The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-20 00:00:00

9Y:DOIN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, IFSG.

BOM EA is himself again. He emphatically
oantions Prarce and England. to mind their own
lsitsines;:, and to abstain from inerraeddling i7l
hi; affair:. Nay, more, he threatens them with
eousegnences of his high displeasure, declar-
irg that, if an attempt be made to go further, 1),,
will "appeal to the patriotism of his people, and,
ti listing to his brave and faithful army, repel
force by force !" Let England stand aghast ; let
}-4.ance, the minor offender, tender speedy and
ainple amends, or dread the consequences. BOMEA
will "repel force hy force," and annihilate the
fl ,ets and armies who may (hare to approach his
d )minions in an unfriendly spirit.

The leading argument of the document is the
complete repudiation of foreign interference. He
will do as he likes with his own, and give no
thanks to any one. The principle, however,
cc mes rather btrangely from one who has bee-3
placed, end is maintained, in his position solely by
e aid of foreign bayonets, or the dread of foreign
irtervention. It is but too notorious that if the
Yeapolitans were allowed to settle the matters
themselves, and to have a clear stage and no
favour, BOMBA would cease to reign within a
single week. He looks for defence to the very
principle which he so earnestly deprecates when
it runs counter to his own prejudices.
He is peculiarly sarcastic against Great Britain.
What could Lord PALMERSTON say if he, the
illustrious and mighty BomnA, "should think fit to
east India or Ireland in his teeth ? Was to pro-
pose to the English Government a modification in
its internal policy, or the adoption of more liberal
views towards Ireland, or to recommend more
humane conduct towards its Indian subjects r
This is manifestly a crushing argument in the
opinion of BoMBA, and at once disposes, with
proper spirit, of the insolent attempt at inter-
ference.

France is reprehended in a more lenient tone.
Ire manifestly recognises a congenial spirit, and
sneaks more in sorrow than in anger—mourning
over the desertion of a shining light in the galaxy
of despotism. There is ato quoque tone in his
remonstrances. "Is it you, my brother, who
complain of broken promises and violated faith ?
Is it you • who can object to 'a wise and clever
policy.' similar to that by which you so triumph-
antly silenced the voice of public opinion, and an-
nihilated every vestige of the Constitution in your
:Empire? Surely you cannot be in earnest, and are
merely hoodwinking the stupid islanders by in-
ducing them to suppose that you would desire
any modification or change in a Government in
every respect so analogous to your own."
Well, we shall receive our scolding with great
equanimity. The Royal Billingsgate does not in
the slightest degree disturb our serenity. He is
bent on mill. Like the Hibernian sufferer, he
tvill be destroyed, and nobody shall save him. Let
lira then "dree his wierd." He is what our
Scottish brethren term " fey," and must meet his
fate. lie has even scoffed at Austria, and seems
prepared to meet the world in arms if they dare
to recommend a wiser policy than he thinks fit to

adopt.
Be it so. We have no great love for any of
the BOURBON dynasty, and if he wishes to
" point a moral and adorn a tale" for the
benefit of future generations, he may do so
without occasioning the slightest annoyance
to France or England. The interference of
which he so loudly complains was for his own
benefit. A cure will be effected without any
further action on our parts. But there would be
ample justification therefor, inasmuch as any sane
luau would be justified in arresting a dangerous
lunatic armed with deadly weapons. The fate of
BoMBA would be a matter of the most perfect
indifference ; but we must not risk the peace and
tranquillity of Europe by sanctioning a continu-
ance of the insane pranks of which he has been
guilty.

"Much labour and little fruit." Whether the

first part of the apophthegm holds goad in relation

to the proceedings of the "Select Committee of
the House of Commons on the Adulteration of
Foods" we will not undezteko to say, Of the

applicability of the second, unfortunately, there
can be no doubt.• For all useful purposes, so far
as we can see, the Committee might quite as well
have spared themselves their deliberations, and
contented themselves with the presentation of the
evidence taken before them. With regard to
adulterations of a cheapening and innocuous
nature, by which the public suffer neither in
purse nor health, "it would be difficult, if not
unwise," we are told, " for the Legislature to '
interfere, unless it could do so by requiring that
every such article.be sold as a mixture, as distin-
guished from an article in its pure state." So
far as other adulterations are concerned—those,
to wit, in which " pecuniary fraud or injury to
health" are involved—" it appears to your Com-
mittee," says the Report,• "to be the duty of the
Legislature to provide some efficient remedy."
This is certainly a beggarly result, if it is not
something worse. Every intelligent and unbiassed
individual who has respect for the public morals
must, one would have thought, by this time have
arrived at the conclusion that the practice of adul-
teration of any sort cannot but have a pernicious
tendency, and lead to the confusion of right and
wrong. Facilis descensus averni comes at once to
the recollection, and it ought not to be matter o
surprise if the dealer who begins with cheap
and innocuous adulteration has his moral sense
before long so obfuscated as to see no harm in car-
tying the practice further in matters of trade, and
extending the application of the principle involved
to other transactions of life. The transition, no
doubt, will be a matter of time, and there are
individuals of such sturdy honesty as to resist the
temptation offered with more or less success ; but
what shall be said of the youthful apprentice, whose
previous training has led him to look on oven the
appearance of fraud with disgust, when ho is called
upon to participate in the act of adulteration, and
has his scruples quieted by the assurance that
what he conceives to be wrong is, in point of fact,
right ? Why, that his convictions as to what is
right and wrong will infallibly receive a shock from
which it will be well if he recover with any guiding
principle of rectitude in the conduct of business at
all. The apprenices of one generation are the
masters of the next, and to nothing but external in-
fluences have we to look for a remedy. It may
be good political economy—which we more than
doubt—but the approval, it is nothing better, by
the Committee of the practice of adulteration,
even with the above proviso, seems to us fraught
with evils innumerable and of a most serieus
nature. The opinion exaressed by the Commit-
xe, it is.not a te3ommenclatiQn, with reference to
fraudulent or noxious adulteration, simply
amounts to this—the Legislature, we believe,
ought to provide some efficient remedy ageinat
cheating and murder in trade.
So far as the public are directly concerned, the
practice of adulteration in its least offensive phase
is highly objectionable, and may in some oases be
attimded with the worst results. The profession of
a chemist is the business of a life, and to be armed
against adulteration is to be possessed of a good
deal of the knowledge, to say nothing of the expen-
sive apparatus and numerous tests, of the chemist.
The public are delivered over, in a great measure,
to the dealer, for beyond Lis real or suppesed in•
teerity there is little else on which they can rely.
"When a buyer asks fear one thing, the presump-
tion is he wants that thing, and not a mixture of
that thing with others. Say that ho is aware the
practice of adulteration pretty generally obtains,
how seldom does his knowledge enable him to
discriminate between the pare and tho adul-
terated ! And, supposing him in possession of
the required knowledge, it will be far from easy for
him always to get the article he wants; for it is
notrions that, as the practice of adulteration has
come more and more into vogue, the presentation
of genuine articles has decreased in proportion.
Besides, what may be harmless in its effect on
one men's constitution may be injurious to that of
another. To what complications is not this fact
like:y to lead ? One species of adulteration,
which may be classed under the first head, the
Committee appear to have entirely overlooked.
We mean the adulteration of drugs. The proper
dose of -a. genuine drug has certain effects the
adulterated article is unable to produce. Say
that in the first instance the adulterated article is
given and fails in its effects—the fault is not at-
tributed to the right quarter, and a second and
stronger dose, obtained at another shop where the
drug is to be had genuine, is administered. The
patient dies—though the foreign ingredient in the
adulterated article were ever so harmless, Legis-
lation to be efficient should be extended to the
puttine,l down of the practice of adulteration in
any drape.

The death of Lord • Shrewsbury makes the Earl of
Derby the premier Earl of England, aril the Earl of
Cork the premier Earl of Ireland.
The Earl of nalmesbury left Heron Court, near
Christchurch, last weeli, to visit the Earl of Lonsciale
at Lovitber Castle, Cumberland.

Tho Hon. and Ilev. E. D. Bligh, 8.A., has been pre-
sented to the rectory of Rotherfield, near Tunbridge
Wells, a benefice worth nearly 2,0001. a year. Patron,
the Right Hon. Rev. Earl of Abergavenny.
A line of steamers is about to be established between
Hamburg and the Brazil, calling at Southampton. The
steamers employed will be British-built ones. Hamburg
is the European market for Brazilian coffee.
The exact amount of specie shipped by the Para is
516,5801., of which 499,060/. is silver for Aden, Bombay,
Madras, and Calcutta, and 17,5201. gold for A!exandria,
Ceylon, and Madras.
Miss Buller, of Downes, whose father, as chairman of
the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, was at the
Exeter station on Friday last, to be in attendance on her
Majesty, had the honour of preseiting the Queen with
a choice bouquet.
Lord Lyttelton laid the foundation-stone of a new
Mechanics' Literary Institute, at Stourbridge, on Mon-
day. Flis lordship was assisted in the ceremony (which
was of a very interesting character) by Lord Ward, Mr.
J. H. Foley, M.P., and other gentlemen resident in the
county. The institution is to be erected by private sub.
scription.

IVIANOFIESTER TRADE REPORT.—MANCHESTER, Tues.
day.—With somewhat less settled prospects cf harvest
weather, the yarn market shows a less sanguine aspect
to-day then during the past fortnight, yet the engage.
ments of manufacturers are sufficiently large, in conse-
quence of the extensive business of the last few weeks,
to prevent the slightest feeling of depression, and the
market remains firm at previou3 advanced quotations.
At a meeting of the Clarendon (Jamaica) Mining
Company, held yesterday, Mr. Cater presiding, the re-
port was unanimously adopted. The management, which
is conducted with economy, appears to afford satisfac-
tion, and the latest advices from the property indicate a
steady improvement. Including a cash balance of
10,3531., the assets available are upwards of 11,0001.
Arrangements will be made for bringing the company
under the provisions of limited liability.
THE LATE EARL OF SHREWSBURY.—The existence of
the cholera in an alarming form at Lisbon renders it
extremely doubtful whether the body of the Earl of
Shrewsbury will be brought back to England at present.
However this may be arranged by his lordship's execu-
tors, Mr. sergeant Bellasis, Q.G., and Mr. J. R. Hope-
Scott, Q.C.,
we believe there is no doubt that it will
he ultimately deposited in the chapel at Alton, in which
the remains of the late earl and countess are deposited.
About 30 miles of the railroad between Lisbon and
Badajcz, on the frontiers of Spain, will bo open next
month. The whole line will be about 150 miles in
length. Four steam•packet lines are about to be imme-
diately established, or improved, from Lisbon to the West
Coast of Africa to the Azores, Brazil, and England.
'Mime lines have unusual privileges from the Portuguese
Government, and English talent and capital will be
partially employed on them. The terminus of the
English packet line in this country will be Milford
Haven.

LORD PALMERSTON AND THE CITUROIL—The First
Minister of the Crown has at present in his gift unbe.
stowed ecclesiastical patrorage to the extent of upwards
of 30,0001. a-year. The bshopric of London, which he
has at his disposal, is worth, under the new arrangement,
10,0001. a-year ; and the bishopric r.f. Durham, 8,000/.
Two bishops of so:aller sees wilt doubtless be translated
to these, which will give an increased patronage of
10,000/. a-year. Then the noble lcrd has vacant the
deanery of Westminster,:worth 2,0004. a year; and there
is the bishopric of Graham's Town, over which he will
have 501113 conlrJl, worth $OOl. a year. So large an
amount of church patronage has not fallen at one time
to the gift of the Prime Minister for many years.

LATEST NEWS.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

The Moniteur announces that the French Go-
vernment have received a telegraphic despatch
from Constantinople, dated the 18th, informing
them of the departure, on that day, of the last
French troops from Constantinople. General
Pariset himself, their commander, with his staff,
had embarked on the 18th. The evacuation of
Turkey is thus completed.

MARSEILLES, AUG. 19.

The Indus has arrived with accounts from Con-
stantinople to the 11th. The Ottoman Ministry
is said to have been seriously divided on the sub-
ject of the reorganisation of the principalities.
Some sensation has been caused at the Porte in
consequence of Prince Gortschakoff, the Russian
Minister of Foreign Affairs, having communicated
the approaching arrival of M. de Boutenieff to the
Grand Vizir, instead of, as is customary, to the
Minister of Foreign Affairs.

The Russians claim 400,000 f. from France,
for damage done to the residence of the Embassy
during its absence from Constantinople.

It was said that Admiral Stewart was to return
to Constantinople, but that the English fleet will
cruise in the Black Sea until the end of September,
when it will proceed to Malta.

The Lyonnais steamer, Captain Magnan, be-
longing to a French company which has obtained
permission to navigate the Danube between the
Pruth and Sereth, has been lost in one of the
rapids of that river after she had passed in safety
through the pass called Iron Gates. All on board

were saved.
The last accounts which had been received from
Persia did not givo a very favourable sketch of
the situation of the country. The crop of grapes
had suffered severely, and a violent disease was
raging among the cattle. Engineers had been
sent to Khiva, in order to put it into a proper
s'Ate of defence, as it was thought that Russia was
turning a very longing eye to that quarter.

MADRID, AtrausT 18.
Tie Marquis fie Turgot is to return to Madrid
in one mouth.

A letter from Naples, of the 9th, asserts tLat
France and England have addreßed an ultima-
tum to the Government of the Twq Sicilies, and
that in the event of a refusal to comply with their
demands their representatives are stated to com-
prise a general amnesty and administrative and
judicial reform. The same letter adds that the
King has consented to some concessions, but they

have not appeared sufficient to the representa-
tive 3 of France and England, who have neverthe-
less referred the matter to their Courts.