, and stand on their
" dignity,"—their dignity forsooth ! as prevent-
ing them from coming to any reasonable adjust-
ment. And their madness is kept up by a set of
miscreants, who reap unhallowed profits from the
miseries of their unfortunate dupes—a set of
vampires that prey upon the happiness of their
victims—who live only in an atmosphere of strife
and insubordination. If working men were
awakened to their true interests they would shun
the entire body of committee-men, delegates, and
the entire genus of pot-house legislators as their
worst enemies ; rendering them discontented with
their positions, and inducing them--to use
elusweitlai vulgar, but expressive phrase—" to quarrel
their bread and butter."
The contest which commenced at Preston is
rapidly spreading to the surrounding localities.
The mills at Burnley are, we believe, already
closed—and those at Bacup, Accrington, Coln;
and the surrounding vicinities are stated
to be under notice. The masters are no
fools. They will not suffer themselves to be
beaten in detail, or to keep one body of malcon-
tents in occupation to support others in idleness.
They may be well assured that a partial victory
would be followed lip, and that they themselves
would be victimised in turn—all that the greatest
favourite could hope would be to obtain the boon
granted by the Cyclop to ouric, and to be the last
devoured. They now, however, see the magni-
tude of the emergency, and therefore will act in
concert, for surelytheymay
the Work
which b thousands,een
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producers of
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pension, by
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of national wealth will become unprofitable
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sumers. It is a war in
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fact that, has been coin-
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menced—a war of labour against capital—a war
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far more injurious
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national prosperity
than any in which
with other states,
op-
opportunity for testing the' efficacy is an y
of the luc could be involved
Here,
doc-
trines of the Peace Society,
for ascertaininghow
far Mr. COBDEN may be trusted.
trust our lives and properties to the33pefroorteeti weo
n n
of
the broad-brimmed and drab-coated arbitrators,
let us see how they can restore to peace their own

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.; jority of whom are invested with command, that
the Austrian internuncio has thought proper to
remind the Ottoman Porte of its engagements on
FRANCE. 1 that subject. Reschid Pacha has promised that
1 orders should be immediately sent to the camp at
The Minister of War having been informed that Schumla relative to such refugees as might be Aus-
a number of German families have recently gone trian subjects.
into Algeria, without having the pecuniary re- The Press of Vienna has the following from Con-
sources required to obtain a concession of land, has stantinople :—" Since the Sultan has sanctioned
ordered that henceforth emigrants applying for a the late resolutions of the Divan, he passes the day
gratuitous passage to the colony shall be obliged in religious duties. The Sheikul Islam visits his
to prove that they actually possess 2,000 fr. if they Majesty every day, and gives him interpretations of
want to obtain a concession of land, 400 fr. if they verses of the Koran relative to war. It is positively
be workmen with families, and 100 fr. if unmarried stated that Abd-el-Kader has been asked whether,
workmen. -f war, he would accept a command, NF

We mentioned yesterday the arrest and discharge
of M. Goudchaux. The particulars connected with
the affair are given by th 9 Sieele. It appears that
a domiciliary visit was made to him by the police
at a quarter-past four in the morning. The war-
rant accused him of detention of warlike arms, and.
of affiliation to secret societies. The much lasted
until eight o'clock. No arms nor any indication of
belonging to secret societies were found. The com-
missary of police, however, thought it his duty to
seize about 140 documents, all or nearly all receipts
for sums of money paid by M. Goudchaux to exiles
or to their families. For nearly twenty months
M. Goudchaux, with a devotedness for which he
cannot be too highly praised, has occupied himself
in collecting assistance for such necessitous families
as have suffered from late political events. After
this long search M. Goudchaux was taken to the
prefecture of police, where he remained in custody
until ten o'clock. The commissary of police who
had arrested him then came and informed him that
he was at liberty, but that the Prefeet of Police
would retain the papers seized.
A domiciliary visit has been paid, it is also said,
to the house of M. Bastide, Minister of Foreign
Affairs under the Republic. Copies of a pamphlet
of Ledru Rollin, for which the present state of poli-
tical affairs was no doubt considered a favourable
occasion, are said to have been introduced into
Paris and distributed ; and this in all probability
gave rise to the domiciliary visits. It is described
as making an appeal to the Republican party to
unite, and the title of the work is, it appears,
"Union contre le Tyran."
The Emperor and the large party congregated at
Compiegne continue to enjoy the sports of the field,
notwithstanding the unfavourable weather.
The Bourse, which opened heavily yesterday, im-
proved before the conclusion of business, and pub-
lie securities in general recovered from the depres-
sion of the morning. The tone of the manifesto
presented by the Porte on the 4th instant to the
Ambassadors was regarded by the speculators as
moderate, and calculated to lead to an arrange-
ment. The Three per Cents. opened at 72f. 40c.,
and fell to 72f. 20c. They rose subsequently to
72f. 65e., and closed at 72f. 60c. for the end of the
month The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at
99f. 30c. ; Orleans Railway shares, 1,155 f. ; Rouen,
1,012 f. 50c. ; Havre, 480 f. ; Great Northern, 837 f.
50c. ; Paris and. Strasburg, 907 f. 50c. ; Paris and
Lyons, 892 f. 50c. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean,
727 f. 50c. • Western of France, 692 f. 50c. ; Great
Central, 55f. • Lyons and Geneva, 500 f. ; Shares
of the Bank of Credit Mobilier, 700 f.

in case ok
gotiations have taken place through the media-
tion of the Sheik-ul-Islam, and the Turks posi-
tively say that the Emir is disposed to accede
to the desire of the Ottoman Porte, but he wishes
in the first place to apply for the consent of the
French Government. He will have a command
in Asia should matters be brought to an under-
standing. Notwithstanding the warlike aspect of
things, it is still thought that a pacific solution
will be come to. Great reliance is placed. on the
sentiments of the Emperor Nicholas. It is certain.
that M. Argyropoulo, agent of Russia, had an in-
terview with Reschid Pacha before his departure.
It is concluded from this that Russia does not
desire war."