The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-09 00:00:00

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATicE.

Lessee and Mana;er, Mr. William Cooke.
The unequivocal success of the new Burlesque demands its repetition
every evening.
THIS EVENING,
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called THE SIEGE OF TROY; or, THE GIANT HORSE AND
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THE KNIGHT AND THE WATER LILY; or, Love among the
Mermaids.
open from Eleven till Four. Stage Malinger, Ur. W.
wf,t- Acting Manager, Mr. Campbell. Equestrian Director, Mr.
Win. Cooke, Jun.

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66 —this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 30.23—falling.
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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1854,

The past of the Eastern Question is most in-
structive to the Allies, and to those whose money
they spend. They have succeeded in all they
have attempted by fore? ; tbey have failed in all
they sought by diplomacy. OMER PACHA and
the SULTAN, long held back by our representative
at Constantinople, succeeded at once as soon as
they trusted their own counsels and the bravery
of their troops ; Kalafat, Citate, many a small
skirmish, and the crowning unparalleled feat of
skill and valour at SD's' ria, followed in quick suc-
cession ; and the success of the policy of force is
now to be seen in decimated Russian regiments
evacuating in disgrace the provinces they were to
"hold" as a material guarantee, and in the
Turkish victors pressing hard upon their recreant
backs. So much for the Danube and the pro-
vinces. Then at sea ; every fort attacked or
threatened on the Circassian coast has been
evacuated or destroyed ; Odessa was chastised, so
fax as the commanders conceived would please
home authorities, quite successfully, but not suf-
ficiently, alas, to disenable it from firing red hot
balls into a stranded skip ; and the mighty Sebas-
topol has been converted into a coop for the
quaking three-deckers, at least to the full extent
to which our commanders have thought fit, for we
cannot forget the Vladimir, and the reported con-
veyance of military stores from the mouth of the
Bug to the great fortress. Russian trade also on
the Euxine is at an end, just as far as force is
put in requisition. The tale is just the same in
the Baltic. All trade is stopped there, and force
reigns triumphant as far as it is put forth ; the
lamentable little affair at qamla Karleby is no
proper exception. That was the venture of a
light-armed boat's crew, where we ought to have
had a heavy armed but light draught gun-boat or
two, with rifle-proof bulwarks, before which
the aharp-shooters ani field artillerymen of
that port would soon have imitated their com-
rades on the Danube. And even against the long-
talked-of impregnable granite and casemates, force
has sustained its successful character. Oh! the
snubs and sneers long vouchsafed to those who
would not be silenced in avowing their unhesitat-
ing conviction—their knowledge, that no granite
could stand the fire of our guns, much less of the
rapid and concentrated fire of the 'Duke of Wel-
ligton's broadside. What ! we know more of
gunnery than Admiral CHADS and his telescope,
which, and not his guns, he thought it most wise
to point at the "ono mass of granite." The
scoffers may now suspect, if they will, that there
are other gunners as good as the gallant Admiral,
and that journalists have free access to better opi-
nions than those found "behind their desk" merely.
Yes ; Bomarsund has, luckily, compelled the
50110):0113 lecturers of "the rash" to adopt si'ently
the rash counsels, and to say al little as possible
about their own. The Alas in the Baltic Lave
been adequate to all they have attempted by
force.

. But their diplomacy ! What a picture ! There
is literally nothing endurable in it but the admir-
able replies of DROUYN DE L'HUYS to Russian
misrepresentation and lies.lt has been weak,
trimming, and useless, beginning
First treating the wodurbe territorial fteolonendoi
the SEYMOUR Colres nofence—tbe man who would
have made a co-felon England—as an honest
man and a gentlemzein;taillen condescending to the
ignominious and
continuo
Vienna Conferences ; '
next se
continting to
negotiations, even
diplomacy after their miserable had.ooavichyea ly
ksuffered
at
nh
Prance and
passage of the Pruth.
v
case in which two such I.
England ever appeared smaller than
of Austria
ttia. and
to the wheedling and shuffiin
Prussia on behalf of their brother despot.
Vienna Note, too ! May it never be forgotten ITfor
he
two such Governments to be caught in such
a
trap, and to be half reluctantly jerked out of it
by Turkish good sense and foresight. Our readers
will not desire to follow the intolerable details of
the correspondence and conferences with Czar,
Emperor, and King, till the war was de-
clared, and after it was declared, with
the two latter worthies ;—the grand result
is enough ;it is twofold. The King of PRUSSIA
acting the kind brother-in-law to the barbazian
husband of his sister, practically declaring against
us, and feeding the CZAR'S Exchequer, and ren-
dering half futile our blockade of the Baltic

ports, by givingfre;pa;;;Wicrour enemy's
goods and our own mercantile smugglers. On the
ether hand, Austria, after paralysing one action by
empty parleying, intended to gain time for
Russia, still refuses to join in the war, still con-
tinues in correspondence with our enemy, still
Snds, and will find to the end, pretexts for doing
nothing herself, but gulls the Allies (we use the
'word advisedly) by the most transparently deceit-
ful offers, to require of the SULT& an invitation
to occupy the evacuated provinces ! The SULTAN