The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-04 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1854.

At the " eleventh" hour Ministers are again
about to accomplish what we demanded in these
columns at the very " first," and what we have
ever since been entreating from them in a kind of
intermittent agony of supplication. This time
their tardy proceeding has reference to the trans-
mission of troops to the Baltic, to aid the com-
bined fleets in their operations against Cronstadt,
and through Crcnstadt against St. Petersburg.
Precisely as it was formerly in regard to the send-
ing of our ships of war to the Dardanelles, and
then on to the Bosphorus, and then beyond the Sea
of Marmora resolutely into the Black Sea, and then
cruising about the Black Sea between Odessa and.
Varna and Sebastopol. Or again, exactly as it was
in allusion to the desirable cessation of our diplo-
matic efforts to bring about a compromise. Or
still more as it was afterwards in regard to the
impossibility of maintaining the mere appearances
of peace with Russia ; in other words, as to its
having become requisite to declare war against
the AUTOCRAT. As hitherto in those instances,
the necessity, long set aside as inconvenient, has at
length been recognised by a dilatory and reluctant
Government.

A military armament is at last to be sent out
to aid the maritime armament already despatched
into the Baltic, with a view to certain important
warlike operations along the shores of the Gulf of
Finland. It is well. It is what we have
asked " many a time and oft, HORATIO !" At
last, instead of at first, soldiers are to be sent into
the Baltic to aid the gallant sailors under NAPIER
and PARSEVAL-DESCHENES. At last, instead of at
first, the exploits adventured upon against the
territories of the CZAR by sea are to be assisted
by simultaneous efforts adventured upon by land.
At last, instead of at first ! Well : regrets in
I'll3'4l'l to the Past are worse than useless. Let
US
fratadY accept whatever good the Present may
'ring us, and look forward with as sanguine anti-
ipations as possible
to the Future, with whatever
events it may have la store for us and the unborn
annalist. A Troop
Fleet is to hasten through
the Cattegat towards the Gulf of Finland
with all convenient speed.
ultimatel
it is well. Time May Again, we say,
manner to Sir CHARLES I•TApna, ayZY out in like
of those gun-boats with a light drau oct
fe
awl
ataput supply
which are notoriously requisite foirath
navigation extending from the island of
to the mouth of the river Neva, and coneercrtadvt
to the immediate vicinity of St. Petersbur,,li7"-
is taking out to the combined fleets at the eleven
hour the almost despaired-of aid of a military
armament. armament. It may with kindred beneficence con-
vey at last, in the same direction, the still more
essential assistance of gun-boats fitted for exceed-
ingly shoal-water navigation. Both necessities,
instead of merely one of them, may at last be
recognised by our long-blind or long-hesitating
Government.
However this may be in reference to the gun-
boats required in those waters, it would actually
appear that after all these months and months of
delay—a French army is forthwith to be carried
out by an English fleet into the Baltic. Assuredly
this is the crowning act of the glorious alliance
between the two great countries, the arbitrers of
the destinies of Christendom. An English fleet,
conveying a French army to the northern
coasts of Russia for the purpose of more effectu-
allY developing the warlike operations of the
Allies against the AUTOCRAT ! Eight powerful men-
of-war—the Royal William (120 guns), Waterloo !
(120), St. Vincent (102), Hannibal (91), Algiers
(91), Powerful (84), Calcutta, (84), and Formid-
able (84)--are under orders to proceed at once
to Cherbourg, there to embark French troops to
aid in the Baltic operations. On board the St. Viii-
cent alone arrangements are beingmade for 2,00001
these troops finding ample accommodation. So tha t
the scale of the expedition may
readily calculated. Why not hso
trive matters that British soldiers owever,
as well con
a s
French soldiers may be sent out to co-operate wit l).
the fleets of NAPIER and Pe
Why not Except thatRSEVAL-DESCHENE' ?
Ministers would Be( nn

never to do things until the very last moment,
and then, if they can possibly so contrive,
only partially. But for this curious perversity
the troops we are about to despatch into the
Euxine for the purpose of swelling the ranks of
the Anglo-French contingent under ST. ARNAUD
and RAGLAN, would accompany to the Baltic
those brave Gallic soldiers who are about to em-
bark at Cherbourg on board our British men-of-
war. It may not be too late for the alteration.
What say you, my Lord of NEWCASTLE ?

We are at a loss to comprehend why the Earl
of DERBY should adopt the almost unparalleled

and inconvenient course of raising a debate on
the merits of the Canadian Legislative Council
Bill on the third reading. He had allowed the
second reading without a division, he was as much

opposed to it then as now ; but, as we had sup-
posed, that discretion with which the Lords so
frequently concur in not obstructing measures
essential to the peace of the empire, however re-
pugnant to their Lordships, induced him to waive
his opposition. We were, it seems, mistaken, the
HA.RRY UoTsPun. overpowered the Peer of the
Realm, and the Earl of DERBY expended one of
his greatest sessional efforts in rendering himself
unpopular with our North American Colonies,

and in endeavouring to persuade the House
of Lords to do the same. With all our
admiration of the ability displayed by the
Noble Earl, it is impossible to regard his
speech otherwise than as a piece of one-sided spe-
cial pleading ; and for the sake of Canada and the
integrity of the empire, we are sincerely glad that
he met with the rebuke of finding himself in a
minority of 39 to 63.
We have already had occasion to speak of the
Duke of NEWCASTLE'S Enabling Bill as one of the
best measures of the Coalition, and we see no rea-
son to recal our praise. A short, plain, intelli-
gible bill, which people of common sense can un-
derstand ; a bill clogged with no perverse limita-
tions and restrictions, but frankly placing in the
hands of the Canadians the power to alter their
local constitution as they judged best ; a bill
which may be regarded as the parent's congratu-
lation to his child] ust come of age, and bidding
it use its youthful vigour almost entirely in its
own way. Such a bill we have not often seen
where popular liberties were concerned, and we
must repeat our hearty commendation of it ; it
has snapped one of the old and irritating bonds,
or rather chains, of connection between this coun-
try and the colony, to substitute for it a bond
incomparably stronger of mutual respect and at-
tachment. A Reform Bill like it, or an Oxford
University Bill, perhaps even an Education Bill,
would have passed in spite of the war, and have
given a character of vigour to the domestic admi-
nistration of the Government. The unfortunate
Colonial Church Disabilities Bill, just withdrawn,
had it been on the same model, had it placed the
entire subject of the Colonial Church, the ap-
pointment of bishops, with their payment in-
cluded, in the hands of the colonists, would have
been carried safely through by the common sense
and justice of both England and the colonies.
We have no wish to follow the Earl of DERBY
in his attempts to convict Lord JOHN RUSSELL of
inconsistency, still less to defend the talented
Earl of DURHAM'S Report from the Noble Lord's
misrepresentation. The latter was sufficiently
done by the Duke of NEWCASTLE, who showed
that that honest and liberal statesman had plainly
exposed the insuperable evils of a nominee
Council. Lord JOHN will certainly, in a short
time, fully defend himself.

The truth is, Lord DERBY is, unfortunately,
but too irritable on Canadian questions ; he has
chosen to do battle for as much aristocracy as
possible, where no aristocracy exists. In this
country it is difficult even for the most ardent
Radicals and Democrats to suppress entirely their
vernacular reverence for titles. In actual life a public
man must quite swim against the stream in doing
so. Whatever movement is commenced, whatever
society or association formed, to gain a Lord or
two is considered a great point. Even the Man-
chester Leaguers were proud of the few Nobles
who gave in their adhesion to the association.
From the times of the Saxons and Normans
nobility has been a part of the system of English
society.
.0f course, in Canada, and in all colo-
nies, there is nothing of the kind. There are no
distinctions but the natural ones of property, cha-
racter, and intelligence; all these take their natu-
ral patents from the society in which they live,
and office under the Colonial Government, election
to the Legislative Assembly, or some local appoint-
ment, is the utmost which the superior classes can
think of. They are all on a titular, or rather
non-titular, level. In such a state of things, no
wonder that a house composed of mere nominees
of the Crown should be held in contempt ; and
that the plain fact should be, that those whom
the Crown would prefer to nominate should
decline an honour which degrades them in the
eyes of their neighbours. A man's immediate
associates are more to him than the Governor, or
the QcrzEN of England herself. Nor can even her
fiat create a substitute in our colonies for an
English Peer. No ; Lord DERBY must be con-
tent to take the colonies as he finds them. They
can make their own House of Lords, and will
honour it far more than any which their SOVE-
REIGN or her representative can make for them,
and no doubt they will very quickly do it.
Lord DERBY is very much disquieted with the
mode suggested by the Legislative Assembly for
the election of another house. Now it may be a
wise or an unwise one, but we must think that
the wisest scheme forced on the Canadians from
home would probably meet with but little
sympathy in the colony itself. He especially
objected to the proposal that if the Council twice
rejected a measure sent up by the Assembly, the
former should be sent back to its constituents.
Perhaps the Noble Lord forgot that the Norway
constitution goes even further, since in that coun-
try if the Lower House, the Storthing, passes a mea-
sure thrice, it becomes law of itself, although the
Upper House, or Lagthing, and the Crown too,
may be quite opposed to it. We have never
heard of any mischievous consequences arising
from such an arrangement, and no doubt Baron
ROTHSCHILD and the electors of London think that
some similar provision would have its use occa-
sionally in England itself.
Nothing is more certain than that our North
American colonies are now feeling their growing
importance more and more every year ; they are
demanding no longer to be regarded as colonists, but
as an integral part of the Empire ; they aspire
to be represented imperially, in our House of
Commons at least, to share in the Imperial as
Well as the Colonial Councils. They outnumber
Scotland in population, and nearly equal it in
' "=emercial tonnage. Why not, then, they ask,
enjoy a rresentation like hers in the Imperial
fParliament ? The colonies are implicated in the
rasoeunprpderriresepmenaertkselations of England, a Colonial Secretary,
the Government of England only, votes
°ll colonial subjects la the House, and is
theirafanidrlymvl
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we can no longer treat our Colonies
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the Atlantic, the other side
as pocket boroughs.

The Lady Edice Egerton, daughter of the Earl and
Countess of Ellesmere, is about to be married to the
Hon. George Byng, M.P., eldest son of Viscount En-
field, and grandson of the Earl of Strafford,
Sir William Keith Murray, of Ochtertyre, it is said,
is shortly to be united in marriage to Lady Adelaide
Hastings. Lady Adelaide is sister to the Marchioness
of Bute.—Scotsman.

Mr. Holford will shortly lead to the hymeneal altar
the youthful and beautiful daughter of the Hon. Colonel
Lindsay—Miss Elizabeth Lindsay.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.—We are requested
to state that the number of students of the Faculty of
Arts of the college during the past session was 204, ex-
clusive of the 66 members of the "Patriot" classes for
schoolmasters.

THE NEW RUSSIAN LOAN.—The Senate of Hamburg
has approved of the decision of the Chamber of Com-
merce of that city, that the last Russian loan shall not
be officially quoted at the Bourse;