The Sun. — 1855-04-20 (London, England)

DUDLEY STUART. Nothing could be happier and better-timed than his appeal to the surviving admirers of the Noble Lord to imitate his conduct. Mere sentimental honours to the philanthropy and moral courage of the dead are almost worthless memorials. To desist from feminine regrets, to catch his falling mantle, to breathe a double portion of his spirit, to be roused from merely commending sympathy to efficient action, this is the memorial his departing spirit would have asked ; the memorial which would place his name at the head of one of the holiest movements of the day—a mcvement which, if taken and successful, would perpetuate through all European History the memory of all its leaders. Lord DUDLEY STUART can never be forgotten if Poland become once more an independent nation. Long will his name live, indeed, even should the brutal and murderous policy of NICHOLAS be still permitted to continue, and to crush the hopes completely of the civilised victims of Muscovite barbarism. The oppressed do not forget their unsuccessful friends, and every Polish mother will teach her infant the name of the loved English nobleman who loved its native country, when despots, and congresses, and Prime Ministers surrendered it to the ruthless fangs of incarnate demons. But a nation utterly crushed, of course dies at  last; while in one restored, its life must sustain for ever the memory of its restorers. Such a memorial might Lord DUDLEY STUART'S friends secure 1 him if they will now but imitate his conduct. Otherwise noi,hing can prevent the same grave covering the memory eventually of both Poland and her most generous friend.It is, indeed, painful to witness, as we now do, the penalties we have incurred by treating him as a philanthropibt to be half pitied, instead of a politician to be followed. Our CASTLEREAGH; RUSSELLS, and PA.LXCERSTONE, have, by a policy the reverse of Lord DUDLEY STUART'S, plunged us at last into this costly and fatal War. They took counsel only with the interests of despots and courts ; and, with secret diplomacy as their means, they achieved the aggrandisement of insatiable tyrants, to their own confusion now. They blushed as they brought their treaties to the light of Freedom, but they buried in the oblivion of home politics all their shame for treachery to foreign liberty ; they discouraged Lord DUDLEY and all his coadjutors as mourners, whose sorrows reminded them of connivance at national murder, or as patriots whose voice was exceedingly annoying to the delicate ears of their Royal friends— the Lords of Siberia and Spielberg. His Lordship, on the contrary, consulted only those moral judgments to which right and justice are an immutable law, and that tenderness of heart which could not rest while the cries of the oppressed continued to resound in his hearing. Had the moral courage of philanthropists superseded the timid selfishness of statesmen in 1815 and 1830, Poland would to this day have been the free barrier of Europe, Turkey unassailed, Austria and Hungary reciprocally improving each other, Prussia free, and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, too, independent of Russia and Austria. The brutal NICHOLAS could have been more easily put down in 1830 than he or  his can now. But Poland is the touchstcne of the true states- 1 man even now. Amid the feverish expectations '1 of tidings from Sebastopol, it is indeed difficult to think steadily of the next great step ; yet it is necessary to do so, and we affirm that success there must render Poland the veritable Fifth Point. The object of Warsaw and Sebastopol is one and the same. Rule, and that barbarian Cossack rule,l over Europe. A small number of highly-polished and educated men, but men who do not understand the western sense of the word honour, aspire, by the terror of hosts of serfs hardly a whit superior to the hordes of Attila or Gerghis Khan, to lord it over the civilisation of the West. In furtherance of this accursed project, the Czars have seized successively on Finland, the Baltic Provinces, Lithuania, and Poland, and nothing can permanently stem the debasing tide of savagism and slavery but compelling it to ebb back on its own steppes, and constituting the enfranchised States the protective embankment of Europe. No one, indeed, now doubts this. The policy of France and England, therefore, is to terminate the dangerous Conferences at once, to declare that the Fifth Point is now an essential, that the War cannot close till Poland and the Baltic Provinces too are free, and, as we have more than once said, till Russia become Russia only.