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London, England, 1856-09-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDA EVE NN S'EPTEMITER -t5..N

tuities, besides important collateral advantages.
The English officers of the Turkish battalion, who
were at least on Turkish soil, eager for active
employment, and burning to show what they had
accomplished in training and disciplining the
rude levies, have been summarily discharged with
less than a quarter of the amount, two-
and a half months' pay, being all that they re-
spectively obtained as tokens of British gratitude.
It is, indeed, the proportion usually adopted be-
tween Germans and Englishmen. Witness the
amount of bounties paid on enlistment, and the
still greater disparity exhibited at the time of
discharge. The German or Italian Legionary was
handed a full year's pay. The Tipperary Militia.
man a few shillings out of the bounty promised,
but never paid. The German obtained a free.
grant of land, a free passage for himself an d
family, however numerous, ample rations, supplies
and stock, wherewith to found a flourishing colony,
clothing, arms (including a valuable Millie
rifle), and ammunition. The Tipperary boy
was turned out half naked, the wretched,
worn-out uniform being stripped from his back,
and the few shillings that stood between him and.
starvation, until he could . obtain other employ-
ment, being required to procure the miserable
slops which considerations of common decency
rendered indispensable.
Something should be done to check this in,-
tolerable system. If Englishmen would only be
true to themselves it would speedily be arrested.
We have grumbled long enough, but fruitlessly.
A time-honoured fable, however, indicates the
correct course. As we find no efficacy in fair
words or tufts of grass, may it not be time to try
" what virtue there is in stones." England must
ere long be for the English, and not for the Ger-
mans ! Let us obtain that desideratum by fair
means if we can ; but let us obtain it.

Whether " born to good luck," in the unr e-
-1
stricted meaning of the phrase, or not, ALF.x.i
DEa 11. has so far reason to account himself luck y.
A year ago how gloomy, to all appearance, wore
his prospects. What a weight of care and anxiety
rested on his shoulders. What danger of financial
collapse and disintegration impended over his
empire. Vainly had he drained the interior of
his choicest troops, and poured them with lavish
hand into the Crimea. The allied forces--rein-
forced and plentifully supplied at last with the
muniments of war—proved themselves irresistible.
The Malakhoff was taken by storm—the Russirm
forces were in full march to the north side of
Sebastopol—the Allies had but to push forward
and the remainder of the devoted stronghold, the
Crimea itself, possibly the Russian forces also,
would have fallen into their hands. Fear and
trembling were to be found on every hand be-
hind the boasted Russian bulwarks on the shores
of the Baltic and the Neva. The crackling of tie
setting ice suggested thoughts of the crumbling
up of the power of Holy Russia in the coming
spring. The hopes of the most sanguine began to

fail them, and in all his vast dominions there was
probably no man more oppressed with care and
despondency, and less to be envied than the
EMPEROR. The dream of his ancestors, which had
been sa far wonderfully realised seemed about to
be divested of its materiality, and the labours of
between one and two cent-tries to be cast utterly
away and remembered as of no account. The
mighty combination of England, France, Sardinia,
and Turkey was rapidly developing the strength
of its vast proportions—and Austria, with the
whole horde of time-servers, and all who hated
Russian sway, waited but a favourable moment
to contribute their quota to Russian humiliation !
Now how different is his position. Well as his
troops and diplomatists fought for him, his would

have been a poor case if none had fought better,

While the strength of Russia seemed to verge on
exhaustion in her own territory, a power greater
than the armies and Teets of the Allies took com-
passion on her, and arrayed itself on her side.
Believe us it was not the DIVINE. The unex-
pected succour came from a far different quarter.
The power that bade a victorious army advance
no further, and put a veto one the emprise of
expectant fleets, was the directing power of France
and England. NAPOLEON and Lord PAL-
MERSTON ('s master) were the deliverers of Russia
from her imminent peril. The task was theirs to
nullify the toils and privations of brave armies,
render innocuous the thunderbolts of mighty
arsenals, and stultify France, and still more Eng-
land, before the world. In an hour of peril such
as Russia had not passed through even in the
times of PETER the Great, the Emperor ALEXAN-
DER was rescued from danger, and plaeed en a
pinnacle, from which he may hereafter overawe
the world, by his enemies themselves. If this is
not luck, where shall we find it ?

And now fresh from the mast imposing cere-
monial probably ever witnessed is modern times
(for the excelling splendour of which, by the way,
our neighbours the French, and the subjects of
FRANCIS JOSEPH have no reason to be grateful as
they will find when their sovereigns choose to be
crowned), what a position is that of the Emperor
ALEXANDER ! The jubilant peals which hailed
his coronation, innumerable and lorg sustained as
they were, would not have been thrown away to
celebrate the madness of the Allies and the
services they have rendered Russia. The newly
anointed Emperor stands half a century in
advance of the point from which, but for the
war, he had set out on his father's decease. The
Allies have dowered him in his youth with
the wisdom lie probably would not have
attained before old age, or, if sooner,
only at the heaviest cost. Seated en the throne
of his ancestors, and treasuring at his heart the
ambitious longings and the traditionary policy of
his house, his eyes are opened to the defects of
his military and financial system, and he is
enabled, like the knight whose skill and armour
have been tested in the tournament, to prepare
abundantly for every exigency of the fight. The
waste of human materiel on the steppes of Russia,
and of treasure in useless equipment, and th•
speedy exhaustion of his fine aces, are lessons which
a Russian Emperor could not be expected to over-
look. These drawbacks will not have to be
allowed for in a future war. Alrcaiy the EM-
PEROR plans out the intersection of the Russias
with railways, and recognises in commerce
a mine of wealth which it were folly to
overlook. "Peace for War," and not " War
for Peace," will henceforth be his motto,
and the barbaric hordes in his dominions
will be content to bide his time. With no opro•
sitiou or concealed animosity to dread from the
great majority of his subjects, with uninterrupted
space to complete whatever may be necessary for
the achievement of his aims, and with the car-

taißty that his behests will be duly carried
out, what has he to do but wait for an
opportunity at once of conquest and re-

wnge ! Not the least noticeable portion

of the coronation ceremony was the homage
paid to the tombs of his ancestors, and he would
be unworthy of them, and a hypocrite to boot, if
he failed to carry out, to the best of his ability,
their schemes of aggrandisement, supposing he

entertained none himself, of revenge. And no..

thing stands in the way of preparation but thee.

•

Christiar, vir toes which never proved an obstacle
to the Thus aof ROMANOFF. What a change
within a sir zgle year ! How much the EMPEROF:.
is indebted. to France and England !

Russia at this Court. General r Jneke ad orff goes as
Minister to Stuttgardt.

ITALY.

TURIN, Sept. 1.---47hd Prance of Prince iqura,
et Aix-les-.Bains has caused considerable uneasi
ness to Neapolitan diplomatists in this part of the
world, though no one but then of exceedingly nor
roes temperaments, or those troubled with very
Timid consciences, were likely to be affected by
such a very simple and natural proceeding. How
ver, the great cause of alarm for these gentlemen
ias been removed, as the Prince has rewrued to
Paris, and his relations, who went to see him, to
heir respective homes, so that it may be hoped
King Ferdinand's representatives will soon be re-
stored to tranquillity of mind on that score.
It is true that the Prince was accompanied from
Paris by Sig. Salicetti, who has long been tutor to
his sons, and he might have met at Aix one or two
9ther persons to whom rumour has ascribed the
' place of Ministers in petto, to be confirmed when
he shall be King of Naples. And it is a fact also
that this combination gave rise to much excitement
among the Neapolitan refugees here, which is nor
very astonishing, seeing how apt all men in exile
tre to catch at straws, and how habitually excit-
able Neapolitans are at all times. As was natural,
therefore, reports of various kinds obtained circula-
ion as to the intentions of the future King, and
pis probable policy was discussed in cafes and beer-
shops in Turin with as much earnestness as if lie
bad been already seated on the throne of his fa-
rher. But the fermentation went no further, and,
hough it was said that many of his future subjects'
!lad gone from here to do him homage, I have not
been able to discover a single well-authenticated
ease of any having done so except the members of
the Murat family, and therefore I much doubt the
on dit that "great numbers of Neapolitans have
gone to Aix to meet Murat."
As to the proclamations attributed to Prince
Murat, it is evident that a very different language
has been held by himself and by his principal ad-
visers, though whether this difference was the effect
of a secret understanding or of real dissent it is im-
possible to say ; but it is a fact that, while his High-
ness has denied ever having issued any proclama-
tion to the Neapolitans, and has authorised his re-
'ations in Italy to contradict the reports of his having
done so, some of his friends have been promising
uivat, liuerallyJß nis name, and have shown..frntoi.
of a constitution which, they say, their chief would
establish in the Neapolitan kingdom. These flat-
tering promises, however, which go so far as to
hold out an expectation of institutions similar to
those existing in Piedmont, so far outstrip pro-
bability, that rersonable men of the Neapolitan
emigration whom I have heard speak of them doubt
ether their authenticityor their sincerity, for, they
say, either Murat would be restrained by his cousin,
the Emperor of the French. from declaring such
complete liberty, or he would only accord it with
the intention of destroying it by a coup d'etat on
the first opportunity offered by the impulsiveness
of the people.
Great hopes have been raised lately in the Mura-
tists by the disaffection that Labs shown itself and
is said to be on the increase in the Neapolitan army,
but Signor La Farina, in a pamphlet published
to day, called Murat and the Unity of Italy, very
well remarka, " Where are the Muratist generals
who could promote and direct such an insurrection?"
If, he says, the Neapolitan army, weary of the in-
sults and injuries heaped upon it, should some day
rise with one mind and cry "enough" to a Govern-
ment which has so abused its power, it will not be
for the object of substitutingone master for another,
of taking a Murat instead of a Bourbon, but for the
sacred cause of the country, and under the national
flag of Italy, not the equivocal standard of a pre-
tender.

It is a curious fact, that the only contradiction
brought forward by the Austrian Government
against General Garibaldi's statement respecting
the deaths of Ciceruacchio and his sons, &c., should
be founded on the assertion of a London correspon-
dent who said he heard so and so from somebody
else. The Austrian Government may be assured
that if it cares for its reputation for honour and
uprightness with any portion of the Italian people,
from the highest to the lowest, it must adopt very
different means from these to clear its character of
the imputation cast upon it by so credible a wit-
ness as General Garibaldi.

A letter from Naples, of the 28th ult., in the
Correspondance Italienne, says :--
"A liberal proclamatian has been lately distributed
among the troops, by whom it appears to have been
well received. Another proclamation has reached from
Sicily, recommending union between the two countries.
It is certain that the Neapolitan troops would not fight
to•d&y with the same ardour as in 1848 and 1849 against
the Sicilians. The officers publicly declare that they
are disgusted to serve a Government which repays them
with ingratitude. General Filangeri seldom appears at
Court, where he is regarded as an enemy, because he is
known to be amicably disposed towards the French.
The new Pontifical Nuncio is shortly expected atNaples."

some letters, leaving the registered olid, -.F4e sc-
lecteci, as the &lief part of his booty, a heavy bag
otily tieViepaperg, probably considering
it the most valuable portion of tho despatch. Tl:e
remainder was found on the scene of the robbery
on an alarm being given.
We are somewhat setPitive here on the subject of
rumoured differences between Gi eat Britain
Ind the United Sates of America, on account of
)ur undefended po'ition. We do not relish the
prospect of a descent upon our shores, and the
pillage, by the Go-aheads, of our banks and store.
Among the late succe,sful findings in the gold
ialds veaF4 a solid limp of gold, weighing 64.4 oz.
3 dwts. (nearly 541 b.), the fortunate diggers being
three men named Join Williams, John Matthews,
and George Stapleton, at the Black Creek, near
Castlemaine. About 80 oz. of small gold were found
near the ponderous nugget. A lump of 120 oz,, im-
pregnated with about 5 oz. of quartz, was found
st Middleton Creek. The colonists of Tasmania
are very sanguine just now of that island being
rich in the auriferous deposit, and the search for
the hidden treasure is being actively proceeded
with.

A grand musical festival is shortly to take place
at Melbourne with a band of 200 performers, Allan.
Anna to be the principal cautatrice.
Railway extension is making very satisfactory
progress in this colony. Of the line from Paramat to
to Liverpool. three miles of the permanent Ivay are
laid and ready for ballasting, and it is expected that.
the opening will take place in Sept. next. On the
Newcastle and Maitland line 14 miles of the per-
manent way are laid, leaving only three miles to
be completed. The rolling stock is expected to
arrive from England in time to open this portion of
the line in October.

Ships arrived from England—May 31, the Lil,e-
ria, Morton, 121 days, from Liverpool ; June 2,
the Rodney, Blissett, 100 days, from London.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ETNA.
LIVERPOOL, MONDAY

This morning the screw steam-ship Etna, Capt.
Miller, arrived in the Mersey. She sailed from
New York on the same day (viz., the 27th nit.)
that the Canada left Boston, bringing one day's
later TIOWQ from the former pore. She has brought
one passenger, but no specie. The Etna passed the
Asia, from hence on the 6th, on the morning of the
7tll, off Ballycotton.
At the steamer's departure, money was plentiful
at New York on call at 7 per cent., more confi-
dence having been inspired by news from Nica-
ragua.

Stocks steady.
Exchange on London and Paris dull at previous
rates.

Small sales in the cotton market ; prices una
tered.

Wheat easier ; flour not in demand. Common
grades dull and lower.

There was no material alteration in the provision
market.

Freights remain dull.