The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-27 00:00:00

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understood that we have no more sympathy with
'ae Sultan than must necessarily be created by his
forbearing and gentlemanlike conduct throughout
the crisis in which he has become involved—con-
duct, let us add, infinitely superior to that of the
so-called civilised and Christian statesmen, who
fancy they have found it to be expedient for the
peace of Europe to play him false and leave him to
play him false and leave him to his fate.
But what shall we say of the Czar ? Why, we
will give him his just due, and say of him that he
is a man of progress. No one, we apprehend, who
will look at what has been done in modern times
for the aggrandisement of Russia, her interests, and
her territory, will deny him to be so. The Swede,
the Pole, and the Turk can all testify to his cha-
racter in this respect--albeit his policy is prohibi-
tory and himself an autocrat ; and if it is not un-
natural that France and Britain should just now
perceive that it was a grand mistake on their part
not to check the growth of his power, when the
outraged rights of Poland gave them a fair oppor-
tunity for so doing, it is all the more inexplicable
how France and Great Britain can at present de-
lude each other and themselves into the belief, that
it is at this moment expedient for the peace of Eu-
rope to allow this last opportunity to escape them,
and as with Poland so with Turkey, desert her at
her utmost need, and leave the Sultan to fight his
own battle.

Never was there an error more fatal to the peace
of Europe. We pass by all the demands of Russia
upon the Sultan. We will go at once to the present
position of affairs, and we will take for granted that
in the vain and delusive hope that " the peace of
Europe " requires it, the end of these negociations
will divulge to us, that the Sultan, having been.
entrapped by Lavalette, bullied by IVlenschikoff,
cajoled by Aberdeen, befriended by Austria, and
sold and sacrificed at Vienna, is finally to be de-
serted by his friends " the Great Powers," and is
to be left to fight it out alone with the Czar.
Now we give it as our deliberate and thoughtful
opinion that, supposing this to be so, more war
will arise out of such perfidious and pusillanimous
conduct than could possibly happen, if the confer-
ring Powers at Vienna should boldly and at once
declare that on the Turkish side of the Pruth no
Russian soldier should remain. These Powers
would then be fully and fairly understood, they
would be pledged to united action, and the conse-
quence would be there would be no war ; or if it
should so happen that fight with Russia they must,
at most there would be only one war, and that
war neither protracted nor doubtful.. But let
them retreat from their position as the allies of the
Sultan, and the game of Russia will be further
promoted. Coldness and division between the
Powers of the Conference will, if we rightly under-
stand the aspect of affairs, find a speedy stimulant
in fierce hostility between Austria and France.
Yes, " leave Turkey to fight her own battle," and
does not Nicholas know that the French at Rome
are thorns in the side of Austria, and that the
influence of Austria with the Pope is gall to the
uncrowned Emperor of the French ? Well know-
ing this, the Russian Autocrat is gone to Olmutz.
He will meet there the Emperor of Austria. Nei-
ther of them have much love for a French military
despotism. Each of them has reason for remem-
bering a French Empire and a former Napoleon.
Need we draw the obvious inference, when these
two Emperors are to meet—the one desirous that
Turkey may be left to fight her own battle, while
the other wants no French soldiers in Italy ?
It is useless to disguise the state of European
affairs. It is far better to look the danger in the face,
and exercise, even in itspresence, that honestywhich
is ever the best policy. Had this been done in the
first instance, " the question of shrines " would
not have become the question of peace or war to
Europe. Had it been done, even at second hand,
the course of Russia had ere now been checked, if
not effectually curbed. But now, at the eleventh
hour, the Czar perceives the advantages that are
his. " The Powers" are shaken, and the Auto-
crat—no man more so—is fully aware that France
has fallen back upon that form of government
whose only traditional glory is that of war and
conquest. If he can divert the hostility of France
from himself, and direct its force upon Austria
and upon the countries of the Rhine, occupation
is at once found for the French ; Britain is drawn
into the vortex on behalf of Belgium ; Prussia will
have to maintain her own position, if she can ;
Austria (his future quarry Dis hopelessly embroiled
and weakened, never again to recover strength ;
and the Sultan is left to fight his own battle with
the Czar.

He will probably do so to his cost. Left to the
support only of his own people, his grand defiles
of the Balkan will be the graves alike of Mussul-
man and Cossack. Grim. as the Khyber Pass,
their passage may be fiercely disputed against the
Russians on the north; but with the Beets of Franca
and Britain in other waters than those to the east
of the Bosphorus, where they ought to be, it is
not difficult to see that the Balkans may have to
be defended on the south as well as on the north,
and that with the country of the Don and the
Volga beyond the Crimea, and immediately in the
rear of the Russian head-quarters, the Autocrat
may not only pour down his forces from the north
upon the Danube and the Balkan, but also from
the Crimea and the Sea of Azof upon Constanti-
nople itself. He may cross the Danube—he cannot
pass the Balkans—he cannot set foot to the south
of those passes—he cannot enter the Bosphorus—
he cannot attack Constantinople—unless they leave
Turkey to fight her own battle.

But once they do that, and Turkey may be gal-
lant, but she is doomed. Then may we attempt to
roll back Russia in vain. The Black Sea is then a
Russian lake, into which none but Russia may
enter. The Dardanelles is then Russia's own pecu-
liar channel, through which whatever she may
plan behind it will be developed in the Archipe-
lago and the Mediterranean. Egypt, Greece, and
Syria are then within his sight—the Khuban no
longer his boundary in Asia. What the Danube
,is to him, the Euphrates may be, and most
probably will be. He is then far on his way to
British India, and the Persian Gulf will become to
him what the Black Sea has been hitherto—a new
nursery to rear his young brood of gigantic plans
on the future. Let Britain look to it. The worst
half of the overland journey will thou lie beyond
the Isthmus of Suez, and to reach oven that
isthmus may involve another question, and with
it, " the peace of Europe."
For the Czar is a man of progress. Mentschikoff
is his arbitrator, Nesselrode his negotiator, and
the Moscow school his Peace Society ! Tell us of
progress and talk of arbitration ? Why, this is
the age of gigantic Northern development and of
peddling piginyism in the West. The progress of
Europe is monopolised. It is the progress of the
Man of the North upon the old Empire of Impe•
rial Rome, and the Sultan alone it is who has the
manliness to resist him !

(From the Edinburgh, Flying Post.)
The Eastern question has advanced into a far-
ther stage of complication, the natural consequence
of the imbecile, if not treacherous, diplomacy of
the four powers, as evolved by the double-dealing
policy of Russia. It may be affirmed, with truth,
that out of the British Cabinet there are not ten
men in the country in any way surprised at the
incidents which have now transpired. On the part
of our Government there appear to be few, if
any,
symptoms of a determination to meet the emer-
gency by adequate measures. The arguments of
the Times tend to the abandonment of Turkey to
its fate and we cannot perceive in the other
Ministerial journals that any more decided course
is in contemplation. The whole of these, indeed,
have either sadly miscalculated or been grossly
misinformed ; for the negotiations from which they
promised so much have ended in nothing, or rather
in aggravating the evils and dangers they were
designed to avert. We cannot, therefore, place
any faith in the speculations or vaticinations of
Journals which have so conspicuously committed
the most palpable errors, and credulously listened
to the deceptive whisperings of a Government too
apt and ready to leave them in the lurch. What
matters it that Lord Palmerston, through the
columns of the Morning Post, indulges in such
" brave words" as these :—" The expedients of
negotiation are exhausted, and the period of action
has arrived. Questions of words and disputes
about formalities may be set aside as nothing to
the purpose. The point now at issue. is, whether
Russia shall be successful in the designwhich she can
no longer hide, of forcibly seizing on the rights of
Turkey ; or, whether England and France, bound
as they are by obligations repeatedly avowed and
continually strengthened, shall prove that they
possess the will, as they
.undoubtedly have the
power, to reduce that desr to the ignominy of
failure in attempted crime.

THE CAIRNGORM CLIPPER.--This fine ship, built ex-
pressly by the Messrs. Hall, of Aberdeen, to compe
with the fastest of the American clippers, has made the
voyage to China in 72 days from Lisbon, or 77 from
London. This is the quickest voyage yet made to China.
The Cairngorm had the misfortune to lose her mainmast
on her passage out, and was obliged to refit at Lisbon ;
yet, notwithstanding this hindrance, she distanced all
her competitors, sailing, when the weather was favour-
able, at the rate of 14 miles an hour, and delivering her
cargo in a most perfect state.
GLASS FOR RAILWAY STATIONS.—The economical
cost of glass, occasioned by the removal of the duty, has
induced the directors of the Birmingham, Woverhamp-
ton, and Dudley, and other railways centring in Bir-
mingham, to have the great station in New-street con-
structed of fluted glass, and the same covering is to be
generally adopted in the railway stations between
Madrid and Barcelona.

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