The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-19 00:00:00

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L'JNDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 18+57

According to the Times the War proclaimed
against Persia by England, on the Ist of Novem-
ber, 1856, involves the possibility of the ultimate
conquest and annexation of that ancient dominion
to the vast Asiatic Empire already established
by British valour in Hindostan. According to
the Edinburgh, on the contrary, that same war
has been declared not even for the purposes of
weakening, but simply for that of a wholesome
intimidation. Now, each of these two extra-
ordinary announcements we look upon as nothing
less than monstrously extravagant. At the same
time, we must protest, at once, that we
would prefer to abide by the former rather than
by the latter—we would rather regard
the Declaration of War against Persia
as involving the necessity of additional conquests
in the East than as indicative of that effete and
miserable mockery of a policy of which the late
Crimean struggle against Russia may be taken as
a type or representative. It will be remembered
only too bitterly by the majority of our fellow-
countrymen bow the very soul seemed to be
taken out of the Cause of the Allies almost from
the outset of that memorable contest with the
legions of the AUTOCRAT : by the formal assurance
made to the world by several of our leading
statesmen that England and France meditated no
diminution of the realms of the CZAR—meditated
no aggrandisement of their own territories medi-
dtaemteix3d
teaiartrayuinpgononctehretawinarhagigahi7otyl:
agnredatunitorrat.hcehrin.
valrous principles, which, in point of fact, were
oils, in themselves utterly and monstrously preposter-
TJPOtI those Arcadian
war was declared. Upon those
Principles the late
conducted. U
principles it was
Upon those
principles it was brought,
after the lapse of two disastrous
less, and a fruitless, and years, to a
, we cannot but
still
boot-
think, a most ignonainious eonehision,
us—that We
is
most earnestly to be hoped, therefore, We
e coseeive,
—particularly with the miserable ex •
periencea of
the late war so recently before
(
-0 are
not again plunging int* another imperial contest
upon a policy thus avowedly irrational. it is
nothing less, we maintain, than the height of folly
to announce to the foe at the very opening of the
first campaign that we don't intend to do him
any permanent injury ! Yet this is literally what
we did with regard to the Russian AUTOCRAT.
And this, moreover, is precisely what the
Edinburgh tells us we are now doing with
this,'weref say—let ence to the Shah of Persia ! Rather than
the War proclaimed on the Ist
.of November,
to be what the Times has
at Calcutta, be explicitly avowed
placing matters " in a traienalfleoGir tithe coann
annexation of that ancient c
le
un
et
se rt par
ni s
dominion !" Betterde )
anything than the wilful
ins froth the verydeliberate outset of all
costly, and most difficult warlike Dour
Altogether, in truth pati
, we cannot but regard the
view taken of this Persian War
1
by the Whig
re-
viewer, who examines into the
problem of • ,
er voans: and
vast'
origin, in the recently published number of theit
Edinburgh, as nio..it specious, and, therefo
re, most