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

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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 Fasttern 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 Olmiitz 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-

raents.

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 Olmiitz 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
Prussia, a series of magnificent and scarcely re-
sistible temptations. From the outset we in-
sisted that such must inevitably prove the upshot
of tlaat
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acknowledged, Suspicious
meeting of the three Sovereigns.
at last, even by one of the
zee°guised.
Organs of the ABERDEEN Government.
It is mad_sssiaidnevitebis.subject, at length, of a Ministerial
country, that the Councils of
Berlin
tampered with by those
have been thus shamelessly
the organs of St. Petersburg. Never-
thelessof the Coalition continue as
yet to maintain that the bribes
held out by
the CZAR successively to
Paikl`lois 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 ABD-UL-11 ruin
This confidence of the Aberdeenists in the .
jute_
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. S2eaking 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
Austrian and the Prussian Sovereigns have not
proved so absolutely unsuccessful as would be
maintained by the champions of the existing .A.d
Ministration. Occurrences, we rest assured, 'rill
reveal that the CzAR has so far triumphed o ver
the scruples of the Prussian King and the Austrian
Emperor, that he has bound them over to a, n eu-