The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-08 00:00:00

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I which appear insurmountable, may confer upon
his countrymen the greatest and most inesti-
mable benefits. That is the moral to be drawn."
Nor can we easily describe better than in
the Premier's words, the nature of the Count's
achievements; the moral of his life he had given ;
he added, the tale with which his memory will be
associated is one of the most extraordinary, I may
say, of the most romantic, recorded in the annals of
the world. We have seen under his impulse and
guidance a people, supposed to have been torpid in
the enjoyment of luxury, to have been enervated
by the pursuits of pleasure, to have had no know-
ledge of or feeling after politics except what they
derived from the traditions of their history and
the jealousies of rival States--we have seen that
people at his call, and under his guidance, rising
from the slumber of ages with the power of a
giant refreshed, breaking that spell by which they
had been so long bound, displaying on a great
occasion the courage of heroes, the sagacity of
statesmen, the wisdom of philosophers, and attain-
ing for themselves a political existence which for
centuries bad been denied them. Sir, I say, that
this is a great event in history, and that the man
whose name will go down to posterity connected
with that series of events, whatever may have been
the period of his death—however premature it may
have been for the hopes of his countrymen—can‘
not be said to have died too soon for his glory and
his fame."

It often happens that on occasions like this some
one is found willing to become the foil to set off
the praises justly and gladly bestowed by others ;
in the Lords the Marquis of BATH proffered him-
self as the accuser of the dead whose well earned
honours he grudged. In the Commons the same
magnanimous office was assumed by the O'DoN-
OGHIIE. He rose to express, Ist, his entire dissent
from the praises which had been lavished on the
Count. 2dly, to accuse him of hostility to the
temporal power of the Pope. 3dly, to accuse
gentlemen of the House of Commons of prejudice,
and the people of this country of " stupid bigotry."
4th, to tell the House that " he saw in the death
of Count CAVOUR, the finger of God's justice."
Having said which he sat down amidst exclamations
which may authorise him to sign his name in
future as the " Ch-DoNoGlluE.”
The Count's Roman policy will certainly need no
vindication to our readers—as the '.oh"-Donoghue
might say, because they are " stupid bigots ;" but
this much we may remark, that we find Roma❑
Catholics repudiating as nick-names the epithets
" Popery " and "Papists." Now we never prefer
to call persons by denominational or party names

they do not like, but in Count CAVOUR'S case
it was just Popery and Papists to which
he was hostile, while, as his death equally with
his life bore witness, he was a sincere Catholic.
Pope worship—that belief in his right divine which
would assign several hundred thousand human
beings to the government of such heartless wretches
as Cardinal ANTONELLI and his comrades—to this
Count CAVOUR was hostile. It is clear that he
was not an opponent of the spiritual claims of the
POPE, but, with another sincere Catholic, D'AZ EGLIO,
he thought Pro NONO would be a much better
Pope if he outwardly as well as inwardly resembled
more the Divine Man whose vicar he professes
to be. Count CAVOUR was opposed to the Popery
which cares only for liberty for Papists—which
makes a great stir here because in workhouses the
Irish poor, who accept the charity provided by taxes
paid almost exclusively by Protestants, cannot find
a school to teach the children Popery—but which
never sent a word of remomonstrance to their
fellow Catholics in Italy or Spai❑ against the
shameful denial by them of all religious liberty—

even of religious sepulture to Protestants. On the
profanity we may spare comment. The " Oh,"
DONOGHUE has not yet informed us by what light
he sees the finger of GOD more in the death of
the Great Count than in the flight of each of the
Italian Princes, and of the POPE'S Governors from
the Legations, and the defeat of General LAMoRI-
CIERE. Of course, it cannot be through "stupid
bigotry."

If Americans will not be satisfied with what
took place in the House of Commons last night
they ought to be. Not only are the acts of the
Government studiously neutral, but that grand
arena of debate on every subject, the House of Com-
mons decides for neutralLty also. It is ready
enough, generally, to debate foreign topics. Our
memories must be short, indeed, to forget a year in
which its foreign talk was not cited as an apology
for doing hardly any domestic work. But the
merits and demerits of the Southern or the Nor-
thern cause are equally refused a hearing in our
House of Commons. We have strictly prohibited
our citizens from acting as privateers. We have
refused to allay prizes to be brought into our
home or colonial ports, and we have submitted
to the inconvenience to which blockades expose our
trade. We have told them both that we are sorry
for the quarrel, and hope they will soon settle it in
the best way they can ; but we do not offer even
mediation, we simply say—it is no business of ours ;
for, though our trade is deranged by your disagree-
ment, you have a right to disagree, if you like.

I 1 We believe, however, that neither party, in their
I hearts quite like this. The South relied on our love
lof cotton—and our disgust with Northern protec-
tion. They thought we should refuse to permit
blockade of cotton exporting ports, and that
they could command and purchase supplies'
through the commercial sympathies of Europe. The
South, however, says little, but rather persists in
speaking well of the old country and of Europe.
The North is much more proud and touchy. She
has shown displeasure, that we should acknowledge
the belligerent rights of the South. She seems half
inclined to demand that we shall declare ourselves
on the side of the North. She has told us, through
some of her officers too, of the consequences which
may come upon us, if we do not—in the hour of diffi-
uty
—make special friends of the North. She has
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threatened us with, no one knows what, if we
even
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should acknowledge the "so-called confederate
States." To all this our consistent and unvarying
reply is—We leaveyou entirely to yourselves ;
v draw us into your disputes.
We have but one national wish—the abolition of
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slavery, for that neither of you are prepared.

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MAJESTY'S Foreign Secretary
by an important
deputation. The deputation was one from the
Association for the Preservation of the Fisheries of
Great Britain and Ireland. The requisition was
one running to the effect, that Lord JOHN would,
if possible, use his influence with the French Go-
vernment in order to induce it to assist in prevent-
inc:littllz destruction of salmon during the fence
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by prQliibiting tho sale of it in Paris.
Does any one deem the Matter referred to one of
comparatively small importance? Let Lord SAL-
TOUNs be heard—Lord SALTOUN, by the way, is
President of the above-mentioned Association—let
Lord SALTOUN be heard, as he was heard by Lord
JOHN RUSSELL on Wednesday-afternoon, making a
statement to the effect, "That we were now en-
gaged in legislating upon the salmon laws, but that