The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-07 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1853.

Englishmen, if only united, may mould the
policy of their Government. The truth of this
assertion is altogether indisputable. It is ad-
mitted even by our Administrators themselves.
Only the other day, in fact, the country was
assured by Lord PALMERSTON that the course
pursued by the Earl of CLARENDON, in reference
to the Russo-Turkish difficulty, might be rendered
everything that could be desired if that Minister
~t were only supported, properly and energetically
supported, by his fellow-countrymen. At the
present jiu}cture the question, therefore, is—Will
public opinion be at once so clearly announced

that there can remain no chance of its being mis-

apprehended by the Administration ? Fortu-
,, liately even now the people have not been indif-
ferent to the merits of the quarrel between the

SULTAN and the AUTOCRAT. In several parts of
rthe provinces of this island the necessity of main-
taining the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, and
I• • of, repelling the aggressive movements of the
' tipon Mo1(149-Wallachia, have been insisted
upon loudly by the voice of popular de-

monstrations. A considerable meeting, with

a similar object in view, is, moreover, con-
-0/ irened for this very evening in the Metro-

The multitude, indeed, have instinct
,tively felt that a great wrong has been attempted
by Russia in the insult offered to the SULTAN, in

the outrage to his sovereignty, and in the seizure
• of • his Dantabiat Principalities. The intelligent

community, in the United Kingdom have observed,

'"' ivtith 'Seritimbnts,!)ltd admiration; the courageous
,; ataud,made by 14rkey against the designs of her
lawless and colossal neighbour ; and have wit-

ess' ea, With 'feelings of dismay, the timorous and
ineffeetual .assistance accorded to the Sublime
PogbY, the Four Powers through their blunder-
inghdiplomatists at the Vienna Conference.
-It behoves the people of England, consequently,
• as we, have again and yet again insisted so loudly
and su'energetically, to express their opinions upon
the important question at issue, that there cannot
remain any uncertainty as to the nature of those
opinions in the minds and hearts of the members
of her Britannic MAJESTY'S Government.
A Cabinet Council, it must be remembered,
moreover, assembled only this afternoon for serious
deliberation as to the course most advisable to be
pursued by us under existing circumstances. So
that a probability is afforded of some recognition
before long by her MAJESTY'S Ministers of the
precise tendency of the opinions entertained upon
the Eastern Question by the great mass of the
intelligent population. Happily, the period has gone
by when a British Cabinet can venture for any
length of time to palter with the wishes of the
community, much less to run directly counter to
those wishes, in a matter affecting the national
reputation. It remains nowadays for the people
to pronounce their views in tones of thunder, by
demonstration after demonstration, and according
to those views, sooner or later, will be fashioned
the policy of the Imperial Government.
Nothing is more obvious throughout the whole
of this protracted discussion in regard to the real
extent of the rights of the Turkish Sovereign than
the utter incapacity of:the diplomatists represent-
ing the Four Powers in the Vienna Conference.
This circumstance, just now above all others, is
especially deserving, we take it, of the popular con-
sideration. Until that most mistaken conference
commenced, ' the Ottoman Porte was in no way
embarrassed by its allies "encumbering" it with
their pacific assistance. Ever since then the posi-:
tion of Turkey has been altogether different.
The Divan has been hampered in its arrange-
ments. The SULTAN has been deprived of many
golden opportunities of retaliation. He has been
compelled, at enormous cost and to the extraor-
dinary detriment of the interests of his exchequer,
to remain in a state of irksome inactivity with
enormously increased armaments, both military
and maritime, to support, with the Egyptian Con-
tingent upon his hands, and with the Russian
troops settling down for their winter quar-
ters in the Danubian Principalities. He has
long recognised the necessity for acting with
promptitude. He has perceived the impera-
tive need of not allowing the autumn
to glide by without bringing the matter on hand
to some kind of settlement. Agitated by the
fanaticism of the Turkish population, inspired by
a bitter sense of outraged dignity, and burning
for some chance of wreaking a deserved vengeance
on the assailants of the unoffending Power of the
Moslem, the Ministerial advisers of ABD-UL-
MEDJID have found themselves all along impeded
in action by the interference of the nominal allies
of their SOVERRIQX They have been told—Wait,
and the question will be satisfactorily arranged
with Russia by the diplomatic mediation of the
Ji
Vienna Conference. And Turkey waited as de-
sired—prepared for war in the event of war
proving at any moment inevitable, and yet ready
to repose a magnanimous reliance upon the pacific
assurances transmitted again and again by
the Four Powers to Constantinople. Turkey