The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-04 00:00:00

DUBLIN.

This city was in a state of excitement all day on Mon-
day, in consequence of the receipt of telegraphic messages
from London, announcing the capture of Sebastopol on
the 25th ult. Although ni.t implicitly believed, the intel-
ligence caused great delight amongst all classes; and in
the evening, when a later telegraphic despatch came to
hand, throwing some doubts on the victory, there was a
very general expression of regret. However, the fall of
the great Russian stronghold in the Crimea is here looked
upon almost as a matter of certainty, although the event
might be delayed a little.

THE MOORS AND FORESTS.—The reports this year
from the grouse moors are excessively scanty. The
fact is that, instead of sport, the grouse shooting is be-
coming a task.- The birds have got so very wild that
it is more a business of grouse stalking thau grouse
shootiogo.rikatemot.

The generous co.operation of the West has avenged by a
single blow two centuries of humiliation. France and
-Eugland have deserved well of history and civilised Europe.
We confess that it is not without profound emotion that we
enregister this magnificent result. It must now be admitted
that force alone does not govern the world. There are
above blind ambitions, above selfish calculations, above
barbarism, in whatever form it may present itself, a domi-
nating right, a sovereign Providence who strikes down the
strongest and humbles the haughtiest. This man, who has
weighed on Europe for 25 years, who suppressed nations'
bye dash Grins pea,_nrho traded- in a4vassee to thoenort.h
end the south the plan of his invading march—this man,
in a single year, has been stripped of all prestige, all gran-
deur, all force ; an assault has sufficed to wrest from him
his most formidable fortress and his most precious con-
quest. What have become of his fleets, his innumerable
posts, his phantasmagoria of soldiers, cannon, and savage
horsemen, who only recently menaced Europe with a su-
preme invasion ? The Danube has seen large armies kept
in check before places of the fourth rank, like Kalafat and
-Silistria. Wallachia and the Dobrudscha contain only the
tombs of their pretended conquerors. Turkish patriotism
has not left them either the pride of a victory or the conso-
lation of a triumph, or even the hope of a return. The
vessels which destroyed Sinope will pass along the Bospho-
rus, with their flags below ours, towed by our steamers,
and amid the applause of the two continents. This fleet,
so redoubtable, which took 150 years to form, will soon be
in our ports disarmed and subjected to a glorious trophy
of our courage, a colossal monument of the fall of Russia.
What could one add to the eloquence of this statement ?
The capture of Sebastopol is at once the most extraordinary
warlike exploit, and the most fecund in results of our his-
tory. It casts down the illusions as to Russian power, strikes
the Czarto theheart, wrests from him the Black Sea, throws
him a hundred years behind, and consolidates, at the gates
of the East, anew Ottoman empire with glorious prospects.
All France will thrill with pride at this happy news ! The
epoch in which such things can be inscribed in her golden
book is a great one, and it will be a great glory for the
second empire to have thus conducted the sacred war of
European right against Muscovite barbarism.