The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-22 00:00:00

ROYA L OLYMPIC THEATRE.

Lessee and Mr:lager, Mr. A. Wigan.
THIS EVENING. JAN. 22,
vIII Ie presenteil the Hely Coir.edietta, celled TIT FOR TAT, hi
widen 3fessrs. F. Robson, A. Wigan, and Miss Maskell will applar.
A:ter whi,h, a nrw Fain' Extrtirrui,anza. entitled THE YELLOW
j'w ANO T N ILE R r, THE GOLD MINES. Characters
TY.".• ""hww, Sirs .7117ia St. Geo-we, Miss F. Ormonde,
Ise
;Eton, MIRA Ilretelry, and Mrs. Fitzallan.
esr elude with A W I FE'...; JOURNAL.

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ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manner, Mr. 'Wm. Cooke.
THIS DAY, MONDAY, at Two o'clock, a MORNING FEE-
FORMAN CE.
The BATTLE of the ALMA and the Scenes in the Circle.
TIT IS EVENING,
Fourteenth week, the suceess'ul Equidrama, the BATTLE of the
ALMA, with its graphic picture of war.
After which, the unrivalled SCENES in the CIRCLE, Invented
and arranged by Mr. William Cooke.
To conclude with the new Comic Pantomime called GULLIVER
and the LILLIPUTIA.NS ; or, Harlequin and Isritanala.
Boa-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mfr. W
West. Acting Manger, Mr. W. 11. Cooke. Equestrian Director
Mr. W. Cooke, Jun.

LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1855.

No man can assume the appearance of amiability
better than the CZAR whenever it may suit his
purpose so to do. He thoroughly understands
the art of cajolery, and can wheedle men of all
ranks and positions--from. the " Angel of Peace"
to a member of. the Peace Society, or a German
Grand Duke to a democratic Yankee slave-ovnter.
He knows the effect of a word of praise distributed
in due season, and does not spare his approval,
nor, we believe, other. no less potent influences,
when he has any object to achieve.

The Grand Dukes of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz
and Mecklenburgh-Schwerin are at present the
subjects of enthusiastic laudation on account of
" their noble attitude"—evinced through their
representative, M. D'Orammr—at the Germanic
Diet. This "noble attitude" was one of complete
isolation. It was striving to impress on the Diet
the policy of abstention, so that the AUTOCRAT
might act as he thought proper, without any
danger of producing collective:action on the part
of Germany. This is what he has been striv-
ing to inculcate on every other nation—what
he endeavoured to impress on the Western
Powers, on Austria, and others, All he wanted was
to deal with the Turks first—to be permitted to
establish himself at Constantinople in the first
instance, and then to dispose of the other Powers
in detail.

The Western Nations, however, did not per-
ceive the " nobility" of such an "attitude."
They did not appreciate the benefit of being " the
last" to be devoured. Nor could they remain
quiescent during the intended triumph of might
over right—the unconscientious absorption of the
territories of an independent Sovereign into the
overgrown dominions of the would-be Dictator of
Europe—the master of the world, if he could
get at America—to subjugate those whom he now
flatters to the top of their bent.
Austria, too, has, it appears, excited his wrath
by her accession to the treaty of the 2d December,
which was apparently just known at St. Peters-
burg at the time, and was possibly the cause of
this laudatory proclamation. It would signify little
how greatly he exalted his creatures and relatives
—both being completely under his thumb, and
the son of one of these puppets being married to
his own daughter. But these compliments have
an ulterior motive—the shaft is intended to reach
a little further than the mark at which it is ap-
parently aimed. There is a covert blow against
Austria when he speaks of " the complications
which the Cabinet of Vienna labours more and
more to accumulate." There is also, and pro-
bably the chief subject of the letter, a hint to
CliequotP to behave himself, la-which ease he
might also receive the coveted distinction of the
Imperial praise. It also shows the duplicity and
insincerity of the CZAR in affecting a readiness to
conclude a peace on the terms demanded by the
Allies. If such were his real intention he
would not at the moment have put forward
such a manifesto. The two Grand Dukes
would have been satisfied with his thanks at a
later period, or in another form. But he could
not, in such case, have insinuated that Germanic
interference might " force out of the existing war
a struggle that shall involve the whole of Europe."
It is well that our Ministers and diplomatists
should understand this proclamation in its true
light, so as to avoid the deceptive language that
may probably be indulged in at the Conferences
in Vienna, to which Prussia so urgently seeks
admission.

The representatives of the kingdom meet on
Tuesday, and therefore the select of Manchester
met last Friday. It is their settled practice now,
a habit coitracted in the thriving days of the
League, to apprise the country and the Ministry
of Manchester politics just in time for the coming
sessions. Mr. MILNER. GIBSON was the lion of
the meeting, not only as senior member, but as
being a fresh speaker; his fellow-member and Mr.
Comoro-, the Manchester nominee for the West
Riding, having already fully expressed their
♦iews. This time there was no row. The ad-
mission was by ticket, and the meeting seemed
disposed to applaud the leading speakers. Mr.
GIBSON is, of course, a politician of much wider
range of view thaw the great Leaguers; yet it was
evident that he was not a little influenced by the
company in which he found himself. On the great
question of the day he did not rise above a Rus-
SELL interpretation of the Four Points.

Mr. GIBSON first briefly confessed the Parliamen •
tary sins of last session. They were sins of omission.
Amongst these ho did not number the dropping of
the Reform Bill—that he considered wise. But
they did not pass a Bribery Bill without depriving
it of all its efficacy, they did not pass a Jewish
Emancipation Bill, they left London with but
three members, they refused the ballot, refused
to abolish church rates aid ecclesiastical courts,
they spent their time in not-doing; indeed as Mr.
G. expresses it, the " session was an abortion."
One promise he gave for next session, that the
Newspaper Stamp Duty is to be abolished, and
those of our readers who do not need the services
of the post for their newspaper, are not to pay
for them. If Mr. G. speaks from knowledge,
this may account for certain terrific onslaughts on
the Cabinet by a journal which not long ago
treated them as the SoLomaNs of the day, though
now apparently anxious to annihilate them before
the budget is announced.

The war, however, was of necessity the grand
topic. The best the speaker could say for his
peace-at-any-price colleagues was, that even Lord
PALmEnsToN was credibly reported to have em-
ployed paid agency to spread the same views of
English policy through the press of the 'United
States and that of France and Italy. If one was
guilty of luring Russia into the Principalities, by
publishing the aversion of England to war, so
was the other. Perhaps the WrKoFF
be the subject of a Parliamentary agency ni9,y
question to the
Home Secretary. Whataver answer he
(rives it
will have no bearing on the merits of the case.
More to the purpose was Mr. GIBSON'S attack on
the "balance of power" theory ; it involved, he
considered, two fallacies—first, that particular
territories should be governed to all time by par-
ticular dynasties, without regard to the wishes of
the people ; secondly, that by informing a power

like Turkey that you would help him whenever
he got into trouble, you relieved him from the
only proper means of strengthening his own king-
dom, and securing his independence, that is, a
sound system of policy at home.
Now it is certain that, cursed as our aristocratic
Cabinet may be with the love of dynasties, Eng-
land has no affection for them. We believe that
there is not a dynasty, except that of the SULTAN,
East of the Rhine, which all England would not
rejoice to see packed off to the Antipodes to-
morrow ; not a village in the country where some
one would not be found to pay for ringing the
bells if Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Naples, ttc., were
clean swept of Hohenzollerns, Hapsburgs, Popes,
and Bourbons for ever. Even our Cabinet is
compelled to ally itself with a novas homo in the
Imperial sense. The balance of power now
contended for by the nations of France and Eng-
land is that which is threatened by the barbarian
Tartar dynasty ; there is not a people of Europe
which has spirit enough to sigh for liberty, that
does not pray for the success of the Allies. All
" the suppressed nationalities " feel that Russia
is the great suppressor, and the right arm of other
suppressors. Assuredly it is not in accordance
with the wishes of all peoples that the ROMANOFF
dynasty should drag Turkey into his own scale.
In regard to preventing the SULTAN'S relying on
social reform for increased strength, admitting the
general correctness of Mr. GrnsoN's principle, yet
the fact is that the SULTAN and the best of Tur-
key's leaders are earnestly desirous to strengthen
the kingdom in this very way, that they have
made great advances, that those advances are the
object of loathing and dread at St. Petersburg,
and that the SULTAN needs the support of generous
treatment by civilised powers to enable him to
counter-work the plots of Mussulman Tories and
of degraded Greeks, egged on by the hypocritical
tyrant of the North.

Mr. GIBSON, and in this Mr. COBDEN after-
wards concurred, seems to think that the terms
of peace are so far settled and accepted by Russia
that they are practically beyond recall ; and that
even the capture of Sebastopol would have no
effect upon them. We suppose him to mean that
nothing would be rescued from the grasp of Russia
even if we gained that city. Lord JOHN RUSSELL
has given forth the dictum that _Russia is to loss
nothing, not a single acre of stolen territory. Oh 1
the age of petty statesmen ! Well, aristocracy
and its pet despots may yet find that they have
only delayed the inevitable explosion which will
vindicate the rights of the long town-trodden.
The hon. member is not distrustful of the sincerity
of Russia. Nor are we. We believe her to beper-
fectly sincere in purposing to lie and cheat through
thick and thin. She means to accept all that
suits her of the Four Points, be it nothing, little,
or much ; be it to gain a little time, or to ride
over all England on the shoulders of Lord JOHN
RUSSELL. Mr. G. is thankful Odessa was spared ;
so should we have been if mercy to savages had
not resulted in carnage to our troops. The men
who planned the expedition to Sebastopol were
madmen to leave the stores and military facilities
of Odessa. On the whole, the Manchester meet-
' ing will not do so much for peace as the Leeds
meeting. It will rather tend to encourage the
great disturber of the peace. It was, however,
but a ticket meeting, and the leaders did not
even there venture on a resolution.