The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-13 00:00:00

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
TO-D&Y, SATURDAY, Jan. 13, will be produced an original
adap ation of Casimir Delavigne'a celebrated Historical Play of
LOUIS THE ELEVENTH. Louis the Eleventh, King of France,
Mr. C. Kean.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1855.

Not more anxiouslygof the mystic
did BnrsuAZZAßawait
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prophet's decypherincha r c characters
than all England now listens for the Allied inter-
pretation of the Four Points. Are we made fools
of or not ? Are we sold or not ? The solicitude
is now almost equally divided between the trenches
before Sebastopol and the conference-room at
Vienna. Go into what circle we will, hearken to
the chatting of porters over their cups, of gentle-
men at their clubs, or questions and answers ex-
changed in the scant intervals of business, and the
uneasiness of all is found to turn on the question—
What was the " interpretation" given by the
Vienna prophets, and caught at by the St. Peters-
burg despot ? Was the razing of Sebastopol part
of it or not ? Every Englishman of every grade
feels that he has a stake in this. His judgment
is satisfied that it is a necessity, and his feelings
of national honour would bring the blood into his
cheeks if he could believe that any " interpreta-
tion" was so base as to sound a retreat from the
Crimea with the fortifications of Sebastopol stand-
ing. And well may every man quake. On the
one side he has an Autocrat who cannot
be supposed to have consented to his own dis-
grace and enfeeblement ; on the other, a Govern-
ment whose Premier has ti vhined about peace
when it seemed hopeless, and may be presumed
to have allowed very mischiorous interpretations
in order to get it. Between both is Austria,
without a single care for anything but trimming
the balance to save herself, let who will go over-
board.
At Paris, at Vienna, evelysthere, indeed, the
anxiety seems universal. Every indication of vi-
gour in the pending hostilities is noted as showing
that peace is not hoped for by the Allies, but then
again it may equally be attvibuted to the uni-
versal conviction that Peace it salt' will depend upon
the energy with which the war is prosecuted.
Such a double view was taken, for instance, of
the EMPEROR'S dismissing the 1 rieperial Guard from
Paris with the charge to go :ultd gather the lau-
rels which yet remained to, be won in the
Crimea. Possibly some Fren c;h State document
may enlighten us sooner ; if mot, our representa-
tives will, we trust, demand 5a Iformation on the
23d. There may be inconveniences in discussing
military or naval arrangements :in Parliament; all
we can do is to commit them to trustworthy hands,
and respect the secrecy necessar r against an enemy.
In this case, however, secret 3y can only serve
the enemy, enabling him to ob lain from a pliable
Cabinet what he never could ha:vte filched from the
nation it represents. For ours el ves we strongly
inclin© to think that the "ii iterpretation" is
another Vienna Note. That nsy thing explicit is
said about Sebastopol, that tl to " diminution,"
and, perhaps, the "causing to lease," (faire
cesser) the Russian domiji;ition in the
Black Sea may be inclu df d, but that
there it stops. But what a pretty security
were it for the future to leave tit e pirate's nest as
unassailable as over, and ready at any convenient
time to be filled afresh with. sa- accessors to the
murderous, yet skulking, heroes a I Sinop° ! Rue

sia was cunning (supposing here to mean peace;

in trying to get preliminaries set. tied before the
British Parliament meets ; and 'te . set our Minis-

terialists and Opposition, if she c 1, to fight their
battle over an accomplished fact., After all, how-

ever, no mortal can tell whether tiLe mad Monarch
is not merely endeavouring to gum time, to put
the Allies seemingly in the wrong, and then to

wreak his vengeance on Austria ef tpecially.
The adhesion of Piedmont to the Allies, men-
tioned in our last, is an event of pleasing inter-
est ; she will, perhaps, not be alb le to take any
direct part in the War, yet thei verdict of the
most politically liberal of Contiw3ntal States, of
the Government which has lon,g, been pursuing
such a steady, respectable courtie of reform in all
her institutions, must have its weight. It must,
if the War continues, rouse the blood of the
Scandinavian nations to see a State like Pied-
mont sharing the honours of au Allianc6in which
they are far more interested. Belgium, mercenary
by nature, must yet blush for her position ;
the German States, and, above all, their would-
be leader, Prussia, must feel more than ever the
ignominy of their position. An unasked and

honourable act like this nau:it have some effec

wherever anything of honour is still left in the

breasts of courts or people.

Will it have any

weight in the United States of America ? Every
liberal European, indeed every nobler-minded Ame-
rican, must be ashamed of :much of the Anglo-
Saxon exhibition of feeling across the Atlantic in

respect to this contest. It seems to resolve itself

" wishing that Englaltd may get a lick-
Heedless of their old ally in the