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

LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1854.

"Ditto to Mr. BURKE"—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 at4en-
tion to the despatches exchanged between the
French Minister for Foreign Affair., M. DROYN
DE L'HUYS, and the Baron DE BOURQUENEY—ICX-

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 garl
Of WESTMORELAND—repeating the same story fiver
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." Upwaz&
of a year ago, it was exactly the same. For
example, it was on the 10th of JUme,
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
o , the development of the quarrel, first between
Attitsid, and 'ffiirkey, and after Wards between the
AIITOCRAT and the SULTAN supported by France
• and England. It will be enough for our present
~3 purpose,, however, to place thus side by side the
events of June, 1853, and. those of Augaist, 1854,
as sufficient indication's of the tardiness of the
English, as contrasted wrth the Pro
French, promptitude of the
h, Government, particularly as the fact of
this glaring and disheartening contrast has been
ver the entire
noted time after time by every intelligent ohaer.
PoPulation. Here,
therefere,
again,' in August, 1854—precisely as it -was in
June, 1853—we find the French Government a
step in advance—just one step, before the English
Government.
31. DIZOT.NN DE L'HUYS, in the despatch pub-
i lisled more than a week ago in the Moniteur,
defined
the conditions essential to the reatora_
Hon of Peace:between the CZAR and the Wes_
Turkey—exactly as we now learn
tern Allies of
that Lord CLARENDov has defined them in the
on the last
despatch laid before Parliament
within but, only delivered the
day of the session,
last few hours to the no%v scattered Members of
S rallewine• our chagrin as well
the Legislature.
as we can, at this new and wholly unnecessary
illustration of the systematicdelays, and -procras-
tination to which our rulers in tha matter of. the
war would appear to have now deliberately ac-
customed themselves—and turning with the best
grace possible to their latest addition to the
diplomatic documents accumulated during the
course of this protracted, and seemingly endless
correspondence—we find that the alliance between
France and England is •
in no way hollow, lint that
the Foreign Ministerof h
eat , though employing one
the French, the other the zu
emit tongue; sputa