The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-26 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1853.

A rupture has at length taken place between
the Russian and Turkish Governments. Events
have transpired precisely as we have all along antici-
pated. The insolent ultimatum sent in by Prince
MENSCHIKOFF has been rejected by the Divan :
and, in consequence of this, the Plenipotentiary
from the Court of St. Petersburgh has hurriedly
taken his departure from Constantinople.
During a considerable time past we have in-
sisted upon the certainty of exactly such a politi-
cal movement as that which has, within the
last few days, transpired. We have long main-
tained that the Czar NICHOLAS has looked
with a lawless appetite for spoliation upon
the European dominions of the Sultan ABD-
UL-MEDJI% We have asserted again and again,
that the policy of the present EMPEROR of all the
itussias has been sedulously directed, and more
arly of late, towards the seizure of St.
Sophia, and the advance of his conquering banners
towards the brink of the Dardanelles. M. DE
LAMARTINE has observed that the slope of Russia
is towards the East, but we had recognised the
resolve of the reigning AUTOCRAT to struggle
against all the obstructive influences of
the national acclivity, and so to prepare
the way by his diplomacy that his Cossacks might
hope, before a much longer interval had elapsed,
to water their horses not as formerly in the cur-
rent of the Seine, but in the waters of the coveted
Bosphorus. Occurrences have, within the past
month more especially, justified to the full all
these startling anticipations. Tile information
received from the Sublime Porte has proved that
scarcely one among them was distinguished in any
way by its extravagance. Instead of this, we have
witnessed, on the contrary, an arrogance and a
duplicity on the part of the CZAR beyond
the limits of exaggeration. His Ambassador at
Constantinople bas flagrantly set at defiance all
the dictates of honour and all the principles of
justice—he has laughed to scorn the law of na-
tions and the force of treaties, and, while endea-
vouring to bully the SULTAN into an unconditional
submission to the AUTOCRAT, has striven to cajole
the rest of the great Powers of Europe into indif-
ference by the most ingenious blending of political
sophistries and diplomatic. misrepresentations.
Everybody knows, for instance, by this time,
We should conjecture, that the account furnished
by the Court of St. Petersburgh to the rest cf the
COQ of Christendom, purporting to explain the
nature of the mission entrusted by the Russian
EMPEROR to his extraordinary envoy, Prince
possibly
pbi; asserted as plainly as language
could
assert that no such purpose was
kept in view as t
.han-whhich has actually been fol-
lowed up by that
o.r in his recent but
happily unsuccessful
osacit.
cons negotiations with the Turkish
Ministry at
worsted in these negotiations, Ignominiously
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• SCHIKOFF—so we learn from the
departure for
intelligence—has abruptly taken his
St. Petersburgh. He has encountered
difficulties in the active and energetic patriotism
of the Turkish Government. Imperialisni
master the AUTOCRAT has counted alto-
gether without his host in his arrogant but
upon ABD-UL-MEDJID. Find-
blundering designs
in; himself
bthreatforeene been threatened by thed more boldly even than
he had ever e the
presentative of the Emperor NICHOLAS ,
young Sultan, this late emergency, has ac-
quitted himself of his sublime re
tsponsibilitiesf in
his
a
manner eminently becoming
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