The Sun. — 1863-07-31 (London, England)

SUU  LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1863.  Should a war really arise out of these Polish complications, it will be no partial war, we may be quite certain of that—like the last one, let us say, the battlefields of which were restricted first of all to the borderland where the Russian and Turkish Empires meet, and eventually even to the soil of the Crimean peninsula. Another European war, a war originating, not like the last, in the cupidity of the CZAR, as to the manner in which the Sick Man might be expected after death " to cut up," as the phrase is, but in the fact, each day becoming more recognisable, of the resurrection of the Polhill nationality from the grave in which its murdered remains have been now for the chief part of a cantury buried awry ! An European war, the tocsin of which should prove to have been at length rung by that Russian-Polish IV Aionality, would not be a paial war, but a general war; would not be a war of Parties, but a war of Principles. At intervals, during the last few months, this probable war Principles, this threatening at least of a general war among the great nations of Europe, has appeared for a brief moment at a time—even in the estimation of diplomatists —to be most imminent. Even now the hazard of it, is very far from having passed away altogether. A contest of this supreme importance and extraordinary magnitude, is still within the limits of possibility. Any day the signal for it may become visible to all Europe, as suddenly as the signal which was given for the war which broke out in Italy ! Meaning in the telegraphic announcement of the severe words of reproof addressed upon a memorable Jour de 1 An, by the French EMPEROR, to the Austrian Ambassador. And we are thus seriously disposed to regard as at this moment within the limits of possibility, if not of probability, the announcement given as suddenly and startlingly of this general war in Europe, Lui • L !ft war, not of parties, or of nations, but of Principles for several reasons that may at once be very readily particularised. About the moat apparent of these reasons being the fact that io reference to Poland itself the alternative of Near or no war seems to depend now at any instant upon the choice decided upon purely by the whim of one man in supreme power, acting upon the spur of the moment, and under the goad of a great irritation. It will be remembered by the readers of Mr.:. INGLARE'S shamefully indiscreet, bat here and there Wonderfullya a w a r: historical romance about the l the war partially fought ontbrehtpeween Russia and the Western Powers of Eh a great Autocracy, that in one of fgatihe against that most picturesque passages in one of the chapters of the work, the writer referpening uz AR, seated in his Cabinet at St. Pete rtsoebl ul : a rhget) as to an angry man who had but to ring a bell, the momentary dictate of his passion, and within the throb of a few seconds upon the pendulum, to light up, throw yh the agency of the electric fire, the fi tree of war at. opposite extremities of his vast do. 'DR autocrat thus referred to, it is true, was the Czir NICHOLAS, and not the Czar A LIA ANDER . But though the men were very different, indeed, both in capacity and in temperature, the power remains identically the same. If the fierce reeolve ;has no more been inherited by the reigning Emperor of All the Russias, than has the lawless sonbition, apparently of his imme, diate progeni tor, the supreme and, in an earthly point of view, the irresponsible authority of that predecessor has passed intact into the hands of