The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-29 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1854.

There are some extraordinary rumours afloat—
rumours which we are loath to credit, and which,
nevertheless, come to light together with circum-
stances which are really very suspiciously corro-
borative.

It is said that, we are going to treat the Rus-
sians, not with a vigorous opposition, but with
peculiar tenderness.
It is stated that particularly influential per-
sonages have resolved that the CZAR shall be
treated as gently as possible throughout.
It is asserted that it has actually been defini-
tively arranged in high quarters that whatever
may be the result of the war not a scrap of land
shall be taken from Russia, that the frontiers of
that vast empire shall remain precisely as they
were before the struggle commenced, that the
Northern AUTOCRAT shall not have cause to lament
over the diminution of his enormous territories.

Such things, we repeat, are rumoured. But let
us add at once, that we ourselves are fain to regard
them as altogether incredible. It is scarcely, in-
deed, to be credited that the Western Powets
could ever consent to a line of policy so weak or
so base, se marked at once with the double brand
of folly and turpitude.
Nevertheless, such marvellous incidents have
occurred of late in the carrying out of the war-
like preparations of the aliies of Turkey, that it
behoves the people of England to watch the deve-
lopment cf these warlike preparations with the
most jealous and scrutinising observation. Par
ticularly, we maintain, should this attention be
given to the course of events in the East, so long
as the Earl of ABERD FEN remains at the head of
her Britannic MAJESTY'S Government. We have
seen how matters have been delayed and delayed,
under the auspices of the sympathisers with
northern absolutism. We have seen how, under
those auspices, the force nominally sent against
the gigantic armaments of the CZAR have been
altogether inadequate for the occasion. We have
seen how even this inadequate force has been first
of all retarded by reviews and banquets at home,
and then midway on their voyage, at Valetta ;
and even when they at length reached the coast
of Turkey, how they were disembarked at such out-
of-the-way places as Buyukdere on the Bosphorus
and Gallipoli on the Dardanelles. Everything, it
must be confessed, has been quite in keeping with
the rumoured policy by which it is said the hid-
den friends of the Czart are resolved to treat
him with all possible tenderness—and these
hidden friends in England—some of them, per-
haps, or as they fancy, irresponsible.
Therefore, we again and again would urge the
people of England to watch, with jealous scru-
tiny, the course taken by events, and, through
those events, the councils resolved upon by the
Administration.

It would be advisable so to act under any cir-
cumstances. It is especially so advisable with the
Horse Guards in a state of partial somnolence; with
Viscount HARDINGE at the head of it ; with Lord
ABERDEEN Prime Minister of England ; with a few
thousands of our troops landing miles upon fifties
of miles away from the actual seat of war; with the
Russians concentrating their forces in the Principali-
ties; with the Danube crossed as well asthe Pruth ;
with the Dobrudscha still in the possession of the
Muscovites ; and if we are to believe our Minis-
ters themselves, if we are to credit the reiterated
assertions made in the House of Commons by
Lord JOHN Russx.LL with treason to Europe in the
Royal Pala.ie at Athens, and a formidable insur-
rection in Epirus and in Thessaly, abetted, if not
actually originated, by the Greek Government !
Look at the remarkable declarations made
by the Noble Lord upon this last-mentioned sub-
ject, as recently as yesterday evening, within the
walls of Parliament. Those declarations are, we
maintain, sufficient of themselves to justify the
people of England in demanding a more vigorous
and energetic course of proceedings in regard to
the conduct of the war against the Russian AUTO-
CnvßeoArgmtehnat undertaken (however reluctantly, still really
d actually undertaken) by the ABERDEEN Go-
at once multi
There must be no more trifling
these dangers in the East have become
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Western allies of the SULTAN are insufficient in
number, and are at the same time being kept back
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deplorably from the scene of action in the
Principa-
lities. Simultaneously with our knowledge of which
lamentable facts, come these ugly rumours already
specified, rumours of a determination in high
places to treat the Russian EMPEROR to the very
last with all tenderness !
Have we not sufficient grounds, therefore, for
insisting that there are reasons why the people of