The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-27 00:00:00

(From Bell's Weekly Messenger.)

The Czar, the Sultan, and the Pope are likely to
give the world some trouble. The affairs of the
latter have become unwieldy and uncertain. He
has meddled everywhere, and disturbed almost
every non-Romish country in Europe ; he may yet
live to experience the recoil of his desperate doings.
Need we refer to his interference iu Britaiu, in
Prussia, or in Holland ? Or need we inquire by
what agency " the question of shrines" evoked the
ambitious rivalry of the Czar, and. drew forth his

He will probably do so to his cost. Left to the
support only of his own people, his grand defiles
of the Balkan will be the graves alike of Mussul-
man and Cossack. Grim as the Khyber Pass,
their passage may be fiercely disputed against the
Russians on the north; but with the fleet.l. of France
au(l Britain in other waters than those to the east
of the Bosphorus, where they ought to be, it is
not difficult to see that the Balkans may have to
be defended on the south as well as on the north,
and that with the country of the Dun and the
Volga beyond the Crimea, and immediately in the
rear of the Russian head-quarters, the Autocrat
may not only pour down his forces from the north
upon the Danube and the Balkan, but also from
the Crimea and the Sea of Azof upon Constanti-
nople itself. He may cross the Danube—he cannot
pass the Balkans—he cannot set foot to the smith
of those passes—he cannot enter the Bosphorus—
he cannot attack Constantinople—unless they leave
Turkey to tight her own battle.
But once they do that, and Turkey may be gal-
lant, but she is doomed. Then may we attempt to
roll back Russia in vain. The Black Sea is then a
Russian lake, into which none but Russia may
enter. The Dardanelles is then Russia's own pecu-
liar channel, through which whatever she may
plan behind it will be developed in the Archipe-
lago and the Mediterranean. Egypt, Greece, and
Syria are then within his sight—the Khuban no
longer his boundary in Asia. What the Danube
is to him, the Euphrates may be, and most
probably will be. He is then far on his way to
British India, and the Persian Gulf will become to
him what the Black Sea has been hitherto--a new
nursery to rear his young brood of gigantic plans
on the future. Let Britain look to it. The worst
half of the overland journey will then lie beyond
the Isthmus of Suez, and to reach even that
isthmus may involve another question, and with
it, " the peace of Europe."
For the Czar is a man of progress. Mentschikoff
is his arbitrator, Nesselrode his negotiator, and
the Moscow school his Peace Society ! Tell us of
progress and talk of arbitration ? Why, this is
the age of gigantic Northern development and of
peddling pigmyism in the West. The progress of
Europe is monopolised. It is the progress of the
Man of the North upon the old Empire of Impe•
rial Rome, and the Sultan alone it is who has the
manliness to resist him !

(From the Edinburgh Flying Post.)
The Eastern question has advanced into a far-
ther stage of complication, the natural consequence
of the imbecile, if not treacherous, diplomacy of
the four powers, as evolved by the double-dealing
policy of Russia. It may be affirmed, with truth,
that out of the British Cabinet there are not ten
men in the country in any way surprised at the
incidents which have now transpired. On the part
of our Government there appear to be few, if any,.
symptoms of a determination to meet the emer-
gency by adequate measures. The arguments of
the Times tend to the abandonment of Turkey to •• •
its fate ; and we cannot perceive in the other
Ministerial journals that any more decided course
is in contemplation. The whole of these indeed,
have either sadly miscalculated or. been grossly
misinformed ; for the negotiations from which they
promised so much have ended in nothing, or rather
in aggravating the evils and dangers they were
designed to avert. We cannot, therefore, place ,
any faith in the speculations or vaticinations of
journals which have so conspicuously committed
the most palpable errors, and credulously listened
to the deceptive whisperings of a Government too ' .
apt and ready to leave them in the lurch. What • .
matters it that Lord Palmerston, through the "
columns of the Morning Post, indulges in such
" brave words" as these :—" The expedieats of
negotiation are exhausted, and the period of action
has arrived. Questions of words and disputes
about formalities may be set aside as nothing to IC‘I
the purpose. The point now at issue is, whether
Russia shall be successful in the design which she eau
no longer hide, of forcibly seizing on the rights of -'
Turkey ; or, whether England and France, bound •
as they are by obligations repeatedly avowed and
continually strengthened, shall prove that they
possess the will, as they undoubtedly have the
power, to reduce that design to the ignominy of
failure in attempted crime."

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with the fastest of the American clippers, has made the
voyage to China in 72 days from Lisbon, or 77 from
London. This is the quickest voyage yet made to China.
The Cairngorm had the misfortune to lose her mainmast
on her passage out, and was obliged to refit at Lisbon
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able, at the rate of 14 miles an hour, and delivering her
cargo in a most perfect state.
cost of glass, occasioned by the removal of the duty, has
induced the directors of the Birmingham Woverhimp-
ton, and Dudley, and other railways centring in Bir-
mingham, to have the great station in New-street con-
structed of fluted glass, and the same covering is to be
generally adopted in the railway
stations between
Madrid and Barcelona.