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
she 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 English
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-
spiracy between 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 was even declared that the German Powers
would, under that new conjuncture of circum-
stances, be prepared to aid the Russian AUTOCRAT
ivepelling 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
"material guarantees" for the future tranquillity
of Christendom. All these possible evils to Rus-
siatwere to have been averted—whispered one or
two among the more notable of our Ministerial con-
temporaries—by the retirement of the Russian
army beyond the priitla, the Emperor NICHOLAS
having at length deemed. it advisable to consent
to the evacuation of the
Principalities.
Well, a few days have ela
matters now situated ? psed, and. how are
We hear no more about
Muscovite forces
withdlrvaewalleaorfnt,h_e on
the contrary,
this promised
into Bessarabia.
throuvb the latest advices received from St.
such retrogressive movement
Petersburg, that any
PASKIEWITCH and GonxzenA..
of the troops under
Rory was considered in
that capital as an event
altogether improbable. Instead of that, it now
appears that the Russian Commander-in-Chief has
received from his Imperial master express injunc-
tions to attempt the capture, at all hazard, of the
beleaguered fortifications of Silistna
Meanwhile, looking nearer home than St.
Petersburg for indications of the probable future,
looking for authority upon that point snore ad-
miscible than the hints of a party journalist, or
the innuendo of a Ministerial newspaper—what do
we discover? Why, we find a member of the
Cabinet as important as the Noble Lord at once
Leipder akt-the House of Commons and President
of 40, COuttcji asserting manfully, from the plat-
,4*offjeC49dhall of the City of London, that.
• ItteaCi) :that can now be aimed. at must be
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_is durable, and solid, and honour-
-6.car-..lp.has this declaration been heard
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