The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-06 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1857.

If SIDNEY HERBERT was frank enough to con-
fess that he and the Peelitcs (perhaps he meant
all the members) had learned something from the
election, we may hope Lord PALMERSTON will have
the grace to show by his deeds at the opening of
the new Parliament that lie, too, has learned
something. He dissolved on a question of foreign
policy, and the hustings and electioneering ad-
dresses and speeches, and the catechisings of hon.
candidates especially, have given him a pretty
plain lesson on both his foreign and domestic
policy. He has had a very generous support from
the country, but the country which gives him
that support is entitled to have its manifest wishes
regarded. Lord PALMERSTON has, we believe, as
much pleasure as any statesman can have in
pleasing the people. Cheery himself, he likes to
see others in good humour, and he can hardly
doubt on two most important points what it is
the people wish for.
On the China question he has, by universal
confession, triumphed, and it will doubtless be
the first business of the New Parliament, formally
to rectify the wrong done by its predecessor.
There was, however, another point in Lord PAL-
MERSTON'S foreign policy, which none can deny
that the opposition attacked but too successfully.
Naples has been a most discreditable failure. In-
deed Lord PALMERSTON'S whole European policy
has been but too easily described by Radicals as
playing into the hands of despots ; and by Tories,
as attempting either too much or too lit:le. The
great mass of the nation paid cheerfully for
the Russian war, believing it was to humble a
barbarian despot who thought himself a god on
earth. It resulted in a peace which we have
always felt to be a pro-despot peace. It was in-
tended to leave the CZAR despot in Finland, in
Poland, in Circassia—to leave him as great an
oppresor as before, but not to permit him t 3
oppress Turkey to the inconvenience of the Me-
diterranean powers. Englishmen have seen, as
the results of the pacification of Paris, insults to
the Poles and Armies in Circassia ; probably also
the Persians in Herat. The Conservative Oppo-
sition does not like to say much about all this ; it
is their own policy ; but the Radical Opposition
scorn these miserable results of
justly holds up to
a ()Teat and costly war, and exclaim, " Thus it wilt
always be with popular wars fur European liberty
led and finished by PALMERSTON."
But if the ticaly result-4 of the Russian war
have been a miserable failure, those of the Nea-
politan negotiations and deotonstrations have been
worse than a failure ; they have been a disgrace.
Begun with some pomp, at the very Paris Confel.-
ence in fact, begun to divert perhaps the English
mind from the the wretched peace, by the prospelt
of a real crusade against a tyrant thoroughly in
,our power, they were carried on by perfunctory
diplomacy, finished off by withdrawing ambassa-
dors, and sending ships, and concluded by re-
calling the ships, leaving the prisons overflowing,
'sith innocent victims, and the tyrant laughing
at his schoolmasters, and daily torturing his
patriots by lingering deaths. At this moment
King BOMBA is more a fiend than ever ; and the
prisons so full that he is scheming to transport
his old victims across the Atlantic, that he may
find room for new ones !

Neither Tories nor Radicals have said much about
it, because it did not suit the objects of either,
but probably the people generally have felt that
the last disclosure, just before the dissolution of
Parliament, was the worst. It vas then openly
confessed by the Government that the ships of
war were withdrawn thron_7ll fear of an inlur-

rection—that the Government had every rea-
son to believe that if our fleet continued hear
Naples there would be a rising of the people.
Now, we ask our readers, how many of them did
not involuntarily exclaim on reading tiro reply of
the Government " Insurrection at Naples—
why just what was wanted—and for our broad- I

Second tliougliti might
sides to back them."
deem this rather fast policy, but yet we could

not doubt that something bold—,something

that should bloW np a tyrant who could not be

coaxed and argued into reason, was the thing

wanted. What we maintain is this—that all Eng-
land, after what Mr. GLADSTONE and a hundred
other honest reporters on Neapolitan despotism
have told us, would have commended the states-
man who would at least have said to King BoMBA
—" Now; your MAJESTY—you would not hearken
to reason, the hour is come, your subjects moan
to rise, and if they do rise wo mean to stand by them;
We do not mean to be made fools of to save you
from the vengeance due to your villanies. Send
your Swiss home—repent, reform, or expect exile
or the guillotine."
Tyrants, even superstitious tyrants, are cowards,
and had Lord PALMERSTON declared such a policy,
ho knows that the cruel dotard would have
truckled at once ; and even if he had not, and if he
had been sent to St. Helena or to Brighton accord-
ing to taste ; or perhaps have tried the Argentine
republic himself, all Europe would have rejoiced.
But it may be said France—no, not France—but
the Master of France—stood in the way ; it did
not suit his purpose to see absolute potentates
turned into foot-balls. Perhaps not, there might
be too many in France rather partial to that game
and ready to play it. To which however, the un-
answerable reply is, that the French alliance is
not to be maintained to our own disgrace. If we are
to be allied to the man and not to the people ;
to ONE man who looks out for the interests of
only ONE man in every other country, then the
sooner we act independently of France the better.
But could Lours NAPOLEON have afforded to
desert us in rectifying the state of things in
Naples ? Unquestionably, had PALMERSTON said
—"Do as you please, but we are determined to
put an end to this Neapolitan vil!any"—had our
Government spoken thus—the Government of
France could not in the eyes of France and of
Europe have afforded to desert us. We did not
say or act thus. Lord PALMERSTON was behind his
opportunities then. We fear willingly behind.
The countenance given to Austria, and the discou-
ragement offered to Sardinia is also very discre-
ditable to our Government. Ever since the peace
PALMERSTON has leaned more to Austria than to
Sardinia ; in one notable instance rebuking
the latter in the interest of the bully of
Vienna ! We know the pressure under
which Lord PALMERSTON may be—via Saxe-
Coburg—but we confess all things have been
done in a style which enables Mr. COBDEN to paint
Lord PALMERSTON, as practically, the despots'
man, and disposes the people to believe and to
resent it.

Lord PALMERSTON will also, we trust, have
learned a lesson on his domestic policy. He must
have seen that the nation desiderates peaceful but
real reform. Not only administrative, but poli-
tical reform ; that it indeed regards the latter as
the way to the former. We should think that
more demands have been made of candidates to
vote for the Ballot, and more answers favourable
to it given, than at any previous election ; even
the RUSSELL firm, it must never be forgotten,

thought it wise to soften down the first refuse%
and great numbers of candidates only said that
they should prefer, if possible, some other plan.
It was everywhere a key to popular favour, and
opponents felt it to be a " ticklish question." It was
one on which they no longer dared to put a rude
negative, and even Lord PALMERSTON'S great
compeer in the House this time felt it incumbent
on him to argue the question with the elec-
tors of Bucks ! 0411 Lord PALMERSTON have
failed to note all this ?

But on the question of extending the Suffrage
there was almost perfect unanimity. Who ven-
tured to deny that extension was required ?
Tories more suo, Whigs more suo, and Radicals,
of course, all were for extended Suffrage
in some form. When Conservatives would
grant in part what Radicals demand entire,
it is unquestionably time for " the Tory
chief of a► Radical Cabinet" to bestir him-
self. We may remind his Lordship, though
we are sure enough he knows it, that the
Leaguers were not turned out for their strong
opinions on the Suffrage and the Ballot. Their
successors had, on these points, to adopt very
nearly, if not quite, their creed. League dicta-
tioa and peace-at-any-price were the accusations
which unseated them. Lord PALMERSTON will
find Manchester, and Huddersfield, and Salford
as decided as ever for political reform, though op-
posed to an unworthy foreign policy. Lord JOHN
RUSSELL will also be to him a rock ahead. Get the
China affair settled, and suppose FERDINAND to be
still exulting in patriots' groans at Naples, and
Austria encouraged to beard Sardinia—people
Will ask of what Use is PALMERSTON' for
our European foreign poIicy—RUSSELL will do as
well. At the same time the Whig Lord will be
ready with Reform Bill no 111. in his hand.
One, no doubt, necessity compelling, with some-
thing in it ; and then if the Whig Lord has not
been anticipated, " to your tents, oh Palmer-
stonians !" An approach to a real Reform Bill
will have the unmistakeable assent of the country,
and compel any Ministry which has not introduced
it to adopt it, or to retire.

Russia is still very desirous of carrying out the
Leviathan Railway scheme, to which we have re-
peatedly alluded, in all its integrity. In other
words, she is anxious to obtain some 45,000,000/.
in sterling gold and silver from her late oppo-
nents, for the purpose of constructing a series of
military lines, which can never by any possibility
pay as commercial investments. France and
England are to provide her with means of de-
feating any future effarts on their part ; and, in
doing so, to cripple themselves by parting with so
large an amount of the precious metals, of
which there is already in both countries a very '
perceptible scarcity. They are, according to thel,
time-honoured apophthegm, to "provide a stick
wherewith to break their own backs ;" and, as we
have proved to demonstration, in a double manner
—alike by what they give to Russia, and by that
of which they deprive themselves. It would be a
great achievement if Russia could obtain the
means of easily transporting troops and military
stores from point to point. Had such
result
suchexmiisgthedt
during the contest in the Crimea the
have been very different indeed from what it was.
It would, therefore, be well worth her while tea
construct these important linos at her own expeejso
but a double object would be obtained ir, in so
doing, she could tie up the hands of F.er recent
adversaries, and " bind them over to keep the
pieoancei,n"
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this day's i'avression. We should hop©, how-
ever, that, the most credulous cannot now
be deceived by such transparent hubug,
and that they will not allow themselves to
part
with their cash without being perfectly satisfied
of the nature of the security offered in exchange*
To any true-hearted and patriotic Englishman or
Frenchman it would be unnecessary even to allude
to the money part of the question. But it is said
that capitalists care but little for the purposes to
which their advances may be applied when assured
of remunerative returns, Profit is the a and (0 of
their creed. It is to that, and that only, they