The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-04 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1856.

There is a prospect of a vacant throne, aid, of
course, there is a Coburg candidate. It appears
that King ©Tao has no children, and his brother,
whe is about to marry a Spanish Infanta, the
sister-in-law and cousin to the Queen of SPAIN,
has refused either to become a member of the
Greek Church or to permit any of his children to
be brought up in that faith. An indispensable
condition under the settlement that elevated the
Bavarian Prince to the rank of a Sovereign will
thus be violated, and a successor must therefore
be found of the State religion.

It is more than hinted that we owe the present
visit of the King of BELGIUM to this cause, that
he is desirous of obtaining the influence of the
British Court on behalf of his second son, the
Compte de FLANDRES, who possesses all the COBURG
aptitude for ruling, and with whom a question of
religion would not be permitted to form an ob-
stacle to his elevation. The convenient arrange-
ment by which they have Protestant and Roman
Catholic branches of the aspiring house, so as to
suit any unmarried Sovereign, will be extended
by having another of the Greek Church ; and
should there be any other dynastic failure, there
will doubtless be a COBURG ready to take any
pledges or profess any creed that may be required
as a qualification.

But why, we ask, should the English Govern-
ment make any efforts on behalf of the Count of
FLANDERS ! What has Kin,. L EOPOLDdone for
us, except pocketing a very large amount of Eng-
lish money, and allowing to be kept up at Eng-
lish expense, a princely residence for the accommo-
dation of his foreign connxtions. During the late
War he rendered no assistance to those to whom
he was bound by the strongest ties of gratitude.
On the contrary, there is but too much reason to
believe that to his insidious counsels we are
mainly indebted for the temporising policy, that per-
mitted us " to drift into the Russian War," and
to accept the dishonourable and ignominious
truce which has been dignifidd with the name of
Peace. King LEOPOLD has done every thing for
himself, but nothing for Great Britain, and Bri-
tish interests would not be in any degree pro-
moted by one of his family achieving another
Crown. " England has no cousins," and her
Government should cautiously abstain from in-
trigues, from which considerable mischief may
arise, but no possible advantage. Let the
modern 'ULYSSES fight his own battle without
English assistance. He has doubtless greatly
conciliated Russia by his conduct during the late
War, and if the conversion of the youthful candi-
date be promptly made, the vote and interest of
the CZAR may be obtained. With Austria he
is already connected by marriage, and
has also earned a strong claim to her good-will
by the zeal and energy which he contrived
to display in the cause of Germanism ; and the
Prussian marriage, said to be on the tapir, may
further increase his chances. Let him be con-
tented with these, and if England be wise let it
cautiously abstain from involving itself, by striv-
ing to influence the election of the future sove-

reign of Greece, and also from advancing loans
that will never be repaid, or giving guarantees
which she most unquestionably will have to re-
deem, for the sake of elevating one of the ConURG
family to the throne of Greece.

What a vast difference an audience does make to
be sure in the outpourings of Oratory ! Fancy
Dr. GILLANS, who spoke on Wednesday evening
at the Glasgow banquet to Sir COLIN CAMPBELL
—fancy the learned and eloquent Doctor, with
his eye in a fine frenzy rolling, thus addressing
himself, say, to the House of Commons :—" Fear-
ful as is its aspect [he is speaking of war], rather
would I see the warrior with garments rolled in
blood than the tyrant flaunting in purple !"
Fancy excellent Dr. GILLANS, the Grand Gaelic
Boanerges prefacing a sentence like the following
[it is in allusion to the prowess of the gallant
Brigade of Highlanders] with the Parliamentary
and matter-of-fact—Mr. Speaker, Sir,—" Yes,
wherever danger lowered darkest, or steadiness
was demanded, there flapped the kilt, there swung
the philabeg, there nodded the feathers, there
screamed the pipes, and there flashed the
claymore like to the eye of a tiger when
about to poance on its prey !" Well,
—a-hem !—to all that about the warrior with
garments rolled in blood, and the tyrant flaunting
in purple, the actual audience of Dr. GILLANS re-
sponded with " Cheers." While to the hugeous
fanfaronado about kilts flapping, feathers nodding,
philabegs swinging, pipes screaming, and clay-
.. mores flashing—all of these, by the way, clay-
./.30r4;,; pips", philabegs, and kilts,
somehow or other; =like to the eye of a
tiger when about to pounce on its prey "—the
sympathetic hearers of Dr. GILLA.N replied not
with " Cheers " only, but with " Laud Cheers."
Whereas, had all this been raved and ranted
witit appropriate gesticulati ous—gesticulations
something between the flourish of the flail and
the attitude of the teapot—in the House of Com-
mons, the fair fame of good, amiable Dr. GILL A.N S
would infallibly by this time have "died the death"
amidst an explosion of inextinguishable laughter.
Instead, however, of being incontinently sent either
Coventry or Jericho, the orator of Wednesday
evening seems to have been cheered rather voci-
ferously. Well—after all—is it not some one in
" PELUAM" who observes sententiously ?
" Every one to his taste, as the Frenchman said,
when he boiled his grandmamma's head in a pip-
kin !" And so, we presume, we must leava in
peace those charming judges of rhetoric, the Glas-
gow auditors of Dr. GILLANS, who unconsciously
" fooled him to the top of his bent"
[and a very wonderful twist that same bent
must be upon the occasion of the recent
banqlet to Sir CoLIN CAMPBELL ! Only—it
must really be permitted us again to remark,
almost with a feeling of awe—What a vast differ-
ence an audience does make to be sure in the
mere style and manner of your man of Eloquence.
As Sir HUGH EVANS saith, with a flinging up of
the hands—" 0 what the tifference is !"

The Russians, as we predicted, are now turning
their attention to Circassia, and a desperate effort
is about to be made to annihilate that gallant race
and their Prophet-chief SCHAMYL. A Russian corps
of 40,000 men has been despatched against him,
and no effort will be spared to subdue or destroy
those who so long and so efficiently resisted
the Russian Power. A word from the Eng-
lish representatives at the Conferences wou'd
have saved them, but that word remained un-
spoken. Sir CHARLES WOOD intimated that they
did not desire assistance, inasmuch as they bad
not flung them Selves without solicitation into our
arms. Had England acted fairly towards the
Circassian tribes we should have had no just
cause of complaint. But we held aloof from
them aid, then, forsooth, felt surprised and vexed
that they had not flung themselves into our arms,
and directed all their efforts for our advantage
and because they did not do so, felt perfectly
easy in our consciences at abandoning them
to the deplorable fate intended, and from which
they can only save themselves by their own
unflinching courage and desperate resolution.
We fancy that the English people will not con-
cur with the First Lord of the Admiralty in the
views which he put forward, nor will the deli-
berate sacrifice of the Circassian tribes, and the
war of extermination that will now be waged,
increase the popularity of the Precious Truce—
we cannot call it Peace—recently patched up at
Paris. It is something to know, as we du
on the evidence of a Cabinet Minister, that
the omission of any stipulation on behalf of
Circassia or the Circassians was not occ -
sioned by any oversight or carelessness—it
was deliberately planned. We refused to
stretch out our hands when it might have saved a
gallant nation, and "sarved them right" is the
verdict of Sir CHARLES WOOD and his colleagues,
who, by not repudiating, have adopted the senti-
ment that so deeply excited the national indigna-
tion. There is yet time for remonstrance. Will
the English Government see them destroyed with-
out even uttering a word in their behalf?

The butchers or meat-sellers in Newgate Mar-
ket----and, we may add, in many other parts or
the metropolis—are advised to pay a visit to the
Great Globe on the first opportunity. There is
nothing, we are told, like teaching by example ;
and if they turn to the right they will speedily be
enabled to read a lesson which, if they.,are not
entirely lost to virtue, is well calculated to " do
them good." Among the numerous waxen groups
they will find one in which a Turkish baker is
not the least conspicuous figure, and by no means
for his good deeds. The wretched culprit is, in
fact, undergoing the award of justice for his
heartless frauds on the poor, and this consists
in having one of his ears nailed to his shop
doorpost. The infliction, as may be gathered
from the expression of his countenance,
is not pleasant ; but if the population of London
were polled to-morrow an overwhelming majority,
we will undertake to say, would pronounce it de-
served. Look at it, gentlemen ! Ponder over it
and instanter bless your stars you don't live in
Turkey, but in Christian England, where nothing
is safer and nothing more common than cheating
the poor.

Iu recommending this spectacle,
gentlemen, to
your attention, we but follow with a difference an
approved example. For really many of you are
greater culprits than he, and consequently deserv-
ing of a worse punishment. -He deprived the poor
of an infinitesimal portion of,the article of food in
which ho dealt, by giving short weight—you con-
spire to raise meat to such a price that the poor
have to go without it one day to have any the
next, and in carrying out your atrocious
conspiracy you destroy tons of that food which a
bountiful PROVIDENCE has provided for the hard-
working, thrifty, and much-enduring poor.
Rather than they shall have the food necessary to
maintain the animal vigour requisite for the per-
formance of their onerous tasks at a fair price,
you suffer it to rot in your hands, and consign to
the earth
..a4,putrid, carcase what should go to the
sulitename of (OD's creatures, Your guilt i •