The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-05 00:00:00

PON BRIDGE.

HIGH WATER AT LOND

T Ens DAy —Morning 26 min.aftn 6 I Evening 49 min.aft. 6
TJ.Meaftow--Morning 16 inin.after 7 j evening 52 rniu.aft. 7

THE WEATHER.—Sus °MC; APRIL 5.
THERMOUETER, LI THE SHADE.
60 —higLest since noon yesterday.
43 —lowest this morning and during the night.
60—this day at noon.

BAROISETER, 30.44.
WIND, W.S.W.—Light breeze, and fine, sunshiny
weather.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1851.

Has Lord AnEnrerws- yet awakened from his
fond delusion ? Is he even at this moment pre-
pared to carry on the war, in which we are en-
gaged, with the spirit and energy befitting this
great nation, and its powerful ally ? Is he now
ready, fully and cordially, to co-operate with
France, and to exhibit, even at the eleventh hour,
the %vigour and determination by which alone the
War may be brought to a speedy conclusion, and
"ample security obtained, on the part of Europe,
against the aggression being repeated—the unjust
pretensions again put forward?" If he has shaken
off the apathy in which he previously shrouded
himself, well. But if not—if " while arming for
the combat, he still murmurs peace, peace," then
we say that he is unfitted for the high station
which lie now occupies in the Government of the
country. That his presence in the Council-Chamber
will more than neutralise the action of our fleets in
the Euxine and the Baltic—that his sluggish
temperament, dreaming of peace where there is
no peace, will damp the ardour of our valiant
seamen, and encourage the AUTOCRAT to a per-
verse and obstinate persistance in the iniquitous
course of grasping cupidity and domineering in-
solence on which he has entered.
NICHOLAS will never deem it within the bounds
of possibility that his friend (!) " the good and
excellent ABERDEEN (! !) "--" that estimable gen-
tleman, a ! 7'—could find it in his heart to assent
to his humiliation. Lord ABERDEEN could not,
consistently with his antecedents, think of check-
ing the power of Russia—of exacting the restora-
tion of the plundered provinces--again uniting
Finland and Esthonia, and Livonia and Cour-
land, and Aland to the Swedish Cro ern—
re-animating the suspended nationality of Poland
—of long-suffering and deeply-oppressed, but
glorious and noble Poland--of not merely shaking
off the malign influences of Russian "protection"
(protection, forsooth !) in the Danubian Principa-
lities, and forcing the invader back not only across
the Pruth, but also across the Dneister and the
Bug._:.restoring Bessarabia and Podolia to their
ancient allegiance, rendering the Crimea and Cir-
cassia independent, and by the loss of Odessa and
Sebastopol, as well as of the Mouths of the
Danube,
crippling the naval power of the AUTO-
CRAT in what have hitherto been merely Russian
lakes—the Euxine and the Sea of Azoff. No, at
mu. moment he would accept a proffered peace
without
insisting on satisfaction for the past or
security for the future.
or at. least believes it,
The CZAR knows this,
equally mischievous. Ile still
almost .
which is
affects the of "injured innocence,"
appearance
and feelingly deplores the " fatal want of confi-
dence"
that has led to so many contretemps, and
prevented him from making the" "sick 'man
accede to the wishes of his kind friends—the ex-
pectant legatees. All would have been right if
einland had only co-operated, and taken her por-
tion of the booty in the shape of E:gypt and Candle.
France might then have done her worst. But as,
owing to the impolitic " liberalism" allowed in
this miserable island, his good friend the Prime
Minister, cannot coerce public • opinion, why he
must temirrise, and with an affectation of magna-
Slimily and inotleration not very consistent with
L. the views exhih ited in the " secret and con-
fidential" -. correspondence ut
$ ' p forward the offer
ti stated in The Sun of yesterday, that eg when
the West rn Powers succeed IA isouring the
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