The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 5, 1856.

which once crushed their liberties, may again be
made available for a similar purpose ?

Is it because Italy is left to its fate, and the
quasi independent States are still to be occupied
and controlled by French and Austrian bayonets ?

Is it because the brave Circassians are left to
the tender mercies of the AUTOCRAT ? because the
united armies of the Crimea and of Georgia can
now operate with irresistible force against the
Caucasian tribes, and overthrow the obstacle that
so long proved a bulwark against Muscovite ag-
gression in Asia

Is it because those who, unfortunately for them-
selves, sympathised with the Allies, have been
left with the mere paper promise of an amnesty,
but without any efficient or satisfactory guarantee
against the cruel punishments to which they may
be subjected by the myrmidons of an enraged
despot ? because the Western Powers have disre-
garded their solemn obligations to these oppressed
and long-suffering peoples ?
Is it because the maritime supremacy of
England has been wickedly and wantonly
relinquished ? because the rights for which
NELSON fought the battle of Copenhagen—
which England maintained inviolable against
the armed neutrality of Russia, of Sweden, and
of Denmark, in defence whereof our greatest
admiral declared that we would sacrifice our last
ship, our last seaman, and our last pound, have
been needlessly obliterated with a stroke of the
diplomatic pen ?
Is it because a princess of England has been
sacrificed as completely as IPHIGEMA at Aulis,
or as JENITHA'S daughter, as a makeweight, and
a further proof of our subserviency to Germanism ?
of swallowing the mysterious condiment known as
" German Paste ?" because England may at some
future time be annexed to Prussia, and placed
under the government of a Prussian Viceroy ?
Is it because Lord PALltEnsTox, the new
Knight of the Garter, the recipient of the
reward accorded to Lord ABERDEEN. when dis-
' missed from office by an overwhelming ma-
jority of the House of Commons, has shown
himself to be no longer the Minister of England,
but the Minister of Germany, of Russia, and of
France, because he has relinquished the indepen-
dance that prompted the manly sentiment that
ovueirtla ?

Is it because LEOPOLD has triumphed, because
he has elevated the COBURG influence, and may
obtain Austrian and Prussian aid, to the esta-
blishment of a kingdom of Thuringia, and the
tuediatising of German princes less fortunate in
their matrimonial alliances?

These are questions that must be answered in
Parliament this evening, before the fulsome Address
proposed can be sanctioned. There are many others
no less pertinent that will arise in every inde-
pendent mind. We have long rendered an inde-
pendent support to Lord PALMERSTON, because
we believed him to be a truly English Minister.
We deeply lament that he has abandoned his
vantage ground. When so scandalously turned
out in 1851, the feelings of the people were with
him. Such will not b 3 the case the next•time.
He may not have the opportunity of making an
appeal to the country, for we have seen as power-
ful an Administration summarily expelled from
office in 1834. Let him, then, be warned in time,
and, ere it be too late, determine not to put his
trust in Princes, but in those who will not betray
or abandon him so long as he merits their support.

earth-10,000 ! 20,000 ! 30,000 !—between
those horrible mud-roads to Balaklava and those
terrible trenches in front of Sebastopol ! He is
still the same humorous, delightful creature (the
'louse of Commons thinks)—" the merry old
gentleman," familiar to the Artful Dodgers of the
Legislature—he is still the same charming agree-
able wag—now that people are debating about the
Fall of Kars, about the agonies of famine endured
for many dreadful weeks by its heroic garrison,
about the infamous abandonment of General
WILLIAMS and his glorious companions-in-arms
by an irritable diplomatist and a wholly unscru-
pulous and unconscientions Government. What
a spectacle—this—for all the rational men, and
women, and children throughout Christendom !

LATEST NEWS.

MARSEILLES, MAY 5, 8 A.M.

The Meandre arrived yesterday, with advices
from Constantinople of the 24th, and from the
Crimea of the 22d ult.

She could not land her despatches on account
of the bad weather.

They were landed to-day, and leave at 9 a.m.
The steamer Count Cavour has arrived from
Porquerolles, with 760 soldiers.

PARIS, MONDAY, MAY 5, 8 A.M.

The Moniteur publishes a decree, ordering the
reduction of 52,000 in the effective strength of
the army.

ST. PETERSBURG, SUNDAY.

General Soukhozanet is gazetted Minister of
War, and Prince Gortschakoff Minister of Foreign
Affairs, with M. Tolstoi as his adjoint.
The Treaty of Peace is published.
A circular has been issued by the Minister of
the Interior, exhorting the serfs to obedience to
their owners under penalty of the Emperor's dis
pleasure and a severe punishment.

KONIGSBERG, MAY 3.

A reduction of the Russian fleet is effected.
"-.AA visions will be stationed in the Baltic.
The Postus fleet will retain the denomination of
the fleet of the Black Sea. (Tschernomorique.)

BERLIN, SUNDAY.

The King has conferred the Order of the Black
Eagle on his Majesty the Emperor of the French.

The King closed the session of the Diet yes-
terday. His Majesty said that owing to the mo-
derate pretensions of the belligerent powers a
treaty of peace, so ardently desired, had bees con-
cluded, in concert with Prussia. Peace had al-
ready diminished the dearness of food, and there
was a likelihood that an abundant harvest would
restore cheapness and plenty. He complimented
the Chambers on the activity they had shown in
the conduct of their legislative labours, and con-
cluded by advising them to cultivate concord
among themselves, so that the country, in friendly
rivalry with other nations, might be enabled
more and more to develope the resources of peace.

The Russians.have commenced the evacuation
of the fortresses of Remi and Ismail. The jour-
nals of St. Petersburg publish a circular addressed
to the heads of Governments and to the marshals
of the nobility, recommending them to seek out
new branches of industry, at the same time that
they maintain the serfs in their obedience to tilt
nobles.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.
The Moniteur of Sunday contains a letter ad-
dressed to the Prefect of Police by the Minister of
the Interior, in obedience to an order of the Em
peror. It is there said that since the powerful
impulse given to national industry by the Emperor,
a class has arisen of men who mingle in affairs and
undertakings for which concessions are necessary,
and pretend their groat influence in high places,
their secret intelligence, .the power of raising diffi-
culties or causing there to disappear. Of these pre
tended personal influences, it is said, a complete
trade is made, The Emperor desires the public to
understand that in matters which concern the na-
tion personal influence is proscribed, and he de-
sires that the police will use all diligence to bring
under the operation of the penal coda person
offending as described.

Prince Oscar, who has already lefi; Stockholm,
will, after visiting a portion of Germany, arrive in
Paris to be present at the baptism of the Prince
Imperial.
BouRSE,
May 3.—The following are the last
quotations

Cash. h.. a. End of Month.
per Cents 94 —f. —O.
3 per Cents 74 90 75 20
New Loan 75 --

Bank Shares 3,900 Roman
Credit Mobilier 1,765 Austrian

Belgian Five 5......., 98 Spanish Threes
Piedmontese(s)..... 93 some Debt 4Ol

EAILWAYS-7014 Cries.

Ir. c. ___ _ fr. o
Orleans ........
Northern .1,107 50 Stra.sbneg 1,060
Lyons «...1,460 New Ditto
Kediterransan — -- Grand Central
Lyons Geneva ...... 8:30 Teste ....,• —• —
Cette B2O Austrian Com. ...... 945 --

dividends.. These enterprises give rise to well-founded
expectations of the future prosperty of those tracts of
country..

" Inthe same way the law for introducing one stan-
dard weight for the whole country will be of most ad-
vantageous results, not only to internal traffic, but also
our commercial relations with the rest of the Zollverein.
"By means of the arrangement that has with your
consent been come with the Bank of Prussia, this grand
national monetary institution will be enabled to meet
the requirements of traffic and commerce, while at the
same time the credit of the State is protected against
the dangers which, in unusual conjunctures, might be the
result of a large unfunded debt.
" For the Hohenzollern territory, the prosperity of
which, as our most recent acquisition, is the favourite
object of my special care, you have discussed and passed
various special laws, which will contribute to the im-
provement of the state of things there, and serve at the
same time as a fre ill proof of the unremitting solicitude
of ray Government.

" You have subjected the Budget that was laid before
you to a careful and thorough investigation. In giving
your constitutional consent as you have to the various
estimates without alteration you have recognised that
the expenditure has been apportioned with conscientious
economy to the wants of the State. The same con-
sideration has led you to vote th• extraordinary ad-
dition to various taxes for this year also. In the in•
terest of the tax-payers my Government will willingly
relinquish the continuance of tlais additional tax, if
the preservation of the balance between income and ex-
penditure can be maintained in the budget without in-
crease to the National Debt.

"A. further portion of the 30,000,000 raised to meet
the extraordinary requirements of the army bas been
spent this year for the purpose for which it was raised.
When you next meet again the necessary accounts of
the expenditure shall be laid before you. And, at the
same time, your consent will be asked for the definitive
application of the balance that may remain available '
after the army has been restored to the peace footing.
"Gentlemen,—You will now return to your homes,
and on the approaching celebration of the peace you will
with my whole 'people offer up to the King of Peace
thanks and praise, that Ha has put an end to a baneful
war, and has in mercy preserved our country from its
miseries. Do you all of you, each in his own peculiar
circle, strive that with peace and unity a conciliatory
and a brotherly spirit may obtain more and more, so
that our fatherland may in rich and ample measure en-
joy the blessings of peace, and in enlightened competi-
tion with nations with whom we are connected by the
ties of affinity and amity impart to it a life•giving deve-
lopment. Let this, illustrious, noble, and dear Sirs,
let this be our prayer, let these be our resolutions on the
festival of peace!

" For your faithful and unremitting labours receive, in
conclu-ion, my thanks and my grateful acknowledg-
ment."

ITALY.

TURIN, May 3.—The Official Gazette of Parma
denies the fact of any augmentation of Austrian
troops in th,, Duchy of Parma.
The Duohess Regent has gone, leaving the exer-
cise of civit authority in the hands of the Austrian
military commander.

The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa says that the
differences between Naples and the Western
Powers are in course of arrangement, and that an
amnesty on a large scale is expected shortly.

SPAIN.
MADRID, MAY 2.—The Gazette publishes the
statutes of the Catalonian Credit Mobilier.

The Duke of Victory, after having inaugurated
the works of the railway from Valladolid to Bur-
gos, has left the latter city for Logrono and Sara-
gossa.

The Viennos Gazette publishes the treaty of peace
in its number of the 30th April. The decree which
renders the treaty obligatory for the Austrian em-
pire is drawn up in Latin. The treaty itself is
published in French and in German.

Notes will be exchanged between the Belgian
and French Governments on the subject of the
press in Belgium, and no doubt with reference to
the observations of M. Walewski during the con-
ferences on the same subject. Indeed a visit from
King Leopold to Paris is not considered unlikely.

It appears that the Woronzoff Palace of St.
Petersburg has been engaged for three years for
the new Fench Ambassador. Count Orloff was
so good as to act on the occasion, and secured it
for his friend and admirer, M. De Morny. The
rent of the palace is for the first year 50,000 f., and
for the last two 40,000 f: