The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-06 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1856.

The Addresses have been duly proposed in bot h
Houses,. That in the Lords has been carriei 1,
not without remonstrance, but without a division
The Earl of MALMESBURY spoke boldly and um )-
quivocally. He adduced abundant reasons b o
show that the terms obtained could not b
deemed satisfactory by the People. He there -
fere truly declared that the expressions "joy an d
satisfaction" were by no means warranted. Be I
while he showed an inclination to move an
amendment, he carefully abstained from so doint,
so that no opportunity was afforded his brothel r
Peers of recording their votes against the fulsome
"toadyism" to which they were madeparties. Tli e
House accepted the "joy and satisfaction" with
edifying humility expressed an unanimous
opinion that Peace was re-established on con -
ditions honourable to her MAJESTY'S Crown, ant I
fully accomplished the great object for which the
War was undertaken ! An abundance of " the
mysterious condiment, well-known as German
Paste," or what Captain MAILEXAT termed "
doodle," was patiently swallowed. Lord DERIVZ
also made a manly speech, but he moved no
amendment. He especially protested against the
unnecessary, uncalled for, and unconstitutiona
alteration in the maritime code of England, and
which, as he truly declared, has gone counter t‘o
the declaration of every Statesman at every period
of our history, and whieh abrogates the principle fcrr
the maintenance of which we have stood again at

foreign combinations, and resisted foreign invit t-

tions to the conclusions of treaties, and which we
have stood by as the sheet anchor of our Naval
Power. This act was " done in the dark, without
the knowledge of Parliament." The Minister
sent and trusted by the country to conduct nego-
tiations for restoring peace on certain bases known
to the country took advantage of his position
to make an important alteration in the maritime
law of England, " without our having the least
idea that such, our birthright, was given away."
The matter cannot rest here. Indignant protests
are not sufficient against conduct which should be
the subject of an impeachment, and which requires
exemplary punishment for the wanton betrayal
of our most cherished rights.
But although we cannot greatly congratulate
ourselves on the proceedings in the Lords, they
were far better than those that have hitherto
taken place in the Commons. The speeches of
Lords MALMESBURY and DERBY, though leading
to no practical results, might at least be regarded
las honest protests, proceeding from two of the re-
cognised leaders of a great party—the former
Nol,le Lord having filled the office of Foreign
Secretary, and the latter of First Lord of
the Treasury. But in the Commons there
was no man of high position or standing
who thought it necessary to give expression to
his views or feelings. Lord JOHN MANNERS,
cc who did not oppose the reception of the Ad.-
dress, although he objected to some of its terms,"
certainly held office, but it was in a subordinate
capacity, as Chief Commissioner of Woods and
Forests—nor can it be quite forgotten that he is
brother to the Marquis of GRANBY, who has let
slip no single opportunity for arraying himself on
the side of Russia. While Lord CLAUDE HAMIL-
TON is merely step-son to the Earl of ABERDEEN
—the " dear and excellent friend of forty years'
standing" to the original aggressor—the Minister
whose culpable apathy and indifference per-
mitted the nation " to drift into the War," which
might have been averted by any decided demon-
protest. The Noble Lord
stration or energetic
certainly struck the Government on a very tender
spot. He explained the gross desertion of the
brave Circassians, and moved the omission of the
word "joy," so wholly unwarranted, and to sub-

stitnte " to a great extent the objects of the War,"

for the declaration that they had been fully

accomplished ! Trifling as it was, even this was
something ; but what must be the condition of the
House of Commons when we are obliged to rest our
hopes on such a diluted and milk-and-water propo-
sition.

The speech of the Earl of CLA.RENDON—the
successful (!) negotiator—however, showed that
it was not through any mistake that the brave

Circassians were surrendered to the tender mercy
of the AUTOCRAT. He tried to show that they
had "no great claim to the consideration of Eng-
land," and therefore they have wilfully and de-
liberately been abandoned to their fate. As "we
had obtained no military successes on the Circas-
sian coasts, we could impose no terms on Russia."
Is this an argument befitting an English States-
man ? Might we not, at least, have stipulated
that the dismantled forts should not be recon-
structed ? that Russia should make no fur-
ther onslaught on the Citadel of Asia Minor.
If SCHA3fYL had been comparatively inactive
within the last two years, it was because
he had no reason to repose confidence in
the Allies. They sought not his assistance,
tendered no pledges to obtain his aid. Had
proper means been taken the prophet chief would
have proved an invaluable auxiliary. But he is
now condemned and abandoned to his fate because
he did not of his own accord array himself under
our banners. This disgraceful abandonment of
the Circassian tribes will be one of the blackest
among the many dark spots on the British
escutcheon in connection with the recent War.

But it is not in Parliament merely that this de-
plorable " toadyism " to the powers that be is
manifested. We find it also in but too many of
the public journals. We rejoice to say that
there are many of our contemporaries who have
remained "faithful to the last," and who well
merit the confidence of the People. But the,
Leviathan, who, if it suited its purposes, would
have hurled its heaviest thunders against those
who sacrificed the honour and interests of the
country, has thought fit, once more, to exhibit
its chameleon-like properties, and to sot the ex-
ample of tergiversation. The Treaty is now
"satisfactoryand honourable"—(honourable, GOD
save the mark o—all its old protests are forgotten.
It has again jumped into the Aberdeenite policy,
which it maintained while it was possible
to do so. It would almost seem as if the spirit
of Sir PERTINAX MCSYCHOPHANT regulated its
leading articles, and that its sole object was to
show the ease with which it could " boo, and
boo, and boo," before those whom it supposes to
have obtained a prolonged tenure of office.
From Parliament and the dependent, toadying
Press, we appeal to the national feeling. We
believe the Peace has not merely been accepted
without enthusiasm, but with intense disgust and
indignation. We look for more independent Re-
presentatives, who will not shrink from avowing
their real sentiments, who will not strive to curry
favour with the prevailing influences at the ex-
pense of every honourable feeling. We believe
that seeds have been sown that will produce fruit
in due season, which will be by no means satis-
factory to the adherents of Germanism.

The schoolmaster—we are told—is abroad, just
now, in the streets of London, ink-horn in hand,
abcut to re-christen some of our public thorough-
fares ! The Commissioners recently empowered
to set on foot as many improvements as possible
in the general re-organisation of our metropolis
indicate—in other words—an intention to name
all over again certain " damnably iterated " lanes,
rows, courts, streets, roads, places, squares, villas,
terraces ! Localities, north, south, east, and
west, bearing the very same titles, again and again
repeated, in a manner the most frightfully tauto-
logical. Good luck, say we, go with the Com-
missioners in this their very laudable undertak-
ing We look to them for a vast deal in the
way of general improvement, but for not one
alteration more desirable than the identical
change here indicated. We sadly want them, of
course, among other things to sweep away that
abominable " Middle-row," which is to Holborn
at once its greatest eyesore and its most grievous
obstruction. We want them more especially to
tumble down and can away as so much rubbish
those filthy and dilapidated tenements packed
together between St. Mary-le-Strand and St.
Clement Danes—the principal blot upon the
Strand—the notorious abomination of Holy well-
street ! The infamous street where the frouziest
old garments dangle in the Jew clothes-shops,
where the dirtiest old volumes in all the wide world
litter the squalid bookstalls, where the obscenest
prints that prurient imaginations can devise out-
rage public decency by daylight and by gaslight,
glaring through the foul window-panes upon every
luckless passer-by ! We want the Commissioners
to do away as quickly as possible with each hor-
rible nuisance in turn—sweeping away from the
surface of the earth both Holywell-street, Strand,
and Middle-row, Holborn. We want them to
open a carriage way into St. James's-park through
Spring-gardens, and another into the Chem-park
from the western extremity of Pall-mall. We
want them to get somebody's statue put upon th•
vacant pedestal in Trafalgar-square—the statue,
by the way, of somebody a little more respectable
than the " Royal Snob" whose effigy straddles one
of Chantrey's horses in the angle formed be-
tween Morley's Hotel and the National Gallery.
We want the Commissioners to do this, that, and
the other, here, there, and everywhere. But
nothing perhaps do we want them to do more than
the very thing they are said to meditate adven.
turing upon at last, namely, the task of rechris•
toning a variety of our London thoroughfares.

" What a wonderful man the Postman is !"
exclaims the Song of the Day, the song whistled
by every gamin, ground upon every barrel-organ,
thrummed upon every piano-forte. And a won-
derful person indeed that man-of-letters in the
red coat assuredly is—and in no respect more
wonderful than in the fact of his conveying the
correspondence of SUITH, BROWN, and JONES to
their right destination in spite of the bewildering
monotony of the same iterated and reiterated '
superscriptions. A task of sufficient difficulty, it
must be allowed, to puzzle any one but a Post-
man, when it is remembered that there are in
London as many as twenty-six " Alfred" streets,
&c.—twenty-nine called " William"—forty-two
called " John"—and forty-eight called " Charles."
We are so immensely loyal again that we must
needs go and call thirty-eight different roads,
squares, places, &c., by the name of " Albert,"
and curiously enough exactly the same number
(38) "Victoria." We are such miserable snobs,
too, in theway of Court sycophancy in the abstract,
that we must needs designate no less than twenty-
six by the title of " Regent"—as many as eighty-
one
short‘'
of
aQtleen," and actually ninety-eight (two
round hundred) " King." A. 9 if we
had found one unvarying standard of magnitude,
we
had calld peorsriitvievdelyallr2eaGdy at the millennium, " Little."
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thoughasaand
we
Time were henceforth to be no more, and every-
thinggunkatof thea writers
l43oitfooufr
and everybodywheadddersui
perpetual youth,
streets "New." Not having the smallest. fear of
the ghost of Mr. O'CONNELL before our eyes, we
have called fifty-eight of our streets after the
" *Union:, We don't at this moment exactly
know how many rows of houses are 'entitled
" Belle-Vue" which can only just manage to see.
over the way !—or how many godless lar les and
alleys are called " Church"-street and "C [lapel"-
street !—or how many with nothing greoner in
front of them than the area railings are i;ermed
"Park"-place, "Park"-villas, gi park"- to trace !,