The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-15 00:00:00

dynasty ; an, .1 the refore our neighbour, who by
himself was contr Lmeliously disregarded, foun.cl it
expedien b to enti ir into the war, which he brought
to a cot '.611-13i0' .1 so lame and impotent. Thus
came the a .ante that defeated the skilfully-
planned pr ect intended to "Cossack‘e," Europe,

and render .he empire of the AUTOCRAT universal
so far as th e old world was concerned.

But the "leopard does not easily change his
spots." Al though foiled for the time Russia has
by no meal is abandoned her long-cherished de-
signs. In consequence of the injudicious lenity
of her op )onents she was permitted to escape
from the ' 1 ifficult position in which she was placed
without h umiliatien or loss of power. The high
contractin g pi trties were satisfied with her pro-
mises. T hey sought not the material guarantees
which she Ii arself invariably required ; and they
find too 7 tat e that they have accepted securities
not worth, t he paper on which they are written,
and useful o. nly as evidences of Russian duplicity
and perfidy. We have withdrawn our troops,
not only fro m the Crimea but from Turkey,
while Russia lira simultaneously strengthened her
garrison at I ila,rs. We delivered up even the build-
ings we had ourselves erected ; but the Muscovites
have destroy ed the fortifications and defences of Is-
mail, Reni, ; tnd of Kars, and are wilfully and delibe-
rately cutti .ng down the forests in its vicinity,
which have hitherto proved a source of consider-
able reven tre to the Ottoman Government, and
are removing the proceeds of their robbery over
the fron tier. In addition to these just causes of
complaiiat they have forcibly and illegally seized
possession of the Isle of Serpents, and have raised
ridiculous quibbles as to the rectification of the,
frontier, to which they deliberately assented.
Thus striving to retain the control of tha naviga-
tion of the Danube, and to neutralise one, and
by no means the least important, of the " Four
Points."

From this it is manifest that the Muscovite
snake bas been scotched, not killed—that all the
sacrifices we have already submitted to, have gone
for nothing, and that we must be prepared to re.
new the contest brought to so injudicious and pre•
mature a conclusion before many months have
elapsed. And how are we preparing for this pos-
sible, and by no means improbable emergency ?
We have discharged our militia without paying
the bounties to which the men were justly en-
titled. While subjecting the Government to the
imputation of a grave breach of faith towards our
own countrymen, they have given handsome gratui-
tiestothefortunate Germans. The Irish militiaman
was discharged with 10s. on account of the bounty
to which he was entitled ; two Germans, whet
have been remanded on a charge of forgery, had
received gratuities of 181. and 241. Gs. Bd.
respectively ! This is not the way to induce
our own countrymen to come forward again
in the dark hour of danger. Unfortunately
Parliameit is not sitting to designate such con-
duct in the manner it deserves. We may, how-
ever, warn the Government that the day of
retribution may arrive sooner than they anticipate,
and that they should; so far as possible, strive to
retain the goodwill of such of the militiamen who
have not yet been disgusted, and to avoid any
premature reduction in the line, until they have
clearly ascertained that the Russian difficulty has
been really terminated.

" The distinguished services of the Guards in
the late War are to be recognised, and very pro-
perly so, by a dinner. Why should not the not
less distinguished services of the famous Highland
Brigade, and other regiments, English, Welsh and
Irish have a like recognition ?" Such is the inquiry
made by a number of the readers of The Sun ;
and the only answer we can return is—Why not,
indeed ? If it is right, as we believe it is, to give
a public dinner to the one, it is wrong to with-
hold such a recognition from the regiments to
which our correspondents have referred. The
desert is as great ; and he must be a poor student
of human nature who can anticipate anything but
evil of any inequality in the reward.
The question, then, naturally arises—How is
such inequality to be prevented ?—in other words,
by what instrumentality are the so far ne-
' glected regiments to be feted like the Guards ?
And here we must remark the Government
would have displayed more judgment, and given
proof of infinitely better taste, if, instead of
puffing away 8,0001. or more of the public money
in squibs and crackers and silly device; they had
devoted the money to rewarding, after this and
other fashions, the brave men who won all the
glory obtained in the war, and whom the ettire
nation is delighted to honour. The course
adopted by the Government, it may be urged,
was in keeping with all their doings, both in the
management of the War and the conclusion of
what they are pleasel to designate—the Peace.
Granted. Turning hopelessly away, therefore,
from this quarter, we Rill address ourselves te
another, able and willing to do what Government
has not done, awl at whose hands the recognition
called for will be to the full as acceptable, to say
the least of it.

Tho example set by the patriotic Lndoners, it
can in no wise derogate from the self-respect of
their equally patriotic fellow-countrymen in our
great provincial cities and towns to follow. It is

not a good-natured assumption ; it is a notorious
fact that in every city and town in the empire, and
not least in the most important, the public pulse beat
throughout in unusual sympathy with the'doiugs
and sufferings of the gallant British Army in the
Crimea. Who does not recollect the deep-felt
satisfaction with which the record of the prowess
of the victors of the Alma was perused ? Who
did not feel a thrill of anxiety, followed by a
stern emotion of pride, as he read of the bloody
field of Inkerman, where the indomitable valour
of the men had to supply the want occasioned by
the miserable incapacity and neglect, of their
leaders? In whose veins did the blood course
with equal pulsation over the chivalrous devotion.
which crowned with undying fame the sinuous and
sloping field eF. Balaklava. ? In what bosom was not
kindled, however momentarily, the heroic fire at
thought of the "thin red line," before which, like
leaves before the autumn blast, the Russian
chivalry withered in their pride, and were scat-
tered abroad in unutterable confusion ? And who,
as the mournful details of the trenches and
the hospitals passed before him, withheld the
tributary sigh for valour as great and en-
durance as noble and protracted as ever
were manifested "in the brave days of old ?"
Where the sympathy and the pride were so g,eneral
and so intense, there should be no difficulty about
the recognition being equally so. All that is
wanted is the taking of the initiative.

M mohester, Liverpool,
Let, then, the men of
Sheffield, Dublin, Edinburgh, and other large citi©s
and towns where the " heroes of flieorime,." are or
may have been located, be up and doing. Let
subscription lists be set agoing until a sum is
raised in each locality worthy of themselves and
the purpose for which it is intended.
Where the Crimean veterans can be congregated
in sufficient numbers, there let a banquet be given
to them. A little management will secure in the
chief towns an adequate number of guests ; and
,where this nAnnot be done let the .9 uWeription. be