The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-22 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1854.

"Ditto' to Mr. BURILE"—may be accepted as
the phrase exactly symbolical of the war policy of
England as associated with that of the French
Imperial Government. It was on Monday even-
ing, the 14th of August, that we directed atten-
tion to the despatches exchanged between the
French Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. DEO=
DE L'HuYs, and the Baron DE BOIIRQIIENEY—ea-

plaining in the clearest terms the conditions upon
which the Western Powers could alone consent to
a general pacification. It is on Tuesday evening,
the 22d of August, that we are enabled to refer
to the diplomatic correspondence between the
British Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Earl
of WESTMORELAND-repeating the same story over
again in pretty nearly the same terms, allowing
for slight idiomatic differences of expression. It
has been thus throughout. ' As we observed yes-
terday se'ennight, again " France has been just
one step in advance as compared with England,
the French Government has. again, as so often
before in this matter, just by one important move
anticipated the English Government." Upwards
of a year ago, it was exactly the same. For
example, it was on the 10th of June,
1853, that the Moniteur formally and offi-
cially announced to Europe that orders
had been sent to the English and French
fleets to approach the Dardanelles ! And it was
only on the 13th of June, 1853, that this start-
ling intimation led to some very natural interpella-
tion in both Houses of the British Parliament.
We might illustrate the justice of our complaint
by reference to every subsequent occurrence in
the development of the quarrel, first between
Russia and Turkey, and afterwards between the
AvrocßlT and the SULTAN' supported by France
and. England. , It will be enough for our present
purpose, however, to place thus side by side the
events of June, 1853, and those of Aucrust 1854,
as sufficient indications of the tardin'ets's;of the
English, as contrasted with the promplztituh e of the
ehas. fact of
French, Government. Particularly
obser-
ver this glaring and disheartenino, contrastc
- noted time after time by every intelligent
ver in
inthe entire population. Here, therefore,
again,
1854--precisely as it
again, August,
June, 1853—we find the French Governmentina
step in advance—just one step, before the English
Government.

DROUYN DE L'HUYS, in the despatch pnb-
lished more than a week ago ifi the Moniteur'
defined the conditions essential to the restora-
tion of peace between the CZAR and the Wes-
tern Allies of Turkey—exactly as we now learn
that Lord CLARENDON has defined them in the
despatch laid before Parliament on the last
day of the session, but only delivered within the
last few hours to the now scattered Members of
the Legislature. Swallowing our chagrin as well
as we can, at this new and wholly unnecessary
illustration of the systematic delays, and procras-
tination, to which our rulers in the matter of the
War
.would appear to have now deliberately ac-
customed themselves—and turning with the best
grace
possible t
diplomatic to their latest addition to the
documents accumulated during the
course of this
protracted, and seemingly endless

~,....poiluence--Nve &rid that the alliance between
Prance and England is in no way hollow, but that
the Foreign Minister of each, though employing one
the French, the other the Zuglish tongue, apeake