The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-18 00:00:00

It seems to think that the two great questions.

the Indian mutiny and the infringement o
the Bank Charter Act could not be
carried on pari passu with the unequivocally
promised Reform Bill. We cordially concur in the
opinion that neither of these great questions can
be postponed to another Parliament. Nor is
there the slightest necessity for such a course.
The Bank Charter Act has been so clearly con-
demned by its second suspensices, that it can never
again be imposed on the nation. The Govern-
ment has ample materials for legislation. It
cannot again be permitted to resort to
the stale dodge of shelving the impor-
tant subject, until - the public mind has
become weary and indifferent. We trust that
every monetary reformer, every Englishman who
has the interests of the commercial and menu-face
turing, population—indeed, of the entire indus-
trial community—at heart, will refuse to pass any
act of indemnity for the violation of the monetary
enactments of 1844, until the incubus has been
removed, and a circulating medium adequate to
the wants and exigencies of the country has been
established. There is nothing to prevent such
a measure from becoming the law of the land,
even before Christmas. The Bank has violated
its Charter, and it has no longer a claim for con-
sideration. In 1847 this was not the case.
Although promised a bill of indemnity by the
Government, the necessity did not arise for bring-
ing forward the proposition, and it had a further
tenure of seven years, which has since expired.
The nation must not relinquish its vantage
ground, and, indeed, under any circumstances, a
year's notice is all that could be required to ter-
minate the injudicious and iniquitous contract—
a contract alike opposed to public policy, and to
the inalienable rights and privileges of the great
body of the people !
In like manner the Indian 'Mutiny may be
fully discussed, and if the double Government
requires the assistance of the people of England—
thus failing in the consileration, given for their
renewed tenure of office—a now and more efficient
administrative system may be organised, without
reference to the protracted term granted in 1853.
An Address to the Peoile of England has been
issued by several consistent and well-known re-
formers, which will be found in another part of
this day's impression. The principles there pro-
mulgated will be gladly accepted by the
community at large. . Of course, the dc-
tails must be arranged, but they have
long bean ready. It will be dwell for Lord
PALMERSTON, if he anticipates the movement.
But should he not do se, he may rest assured
that an independent measure will be introduced,
and if any confidence can be reposed in the faith
of public men, will be carried. He must recollect
that a large majority of the popular representa-
tives are solemnly pledged to their respective
constituencies on the subject. The matter was
only evaded last session on the deliberate
understanding that it was to be brouglat forward
in that which is now rapidly approaching. The
breach of promise will, if attempted, be severely
punished. "The Paterfamilias of Whig libe-
ralism," as ho is contemptuously designated by
the Post, will not he slow to avail himself of the
golden opportunity, and to play out a return
innings with the Noble Lord, who in 1852 over-
threw his Government, and deprived him of his
position as Prime Minister of the " United

Kingdom."

Mr. PITT concluded one of the moat memorable
speeches he ever delivered in the House of Com-
mons—his speech in 1;83, upon the then Coalition
—with that terse and felicitous close to a superb
peroration, " And if this inauspicious union be
not already consummated, in the name of nay
country I forbid the banns I"
It would not be in the smallest degree extrava-
gant to put those very words at the present mo-
ment in the mouth of any true-hearted and right-
minded Englishman. Applying them to the new
and odious compact entered into between the
British and Austrian Governments, in reference
to the project of a continuous telegraphic com-
munication with the Asiatic Continent, more par-
ticularly between ourselves and our Oriental pos-
sessions in Etindostan.

According to this absurd arrangement we are
pledged to the Government of Vienna to use no
other than Austrian wires between Ragusa and
Alexandria. It is the last great blunder of our
most sapient authorities at the Treasury. "If,"
say they to Austria, " you (Austria) will but lay
down a submarine wire from Ragusa to Alexan-
dria, we (the British Government) will use no
other line but that ; we will transmit our tele-
grams by no other route than that, running from
[ Ragusa to Alexandria ; and in connection
with that route, we undertake to complete at our
1 earliest convenience the metallic fibre of the
rach
deliberately
I nbiontah
ourselvese r w ords,
Electric Telegraph from Suez to Bombay or Kur- '
cord of communication o'v'eWr teo voluntarily ymaagnide
from London to Calcutta,
from this time forth and for
ever, in etecula Kean-
' j lorum, entirely at the disposal, at the whim and
mercy, of the Austrian Government." That is
literally, really and truly, about the English of it,
or rather, perhaps we should say, about the
1 German-English of it—of this bungling, tilaandel-