The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-22 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

Grand Extra Night, Friday, June 24.—1 n consequence of the un-
precedented attraction, and to meet the wishes of many of the No-
bility and Gentry to see the matchless EXHIBITION of the FEAST
of LANTERNS and EXPLOSION of the CHINESE FIRE RAFTS
carried out to the fullest extent, the Proprietor has arranged with
Mr. SOUT3BY to give an increased display on FRIDAY EVENING
NEXT, on which occasion several new and startling effects will be
Introduced, concluding with a discharge of 500 Asteroid and other
mockets. Admission at the doors, 2s. 6d. ; Family Tickets, to admit
Five, with entree to the Galleries, 10s. To be procured at Sams'
Library. Pall-mall; and Mitchell's Library, Bond-street. Concert
half•past Six; Fireworks quarter to Ten.

THIS EVENING, JUNE 22.
CHITSAN and the FEAST OF LANTERNS.

Splendid MENAGERIE, containing a vast number of Specimens of
Natural History, including an Orang-Oatan, the only one exhibiting
in this country.
Qonriar's unrivalled Mn.rrinv BAND. Vocal and Instrumental
Concert. At Dusk a most brilliant display of Fireworks.

~, HIGH WATER AT LONDOI BRIDGE.
MI DAY —Morning 11 min. after 2 Evening 38 mitt. aft. 2
To-Micuum— I
Morning 2 min. after 3 Evening 28 min.aft 3

THE WEATHER.—Sus OFFICE, JUNE 22.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
65—highest sinco noon yesterday.
50—lowest this morning and during the night.
63 this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 29'81—going up.
WIND, N.N.W. to N.W.—Dull weather, with slight
rain.

SAM•

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1853.

The AUTOCRAT, with the , gravest face in the
world, is Willyendeavouring to prove black
white, through the columns of his .official, gazette,
the Journal of St. Petersburg. In that publica-
tion, on the twelfth day of this pr.....t.Anonth of
June, there appeared a remarkable document—
very long, occasionally very obscure, throughout
sophistical, dogmatical, and altogether extrava-
gant—signed NESSELRODE. A translation of it is
given elsewhere in our impression of this evening,
It deserves a careful examination, and may hence-
forth be numbered, certainly, among the strangest
curiosities of political literature.
Russia assumes, in fact, from first to last, that
the CZAR has acted solelyon the defensive through-
out all these recent negotiations. Such is literally
the gist of this elaborate and extraordinary cir-
cular note, dated the 11th of June, 1853, in re-
ference to the Turkish question, and transmitted
from the imperial councils of NICHOLAS to all his
diplomatic representatives, for the purpose of
being communicated by each of those Ambassa-
dors to whatever Government he may happen to
be accredited. The Sublime Porte the ag-
gressor ! Can anything, we ask in the name of
common sense, of common honesty, of common
decency, be more extravagant ? The AUTOCRAT
bearded by the SULTAN ! War provoked by en-
croachments wantonly made by Turkey upon the
rights of its colossal neighbour ! These are actu-
ally the deductions to be drawn from the docu-
ment signed NESSELRODE, dated the 11th of June,
and published on the following day in the official
columns of the Journal of St. Petersburg. Accord-
ing to the statement thus put forward by the
Russian Government, the CZAR has definitively
resolved to sever the Gordian knot which he is de-
clared to have wished all along to " loosen pacifi-
cally." As illustrations of these pacific intentions
on the part of the AUTOCRAT, it is particularly re-
marked by the circular note that the demands
made originally upon the Divan by the Councils
of St. Petersburigh had reference to a formal con-
vention, that they were afterwards modified to a
Sened, and that ultimately they were reduced to
the requirement of a simple note to be addressed
by the Foreign Minister in the Russian capital,
by the similar functionary at Constantinople.
Unquestionably—all that is perfectly correctabout
the Convention dwindling down into the Sened,
and the Sened into the Note. It is an old story
enough by this time in all parts of civilised Chris-
tendom. But it is equally well known that the
demands involved alike in the Note, Sened, and
Convention amounted to a flagrant violation of
the integrity of the Turkish Empire, and to
the virtual abandonm?nt of its independence.
Had the Divan once accepted the Convention, the
Sated, or even the Note, European Turkey would
thenceforth have been only another province of
Russia—the SULTAN would thenceforth have been
nothing more than the tolerated vassal of the
AUTOCRAT ! And these are the demands, in the
enforcement of which upon the attention of the
Sublime Porte, the Russian Government claims-
for itself the merit of having displayed, a spirit of
conciliation. If so, then are insolence flattery—
spoliation beneficence—war peace—black white !
Why, the truth is so flagrantly perceptible in this
matter, the atrocious injustice of the course pur-
sued by Russia is so wholly unmistakeable, the
natural rights of Turkey are so impudently as-
sailed, without even the faintest vestige of the
shadow of a shade of reason, that, in spite of
every tendency to an opposite direction, England
and France witness the establishment of perfect
accord between their Governments. So manifest
is the reasonableness of the policy adopted by the
PCortme, in opposition to that unfolded by the
:wile of St. Petersburgh, that a cordial alli-
ance is brought about between the Ministerial
representatives of the Curt of St James's and
the Court of the Tuileries--•
*e i spite o f
thing ! spite of et) British Cabinet being
every-
conducted at the present juncture by that dear
And excellent ABERD
jealousy felt in certain high quarters
Spite of the
er.s on this side
of the Channel towards the Imperial dynast of
In spite of the little miserabley
NAPOLEON !
hatred,
spleen, rancour, and envy of the broken-
down and exiled Orleanists In spite of Court
intrigue, Ministerial division, and out-of-doors
conspiracy ? The facts of the case are so very
plain, are so wholly indisputable, aro SO noto-
riously beyond the reach of contradiction—that
there are established the most . amicable relations
between the French And rtoglish Governments—.