The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-30 00:00:00

justifiable, but absolutely imperative on the West-
ern Powers. Prince GORTSCHAKOFF declares that
" the King of NAPLES is the object of a pressure,
not because his Majesty has transgressed any en-
gagement imposed on him by treaty towards
foreign Courts, but because, in the exercise of his
incontestable rights of sovereignty, he governs
his subjects according to his fancy ! " Here
is the despotic theory clearly and unequivo-
cally developed. A Sovereign is to govern his
subjects—not for their good, for their wel-
fare, prosperity, and happiness—but "according
to his own fancy." (! !!) Should he choose, in
the exercise of his plenary authority, to imprison
them in loathsome dungeons without the shadow
of a cause, or more mercifully to consign them at
once to the hands of the executioner, sparing
them the lingering deaths with which the Neapo-
litan gaolers are so well acquainted, or to con-
fiscate their properties, it is perfectly venial.
Nothing but acting " according to his fancy !"
And of this no foreign Power has a right
to complain. This is the Russian doctrine.
This is what the AUTOCRAT is resolved to support,
not merely by his persuasive arguments, but by
the presence of a Russian fleet in the Bay of
Naples.

Be it so. Neither France nor England have
attacked Naples. They have merely resolved on
holding no further diplomatic intercourse with a
Power that has treated every friendly remon-
strance with contumely and flippant insolence.
They have therefore determined to withdraw
their representatives, and send a naval force to
protect French and British subjects from wrong,
and also from any foreign interference in the inter-
nal affairs of the kingdom. The matter must rest
between BoMBA and his people. If we do not in-
terfere against him we shall not allow others, no
matter who, to interfere against them. That
is the strict principle of non-interference,
and that we shall enforce. But the AIITOORA.I
will send a fleet to enforce his views. He is per-
fectly welcome to do so. We should far rather
see them there than skulking behind the fortifica-
tions of Cronstadt, or sunk in the waters before
Sebastopol. Should they attack us, our ships
will be able to protect themselves, and once in the
Mediterranean, they can be rendered a good
account of. We desire nothing better than that
the whole of the Baltic Fleet should pass the
Straits of Gibraltar, and if they choose to violate
the principle laid down in Prince GORTSCHAKOFF'S
Circular, it will not be the less acceptable to us.
Should BOMBA. produce that result, he may be
looked on as the benefactor of all the oppressed
and suffering nationalities throughout Europe.

Sugarplums for BOXIBA - nuts for OTWO—
these tidings that England and France are re-
solved to put an end, per fas aut nefas, for once
and for all, vi et armis, by hook or by crook,
bon god mal gre, to the present untoward state of
things in the kingdoms of Greece and the Two
Sicilies

Pity we can't hope for the same carnival-
shower of nuts and sugarplums with which to
pelt, from Paris and London, the heads of
CLICQUOT and O'DONNELL ! Let us console our-
selves, however, with the thought—All in good
time ! Here, at least, in regard to Athens and

Naples, we have the promise of a simultaneous
" move" on the part of the two Great Allies, the
arbiters of the destinies of Europe, the nations
universally recognised as being in the van of
civilisation.

It is still to us a matter of surprise and be •
wilderment that the recent events in Spain, those

infamous and sanguinary events which have
once more driven ESPARTERO into retirement, and
have soiled the sceptre of ISABELLA with the
bloody finger-marks of a lawless and pitiless Ad-
venturer like O'DONNELL, should have been not
merely countenanced, but actually commended
and rewarded, by the Emperor NAPOLEON 111.
rewarded not only by Imperial eulogiurns in the
illoniteur, but actually by the presentation to the
Victorious Conspirator of the glorious insignia of
the Legion of Honour ! This, we say, is still to

us a source at once of marvel and astonishment.
England and France, however—disassociated in
this policy as regards Spain—are happily yet
bound intimately together by the coincidence of
their sympathies in relation both to the Greek
and Neapolitan Governments. The active and
energetic alliance of the two countries, therefore,
is not destined to die out with the flames of the
Crimean Conflict. That active and energetic
alliance which was consecrated • by the blood
shed successively upon the banks of the
Alma, among the ruins of Inkerman, in the valley
of Balaklava, on the bridge of Traktir, along the
heights of the Tchernaya, and lavishly night by
night, side by side, during so many disastrous but
heroic months, in front of the terrible earthworks
thrown up in defence of the beleaguered city of
Sebastopol. An alliance hallowed by so many
common glories won together, so many common
dangers shared together, so many common cala-
mities endured together, could not, indeed, dwindle
down so very quickly into a mere cool, common-
place, every-day, international friendship. Eng-
land and France, let us still cherish the belief,
are Allies henceforth not temporarily, but perma-
nently. Their interests are identical. Estrange-
ment again between them would have about it
something of the horror, something of the infamy k
of the suicidal. , War between them, once more,

would•partake of the atrocity of one literally of
an internecine character. For all Christendom
is now their witness that they are rivals
only iii the arts of peace, and brothers
by ties not less close than those of absolute con-
sftng ti;ni ty—

" Brothers in arms, and rivals in renown."

Insomuch that it matters little what may here-
after be the divergence of their opinions upon this
or upon that policy—their general views being
necessarily One, as we have already said that their
common interests are Identical. As if in demon-
stration of this, we are noting almost simulta-
neously with the diversity of opinions expressed
in France and England in regard to the Spanish
coup d'etat, the sympathetic accord of the two
Governments in reference to their united policy
as to the treatment of the maladministering
Powers of Greece and the Two Sicilies. It is
especially encouraging to mark the coincidence
of the Cabinets of St. James's and the Tuileries
in regard to the ultimatum, addressed by both
situultaneously to that wretched BOMBA, who is
f.tr worse than the mere Marplot of Italian
Regeneration—encouraging, we mean, to the
hopes of the Liberals throughout Europe, now
that the Envoys of VICTORIA and NAPOLEON are
flaunting so strangely, and, in one sense, so in-
consistently at Moscow, among the courtiers and
flatterers of the Russian Autocrat.

Mr. BAZALGETTE'S four plans for the purifica-
tion of the Thames and the drainage of the me-
tropolis are to be formally taken into considera-
tion to-morrow afternoon. Firstly-- the scheme
having an outfall at Barking Creek and Plumstead
Marshes, at an estimated expenditure of
2,955,0761. Secondly—the plan having an out-
fall at Halfway Reach, at au outlay of 3,300,2064