The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-23 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1854.

Whatever else may be the result of the present
gigantic conflict between the CZAR and his
mighty maritime antagonists—it is as absolutely
certain as any human conjuncture of circum-
stances can be, that the Russian Protectorate
must, in any event, be removed both from Greece
and the Danubian Principalities. The continu-
ance of the authority hitherto exercised by the
AUTOCRAT, whether at Athens, or at Jassy, or at
Bucharest, is at last recognised to be wholly in-
compatible with the maintenance of tranquillity
in Europe. No further reliance can be placed on
the integrity of the Councils of St. Petersburg.
The atrocious mal venation of every one connected
with the Muscovite Government, from the highest
to the lowest, from the EMPEROR to his Minister,
and thence downwards, from NICHOLAS to
NESSELRODE, from. Prince MENSCHIKOFF to Baron
OSTEN SACKEN—aII tends to demonstrate beyond
the possibility of doubt, the folly of reposing any
faith from this time forth in the sincerity of the
Russian AUTOCRAT, of his administrators, or of
his representatives. Duplicity and daring appear
to be the chief ingredients in the " hell-broth"
of his diplomacy. Lying appears to be the
habitual resource of the Russian in every diffi-
culty, whether it be in a reply to an enemy, or in
a prayer to the OMNIPOTENT. Insomuch, that we
have recently seen the most flagitious falsehoods,
emblazoned, as it were, in the presence of the
whole world, in an Imperial proclamation—we
have listened, so to speak, to the echoes of the Te
Deum chaun ed gratefully to GOD by order of the
CZAR, for a disgraceful defeat lyingly transformed
by the sacred head of the Greek Church into a
hypothetical victory. We repeat, therefore —no
faith can be placed in Russia or the Russians
henceforth. And henceforth, consequently, it
will be the obvious duty of France and England
to destroy the malign and pernicious authority
hitherto exercised by the Government of St.
Petersburg over Greece and over the Danubian
Principalities. Otherwise than by the overthrow
and destruction of this authority, the restoration
and ultimate preservation of the peace of Europe,
are altogether impracticable. Russian influence,
therefore, must by necessity, at the close of the
present war, be removed entirely, and perma-
nently, from Athens, from Jassy, and from Bu-
charest.

To talk of closing the present struggle by such
an arrangement of differences as would leave Russia
for the most past precisely as she was when the
conflict commenced, is simply preposterous. It
may be reasonable enough to speak of the inte-
grity of the French Empire, or of the integrity of
the Spanish Kingdom —but to talk of maintaining
the integrity of the Empire of the AUTOCRAT is so
aabnsdar(tinila
ymtzeluilcation of terms as to be really
Russian Empireflsos.othTte W"hiyl:l,ttehgeritEym" Empire
the
Russian Empire forsooth, Why, the Empire in-
herited by the successors of PETER the Great is
nothing less than an
agglomeration of enormous
robberies—robberies frfg
Poland, robberies froraTunirkBeZien, robberies from
robberies from Tar-
tary. And with a knowledge of "11 these gigantic
thefts from adjacent territories,
listen quietly while the friendswe the CZAR
a
DEATH or CARDINAL LAMBRUSCHINI—We under.
babble about maintaining at the end ofo f the present donstand that intelligence by private letter reached Lon-
contest the integrity of his dominions lannouncing
atßome the death
tb of the above emi-
matter of question certainly whether, Whenit may
be
n en t yesterday,
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and England shall again sheath the Pranee Eminence was a Cardinal of then
Order of Bishops, Sub-
deacon of the Sacred College, and Bishop of Porto, S.
Steppes of Khirgbiz shall be returned to the sword,
the
XRAN Rufins, and Civita Vecchia. He was one of the oldest
of Tartary, —or whether Circassia shalt be cardinals, having been born '
dwTioasici,nllB3l, by the late nPlonpel77G6;egaonrd cxrevatied
under
ancdaerr-
restored to the rule of the Moslem at the mandate
of SCHAMYL, the Prophet Warrior of the Caucasus State. gstilfiocate he filled the office oyf Secretary of
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in Rome.
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at last, for once and for all, to the evil influenceslorn deposit at the Lon-
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proposal into consideration
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ing discussion, decided in favour of Exchequer
'Bonds by a majority of 104, Mr. BARING'S
amendment having been negatived by 290 against,
to 186 for. Mr. GLADSTONE has it now in his

power to issue the bonds for such amounts as he
may deem expedient. Let him take the hint we

have given, and he will fully repair the mistake

of excluding all tenders for less than 1,0001.—a

mistake which led in a great degree to the failure
of his experiment.