The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-30 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, MO

The Neapolitan pear is rapidly ripening. The
pickle in which the rod for the magnanimous
/loans has for some time been immersed has be-
come complete brine. The crisis cannot long be
deferred ; and we are rapidly approaching the
beginning of the end of the BOURBON dynasty iu
the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. The time-
honoured adage, " quern deus cult perdere prim
dementat," is likely to receive a new and powerful
illustration, and FERDINAND will serve to point
a moral and adorn a tale for future generations.
The state of the case requires no very compli-
cated argument to explain. BOMBA desires "to
do what he will with his own," or, in other
words, to exercise the most fearful and heartless
cruelty towards his unfortunate subjects. He
is perfectly well aware that he could not persevere
in his reckless course for a single week but for the
anticipation of foreign intervention. He drives
the people of all classes to madness, but the
Austrian bayonets "looming in the future" have
hitherto restrained the sufferers. We trusted
that the powerful remonstrances not only of
France and England, but even of Austria, would
have proved effectual, and were naturally reluc-
tant to draw the sword until every other means
of an amicable arrangement had been exhausted.
But the heart of Boms.i was hardened. Ho treated
the judicious counsel which he received with de-
rision, and replied with would be gibes and re-
proaches to Powers that could crush him without
the slightest trouble or difficulty.

He must have had some secret assurance; of
sympathy and support, or he would not have ven-
tured on so daring a course ! And recent events
prove that such has been the case. The CZAR
has apparently been more grateful for the undis-
guised solicitude of BOMBA in his favour than
Princes generally are. He is, at the risk of in-
volving his empire in another war, even more
onerous than that in which it has already been
engaged, making a movement in favour of the
Model Despot of Naples. Prince GORTSCHAKOFF,
the new Russian Chancellor, has published a cir-
cular, as bumptious—to use a vulgar but expressive
phrase—as any that emanated from his prede-
cessor before the events of the late war had
taught Russia a better estimate of its own real
strength and its inability to cope with the mari-
time Powers. He now professes his adhesion to
the principle of " non-intervention" in the affairs
of other nations, in the moat stringent interpre-
tation of the term, and cites the cases of Greece
and Naples as installco.3, in the former whereof
an interference is actually existing, and the latter
in which it is threatened. He, therefore, thinks
that nothing can now justify "the continued pre-
sence of foreign troops on the soil of Greece !"
We shall, however, for the present restrict
ourselves to the Neapolitan question, without
further entering into the reasons which rendered
the course adopted towards Greece not merely

justifiable, but absolutely imperative on the West-
ern Powers. Prince GORTSCHAKOFF declares that
" the King of NAPLES is the object of a pressure,
not because his Majesty has transgressed any en-
gagement imposed on him by treaty towards
foreign Courts, but because, in the exercise of his
incontestable rights of sovereignty, he governs
his subjects according to his fancy !" Here
is the despotic theory clearly and unequivo-
cally developed. A SJvereign is to govern his
subjects—not for their good, for their wel-
fare, prosperity, and happiness—but "according
to his own fancy." (! !!) Should he choose, in
the exercise of his plenary authorii.y, to imprison
them in loathsome dungeons without the shadow
of a cause, or more mercifully to consign them at
once to the hands of the executioner, sparing
them the lingering deaths with which the Neapo-
litan gaolers are so well acquainted, or to con-
fiscate their properties, it is perfectly venial.
Nothing but acting " according to his fancy !"
And of this no foreign Power has a right
to complain. This is the Russian doctrine.
This is what the AUTOCRAT is resolved to support,
not merely by his persuasive arguments, but by
the presence of a Russian fleet in the Bay of
Naples.
Be it so. Neither France nor England have
attacked Naples. They have merely resolved on
holding no further diplomatic intercourse with a
Power that has treated every friendly remon-
strance with contumely and flippant insolence.
They have therefore determined to withdraw
their representatives, and send a naval force to
protect French and British subjects from wrong,
and also from any foreign interference in the inter-
nal affairs of the kingdom. The matter must rest
between BOMBA. and his people. If we do not in-
terfere' against him we shall not allow others, no
matter who, to interfere against them. That
is the strict principle of non-interference,
and that we shall enforce. But the AUTOCRAT
will send a fleet to enforce his views. He is per-
fectly welcome to (13 so. We should far rather
see them there than skulking behind the fortifica-
tions of Cronstadt, or sunk in the waters before
Sebastopol. Should they attack us, our ships
will be able to protect themselves, and once in the
Mediterranean, they can be rendered a good
account of. We desire nothing better than that
the whole of the Baltic Fleet should pass the
Straits of Gibraltar, and if they choose to violate
the principle laid down in Prince GORTSCHAKOFF'S
Circular, it will not be the less acceptable to us.
Should BOMBA. prcduce that result, he may be
looked on as the benefactor of all the oppressed
an" "uffcring nationalities throughout Europe.

Sugarplums for BOMBA. nuts for OT/10
these tidings that England and France are re-
solved to put an end, per fas aut nefas, for once
and for all, vi et annis, by hook or by crook,
bon gr 4 mal gri, to the present untoward state of
things in the kingdoms of Greece and the Two
Sicilies !

Pity we can't hope for the same carnival-
shower of nuts and sugarplums with which to
pelt, from Paris and London, th© heads of
CLICQUOT and O'DoNNELL ! Let us console our-
selves, however, with the thought—All in good
time ! Here, at least, in regard to Athens and
Naples, we have the promise of a simultaneous
" move" on the part of the two Great Allies, the
arbiters of the destinies of Europe, the nations
universally recognised as being in the van of
civilisation.

It is still to us a matter of surprise and be-
wilderment that the recent events in Spain, those
infamous and events which have
once more driven ESPARTERO into retirement, anct
have soiled the sceptre of ISABELLA with the
bloody finger-marks of a lawless and pitiless Ad-
venturer like O'DOISNELL, should have been not
merely countenanced, but actually commended
and rewarded, by the Emperor NAPOLBON 111.
rewarded not only by Imperial eulogiums in the
lioniteur, but actually by the presentation to the
Victorious Conspirator of the glorious insignia of
the Legion of Honour ! This, we say, is still to
us a source at once of marvel and astonishment.
England and France, however—disassociated in
this policy as regards Spain—are happily yet
bound intimately together by the coincidence of
their sympaenies in relation both to the Greek
and Neapolitan Governments. The active and
energetic alliance of the two countries, therefore,
is not destined to die out with the flames of the
Crimean Conflict. That active and energetic
alliance which was consecrated by the blood
shed successively upon the banks of the
Alma, among the ruins of Inkerman, in the valley
of Balaklava, on the bridge of Traktir, along the
heights of the Tchernaya, and lavishly night by
night, side by side, during so many disastrous but
heroic months, in front of the terrible earthworks
thrown up in ,defence of the beleaguered city of
Sebastopol. An alliance hallowed by so many
common glories won together, so many common
dangers shared together, so many common cala-
mities endured together, could not, indeed, dwindle
down so very craickly into a mere cool, common-
place, every-day, international friendship. Eng-
land and France, let us still cherish the belief,
are Allies henceforth not temporarily, but perma-
nently. Their interests are identical. Estrange-
ment again between them would have about it
something of the horror, something of the infamy
of the suicidal. War between them, once more,
would partake of the atrocity of one literally of
an internecine character. For all Christendom
is now their witness that they are rivals
only in the arts of peace, and brothers
by ties not less close than those of absolute con-
sanguinity—
" Brothers in arms, and rivals in renown."
Insomuch that it matters little what may here-
after be the divergence of their opinions upon this
or upon that policy—their general views being
necessarily One, as we have already said that their
common interests are Identical. As if in demon-
stration of this, we aro noting almost simulta-
neously with the diversity of opinions expressed
in France and England in regard to the Spanish
coup d'etat, the sympathetic accord of the two
Governments in reference to their united policy
as to the treatment of the malad.ministering
Powers of Greece and the Two Sicilies. It is
especially encouraging to mark the coincidence
of the Cabinets of St. James's and the Tuileries
in regard to the nitintatu-m, addressed by both
simultaneously to that wretched BOMBA, who is
flr worse than the mere Marplot of Italian
Regeneration—encouraging, we moan, to the
hopes of tho Liberals throughout Europa,now
that the Envoys of VicToltut. and NAPOLEON are
flaunting so straMly, and, in one sense, so in-
consistentlyal nong the courtiers and
at Moscow,
flatterers of the Russian Autocrat.

Mr. BAZALCOI:TTE'S four plaits for the purifica-
tion of the Thames and the drainage of the me-
tropolis are to he formally taken into considera-
tion to-morrow. afternoon. Firstly- the scheme
having an out fall. at Barking Creek and Plunastead
Marshes, at an estimated expenditure of
2,955,0761. secondly--the plan having an out-
fall at Halfway Reach, at an outlay of 3,300,206/,

Thirdly—the plan having an outfall at Long
.Rettlt; ''at an outlay of 3,873,1361. Fourthly,
and lastly—the plan for carrying off bodily the
entire sewage matter of the metropolis, from the
north and from the south, from Surrey and from
Middlesex, giving it a remote outfall as far away
from the City of London, as far removed down
the River Thames, as Mucking Fiats, about five
miles below Gravesend. A proposition, the oue
here last mentioned, involving disbnrsements
amounting in the aggregate to something very
little short indeed of 4,800,0001., or, to be ex-
plicit, to precisely 4,718,400/. sterling, according
to Mr. BAZALGETTE'S own calculation. Tomor-
row, as we have said, the whole comprehensive
group of suggestions, with a view to the purifi-
cation of the Thames and the drainage of the
Metropolis will at length be formally and deli-
berately taken into consideration. The Metro-
politan Board of Works, like another Hercules,
essaying yet once more to cleanse the vast Augean
stable of the capital, the stagnating clolcce of the
great twin-cities of London and Westminster.
Virtually the Board of Works is understood to
have already rejected the two former of these four
remarkable schemes of purification. Neither of
them being regarded as strictly in accordance
with the Act, by reason of the proximity
to the metropolis consequent upon retaining
outfalls at Barking Creek, or Halfway
Reach, or Plumstead Marshes. The difficulty
therefore resolves itself into an alternative between
the Long Reach scheme and the Sea Reach
scheme—the former at the risk of, at once by a
single blow, permanently destroying the four im-
portant and increasing towns of Greenhithe,
Grays, Northfleet, and Gravesend ! A conside-
ration which of itself, we cannot but think, leaves
the latter scheme, the Sea Reach scheme, the
scheme giving to the aggreated London sewage an
appropriate outfall at Mucking Flats altogether,
unrivalled by any other of the ingenious plans put
forward in his last report by Mr. BAZALGETTE.
Better plans, of course, than any of those sug-
gested by Mr. BAZALGETTE may yet be forth-
coming—but this particular plan of his, giving an
outlet to the sewage absut five miles below
Gravesend, is incomparably, and, beyond all
manner of doubt, the very best plan he has yet
submitted to the scrutiny of Government. A
decision at which we ourselves arrive none the
less promptly, and which we enunciate none the
less positively because it happens to exceed in cost
—the Barking Creek plan by 1,763,3241.—the
Halfway Reach plan by 1,478,1941.—and the
Long Reach plan by 845,0001., or, in round
numbers, very little short of 1,000,0001. ! An
excess of one million pounds sterling, we maigtain,
is absolutely as nothing—if, by that additional
expenditure, we can really insure the more effec-
tual drainage of London, and the more complete
purification of the river Thames. A thorough
purification, a thorough drainage is what is im-
peratively required. And to effect this—What in
the name of fortune is an odd million extra to a
capital containing 2,500,000 inhabitants ? Par-
ticularly when it is estimated (a very astounding
estimate, we admit, but a very reasonable one,
also, nevertheless) that in thirty years' time from
the present year of grace 1856 the population of
the metropolis will be actually doubled—London
comprising then within its limits, anno Domini
1886, not 2,500,000, but absolutely 5,000,000
inhabitants ! It is preposterous, therefore, to
suppose for an instant that we are to boggle about
an additional outlay of 845,0001., supposing by
that additional outlay we can in any way more
effectually drain away the sewage of our metro-
polis. A supplementary notion in the way of yet
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dorising of the feculent refuse of the capital, so
as to render the sewage available as manure, for
the direct and solid advancement of the interests
of our national agriculture, leaving merely the
waste sewage " water " to be emptied as refuse
into the Channel. Whatever the additional ex-
penditure consequent in the first instance upon
the carrying out of this supplementary suggestion
—it must, in reason and at all oosts, be adven-
tured upon ! It will be remunerative. It will
enhance, in a double sense, the productiveness of.
the soil. It will be an additional, and of itself
an all-sufficient, justification of the whole of these
intended improvements, however vast and com-
plicated in their general organisation.
Wherefore—let the Metropolitan Board of
Works in to-morrow's deliberation decide reso-
lutely and definitively upon that Plan beyond all
others which shall tend to the most complete
drainage of the metropolis, to the most thorough
purification of the Thames—by conveying the
sewage of London to a point the most remote
from the capital itself, and there, at that remot•
outfall (and not sooner) deodorising it for the
purposes of general cultivation.

Ti.e Lady Bateman gave birth this morning to a son
and heir, at Lord Bateman's residence, Lower Brook-
street. Her ladyship and infant are progressing favour-
ably.
The Duchess de Gramont, wife of his Excellency
the Duke de Gramma, Minister of France at the
Court of Sardinia, was delivered of a son, at Turin,
on the 24th instant. The mother and son are both
doing well.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Augustus Bruce and Sir Ger,rgo Couper, will
leave Abergeldie Caste, N. 8., on th_ Sth proximo, for
Edinburgh, en route to Frogroore Lodge, near Windsor.
The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh will entertain
a large party at Floors Castle, for the Kelso races.
Sir Benjamin Hall has left London for L!anover,
South Wales.

The Marquis of Granby and Lord George Manners
have arrived at Cheveley, near Newmarket, from Bel-
voir Castle, Leicestershire.
The Marchioness Dowager of Ely and the Ladies
Loftus are gone on a visiting tour in Yorkshire, which
they will probably extend to Scotland.
The Earl of Beverley and Lady Louisa Percy have
gone to Torquay, where it is the noble earl's intention
to reside during the winter.
Lard and Lady Brougham have, during the past week,
r_ceived a succession of visits at Brougham Hall, West-
moreland. The Rev. Dr. Tait (the newly-appointed
Bi;hop of London) has been among the guests of the
noble and learned lord.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford at d
Lord and Lady John Beresford arrived at Ford Castle,
Northumberland, last week, from Curraghinore. The
noble marquis and party propose a residence of about
three weeks at this ancient family seat.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon, on leaving Tay-
mouth Castle, went on a visit to the Count and Countess
Flabault, at their seat in Perthshire, whence they have
since proceeded to Rose Castle, Cumberland, to pass a
few days with the noble earl's brother, the Bishop of
The Earl Fortescue has left Great Malvern for L'n-
colus'aire. The CounteA has gone into Devonshire.
Vi,-count and Viscountess Ebringt,n, who have also
been staying at Great Malvern, have left for Castle Hill,
the family seat, near South Molton. The noble viscount
remains in much the same state.

The Euxine has taken out 26,5501. in specie for the
Pa .linsula.

S. Highflyer, which is upon the point of leaving
Portsmouth for the Eat Indies, takes out 80,000/. in
specie for the Cape of Good Hope.
The ship Richard and William has arrived from Syd-
ney, but is not known to have any gold on freight. Tte
dates are old.

THE HEAVENS.--Jupiter, that enormous planet, is at
present a conspicuous object in the southern sky, and a
very interesting sight through a good telescope.

The Genoa Corriere Mercantile of the 26th announces
that the Sardinian Parliament is to meet on the 2d of
January.