The Sun. — 1859-07-09 (London, England)

STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE. The astound ing incident of the Armistice concluded so very  suddenly and unexpectedly on Thursday between the Emperors of France and Austria furnished the noble lord with an all-sufficient reason for the post ponement, sine die, of the intended discussion upon the delicate subject of the late diplomatic negotiations. The ventilation of this elaborate and voluminous correspondence in Parliament might unquestionably—would most probably—be in the very last degree inopportune. Every one recognised this upon the instant directly the news was  received yesterday of this startling, and, so far as the conqueror is concerned, most magnanimous  Armistice. Lord STRATFORD, we may rest assured,  was the very first to appreciate the advisability o:  passing his promised motion by sub silentio. In the  interests of peace, in the hope of its eventual if not speedy realisation—this Parliamentary reticence was in every respect the course among all courses the most judicious and advisable under existing circumstances. There cannot be an instant's doubt that perhaps the most experienced and gifted diplomatist of our generation needed no prompting whatever to lead him to the recognition and adop tion of the wisest policy of all, that of total silence  for the time being, upon the very theme upon which he himself (and with him many an ardent sym pathiser in his views) was burning to expatiate. Let not those factious politicians, however, who have wriggled themselves into power, and place, and patronage, so dishonestly by a party trick, as mean, and paltry, and utterly despicable as ever yet has been witnessed in the struggles of placemen and partisans to get from the cold shade of oppo sition to the sunshine of administrative authority —let not the present occupants of the Treasury bench console themselves for one moment with a serious belief that the threatened exposure of  their malevolence and untruthfulness in regard to Lord MALMESBURY, and his policy throughout the whole of these difficult and delicate diplomatic negotiations, has been now at once got rid of altogether. That eclaircissement has only been delayed. The time must come, sooner or later, when, both in the Lords and the Commons, the Blue-book now hushed up and hustled out of the way, out of motives the most pure and the most honourable, because simply, as we have said, both prudent and patriotic—the time must arrive, we say, when the whole of these transactions will, in the inevitable  course of events, be dragged forth into the broad  light of debate in both branches of the imperial Legislature. And Parliament will be then constrained in honest truthfulness to reverse its precipitate and most mistaken judgment,  in reference to the foreign policy of the late DERBYITE Administration. Upon that policy the recent Administration was notoriously defeated— or, rather it should be said, not upon the policy itself, but upon its perverse and wilful misrepresentation. That misrepresentation, however, it must be remembered, was only possible when the new Parliament was assembled—for the one simple reason that the negotiations were allowed to remain for the most part simply conjectural from the diplomatic correspondence not being then [as it clearly ought to have been] collected together betimes, and promptly and most opportunely published. The non-publication of this vitally important correspondence simultaneously with, if not anterior to, the assembling together of the newly-elected Parliament, was—these are the only words for it—a deliberate act of Ministerial suicide on the part of the late Administration. It was not until after the adverse decision of the House of Commons had been arrived at—a decision grounded principally if not entirely upon a misapprehension or misrepresentation of the nature of the policy pursued by Lord MALMESBURY, in the course of the negotiations—it was not until then (when it was altogether too late) that the Italian Bluebook was passed through the hands of the  Parliamentary printers and laid by order of her MAJESTY before both Houses of the lature. The erroneous verdict had then not merely been pronounced, but the unjust sentetnce had been carried summarily and precipitately into exemtion. It is only then, when the victim of this sham( less manceuvre on the one part, and of this pervei .se and incomprehensible blunder on the o Cher —has beer. long since dead and buried, that the false Ni ritness, the venal advocates, the unscrupulous ant; partisan judges, and the remorseless ex ccutioners are proved as clearly as anything cal i be prov, d to have acted wholly in error, and to 1 have done )v.o with suspiciously eager precipitation ! The i question still remains, of course, to pu;zzle  • * ' tk...1, Ip-' 0 "4',,T ~,u I•M4 , • 44. , imi,''.lolV k. =4O ' ' '., ..±-i • ''' - - V-111114.1.... z;?-i, iiiii...\ ~.".4, ,„ --:.:_st••• -.. , -,:•,,,0fe',0, "."'"' a 'AO 'ajerfirlf•,,,',.,4? •M ° 4 1' " '''"' ' sIM°I-1 ' ' 'l.'4',