The Sun. — 1860-06-04 (London, England)

THE SUN.  LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1860,  France itself is now a witness to prove that Lord JOHN RUSSELL was right. The illoniteur is obliged to come forward, to testify to the " suppositions of all kinds, and malevolent accusations or thoughtless interpretations to which they have given rise for some weeks past regarding the annexation of Savoy, and the arrondissement of Nice." Just what our Foreign Minister foretold, in the strongest language diplomacy could em• ploy to a Government with which we desired_ to remain in amity. He warned the EMPEROR that so it would be, and must be. He told him that the step could only be taken at the peril of creating an amount of discontent not felt before in any country adjacent to France; and this he now finds to be inconveniently the case. Can he be really surprised ? Are not his secret wishes such as merely to make him regret that he has alarmed his game ? What does Europe see ? We speak from the testimony of his public acts only ; and do not they tell all Europe two things ?—first, that the Ruler who occupies the throne of France is utterly destitute of any moral scruples. Politicians are not often, indeed, casuists; but, if we except the HAPSBURGS, there is hardly another European despot who could quiet an assembly of deputies by an appeal to his oath, and grasp the hand of his officers, in his own house, one day, and the next sent them all to a gaol, introductory, in many cases, to banishment ; while every citizen who appeared in the street or at a window became the victim of a soldieu maddened with drink. We try to forget such things in the case of those with whom we must have dealings ; but perjury, fraud, and murder rise like spectres when fresh instances of unblenching duplicity meet us. The ghosts of the old crimes add fearful strength to the impressions of the last act which alarms us ; they force us to believe that in calculating the probable policy of Louls NAPOLEON we must regard him as wholly untrammelled by those unstatesmanlike considerations—right or wrong.  secondly, his actions assure us that his language, his statements, his professions, are all used but to veil his thoughts. He deceived the deputies, and pounced upon them while yet deceived. Ile deceived Austria by professions of not being armed, yet was four.d quite ready to be at Turin as soon as she was, and with an army as large as hers ; he deceived Europe with the magnanimous promise of mtenting himself with the glory of liberating► Italy ; deceived England with the belief that France made war only for an idea ; deceived us till the treaty was nearly safe--would have deceived us longer if events and the Swiss had not marched a little too fast for him ; to the last he eqn ivocated —till, at length, unable to secure his prey by the free vote of the people, he compelled the KING to a treaty of cession, and went through hii favourite farce of compelling a universal suffrage in Savoy and Nice, and a large majority of the Parliament of Turin to vote, that the Imperial AHAB should have the inheritance of VICTOR EMMANUEL'S fathers. The poor King of SARDINIA knew full well that be must suffer NABOTII'S fate if he imitated NABOTH'S firmness. And now a few smooth words from M. FOULD, and a few self-laudatory words in the Illoniteui ,