The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-31 00:00:00

THIS EVENING, DEC. 31,

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The New Grand Equestrian Chinese Spectacle, entitled " THE
WISE ELEPHANTS OF THE EAST; or, THE MAGIC GONG.
in which Mr. W. Cooke's wcndro ns Elephants will appear.
Followed by a series of Mr. Wm. Cooke's matchless scenes of
Equestrianism in THE CIRCLE, by the talented artistes of this
establishment.
After which, a New Grand Equestrian CHRISTMAS COMIC
PANTOMIME, written expressly for this Theatre, by Mr. NELSON
LEE, entitled BILLY BUTTON'S JOURNEY TO BRENTFORD ;
or, Harlequin and the Ladles' Favourite.
New scenery, dre•ses, decorations, and appointments, magnificent
Car of Industry, &c. Harlequin, Mr. H. Hemmings ; Columbine,
Mille Christine; Pantaloon, Mr. Lehman; and Two Clowns, Mr.
C. Adams and Mr. Croueste ; Sprites, Masters Gee and Bralkury.
A MORNING PERF./RMA.NCE on JAN. 2, commencing at two.
Juvenile Nigkt on THUIND tY, JAN. 5, when the Comic Panto-
mime will commence the Performance,.
Box-office open trom Elevens till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W
West.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This Der —Morning 13 rnin.after 2 I Evening 40 min.aft. 2

TILE WE ATIIER..—Suri Orvics, DEC. 31.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
41—highest since noon Yesterday.
✓9 —lowest this morning and during the night.
37a-this day at ❑oon.

BAROMETER, 29'69—rising.
weath WIND, W. by N.—Light breeze,
and fine, frosty
er.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1853

New-Year's Day will, in a few hours, dawn
' gradually over the European Continent. It will
extend its light successively over Russia, over
Turkey, over Austria, over Persia, over France,
over England—and everywhere will come as the
harbinger of War to Christendom. A solemn
truth which must no longer be glossed over by
the shadowy possibilities, or rather, as we should
call them, the substantial impossibilities of re-
newed and more successful negotiation. War it
must be—and war not restricted to a little out-
of-the-way corner like Moldo-Wallachia, but in-
Farewell to EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FlFTY-
volving in the struggle the whole of the great THREE. Newspapers are forbidden to moralise,
Powers of the Eastern Hemisphere. Eleven much more to sermonise ; and very reasonably,
months, or ten months at least, have we y millions a-year do we pay for pulpit
sistino• that "to this complexion it must come at instruction of that sort. It is, however, impossible
last," unless the Cabinet of St. James's and the to step over the invisible mystic threshold
Tuileries acted with decision, and despatched
which separates each year from its successor with-
their combined fleets at the outset vigorously and out some grave recollections. Possibly, if the
promptly through the channel of the Bosphorus pulpit touched more frequently on the topics of
as well as through that of the Dardanelles. Re-
losing
newspaper, it might gain in attraction without
ni.n sacredness ; and possibly, too, were con-
month . after month, we have asserted that peatedly, day after day, week after week,•
sidat
ns of religion, void;of all cant and bigotry,
more frequent in our newspaper arguments, we
might gain in
the difference between Russia and Turkey would
permanent influence, without sacrific-
be complicated, and irritated and magnified into a
g political, commercial, and entertaininggeneral contention—unless France and England in
our po
character. We a Icept, however, one line, as we
together acted with becoming determination—un-
thankful that every reader
less they crushed the evil at the
very commence-
age will of fifty years of acknowledge that both
find it drawn for ~s,
went unless they said to the arch-aggressor
boldly and explicitly, You shall not cross the the pulpit and the newspaper have improved sur-
prisingly within his recollection—that the former
Pruth, you shall not Occupy the Danubian Princi-
palities, you shall not arrogate to yourself with has become more popularand earnest, and the latter
impunity the right to exercise supreme authority more sincerely respectful to religion, and, so far as
over several millions of the subjects of your the nature of the case allows, more influenced by
neighbour, you shall not perpetuate unrepelled a its dictates.
great crime against the Turkish Empire—a crime With Englishmen, when they meet, the esta-
blished order is, first our health, next the weather,
which, if allowed to develops from a lawless dream
into a disastrous reality, must inevitably conduct then the newspapers and politics. As to the first
that empire sooner or later to its most perilous
the answer for the year seems to be much as
dismemberment. Had this chivalrous and honour- usual." The cholera gave us, indeed, a severe
able Polio_
y been adopted at the outset in shock in one or two localities, and threatened
Paris
and London, we still believe, as we
have all aloe several, but it has made the country much
g believed, that the quarrel must cleaner, and will make it much cleaner still, un-
have been -brought
less we be thoroughly infatuated. We have still
in a comparatively brief
interval to a decisive issue and a satisfactory settle- a Home Secretary who has recorded his decree
went. We still believe, as we have all along against " dirt in the wrong place," and who, we
believed, that had the two great Powers of I believe, will do all he can to send it to the right
resolutely, had they place ; and with closed intramural churchyards
Western Europe acted thus
at once assumed this commanding
attitude—the ! and towns, well swept and washed out, we may
greatest military and the greatest maritime nation 1 I hope that when cholera weather returns the effect
on the globe would so have affect©d of Lord PALMERSTON'S Edinburgh letter will be
th 9 Russo- I extensively manifest. Our national doctors have 1
Turkish difficulty, that the Priith would never ; also made vaccination compulsory.
have been crossed, Mo/do-Wallachia
Would , As to the weather, it has certainly for the last
never have been occupied by the troops of two years furnished those who needed it with
GORTZCHAKOFF, and his diplomatic precursor , ample topics for conversation. Unparalleled heat
MENSCHIKOFF would have returned cn ; at Midsummer lessened the produce of our crops in
1852 and floods, almost fulfilling Lord MAlD-
shameless errand to his imperial master, „ONE,
s prophecy before its time, curtailed our
without leaving behind such disastrous conse- autumn seed-time for this year's crops. An open
winter, utterly unlike the skating and sliding
quences of his mission as the bloodshed on the
ones of
followed
boyhood, left the land unmellowed ;
Danube and the massacre at Sinope. However,
the allies of Turkey did not act thus resolutely, it was however, by a most cutting early
spring, and wet later one, preventing again the
s eloYeJd not assume this decisive attitude, but •
spnng sowing of wheat, and not permitting the
i,f,in.ste4d ii this they trusted everything to that summer corn in the better lands to be got in in the
bc,if - VretcheesS7 ein of wire-drawn diplomatic negotia- best style. Then a wet summer, and a fickleharvest,
f\sit,
rry ,„ ::, . : ' - :‘
.t,,;
!.z,5:, ,'",-, tuals-7;101* from. the first, we 'have declared again, all resulted apparently in crops deficient in extent,
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