The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-12 00:00:00

0 .nd fearful will be the ultimate struggle between
the Russian CESAR and the Gallic ANTONY.
I The time may come when the latter will feel
deeply the folly of not having consolidated the
throne founded on the popular will by popular
support, and when too late deplore the fatuity
that permitted the AUTOCRAT to escape scatheiess
'from the toils by which he was environed, and
gave him breathing time to carry out at leisure
the traditional policy that aimed at reducing
Europe under Cossack Government.

The first onslaught on Constitutional Govern-
ment has been made in Spain. The complicity of
the SOVEREIGN was unfortunately but too easily
obtained. The treachery, duplicity, and ingra-
titude necessary to play out the game had irre-
sistible attractions to the weak and unprincipled
woman, who, in her passioa for absolute power, be-
came unconscious that she washerself undermining
the foundations of her throne, and destroying the
title under which she wore the crown. The sym-
pathies of the Momiteur were loudly and unequi-
vocally expressed in favour of the movement,
which it asserted was not a coup d'etat. The
cloven foot was thus clearly displayed, and it
became manifest that Sardinia and England, the
only really constitutional Governments of any im-
portance in Europe, would in time receive similar
treatment. England may, perhaps, be "the last
to be devoured ;" but if she sees those who would
array themselves by her side under the banner of
freedom crushed one by one, the time will certainly
arrive when she will have to fight single-handed and
alone, for very existence, against the leagued and
banded despots.
We must not, then, yield a single point. We
can only maintain peace by showing that we are
prepared for war—preserve our own liberties, by
vigilantly watching over those of our Continental
brethren. We forfeited the great opportunity
by yielding to unconstitutional influence at home
—by acting under German rather than Anglican
inspiration. We see clearly the mistake into which
_ we were betrayed, but no decided effort has as yet
been made to avoid the shoals, and rocks, and
quicksands by which the vessel of the State is
menaced on every side, and which require a care-
ful, experienced, and trustworthy pilot.

It would be somewhat amusing to record the
notions entertained by the great body of the po-
pulation in relation to chemistry. No longer
suspected of intercourse with the Prince of Dark-
ness, nor credited with the possession of an impish
familiar—dissociated also from ideas of demonstra-
tive black cats, sweltering toads, curling snakes, and
the signs of the zodiac in burning brimstone, the
successor of the alchemist, if his pursuit is not
accounted a snare, finds it regarded by the unin-
formed as very much of a puzzle. Of late years,
to be sure, the notion of utility in connection
with chemistry has gained considerable ground,
more especially from its successful application to
the cultivation of the soil. The wonderful dis-
coveries previously made by its instrumentality—
discoveries which may be said to have furnished
the lever wherewith to upheave and vivify a
torpid world, were regarded, we apprehend,
rather as the result of accident than as in any de-
gree the fruit of laborious research. \Yonder,
however, gave place to a modified and circum-
scribed faith when it was seen that the science of
the chemist could supply the means whereby the
most barren soil could be made to bring forth fruit,
and ordinary yields of cereal and other produce
could be more than doubled. Just as the most

fragrant essences are eliminated from excremental
matter, the artificial manure of chemistry may
be said to have invested the professors of the
science with an odour of respectability in this
work-day world they were not known to possess
before. The credit they have for being
useful and capable members of society is,