The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-19 00:00:00

Step on board. Such are the annoyances the civilised
Russians; shower on English merchants, even when
a British fleet is yet necessarily detained in the
Black Sea in consequence of Russian non-compli-
ance with the recent treaty of Paris !
One of the parties whose passport was refused
(although he had taken service at Odessa in an
English house) had also to come on to Constantii
nople in the Vigilant, there to obtain a passport
for Odessa from Lord Stratford, making altogether
a trip of 1,000 miles 1
You will hear of worse cases than this. Every
opportunity seems to be taken by the Russians to
humiliate En gli dimen.

Answer of the King of Naples to the
Remonstrance of France and England.

A correspondence iu the Cologne Gaulle gives
the following as a faithful analysis, if not the text
itself, of the answer of the King of Naples, which
the Moniteur described as "negative in substance
and offensive in form."

" King Ferdinand formally declines to stiffer
any intromission of the Western Powers in the
affairs of his kingdom. He repudiates interference
as being contrary to all the rules of international
right and derogatory to the independence and dig-
nity of his crown. Relying upon the principle of
eternal justice which prescribes that you should
not do unto others what you would not have
others do unto you, he asks, 'What would Lord
Palmerston say if the Neapolitan Government
were to presume to sit in judgment on the admi-
nistrative acts of the British Cabinet, and to re-
commend a modification in its internal policy, or
for instance the adoption of more liberal measures
towards unhappy Ireland, and more humane ones
in regard to its subjects in the East Indies ? What
would be his answer to any power that should
thus dare to intermeddle with the Queen's Govern-
ment t He would reply as the Court of Naples
now does—that he acknowledged no right and no
power in any one whatever to dictate rules of con-
duct to him, or to indulge in offensive remon-
strances. Or rather, not so. Lord Palmerston
would not even have taken the trouble to answer,
but he would have at once sent passports to the
representative of the power that should have so
acted. Has not then the King of Naples an equal
right with Great Britain to show himself jealous
of his own honour, and careful of that of his people ?
He may, indeed, by way of showing the neighbourly
respect and good feeling with which he is animated,
listen to overtures made with the object of consoli-
dating public order iu Europe. But even these
should be laid before him with all that delicacy and
reserve which is due to a free Sovereign ; and iu
any event, he alone must be the judge of the effi-
cacy of the measures which he may be recommended
to adopt, and above all must be left absolutely free
to choose the moment which may seem best to him-
self for their application. The King is better able
than any one else to appreciate the exigencies of
his position and the necessities resulting from it.
It is alleged that this situation requires certain
modifications, certain reforms. It is argued. that
the revolution no longer attacks the Government
of the Two Sicilies by physical force. Admitting
that to be so, it is a proof that the regime so loudly
complained of has not been so useless or so harm-
ful as some people would have it believed. But it
is added, this regime has ceased to be necessary.
The King is not of that opinion, and his will can-
not be constrained unless material force be erected

into a principle, and then what becomes of the
principle of the royal authority ? And what would
be the value of accomplished under external
pressure? Undelach circumstances any conces-
sion, hswever legitimate, would be alike devoid of
merit and efficacy. His Majesty King Ferdinand
is, therefore, entirely ig the truth of the situation
when he maintains his prerogatives, and when he
asserts his right to be the sole judge both of what
is to be done and when is the opportune moment
to do it. This moment he desires to see with all
his heart ; but it is impossible to deny that the
violent and systematic attacks of the English press,
and the provocations thrown out in Parliamentary
speeches, are calculated to postpone the opportunity
for some time yet. Is it supposed that the bad
passions of a country still imbued with the revolu-
tionary doctrines of 1848 are to be calmed by such
means I It cannot be forgotten that not long ago
the " Central General Committee of Italy" laid
down the principle that political homicide is not a
crime, especially when a powerful enemy is to be
got rid of, &c., &a., or that this same committee
int a price upon the head of ;the King of Naples
and promised a reward of a hundred thousand
ducats to whoever should deliver Italy from this
monster ! In presence of such facts' so near to us,
it is more than a right, it is a duty, for his Majesty
the King of the Two Siollies to act with the greatest
circumspection, and not lightly to depart from the
system of government which he deemed it expe-
dient to adopt quite as much for the good of his
subjects as for his own safety.
" It is insinuated and attempted to be proved,
that the constitution of 1848, under the empire of
which the horrible principles above mentioned
were openly propagated, is the law of the land in the
kingdom of Naples. But it is forgotten that when
the constitution was proposed to the rebel Sicilians
they contemptuously rejected it and called for that

of 1812. TI-ie only effect of the concessions which
Ferdinand 11. then made was to stimulate the de-

mands of the revolutionists all over Italy, and the
movements which broke out in Naples and Paler-
mo were the signal for insurrections in Sardinia,
Rome, Lombardy, arc. It is desired in mere wan-
tonness to see a repetition of this bloody cycle of
crimes and catastrophes in which unhappy Italy
was before precipitated T The constitution of 1848
would be marvellously adapted to bring about such
a result.
" Such cannot be the real intention of the
Cabinets of London and Paris, which must desire
to maintain peace, and so the dearly-bought repose
of Europe. Such, above all, cannot be the inten-
tion of the Frensh Government, which, after having
displayed such energetic efforts to vanquish the
revolution at home, cannot design to encourage it
in Italy. That would be to act in flagrant contra-
diction to the wise and able policy which it has
itself practised with so much success.
" France and England should remember that
they engaged in the Eastern war for the express
purpose of preventing a foreign power from inter-
fering in the affairs of Turkey. Any analogous in-
tervention iu the kingdom of the Two Sicilies would
be a strange and unhe trd-of anomaly. King Fer-
dinand cannot and will not believe that any such
thing can bo intended. He relies with entire con-
fidence upon the fact that the courts of Paris and
London have in the most public manner recognised
this principle, namely, that every free state, how-
ever inferior its strength may he to that of the
power which pretends to offer advice to it, has the
indisputable right to reject the advice when it comes
in the form of a threat and an attack upon its in-
dependence.
" The King intends to abide by all that has just
been said. If, which it is impossible to suppose,
it shall be attempted to constrain his will, he will
then, confiding in the justice of his cause, make an
appeal to the national feeling, as well as to his
brave and faithful army, and prepare himself to
repulse force by force."

JOURNALISM-THE EMPEROR AND

EMPBESS OF RUSSIA.

STOCKHOLM, Aug. I.—Considerable surprise has been
created here by the announcement that Col. Hazelius,
formerly a distinguished officer in the Swedish army and
many years personal aide-de-camp of the late King, and
at present the talented chief editor of the Sioenclska Tid-
fling. retires from that post, and will be succeeded by a
Mr. J. Horner, for many years connected with that
semi-official organ, and now sub-editor for the foreign
department. As far back as last year the above pro-
Russian journal had great difficulty in making its way
and keeping afloat, and would in all probability have
foundered long ago if it had not been so fortunate as to
find powerful and wealthy auxiliaries abroad. The
public are now curious to learn on what principles this
otherwise well-conducted and splendidly-printed news-
paper will be carried on, now that the literary Colonel
has retired. Many people suppose, and it is far from im-
probable, that it will be bought by one of our four estates
in the new Storthing, in order to have an organ of its
own party. But it is not likely that the estates of
the peasants or the burghars will take such a step, and
therefore, if done at all, it must be undertaken either by
the aristocratical or the ecclesiastical estate.

Our Dagbladet states that the new schooner Maria
Sophia, Captain Benin, from Stromstadt to Copenhagen,
with a cargo of grain, was run into on the night of the
30th of July in the Gulf of Finland by a Russian man-
of-war steamer, which had the Emperor and Empress on
board when the colliiion tO6k place. After the accident
their Majesties quitted the steamer and repaired on
board another which acompanied them, the Emperor
giving orders to take the damaged steamer in tow and
carry her into a Russian tort for repairs at his expense.
Fortunately no loss of lire took place, and the vessel
was safely towed into the port of Helsingfors, where Rhe
is undergoing the necessary repairs. From the above it
would appear that some tross neglect is to be ascribed
to the officers of the Russian steamer.

News has arrived that the Russians have reoccupied
A nape.
It is stated that there is a probability of the entire
fleet of the General Screw Steam Shipping Company
being purchased at once b 7 the Russian Government.
A lady writes from Nevport, an American watering-
place :—" We have to cress about nine times a day
here. First, we put on a dress to dress in. Then we
are ready for breakfast. After that we dress for the
beach, then for the bath, len for dinner, then for the
drive, then for the ball, and then for the bed. If that
isn't being put through a regular course of dimity and
diamonds, then I am no judge of such performances.",