The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LO N DON, TUESDAY

June, some 24,000 Britikth soldiers have sailed
from our shores to the scene of action—that

is to say, about 9,000 in the month Of July,
and about 15,000 more in August. The mere
fact of such an augmentation to the European

troops will discourage *he disaffected, confirm the
wavering, and assure the timid. The prestige of
our name has been fully maintained on all occa-
sions, and it is not too much to say that Euro-
pean troops -would overcome, or conquer, five
times their number of the highly favoured
Brahmins. The 24,000 men, already en
route, will, therefore, do much to restore
the Anglo-Indian Empire, It must also be
borne in mind that they are exclusive of the
troops diverted from their Chinese destination, or
which may be forwarded from the Cape or other
English colonies. It is not too much to say that
7,000 or 8,000 staunch auxiliaries ought to be
received from these sources, so that there will be
an addition of about 32,000 bayonets and sabres,
and still better, of experienced artillerymen and
engineers added to the available resources, in
time for the opening of the second campaign,
on which -so much depends. These
will be in addition to the regular Indian establish-
ment, which consisted of some 33,000 or 40,000
troops, so that we shall be enabled t) take the
field when the proper season arrives, with some
70,000 Europeans, independent of the faithful
natives.

Under such circumstances, there is but little
reason for apprehension, but still it is indispen-
sable that the Government should not relax their
exertions in the slightest degree. It would re-
quire very considerable efforts to ni.Sntain the
furce that will be prepared to take the 41d before
the close of the year, and for some time to come
that force must be fully kept up, without reduc-
tion or diminution. This alone will keep the
Government actively employed, without permitting
any relapse into carelessness or apathy.
But will this be sufficient We think no'.
Every pound now expended will save ten, aye
twenty times the amount at a future period.
There can be no greater mibtake than drawing the
line too finely in the first instance, when any of
the casualties so frequent in war will disturb
every calculation, and convert what might be a
decided triumph into very equivocal success. It
was Mr. GLADSTONE'S notion of defraying the
expenses of the Crimean war out of the current
revenue that quadrupled the expenditure. The
Chancellor of the Exchequer is the last person
who should be made a dictator. In the present
instance a spurious economy is even more unwise.
The whole expenditure will, in the first instance,
fall on the Eist India Company, and by sus-
taining them in an adequate manner, we
shall save our own packAs and preserve the In-
dian Empire. All that is wanting is our "credit,"
and that should be freely given under the circum-
stances. The interests are identical, and every
undue or exces3ive charge now placed on them
must ultimately fall on the United Kingdom—
when the nominal rule of the Company shall be
transferred to Queen VICTORIA, and she becomes
the Sovereign of India, as completely as she is of
Great Britain and Ireland.

The winner in the Session—that's the ques-
tion—and one not very difficult to answer. PAL-
MERSTON has won in a cantor. The February
start proved a false one ; or rather COBDEN,
GLADSTONE, and DISRAELI had coalesced to win
together. The judges could not say which was a
nostril's breadth ahead of the other, for all arrived
in the same division at the same lobby. The race
must be ruu again therefore, says the Premier,
only, the country this time must start the racers.
No sooner said than done. The 3d of March
saw the triumph of the coalition, the 231 saw
them and theirs scampering all over the United
Kingdom, with election writs at their heels, if in-
deed they had not anticipatel the ex-M.P.'s.
Short, sharp and merry was the struggle ; DERBY
and YErs, PAL:VERSION and British honour, were
the cries of the le tders ; PALMERSTON and Reform,
the cry of the people ; PALMERSTON "the man of
Gov," the cry of the Reverends and the Shaftes-
buryites ; PALMERSTON and the Jews, the
cry of the Cay—PALMERSTON and Church Rate
Abolition, the cry of the Dissenters ;
PALMERSTON and something or other, was the cry
of all : even the Tories cried that they meant not
to turn him out, that he had misbehaved to be
sure in the case of YEH v. BOWRING, but they
must now support him as counsel for England. No
wonder, therefore, that he entered the second ses-
sion of 1857 with a majority of 100. The only
wonder is that it was not double the number.

He has won again in the session itself, though
it is not to be denied that he has also lost some-
thing. He is not so strong, politically, as he was.
Ile took the Jews question from Lord JOHN Rus-
SELL with a kind of taunting ap )I)gy that making
a Government measure of it would be more
likely to insure its success. The House of Coin.
mons was known of course to pre,,ent no difficulty,
but PALMERSTON was to do what RussELL hal
never done,.be was to carry the Lords. He did
not even carry all the L)rds of his own cabinet.
That was a very great failure. To tak3 the mea-
sure from Lord JOHN because it could only succeed
as a Government me tsure, then to let one of his
own Cabinet walk out of the L.irds on a division,
and the other Lords cont3inptuously kick the bill
after him, this was a fall. Having made it a
Government measure, to be snubbed by one of
the Tories of his own Cabinet was what none of
our great Minist3rs with a m ljnity of one hun-
dred and forty at his back would have submitte l
to for a moment. PALMERSTON has lost the re-
putation of being mast3r of his own Council, and
lost, for his large majority, and for the country
which elected it, th 3 opinion that it could van-
quish the Lords.
He has lost, too, some ground with th 3 Di=.:-
senters. He not only professed himself a
Church Rate Abolitionist, but distinctly promised
t) bring in a bill this session—at least declared
it to bo the intention of Government to bring in
a bill on the subject ; he has not done it, and
every litigant parish will remember that Inrd
PA.L3IERSTON is nut quite the man they took him
to be. Neither were the Dissenters much pleased
with his giving 10,0001. of the nation's money
for building new churches in London. Seeing
that the said Dissenters are at least as numerous
as the cllsurchn3n, and, as we $33, are building
chapels every day in
.the "destitute" portions of
the inetropli:4, they naturally ask, why should
the nation's money go to the erection of places (f
worship for one sect only ? Perhaps the Premier
would rePly,—Weli, ask for a grant, and we will
give you on,. ~ too. B.ttor, however, we confe,:s,
that the Government should resolutely set its face
against any fresh.eeclesia,stical grants. It has no
money to sipayreo,ua.onudiyetexpale..reie:hceerashtoow,thsetirliaotwEnpriesi
oopalians, like other seas, will contribute all that
is wanted, f
SJUrces.
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Ile has lost something, too, b 9 the ad •
verse vote
on the Superannuation DP, and seve:rAl valuer de-
feats ; it is evident that there are numerous 1,14_
pendeitt Itleinbev,- or, at lelFt, b
_era w
vote as they think, ;viten tlie question is not oho
of PALMERSTON or of DIsEAELI fur their leader ;

were that fairly before them, there is no doubt he
could command his full majority. His team shys

a little, that is all, at present ; they are his team
still, and, on the whole, keep the road.
After all, he is a great gainer. The Indian
mutiny actually leaves him stronger. People
fancy he is the only man just now for that, as he

was the man for YEII, and, before his affAir, for
the CZAR. But for the incompetency of his gen-
tlemanly Indian Minister, India would ensure
his Premiership for some time to come. We
need, however, a dictator at the Board of Con-
trol, who knows his own mind, who will not quail

at the most decide,' measures, who is really ac-

quainted with Indian affairs and with the charac-
ter of Oriental; and on whom England and India
could rely here, as much as they rely on Sir COLIN
CAMPBELL. Lord PALMERSTON must reassure us,.
and strengthen his own position, by giving us a
real Indian Minister.

But we must acknowledge that ecclesiastically,
only enough, Lord PALMERSTON has done most
to content the Liberals, and to advance their
cause. There is the Ministers' Money Act for Ire-
land, which has liberated C ►tholics from a provoking
tax for the support of Protestant, perhaps Orange

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[ministers theE iinburgh A nnnuity Tax and Church

Rates must soon foil iw "Alinisters'Maney," for they
are identical in principle. Then the Burials' Act

has put down episcopal bigotry on a point moat
offensive to the laity of all nations. Their Lord-
ships will no longer be able to require partition
walls between the consecrated and unconsecrated
ground : it also has prohibited the Boards from
charging persons who use the unconsecrated ground
with clerical fees, merely to save tha clergyman
from competition—a most unrighteous tax on dis-
senters, whose ministers, as the rule, are pail by
salaries, and not by fees. The grand achievement
of the Session, no doubt, however, is the two
Acts which withdraw jurisdiction in testamentary
and matrimonial business from the Ecclesiastical
Courts. True, the House of Commons has con-
sented to an inexcusable compromise with the
proctors ; the interest of 2,000,0001. at five per
sent. is to be paid to those gentlemen as " com-
pensation," and that after the very long warning
they have had to set their house in order. •We
think this to be wanton and unprincipled waste of
the nation's money. We have, however, gained the
point of virtually abolishing these Courts Chris-
tian, these hateful creations of the mid Ile age
superstition, when Wills and Matrimonial 0.111,303
were considered the proper perquisite of an avari-
; dolls and ambitious clergy. When Church Rates
, are abolished, these emits will be nearly extinct ;
their jurisdiction over her MAJESTY'S lieges gene-
. rally, in scan lal, brawling in churchyards,
will of course ba transferred to Courts of Law

tnd common sense.
But Lord PA LMERSTON and his session have gained
something better than all—her MAJESTY'S appro-
bation. On Friday morning she went away, indeed,
express for Balmoral, Mr. Denison taking precau-
tions for her safety, which, were they taken for all
of us, would spare us many widows and orphans, and
no end of broken bones and bruises iu the course
of the year. She left her Royal commands, how-
ever, to praise the zeal and assiduity of her Lards
and Gentlemen during a short but un-
usually laborious Session ; to praise them for a
long list of Acts, so long a one as we never heard
from Royalty before ; and first and foremost t
praise them for the liberal provision made for her
daughter, in prospect of her marriage with the
needy family of HOHENZOLLERN. The Premier
ha., indeed, gained much ; it has been his lot to
vote the most magnificent do vry on record to the
Prince Consort of his SOVEREIGN. Perhaps t'ae
nation, however, may wish the Member for L
un-
beth to be his Chancellor of the Exchequer, should
another dowry be required for another R
Princess and another pauper Prince.

The Election for Middlesex is fixed for Thurs-
day next., and it is more than probable that it
will terminate in a walk over f)r the Hui. GE).
BYNG, the only csndidate who has as yet addressed
the electors. Under ordinary circumstances, we
should not regard such a result with much satis-
faction. Bat we are bound to say that. Mr.
BYNCIF offers an exception to the general
rule. It is not merely that he has been
connected, by long existing family ties,
with the constituency, that his uncle becaue
"father of the House of Commons," by virtue of
the favour with which hs was justly regarded by
the electors of the Metropolitan county, which he
represented for more than half a century without
a single interval. These, unquestionably, con-
stitute strong claims ; but unless he could pass
successfully through the ordeal on his own merits
he should not obt tie our support. But Mr. BYNG,
although a young man, has already afforded
unequivocal proofs of the possession of abilrtios of
no common order that may qaslify him for a high
position amongst the rising statesmen, the future
hope of Rigland. He has shown that his views
are sound in almost every respect—that he is a
staunch and thorough-paced Liberal, reg trding
the honour of Great Britain, which he w..aild
never sacrifice under any circumstances—or, to
use his own words, he shall "always bo the
advocate of a spirited foreign policy, shown
in deeds not in words." This fs- as* should be.
It contains the very essence of our dealings with
other nations, to respect ourselves, and we shl,ll
compel them to respect us—to ht it be thorough!y
understood that we shall not submit to wilful and
deliberate insult or injury, and when that is
known we shall have neither insult nor injury to
complain of. _ _

R3specting, India he recognises the imperative
necessity of sending an adequate force to regain
our prestige, not lost, firtunately, but greatly
endangered. B3side3, he shows a manibst leau-
ing towards the transfer of the government from
the incompetent ha,ml3 by which it is now wiellud
to those of Ministers resp-msible to the SOVEV.EIGN
and the Pavia of Great Britain for the manner
in which they exercise their power.

Respecting questions of domestic interest, his
opinions are very satisfact)ry. He is the unflinch-
ing advocate of a large and comprehensive mei;
sure of Parliamentary Ref6rna, inclading an
extension of the Suffrage, THE BALLOT, Aboliti
of the Property Qualification, and some more
equitable apportionment of Electoral Divisimr.
This is a handsome bidding for the supprt of
all classes of refornie.rs. 11.,siths he has been
the strenuous supporter of Hebrew Enanciption
since he had a seat in Parliament, and his trium-
phant return for Middlesex will give a useful hint
to the recalcitrant Peers.

Oo church rates too he is equally clear and ex.-
pli:.tic. lie desires thAr total ab_dition, as welt
as the equalisation of po3r rht3s, cmceiving that
an universal charge of Is. in the pound
would be sufficient for every purpose. When,
in addition to this, we sttAt3 that he d,-
sires a more equitable apportionment of the
property tax, thinking tint none should come
within its scopo who have not at least
1501. per annum, and that proper distinction
should be made. between incomes derived from
lindustry, and from the possession of accumulated
and lei),l.Lied property, we liae stated sufficient to
show that he is a fitting reptesentative for the

County of Middlosex, and we trust that his un-
opposed return will greatly advance the good
causes which he has so strenuously and energeti-
cally advocated.

THE RED SEA TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIIN.

you permit me to rep'y, through your
columns to several communica ions which have
been recei red from persons who are desirous of
taking one, two, or three shires in the Red Sea
Telegraph Company, from me ives entrely uncon-
nected with commercial advantigeq, that the
directors have decided that parties subicrib ng for
five shares (or any less number) may pay up the
full amount at once, to save time and trouble in
regard to calls, and that the hits will probably be
closed in a few days.
I remain, Sir, your ohldient servant,
CHARLES L. PEEL, Secretary.
Red Sea Telegrapti Company (Limited),
8, Moorg,ite-street, Auret,im 31.

ROYAL SURREY GARDEN&

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir, —ln reply to th., letter of Mr. Holmes in
your paper of this da.e I have simply t.) state that
2,0001. out of the 2,548/. 15s. 6d. alleged to have
been paid to me on account of my saliry is repre-
sented by shares in the Royal Surrey Gardens.
Their present value no one is more capable of e3ti-
mating than Mr. Holmes.
Ind ,pendently of these shares, 1 500/. is still due
to ma f. ir salary, in respect of which have receive,'
nothing but a dishonoured bill for 500/. There is
&so due 393/. 15s. 2d. for tile band, and nothing
has been paid towards this save a dishonourel
cheque for 250/., •` Thomas K. Ho!mes,
George Bain, and James Coppouk."
Mr. Holmes has eitimited these " securities" as
money. He will doubtless accept my offer to sell
than to him at a handsome &seoant.
I may add that; in consequence of my remaining
hone to fulfil duties for which I have never been
paid, I was compelled t ) decline the offer of eng
ige-
meats to the amount of upwards of 2,0001.—1 re-
main, sir, yours obediently, JULLIEN.
Aug. 31.