The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-23 00:00:00

tinguished for its injustice, or characterised by its
falsity." Well might the poet have exclaimed in
his matchless delineation of the horrors of the Polish

invasion,—

" Oh I sacs ed Truth, thy triumphs ceased awhile,
And Hope, thy sister, ceased with thee to smile,
When leagued Oppression poured to northern wars,
Her whiskered pandoors, and her fierce hussars."
There is nothing which more strongly marks the
style of these apologists or defenders of tyrannical
measures than the extraordinary departure from
veracity which marks their statements. Their
cause is so bad that they are obliged to start by
denying its attributes, and falsifying its work-
ings. So we learn from the Emperor of all the
Russ'As himself that his policy is a merciful one,
and all his actions inspired by the nr,st benig-
nant motives, and also Herr IlismaßK kindly in-
forms us that the Poles are to blame for their
reckless unconscionable conduct. What must they
do to horrify men who throw infants in their cradles
out of window, and subject females to the most
cruel sufferings. All these vituperations are idle
in the extreme, because those who judge both sides
will not be biassed by them. The CZAR and his
myrmidons may exhaust themselves in eloquence
through the length and breadth of his dominions,
which exceed in extent the limits owned by any
other power, but they will never bring Christian or
heathen lands to believe that the men who are
trampling the soil of Poland beneath the iron heel
of the slightest quarter to her
aged, miecdo,hueressticakn,d denying the
are walking in the
ways of pleasantness, nor can the people crushed by
such cruelty and tortured by such inflictions be said
to tread the paths of peace. Nothing is more sig-
nificant than the vehement defence of the Russian
policy, which has been constantly made by Herr
BISMARK, and therefore it especially behoves the
Chamber of Deputies to take heed to their efforts,
that the storm may not find them unprepared for
its assaults, or taken by surprise at its sudden
advent.solt
e spiritS t ay
can courage, firm endurance, and a
uaalorangefirmavail to nerve them for
reSteady
the day of trial, and to give them a happy issue
and a successful cmclusion out of the fitfal
struggle.

Rumoured Resignation of Lord Russell,

We (Spectator) have received a statement on
what should be first-rate authority, that Earl Rus•
sell retires from the Cabinet, and is succeeded by
Lord Clarendon. We record the report with deep
regret, for though we cannot support or admire
Earl Russell's recent policy in Poland he is the
truest representative the noblest of English fac-
tions ever had.
(From the Horning Herald.)

A rumour has been current for the last two or
three days to the effect that Earl Russell has re-
signed the seals of the Foreign Office, and that
Lord Clarendon is to succeed him. We cannot pre.
tend to be in the secrets of the Cabinet, nor can
we trace the rumour to any reliable source. We
must be content, therefore, to publish the report,
leaving it to time to show what it is worth. There
is certainly some prima facie evidence to justify
it. Lord Clarendon has within the last fort-
night had interviews with the Queen, with Lord
Palmerston, and Earl Russell. It is currently re-
ported that the policy of the latter nobleman has
given rise to grave discussions in the Cabinet, which
are not likely to be terminated except by his
retirement, and his opponents point to certain
damaging articles published in journals notoriously
influenced by the Premier, as evidencing some-
thing like a break-up of the alliance between the
two Whig leaders. Moreover, if Earl Russell
fancies the Ministemal craft in danger, we know of
old that he is the first man to desert. On
the other hand, it is not unreasonable to
conclude that Lord Clarendon's interviews may
have had reference solely to the Congress
and to various questions of foreign policy now
pressing for solution. His lordship has for some
months past been exceedingly busy on the Conti-
fleet, and may ba supposed to be well " posted up"
on most of the subjects that are likely to be
brought under discussion at the Congress. It is,
perhaps, natural that he should be anxious to
fight over again his battles of 1856, and favour
civilisation with another " Declaration of Paris"
about the rights of belligerents; and it is quite
possible that Lord Russell has only been seeking an
associate when he was supposed to be looking for a
successor. Perhaps some of our Liberal contem-
poraries will set the doubts of the public at rest by
informing us whether we shall retain the services
of the hero of Blairgowrie, Birkenhead, and Kago-
sima.