The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-03 00:00:00

way to get out of it was td listen to
the wellstheatt advia of Franc.-, England, ate)
Alstria. She Mast acet- cot the six points or prepare
for the w:)rst. If not, she niaqt be left to her deserts ;
the Poles might 'riunapi, they might *heir
independence atld he welcome to it. The Three-;
Great Powers would 4'ash their hands of D►ussia.
Matters are changed during the last four months.
It is now Russia who has the upper hfthd. In June
she did not hesitate to aeoept the issue. She ap-
pealed, without flinching, to the arbitrament of war.
As for the mediating powers, she Would do without
their sympathy, she did not want their advice.
She told them so plainly. Never, perhaps, was the
Minister of a great power so lightly and contemptu-
nasty treated as was Lord Russell u the second
dispatch of Prince Gortschahoff. He was told to
mind his own business, He was a little irritable at

first, after receiving this advice. yV hen at &air-
gowrie, he said he would not put up with it; he
was determined to show fight—on paper, of course.
He wou•d issue against Russia a bull of depositions
like that which the Pope launched against Queen
Elizabeth, Her claim to Poland should be declared
forfeit, so that any one might take it who chose.
But, having slept upon it a few times, it came to
pass one night that the sun did not go down upon
his wrath. He came to the wise conclusion that

after all, perhaps, it would be better to take Prince
Gortschakoff's advice, and mind his own business.
But he could not help writing one more letter, a
very tame and inoffensive one this time :—" Her
Majesty's Government is sorry, very sorry, that
the Emperor of Russia does not intend to take its
advice about his Polish subjects. It is informed
that the Imperial troops have been on the whole
successful against the insurgents, and that the in-
surrection is not likely to outlast the winter. It
congratulates the Emperor of Russia on the suc-
cess of his arms, on the prowess of his soldiers.
Under the circumstances it is unnecessary to remark
further on the little misunderstanding which lately
took place between the two courts. It is taken for
granted that the Emperor will not forget that
the treaty of Vienna, which guaranteed to him
the Kingdom of Poland, did at the same time
hold out the promise of certain rights to the Poles.
The manner and time of the tulfiment of the
promise may be safely left to the wisdom and cle-
mency of the Emperor." And so the Emperor of
Russia is salved down ; the Poles are left to them-
. . .

selves; and we are saved from a war in which their
was nothing -to be gained, very much to be lost.
Next to the Poles, the party in these negotiations
most to be pitied is Lord Russell. He has been eJn-
tradicted, snubbed, humiliated. It is not we, the
people of England, who Dave been insulted. It is
only the Whig Government, and for that we do not
care much. The people may be congratulated on
having escaped a great danger, that of being led by
the nose to make war for a chimera. There is some-

thing about diplomacy of this sort that is at once
ridiculous and melancholy. It is so impotent, and
at the same time so mischievous. The ►horough
deadlock reached by the Three Powers in their com-
bined intervention is admirably pictured in one of
Cham's drawit,gs in a late number of Chativari
Eftglishman, Frenchman, and German, are march-
ing together near e. signpost, which indicates the
road to Poland. But they are not advancing in iiny

Strict sense. It is a crab step, a pas d eerevisse
The ZJuave and Grenadier are hooked arm in arm
but the one is attempting to go forwards, the other
backwards. The heavy German, hanging on the
Frenchman's left arm, is dragging him towards the
ground. This is a very exact description of the
latest chef d'oeuvre of diplomacy. Lard Russell maN
flitter himsett that. something has been done for
Poland by this combined and " peaceful" interven-
tion. We need not tell him what, we think of it.
We will tell him what, his friends think of it—those
who up to this time have encouraged him, and bid
him persevere. " The Three Powers," says a lead-
ing contemporary, " have not lightened by a single
feather the weight which presses on Poland ; they
have not dried a single tear, or prevented the flowing
of a single drop of blo)d. Again it says," The Poles
cannot believe that the three Powers who have made so
vigorous a remonstrance against Russia will leave
them to perish without striking a blow in their be-
half. If they are wrong in this anticipation, then
to'the intervention of the Three Powers are to be
ascribed all the miseries that Poland is to suffer dur-
ing five months or fruit.ess and protracted warfare."
How better than in the language of the Times can
we recapitulate what we have urged so often ? The
Polish intervention is the greatest blunder of the
year. To England a deep humiliation ; to Russia
an impertinence ; to the brave, but wretched men,
whom the leafless forests are now betraying to their
doom, a cruelty beyond expression.
POST.—Oa Thursday the French Chambers will
be formally opened by the Emperor. To many per-
sons in this country the inauguration of a Parlia-
mentary session, with a speech from the Throne,
would seem an event of but comparatively little
interest. We are always in a great hurry, it is
true, to read " The Queen's Speech," but it is rarely
indeed that our anxiety is rewarded by the dis-
covery of anything novel or unexpected. If we
happen to be at peace we will be sure to find a
paragraph congratulating the country on the auspi-
cious circumstance ; and if we are at war, the un-
toward fact will be regretted in a neatly pointed
period. Of the future, so far as regards our foreign
relations, not a syllable will be said—not because
the Government are desirous of maintaining secrecy,
but simply because they can have no secrets to tell,
But on the other side of the Channel it is different.
France is governed by one man, and whether for
good or for evil he absolutely determines the course
she shall pursue. He keeps his counsel, and leaves
the world to indulge in what must be only the
vaguest conjectures, until on such an occasion as
that which is at hand he either openly declares or
shadows forth, in a manner not to be mistaken, the
course which he deems it expedient to follow. And
so it is; for the past month Europe has been on the
tenter hooks of expectation to hear the language in
which the French Emperor will address his Cato:a-
bets on the sta of Novemln r. The events which
have crowded on each other during the present year
both in the Oid and in the New World, and in the
peculiar position in which France finds herself
placed invest with more than ordinary interest the
possible steps which will be taken by her ruler. The
horizon is overcast, and when it is borne in mind
that it is in the power of !,tie French Emperor 0
bid the storm burst forth, it is not surprising that
the speech. in which he will announce his policy
should be loosed forward to with impatienc,,
if not alarm. However, two days hence, all
doubts will be set at rest, and a suspense which
has made itself injuriously felt in all the money
markets of Europe will be brought to an end. The
principal points of foreign policy to be touched on
in the forthcoming speech must refer to the Polish,
the Mexican, and the American "difficulties," and
doubtless the threatened rupture between Germany
and Denmark will receive a passing comment. It
is, however, the policy which France will pursue
towards Russia which, before everything else at the
present time, possesses paramount interest. The
dipiomatic intervention of the three Powers in
favour of Poland has proved a failure, and it remains
to be seen whether an attempt will be made to
secure that with the sword which fruitless endea-
vours have been made to attain with the pen. '[he
refusal of Great Britain and of Austria to have re-
course to arms to vindicate the rights of the Polish
nation has placed France in a position which it is
notorious that her ruler considers equivocal. It is,
indeed, clear that the intervening Powers were
foiled by Russian diplomacy, and the final reply of
the Cabinet of St. Petersburg was such as to render
all further negotiations on the previous bases cer-
tain to be unavailing. But, because diplomacy has
been at fault, it would be incorrect to conclude that
war now must supervene. However warm may be
the sympathies of France in favour of the Polish
nation, they are not warmer than those of Great
Britain, and, like the latter Power, she does not yet
see that it is necessarily by war that a constitutional
Poland is to be created. Those who have antici-
pated intimations of a warlike policy in the forth-
coming speech from the French Throne will most
probably find themselves agreeably mistaken. It is
clearly the interest of the French Government to
avoid war, and Europe may rest satisfied that if her
peace should eventually be disturbed, the cause will
not be justly attributable to the French Emperor.
Had it not been for the extraordinary and, by
every one but Frenchmen, unhoped-for success
which attended the expedition to Mexico, the so-
vernment of Napoleon 111. might have had some
difficulty in justifying the policy they adopted in
respect to that country. But success constitutesd
the surest and most satisfactory of jurisdictions, and
the Emperor is entitled to allude with pride and
satisfaction to the results which have sprung from
Mexican intervention. The expedition was a costly
one, but there is now no reasontohe rdouepbtaitd yhhat
the
the
expenses which were incurred will
Mexican nation. The nominal government, but
virtual anarchy, which formerly went by the name
of a republic, has now ceased to exist, and in its
place will be raised an empire which will at least
possess the merits of being respectable and respected.
Each successive mail which is despatched from
Mexico to Europe testifies to the increasing influ-
ence of those who went as conquerors, but are
accepted as deliverers, and to the growing desire of
the Mexican people to be ruled by a responsible
andas
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taendt ial
the Gtohvreerenem eennt G. e 0 AndnittunsstrwAiahnieprinhas ce
sure to be fulfilled, and within the past few days
we lrive learnt that preparations have been made
by the Austrian Government to enable the monarch
elect to depart for his future empire in a manna,
consistent with his high dignity. So far, there-
fore, as regards Mexico, tne French Emperor may
ask with confidence from his Chambers
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