The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-06 00:00:00

QUARTERLIES.

The Irish Quarterly Review opens with a paper
on French social life, which is lively and amusing.
" The Streets of Dublin" continued has reached
the seventh number. An interesting article on the
poets of fashion gives us a selection of pleasing
verses from popular writers, such as James Smith,
Haynes Bayley, Theodore Hook, &c. Two char-
acteristic essays, "On the Development of Irish
Industry," and " Arts in our Metropolis," are the
most conspicuous in the remainder of the contents.
The Church of England Quarterly Review pre-
sents us with a very able and instructive paper on
" Pulpit Eloquence." It is founded on a work re-
cently published by Professor Vinet, of Lausanne.
Any one who has had the pleasure of perusing his
sermons will certainly allow him to be qualified to
instruct others on the " TheOry of Preaching."
" Life in the Prairies" asserts that the generality
of civilised folks suffer from an over refinement
of habits—that they exercise their imagination
at the expense of their judgment—that they de-
pend
too much on the experience of others—and
that a "little brisk travelling in a practical coun-
try," hunting buffaloes and fighting with Indians,
Would do most of them a considerable amount of
benefit. There is a very favourable criticism on
Mr. Atherstone's poem on the " Fall of Nineveh,"
which, curiously enough, was written before the
recent discoveries were made, and public attention
drawn to the subject. "Alchemy and Gold," is
an essay on the gold-finding wonders of California
and Australia, which, indeed, surpass the miracles
of the wizards of the " Arabian Nights." There
are various other subjects of theological interest.
The Journal of Psychological, Medicine and
Mental Pathology, gives us many valuable sta-
tistics on the important subject of the treatment of
the insane. The reports of the American asylums
are also given, and much information on the amuse-
ments, exercise, (to., best calculated to benefit the
patients. Those specially interested in the consi-
deration of this topic, will find in this work much
to assist them, and the collection of the various
accounts and reports gives an opportunity of com-
paring the different methods, which is very bene-
ficial.

The Journal of Agriculture commences with an
article on agricultural movements in Ireland.
" Social condition of our Labourers" involves an
important question, which has not yet received the
consideration it merits. Many subjects of agricul-
tural interest are treated of in this number, and au
interesting account of the meeting of the Royal
Society, by a Frenchman, will attract the reader's
attention.

THE EASTERN QUESTION AND THE

COALITION MINISTRY.

( Front the Morning fferald.)

Noblemen, gentlemen, merchants, traders, and
operatives of England, are you prepared to be held
up to Europe and to posterity as the nation which
urged its ally and friend to resist oppression, and
then shrunk from supporting him in the struggle
in which your advice had involved him ?

Are you prepared to have this damning deser-
tion recorded against you in the face of your own
declarations—that the cause of that ally was the
cause of truth, justice, and independence, while
that of his opponent was that of violence, oppres-
sion, and piracy ?
Remember that the reputation of England has
stood the storms of 800 years, as that of a bold and
straightforward nation, which, whatever might be
the accusations brought against it of pride, and
perhaps of overweening self-confidence, has never
yet been deemed capable of cowardice and treach-
ery. Yet such will be the case—and such will
justly be the case—if you delay one hour in calling
for an account of the use that has been made of
your misplaced confidence by men who have traf-
ficked with your good name, either for the accom-
plishment of mean, selfish, and factious purposes,
or for the even worse crime of pandering to the
vices and ambitions of foreign despots, so as to
make the great name of England abhorred through-
out Europe and the world as the tool of despotism
and the enemy of freedom.
Surely it cannot be tolerated for one moment
that any set of men, however constituted, are to
hold the irresponsible government of this mighty
empire, and to use it so as to lower her reputation,
desert her allies in the utmost need, paralyse her
commerce, and damnify her financial credit—and
yet that there is to be no account exacted—no
punishment inflicted.

Englishmen must be changed, indeed, if such
proceedings do not produce an up-heaving of the
nation, from end to end, to declare that these things
shall not be, and that those who in spite of the warn-
ings of an almost unanimous press—in spite of the
almost universally expressed opinion of every man
throughout the land possessed of a spark of honour,
either personal or national, that they had betrayed
both us and our friends and allies, have still per-
sisted in carrying out a secret system of diplomatic
fourberie, shall rule us no more. Why is it that
these Eastern matters have not been closed six
months ago ? Does any man believe that if England
had spoken out, and said boldly to the Russian
Autocrat, " So far shalt thou go, and no further,"
that even Nicholas would have dared to act as he
has done ? There is not a man living who believes
it, and if there be let him recall to mind the fact
that all these daring aggressions, all these insolent
and audacious claims, were put forward the very
moment it was known at St. Petersburg that the
man who approved of the march of Diebitch in
1829, and connived at the treaty of Adrianople,
was again in place, if not in power, in England.
The Autocrat well knew that during the rule of
that man the only power on earth which he feared
was paralysed, as far as her Government could
paralyse her—and that the great obstacle to his
ambitious designs no longer stood in his way.
It is time for England to rouse herself, and for
the people of this country to declare that they will
not any longer be the accomplices of men who have
acted as Lord Aberdeen's Cabinet have acted; that
they will not continue to be fools, or perform any
longer the part of the

"Soft easy chairs that knaves repose and fatten in."

Lord Aberdeen's Cabinet ! ! Where is it ? who
has heard of it ? Its assemblage has not been re-
corded in the Court Circular —and yet hole-and-
corner meetings of "some of the members of the
Cabinet"—twos and threes—have been brought to-
gether, and an irresponsible clique has usurped the
functions of the, responsible and constitutional
advisers of the Queen. Can such things be ? Are
we in Venice or in England ? Can it be that the
time has come when Englishmen will submit to be
ruled by a " Council of Three ?" When such was
the case in Venice, even the soi-disant Republicans
of that oligarchical state were so disgusted with
their position, that they never named their rulers,
but held up three fingers to represent the unmen-
tionable abomination.
Let Englishmen remember that at the very mo-
ment when it was almost ostentatiously proclaimed
that Lord Westmoreland was instructed to pen fresh
negotiations with the mild and placable ruler of
Russia—when he was instructed to declare to that