The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-28 00:00:00

insulted Moslem. To all intents and purposes
there is war between Turkey and Russia
—a war in hick the Western Powers
• are necessarily implicated, from which not
even ABERDEEN himself, even if backed by a
Cabinet selected from the leading members of the
Peace Society, could now wriggle out. It is even
more than probable that active hostilities have
been already commenced ; but where or how the
first collision may take place is a point still in-
volved in mystery, and which will probably re-
main unsettled for some days yet.
From all the circumstances that have as yet
transpired, it does not appear probable that Prince
GORTSCH.AKOFF will take the initiative. He has
clearly made up his mind to remain in his present
quarters for the winter, while active preparations
are making to send further troops to his assist-
ance, to commence the campaign with the greatest
vigour. He is also well aware that the result of
a contest a l'outrance with the earnest and en-
thusiastic army under OMER PACHA would be at
least doubtful, and that it would be exceedingly
difficult, if not altogether impossible, to avoid
the serious consequences of a defeat. He
knows, likewise, that delay would be almost
as prejudicial to his opponent as the most
decided overthrow. Everything, in fact, tends
to show that the Fabian policy is in the present
state of affairs best calculated to promote the ob-
jects of his master. He has, also, in answer to
the demand for the evacuation of the Principali-
ties, declared his intention of standing on the de-
fensive.
We cannot, therefore, suppose that lie
will do anything to bring on the collision which
can possibly be avoided. He will not then again
cross the Danube, or endeavour at present to carry
the war still further into the enemy's country.
OMER PACHA is, however, very differently cir-
cumstanced. There are as many causes exciting
him to action as there are to induce his adver-
sary to rest on his arms. His troops are ani-
mated by the consciousness of a righteous cause.
r Their passions are inflamed not merely by the un-
warranted invasion of their territories, or the un-
blushing insolence of the demands put forward on
the part of the CZAR, and the contempt exhibited
towards their SULTAN, but their- religious enthu-
siasm has been worked up to the highest pitch—
the Moslem fanaticism has been excited to a de-
gree that cannot easily be extinguished or
even mitigated. We cannot wonder at the
intensity of feeling by men who know that they
are about to fight for their " hearths and
altars," that not only the safety of their houses
and families, but of their religion itself is in-
volved in the result. Such an army would
scarcely submit to remain in a state of inglorious
inactivity for the entire winter, if a battle could
be forced on anything like equal terms. OMER
PACHA, who has already addressed so many
urgent remonstrances to the Porte, on the state
of quiescence in which he was unwillingly placed,
is not the man to suffer this ardour to die away
or to cast away the advantages which offer them-
selves for his acceptance. We believe that lie will
make a vigorous and determined effort to expel
the intruder, and that the attempt will not be
long postponed. He is too sick of the procrasti-
nations of diplomacy to indulge in any further
delays, now that the matter rests in our hands,
and is placed at his own disposal.
If these conjectures be well founded, the Turks
will attempt the passage of the river without a
moment's delay, and it is by no means improb-
able that the opposing troops may have already
met, and that a decisive action has taken place.
If so, we cannot permit ourselves to doubt the
result. We believe that " right" will for the
present, at least, triumph, and that present suc-
cess, and the decision exhibited, will, in place of
further complicating the dispute, tend towards its
early and satisfactory arrangement. We only
hope that England and France will not hang back
—that the combined fleets will not remain inac-
tive in the Sea of Marmora, but that they will
enter the Black Sea, and, so far as the
season may permit, co-operate with the forces
of our ally. Russia has earned for herself the
discomfiture she must experience. We can-
not sympathise with the wounded pride of
the despot who finds that he has precipitated the
crisis on which he had long determined, that he
endeavoured " to pluck the pear ere it was quite
ripe." NICHOLAS is alone to blame for the pre-
sent untoward state of affairs, and he may con-
sider himself well off if he has not to make other
and still greater sacrifices, if he be not compelled
to surrender some of the powers which he has so
grievously abused, if he be no longer enabled to
persevere in his iniquitous course of self-aggran-
disement, and to be obliged to give up his cherished
designs to render Europe subservient to his sway,
to spread the principles of despotism throughout
the globe, and carry into practical execution the
dreams of his predecessors by establishing the
Universal Empire of the Cossacks.

We are not quite allowed to forget the subject
of Parliamentary Reform amid rumours of war,
famine prices of wheat, and strikes both of masters
and men. We have been rather quiet upon the
subject of late, partly because, amongst topics so
much more exciting, we could scarcely hope for
an attentive hearing, and partly because the time
when the Leader of the House of Commons may
be expected to break his official and natural re-
serve, and let out his little scheme, after a large
speech in the House of Commons, is yet remote.
There is, however, not too much time for that
public discussion of the subject on which ought to
depend in a great measure the shape and form of
the promised Reform Bill. Some of our contem-
poraries have begun to illustrate particular
parts of the subject, and we have been re-
minded, and we think with truth, that even if
called to endure the hardships consequent upon
war, we shall only so much the more need to con-
vince the masses that we seek their political co-
operation in national objects, and not their exclu-
sion from the pale of that constitution to maintain
which they are asked to battle either with taxa-
tion at home or the foe abroad. Evincing political
confidence in the working classes will go far
towards reconciling them to privations inflicted by
the direct hand of PROVIDENCE, and even to those
which the wanton wickedness of the great Northern
Despot may yet entail upon them.
We have just now, however, a special reminder
of our reforming duties by the Liberal Demon-
stration of Tuesday week at Derby. Not only
the speeches on the occasion, but the very
occasion itself, wakens up the good old
feeling in every Liberal reader. Messrs.
Moss and MADELEY were honoured by their
fellow-townsmen for their diligence, determina-
tion, and skill in perhaps the most successful ex-
posure of bribery ever made without a commis-
sion. So complete a detection of apparatus, sub-
ordinates, and master-mover in the scene could
hardly have been hoped for, as were furnished to
the public by the " Good and safe man," by FRAIL
and MORGAN, and finally by "W. B." himself.
Probably his imprudences, with those of the late
Secretary to the Admiralty, have been more injurious
to the party they were meant to serve than even
the tactics or abilities of their opponents. In
modern times Members of the Government have
not been caught so completely flagrante delicto,
and it must have been a strong Government indeed
which could bear such a shock. Not that preced-
ing Governments have not been every whit
as corrupt if the truth were known, but the truth
was not known, not formally known, and that
makes a prodigious difference.
The meeting reminds us explicitly of one of the
oldest points of our political creed, and one in
which our belief is stronger than ever—the Ballot.
It
t was a meeting convened to celebrate vigorous
efforts in the cause of purity of elections, and, of
necessity, the Ballot could not be forgotten in con-
nection with electoral purity. We think now, as
we have always done, that in the New Reform Bill
it is the first thing which the people should de-
mand. We think it is not presumption to say,
that we have so candidly considered and met every
argument against it, whether adduced by friend
or foe, that we are entitled to consider our
case fully made out, that independent voting
should be the commencement of all electoral re-
form. Had we less confidence than we have
in the arguments we have used from time to

Some of our contemporaries are busying them-
selves with clever schemes of representation of
classes. Such projects read, indeed, well on
paper, but we fear they are not at all adapted
to the business of life. They would not,
we think, work so well in the long run,
as giving men their rights as men, and
leaving equitable principles to work out their
results in practice. Some have pointed to the
present strikes as evidence of the unfitness of the
masses to share in the representation. We think
just to the contrary. Had their Mr. NEWTON or
their Mr. COWELL been Members of Parliament,
and had their arguments been exposed in debate
before the eyes of their dupes, they would have
soon shrunk into their proper dimensions. The
good sense of English operatives, for the most
part, only needs to be fairly appealed to, and both
sides to be heard by them. St. STEPHEN'S would
have taught them both sides.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, OCT. 27.

The royal dinner party yesterday included the
the King of the Belgians, the Duchess of Brabant, the
Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Brabant, the Count of
Flanders, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William of
Hesse Philipsthal, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess
of Brabant, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of
Kent, the Baroness de Speth, the Belgian Minister, the
Austrian Minister, the Countess Colloredo, the Earl and
Countess of Clarendon, Count Gustave de Lannoy,
Colonel de Moerkerke, Baron Prisse, M. Ricken,
and the Gentleman in Waiting to the Duke of Cam-

bridge.
The band of the Ist Life Guards attended in the castle
luring dinner and played the following compositions :
Jubel, overture
Selection, " Rigoletto" Verdi.
Slowranka Kiange Walzer
Potpourri, " Lucrezia Borgia" Donizetti.
Edinburgh Schottische..
Polka. Hammonia Leutner.
Her Majesty's private band attended afterwards, and
performed the following selection :

Overture, "Egmont"

Beethoven•

Fantasia; violin, M. Sainton Sainton.
Coro, "Il Crociato" Meyerbeer.
Scene de Danse, " La Bayadere" Anber.

The Queen and Prince, with the King of the Belgians,
the Duke and Duchess of Brabant, and the Count of
Flanders, attended by the Countess of Desart, the Count
and Countess Gustave de Lannoy and the gentlemen in
waiting, went to London this morning by a special train
of the Great Western Railway.
Her Majesty drove to Buckingham Palace and after-
wards visited the Duchess of Gloucester.
The Queen and Prince returned to Windsor Castle at
ten minutest past two. The Prince of Wales and Prince
Alfred took their usual riding exercise.
Prince William of Hesse Philipsthal, the Austrian
Minister and Countess Colleredo, and the Earl and
Countess of Clarendon left the castle this morning for
London.

The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, the Duke and
Duchess of Atholl and the Marquis of Abercorn have
been invited, and are expected to-day.

A deputation from the Evangelical Alliance had an
interview with the Earl of Clarendon yesterday, at the
Foreign-office. The deputation consisted of Sir C. E.
Eardley, Mr. G. Hitchcock (London), Mr. John Hen-
derson (Glasgow), Rev. Dr. Steane, honorary secretary
of the Evangelical Alliance; Rev. Dr. Blackwood,
LL.D. : Rev. Dr. Bunting, late secretary of the Wes-
leyan Missionary Society; Rev. P. Latrobe, secretau
of the Moravian Missionary Society; Rev. John Angell
James (Birmingham) ; Rev. Carr John Glynn,
rector of Witchampton, Rev. Dr. Duff, missionary of
Free Church of Scotland, Calcutta ; and the Rev. Join
Jordan, vicar of Enstone.
The Commissioners for Inquiring into the state of the
Corporation of the city of London held a meeting yes-
terday, at the official residence of the First Lord of Ole
Treasury in Downing-street. The commissioners pre-
sent were the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, the Right
Hon. Sir John Patteson, and G. Cornewall Lewis, Esq.

• GOLD FROM AIISTRALIA.—The British Australian
Gold Mining Company have received 287 ozs. of gol d
from their Tambaroora Mine, from surface workings,
besides various specimens of quartz rock, which will b e
analysed at once. The reports from the company's
agents are very favourable.
VAN DIE3fEN'S LAND COMPANY. Yesterday a
special meeting of the Van Dieman's Land Company
took place for the election of two directors, when Win.
Lynes, Esq., and Jas. Lonergan, Esq., were electedi.
The chairman (John Cattley, Esq.) took the opportunitl
of saying that the expenses had been now reduced to
about 1,5001. for home and the colony, and that their
present rental was about 1,8001. a•year. There was
8,0001. to be remitted from the colony, and a balance)
of about 5,0001. in Canada. He hoped before long to
be able to recommend some division of their fundix
amongst the shareholders. The state of the companfo
lands was greatly improving.
THE WRECK OF THE DALHOUSIE.—A telegraphic me ;-
sage received from the coroner of Rye, states that a bed .y
body of a female was washed up on the beach of Dyn
church, supposed to be one of the Dalhousie's passen-
gers. She is described to be about 50 years of age ; her
linen marked " M.A. U." The initials correspond wit It
those of Mrs. Underwood, and a gentleman has bee,a
sent down to identify the body. Large quantities cif
wreckage have been washed ashore, between Hasting a
and Rye, together with several cases, containing velvet
and other manufactured goods. The exact position c
the wreck has not yet been discovered. She is suppose, a
to be lying in 27 fathoms of water.

From Geelong we have the following :
" Seventy-five men are employed in the You-yangs
and vicinity felling timber for the railway, to be delivered
on the line. The contractor is Mr. Nickless, of Ashby.
" GOLD.-It was reported last eveninz that a second
escort had arrived from Ballarat, bringing down half a
ton of gold. No escort arrived, nor do we believe that
any such quantity is waiting. A goodly amount was
left behind, but we have no intelligence of any discovery,
or extra yields, to warrant the belief that it amounts to
the sum stated. Six thousand ounces is very good for
one week, and to our knowledge two hundred ounces
brought down by private hand, were sold to one person
on Wednesday morning, which shows a steady progres-
sive improvement. Ballarat is the only gold field at the
present time which keeps up an uniform yield. Mount
Alexander, Bendigo, the Ovens, and M`lvor, dwindle
every week."
A private communication fron New Zealand con-
tains an account of the further research for gold,
which has failed to discover anything remunera-
tive. A party returned with 10 dwts. as the result
of a week's labour. Imports have decreased con-
siderably. Exports have increased thirty per cent.
The benefits of the gold had at length reached
New Zealand, as instanced by her exports from a
people thinned out by Victorian attractions.
Labour is in much demand, wages advancing,
especially in the timber trade, which is very brisk.
Several shippers were looking anxiously to Gee-
long, but could get no vessels of draught light
enough to cross the bar ; besides which, the skip-
pers stipulate to deliver off Williams Town.
Consols opened well this morning upon the in-
telligence of so much gold having arrived, and
and were done at 92, but the information just to
hand that hostilities have commenced between
Russia and Turkey, and the assertion that the
former power is the aggressor—so contrary to
what its admirers have predicted—has led to
renewed sales of stock, whereby the prices
are now lowered to 92 to The New
Three-and-a-Quarter Cents. have been quo-
ted 934- to 932, and the Three per Cents.
9111 to East India Stock has been 1247 to 250.
Exchequer Bills are still depressed, having realised
is. discount to ls. premium. South Sea Old An-
nuities bring 991.
Foreign Stocks have been very quiet. Spanish
Three per cent. Deferred are at 218. Portuguese
Four per Cents. bring 40, and the old Five per
Cents. 421. Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
have been quoted 70k. Mexican Bonds have been
firm at 24-g. Brazilian 5 per Cents. have been
quoted 97. Dutch 22 per Cents. have been at 62-ill.
The Railway Share Market is extremely quiet,
and prices have given way generally in the few in-
stances where sales have been made. Caledonian
have dropped 4to 1, North Western to 1, and
Great Western 4 to I. French shares have been
about ss. to 10s. lower.

The Gold Mine Shares have been steady with
moderate purchases, and the Australian Bank and
Land Shares are dearer.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
(Prom the Official List.)
Business done.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 921 41/
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726
New 34 per Cent. Annuities 93/ 3
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 5 3-16
Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859 5
India Stock
India Bonds, £lOOO ........ ............ .......
Ditto, under £lOOO par
South Sea Old Annuities .
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 lOO
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, 2d.
£1000
£5OO 1 p par 3 p
Small 1 p par 4 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per (lent 4, 97
Ditto Small
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Peruvian Bonds, 43 per Cent. 7O
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent 42i
Ditto 4 per Cent.
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £St ll2l-
Ditto 4 per Cent 964 7
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent 9l 90i
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 2IB
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, per Cent. 12 Guil
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols 9l s
Ditto October Account 9le

THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON,Thprsday, October 27,

—The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com-
pany's ship Iberia, Captain R. Roberts, sailded to-
day with the mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz,
and Gibraltar, with 36 passengers—among whom is
Sir John Campbell for Gibraltar ; a full general
cargo (the largest that has left for the Peninsular
ports during the past two or three years), and specie
value 1,5251. for Lisbon, and 1001. for Vigo. The
next mails from this quarter will be brought by the
Tagus, due at Southampton on the 4th proximo. The
screw steam-ship Douro, Captain T. S. Russell, also
took her departure at two p.m. for Gibraltar, Malta,
Smyrna, and Constantinople, with forty passengers,
specie value 18,5991. 10s. sd. for the Levant ports, and
on freight about 200 tons of measurement goods. The
cargo by the Douro was not a full one, owing to the
political complications in the East. Among the 40
passengers by this steamer are Lord and Lady A. Hay,
the Hon. Captain Gardiner, &c. The City of London,
Captain Cargill, from Constantinople, Smyrna, &c., is
due at Southampton towards the beginning of No-
vember. The -United States mail steam-ship Franklin,
Captain J. A. Wotton, left Cowes Roads yesterday
(Wednesday) afternoon for New York after embarking
the semi-weekly American mails, via Southamp-
ton. The Franklin departed from Havre the same
morning, and has nearly 200 passengers and an immense
cargo of costly continental merchandise. The General
Screw Steam Shipping Company's steamer Calcutta ar-
rived here yesterday (Wednesday) morning, and is now
discharging her cargo from Calcutta, Madras, Ceylon,
the Cape, &c., in the Southampton Docks. The Royal
Mail steam-ship La Plata, Captain Weller, is appointed
to take the next West India and Mexican mails of the
2d proximo, and the Magdalena with the homeward
mails, will be due on the Ist of November.

The establishment of Mr. John Turner, jeweller, 58
and 59, New Bond-street, was honoured, dining a
lengthened visit, by the patronage of their Royal High-
nesses the Duke and Duchess of Brabant, accompanied
by the Count of Flanders, his Excellency M. Van de
Weyer, and suite.