The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-20 00:00:00

THE REGENERATION Of EUROPE.

The &tele has some well-Timed remarks on the neces-
sity of making the most of the result of the war in which
the allies are engaged. The following passages are de-
serving of attention :—" The campaign of the Crimea,
so gloriously crowned by the taking of Sebastopol,
throws back the Muscovite power for more than a cen-
tury. We are now far from the embassy of Menechi-
koff and the passage of the Prutb. If there is now an
invalid 'in the case it is not the ally of the 'Western
Powers.. The fall of Sebastopol changes nothing in our
(the Sicdc's) policy. ' Before the triumph of the allied
armies we demanded that ideas of civilisation and
liberty should be the great ground of support, and
we now ask it more than ever. We demanded that
England and France should not allow themselves to
be tricked with impunity by the Germanic Powers -
we now repeat that demand more strongly than ever.
Before the fall of the city in which Russia had placed
her principal means of universal subjugation, we de-
clared that a durable peace could not be founded on
the four guarantees ; we proclaimed those guarantees to
be insufficient, And as not preserving Europe front new
and savage aggressions on the part of Russia. We now
proclaim that opinion more strongly than ever. Before
the conquest of the great Muscovite arsenal we pleaded
the cause of nationalities ; we said that it was not only
necessary to have pledges in the Black Sea, but also
on the coast of Asia, and in the Baltic ; we mentioned
the names of Poland, Finland, and of Italy; we now do
so more than ever. Before the arrival of the event
which resounds throughout the world we did not fear
to say :—There is more in this struggle than a circum-
scribed war, more than a political war between State
and State, and that the regeneration of Europe was en-
gaged in it. We now assert it more than ever. In a word
we have nothing to change in what we have said and writ-
ten." The present moment, the Siccle declares, is the very
best that can be selected for the allied Powers to act :
" It is not in the first moment that Russia will feel
the enormity of the losses ; her national pride will sus-
tain her. Already the German journals publish very
proud expressions made use of by the Czar. Let us
allow them to say and write what they think proper,
but do not let us lose time. It is now the moment for
rendering to the success of France, England, Italy, and
Turkey, all that that advantage can produce. A war of
civilisation has been undertaken. It must be followed
up, in a complete manner, for the benefit of that civili-
sation wherever it is suffering. In Turkey there has
been, in the first place, admitted for ever liberty ofes
science, civil equality has been founded, and Ottema
unity formed. By a system of effective guarantees, all
recurrence of the events of 1553 have been also pre-
vented. There are also to be repaired the faults of
two centuries, and to raise up heroic Poland which
has been reduced to furnish its most precious blood
for the triumph of the policy of Peter the Great.
The part which belongs to Italy is also to be thought
of ; Piedmont did not fight for herself alone at Traktir
and at Sebastopol. She there represents Italy ; stipule-
tions must, therefore, be made for Italy. Before the vic-
tory the revision of the map of Europe was talked of with
confidence ; it now may be spoken of with power, and
with a certainty of being obeyed. After all, it is only by
im
posed
on complete revision of these treaties which were
on us in our disasters that a really durable and glorious
peace can be acquired." The Sieele then argues that
everything it recommends is perfectly easy of accomplish-
ment:—`° It will be, perhaps, said that we require too
much, and that we wish to lead the country into adven-
tures ; our only wish is that the sacrifices it makes shall
benefit civilisation. To those who accuse us of seeking
for what is impossible we would reply by the fall of
Sebastopol. It was also said that we impelled the
Powers of the West to imposaiblities when we were the
first to point out the Crimea as the grave of Russian in-
fluence. Well, then ! Let us be believed when we say that
everything is now easy to France and England ; they
may re-establish in their rights all the nations who have
been sacrificed to the ambition and the exigences of the
strongest ; supported by the sympathies and the grati-
tude of nations they will form an indestructible alliance,
but let them always have present to their minds that
true axiom, that in war, in policy, and, in fact, in all
affairs of life, it is necessary to know how to profit by
the moment."