The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-03 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1856.

Notwithstanding the Treaty, so hastily and im-
providently concluded, there is more work for the
British Plenipotentiaries at Paris. On Tuesday
evening the Marquis of LANSDOWNE was unable
to state " on what day the noble Secretary for
Foreign Affairs would be in England !" There
are, we believe, many arrangements of paramount
importance standing over, which may not finally
be disposed of for a very censiderable_time. AL
present,. and until the /signatures of the contract-
ing parties had been' definitively attached to the
all-important document, the representatives of.
Russia were all concession and amiability. Any
reasonable request was promptly and gracefully
acceded to, and they could_ confidently appeal to
their conciliatory demeanour as the best guara.ntee
for their future conduct.

But the motive is 12Qw .They d remove may _feel
assured that, whatever quibbles or prevarications
may be resorted to, war will not again be pro-
claimed, and we may therefore expect that, every
vexatious impediment will be'opposed to the fair
and legitunate results of the bases agreed On being
ever obtained from
.the unwilling hands of RUssia.
It was; to- say the least of it, an act of singular
imprudence to surrender the hold we had od Eds.-
sia until every matter had been 4.nally concluded
—more. especially until the frontier questions
both in Europe and Asia had been settled beyond
the possibility of dispute or doubt.
There were,- however, reasons for this unseemly
and injudicious haste. The .people of England
might become impatient,. and insist '
on some
as tovery
inconvenient explanations. The armistice .was
expire on the 31st March. That; -however might
easily be extended. But, still worse, thea,:te r
recess would terminate on that - day, and the re-
presentatives of the people might possibly exhibit
some very untoward and perplexing interrogatoriea
to Ministers. It is true that up to this time
there have not 'been any demonstrations of
insuboidination. Many: Honourable Gentlenaen,
of whom better things 'might have-been antici-
pated, were contented to hug- their collars under
the Ministerial manger, and to let the negotiations,
proceed as if they had no interest whatsoever in
the resalt• But such extraordinary forbearance
could not 'always be anticipated. The charm
might be dissolved at any moment, and with very
unpleaeant consequences to the occupants of the
Treasury Benches. Besides, according to the
new-fangled' German system, which is (if possible)
to be substituted for the old British constitutional
practice, every shadow of power was to be, trans-
ferred from theLegilslative branches to the Execu-
tive. It could scarcely he supposed that the chesen
representatives- f the people would have acquiesced
without resistance in 'this abnegation of their
functions, and even the hereditary Legislators had
lately afforded a striking proof of their unflitLeh-
ing determination to support their owu priviliages
against, an. y inyasion. It was, therefore, desirable
to avoid- the possibility of a coroict in which
Germ:alien might blow and receive a heavy great
discouragement, and from which it could scarcely
hope to oseaPe unscathed. We should, net, there-
fore, feel greatly surFised if instructiiiritiiid tr