The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-13 00:00:00

trust that th is rather significant hint will not be
misapplied to 3 the parvenu Monarch.
Hitherto • the country has yielded an implicit
reliance to tl le PALMRESTON Government. Lord
CLARENDON has especially obtained the confidence
which he ha s well merited. The nature of the
influences by which they are assailed are now
perceptible. Lot them be stedfastly resisted,
and the parties who do so, and sustain the popu-
lar cause in the almost inevitable struggle, will
be energetic ally supported. Never, perhaps, in
the national history has there occurred a more
glorious opportunity for the achievement of im-
perishable fume by a patriotic statesman. Let it
not be wasted or misapplied, and a monument
more enduring than either brass or marble may be
acquired. The difficulties are great, but the
honour will be proportionate. The watchword
may be "England for the English, and for no
others." We are not as yet reduced to the con-
dition of seeking a "King LOG " or a " King
STORK," but can make a reasonable attempt at
self-government without German aid."

Joviality, selfishness, and short-sighted hu-
manity are equally liable to throw overboard care

'or the future. The first, like HORACE or BURNS, is

too merry to think of it ; selfishness deliberately
absorbs itself in present gains ; while: well-
meaning benevolence relieves present sorrow, un-
willing to weigh the natural results of its conduct
upon after years. All these influences may just now
combine to perpetrate a gross iniquity at the

Peace Conferences. Selfishness in the shape of

political expediency, and benevolence regarding
only the horrors of war, are likely to condone the

most infernal of all European crimes, and to sow
the seeds of the most bloody revolutions for the

next half century.

If ever Sovereign or people did a damnable
deed, it was that of the ambitious harlot CATHE-
RINE, carried on by the hypocrite ALEXANDER,

and completed by the demon NICHOLAS—the
deed which first parted, then wholly acquired, and
then denationalised Poland. We have written
somewhat strongly before, but it arouses every

'eeling of attachment to national existence and

Ilre do not pretend, like Mr. COBDEN, to
prophecy. PROVIDENCE has not revealod its
plans to us ; but it will be no more than the
usual course of things if the selfish policy of

liberties to know that the murderers of Poland
are now engaged in burying their victim, and
that the witnesses of the murder and feeble pro-
testers against it are now aiding at the funeral.
Hitherto, if wo may prolong the most obvious of
figures, the body of that noble nation has lain
unburied ; indeed it has been deeply wounded
rather than dead ; capable of restoration to life
if England and France were but united and
resolute ; there it lay, the reproach of despots
bad enough for anything, who did the deed—
and the reproach of the two great stations who
only faintly cried murder, but who have acted
as yet the part of the Priest and the Levito.
Instead of pouring oil and wine into the wounds,
Lord CLAB.ENDON and M. VV-ALEWSKI—a Pole, too,
he—are probably aiding Counts ORLOFF and BUOL
to shovel the earth on the half-dead body, and to
aggravate the cruelties of the past by consigning
political helplessness to a living grave.
As far as despots can insure anything, the in-
terment of Poland, with nothing but the tomb-
stone of history to tell us of its existence, will
now be completed. It is possible, indeed, not
improbable, that nothing will be said about it—
nothing, at least, in the formal s; ttings. But
silence itself in such a matter is deliberate ac-
tion. The object of the Conference is a peace
"in the interests of Europe," or comprising pro-
visions in her interest. If Poland be not men-
tioned, it can only moan that she no longer exists
to have any European interests, or that it is not
for the interest of Europe that she should have
an existence. It means, in truth, both. Even
the former, scarcely audible, protests of the Allies
against the devilry of Russia in that unhappy
country will be nullified by the Conference
of all the powers concerned in the spoliation
with the two great ones who objected. If Russia
lose the coasts of the Black Sea, and be barred off
from Waranger Bsy, she will gain, by the peace
of Paris and Kars, eternal indemnity for her Polish
villanies. History will record that at Paris,
1856, Poland breathed her last. Till the year
when the Western Powers Lad brought Russia to
their feet—when she was not, as at Vienna, a
conqueror among conquerors, but a vanquished
suppliant for mercy, Poland was not indisputably
Russian. But then, and when " a lasting Euro-
pean peace" was the object, one admitted element
of the peace is that the vanquished thief should
retain his prey!
It will, in fact, be a peace of despots, not of
nations—an agreement to hold each other as
harmless as they can. Every nation concerned is
earnestly desirous that Poland should be free.
Turkey wishes it as the best guarantee against the
treachery and insolence both of Austria and Rus-
sia, and even Austria herself would be secured on
her Russian frontier. France and England wish
it, from early, long, and deep sympathy with the
oppressed, and hatred of the oppressor. Sardinia
nobly shares in the feelings of her Allies. But
not only is the Russian Cent, as arch-despot Of
Europe, to be tenderly dealt with by brother
despots, but the base, perjured vermin who infest
central Europe are the sworn and intermarried
satraps of Russia, and yet can dominate in the
Courts of the great nations at war with her.
Why, oven now we are told that, in spite of the
national detestation of Prussia, a scion of the
shabby HOLIENZOLLERNS is to renew, and far
a much longer period, his visit to the Princess-
Royal ! We trust and believe it to be a scandal.
Repeal rather the wicked Marriage Act of that
German tyrant, GEORGE the Third, and let
not our national interests be wedded to
the meanest and most deeply-perjured of Royal-
ties, that of Austria not excepted. Whence
this ignominious courting of Germany ? Even the
powerful mind which now vales France sought an
Empress first in Germany. Austria forbade the
banns. Is it the happy domestic results, or is it
the interests of absolute power, which leads LOUIS
NAPOLEON to he so over gracious with the power
which denied him a German wife. To all ap-
pearance he is as much cajoled by Germany as if
ho had married a COBURG. Be all this as it may,
it is chiefly German despotism, self-esteem, and
malignity, to which Poland owes it that she is now
to be lost for ever.
Let not, however, our peace-makers be too con-
fident in an unrighteous compromise for the sake
of present ease. It was a stipulation of this sort
which plunged Germany into the cruel thirty
years' war. It was the miserable subterfuge of
tolerating slavery under a feigned name in the
American deed of independence which has in-
flicted its greatest degradation on their Republic,
and which threatens it with civil war. An
evasion of political expediency in the hope that
slavery would die out, has resulted in branding
all the Free States with a fugitive-slave law, in
filling the Southern States with a slavery unheard
of for brutality and atrocity, and in a feud
which shakes " the Union" of the wicked to its
centre.