The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-11 00:00:00

from the beginning of the world—that she was
sure of conquest—o success in the right.
It was thought just and wise by our Allies—and
by ourselves—to stop short in the career of triumph
on which we had entered. It was deemed best not
to press our enemy beyond the point which showed
our advantage and which won our cause. It was
decided to make peace, stipulating on no conces-
sions peculiarly beneficial to England or to France,
but maintaining only the matter of right on which
we had insisted from the first. It is this matter of
right which Russia, with her usual dishonesty,
now seeks to evade and withhold; it is this, on every
iota of which, won as it has been, by blood, by toil,
by self-denial, England now fairly and strongly in-
sists, as on that which has been too well and too
dearly won to be withdrawn. It was this persist-
ence in the right once achieved that Lord Palmer-
ston announced last night. This was the plain,
simple declaration, which was interrupted by the
loudest burst of cheering that we ever beard. This
is the policy on which the Government is bent, and
which the whole country follows to a man, which,
wherever it is spoken, meets with the burst of ap-
plause that in England always attends the straight-
forward declaration of manly sentiments.
Wears. convinced, not only by the universal popu-
larity that now waits on Lord Palmerston, whether
from the keen hard-headed men of Manchester, or
from the citizens of London, or from those through-
out the country who read his words, with a proud
determination that, so far as their force can go,
they shall be carried out to the utmost, not only
by this strong sign of a nation's instinctive
judgment, but by .every argument of justice)
and reason that this straightforward, true asser-
tion of the maintenance by a nation of her duty
is ever the right course. It is of little use to tax
ourselves to raise great armies., unless we let the
world know that they are raised, not for idle show,
but for the actual maintenance of the rights -on
which we insist. It is of little use to sweep the
seas with our mighty fleets if, after all, we allow
our beaten enemy to affect an insolent superiority
in the very quarter in which we have proved the
absurdity of her unjust assumptions. We have
consented to a peace on conditions so moderate,
that the Power from which we won them would,
it might be thought, be anxious to carry them out
without swerving a line from their letter or their
spirit.. The contrary is the fact. Russia has met
our generous , moderation by intrigue, by subter-
fuge, by pretension. She must be taught that
England is not weak because she is moderate. She
must learn that the opinion of the whole country
sides with her Minister en this question, that none
of her citizens are so blind as not to see the import-
ance of the point at issue—that all are ready for
any sacrifice they may be, called on to make.
It is for these reasons that we are glad of the
publicity given to Lord Palmerston's sentiments by
his speeches at Manchester, and again by his de-
claration last night at the Guildhall. It is for
these reasons that we rejoice in the burst of ap-
plause, in the true English feeling, with which
their announcement is met on all sides and by
every party.

(Prom the Morning Gerald )
In the Town Hall of Manchester on Thursday
last Lord Palmerston is reported to have =douse
of the following words :—" We are now at peace,
and I hope that peace may be lasting. Its dura-
tion must depend upon the honour and fidelity
with which its conditions are fulfilled. I trust
that that power which brought upon itself the hos-
tility—either active or moral—of all Europe by a
forgetfulness of international rights and duties—.
I trust that that Power, having concluded a
treaty, will observe 'that treaty with faithfulness,
and then no doubt peace will be of long duration."
Such is the deliberate language of the First Minis-
ter of the Crown with reference to the treaty of
IMarch last, and to the conduct of Russia with
respect to it. It is language which no doubt
implies decision, and perhaps the adoption of a fixed
policy on the part of this G Irernment; but words
are easily uttered, and n man understands their
value hatter than Lord Plltnerston. The people of
Manchester, like most Englishmen, appreciate a
confident anti straig,itforward address, and are of
opinion that a solemn contract is only undertaken
to be kept. The Protmer was fully acquainted with
the character of his auditory, and he improved the
occasion with his usual dexterity; but he carefully
abstainei from entering upon a description of the
contract in question; he did not tell his hearers, as
he could have done, that the most material parts of
the treaty of March last were not concluded at all
at the Oungress, but were relegated to other bodies,
to certain- commissioners to be appointed subse-
quently to the break up of the conferences, and
who were to arrange those very points at present
in dispute, and which have never been conceded by
Russia, and never will be -without another war. If
L .n.d Palmerston had told the good people of Man-
chester that the treaty was an imperfect document
—a sort of conditional contract;- which the party
chiefly interested declines to carry out for reasons
best known to himself—he would have given a
faithful description of the peace; and if he had
added that Russia, in refusing to comply with its
loose conditions, has been supported by that Go-
vernment which has been in strict alliance with us
all through the war, his lordship's reputation for
candour and sincerity would not have suffered ma-
terially. As it was, Lord Palmerston implied, if he
dil not actually assert it, that the conditions of
peace are so clear, so rigid, and so precise, that
there can be no mistake whatever about them ;
that they were the result of .the anxious and,
lengthened deliberations of the authorised represen-
tatives of the European States; that they were un-
derstood by Russia to be final at the Congress, and
while the allied forces were in the field, and only
discovered by that power to be debateable when it
became safe to question them ; therefore, that the
Russian Government by its own act had preluded
further controversy on the subject. If peace is to
be maintained it could only be by a strict observ-
ance of the treaty by Russia, or, according to Lord
Palmerston, " its duration must depend upon the
honour and fidelity with which its conditions are
fulfilled."