The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-26 00:00:00

and transgress the very broad limits afforded to
them. At all events the precedent will be useful,
and it will be found that putting gentlemen in irons
or damaging their noses, may be luxuri too ex-
pensive to be indulged in whenever the master is
annoyed, or his wife is hi hysterics.

"An INDEMNITY is to be paid to England and
France." So runs one of the sentences which we re-
ceived from Prince GORTSCHAEOFF and the Moniteur

on Saturday last. That sentence was no doubt read
with pleasure by thousands. From the Chancellor
of the Exchequer to the possessor of the smallest

salary which pays income-tax, it was gratifiying to
learn that we should be reimbursed the costs of corn-

pelling Commissioner YBH and his superiors to
respect the rights of nations, and not to shuffle with
treaties. We many of us feel it, indeed, to be a little

hard on the poor ENIPEROB, worried to death between
Taeping rebels and the gunboats of the two mightiest
kingdoms on the earth, to be obliged to promise to
pay so much of his good Sycee silver, when perhaps
he scarcely knows where to get it; yet we are hardly
chivalrous enough to take on ourselves the burdens
which, but for his misgovernment, or his indulgence
of those who misgovern in his name, we need not
have incurred.

We confess, however, we did blush for ourselves,
and for France too, as we read the names of Russia
and GoRTsCUAIOPP in connection with the news.

Row the CZAR and his servant must have chuckled
with pleasure as they transmitted to us the
word " Indemnity." Pleasantly did GORTSCHA-
KOFP smile on WALIWSET, and perhaps the
Pole on the Russian, as the word " indemnity" was
read in the despatch from St. Petersburg. Pleasant
was it to think that Russia had paid no indemnity
by the peace of Paris; pleasant to remember how
Russia had previously exacted indemnity from the
weakness of Turkey, yet that it had not been re-
membered against her ; and very pleasant for Prince
GORTSCHAKOFF to lay his finger on the word, and to
say to WALEWSKI as he communicated the news—
" You too, then, exact indemnity when you can get
it from the helpless—good policy that, Monsieur—
so let us stronger powers ever fleece the sick men,
till we starve them into our hands, at their own ex-
pense." _ _ _

One thing is undeniable—we have fined heavily
the half-innocent ; we have let off with impunity the
atrocious criminal. We, of course, cannot excuse the
EMPEROR of China, except so far as he was ill-in-
formed of what was done at Canton ; or, on account
of the insurrection between Pekin and Canton, was
almost powerless in the latter place. Commissioner
YEn's doings we condemned at the time, and should
do so again. Still it is but fair to remember that a
very large party in both houses of Parliament, able
orators, and acute lawyers, many of them now
able Ministers of the Crown, did pronounce
YEn and the EMPEROR in the right, and Sir JOHN
BOWRING and Lord PALMERSTON in the wrong. Be

it, that opposition tactics and peace-society crotchets
were largely answerable for this, it is but common
candour to admit that, if able and respectable men
here could take the Chinese side in the quarrel about
the lorcha, on the common principles of human
nature, the Chinese must be partly excused for seeing
their own conduct in the light in which even a large
number of our own senators saw it. The Emperor of
Cnixa must be allowed the full benefit of this fact
when we are estimating the amount of his govern-
, mental delinquency.
What, then, is his delinquency compared with
that of the Czars of Russia in the business of the
last war with Turkey ! No party could be found
bold enough to defend the most villainous, wanton,
unprovoked, territorial burglary in the history of
modern Europe. All the Courts of Europe, even
the sycophant and selfish Court of Prussia, con-
demned it. Turkey had violated no treaty, had done
Russia no wrong, had injured none of her subjects,
\had not given the shadow of a shade of provocation,
yet, that proud ambitious villain NICHOLAS, far
worthier of condign punishment than half the
vulgar burglars, robbers, and murderers of his time
did not hesitate to pour his blood -stained legions
into the peaceful provinces of Turkey; and to on-
, sheath the sword when Europe was at peace, mercy

and purely for his own aggrandisement. On his
head,. and on the heads of his people who

obeyed him when they ought to have treated
him as other Rnssan despots have been treated,
rests the curse of all the blood shed from
Kalafat to Sebastopol and Circassia. No one ever
ventured to defend this man of bloody ambition, this
arch-offender aninst Europe, humanity, and ill.:
common laws of nations. No jury but a Russian one,
and not every Russian one, could be found to offer
an excuse for him.
Yet this is the man whom, thanks to German in-
fluence with our Court, thanks to the leanings of
despots to brother despots, and our governors' leanings
to the relatives of our Crown—this is the man who
escaped all direct penalty ! England paid some
eighty millions, France probably as much more, to
resist his villanies, yet he repaid none of it. We
take indemnity of a million or two, it may be, from
the comparatively innocent but helpless Emperor of
China. We leave to the burglars of Europe the sinews
of war—leave them their picklock keys and crowbars
for the next attempt. By amercing the needy Court
of Pekin we gain nothing but the saving to our
pockets of a few pence. Had we fined the CZARS in
merely the pecuniary costs to which they put the
Four Powers, we should not only have repaid
the people the heavy sacrifices imposed
upon them, but have taken security of the most
aggressive of European powers to keep the
peace for long to come. Who can deny that
it looks almost like meanness to take a small indem-
nity from a weak Power, declared by half our own
legislators to be guilty of no crime, while we allowed
the criminal, whom all alike condemned, to walk off,
boasting that he had punished the exchequers of four
countries as much as his own ?
We observe that in his speech at Sligo, Lord
PALMERSTON lauded the terms of peace—they were
such as no one would have thought of when the
war began. That may be. But when we had spent
eighty millions of money, and were in a position to
enforce any just demand, it behoved his Lordship to
show that we had obtained what we were entitled to
ask. I.First and foremost amongst just demands
was the one we have made on China ; and we repeat
there was' tenfold reason, both in equity and utility,
for enforcing the same demand on Russia.

Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council on Thurs-
day nett at Osborne. The summonses were issued yesterday.
The Princess Anatoli Dariatinsky and family have
left the Clarendon fur Shauklin, Isle of Wight.
-

The Earl and Countess Constance GrosYenor and
family have arrived at Brighton, where they have taken a
house an the Marine-parade.

Mr. and Mrs. C. Congouilke have arrived at
Fenton's Hotel from Paris. Mr. and Mrs. George Brown
have arrived at the same establishment from Lancashire.

Mr. and Mrs. Mason have arrived at the Queen's
lie
Hotel, Upper Norwood.
We regret to announce the demise of Mr. Charles
we
Drummond, one of the active partners of the
banking firm. Mr. Drummond died on Monday
at Brighton. The deceased was brother of tttrnoon
Major-Gen.leilret. Edwardte Sir R.
Berkeley
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many of ,a
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vf a tt lei es
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the
Peel. He was horn 4th September, 1790, and married 1511 i
July, 1819, the Hon. Mary Dulcibella Eden, sixth daughter
of William first Lord Auckland, by whom he leaves a
nurncreousiamily.
prospectus of the Indian and Australian
Telegrapi: Company Th
capital
(limited), first section, was issued
beingto-
day, £500,000, in 25,000 shares
preliminary deposit of 2s. per share.
the pr.oposed
of 1;20 each, with a
guarantee
respectability, and their
The directors are of the
te and ee that operations will be
d manner. It
undertaking is the ex-
commercial position is a
England and
conducted in a legitimate
is announced that the oubjemetmoufratettioa
the land roue
heal! As the Indian Gorvoemrnment cow ern-
patty will '
itenndsiiao ex-
tension f
the te IRe ge
drag
plate a cmitinuance of the Red Sea line by
to Ceylon, the first section by this corn
from S.lngerre, and eventually further sections °we'madbe I
carried l'4. Hong Kong and Australia. The success atitielnde
ing the )frying of the Atlantic cable, and the subsidy awarded
to the promoters of the Red Sea and India Telegraph Com-
pany, h ave induced the origimators of this projeet to antici-
pate Government assistance, and representations will forth-
with be ,made to the authorities to secure an adequate gua-
rantee. No doubt can be entertained but that a thorough
connection between the whole of our
sta Eahed,stern and Austra-
lian dependencies will now be eblis and that the
works svfil he speedily commenced aLd carried out.—
illorreng Jicrald.