The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONSIONI WEDNESDAY

tioned by grave assemblies, and the House of
Commons should b© permitted to
_make a slight
escapade on certain occasions. It did not, how-
ever, permit Lord Pa.LmEnsroN'to lead it by the
nose. The delusion that so long prevailed has
been dispelled. It is now clearly ascertained to
the satisfaction of the community and to
his own sad conviction, that he is not the
leader of the liberal party, and that he
cannot induce them to do his dirty work whenever
he pleases. As yet, the new Cabinet have given
unmitigated satisfaction on every point—save one.
Lord MALMESBITRY settled the French, Neapoli-
tan, Sardinian, and American difficulties. Pro-
ceeding temperately, but firmly, he, at the same
time, preserved the national honour, while he
averted the chances of collision. The Cabinet of
the Tuileries was satisfied—that of Naples
convinced—Turin confirmed—and Washington
appeased—the best budget tendered for public
approbation, and the iniquitous Property Quali-
fication Act expunged from the statute-book. A
judicious compromrise, too, has been entered into
with respect to the Jew Bill, and before the end
of the session Baron ROTHSCMILD will be enabled
to take his seat, to which he was elected some
12 years since. All these advantages have resulted
from the accession of Lord DERBY and his truly
efficient colleagues to office. They have not pro-
mised a Reform Bill, such as has been antici-
pated for a series of years, but they have pledged
themselves to take the question into consideration,
and we have greater faith in that simple intima-
tion than in the strongest promises that could be
made by their predecessors.

The Indian bill will be read a third time to-mor-
row, and probably introduced the'same evening into
the Upper House. There will thus be a clear
week, more than was asked for or anticipated,
and the measure can receive the calm and
attentive consideration which its importance so
urgently demands, and which the dignity of their
Lordships requires.

Americans in England share at least one of our
feelings—that of relishing a good dinner, as the
appropriate celebration of public events. We, of
course, dine for everything ; for charities and for
politics ; for the honour of living men, and the
commemoration of the dead. There is hardly
any object, indeed, from a birth to a death, from
a battle to an hospital, which Englishmen will
not make the occasion for the- regular guinea
dinner. We do not read very often of such doings
on the other side the Atlantic, but our trans-
atlantic offspring will not fail to read in all their
papers of the feasting of the hundred and fifty at
the London Tavern, last Monday, in honour of the
4th of July. Perhaps they will generally be
pleased to notice that their fellow-countrymen
here did not learn from the example of Cambridge
House to hold a political meeting on the Sunday.
The New England States will certainly be gra-
tified that the 4th was honoured on the sth,
rather than the day of Christian worship should
be openly desecrated. To be sure, it is lawful to
do good on the Sabbath-day, and in the opinion
of Americans the signing the declaration of Inde-
pendence was the best of deeds. Still, as it is so
good as to degerve a whole day, and as very
worldly toasts were to be drunk, and very worldly
speeches made, Sunday was judiciously held for a
dies nen in regard to American Independence.
But only to think of a public dinner, in the
centre of London, to celebrate the great colonial
rebellion ! Mr. DALLAS might well allude to the
fact itself ; it marks a great change here, and we
hope it will be the first lesson towards a great
change on the other aide the water. We imagine
a corresponding dinner in New -York, one
celebrating any of the English successes in the
contest, few enough certainly, yet some there
were—we imagine such a dinner would fill all the
American papers with declamations on English
" outrages of propriety," or English insolence ;
indeed we are not quite sure that, should the
dinner be in honour of the battle between the
Chesapeake and Shannon, or in honour of the gal-
lant and cruelly killed ANDRE, the windows of the
room would not be broken in. The greatest weak-
ness of Americana is their touchiness and vanity ;
it is surely time that by the 82d anniversary of
their Independence, they should have outgrown it a
little more. When the Chairman in giving the
toast "the day we celebrate," could remark that
" The American nation had hitherto recognised
England as the mother from whom they had
sprung; but, the day had at length arrived when
the United States should cherish Great Britain,
not so much as a mother, as an elder and most
cherished sister"—when he could claim for his
country almost a parity of standing, in the society of
older nations, it is surely time for her to lay aside
the " bobby-de-hoyishness" which kindles up at
every imaginary insult, and which imagines an in-
sult in almost everything. We may hope that
the English press and people, looking with good- will
on the celebration of its rebel birthday, by a nation
so young as well to remember it, will be a mirror
in which Yankeeism may see some of its folly and
be ashamed of it.

It is true the great majority of the English peo-
ple have been open to the conviction that their
immediate ancestors were wrong and the immediate
ancestors of the Americans substantially right ;
but what is wanted is that Americans should be as
open as Englishmen to conviction. There can be
no question that they are grossly and outrageously
wrong, in a moral point of view, in regard
to slavery. It disgraces to this hour their Decla-
ration of Independence. It convicts it of brazen-
fac ,d lying in affirming "that all men are born
free and equal." We could not, if Americans,
celebrate the 4th of July without blushing for our
profound selfishness, and stuttering while uttering
the praises of freedom. We should feel humi-
liated in the heart of Free England, whose soil
emancip:►tes every slave who touches it, whose
most distant colonies are Free soil, and, like the
mother country, give freedom to every captive who
reaches them—we should feel humiliated to laud a
Declaration of Independence which leaves three
millions of fellow-countrymen, of native-born
Americans, in the most bitter, cruel, degrading
personal bondage. Why are not the eyes of Ame-
rica as open to the black crimes of its ancestors,
as ours are to the political criers of our own? Why,
if we repudiate the blunders of our statesmen,
and renounce their policy—why are not Ameri-
cans ready to confess , the odious iniquity of
slavery, and to get rid of the guilt of being, in
the year of Redemption 1858, in the year of Inde-
pendence 82, a great Slave Republic ? A Republic
in which, from one end to the other, its Federal
officers will seize the man escaping from the chain
and the lash, and hand him back to infernal tor-
tures fur the crime of seeking to be Free !
We need not say that we cordially concur in
most of the observations made at the meeting,
especially in those of Mr. DALLAS on the clever-
ness, bordering, however, too often on astuteness,
of American diplomacy, and its contrasting ad-
vantageously with the frequently clumsy perform-
ances of our official and extravagantly-paid.diplo-
matists of all orders. He could truly enough
say, that from the days of FRANKLIN to the pre-
sent time, their militia of diplomady, who termed

it, might contrast advantageously with the regular
army of the European Courts. We of course
agree with him also, that the conduct of our Go-
vernment recently on the "search and visit"
question was marked by " honourable candour and
fair dealing worthy of evey acknowledgment."
We may add that the American Government, so
far as we know, did not sympathise more than it
was compelled to do, as a pro-slavery Government,
with the clamour, groundless as it proved, of
slavery-men and slave-traders. A Mr. TRAIN in-
formed us that their filibustering designs on Cuba,
on Mexico, on Central America, and on the Sand-
wich Islands, of which he seemed proud, were
more than justified by ourfilibustering deeds. We
were the greatest filibusters under the sun. In
proof thereof he pointed to India, and also to
Australia, to Gibraltar, to Malta, and even to
Men and Perim ! Well, we will not argue the
question ; one thing Mr. TRAIN will not deny,
that freedom, not slavery, has everywhere fol-
lowed in the train of our conquests.

BREAD-MAKING BY MACIIINERY.