The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-31 00:00:00

LONDON,

on Wednesday last required him, indeed, to play the
exact notes set down for him. It was a painful task,
but he must submit. He gave, accordingly, "for
that time only," the whole piece as it was composed,
without omitting a semitone in the production. It
was a sad failure. Universal astonishment and dis-
approbation were expressed with a most disagreeable
emphasis. But the artist was nothing disheartened.
Ile set to work with his own variations, and so
changed both the theme and the expression that the
authors themselves would never have recognised
their own work. To leave the figure of speech,
our contemporary, not satisfied with the reasons
which the Cabinet had assigned for their own coup
d etat (and, Booth to say, his dissatisfaction was
Lot without sense and judgment), proceeded, in his
zeal, to coin new ones of his own, which might have
been somewhat plausible had they not been flatly
contradicted by well known and simultaneous facts,
and, above all, by the authorised statement itself, in
defence of which he affected to adduce them. Almost
the entire press repudiated his invention as irrelevant.
The " history" was discussed as it was given, and his
interpolations and additions were pointed out by our-
selves and others, only as being untrue, and so, as
having nothing to do with the question. It was quite
unnecessary to enter into any controversy upon the
subject, or subjects, of the numerous, and varied, and
incongruous allegations with which we have been
favoured from day to day, as each furnishing
the reason why her Majesty's Ministers deemed
it prudent to " endanger the foreign inte-
rests of the nation at a time so unusually
critical." Those allegations were not only not
hinted at in the official explanation, but they were
directly in contradiction to every word of it. If Lord
Palmerston was " sacrificed " (yes, " sacrifice" is the
word), as the announcement of Wednesday told us,
to please the " elder statesmen of Europe," who, it
seems, had signified that they regarded Lord Pal-
merston with " degree of distrust and hostility,"
because he would not be their " ally " and their
" friend," surely that same "sacrifice" would not be
made, because the noble Viscount did not " suspend
diplomatic relations" with the Government of a
neighbouring country, which had not offended us.
One reason might have been as absurd, though not
so un-English as the other. But when both are given
out, the one on official, the other avowedly on news-
paper authority, we may be ' excused if we
believe that assigned by the Ministers for
their own conduct as being the true one.
Now, this is all that we have done. We have not
at all troubled ourselves or our readers with the lucu-
brations of our contemporary on their own merits.
We have been at pains simply to disembarrass the
great question under public consideration of their en-
cumbrance. We have held up, and we shall continue
to hold up, to the indignant reprobation of all loyal
men, the monstrous fact, plainly stated in the offi-
cially authorised announcement of Wednesday last,
that foreign Ministers—" the elder statemen of Eu-
rope," had been permitted to dictate to the Crown
of England the " sacrifice" of its ablest responsible
adviser. Upon this point we join issue—not with
a newspaper, but with the Government, who must
answer to Parliament and to the public for having be-
smirched the honour of their country with so
foul a stain. We are not surprised that our con-
temporary is ashamed of his case, and throws up his
brief. It is nothing wonderful that he would like
to " tell the history in his own way," or to abandon
the task of telling it altogether. But the public is
interested in having the truth kept before them ; and
for our own part, we shall not be deterred from pre-
serving it intact, notwithstanding the efforts of the
most accomplished " story-teller" going. But there
is something of the sublime in the bold and daring
made of " story• telling" which our morning contem-
porary so happily describes as " his own way." He
pursues his thundering career over prostrate consis-
tency, logic, and fact, in a style which mingles
something of amusement, and even of admiration,
with our regret for the havoc he spreads around
him. He cares nothing for the destruction of his
own case, or that of his client—if he can but make
noise enough to sustain his reputation as a thunderer,
it matters nothing to him if his " effect" of the day
be produced by a " thundering " fact or a
" thundering" fiction. The public know " his way,"
and he does little harm by all the marvellous
" histories" which he exemplifies it by telling. But
this species of excellence cannot be successfully imi-
tated. Our evening contemporary, the Globe, should
by all means eschew it. Instead of admiration, his
laborious efforts produce laughter only, and, in this
case, contempt to boot. He too, forsooth, would
smite with his tiny curse the lofty name of which Sir
Robert Peel, in the last words he addressed to Parlia-
ment, said our " country was proud." But a few
days ago, and none so forward as this same Globe to
applaud, with what force he might, the statesman and
the policy he now decries; so much, in his judg-
ment, is the difference between out and in. He
may shift his opinion and welcome. He may set his
little sail to catch what ;breeze he will,—but for his
own sake alone—he can injure no one else—be should
have avoided the rock on which he last night reduced
his poor craft to an unseemly and unpiried wreck.
And the Globe has discovered that the " course
which England has to steer, neither identifying her-
self with the policy of compression" (what, in
heaven's name, is that ?) " nor the politics of desPair,
e degreei situation." ati o n
perilous.
is quite difficult enough, without being rendered im-
possible by being mixed up with personal tempers,
tahniclilosn,et-osoid, etdhavtieiwt
in theamany-
si many-sided
highest s
to engage this country in any course of policy incon-
sistent with the national sentiment." But, he re-
gards " as a despicable and detestable artifice all one-
sided appeals ; and of such appeals he foresees plenty
till Parliament open, in the style of this morning's
Post." Now, whose is " the personal temper," and
whose " the one-sided views," that before the retire-
ment of Lord Palmerston, endangered the course of
England through the troubled seas over which, with
Globular taste, she is represented as sailing ? And
whose-soever they were, how does the " sacrifice" of
that statesman get rid of them? The Globe cannot
answer this without wriing tin indelible characters
his own still deepening disgrace. He may rely upon
it that until and after " Parliament meets" we shall
continue to keep fixed before the public mind tithe
real questions on which its great decision
shall from time to time be demanded, and
the principle involved in the unexampled pro-
ceedings which have led to Lord Palmer-
ston's retirement will, by the national sentiment of
which be speaks, be stamped with the enduring in-
famy of which he seems willing to earn his share.
For the extract from the Breslau Gazette, on which
the Globe exhausts his curious little stock of philo-
logy—dues he really believe that the journal named
is published in English? and if not, is he
so ignorant as not to perceive that the phrase
on which he comments is a fair reading of
the original meaning ? But that the " words were
" written in Vienna, on the 23d inst."—the authentic
correspondence of Haves will satisfy him—and, this
fact established, the case is completed. For how was
Lord Palmerston's " sacrifice" so surely known in
the Austrian capital 'on the 23d, when it was pub-
lished in London only on the 24th, and had actually
taken place on the 22d instant. The perfect accor-
dance between the paragraph and the Ministerial
announcement establishes the accuracy of the article
in the Times, even could its official character be
doubted. All about " Gtey conspiracies" and special
domestic " intrigues" are mere inventions of the
Globe. We repeat once more, that we have made
charges against no one in this business. We have
taken the case as the Ministry itself has stated it. It
needs no addition to recommend it to the scorn and
indignation of every true-hearted Englishman, be his
politics what they may.

MISR' SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.
The success attendant on the establishment of the
submarine telegraph between England and France, bas i
induced the projection, by parties n connexion with the
Electric Telegraph Company, whose wires were lately
extended to the port of Holyhead, of a similar chord of
communication between England and Ireland. The
parties propose to carry it out by sinking in the first
instance a four-wire cable, the manufacture of which
has been commenced, on a somewhat similar, though
said to be improved, principle to that already down be.
tween Dover and Calais. Two of these wires are to be
for the exclusive use of Government, and two for com-
mercial and general purposes. The distance between
Holyhead and Kingstown, at which latter place the
wires will connect with those on the Great Southern and
Western Railway at Dublin, Cork, and Galway, will
require upwards of sixty miles of cable, or three times
the extent of that between Dover and Calais. By this
means, when effected, the communication between Eng-
land and Ireland will, like that between London and
Parie, be almost instantaneous, the communication across
the channel now occupying several hours by the fastest
steamers, which, with their mails, in rough weather
are oftentimes detained. The proposed establishment of
steam-packets between Galway and New York will
greatly facilitate the transmission of American news by
this agency, as compared with the route by Liverpool.
There is very little doubt but that when the wires are
laid down Englishmen and Irishmen will be able to hold
constant communication across the channel, by the pay-
ment of ls. or 6d. per message.

WEST WHEAL JEWEL MINING ASSOCIATION.—
A special general meeting of the shareholders of this com-
pany was held yesterday, at their offices, Old Broad-street,
at which the resolution of the Bth December, for the dissolu-
tion of the company, was confirmed; and it was also re-
solved that the directors do forthwith proceed to sell and
convert the property of the company into money; and that
such sum as shall not be required to meet the existing con-
tingencies be divided amongst the shareholders rateably, ac-
cording to the number of their shares.

DEATH OF SIR EDWARD DOLMAN SCOTT, BART.
—This Hon. Baronet expired on Saturday last, at Great
Barr Hall, Staffordshire, in his 58th year, He was the son
of the first baronet, by the daughter and heiress of Edward
Whitby, Esq., and married in 1815 the daughter of the late
Sir Hugh Bateman, Bart. Sir Edward is succeeded in the
baronetage by his eldest son, Sir Francis Edward Scott, born
IA 1524.