The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-19 00:00:00

sustained by the retreating army. But—by the
movement on Eupatoria, which we have already
suggested, and which might be accomplished in a
few hours by sea, or, still better, by that on the
Tcheterlik, from whence the various converging
roads to Perekop might be commanded, the flying
army might be taken at the greatest possible ad-
vantage, and their escape absolutely prevented.
By such a course not a single man could return
to Russia without the permission of the Western
Powers, and as a liberated prisoner of war. The
stragglers that had succeeded in crossing the
steppes would be completely dispirited and broken
down by the fatigues and toils they had endured,
and would yield at the first show of opposition.
They could not again re-enter the desert, or form
themselves into a position to sustain a regular
attack. A single glance at the map will show the
importance of the course above suggested. The
lines of the various roads from all positions, west
of Kara-su-bazar, show how easily they may be
hermetically sealed, near Korkasak, a little to the
north of the Tcheterlik—and whereby the commu-
nication between Perekop and the three-fourths
of the Crimea may be cut off. No information
has recently been received respecting the inten-
tions of the Allied Generals. It is by no means
impossible that the cause of this significant silence
is the vast importance of the operations now con-
templated. We believe that they will be in ac-
cordance with those above suggested, and that the
old adage that " No news is good news," will be
fully verified in the present instance.

Let England be awake. Austria sleeps not,
Russia sleeps not, Germany sleeps not, our Aris-
tocracy sleeps not. We are sure we may add our
great Ally sleeps not. No ; nor does Sardinia
on the one hand, or craven Belgium on the
other, sleep, and Prussia cnly seems to sleep.
All aristocracy and despotism aro wide awake
to save their Dagon from a mutilating fall.
Let the genius of the English people watch
to give him one. The inspiration of this
War is English love of liberty. NAPOLEON
and his people are inspired by it. Of themselves
their strongest passion is military glory ; they have
alsolonged to wipe out Moscow and Waterloo. The
latter is most gloriously achieved ; they have ri-
valled the English not in battle against, but with,
each other, and in the crowning assault it was theirs
to carry the position which decided the day, and
which gave Sebastopol to the Allies. We believe
that our whole nation rejoices that this military
glory belongs to France. It is delightful to us
to see Waterloo thus avenged ! If England took
the first position on the memorable 18th of June,
France, in brotherly and holy rivalry, took the
first position on the equally memorable Bth of
September. History will record such a romantic
restoration of the balance of military glory be-
tween England and France as no writer of
romance could have imagined. But for. Waterloo
we might have regretted much more that the
attack on the Medan was not as successful as that
on the Malakhoff ; but, if one must fail, so deep
is the feeling for the sentiments of our Allies that
all England prefers the trophy in this case
should belong to France. Her glory is now
dear to us. There is not a paragraph in
the QUEEN'S touching and beautiful Mes-
sage which more entirely accords with Eng-
lish feeling than that in which she s• cordially
congratulates General PELISSIER and his troops
on their great success. A British Queen congra-
tulating a French General on bravery more suc-
cessful than that of our own troops ! Truly
Waterloo is avenged. Avenged by valour in
brotherhood, not by yalour in antagonism.

But a tempting thought has diverted us for a
a moment. To return : our task is, warning to
our own countrymen. Your love of freedom has
mingled with, and kindled to greater ardour,
French love of military glory. It has been felt
in Piedmont, and has animated her noble soldiers.
It has not been unfelt in Turkey itself. But,
more than that, it even compelled an ABERDEEN,
and, a GLADSTONE, and a GRAHAM, we regret to
add and a RUSSELL, to declare war against the
great aggressor on European independence. It
weeded successive Cabinets of their noxious mem-
bers. It neutralised to a great extent the poison
of German influence. It prevented complete
prostration to Austria, though it could not save
from degrading subservience, for Austria in the
proVinces is still the ignominy of England. It
has, in fact, fought the battle through the winter,
maintained it through the spring and summer,
defeated that infernal plot of despots, the Vienna
Conference and the Four Points, and it now exults
over captured Sebastopol

Having, however, done thus much, its great
work is yet before it. Lord PALMERSTON may
be pretty well up to the mark, but he is a tho-
rough aristocrat. Nobilities, not peoples, are his
heart's delight. All he does for popular liberty
is against the grain—a necessity, not a choice.
Moreover, he has married the widow of the great-
est courtier of his day; and a Court connected with
Vienna by a matrimonial telegraph must influence
him insensibly towards the despot's cause. Lord
PANMIIRE is but a Whig, Sir CHARLES WOOD a
Whig, and we fear something worse. Sir WM.
MOLBSWORTH has gone at last with the people,
but gone to the colonies also, and we hear little
of his influence for good. It is England's smy-
pathy with freedom all over the world, and her
deep-rooted hatred of tyranny which began the
War, has carried it on, and which now must watch
over its further progress, or its close. We are
thankful for such intimations as Lord PALMERSTON
gave us the other day at Melbourne ; he spoke
under the excitement of the news which will
carry the remembrance of his Administration
through many a page of history. Ho could but
speak out. Bat Lord PALMERSTON has to descend
from honest English company and English lan-
gange to diplomatic circles and their detestable
cant. We have no doubt he is thoroughly up to
all their tricks ; but whether he is, under all the
circumstances, unwilling to seem to believe the
impostors and to be led by them, that is the
question. Let England be awake, or all the fruits
of the past may be sold any day to Austria and
her kindred despots.

We have seen it mentioned by the Russianisers,
even since the Bth of September, that England and
France are pledged to makeno conquests—pledged
to Austria ! It wore sufficient to answer that the
failure to fulfil her obligations has released us
from any engagement with her. She has refused
to aid in bringing the War to a conclusion, and she
has not a shadow of a pretext to interfere with
the final- settlement. England and France, how-
ever, do not want conquostS for themselves. Turkey
or Sardinia may take the Crimea, the former also
might take her old territories from the mouths of
the Danube to Odessa ; while Poland no one would
think of reconquering but to render its territory
her own. Territorial conquest for themselves is
neither wished by the Allies who commenced the
War, nor needful for them. But it is needful for
villanies ;
them, to disable the aggressor from repeating his
and there is and can be no way to do
this but to deprive him of all the fortresses which
he has built to intimidate Europe, from Cronstadt
to Poland and Sebastopol.
What we most dread is the intermeddling of