The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-02 00:00:00

LovooN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL" 2. 1856.

In the Pelee of Parig,
,18'5k;, there is---NAPo-
LEON 111. himself assures, ug—J,‘ Nothing humili
ating to any Power."' NogibigAartiiinting to ay'!"
Power ! Goo I GOD ! And is Russia,, after al,

at has been-said and done, is Rassia•not to hi
in any wiy huiribred--RUslil, whose laWless and
unprovoked attaUT-c t pot, her inoffensive neighbour,.
Turkey,, originate,d, the whole• of this lalnentab'
War, with all its consequent misery, with all
wholesale effusion of blood, with all its gigantic
and rukous expenditure ?

Remembering everything that has occurred
during the past.- two years-r-these two awful►
years, replete. with '..so much , appalling horror
and'wretetteclness--is Rn9Sia to be, after all, in
no way humbled ? After the insolent mission o
Prince ALMSCHIKOFF to Constantinople. After
the wanton violation of the tranquillity ofEntor e
by the sudden passage of the Pruth. After the
illegal -occupation and the pitiless rat axing of the
Dtnubian PHI:36p tlities. After the execrable
fusillades sweeping the d)onied streets of J '4SBI
and, BuchArest, C)nsiquent upon all this, ifs
Russia in no way at all to be humbled ? _I.
Russia not-to be hunabled ? After the infatuotis
massaere at Sinop-. After the brutal ambuseadt,
at liango-17d. After 'he savage discharge of ti
guns of 0 tossa upon tits wreck of the bunclering
Tiger. After the h-ttlytrouS Cruelties'and indig
nities of to the miserable wounded, stretched
in agonies ,araOng the,ruins of Inkerua4a and iu
the valley of Balaklaya.

liorri4sd
.hy recollections like these, are
we to .be told now, in the spring of 1856,
that the glory of the new Peace of Paris
consists in the fabt of its not in any way
leading to the humiliation of Russia ? Gracions
Heaven !--and are we to be so mealy-mouthed
about Russia and everything Russian about the
CZAR and the CzArt's Government,' about the
"honour" (Ye GODS I) of an empire
• wiliela from
its very foundation has ever opposed sheer
brute force, and nothing but sheer brute force, to
all the sacred principles, to all the holier in-
stincts, to all the inalienable rights, privi_.
loges, and immunities of civilisation ? Is every
thing to:Ve forgotteu about: those impious and
lying proclamations of the late Emperor NICHOLAS;
bitheyftblicatien of which so much honest indig-
nation was provoked throughout the leeith• and
breadthof ChristendoM ? Ia nothing at all to be
remarked about the hereditary policy of PETUR,
miscalled the Great, the
.policy geading Czar, after
Czar to the most wholesale and flagrant "
robberies
of a.tersitorial kind-to the north and to the south,
to the Aid and to the west, carrying the modern
Goths ai4., yipdaja (the soldiers of the. Houae of
ROMANOFF) irCrOSs the • frontiers of Persia and:-of
TurlAFl•c'TS';4l2i and 0f PO] a nd bringing the of
by a :precession of enormous encroachments, now
411'0is side, no;'i.upo-n that., from the far in-
land and at length - forgotten Duchy of
MUicovY, down to, the coasts of the Caspian, and
of thesguxine, and of the Utic, and at last al-
most even down to those of the remote. Mediter-
ranean f Is the " Will" of PETER. the GAUT (so
called)---about whigh we heard so much very re-
cently—to be smuggled over noombytt„ tO be
diplomatically hushed up, to be muilled'in peals
of what Me, FL'S BALLEY has called " buttered
thunder 2"
What stiiir is this, .110/7 ;gin; tha mad ci

lhe newspapers, about lac absurd silver gilt
inkstand manufactured at a cost of some 11,000
francs—and about an yes lgle quill filagreed with
• gold mounting, and decks d for aught we know too
with precious stones, for t • signing of the Precious
Peace (a pen of state to be preserved as a trophy
of rare value by the be dutifula young Empress
Etsosznic)—what miserable trash is all this about
the gewgaw quill and ithe jimcrack ink-bottle
used in the consummate on of their deplorable
Conferences by this high and mighty conclave
of soft-speaking, soft-hen rted, soft-headed Pleni-
potentiaries Tictims :led to the sacrifice have
• been
.twined and fe.stoomed with gay garlands
before now—and so, we suppose, the peoples of
'Western Europe are to be amused, at the moment
of the signing of the Precious Peace, with cock-
and-bull stories about this splendour of the feather
and
.the standish, by whtich France and England
have beeu juggled 'into :1 disgraceful compromise
by the wily complicity csf Russia and, the Ger-
manic Confederation. J3ah ! the folly of this is a
vast deal too transparent. It is only surpassed_ by
the meanness of the sell'-complacent joy by which
the disgrace of Westerai Europe is proclaimed,
amidst the exultant clash of church bells and the
triumphant .discharge of salvoes of artillery !
• Beyond what has already been said about
Russia, we do earnestly .trust and hope that it
will'be particularly remarked in this country how
those 'despicable neutrals Austria and •_ Prussia
have been enabled to come out of the Conferences
with flying colours—and to flout them insolently
(so to speak) in the face of Christendom. Again,
we repeat in their regard what we have said more
than once already—They have played their
game in the recent War to perfection ! While
England and France have been squandering
their blood and treasures in the struggle to
no purpose whatever—Austria and Prussia Nava
been sagaciously husbanding their resources.
Prussia indeed has contrived to do more than
tois. She has contrived to turn a (we won't
say an hontst) penny during the - contest,
having as the while, so ,to speak, in many
ways undisputed command of the Russian
Markets ! Austria, 'on the other hand, like
the shrewd attorney in the fable who swal-
low. d the oyster and gave the shells to the dis-
putants has retained possession throughout
the War (retains possession at this present
moment) of the Moldo- Wallachian provinces,
,about which the whole War sprang into exist-
ence originally—permitting the Allies of Tur-
key to hava anything they like to do with
the frontiers of the principalities on the side of
Roumelta, and allowing Raesia beni;nare,ly to
effect whatever she pleases along the line of their
boundaries on the side of Bessarabia 1 And now
—regard is bad (both in Frilalee and England)
not merely to the ". honour" of Russia, but to
the conciliation of these same miserable German
neutrals. German l--that, however, we all know
is a clue t.) everything woeful ani sinister in these
most deplorable transactions ! Up nt the " con-
siliatury" spirit evioced throughout the recent con-
ferences by our own. Plenipotentiaries, Lard PAL'.
MERSTON himself has spoken very decidedly
explicitly in the House of Commons. In pre-
posterous remarks on Monday evening uttered byway
of explanation as to the Peace—remarks made in
his usual light comedy style, as if the couduot of
the affairs uf a great nation. were really about th..;
richest joke in the wide world--the Prime Minis-
ter, with a parenthetic d "(laugh)" here and there
sprinkled up and down his little fribbling speech
sy the reporters, said—Listen to what Lord
PALMERSTON said on Msnda,y night in the House
Hof Commons in reference to this Precious Peace,
0 sensible and manly Eeglishmen ! Listen !--
his condespended to
_say among other
o know that nothing could exceed the ability
with which the British negotiators have performed
their arduous and difficult task during these nego-
tiations. L trd CLARENDON and Lord COWLEY
,nave not only maintained the honour and interest
of the country which they represented, but they
hare, by their conciliatory conduct, secured the re-
vect; estce?n, and yood-will of Vim with whom they
had to conininniate." Very gratifying indeed—
remembering Russia, Austria, and Prussia, remem -
bering the solicitUde evinced of Jate in regard to the
4‘ honour" of the °salt and the anxiety recently
shown that no Power at. all should feel the pang
" humiliation "—about as gratifying as the
silver-gilt inkstand and that tom-foolery about
de pen made out of an eagle's quill tricked out'
with jewels and gold-filigree !

The official announcement of the Treaty of Peace
was on Monday night made to the Howe of Coin
nuns by the Premier. The information elioiteil
was, however; of a. very meagre and unsatisfactory
character, adding nothing to what was not pre-
viously known to every member of the Howe,
and, indeed, to every inhabitant of London and
he metropblitan counties. With respeCt to the
nature of the terms agreed on, Gerd PALMERSTON
was. in the position of the needy knife-grinder—
" Story, COD' bless yeti, I have none to tell"—
And it is only to be regretted that there ff as nut
..40ine• " friend of humanity" in attendance to
punidi the wilful suppression ~of tie tale. It ap-.
pears. that the public must smother their very
natural anxiety• to know what has been accom-
plished until the exchange of ratification, which
is to take place. within tour weeks at, the outside,
but' which it is hoped may be effected withis
.three weeks. For that time, at least, we must
be coptented "to chew the cud of sweet' and
bitter fancy ;" to imagine what has been done, as
,well as what has been left undone, and to make
up our minds as to something extremely bad, be-
fore any authentic or reliable information can be
obtained.

The general phrases used by Lord PALNEBATON
Afford but little foundation for brightanticipations.
Of course it would, under any circumstanees, be
stated " that the objects for which the War had
teen undertaken had been fully accomplished.”
To say otherwise would be to admit that the
Western
114 wers had been defeated, and com-
pelled to
had solemnly alu
Withdraw, while the work on which they
unaccomplished. deliberately entered' remained
It would, ,also, , naturally ,be
asserted that " the integ
of the Turkish E Pity and independence
npire ima
been secured, so tar
as, human arrangements can (''
But4l
,Buthow ? Aye, that's the 'rub tet th t purpose.

Ca 'elat . Jiateus Apella, non ej'o,
Why the protests-of the Turkish authorities It the
difficulties raised on their behalf 43 the final corn-
pletipn of the Treaty? We fair that it ;/ill-1,41
'discovered, that the SULTAN has profited but
little
by the War, and:that lie lots merely
.exchangei
one sei dislnt protector for four pat tibi pulling in
opposite directions, and all anuining a vex
`,tions . right to interfere • in his enicerns.
.:ever the maxim " Sive me from my friends"
• was applicable„ it_ is so in the present instance,
.46 we faar, the Monarch in whose 1)01'0f:the
WeStern Powers -so allivalrouily (I). intezfered,
will find to his cost'ere many years have elapsed.
As the recognised depen.lent of the -..AUTOCEiA.T, he
might, by submittini: to all the .demands which
the. an or-cupidity of 'his master colld pot
11.):,riaililliiVebtOrr-PerillittetE-:to *ad .ita-