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%
ante with the recent trolly of Paris I

One of the parties whose pahsport was refused
(although he had taken iieryice at Odessa in an
English house) had also to come on to Constanti •
nople in the Vigilaav, there to obtain a passport
for Odessa
a tr ip (:,r, I,ooofrom Lord Stratford, making altogether
miles !
-You will hear of worse cases than this. Every
opportunity seems to be taken by the Russians to
humiliate Englishmen.

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

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

" King Ferdinand formally declines to suffer
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 °tiers what you would not have
others do unto pu, he asks, "What would Lord
Palmerston say :f 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 aloption of more liberal measures
towards unhappy Ireland, and more humane ones
in regard to itt übjects in the East Indies ? What
would he his amwer to any power that should
thus dare to inte'meddle with the Queen's Govern-
ment ? He would reply as the Court of Naples
now does—that ae 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 in Europe. But even these
should be laid before him with all that delicacy and
reserve which is due to a free Sovereign ; and in
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 (Alois° the moment which may seem best to him-
self for their application. The Kinc, 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 acts accomplished under external
pressure? Under such circumstances any conces-
sion, however legitimate, would be alike devoid of
merit and efficacy. His Majesty King Ferdinand
is, therefore, entirely in 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 ? 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
goterid of, &c., &c., or that this same committee
put 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 1 In presence of such facts, so near to us, '
it is more than a right, it is aduty, or his Majesty
the King of the Two Sicilies 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. The 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, &c. 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 ? 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 FreLia 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.
" Franco 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 in the kingdom of the Two Siciiies would
be a strange and unheard-of anomaly. King Fer-
dinand cannot and will not believe that any such
thing can be 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 au attack upon its in-
dependence.
" The King intends to abide by all that has just
been said. If, which it is impossible to supposo,
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

EMPRESS OF RUSSIA.

STocK omr, Aug. B. 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 Swendska Tid-
rang. 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 ;Ls 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 he carried on, now tint 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 burghers will take such a step, and
therefore, if done at all, it must be undertaken either by
the aristocratical or the ecclesiastical estate.
Our Daybladet states that the new schooner Maria
Sophia, Captain Bsllin, from Stroinstadt 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 collision took place. After the accident
their Majesties quitted the steamer and repaired on
board another which accompanied them, the Emperor
giving orders t► fake the damaged steamer in tow and
carry her into a Russian port for repairs at his expense.
Fortunately no loss of life took place, and the vessel
was safely towed into the port of Helsing,rfors, where she
is undergoing the necessary repairs. From the above it
would appear that some gross neglect is to be ascribed
to the officers of the Russian steamer.

News has arrived that the Russians have reoccupied
A napa.
It is stated that there is a probability of the entire
fleet of the General Screw Steam Shipping Company
being purchased at once by the Russian Government.
A lady writes from Newport, an American watering-
place :—" We have to dress 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 fur the
beach, then for the bath, then 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 ouch performances.''