The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-19 00:00:00

ASTLErS EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE.

Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke,
Last Week of Performing before the Holidays. A New Grand
Equestrian CFIRISTMAS COMIC PANTOKIME, written eit-
pressly for this Theatre, by Mr. NELSON LEE, entitled BILLY
BUT TON'S JOURNEY TO BRENTFORD ; or, The Ladles'
Favourite—will be produced on MONDAY, DEc. 26.
Mr. W. Cooke's Elephants, pronounced by the Press and all who
have witnessed their Performances the most extraordinary Trained
animals in the World, will appear every Evening.
THIS EVENING, DEC. 19,
(And during the week),
The New Grand Equestrian Chinese Spectacle, entitled " THE
WISE ELEPHANTS OF TILE EAST; or, THE MAGIC GONG."
Followed by a series of Mr. Wm. Cooke's matchless scenes of
Equestrianism in THE CIRCLE, by the talented artistes of this
establishment.
Concluding with a favourite AFTERPIECE.
Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This DAY —Morning 2 min.after 4 I Evening 19 min.aft. 4
To-Mom:ow—Morning 36 min.a.fter. 4 Evening 55 min.aft.

THE WEATHER.—Sux OFPIOII, DEC. 18.
THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE.
40—highest since noon yesterday.
34—lowest this morning and during the night.
.36—this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 29'75.

WIND, S.E.—Strong breeze, with fine, frosty weather.

DECEMBER 19.
40— highest since noon yesterday.
32—lowest this morning and during the night.
36—this day, at noon.
BAROMETER, 29'55.

WIND, Easterly—blowing a gale, with very cold, frosty
weather.

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LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1853.

Attention is now somewhat equally divided
between the difficulties of the R 115,30 Turkish
question and the difficulties of the ABERDEEN
Government. It is generally recognised that
there exists an intimate connection between these
two enormous embarrassments. Whatever the
organs of the Coalition may say about the origin
of the present crisis in Downing-street, there can-
not remain a doubt in the mind of any rational
observer that there is a latent chain of influence
associating those two widely-separated incidents—
the massacre of the Turks at Sin Ope and the
resignation of the seals of the Home-office by
Viscount PALMERSTON. Immediately on the an-
nouncement of the latter occurrence we asserted
distinctly and without any hesitation, that there
was a want of accuracy, as well as of ingenu-
ousness, in the declaration put forward by
•
the Ministerial journals, with such really
suspicious alacrity, to the effect that
an antagonism to Reform had induced
the Noble Lord the member for Tiverton, to with-
draw so very abruptly from the ranks of her
MAJESTY'S Government. That opinion, which we
were the first to articulate—our remarks having
appeared in these columns as early as Friday even-
ing—have, we are gratified to observe, been
enforced by the coincidence of a considerable ma-
jority of our daily and weekly contemporaries.
It is pretty generally understood, indeed, that
the insinuations of the recognised organs of the
Cabinet are nothing less odious than a most fla_
grant and wilful misrepresentation. The most,
moderate of those who discard the explanation
officially given of Lord PALMERSTON'S retire-
ment, insist that at the very least it is, in
its main purport, grcAsly and shamefully exag-
gerated. How far the exaggeration has been
carried the country can scarcely learn with any
exactitude prior to the meeting of Parliament.
Postponed though that reassembling of the Legis-
lature may be—it must now come before long,
probably in the early part of February. And
thenwoe to the prevarications and the pusillanimity
of the ABERDEEN Government ! The evil day may
be deferred by every ingenious device dictated by
the Ministerial timidity accustomed to find refuge
from danger in procrastination after procrastina-
tion. But once arrived, as it ultimately must
arrive—adieu ! to the ingenious but miserable
system of reserve hitherto maintained by the
Administration. Breaking through all the silken
toils of Ministerial etiquette, the veritable ex-
planation of past occurrences must then come in
a slitoitantial form before the Imperial Legislature.
Out of the confusion created by this sudden
resignation of .nui ,c.ce by
Viscount
PALMERSTON have
emerged in.
rapid succession a variety of ru-
mours as to the
individual most likely to be no-
minated his successor
in the Chief Secretaryship
for the Home Department,T
-...4Or(tJOHN RUSSELL
having declined to bur then his
exhausted energies
with the labours and responsibilities of office—it
has been doubted whether the vacant 1
Lace might
not mi lit
nAm—thereby necessitatino..
awarded—to whom ? -why, either
not be wisely 1
the
to Sir JAMES GRA
nomination of some other administrator to the
head of the Board of Admiralty ! Or to Lord
PANarunn—the ballot-ratting Fox MAL-LE of yes-
terday ! Or to Sir GEORGE GREY—thereby
compensating for the slight passed upon
hini iu selecting him for no post what-
ever on the original formation of the
.c-y):* ABERDEEN Government ! These are the reported
0:„.....-'--7:`-, candidates for the Home Secretaryship. Either
4 ie.,
elk 1/V,A'; • '": :,i,. a* GEORGE GREY—or Lord PANMURE—Or Sir
~,_-;-;::' ,-?;.-\,A1,4ES GRAII.A.m. Already two of the three have
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~PrOided with acknowledged ability over the affairs
;',',--- .' .-',. •-- .of "the Home Department—GT,tEi. during the
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