The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-12 00:00:00

AUSTRIA AND AMERICA.

( From the Examiner'.)
The recent appointment of Sir Hamilton Sey-
mour affords a pledge that the war will be prose-
cuted with vigour, no less decided than that since
given by the promotion of Sir William Codrington.
We are glad to welcome such indications ; for that
a nervous dread of offending Austria must have
possessed some members of the Cabinet not merely
since it has been purged of Lord Aberdeen, but
even since it has been delivered from Mr. Glad-
stone and the other members of the little-war party,
began to be strongly suspected.
To what, for example, but our dread of alienat-
ing a power whose fleet we could sweep from the
sea in a fortnight, and which by its own confession
cannot keep an army in the field unless assisted by
enormous subsidies from this country, are we to
attribute our having run the risk of involving our-
selves in a war with the only nation in the world
which (excepting France) we have the slightest
reason to fear ?

Admitting the necessity of a Foreign Enlistment
Bill at all, it is perfectly notorious that in Walla-
chia we could have obtained last year as many re-
cruits as we desired, without offering any bounty,
and without even incurring the expense of convey-
ing them to the seat of war. We should thus have
raised men animated with a deadly hatred against
our enemies, the blessings of whose" protection"
they had so recently tasted ; and sprung from a race
which, if it has not in late times distinguished itself
in war, has at least in very difficult circumstances
managed always to maintain a quasi-independence.
No one acquainted with the country can doubt
that the inhabitants of the mountainous region
called Little Wallachia would at once have been
found, even without previous training, very useful
auxiliaries, and that the other parts of Wallachia
and Moldavia might have furnished at least fifty
thousand men convertible during the winter into
excellent troops. Of the advantage of acting with
such Itoinnan axuiliaries iu Bessarabia—which the
protecting power annexed to her empire only in 1812,
when she partitioned Moldavia—we need hardly
speak. The invading army would have been re-
ceived as liberators. Ismail might have been in-
vested, a free outlet might have been obtained for
that superabundance of wheat existing in the Prin-
cipalities which is now kindly prevented by Austria
from reaching the English market, and Odessa might
have been threatened from the laud as well as from
the sea.

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But supposing we still doubted the proWess of
the Roumans, Iva might surely have accepted the
offer of the Poles. There was only one condition
attached to the proposal—that they should not be
confounded with the troops of other nations ; yet
it is understood that this condition led to a rejec-
tion of their offer. The reasoning in both cases of
course has been that, whether wo took into our
pay a Wallachian or a Polish legion, Austria would
certainly feel offended.
But when did excess of timidity fail to bring in-
crease of danger along with it ? Just see into
what peril our fears have boon plunging us. Wo
have not merely incurred enormous expense in
bribing Germans to enlist by means of a high
bounty, in constructing barracks in Heligoland,
and in conveying to the seat of war these dear-
bought and half-unwilling heroes. We have had
to suffer the indignity of seeing, without protest,
our Consuls arrested and tried by the tribunals of
the countries in which they exercise their func-
tions, because in pursuance of their instructions
from the Foreign-office they had contravened the
law ; and we have been brought to the very verge
of open quarrel with America.
The excuse made for our Ministers is, that they
were not aware of the existence of a considerable
party in the States looking upon Russia with no
unfriendly eyes. But why were they not aware of
'it ? For what do we carefully select, and highly
pay, our Ministers but that they shouldpossess
itad
such necessary knowledge ? We tliougl
been notorious that for years Russia has been seek-
ingi
to conciliate American travellers (usually per-
sons of influence in their country)
believe the
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with been able to inoculate with it to some extent
sections of their non-Celtic fellow citi
zens.
Yet I)
Yet now wo are told that all this falls like a clap
of thunder on Downing-street, where they have
been believing as complacently in the amiable and
inalienable dispositions of America, as a little while
ago they believed in the friendly eagerness of
Austria.

We began byaspproving of the new appointment
to Vienna : let
u
most
terimed pbeyrtan
in Europe.
close by asking whether a change
is less necessary at Stockholm. We have no hesi-
tation in saying
at that this mission
eis
while cir-
cumstancesemplo 3
,ed Yet it is held by a gentleman who,
diplomatically a few years ago atVienna,neithervory
cally nor very sagaciously
expressed his
regrets at the triumph
of the constitutionalists in
Ilu
ngary ; the embassy to which he belonged
Laving •
previously reported that the insurrection
was quelled, at the very time when it wasassuming
the most • t. gigan ic proportions. Whatare the chances
that we shall not be told a year or two hence that our
Foreign-office was not aware of the strong feeling
which pervaded the people in Sweden, and was
shared even by the Royal family, until too late to
take advantage of it ? There exists at Stockholm a
section of the nobility despised in their own coun-
try and looking for advancement and honours to
Russia alone. What security is there 0,
--at the
English minister will not be misled by these per-
sons as to the intentions and feeling of the Swedish
government and people, just as he Was duped i
n
'49 by the Austrian camarilla with regard to the
true character of the Hungarian war 2 I
s a true
disciple of Lord Westmoreland, an a
vowed admire
of the Austrian Government, and.
that England ought to court theone who believes
alliance of the
despotic powers, a proper exponent at the present
crisis of the views entertained
I ministry of England ? by the people an

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which purpose 375,000 reales have been assigned by the
Government. Tenders will be received by the Spam 0
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