The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-21 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, Nov. 21.—Wind this day at noon, N.W.;
light ails and foggy.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 20.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—H.M.S.
Actaeon, for India.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 20.—Wind N.—Arrived—Tilla and
Isis, from Sunderland, for Gibraltar, bore up, crew dis-
puting with master.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 20.—Wind N.N.W., fresh.—Arrived
—Gefion, from Rangoon ; Hermoth, Rio Janeiro.
MILFORD, Nov. 20.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Elizabeth
Martin, from Liverpool, leaky, having anchored on a
(supposed) sunken wreck, Tuskar Rock bearing about
N.B. by E.

-
SWANSEA., Nov. 20.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Florence
Nightingale, from Caldera. _

CARDIFF, N.W.—Sailed—Souvenir,
from Havana.
for
NEWPORT, Nov. 20. - Wind N.W.—Sailed—
Pernambuco.

(PER ELEOTRIO TELEGRAPV.)
LIVERPOOL, Friday morning:

Wind N.W.
Hugh Block
Arrived—Syra, from Richmond, Virginia;
,
Magellan; Ziska, Bahia; Adriatic, Miramichi; Prudence,
Moultree, Lepraux, N. 8.; Henry Cook, Quebec; Livonia
Leghorn ; Arnizdde, Oporto ; East Lothian, Rangoon ;
Catania.

QIINENSTOWN, Nov. 19.

Wind N.W.
Arrived—New York Packet, from Alexandria; Fanny
Mitcheson, Moulmein.
Sailed—Eliza, Jane, and Africa, for Santander.
DUBLIN, Nov. 19.

Wind, N.W.
Arrived—Murray, from Rotterdam.
KINGSTOWN, Nov. 20.

Wind, N. W.
Aniced—Ag-aes Anderson, from St. John's.

(BY strBSLIBINE AND BRITISH TE!,EGHAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday, 10.30 a.m.
Wind W. ; tide one hours' ebb ; hazy.
arrived, Nov. —William Pitt, Maria, Jubilee, and
Mermaid—all from Guernsey.

ANOTHER AMERICAN WONDER.—When the wood
paving
was suggested in the City, and some difficultyagainst its introduction presented itself amongst the an-
thorities, Sidney Smith suggested that the thing could
be done ationce if the Aldermen laid their heads together.
The notion of throwing a number of wooden heads into
a mixture of soap and water and jumbling them therein
appears to have surmounted the long-raised question of
a perfect washing machine. This is an actual fact, and
although the circumstance, when first published in Eng-
land, was received as an " American," it is both Ameri-
can and true. This new wonder of mechanical genius
is attractinc, crowds of persons in and iiround Moore's
shop, 133, gli-holborn, and as far as we could get a
glimpse of the process it seemed perfect, i.na,!_m_u_cll....a!
we saw foul linen enter the apparatus and. fair 'm6% "
a child
if
itatory
by some act of legerdemain
again, after a simple ag
effected. whichwas rapidly taken out

spirit of the Public Journals.

(Front the Morning Post,)

When the Treaty-of the 10th April, 1834, was
signed between England and France, the enthusi-
asm
of this nation was at a white heat. We en-
tered into the war with the iii ;hest hopes and from
the purest motives, and fer a period of two years
under the greatest discouragenaents and privations.
Our army, thousands of miles from home and
country, fought and conquered in a manner
worthy of the British name. At first, as is always
the case after a long peace, there were mistakes
and errors innumerable. But, as we got seasoned
in the 'hard work, our hands improved ; and at
the beginning of 1856 there never probably was an
army more compact and serviceable—there cer-
tainly never was a fleet better prepared to sweep
the seas than the fleet of Great Britain.
Had the war gone on the fame of a country
that produced a Marlborough and a Wellington, a
Blake, a Nelson, and a Collingwood must have been
greatly aggrandised, .and the power of Russia com-
mensurately humbled to the dust. The enemy,
when we began to feel the mightiness of our giant
strength, and were preparing to use it, evinced a.
disposition to concede and listen to reason, and
then this great Empire, disregarding every sug-
gestion of further national glory, hearkened only
to the voice of duty, and was prepared to listen
to conditions of peace. The army and the•fleet,
disregarded everything like professional feeling,
acquiesced in the arrangements of diplomatists,
and even the nation at large, including the very
humblest of the people, after some significant mur
muring, at length, though reluctantly, acquiesced
in consenting to a hurried peace. Sentiments of
generosity, after a time, succeeded in the popular
breast to the feelings of indignation that were
roused in 1854, and as the humblest tradesman and
labourer discussed the question, the conclusion was
frequently summed up thus :—" Well, we have
beaten the Roosians three times over, and now that
they have been properly flogged as they deserve,
the outlandish Offskis and Ouskis will surely coil-
cede proper and fitting terms of peace."
This was the apparently rational reasoning also
of men in a much higher grade. But neither
our peasantry, handicraftsmen, farmers, nor squires
—neither our merchants, bankers, nor manufac-
turers, knew the Russians or their policy
thoroughly. So long as the Muscovites are harassed
by difficulties, or surrounded by imminent and
deadly dangers, there are no concessions, however
humble, they will not promise to make to procure
an alleviation of their miseries or a change in their
fortunes. But once ranTic-th-e-tiressure from their
necks—once give them the use of their hands, their
feet, and their weapons, and they turn them all
three speedily against you.
Has not this been literally and truly the case
in the Peace of Paris, signed in the month of March,
1856? At the instance of the Russians we ac-
ceded to terms, and agreed to treat. We
granted conditions far' more favourable than we
needed to have granted, or than was justified by
the conduct and character of the enein,. The com-
pact, however, is at length signed, and hardly is
the ink dry before the perfidious and faithless
Power which imploringly sued for a cessation of
hostilities in January, endeavours to wriggle out
orthe conditions nominated in the bond of March,
and attempts to render the instrument mere
waste paper. Yet this is the false, faithless, per-
fidious Power, with the questions of the Isle of
Serpents and Bolgrad branded on its brazen front,
that dares to talk by its mercenery organ, Le
Nord, of the unanimous reprobation with which
the acts of Euglanel nave been received on the
Continent. Certain, newspapers on the Continent
for a valuable consideration paid in silver roubles
or the Dutc'u ducats current in St. Petersburg, have
no doubt attempted to sully the fair fame of Eng-
land ; but these newspapers are either under the
direction of Russian rerants or Russian editor 5, or
they receive the articles ready cut and dry from the
nearest Russian Embassy, and are counted out as
much in roubles or iu ducats for inserting them,
either as a portion of correspondence or as a lead-

itig article.
For fifty years or more Germany has been inun-
dated with Russian Councillors of State—some of
them Greeks, some of them Wallachs, some of them
CJarlanders, some of th em Fiu us, some of theta rene-
gade Germans, some of them Swiss, some of them
Poles, Frenchmen, and !Italians-all. engaged in
corrupting the German press, in writing articles—
a labour above greater skill than even these knaves
possess—in praise es' the honour, honesty, acid glory
of Russia, and in abase and vilification of England.
When these men cannot accomplish the insertion of
an article editorially, they manage to secure its in
sertion by way of correspondence, and thus it is that
those who do not know the carte dupays might
suppose that such diatribes were the spontaneous
effusion. of.the German mind. No ;it is not so.
Every one of these articles is preparel with a deadly
venomous political purpose—prepared for Russian
pay, printed for Russian pay, and published fur
Russian pay. It is a well-known fact, and has been
so for more than belle century, that Russian gold
has been profusely distributed among newspaper
offices at Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Breslau, Dres-
den, and Hamburg; indeed, we may say at every
Court, camp, -and town in Germany, Holland,
Denmark, and Sweden. In cases in which money
cannot be, tendered, or would not be received, there '
are snuff-boxes with the -Emperor's portrait in dia-
monds ; Russian orders of the second, third, and
fourth class.; presents of rare wines, books, or pic-
tures or statues ; or the appointment of sons,
cousins, or grandsons to cadetships in one of the
scores of Russian corns. It is by a system of the
vilest and most wile-spread corruption that Russia
succeeds in veiling and masking her own treacheries
and in raising a hireling cry against England.
liven in Brussels itself, within sight of our
shores, a Russian hireling organ has been estab-
lished—set up with the Emperor's money, and !con-
ducts-A by the, Emperor's mercenary tools ; and it
is the unceasing object of this priut—Le Nor-d
---to
create jealousy and between France and
England. The Emperor of Russia allows no free
press in his own country, but he avails himself of
the liberty of the press existing in Belgium to print
slanders against England, and to provoke
between this country and France. A policy more
diabolical it is impossible to conceive. But the sys-
tem deceives no well-inforined.person of any coun-
try ; for every human being of intelligence and
education is aware that the opinions and sentiments
• ventilated are not German. or Belgian -sentiments,
but Ruesia,n sentiments, prepared to order from St.
T'etersburg, and propagated with a vigour and
venotu proportioned to the pay. ! Belgians, Ger-
Mans, Dutch, Danes, and Swedes abhor, nay loatl)e,
everything savouring of Russia, and are well enough
a ware that it by Russian machinations and Machias
velism the English and French alliance is broken,
the leaden hand of Russia will lie heavier on Ger-
many and. the smaller kingdoms of tiffs Continent.
What, however, is the crime of England in the
()Pinion of the Russian scribe
of
LeNe rd ? Her
crime is this, and it is inexpiable with.n ialse and
fraudulent diplomacy.
eihas held ..A•ussia in o,r-
-tober to the cooditio-n; which
to sign in March, and sheflwelilltriiiollrelwaaxshtt?ggralaspd
till those conditions be fulfilled: both in letter
and. in spirit. Entrlatbidlits.
• •,tainly does feel that
these are not English, European questions—
questions which put iu peril the small States
of the Continent, and it is for that reason that
England will not hate one jot, one hairbreadth, of
the conditions of March, 185 G, They are
_not hard
conditions—they are not onerous;
ritohhtto
they are far better
and easier than Russia had any
expect, or
than she deserved ; but whether hard or eteasoy(pooond ,
er,-
MU or light, .they are " nominated in h
and Russia
must -fulfil the conditions or pay the
-
penalty. A Man, in the full sense and import of
the word, and not a mere diplomatic machine,
now
fills the office of Prime Minister in England and
though courteous, concilia•ory, and well-bred, he is
in earnest as to the faithful execution of a great
treaty, and, to use a homely and expressive
phrase,
"will stand no nonsense or diplomatic mystifica
tion. For thus insisting on the fulfilment of a solemn.
treaty, England is called audacious, covetous, jet.
lons, false. Viscount PalmerstonrstoPalmerstonis prepared for
these Tartar amenities a/a Husse. When Russia'
calls our country perfidious and selfish we must
feel he has done his duty. We might indeed well
suspect he had erred had he incurred the damagirfg
infliction of Russian praise.
We are told, however, that if there is an alliance
Which has the sympathies of the Fvhcli people, it is
an alliance with Russia, because France hears in
Russia an echo of its own honour and its own
loyalty 1. !
.11. ear thin, shades of •133 yard, Diiguestclin, and
Francis I. Hear this, shades of St. Louis and
1.-V. The chisalsy of gallant France coin-
psrest to the ,:ta.stardly butchery of Is it
trite, howeves,.that EuSsia and France naturally
concur together ? The Emperor Nanoleou 1., it
will be admitt.d, View a lit.: le of France and of
Frenchmen, and a very great deal of Alexander
and Russian politicians and statesmen, WhatAlid
he say of P'-'l-'3l-3.,--"Grattez: le Rus2.,, et vous
trouveru: le Tartar." What did he say of Alex-
ander
:—" C'est hernme t tit a fait' perfide— •
c'ess un born= esse.titiellement faux—enfin c'est
has Empire." What did Napoleon I.
un Grec du
-say!of the Russian hordes? 11,3 r,.. are his words :
'-The Cossack'', U'imuck'', an'l oth,,t• barbarians who
E.4•3.1:tr04 1,•t:, -France and other
have accompanied t';e'
parts of Eur.ir-'. having once a.;;red a taste for the
Tuxurills f.rt he i-;oatli, will carry , t., their deserts the
reth'enabranee tho,o 01,7 wh. inch
:Lr: • , •

Wilk.l

"_'' -

those delicious countries. What I say to you is con-
firmed by the history of all former ages, during which it
has been invariably observed that whenever these bar.
barians had once got a taste of the south of Europe, they
always returned to attempt new conquests and ravages,
and have finally succeeded in making themse ves masters
of the country. It is natural for man to desire t'i b tter
his condition ; and these canaille, when they contrast
heir own deserts with the fine pr evinces they have left,
will always have an itching after the latter, well know-
ing also that no nation will retaliate or attempt to take
those deserts from them."
The Emperer Napoleon 111. is a reader of his-
tory, and is more likely to listen to the voice of
the Great Napoleon than to the ravings of the hire-
ling organ of Russia printed at Brussels, but paid
for from St. Petersburg.