The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-28 00:00:00

tion of honour and morality equally ; the first says
it is the most disgraceful of disgraceful things—
the second says it is the sin of sins—the Devil's
own. And even expediency steps up and says—
it is the folly of follies ; for you will never be
trusted again. Is it not wonderful, then, that what
every gentleman, every good man, and every wise
man, instinctively recoil from, should be the beset-
ting sin of tyrants ? Happily, their punishment has
often served to strengthen respect for the value, as
well as the dignity of veracity. Our own CHARLES
I. was a martyr to perfidy and lying. He would
not have lost his head, if his opponents had not
previously lost all faith in his word. All the un-
easiness Europe has lately felt has arisen from the
utter impossibility of putting any faith in Imperial
assurances. Hungary has the same ground for
distrust of the family whose whole history has been
one of perfidy. And all the German States are now
living under modes of Government, which are
existing witnesses of princely faithlessness to en-
gagements.
But of all the dynasties distinguished in this way
is the one which now totters at the approach of
GARIBALDI. A son has just succeeded to the in-
heritance of his father. The father was equally
notorious for lies and perjury, and for treachery and
cruelty. He had granted a constitution in 1848,
and sworn to it most solemnly ; yet, no sooner had
RADETSKY turned the tide than he foreswore him-
' self and imprisoned the men he had called to his
counsel, among them the noble POERIO, and sus-
pended the constitution, whose Chambers have never
I' assembled since. He recalled his troops, professedly
; sent to fight against the Austrians, and commenced
that course of misrule which has filled all Europe
. with disgust, and of which the former bombard-
ment of Messina, with the crucifixions on the dun-
' geon walls by the police--the prisons full of the
best citizens—the denial of all regular justice, the
treatment of our own countrymen, WATT and
PARK—and the conduct, altogether, which com-
pelled England and France to remonstrate, and
then to withdraw their representatives—are a few
specimens. _

FRANCIS 11. succeeds FERDINAND—he has not
yet had the opportunity of breaking his own—his
personal oath ; but he does what is equivalent to
it. He not only treads in his father's footsteps, but
he continues the violation of the constitution—he
stands by his father's outrageous perjury. He mr as
bound to have called together the Chambers, and
to have taken the oath to the constitution ; he did
nothing of the kind. In every course of illegality,
of oppression, of cruelty, he has, when it was pos-
sible, surpassed his father. The reign of spies,
policemen, torturers, and illegal arrests was con-
firmed and increased in vigour ; and, as if to give an
earnest that in nothing evil would he fail to imi-
tate an evil parent, he followed his example in
burying alive hundreds of his subjects in the
burning ruins of a second bombardment of
Palermo.

It is to this precious illustration of the doe
trine of transmigration of wicked souls into bodies
of yet viler creatures than those they occupied
before, that the Emperor of FRANCE sppears to
have sent friendly counsel; with what results the
last telegrams tell us. FRANCIS 11., urged thereto
by the advice of his great cousin the Emperor of
the FRENCH, has, now that Sicily is gone, and that
all Naples quakes beneath his feet, offered a con-
stitution, an amnesty, the adoption of Italian prin-
ciples, and alliance offensive and defensive with
' the King of SARDINIA. "In itself such offers
would but provoke the taunts and laugh-
ter of the Sicilians, the Neapolitans, and
indeed, of all Europe. Not one of his subjects
would dream of trusting him for an hour.
What guarantee could they possibly have for
their personal or political liberties, if they left
him at the head of the Government and Adminis-
tration. Like his father, he might throw into
a dungeon to-morrow the men of whom he asked
advice to-day, and because they gave him the
advice which though it saved his life, ho hated
and resented as soon as his life was secure. Se-
curity for fidelity no tyrant in terror can give.
Besides the Neapolitans have a Constitution and
a code of laws, which needs but to
be restored and carried out in its integrity, apd
it would then leave nothing to to be desired.
So at least we hare been told.again and again. But
evc-n if these were restored in their integrity, who
is to assure the Neapolitans that the same man,
who only restored them in dread of GARIBALDI,
would not again suppress them, unless GARIBALDI
himself were the commander-in-chief of his army
But what is most to be complainedof is, that the
EMPEROR should intermeddle at all, unless in con-
junction with England, in a case in which we have
been so much concerned in common ; also, that
after all that passed, which he as well as we have
been compelled to censure, he should intervene
in any such way as may afford him a pre-
text for furnishing aid to the hardened young
Bourbon, if he adopt his advice. We trust
our Foreign Secretary will in pretty firm style
advise the EMPEROR to avoid committing himself.
If LOUIS NAPOLEON interfere to preserve to a tyrant
the rule over his people, it will be for England to
insist, as Lord PALMERSTON would advise, that the
people shall have full opportunity, if they wish, to
put an end to Revolutions, by getting rid of the real
authors of them. " Stable equilibrium," of a peo-
ple eager, for their acknowledged rights under the
rule of a Bourbon, is a proved impossibility.

Among all narratives of adventure, the narrative
of a shipwreck is unquestionably one of the most
enthralling. And, although happily not one single
life was lost upon the occasion co graphically com-
municated yesterday in our columns by the special
correspondent of our chief morning contemporary,
we cannot remember reading, for a long while past,
any more breathless record of perils passed through
with profound emotion, by 'stapes literally hair-
brc adthed The vessel wrecked was the two-year-
old iron steam-ship, of 1,080 tons burthen, the
Malabar. The scene of her destruction was
the dangerous roadstead, known to oriental
voyagers by the cruel misnomer of Galle
Harbour. A harbour which is at the best of times
no harbour at all ! But which is, at the worst of
times, girded seawards by clustering rocks and
breakers, sunken coral reefs and gigantic boulders
surrounding the so-called harbour, as with a throng
of the multiplied horrors of Scylla and Charybdis!
Here, in this agreeable anchorage lay the Malabar
on the morning of the 22d of May, preparing to
weigh anchor and " off " to her Chinese destination
with the British and French ambassadors. The
Simla had started but a few hours previously for
Calcutta, carrying thither Sir lIUGHRosE as Lord
CLYDE'S successor in the responsible post of Indian
Commander-in-Chief. The draught of the Malabar
at the time indicated is 15 feet G inches aft, and 13
feet 6 inches forward. Astern she has the cus-
tomary mooring anchor, with a 30-inch hawser,
carrying her head nearly south with a 30 cwt.
anchor at the bows. A little after half-past two
on the 22d ultimo, comes from the north-cast one
of the frightful squalls peculiar to those eastern
seas—an instantaneous hurricane that sweeps
across the swooping upon the
port side of the and,
iNlalabar, makes her heel