The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-17 00:00:00

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

THURSDAY, Nov. 17, 1853.
State of the wind and weather at each of the following
places at nine o'clock yesterday morning.. The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
FOLKESTONE-N., calm—foggy.
TUNBRIDGE-N., calm—overcast.
GREENWICH—calm—foggy.
SisooD—N.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
SWINDON—N. W., light airs—foggy.
CAMBRIDGE-N., gentle breeze—cloudy.
YARMOUTH—N.E., gentle breeze—rain.
The.returns from the following places indicate the state
of the weather on Tuesday morning at nine o'clock
LIMERIOK-N.E., calm—foggy.
MULLINGAR-E., strong breeze—rain.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Ting DAY —Morning 39 min.after 2 I Evening 54 min.aft. 2
10-Moanow—Morning 9 min.after 3 Evening 25 min.aft. 3

THE WEATHER.—Suw OFFICE, Nov. 17.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
47—highest since noon yesterday.
36—loweatithis morning and during the night.
44—this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 29.85—rising.
WIND, N.N.E.—Light breeze, and fine, sunshiny, cold
weather—fogs in the mornings.

tions.

in opposition tt ) the sneers of the Aberdeenites, and
the confident assurances of those who relied on
the magnanirt Lity of the Councils of the AUTOCRAT,
that sooner a r later war would result from all
those protracted negotiations, have not our asser-
tions beenprt wed, unhappily, but too correct by that
formidable si
;niggle between the Turks and Rus-
sians4th instant, when there fell in killed
andwoon the-und a on the side of the Muscovites, ac-
cording to tl ie earlier accounts 1,200 altogether,
but as manl T as 3,000 according to the latest
received irate) digence ? It were idle to go further
in our triur aphant, but, :at the same moment
most sorrow' enumeration. Really, and truly,
we may be s aid to have cried " miching malecho"
directly we w ere made acquainted with the arrogant
and sinister mission ofPrince/VIEN-scumorr. In other
terms,we intimated that it "meant mischief"—and
has it not " me.a..-nt mischief"—with a vengeance ?
Has it not ? by the world can judge now for
itself readily enorugh—it can judge from the terrible
truths lettered i n characters of blood on the soil of
the Danubian I?rincipalities—it can judge from
the presence of -the Cossacks under GORTZCHAKOFF
in the dominiol as of the SULTAN—it can judge
from the tard3r apparition of the French and
British men-of-,war in the Bosphorus—it can judge
passage first of the Pruth and then of
ftrhoemthe
Danube, from the Turkish capture of Bucha-
rest, and the Turkish victory of Oltenitza.
Happily, as yet, the events of the war have
more than realised our most sanguine anticipa-
The soldiers of ABD-UL-MEDJID have
everywhere proved successful—in Asia as well as in
Europe—north of Trebizond as well as south of Bes-
sarabia. It is somewhat remarkable, moreover, that
we simultaneously learn to-day by the Gazette des
Postes, of Frankfort, that the Conference of the
diplomatic representatives of the Four Powers
have definitively closed their sittings at the Aus-
trian capital, and receive from that same city of
Vienna confirmation of the news that the
Turks under OMER. PACHA were, up to the latest
date, carrying out triumphantly every one of
their warlike operations. Already, in fact, the
Russians are known to have been hastily retreat-
ing on Cronstadt, while the soldiers of the SUL-
TAN, after confirming their success, on the 4th
instant, by a second and an equally victorious en-
gagement at Oltenitza, had advanced beyond the
capital of Wallachia, in pursuit of the defeated
troops of the AUTOCRAT—Bucharest having, in
three places, broken out into a conflagration.
It appears, moreover, that 15,000 Turks had
been hastily despatched to intercept the Russians
by way of Servia. Let us hope that the evident
scheme of circumvention may be completed in an
opposite quarter by a yet more desirable move-
ment. Information arrived in this country only
the other day that the Turkish fleet in the Black
Sea had chased several Russian vessels into the
harbour of Sebastopol. Let us hope that there
too, no less than in Wallachia, the earlier successes
of the Osmanlis may be followed up by a series of
prompt and judicious movements—that as a por-
tion of the military armaments of the SULTAN
have hastened across by way of Servia, a portion
of his maritime armaments may push forward to
the northern shores of the Euxine, midway be-
tween the mouths of the Dnieper and the
Dniester. The Russian forces, we have said, are
described as retreating fast upon Cronstadt.
What a thunderbolt, then, would it not be—
were the Turks to crown by sea their triumphs on
land by the sudden seizure of Odessa ! The
Danube has been successfully passed by the sol-
diers of ABD-UL-NLEDJID-Oltenitza has been twice
won—theyhave already advanced beyond the walls
of Bucharest. Nov, while a portion of the Turkish
army is advancing by way of Servia, with a view
to embarrass the movements of their antagonists,
it were a master-stroke of policy supposing a por-
tion of the Turkish fleet were boldly despatched
across the Black Sea to Odessa. The seizure of
Odessa would facilitate the final routing of the
Russian army in Bessarabia : for the discomfited
soldiers of the CZAR might there be brought to
bay, and the We of the campaign be staked upon
one crowning engagement. How readily now at
this juncture might not France and England, by
throwing their influence into the scale,
and boldly co-operating with Turkey, bring
matters to a conclusion. It would however, be
sanguine, indeed, in us to look for anything like
energetic action on the part of England so long as
its councils continue under the auspices of the
hesitating and timorous leader of the Coalition
Government. With the Imperial Councils on the
ether side of the Channel, it is, to a certain extent
at least, otherwise. There Ministers can find
courage to speak out boldly, without a craven
and over-weaning solicitude to avoid offending the
Cabinet of St. Petersburgh. There, an official
contradiction of the " untruth " in the Manifesto
of the AUTOCRAT, is chivalrously printed in
the columns of the Moniteur. Whereas, amongst
ourselves, our Administrators persevere to the last
in their pitiful policy of caution, reserve, and ta-
citurnity. Venetians might cry of yore, "0,
for one hour of blind old DANDOLO 1" English-
men have yet greater reason to exclaim now-a-
days in regard to our foreign relations, Oh ! for
one hour of PALMERSTON.
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