The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-13 00:00:00

T.AONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1855.

Notwithstanding the extraordinary forbearance
displayed towards Russia at the time of the con-
clusion of the "Precious Treaty," or as it has
been more correctly termed, the "miserable
CLARENDON capitulation," the Muscovite Govern-
ment are already striving to back out of the solemn
obligations which they thereby deliberately con-
tracted. Like the Carthaginians of old, they
exhibit the most profound contempt for
every ,
promise the performance whereof many prove in
any degree inconvenient. " Muscovite faith "
seems likely to pass into a proverb, and gc nus.
quarn taut
fides" may be appropriately annexed to
the arms of the House of ROMANOFF " an
escutcheon of pretence,' in the literal acceptation
of the terms. At the Conferences of Paris they
gladly availed themselves of the trumpery policy
Which professed as a fundamental principle that
the honour of Russia was to be preserved intact.
They Were then obliged to obtain peace at any price
Or on al:k—
J' conditions. They were so thoroughly ex-
hausted from the efforts they had already made,
their inability to maintain the contest was so
Painfully perceptible, that peace had become an
imperative necessity,
to close with the and they were only too happy
too lenient terms offered by
their magnanimous opponents.
But no sooner had the ratifications been ex-
changed than a complete alteration took place in
their sentiments. Knowing that the Western
Powers would abide by their undertakings, in the
spirit, as well as to the letter, they commenced a
course that clearly indicated their determination
troops were with::awaiinathicofiriginai:
to back out of or disregard their own obligations.
wn
Although the allied
the Crimea in the shortest possible time
the towns and ports of Sebastopol
Kamiesh, Eupatoria,, Kertch, Yenikale,
Kin-
bourn, and other territories occupiedweres
butpeedily
evacuated—Kars was not only retained,
treated in every respect as a conquered city, its
fortifications dismantled, and its defences rendered
useless ; Kilia and Ismail also dilapidated, after

afruitless attempt to retain them in direct oppo-
sition to the terms of the Treaty.

But the most glaring exhibition of bad faith
was by the Russian Commissioners appointed for
the rectification of the Bessarabian boundary.
We need scarcely remind our readers that this
Commission was appointed under the 20th article
of the Treaty ; that its especial object was to mark
out, by metes and bounds, the territory to be
delivered " in exchange for the towns, ports, and
territories enumerated in article 4, and in order
the better to assure the freedom of the navigation
of the Danube." We have performed our part of
the contract honestly and conscientiously. Every
place enumerated in Article 4 has long since been
restored to Russia. The holy soil is not now
polluted by the presence of a single enemy or
professor of the unorthodox creed. But what
has been the return ? How have we received
the promised consideration ?—and what are the
obstacles raised by Russia to the specific perform-
ance of its contract ?

What was to be transferred to Moldavia is thus
specified :—" It is declared that the new frontier
shall begin from the Black Sea one kilometre to
the east of Lake Bourna, shall run p-erpendicu-
larly to the Akerman Road, shall follow that road
to the Tai de Trojan, pass to the south of Bol-
grad, ascend the course of the river Yalpuck to
the Height of Saratsika, and terminate at Kata-
marl on the Prath. Above that point the old
frontier between the two empires shall not undergo
any modification."
Now this is very simple to any person who
takes a sound common-sense view of the subject.
It is unquestionably a little vague ; and, dealing
with Russian diplomatists, it would have
been well to have been a leetle more precise,
so as to avoid the possibility of any quibble.
Bat Russian honour (!) was recognised by the
Western Powers, for it was to be preserved in-
tact ; and, therefore, there might be some faint
shadow of an excuse for the laxity exhibited by
the Western Plenipotentiaries.
There can be no possible doubt that one kilo-
metre to the east of Lake Bourna Sola means
from the eastern point of the Lake. That eastern
point may not be within a kilometre of the Black
Sea, but that is easily settled. Taking a point a
kilometre due east of the eastern point, dropping
the perpendicular from thence on the Akerman-
road, and continuing it to the Black Sea, clearly
complies with the condition, which cannot
be fulfilled. in any others manner. This
will necessarily give the whole of the Lake
besides other territory, to Moldavia, while the
Russian Commissioners are striving to secure for
their master nearly two-thirds of its area, which
would practically render him master of the whole.
This demand is, however, too absurd to require
my elaborate argument in opposition thereto.
Tlie solution above offered is so manifest that it
must bo at once adopted by any unprejudiced
and uninterested person of ordinary capacity.
Another difficulty has been raised about the
town of Bolgra.d, which the Russian Commissioners
tttempt to show includes a new town on the shores
of Lake Yalpuck, a considerable distance from the cid
one, manifestly intended; but the fact that it was
decided at the Cinforenees that Lake Yalpuck
diould belong e_lclusirely to Moldavia is so
totally inconsistent with this version that it must
he abandoned. There is no real difficulty about
:he point. All that is required is an honest in-
tention to carry out the stipulation in its integrity.
If Russia will act fairly and honesty, well t If
not,
neither France nor EAgland can, without the
sacrifice of honour, permit themselves to be stulti-
' ied or degraded by an acquiescence in her petti-
:oggiag and paltry arguments. She must submit
the terms of the Treaty or—abide the conse-
quences.

GORT3CILIKO.TF hit upon the very verb of the
Russian policy in his insolent Circular dated
"Moscow, 21 S!rember." La /tussle, said he,
fie boucle pal, elle se r.?icenige--Rusiia does not
sulk, she gathers herself up anew, she reconc3n-
rates all her internal resourcA, she once more
;ollects all her latent capacities together, her
:ipacities for good or for evil, the wealth and the
industry, the patriotism and the religious ardour
of her 63,000,000 of inhabitants. To what end?
Isit not sufficiently apparent ? Does not history
proclaim the fact with adequate distinctness ? Is
itnot notoriously, glaringly, unavoidably—Reculer
pour m'ieuz sautes ? Yes—ostensibly with a view
to the furtherance of a grand and pacific scheme
,f internal development—obviously, however, all
the while for the ulterior prosecution of what
Prince GORTSCLIAXOFF naiody terms in his Cir-
cular, " I know not what universal domination !"
4vroc Et7rEv—he has said it—c'est ca—the murder
is out ! It is with this sinister significance of
neaning that the Minister of the Czait can aver
'of the great despotic empire of his Master—La
Russie ne boucle pas, e!le se reeenille—Russia does
~sot pout, she meditates—meditates new outrages
, upon the rights of nations, new violations of ad-
jacent territory, new incursions beyond the fron-
tiers of neighbouring and less powerful dominions.
The earliest of these fresh outrages being the
issue to the world of this very Circular from the
hand of Prince GORTSCHAKOFF ! Than which
could any document by possibility be characterised
by more flagrant audacity, whether in tone or in
argument ? Imagine the " virtuous indignation"
of Russia at the joint intervention of France and
England in the affairs of Greece and of Naples !
The " virtuous indignation" of Russia at what
she calls this violation of the right and independ-
ence of Governments—the protest made in behalf
of the violated rights and independence of Govern-
ments by Russia, Russia of all the nations of the
earth, Russia whose predatory legions have been
making such repeated incursions beyond
the boundaries of the Caucasus and beyond
those of the Moldo-Wallachian Principalities !
Conceive for one moment the consistency,
the reasonableness, the decency of the re-
monstrances thus addressed to France and
England by the diplomatic mouthpiece of the
Russian AurocßAT, immediately at the close of
an European struggle, preceded (and, in fact,
caused) by the advance of the armies of the CZAR
across the Pruth, and followed (directly and per-
versely followed) by the renewal of his armed in-
terposition among the mountain tribes of Circassia!
The Muscovite violation of the right and inde-
pendence of Governments, being notoriously dic-
tated by designs of territorial ar,grandisement.
The Anglo-French interventions adventured upon
in regard to Greece or Naples, or elsewhere, being
as notoriously for no such purpose whatever, but
solely with a view to the advancement of the sacred
principles of modern civilisation.

It would be amusing were it not for its secret
atrocity—the cool impertinence of reproach with
which the Russian diplomatist protests in the face
of Europe against the presence of an armed force 1
of French all English soldiers upon the soil of
Greece against the feelings of the nation, and the
will of the SOVEREIGN ! Europe has not so soon
forgotten, be surd of that, the reason w7ty the two
great Allies were compelled, in the very thick of
the warlike complication of events in the Crimea,
to despatch troops to the Pirmus, for the purpose
of overawing the intrigues of an ungrateful and

degraded Court, nominally presided over by a
fainéant KING, but actually inspired by the am-
bitious whims of a QUEEN, German by marriage,
Greek in name, but Russian at heart, Russian in
her sympathies, Russian in her conspiracies, Rus-
sian in her aspirations. England and France,
therefore, sent a small but sufficient portion of
their united troops to Athens, to crush out the
flames of an insurrectionary movement in fa-
vour of the CZAR, originated by the emissaries
of Queen AMELIA, and then threatening to em-
barrass the position of the Allies before Sebastopol
by kindling in their rear a great political con-
flagration. In reference to Naples, moreover,
have not those same Allies the obvious justification
of desiring to ward off, if possible, those revolu-
tionary outbreaks in Italy which cannot fail to
endanger the general tranquillity of the European
Continent if BOMEA is permitted to goad into
rebellion by his cruelties the long-suffering but
hot-blooded population of the Roman Peninsula ?
Besides, both OTno and FERDINAND are, from first
to last, Kings only upon sufferance. But for
England the Bourbons might have whistled for
the Neapolitan sceptre their own unaided hands
were powerless to grasp ! But for England and
France, Greece might never have been erected
into an independent kingdom, and the bauble of
Athenian Sovereignty awarded in an evil hour to
the whims of one of the junior Princes of Bavaria!
The Governments of France and England have an
incontestible right to interfere, to a certain extent,
in the internal affairs both of Greece and Naples,
to the end that by so doing they may insure for
Europe a more secure tranquillity, and for the
unfortunate Greeks and Neapolitans the blessings
of some more rational system of administration.
Yet against designs of this unselfish and dignified
character Russia protests, through the arrogant
and insensate Circular of Prince GORTSORAKOFP
as against some lawless violation of the inalienable
rights and independence of Governments—for-
getful of her own wanton invasion of the domi-
nions of the SULTAN ! Oblivious of her own recent
seizure of the Danubian Principalities ! Blind to
her own systematic and wholesale spoliation of the
territories of her weaker neighbours, the territories
indiscriminately of Sweden, and Persia, and
Turkey, and Poland ! So much for the suicidal
care taken by the Allies not to wound, in any
way, as they termed it, during the deplorable
Paris Conferences, the dignity (save the mark !)
of the haughty and insolent autocracy of the
CZAR of all the Russias !

THE COURT CIR.CULAR.

BALMORAL, OCT. 10.

Her Majesty the Qaaen and the Prince Consort re•
turned from Alt na Guissach yesterday evening.
The Royal dinner party, in addition to the ladies and
gentlemen in attendance, included Mr. Farquharson of
Invercauld, Sir James and Lady C!ark, and Mr. and
Mra. Clark.