The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-21 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1854,

Were we not told the other day, and that
rather confidently, that there was a probability of
the war with Russia being very speedily ter-
minated, and terminated too, it was said, altoge-
ther satisfactorily ? It was so intimated by some
of the more authoritative of our Ministerial con-
temporaries. It cannot be forgotten. Hints
were thrown out that the retreat of the Russian
forces from Lesser Wallachia to the Dobrudscha
was only preparatory to the entire evacuation of
the Principalities. It was insinuated that the
plea for this retrograde movement on the part of
the armies of the CZAR would be the coincidence
of the demands recently transmitted from Vienna
to St. Petersburg, with those already submitted
to the AUTOCRAT by the French and Eng'ish
Governments. By some of the more credulous or
designing newsmongers, it was pretended
_to be
inferred that the whole of this imaginary
project was the result of an artful con-
spirit?), bAween the CZAR and the secretly
subservient councils of Schoenbrunn and Char-
lottenburg. A pretended agreement with the
maritime Powers was to result in the withdrawal,
in obedience to the demands to that effect coming
from Austria and Prussia, of the Muscovite forces
back once more across the Pruth into the Russian
province of Bessarabia. A compliance with the
terms of the requisition sent in from the Vienna
Cabinet to the Imperial Councils at St. Peters-
burg-would, it was said, lead again to the estrange-
ment' of the Prusso-Austrian and Anglo-French
Governments. No reason, we were told, would
then remain for the continuance of the contest.
It WEIS even declared that the German Powers
would, under that new conjuncture of circum-
stances, be prepared to aid the Russian AUTOCRAT
in repelling any attempt that might then be made
by France and England to avenge Turkey, to ex-
tort pecuniary compensation from the aggressor
for the expenses incurred by reason of the war,
and it -might be, even to obtain from him
" of material guarantees" for the future tranquillity
ChriAtendem. All these possible evils to Rus-
sia were io have-been averted—whispered one or
two am,ong the more notable of our Ministerial con-
temporaries—b Y the retirement of the Russian
army beyond the Pruth
having at length 'the Emperor NICHOLAS
;
deemed it
advisable to consent
to the evacuation of the Principalities.
Well, a few days have elapsed
matters now' and how are ,
situated ? We hear no more about
this promme
• d withdrawal of the Muse,
vite forces
into BOssarabia. We learn, on the contrary,
ad vices received
throuvii the latest from St.
Petersburg, that any such retrogressive movement
ASKIE WITCH and GORTZCHA--
of the troops under P
KOFF was considered in that capital as an event
altogetitier' improbable. Instead of that, it now
appears. that the:Russian Commander-in-Chief has
received Trona bis-Imperial master express injunc4
tions to attempt the capture, at all hazard, of the
beleaguiSred fortifications of Silistria!
Meanwhile,. -looking nearer home than St.
Petersburg for indications of the probable future,
looking
.'for authority upon that point more ad-
missible than the hints of a party journalist, or
the innuendo of .a Ministerial newspaper—what, do
we discoster ?- :Why, we find a member of the
Cabinet ia.ainrpotant.aii the Noble Lord at once
rLeart.* 1;:
-- 0-like House of Commons and President
oit,,jipT,iranasserting manfully, from the plat-
arm - df4/44044ha1l • Y.'
a the City of London, that
f
can now be aimed at must be
ItiOitk:is,durable, and solid, and honour-
•
has this declaration been heard
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This is no fancy sketch, nor is it a matter of
rare occurrence. Not a year elapses that there
are-not many victims. And any measure of Uni-
versity reform would be defective which did not
at least attempt to proVide a suitable remedy.
Mforrw,
forward has, in the present instance, stepped
manner . supply the omission, and, from the
which-his admirable Suggestions were
receivedinby
for the
abatement of
we may hope
th;..s,
of the intolerable
nuimsarn.cei.isip;e:s
Pnr Position went to the extent
incurred by any personl
urnecdoevery of every debt
not only of barri:t.,
while in staticpupellari, in
r
Oxford, but also vacating everyel
the
obligation given as a security for
There would no longer be. a mock in years of ag©,
University of
"`wirynecessarieg 4'3'
deed, bond, or
such debt.
as f
what should be considered as
Nor would we find juries on their oaths
declaring that "masonic ornaments," "gold-
headed hunting whips", " wild ducks and
"high-flavoured cigars,"
champagne," or - even
were "necessaries" for raw boys of 18 or
19 years of age. We confess that we cannot see
that the threatened, increase of charges already
sufficiently exorbitant, or even the total with- 1