The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-25 00:00:00

THE WAR CREDIT.'

(Front the Daily News.)

' To a full House of Commons, and a " thin" House of
Lords, the Ministers last night addressed their request
for a credit 'of three millions. The Premier made one of
his usual small speeches, well described by Lord Fitz-
william immediately afterwards as a speech " which
conveyed scarcely a single idea t. the Parliament to
which it was addressed." It was a, harangue very much
in the style that was to be expected from the man who
made it—meagre, sulky, bloodless, and unsatisfactory.
There was no shadow of manly outspoken frankness,
such as the constitutional chief of a constitutional coun-
try might be expected to address to Parliament towards
the close of a session during which he had been sup-
ported with great liberality with funds for a war which
his incompetence is believed to have brought about, and
at a moment when he was asking for a new lease of na-
tional confidence, and new millions from the public
funds. His speech was utterly destitute of all states-
manlike breadth, all generous feeling, all comprehensive
grasp, in short, destitute of each and every of those
characteristics which it should have exhibited. The
chief meaning that may be gleaned from it with
anything like clearness, is this :—" Hand over your
money, and let me close Parliament, and then,
with the concurrence of the other Powers, I will show
you how we will settle the Russian war." This last
expression shows what is passing in the Premier's
mind, and exposes the secret leanings and intentions of
the Cabinet—leanings which the longer harangue of
Lord John Russell depicts still more openly. Lord
Aberdeen and Lord John Russell delay the progress of
the war because they wait for Austria. Lord John
tells us, in reference to Vienna, all about the troubles
and difficulties of Francis Joseph. He explains how
the Czar will do, if he can, all thatßussianwe aggression—e hsaoiwd
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Austriah
and France !
Austria wants to act with Britain, but
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yet to bide the
con-
fessedly helpless : so Lord Joehanr. Austria is
Russell waits for
Francis Joseph to help Great Britain
pleasure of Russia—to run with the hare and hunt
English
Ministry the hounds -- and all the time the
Ministry wait Austria's and (through her)
Russia s
pleasure.
It has been the policy of Austria (said Lord John
Russell last night) declaring that she concurred with us
in our object to attempt, as long as possible, by negotia-
tions to obtain a settlement of these questions. She has
more than once declared that, although the principles
that her Majesty has laid down and the object that her
Majesty had in view met with her full approbation, she
did not despair of the Emperor of Russia evacuating the
Principalities and agreeing to fair and equal terms of
arrangement, so as to maintain the balance of power in
Europe ; and lately she has sent a message, which has
been published in the newspapers within these few days,
asking Russia to evacuate the Principalities, asking her
to fix a term for that evacuation at no remote time, and
transmitting also to St. Petersburg the protocol of April
agreed to at Vienna between the Four Powers, in which
it is declared that it is the object of the Four Powers
that Turkey should be attached to the system of Europe,
that that empire should form part of the general balance
of power, and that arrangements ought to be carried into
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France are engaged in war against her, and are superior
to her in the Black Sea and in the Baltic, where her
fleets dare not leave. their ports, there remains only the
seat of war in the Principalities and the neighbourhood
of the Danube, where she can hope to restore the balance,
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ready to adopt the three principles contained in the pro-
tocol of the 9th of April, and those principles she de-
clares to be the evacuation of the Principalities, the
granting of privileges to the Christian inhabitants of
Turkey by the Sultan in such a manner as to secure
their future rights, and likewise that a treaty or conven-
tion should be entered into between the Four Powers
and Turkey assuring those rights.
Here, then, we have all the explanation we need ask.
It is plain enough to the humblest understanding. Aus-
tria has her despotic ends to serve, but does not at pre-
sent see quite clearly how she may best work them out.
Of course she waits—and as she waits we wait—and
more than that, we help to keep France waiting too.
We went into the war nominally to help Turkey, who
was said to be weak, against Russia, who was declared
to be strong. We were anxious to support civilisation
against the inroads of the Barbarian Despot of the
North. For that purpose the Coalition drew funds from
the people of this country, and an army and two fleets
manned from the ranks of the people were sent out upon
the errand of saving the Turks and vanquishing the Rus-
sians. Before these forces had come in contact with the
Russians, the troops of the Sultan had beaten back the in-
vading hordes of the Autocrat, and it needed only that the
troops and fleets of England and France should do the
work they were nominally sent to do. But in place of
action we have delay ; instead of blows we have negotia-
tions ; instead of going forward we hang back; in place
of despatches telling of victories we are offered estimates
demanding more money. To the repeated inquiry, what
k do all these delays mean 3 there comes at last the

(From the Morning Herald.)
The debate in the Commons, and the discussion in the
Lords, last evening, on the subject of the grant of three
millions for the further prosecution of the war in the
East, brought out in a very strong light several strange
matters. The disunion in the Cabinet, Joe Hume's ap-
proval and admiration of a coalition, the ungovernable
restiveness of certain Government supporters, Mr. Cob.
den's absurd theories—all came under the notice of the
wearied legislators last night assembled at their posts.
In illustration of Cabinet bickerings, the two houses
were indulged with the different views entertained by
the opposing sections of one of the same Administration
upon the chief point of their policy. If there be one
matter on which Ministers ought to be unanimous,
most decidedly that question is the amount of support,
moral and material, they are to afford Turkey in this
emergency, and the nature of the conditions by which
we consider that the integrity of the Ottoman Empire
can be secured. Yet here they are almost in
open enmity —an enmity that is only restrained
by their mutual determination to sacrifice every consi-
deration to insure their continuance in office.
Whilst the members of the House of Lords were
engaged by a repetition of the Aberdeen mania for
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member for London to wage the conflict manfully, till
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an honourable peace shall render further prosecution
of hostilities unnecessary. The Premier devoted but five
minutes to his proposal to the Peers for a grant of three
millions, though Lord John Russell condescended to
enter into further details, and to offer an insight into
his own ideas upon the strife now agitating Europe. The
apparent candour and explicit explanation of Lord John
afford us no better hope of vigour in the prosecution of
this war to an honourable and consequently a glorious
termination than the studied contempt and unprece-
dented brevity of Lord Aberdeen. Both are members
of one Cabinet, pledged, at any rate, to mutual support,
even at the sacrifice of individual honour and consistency.
Moreover, the member for London is given to sudden
impulses and strong ebullitions of feeling ; and careful
observers of this legislator's conduct are but too well
aware that these outbursts pass away much more
sneedily than those difficulties and anomalies which
form the actual causes of their manifestation.
In one of these displays Lord John last night availed
himself of certain points to create a diversion, in order
to escape examination upon other very important matters
to which he would have found reference rather incon-
venient. Such were his comments on the bravery of
the Turks, the extent of the forces we have sent to the
seat of war, and the union now existing between the
two greatest powers of Europe ; when Lord John knows
very well that it has again and again been demanded
why the energetic operations of the Ottoman army have
not been seconded by the active support of our own
levies, why the imposing fleets and the large armies
that we have sent from our shores have been doomed
to inglorious inaction, and why the union of England
and France has not been crowned with those triumphs
which have invariably marked the progress of their
ancient hostilities ? The people of both countries are
anxious to learn—why.their sailors and. soldiers, now
pledged to a definite object, have not gained those suc-
cesses which never failed to crown their efforts with glory
in combating one against the other—why, in fact, in their
hostility should be so much more fruitful in great results
than their friendship promises to be ? In the hesitation
and contradiction of his address; Lord John gave but
too glaring evidence of the vassalage in which he now
g
roans, and the frequent repetition of " ought" and " I
have no doubt" proved but 'too plainly that he was
speaking as the advocate of the views of a section, and,
what is worse, an uninfluential section, because a sec-
tion in the minority, of the Cabinet, and not as a Mi-
nister. Lord John preferred eating his own words to
entering into opposition to the Premier. A reference
to our report of the debate will furnish our readers
with this most extraordinary conduct on the part of
the leader of the Lower House. In this unlucky
accident Lord John Russell has committed an error
which we believe that neither he nor the Cabinet of
which he is a member can by any possibility over-
come ; and in ranging from vigorous opposition to
humiliating submission, in the course of six hours, he
has too plainly revealed the terrible dangers of the mo-
ment. The Cabinet is in a fearful state of disorganisa-
tion, and Lord John Russell, by his proceedings last
night, plainly revealed that disorganisation to the Legis-
lature, and through them to the country.
In vain did Lord Palmerston endeavour to explain
away the discrepancy between the earlier statement and
the subsequent denial of his colleague. Neither his
genial flow of humour nor his proficiency in the art of
debate was equal to such a task. Eventually Ministers
were compelled to assent to a continuation of the dis-
cussion to-night, when Lord Dudley Stuart will move
an address to the Queen to postpone the prorogation of
Parliament until Ministers shall have thoroughly ex-
plained the conditions on which they will agree to a
peace which shall be honourable to England, and not
upon the basis of the status quo ante.
If the prorogation be delayed until then we shall have
the Greek kalend sdefined.

THE ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL AND THE
LATE INQUEST.

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SPECIAL MEETING OP TUE COMMITTEE.
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the above
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of the committee present upon the occasion.
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of
the
jury at the late in-
Esq., of Montague-square,
was
unanimously requested to preside during the pro.
quest.
ceedings.
Letters of a satisfactory nature in connection with the
Penn, the secre-
taryof King's
from Mr. Ferguson,. , College Hospital ;
mas Beale Browne,
other gentlemen
connected with the institution, regretting their inability,
from the urgency of prior engagements,
to attend the
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board.
Mr. Weedon Coolie's letter was then brought forward
il.nd read ; from which it appeared that the resignation
was based upon the verdict of the jury at the late inquest
being pronounced against him, and he did not wish
longer to continue his connexion as surgeon with the in-
stitution, although such was ofinthwe
hmicohstmpra.inefuolokneathuared
to him—arising. as it did, out of events which
had been
entirely beyond his control, and also when he looked to
the length of time during which he had been an officer of
their valuable institution.
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nimously the
Several members of the committee addressed the meet-
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attention
produced by Mr.
upon
those whom accident or sickness at all times placed under
p rporpoods
his care. The Committee of Governors bad full con-
fidence in Mr. Cooke, and after a short discussion as to
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agreedltoowt resolutiontionz_h ihigh
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Weedon Cooke, when a candidate for the office of house-
surgeon, ten years ago (namely in 1844) : the efficient
manner in which he discharged the responsible duties of
that office for upwards of three years, and afterwards as
medical officer for the diseases of women and children
for two years ; subsequently as assistant-surgeon for up-
wards of three years, and latterly as full surgeon, this
committee sees no ground for differing in opinion from
the previous committee, who appointed Mr. Cooke to
such responsible offices, and no reasons for accepting
the resignation without inflicting great injustice on Mr.
uponedia
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ly
Cooke, and deprivieg the hospital of a most valuable
officer, who has gained the confidence and approbation
of the poor who seek medical relief at this valuable
institution."
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transmitted to Mr. Weedon Cooke, with a letter expres-
sive
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transacted
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and a vote.
of thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the pro
ceedings terminated.

THE BOILER EXPLOSION AT ROOHDALE.—The coro-
ner's inquiry in this case has been adjourned to Wed-
nesday next, when it is proposed to call Mr. W. Fair-
bairn, of Manchester, and other eminent engineers, to
give an opinion as to the condition of the boiler, and
the probable cause of the accident, on which as yet not
much light has been thrown by the witnesses.