The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-21 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1853

Negotiations, and negotiations, and negotia-
tions. We are sick of them. HEAVEN knows,
too, that we have had quite enough and to spare
of the miserable twaddlings of diplomacy about a
Pacific settlement. We have had the Vienna
Note, and the Vienna Conference, and the Vienna
Acceptance of the modifications. And, after all
this, moreover, we have had the massacre at
Sinop° and the resignation of Lord PA.LMERSTON.
Nevertheless, such is the pertinacious fatuity of
our Rulers that scarcely have the multitude been
enabled to appreciate the importance of the last-
mentioned occurrences—scarcely have the people
of England awakened to a sense of the ignominy
accruing to us from the unavenged butchery of
our allies by the Russian squadron from Sebasto-
pol, and of the supplementary weakness in-
fused into the Coalition by the withdrawal
of the Home Secretary from the Administration—
when we are complacently informed—What ? That
the combined fleets have at length passed through
the Bosphorus ? That Admiral HAMELIN and
Admiral DuNDAs have united their formidable
maritime armaments with the Turkish naval force
under. Admiral SLADE, and have proceeded to-
gether in a direct line across the Euxine to the
seizure of the Crimea and the bombardment of
Sebastopol ? That Turkey, and France, and Eng-
sand are at last wreaking a tardy vengeance upon
RusSia for the whole catalogue of her criminal
acts towards the Sublime Porte, from the lawless
passage of the boundary of Bessarabia to the
'brutal slaughter at Sinope ? Nothing of the
kind. No !--simply this—that the revival of the
Conference is most satisfactory ; that the union
of the Four Powers is complete ; that they pro-
pose the same media ; that they pursue the same
object ; that their perfect accord is sufficient of
itself to tranquillise the public mind ; that
confidence is reviving ; that a disposition
favourable to negotiation is being mani-
fristed at Constantinople. This, remember,
immediately after intelligence of the battle of
Sinope, and of Lord PALMERSTON'S resignation !
Not a word about wiping out this new and infa-
mous stain about the honour of England. Not
a syllable about the necessity of retaliating upon
the Czap, for the duplicity of his councils, and the
ferocity of his armaments. Not a whisper about
retribution. It matters nothing that two of our
merchantmen (the property of a Maltese firm)
sailing with coals to the Black Sea, are said to
have been " roughly dealt with" in the midst of
this infamous carnage at Sinope. It matters no-
thing about th4t other British merchantman,
reported to have been fired into and boarded by
the Russians off the coast of Trebizond. It mat-
ters nothing that all these outrages are taking
place while our fleet is lying quietly at
anchor in the Bosphorus. Lord PaLmER-
STON has retired in dudgeun from the
Cabinet, and Ministers at ones) return to their old
-worn-out, threadbare ruse of diplomatic negotia
tions.

Negotiations, upon what understanding ? Why,
Wefi_nd. •
,it stated thaethe Four Powers have actually
agr°e(lcioec-th,,a.tn the Olmutz Concessions and the
new
negotiations.
Note, are to be the bases of these
ta..oons. The Olmutz Concessions 1
The co,
vouchsafed by the Emperor
Nicnouts
and followedlive plenitude of his benevolence,
Turks
i consistently by the mas-
sacre. of the
u the Black Sea, and by
their butchery simuitatie
u,s ly on the Asiatic and
European Continents
The modified Vienna
17ote ! The Note to which the
A.uTocRAT peremp-
torily denied the accompanitnent of
modifica-
tions, no matter how requisite oranryea
reasonable
Such are the bases of these propitious and mira-

culous nesJ,otiatiotis.

Then, as we have remarked, it is intimated by
advices from Vienna, dated the 19th of
this present December, a disposition favour-
able to negotiation is said to be manifested
at Constantinople. It is probable !—Wonderfully
probable, as any one may conjecture, after the
slaughter at Sinope and the 'reverses experienced
by the Turks both in Asia and along the Danube,
both from Prince BEBOUTOFF and from Prince
'OORTZOHAKOFF. Upon these premises the people
of England are to rest contented with the shadowy
promise of a pacific settlement, held out to them
by the •foreign polity` of the ABERDEEN Govern'