The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-07 00:00:00

infamous witnesses as HERTZ and STROBEL—men
who came forward as approvers without a par-

tide of corroboration. The Washington Cabinet
did not dare to appeal even to an American tri-
bunal. They well knew that they could not, by
any possibility, obtain an adverse verdict against
Mr. CRAM TON or any of his coadjutors, and
therefore they have taken the law into their own
bands, and inflicted a deep and unmerited injury
on a high-minded and honourable gentleman, in
the vain hope that the British Government would

consent to his being made the scapegoat for
PIERCE and Co. In this, however, they are
reckoning without their host. We have done,
and would do, much to avoid a quarrel with
America ; but certainly the sacrifice of an efficient

and meritorious public servant is a demand that
cannot be acceded to whatever may be the result.
Mr. DALLAS will be subjected to the same treat-
ment as Mr. CRAmProN, although he will be
treated with the greatest courtesy, and with deep
regret that one so respectable in every respect
should necessarily be removed from the country.

The recognition of the representative of the 1
Pirate WALKER. at the moment that the expulsion
of the British Minister had been resolved on proves
that PIERCE, MARCY, and Co. had resolved to
increase the dangers of collision to the utmost of
their power. Thousands of Filibusters, encou-
raged by this meat extraordinary proceeding, are
flocking to the standard, on which " the
Death's head and Cross bones," the old Buc-
caneering emblems, might properly be displayed.
It is certain that an invasion of the Mosquito
territory will speedily follow, and as that has long
been placed under British protectorate other
sinister complications may arise, that would have
bean avoided by a more judicious and straight-
forward policy.

It is said, and we believe truly, that the great
body of the American citizens, including all the
respectable and moneyed classes, are strongly
opposed to the acts of their Government, and that
they suppose that, giving them credit for their
good intentions, we will patiently endure the
insults offered to us. But surely, if such be the
case, it is time that they should make some de-
cided demonstrations. They are not to re-
main quiescent while men are acting in their
names, in a manner which they cannot ap-
prove. They have a constitutional mode of ex-
pressing their opinions, and they should not, from
love of ease or any other motive, remain quies-
cent until the PIERCE farce be brought to a tra-
gical conclusion. Once more, then, we repeat our
good feeling towards our American brethren, and
the earnestness, with which we deprecate a War
so unnecessary and so uncalled for. It is right
that they should reciprocate these sentiments,
and adopt the proper means of proving their
sincerity.

If in these days of over and under legislation,
when Acts of Parliament that are not wanted are
forthcoming in profusion, and measures that are
wanted can hardly be_ said to be forthcoming at
all, we may be allowed to suggest one of the lat-
ter description. Our choice will be a measure com-
pelling members of both Houses of Parliament to

thread the courts, lanes, and alleys of the metro- I
polis, and in their atmosphere of filth and gloom
make themselves acquainted with the condition of
the population before they are permitted to vote
on any measure interfering with the public health
and recreation. Individuals would, no doubt,
still be found sufficiently unscrupulous to promote
their own petty interests at the cost of their poor
neighbours ; but we conceive the spectacles re-
mtly witnessed would not be repeated on any-
thing like so large a scale. A sense of dan-
ger, if not a feeling of humanity, would, we
are persuaded, under such circumstances,
stimulate the great majority of the Legislature
to provide increased means and opportunities
for recreation rather than to lay felon
hands on those already existing, Amid all
the palatial grandeur by which they are sur-
rounded, and the many temptations to which they
are exposed, the remembrance of what they bad
, witnessed, and the frightful discrepancy of condi-
tion it revealed, would continually arise to direct

them to a more conscientious and enlightened
discharge of their duties. The Sunday question
would present itself to their minds under a new
aspect, and there would be comparatively but
little danger of encroachments on the Parks, and
of the enclosure of Hampstead-heath. Until this
is done, or the people bestir themselves more
actively, the fate of the owner of the one ewe
lamb, described by the prophet to the guilty
king, will perpetually impend over th 3 metropo-
litan masses, for it i 3 one of the bnost.striking
features of the times, and a most honourable one
to the poor, that it is not they who covet their
rich neighbours' possessions, but their rich neigh-
bours who covet theirs. The truth of this must,
be generally admitted ; yet of all the Sabbatarian
pulpits in the metropolis, from which of them
arises the voice of warning or rebuke ? The
Legislature displays the vices of absolutism
without its virtues, and the pulpit thunders,
like
Boanerges, less at wickedness in high places than
against the oppressed poor.
We have been led to these remarks by the St.
James's-park question, on which Ministers last
night suffered a defeat. Now, of all the places
of recreation in the metropolis, the ornamental
gardens of St. James's-park constitute the most
pleasing retreat, and are especially admired by the
population. They are consecrated by a thousand
delightful associations, quiet, gratifying to the
eye of taste, iu the best sense interesting, and
eagerly resorted to by the population in the
vicinity. In short, the poor man's pet lamb.
What of that? Belgravia found itself in want of a
road, and straightway cast felonious eyes on the
Gardens. To gratify its whim, a highway for
the whirl of fashionable dissipation must be cut
through them, and their beauty and privacy de-
stroyed. Fortunately public opinion intervened,
and a less offensive scheme was recommended by a
committee of the Houseof Commons. That scheme,
however, involved the construction of an ugly
foot bridge, and we are happy to find it has been
rejected--we wish we could add on principle, and
not as We
apprehend merely on matters of detail,
leaving behind the painful impression that unless
a careful watch be kept by the people, a more
offensive scheme may. next session be brought in.

matter is, no plausible reason
T h e worstwhatever
existsthe
for interfering with the Garden
at all
Nothing is needed but the pulling down
of aiew stones and bricks, the throwing open of
the existing means of communication, and a few
minutes delay where time is only wasted,
and Belgravia has all it can fairly lay
claim to. The lust of appropriating the
pro-
perty of the poor, unfortunately, is not checked.
Belgravia still hankers for the pet lamb, and
seams as far off as ever from learning the lesson
taught Queen CAROLINE by HORACE WALPOLE,
who, on being asked what would be the cost of
enclosing the Parks, replied—" A Crown ! " It
is high time a movement was made for the
protection of the Parks—a society formed
whose especial duty it would be to watch over
them and see 'that no encroachments, on any