The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-15 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1356.

The Free-soilers have yielded to their more
energetic opponents. lune .tlousin .r
tveq has, by an infinitesimal majority, abandoned
the• Kansas rider to the Army Appropriation Bill,
and the Senate has completely triumphed.
FRANKLIN PIERCE will now be enabled to have it
all his own way during the few remaining months
of his tenure of office. The time is fortunately
very short ; but he may, even within that brief
interval, be enabled to turn the scale, so as to
render Kansas permanently a Slave State ; that is
to say, with as much permanency as can belong
to a syStem in every respect so iniquitous.

We confess that we had hoped better things
from the Northern Legislators. We did not be-
lieve that anything could have persuaded them to
have abdicated their functions, and to have tamely
surrendered the rights and privileges which few
members of the English House of Commons
would have abandoned, even at the cost
of their lives. But the plague-spot of
Slavery tainted the entire mass. Every
possible inducement was brought into ope-
ration. Nothing was spared. Money was
forthcoming to any amount to satisfy the cupidity
of the venal, while intimidation was also freely
resorted to in order to terrify the timid. The
Southorns had set their lives and fortunes on the
cast, and, with " cogged dice," succeeded, after
a severe struggle. The last division, which
sealed the disgrace of Congress, was carried by a
majority of 3 ; there being 101 votes for capitu- '
lation, while 98 sturdy Republicans still "nailed
their colours to the mast," and remained faithful
to the last.

It is said, and with much appearance of truth,
that it was the summary dismissal of the Govern-
ment workmen' and employes, not holding com-
missions directly from the PRESIDENT, which led
to the disgraceful surrender. The irritation that
must inevitably have followed the loss of employ-
ment by a large number of persons terrified a
few timid men ; and the change of opinion, or
even the absence of two or three men, turned the
scale, where the parties had previously been so
cloiely balanced. We shall look with much
curiosity for a history of the transactions at Wash-
ington during the crisis. We fancy that it will
disclose an organised system of bribery, corrup-
tion, and intimidation unparalleled since the time
of the passing of the Union with Ireland.

It is said that Mr. PIERCE has solemnly pro-
mised to act henceforward with perfect impartiality
so far as Kansas is concerned ; that he has pledged
himself to prevent any invasion of the debatable,
no matter from what quarter it might proceed,
and that the bona file settlers shall have a fair
election, so far as the federal authorities can en-
sure it. His acts do not, however, keep pace with
his professions. lie is still resolved to enforce
the territorial laws that have been so loudly and
justly complained of. He also refuses to afford'
any protection to bona,fi,le emigrants en, route to
Kansas. He can give a shrewd guess at the
means by which the Missourian ruffians will retard
the journeys from the north, while they can pour
in their own bands without impediment or inter-
ruption. And this is what Mr. FRANKLIN PIERCE I
is facetiously pleased to term showing fair play to
both sides.

But although the outwork has been deserted
the game is by no means lost. The con-
test, hitherto, has been comparatively but
an affair of outposts. The picquets only
have been engaged. The Presidential Bloc_
tion will be . the grand "champ de battaille"—
thefield that must decide the future fate of the
Republic 1 " Fremont and Liberty" is an inspiring

cry, and if it prove successful all will be well.

The Southerns have hitherto generally succeeded
by art, not by their intrinsic strength. It would
bo ridiculous to suppose that 300,000 Yankees,
burdened with ten times their number of slaves,
could conquer 25,000,000 of freemen. But they
have studied the maxim divide ct impera—
they have contrived to sow dissension
amongst their adversaries, and by alternately
casting their weights into different scales
have succeeded in obtaining doubtful majorities,
or the single point in which they were chiefly
interested. The American Nestor, QUINCEY, has
lifted the veil, and clearly explained the devices
by which they have achieved their triumphs.
Like the English Protectionists, the interests of
the many were made subservient to the ag-
grandisement of the few. The million yielded
to the ten thousand. But it will not
always be so ; the course of truth and justice
must eventually prevail, more especially when
sustained by an overwhelming superiority in phy-
sical force. The slave drivers have triumphed
for the moment, but another such victory will
prove their ruin. They cannot long hold their
ground ; and should it produce the threatened
separation they will themselves be the parties
to mourn the result in sackcloth and
ashes. The North can do without the South.
It will be far better off after the dissolution of the
unholy alliance. But how will it be with the
other side ? What will the coloured population
say or do? When they find that the power of the
Free-soilers can no longer, under the federal laws,
be produced to rivet their chains, ten men will
no longer be tyrannised over by a single despot.
We need say no more on this point to prove that
the Southerns must at any sacrifice avoid a disso-
lution, which would be the signal for their total
and irremediable ruin.

The decision of the Poor-Law Board on the
woman-flogging at Marylebone Workhouse cannot
be said to be characterised by any degree of
harshness so far as the three culprits are concerned.
Indeed, considered without reference to the guar-
dians, their position and antecedents, it must be
regarded as falling short of what the public had
a right to look for. It was not too much to ex-
pect that the directors and guardians should be
required to dismiss the Master of the Workhouse
with ignominy, instead of calling upon him to re-
sign, and further to give instructions for a criminal
prosecution against the workhouse HAYNALI and
his brutal subordinates. The Board, however,
would seem to have refrained from doing so under
the influence of colourable, if not of adequate,
motives. The chief offenders, apparently, in its
estimation, are the Directors and Guardians them-
selves ; who, if they did not approve of woman-
flogging, are at least responsible for that wretched
mismanagement which yielded the temptation to
which the women-floggers succumbed. Under
this impression it has doubtless seemed invidious
to the Board to require the well-merited punish-
ment of the three subordinates at the hands of
their official superiors, when the latter, though
responsible for their conduct, must escape compa-
ratively scot free. We cannot admit the validity
of such reasoning, but feel indisposed to comment
on it with any degree of asperity.

The Directors and Guardians have certainly
incurred an unenviable responsibility, and ought
not to be surprised if the public endorse the ver-
dict of the Poor-Law Board against them, as
couched in the following terms :—" The Board
cannot but observe, with great regret, the amount
of disorder and turbulence which the evidence
taken by their inspector discloses as existed in
the Marylebone Workhouse. They aro quite
prepared to admit that it is a task of no little

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sub ordination amongst a number of persons of the
unlasippy class to which these inmates belong.
To d so with any success requires not only great
tempa r, firmness, and judgment on the part of the
officers, particularly of the chief one, to whose
control they are subjected, but also such well-
devised arrangements of the building in which
they are re tained, and such regulations for the
classification,. discipline, and treatment of the
inmates themselves, that every impediment is
presented to the outbreak of disorder, and every
facility at hand for its immediate suppres-
The Board lament to find that in
an establishment of the extent and import-
ance of the Marylebone Workhouse there
appears to be an entire absence of these con-
ditions of its successful management. They are
therefore not surprised at the occurrences which
have formed the subject of inquiry, or to
find a state of things existing in the work-
house such as is described in their inspector's
report ;" on this follow an approval of the
acceptance, by the Directors and Guardians,
of the resignation of the two porters—a
request, prefaced by appropriate comment, that
the Master be called upon to resign, and an
enunciation of the intention of the Board "to
issue to the parish of Marylebone forthwith simi-
lar rules and regulations for the management of
the workhouses in England and Wales." The
reception, met with by this (singularly ill-worded)
document lends force, we are sorry 'to say, to the
justice of the rebuke. Not a statement in it was
impugned, yet a majority of the Directors saw fit,
without a single expression of contrition, or hold-
ing out the most remote prospect of amendment,
to rescilve " That the Poor-Law Commissioners be
informed that this Board have fully inquired into
the subject of their communication of the 11th
inst., and having already decided upon admonishing
the master and the parties, respectfully decline to
open thecase." In other words this precious majority
resolved to keep the master, who has disgraced the
name.of Englishman and outraged the privileges
of womanhood, in his place, and that place sur-
rounded by those influences which offered the
only semblance of palliation of his unmanly mis-
conduct, in utter defiance of public opinion and
the Poor-Law Board." The matter cannot end
here. The supporters of the resolution have not
only the Poor-Law Board, but the public also to
deal with. They have grievously betrayed their
trust by neglect, and shamelessly countenanced a
dastardly and inhuman practice by the extreme
lenity they have shown to the HAYNAII in chief.
By their negligence they have provoked a collision
with the Poor-Law Board, and by their subsequent
con ducthave armed that B)ard with a power it would
not otherwise have possessed. Let them cry out
against centralisation as they will. No worse enemies
of the principle of local self-government than them-

sion.

selves and individuals of their stamp can be
found, and they must make up their minds to be
regarded accordingly by the ratepayers. Public
rights are not safe in such hands, and we look
with confidence to a• decided expression of this
opinion by the body whose unworthy representa-

tives they are. Nothing short of their resigna-

tion ought to suffice, and we trust this will be
peremptorily demanded, and, as far as possible,

enforced. Down with the woman-floggers, and

all who support them ! They can have no claim
to interfere in the direction of Marylebono or any

other workhouse, and should forthwith be
" booked" to their respective homes, if not

" through " to Austria.

LATEST NEWS.

MARSEILLES, SEPT. 13.

The Mersey brings news from Constantinople
of the 4th inst. The corn trade was very active.
The Ministry was consolidated in consequence of
a sudden change in the attitude of Lord Redeliffe.
It was said that the enthusiastic reception given
by the Moldo-Wallachians to Baron de Talleyrand
had cooled the ambassador's ardour in favour of
the union of the Principalities, and that he was
ready to abandon that project on condition that
the Sultan should refuse to sanction the con-
struction of a ship canal through the isthmus of
Suez, and grant the English the railway to the
Persian Gulf. The establishment of the Con-

stantinople Bank met with fresh difficulties. The

Sultan had given audiences to Baron Prokesch
and to Messrs. Thouvenel and Talleyrand. Rear-
Admiral Stewart had left for Malta. Admiral
Lyons would, it was said, shortly return to Eng-
land. The Turkish soldiers who have undergone
amputation are to receive an annual pension of
2,400 piastres. Several engagements had taken
place on the frontier of Larissa, between the
Turks and the irregular Albanians. Accounts
from Smyrna of the 6th announce the arrival of
the Austrian squadron in that port. Slight shocks
of earthquake were felt at Broussa, and a violent
ishock was experienced in the Caucasus.

ST. PETERSBURG, SEPT. 14.

Count Orloff has been gazetted as Prince ; Ge-
neral Berg as Governor of Finland ; Prince
Woronzoff a Field Marshal ; General Baratynski
Governor of Caucasia. The resignation of Gene-
ral Duhelt, Commandant of the Gendarmerie, bas
been accepted.

According to the latest advices from the Danu-
bian Principalities, which are up to the 3d inst.,
the composition of the new Wallachian Ministry
seems to give satisfaction, the more so that
in forming it, the Prince Kaimakan is known
to have had no regard to any foreign
influence. One or two of its members are
not very agreeable to the Liberals, but, on the
other hand, these are pleased with the depar-
ture from the exclusive system 'under which high
offices in the State have hitherto been bestowed
solely upon great Boyards. In Moldavia the
public feeling with respect to the Government is
far less favourable. The Kaimakan and the
whole of his Ministers are known partisans of
Russia or Austria. Intense disgust seems to
have been excited in Moldavia and Wallachia,
and especially in the latter province, by the
bestowal on Prince Stirbey of the Medjidie of the
first class—an honour usually confined to crowned
heads, or at any rate to persons of very great
distinction, and who have rendered the highest
services,