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

LONDON, SATURDAY, NOV. 23, 1863.

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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
miott
any conclusion at all in regard to any one
the
te them
ndem I,e could with advantage to all Chris-
has so o arrived at. The correspondence which
very
eotly taken place between the two
chief Governments
-- °f
Western Europe in regard to
the Emperor
has now been 4,pubol.l.EoN's proposition of a Congress,
at large can ezarainlied in its entirety. The public
It is comprised (the
whoe
le
whole of it for themselves.
of it) in merely five com-
munications, two out of
those
five only being of
any particular length. t
ENT rr.on's Letter to her El.n.oing with the French
tannic MAJESTY, the
correspondence eloses wits
Earl RUSSELL'S suffi-
ciently courteous, yet, at the
samee. time, almost
peremptory rejection of the
imp
rejection
.
Between the offer on the 4th inst., and its proposition.
on the 25th, it Will be seen that the
three
mayerme-
iadica be
now thus very briefly d
iliate letters not as yet particularised by us,
and very succinctly
be
a short letter, dated on the 11th instant, from Lon.
don, in which Earl RUSSELL apprizes Earl o.\,(Lty
of the receipt of his Imperial IkIAJESTY'S holograph
by the British SoVEREIGN—a longer letter from
Lord RUSSELL, dated the very day afterwards, the
12th, asking, through Lord COWLEY, for further
particulars in regard to the proposition, particulars
that (it was suggested), might be learnt by
our Ambassador from M. pßouys DE L'Huits
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 Compiegne, signed
by M. DuouYN DE L'Huvs, and addressed to the
Marquis DE CADOISE. The longest communication,
of ali in the correspondence, is—almost, we had
said, of course—the final letter of the five, the one
ttpenned by Earl RUSSELL, the one bringing the
en tiro correspondence to: a conclusion. Late last
eyei
_ _
a.i_ in a fourth edition of The Sun, we were
en hl d to
giseinsertion to this very decisive
to
comraunie •
'tlon. That it is decisive in regard
England% tak;ng
any part in the Congress is, of
course, altogether
rejection bringing •
tutntrnistakeable. The words of
a close, are as positive and,
as we have said, perem
re-
jection con d by possibpi,t.otry, as any words of
Government, following their be—" Her MAJESTY'S
w
qfier mature deliberation, feel awn strong convictions,
themselves unable to
accept 7i15 Imperial MAJEsII,II
in
.tation." C'est
• far at least. The rest
/int.—so to follow. The
conclusion arrived at, in effect, in this crisis •
of vital
Christendom, the co,
import to elusion delibe-
rately the present
rately arrived at Government of
England is—to put the truth of the matter in -r the
very plainest possible words—to leave everything
purely and simply to the Chapter of Accidents! There
is a comedy of DOUGLAS JERBOLD'S,:called