The Sun. — 1854-03-24 (London, England)

MURDERERS." We say murderers; for inasmuch as a general destruction such as we have indicated would be the only way in which detection could be avoided, the parties implicated must have coolly and deliberately contemplated the death of every person who could give information as to the circumstances, for by such means only could the " damning evidences" of their unparalleled guilt be suppressed. Even had the spontaneous combustion of the article been averted, and the  by Russia from the beginning to the end of these disgraceful transactions, with the most unendurable, because the most supreme and contemptuous indifference. Nevertheless—setting altogether on one side the effect likely to be produced by these disclosures upon the two chief Powers of the Germanic Confederation—it cannot fur an instant be doubted that among the prominent consequences of this most timely revelation will be the infusion of still greater ardour into the enthusiasm of Turkish patriotism, and the happy consolidation of what has at last become a veritable entente cordial between the French and English Governments.  men, and horses, and stores landed in safety, the results would be but little less prejudicial to the nation. As the Duke of NEWCASTLE truly stated, "it would in all probability have entailed the loss of all the horses, arid the consequent inefficiency of the artillery on the eve of great military operations, and might possibly have been of the greatest consequence to the lives of her MAJEsry's troops."  The criminality of the Russian policy has thus been exposed betimes to the Cabinets of St. James's and the Tuileries, of Potsdam and Schoenbrunn. It has been laid bare in the last awful pause, the lull before the storm, while the Western Powers are waiting for the acceptance or refusal by the CZAR of the ultimatum forwarded by courier to St. Petersburg. Already it is known that that peremptory demand on the part of England and France for the immediate evacuation of the Principalities has been met with the threat of a haughty and abrupt rejection. The CZAR, on hearing of its approach, intimated that it would scarcely require six minutes for it to be answered in—a remark sufficiently indicative of the bent of his defermination. Wherefore Europe may count upon the refusal of the ultimatum, by the AuroCRAT. And then, of course, the next move will be the declaration of war—the first shot will be fired, and the struggle will commence in earnest. Whether that declaration of war will come from Russia, or from France and England, or whether that first shot will become audible in the Black Sea or the Baltic, remains yet to be conjectured. It is at least certain that the Western Allies of Turkey are prepared at this moment for both— for the declaration of war on the refusal of the ultimatum, or for the firing of the first shot either in the Baltic or in the Euxine—just as circumstances might render it advisable. Admirals Eliatzurr and DUNDAS are in readiness for any emergency—prepared at any time to emerge into the waters of the Black Sea from their anchorage in the Bosphorus. Admirals NAPIER and DESOHENES are almost similarly situated in regard to the Sound and the Baltic. For, while Sir CHARLES NAPIER, at the head of his noble squadron, is known to have advanced as far as Copenhagen, followed by several of the French ships of war, other vessels of the imperial navy of France are all but prepared at this moment at Brest to hasten after the English fleet, in order to join it under the flag of Admiral