The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SAT URDAYI EVEN INGI NOVEMBER 1, 1'35 G.

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coroplica tons ; and it is manifest that these pro-
G„dings lut,ve been approved of by the Cur and
Cabinet of- St. Petersburg. If any doubt could
exist on tl iis paint, it must be dispelled by the
di.,creclitab le attempts of Russia to take advantage
of the wrol igs committed by her own ftepresenta•
tives ; and the truculent circular respecting the
affairs of :Naples must completely set aside any
argument that could now be advanced in favour
of the Muscovite.
The points in dispute may appear comparatively
trivial and. unimportant, and we have no doubt
that parties calling themselves Englishmen, but
having little in common with English feelings, may
be found to censure the resolution now displayed
by the Government. But every principle that
induced us to take up arms in opposition to the
Rusttian aggression is involved in the result.
Should we tamely yield to her untenable preten-
sions. we should become the laughing-stock of
Europe, and irremediably forfeit the prestige that
once belonged to Old England, and which every
tree-hearted Briton will be prepared to support to
the bast drop of his blood and the last shilling in

has purse.
t told you so" is usually but cold comfort to
those who have been victimised by the arts of a
swindler ; and if we take credit to ourselves for
the repeated and emphatic warnings we addressed
to the Government, the Parliament, and the,
People of the United Kingdom, it is not to en-
hance the mortification which must necessarily be
felt for the unsuspecting credulity displayed in
IMarch, and the unwarranted rejoicings for the
ratification of the Precious Treaty, but rather to
induce them firmly and unflinchingly to insist
on the complete fulfilment of the very
moderate conditions which Russia pledged herself
to perform ; and also, to caution against any
further manifestation of confidence in a Govern-
ment that has been guilty of such unblushing
duplicity and dissimulation. At this moment
the CZAR. is striving to obtain 40,000,0001. of
gold from France and England. It is said, and
we believe truly, that a contract has been actually
signed, by which a French company has stipulated
to forward, within a limited time, that enormous
amount to St. Petersburg, for the construction of
a system of military railways, which must render

important services to Russia in any new war
which future aggressions on her part may require.
Much of the capital is expected to come from
England, and we need scarcely repeat the expla-
nations already given of the monetary embarrass-
ments that must ensue from such a continuous
drain, especially if the unwise and impolitic
Bank Charter Act of 1844 be still continued.
Another snare is spread for English gold, in the
project for forming the nucleus of a new Russian
War Navy in the Black Sea. Almost every
foreign project must, under existing circumstances,
be regarded with distrust, but we should especially
button our pockets against Russian applications.
We have recently seen melancholy examples
uif opulent firms that have been reduced to bank-
ruptcy by intermeddling with foreign schemes.
Let our countrymen accept the warning while
rhere is yet time. It would be a patriotic act
in the part of the Committee of the Stock Ex-
change—one that would be deeply appreciated by
the great majority of the people—if, by re•
fusing their sanction to the quotation of such
matters in the official lists, they averted the misery
and distress of thousands of English
and prevented the tears of widows and orphans
from flowing copiously over blighted prospects
and the eadurdnoe of the bitter privations inse-
parable from hopeless poverty. They have an
Ilimportant duty before them. Let us hope that
they may exercise it with the care and discretion
which its vast consequence so imperatively de-
mands.

Rub- a-dub—Rub-a- dub—Rub-a- d üb. —.£l, 000
Reward ! Lost ! some time during last session
of Parliament, or during one or all of the last
three sessions, the Great Conservative party. It
was last seen together in 1852, at Downing-
street ; but since then has been variously reported
as to be heard of at Knowsley Park, Hughenden
Manor, Westwood Park, and Powick Court, and
even in certain brickfields in Worcestershire.
Whoever will give information to BEN JA MIN
DISRAELI, Esq., which shall lead to the discovery
of the missing party, shall receive the above re-
ward on application at the Press Office, Strand.

We claim the reward. We will not exactly say
that we have found the lost party, for we have
never lost sight of it ; but we know where it is,
1 and can produce it. Our neighbour, if fair to us,
will down with the money ; if not we shall take
our revenge through Mr. ROEBUCK and the Ad-
ministrative Reformers ; and if wo do that, the
great Conservative party may as well take a nal,
for half a century or so, for there will not be
even a civil-service clerkship to conserve. A
I hateful hedge of examinations will fence out the
well-connected " noodles, and clever tradesmen's
sons will laugh at the penniless juniors of primo-
geniture pricking their fingers in attempts to get
thron,ll. Why, the great party is obvious enough
to all who know faces as well as livery. The
trimmings are changed, that is all. It was coun-
try green turned up with Protection gilt lace till
'52 ; and it is country green still, but some have
Brummagem anti-Maynooth and Irish Church
button:, others Irish Church buttons only. Some
again think the Hebrew mind essential to a go-
verning body, and have a shekel embroidered on
the collar ; others think there is nothing like a
peer or two and Quarter Sessions magistrates, and
sport a coronet and a sessions house.
But these are surely trifles. The great party
itself we would undertake to set before the world
by a very simple process. Just look at its votes
and its non-votes. Try it on any liberal
measure, or any tax-spending measure ; look I
at those who voted steadily and dead against,
say, the Ballot, the Irish Church Committee, the
abolition of Church Rates, or Shipping Dues, or
Limited Liability Bills. Look at those again who,
intentionally, did not vote, or who shuffled—the
prudential ones, with genuine Tory instincts, but
practising due caution in the eyes of their con-
stituency. These are the lost party, unorganised
it may be, but yet gregarious as Tory heart could
wish when any popnlar measure is to be obstructed.
Even when they diffet a little about any particular
proposal, the Maynooth one for instance, it is a
mere difference of special, not of general objech—
of means, not of ends. Both parties, rejoice in all
the rankest abuses of the Irish Church, but one
thinks they are best preserved by giving el little
sop to the Catholics, the other by throwing the
Catholics overboard.

If the Conservatives will take the comfort, there
is, however, much more for them. Their party is
really in office. What measure
Lord PAL
MERSTON'S Cabinet propose which they, if they
were iu, would not be very willing to propose too,
if it woad, but strengthen their pckition:.uhi Why,haN,e
as to the war itself, they would have fought if the
people wanted them to do it, and w
made certainly quite as good a Treaty of Peace as
that which cannot be said to be completed even
yet. And as to home measure, they might have
resisted Liberalism more openly, but would not
have jockeyed it more succomfally than the pr§fr

sent Premier, whether the -measures emanated
from members of his own Ca.binet or from inde-

pendent members. The Cc•alition and the War
Cabinets have both been as Conservative Cabinets
as. heart could wish. The difficulty is, not to find
where the great Conservative party is, but where
it. is not.

We should advise our disconsolate friends to
think of some good honest English name expres-
sive of the real character of the lost party, and to
try the effect of a little manly outspokenness. For
this last quarter of a century they have labelled
themselves with the maudlin epithet " Conserva-
tive," a long Latin word, all very well for West-
end clubs ; but what do tenants at will, old free-
men, and Dotwallopers know about " Conser-
vatism." As likely as not they never saw any
approach to the word except in confectioners'
shops ; or they may have heard of something like
it in the landlord's garden. The old word Tory
was something like ; it was not an imported word
at least ; several generations had rallied to it, and
it sounded like the quintessence of loyalty and
nobleness ;—but it is gone, gone alas, with Lords
ELDON and CISTLEREAOH, and buried for ever by
the Reform Bill. Suppose our friends should call
themselves the " Great Drag-chain Party"—every
farmer, every waggoner, ever cabby and omnibus
conductor would know what that meant. The
good truthy Saxon would enter the heart as
well as the ear ; Englishmen would feel

that there was a little pluck in saying
outright what was meant. Tke Drag-chain
candidate would distance the smooth-tongued
Conservative at the hustings, by more than half
a neck, we are confident. He would leave him
nowhere. Hear the twc—" I'm for a judicious
Conservatism, which spares all that is valuable in
our glorious constitution in Church and State.
I'm a moderate and liberal Conservative." The
other, " I'm for putting the drag on those headlong
Ballot and Anti-Churoh-rate Radicals, that would
upset the good old coach we've ridden in so long
and so pleasantly. I'm the Drag-chain candidate,
and no mistake." With all our Radicalism, if we
had only the two before us, we would at least not
vote for the milk-and-water one.
And is not the Tory party merged in the great
Drag-chain party ! Give it its right name, and
you see at once its strength, and its bond of ser-
vice. The popular influence, press and people
together, is very strong. It is all given to Re-
form, of one kind or another. It has achieved
some telling reforms since the peace. It has
several minor ones in view just now, and two
great ones in Church and State loom in prospect.
It is impossible to obstruct entirely, but the
wheels of Reform may be dragged, if not stopped.
JOHN BULL will submit to a wonderful deal of
trouble, if it be but given in lawful form, and
' though we are to get to the bottom of the hill at
last it is something if we can be compelled to
creep instead of gallop. This, therefore, is the
noble task of our Tories by birth, by apostacy,
or by senility. It is of little consequence whe-
ther they range themselves under DEBBY, or under
ABERDEEN, or PALMERSTON. They are the Drag-
chain party now and for ever. Toryism can no
more originate, create, enact ; its sole function is
to check the energy of the great out-of-doors
party. To hinder their upsetting despotism, and
liberating nations by war, and their sweeping
abuses too fast fade away, in peace.

Au incentive to one of the most humane and
practical reforms of the age has just made its
appearance. It comes to us in the form of an
earnest and generous argument put forth in the
shape of an excellent pamphlet* upon the "Dwel-
lings of the Labouring Classes in the Metropolis,"
by Major-General G. B. TREMENHEERE. A more
than " thrice-told tale" this—of the squalor, and
misery, and degradation associated with the
lloarEs of so many thousands of our London popu-
lation ! If that holy name of HOME can really be
applied to abodes of such habitual wretchedness.
Already we have had the lamentable particulars
doled out to us by other, and earlier, but not by
any means more energetic, promoters of the cause
than this, the latest, and perhaps for that very
reason, one of the most practical of our sanitary
pamphleteers. The benevolent Earl of SHAFTES•
BURY, when Lord ASHLEY, has led us into those
horrible dens of abomination, where the vermin
rattle down upon the visitor's hat like a shower
of peas, where the foetid atmosphere can scarcely
be endured for a few seconds by those not habitu-
ated to it, where both sexes and all ages are styed
together night after night in festering masses of
dirt and rags, whore all the ills in PANDORA'S box
seem nested together without the faintest
;glimmering of a Hope at the bottom of it
all. SOUTHWOOD SMITH has at once
consoled and horrified us by his elaborate
exposition of the " Results of Sanitary Improve-
ment." Mr. GEORGE GLOVER has contrasted
with frightful vividness the " Common and Model
Lodging Houses of the Metropolis." Mr. JOHN
SIMON, by his authoritative " Reports relating to
the Sanitary Condition of London," may be said
in a manner to have gauged the social horrors of
cite capital—!eaving us in his standard pays a
mass of wholly unparalleled statistics—according
us, let us still trust and believe, the long-desired 70I'
17(') from which to uproot and topple over the Mon-
ster Evil by means of a Lever of Reform really and
truly Archimedian. It is strictly speaking in corro-
boration and enforcement of all that has been said
wad done by such pioneers in the good cause as
Mr. SIMON and Mr. GLOVER, and Dr. SMITH,
sad Lord SHAFTESBURY, that General TREMEN-
HEERE now addresses himself to the same theme—
theme of awful and grimly fascination. Con-
scious while so doing, as he himself here takes
occasion to acknowledge (page ';'), that the work of
reformation already now some time commenced,
has actually as yet made but very little progress,
and this "Notwithstanding Sanitary Com-
missions, Acts cf Parliament, and the efforts
of benevolent Associations." If —asis of
course incontrovertibly the case, " much has
been done" "yet more" (not a doubt of
it) "remains to do." And in furtherance
of these still larger after-labours, in demon-
stration, and illustration, and elucidation
of this " more"—we have now submitted to us
this striking, startling, strenuously enforced argu-
ment by Major-General G. B. TREMENHEERE.
An argument, remember ! designed for the fur-
therance of the social happiness of the industrious
classes, upon a subject spoken of by our gallant and
humane pamphleteer, very forcefully, truth fully,
and epigrammatically, as— " this matter of such ina-
portancetotheir moralwell-being and their physical
comfort." Ho recollects almost painfully at the
very outset of his task how another reformer (Nlr.
SiaioN), speaking' to the public at large upon the
same theme half a dozen years ago (1850), had
asked, with a shudder, after describing the pig-
stye sleeping apartments into which so many
thousands are nightly huddled " Who can
wonder at what becomes, physically or morally,
of infants barn in these bestial crowds ?" General

bears vividly in mind, moreover,
that the partial good already effected by means of
Acts of Parliament, and Benevolent Associations,
and Sanitary Commissions, and so forth, really
applies to the sanitary condition of no more than

some 30,000 or 40,000 out cf the entire popu-
lation of the metropolis-30,000 or 40,000 out
of the 2,000,000 or 3,000,000 constituting the
aggregated inhabitants of London and Westmins-
ter 1 As corroborative of the utter inadequacy of
the reforms already accomplished, comes the recent
disclosure of that wink of social abomination near
High Holborn—Plum-tree-court. Fully alive,
therefore, to the magnitude of the evil remaining
to be dissipated, Gen. TRENIZNIIEERE undertakes,
is his very able pamphlet, to define what appears
to his judgment the most feasible plan for a sys-
tem of Model Lodging Houses. Deriving a large
amount of useful experience, it should be pre-
mised, from his labours as late Superintending
Engineer in the Punjaub, when, after the close
of the war, resulting in the annexation of that
province to our Indian possessions, he was
entrusted with the duty of supervising the construe-

tion of enormous barracks fitted for the accommo-
dation of some eleven thousand men. Generously,
nobly has the gallant soldier abandoned the
weapons of war for those Jf peace—throwing aside
the sword and the bayonet to take up, as it were,
instead of them the spade and the mattock—
intent upon the conquest of more deadly foes than
the warrior horsemen of Northern Hindostan—
Vice and Disease—daily and nightly the whole-1
sale destroyers of the bodies and souls of thou-
' sands. GOD speed every such good and brave
man in these benign endeavours ! Endeavours so
generous, humane, and benevolent that, in the
fullness of time, they can scarcely fail of securing
the blessing of HEAVEN !

* " Dwellings of the Labouring Classes in the Metro-
polis." By Major-General G. B. TREmENHEERE. Bvo.,
pp. 35. KNIGHT and Co., London. 1856.

hannah (steamer) there joins her, and together they
are to cruise on the coast of Africa.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, OCT. 28.

The day before yesterday the Oesterreichiselie Cor-
respondenz positively denied that the Porte had re-
quested Austria to evacuate the Danubian Princi-
palities, but information t3-day received induces
me (correspondent of the Times) to belitvi
that the statements of the Pays, Patric, and
Corotitationnel were not totally unfounded. The
influence of M. de Thouvenal, who is supported by
his Russian colleague, has recently so greatly in-
creased that he has managed to persuade the Porte
to request Austria (and probably England) to name
the period at which she intends to withdraw her

forces from the Turkish territory. The reply of
Baron Prokesch ii said to have been, that his Go-
vernment considered it advisable to prolong the oc-
cupation of the Danubian Principalities until the
Bessarabiau frontier question was settled, but that
it would immediately withdraw its troops if the
Porte expressed a wish that it should do so. Al-
though the f)regoing news was obtained at a non-
Austrian source it is probably correct, as Count
Baol has spoken in the very same way to Prince
Callimaki, the Turkish Minister at this Court.

The King of Naples has positively refused to
follow the advice of Austria. A few days ago
Prince Petrulla read to Count Buol a despatch
from his Government, in which it was said that
the King was necessitated to refuse to make the
concessions recommended by Austria, as it would
be equivalent to a voluntary renunciation of his
sovereign rights should he yield to England and
France. Yesterday Prince Petrulla had another
interview with Count Buol, and there is good

reason for believing that be confirmed the state-
ment which he had made a few days previously.

A letter from good authority at Parma says,
that it has been at length definitively settled that
the Custom-house League with Austria shall not
be renewed, and that this decision was mainly, if
not wholly, to be attributed to the firmness of M.
Lombardini, the Minister of Finance of Parma.