The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-23 00:00:00

any moment they think proper. All they have 1
to do is to proclaim a dissolution of tee Union—
to declare that they will no longer hold friendly
in:-orcourse with the piratical invaders of Kansas,'
and all they require will be accomplished.
T.le slaveowners will speedily be compelled
" to eat humble pie," and to endeavour to make
the best terms they can in order to break their
fall. So long as the Northerns sanction the
existing state of affairs they are practically re-
sponsible for all the iniquities of the " Domestic
Institution." Without their participation it
would fall by its own weight ; it could not long
survive the trials to which it would be exposed ;
and the temporary triumph of the slaveowners,
and the undue partiality of the PIERCE Govern-
oleut, may possibly be the greatest advantage to
the cause of suffering humanity. They have ren-
dered a crisis inevitable, and that must be fatal to
the principle of compulsory servitude.
At present, according to the dictum of Messrs.
PIERCE, MARCY, DAVIS, and Co., the Free-soilers
I are " rebels and insurgents." But what will
they be in three months time? They must either
change their position in the State or separate.
There is no other alternative, unless they are
prepared to sacrifice their honour and independ-
ence by conniving at the foul and abominable
system which their souls abhor. Whatever course
'they decide on must forthwith be adopted. The
superior activity of their opponents has hitherto
placed them in the best position. But we are
greatly deceived if the Northern determination
be not eventually more than a match for Southern
intrigue and arrogance.

The impending despatch of an Anglo-French
squadron to the Bay of Naples suggests to us
the somewhat vague promise of the grandiloquent
showman to his gaping audience, " You shall see
what you shall see." Not that we have the
shadow of a doubt as to the good effects such a
demonstration, if made with an honest purpose, is
calculated to produce. Far from it. All along
the despatch in question has been urged in these
columns. The only doubt, and a serious one it
is, that clouds our minds is as to the intentions
of what a French contemporary is pleased to de-
scribe as " the Allied Courts." What are the ob-
jects contemplated in the intervention, as it must
be regarded ? What are likely to be the results ?
It is in reply to these questions we are tempted
to apply the words of the showman, and hazard,
as we may safely do, the prediction, " You shall
see what you shall see I"
The English Government may probably be
credited with some sort of philanthropic feeling
in the matter, as one, though far from the only
or chief, motive for action. It might pass for a
qualified insult, if we said no such motive can be
supposed in the least to influence our Imperial
ally. We come then to the insults offered to
both " Courts," and here we should discover a
powerful motive to conjoint action, had we not
been assured that France and England were
above any insult BOMBA could offer—an assertion
apparently verified by a most patient endur-
ance of an uninterrupted series of insults.
We are led, therefore, to a consideration of the
danger King BOMBA occasions to the peace of
Europe by perseverance in the revolting cruelties
and oppression which have consigned his name to
universal infamy, and enlisted on behalf of his sub-
jects the sympathies of one-half of the human
race ; and here we find an adequate motive for
Napoleonic and Palmerstonian intervention, were
there no other, for it is a selfish one. The peace
of Europe undoubtedly is endangered by the ob-
stinacy of the tyrant, for at any moment the
flame of insurrection may burst out at Naples,
and on that parched prairie to which despotism
has converted the continent the fire might spread
with the velocity of the tempest, and enwrap all
despots and despotisms with its consuming
wings. Doubtless it is this motive which has
induced the Emperor NAPOLEON to join his forces
with ours, though possibly his Spanish policy
may have had some influence. A sagacious des-
pot will never be without sops for freemen. Let
me alone here, and I'll join you there, may have
been one of the conditions to the conjoint action
of " the Allied Courts."

The motive being selfish, and the peace of
Europe being meant, at the utmost latitude of
interpretation, to imply the preservation of its
despotisms, what have the Neapolitans to look
for at the hands of " the Allied Courts ?" there
is some significancy in the expression, even com-
ing from the Debats. Libeity ? Bosh. That must
come from themselves. What the Neapolitans
would seem to be entitled, under the circumstances,
to expect is, either the momentary submission of

their tyrant to the requirements of the Allied
Courts, under the pressure of coward fear--or,
in the event of a successful revolt, the substitu-
tion of a milder despotic sway, without their
being much consulted in the choice. The proba-
bility is that their exec/able tyrant, after a little

dallying, will "do do penitent"—issue an am

nesty—promise to "be good" for the future—

and, after " taking a sight" at the retreating
fip.A.F4, will resort gradually to his old practices,
i. e., if the people be now quiet, and no great