The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-19 00:00:00

have adopted the four points, in the same manner
as before the attempted modification by the

Parisian Congress.

This is, as already stated, exactly what we
anticipated, and the opportunity afforded to
America of repudiating the engagement to which
others were bound points out in the strongest
manner the folly and fatuity of the reckless and
hasty acceptance, by Lord CLARENDON, of the
insidious proposition put forward by Count
WALEVISKI. We fully concur with our contem-
porary, the Morning Advertiser, in the opinion
that, while the United States stands aloof, there
can be no utility in the other Powers attempting
to carry out that provision of the Precious Treaty.
It is palpable that we have got ourselves into a
scrape, or, in Yankee parlance, are regularly
" cornered," by the undue haste and reckless
precipitation manifested by the British Plenipo-

tentiary ; and it is his bounden duty to extricate
us from the dilemma in the best manner pessible.
The despatch of Mr. MARCY affords the oppor-
tunity of so doing, and it should not be neglected
or misapplied.

Not unnaturally a Peace that established for
Russia the prestige of having baffled the best

efforts of the picked troops of England, France,

and Sardinia at Sebastopol—Won from Turkey
the key of Asia Minor at Kars, and mocked the
prowess of the Allied Fleets at Odessa, Revel,
Sweaborg, and Cronstadt, has been inaugurated
by Russian treachery at all points, and stultified
by Russian influence in localities to which for-

bearance was more especially shown.
barbarian, pure or demicivilised, generally mea-
sures the strength of his antagonist rather by
what he has done than by what it was in his
power to do, and laughs, as at a bit of rhodomon-
tade, at the notion of a forbearance having been
shown him of which he knows himself to be in-
capable. Why should Russia be scrupulous
towards Powers she believes would have destroyed
her if they could, and why respectful towards
their subjects when Russia alone has proved her
title to unusual respect ? To be sure, your half
barbarian is insolent "by instinct," but he can
also be civil through fear ; and it is not trespass-
ing beyond the bounds of truth when we say that
we should not have had to call the attention of
our readers to the instances of official insolence
and oppression at Odessa, recorded in another
column, had the War been carried out with be-
coming vigour, andßussia been taught thoroughly
the lesson the War was intended to inculcate.

Your

As a fitting pendant to the treatment of cer-
tain French merchants at Kertch, who have been
compelled by the Russian officers to make a
voyage to Constantinople and back, a distance of
1,000 miles, in order to obtain leave to dispose
of their stock in hand, the reader will perceive
another, the scene of which is laid at Odessa, and
the victims subjects of the British Crown. A
Mr. DARNLEY STUART, who for nearly the last two
years has resided in the capacity of a British mer-
chant in the Crimea, arrives at Constantinople in
the Vigilant, and armed with a passport, obtained
from the proper British officer before the evacua-
tion of the Crimea, sails for Odessa in the Ewald,
s Hanoverian schooner. On his arrival he finds
no quarantine established, and is duly passed
through the Quarantine Office. The next thing
he does is to present himself before the Russian
chief passport officer, a Mr. CARRUTHERS, who
" takes his likeness" in the usual fashion. This
being done, he is ordered on board the Ewald.
Three days elapse, and no communication from
the Russian authorities reaches him. The reason

at last leaks out—the Governor will- not admit
him nor the other passengers into Odessa because
their passports were not vise as they ought to
be—the fact being that, on making application at
Balaklava, Mr. STUART was distinctly informed
by the Russian authorities no such process was
required. One passenger has a Foreign-office
passport. He is, on the third day, permitted to
land—but only on giving a guarantee that
he bas no political purpose in view, and
will advertise his departure a week before-
hand ! Two days after, quarantine is esta-
blished at Odessa. Straightway Mr. STUART
and three of the passengers—an English servant,
and a Turk and an Austrian subject—all of whom
were passed as uninfected on their arrival, are
clapped into a lazzaretto, herded together in one
room, without table, chair, or eating or washing
utensils, and left in the matter of food to shift for
themselves. Provisions are not to be had save at
a ship chandler's, and in excessive quantities ;
and to these grievances are added others too
numerous to mention. Mr. STUART grows tired
of this maltreatment, and offers to give a bond in
the penalty of 3,000/. not to leave the Vigilant,
if permitted to go on board that vessel at one.).
A merchant of Odess I offers to become his gua-
rantee. The application is refused. Two mere
days in the lazaretto, and two English captains,
hearing of and pitying his case, address the
authorities and off3r to take him on beard to jain
their mess. The Russian authorities hesitate, and
at last consent. He may join one of them, pro-
vided his return to the lazaretto at three o'clock
on the day of the ship's sailing is guaranteed. A t
four the Vigilant is expected to sail. Mr. STUART
and his fellow-prisoners are embarked in—of all
boats in the world—the Tiger's launch ! and,
after being kept lying off the Vigilant for
two and a-half hours, relanded, and again been
taken off to the ship, is at last, on the cap-
tain's entreaty, permitted to step on board,
having been detained for eight or nine days with-
out any opportunity of transacting the business
which brought him to Odessa being allowed him !
All this while the British fleet is in the Black
Sea ! Knowing this the authorities dared so to
use British subjects ! See what comes of sparing
Odessa. Our fleet could have blown it into the
air during the War. Knowing this, or not know-
ing it, the authorities supplied the garrison of
l Sebastopol with food. Knowing this the Allied
fleet still spared Odessa ; and now that peace is
proclaimed, where but at Odessa, and in what
presence but that of a British fleet, shall British
subjects be first imprisoned and treated as felons
in all the Russias I Not a stone of Odessa but is
stained by the blood of Englishmen spilt before
Sebastopol. Not a building in it but is a monu-
meat of the exceeding folly of our rulers!

His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame
Van de Weyer have returned to their residence in
Windsor Park, from visiting Mr. Harcourt and tho
Countess Frances Waldegrave, at Nuneham, near Ox
ford.

Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury has arrived in town
from Nuneham-park, where her ladyship has been stay-
ing on a vi.it to Mr. Harcourt, M.P., and Francei
Countess Waldegrave.
The Earl of Malmesbury left Heron Court, near Christ=
church, last week, to visit the Earl of Lansdale, Low.
ther Castle, Cumberland.
The Earl of Lovelace left yesterday for Germany on a
tour, and purposes to go to Italy for the winter. Lady
A. king will stay with her grandmother, Lady Noel
Byron (widow of the great poet) during the absence of
the noble earl abroad.
The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P. and Mrs.
Herbert, have left Wilton House, near Salisbury, for a
tour of visits in Ireland, and to visit the right hon. gen-
tleman's estates in that country.
The Right Hon. Sir James Graham, M.P., and Lady
aid Misses Graham are staying at Netherby Park,
Cumberland. The right hon. baronet shortly goes to
Scotland to make a series of visits.
Madame Cabel has returned to the Opera Comique,
and wade her entry bait week with all the honours.