The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-27 00:00:00

I the unwarrantri.ble privileges which she lris ex-
-1 torted from the fears or weakness of other Powers.
For a long series of years she has been extending
her territories on every side, encroaching on and
basely robbing those whom she has pretended
to guard and protect. She has more than
quadrupled her population, by incorporating
other nations that come within her rapacious
clutches. Poland ling-suffering, deeply-in-
jured, but noble Poland—is but one of many
victims, The countries which once consti-
tuted the barrier of Christendom against
Mahometan invasion has been ruthlessly sacrificed,
and partitioned among those whom it formerly
protected from invasion. But, restored by the
strong right arms and indomitable spirits of its
children, it will, Phcenix-like, arise from its ashes,
and assume a prominent and important position
in the scale of nations.
Finland, too, must be restored to its former
1 connexion with Sweden, and the hardy race by
which it is inhabited induced to return to their
ancient allegiance. The dominions ou the Baltic
and the Gulf of Finland, all of which have been
forcibly or fraudulently obtained, since the acces-
sion of PETER the GREAT, must be taken away.
Russia has endeavoured to transform the Baltic
into a Russian lake. She must no longer be
allowed to retain the power she has so grossly
abused, but be kept within her original limits, with
her only northern ports on the Frozen Ocean.
Cronstadt, Riga, and Reval must be restored,
with the Baltic provinces in which they are situate,
to their lawful owners, and Russia be contented
to carry on a peaceful commerce by permission of
those owners, and to have Archangel as of yore
her only port for naval armaments.

With the restoration of Finland, Livonia, and
Esthonia, East Bothnia, and Aland to Sweden,
and the resuscitation of Poland in all its inte-
grity, matters will be tolerably well arranged
in the Baltic, and towards Austria and Prussia
the usurper will have retraced his footsteps the
seven hundred miles he has advanced, and by
which he is now enabled to threaten these king-
doms with invasion at any moment. So far for
the west and sou th- west. But on the south itself
even more will have to be accomplished. Russia
has not only advanced her frontiers on the side of
Turkey, but also of Persia. She has formed
establishments on the Euxine, the Caspian, and the
Sea of Azoff and Aral, to which she has no manner
of right. She has seized on Podolia and Bessarabia,
passing first the Bug and then the Dneister, as she
has more recently done the Pruth (in each instance
incorporating the plundered provinces), and as she
yet hopes to pass the Danube, and to accomplish
the destruction of Turkey in Europe. She has
also taken possession of the Crimea and all the
t erritories on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azoff,
which PETER had, by the treaty of Falksen, ex-
pressly agreed to surrender, binding herself to
maintain no navy in the Sea of Azoff. She has,
however, not only violated that treaty, but has
taken possession of Georgia, and the fertile plains
abutting on the Caspian, on which she formerly
possessed but some barren and unproductive
steppes. She also, as far as practicable, appro-
priated the Caucasian territory, invading the
noble and unconquerable Circassians, pushing her
encroachments on the southern banks of the
Phasis and the Araxes. After a successful con-
test she assumed the exclusive use of the Caspian
by the suppression of the Persian Flag on its
waters. All these robberies she has achieved,
while she has also not only got possession of the
Sulina Mouths of the Danube, but contrived to
render the Euxine a mare clausum, seriously im-
peding the navigation of that noble river, and
preventing the British Navy from protecting the
commerce of Britain in the Black Sea.

These unfounded claims can no longer be al-
lowed. How can we, claiming the sovereignty of
he ocean, sanction the existence of a mare clan-
.ol7n, ? It cannot, it must not, and it shall not be to-
Lrated. The various treaties entered into have
;)eA2 annulled by the war. Be it our care to see
that they are not re-established, and that the pre-
tended protectorate of Servia, Wallachia, and
Moldavia shall be peremptorily repudiated. Let
us do these things, and compress Russia nearly, if
not altogether, within her ancient limits, and we
shall be amply recompensed for the exertions we
are making and are about to make, and the an-
loyance and injury we have already sustained or
;.lay hereafter sustain ; for we shall have laid the
.)undations of a permanent, a lasting, and an
ionourable peace—a peace that will not speedily
:in aain wantonly and flagitiously violated, and
.ye shall have done more than was ever hitherto
.ill'ected by any nation of the globe to promote
he happiness and prosperity of the entire civi-
lised world.

We are at war. The preparations for the con-
flict are perceptible on every side. All is bustle
:uvl activity in the dockyards and at the several
recruiting stations—averywhere, in fact, where
the personnel or materiel of war can l,e oblaine I.
Bat while exhibiting extraordinary energy in
these matters, we are wilfully neglecting one of
the most important partic'ilars—one which is in-
dispensable in the event of a protracted struggle.
ilrorteli has been truly termed "the sinews of war,"
for without it nothing can be effected. The best-
drilled army will be practically useless without its
miraculous influence. Experienced veterans will be
little better than undisciplined hordes without its
notent aid. It is, indeed, the true ALADDIN'S
lamp, the wand of the magician, that endues
the possessor with almost supernatural at-
tributes, that enables hitn to convey troops in
any direction, and to create diversions most
favourable to himself and prejudicial to his adver-
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caries. The gold of England has during—for-
mer wars, perhaps, been even more efficient
than her arms in promoting and enforcing the
policy which she was desirous of carrying out.
In the present instance, the AUTOCRAT is for-

tunately but scantily furnished with this iudis-
pmsable instrument. Notwithstanding the mag-
nitude of his dominions and the countless myriads
of barbarians that own his sway, he is compara-
tively poor in money matters. If his exchequer
were proportioned to the other resources of his em-
pire we might look to a long continuance of hos-
tilities, and a fearful struggle before peace could
again be restored, and the sword be laid aside for

the ploughshare. It is the poverty, and not the
will, of NICHOLAS that must lead to his speedy
submission, and compel him to make ample retri-
bution for his unwarranted and unwarrantable
aggressions, and his pertinacious and insulting
persistence in the original injury. lie has, how-
ever, clearly foreseen the difficulty in which he is in-
volved, and is straining every nerve to repair the de-
ficiency of which he is so painfully conscious. One of
the most obvious means has long since been adopted.
Even while negotiations were still going forward,
and while the diplomatists were disputing about
sentences, and hair-splitting and quibbling about
forms of expression, NICHOLAS had given instruc-
tions for the issue of no less than sixty mil-

lions of inconvertible paper roubles, which,
being issued on the authority and credit of
the Empire, would be available for internal cir-
culation in the country, and render the entire
supply of specie available for the support of the
troops.

Fas est ab poste doeeri. Why should we not
profit by the lesson thus taught by our opponent ?
Why should we pause until circumstances render
a Bank Restriction Act inevitable, when our
bullion is drawn away to supply the exigencies of
the Northern despot ? Let us key the money
now stored up in the coffers of the Bank for the
use of our friends rather than of our adversaries,
and assist with our gold France and Turkey,
and not Russia. A most just and salutary
proclamation has been issued, forbidding the ex-
portation of the munitions of war, and very pro-
perly including steam machinery among the pro-
hibited articles. But why do we pause there,
why do we leave matters in such a state,
that the most important of all these mu-
nitions may be carried off openly, while
the CZAR is ridiculing the fatuity that sacrifices
the inestimable advantages we possess, and
provides for wants that could not elsewhere be
supplied ? Fie may well sneer at constitutional
principles,
when they lead to such results as his
frigates being
rePoiiro4 in tho pal; dockyards