The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-22 00:00:00

conscience of the humblest as well as the highest in
the State.

We aro therefore able to rejoice, without misgiv-
ing, that your Majesty's army, is_ pronounced by
competent authorities to be one of the best in ex-
istence. 'We know that, only a few years ago, it
never acted but to succeed, and that all its opera-
tions were as much characterised by a perfect dis-
cipline as by courage. Your army possesses and
enjoys the advantage of a physical condition which
keeps disease at bay, which makes your muster-roll
on the field equivalent to that in your archives,
which renders the mind of the soldier cool, cheerful,
and alert, and his body almost unconscious of
fatigue. The high rate of his pay and allowances,
and the character of the population from which the
great majority are drawn, no doubt contribut to this
admirable spirit. But the temperance which he neces-
sarily practises, and the habits of personal cleanli-
ness which with him are a primary duty, and which
are facilitated by methods adopted by your race from
the days of Roman dominion, have a share in the
result which must not be ignored. Thus the Otto-
man army is no undisciplined crowd of men, mind-
less, ignoble, dissolute, intemperate, or diseased. It
contains all the elements which make the military
state honourable, consistent with a high sense of
duty, safe and useful to the State, and formidable
to the foe.

But this temperance characterises not your Ma-
jesty's army alone, but your subjects. Your
Majesty cannot appreciate the feelings with which
a patriotic Briton acknowledges this truth. We are
many of us labouring to elevate our fellow-citizens
from the degradation of an habitual intemperance

which annually consumes millions of our wealth,
propagates hereditary disease, fills our gaols, and
reduces many millions of our labourers to the con-
dition of squalid pauperism.
This cancer devouri our State, and will further
infect our offspring. All misfortunes may be faced
and redressed where mind and character have not
rotted under debasing vice ; but what shall con-
cutler difficulties, when mind itself is thus debased ?
We rejoice that this second Fall of Man has not yet
occurred among the many millions subject to your
sceptre.
There are various other subjects on which we
might venture to felicitate your Majesty, and ex-
press our good wishes. That of the municipal liber-
ty so widely spread and so deeply rooted in your
empire, deserves for itself alone the exposition of
volumes; so likewise the principles of finance and
taxation properly characterising the Turkish State.
Shortcomings and faults belong to all human insti-
tutions ; but some of the evils connected with these
matters in other parts of the world, and which have
too often become organised mischiefs destroying
society, your fundamental laws have rendered im-
possible. The self-allocation of fiscal burdens is in
itself a principle of indestructible vitality.
While we daily contemplate with dismay a:great
peeple in Central Europe undergoing the last ex-
tremities of political and religious persecution, their
very language warred against, and the essentials
of their ancestral faith subjected to daily outrage,
not through popular outbreaks of hostile sects, but
by the deliberately applied energies of a powerful
Government betraying its first trust, it is a con-
solation to regard the opposite spectacle presented
in your Majesty's Empire. Your sceptre represses
local phrenzies, and is, often amid singularly difficult
circumstances, the ultimate refuge of all. Each of
the various Christian communities is freo to
maintain its own organic life, to carry on its
own affairs, to administer its own pro-
perty, maintain or extend its own hierarchy,
diffuse its charities, and educate its people. When
such free action has been impeded, it has been by
the hand of conspiracy, sometimes even glaringly
guided from abroad ; never by the impulse, and
infinitely less by the plans and intentions, of your
Government. What unheard-of happiness would
it not be for Poland and Lithuania to know an
hour of breathing time under your Majesty's rule ;
nay, what would not the many unoppressed but
over-administered religious communities of various
European States give for similar rights of self-
management?
Syatematio I,,ifirepresentatious and laboured in-
trigue have been methods of ttimes used against
your Majesty's Empire. These frequently, and
arms but rarely, have succeeded. Provinces have
even been torn away by a combination of foreign
States. In one case a race had begun after many
misfortunes to flourish under the Ottoman rule.
Their trade, their ships, their numbers, their
general well-being had been increasing under your
Majesty's more immediate predecessors by strides
almost unparalleled. It was needful for the pur-
poses of some that this should cease. Foreign
conspiracy, and foreign conspiracy alone, changed
this picture into one of insurrection ; then fed and
sustained that insurrection ; then matured an
intervention ; and finally hurried on an armed
assault of the greatest navies in the world dur-
ing profound peace against your Majesty's forces.
The ruin of the people who had been stirred up
to revolt, and whose ruin then formed a pretext
for succour, was a matter of no account with the
projectors of the scheme. To prosper under the
Turkish flag was a crime. The prosperity was there-
fore to be used as a weapon against the Govern-
ment which permitted it, and the victims had to be
reduced to a condition in which they should be
taught to look to its enemy for support. They were
indeed ruined, and the combined exnenditure and
ceaseless exertions of Europe have failed to restore
prosperity to that portion of the race which had
been withdrawn from your dominion.
We refer to this tragedy in hopes of contributing
to avert another. The insolence of conspiracy has
not even for a moment been concealed in the case
of the Candian revolt. It is avowedly kept up by
extraneous agencies alone. The ostentation and
utter indecency of the daily and hourly breaches of
all law on the part of some of the conspirators,
forbid any hesitation in thus referring to them. We
know that it is the duty, and the easy duty, of Eng-
land to arrest these lawless proceedings on the part
of a State which she has created and nurtured, and
which is in her debt. But, at all events, we trust
that your Majesty knows the duty of chastising
public crime.
It will be argued that the Government which,
in pursuance of long meditated designs, has brought
about this present evil, would, in such a case as the
chastisement of her instrument, precipitate events
and bring down calamities still more serious. But
let your Majesty be assured that the Government
in question always strains her means of action to the
utmost, and that what it can do it will do without
incentive. Your Majesty wields a power in various
branches far more than equal to any emergency
which may be created by the aggressions of any
Power. For our own sake we desire that the
needed example bo given, for we too, in our
turn, begin to know something of how domestic
treason may be fomented from abroad, and even
elevated into a vital danger. There is no safety
but in vindication of law, and the State which vin-
dicates the law in its own case strengthens all
others in their hour of need.
In this as in all the many other fields where lust
of dominion and the spirit of cunning are openly or
secretly at work throughout the world against up-
right rule and honest possession, may courage be
taken by the aggrieved, and may God defend the
right I

We believe that not only the idea of adapting the
court of the India,-office to the purposes of a ball-room,
but the credit of almost all the arrangements,which excited
such universal admiration on Friday aro duo to Sir Erskine
Perry. lie had a most arduous task in converting a still
unfinished public office, at very short notice, to such a pur-
pose; and the success with which it was achieved is the
best evidence of the good taste and unsparing labour ap-
plied in achieving it.
ANOTHER INVENTION BY TILE EARL OF CAITII-
NEss.—Wo understand that a compass on a now and im-
portant principle has been made and is being patented by
the Earl of Caithness. The details of the invention are
I distinguished by groat simplicity, and aro such as will be
of the utmost importance to seafaring mon. The compass
was tested on board the new steamer Russia, on the Clyde,
the other day, and the result was in the highest degree to
show its great superiority to that now in use. Ono of its
'chief recommendations is of course its simplicity, but there
are other features, such as its not being affected by those
influences that produce ra'Aion on other compasses, the
ab6enee of the pendulum, &v.—Northern Ensign,

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HER MAJESTY, &c•

OSBORNE, July 21.

Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse returned to Osborne yesterday from
London.
Divine serviccb, was performed this morning by
the Rev. R. Duckworth before her Majesty, their
Royal Highnesses Princess Louis of llesse, Princess
Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess
Beatrice.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, July 20.
In the forenoon his Imp3rial Majesty the Sultan
received the following deputations :
From the Royal Asiatic Society, consisting of
Viscount Strangford, Sir Edward Colebrooke,
M.P., Sir Frederick Halliday, K.G.8., Major-
General Sir Henry Rawlinson, K.C.B. and M.P.,
Major-General Sir Andrew Scott Waugh, R.E.,
F.R.S., Mr. Grant Duff, Mr. Edwin Norris, Mr.
Redhouse, Mr. Arthur Russell, M.P., and Mr.
Edward Thomas.
A deputation from the Foreign Affairs Commit-
tees and the Friends of Turkey in England had the
honour of being presented to his Majesty the Sul-
tan at Buckingham Palace on Saturday, the 20th.
The deputation consisted of Mr. Monteith, Mr.
Rolland, Mr. Crawsbay, Mr. Charles Wells, Mr.
Mill, and Mr. Francis Francis, and representatives
from the Foreign Affairs Committees of 18 towns
—Sheffield, Newcastle, Birmingham, Manchester,
Preston, lCeighley, &c. Addresses were presented
by Mr. Monteith, of Carstairs, Lanarkshire, who
spoke a few words explanatory of their nature,
which were afterwards given in the Turkish lan-
guage by Mr. Charles Wells, who also handed his
Majesty an address in. Turkish he had written. His
Majesty replied, expressing the pleasure and obli-
gation he felt in receiving the deputation, and
knowing their sentiments. This is the only case
(with the exception of the Asiatic Society) in which
the Sultan has been addressed by a British associa-
tion in his own language, and at which he seemed
much pleased. (The address will be found in an-
other column).
From Manchester, consisting of the Mayor (gr.
Robert Neill), Mr. Alderman Nicholls, and Mr.
Heron (Town Clerk), accompanied by Mr. Hyde
Clarke (Cotton Commissioner in Turkey).
From Liverpool, consisting of Mr. Graves, M.P.,
and the Mayor of Liverpool.
The reception took place in the Bow Drawing-
room, the presentations being made by the Lord
Chamberlain.
In consequence of the melancholy death of
Madame Musurus, the Turkish Ambassador was
unable to be present.