The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-13 00:00:00

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.

Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren.
For the BENEFIT of Miss HARRIET GORDON.
THIS EVENING, SEPT. 13,
Will be performed the Comedy of SWEETHEARTS AND
WIVES, in which Mr. Farren, Mr. F. Robson, Mrs. A. Phillips, and
Miss H. Gordon will appear.
After which, a MUSICAL MELANGE.
To be followed by A LOAN OF A LOVER. Gertrude, Miss H.
Gordon.
With SHYLOCK ; or, THE MERCHANT OF "VENICE PRE-
SERVED."

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.

Third Night of the long-promised Classical Burlesque, introducing
the whole of the Company, and in compliance with a general
wish expressed by the Patrons of this most Popular Establish-
ment, the Grand National Spectacle of the Battle of Waterloo at
hair-price, which has reached its 80th night, forming' a Phalanx of
Attraction never before witnessed within the Walls of the Amphi-
theatre. The Feats in the Circle applauded to the very echo.
Miss Emily Cooke's triumphal career continues undiminished;
her graceful and daring Performance is Rightly hailed with demon-
strations of delight.

N.B.—Mies KATE COOKE will appear on MONDAY. SoP-
tember 19th.

THIS EVENING, SEPT. 13,
And during the week, will be presented (the 3d time) a New
Classical Burlesque, written by Mr. W. Suter (from the Royal
Lyceum), who is expressly engaged to aid its representation, and
entitled JUPITER'S DECREE, AND THE FALL OF PHATON;
or, THE FAIRY COURSERS OF THE SUN.
To be followed by Mr. W. Cooke's Scenes in the CIRCLE, in
which that matchless wonder, Miss Emily Cooke, will appear on
her rapid Courser and Marvellous Flight throu4h 16 Balloons.
Concluding with (80th time) THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO.
Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
THIS EVENING, SEPT. 13,
Brilliant Routine of Entertainments—Panorama of CHITSIN,
Splendid MENAGERIE, and Promenading Elephants.
EXHIBITION of the MARINE AQUARIUM, a Collection of
Sea ,and Fresh Water Fish alive, in live large Glass Tanks. The
Afollusca, Zoophytes, and Crustacea procured expressly by P. H.
(fosse, Esq., the eminent Naturalist.
Vocal and Instrumental CONCERT. Two favourite Songs by
Miss Poole, the popular English Vocalist.
The whole concluding with the wonderful Tableaux of THE
FEAST OF LANTERNS, brilliant FIREWORKS, and EXPLO-
SION of CHINESE JUNKS. Admission, is.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tare DAT —Morning 58 min. after 9 1 Evening 48 min.aft. 10
To-M.:mow—Morning 30 min. after 11 1 Evening 0 min.aft. 0

THE WEATHER.—Sum OFFICE, SEPT. 13.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
71—highest since noon yesterday.
56—lowest this morning and during the night.
61—this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 30'09.
WIND, N. by W.—Smart breeze ; a heavy shower of
?sin in the morning—now fine, but cloudy.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1853.

'England is now awaiting with exemplary pa-
tience, not to say with timidity or solicitude, the
decision of the Russian AUTOCRAT, as to the mo-
difications required in the Vienna proposal by the
members of the Turkish Government. It is a
deplorable change in the relative position of the
great Powers of Christendom. Formerly, we
were not so ready to consent that decrees as to
the fate of Europe should emanate- from the Im-
perial Councils of St. Petersburg. It is now ar-
ranged otherwise. The Czar NICHOLAS is formally
recognised as the arbiter of the destinies of the
Continent. Henceforth, according to this, we
ought to regard the descendant of PETER. the
GRRAT as the Lord. Paramount of the Eastern
Hemisphere. And for this elevation of Russia
Rut degradation of England we have to thank the
Earl of ABERDEEN'S Government ! As if yet more
painfully and unmistakeably to indicate the de-
cline of our authority in consequence of our late
diplomatic negotiations, we receive intelligence, by
the latest despatches from Southern Italy, that
the irresolute conduct of the British Cabinet
towards Turkey is being held up to scorn through-
out that portion of the Roman peninsula. The
circumstance was notified yesterday even by the
recognised organ of the Noble Lord the Secretary
of State for the Home Department. Yes—so
flagrantly has the honour of Great Britain been
compromised by the recent subserviency of its
Afinsters to the Russian Government, that the
foreign policy of our Cabinet is held up at this
moment to popular disdain and ridicule among
the Neapolitans ! Yes—so disgracefully have we
abandoned our position as one among the principal
of the great Powers of the Earth, that we
are even now dependent upon the will of the CZAR,
in the balance of Peace or War, that most for-
midable of political alternatives. It is a melan-
choly acknowledgment, but oue not less true than
it is melancholy. It is the ignominious conse-
quence of that despicable compromise by which
consistency was violated—by which principles
were abandoned—by which so many eminent re-
F'utations were tarnished, for the sake of con-
structing out of the debris of parties the bizarre
and incongruous edifice of a Coalition Govern-
ment.

France has, at any rate, the satisfaction of re-
membering that from first to last her rulers have
spoken out with a boldness befitting the dignity of
a powerful and independent population. Not so
with ourselves. The despatches of M. DROITYN
L'Huvs have appeared betimes in the
official columns of the Moniteur, so that,
In as brief a time as possible, they might
go the round of the capitals of Christendom. In-
stead of this the correspondence of our Foreign
Minister has been timorously withheld from
Public scrutiny, or, if at last given to the
vPorld, it has only crept forth in instalments, two
months after date, through the columns of an
linefacial
weekly contemporary. Everything, in
fact, tip:"
has hee_a If all tkheeespeing. miserableas transactions,
once by hesitaatrioin to be marked at
nimit Everytni:inweakness, delay, and pusilla-
fleet -to the Dardanegilesfrom the ordering of our
was too late to prevent onlyth at a time when it
Dt„nubian Principalities, to the occupation of the
eLinopportune dis-
o'iosure of a letter from
CLA.RENDON
PS:trbciliPshetersburg—
to the British Ambassadoarnaat
Coda in Sep-
a, letter written in July,
Conduct pur-
tember ! Contrast with all this the
sued under the same emergency by then
Turkish
Government. Nothing on that side could have
evinced from the outset up to the present juncture
ruoro admirable prompitude, or more chivalrous
resolution. Witness this, the recal of a patriotic
statesman like RESCHID PARRA to the guidance
of the Councils of the Divan as Leader in
the Foreign Department. Witness it also, the
fdaeing of the Turkish army at once upon
.a war footing—the speedy concentration of the
Turkish fleet in the Bosphorus—the hasty sum-
mons of the Egyptian contingent. Let it be re-
membered, in addition to all this, that England was
timid andirresolute where Turkey was brave and de-
•Cermined—England with all her vast resources, and
Turkey with wealth and strength, comparatively
speaking, quite insignificant—England far re-
moved from the reach of the great Northern
Despotism, and Turkey close upon the frontiers,
and within the ready grasp, so to speak, of her
ambitious and colossal neighbours. The contrast
prareisseented, in short, throughout the whole of
Prolonga.,g.lsance
ed negotiations—the contrast visi-
ble
critical
England and Turkey,
_ unhappily, be admitted on
laZigs_ltast contention of the diplo-
Ben
sensitiveness
ofbethewonderfully
all hands to
painful to the
men. For all which,
pr
and again be it
opr---e of English-
said,
e shuffling policy
we have to thank the
Coalition Glodvernment.
and confused councils of the
Quousque tandem abutere—it is the old,
the
national
cry of the Ciceronean. How long is o agwlised