The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTORIM 26 1(464.

Officers and men were in good health and condi-
tion for the arduous duties they had still to
accomplish. There bad been no sickness worth
speaking of on board. The previous winter had
been comparatively mild, and game was obtained
to such an extent as to materially improve the
regular diet of all the men as well as officers.
But much may occur within three years, and it
will be nearly that time from the date of the last
communication before assistance can be afforded
to the adventurous seamen. The casualties that
may occur during these three winters must be
provided for ; and, as Sir EDWARD BRLOUEIER came
home without ascertaining the position of the
Enterprise or her crew, we must supply the defi-
ciency to the best of our ability.
But, in addition to this powerful motive, we must
recollect that the fate of nearly one hundred of thosri
engaged in Sir JOHN FRANKLIN'S expedition. is
still unknown. There were 138 men (offices and
crews) borne on the books of the ill-fated vessels.
Only forty, or thereabouts, were seen travelling
by the Esquimaux ; and it is by no means impro-
bable that those who survived the loss of their
ships might have separated into two or more
divisions, who would pursue different routes.
Many reasons might induce them to adopt such a
determination. The scantiness of game, which
could not be found in sufficient quantities to sup-
port the whole number, might lead them to
scatter in its pursuit. Besides, they might
naturally look forward to assistance from home ;
and the more widely they were distributed the
greater the prospect of meeting some of those
charged with the much-required succours. Any
one who met the relieving party would set them
on the trail of the others, so that all would be
assisted in their dire extremity. Any expense
and labour that could be incurred would be am-
ply recompensed, if only a single man of the ad-
venturous body were restored to his disconsolate
friends, and it is not impossible that some one or
more might have received shelter and protection
from the neighbouring tribes.

Besides, of the party actually seen, it is at least
possible that some survived and joined a wander-
ing party of Esquimaux. Forty were seen travel-
ling southward over the ic6 at the time they pur-
chased the small seal from the natives. Only
thirty-five bodies were discovered, thirty on the
mainland, and five on the small island. What,
then, became of the remaining five ? This is, in-
deed, an important and an interesting point.
That they, or some of them, survived the period
of extreme destitution, is established by the fact
that " shots were heard, and fresh bones and
feathers of geese were noticed near the scene of
the sad event." With " abundance of ammuni-
tion," these men could have recruited their
strength and maintained themselves during the
summer, and they might very possibly have fallen
in with natives who would render them aid in re-
turn for their services. Besides, there are the books,
possibly journals, and other articles, which Dr.
RAE thinks might certainly be recovered, and
which alone would repay the expenses of the
search. An expedition should therefore be or-
ganised to start at the earliest possible moment,
and be provided with every requisite for insuring
the assistance of the natives, so as to ascertain
all the details, and dispel the mists in which this
truly deplorable transaction is still involved.

Sir Joust TROLLOPS has verified by personal
observations abroad what we aiS'erted from the
best information obtained at home—that the
Cousins Royal of Germany are not Germany. The
worthy baronet has been traversing the land of the
Austrians and Prussians, and other smaller do-
mains besides, and he returns with a heartier love
of his native land and her Constitutional Govern-
meat ; and Conservative as he is, member of a
DERBY Government as he was, and would like to
be again, what must he do but lecture the yeo-
manry of Lincolnshire on the blessings of a Go-
vernment which must obey the will of the people,
and on the duty of the Allies to resuscitate Poland?
What would CASTLEREkOJI have thought of such
Toryisin and such Tory foreign policy. If the
Whigs do not move on the Tories will certainly
do more than tread on their heels : they
will trip them up. He was quite indignant
to find intelligent Germans declaring to
him that their rulers were one thing and
the people another ; that the former passed for
Germany, and being married to Russia, and
bought many of them by Russian gold, placed
Germany before Europe in its present dishonour-
able position ; but that the people, the real
Germany, were all hearty for the Allies against
the CZAR. It is gratifying to notice the liberalising
effect of the actual sight of despotism and suppression
of popular opinion upon our honest English-hearted
Tories. Sir JOHN comes home from it to elicit
democratic cheers from Lincolnshire farmers, and
to denounce the rulers who govern by armies in
opposition to the will of their subjects. We
incline to think some Members of our Cabinet,
presuming of course that, like Sir JOHN,
they are sound Englishmen at the bottom,
might take a few weeks' schooling in the
houses of Prussia and Austria with advantage.
They, too, might learn that Prussia and
Austria ought not to be dealt with as represented
by FREDERICK WILLIAM and FRANCIS JOSEPH ;
and that a policy which should compel those
Royal worthies to do their duty to their subjects
and to would carry both those countries
with it.
But there was no part of Sir JOHN'S remarks
which-was more enthusiastically cheered than his
demand that Poland should be restored and con-
stituted the Eastern barrier of Europe. Think
of the " agricultural mind" responding with loud
cheers to such a proposal. It would have done
good to the heart of Prince CZARTORYSKI to have
sat beside Sir JOHN, and to have heard those
cheers of the English farmers. He would have
thought it an omen for good indeed. He may
have supposed that English towns were gene-
rally hearty enough in the cause of his nation,
but to have seen how easy it was to touch
the hearts of our country population with
the same theme, would have drawn from him
the language of ENEAS when he beheld his coun-
try's calamities depicted on the tapestry of Car-
thage. He must see that his words are now
verifying themselves everywhere. Even the
European journal has deigned to advert to the
subject, though with an intimation of the ignorance
of those who are unappalled by its difficulty. To
the same journal, however, Russian granite was
but the other day an equal difficulty. The Trea-
sury journal, however, comes out with it as the
safest policy for Austria to proclaim Polish na-
tionality, and to restore its Constitution to Hun-
gary. The former would indeed be a less bitter
draught for Austrian pride than the latter. Her
traditions are rather in its favour than otherwise.
MARIA THERESA was, as is well known, au unwil-
ling accomplice in the first dismemberment of
Poland ; and Austria, if forced into a war with
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to Hungary after having for
centuries endeavoured to subvert its liberties by
fraud, and having succeeded at last by the down-
right treason of calling in a foreign sword, and
basely murdering her noble rariots, would be
much more humiliating ; it would he to ratify
the verdict of Hungary, indeed of all civilisation,
on the baseness of supplicating help from the Czar:.
against freemen, and on the cowardly and cruel
murders of Arad. Probably, the certainty that
Poland restored must be followed by concession to
Hungary will deter Austria more than anything
else from entertaining the question. The former

might be represented as a magnanimous and Euro-

peau policy ; but the latter would be a mortifying

concession to those whom she has wronged but

too deeply, and that after they had generously
spared her in the hour of triumph. FRANCIS
JOSEPH can never forget that, in all military
honour, he should be the vassal of Hungary rather
than its oppressor. History he knows will write
him possessor of the throne by the most degrading
of methods—that of calling in foreigners to put
him on it, while it will assign equal honour to the
Hungarian generals and Governor. Hard will it
be for him to give back the gains of his perfidy.
We confess, however, we begin to have some
hopes of what this selfish and dastardly Power
may be driven to. The lord of the Cossacks and
Calmucks -would seem to be getting really angry
with his servile old friend. We know, indeed,
how siaspicious any diplomatic language must be,
nor Ilhould we think much of any appearances but
these which are too costly to be mere appearances.
Tut it must be owned that the movements of the
Russian troops towards the Austrian frontiers and
Warsaw—and that, too, when the operations of
the Allies are directed, and likely to be so, to
quite other fields—does look as if the CZAR in-
, tended to intimidate Austria, and something more
perhaps. While pursuing an undisguisedly selfish
course throughout, Austria has yet managed to
affront the relentless NionoLas most deeply. She
was obliged to promise to keep Russian troops out
of the Principalities after they were out, or she
would not been let in to them, not even by our
English Ambassador. This affront she tried to
smooth by not even appearing to try to drive
them out. Unluckily, however, she was unable to
refuse permission to the Allies to operate against
Russia in the Principalities, for they choose to do
it whether she liked or not. She became, there-
fore, sorely against her will, a covert to the Allied
flank for any operation against Bessarabia. Upon
this followed the affront of the over-hasty congra-
tulations on the Victory of the Alma "and its con-
sequences." Can the enraged despot of St. Peters-
burg ever forgive that insult in the face of all
Europe ? Austria herself seems now to feel that
she is to a great extent committed, and it may be
that she has real cause to dread an attack at the
season when the Allies can render berlittle or no aid,
and that will, of course, be the time of Poland's
hope. Austria may counterwork any designs of
Russia to raise the Hungarians, by hoisting the
standard of Polish Independence; and if she could
bring herself to do frank justice at the same time
to Hungary, Russia would be completely para-
lysed. Not a Polish soldier in her legions could
then be trusted ; not a portion of her territory
could be left without soldiers, while Hungary
would be a source of strength to Austria instead
of weakness. NICHOLAS, in a word, must keep at
home. With the return of spring he would have
other work to do than to trouble Austria. From
Finland to Prussian Poland in the Baltic, and
from Bessarabia to Georgia in the South, he
will have full occupation for every soldier ; and
moneyless and shipless, he will have to watch as
he best can the attacks of enemies who can land
any shore in his dominions.
their troops at will on
All Europe is now aware that permanent safety
against Russia is identical with the restoration of
Poland.

LATEST NEWS.

BOMBARDMENT
OF SEBAS TOPOL

PARIS, THURSDAY MORNING,

The Moniteur contains a despatch from
General Canrobert stating that the trenches were
opened on th• night of the 9th, and that by the
15th he hoped to have 66 guns in position. Since
the 10th • a sharp cannonade had been sustained

declared that he will invariably maintain the prin-
ciples set forth in the note of the 30th ult."

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Oct. 23.—Reports have gone the roupd
of German and other journals of the Allied Govern-
ments having recently sent in a note of a " menac-
ing character to this Cabinet. There is not a word
of truth in this assertion. It may be affirmed,
without possibility of contradiction, that the
two great Cabinetft have for a length of time ab-
stained from all direct political communication
with this Government upon the great and all-ab-
sorbing question of the day, and that in whatever
rare interviews Lord Augustus Loftus and M. de
Moustier may have bad with Baron von Man-
teuffel, or with the Under Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, little or no allusion is made to
that question. M. de Manteuffel's Cabinet has
adopted, and will probably adhere doggedly (if
the expression be per -itted) to a given line.
Argument and remonstrance have been and
would be thrown away. Her Majesty's charge
d'affaires and Lord Clarendon are fully alive
to this fact, and it is to be presumed that the
French envoy and Foreign Minister must enter-
tain the same conviction. The clay may come, and
probably will come, when both France and England
may deem it requisite to raise their voice and call
for categorical explanations. But the times are
not yet ripe, and " menace" of any kind would be
out of season, impolitic, and even undignified.
Count Esterhazy is expected back to-morrow,
and will probably be the bearer of the Austrian re-
ply to the Prussian despatch of the 13th.
A letter from Vienna, in the National of this
evening, gives us to understand that an arrange-
ment between Austria and Prussia is not impro-
bable, and that both Governments are disposed, or
have resolved, to address an ultimatum to St. Pe-
tersburg, which, if assented to, will insure the
neutrality of Austria. Such is the interpretation
of the National.

" Baron de Budberg, the Russiam Ambassador
at Berlin, will," says the Zeit of that city, " pro-
ceed in a few days to Warsaw to see the Emperor
of Russia, who is expected there."

RUSSIA.
MARCH OF THE RUSSIAN GUARDS.
A letter from St. Petersburg thus describes the
last ceremony in which the Czar figured in public :
—" The reserve of the Imperial Guard, composed
of 30,000 men, has just been placed on a war foot-
ing. The Emperor has reviewed them, and has
availed himself of the opportunity to bless, at the
head of his troops, the two Grand Dukes Michael
and Nicho'as, who, it is said, are to join the active
army. The benediction took place with much
pomp. The two Grand Dukes went on their knees
to receive it, and all the troops also knelt."
A despatch of the 23d states that the Czar's
eldest son, the Grand Duke Alexander, had left
St. Petersburg to j' in the guards on their march
to Warsaw, their now head-quarters.
The Journal de St. Petersbourg, of the 15th, an-
nounces that by an ukase Prince Menschikoff is
appointed Commander-in-Chief and Governor of
all the Imperial forces in the Crimea. The same
ukase appoints General Tcheodjeff, hitherto com-
manding the 6th corps, to the command of all re-
serve infantry troops - and gives the 6th corps to
General Prince Gortschakoff 111., a brother of the
hero of the Danube.

We read in the Corriere Italian° of Vienna, of
the 21st :—" Letters from St. Petersburg state
that the relations between Count V. Esterhazy and
the Russian Cabinet become every day colder. It
is known that Austria is, though not the declared
enemy, the adversary of Russian policy. An in:
significant formality alone prevents a formal rup-
ture between Russia and Austria, and for a long
time Count Esterhazy has, by the restriction of
relations to official etiquette, been made to feel the
rupture is approaching."