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

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
shbres. 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, TACITUS, while not objecting
to the use of commemorative statues, remind,
those who cherished the memory of the noble de-
parted that the virtues of the mind could be
really imaged only by their repetition in the life
and deeds of the survivors. Ut vultus ltominum,
ita simulacra vultus intbecilla ac mortalia sent ;
forma mentis eterna ; quant tenere et exprimere ;
non per alienam, materiam et artent, sed tuis ipse
moribuz, possis. Probably M. KOSSiITH had this
just and soul-stirring idea before him at the Mary-
lebone meeting in aid of a testimonial to Lord
DIIDLEY STUART. 'Nothing could be happier and
better-timed than 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 bead
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 ruthless 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 restore s. Such a memo-
rial might Lord DUDLEY STUART'S friends secure
him if they will now but imitate his conduct.
Otherwise floating can prevent the same grave
covering the memory eventually of both Poland
and her most generous friend.
It is, indeed, painful to witnest, 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 XST LEREA G RS, RUSSELLS, and PA LMER.
STON3 have,_ by a Rdiev the reverse of Lon'
DUDLEY STUART S, plunged us at last into Min-.
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 unassailed, Austria and Hungary recipro-
cally improving each other, Prussia free, and
Saxe-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.
But 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 Gorghis Khan, to lord it over the civiii--,
sation of the West. In furtherance of this ac-
cursed project, the Czars have seized successively
oa 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,
,ts we have more than once said, till Russia be-
come'Russia only.

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GREAT LOSS OF HORSES ON THEIR WAY
TO THE CRIMEA.

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

CRYSDAL PALACE-MODEL OF SEBASTOPOL.

To THE lIDITOR OF THE SUN.
bbeo.uamiulecht ohUgedmdei
ofif you will
Crystal Palace is not executed by me.
I am sir, your obedient rervant,
JAMES • WYLD, Geovrapher to the Queen
.scpia;ell2lA.H. It. H. Prince Albert.,
Sebastopolinform thete
Leicester April 19, 1855.

Despatches Were Rent from the Colonial-office
yeAer-
day to the Governors ot_ u
--cmg Kong, Ceylon, and the
: -..:
M. %Vintlaid, formerly private secretary to KingOthe,-but•whO had been obliged by the minister to re-
Mauritius.:
:4n•his post about a year haQk, has resumed his Nue-
tido near the kipee Pam.