The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-07 00:00:00

THE OLD GAME OF RUSSIA.

VIENNA, SEPT. 2.—The following summary of
to-day's leader in the Wanderer is worthy of at-
tention. The writer of this article has the repu-
tation of being a "dreamy politician," but no man
can question his being a first-rate historian, and
certain it is that his opinions and general views on
the present war, from the time of Menszhikoff's
offensive appearance at Constantinople, in the
spring of 1853, to the present time, have almost
invariably proved correct. It is but justice to the
writer in question to say this much by way of in-
troduction

" Beneath the oft apparently tranquil surface, a pro-
found agitation pervades the general affairs and aspects
of nations. Whether we look upon the old or the new
world, upon Central Asia, upon the African coasts, or
upon the American slave-holding states, everywhere in-
visible powers are at work to undermine the existing
Mate of thing", and everywhere there are powers exist-
ing who are ready to grasp the inheritance of expiring
states, even at the imminent risk of severe conflicts. It
appears almost certain that., if some unforeseen accident
in the midst of this process of general fermentation
should not happen to bring forth vast and serious ob-
structions, a new formation of things must necessarily
arise, in course of time, from out this mighty dashing
of the political waves of our days.
" All reports agree that Russia is p
game, notwithstanding much apparent tr
ui
-lainiqu
with g her old
offers
—llitY and
inaction. Whilst England traverses the world
of subsidies, Rusrua makes the same tour with a new ter-
ritorial map in her hand,
promises here and
menacing there, complicatimngakaiPngd embroiling existing
relations until the political atmosphere is heavy enough '
to enable her to repeat the iron grasp which has but
once miscarried.
"The English nation, erenmore thanatc ea
i Enrgnleissalhsetsasteosf-
men, feel the fearful danger, the
gign
as these, the
the situation. Under suchcircumstances
assume a terribly regardless
policy of Great Britain n
character, and then the p
part of
f RwuhngesianritftorreeapsosPitstneidn
Europe will be an unenviable on
the reins of Government after the rupture of
a breath
of the peace
of Amiens, his first measure consisted
less but sanguinary attack upon Spain—upon her
fleet and commerce.
And when, after the peace of
Tilsit, which
menaced British India, Russia refused
to conimunicate to England the conditions of the same,
Canning hesitated not to pounce upon Denmark,
and the fleet and the colonies of this maritime state
were the irreparable sacrifices, for which no indemnifica-
tion has since been made.
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fear
we that a similar situation is preparing beneath
the Pharisaical veil and the apparent quiet of our days
and that the constraint which characterises the relation;
between the Cabinets of London, Naples, and Berlin
may lead to unexpected events. The rethics of the vo-
taries of peace seem to be nourished by a state of things,
which may po-sibly call forth an electric atmosphere on
the Thames very similar to that which exploded there in
the years 1804 and 1807. Neither Pitt nor Cannin
declared the war against Spain or Denmark previous to the Lflietion of the blows adverted to above, nor does it
appear that this tradition is altogether extinct on the
Thames. We repeat, it is not advisable in their times,
merely as a matter of taste and sympathy, to side with
Russia or her plans, which, it may , Ise are not even per-
tacitly understood."