The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-07 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL D.ILRY•L.ixE

Lessee, Mr. E. T. Sm.th.
THIS EVENING, C'cr. 7,

Will to performed TUE WIFE. Suworted by Messrs. G. V'
Brooke, Jag. Johnstone, !'elton, A. Younge, Morgan, Moorhouse
and G. Burt; Mesdames Anderton and E. ormond.
To conclude with VIE FOUNTAIN OF BEAUTY, in which
Miss Featherstone and _llia E. Ormond will appear. Reduced prices
113 usual.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, O±FORD-STREET.

Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean

This Theatre will OPEN for the Season on MONDAY NEXT,
the 10th October, when will be performed Lord Byron s Tragedy of
SARDANAPALUS, with other Entertainments,

Full Particulars in future Announcetneuts. The Box-office opened
on Thursday, the 6th instant.

TREATER ROYAL ADELPHJ.

Proprietor, Mr. B. Webeer —Direzirm, Madame Celeste.

THIS EVENING, Ocr. 7,

r,7111 ca perioared GENE VIE WE. Char adders by Messrs. Tarter e;
G. Ler., T,eigh Murray, C. Selby, Bedford, Keeley, 0. Smith, &c.
Miss %v 00:gar, and Mrs. Keeley.
Aver which, will be presented SARDANAPALUS.
To be followed by TITE CAMP AT CHOBITAM.
To conclude with COMING OF AGE.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL iMPELITHEATRE.

Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.

The new and Classical Burlesque the greatest triumph ever achieved
Crow led audiences nightly prove its powerful attraction, while
entimsitotie approbation greets its goroottc enacts The Fall of
Platon, and his destruction on the banlis of the River Po, are
need by the Press and the Public the most perfect and bean_
thin Tableaux ever witnessed in this ibeatre.
Re-engagemen, of those wondrous Artistes, Signor CARLO and
Signor FRANCOIS, whose extraordinary perf rmances on LA
PERCIIL surpass those of all other ArtisteS who have appeared.
THIS EVENING, OCT. 7,

And during the week, will be presented (the 23d time) the New
Classical Burlesque, entitled JUPITKR'S DECREE, AND THE
FALL OF PH/ETON; or, THE FlEftY COUR.ERS OF THE SUN,
supported by the entire strength of the Company.
New and original Scenes in the Circle, introducing Signor CAR-
LO and Signor FKANCOIS.

Concluding with (96. h time) THE RATTLE OF WATERLOO.

Box-office open from Eleven till Foar. Stage Manager, Mr. W
t.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TIM DAY --Morning 29 min.after, 4 1 .Evening 50 min.aft. 4
To . ,ioa.Row —Morning 12 min. after 5 1 Evening 31 min.aft. 5

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, OCT. 7.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
54—highest since noon yesterday.
51—lowest this morning and during the night.
57—this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 29,18—rising ; has been down to 29'35.
WIND, W.S.W. - Light airs, and fine weather ; rain
in the night.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1853.

Englishmen, if only united, may mould the
policy of their Government. The truth of this
assertion is altogether indisputable. It is ad-
mitted even by our Administrators themselves.
Only the other day, in fact, the country was
assured by Lord PALMERSTON that the course
pursued by the Earl of CLARENDON, in reference
to the Russo-Turkish difficulty, might be rendered
everything that could be desired if that Minister
were only supported, properly and energetically
supported, by his fellow-countrymen. At the
present juncture the question, therefore, is—Will
public opinion be at once so clearly announced
that there can remain no chance of its being mis-
apprehended by the Administration ? Fortu-
nately even now the people have not been indif-
ferent to the merits of the quarrel between the
SULTAN and the AUTOCRAT. In several parts of
the provinces of this island the necessity of main-
taining the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, and
of repelling the aggressive movements of the
CZAR upon Moldo-Wallachia, have been insisted
upon loudly by the voice of popular de-
monstrations. A considerable meeting, with
a similar object in view, is, moreover, con-
vened for this very evening in the Metro-
polis. The multitude, indeed, have instinc-
tively felt that a great wrong has been attempted
by Russia in the insult offered to the SULTAN, in
the outrage to his sovereignty, and in the seizure
of his Danubian Principalities. The intelligent
community in the United Kingdom have observed,
with sentiments of admiration, the courageous
stand made by Turkey against the designs of her
lawless and colossal neighbour ; and have wit-
nessed, with feelings of dismay, the timorous and
ineffectual assistance accorded to the Sublime
Porte by the Four Powers through their blunder-
ing diplomatists at the Vienna Conference.
It behoves the people of England, consequently,
as we have again and yet again insisted so loudly
and so energetically, to express their opinions upon
the important question at issue, that there cannot
remain any uncertainty as to the nature of those
opinions in the minds and hearts of the members
of her Britannic MAJESTY'S Government.
A Cabinet Council, it must be remembered,
moreover, assembled only this afternoon for serious
deliberation as to the course most advisable to be
pursued by us under existing circumstances. So
that a probability is afforded of some recognition
before long by her MaansrY's Ministers of the
precise tendency of the opinions entertained upon
the Eastern Question by the great mass of the
intelligent population. Happily, the period has gone
by when a British Cabinet can venture for any
length of time to palter with the wishes of the
community, much less to run directly counter to
those wishes, in a matter affecting the national
reputation. It remains nowadays for the people
to pronounce their views in tones of thunder, by
demonstration after demonstration, and according
those views, sooner or later, will be fashioned
the policy of the Imperial Government.
Nothing is more obvious throughout the whole
of this protracted discussion in regard to the real
extent of the rights of the Turkish Sovereign than
the utter incapacity of the diplomatists represent-
ing the Four Powers in the Vienna Conference.
This circumstance, just now above all others, is
especially deserving, we take it, of the popular con-
sideration. Until that most mistaken conference
commenced, the Ottoman Porte was in no way
embarmssed by its allies "encumbering" it with
their pacific assistance. Ever since then the posi-
tion of Turkey has been altogether different.
The Divan has been hampered in its arrange-
ments, The SULTAN has been deprived of many
golden opportunities of retaliation. He has been
compelled, at enormous cost and to the extraor-
dinary detriment of the interests of his exchequer,
to remain in a state of irksome inactivity with
enormously increased armaments, both military
and maritime, to support, with the Egyptian Con-
tingent upon his hands, and with the Russian
troops settling down for their winter quar-
ters in the Danubian Principalities. He has
long recognised the necessity for acting with
promptitude. He has perceived the impera-
tive need of not allowing the autumn
to glide by without bringing the matter on hand
to some kind of settlement. Agitated by the
fanaticism of the Turkish population, inspired by
a bitter sense of outraged dignity, and burning
for some chance of wreaking a deserved vengeance
on the assailants of the enoffending Power of the
Moslem, the Ministerial d
visers
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MEDJID have' found themselves all along, impeded ,
in action by the interference of the nominal allies I
f their SOVEREIGN. They have been told—Wait,
and the question will be satisfactorily arranged
with Russia by the diplomatic mediation of the
Vienna Conference. And Turkey
waited
as de-
sired—prepared for war in the event of war
proving at any moment inevitable, and yet ready
to repose a magnanimous reliance upon the pacific ;
assurances transmitted again and again by
the Four Powers to Constantinople. Turkey