The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-22 00:00:00

STRAND TIIEATRE.

Bole Lessee Mr. F. W. Allcroft.
THIS EVENING, JULY 22,
Wlll be performed THE MARBLE LOVER.
Followed by FAUST AND MARGUERITE.
Alter which, TEIE UNITED SERVICE CF FRANCE AND
ENGLAND, in whch Miss llarriet Gordon will appear
To conclude with FOE THE BENEFIT OF THE PLAYFUL
CROCODILE.
-tab, 45.; Boxes, 2s. 6d. • Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d.; Private Boxes
Al Is. to he had of Mr. All Croft. lb. New Bond-street.

Asitrars EUROPE'S NATIONAL A.AIPHITHEA.TRE.
Lessee and 5/onager, Mr. William Cooke.
PEE FEC 1' SUCCESS!
THIS EVENING. Jui.r 22,
A Grand Historical Equestrian spectacle., called THE COSSACKS ;
or, viye la France
Atter which, the inimitable Scenes In the CIRCLE. and Pre-
niers Fquitat:on, including Misi Emily Cooke and ?Fr. Alfred Cooke.
LA PERCHE by the Brothers Francisco. The German Brothers
on the DOUttLE TRAPEZE.
The whole to conclude with Mr. W. T. Simpson's laughable
Burlesque, RUSSIA AGAINS TURKEY NOW ON TRIAL.
Boa-u►iice open born Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, tr. W.
West.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1854.

A. remarkable essay has been recently put forth
by the Count PALEau.N. KRASINSKI. It has re-
ference to the present war between Russia and
Europe, with particular 'regard to its probable
consequences. The distinguished author of this
pa.mphlet has earned for himself the right to a
haring by the ability displayed in his history of
the Reformation in Poland, by his sketch of the
religious annals of the Slavonic multitudes, but
especially by the prescient judgment revealed in
his work on " Panslavism and Germanism,"
among all his political writings his undoubted
masterpiece. Allusion being made to this volume
last-mentioned, it has been said by a competent
observer—" I know no more striking anticipation
of public events than has been offered by Count
VALERIAN KRASINSKI'S work on " Panslavism
azcd Germanism." This was the remark of the Hon.
dember for Pontefract in his letter [relating to the
occurrences of 1348] addressed to the venerable Ma-
rquis of LANSDOWNE. It was a panegyric eminently
well deserved, and wholly unexaggerated. By
his previous writings, therefore, upon a similar
theme—writings no doubt more voluminous, but
scarcely, we believe, in any respect more remark-
able than his present effusion, Count KRASINSKI
may be said to have earned his right to an audi-
ence as a pamphleteer, An examination of his
argument in regard to the present war between
Russia and two at least of the mightier races of
Christendom, will be repaid by the light,thereby
thrown upon its probable consequences—for our
publicist writes with an ample knowledge of his
subject, a knowledge ripened by years of calm and
serious meditation. His argument, if it fail to
convince, cannot but instruot, by the variety and
aptness of its illustrative information.
Count KRASINSKI, at the outset of his observa-
tions, takes for granted that the Allies, after
either destroying or capturing the Russian fleets
both in the Black Sea and in the Baltic—will dis-
mantle her maritime strongholds, such as Cron-
stadt and Sebastopol—will wrest from the de-
feated foe the Aland Islands and Finland, in
order to restore them to Sweden—will drive the
enemy not only out of the Crimea and out of the
Caucasus, but beyond the Pruth, and "even,"
he says (p. 7), beyond the Dniester. All this,
we observe, our publicist takes for granted at the
vZiryr commencement. Judging from what the
Allies have as yet done, we cannot but fear that
he
is rather sanguine in his anticipations. Judg-
ing from what they ought to do, we canot but
t'iink that he searcelygoes far enough in the
limits drawn for the necessary
preliminaries of a
pacification. taking
Instead of forOl granted the
n
driving.back of the Russians not
beyond the
he
ld. Pruth, but even beyond the Dniesteyr,
rather have heard repeated what we have already
declared again and again ourselves, that
peace with Russia can only be obtained • a secure
• when the
forces of the CzAB. shall have been permanently
driven back, not merely beyond the Pruth and
the Dniester, and the Bug, but beyond the line
Of the river Dnieper, the current of which marked
w, until the year 1689, the boundary of the
Russian dominions. But to return to the argu-
ment of Count VALERIAN KRASINSKI, supposing
all those results of the war with Russia to be
inevitable--the destruction of the fleets of the
&AR, in the Euxine and the Baltic, the dismant-
ling of Cronstadt and Sebastopol, the restoration
of the Aland Islands and of Finland to Sweden,
the expulsion of the Muscovite armies from the
Crimea And the Caucasus, the emancipation
from the rule of the AUTOCRAT of the pro-
vince of Bossarabia--our author asks, even
then, pertinently and most startlingly—
" Would it not be humiliating Russia without
crippling her power, and irritating her national
feeling without depriving her of the means of
revenge T-' Yes—with him we think assuredly—
leB ! We think with him in this rather appalling
cenclusion, because we believe no less firmly than
he believes, that while the loss of Finland, and of
the Crimea, and of the Caucasus, would be galling
Stee the pride of the Russian CZAR, and to the
atttitiottPf the Russian population, the destruc- 1
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