The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-07 00:00:00

so that the mischief may be effected before the I
election of FREMONT will scotch the snake for at
least four years to come. A certain Amos B.
CORWIN.; who had doubtless received full in-
structions from head-quarters, and knew what
might be made a handle of to advan3a his own
pergonal interests, has the rather do .btful merit
of kindling the torch on the present occasion. He
declares that he feels it " a duty incumbent on him
to recommend the immediate occupancy of the
Isthmus from ocean to ocean by the United
States." it is true that he qualifies the suggestion
by hinting that it may not be indispensable,
if New Granada can satisfy as to her
ability and inclination to afford proper protec-
tion, and to make speedy and ample atonement
for the wrongs inflicted (?) on his countrymen.
As, however, another conclusion is that the govern-
ment of New Granada is unable to maintain law
and enforce order on this Isthmus, and afford
adequate protection to the transit, it is quite
manifest that this is a distinction without a difference,
and that the proposal should be taken without
any drawback. Where, then, is this fillibus-
tering system, openly patronised by the Cabi-
net at Washington, to end ? It is manifest
that British forbearance, or, as some might
term it, British poltroonery must some time
cease. We cannot for ever remain " a chopping
block" on which Yankee Commissioners are to
exercise theirwits. A wise and prudent Cabinet
would administer severe censure to the party who
so far and so unwarrantably exceeds the limits
assigned to him, and ventures to recommend what
would involve his government in a well-founded
charge of -violated faith, and his country in a
formidable war. Mr. Amos B. CORWINE

as sent merely to investigate facts. He usurps
the functions of the Executive by recommending
the course to be adopted. So long as every petty
official is permitted to pursue such a course with
impunity, and to disturb the mind of the people
with such projects, it is impossible to hope that
the Government can maintain amicable relations
with other independent nations.

Who is to answer the impudent circular of
Russia ? Time was when a diplomatist on the
other side of the channel could reply to a NES-
SELRODE in a style which elicited commenda-
tions even from one of the ablest judges, Lord
LYNDHURST. But that pen has long been silent.
It is now wielded by one of whose capacities in
that line we have records in the Protocols against
the Belgian Press. Worse than that, one who
could at the Conference, consign to oblivion, that
is to a grave in Russian barbarism, the country
whence he drew his name ; one, too, who shared
his master's solicitude for Russian " dignity,"
and who did his best to leave her as big as ever,
albeit somewhat faint with depletion of roubles and
soldiers. Count WALEWSKZ is the last man we
should wish to tell Russia what the world, of
freemen, think of her. An American fellow-
slavehblder would do it as well. He would
take counsel with Baron &EDAM, or per-
haps send to Russia, as he did about
makingPsLlssxEaDuke of Malakhoff, to know how
his newly-crowned Czarship would like the docu-
ment to be worded. When DROITYN DE L'HuYs
was Corresponding Secretary to the Allies, we had
,also the additional advantage of getting the docu-
ments in the Moniteur, or some where, when Par-
liament was not sitting.
Our Lord PALMERZTON could do it ; and do it
as it , ought to be done—but dares he do it?
What would his Coburg and Paris masters say if
he did ? What would become of the alliance
' the alliance between constitutional liberty and the
despotism of police, spies, Cayenne, and a
gagged Press, if PALMERSTON were to write
to the British agents over all. Europe in
'the old Palmerstonian style ;' is the style
which gained him his character both here
and abroad, and for which this country made
him Prime Minister of the War Cabinet ? Russia
needs a thorough diplomatic humbling in
the eyes of all the East and the West.
" The Precious Peace," once concluded,
knowing that she had honest Governments to
deal with, she returned at once to her old kna-
very and assumptions, quite confident that she
would be dealt with as she wished, not as
she deserved. Her entire behaviour since
has fully justified our denunciations of this
year's winter and spring policy. Russia was
indeed made to ask for peace—but she was
not made to do it on her knees. It eras essential
to the repose of the world that she should be
thoroughly humbled and weakened—our most
experienced Statesman in the Lords told our
Government this, but nothing would do except
"rasing Russia humiliation"—savina her the
very thing which, for Europe's sake, sl!.e needed.
The immediate consequences were, the I,le of
Serpents, the retention of Kars, the destruction
of the fortifications, and the attack on the Cir-
cassians—and now, before the crown is well got
easy on the head of the Cztr, and while the special
ambassadors are yet at his court, this shameless
lecture from him whom we ought to have male
afraid to open his mouth as arbiter of Europe
again. Surely we had enough of that kind of
thing from NICHOLAS ; and we ought to have
taken good care that it was butisd in his grave.
We should think every British officer end in-
telligent private who reads this Circular must bite
his lips from very annoyance, that the whippers-
in at home sounded back just as the game was in
view. How they must feel to see such a reward
for their toils, and wounds, and sacrifices ! Ode
campaign more, and they would have saved Prime
Ministers and Secretaries the humiliation of such
saucy circulars as these, and the trouble of answer-
ing them. They would not have left Russia as
big territorially as ever ; they would have spared
all quibblings about Bolgrad and the Isle
of Serpents. They would have taught her
to rose the question rather, whether the new
1 boundary was to cut off Bessarabia as well as the
Crimea and Circassia, or Poland as well as both,
or Finland as well as the other four. They weuld
not have left her to lecture the Allies about the
" sanctity of the rights of Sovereigns, and their
Equality
among themselves, however small their
territories,"—while she herself swaggers in this
style through having absorbed, n all sides, Sove-
reigns.once as independent as JO Czars. Why,
follow,og her example,—
England and Franco
might not merely threaten tyrants who are be
come a European nuisance; they 'right, on ltus•
sian, and Prussian, and Austrian principles too,
divide their dominions among themselves ! Well
_the thing is done for the present ; and our
EVA NSE3, and WILLIAMSES, and WINDITAMS, and
the LA MARmonAs abroad, are now 'loomed to
read these insulting circulars, from the very foe
they have with such weak magnanimity been
ordered to leave half punished.
With all his pretensions, however, we must
confess that the braggart somewhat betrays him-
self. GORTSCHAKOFF is clever, very clever ; but,
he is not quite a NESSELRODE yet. He would
not have trumped up an *excuse for the
vox et precterea nihil of his Circular, would
not have betrayed that nothing was intended
bu't pen-work. Very patriotic, to be sure,