The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-06 00:00:00

their hewers of wood and drawers of water, it only
needs that we :give them time, and opportunity
unmolested, to perfect their practice, and by a
,steady perseverance in the non-intervention policy
recommended to us by Mr. Cobden, we shall at
no distant date enable Russia to be the Rome of
the nineteenth century, and ourselves to qualify
for being her' Greek slaves—teaching her the arts
and sciences in the chains in which our over-civili-
sation has bound us. No doubt civilisation halt its
blessings. The high culture of an intelligent people
gives productive power, good order, abundance, pro-
gress. But Mr. Combe, in his " Constitution of
Man," has demonstrated the absurdity of expect-
ing that mere conformity to the moral laws will
secure exemption from the consequences of a neglect
Of the physical laws. They have nothing in com-
mon. We can no more prevent a shipwreck by
singing psalms than we can gather grapes from
thorns or figs from thistles. Political power is won
by the sword, and it can only be preserved by the
sword. The Czar is a Goth only of the heart. His
disposition is that of the Vandal, but his mind
avails itself of all the advantages which civilisation
supplies, to perfect the science of physical momen-
' tuna ; and unless we keep pace with him in mili-
tary culture, and practice, and muniments, we
shall not long hold our own against his aggres-
sions. We can admire neither the generosity nor
good sense which prompts Mr. Cobden at this time
to execrate Turkey as a worn-out despotism, to
praise Russia as an improving barbarism, and to
persuade his fellow-countrymen to permit the Czar
to break the peace of Europe by the lust of con-
quest, and to appropriate the fairest portion of
Europe and of Asia as a buccaneering annexation
to his empire. So utterly irrational and poli-
tically so scandalously immoral do we regard such
advice, that are we equally surprised at the blind-
ness of the speaker, and at the absurdity of those
Who patiently or with demonstrative plaudits lis-
tened in public assembly to such propositions. We
are called to be the police of Europe, not only by our
exalted place among the nations, but by self-interest,
a consideration of the extent and vulnerability of
our possessions and the intimacy of our commercial
reations with every country in the world. When
Mr. Cobden tells us that on principle we are as
much called upon to interfere in Italy, in Sicily, in
Hungary, as in Turkey, we answer first, that in
these latter cases there is no invasion by one State
of the territories of another for the mere purpose
of conquest, and therefore there is no parallel to
establish an analogy, in which the principle can
alone consist ; second, that in politics the question
of degree is as important as that of principle, and
that of the relation of our own interest to the par-
, titular case is more important than either ; and,
lastly, that Mr. Cobden's logic cuts both ways—
that, on principle, if he will have it so, there is no
greater reason for interfering to protect one of our
distant colonies, than our nearest continental
neighbour—that the argument of non-intervention
may be minimised as well as maximised—and that
we may ask Mr. Cobden why a Marylebone police-
man should catch a Finsbury thief ? or why the
watchman on our beat should be made to exchange
the password with the constable in the next street?
If there be no objection to the Emperor of Russia
appropriating Turkey, why not take it ourselves ?
On the score of humanity, civilisation, the security
and progress of the world, it is impossible to com-
pare the blessing to the Turks of being under the
rule of a responsible government, a constitutional
Parliament, and the most polished nation in the
world ; and of being prostrated at the feet of a
crazy and cruel tyrant, whose moody will and mad
impulse are the only guide of government, and the
only fountain of power ? When Mr. Cobden tells
us further that, on principle, the Emperor should,
by us, he permitted to take Turkey, since we have
taken Scinde, Ava, Borneo, need we remind him
that, when the case of aggression was our own, he
did not preach the doctrine of non-intervention,
but was the most resolute in his attacks on the
Governor-General, on General Napier, and Rajah
Brooke. If Mr. Cobden appeals to our aggressions
in India in point of the Czar's invasion of the
East, we might accept the parallel, and then ask if
he justifies our Indian conquests ? We are really
utterly astonished at the judicial blindness of our
Manchester friends—we had almost said at their
unconscious, but undisguised, avowal of an
utter want of public principle in their maxims
of foreign policy. The man who fell among
thieves was a Jew ; the meddler who poured
oil in his wounds, set him on his own beast,
and paid his bill at the inn, was a Samaritan " who
held no dealings with the Jews." The priest and
the Levite acted on strictly non-intervention prin-
ciples. The thief was evidently the stronger, be-
, cause he knocked the wayfarer down. He was c'
rising man, sir—quite." Had not he his neigh-
bour's pence in his pocket, and was not he there-
fore well to do ? Why should he be interfered with
in his hobby of "stand and deliver ?" Surely it
was none of our business 1 That is a literal trans-
lation of the Cobden and Bright morality ; and our
only excuse for both is that they are bewildered in
the mazes of a metaphysical crotchet, which they
have mistaken for the ordinary common sense of
business. When they tell us that the war will
raise our taxes, stop our trade, arrest our improve-
ments, check our commercial progress, depress our
finances, we answer that our solicitude for peace has
done so : that ournon-intervention would aggravate
all the evils they predicate from our activity. We
had nothing to do with the French Revolution, yet

they sent our. funds to 85. We kept aloof iiom
Hungary in her need and the German States in
their extremity ; but we did not the less sustain
great commercial injuries from the state of tho
Continent. Conceive Nicholas at Constantinople,
and where would be our Indian Stock ? How
much further off would we be from war, that his
power was doubled, and that he was within a few
day's march of our eastern frontier ? Observe.
Our interest is not merely that we ourselves should
be at peace, but that all the world should be so.
A general war in Europe, from which we kept
aloof, would cost our trade and commerce more in
the long run than if we were in the very fiercest
of the fray. Even now, if we cannot succeed in
suppressing this great northern bully, capital will
take its flight to America and Australia, and put
thousands of miles betwixt itself and the strife of
Europe. Let there, therefore, be no more delay
—no differences of opinion—no contrariety of ac-
tion or of sympathies among us. The time for
discussion is at an end. We are at war—all our
hearts must be in it. Our whole might must be in
every blow ; and, having been the last to break
the peace, we must be the last to seek it.

SUSPECTED MURDER BY A WOMAN. —On the 27th
ult. a man named William Hines, residing at Ashton-
under-Line, died, and was interred in the burial-ground
of the Roman Catholic chapel at Dukinfield. After his
interment, however, in consequence of some suspicion
that arose, police thought proper to apply to the
coroner, Mr. Rutter, for a warrant to disinter the
body, which was granted. The body was accordingly
disinterrrd on Wednesday last, and a post mortem
examination made by Dr. Lees, of Ashton. A woman
with whom the deceased cohabited, named Catherine
Hughes, was also apprehended on suspicion of having
caused his death. An inquest was held on the body
on Thursday, by Mr. G. Rutter, deputy coroner, at the
Tim Bobbin public house. The woman Hughes was
present at the inquest. Dr. Lees was first examiuined,
who stated that he attended the deceased at his own house
up to the time of his death. He saw then that there was a
wound on his head and also an abscess. OnWednesday
he made a post molten examination, when he found an ex-
ternal wound on the head. On raising the scalphe found
marks on the skull, corresponding with the wounds upon
the skin, and symptoms of recent inflammation between
the skin and bone. He also found inflammation
and effusion of matter upon the brain, that was quite
sufficient to account for death. Hehad
no
doubt that
death was caused by violence to the head which he
had
spoken of. That Violence might have been produced by
a blunt instrument, such as a piece of iron, or the
poker produced. A woman named Eliza Ann Orme,
of Back Crab-street, Ashton-under.Lyne, stated that
one night, soon after last Christmas, she and a girl
named Bridget, who formerly kept company with the de-
ceased, went out together. At the, corner of a passage in
Crab-street, sh e saw the prisoner, Catherine Hughes, stand-
ing with something that looked like a stick, about the
length of the piece of iron now produced. She lifted it up
and threatened to give it her. A short time afterwards
she heard the deceased and the prisoner quarrelling.
She heard deceased say that prisoner had better not
touch Bridget. Shortly after the deceased came to
witness's house, his head covered with blood, and he
had with him the piece of poker now produced. He
went out to get some plaster. Alice Lees stated that
on the evening of Monday or Tuesday, in the week
immediately preceding New Year's-day, witness saw
the prisoner run into a shop in Crab-street, and de-
ceased after her. The prisoner ran through the shop
into the kitchen, followed by the deceased, who hit her
with his fist two or three times, kicked her, and struck
her with a chair. The deceased then came from the kit-
chen into the shop, and witness saw that he was bleed-
from his head. The blood was running down both sides
of his face. Witness did not see the prisoner strike
the deceased. When the deceased came from the kit-
chen, witness saw him taking up something like a poker
or stick. He went into the kitchen and struck the
prisoner with it on the head. The prisoner came out of
the shop. Her head was bleeding. Witness said to
her, " Your head is cut ;" to which the prisoner replied,
"Aye, and I have cut his." This was the last witness
examined. The inquest was then adjourned until the
10th instant, for the evidence of a woman who is at
present confined in New Bailey prison.
REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE AND
LUDLOW.—Mr. R. Clive has issued an address to the
electors of South Shropshire, in reply to the requisition
calling upon him to offer for the seat rendered vacant by'
the death of his father, the Hon. R. H. Clive. After
alluding to that melancholy circumstance, the hon. gen-
tleman expressed his determination to adopt the same
course of independence he has hitherto pursued in Par-
liament. The nomination is fixed for Wednesday next.