The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-17 00:00:00

'ROYAL SURREY zooLbarcm, GARDENS,

Second Week of Miss POOLE, the eminent EnAih - First
EsNibition of the 3IARINE AQUARIUM., a colieciion of Sea
and Fresh water Fish alive, in fi,e large glass tans, procured ex-
pressly ror tnis occasion by P. H. Gosse, E q., autnor of "A Natu-
ralist's Ramble, is Devonshire," &c., forming the most instructive
and amusing object ever yet presented to the public.
THIS EVENING, AUGUST 17,

CHITSAN, Splendid MENAGERIE, Grand Military Band, Vocal
and Instruments! ,2oncert, Two Favourite Songs by Miss l'oole,
marvellous display of TEE FEAST OF LANTERNS, brilliant
FIREWORKS,' and EXPLOSION of CHINESE FIRE SHIPS.
Admission, is.
The Boys of the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea, accompanied
by their Military Rand, will visit the Gardens

lIIGIi WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tars DA: —Morning 5 min. after 12 I Evening 38 min.aft.
12
Ta-Mottaow —Morning 8 min. after 1 Evening 35 min.aft. 1

THE WEATLIER.—Scrx OF?IC3, AUGUST 17.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

67—highest since noon yesterday.
57—lowest this morning and during the night.
69—this day at noon.

BAROMETEIt, 29'63.
WIND, W.N.-W.—Light breeze, and fine weatlicr.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1853.

CANNING'S knife-grinder last evening addressed
the House of Commons in the person of Lord
JoHN RUSSELL. " Story, GOD bless you ! I have
none to tell, sir," might have been the Noble
Lord's candid avowal to Mr. SPEAKER, in lieu of
his elaborate but meaningless and most unsatisfac-
tory explanation. For, stripping his speech of
all its superfluous phraseology, the so-called dis-
closure made by the Leader of that branch of the
Legislature amounts, in point of fact, to no reve-
lation whatsoever. It concludes, indeed, with the
expression of a hope that before any considerable
lapse of time these difficulties in regard to Turk-
ish independence may be brought to something like
a satisfactory settlement. But circumstances, we
conceive, required from a British Minister at this
moment rather more than the utterance of an
empty aspiration. It might have been reasonably
calculated at least that the country would have
learnt something positive in reference to the pro-
bable issue of recent negotiations—instead of
being left quite as much in a state of uncertainty
as ever on the very eve of the Prorogation of
Parliament. We might not unreasonably at any
rate have conjectured that for once the tim-
orous silence of the ABERDEEN Coalition might
have been broken ; that for once its pusillanimously
interrupted recensions might have been full, or,
at least as far as they went, explicit ; that for
once the language
respects worthy of the
employed in its name might
have been in all
dignity, the resolution, and
essential
the authority of a
British Government, Instead, however, of being
thus characterised, the speech delivered yesterday
in the House of Commons by Lo
rd JOHN RUSSELL,
was remarkable only for its surprising and, all
things considered, most unwarrantable reserva-
tions. Everything announced '
by the Noble
Lord last evening was already perfectly well
known to the great mass of the
poplliation. No_
thing at all was added by him to the sum of
popular intelligence relating to the precise Bit
tion of affairs between the SULTAN and the kuTo-
CRA T. It was absolutely notorious, for example,
that the proposals forwarded from Vienna in the
name of the Four Powers were generally under-
stood to have been accepted by the CzAR, accord-
ing to the latest advices received from St. Peters-
t was desirable should be learnt
burg. What i
was—not the rumour of that acceptance--but the
Withholding
nature
of those propositions. .
c expee,
from us in the name of diplomat
vieweddi asncy of
the information that could alone be
of Lord ADERDEEN
any importance, the Cabinet
ugh a variety
imparts to the public, succinctly
me ,
rity were al-
.of particulars with which the majo
ready acquainted. England is still expected to
repose a blind and implicit confidence in the po-
lieY of the Coalition Government, although the
Leaders of that Administration persist in with-
. holding facts from
the country such as ought
most assured' •
Y to constitute at this hour its only
• rational justifi • cation. It is under these auspices,
moreover, that the Legislative
to the time when botb Session is brought
Houses are to be prorogued.
Parliament, in other words,_ is about to separate, be-
fore anything whatever h
eluded betweenthe negotiata'sng Cabinets been positively con-
--before anything whatever has of Europe,
enunciated by the Coalition Ministrys been distinctly
of manly explanat i rn—and
yet, at th
sin the way
juncture
of uncertainty, the nation is expec' e l to plaCe
complete and unconditional reliance in the sin-
cerity of the pacific views attributed to the
Emperor NICHOLAS, as well as in the wise and
patriotic policy of the Earl of ABERDEEN'S most
mysterious Administration.
Credit is to be attached to the pacific views of