The Sun. — 1856-07-16 (London, England)

PALMERSTON. One must parade his care for the honour of Russia, and the other must imitate. One must fall in lave with the coward and bull', Austria, and the other must smile on the lovers. A PALMERSTON Ottyht not to have dozed on the lap of such a DELILAH if a RUSSELL did ; but the old antagonist of the hated HAPSBURGS coal,d love them for a NAPOLEON'S sake. True, the latter had small cause for his coquetry with the Court of Vienna. It loved him not, nor loves him. It feared him in Italy, perhaps elsewhere, and loft him to thank her for driving him to the choice of a beautiful and intelligent Empress, by insolently denying him a petty German Priucess. LOUIS NAPOLEON may have profoundly patriotic and philanthropic ideas in his head, for ought we can tell, in selling himself and PALMERSTON with him to Austria, and through her to 'Russia ; we are, however, too shortsighted. to s3© further yet than the brotherhood of Autocrats and the proclivity of aristocrats to their. cause. Hence the evacuation of the Crimea. Russia must not be humbled ; Austria dare not sea her too much weakened, or lose all title to her goodwill. Autocrats could not see one of their number branded as a political felon, and Aristocrats must not lower the dignity of one Crown in Europe, not even by relieving it of a stolen gem ; therefore the Crimea must be evacuated—therefore no mention must even be made of it in the " bases of negotiation ;" therefore the Russian EMPEROR could stipulate that " indemnity," territorial or pecuniary, should not be mentioned; and therefore even Bessarabia must be unnaturally divided to secure the mouth of the Danube from Russian perfidy. Since the fall of Sebastopol all has been humiliation for the Allies. The starving of the heroes of Kars into surrender ; the ignominious bases of peace ; the indecent exultation of the French at the mere prospect of so paltry a Treaty, the importance assumed by the shabby power whom even a NAPOLEON could denounce as faithless to her engagements. Her admission to a cooference with Allies whom she had deserted in every hour of need ; her holding the Principalities ,:.-even to this day), and her insults to Turks  and Englishmen there, besides her assumption of authority over, and cruelty to, the subjects of the SULTAN ; then, at the Conference, the silence about Poland, the surrender of the Aland Isles, the curtailment instead of the enlargement of the demands on Bessarabian territory, the nonenforcement of indemnification even for the unquestioned outrage on Turkey, the surrender of the Circassians to the murders and conflagrations which are now wasting the country, the abstinence from any guarantee against rebuilding forts under whose cover thousands, if need be, of gunboats built up the rivers could nestle for an attack on Turkey—humiliation for the Allies, for England above all, was the course of all things from the fall of Sebastopol to the signing of the peace—the safe and honourable peace !—safe enough assuredly for Russia, honourable enough for her—band now she enjoys the final honour, now she is permitted to inscribe on the walls of a Sebastopol far stronger than ever, "