The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-28 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, NOV. 23, 1863.

Nothing possible can be done without Trying.
The truth is one, of course, that is perfectly obvious,
yet, somehow, our Ministers fail to recognise it.
Equally, also, they fail to recognise another and
a no less obvious truth, that by assenting to the
proposition to discuss the affairs of Europe in a
Congress they would have been in no way pledging
themselves to arrive at any conclusion whatever.
They would simply have gone into the discussion
of those affairs with a view to see whether there
might be any conclusion at all in regard to any one
of
tendon
that could with advantage to all Chris•
hi be arrived at. The correspondence which
hasol:e7 uvoevreyr:enently taken place between the two
ments of Western Europe in regard to
the Emperor NAPOLEON'S proposition of a Congress,
has now been
at large cauh published in its entirety. The public
It is
conr..t. zarnine the whole of it for themselves.
'sea (the whole of it) in merely five com-
munications, two out of those five only being of
any particular length.
EMPEROR'S Lett:te.h lieginning
with the French
Ilritannic MAJESTY, the
correspondence elosee ewith Earl RUSSELL'S suffi-
ciently courteous,
yet,
the same time, almost
peremptory rejection of the
iimperial proposition.
Between the offer on the 4th
tt:., and its rejection
on the 25th, it will be seen that
diate letters not as yet particalui4seathree interne
now thus very briJiy and very seerinetty.us, may be
a short letter, dated on the lith instant,
from dicated—
don, in which Earl ItussELLappri
zee E Lan.
of the receipt of his Imperial MAJEsrys
holographiLEY
by the British SOVEREIGN—a longer letter from
Lord RUSSELL, dated the very day afterwards.
the
12th, asking, through Lord COWLEY, for fowler
particulars in regard to the proposition, particulars
that (it was suggeste3), might be learnt by
our Ambassador from M. DROUYN DE L'Huy,
as the foreign mouthpiece of NAPOLEON's
Government --a still longer letter (though
not the longest of all), under date the
23d, written at the Palace of Compigne, signed
by AL DROUYN DE L'Huvs, and addressed to the
Msrquis DE CADORE. The longest communication,
of ali in the correspondence, is—almost, WO had
said, of course—the final letter of the five, the one
penned by Earl RUSSELL, the one bringing the
entire correspondence to: a conclusion. Late last
evening, in a fourth edition of The Sun, we were
enabled to give insertion to this very decisive

"turouoication. That it is deci,,ive in regard
" &'lsland's taking any part in the Congress is, of
coarse. altogether unnaistakedble. The words of
rection bringing it to a close, are as positive and,
as we have said, peremptory, es any words of re-
jection coo:d by possibility
be—"
.Her MAJESTY'S
Government, following
their own strong convictions,
after mature deliberation, feel themselves unable to
accept his Imperial MAJESTY'S invitation.' C'est
fini—so far at least. The rest is—to follow. The
conclusion arrived at, illeffect,in this crisis of vital
import
to all Christendom, the conclusion delibe-
ratel arrived at by the present Government of
iYa-nd
put the truth of the matter in the
EngL
lai r la; nest possible words—to leave everything
very
p
Purely and simply to the Chapte r of Accidents! There
Wittily
is a comedy Of 41" -
rGLAS JERROLD's,;called