The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-24 00:00:00

fea r what may come of an emancipated Poland,
an. emancipated Lombardy perphaps, and, it may
be a war of nationalities. They have kept in
sal ug quarters already, but if the War goes on
t bey could hardly do so much longer Even with
t hem, therefore, the most decided tone, on our
p art, will be of the greatest service. If they
k mow we will have all that can be honestly got
°Jut of the present terms, we have no doubt they
will beg Russia to content these unmanageable
British.
All, therefore, shows that England must be the
one to make the stand for no concession, if we are
to make the best of this shabby business ; this
miserable composition of half-a-crown—perhaps
we should have said, a shilling in the pound.
But is it not clear that the stand made by Eng-
land depends on the people ? Parliament is
meeting, and there are some wko expect much
from it. We, too, are glad of it, but it were folly
to deceive ourselves. Faction party spirit, and
aristocratic bias will render the majority any-
thing but really desirous to carry out the national
wish, or a firm and noble foreign policy. Inter-
rogations will do some good, but Parliament has
tolerated the appeal to " inconvenience" and " the
interests of the public service," till deeds of
darkness can be carried on with wonderful facility
even while the house is in full 4e3siou. The people
must keep their so-called representatives up to
the mark.

As to the Cabinet—the mystery of mysteries—
there can be no doubt of what is needed for keep-
ing that to its duty. The general fear as to the
majority of its members could hardly have been
universal without reasonable ground. The Pre-
mier and the few members who may desire a firm
and a really European policy can carry their
views only by a degree of decision on the part of the
people, to which the Russianisers in Parliament
and in the Cabinet must equally bow. In Down-
ing-street, in the Royal closet, and in both Houses
of Parliament, Lord PALMERSTON must be able to
say that England requires him to do his duty. If
the negotiations proceed, every effort of ingenuity
and cunning will be put forth, no intrigue will be
too base, no plot too dark, to bend the
representative of England again, to his own dis-
grace and that of his country. What we urged
on the first receipt of the news, is what we urge
still as the essential in a plenipotentiary for this
occasion—inflexible firmness for the demands
which ought to be made. The cunning of a
TALLEYRAND would, of course, be of great
value, but in 1815 the determination of ALEX-
DER was more than a match for it. Shall not
history for once record that England was not to
be beaten in a Congress ? Shall she not in this
one, at least, win the laurels for her obstinacy—
if they like to call it so—in the council as well as
in the camp, or on board her men-of-war ? We
cannot beat the subtle protocollers, of the
Continent in their own way, but we can
beat them in ours. Let us send a man who can
pit English immoveablity against Russian cunning
and German word-splitting. No one can doubt
the res-ilt. Well—our public men are, and in
one sense properly, what the people would make
them. Let us show all the world what we now
expect of them, and they will not fail us.

And was there ever a better cause ? If
Englishmen will not now bestir themselves, when
will they ? Thrice national apathy has resulted in
disastrous results, all leading to the one under
which we now smart. First in 1815, when,
England looking on, Poland was sold to the
greedy, smooth-faced hypocrite ALEXANDER. Next,
in 1831, when we, and Lord PALTILERSTON too,
acquiesced quietly in the incorporation of Poland ;
lastly, in 184 B,when we, under the advice of Mr. Con-
DEN and Lord J. RUSSELL allowed Russia to trample
Hungary under Austria. But for these villanies
we might have been saved this War. Shall we
slumber again on Manchester cotton bags ?
Already it is mere than whispered that no in-
demnity for War expenses is to be demanded ;
that the ports on the Black Sea are to remain and
be rebuilt ; that Nicolaieff is not on the Black
Sea, and therefore its arsenal to be kept up ;
and not a word is uttered of requiring that
Poland shall be restored, even according to the
arrangement made at the Treaty of Vienna, or on
behalf of the inviolability of Circassian territory.
Even the fort of Chotym, itself the most impor-
tant in the ceded territory, is to be left with
Russia, and a strip of country demanded hardly
bigger (and worth much less) than the district
we already hold in the Crimea, to say nothing of
Eupatoria, Kertch, and Kinbourn. When things
appear to be taking this turn, and when we re-
member the cost we have already incurred, and
our existing preparations to gain a really ser-
viceable peace, it is high time that the country
should tell Parliament and the Cabinet that it

demands' the most ample interpretation of the

accepted terms.

" Ecce iterum Crispinus." " Mercator" is again
in the field. He has once more entered the
arena, in the almost forlorn hope that the com-
munity can still be humbugged in reference to
the impolitic and
,iniquitous enactments, which in
1844 were made part of the statute law of the
land. He labours with indefatigable pertinacity
in the cause with which he has identified himself,
and for which he is in a great degree, if not
entirely, responsible. It is scarcely necessary to
state that " Mercator" (the nom de plume of
Lord OVBRSTONE, better known as Mr. SAMUEL
JONES Loyn) is the putative parent of tho last
Bank Charter Act, which has been universally
condemned by every unprejudiced and disinterested
person, and that therefore the most strenuous
efforts on his part may naturally be looked for
to preserve his own political reputation, as well
as the pecuniary interests which, as a sevenfold
nzillionnaire, he must feel in a system which so
materially enhances the power of the moneyocracy,
of which he is, and has for a considerable period
been,member. "Mercator" looks at
the question
a leadinguestioni n a
very
different point of view from
that in which it will be regarded by the indus-
trious classes, who had not the opportunities of
acquiring wealth at the time when " pig upon
bacon" passed into a proverb in Lancashire—the
reason whereof it is unnecessary to explain to
Mercator. For many reasons, therefore, he is one
of the last persons who should obstinately push
himself forward on a topic of paramount aad vital
importance to the nation. He has,
contrived to do so for some time however,
past, but his
spasmodic efforts only show that he feels that
the system with which his name is identified is
seriously imperilled, and that like DEMETRIUS, the
silversmith, he is still prepared to raise an out-
cry similar to that of " Great is the DIANA of
the Ephesian.," for by that craft he gains his