The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-01 00:00:00

souls, but would aid and assist in revetting
the chains of despotism on the suffering
peoples, and prevent them from 'obtaining the
ameliorations in their condition which they have
now some reason to anticipate. It is certainly
said that Austria had intended raising the money
in the latter end of December, and that the avowed
object was to pay off £5,000,000 ; but can any one for
a moment suppose that if the money were paid into
the Imperial Exchequer and was required for State
purposes, that any such intention would be fulfilled

" Credat Judeaus apella non ego," or, to use our
own vulgar phrase, " that story must be told to the

marines."

Besides, Austria already owes two hundred mil-

lions of pounds, and her revenue is derived from
.scattered territories, that may at any time be cut
off, and a large proportion of her income lost. She
must maintain an expensive army; and, inasmuch
as she has been unable to pay her way in time of
profound peace and under the most favourable
circumstances, it is scarcely probable that the most
confiding capitalist will be disposed to assist her in
increasing the burden, which is more than she can
at present sustain.

The Statesman who expired on Friday at his
residence, on Putney-heath, although once upon a
time, as Premier of England, the chief ruler of the
mightiest empire upon this globe, had long sunk
into obscurity, and was literally either utterly
unknown to, or forgotten by, the present genera-
tion, yet very little more than thirty years have really
elapsed since the date when he held this supreme
post in the land as First Lord of the Treasury.
The Right Hon. FREDERICK JOHN ROBINSON,
created in 1827 Viscount GODERICH, and in 1833
Earl of RIPON, was born more than eighty-six years
ago—the second son of THOMAS, second Baron
GRANTHAM, of Grantham, in Lincolnshire. The late
Earl of RIPON'S elder brother (who was created
Earl DE GREY as far back as 1816) still survives at
the advanced age of eighty-seven. The noble lord,
hitherto popularly known by his courtesy title as
Viscount GODERICH, M.P. for Huddersfield, was,
until last week, heir to two earldoms, to that of DE
GREY as heir presumptive, to that of RIPON as heir
apparent. To the latter he has now succeeded
upon the death of a father who was formerly as
much overrated by his fellow-citizens as he has
during the last twenty or thirty years been unde-
servedly depreciated. As a Prime Minister the de-
ceased nobleman was notoriously a failure. As an
active and energetic member of many successive Ad-
ministrations he was eminently useful, and at times
acquitted himself with distinguished ability. Asso-
oiated as he formerly was with two such men as
GEORGE CANNING and WILLIAM HUSKISSON, as
one of a triumvirate towards whose future a con-
siderable number of the community one generation
back looked with sanguine expectation, it was im-
possible that FREDERICK ROBINSON could have
been from first to last that egregious mediocrity
which he has been long represented to have been
by his depreciators. An administrator who had
continued so long in office, and at times so credit-
ably, a man who had filled in successive Cabinets
posts of such variety, of so much importance and
responsibility, could not manifestly, could not, on
the face of it have been the nonentity as the
very incarnation of which he has latterly been repre-
sented. A mistake as the responsible chief of the Ad-
ministration—he was a meritorious servant of the
Crown and of the country, during many years as a
member in one capacity or another of various me-
morable Governments. The two most illustrious
of his colleagues, with whose brighter genius his
own inferior talents were at one period, as
already observed, mistakenly associated, disap-,
peared from the public scene, each of them pre-
maturely. Mr. CANNING, in 1827, worn
out, almost broken-hearted, with anxiety and
disappointment—Mr. HUSKISSON lamentably killed
by the first locomotive engine run upon the first
railway inaugurated for the conveyance of passen-
gers—the railway on the 15th September, 1830—
between Manchester and Liverpool. Surviving
these, far more eminent colleagues, the recently
deceased statesman lived for more than eight-and-
twenty years after the last-mentioned catastrophe,
to be either overlooked or depreciated. Between
his birth, on the Ist of November, 1782, and his
death, on the 28th of January, 1859, elapsed those
six-and-eighty years, marked at first with such
promise and activity, to be brightened out at last
in such dull, protracted, and monotonous retire-
ment.

The gorgeous little particoloured bubble of the
Haytian Empire has burst at last. There is an end
to the short-lived imperial glory of the negro NA-
POLEON BONAPARTE. The Emperor SOULOUQUE
has been deposed froin his " high estate," by a.
counter revolution. Dethroned and discrowned—
he is now charged in half-a-dozen counts with the fol-
lowing high crimes and misdemeanours :—First,
of having filled the prisons with untried citizens—
secondly, with embezzling the funds of the judicial
treasury—thirdly, with laying lawless hands
upon the proceeds of the coffee crop—fourthly,
with misappropriation of the sales of rosewood—
fifthly, with issuing bank notes for his own par-
ticular advantage—sixthly, with organising a sys-
tem of armed pillage along the coasts, somewhat
after the fashion of one carrying on the combined
professions of a wrecker and a contrabandist. I]is
Imperial MAJESTY, or, as he ought perhaps to be
more appropriately designated, His Imperial Massa
had been succeeded as ruler of St. Domingo by
General GEFFRARD, as chief of the Provisional Go-
vernment. The prisoners wrongfully incarcerated
had been released. Increased pay had been
awarded to the Haytian soldiery, and every
other kind of effort had been made by
the victors of SOULOUQUE to invest themselves
and their authority with a popularity unknown to
that grotesque adventurer. The intelligence of these
occurrences will probably have been overlooked by
those who may have glanced but cursorily over the
news last received in this country from the opposite
shores of the Alantic—the accounts relating to
Hayti being uttered, so to speak, sotto voce (and
no wonder), as a matter of little importance,
in the midst of the correspondence. Ridiculous,
however, though the late political events in St.
Domingo have undoubtedly been in themselves—.
they are entitled to some passing consideration
whenever they reach, as they have just now done,
an acme of burlesque. They are deserving of this
casual notice because relating to (however small)
an independent community—struggling (flounder-
ing would perhaps be the better werd) in a wild
effort to clamber somehow on to the broad pathway
of modern civilisation.

As we stated the other day, the Law Amend-
ment Society is continuing its useful exertions.
It has in one respect departed from the prin-
ciples on which it has so long acted with
credit to itsolf and advantage to the commu-
nity. It has directed its attention to the system
of administration, and pointed out the evils that
must result from a number of different courts, held
at various points, distant from each other, exceed-
ingly inconvenient to all parties concerned. Bar-
risters frequently could not attend to the engage-
ments for Which they were handsomely remunerated/