The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-22 00:00:00

England.
"One of thesreasons, it Is said, why Clay has urged
upon the Russian Government to take the course
it has done, is that a war between Russia and the
Western Powers will be popular in America, from
the experience of 1854 and 1855, when the stop-
page of the Russian grain trade caused an im-
mense exportation of grain from the United States
and enriched our western farmers beyond measme.
Russia, therefore, had every reason to believe that
Clay was authorised in the treaty, or rather under-
standing, which he was anxious to secure between
himself, on the part of the United States, and
Gortschakoff, on the part of the Russian Govern-
ment.

" Of course this news has set Washington agog, at
least such circles as are enrapt with the State De-
partment and the White House. There are those
who believe that Mr. Seward has had a finger in
the pie. He is not the man to forget an enemy.
It will be remembered that Mr. Seward strongly
urged the appointment of Clay to Russia in the
very teeth of the fact that Clay had the impudence
and indiscretion to publish a letter in a New York
paper strongly censuring Mr. Seward for his diplo-
matic correspondence, and complaining that Mr.
Seward had given too much of his own correspon-
dence and too little of his (Clay's) to the public. In
the face of this Mr. Seward urged his appointment
upon the Senate. It is believed by some here that
the position that Clay has taken, while not exactly
recommended or approved by the State Depart-
ment, has been winked at by Mr. Seward, partly
with the hope of paying off Clay for his contemp-
tuous letter by the excitement his objectionable
course will create, and partly to seriously embroil
France and England with Russia, so as to prevent
England from the talked of interference in our
affairs. If this is true, it will show most dexterous
management on the part of our Secretary of State.
If he shall have succeeded in creating war between
Russia and France and England by such an instru-
ment as Cassius M. Clay, it will be a stroke of
statecraft and finesse worthy of a Machiavelli.
"Of course the future of our Government is very
clear. There will be no war with England and
France at present, unless the rebellion should im-
mediately collapse, and the temptation be afforded
for our President to pay off old scores with those
nations. The prUnability is, if the war is finished
by Christmas, that by the coming spring our people
will be tempted to try the virtue of the new iron-
clads, and which should not be built without a prac-
tical test of their capacities. The Puritan, Dic-
tator, and Danderberg, and the other large vessels
of our iron-clad fleet, ought to have a chance with
the Warrior and Moire, and unless the people here
are very much mistaken in the sentiments of the
country at large, the temptation for a war with
England or France, or both combined, will be too
strong to be resisted before many years are over.
In the event of a war between Russia and the
Western Powers, and in case our Government should
not feel strong enough to contest the supremacy of
the seas with those great naval nations, the course
of President Lincoln is clear. It would bo to recall
Clay, and disavow the proceeding which he is said
to have assented to."

SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT AT FLAMBRO'.
—On Monday, a young
man in the employ of Mr.
Harrington, of the North Star Inn, Fiarnbro', went: to a
field to catch and bring up a horse. Not returning in pro-
per time search was made, and he was discovered dead in
a recumbent position, having his feet in a ditch of water,
with a large quantity of blood near him. The deceased
had a cancer of a dangerous kind on his lip, and for its cure
he had some time previously been partially operated on,
but owing to the peculiar nature of the cancer the knife
could not be used from fear of the patient bleeding to death.
It is supposed that the horse had hit his lip with its head,
and finding blood flowing rapidly from his lip, and know-
ing the danger attending it, he had hastened to the water
in the ditch to stop the bleeding or wash his face, and soon
died of exhaustion. The man's name was George Dobson.
Ho was 2 you of -ige,—.Uojs,‘ltorwy,

principles of our common country.—Yuur obedient
servant,

" A. LINCOLN."
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald writes as follows concerning the relations of
Russia with the Federal Government :-
4, The receipt of advices from abroad by the
Arabia has set the occupant of the White House
and the head of the State Department in a flutter.
Most singular rumours are prevailing here with
reference to a complication of the United States
with the imbroglio now prevailing in Europe
teeching the affairs of Russia with Poland. Confe-
rences have been held between Mr. Seward and the
President concerning the matter, and in the inner
circles of the Republican leaders there is a very
unusual ferment.
"It would appear, from all that can be learned by
outsiders, that Minister Plenipotentiary Extraordi-
nary Cassius M. Clay has been making for himself
a very extensive chapter in the history of European
politics, end that, with his usual indiscretion,lie
4 _
has managed to embroil the United States '
In the
troubles between Russia and the Western. owers.
The secret of the remarkable change of base of
Prince Gortschakoff, from a tone of peace to one
of war, was brought about, it is understood, by no
less a person than our eccentric and hot-headed
Minister in Russia. It will he remembered that
in all the early diplomatic papers touching the
troubles of Poland and Russia, the tone of the Rus-
sian Government was eminently peaceful and con-
ciliatory. In answer to the several representations
from Austria, France, and England respecting the
inviolability of the Treaties of 1815, the Foreign
Minister of Russia condescended to explain matters
to the Western Powers, and to defend the
conduct of his Government by argument.
The joint note of the three great Powers
produced a very different effect, and the
recent reply of Prince Gortschakoff shows
that Russia contemplates the possibility of a war
with equanimity. The puzzle was, what created
this change of feeling ; and it now appears, if the
reports that reach Washington may b 3 relied upon,
that it was no less a person than Minister Clay who
has entered into a treaty—so the rumours go on to
say—with Russia, offensive and defensive, assuring
her that, in the event of the Western Powers de•
Glaring war against her, the United States would
declare against England and France. Russians were
aware from their own ministers in this country, and
from the tone of our public press, that the utmost
irritation existed in the United States against
France, on account of the desire of Napoleon to re-
cognise the South, and because of the conquest of
Mexico; and against England on account of the
sympathy that nation had felt for the insurgents,
and the aid and comrort it had given them in the
war in arms, and especially in ships to prey upon
American commerce. With these facts patent to
the Russian Government, it was compelled to credit
the announcements of Minister Clay that the
American people only wanted opportunity to de-
clare war against England and France, especially
if there was a fair prospect that the rebellion would
be quelled. Hence the courage of Gortschakoff and
the Russian Government. On land Russia has very
little to fear from the Western Powers, partly
on account of the inaccessibility of its
more important cities and seats of power,
but mainly because its armies, since the result of
the Crimea campaign, have been remodelled and
regenerated and are expected now to be able to
vie in discipline and valour with even the best
troops of France. By an alliance with the United
States Russia hopes to be able to humilitate England
en the high seas, as well as seriously to damage the
growing maritime power of France. In short, the
Russians on the strength of the representation of
Minister Clay, hope to be able to create a fire in the
rear of England and France which they little dream
of. Hence the boldness of tone and the gauge of
battle which has been thrown down by Prince
Gortschakofi in the recent reply to the note of the
great Powers.
"There is another reason which has decided Russia
in the course she has taken. The winter season
is approaching, and before war could be declared
and fleets prepared the Baltic would be inaccessible
to the English on account of the cold and ice. As
for the Black Sea, there is no commerce there which
could be broken up to injure Russia which would
not injure England still more—to wit, the great
wheat crops of Southern Russia, which are now
the mainstay for the breadstuff for France and