The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-11 00:00:00

THE 46th FOR THE EAST.

It .was rumoured at Windsor last night that the
Robert Lowe, 'wig Of the largest of the fine fleet of screw
steamers engaged in the Australian trade, has been char-
tered for_ the conveyance of the 46th Regiment, and other
troops, to the seat of war in the East, and the service
companies are expected to march from the Sheet-street
barracks,. under the command of Colonel Garrett, to the
port of embarkation, in the course of a few days. They
will form a corps of 900 strong, when they join the divi-
sion already sent out, which consists of rather more
than 250, so that the actual number of men and officers
now about to sail in the Robert Lowe will be some-
thing under 700. The depot companies, which, when
augMented to their full strength, will form a body of
500 efficient men, go to Winchester. The 46th will be
relieved at Windsor by the 18th (Royal Irish), under
the command of Colonel Reignolds. The strength of the
18th has been so much reduced by foreign service that
detachments from other regiments will have to be added,
inorderAo -iake iusual garrison' duties. A district
paymaster has been appointed—. Captain Dalgetty.

TROOPS FOR INDIA:
The troops for Bombay from Chatham: garrison, for
the ship Frarl of Balcarres, marched on Saturday morn-
ing to Strood, and thence proceeded by 'railway to
Gravesend. The bagpipes of: the Highlanders and the
drums and fifes of the provisiOnal , battalion played
them out to the railway station'f they consisted of
thi(ifqllOyiri A g ,corps t— menj -64th toot ; 21 men,
nth Highlanders.; ~1 men,. 83d ; and 80 men, 10th
Hussars, under COmmitiid of--Captain William Knox
Orme, 10th Foot, with, the:under-named officers— En-
sign Henry Turner, 64th ; Ensign Graham Alylne, 83d;
CorLet Charles rTiniacke. add -Ci;iliet William Mayne,
10th Hussars; and Dr. O'Neile, 78th Highlanders. The
above ship was reported yesterday by the medical gen-
tlemen that the cholera had entirely disappeared, and
the crew progressing favourably to a healthy condition.
Immediately the telegraphic message arrived at the
garrison office the commandant, Colonel W. IL Eden,
-started for Gravesend, and made the necessary inspec-
tion of the ship. The commandant returned to the
garrison, and inspected the troop's on the general parade
ground of the barracks at two o'clock in the afternoon.

LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1854.

It is by no means improbable that a sharp con-
flict may already have taken place in the Crimea
between the Allied forces and the Russians, and
that preparations have been made for the attack
on Sebastopol. It is, indeed, high time that
something decisive should be accomplished to re-
move the stain that would otherwise attach to the
leaders of the Allied forces, the Generals and
Admirals of France and England. Hitherto we
have witnessed an inactive and inglorious, al-
though a very destructive, campaign. More men
perished under the fearful pestilence that for a
time raged through our fleets and camps than
could have fallen in open war face to face with
their opponents. It was indeed a disheartening
apathy that prevailed, which added bitterness to
death itself.

The men clearly perceived that they had been
made the victims of diplomatic humbug, that
though eager for the fray, standing
Like greyhounds in the slips
Straining upon the start,"
they were restrained by the insidious councils of
a nation devoted to their adversary, and only
desirous of extricating him without damage from
the dangerous position in which he had been
placed by his arrogance and cupidity. While thus
detained in the pestilential localities, and almost
decimated by " Russia's only true ally, the
cholera," with depressed spirits and abated ener-
gies, the condemned soldiers did,
" Like sacrificers, by their watchful fires,
Sit patiently, and only ruminate"
on the folly, or worse than folly, of those who
suffered themselves to be bamboozled by the
scarcely concealed wiles of the so-called Neutral
Powers.

These Powers have, however, at length cast
aside the flimsy disguises they had for a time as-
sumed. Prussia became the avowed advocate of
the CZAR. " Cliquot " thought more of the inte-
rests of his " big brother" than of his own
honour or his people's welfare. Professing neu-
trality, he was manifestly ready at any moment,
when the slightest prospects of success were
afforded, to assume arms, not merely in defence
of his sister's husband, but in promotion of his
nefarious projects. Though better concealing his
real objects, the designs of FRANCIS JOSEPH have
been at length rendered no less clearly perceptible
than those of FREDERICK WILLIAM. They had
long been so to disinterested and unprejudiced
persons, notwithstanding that the Boy-Emperor
utter'd as prave ords at the pridge as you shall
see in a summer's day." But they were readily
Swallowed by the wilfully blind—by those who,
in their unbounded confidence in Germanism, would
believe any specious or plausible pretext which its
chief expounder thought proper to put forward.
Relying on these
" prave ords," vaunting the
good faith, energy, and firmness of the EMPEROR,
they suffered him to gain peaceful possession of the
Principalities, the seizure whereof by open force
had occasioned the war a ' 4.gainsw NICHOLAS. They
permitted him to occupy the fortified towns and
strongholds from
which the
Russian invaders had
been expelled by the unaided
valour of the
Moslems.

They did this, conceiving that some degree of
reliance might be placed in the bold and appa-
rently honest professions of Austria.
to thedeplorablNeld
at
length they are awakened
we may add, " unpardonable," error into which
they allowed themselves to be betrayed. They
see that in place of a straightforward, and honour-
able, and consistent ally, they have to deal with
" an arrant counterfeit rascal, a
gull, a fool, a
rogue, that now and then goes to the wars to
grace himself on his return under the form of a
soldier." They also see that they have unwittingly
allowed him to obtain " a vantage ground," from
whence, in the event of any reverse, he may assail
themselves with every p issible adjunct. Nothing
can extenuate them from the disgrace they have
so amply merited by this fatuity but some bril-
liant
exploit that will at once terminate the
vacillation of Germany, humiliate the pride and
break the power of NrcßoLts. Such an attempt
will therefore be made, and the valour of British
Soldiers will once more, as in days of yore„ re- I

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trieve the blunders of British diplomatists. We
must now " stake our all upon a cast, and stand
the hazard of the die." Whbn wehave taken posses-
sion of the Crimea, captured its citadel and a senals,
and destroyed its fleet, then, and not till then, will
Austria act up to her professions. Then will she
discern a casus belli in the contemptuous refusal
of Russia to listen to her advice, her entreaties,
her threats. Than will she be prepared to join
the allies, and to struggle for advantages for her-
self which she has not merited, for conditions
which it would be as dangerous to entrust to her
bands as to those of Russia herself.

It appears that the expedition against the Crimea
had departed from Varna and Bsltchik on Satur-
day week ; that it consisted of about sixty thou-
sand of the allied troops, of which about three-
fifths or thirty-six thousand were French,
and about two-fifths, or twenty-four thousand,
English. In addition to this powerful body,
there would be a Turkish corps of from ten to
twenty thousand. A body of Marines, too, were
at their own special instance and request to be
allowed to co-operate with their military brethren;
so that about eighty thousand picked. men—per-
haps the finest troops in the world—would be
brought into the field, supported by a correspond-
ing park of artillery, and in some instances by the
broadsides of our ships of war. There is nothing
which the AUTOCRAT can oppose to such a force
with any reasonable prospect of success. The
Russians may embarrass our landing, but that is
all; and we have but little, if any, doubt, that i t
has already been accomplished, and that the Rus-
sians, if they dared to show in the field, have, as
our Yankee brethren would remark, received " a
pretty considerable tarnation thrashing." The
eyes of England, of Europe are now upon them.
Relying on the valour and enthusiasm of our
gallant forces (French as well as English), certain
that they will vie with each other in deeds
of gallant daring, we patiently abide the issue,
confident that the cause of justice and of honour
will prevail to the confusion of the blood-thirsty
oppressor.

The Cape of Good Hope is now added to the
list of British Colonies. British, not in the sense
of which St. Helena or Labuan are so, but
because it participates in British liberties
maintained by British institutions ; and because
it is united to our Crown, not by military force,
but by the interchange of loyalty on the one part
and protection on the other. All self-governing
states have a common bond of sympathy, just as
all despots and aristocracies sympathise with each
other against their peoples. Such states may
quarrel amongst themselves, but they will be as
one against the monarch who would enslave
them by Russian or Austrian notices of order ;
or even against the interference of any external
power. Witness the American Union. The
result will be the same in the case of our numerous
colonies ; just as they become free, and united,
in reality, only federally with the mother country
and each other, will they all be interested
in the weal of the great whole of which they form
a part. They may have, possibly, some angry
dispute now and then, with a pragmatical and
conceited Colonial Secretary, just as some part of
England or Scotland may quarrel with the admi-
nistration of the Home Secretary ; but just as
little will they think of severing connection.
Downing-street is beginning to know its place ;
it will cease to intermeddle where the only re-
wards are rebuffs, and humiliations, and will limit
itself to the formalities and the simple realities in
which colonial connection will henceforth consist.

The first of July was, indeed, a proud day for
the Cape Colony, the day of its emancipation
from clerks and red tapists at home, and the birth-
day of its admission to British franchises, a result
gained by the patriotism of its STOCKENTSOMS and
FAIRBAIRNS, and the firmness of its population.
But for this Earl GREY and his worthy successors
might still have been the distant Czars of a sup-
pressed and bureau-governed community, and the
moral atmosphere of South Africa have been
tainted by the vices of shiploads of English con-
victs. It is interesting to imagine how the gene-
rations of some distant period, when the colony
shall have swelled into a populous state, will read
with admiration of the holy struggle of their pri-
tnitive forefathers for the purity of their native
soil, and with feelings we will not describe of the
tyrannical temper of ignorant Colonial Secretaries.
They will then thank HBAVEN that there were
British Houses of Parliament and a British press
where their complaints could be heard, and the
domineering compelled to give way ; and what-
ever may be then the precise political relation to
the mother country, attachment and pride in
their origin and inherited Constitution are sure to
be among their chief sentiments. It is not easy
to see, indeed, what now remains to engender
serious quarrels between Britain and her Free
Colonies. If they chose to ask the power to fix
their own civil list, and to take their own course
in Church and State matters, no Minister now
dares refuse them. Free Trade has put an end to
the most futile of all causes of disagreement, and

there is scarcely conceivable ground for a diffe-
rence. It is just possible an unpopular Governor
might be nominated, but he must soon be recalled.
Indeed there seems no reason why the old prac-
tice, of the Colonies electing their own Governor,
subject to the approbation of the Crown, should not
be restored. Even on the present plan, however,
)f the Crown nominating the Colonial qovernors di-
rectly, the instances of favouritism and nepotism will
become much fewer. It will not suffice that a
young man of high connexions needs to be
weaned from gambling. If our aristocracy
retains these appointments, for this is what is
really meant by keeping them in the hands of the
Crown, it must do so by sending out governors
qualified by character, ability, and thorough
respect for the principle of Parliamentary su-
premacy, to govern these little free sub-kingdoms.
In them, as at home, the central authority must
iie of no party, but be content to hold the balance
between the ins and the outs, and to give effect
to the decisions of the majority.
We said the Ist of July was a proud day for
the Cape—we might have said it was so for Eng-
land. It is surely the glory of our Empire to see
all its parts pervaded by the great political sys-
tem which is the boast of Britain itself. In-
deed till this is the case, till there is a circu-
lation throughout of the vivifying principle of
constitutional representation, our dependencies
are rather attached to us like ornaments, or more
frequently like burdens, and form no living part
of the whole body. It is our justest pride to give
birth to free communities, not to little despotisms.
NICHOLAS unites Finland, Poland, Bessarabia,
the Cossacks, and the whole list of his circum-
vented territories, to Moscow and St. Petersburg
by universal slavery. The order of serfdom is his
boast. We assimilate by enfranchisement, and
glory that our offspring can everywhere govern
themselves. Even if we have conquered a posses-
sion, as in Canada or the Cape of Good Hope, we
feel that the conquest is incomplete, and we do
not
regard it with unmixed complacency, until it
is perfectly free. We regard liberty, not slavery,
adso the consummationespair of
u such
of
consummation British
even
for
W
Sir India itself. We
CHARLES WOOD may be unable
to admit the idea
; but India will never be what
it might, what ought to be, or even a secure
our
appanage of our Crown, until Statesmen
for their leading principle, that India take
is to be u
soon as possible governed by its natives, and not a
mere theatre for the freaks of fortune-hunters,
horunfrteeers
We have already felt the advantage
colo-
nies. Unofficial thinkers had demonstrated it years
before official heads could understand or relish
it. It is impossible now, however, to deny the
vigour infused into everything Canadian by the
entire change in its political circumstances. The
reproach of the miserable contrast between the
waters is fast vanishing. We are assured by all
Canadian and United States shores of the same
authorities that the visible change is marvellous.

The commercial difference, we all know, to be
vast indeed, and we and they are equal gainers
by the change. We anticipate, with entire confi-
dence, the same results at the Cape of Good Hope.
It will certainly cost us no more millions for
miserable border warfare ; the colonists will know
better how to protect themselves. On the other
hand, a resident Parliament, acquainted with the
country it governs, interested in its prosperity,
and trusted by its inhabitants, will remove every
legislative obstruction to prosperity, will faci-
litate every improvement, will inspire confi-
dence in English as well as Colonial capitalists,
and, by diffusing feelings of self-reliance and
security, will impart a new energy to all classes
in the colony—a colony which, with its new Con-
stitution, is now emphatically the Cape of GOOD
HOPE.

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, Sm. 9.

Her Majesty embarked in the royal yacht Fairy yes-
terday afternoon, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal,
Princess Alice, and the Earl of Aberdeen, and proceeded
to Southampton, where her Majesty and the Royal
party went on board the Egyptian steam-yacht, built by
order of his Highness the late Pacha of Egypt. The
Queen inspected the vessel, and the officers on board had
the honour of being presented. The Duchess of Wel-
lington, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Lord Charles
Fitzroy, the Hon. Colonel Phipps, and Major-General
Berkeley Drummond, were in attendance.
The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta
Bruce dined with the Queen.

The Duke of Newcastle arrived in town on Saturday
from Osborne. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived at Black-
heath on Saturday from a ♦isit to the Queen.
Despatches were sent on Saturday fronh the Colonial
Office to the Governors of Hong Kong, Ceylon, and
Malta.

DEPARTURE OF THE KING OF
PORTUGAL FOR LISBON.

The steam-yacht Mindello, with the King of Portugal
and Duke of Oporto on board, attended by the Vis-
count Carreiri, Count Sarmento, &c., left Cowes Roads
on Saturday, at 4 p.m., for Portugal. She got under
weigh at 2 o'clock to await the arrival from Southamp-
ton of the Brazilian mail-packet which is to accompany
the Mindello to the Tagus. Her Majesty the Queen and
Prince Albert went into Cowes Roads in the Fairy to bid
adieu to the King of Portugal, when his Majesty's fine
band on board the Mindello played "God save the
Queen." The Portuguese Ambassador, Count Lavradio,
with the Countess and suite, also Consul-General Van
Zellan, and Mr. Priaulx, the Portuguese Vice-Consul
at Southampton, were in attendance at the departure of
the Portuguese Sovereign, with Mr. E. P. Perry, of
Portsmouth, who has been the interpreter during the
King's shoi t sojourn in England.

SIR JAMES GRAHAM AT LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL, Saturday.—Last evening the Right Hon.
Sir J. Graham (First Lord of the Admiralty), his son, and
Mr. Rendal, C. E., arrived at the Adelphi Hotel, where
they remained for the night. Shortly after their arrival
they were visited by the Mayor, J. B. Lloyd, Esq , who
accompanied them over the whole of St. George's hall,
with the interior arrangements of which, and architectural
beauties there displayed, they were much pleased. Sir
James Graham spoke in terms of admiration of the
splendid marble statue of the late Sir R. Peel, executed
by Noble, and which has recently been placed in the
spot assigned for it.
Upon the invitation of Messrs. M'lver, proprietors of
the British and North American Royal mail steamers,
the right. hon. baronet embarked in the tender Satelite,
accompanied by Charles M`lver, Esq., and visited the
Royal mail steam-ship Arabia, which was just on the
point of starting for New York ; they also went to the
Birkenhead Docks, Huskisson Dock, the Rock Light-
house, and Fort, and the various other places of interest
situated in the river. They also, in company with the
Mayor, visited the Albert Dock warehouses, and this
forenoon took their departure for Holyhead, to inspect
the new harbour of refuge there. Their visit was a pri-
vate one.

POOR-LAW GUARDIANS.