The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-07 00:00:00

( From the Sieele.

Facts begin to declare themselves. While the
Russians continue to employ their means h la Rostopohin,
mutilating themselves in order to injure their enemies,
look at the spectacle presented by that " stationary Go-
vernment" the Turkish. We have already had from it
the free confirmation of the privileges granted to the
Greek Christians, the institution of mixed tribunals,
and the Hatti-Houtnayoun against the corruption of
functionaries. These political reforms do not suffice for
it. It appears that it wishes to reconcile itself com-
pletely with philosophy and with the human race.
Henceforward, Russia alone in Europe will have her
slaves, and what is more anti-Christian, Russian-born
slaves, her Muscovite serfs, for whom the Czar, in order
to have soldiers, now traffics with his embarrassed nobles.
As to Turkey she repudiates slavery from whatever
quarter and for the profit of whomsoever it may come.
There can be no longer an accusation brought forward
of the whole country being sacrificed for the pleasure
of the Sultan and the Vizir. Listen to the magnificent
preamble of the firman which abolishes the slave-trade
on the coast of Circassia. ' Man,' says Abd-ul-Medjid,
is the most noble of the creatures which came out
of the hands of God, who destined him for happi-
ness, by causing him to be borne free.' After such
words, pronounced in the face of a nation composed so
long of its captives, its harems, and its janissaries, who
will longer deny the progress and the multiplicity of the
means whioh Providence makes use of to make it burst
forth. "God willed that man should be happy, and he gave
him liberty." What philosopher could have expressed him-
self better? Liberty, the instrument and the indispensable
condition of happiness ! What political practician has ever
put forth a more complete and more fruitful truth ? Follow
,
up,
then 'Governments, the designs of God ! Do net op-
pose the happiness of free men, your people, by your
laws and your exigencies ! If the only result of this
sanguinary war which is now being carried on be this
declaration of the Sultan, of that Sultan who only a short
time ago represented the most immutable and infallible
despotism, and this proclamation of the rights of man
free and happy by destination, we shall not repent of
having believed in the future of the struggle com-
menced between the East and the West. Contests
have frequently taken place for more trifling causes.
We areinot ignorant that the Russians, in order to jus-
tify their war of extermination in the Caucasus, had
previously ordered measures to prevent the sale of
slaves. But let the Czar, therefore, dare in the
face of his millions of serfs, and the millions of serfs
of his nobles, his first slaves, to declare that.smadn
to
born free, and that in creating him free, God wished
make him happy ! Let him, therefore, dare,
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Censure our times ; it is not a contemptible epoch when
it does not depend on success alone to legitimise
causes. Certainly after having driven the Russians from
the Lower Danube, after having interested in its defence
great States such as France, England, and Austria, the
Turkish Government, as well as so many other govern-
ments of the past, may believe its cause to be gained in
public opinion. It might, according to the custom of
monarchies, begin to burn the concessions granted in
moments of ambitious appetite or of extreme perils !
Far from that ; every advantage it has gained has ap-
peared to it to be an obligation to enter further on the
path of liberty, of progress, and of humanity.

FAILu R AT ARBROATIL—Great consternation has
been caused here by the failure of the Messrs. Brown
and Sons, tanners and curriers. The amount 'is said to
exceed 90,000i.—Montrose Standard.