The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-19 00:00:00

THIS EVENING, Ocr. 19,

And during the week, will be presented (the 32d time) the New
Classical Burlesque, entitled JUPITER'S DECREE, AND THE
FALL OF PILETON; or, THE FIERY COURSERS OF THE SUN
--supported by the entire strength of the Company.
To be followed by Mr. W. Cooke's matchless Scenes in the Circle,
introducing, for the Third Time, Miss KATE COOKE, and those asto-
nishing Artistes, Signor CARLOTTIE and Signor FRANCOIS on
LA PEECHE.

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Concluding with (108th time) THE RATTLE OF WATERLOO.
Box-ofilce, open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W,
West.

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 19, 1853.
State of the wind and weather at each of the following
places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations are
arranged in order of latitude.
SOUTHAMPTON N.W., strong breeze—cloudless.
FOLKESTONE—N., gentle breeze—overcast.
TUNBRIDGE—N., gentle breeze—eloudless.
STROOD—N.W., gentle breeze—cloudless.
SWINDON—S.W., light airs—cloudless.
CAMBRIDGE—N.W., gentle.breeze—cloudless.
BIRMINGHAM—N.., calm—foggy.
FARRINGDON—W., gentle breeze—fair.
The returns from the following places indicate the state
of the weather on Monday morning at nine o'clock :
SOUTHAMPTON—S. strong breeze—heavy' rain.
BIRMINGHAM—S:*., calm—rain.
LANCASTER—N.W., calm—cloudless.
HOLYHEAD—E.2 gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
DARLINGTON—W.N.W., gentle breeze— cloudless
frost.
SITAP—S.E., calm—partially cloudy.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
DAr —Morning 6 min.after 3 I Evening 19 min.aft. 3
ro-mcItROW —Morning 35 min. after 3 Evening 49 rain. aft 3

THE WEATHER.--Stn; Orrin, Ocr. 19.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
55—highest since noon yesterday.
46—lowest this morning and during the night.
52—this day at noon.
BAuomETER, 29.05—a sudden fall of nearly half an
inch since yesterday.
WIND, E.S.E. to S.E.—Squally and foul weather, with
continuous rain.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1853.

Everything now tends to confirm the accuracy
of our judgment (from the outset) in regard to
the Eastern Question—events proving more
clearly from day to day that war has become ine-
vitable, and that its outbreak is, indeed, imminent.
The last shadowy hope of concessions being volun-
teered at the eleventh hour by the AUTOCRAT are
at length dissipated. The rumoured advances
towards an amicable settlement at Ohniitz are at
last shown by facts to have been altogether ima-
ginary. Instead of yielding, the CZAR has only
evinced a disposition to be more obdurate

in his demands, to be more haughty in his
bearing, and to be more lawless in his encroach-

ments. Throughout in reality, the Emperor
NICHOLAS is discovered by England to have acted
with the most heinous duplicity towards the
Western Governments. While talking about an
arrangement in reference to the guardianship of
the Holy Places in Palestine, he was secretly pre-
paring the mission of Prince MENSCHIKOFF, and
getting his troops in readiness to enable Prince
GORTZCHAKOFF to cross the Pruth and take
formal possession of the Danubian Principa-
lities. When he affected merely to be argu-
ing about the arrangement of certain eccle-
siastical formularies, he was multiplying his
warlike resources at Odessa, and enhancing his
vast maritime preparations at Sebastopol. Pre-
cisely in the same way has the AUTOCRAT con-
ducted his policy in regard to the Cabinets of
France and England at the close of this agitated
correspondence, no less monstrously than at its
commencement. Everywhere, indeed, he has
betrayed hypocrisy towards the councils of Queen
VICTORIA and the Emperor NAPOLEON, from first
to last of these extended and elaborated,
but utterly abortive and ineffectual nego-
tiations. He has repeated at Olmiltz the
treacherous policy adventured upon at Con-
stantinople. Assuming a magnanimous pre-
ference for a pacification, he has endeavoured. to
foment under the mask of that pretended par-
tiality a discord among the chief Powers of
Europe, such as, if ultimately brought about,
must devastate with a conflict perhaps never sur-
passed for ferocity the various races of the Euro-
pean Continent. In order to accomplish this
sinister and dastardly design, the Russian
AUTOCRAT recently held out at Olmiitz
to Austria, and afterwards at Warsaw to
Pr,uBSia, a series of magnificent and scarcely re-
sistible temptations. From the outset we in-
aiatsd that such must inevitably prove the upshot
of that suspicious meeting of the three Sovereigns.
It is ,
anklicriviedged, at last, even by one of the
recognised organs of
It is made the the ABERDEEN Government.
subject, at length, of a Ministerial
confession in this Country, that the Councils of
Berlin and Vienna
have been thus shamelessly
tampered with by those
of St. Petersburg. Never-
theless the organs of the Coalition continue as
yet to maintain that the bribes
held out by
the CZAR successively to FRANCIS JOSEPH and to
FREDERICK WILLIAM have, as
yet, failed to win
over entirely those two Monarchs from their ques-
tionable positions as members of the Conference,
and nominal allies of the Sultan Am).UL-MED,Jin
This confidence of the Aberdeenists in the inte-
grity of Austria and Prussia we believe to be as
entirely mistaken, and calculated, if acted
upon, to prove almost as lamentably disastrous
as that which has been hitherto expressed
by them in
the good faith of the Rus-
sian AUTOCRAT. Speaking more plainly and
explicitly, we would reueat here what we have
before now insisted upon—namely, that in the
end it will be found that the lures offered to the
Austr.an and the Prussian Sovereigns have not
proved so absolutely unsuccessful as would be
maintained by the champions of the existing Ad
ministration. Occurrences, we rest assured, will
reveal that the CZAR has so far triumphed over
the scruples of the Prussian King and the Austrian
Emperor, that he has bound them over to a nen-

trality in the event of war eminently advantageous '
to his designs upon Constantinople.
A little while longer, and the world will be able
to appreciate more confidently the relative merits
and demerits of these conflicting Governments.
A little while longer, and impartial spectators will
recognise the arrogance of,-Russia more clearly
than through the insolent bearing of MENS-
CHIKOFF -- her contempt for treaties more
clearly than through her occupation of Moldo-
Wallachia her insincerity towards France
and England more clearly than through her
recent efforts at Olmiltz to secure the formal with-
drawal of Prussia and Austria from the Viennese
Conference. Exactly in the same way, as we be-
lieve, that a little while longer will qualify the
public at large to understand, what we regret to
think is only conjectured as yet by the generality
—the formidable strength and magnanimous for-
bearance of the Mahometan Government at Con-
stantinople.

At this critical juncture two facts at least are
altogether indisputable—that war is unavoidable,
and that there is an end, at any rate for the timei
being, of these preposterous negotiations.

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It is difficult to say whether the na
suffered the more serious injury from the
yoked and wanton aggression of the Great IVortft:.
ern despot on his inoffensive neighbour; or from
the disturbed and excited state of the labour
market. Our foreign trade has been deeply in-
jured by the one. Our domestic peace has been
greatly endangered by the other. If the CzAB.
has occasioned a material falling off in the de-
mand for our various manufactures, the equally
unjustifiable proceedings of the operatives have
diminished production in a still larger propor-
tion. The occupation of the Danubian Princi-
palities has contributed in no ordinary degree to
enhancing the rate of interest and the diminution
of the circulating medium, the very life-blood of
industry, the clamour for increased wages, and the
numerous strikes that have occurred throughout
the entire country have led to a general cessation
of employment, and threaten a deplorable reduc-
-1 tion in the Excise returns, which indicate the con-
dition of the labouring population, and the
amount of 'comforts enjoyed by those who earn
their bread by the sweat of their brows.
The employer, as we have long since stated, is
placed between two fires. On the one side he finds
a monetary screw applied, which restricts the pecu-
niary accommodation essential to the success of Ms
operations. Should he be even so fortunate as to
obtain an adequate supply, he has to submit to an
enormous increase in the rate of discount, and
may be well contented if he gets what he requires
at double or even three times the amount paid
last year for similar advances. It is unnecessary
to show how this formidable addition to his
expenditure increases his risk and cuts down
the margin of profit. Its effects must be obvious
to any person having the slightest acquaintance
with business, or experience of the many difficul-
ties that obstruct the path of the master manufac-
turer. He might, however, contrive to struggle
on if supported by his men. But, unfortunately,
those who should sustain and support him in the
arduous struggle, have, with strange and unac-
countable indiscretion, become his most formid-
able assailants. It is almost needless to say, then,
that he must succumb when simultaneously suffer-
ing under so many injurious influences, that he
must relinquish the attempt to provide remunera-
tive occupation for those who are so totally oblivi-
ous of their own interests. He may save sonic
remnant of his capital from the storm ; but what
will become of those who have driven him from his
position by their unjustifiable demands ? They will
have ample cause to deplore their short-sighted
infatuation—their unreasoning as well as un-
grateful folly—betokening a similar infirmity of
head and heart, a deficiency of intellect, and of
kindliness of feeling.
It ought to be obvious to those parties that the
prime cost of the article is made up of the several
items of raw material, interest of money, and
workmen's wages ; and if the two former elements '
in the calculation are materially increased, the
latter must be, if practicable, reduced in a cor-
responding ratio, to admit of the supply being
continued at such prices as to lead to a continued
demand. Experience teaches that the demand is
in an inverse ratio to the price—that as the latter
increases the former declines, till there is slack-
ness, then paralysis of trade, and ultimately a
commercial crisis—from which the labouring po-
pulation are, as in every disturbaance, the chief
sufferers. We do not believe that a strike for
wages could be beneficial to those for
whose alleged benefit it is made. Under
any circumstances, and we believe that a
successful strike is even more injurious to the
operatives than an unsuccessful one ; but those
who fancy otherwise, if possessed of the smallest
portion of common sense, should surely select a
time when money was cheap and trade active for
such attempts, in place of a period Ale most in-
auspicious that could be chosen, and which could
not have been more unfavourable if determined
by a committee of masters.
Meanwhile the contest proceeds with increased
virulence on either side. The employers are
animated by a strong sense of the impropriety
and unfairness of the movement, while the work-
men are displaying a degree of arrogance and
insolence proportioned to the badness of their
cause. They will not listen to reason, because
conscious that their cause cannot bear in-
vestigation. Like NICHOLAS, they rely on
their supposed strength, and stand on their
" dignity,"—their dignity forsooth ! as prevent-
ing them from coming to any reasonable adjust-
ment. And their madness is kept up by a set of
miscreants, who reap unhallowed profits from the
miseries of their unfortunate dupes—a set of
vampires that prey upon the happiness of their
victims—who live only in anaotmrkoinspghemreenof strifewere
and insubordination. If w
awakened to their true interests they would shun
the entire body of committee-men, delegates, and
the entire genus of pot-house legislators as their
worst enemies ; rendering them discontented with
their positions, and inducing them—to use a
vulgar, but expressive phrase—" to quarrel with
their bread and butter."
The contest which commenced at Preston is
rapidly spreading to the surrounding localities.
The mills at Burnley are, we believe, already
closed—and those at Bacup, Accrington, Colne,
and the surrounding vicinities are stated
to be under notice. The masters are no
l not suffer themselves to be
beatenfools. in T hdeeyt
air will
or to keep one body of malcon-
tents in occupation to support others in idleness.
They may be well assured that a partial victory
would be followed lip, and that they themselves
would be victimised in turn—all that the greatest
favourite could hope would b. to obtain the boon
granted by the Cyclop to ovrte, and to be the last
devoured. They now, however, see the magni-
tudeofthe emergency, and therefore will act in
concert,
for surely they may combine as well as
the workmen.
The result will be a general sus-
pension, by which i thousands, and tens of thou-
sands, who have been the creators and producers
of national wealth will become unprofitable con-
sumers. It is a war in, fact that, has been com-
menced—a war of labtoour
..against:capital—a war
1 far more injurious
tthee nationaleffieae prosperity
than any in which we could ho involved
with other states. Here, then, •
is an op-
opportunity for testing h
doc-
trines of the Peace Society, for aseyerotafintihneg ho w! far Mr. COBDEN may be trusted. Before we can
trust our lives and properties to the protection of
the broad-brimmed and drab-coated arbitrators,
let us see how they can restore to peace their own