The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-03 00:00:00

LO:k:1)0N, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1858

Everything really seems to be of a piece in regard
to the mismanagement of the British army. Thirty
thousand men are sent forth at the commence-
ment of hostilities with colours flying, and drums
beating, and trumpets sounding, and a rabble of
good honest stay-at-homes shoutingat their heels,
as regiment after regiment march through the
principal streets of London on their way to the
Central railway terminus from which they are to
fly on the wings of steam to the port' of South-
ampton. Then the authorities are entirely under
the impression that not a single shot is going
to be fired in anger. Now when the conflict has
been actually gone through, when peace has come
at the end of two years' carnage, and when the
small number of survivors are coming home to us
at last to repose after the toils and anguish of tbo
fearful ordeal they have had to undergo in Camp
and Hospital—the tables are suddenly turned with
a vengeance ! Thirty thousand go forth in glory,
when no glory has yet been won, when it is quite
problematical whether any glory can be won
And three. thousand—having won the glory, or
having at least helped to win the glory—three
thousand- gallant fellows bearing upon their
breasts, emblazoned in silver, the heroic names
of "Alma," and " Inkermans," and "Sebasto-
pol"—are brought back, absolutely as if they
were in disgrace ! It actually appears to be
decided that the Guards having left London
in 1854 by the Waterloo Station are to
re-enter it in 1856 by the station at
Vauxhall. Going forth on the very vague chance
T—(as " the pavers that thou were" blindly
imagined)--going forth on the very v quo chance
of possibly, by some rare accident, being afforded
the opportunity of "reaping laurels," as "cut-
ting the throats of our fellow-men"
is poe-
tically termed—the Guards are shouted at
all along the Strand and across Waterloo-
bridge : as though they were a crowd of
Heroes, instead of (as they then actually were)
as a crowd of mere military adventurers ! Coming
back with medals, and clasps, and ribbons, and
soars, and empty sleeves, and wooden legs, and
all the other ghastly or glittering badges of
Honour—coming back bronzed and wounded ,
from the war, they are now-with a perfectly
monstrous inconsistency—expected, as it were,
to sneak into the capital of their native
land by a side-entrance,• as though they were
afraid of being -honted, and pelte, I
with addles] eggi.and -brickbk's. Really, the ab•
aurdity of all- thispreposterous'bungling m
Quireeis; faai .the boginning-to the end of .the
chaPter, positively, as the saying is, "beggars
description." it?
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• cima9ctiog
them ignominiroualy by all,prts of baek slums, in-
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doldiers wielJestaricilintiap o.theiria4les in halfr4il,4-403 bare- foo tad ;ID dia tugs t Yes—.
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ti Niro Miterally of a ratn 311 p .„.
"telOe'in regard to the mismauagNaotepf 4ffairs•in
I:be organisation, or, as it should be more properly
called thicontiuuel disorganisation, of the British
Army., .it positively too late, however, to

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repair this last egregious blunder about the re-
entrance of the Guards into the metropolis ?
Cannot the absurdity be prevented in time, the
huge and obvious absurdity of bringing them
back again into London covertly by the side
entrance of that station at Vauxhall'.

The law for Lord PALMERSTON'S opponents
seems to be the same as the law of the road—
If they go to the left they are sure to go right,

If they go to the right they go wrong.
When they take up such left-handed subjects as
repealing the Maynooth Endowment Act, or sic-
tarianising the National system of Education in
Ireland, they can get majorities, but when they
are so unquestionably= in the right as they were
on Mr. WHITESIDE'S and Mr. MOORE'S motions
they are defeated two to one.

Probably on no two subjects that have been
earnestly debated in this House of Commons has
the sense of the country 'been mon against Mi-
nisters than on thequestious.of Kars and Mr.
CRAMPTON. It should have been easy id both
casestd havesecUred a triumph. Admitting to the
full, and beinggladio admit the• cordial support
which General WILLIAMS received from Lord
CLARENDONi his letters putting fresh life and en-
thusiasm into the unaided garrison, it was
yet beyond dispute that ,the Cabinet allowed Kars'
to.fall, and converted the Most splendid military•
feat of English Generalship which the War pro-
duced into a defeati-sand; worse than that, into
a .eonvenient loophole for the Russianisers at the
,Paris.Conference.' If South Sebastopol, is to be-
henceforth an invincible fort ; if Niealaieft is to
-send forth a " MosOito fleet" of gun-boats, and
mortar-boats, and floking-batteries, more formid-
able than the fleet which rots in the harboUr of
SebaStopOl ; if the cir-aasSian forts are to be re-
built,. and, the East coast of- the Black Sea to be
again closed to European trade,-all this we owe
to the starvation by the Allies of the garrison of
KatS, a circumstance whidh Mild not have oc-
curred had Lard PALMERSTON willed otherwise.
Nevertheless, just as a series of small defeats had
shaken his poSition in Parliament, he gains an
almost unparalleled Parliamentary -victory out
of this military disgrace. Russia triumphs
at Kars, and Lord PALMERSTON triumphs
at Westminster, by a majority of 127.
Two months run on, his Lordship who had
triumphed were ho should not, is again beaten
several times where he should not have been ;
but again an egregious blunder comes to his
rescue. The Conservatives see their opportunity
and put Mr. BAILLIE forward ; but whether
warned by experience that a great public wrong
must, for Lord PALMERSTON, became a great
Parliamentary right, or being disunited in their
prospective plans, they withdrew Mr. BAILLIE'S
motion. Mr. LI. G. MOOR; being an independent
Member, determines to try the value of that hust-
ings boast in the House. Lord PALMRILSTON will
give him no battle day, so he forces Ministers to
a battle ; but all to give Lard. PALMERSTON
another victory—indeed two—for on the motion
for the adjournment on the first night's debate Ile
cleverly took a division, which showed a largo
majority on that question for` Ministers, then
made a merit of necessity, and con
ceded an adjournment to the Member • for
Manchester, to gain a final triumph the
next night of 194 ? Never assuredly
was a diplomatic business brought to a much
more humbling result than the CLARENDON •
MARCY dispute. Where MARCY was in the
wrong he was allowed to wriggle himself into the
right, and where Lord CLARENDON was in the
right, he or Mr. CRAMPTON managed to get into the
wrong ; and, as a finale, we receive back our dis-
honoured Ministers and Consuls, while the Ame-
rican Minister remains here with all the honours,
minus that of taking his attaches with their black
stocks in the presence of the QUEEN.
When an unpopular peace was in progress, and
after it was concluded, all the talk was that Lord
PALMERSTON was soap to be cashiered, and—
somebody—to step insomebody who had not
been turned out in 1852 ; perhaps the Noble
Lord who on that occasion, to please Prince
ALBERT and. Austria, had turned him out. But
here his Lordship is, rubbing on and joking
with his DERBY Parliament making them,
like Sir ROBERT PEEL, if they will piss wrong
resolutions, put them right again in a few days
slipping every now and then and seeming to go
back, but recovering lost around again by a tre-
mendous leap, and looking about him more
confidently than ever. And where are his oppo-
nents ? On what questioncan they raise a cry ?
Religious gentlemen as they all are, they have
tried the " Protestant" dodge, but the Protestants
do not rely on them ; and unless something un-
foreseen
.occurs, why may not his Lordship get
through another session, and even dissolve Par-
liament at his own time ?

Indeei it must be confessed that'the political
temper of the day is just the one for Lord
PALMERSTON. There is no active earnest party of
any kind. The Voluntaries seem to be the only one
which is advocating any great new princiile, but
though they have made themselves a working
party in the House, a Premier can afford to
c ,joie them with Church-Rates Amendments while
it serves his purpose, and then to give 'them Sir
CORNEWALL LEwis's cold shoulder without fedt
of consequences. Church Reform may be Coquetted
with pleasantly while in the hands of the Marquis
of BLANDFORD. Law- Reform will nevt be a
Cabinet-ousting question, although one Al the
most important of all practical objects. Finance—
w3ll—when in, the nation thinks all, Chancellors
ate very much alike. Administrative Reform has
lost its terrors since the War; and, as to Parlia-
mentary Reform, the country is asleep, and when-
it is the House of Commons is sure not to disturb
its slumbers. Apathy,' the breaking up of
great parties, and the absence of great questions
—we may add 12,000,0001. per annum of gold
`from Australia—all seem favourable to the reign
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.Premier, the continuance of little
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1 . Nb4t iS A PWAUCI-7 &Zell was tile questa°. n, which
I
I'l sir abIYERT 'Pter, mdthesS4cl' to -the intereatta of
I
; alla.,tiletie Nertibers,,,pf. th%,Viten:;6,i p4f.:04/11. mons,
,`• aeit.,hy queahs whete6f Ave 4 ittetteciett 110 eart-pi
ing the iniquitous Bipk: „p,harkqi
~,,Acts of
1844. There - iivnucici • 'ha e., itieeti. -nO
difffehtf:Sr ' lii ‘..kettiiiiini ',i.n,
~,l-'nswer,, if:, t!ra en;
really • indepeatleu.t. member Airectied.' his wind to
106 'ta'gk:' - lint;' "iiiifOrtiin'a-ttly, in. uny of thoze
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; vir,4o taullaze.teacl Abe Rrtlajoe t, &rem -men, of 'ample
means,, vv.liTsei:._,Tlf.ll,,h...:.?..e;.n,i.cr 'l3'6,:"ptafe.,g,',lY ' ' '4li. ti....,,,ri.k?..kd
1137 tlie " a pri•c elation in thi.e'rvai-uo ~of the ~.inoney,
it.; which the, bill was, inte,uded to product;'Otll;rs
1::., I•'4i.4etetierei 11))-(' Rgtsyi tp,/,r4RoLs :
,ay,
.a ~still
mroportifin'.Twerie4ptoCsmailt kfttftßittit '.4an
larger .1- . - ,i, ',.0-=.i. .),'. .-,/, .-; 4. •
,tear`
ialvEldt. "T'hA 214fqi7t;garY,; ,thexPeore, ro-
, -fi''' '•- *
maimci, ananimared htithe ,Hbase .'of)oouanion4;
, although, it
Chas ben ,fully tpd,,sltior4qiorily
~ p
liz4sPcm:led to by Currency Reformers, Who have
not b IA d -f: 6ii 'oVtlitlit '4`ilraii3--,:in
4.,v4.„.n eni.„e
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A pound, then, is riot merely 123 grains of
yellow metal,
ea implied by. Sir ROLL:iII PEEL.
It is something tut poses a purkilm7

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ing power a command over a certain
quantity of the necessaries and comforts
of life. It is essentially a measure and'represen-
tative of value in other things—and there is no
greater necessity that it should itself possess in-
trinsic value than that the yard of the draper,
or the weights of the cornfactor should be made
of the precious
_metals. It was resorted to in
order to avoid the barbarmis system of barter,
and it has been continued for a long series of ages,
without any effort at improvement. During the
protracted war, in which England was engaged-
during the close of the last and beginning of the
.present century it was round incapable of dis-
,
charging its appointed functions. Our fathers
were therefore compelled to resort to a more ex-
pansive agent.. By an inconvertible paper cur-
rency they were' enabled to develop° the natural
resources of the country, and to maintain a strug-
gle unparalleled in the history of the world: The.
fathers of Sir ROSE .T PEEL and Lard OVERSTONE
acvired enormous fortunes by means of "'wkth-
less rags," without which their sons would not
have had the opportunity of expressing their;
views in the Senate, and lacking down the ladder
to which they owed their elevation. ,

But after the • 1/.' inconvertible notes had
so completely fufilled their duty they were
deliberately cast aside. The bullionist thedry was
propounded. It was said that unless papey
money or'" promises to pay" were convertible on,.
demand, there could be no uniforpoity of -ralue—
,
that the nation required a stable currency, .in
which its business could be, alviays -transacted
with safety . and security: With this view the
doctoring commenced, and how has it succeeded ?
Hai() there not been far greater fluctuations in
prices, and in the value of all descriptions of pro-
perty,, greater derangement of trade, than at any
former period when there-were undi 113ited issues of
paper money ?' When has there been wilder'
speculatiod, or' more terrible depression ? .:Tttto
difficulties commenced in 181 d, when prepara-
tions were made for a return to cash payments,
and from that time there have been periodical
panics, increasing in intensity with the steps taken
to avoid thorn. The gold has been lying idle in
the Bank cellars, of no greater utility than an
equal weight of rubbish,, while the people have
been enduring the greatest privations. Silver
was rejected corn could not be purchased,
although a famine was impending, and all from
the stringency of the unwise and impolitic enact-
ments that have been unequivocally condemned
by every disinterested and unprejudiced witneis.
All we ask is a fair and impartial inquiry into
the operation of the law, an investigation similar
to that of the Lords' Committee in 1848. Let
the People exert themselves, and they -must obtain
that greatest of all benefits, a circulating medium
equal to the wants and exigencies of the country.

It were well for Franco if there were a few
more men in it, bold, able, and honest enough to
play the part of public censor like Count MONTA-
LEMBEET. The letter of this distinguished noble-
man to that Imperial tool,. the Count DE MORN.Y,
the President of the Corps . Ilgislatif, on the
subject of the Imperial concession to the ORLEANS
Family, we are sure will be read with satisfaction
in our columnS this day, by every one in whom a
blind partiality has not extinguished the sense of
justice. With an inexorabls logic the right-
minded Count pursues the Imperial spoliator, and
strips his conduct towards the ORLEANS Family
of every vestige of justice or reason. If the
ancient rules of. the Monarchy—he argues—so,
strangely invoked by NAPOLEON 111., were of
sufficient force to warrant the appropriation of
the ORLEANS property as the property of the
State, what valid warrant can there .be for de-
spoiling the State of any part.of it, or of course
any equivalent for it? The law the Corps
itegislatif were called upon to vote could
afford no such warrant, or else the property
was wrongfully confiscated ; on the other hand,,
this " ancient right" was not applicable to the
11)yalty created by the Charter in 1830 ; and iu
this case why is a part only of the ORLEA.NS pro
perty to berestored to the family, and to the female
branch only ? Urging with like force the unan-
swerable query—Why, if the property ought to
be restored, was it not proposed to be paid in
kind? Why tilt give back the property itself
instead of an equivalent at the expense of the
tax-payers? These are hard nuts for NA-
POLEON to crack (of , the Corps Llgislatif we
say nothing, the great majority being merely'
puppets, governed by the Imperial haud), and
will add to the growing unpleasantness of his po•
sition. The fact is, there never was a more un-
scrupulous and unwarrantable act committed than
the spoliation of the ORLEANS Family, and this
lame attempt at restitution must he ragtrded, we
are afraid, rather as an act of selfish policy than
the result of conscientious qualms or sentiments
of pity. NiroLlio; treading on a soil labonr-
ing with conspiracy, looks forward to' a possible
event, and is to all appearance prepating for a
contingency, in which the interests of himself and
•
family may be concerned. Whether his aim is
likely, to prove, successful or not, we will
not ,undertake to 'say ; but "this much is
certain—his " Concession" will have the effect
of drawing universal attention to what we mint
be permitted' to describe as,. perhaps, the most
flagrant and heartless 'act of robber); that was
ever committed by the ruler of a great civilised
people. Thus do foul acts return "to plague the
inventors" and perpetrators. Cayenne will hence-
forth become, if it is not already, a word of terror
to others than-revolutionists. We recommend a
perusal of the entire letter, for which , not a few
to France will-be abundantly grateful.'

THE ENTRY OF THE GUARDS INTO

LONDON.

We can positively state that, up to the present time,
no definite arrangements have been made for the entry
of the Guards into London.
The final arrangement cannot be completed until the
Scots Fusilier Guards shall hsve arrived at Aldershot.

We 'published, yesterday, a telegraphic ahnountenicht
that,they.vArdin theEobitan6l; but they befirie'nOV ye'far
rived atTotishiciuth; j'he'spltce-cdeVeyinit4Pl;Figade le.;
aitiraitar bnilie .44th uld, chat ;up
.ie..,the,fr)irce of our
4,90 b ifitA aftgra ocm t4ryi•hgtenQt arrived at,
iturtartkohthi,: , • • •.
It iH.expected th t about r tvrif dajg
,after' arri7
val at that port will be the perioerfikha for their re entry.

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