The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-24 00:00:00

In England, as in France, the capture of Sebas-
topol has excited the liveliest joy. It was proper,
indeed, that, after sharing the dangers and sacrifices
of this war, the two peoples should equally take,
part in the glory of the triumph. From the com-
mencement of, the contest, France and England,
united in a strict community, of views and efforts,
have felt a kind of emulation in furnishing, each
according to her resources, the means of insuring
success... If_France has been able. to place in line
more soldiers, England has supplied a larger num-
ber of ships, and has not the less on that account
sent in succession to the Crimea 80,000 troops, col-
lected from all parts of her immense empire.
Owing to the prodigious naval armament of Vie
allied powers their flags dominate over every sea,
and forbid it to Russia. The enemy has seen his
ships blockaded or. burnt in his harbours, his sea-
board ravaged, his commerce annihilated, his
foreign relations: destroyed. From the Sea' of
Azoff to the White Sea, from the Baltic to Kam-
schatka, Russia is imprisoned by our fleets. Whilst
the courage of our soldiers was triumphing over
the desperate resistance of the Russian army, the
combined squadrons were destroying his stores of
provisions, and intercepting his communications,
at the very time that they were maintaining abun-
dance in the all,ed armies and conveying to them
.every day fresh reinforcements.. •
Our maritime resources would hardly have suf-
ficed for the transport of our troops and enormous
quantity of munitionarequited for such a war, at
a distance of 800 le-kitues from our country. The
English Admiralty placed at the disposal of France
50 vesse-is of her royal navy and her merchant ser-
vice, which have conveyed to the Crimea more
than 40,000 men of our troops, together with 2,000
horses, and 7,000 tons of our materiel. Every one
knows, besides, that if Bomarsund fell beneath the
blows of our soldiers, it was chiefly the English
navy that conveyed them thither.
In all the phases of this war, at the Alma and at
Inkerman, as at Bomarsund and Sweaborg, the ar-
mies and crews of England and France have min-
gled their blood and fought with bravery for the
common cause. At the Tchernaya our allies has-
tened up to support us, as we had hastened to-
wards them at Balakiava. In the last and victori-
ous efforts against Sebastopol the English and
French equally accomplished their heroic task. If
out of several points attacked one only was con-
quered at first, the triumph was not the less on
that account due to all the corps of the allied army,
which, mutually supporting each other and divid-
ing the resistance of the enemy, compelled him at
length to abandon the walls of that city which his
very despair could no longer defend. Therefore
the General-in-Chief of the French army has been
m• raly just when he assigned to the English 'army
a large share of the glory in the success of that
great day.
The pecuniary sacrifices that our allies have im-
posed on themselves equal our own, even if they
do not surpass them. Without speaking of the
Turkish loan of 100 millions (of francs), guaranteed,
it is true, by France as well as by England, but
contracted exclusively amongst our neighbours, nor
of the 50 millions (of francs) advanced by them to
the Piedmontese Government, for enabling it to
give us the most useful assistance of its braVe sol-
diers, England expended on this war, last year,
nearly 400 millions (of francs), and has foreseen
that she might have to expend on it this year a
further sum of more than a milliard.
This enormous burden and all these sacrifices are
supported by the English people as by the French
people, not with resignation, but with that energy
which proves that no expense will be spared in the
attainment of their object. We may say of our
neighbours as of ourselves, that the nation is not
satisfied with following and supporting its Govern-
ment, but that it outstrips it in a manner, by la-
vishing on it all the means requisite for insuring
the triumph
,of a cause the justice and grandeur of
which are equally comprehended by the two peoples.