The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-13 00:00:00

CRAinuroN and his Consular colleagues, and
thro ugh them to the English Government,
scan ds by itself, and has a prior claim to
'be disposed of. That must be settled before any
other ruat'Ler can even be discussed. The Ameri-
can Government have recklessly and wantonly
+saken tl to initiative, and they must make the
antende honorable, which is absolutely indispens-
' able, before we can renew our amicable relations
with thos,e who have so deeply injured us. As we
have already stated, the best and most efficacious
mode of: redressing the grievance is by the removal
from o' lee of the wrong doers. The matter rests
in the hands of the electors of the United States.
Let them refuse their suffrages to those who have
already, for selfish and unworthy purposes; so
grievously abused the sacred trusts confided to

their charge. Let them select a President who
possesses the feelings and can display the courtesy
of a Gentleman, and who will know how to sur-
round himself with men of similar character.
Let the notion of " whipping the Britishers"
and bringing " the unnatural mother" to a
sense of her situation be entirely abandoned ;
or, at least, let no countenance be given to the
" Hannibal Chollops " and " Waterspout Sympa-
thisers," who fancy that they can make the Queen
of ENGLAND tremble in " her luxurious location
in the Tower of London." Let them resolve to
act justly themselves, and to offer no offence to
others, and the friendly relations so important to
both will no longer be endangered, but will even
be strengthened—and, being founded on mutual
advantage, rendered indissoluble.
But no degree of apathy or indifference amongst
the more respectable classes, no alleged friendli-
ness of feeling, can get over the direct acts of the
Cabinet. Governments can only deal with Go-
vernments. We can only look to the proceedings
under which we are smarting at this moment.
We trust that full and satisfactory information
will be afforded this evening, not only respecting
what has already taken place, but of the views
and intentions of the English Government. By
SO doing Lord PALMERSTON will deprive the
Opposition of a formidable weapon, and render
unnecessary the discussion of the motion of which
the Honourable Member for Inverness-shire has
wiven notice. It is time that the House of Com-
mons aroused itself from the apathetic indifference
so painfully manifested on many recent instances,
and that its members should act in a manner be-
coming their exalted functions, and of the confi-
dence once reposed in them by the free
and independent constituencies of the United
Kingdom. The occasion is one of vital
importance to the welfare and prosperity
of the nation. It is one which must excite every
true-hearted Englishmen into the adoption of a
patriotic course, and which cannot be forgotten
when the next appeal to the country brings Right
Honourable and Honourable Gentlemen face to
face with their respective constituencies on the
hustings. The first and most important step will
be the treatment of Mr. DALLAS. In this there
can be no procrastination or temporising. The
expulsion of Mr. CRAMPTON must be followed by
his immediate dismissal.

It may not altogether unreasonably be assumed
there are some thorough-going Protectionists left
in this country, strong-minded individuals, proof
against the evidence of their senses, and nourish-
ing the faith that is in them with the greater
fervour because, having been rejected by every-
body else, they exclusively favour it. Our great
naval novelist has presented the general public
with a picture of a hypochondriacal old gentleman,
who not the less believed himself a neglected
infant because he had previously conceived him.
self a balloon. And, after all, what is Protection
but a species of hypochondriaism, differing from
the ordinary type in the comparative fixity of de-
lusion it induces. In reason, Protection has no
other basis than the morbid condition of those
who bslieve in it, the exercise of the most ordi-
nary common sense sufficiently demonstrating
its absurdity. Assuming then the existence of a
few Protectionists among us, and giving them
credit for the possession of love towards their
neighbour, the tottering condition of protection
in France may fairly be presutnc,l to be the sub
ject to them of much anxiety and regret. By
Free Traders, on the other hand, the condition
in question cannot be regarded otherwise than
with well warranteds atisfaction, as the prelude to
a more harmonious and hopeful state of things.
Unlike this country the principal monopolists
in France belong to the commercial rather than
the agricultural section of the community, and
fur this reason—the manufacturers of France and
the bourgeois class generally find most colourable
motives for pinning their faith to Protection.
The dread of being driven out of the markets of
France by the superior energy and enter-
prise of their rivals in this country weighs
on their minds like a nightmare, and
consequently, instead of opposing energy and en-
terprise to energy and enterprise, they prefer
confronting these qualities by an exorbitant, or
rather, a prohibitory tariff—a course by no means
advantageous to the growth of national prosperity.
The agriculturists, or lords of the soil, on the other
hand, whatever be their predilections, or in what-
ever way they may fancy they derive benefit from
protection, are compelled to admit that it is a
question to them of loss as well as of gain in
which the probabilities are by no means strongly
in their favour, irrespective of the knowledge
they may be supposed to possess of the positive
benefit the agricultural interest iu this country
has hitherto derived from the introduction of
Free Trade. Nothing, for instance, can well
be more clear to them than that pro-
tection practically deprives them of the use
of good agricultural implements, and compels
an amount of toil not only needless fur cultivation,
but also absolutely tending to restrict it. Fortu-
nately this class is the most numerous, and of late
has met with more consideration, for obvious rea-
sons, than before, to which subject for congratu-
lation must be added the fact that in the commer-
cial, as well as the agricultural, world the num-
ber of Free-traders is gradually increasing, and
already is sufficiently great to command the atten-
tion and influence, to some extent the decisions,
of the governing power—itself supposed to be
favourable to their views.
The most recent proof of this, and of the totter-
ing condition of Protection to which we have re-
ferred, will be found in the Report from the Chief
of the Department of Foreign Commerce just re-
ceived by the ; M
--nieter of Agriculture, Commerce,
and Works. In this document the system of Pro-
tection is exploded as the relic of a past age, a system
owing its present development to the lows isolation
of France from this country, and.
quite as much
intended to injure English manufacturers as to
benefit French. The more immediate result of
its operation was the rise of a large class of manu-
factures which, it is alleged, would have perished
on the return of peace had not foreign products,
more especially English, been rigorously excluded.
The admission is sufficiently complimentary to
this country ; it may, however, be more than
doubted w/aother, as wofind it urgedisour neigh-
bours went the right way to work. The preamble
over, we arrive at the gist of the Report—namely-,