The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-10 00:00:00

TIMATRIi ROYAL ADELPIII.

rroprietor, Mr. B. Webster. —Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 10,
Will be performed JACK SID. PPAED; Supported by Messrs.
Pawl I'ed6;rel, A. Wigan, Parselle, and C. J. Smith; 31re. Keeley,
311sses F. Maskill and Mary lieeey.
0 b followed by TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS.
After winch. N0it31.%. ~upported by Messrs. P. Bedford and 11.
Bedford, and Ws.> Woolgar.
To conctuth, with GOING TO THE DERBY.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
Second Week of M. A LPHONSE THZVELIN, whose extraordinary
t eats have been tightly hailed with enthusiastic approbation.

THIS EVENING, JUNE 10,
and dlnirtZ the week, Ole Entertainments will commence with the
1,1:1,1Y 1 ivan.,, AT scenery, c"stuurs, and
entitled Till: (ALA.'S: LIFE ON THE TURF—
iL.;iratui. a gip: rang Man's ,:artier.
To be followed by M. Alpho,se Thevan, the First Gymnasiatque
,Erien of France, a);d Liventor of the Cybistique Games under the
French and Belgian Baloons, in his incredible Performance of LES
JECTX CYBISTIQIJE, Vaulting [reverser /Ellen of 130 Feet lrom
the Back of the Stage to the Centre of the Circle.

To be succeeded by gr,,c ful amt el tssical equestrian Achievements
n Scenes of the ARENA, r..-upported by th . most talented Artistes
.11 Europe.

To conchtde with the Mel,,lnana of THE FOREST OF BONDY,
which the celebrated Dog Hector will appear.

Box-mtco open daily from I:leven to I'o.ur. Btage 'Manager, Mr,
W. West.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
THIS EVENING, .Tvxz 10,
Gigantic PANORAMA of the BAY and FORTS of CIIUSAN.
Splendid MENAGERIE, including Six Elephants. Fou'• Lions,
Two Tigers, Two Giraffes, Camels, Leopards, Llamas, &e.
Grand :MILITARY BIND, Conducted by Mr. Godfrey.
Vocal and Instrumental Concert; Two Son<<•s by Miss Cecily Nott ;
:solo Clarlonet, Mons. Winne, and Cornet a Piston, Mr. Phillips;
Brilliant Display of Fireworks ; Feast of Lanterns ; Attack on the
Briti,h Fleet ; Explosion of Chinese Fireships; Grand Tableaux.
Doors open from 9in th' morning. Feeding the Animals at 5.
Concert at 6. Fireworks at half-past 9. Allinisson Is.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAT —Morning 55 min. after 3 I Evening 13 min.aft. 4
To-Moaaow—Morning 31 min. after 4 I Evening 50 min.aft. 4

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JUNE 10.
THERMOMETER, IN TWE SHADE.
75—highest since noon yesterday.
60—lowest this morning and during the night.
71— this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 30'03.
WIND, S.E.--Light breeze, and fine, sunshiny weather.
In the morning there was a thick haze and slight rain.

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4'4o4iCemsagiM.T. 41k)

LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1853.

Preparations for war upon an enormous scale
are now, it appears, being actively made--on the
one hand by the Russian, and on the other by
the Turkish Government. It must be particularly
borne in mind, moreover, at this moment, that
the incentives to the struggle upon both sides are
truly formidable, because, really and without any
exaggeration whatever, extraordinary. The Sultan
ABD-UL-MEDJID, for example, may rely implicitly
upon the enthusiasm of his forces, that enthusiasm
arising out of no ephemeral emotion, but out of
the depth of a heart-born patriotism, out of the
fervour, and resolve, and devotion with which the
more valorous races of mankind have ever fought
since the flood, and with which they will
assuredly ever fight till the " crack of doom,"
for the holy and inalienable right of na-
tional independence ! The Czar NICHOLAS,
meanwhile, may count with the utmost confidence
upon the ardour of his troops, remembering
that that ardour is inspired by the long-cherished,
but hitherto suppressed, yearning of the Cossacks
to march southwards to the conquest of Roumelia,
to the capture of St. Sophia, to the seizure of the
treasures, and the pride, and the glory of Con-
stantinople ! It has hitherto been supposed that
Turkey is altogether unprepared for a contest
with the tyrannous and gigantic power of the
AUTOCRAT. It has been presumed that the actual
struggle between the Divan and the Councils of
St. Petersburgh would be one so unequal in its
character that it must end in a single and rapid
campaign, with the humiliation of the Sublime
Porte, and the definitive triumph of the Russian
EMPEROR. Those, however, who are acquainted
with the relative positions of the two countries,
those, especially, who are correctly informed as
to the progress made of late years by their
respective populations, need not be informed
that such estimates of the weakness of Turkey
and of the strength of Russia are wholly and ab-
surdly erroneous. Mr. COBDEN, no doubt, talked
extravagantly when he declared, some time ago,
from the platform of a meeting in the London
Tavern, that you might crumple up Russia as
easily as he crumpled up a piece of paper. But
although he did, as we remark, talk extravagantly
in so speaking, he was so far right in the main,
that he correctly appreciated the insecurity and
rottenness of the foundations upon which has been
built up all the grandeur of the Northern Colos-
sus. He saw that if, like the mighty figure
in the dream of NERTICHADNEZZAR, its head,
and its arms, and its breast were of
the precious metals, its feet were also, like
that of its prototype, of clay. History pro-
claims this—the history of the past proclaims
it, but more especially, more loudly, and more
unmistakeably, the history of later days, the his-
tory of the presont, the history of our own gene-
ration. All round the Black Sea, all through the
Danubian provinces, extending in one direction
through Hungary as far as the coasts of Dalmatia,
and in another through the desert of Astrachan to
the mountains of Circassia, the people of those
regions are ripe for insurrection. They wait only
for the signal. And that signal—the tocsin call

ing them to the vindication of their liberties—is
the momentous war now on the eve of its com-

mencement. By a remoter contingency, doubtless,
but none the less inevitably for all that, it may
be asserted, moreover, that the rise of Hungary,
and the rise of Northern Italy, and the rise of
Western Poland, are dependent upon the policy
pursued at this juncture by the Leaders of the
Austrian Government.

Meanwhile, Russia being thus surrounded by
those inflammable materials, ready at the first

spark of war to break into a revolutionary con-
flagration, Turkey is more than ever powerful—
powerful by the justice of her cause, powerful by
the discipline of her soldiers, powerful by the
development of civilisation among her inhabi-

tants, powerful by the genius of RISCHID PACHA

and her other distinguished administrators,
by the skilful prowess of OMIR PACHA and her

other military commanders, by the patriotism of
her citizens, by themagnan
magnanimity of her SULTAN,
by the support, in
fine, secured to her through
the maritime armaments of the two most formid-
able states of
Christendom.
Confident in thestrength of it
Is new actively preparing
fors position,s a p pro a thecii . Divan •
ing struggle with thye armiesth of the AUTOCRAT. It
whasherelearniut
motionalread
that
prepared his
troops are every-
where
NICHOLAS himg-
prepared for the quarters are being
Nai m--that his second
self at Ismahil, in
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01,48, has even now
forwarding,
son, the Grand Duke
arrived at Odessa for the
in his capacity as High Admiral" °off
armaments in progress at the grand ia, the
arsenal of Sebastopol. The Sublime po-n/rtP:ri_ial
learnt all this, but it has learnt it undismayed.
It comprehends to the full the requirements of the
emergency. It understands the real excel-
knee of its situation, and prepares with all
Ptomptitude to render it, as far as possible,
impregnable. It couples the circumstance of the