The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-01 00:00:00

reply, Coburgism—Coburgism, finding a prompt
conductor of its instinctive impulses in the leaning
of Whig and Peelite Ministers to Austrian abso-
lutism, and to Austrian domination over the
lands of KOSSUTH and MAZZINI. The Coburgs
are bound up with Austria, and not unconnected
with Russia, too. The Coburgs dread another
1848, and Austria could not survive it. To cut
the Austrian connection—to leave her to her-
self, and all the other bantams who crow
and strut under her protection and that of
Russia—to shift for themselves also—why,
it might be the precursor of nations obtain-
ing their liberty or their political rights, and of
the little Dukes, &c., &c., &c., who now furnish
wives or husbands for the Sovereigns of other
and more important kingdoms, to think them-
selves well off if they occupied the social position
of our Chairmen of Quarter Sessions.
From all this has resulted that unpardonable
sin of our foreign counsels, the rejection of Polish
aid. That policy reeks with English blood. We
refused to attack Russia in what is now confessed
to be her weakest point, and left her legions at
liberty for the Crimea. We refused the aid of
seventeen millions of a brave people, the just ene-
mies of Russia, and were made to bid for a legion
of mercenaries instead. We even refused the
Porte, our ally, leave to raise a Polish legion in
his own defence at the penalty of forfeiting our
aid! We refused a volunteer band of Poles to
attract from Sebastopol their fellow-countrymen
who are made to serve the guns against us—a
band prepared to head the assault of that vainly-
beleaguered fortress. We repeat that torrents of
English blood have flowed already because Poland
has been spurned ; and more will yet flow. A
merciless Polish conscription has swelled the army
of Russia this winter, and the men who might
have been rising in our defence are practising the
Minie rifle or forced into the artillery, which are
soon to furnish more orphans and widows for our
ebarity. The Commissariat has slain its thou-
sands ; but aristocracy, Coburg, and Austrian
contempt of Poland has slain its ton thousands.
But for this the Commissariat would have had
but little time to starve our troops. Poles, if
invited, from the first, would hate placed Sebas.
topol in our hands, before Balaklava, Inkerman,
the seven miles, th• too late supplies, and the un-
regulated harbour had sacrificed our men.
We have only to add that we see no symptoms
under the new Whig Ministry of a better policy.
The country itself must speak out. It must tell
the Ministry that one Poland is worth ten Aus-
trias. It must demand that we strike a blow
through Poland by employing our Baltic fleet to
land an army at Riga ; that we invite Louis
NAPOLEON to furnish men, and we will do our
part with ships ; that we will have the Polish flag
hoisted, and Poles substituted for mercenaries.
Above all, that we shall hold them guilty of the
blood of our soldiers if they delay any longer to
save that blood by justice to Poland.

Mr. LAYARD, in his address to his constituents

at Aylesbury, made some very important state-
ments. He fully confirms, from personal know-
ledge be it remembered, Lord SHAFTESBURY'S
statements early in the present contest, that the
real cause of the CZAR'S attempt upon Turkey
was the liberal course pursued by the SULTAN
towards his Christian population, and fear lest, as
their liberties increased he should lose all chance
of possessing himself of the rich provinces he had
BO long coveted.