The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-11 00:00:00

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1853.
State of the wind and weather at each of the following
;laces at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
FOLK ESTONE--N.E., light breeze—overcast.
GREENWICH—Calm—overcast.
STRooD—E.,_gentle breeze—overcast.
SIVINDON—N. light airs—cloudy.
YA nmouTH—S.E., gentle breeze—elond!ess.
HOLYHEAD—S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
The returns from the following places indicate the state
of Ile weather on Thursday moaning at nine o'clock :
SWINDON—S.W., fresh breeze— cloudy.
CAMBRIDGE—S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
DA RLINGTON—S., gentle breeze —cloudy (light rains
during the night).
Su A V-S., calm—overcast.

111G11 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
DA7 —Morning 31 min. aftor 4 I Evening 50 min.aft.
To-Morrow--Morning 10 min. after 5 I Evening 31 min.aft. 5

THE WEATHEIt.—SUN OFFICE, JUNE 11.
THERIIIMIETER, IN TIM SHADE.
71—highest sinco noon yesterday.
60 •- lowest this morning and during the night.
74 this day at noon.

WIND, E.

BAROMETER, 29.82.
- Light breeze, and fine, clear weather.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1853.

Hostilities must, of course, commence on the
side of the Russians. The first shot must be
fired by command of the AUTOCRAT. Otherwise,
the peace of Europe will continue undisturbed.
It is preposterous to hear the fears expressed by
those who have hitherto been the admirers of the
policy of St. Petorsburgh, lest the rupture of the
existing tranquillity should originate in some rash
act on the part of the Allied Powers supporting
the Turkish SOVEREIGN. The expression of this
dread, we say again, is simply preposterous. It
is preposterous, because, from first to last, through-
out the whole of these deplorable transactions, the
temerity and precipitation have been on the side
of the CZAR, and not on that of his political
antagonists. His have been the impetuo-
sity, and the passion, and the dereliction
of duty, and the violation of right, and the aban-
donment of principle, throughout all these irri-
tating negotiations. Not theirs. Therefore,
surely, on " the head and front of his offending"
it is obvious that from the Emperor NICHOLAS,
and not from the allies, will come the peril of war
from some open act of aggression. It will fall
out thus or not at all. Either Russia will make the
first hostile demonstration, or no demonstration
of the kind will rouse the dormant passions of
Christendom. It is, consequently, frivolous for
the quondam organ of the AUTOCRAT in London
to persist.in reminding the Cabinets of St. James's
and the Tuileries that the Convention of 1841 closes
against their naval forces the straits leading by the
Sea of Marmora towards Constantinople. Neither
England nor France will, of course, until after
" the peace is actually broken," cause their fleets
to penetrate the forbidden channel of the Dar-
danelles. The terror expressed least they may do
so, and thereby wantonly provoke hostilities, is,
to say the least of it, merely gratuitous, The
policy of the Allied Governments o France and
Great Britain in this .matter is as plain as it is
honourable. It is manifestly to despatch their
combined fleets, as they are known to have been ac-
tually despatched by the 4th instant, to—not into,
but to, the Dardanelles. There they will be in
readiness for any emergency. They will be within
call of the FrenchandßritishAmbassadors resident
at Constantinople. They will be prepared. to
advance under the respective command of Ad-
miral LA SUSSE and of Admiral DUNDAS, upon the
instant they may find themselves summoned to
the Golden Horn by her Britannic MAJESTY'S
and his Imperial MAJESTY'S representatives. And
they will not be summoned until war has been
literally commenced by the forces of the AUTO-
CRAT. They will not be summoned until the
Russian frontiers have been passed, until the
passage of the
I)analbe has been commenced,
until the boundaries
of Ilessarabia have been vio-
lated. Then, but not till then France and
England will awaken to action—.
:nd, be sure of
this, they will act in earnest.
immediately the
first warlike movement of the armies of the CZAR
has been learnt at Constantinople—the Convention
of 1841 will go for nothing, its restrictions win' be
scattered to the winds, not by any Want
of good
faith on the part of the Western Powers, but by
the fla•grant turpitude of the Cabinet of St.
Petersburgh, by an overt act of aggression on the
part of the AUTOCRAT. Thereupon no law will

any longer exist to close against the French

and British fleets the passage of the Darda-

nelles. Those fleets will at once hasten through

the channel, and acmes the gea of Marroora, to