The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-09 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1855.

IThe telegraphic despatch of yesterday has
already made the heart of half England quail.
"The CZAR consents to negotiate on the Allies'
interpretation of the Four Points." But a voice
from the trenches of Sebastopol rings by anticipa-
tion in every ear—" Never ! never ! let negotia-
tion be thought of till Sebastopol be stormed or
evacuated." Our country sympathises with the
feelings of its soldiers, and it dreads the German
and philo-despot leanings of the upper half of the
Coalition. It distrusts above all things the peace-
making capacities, as well as tendencies, of the
leaders of the Cabinet. It foresees nothing but a
lame and miserable issue of such a war ; one
to be puffed off, however, partly as a glorious and
satisfactory result, and partly as a humane and
Christian one. We suppose on any plan of carry-
ing on the War a time of negotiation is to arrive.
To us it seems a hopeless thing. Russia can only
be dealt with by dictation. Negotiation with her
is odious to the thoughts of any Englishman.
Who thinks of negotiation with a convicted liar
or swindler, unless by getting his title-deeds into
your solicitor's boxes, or bonds, to double the
amount is danger, from honest and- responsible
men ? Negotiation with Russia reminds us in-
stantly of the SEYMOUR correspondence, and the
MENSCHIKOFF mission, and the NESSELRODE mis-
sives of last spring ; and we turn sick at the
thought of interminable jugglery, fraud, lying,
and hypocrisy, and cannot, if we would, believe
•ne word of a Czar, because it is his word. The
old nursery lines will stick indelibly in our
memory, that

" Liars we can never trust,
Though they may speak the word that's true;"

and are as applicable to lying Czars as to lying
children—indeed more so.

There is, of course, every probability that
NICHOLAS is only seeking to gain time, to slacken
the vigour of the Allies, and to keep Austria out
of the field, till, as Count KRASINSKI has shown,
he might, aided by Polish and Hungarian hatred
to Austria, march victorious to Olmutz and
Vienna. Austrian Generals, as he well knows,
will stop him by no Silistrias, or Almas, or Inker-
mans ; her German regiments are but formal,
heavy-backed bullies, good at cutting down an
unarmed Englishman, or at hanging or shooting
patriot prisoners caught for them by the Russians;
but we believe they are no match at all for the
Russians of the Inkerman, and had they been
there would have been pitched by them into the
sea. FP.ANcrs-JosEfir, young as he is, knows
this, and he, too, never meant to go to War with
Russia, and we believe never will. Indeed this
last " fourteen days' " extension, and the reply
from St. Petersburg, reveal an understanding
amongst parties which we suspected from the first.
Austria could indeed, in an hour, be omnipotent
against Russia. She has but to pronounce the
words—an independent Polish kingdom, its old
free constitution for Hungary, and a constitution
for Lombardy, and Russia would not, and could
not, move a soldier against her. But a HAPSBURG,
sprung from the dregs of superstition, of imbecility,
and imperiousness, world rather, like his ances-
tors, see Europe involved in a Thirty Years' War
than part with one grain of civil and religious
despotism. Austria, therefore, unwilling to forego
the power of sending patriots into Spielberg, or—
into Eternity, yet conscious of inability to cope
with troops who at least do not mind shedding
their blood for their master, clings to peace to
the uttermost, although Russia gains by it more
strength against her than she against Russia.
Austria ! What a name for a miserable medley of
timidity and assumption, of cruelty to the helpless,
and obsequiousness to the strong, of would-be mili-
tarygreatness, and the basest militaryperformance.
Oh, to think of England and France pitted in
diplomacy against such Governments as those of
Austria and Russia, and with Prussia to whisper
through the telegraph. England may well quail
at the sight.

But how can the War be concluded now, if jus-
tice be done only respecting those parts to which it
has already extended ? Will Russia consent to re-
nounce for ever the Alaud Isles and all rever-
sionary interest in Denmark ? Will she consent
to a Circassia free down to the water's edge ? to a
Crimea wrested from her as a guarantee for Tur-
key ? and to depart from Ismail and the mouths
of the Danube ? ' Will she consent, moreover, to
pay us the costs to which she has put us ? Even
our Cabinet can hardly think to keep their places
one session after a Treaty which does not include
these things. It would go hard with Mr. BRIGHT
himself to prove that less than this would not
issue in greater blood-shedding a few years hence
than has taken place already. It was, we think,
altogether an error to let any terms further go from
the Allies, directly or indirectly. Their business
was to fight till NICHOLAS would proffer terms,
or ask for them. Why is it more humbling to
the aggressor to ask for mercy than to those who
chastise him to intimate that they find it such
hard work that they would rather he should make
a sulky_defiant apology, and they will let him off ?
It is a delicate, matter to rely on the penitent pro-
fessions
or,
r, convicted criminal ; but to rely on
the
babbleihardened
daebnoeu dt
manifestos of a convicted liar and
ilooit
at least, in the face of them to
any Pour Points whatever, seems to
us childish folly,
Why, the very man who put
his own interpretation on the Vienna Note will,
as soon as suits his
inter-
pretation on the Ali
Four Points !Th rParteti:tisio:s
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Scarcely had the trial of E N
LEMY been brought to a conclusion d
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the
earnest recommendation by the jury of that cri-
minal to the favourable consideration of the
Crown been promulgated, than another sangui-
nary outrage was perpetrated by a foreigner
bearing a remarkable similarity in' all its details
to the former offence. If any distinction could
he drawn it should be in favour of the convicted
murderer. The original intention of EiIIIANITEL
RIRTHELE3IY is to a certain extent involved in
mystery. There can be no possible doubt or
difficulty as to that of LUIGI BURANELLI. In
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MOORE, or whether the fatal occurrence arose
From a sudden quarrel ; but we do know, on the
most conclusive evidence, even on that of the
last murders: r himself, that he had resolved on the
atrocious acts which he afterwards too successfully
carried into •operation.
Besides, even if the worst construction should
be adopted respecting the fearful transaction in
which BARTBELEMY was concerned, it could not be
said that he had planned more than one murder,
or decided on sacrificing a second victim. That
he was properly convicted of the murder of poor
COLLARD is beyond the possibility of dispute.
There was not, in fact, " the slightest peg whereon
to hang a doubt." His reckless and criminal
conduct led to the sudden death of a British sub-
ject at the moment when he was acting in the
faithful and courageous discharge of his duty to
his QUEEN and country. But against him BAR-
THELEMY had no peculiar animosity. He had
never seen him before, was, in fact, ignorant of
his existence until the very moment when he was
about bringing it to a sanguinary conclusion.
BURANELLI, however, meditated at least a double
murder. We say at least, because, notwithstand-
ing the fact of the picture and the letters pre-
pared for Mrs. WILLIAMSON, there seems to be
some reason to suppose that she also might have
perished had not the door of her bed-chamber been
fastened, and the policeman arrived before she
had given admission to the murderer, There is
no necessity, however, for imputing greater cri-
minality to the wretched man than he has already
candidly acknowledged,
Another deplorable feature in the recent
tragedy is the time and place selected for its per-
petration. It was on the Sabbath morning that
BURANELLI carried his atrocious hdesigns into
execution. When the nation was preparing for
prayer and thanksgiving he was wreaking his
diabolical vengeance on those against whom he had
taken offence. His chief victim was sleeping
peacefully at the moment when the deadly bullet,
discharged from a pistol resting against his head,
passed through his skull. He had no chance of
defending himself—no possibility of offering an
explanation that might have appeased the would-
be assassin. There could be no sudden outbreak
of passion arising from anything that then oc-
curred. The other sufferer was also at rest, and
the noise of the shot that killed her husband was
the first intimation that Mrs. LAMBERT received
of her impending danger. The place too, in a
public thoroughfare, situate in the very heart of
the metropolis, where the murderer could have no
possible hope of escaping without detection, add,
if possible, additional horror to the harrowing de-
tails. Indeed, in all its peculiar features,
we have never heard of an outrage more
appalling, more calculated to disturb the confi-
dence which every man feels in the sanctity of
his own dwelling than that committed by LUIG
BURANELLI, and for which, if he survive the
desperate attempt against his own life, he will
have to answer before the criminal tribunals of
that country whose hospitality he has abused,
and whose most irrevocable law—a law prescribed
by the Divine as well as by every human code—
he has violated. It does not by any means miti
gate his guilt that he attempted to add suicide to
his other crimes, or that, on detection, he turned
the deadly weapon with which he was armed, and
with which lie had just shed the blood of a fel-
low-creature, against his own life.

GENERAL CAN_ROBERT AND THE
BRITISII OFFICERS.

The following testimony to the ability of the British
officers attached to General Canrobert's staff is borne by
that distinguished officer :
"Head-Quarters before Sebastopol,
Oct. 24, 1854.
"My Lord,—l have the honour to address to you, in
the terms required by military regulations, a document,
of which the object is to certify the circumstances under
which Brigadier-General Hugh Rose, her Britannic Ma-
jesty's Commissioner at the head-quarters of the French
army, was wounded in its ranks.

"Allow me to add to this official attestation, the expres-
sion of the high esteem which that general officer, Major
Claremont, and Major Foley, have acquired among us
by their bravery, the uprightness of their characters, and
the services which they have rendered.
" The British army could not be more worthily repre•
rented in the Allied army.—Accept, &c.,
"Lord Raglan, &c." '6 CANROBERT.

lIOW THE CRIMEAN ROMANCES OP THE
"TIMES" ARE RELISHED IN THE ARMY;

An officer in the Guards writes to a military friend at
home, as follows :
" The army are perfectly furious with the exaggera-
tions and misrepresentations of the Times. Don't be-
lieve what it says, for all is false. I and a good many men
are home-sick ; but we don't want to come away. We
would none of us do anything but remain here till we
have beaten the Russians. The Times correspondent
has been sent off with a flea in his ear for insolence to
Lord Raglan. I met him the other day, and told him
we were all glad of it, and that he ought to be ashamed
of himself."—Daily News.