The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-27 00:00:00

DEPARTURES FOR GREAT BRITAIN.

From Hong Kong—Nov. 7, the Fleda, for the Clyde.
From Whampoa—Oct. 28, the William Prowse, for
London ; Oct. 29, the W. S. Lindsay, for London;
Nov. 1, the General Michelis, for Liverpool ; Nov. 3,the
Ganges, for London.

THE DEPARTURE OF THE COLLIER FLEET FROM THE
TYNE.—NORTH SHIELDS, MONDAY AFTERNOON.— The
wind is from the north-west, and a fine clear day. The
immense fleet of colliers that have been detained in the
north-east ports have got under way.. Everything
under 16 feet water has got to sea. 7,8.1 any hundred
laden colliers have sailed for the London market. They
are likely to have a very quick passage.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARRET.
Under the management of Mr. Buokatone.
THIS EVENING, Dzo. 27,

LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Veatris.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste.

EVINING, DEC. 27,

New scenery, dre,ses, decorations; and appointments, magnificent
Car of Industry, &c. Harlequin, Mr. H. Hemmings; Columbine,
Mdlle. Christine; Pantaloon, Mr. Lehman; and Two Clowes, Mr.
C. Adams and Mr. Croueste ; Sprites, Masters Gee and Bradbury.
A MORNING PERFORMANCE on JAN. 2, commencing at two
Juvenile Night on THURSDAY, JAN. 5, when the Comic Panto-,
mime will commence the Performance .

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Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This DAY —Morning 58 min.after4o Evening 20 min.aft. 11
To-Monnow--Morning 0 inintafter 0 I Evening 57 min.aft. 11

THE WEATHER.—SON OFFICE, DEC. 27.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
40—highest since noon yesterday. •
31—lowest this morning and during the night.
35—this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 29•D5.
WIND, N.N.W.—Light breeze, and fine, frosty weather.
Some slight snow in the night.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1853,

Wearisome though the Russo-Turkish question
has become, it is nevertheless essential to observe
the latest phase in its complication. To do so
just now is one of the most irksome and disheart,_
ening duties of the journalist. Irksome and dis-
heartening—it is, however, we repeat, absolutely
and imperatively requisite. It is requisite in
order to keep the public through the publicist au
courant with the affairs of the day, and in order
to acquaint the community with the relative situ-
ation of the interests of the various states of
Christendom. If, with this latter object especially
in view, we. direct a cursory glance at this mo-
ment over the European continent, we shall dis-
cover, in the attitude assumed by England, and
France, and Austria, and Prussia, and Russia,
and Turkey, extraordinary cause indeed for dis-
quietude as to the ultimate consequence.
In Turkey we discover a Government com-
pelled to exhaust its resources and its ener-
gies by supporting an enormous army and
a considerable navy on a war footing for the pur-
pose of withstanding the hostile advance of a
neighbouring power, and in the hope of avenging
a series of execrable and sanguinary wrongs.
In Russia we observe a vast and unwieldy des-
potism gathering together from all sides—from
the shores of the Baltic and of the Cavian, Fins,
and Swedes, and Calmucks, and Persians—to
support a lawless and ambitious adventurer in the
perpetration of one of the most heinous political
crimes ever attempted since the dawn of
tion.

In Prussia we perceive the least of the princi-
pal powers of Europe maintaining a balance of
policy that may at any instant be allowed to pre-
ponderate on either side, according as events may
render advisable the close, to the right or to the
left, of this prolonged equilibrium.
In Austria we remark that suspicious tacitur-
nity as to the rights involved in this protracted
discussion, which renders it doubtful whether
gratitude for aid in the Hungarian war, or a ter-
ritorial greed for tidbits like the province of
Montenegro, may lead, sooner or later, to the
identification of the views entertained in the
Cabinets of Vienna and St. Petersburg.
In France we discover a powerful and generous
race pledged by its thrice-elected ruler to a pacific
line of policy—pledged by that noble and mag-
nanimous declaration of NAPOLEON M., at Bor-
deux, "I'Empire c'est la paix," that assurance,
the sincerity of which the EMPEROR has since then
so gloriously vindicated : in France, we see a
Powerful and generous race thus pledged by its
SOVEREIGN-eager to redeem that pledge by its
COEICCSSiOns, and
yet burning to repel the audacity
of the Russian,
AUTOCRAT, and to vindicate the'
outraged rights of Turkish independence.
In England, last
and most remarkable
spectacle of all, we behold one of the mightiest, if
powers on the globe, acting
the mightiest, of the
not
as the political Mar lot of Christendomglobe,
• ..c.
—justliy-
ing the indecision of Prussia, panderinc, to the
sinister designs of Austria, hanging like a
clog
on the energy and magnanimity of V
-, ranee, desert-
ing. ' ato Russia,
Turkey, and truckling assuming the
boastful pride of a sham protector towards the
SULTAN, and all the while trembling
ambition and audacity of the AUTOCRAT. And
all these ills, the fruits of an unprincipled Coali-
tion ! We have sown the storm and we are reap-
ing the whirlwind. Wo have sown Aberdeenism
endilte are reaping Disgrace. It is the natural
. :.., ;DAS-etDeuce of our temerity in consenting a
fc), tOr -since- to the committal of the destinies of
• . •,:.,::- •
the country to the keeping of a hybrid
''S4`;''- Whici-Tory-Atadical-Conservative Government.
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THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.
Lessee, Mr, E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING, Dec. 21,
Will be pa•formed GVY YNNETH VAUGHAN'. Characters by
idessrs. Belton and Morgan, Miss Featherstone, &c.
After which, DELICATE ATTENTIONS.
To conclude with KING HUMMINGTOP ; or, Harlequin and the
Laud of Toys.

Will be performed THE HOPE OF THE FAMILY. Characters
by Messrs. Chippendale, Compton, Bnckstone, and W. Farrell ; Mrs.
Buckingham, Mrs. roynter, Mrs. Fitzwilllam, and Miss E. Grey.

After which, a Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, called
HARLEQUIN AND THE THREE BEAR 4 ; or, Little Silverhair
and the Fairies. Columbine, Miss M. Brown ; Harlequin, Mr. J.
Marshall: Pantaloon, Mr. W. A. Barnes; Clown, Mr. H. Marshall.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. CHABLES KEAN.
THIS EVENING, DEC. 27,
Will be performed THE LANCERS; or, The Gentleman's Son,
Principal characters by Messrs. Meadows, Ryder, Everett, H. Mellon.
and D. Fisher; Mrs. Winstanley, Miss Daly, and Miss C. Leclercq.
After which will be produced a new Grand CHRISTMAS PAN-
TOMIME, entitled HARLEQUIN AY) THE MILLER AND
HIS MEN; or, King Salamandar and the Fairy of the Azure
Lake. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Huline ; Panta'oon,
Mr. Paulo; and Columbine, Miss Desborongh.

THIS EVENING, Dzc. 27,
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Will be performed A BACHELOR OF ARTS. Characters by
Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Baker; Miss F. Hughes.
After which, an original Fairy Extravaganza, called ONCE
UPON A TIME THERE WERE TWO KINGS. Principal cha-
racters by Mr. Wright and Madame Vestris.

Bare Christmas Amusements—The Great Attraction of London—
" One of the Sights of London"—The Sea of Ice and Marvellous
Adelohi effects in the exciting new Nautical Drama of "THE
THIRST OF GOLD," every Evening—A new Grand Fairy Spec-
tacle, NVMBEII

And during the. Week, the Popular New Nautical Melo-drama,
in Jive tableaux, with new scenery, the Sea of Ice, &c., new
dresses and appointments, called THE THIRST OF GOLD. or
THE LOST SHIP AND THE WILD FLOWER OF MEXICO.
Principal characters by Messrs. B. Webster, Keeley, Paul Bedford,
0. Selby, Parsclle, Marsden, &c. ; Madame Celeste, Mrs. Leigh
Murray, Miss F. Maskeil, &c. ; with an, entirely new grand specta-
cular legendary Christmas piece, In two act., with new scenery,
dresses, machinery, and appointments, called NUMBER Kip, or
THE SPIRIT BRIDE. Principal characters by Madame Celeste,
Mrs. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, Miss M. Keeley.. Miss Cuthbert, Miss
C. Harding; Messrs. Paul Bedford, J. Rogers, Romer, G. Lee, &c.

EwAiganTß.
ROYAL.Lessee
and OLYMPIC
Manager, r
.TAH.
'PSIS EVENING, DEC. 27,
(And during the Week),
Will be performed PLOT AND PASSION. Principal characters
p.
by
Robson and Mrs. Stirling.
Mr.
After whic, a new historico-geographical CHRISTMAS PAN-
TODIEMR, called HARLEQUIN COLUMBUS ; or, The Old World
and the New. Harlequin, Mr. F. ,Moreland; Pantaloon, Mr. W.
uochez ; and Columbine, Miss Wyndham.

ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
Grand combination of attraction for the Holidays. The only Eques-
trian Pantomime in the Metropolis, and the wonderful Performing
Elephants.

THIS EVENING, Disc. 27,
(And during the week.)
The New Grand Equestrian Chinese Spectacle, entitled " THE
WISE ELEPHANTS OF THE EAST; or, THE MAGIC GONG—
In which Mr. W. Cooke's wondrous Elephants will appear.

Followed by a series of Mr. Wm. CoOke'a matchless scenes of
Eqaestriartism in THE CIRCLE, by the talented artistes of this
establishment.

After which, a New Grand Equestrian CHRISTMAS COMIC
PANTOMIME, written expressly for this Theatre, by Mr.. NELSON
LEE, entitled BILLY BUTTON'S jOURNEY TO BRENTFORD ;
or, Harlequin and the Ladies' Favourite.