The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-25 00:00:00

the pfliicy of the former quadruple alliance to
adopt the Austro;continental policy. It cannot be
dissembled that the attitude assumed by him, in the
questibti, of gyist and *la acquired fbr hull the
sympathies of every foreign power with the exception
of France. In many other mi.ctiong likewise. such as
those of Greeee and Turkey, the system of Lord ;Pal-
therstOti *WO hot less, ih Mobil! ,with that of foreigtt
courts. It is belieYed that ihb objet of the prolonged
stay bf the Ckitilat de,Nestieltode lii Eirglaiid wad tb facili-
tate tne solution of certain questions relatiire in the
affairs of the East. It is, moreover, announced that Lord
Palmerston, by the advice of his friends, is about to re-
turn speedily to England, where the interests of his party
require his presence. If this be so, the journey of the
King of the French and of his Minister to England, and
his visit to Queen Victoria, would have produced a sin-
gular result."
This is droll enough. The probability that the
Whigs are about to resume office in consideration
of their affinity with Mr. O'Connell will, pro-
bably, be as new to most English readers as the
prevailing irritation against France ; not that
any one doubts of the affinity spoken of ;
but we have not hitherto been aware that such
affinity with the ex-gaol-bird and frightened deserter
of repeal, would be a recommendation to the confi-
dence either of the Sovereign or the people of this
nation. Enough, however, upon this point. Thanks
to his good luck, or it may be to the dishonesty
of faction, Mr. O'Connell is at large, though still
upon the records of the courts of justice a cri-
minal convicted of a seditious conspiracy. Let
the Whigs by all means court his patronage, and
let the convict make Lord Palmerston a Prime
Minister, if, as the Univers estimates, he can. And
now to another point : the Univers hints, not very
darkly, at some supposed understanding between Lord
Palmerston and the Russian Government, and tells a
story of Count Nesselrode's visit to this country.
Now, the surmise as to Lord Palmerston's inti-
mate relations with Russia imputes to his Lord-
ship nothing more than virtual high treason, and we
shall not, by canvassing the grounds of the
surmise, poach on Mr. Urquhart's preserve. Mr.
Urquhart knows Lord Palmerston much better than
we do, and is in all respects much better qualified
than we are to do justice to his Lordship's proceed-
ing. Connected with this matter, however, we have
a little tale to tell. A person—who has been for some
years admitted at least so far into the confidence of
the Russian mission in this country, as now and
then to supply to us, and we suppose to other jour-
nals, articles of information that could be had only
from the Russian Minister or some of his suite—called
at our office shortly before the arrival of the King of
the French, to tell that the preliminaries of a
quadruple treaty, for the arrangement of the
affairs of the East, had been agreed upon
between Great Britain, Russia, Austria, and
Prussia ; and that the terms of this treaty, from any
share in forming which France was to be excluded,
were the opening of Constantinople and the Dar-
danelles as a free city and a free port, and the
removal of the Sultan and his Court to Scutari,
preparatory to driving the Turks altogether out
of Europe. The fable was a little too gross, and
therefore we dismissed it without much con-
sideration. It is impossible, however, not to see the
mischievous purpose with which such fabrications
are set afloat, and we confess that we suspect that
the article quoted above is an arrow out of the same
quiver. Certain it is, that if the Russian Govern-
ment does not wish to embroil Great Britain and
France, it is grievously ill-served by its subordinate
agents, and, assuming Lord Palmerston to be one of
its friends, by some of its friends also.

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