The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-10 00:00:00

TEE FOREIGN LEGION.

DOVER, Wednesday morning.—At last the War-office
appears determined to set to work in earnest, as far,
at least, as concerns the foreign legion. We stated on
Monday that depots were forming at Shorncliffe and
Heligoland for the embodiment of 5,000 men, and that
General Stutterbeim had been appointed commander of
the force, Colonel Kinlock inspector, ned Colonel
Wooldridge commander of brigade ; both the last-named
officers having distinguished themselves in Spain, where
they held high command in the British auxiliary legion.
Having for some time past strongly advocated
the expediency of employing some of the distin-
guished officers who served under General Evans,
we are now glad to have it in our power to state
that already strong evidence has. been shown
and
what may be done by chiefs having the capacityaa
.1
the knowledge requisite for the important duty of
cran'cli
organisation. On Monday, Colonel Wooldri:dge ii
upon the mayor, and the proper authoritdiesarret.
form them of the momentarily expecteus
step arrived a
ight
to_rin:
portion of the force, and requesting that
confusion
: possible
he taken as would create as littlers f
by the influx of a body of foreigners,
j mayor promised to
canud we need hardly
add that our able and respect
afford every assistance in his power in the matter. Steps
were also taken to
and obtainf
from the contractors such a
supply of provision creature comforts (what a con-
trast to Portsmouth)
as were necessary to render the
troops on their
7fortable as possible. Go-
vernment vs we d arurinsteatsancod
have since sent down order a
coffee and sugar gratis, for a week, until
that in a
for a supply
men get accustomed to their position, and we doubt
the
not, from the energy already displayed,
, 0
cx)
men,very
short time we shall see at Dover a force of 5
well officered, well organised, and ready to take the
,field anywhere. This is as it should be.

THE NEW NOVEL,
" THE HE
"Emilia. W HEIRESS OF LLAUGHTON,'
by the author of
thoress of these volumes has frequently
&exch.—ihiTtehde
haeur-
peculiar qualifications as a writer of fiction, and in every
instance increased her reputation ; but we were not pre-
pared for the impassioned delineations which abound in
"The Heiress of Naughton," nor inclined to believe
that she would surpass her " Emilia Wyndham," the
power of which made her reputation at once. Never-
theless, we can only do justice to the matter before us
by saying that, we consider this tale to be the best which
the authoress has yet written.—Messenger.
THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM'S MEMOIRS OF THE COURT
AND CABINETS OF GEORGE 111., FROM ORIGINAL FAMILY
DOCUMENTS.—(VoIs. 3 and 4, completing the work.)—
The present volumes (says the Athenreum) exhibit the
same features as the former portion of the series. The
general reader is entertained, and the reader for histori-
cal purposes is enlightened. Of their value and impor-
tance there cannot be two opinions. There are abun-
dant revelations of interest to arrest attention in many
of these papers. On the characters of George iv. and
the Duke of Wellington there are some very valuable
letters. In Court scandals the affairs of the Duke of
York and Mrs. Clarke are brought under notice ; and in
what we may designate as public scandals, the "horrors
of routine" receive abundant illustration in the letters
about the Walcheren expedition and on the Peninsular
war. Our extracts sufficiently show the high interest
belonging to these volumes.

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it is identical with that of Poland to the Allies.
Trey would each have to part with their smaller
shares of the Polish robbery, but they would have
an ample reward. They, as well as Poland, would
regain their liberty. They are now both of them
mediatised dependents on Russia. They live in
slavish fear of their over-grown military neighbour.
With consummate folly they have acquired only
cornparativelysmall portions of Poland, adding little
or nothing to their strength. Russia, on the
contrary, has gained her sole military strength
against Europe by her vast seizures of Polish ter-
ritory. Poland independent would be a shield to
Austrian and Prussian independence. Poland
enslaved is the sole cause of their present slavery.
We believe that all honest Germans would
soon realise this as fully as France and England
now do. Once France was the only dread of the
worthy Teutons. From France, however, they
had a civilisation to learn, and they did learn it.
Russia has nothing to teach them—her only boon
is their political subjugation to the odious tyrants
whose tottering thrones she bolsters up. Russia
is the nightmare of Germany, the death of her
liberties, and the life of her despots. And for all
this political infamy she has no compensation to
offer. No arts, no science, no literature, no genius,
nothing but the beauties of her serfdom and her
despotism, and the terrors of her military hordes
and fastnesses. Surely all Germans who have a
soul in their bodies must long to see their de-
graded Courts set free from the humiliating fear
of the Czar. If the Russians choose to deify their
despot, Germans at least believe in the First
Commandment. In truth the " god of the Rus-
sians" is the veritable SATAN of the Germans—of
the people we mean—and they would bless the
exorcist who should banish the fiend.

We have always held that Poland is the true
key to the present question ; and of course are
gratified with any indication of our leaders being
driven to the same conclusion. They have known

it, of course, long ; but " drifting" is the states-
manship, as Lord CLARENDON has told us, of our
Cabinet. Happy will it be for all Europe if events
carry our rudderless Government to the aid of
Poland.

The protocols so anxiously looked for, but so
unfortunately kept back, in consequence of " the
temporary illness of a person in the Foreign-office,
is whose department it was to prepare transla-
tions," have at length been published. They are
indeed important documents, throwing much light
on the recent proceedings at Vienna, containing
as they do not merely the propositions put for-
ward by the different parties, but even the views
Last September we drew attention to a remark- a-id opinions of the several Plenipotentiaries.
able "Letter to the Emperor of the FRENCH on Their appearance renders the interesting and im-
the Eastern Question, and the re-establishment of portant question completely ripe for discussion.
the Independence of Poland." It was a transla- We know what has been offered on either side,
tion from the French, and the author, according and what rejected, and may therefore consider
whether the instructions furnished to the Plenipo-
to universal and uncontradicted report, is the X
tentiaries by the Western Powers are in accord-
DR PERSIGNY, who is now appointed ambassador
to our Court. At the sameltime Count WALEWSKI, ante with the voice of public opinion in
Franco and England, and likely to lead to a per-
whose very name must guarantee his sympathy
with the cause of the Poles, succeeds M. DROUYN manent and honourable peace. We may also
DE L'HuYs as the Minister for Foreign Affairs in judge of the spirit of Russia, as evinced
by her rejection of these exceedingly moderate
France. Concurrently with these official indica- .
propositions, and of her inflexible determination
times, we find the services of the Polish prisoners
agaihst their oppressor accepted, and a Polish ' to persist, at any sacrifices, in the aggressive po-
Legion, alas ! too tardily, in course of formation. licy which she has so long maintained, and for
Ile the pamphlet we have alluded to, out readers which she has obtained such memorable notoriety.
may remember that M. DE PERSIGNT shows with 1 We cannot help thinking that she has been greatly
clearness and vigour that an independent Poland I influenced by this undue moderation on the part
is the grand offensive sentiment which would im- ' of her adversaries, which she very naturally as-
part to the Allied efforts "a passion" which would i : tribes to " timidity" on their part, and an ear-
be more than a match for the religious fanaticism i nest determination to obtain peace at any price,
on which Russia so much relies ; and that its or on any terms, however humiliating or preg-
realisation
nant with danger to the future tranquillity of
realisation as a fact is the only possible means of
ii
' Europe. Nothing but such a conviction could
depriving Russia of her present offensive power
againstcivilisedEurope. Weconsider, he says, "the induce Prince GORTSCHAKOPP to propose such
t
recognition by a common declaration', on the part ;terms, which would, in fact, be cheaply purchased
of the Allies, of the legitimate existence of the Polish i by Russia by her entire expenditure on account
nationality" as the masterpiece of Allied policy. , of the War up to the present moment ; and
Before this he conceives, if accompanied, of course, the presumptive insolence whereof was en-
by suitable military measures, the complications 1 hanced by the cool impertinence with
of the case would attain a prompt and ready so- I which, even at the last moment, when his
lution. We may surely hope, then, that the ii suggestions were considered utterly inadmis-
new French Ambassador and Foreign Minister 11 sible by the other parties, he declared that " the
are indications that LOUTS NAPOLEON, at I
Itl, Plenipotentiaries of Russia had amply redeemed
least, is favourable to a bold and worthy policy. il their word by proposing several plans of solu-
We may be told, perhaps, that we have with tion 1" They were, indeed, extraordinary plans,
Sebastopol and the Crimea, enough on our hands which could not in any respect be considered as
at present. Perhaps quite enough to do, but cer- I based on a limitation of theßussian preponderance
tainly not enough to fill our plans and thoughts. . in the Euxine ; but, on the contrary, seemed to
" Ever too late" has been the ruin of everything ! regard the impending danger to Turkey to be on
hitherto ; our policy, thanks to that caressed 1 the side of her present Allies, and which could
drag-chain Austrits, has always as yet been quite
, be averted by the maintenance of a powerful Russ
Sian fleet ; or, in other words, that in accordance
as much behind the occasion as our military and
I with the old fable, the sheep should accept the
commissariat management. Had PERSIGNY'S
advice been adopted the day he gave it, we be-
; protection of the friendly wolves against those
lieve that, despite all our administrative short- , dangerous traitors, the watch dogs !
comings, Sebastopol would have fallen ere now. i' It is unnecessary at present to refer to the pro-
Polish nationality recognised, and the Polish flag ' ceedings at the earlier conferences, before the third
floating before Sebastopol, would have disorganised ~ and most important point came under discussion.
the plans of Russia, have stopped her reinforce- y A virtual postponement took place on the 26th
mints far away from the Crimea, and have trans- ; March, in order to await instructions from the
iersed her best soldiers from the garrison of
Cabinet of St. Petersburg, for although meetings
ji
Sebastopol to our trenches. If it be now adopted, ! took place on the 29th March,and on the 2nd and
though too late to recal the past, it will not be r, 9th April, nothing practically was effected beyond
tie late to give a new, and we believe invincible, rho adjournment of the discussion of the Fourth
vigour to the future. , Point, and the intervention of M. DROUYN DE
,
Suppose the Allies to act on M. DE PERSIGNY'S L'HUYS and Au PASHA, who showed that they
suggestion, what would be the results ? Take the were authorised by their respective Governments
Allies themselves first. In England and France to take part in the discussions. On the 17th
the universal feeling would be one of deep satis-
it April the diplomatic struggle was renewed, and
faction. It would be a relief to the national I, from that moment the specious fallacies put for-
conscience of both countries. The burden of I, ward by Prince GORTSCHAKOPP proved, beyond
half a century—the guilt of complicity in the '; the possibility of doubt, the duplicity of Russia
blood of a murdered kingdom—would be taken .4
al) initio, and that she had not the slightest in-
off at once. This War is but the visitation of our ten tions of concluding a binding Treaty on the
fathers' sin, in tolerating the dismemberment of terms to which she had clearly and unequivocally
Poland, upon us their children. We are pain- assented. The-Conferences might then and there
fully conscious of its lying upon us till we avenge I have been summarily broken off, for we
the oppressed, and punish the rampant oppressor ; • at once declared that " Russia would not
and we should bear the needful sacrificesof the War consent to the strength of her navy being re-
with the light-heartedness of one who frankly irl stricted to any fixed number, either by Treaty or
atones for long-neglected duty. Every soldier, iin any other manner !" This was practically a
and commander em ployed in the War would disavowal of the very foundation of all these ne-
b3o,
feel. gotiations •; and it is only to
that he was engaged in a really holy essuse. be regretted that
Celatraat spirit with • which we should
pay, i Lord JOHN RUSSELL and M. DROUYN DE L'HUYS,
the
soldiers
olik
ers fight, for such a cowardly, we
, in place of expressing " regret and surprise," and
must isa„,
such a recreant, peace as Lord JOHN
declaring that " the chances of success attending
' :'
atoi
wonuld
Pted at Vienna, and for the restor- 1
' -of have a
ene I -19 negotiations for peace were greatly dimi-
a,
"lulled and noble nation ! A I :nislied," did not at once protest against the in-
nation, too, whose restoration alone
can stave off
.1 Hincerity of Russia and the gross deception prac-
the recurrence oe
destruction has theseinvolve cruel
wars in which its -
' used by that Power, and at once break off all
_d us. A
constitute Poland would di resolve to re-
elate of both to consider the propositions
1 further negotiation. In plat© of so doing they,
and fire all the nobler sentim
disburden the conscience, 1 •r.owever, took time
and France. It is suer °f
t England Ito be submitted, and, at the next meeting,
0 add, that 1 Drought forward the propositions which were so
Turkey would hail it as her only '
effectual Re- contumeliously rejected on the part of Russia.
curity.
These propositions were of a twofold character.
B,ut how would our determination affA
ect , The first related to the admission of the Sublime
Austria and Prussia ? One thing is certain, 111 Porte to the advantages of the system established
False i between
seenng that the
worse enemies it could not make them,
is all we have 1, • the different European States, and de-
alliance and treacherous neutrality
At open war with '
shall form an •Ottoman empire henceforward
integral part of that system, with a
hitherto gained from them.
By I
have
known what to do. mutual ni a
them we should I 1 "taking to respect its territorial in-
weakest peace Prussia has shielded Russia on her t egrity and iode
. From this just and
virzleskadestes.ide,
Aaunadtrhialss almost nivalliefineadbloinegr croesitnly. :repalsloiduab,l,ebennneePueillocluenee
Russia backed out. She
prepared to
; 4 consider
force
T ker- 1 Lo dre territorial inter, -t any act hostile
eri
menta to march from the Danube to .13 y ttB a question
of Euro-
man, can never be (• ; peau interest, but not to regard
s'aroatten. We do not dread
thern as etteraies so mucla lying This illusory and ridiculousit as
a case of
as and treacherous war." ei •
friends, Dut what is th • • _..as, however, passed over with a - stinction
tar interest ? 11- sser, -1'
truPle express

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1855.

Sion of regret by the other Plenipotentiaries,
probably because it was already clear that
Russia would peremptorily reject the limi-
tation of her fleet "to four ships of
war and four frigates, with a proportionate num-
bar of light vessels and unarmed vessels, exclu-
-3E7;4 adapted to the transport of troops." The
SULTAN was to restrict his navy within similar
limits, while the other parties were only to be
permitted, after a special finnan from the SULTAN,
each to bring into the Euxine a number of vessels
equal to half the naval forces which each of the
Powers bordering the sea should maintain there.
Subsequently, the Russian propositions were

brought forward, which placed no restriction on
the Russian naval force, but merely threw open
the Dardanelles and Bosphorus to the flags of all
nations ; to give, in fact, to Russia the much-
coveted access to the Mediterranean, at all times
and under all circumstances. This was, of course,
hesitatingly rejected by the Allies, and Lord
JOHN RUSSELL, having declared that his instruc-
tions were exhausted, departed from Vienna.
Subsequently, on the 26th April, another Con-

ference was held at the express instance of Russia,
when a new but equally untenable proposition
was put fora and by the Russian Plenipotentiary.
This was merely to the effect, that the principle of
closing the Straits of the Bosphorus should remain
in force, but that the SULTAN should be allowed,
by way of temporary exception, to open the Straits
of the Dardanelles and of the Bosphorus to
the fleets of Foreign Powers, which he
should think it necessary to summon when-
ever he thought his security menaced. This
was, of course, deemed inadmissible, and here the
matter stands. It is on this latter point, how-
ever, that Austria justifies her continued hesita-

tion, and that M. DROITYN DE LIENTS adopted
such views as led to his resignation of his position
as Minister of France. We trust that the British
Parliament may speak out so boldly and explicitly
on the subject that there can be no possible excuse
for our Cabinet further truckling either to " Mus-
covitism" or " Germanism," which seem to have
greater importance in their sight than the direct
interests of France and England, the security of
Turkey, or the peace of Europe.

It is probably unknown to the generality that no
ess than an earnest sentimen tof patriotism impelled
Mr. THA CIKERA Y, some time since, to retire from Lis
oaspicuous position among the collaborateurs
engaged in the periodical fun—pictorial and lite-
r try—productive, by weekly, monthly, and half-
yearly instalments, of our great comic publication.
As the significance of this announcement becomes
adequately appreciated, we can picture to our-
selves the broad grin upon the popular counte-
nance—that expression of hilarity resulting from
reiterated roars of laughter over the pages of our
London Charivari—fading away by almost imper-
ceptible degrees, and the bluff, rubicund visage
of JOHN BULL becoming gradually elongated. It
will be ill news, indeed, to every one fond of the
luxury of a chuckle over the genuinely ludicrous.
An unwelcome intimation to those (and their
name is legion) who have shaken their sides with
unaffected enjoyment over the lyrics of Policeman
X, over the lamentations of Flunkey Jeames, over
the remote records of Snobbism, and the recent
annals of the Bashi-Bazouks. Nevertheless, the
event alluded to is indisputable—Fitzboodle has
deliberately shaken the dust of the familiar office
from his sboeleather—Punch has positively, if not
permanently, lost his "Fat Contributor." An inci-
dent sincerely to be regretted, depriving, as it
mafoxtunately does, the blithest, bravest, bitter-
est, yet also one of the most genial and delightful
satirists of our generation of an opportunity
as rare in one sense as, in another, it has
hitherto, happily, been frequent. For the out-
pouring of the overilowings of his abundant fancy
—the distribution of the waifs and strays of his
unstinted good-humour—the diffusion of the jet-
sam and flotsam of his inexhaustible facetiousness!
It is a calamity to the joke-lovers of this joke-lov-
ing community, for which the perversity of the
periodical rather than the petulance of the contri-
butor must be regarded as responsible.
Somewhat as suddenly as Mr. DOYLE withdrew,
in 1850, on account of Mr. Punch's disrelish for
the Catholic Hierarchy---Mr. THACKERAY with-
drew, in 1854, on account of that honest, obsti-
nate old gentleman's ineradicable antipathy for
his Imperial Majesty the Emperor NAPOLEON M.
Like so many other of our contemporaries, Mr. P.
(who, wherever lie bears a grudge, is such a
thorough "good hater" that he would infallibly,
had ho existed in the flesh towards the end of the
last century, have been a cherished intimate of
Dr. JOHNSON), Mr. P., we say, like so many other
of our co-literateurs, had from the outset, conceived
an obdurate and, as few will be dNnclined to
admit nowadays, a wonderfully mistaken pre-
judice against the remarkable man especially placed
by Drvf-Nr. PROVIDENCE, for the happiness of the
world, at the supreme head of the French Na-
tionality. It will be remembered by the British
public generally, that from the very commence-
ment, in the midst of the general chorus of abuse
directed against the thrice elect of a great people,
WE never hesitated to protest against the folly
and injustice of all that blundering animosity and
unmerited ♦ituperation. Not so with the rest of
the daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly organs
of popular opinion. For a considerable time we
stood, in regard to this matter, altogether insu-
lated among the crowd of our contemporaries. We
were even spoken of by the Times—(the journal now
so courtlyin its allusions to theaugust Monarch who
was once so flagrantly pelted through its columns
with the foulest words and the vilest ribaldries in the
ample vocabulary of a Brummagem-Junius, prosti-
tuting by his anonymous signature the honourable
designation of "An Englishman" —we were
branded by the Times, wo say, at the period to
which we are here alluding—the circumstance can
scarcely yet be forgotten—as

pßadsetoßaxsekePtoi7tl:e Times and:
We are almost‘ The‘
tempted
te m
its then rather numerous sympathisers—How is
it now with The Sun in this matter ? How is it
now in regard to us as—The Base Exception ?
Now when the Emperor NAPOLEON 111. has been
the honoured 'guest of our beloved SOVEREIGN.
Now when his Imperial MAJESTY has been solemnly
invested by Queen VICTORIA with the insignia of
the Most Noble Order of the Garter. NOW when,.
tfter enjoying, together with his beautiful consort,
he royal hospitalities at Windsor—the Emperor
)f FRANCE has been welcomed with unexampled
..inthusiasin by vast multitudes of our "free
.tied enlightened" population. Now when the
elect, first of all, of nearly 6,000,000,
afterwards of nearly 7,000,000, and ultimately
oef ceniveeacily lth8:101o0m0,:g0e0 of AdultofourFrenchmen,
various municipal hasities,

together with the conspicuous felicitations of our
thief Metropolitan Corporation in the ancient
Guildhall of the City of London. Somewhat of
a change, it will be rather generally admitted,
has, in this particular, come over the spirit of the
!ream of English publicists--bringing them over,
one by one, to a remarkable complicity with The
Sun, to a singular coincidence of opinion with