The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-22 00:00:00

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THE 8R1711511 GOVERN 144
(Pont tile or;zing Herald of •is
We yesterday pointed out to our . v:,
conclusion of an article upon Lord P • encases B
systematic betrayals of the Liberal cause through-
out Europe, a very remarkable fact connected with
the campaign of 1854, namely, that the lamentable
Sebastopol expedition was undertaken without the
knowledge of Austria, and that it was undertaken
at the very moment when that power was on the
point of committing herself to direct hostility with
Rtbsia by taking the left of an advance which,
from the magnitude of the forces employed, would
have in vitably included the Russo-Polish territo-
rie: wit un ics genre.
T, ese facts have only lately come to our know-
ledge in a shape upon which we could place implicit
reliance, and are now put forward, not in defence
of Austrian tergiversation, but in inculpation of our
own G wernment for treachery to the common
cause.

We have good reason for believing that the Aus-
trian Government, upon hi.aring from the Times
that it was the determination of the allied powers
to carry the war into the Crimea, at once fell back
upon tl:eir former dilatory policy, in the double
conviction that they were themselves left totally
isolated, and that not a single soldier of the expe-
ditionary armies would ever return.

The litter conviction we fear Lae been tut too
nearly fulfilled, at least as far as the body of troops
originally sent was concerned. Of course the enor-
mous power of England and France in a degree
repaired the fearful losses ; but, alas, we fear that
few of the gallant army, either French or English,
which landed at Old Fort are ever destined to re-
visit the shores of their native lands.
We recur to Ciis subject because we are aware
that many of our readers may 1-e anxious to know
why so monstrous a departure from the great ob-
jects of European independence should have been
sanctioned by our Government, and so great an
opportunity lost.
We answer in a few words—by a reference to
what we said above—the movement in advance,
including the armies of four great powers, would
have made Russian P,land the field of battle, and
involved the English Government at once in a con-
flict, upon Polish ground, with a Sovereign "whose
rights are," as Lord Palmerston asserts, " incon-
testible."

Every one knows that—call it selfish or other-
wise—the Austrian policy has been, for 50 years,
that of giving up Gallicm as her contribution to
the establishment of an independent kingdom of
Poland.
She knew well that the advance thus contem-
plated would have raised the whole Polish question.
The same inevitable consequence was also patent
to the Western Governments ; and we now see
the fact that sooner than raise the question of
Polish independence, they run the risk—too fatally
fulfilled—of sacrificing their armies in the fearful
conflict with famine and disease on the fatal pla-
teau in front of Sebastopol.
The fcregoing considerations may be taken as a
preface to the following painful extracts from the
address of the officers of Cossacks of the Sultan to
their friend and general, Zatfloyski, a melancholy
record of disappointed hopes.
"TO GENERAL COUNT ZAMOTSICI. COMMANDING THE

POLISH DIVISION OF COSSACKS OF THE SULTAN.
"General,—rnited under your command, although
under a very humble appellation, we considered our-
ielvec as forming the nucleus of a future Polish national
army, and were prepared to undergo fresh sacrifices for
the sake of our country. We know well what cares and
lab. urs you have undergone, unceasingly and untiringly,
in forming the Polish division. Your hopes and ours
are now, we will not say destroyed, but suspended for a
while, by the news of peace, which, while bestowing a
temporary quiet upon Europe, fills the heart of the
Poles with sadness, for it renders d-übttul the cause of
our ►:atiun—a cause which we alone serve."