The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-03 00:00:00

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index of national prosperity. It is on -that the
Russian financier mainly relies, and we give him
all the credit to which he is justly entitled under
such a state of affairs. There is, at least, this
difference between the pecuniary affairs
of England and Holy Russia. In this
country the people are the creditors of the State ;
in Russia they are the debtors. We are
grievously oppressed by taxation, but there is
some redeeming feature in the case ; but there
they have not only to pay the general imposts,
but usurious interest on sums long since expended„
and levied with a "forty-bill broker power." Wv
cannot, therefore, greatly envy the position either
of the national debtor or the national vial:tor in
Russia, or believe that every prospect of the
AUTOCRAT, even at the time of his corona-
tion, is altogether couleur de rose. We
should at least advise our compatriots to
make further inquiries before they part with
their hard cash, as investments on any Russian,
securities, whether public or private. We do
not appeal to their patriotism, for, unfortunately,
we know that such an argument is but little at-
tended to on the Stock Exchange:; but let them
closely button their pockets, and not unloose their
purse strings, unless thoroughly acquainted with
the reason why.

Austria rejoices at the castigation (!) adminis-
tered by its favourite pupil, BOMBA, to the Eng-
lish Government. According to its official organs
Ireland is in a worse plight than Italy or Hun-
gary. The gallows still groans under its victitr,s,
and the unfortunate inhabitants are ituffering
under oppression in its most intolerable forms !
We are, therefore, notwithstanding all our toady-
ism to the " Red Emperor," all our patient wait-
ing for Austria, told to pluck the beam from our
own eye before we attempt to notice the mote
obscuring the Neapolitan vision. We have no
right to interfere—we must adopt the non-inter-
vention policy, or expect a fearful retaliation.
The twin despots will unsparingly stick at the sore
point the raw that has been so long established.
But. to use a homely but expressive illustrat;,on,
" What is sauce for the (British) goose may also
be sauce for the German gander." If Austria is so
very indignant at the British interference, why
does she not take her own foot out "of tha 'boot ?"
She has surely no right to occupy neigb:bouring
territories and to dictate to their nominal rulers.
Why should she be param•unt throughout
Italy, save in Piedmont, the solitary oasis in the
political desert ? Why should she dictate to the
Tuscan, Modenese, and Papal governments, and en-
courage BOMBA in kis reckless course while affecting
to rebuke and admonish his intemperance ?
We fear that no plausible excuse can be put for-
ward for such duplicity and turpitude. Austria,
though " ever strong upon the strongest side,"
and resolute to save herself harmless from any
complication, knows how to usa minor tools which
she can set aside at any moment whenever it may be
possible to share largely in the spoils of the " sick
men" whose illness she has fostered.

The game may be very cunning, but it is
neither very wise nor politic. There are " talis-
manic words," the utterance whereof would
drive the ruler over such heterogeneous elements,
to despair. When "Hungary, Lombardy, Poland"
are proclaimed, trumpet-tongued, from the British
Isles, the intriguers of Vienna will be silenced.
A golden opportunity has been disregarded, thanks
to the secret and unconstitutional influence pre•
vailing in Downing-street. But even that will
not suffice to procure impunity for Imperial cri-
minals, or to silence the groans of oppressed and
long-suffering nationalities. Let the Cabinet of
Vienna look at home before it permits its organs
to echo the howls of infuriated despots. LA it
strive to ascertain whether the Neapolitan charges
are well founded—to learn whether the state of
Ireland is indeed so very deplorable, before it
joins in the outcry. A little accurate information
would be peculiarly beneficial, inasmuch as it
would prevent it from becoming ridiculous in the
eyes of assembled Europe.

M. Ds Li GuattRONIIIIIMI has found a rival in
M. GABRIEL HUGELIIANN. Yet the Apologist of
the Madrid soup d'etat of 1856 cannot be said to
have revealed any great skill in the art of white-
washing. Marshal O'DONNELL comes out of the
scrubbing like the blackamoor in the old Apologne.
Glistening, even, it seems to us with a darker
gloss than ever—now that his "deeds of dark-
ness" have been glossed over so unctuously by the
" Directeur" of the Journal de Madrid 1 To
paraphrase a jocose panegyric once pronounced by
Boz upon ono of the drollest creations of WASH-
INGTON IRTING, to wit, Mr. TIBBITTS—" His
shame deepened into an immortal blackness, and
his crime lacquered with an undying gl3ze." It
is so with the crime and the shame of O'DONNELL
—lately the Oataline Conspirator, not the military
Dictator of the Peninsula. It is so literally with
his crime and his shame—now that they are both
simultaneously presented to us under the magni-
fying influence of that ingenious political micro-
scope, FIIIGELMINN'S daring and fi tgitious
brochure.* "L'Espagne et ses evenemdnts." A
pamphlet openly violating a famous moral of
Shaksperian advice—much being set down in ma-
lice and a groat deal extenuated, or attempted to
be extenuated. M. HUGELMA.NN—O'DONNELL'S
?'ugleman he should more rightly be cared—has
penned these xxii. chapters, or 217 pages octavo,
he tells us himself almost boastfully in " two
days"—boastfully he says this, oblivious of the
time-honoured aphorism inculcative of the truth
of " more haste" being " worse speed," or of
that little dog's eared scrap of latinity hinting
pretty much the same thing by means of the
simple phrase festina lents I According to our
veracious pamphleteer, who was an eye-witness (he
takes particular occasion to remind us) of what
occurred in the late sanguinary struggle in the
streets of the Spanish capital the Duke of
VICTORY is ungrateful, the present Government
is clement,- white is black, black is white, every-
thing, in short, is absolutely topsyturvy at Madrid,
Men and Measures, Administrators and Admini-
strations. The absurdity of all this would be really
laughable, but _that it is at the SUM time most
heinously criminal : it would be ludicrous, but
that it is also replete with atrocity. Why, for a
Spaniard to traduce ESPARTERO it is hardly less
infamous than it would be for a Frenchman to
traduce LADEARTINE. Not quite so infamous, of
course, as that would be—but very nearly. Es-
P.A.RTEI3,O "ungrateful "—ESPARTERO the magna-
nimous victim of so much ingratitude ! O'DON-
NELL " clement '—O'DoNNELL, the heartless and
pitiless conspirator, who dragged a precious dia-
dem through the blood and dust of a street-fight,
and—"
put it in his pocket !" " Voici," ex-
claims
Efurommartx, with astounding com-
placency, after distorting the heroic patriotism of
the butchered citizens of Madrid into something
little short of revolutionary incendiaristn—" Voici
le recit du combat, tel quo je rai public dans les
colonnes du Journal de Madrid 1 " Apparently
quite unconscious that all the while this same
Journal de Madrid, by giving to the world such

* " L'Espagne et ses Derniers Evenements. Par M
Gabriel Hugelmann, Directeur du Journal de Madrid.'
Pp, 211, BTo, Paris ; Ledoyert, 185 g.

execrable falsities, was winning for itself an evil

reputation only comparable to that acquired
during the late War by the audacious 4-i-)itr nal do
St. Petersburg,

LATEST NEWS.

CORONATION OP T.ELE EMPAROit OP

RUSSIA.

(From tAe Special Correspondent of the Daily Noes).

MOSCOW, Aug. 26.

As the day of his Imperial Majesty's public entry
more nearly approaches, the appearance of this
extraordinary city becomes mote and more gay,
more and more peculiar, more and more unlike
at once what I had hitherto seen in other great
continent J. cities, and what I had anticipated
would be its own appearance. I had looked for-
ward to some huge relic of former and more. bar-
barous times, with tumble-down half Asiatic look-
ing houses, and half-Asiatic populations—in short,
to a city from which the glory had departed, and
which waited only the slow but certain touch of
time to become for the P arious traveller another
Tadmor or Palyrma. What then must have been
my surprise to find myself all at once set down in
a capital as gay as Paris, populous as Landon, and
having features of its own which give it great and
peculiar interest. Whatever I may have thought
or said in favour of St. Petersburg as the scene of
the coronation, a sight of Mc-cow has completely
changed my opinion. The city of Peter the Great
is, in truth, on the grand ;v slale ; but it is all
grand, and there is nothing upon which to rest the
eye as it ranges from one colossal palace to another.
One feels in passing along its interminable streets,
or crossing its prairie like squares, something like
what must have been Gulliver's sensations in the
capital of Brobdignag, namely, a mortifying con-
viction of one's own littleness, and of the immense
want of proportion between the huge architectural
shell and its insignificant human kernel. You
think of the hall of Eblis as you gaze on the
solemn grandeur of the Izaak church, and long to
come to the humble habitations of common men.
But in Moscow, with its glorious undulating
site, its long irregular streets of handsome villas,
interspersed with greenery, its handsome maga-
sins, and its constant rattle of equipages, you
feel as if surroundci by human interest, and
cease to wonder why neither despotic power, nor
long neglect, nor systematic preference for a rival
can wean the true Russian 1,70 m his love for the
ancient cradle of his race. And now it looks
brighter and gayer than ever. Paint, and lime,
and varnish have done wondeii, making even the
old Chinese town lc ak sprightly and modern ;
while the gilder has given to the thousand domes,
minarets, and spires of Me'cow a splendour and
refulgence which can only be appreciated by being
seen.
Stand on the esplanade of the Kremlin, and
having first curiously examined its battlemented
walls, its ancient treasury, its grotesque church—
the Assumption—so scan to be the scene of a
solemn rite, its gay mclern palace, and its thou-
sand and one quaint details ; watch for a moment
the people, high and low, military and civil, as
they reverentiallydoff their hats while passing under
the sacred gate ; and then turn suddenly towards
the vast city that spreads itself out beneath your
feet, count its innumerable church spires of deli-
cate green, bright golden, or royal red—look down
its long streets, alive with human ants—learn to
distinguish its fortress-like convents, its regal pa-
laces, its great public institutes, and you must in-
deed admit that you are gazing on a panorama to
which the civilised world can offer but few paral-
lels. We can tell that the Boyards are pouring
into town by the number of extraordinary look-
ing old equipages that throng the streets in every
direction. I saw ose to-day that would astonish
Long-acre, drawn by a train of four wild-looking
Cossack horses, and laden with a large consign-
ment of the loyal noblesse of rural Russia. Even
the mujiks stopped to look at it, and the cochers
of the handsome modern landaus, as they flew
past, passed jokes which must have been pungent
from the irritation they created in the rustic Jehu.
But not only the Boyards come to pay their re-
spects to the Czar. The streets are literally crowded
with wild Cosaques, handsome Georgians, pale
Circassiaus, fierce Kirgkisians, foppish Persians—
all come to see the sight and pay the regulated
homage to their sovereign lord. One is never tired
looking and asking questions, but that the answers
are always satisfactory would be, perhaps, a rash
assertion.

The Emperor has not as yet arrived at his little
roadside palace of Petrovski, but he is momentarily
expected, and everything is ready for his reception.
Close to the palace is a triumphal arch, from whence
the procession is to start, and from that to the
Kremlin is a distance of five versts, a tolerably
long route for a great and solemn procession. The
road on both sides is thickly studded with gal-
leries, exceedingly well constructed for seats, in
which the prices vary from ten to fifty roubles.
But the fact is that, by a curious monetary revolu-
tion, the rouble has completely taken the place of
the kopeck in the estimation of every one that has
anything to sell, and will soon, I fear, be seen only
in the cabinets of the curious, if swallowed up at
the rate at which it has disappeared during the last
few days. If you want a mujik to go a message
into the next street he demands two roubles for the
job, and five for droshki fare, as he could not pos-
sibly think of walking in weather such as we aro
now blessed with, and the same system pervades
everything with which the visitors have anything
to do.

Lord Granville is comfortably located in his
splendid palace, formerly the residence of Prince
Graziano, and the street in which it is situated is
a scene of constant bustle. There is a splendid suite
of rooms, elegantly furnished, and capable of ac-
commodating, according to the London system of
cramming, two thousand persons ; but the Rus-
sians must have room for their Mazourkas, their
Cracoviennes, and their sit-down suppers, and
therefore it is probable that the invitations will
not exceed six hundred. I believe his lordship's
object will be to please by the good taste and quality
of his entertainments, rather than to vie with the
Russian nobility in that lavish expenditure which
to them would be no novelty. Whatever is done
at the embassy will, I am sure, be well done, and
will fully sustain the reputation which his lordship
has already acquired in this ancient capital. Both
he and his suite are everywhere treated with the
greatest attention and respect, and are unanimous
in their testimony to the kindliness and hospitality
of their reception.
Yesterday evening his lordship rode over to the
camp, and was fortunate in witnessing a grand
parade, for which the whole of the Guards, about
60,000, were turned out. They are all fine tall
men, and go through their evolutions with great
certainty and precision. They march well, but the
length of their step takes from their tread that pe-
culiar weight of sound, so to speak, with which our
own Guards have made every Englishman's ear
familiar. The officers were molt polite and atten-
tive to all the spectat-rs, and frequently asked
them what they thought of the troops. Just praise
was of course given, bat some learned civilians
grew quite critical in their comments on the Rll3-
sian column es compared with the English line.
The manoeuvring, Which lasted a couple of hours,
consisted chiefly of rapidly moving these great
columns from oue part of the field to another, with
an occasional fusilade as they came into position.
One of the officers told me that when the Emperor
arrived, the whole army, upwards of 100,000 men,
would most probably be startled some morning by
the rappel, and put through the evolutions of a
s'aam fight, without any previous notice or prepa-
ration. This, while it will i,est the efficiency and
readiness of the troops, will be a splendid spectacle
for all who may be so fortunate as to be on the
qui vive.

- From the Champ de Mars to the field on which
the great "Festin" of the people is to be held is
but a step, and three miles of tables are already to
be seen, flanked by the fountains from which wino
and quass" and "vodka" aro to flow during the
festival. I ventured to express my fears that such
an unlimited supply of strong drinks might create
riot and disorder, but was comforted with a hint
that care would be taken in the preparation of the
tempting fluids to prevent much disturbance of
mujik equilibrium. Still I am afraid that if Mr.
Henry suddenly appeared here from Bow-street on
the following morning he would find ample em-
ployment in inflicting the five shilling penalty.
Another feature of the programme, for which a
grand success is expected, is the " Spectacle gala"
at the theatre—a new one, and I believe one of the
largest in the world. Its predecessor was burned
down some three years since, and the present,
which is quite finished, has been only eighteen
months in course of erection. I should strongly
advise Mr. Gye to get a drawing of it before he re-
builds Covent Garden, as it is decidedly the
handsomest and best proportioned I have ever
seen. Although of twenty-five feet more diameter
than the San Carlos, it appears to be of moderate
extent ; and the decorations, while costly, are of
the best taste and design. The architect, the
Chevalier Albert Covas, is a Venetian, long in the
service of the Czar as chief theatrical architect ;
and to a compatriot, Signor Duzi, the preparation
of the scenery is entrusted. He has completed a
beautiful drop-scene delineating an episode in
Russian history, in which a peasant and a soldier
roused the people of Moscow to a successful resist-
ance to the then all-powerful Poles. It is a fine
work, and will no doubt look splendid when pro-
perly placed in a well-lighted theatre. The artistes,
500 in number, arrived last night by special train,
and were reduced to great straits for sleeping ac-
commodation. The petit Lablache was, I am in-
formed, so fortunate as to secure three camp:stools
and a sofa cushion, with which he extemporised a
luxurious couch. As a matter of course they will
all settle down soon into comfortable quarters ; but
a midden irruption of 500_clioriater5 And ooryph6es

Wa3 enough to put any hotel-keeper to his wit's
ena.

Sir Robert and Lady Emily Peel, Lord Ward,
and a large party, are all off to Nishni Novgorod,
to the great fair, where I fear their accommodation
will not be much better than that which on the
night of their arrival here so much startled the
Italian invaders.

IRELAND.

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DUBLIN, TUEBDA.T.
THE TIPPEgAitY BANK.

The affairs of this wretched sWindlo were again
brought under the notice of the Master In Ohm-l-
eery yesterday, in the case of " O'Flahuty V.
Nl'Dowell," when counsel on behalf of the official
manager submitted the following statement of facts
relative to the lands of Clonacody, forming a por-
tion of the estate in the county of Tipperary of
which Mr. James Sadleir was the owner in fee :
" When manager of the Tipperary Bank that gen-
tleman resided there, and in February, 1856, when
Mr, Kellett became the purchaser of the property in
the Encumbered Estates Court, James Sadleir re-
tained possession as tenant from year to year, with
the right to the crops growing upon the lands. After
the disappearance of the latter, the official manager
made inquiries about these crop, being appointed re-
ceiver over the property. The exact time that Mr.
Kellett went into possession did not appear ; but he was
now in possession of these lands, and maintained his
right to the crops by virtue of an agreement which was
alleged' to be subsisting between him and Jas. Sadleir.
Mr. Meldon wrote to him to produce this agreement,
but he had not done so. In his reply, however, he ad-
mitted the ownership of James Sadleir up to the time at
which he (Mr. Kellett) went into possession. Under
these circumstances the official manager wished to obtain
possession.

" The Master said it was perfectly plain that Mr.
Kellett had entered into possession under a claim of
right which he could not interfere with by a summary
proceeding. Mr. Kellett was a sufficiently responsible
person for future proceedings to be taken against if
necessary; but it would be quite right for the official
manager to take steps to ascertain the value of the crops
and implements, in order that, if the question of damages
were taken hereafter, the amount of the official mana-
ger's claim could be correctly ascertained.
" Mr. Meldon said it was a complicated case in refe-
rence to the title, and, under the circumstances, he
thought it would be advisable to take the opinion of
counsel.

" The Master said he was very averse to taking the
opinion of counsel, as tending to expense. He was always
anxious to dispose of cases on the facts and authorities
brought forward by counsel who were present. In the
present matter he was cle.trly of opinion that it should
stand for Master Lyle, in whose office it had originated.
_

"Mr. Lawless then said there was another denomi-
nation of land upon the same estate upon which three or
four tenants who owed small sums were not paying any
rent, and were inciting others to do likewise, being at
present in the act of removing themselves away.
"The Master, said a civil bill ought to be brought
against them next session.
"Mr. Meldon replied that they could not be distrained
upon, as they were quitting the premises and taking
everything away. The amount% due were small, but he
thought an attachment, it irsued against them, would
have the effect of getting them in.

"The Master said be would not issue an attachment
for such trifling sums as these appeared to be.
"After some discussion, however, _ _

"The Master added that the official manager, after
applying to the parties for the November gale, might,
in the event of a refusal on the part of the to❑ants then
due, apply to him for an attachment, which he would
then grant against each of the defaulting tenants."

THE MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY.

The Royal Mail Steam Company's steamship Orinoco,
Captain Sawyer, left this day with the usual West fndia
mail, 132 passengers, a full general cargo, specie to the
amount of 14,0001., and jewellery, 8,0001.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship
Ava, Captain Feild, may be expected to-morrow, with
the heavy portion of the East India and China mails.

LIVERPOOL AND AVSTRALIAN MAIL
SHIPS.

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.

The Royal Mail ship Champion of the 'Seas, Captain
M`Kirdy, of the Black Ball line, which sailed with the
English mails of the 9th of March, arrived at Melbourne
on the 38Ith of May, after a passage of 82 days.
The Royal mail ship Red Jacket; Captain O'Halloran,
of the White Star line, which sailci with the mails of
the 20th of May, was spoken on the 2d of July in lat.
29 56 S., long 28 15 W. ;43 days out, all well. From
the position she then occupied it is likely she will have
made a rapid voyage.

THE AMERICAN AND AUSTRALIAN
MAILS.

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.
Three mails will be despatched from this port during
the present week for the United States.
Tne United States Mail steam-ship Atlantic, Captain
Oliver Eldridge, will sail to-morrow forenoon for New
York with mails and passengers. Letters intended for
despatch by her require to be posted here before seven
a m., with late fees to ten a.m., and at the landing stage
to eleven a.m., to-morrow.
The Cunard steam-ship Arabia, Captain James Stone,
having made good her repairs, will sail on Thursday, at
noon, for Boston and Halifax. She will carry ship let-
ters and newspapers, which must be addressed " Per
Arabia," or Per Private Ship," and posted here before
ten a.m., with late fees until eleven a.m., and at the
landing-stage until noon on Thursday next.
The British and North American Royal Mail steam-
ship Asia, Captain E. G. Lott, will take her departure
with the usual weekly mails on Saturday afternoon. The
post closes here at eleven a.m. ; with late fees letters
will be taken till noon, and at the landing-stage until
one p.m. on the 6th inst.
The screw steamer Kangaroo, Captain Ewing, with
mails and advices from Pit ladelphia to the 21st, may be
looked for to-morrow afternoon.

The Royal Mail ship Marco Polo, of the Black Ball
line, will sail with the Australian mails on the sth inst.,
for Melbourne. Letters must be posted before eight
a.m. and up to tni a.m. (with late fees). She will carry
550 passengers and a full cargo.