The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-12 00:00:00

wand, if our subjects axe to be entrapped into
them, that they shill be made prisons fit for
British subjects.
But we need not reprint the narrative we quoted
on Thursday from a provincial paper, furnished
by PARE himself. intimidation, torturing it might
be justly called, long, weary confinement, without
permitting the reeogui!sed British authorities to
I see ills pen ; refusal to liberate at once ;
only after nine false imprisonment ; and
the health of both and the reas.in of one danger-
coly threatened—these things constitute the
charge againsi; Lord CLARENDON'. Well /might
PARE say, at one part of his orrative, " Thp,s
we two English subjects were kept for three long
months rotting in a filthy dungeon, awaiting our
trial in a town in which resided an English consul,
within gunshot of an English man-of-war, while

:he authorities at home were blandly explaining

to the House that the jurisdiction of the Govern-
ment was beyond all doubt." Oh 1 could the
Jack Tars on board that man•of-war have but re-
ceived an order to settle the question, their
English hurrahs would have done it without firing
a shot.

Of one thing we are fully assured, that Lord
CLARENDON can never again be the Foreign
Minister of England. The Cagliari affair alone is
fatal to his claims. England will never consent
to place the guardianship of our citizens abroad
in his hands. His name would be as fatal to the
acceptableness of a Cabinet as that of Lord CLAN-
RICARDE himself. But the Cagliari affair is not
an isolated one. Lord CLARENDON'S whole policy
has been altogether a BONAPARTE policy. Not
one directed to the commendable object of cement-
ing the French and English Alliance, but of
strengthening the alliance between the Cabinets.
Lord CLARENDON has seen everything with Count
WALEWSKI'S spectacles ; through them he has
looked at Belgium and at Sardinia, as well as at
our own Statute Book, and into the humble book-
shops of this metropolis. At the Treaty of Paris
he was at WALEWSKeS service to sit by and hear
the Belgian Press attacked and threatened. Soon
after, he was but too happy to oblige WALEWSKI
by giving Sardinia a very imperious intimation
that she might be too liberal for the comfort of
Louis NAPOLEON'S counsellors ; and to finish all,
he came out with his long orations in the House
of Lords to prove that Count WALEWSKI and his
Colonels were right, and that all England and the
House of Commons were wrong in voting them to
have been in the wrong !

Now, we want no more such Foreign Secre-
taries, such literally Foreign Secretaries—men
who have become almost Foreigners, and foreigners
of the class, too, whom we like least of all. We
are by no means sure, could we but know Cabinet
mysteries, that it was not Lord CLARENDON who
precipitated the fall of Lord PALMERSTON. We
used to think the latter at least an Englishman,
though a Tory got by accident among Liberals,
just as Lord STANLEY is now by accident among
the Tories; and, we are slow to believe that, with
all his faults, he is not at heart one of us still.
Lord CLARENDON plainly is not. He is sold to
the Continentals ; and if he be a necessity to a
PALMERSTON Cabinet, then we can only say that
Lord PALMERSTON can never be Prime Minister