The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-28 00:00:00

" nl .Ing" huffs a b?lu'in.ll yet it eomprehen7sib'e
n::21:7
~;y to fie le: rriel I.mgliage of the far East.

S.) nAtch so

t often t' very authors of the bills

so in terwravo ' aru wi;h crude inconsibteneics as to
bAil“r,rn tht un,imited understanding.-,!

It WAS 1., ti:i COTI,nI•MI W,ll app?..tled

to, b: c tulsc

inva;.iat., answer retntl:d to GI)),

plain suggc
d ror it '•

nirsva vs xas—

"There's no prece-

ii , 1., woi were ricTer to get
or :en! Wore 1.": V b.ACtiCe than her, re
done fly wp:kiog ii the maze, of roystei-, and, like

1'1,2

v

hapo. . A change has

alteady

gare 'yrstertlay a list of
s':"" Sight`, ► the :311 in the P.:l.l4llAm-
tat V luivatt• , ii tl7e order-book of the
llouse-of C.:LT-nous, uro lobe now transfe: red
to the. 'Muse of 1.0,104.11 btsgin with The gen Tal
reason w.sigrtti ror
all hills in the Com-
mons wiu, that they might contain some one or
more money c‘au,...es, Would vitiate their
btilog tta,t•sed it.to cr'ginaily introduced in
the Lords. Ali this Tay have been constitutional
enough where t:1( re Is es a money clause in bill,
bat sirhY not .e() if t.nelt 'actually were the case?
The old ster( oisped answer was ready—there',,
no pr; c ecnt. for 11::;s b gimirg in the I.olds,
:7-1. (,ur Con,litational fiJr(
6.411
wure idle, of course, to argil(

with men s,) I in t!le routiac or

Had th, r("11,} tietcd on rni;princiior
we hnir I aff no. ioi:w:!ye, no elect;ie to le

i:1 tact, " no nothin-," a

grnph, ro ii,01,,g; •:j)
tht foftt:----!o.t whir !;•!v 0.1 top• cif .tbtAe- its
-
4UId goon with new ones, on the good old plan of

•
bygone (Flys. It has served our fathers in their
time, and it v.vre an in:-alt to their memory to

presume on being. wisn: than they.
?Tr. -MASSEY deEerves great I)r4is for his
..our,.ge in origimlting a change of stem, and

as accultlinql

c.,infurrcd %VW.% the iii iir

man of Co:n mi: tees of the House

Lords as to what Bills migla he first

introduced there in ordvr to save time to
both houses, and time and money to the promoters
of those bills. Accordingly a number of bills were
selected ; but there was one drawback which we
ware going to point out yesterday, but which was
so obvious that it has now been remedied. It was
that after the bills had been sent to the Lords the
examiners should see that they had passed the
standing orders. Why, that ought to have been
done first, and then everything would proceed
smoothly. 'This has been den°. So we may now
expect that the time of both. houses will be occu-
pied at the same time more beneficially for the
public, and far more agreeably for their lordships,
who will now have something to do during the
session, instead of being literally overwhelmed
towards the end of it, and then not able to perform
their duties at. all.

It is an immense and twofold advantage, of
course, that there should be Peace and Free Trade
between France and England. Peace, moreover, is
best secured through Free- Trade. The most re-
liable and important of all guarantees for the
maintenance of amity between two nations
is that that secured by means of their un-
restricted mercantile intercourse. All these, to
be
.sure, are but the merest truisms. They are
simply self-evident propositions. They have but
to be s'ated in so many words—they require, after
being so stated, not one syllable in the way of com-
mentary or elucidation with a view to their en-
forcement. But—granted all this—when it is sud-
denly announced that a Commercial Treaty has
been concluded between France and England to
this very end, namely, to bind the two countries to-
gether in securer amity by means of a free mercantile
intercourse—it becomes a matter of curiosity to say
the very least of it, to inquire into the manner in
which this extraordinary arrangement has been
arrired at. For it ma,,t be pirticulnrly born in
recollection—it cannot for an instant, in fact, be for-
gotten that up to the date of the contrivance of this
Mercantile Treaty, France has rigidly conducted her
cernmcrce upon a Protective system, and England
now during very nearly the three last hatres upon
the widest and the grandest Free Trade principles.
Let it be remembered also that at the very same
time we are here, in this Free Trade country of
ours, mustering and arming 100,000 Rifle
Volunteers and hastening forward at an im-
mense cast our efforts at military and

maritime reorganisation : mainly, at any rate, if not
entirely because of an insular jealousy that has
sprung up in regard to our French neighbours !
Our allies across the Channel having nearly as large
steam fleet as ourselves, and an army of from
500,000 to 600,000 of the most skilled and daring
soldiers in Christendom! Because of that army,
and because of that fleet—whether eauselessly cr
not at this moment it signifies nothing—above all,
because with that army and with that fleet France
proclaims herself (through the lips of her desp)tic
ruler) to be the one country in Europe everprepared
to make war for an "idea'—BECAUSE of all this,
England has been lately increasing her national
defences, end rallying round the QUEEN'S colours
corps upon corps of Riflemen. In the midst of all
which warlike, though strictly defensive prepara-
tione,-xe are abruptly informed that a Commercial
Treaty has been arranged between Protective
France and Free-Trading England `•ith the view
to the acquisition by both countries of the most
material of all guarantees for their continued amity
—for the organisation between them of a system
of more and more unrestricted mercantile inter-
course. Wit.' in the compasa of the recent Speech
from the Throne, her :ii.AJESTY, only the other
slay—upon one hand announced the arrangement of
this Commerefd Treaty between France and Eng-
land—and on the other accorded her gracious tvel
nne to the gathering together around her
~tandaids of the numerals bands of volunteer
Ifkinen.

Undcr these circumitancoA it bec:Enc:s naturally,

we repeat, a matter of euriosity to inquire into
mat.ner is Which this surprising Treaty has
;leen arrarged, and into the precise form, and ten-
d:l-icy, and character of its arrangetnants. So in-
quiring—ii, is remarkable to find at the first turn of
the leaf, nsit were, that t7.i. grand Fc-eTrad,Tre:tty,
io bcgic w ith, is di.stincrly and unmistakeably lop-
d. That tae colck!s..l(m.z, on the part of

141,3 att to r, :',:PL 1.4 C. ICt• prOCit 1 101 i

on the part of France, is to begin eighteen months
further on! When, m•rccver, we find that Mr.

COBDLN hat: been p. tng,.!ged, on the pit t
of ling;e4nd, in
.arrangi;ig that one-bidcd ch( my
over von& r in Pais—we eqnnot, for the life of us,

hdp calling to ritin,l atzt

C'onDEx,

bein; the f wetno.t champion and 21 post Jo of Frce

T. adr, e!so and peculiarly one of the most n, tab!r
tirocutzs of l'enca-at any-price. Knowing
end ;ming the giat ingiy oNts-sided charl.eter Of he
Treaty he has been arranging with an especial
regard to the more firmly securing the bounds
of amity between France and England, we ask
not unnaturally upon the instant—lf this be the
pric?, of Peace paid down by this Peace-at-eny
Price Pknipotentiary ? We put the query point
blank on Thursday ; and upon the very nest
morning ekterdny morning—the chief among
the daily organs of the political opinions enter-
tained by Mr. COBDEN and his associates observes
distinctly—writing of the Treaty and of the not
very surprising objections made to it at the
first b!usla on fl.c score of its being so
monstrously one-sided :—" If iu the tnean-
tine we are reqy ired to make a sacrifice of revenue,
we arc qui' e prepared, under all the circumstances
of the case, to pay i, cheerfully as a premium of :

insurance on a great policy of peac,2 with Pralle.:
Why I his is Ltntranount to a 'grant avowal of the
tact suspected—that thiS is really and truly the
price to ba mealy paid down by England for
Peace at the instance of her Peace-at any-Price
'Plenipotentiary! the T..eaty is only yet
lompleted conditionally upon its approval by Rtr.
liament! We may leave the matter confidently,
therefore,.to be decided upon by the House of
Commons—certain tha', in striving to secure Free
Trade with France, it will not do so by the Paltry
means of those pueillaAirnous views known popu-
larly as the doctrines of Peace At any Pride.

absorption of. Nice ani Savo
What is before us ? Whyo
bsylial-ll say P
tance,witiohle
t
-view to demonstrate the perfect disinterestedness
of the Italian policy of the Imperial Government ?
The piecemeal modification of the Reform Act Of
1832--by way of st tiling. the qu:stion-effectually,
far as it clucerns the present genzration P The
perpetuation of the Income Tax--as the most de- I
LD:31.0
(.1.,, G
ive way of ceilfirrning the uatiQnal confidence in
.1.3 prescience as Chanctilor of the
Exchegner The attcnipt at some ftuther diplomatic
cynotliAtion of the Chine
means of aven ae-43 the best voisiblr
ging the infamous Peiho ambuscade