The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-09 00:00:00

FEBRUARY 9, 1857.

People, must anticipate the strenuous opposition
from Messrs. DISR A ELI and GLADSTONE, and the
united parties of Derbyites and Aberdeenites. It
would, indeed, be a trump card for Lord PALMER-
STON to take the lead in the popular movement,
and to insure the energetic support of the inde-
pendent members, by removing the grievance of
which they so loudly and justly complain. It,
was in the vain hope of securing the support,
perhaps the co-operation, of Mr. GLADSTONE that
the much-required change was resisted. That
slippery statesman has, however, deserted their
standard, and donned the colours of their oppo,
nent, who had paid a heavy price for the doubt-
ful gain. Let Lord PALMERSTON then occupy the
position which Mr. DISRAELI has abandoned. Let
justice to the industrious classes be his motto,
and he will be placed in the proudest position
ever attained by an English Minister, and insure
a prolonged tenure of office, from which it will be
impossible to evict him. No matter how fierce
the resentment of those who refuse to recognise,
for fiscal purposes, the distinction between pre-
carious profits and permament income.

LATEST NE NS.

A private letter from Athens, dated the 28th
of Jan., mentions that the protecting Powers had
made certain propositions to King Othc relative
to his finances, and which have been accepted by
his Majesty ; that the Powers further required
that the King should change his Ministers and
appoint others more disposed towards the Western
Governments, and that the King has consented to
that arrangement, but on condition that the
foreign troops shall first evacuate the Pincus.

The following private telegraphic despatch has
been received :

MARSEILLES, Fin. 7.
" The Mersey has arrived from Constantinople,
with the mails of the 29th ult.

" A despatch from Vienna has been addressed
to the Ottoman Porte, announcing that Moldavia
and Wallachia will be evacuated by the Austrian
troops before the 24th March. The Turkish
troops are not to cross the Danube before the de-
parture of the Austrians.
" The union of the Principalities gains ground :
it will be approved by the majority of the Moldo-
Wallachian Divans. The Ottoman Porte at pre-
sent confines itself to the rejection of the nomina-
tion of a foreign Prince to govern the united
provinces. The Porte is about to take possession
of the delta formed by the mouths of the Danube.
The Porte, considering as illegal the sentence of
exile pronounced by the Hospodars, permits the
exiled to return to the Moldo-Wallachian terri-
tory, their country.

"The brother of the Khan of Khiva has offered
his alliance to the Shah of Persia.

" Great embankments are projected on the
Euphrates. The plan has been sent to London.
The Arabs are troublesome in that country."

FRANCE.

A subject is now before the Council of State re-
lative to capitulations accepted by general officers
in command before the enemy. The questi.in is,
whether there are any and what are the circum-
stances in which a general can accept such capitula-
tions, or whether tie ought not to hold out to the
last 1 General Niel adopted the affirmative, and
supported his views with, its is said, an eloquence
that took every one by surprise, and which re-
minded the hearers of General Foy.
Gen. Chesney, who arrived at Marseilles by one
of the last boats from Constantinopl., had an
audience of the Emperor Napoleon on Friday. The
conversation turned principally on the Euphrates
Railway. Gen. Chesney has since left for London.
BOURSE, Feb. 7.—The following were the last
quotations :
east], fr. c. End of Month.
4i per Cents
3 per Cents 6B 68 5

New Loan -
Bank Shares — Roman
Credit Mobilier 1,338 75 Aus'aian 89
Belgian Fives ...... .. Spanish Threes _
Piedraoutese (5) — -- Home Debt
RAILWAYS—FOB CABS•

f-. c. f r c
Orleans 1,360 Western
Northern 922 50 Strasburg
Lyons 1,360 New Ditto
Mediterranean 1,725 Grand Central
Lyons Genova
Cette -

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, Feb. 6.—The article in the Monitettr
of the 4th relative to the future organisation of the
Danubian Principalifes has produced a very un-
pleasant impression here.
The Vienna Prose of this morning observes that
the recent policy of France in the Eastern question
cannot excite astonishment, if it is considered that
Count Morny is to pass the whole winter at St.
Petersburg, and the Grand Duke Constantine to
visit the Emperor Napoleon in the spring. The
most remarkable passage in the article in questio*
is the following :
" The mask has now been laid aside, and the
question of the Principalities is to be made an
affair of the highest importance. The declaration
of the IVloniteur will give fresh vigour and courage
to Russia, for the Union of the Danubian Princi-
palities will be the first great step towards the
breaking up of Turkey,—it will be a positive en -
croachtnent on the sovereign rights of the Sultan,
and au act of hostility towards the Powers which
closed up the land and sea routes from Russia to
Constantinople."
Perfectly authentic information bas been acquired
that some time before his Majesty went to Italy,
the King of Naples was strongly urged by this Go-
Ternment to make some concessions to popular
opinion, "as the Emperor was about to grant a
general amnesty to the political offenders in the
Lombardo-Venetian kingdom" There is reason to
believe that the ungracious Neapolitan did not even
thank the Austrians for their well-meant counsel.

LITERATURE.

Eastern Hospitals and English Nurses. By •
Lady Volunteer. Third Edition, revised. 1
vol. Hurst and Blackett.

The third edition of this interesting work has
now appeared in a cheap and commodious form.
The subject is one which still maintains its interest,
both from the recollection of the services and sacri-
fices that were rendered by Miss Nightingale and
her hand, and from its practical importance
in regard to civil and military hospitals in
time of peace. A proper and efficient system of
nursing still remains to be established, and all who
are inclined to consider this subject will find the
experiences and suggestions of this author afford
th,rn much practical knowledge. The bad conduct
of many of the hired nurses at Scutari and Koulali
corroborates her assertion, that nurses, whose only
object or motive is the money they receive, are
quite unfitted for attendance on the sick and
suffering. The fact of a third edition being re-
quired is a sufficient testimony to the attractiveness
of the work, and those who have not hitherto
perused it will find the present edition possess
many advantages.

Sir Edwin Gilderoy. A Ballad. By Feltharn
Burghley, author of Sonnets. John Chapman.
This somewhat singular work is an imitation of
the old ballad 4, so dear to all lovers of chivalry.
The author has been very successful n preserving
the spirit of those warlike ages, and his verses are
occasionally very effective. The time selected is
the favourite epoch for romancists and ballad-
singers, that of the third Crusade. Richard Coeur
de Lion himself appears in it, and rewards the
valour of the hero with the hand of his ladye-love.
Sir Edwin Gilderoy is conspicuous in all true
knightly qualities, and meets many characteristic
adventures. He holds parley with a wizard, he is
taken prisoner by pirates, he sets forth for the
rescue of the lady Clotilda, who is held captive by
an enemy, and, finally, by his prowess sets her free,
and is created Earl of Eltham by King Richard.
All who prize knightly deeds and chivalrous ad-
ventures will therefore be highly gratified with this
metrical history, while readers of another class
may be more interested by the introductory essay,
which, strange to say, is considerably longer than
the ballad itself. It takes a review of the rise and
character of the minstrels and trouveres, and, while
discussing the events of the third Crusade, takes
' the opportunity of defending Richard of the Lion
heart from the accusations of Gibbon and some
other historians. They have depreciated his abi-
lities, and brought against him the charge of ferocity
and fierceness, forgetting that such were the faults
of the age, and not of the individual warrior, who
could scarcely be expected to rise altogether superior
to them. The writer, though not pretending to
emulate the old minstrels, appears to have a just
appreciation of his own abilities and the merits of
his poem. He is likewise disposed to comment,
not in the most lenient spirit, on the follies of
modern times. Nevertheless, the work will be
likely to afford entertainment to the present gene-
ration of readers, even should it fail to realise its
writer's expectations, and he remembered many
years hence.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

JUDICIAL COMMITTEE •OF THE PRIVT
COUNCIL.

(Before the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, the Bishop of London, Lord Wensleydale, Sir

J. Patteson, Sir W. H. Mania, and the Right Hon.

P. Leigh.)
LIDDELL V. WESTERTON, AND LIDDELL V. SEAL.-THI