The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-20 00:00:00

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L9NDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1854.

A " material guarantee" is at length recognised
as the only honourable basis, as the all-essential
preliminary of a Pacification. A "material gua-
rantee,",given, not by Turkey to Russia, but by
the AUTOCRAT to the great powers of Christendom.
Yesterday afternoon, in these columns, we de-
clared in'so many words that the one condition of
peace was—this " material guarantee." Yester-
day evening, in the House of Peers, Lord LYND-
HURST proclaimed his belief that France and Eng-
land could never terminate the war with honour
to thern4eiles without 'having first extorted from
the offending CZAR, •in security for his future good
faith, this same " material guarantee." It was
in reference to this, as the paramount requisite,
as the coedition of a pacific arrangement, that in
our last impression we travestied GRATIANO'S ex-
clamation—speaking of the "material guarantee"
as an expressionborrowed from theEmperorNieno-
las, and adding "I thank thee, CZAR, for teaching
me that phrase !" Scarcely were the damp copies
of our jourtal distributed among the newsvendors,
when the Noble and Learned Lord the ex-Chancellor
was speaking thus in the House of Peers—" But
a new phrase has been introduced into diplomacy
by the Russians, it material guarantee.' If
Russia will ' give us what she calls material
guarantee',Lthat is,
,a pledge or mortgage upon
something so valuable that she Would not like to
risk the Toss of it if she violated her faith—then
that might be of some use. As for her moral
guarantee, her faith, her honour, or her
word, they •are one and all valueless." Yes,
the mot.: of the . crisis has been uttered. The
clue thrciUgh' the labyrinth of difficulties has
been discovered. Tho key to the solution
of the 'Ooblem. The " verb" of the whole
movement It comes to the CZAR, moreover,
with the: bitterness of an ironical echo to his own
1, mighty denaand—therecalcit ration of that haughty
demand by Europe—the demand no longer upon
Turkey, but actually in behalf of Turkey upon
Russia, of,-.-a "material guarantee." The moral
guarantee'of Russia, as Lord LYNDHURST has well
said, hervi4th, her honour, or her word, are one
and all Ir.Mneless. the They are not only valueless-- y are'gl:ciidly:bYwords of derision—as when
we talk Of the, courage of a PAROLLES, or of the
honesty of -a
lirlt, e2_. or of. the modest wisdom
of a poo.Q6uit
A No—it is obvious to every
one that 7Rtissia can .no longer be bound down by
the wordin,g;ef trea.tle2,-.or. by the tone of proto-
cols,rport. of the promise of her
or by.the purport
Sovereign; 'e'ven When made
upon
The only security that can
his parole de
e'en tlema,ii.,r
possibly
henceforth 1,4_
the first to in-
he relied- upon) regard, i, di,
." what he himself was.
coverabie
dicate—a p nig that
aerial guarantee." Ado t..
as its basil,England and France might realisethe
aspiration ,of. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, by effecting a
solid, durable, and honourable pacification. Not
otherwise !`
Thanks to the really masterly oration in which
Lord LY:..troittitST, while analysing last evening in
the Honse of Lords the Protocol recently signed by
the dipkimatie representatives of the Four Powers
at Vieurth, protested in words of burning and in-
dignant eloquence against the ignominy, or rather
we should say against the infamy, of those Four
Powers.donsenting to a Peace with Russia founded
upon the status quo ante bellion, principle—thanks
to the brilliant speech delivered in the -Upper
House Y.psterday by the Noble and Learned ex-
Uhancellor---a candid and explicit avowal of the
policy q:ho MAJEsTY's,Government was at last
extorted :7: froni the Foreign. Secretary. If
acted 'Ilion; - that policy as explained to
the country through the House of Peers
last evening by the Earl of CLARF.NDON, will be
worthy of the' dignity of -the Crown and of the
glory of the empire,_creditable to the valour of
our fleshF- and armies, and honourable to the pa-
triotispf,. our administrators. If abandoned,
evadec4,orjaisifiedrit can only cover the names
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