8 OCTOBER 1853, Page 8

POSTSCRIPT.

SATURDAY'.

Unusual interest attached to the meeting of the Cabinet Council yes- terday; the first which has formally been summoned since the closing of

the session. All the Ministers were present, except Sir William Moles- worth, absent "in consequence of an error of the officer whose duty it is to summon the members of the Cabinet." No statement has come forth as to the subject discussed at the Cabinet Council ; but it is no- torious that it was summoned to deliberate on the posture of affairs in the East ; and in the greediness of curiosity, the public will probably re- ceive the first leader of the Times newspaper this morning as an edam- Iration of what passed at the Council. It was expected that more de- finite intelligence would have been received from Constantinople, but that which arrived on Monday was still the latest. "So long," says the Times, "as there is a fair chance of a peaceful and honourable solution" to the dispute between Russia and Turkey, "it is worth any amount of talking and writing " ; and the Times implies that in that view Ministers will .persevere in negotiations as long as possible. The object is to restore the status quo with the minimum of disturbance ; but if a settlement can- not be obtained by such means, "England must not hesitate to use others more cogent. That is the view of her Majesty's Ministers—their unatii- MOUS view." Should it have been impossible for the Sultan to postpone an actual declaration of war, "it will be found that the British Govern- ment has taken all the precautions required for the defence of the Otto- man empire."