The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-09 00:00:00

the Governments of France and England are con-
cerned,
the project has evidently been approved,
and it is now for Sweden to choose her course.
Far be it from us to press any State to an incon-
siderate step. If Sweden join the allies, she will
doubtless have fixed her destiny. She will be the
last, the nearest, the most unexpected foe of the
northern despot. Hence she will incur his deepest
and most unquenchable hatred. She will have the
honour, but she will also have the danger, to be
an advanced post of civilisation. For a century to
come the first blow of any renewed aggression
must fall on her, or on the Turkish empire. Hence
it is no light matter for her statesman to ponder.
Let them reflect wisely and well. If, however,
they do this we have little doubt of their decision.
They will see that theirs is a land which Russia
covets and must have, if she can work her will.
The experience of past times may tell them that
deference and conciliation, neutrality and treaties,
rigidly observed, will have no power to avert the
danger. They may fear less to offend the Czar
when they know that, angry or appeased, his pur-
pose is the same, and that the wars of Russia,
actuated by selfishness and greed of conquest, have
seldom risen in motive even to the poor dignity
of revenge. On the other hand, placing aside
all considerations of justice, national spirit, and
human liberty, Sweden may look to a high
position and great material advantage by choosing
a manly course. The country will be brought into
closer connexion with the West, and its geographi-
cal isolation will be counterbalanced by its political
importance. On the question of support the
Swedish Sovereign and people may cast away ap-
prehension. If we know anything of our country-
men and our allies, we feel sure that neither
England nor France will draw Sweden from its
strict neutrality without a firm resolve that it
shall suffer nothing for having dared boldly in a
good cause. If her alliance be asked, she may
accord it with a full conviction that it is recipro-
cal and sincere, and that it will last, through
failure and victory, until the end be attained.
Of the immediate military results we will say
little, but they have been equally appreciated by
the hopes of the Western nations and the appre-
hensions of Russia. Our enemy is at present well
defended by distance and the rigour of almost
polar winter. For this reason he is able
to leave the protection of the Baltic coast
to a small army supported by the militia of the
provinces. Whole divisions of his troops are one
after another marched down to the South. But
with a strong hostile force on his frontier the con-
ditions of the war would be very different. The
population of Sweden, though not large, is essen-
tially fit for war; her soldiers are among the best
in the world ; her seamen are accustomed to the
waters and to the vessels in which they can be best
navigated; the gun-boats on the coast are numerous
and efficient : by the use of these aids we might
well within a twelvemonth occupy great towns, if
not provinces of the enemy, after having destroyed
the chief naval stronghold of the North, and seen
the fleet of the Baltic sink into the depths, like
that which was the pride of Nicolaieff and Sebas-
topol. But these must be the acts of an alliance
which is not yet formed. To its conclusion we
earnestly call the attention of all who are earnest
in this contest, whether they be actually belligerent
or have not yet emerged from under the spell of
neutrality.

( From the Morning Post of this day.)

Victor Emmanuel, King of Sardinia, will arrive
in London during the first week of December, to
visit her Majesty, and, we may say in perfect
truth, to visit also the British nation, to whom he
offers this mark of alliance and cordiality while
offering it to our gracious Sovereign. It is no
journey incognito, no private step of courtly polite-
ness or mere personal amity, retreating from the
gaze and declining the sympathy of persons in a
less elevated sphere. This will be a year marked
by an interchange of royal and imperial civilities,
both in England and in France, under circum-
stances which impart to Majesty its most exalted
attribute, and require from it the most interesting
of its functions—that of solemnly impersonating at
a moment of deep importance the united will of a
great nation, within view of all, and amid the open
demonstrations of their satisfaction and concur-
rence. Early in 1855, after a half dozen centuries
of warfare between England and France, an
Emperor Napoleon came t• our shores, not with
the sword in his grasp, but to clasp the hand of
our Queen in a national friendship, for which
the word alliance is too weak, and of which no
precedent could be found in the relations of States
with one another at any former period of the
world's history. Men took some time to realise to
their belief what would have previously been re-
jected by their imagination as too chimerical ; but
the mighty changeBwhichthelmperial visit brought
so sensibly home to the public intelligence of both
countries are now deeply comprehended. In due
time the courtesy was returned, and once more the
world saw between the two most puissant of all
living Sovereigns those magnificent greetings in
which, however, the magnificence was by far the I
least noticeable and least significant element.
A single year would be rendered sufficiently re-
markable by two incidents which, in a thousand
times that time, will not have passed away from
the memory of mankind. Yet the same twelve-
month is destined to witness another event of the
like purport, occasioned by the same dangers,
fraught with tho probability of similar consequences,
and evincing in the Allied Powers, not only the
continuance and persistency of the spirit manifested
on the former occasion, but the progress of that
spirit—its spread, its propagation, and, indeed, the
increase of its intensity, in proportion to the widen-
ing of its area. We are not afraid to say that, me-
morable and strange as was the Emperor Napoleon
the Third's welcome in this country, there is in the
circumstances under which King Victor Emmanuel
has now to receive our hospitality something which
may, in an equal degree, inspire reflection, and,
perhaps, in a greater degree, justify wonder. Let
it be remembered that the visit, which we have
the pleasure to announce, is a public visit ; and
that it is as the honoured, and truly efficient, ally
of Queen Victoria, and of this nation, in a war of
prodigious magnitude, that the high-spirited
young King of Sardinia will present himself amidst
the crowded streets of London, and enter the royal
palaces of England. Other Kings—and even this
year one such—have come to our shores, and
have received the civilities to which their personal
rank entitled them, with no more interest, or pur-
pose, or meaning in their arrival than what might
be inherent in their own individuality. Very dif-
ferent was the third Napoleon's arrival ; very dif-
ferent will be Victor Emmanuel's. Diffrent even
must we consider such meetings from those which
politics, technically understood, have occasioned
in this century at Vienna—or accident and success
a t Paris. Different, again, far different, from
those prompted by motives of pleasure in a travel-
ling Prince, or arising from the natural opportuni-
ties of consanguinity. In Napoleon the Third we
beheld France. In Victor Emmanuel we shall
behold Sardinia. These brilliant and glittering
visits to England are not the effect of mere court-
liness, nor of technical politics, nor of the acci-
dents which chequer dynastic negociations—they
are national exchanges of confidence, affection, and
resolve, solemnly made in the face of the world, by
those invested with the majesty of their respective
countries. And, if we look closely at the situation
in which the youthful and valiant monarch of Sar-
dinia will appear amongst us as the guest of Eng-
land—if
we examine w ithattention what the na-
ture of that visit is, forhi4hl the success of which his
brave, and
Journey
intelligent,y civilised subjects will
watch their sovereign's
how
wfiatrh
their honourable
sensitiveness (anxious to note
ity
chival-
rous conduct is, or is not, really appreciatedh
Engiishmen)—if we consider all this narrowly,
will be perceived, as we have already hinted, that
the interest attaching to this Italian Potentate's
arrival on our shores scarcely yields, under the pe-
culiar circumstances of the case, to that which we
felt when. we hailed
_our Ally the French
spring of this year. The spectacle of
Emperorsojustl
and yet an Emperor, made Napoleon in London,
eternal close of many-
justly
in the
plain to every mind the
in the life f fatal
o States,
and inveterate hatreds.
is easier, therefore, for
readily than conditions. It
and
as in that of individuals,But, feeliugs change more
magnanimity
a great nation to display
great. In gazing
than for a little nation to become o
forget the marvellous
on Napoleon we could not
wisdom
ii
career of the individual ; in behold • i g Victor
our wonder
Emmanuel, who has no pretensions to_
least
of
on this account, we shall be reminded at
the marvellous career of a people. France was in
political disorder • but Italy was politicallydead.
_
We recognised in Napoleon the great man to whom
the foremost power on the Continent of Europe
owed its regeneration ; but we may look, in the
neraon of Victor Emmanuel, upon the fortunate
Prince who represents, if we may so speak, a na-
t.onal resurrection. Ve shall take future occasion
o speak more fully of the singular interest claimed
by this kingdom from allsympathise with the
who
honourable *
ambition of a gallant people ruled by a
public-spirited Sove • reign. Sure we are that this
last will find among us the hearty welcome to which
he has a right by se
many good titles. Were all
the Kings of Europe like •
him, it would be well for
Continental Monarchy.
M.H. Cavour and D'Azeglio with other distin-
guished nobles of Sardinia, will'
accompany his Ma-
jesty, who will be attended by a retinue befitting
the significance and solemnity of the occasion which
brings him from his sunny realm to the Courts of
Napoleon and the English Queen. Se will pas
through Paris to London, making his first sojourn
with our. Ally before partaking at our hospitality