The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-09 00:00:00

negotiations !

The struggle between Russia and Turkey hav-
ing at length actually commenced, it behoves the
people of England no longer to permit the repu-
tation of the country and the honour of the
Crown to be compromistd by the continued tole-
ration of poltroonery, as an admitted principle,
actuating the councils of the Imperial Govern-
ment. France would long since have aided in
settling this deplorable dispute between the Porte
and the AUTOCRAT, but that her prompt and chival-
ric policy was interfered with from the outset by
the timidity of the ABERDEEN Coalition. We were
assured that the conference at Vienna would bring
matters to a satisfactory conclusion without the
Turk or Cossack burning an ounce of gunpowder.
The result was the utter and disgraceful failure
of the Note put forward by the blundering diplo-
matists of the so-called allies of ABD-lII,MEDJID.
We were told that there could not be auy need
whatever for French or English men-,of-war pro-
ceeding further than Besika Bay---And lo ! the
combined fleets. have found it necessary, at the
eleventh hour, to proceed through the forbidden
channel of the Dardanelles. We were fatigued
and stunned with reiterated assurances that war
was out of the question, that bloodshed was ridi-
culously impossible, under the circumstances.
Have we not the answer loefore us in this contest
of the 4th of November, in these six hundred
and thirty-one 'Russia' ns killed, wounded, and
prisoners ?

The Imperial, government of France has be-
times superseded M. DE La. Coun by sending in the
person of Gieneral BARA.GUAY D'HILLIERS, a mili-
tary ambassador, to the Court of Constantinople.
Meanwhile, a curious mission to the Levant is
being entrusted by the ABERDEEN Ministry to Sir
EDMUND LYONS—while rumours are flying about,
to the effect that, as France has recently acted
towards M. DE LA COUR so England is about to
act towards Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE--in
other words, that the British Cabinet is about to
accredit to the Sublime Porte a distinguished
soldier as our Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary.

A beautiful but melancholy incident is at this
juncture insensibly forwarding the interests of
France and England by curiously cementing their
friendship. The incident, we mean, of those
touching tributes offered by this country to the
memory of the gallant and generous-hearted
BELLor—evidences of a noble admiration, accorded
by the greatest maritime power in the world to
the fair fame of that chivalrous Lieutenant in the
Imperial Navy of France—tokens of gratitude to
the recollection of that daring youth who sacri-
ficed his life in the arctic snows in his volunteered
search after Sir JOHN FRANKLIN, and his missing
expedition. Mourn though we may, mourn
though we
must, over the death of the heroic
BLOT, it is
impossible to close our eyes to the
truth that extraordinary
and scarcely appreciable
advantages have sprung out of that sorrowful but
glorious catastrophe—to France, to England,
to his own reputation. Of him may we
say, •as the ex-Member for Canterbury said
so touchingly of ARMAND CARREL :---
" He died in his youth as the brave
With his spirit still b with should die,
burning chivalry."
Expiring, as he did, in the sacred cause of huma_
nity—we cannot, for his sake, find it in our hearts
only to lament over his departure. We cannot
but exult in the lofty example he has left us, we
cannot but feel our hearts glow as we remember the