The Sun. — 1857-06-19 (London, England)

OSIER PAOII9. at Giurgevo, at K tlafat, and at Silistria ! Not a whisper about the execrable massacre of Sinope ! All those events being prior (recollect!) to the advance of the allied fleets into the Euxine through the Channel of the Darda, nelks. Yet the Russian inauguration of the late war is spoken of as a mere sequestration—" us if by a civil process assisted by military aid !" While the British inauguration of their war with the Chinese is held up, on the contrary, to universal odium, as a gratuitous and monstrous violation of all the dictates of Humanity. Remembering that while among the immediate provocations to war in China, were—a wanton outrage upon the British flsg, an insolent refusal of negotiation, an official instigation' at Canton to the murder of our fellow countrymen, the setting of blood-money by YEil upon the heads of Englishmen, the stabbing and throat-slitting of unarmed passengers on board the Thistle, the poisoning of the bread at Hong Kong by some one, no matter by whom, at any rate by some one ! Remembering that while all these atrocities might be enumerated as among the provocations to war in China (to say nothing of the gratuitous violation of a Solemn Treaty of Peace for fourteen years consecutively)—absolutely nothing of the kind could be adduced in explanation of their onslaught upon Turkey by the Russians—no blood-money, no poisoning, no stabbing, no insult to the national flag, no refusal of negotiation ! Remembering this, we put it to our Asiatic pamphleteer if we are not after all, in some degree, justified in designating a turn of the argument like this— ingenious rather than ingenuous?  The second reading of the Ministers' Money (Ireland) Bill was last night carried in the House of Lards by the very slender majority of five. In the Commons the similar stage of the measure passed by no less than 139 majority. There was, therefore, but a very narrow escape from a collision, that might have proved very prejudicial to the interests of the Established Church in Ireland ; and we earnestly hope that, the sense of the hereditary branch of the Legislature having been thus taken, no further effurta may be made either to reject or neutralise the advantages that may fairly be anticipated from the bill passing into a law.  The whole question is one, so far as the Irish Church is concerned, merely of As. d. If the claimants receive the money from any quarter they will be well contented. Indeed, even the recipients would greatly prefer that so fertile a cause of dissention should be removed, and that the interests of the Church should not be jeopardised by so unfortunate a connection. It is however a very different matter :with the payers. They naturally regard it as "an insult and badge of degradation"—oue that should be resisted at any expense, however onerous. Far more than two-thirds of the entire amount is levied in the Irish metropolis, which contributes 3,490/. of the entire charge. Of the trifling balance, 2,2701. is claimed from, not paid by, Cork ; while only 1,4161. is demanded from the other six towns. And this is the mighty sum which is to create ill-feeling and irritation in the centre and south of Ireland  The charge, too, is partial, and that enhances the annoyance. Why should Cork pay when Belfast is exempted I—why should Kinsale be mulcted, while Enniskillen escapes with impunity? Its origin, too, is known, and that by no means a creditable one. It is a bequest of the pious and religious(!) Monarch,