The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-11 00:00:00

No. 19,511.11

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that so inappropriately tbat Le cannot even speak the
language in which the negotiations ara carried on.
"Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see" what
Lord John Russell (in whom net one man out of a hun-
dred has the very srnalleit confidence) may ,think proper
to send you I
Really these negotiations seem to be very much Of
the nature of the mill machines sold by the American
projector, which he asserted were of such marvellous
efficacy that if you "put in a live pig at the top, it
woull come out at the bottom converted into Bologna
sausages and patent scrubbing-brushes."
The man who purchased one of the above marvels,
and did " put in his pig," was not one whit more stupid
in his anticipations than the aforesaid people of Eng-
land who expect that any good can come out of the
Vienna Conferences.

After all, however, we shall find that the juggleries of
the Congress are no matters for laughter. We cannot
conceal from ourselves that the crisis is fearful, and the
results in such hands almost certain to 'be disastrous, if
not ruinous.

wanbdichthedoder9iv4 nit
of the Russians
We cirst wish to lay down that we consider any peace
provide for the
ltelv leTlian
gdiost,,,-rswe!e fausloopnoei
thlii:d the CAlunsus, and shall then proceed to show
why a disgraceful peace will be necessarily a disastrous
One.
In the first place, a peace such as we have described
will be only a hollow truce ; it will he virtually the
status quo ante, with this enormous difference—that the
WeA,:rn Power; will have faile I in their endeavours to.
restrain Russia, and that they will have lost their pres..
tige, not only in Europe, but—where the loss will be
fatal at least to England—in Central Asia. All Asia is
looking on at the struggle before Sebastopol. In Asia
no man reasons—he sees. Every Asiatic judges by re
sults ; he has nothing to do with causes.
England and France will have failed in their attack,
and the impression produced will be that the two great
nations are no match for the Czar. Hew such an im
pression will work in our Eastern empire he who runs
may read. We do not wish to dwell upon the. effect in
France. We have a thousand times stated that it will
virtually dissolve the alliance with England ; but, far
worse, it will peril the dynasty. The only chance the
present Emperor will have will be to lay the whole
blame on England, and strike against Prussia for the
Rhenish provinces, and then comes the German war, to
avoid which Aberdeen bowed down before Austria.
Several solutions of the Blaak Sea difficulties are put
forward, by which Russian sensibilities will be spared—
makin it utKIV or else establishing English an d
g a.
fortressesl).at S. ton he first i
a contradiction in terms unless Sebastopol be destroye
all stipulations will be evaded ; ships will be built a t
Nicolaieff, without any one being the wiser, and some
fine day we shall find the harbour of Sebastopol crowded
as formerly, with men of war. The second involves a
perpetual expense to England and France, and will be
regarded by Turkey as the first step towards partition.
Now let it be understood that we do not believe the
Allied powers base enough to attempt any such thing,
at least for selfish purposes, but appearances should be
regarded ; and the Turks have already begun to remark
that their two formidable allies have each taken a line
of coast—France has Constantinople and Gallipoli, on
the European shores ; England, Scutari, Abydos, and
Smyrna, in Asia. Let us only add Sinope, and let the
French fortify Bourgas, and you will find it hard to per.
suade the Turk, who sees facts, like his Asiatic brethren
—that a plan has not been contrived between us to divide

the dominions of the Sultan. By such means are suspi-
cions roused, and the isolated position of Omer Pacba is
not calculated to allay them, when considered in connec-
tion with the Austrian occupation.
These, however, are but a few of the complications in
which our half-hearted and totally indirect policy is
likely to involve us—unless we take the government of
the country out of the hands of the reckless charlatan
who at present bears a sway obtained by the meanest
chicanery and intrigue.
Lord Palmerston's friends are putting it about that
in July next it is his intention to dissolve Parlia-
ment, on the cry of the restoration of Poland. Whether
this is likely to be a successful move, as far as strengthen.
ing his own hold upon power, remains to be proved.
One thing is certain, that, successful or not, the move
is utterly false and insincere, as far as good-will to the
Poles is concerned ; and we think we can enlighten our
readers on the real meaning of this most nefarious
dodge.
Tne assertion that the Premier intends this daring
coup, as we said above, does not come from us, but his
friends are putting it about. Nevertheless, symptoms
are not wanting that he has an eye to such a stroke of
business.
We all know that his new Lord of the Admiralty bas
made two speeches, bold ones upon the subject, and cer.
tainly has received no rebuke. Then again, convenient
Phinn introduced a motion in the house upon the
subject; of course he withdrew it in accordance with the
" appeal of the noble lord," but the noble lord spoke
ominously himself upon the subject. And again, since
that time, Lord liarrowby, the connection and coadjutor
of Lord Dudley Stuart upon the Polish question, has
been admitted to the Cabinet.

Now, we should like to know whether all these spiv-
twill can have influenced the tone of the Algenzeine
Zeitterty, the well-known organ of the Austrian Court,
in the extraordinary announcement of opinion made the
other day, which in fact amounted to‘his- --that matters
had now arrived at such a pass, that, as the interests of
Gernany were secure, it would be well that Austria

should be reconciled to Prussia, and that at all events it
.fflai to he honed she would never send a single bayonet
aga; s the Czar.
Now we beg to be understood that we yield to no one
in our feelings of-sympoihy with the Pnlii,iv-nation, and
none would be more anxious to see the stain caused by
its partition effaced, but we do protest against the cruelty
awl wickedness of making the false advocacy of their
cause an item in an intrigue for place, and still more
against using the pretence as a means of forwarding the
de-ign, of their great enemy, and this by the man who

has twice aband;red them to Russian tyranny.
We beg our readers to remember what we stated the
other day, that by a series of " reirnarkable coincidences"
the hostility of Lord Palmerston has invariablyadvaneed
tho designs of Russia, ; and that the schemes of that
power are so wonderfully crooked and wily, that appa-
rent opposition is often the easiest-way of serving her.
We could illustrate this by many examples, but to do
so would extend this article too far. We shall, there-
f ire, merely recall to our readers' memories the fact that
among the threats-put about by the agents of Russia IS
months ago was one of re-constituting the kingdom of
Poland under a Russian Prince. Now it will easily be
seen that a similar threat, coming, at the present mo-
ment, from another quarter might work out the designs
of the Czar equally well. Russia knows, and so does
Lord Palmerston, that to try to revive Russian Poland
woul I be as futile as an attempt to galvanise a corpse
back into life. All national existence has been crushed
out of those pr.vinces ; their best and bravest have
perished in Siberia or the Caucasus. The sympathy of
the British Premier, therefore, must he with Austrian
and Prussian Poland, and such a declaration as hia
friends say the noble lord is about to make could have
no other effect than to compel both those countries to
join Russia against the proselytisers. For two years that
Lord Palmerston sat in Lord Aberdeen's Cabinet nego-
tiations with Austria were carried on, the practical re-
sults of which were to paralyse the Allies, give Russia
time to organise, and at last enable her to transport her
Danube armies to the Crimea. But at present if Eng-
land declares for Poland, Austria and Prussia will at
once throw themselves into the arms of Russia. We do
not now allude to the impossibility of France supporting
England in such a policy—the Red Republican party
will answer for that ; but we do beg and entreat the
people of this country to beware how they again7allow
themselves to be the victims of another Russo-Palmer-
stonian " coincidence."

STATE OF TRADE.

MAYCIIESTEA, April 10.—The market continues ac-

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tive. The business of the
blauhadtsevtl
advance
nandtc:.:;pr:eiocnedtininecriatweek had
so far cleared off stocks as to enable manufacturers, to
d
some extent,
engagements
tgoag eincreasementsd:ti,rht
tethi their peocr,licoetsh ;
manadrktehte continuedthis
advance of cotton has brought buyers more freely into
the market this morning. For cloths suitable to India
and China buyers have been willing to operate rather ex-
tensively, and, where manufacturers have consented to
take last week's prices, they have secured some fltir con- -
tracts. A desire to get a rise more commensurate with ,
the advance in the raw material, however, has been:
the rule, and where pressed too far has hindered .busi::
sfaalber
andies except
unchanged lue.
anda.
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water-
has
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.busi-
ness. Some leading houses report a very fair anioant.!
operations at a trifling advance, but generally the .....,,,
tress of sellers is said to have checked sales. ThisAfir:
tdoulDl'oosft
has been a very. good business, espeolfZsea spinners.
ing :'".
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India
yarns, as in cloths is for
twist and mule up to 40's ;
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producers
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advanced
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goiTsellie improvement Continental clothe, is
buyers
contract for tazime weeks for-
ward. The chief batm bomre
:nolichange to
India and. China,
rate/_.
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have operated ro
businessTo.ciahya bas been
mbnaeonetafne dadcoi
manufacturers
sitr
last con . eods.
If an kinds of India
not concede any advance, and there is
but buyers will further at last week's rates,
For or printing cloths and long-
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consequentlyar temar seem adg
lessi
cloths there I •
s a steady d
T-clotlis are flat, demand and no change in prices.
LEEDS, April andlo .The
very irregular."
The woollen cloth markets to-day
have been rather il
•it, and the business done has been be-
low an average. The cold bleak weather by which the
resent -... is
P_ Eater characterised tends to check the sale
of goods suitable for a warmer period of the year, and
retail traders and tailors arc far from being as busy as
usual at this season of the year. Still there is a little
creeping up in the woollen trade, and more employment
is enjoyed by the operatives than was the case a few
weeks ago, Prices continue steady.

LANCASTER GUNS, &C., POE THE CsrmEA.---Yeaterday
a large number of extra labourers, and fatigue-parties
from the Royal Artillery and the Tower Garrison, iii
addition to the regular Ordnance workmen, were roost
busily engaged during the day in shipping Lancaster and
other guns of large calibre, shot and shells of various
sizes, portable mangers, bay-racks, picket-posts, and.
nose-bags for cavalry, accoutrements for all arms of the
service. and Commissariat stores, consisting of blankets
in bales of 25 each, sheets, and bedding. The ebove
will, in the first instance,. be conveyed to viv._,_,
. uuvr..ague
where they will be 41:6140APPEI toy eseekiptentdin fillo
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