The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-10 00:00:00

AMERICAN SYMPATHY WITH ENGLAND.

We are in the midst of a terrible convulsion.
Our business interests are threatened with utter
ruin, and our working classes already feel the pres-
sure of want. The darkness thickens, and no eye
can see the end of the accumulating trouble. But,
gloomy as we find the position of our affairs, they
are sunny and cheerful compared with those of our
mother-land. Here we already know the worst of
the calamity that has come upon the country.
There the clouds are still gatherinc, and they must
expect two storms to burst upon' them at once—
each sufficient to try most severely the fortitude of
any nation, and calculated to crush many beyond
recovery. The winds from the East, where, not
many months ago, England commanded the hom-
age of a vast and wealthy empire, come laden with
the shrieks and groans of her slaughtered sons and
outraged daughters, and even above these sounds
of expiring misery are heard the imploring accents
of little bands of heroes who are fighting against
tremendous odds of ferocious mutineers, and bravely
upholding their standard, though almost exhausted
in the struggle. The little island is being drained
of every hand that can bo spared from the fac-
tory or the field. There is scarcely a family in
the realm which has not contributed an arm for
the fearful battle, and scarcely a fireside that does
not miss a familiar face now absent in that tropic
land of blood and horror, or hurrying to the point
where England needs most desperate strokes. The,
strain upon the energies of our ancestral people is
mighty ; yet they bear it with an iron determination
peculiar to a race born to conquer and command.
They not only display no shrinking from the con-
flict, but dare to talk of their ultimate triumph as
certain, and plan the punishment of those who
have roused the lion's vengeful ire. Even while
the struggle with the mutineers is most disastrous
in its aspect this brave nation prosecutes a war
against the millions of China, and. maintains the

supremacy of its flag in every portion of the globe.
Their morning drum-beat does not cease to follow
the sun around the earth. But it is plain that this
test of British courage and strength is ow; of the

severest ever yet opplied, and it is evert confessed
that at tho present hour their power in the East
trembles upon the verge of annihilation—that Asia
seems slowly slipping from their grasp. Just about
the time that the news of further Indian disasters
will reach England, a steamer will arrive at Liver-
pool from New York burdened with intelligence that
will send a fearful thrill through the heart of the
kingdom. This people, who already have two great
wars upon their hands, will learn that the financial
panic in this country has proved more thoroughly
destructive than they had any reason to autici
pate ; that the debts due them in the United States
cannot be paid, and that, instead of sending them
gold, we are looking to them for a supply to relieve
our distress. Each succeeding steamer will convey
to them additional news of disaster, and, it is
almost needless to say, will set in motion additional
' trains of ruin and misery among them. The great
manufacturing towns, crowded with operatives, will
be swept as with the breath of pestileace, and all
the horrors of extreme poverty we may behold
around us will be as nothing compared with what
will be experienced in those industrial cities,
where labourers aro never blessed with extra
wages, and where there are no resources such as we
find in the great natural wealth of our country to fall
back upon to recuperoae. A kingdom which even iu
the mostprosperons times has its millions of paupers
must at a period of distress following a financial
convulsion exhibit such a mass of misery as will ap-
pal the heart, sicken the soul, and dim the eye of
humanity. Not only will this suffering of the gieit
working population make the strongest appeals to
the charity of those who are untoueh:al by the
storm, but it will probably lead to tumult and
violence, thiaarenitig the very existence of the
Government. The English are a conservative
people, and disposed to be loyal and devoted to
the powers that be. But the desperation cf the
poor drives them to acts of unthinking indiscrimi-
nate fury, and they care not how they direct their
rage to crush and destroy. Here is the home
trouble which now combines wish the bloody
struggle in the East to darken the sky of Britain as
it has seldom been darkened before. Lot us trust
that her energy and fortitude are sufficient to bear
her through the double tempest. Again, we say,
while we are lameuting over our own gloomy
situation, let us not forget the straits in which our
mother land is placed, and let us learn from hor a
lesson of patience and resolution which will render
us truly a heroic peoplo.—Philadelphia Evening
Journo.l.