The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-20 00:00:00

brethren, to whom we are united by bonds

which, we trust, can never be dissevered ;
but by far the greater portion was rendered to the
Individual—to the Great Man who has proved
himself so worthy of their homage—on the Emperor
of the FRENCH, and still more on LOUIS NAPO-
LEON, the tribute of unanimous applause was be-
stowed. He held his exalted station by the best
possible title—the will of his people, freely ex-
pressed through the medium of the ballot-box.
The suffrages of eight millions of the adult popu-
lation elevated him to the Imperial Throne, and
not one of his numerous constituency has had cause
to regret the vote by which the Prince President
became the Emperor of the FRENCH.
We cannot at this moment omit noticing with
pride and gratitude the notice which the Imperial
visitor bestowed on The San. While passing our
office the EMPEROR " looked steadily, and bowed
in the most marked and gracious manner." This
open recognition of the justice, which we in-
variably rendered to his character, his motives,
and his policy, was indeed as peculiarly gratify-
ing to ourselves as it was honourable to the
EMPEROR. We were not amongst the fair-weather
friends who waited until he conquered fortune,
and achieved his destiny. Before he was
indued with the Imperial purple—nay, more,
before he was elected to the Presidency, we
yielded a disinterested support to the Candidate
for the votes of the peoplo of France. Single
handed we repelled the atrocious calumnies and
scarcely less justifiable means by which he was
assailed—a,nd we f -el an honest pride in thinking
how amply the results have justified, and more
than justified, what, at the time, were supposed
to be our too sanguine anticipations. As Candi-
date and as President we expressed the same
opinions and feelings with respect to the Prince
Lours NAPOLEON, as we now do towards the mag-
nanimous E3IPEROR, the only difference being
that at first we stood alone ; that others gradu-
ally gave expression to similar feelings—until at
length there is not a single opponent to put for-
ward a-decided negative, or even to resort to
T"hiaPered hint, the shrug, the hum or bah!
""e Petty brands that calumny cloth use !"
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The rat-
11 plaudits,An_
-"'`)11 thus unanimously be.
stowed,. Nveie not 'restricted to the EMPEROR.
His lovely doino
She, too, ,tiinT. received a fitting share.
incarnation of a great
principle wag the o
the EMPEROR against the :•us
protest offered by
icheuieu, farce of the
heartless contracts usually termed
riages,"-the alliances of banded de "Royal Mar-
purpose of sustaining their
NAPOLEON, the Imperial Reformer Lours
dynasPstoits, the
afforded un-
equivocal proof that he was determined not to
sacrifice his affections—the most sacred feelings of
the heart—to red-tapist formalities. And he
met a suitable reward, for he strengthened and
rendered permanent the foundations of his throne,
gaining the heart and hand of one for whom the
Empire of the world might joyfully be surren-
dered.

The Speech of the EMPEROR, at the Guildhall,
was worthy of the occasion and of the man. The
graceful reference to the time when he was an
exile, enjoying, a4hough in a very different mode,
the hospitality of the nation, wa' peculiarly appro-
priate, and the felicitous
_allusion to the mutual
desire to abolish slavery, and the hopes for the

amelioration of all the countries of Europe, '
elicited an enthusiastic response from the whole
assembly. It is, indeed, only by unworthy
considerations and pitiful rivalries that the
union of these great nations are to be dis-
severed, and these we trust will never
occur. It was also happily remarked that " our
two nations are more powerful in the opinions
they represent than by the armies and fleets they
have at their disposal." Our moral influence is
greater than even our physical force. That it
may ever prove so will be the fervent aspiration
of every true-hearted Englishman.
To-morrow our august visitors sail from our
shores. The recollections of the week will, how-
ever, remain enshrined on our memories, and our
children and children's children will long speak of
the first visit of the EMPEROR and EMPRESS, the
prestige whereof cannot be impaired by the many
successive repetitions to which the English SOVE-
REIGN and people confidently look forward.

In the surpassingly beautiful conclusion to his
Life of AGRICOLA, TACITITS, while not objecting

to the use of commemorative statues, reminds
those who cherished the memory of the noble de-

parted that the N irtues of the mind could be
really imaged only by their repetition in the life

and deeds of the survivors. Ut vultus hominum,
ita simulacra vultus imbecilla ac mortalia sunt ;

forma meals eterna ; quant tenere et exprimers ;
non per alienam materiam et artem, sect tuis ipse
moribus, possis. Probably M. KossuTH had this
just and soul-stirring idea before him at the Mary-
lebone meeting in aid of a testimonial to Lord
DUDLEY STUART. Nothing could be happier and
better-timed thin his appeal to the sur-

viving admirers of the Noble Lord to
imitate his conduct. Mere sentimental hon-

ours to the philanthropy and moral cour-

age of the dead are almost worthless memo-
rials. To desist from feminine regrets, to catch

his falling mantle, to breathe a double portion of
his spirit, to be roused from merely commending
sympathy to efficient action, this is the memorial
his departing spirit would have asked ; the me-
morial which would place his name at the head
of one of the holiest movements of the day—a
movement which, if taken and successful, would
perpetuate through all European History the me-
mory of all its leaders. Lord DUDLEY STUART
can never be forgotten if Poland become once
more an independent nation. Long will his name
live, indeed, even should the brutal and murder-
ous policy of NICHOLAS be still permitted to con-
tinue, and to crush the hopes completely of

the civilised victims of Muscovite barbarism.
The oppressed do not forget their unsuc-
cessful friends, and every Polish mother
will teach her infant the name of the loved Eng-
lish nobleman who loved its native country, when
despots, and congresses, and Prime Ministers sur-
rendered it to the ruthlea fangs of incarnate demons.
But a nation utterly crushed, of course dies at
last; while in one restored, its life must sustain for
ever the memory of its restorers. Such a memo-
rial might Lord DUDLEY STUART'S friends secure
him if they will now but imitate his conduct.
Otherwise nothing can prevent the same grave
covering the memory eventually of both Poland
and her most generous friend.
It is, indeed, painful to witness, as we now
do, the penalties we have incurred by treating
him as a philanthropist to be half pitied,
instead of a politician to be followed.
Our C ASTLEREA GUS, RUSSELLS, and PA MIER-
STUNS have, by a policy the reverse of Lord
DUDLEY STUART'S, plunged us at last into this
costly and fatal War. They took counsel only
with the interests of despots and courts ; and,
with secret diplomacy as their means, they
achieved the aggrandisement of insatiable tyrants,
to their own confusion now. They blushed as
they brought their treaties to the light of Free-
dom, but they buried in the oblivion of home po-
litics all their shame for treachery to foreign
liberty ; they discouraged Lord DUDLEY and all
his coadjutors as mourners, whose sorrows re-
minded them of connivance at national murder,
or as patriots whose voice was exceedingly annoy-
ing
to the delicate ears of their Royal friends—
the Lords of Siberia and Spielberg. His Lord-
ship, on the contrary, consulted only those
moral judgments to which right and jus-
tice are an immutable law, and that tender-
ness of heart which could not rest while
the cries of the oppressed continued to re-
sound in his hearing. Had the moral courage of
philanthropists superseded the timid selfishness of
statesmen in 1815 and 1830, Poland would to
this day have been the free barrier of Europe,
Turkey linassailed, Austria and Hungary recipro-
cally improving each other, Prussia free, and
Sa.xe-Coburg-Gotha, too, independent of Russia
and Austria. The brutal NICHOLAS could have
been more easily put down iu 1830 than he or
his can now.

Bat Poland is the touchstcne of the true states-
man even now. Amid the feverish expectations
of tidings from Sebastopol, it is indeed difficult to
think steadily of the next great step ; yet it is
necessary to do so, and we affirm that success
there must render Poland the veritable Fifth
Point. The object of Warsaw and Sebastopol
is one and the same. Rule, and that barbarian
Cossack rule, over Europe. A small number
of highly-polished and educated men, but
men who do. not understand the western sense of
the word honour, aspire, by the terror of hosts of
serfs hardly a whit superior to the hordes of
Attila or Gerghis Khan, to lord it over the civili-
cation of the West. In furtherance of this ac-
cursed project, the Czars have seized successively
on Finland, the Baltic Provinces, Lithuania, and
Poland, and nothing can permanently stem the
debasing tide of savagism and slavery but com-
pelling it to ebb back on its own steppes, and con=
stituting the enfranchised States the protective
embankment of Europe. No one, indeed, now
doubts this. The policy of France and England,
therefore, is to terminate the dangerous Confer-
ences at once, to declare that the Fifth Point is
now an essential, that the War cannot close till
Poland and the Baltic Provinces too are free, and,
las we have more than once said, till Russia be-
oorue Russia only.

GREAT LOSS OF
THHOER CRIMEA. SES OH THEIR TVAY
TO

GLASGOW, APRIL 19.
The Glasgow (3 s.), from Marseilles to the
Crimea, has put into Zante, with 130 horses dead.
No further particulars.