The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-29 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1853.

It is still maintained by the principal organ of
her MAJESTY'S Government that even now war is
by no means imminent, and that, after all, no
energetic measures have been taken for the trans-
mission of maritime aid from Besika Bay to the
waters of Constantinople. Supposing these state-
ments to be accurate, then would they constitute
only additional and more damning evidence of
the incapacity of the present Administration.
Let occurrences actually prove that the Cabinet
has persisted in its old policy of timorous delays
and abject concessions, and it will not be difficult
then to decide who in this Eastern contention are
the blusterers. To suppose, however, for an in-
stant that no bolder, nobler, manlier front will
be presented by England to the Russian AUTO-
CRAT, would be, we conceive, under existing cir-
cumstances, altogether preposterous. It would be
preposterous after the energetic language addressed
to the men of Greenock by Lord J. RUSSELL. It
would be preposterous, especially preposterous,
after the panegyrics pronounced at Perth, and
afterwards at Glasgow, by Lord PALMERSTON
upon the sagacity and resolution of her Britannic
MAJESTY'S Principal Secretary of State for the
Foreign Department. Demonstrate now that no
larger powers have been accorded to Lord STRAT-
FORD, that no instructions have been forwarded to
Admiral DUNDAS authorising him to afford assist-
ance, if required, to the British Ambassador at
Constantinople--and you will effectually cap the
climax of the turpitude of the Coalition, you
will prove that the members of that Coalition
have rendered themselves contemptible as brag-
garts, after having sullied their reputation for pa-
triotism by their pusillanimity. Either the remarks
made the other day by the Leader of the House of
Commons go for nothing—in which case they would
be no less despicable than the vapourings of PA-
Routs--or they signify an intention on the part
of himself and his Ministerial colleagues, to lend,
at last, efficient support to the honourable inte-
rests and inalienable rights of the Turkish Govern-
ment. Either (again) the tone adopted by the
Noble Member for Tiverton, when referring re-
cently to the present occupant of the Foreign-
office, went for nothing—in which case it would
imply .a disgraceful sympathy with the bullyings
of a BosAna--or it auguredlthe display of a more
Chivalrous bearing towards the CZAR on the part
of the ruling Coalition. It is obvious, there-
fore, that statements thrust, of late, officially
tpon the attention of the community, have
o_ lily tended to place the Cabinet in a new, and
11,11..."P00ted, and in some respects still more paltry
enemata than
any upon which it has hitherto
blundered.
Another of the delectable conse-
quences of the confusion inseparable from an un-
principled political combination—another of the
happy fruits of the Coalition—
blessed results of the Joint-Stock Administration. A mysterious silence has hitherto concealed
from the public knowledge many of the short-
comings of the ABERDEEN Government. Occa-
sionally that silence has been broken. Inadver-
words have
tently, and therefore inopportunely,iriiserwhich have
fallen from the lips of 3l
afforded ' a glimpse of the disagreements rife
among the advisers of the SOVEREIGN. Everybody
recollects, for example, how the " orthodox,"
"low Church" sentiments of the author of the
Ecclesiastical Titles Bill were repudiated by the
Prime Minister in that communication to Mr.
MONSELL, in which the former strove to conciliate
the goodwill of the Ultramontanists I And so it
has been repeatedly, time and again, at intervals,
ever since the " travelled Thane " brought "All
the Talents" together in the same Cabinet—
effecting that miracle by the craft of compromise
and the magic of inconsistency. Nevertheless, it
had up to the last week or two been only at mo-
ments that Secretaries of State, and other high
Personages in the Goverment, had broken from
the tether of their taciturnity. Until Lord JOHN
RUSSELL spoke out boldly the other day at Green-
ock, and until the citizens of Perth and of Glas-
gow were addressed by Viscount PALMERSTON in
direct allusion to the foreign policy of the Earl of
CLARENDON, the community had only listened to
a few whispered syllables of blurted disclosure
and incoherent revelation. At length, however,
it is different. The people have listened to senti-
ments to-day which they might have hearkened in
vain for yesterday. They have heard the Mem-
ber for the City of London, the Leader of the
Rouse of Commons, declaring that war would be
preferred by the Cabinet to a that
pacifi-
cation. They have heard the Representative of
the borough of Tiverton, the Chief Secretary of
the Home Department, commending the Earl of
CLARENDON, in so many words, as a statesman
" who, by his, independent and truly British
ing, by the firmness of his mind, by the gre feel-
of his talents, by the clearness of his e greatness
and by the determination which animates his con-
,