The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-10 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
'Under the management of MiPiduckstone.
THIS EVENING, Jmsz 10,
Will be performed (the Fifth time) THE CRUEL KINDNESS.
Characters by Messrs. Barry Sullivan. Howe, W. Farren, Rogers,
Cord, and Buckstane; Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham,
Miss Reynolds, &c.
After which, MR. BUCKSTONE'S ASCENT OF MOUNT PAR-
A ASUm.
To be followed by THE BOARDING SCHOOL BALL.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 10,
Will be performed the Tragedy of MACBETH. Principal cha-
racters by Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean.
To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES. Characters by
Messrs. Harley, J. Vining, Chester, and Everett; Mrs. W. Lacy,
Misses Daly and C. Leelercq.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Vedris.
THIS EVENING, JVN 10,
Will be presented TRYING IT ON. Principal character by Mr.
C. Mathews
After which, A WONDERFUL WOMAN. Characters by Messrs.
C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Madame Vestris, &C.
To be followed by THE LAWYEM. Characters by Messrs. C.
Mathews, F. Matthews, and Roxby ; Mrs. F. Matthews, and Misses
Robertson and Ellis.
To conclude with A BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.
'Proprietor, Mr. R. Webster. —Directress, Madame Celeste.
TIIIS EVENING, JUNE 10,

Wig be performed JACK SIIKPPARD. Supported by Messrs.
Paul Tedford. A. Wigan, Parselie, and C. J. Smith; Mrs. Keeley,
Misses F. Maskell and Mary Kee,ey.
o be followed by TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS.
After w Rich. NO It . supported by Messrs. P. Bedford and U.
li~rl'„ril, and Miss Woolgar.
To commit with GOING TO THE DERRY.

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

Second Week of M. ALPHONSE THEVELIN, whose extraordinary
.t'eats have been Nightly hailed with enthusiastic approbation.

THIS EVENING, JUNE 10,

And during the week, the Entertainments will commence with the
highly successful Hippo thiama, with new scenery, costumes, and
appointments, entitled THE CHASE, er LIFE ON TILE TURF—
illustrating a Sporting Man's Career.
To be followed by M. Alphonse Thevelin, the First Gymnasiarque
Arlen of France, and Inventor of the Cybistique Games under the
French and Belgian Ba'loons, in his incredible Performance of LES
JEUX CYBISTIQUE, Vaulting Traverser /Erien of 130 Feet from
the Back of the Stage to the Centre of the Circle.
To be succeeded by graceful and classical equesti lan Achievements
in Seenes of the ARENA, supported by the most talented Artistes
in Europe.
To conclude with the Melodrama of THE FOREST OF BONDY,
in which the celebrated Dog Hector. will appear.
Box-ornce open daily from Eleven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr.
W. West.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 10,
Gigantic PANORAMA of the BAY and FORTS of CHUSAN.

Splendid MENAGERIE, including Six Elephants, Four Lions,
Two Tigers, Two Giraffes, Camels, Leopards, Llamas, &e.
Grand MILITARY BIND, Conducted by Mr. Godfrey.
Vocal and Instrumental Concert ; Two Songs by Miss Cecily Nott ;
solo Clarionet, Mons. Wuille, and Cornet a rigor), Mr. Phillips ;
Brilliant Display of Fireworks ; Feast of Lanterns • Attack on the
British Fleet ; Explosion of Chinese Fireships ; Grand Tableaux.
Doors open from 9in the morning. Feeding the Animals at 5.
Concert at 6. Fireworks at half-past 9. Admisson le.

H Mil WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
rip-, DAT —Morning 55 min. after 3 Evening 13 min.aft. 4
To- Vemtow—Morning 31 min. after 4 Evening 50 min.aft. 4

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JUNE 10.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
75—highest sines noon yesterday.
60—lowest this morning and during the night.
71— this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 30'03.
WIND, S.E. —Light breeze, and fine, sunshiny weather,
In the morning there was a thick haze and slight rain.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1853.

Preparations for war upon an enormous scale
are now, it appears, being actively made—on the
one hand by the Russian, and on the other by
the Turkish Government. It must be particularly
borne in mind, moreover, at this moment, that
the incentives to the struggle upon both sides are
truly formidable, because, really and without any
exaggeration whatever, extraordinary. The Sultan
ABD-UL-MEDJID, for example, may rely implicitly
upon the enthusiasm of his forces, that enthusiasm
arising out of no ephemera; emotion, but out of
the depth of a heart-born patriotism, out of the
fervour, and resolve, and devotion with which the
more valorous races of mankind have ever fought
since the flood, and with which they will
. assuredly ever fight till the " crack of doom,",
for the holy and inalienable right of na-
tional independence ! The Czar NICHOLAS,
meanwhile, may count with the utmost confidence
upon the ardour of his troops, remembering
that that ardour is inspired by the long-cherished,
but hitherto suppressed, yearning of the CossaekE
to march southwards to the conquest of Roumelia,
to the capture of St. Sophia, to the seizure of the
treasures, and the pride, and the glory of Con-
stantinople ! It has hitherto been si,.pposed that
Turkey is altogether unprepared for a contest
with the tyrannous and gigantic power of the
AUTOCRAT. It has been presumed that the actual
Struggle between the Divan and the Councils of
St. Petersburgh would be one so unequal in its
characlier that it must end in a single and rapid
campaign, with the humiliation of the Sublime
Porte, and the definitive triumph of the Russian
EMPEROR. Those, however, who are acquainted
with the relative positions of the two countries,
those, especially, who are correctly informed as
to the progress made of late 'years by their
respective populations, need not be informed
that such estimates of the weakness of Turkey
and of the strength of Russia are wholly and ab-
surdly erroneous. Mr. CDBDEN, no doubt, talked
extravagantly when he declared, some time ago,
from the platform of a meeting in the London
Tavern, that you might crumple up Russia as
easily as lie crumpled up a piece of paper. But
although he did, as we remark, talk extravagantly
in so speaking, he was so far right in the main,
that he correctly appreciated the insecurity and
rottenness of the foundations upon which bas been
built up all the grandeur of the Northern Colos-
sus. He saw that if, like the mighty figure
in the dream of NEBUCHADNEZZAR, its head,
and its arms, and its breast were of
the precious metals, its feet were also, like
that of its prototype, of clay. History pro-
claims this—the history of the past proclaims
it, but more especially, more loudly, and more
unmistakeably, the history of later days, the his-
tory of the present, the history of our own gene-
ration. All round the Black Sea, all through the
Danubian provinces, extending in one direction
through Hungary as far as the coasts of Dalmatia;
and in another through the desert of Astrachan to
the mountains of Circassia, the people of those
regions are ripe for insurrection. They wait only
for the signal. - And that signal—the tocsin call-
ing them to the vindication of their liberties—is
the momentous war now on the eve of its com-
mencement. By a remoter contingency, doubtless,
but none the less inevitably for all that, it may
be asserted, moreover, that the rise of Hungary,
and the rise of Northern Italy, and the rise of
Western Poland, are dependent upon the policy
pursued at this juncture by the Leaders of the
Austrian Government.

Meanwhile, Russia being thus surrounded by
those inflammable materials, ready at the first
spark of war to break into a revolutionary con-
flagration, Turkey is more than ever powerful—
powerful by the justice of her cause, powerful by
the discipline of her soldiers, powerful by the
development of civilisation among her inhabi-
tants,n_ powerful by the genius of RESCIIID PACHA
a
_ d her other distinguished administrators,
by the skilful prowess of OMR PACHA and her
other military commanders, by the patriotism of
her citizens,
by y the magnanimity of her SULTAN,
by the support i
fine,secured to her through
the maritime
ristarmaments of the two most formid-
able states of Ch
Confident in the endstrength of its
position, the
Divan is now actively preipsaring for its approach-
inga struggle with the armies the AUToCrßeATe.verylt
where in-
has learntquarters
motion already that
his troops
er a
s are being
t
prepared for the Emperor tNICHOLAS mhi
self at Ismahil, in Bessarabia--that his ----
son, the Grand Duke NICHOLAS, has evesnecond
arrived at Odessa for the purpose of forwarding,now
in his capacity as High Admiral of Russia, tie
armaments in progress at the grand imperial
arsenal of Sebastopol. The Sublime Porte has
learnt all this, but it has learnt it ' undismayed.
It comprehends to the full the requirements of the
emergency. It understands the real excel-
lence of its situation, and prepares with all
promptitude to render it, as far as possible,
iwpreguable. It couples the circumstance of the