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

1:101 WEATHER.—SiIt 0711011, May. 5.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
49—highest since noon yesterday.
35—lowest this morning and during the night.
51—this day, at noon,
BAROMETER, 30.
WIND, N.E.—Light breeze, with fine sunshiny weather
The cold was very intense last night.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1855.

We are still truckling to Germanism. The star
of Austria remains in the ascendant. Who could
listen to the pompous_ platitudes of Lord PALMER-
STON last night without indignant disgust at tin
conduct of the Government, and without shame
for the disgrace which it is calculated to bring on
the British name. There was a time when it

might truly be said of the Premier, that "he
was not the Minister of Russia, the Minister of
Prussia, or the, Minister of Austria, but the
Meister of England." There was a time when
the cheers with which the House of Commons re- '
ceived the statement would find an echo in every
British heart. Need we ask how such an asser-
tion would now be received, or describe the nature
of the derisive and ironical cheers with which it
would be greeted ? If Lord PALMERSTON be
not the Minister of Austria, he acts as if he
were so ; and if he owed allegiance to FRANCI
JOSEPH, he could not display more profound defer-
ence, more abject subservience than at present. Ht
has, indeed, completely verified his declaration,
that he would pursue the course followed by
Lord ABERDEEN. There has been a trifling change
of men—but not of measures. The same policy
which occasioned the War is still perceptible, and
should Parliament continue apathetic and iudif-

ferent, will prolong the contest and materially
aggravate the evils inseparable therefrom.

Lord PALMERSTON wishes " to leave the ques-
tion in the state in which it is." He desires "tc
leave the door of negotiation open." This was
the stereotyped answer of his predecessor to every-
demand for information—every remonstrance a:
the undue credulity of the Government. The
nation was sick of hearing from the travelled
Thane the propriety of exhausting all the means
of preserving peace before it engaged in
war I There is every probability that it will
be equally disgusted at the repetitious usque ad
nauseam of his successor, that he will not be the
party " to shut the door to the possibility of con-
cluding an honourable and satisfactory peace !"
"An honourable and satisfactory peace !"
Where is there now the prospect of such a result
save from the valour and prowess of the Allied
troops in the Crimea ? It is not by negotiation:,
that it can be obtained. France and England
have already been too much bamboozled by their
Ileceithil colleague. They have had too many
examples of the profound contempt of Russia for
any obligations or pledges, however sacred, and
of the pettifogging and despicable duplicity of
Austria to be furtheranisled. If they wilfully close
their eyes to the real state of affairs they will be-
come accessories to the fraud at which they COD nive.
They have witnessed the contumelious rejection
by Russia of the terms- which, with the assent of
Austria, they proposed for acceptance. These
terms, we repeat, would not have been deemed
satisfactory by the nation if a Treaty had been
unfortunately concluded in accordance therewith.
No peace concluded on such a foundation would
have been honourable or permanent. It would be
justly regarded as a temporary armistice, to be
violated by Russia on the first favourable oppor-
tunity. And now the Prime Minister of England
Justifies the delay in the production of the proto-
,_l6, which he promised on Monday last, on the
ground that he " wishes to leave the door of ne-
gotiation
It is ior
, or ible that he can now be deceived. I
gene°, eonidb°d 3' of men, of ordinary intelli-
tersof be so short-sighted. The Minis-
ngland • .
is some sinister i willing dupes. There I
induces them to f: u"" in operation that I'
rget the duty the
country, and widely
Opena Portal by whichy owe to their
Austria may slip out of the
solemn obligations. Yes, it -Performance of her
s tee 1
for Austria to escape that the "-av e a loophole
farce of
tion is still maintained, although the uegotia-
Confer
have been adjourned sine die, and the eileeS
reach and
English Plenipotentiaries have returned to ti„irre
- spective homes. Austria has proved faithless, as
we always anticipated she would do, when the
ealerge"cy came. By conniving at her treachery, ;
Glovernment became participators in the
If ever there was just and proper cause I
for b izt
eak.
g off negotiations, it has arisen in the
P resent inst.,.
nee. We must then act vigorously
and decidedly.
trust assert theirlloth branches of the Legislature
Information to c7u dignity, and insist on the full
Which t
*'high will not be supphlieeydarsoe
oJustly entitled, but
as there is a I