The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-03 00:00:00

POSTPONEMENT OF PERFORMANCE.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. -
Lessee, Mr. E. T. SMlTl7.—Acting Manager, 'Mr. Charles
ttathews,—Stage Manager, Mr. Robert. Roxby.—The public is ye._
speeteully informed that this ESTABLISHMENT will OPEN for.
the regular DRAM &TIC SEASON, under the Management of Mr.
Z. T. Smith, on MONDAY, October 8, on which occasion Mr. Elliot
Geier, Lacy Escott, Miss Lanza, and the Company will sing the
National Anthem, and when the grand original and historical
Zgyptian Drama, written by E. Fitaball, Esq., and which has i for
grpwords of 18 months engaged the attention of the scenic, mechani-
cal, and decorative departments of this theatre, will positively be
produced, with the utmost regard to splendour and accuracy of de-
tail. In accordance with this resolution to secure the services, when-
ever available, of the most talented artistes of the day, the Lessee
has the greatest pleasure in announcing that he has engaged that
inimitable comedian, Mr. Charles Mathews, who will appear in a
series of new pieces, written expressly for him ; and to strengthen
the cast of which an engagement has also been made with the prin-
cipal members of the Lyceum Company. That distinguished tragic
actress Miss Glyn, and that popular tr agedian, Mr. Barry Sullivan,
will be, likewise found included in the arrangements of the forth-
coming season, while the scenic department will be under the
Immediate superintendence of Mr. William Beverley. The Lessee,
In thus inviting attention to the long-promised Egyptian Drama,
which will be produced on Monday, October 1, feels it necessary
to state that, so connected as everything relative to Egypt is with
mystery and ingenuity, he felt it incumbent upon him to spare
neither trouble nor expenditure in order to present a manners,curate picture of the regal and domestic history, habits, and
customs of that extraordinary nation, at the Pharaonic period, and
to reproduce, as far as possib.e in scenic accessories, those colossal
masses of granite and porphyry, and those gigantic statues, whose
enormous dimensions, overwhelmed by the shocks of nature or the
fury of the elements, have been scattered fn ages past over regions
at present inaccessible, or buried deep beneath those arid and urn-
ng sands which have been at once their tomb and their protection.
That nothing( may be found wanting to give a completeness to its
production, the piece will he sustained by the highest dramatic
talent, ani Innstr ited by artistic and mechanical effects of entirely
novel construction. Herodotus, Denon, Willdnson, the libraries of
the British and Imperial Museums at London and Paris, together
with other authorities, have been carefully consulted to insure the
most rigid correctness in all the details and appointments; and in
thns reviving the associations of a people that existed upwards of
4,000 years Aga the Lessee hopes to make the stage present a com-
bination of amusement and instruction hitherto unknown. Rather,
however, than speak himself of what has been done, he leaves the
laurels to be distributed by the public to those artistes who will
be found to have distinguished themselves, and confidently in-
vites the critic and the antiquary to judge of its merits and
attest the fidelity of the most minute details. The ancient
ant modern authorities consulted by. and the whole of the
Egyptian accessories made and modelled under the efitire
superintendence o Dykwynkin. The scenery, entii, ly new
painted by Messrs. f Nichols, Cuthbert, Richard Cooper, G. Gordon,
Agile, and assistants. The gas ;fittings by James Palmer and as-
sistant*, Th <striking and novel costumes by Mr. Palmer, Mi,s
Bradley, and assistants. The trophies, idols, properties, &c., are all
new. Ymperty-Master, M. Needham, and assistants. To give
greater effect to which the orchestra (20 feet) will be covered and
added to the stage (the largest in the world). The incidental dances
arranged by Madame Louise. The overture and music by 11.
Laurent, Esq. Director, Mr. J. H. Tully. Machinist, Mr. Tucker
and assistants. The following artistes have been already engaged:
—Miss Glyn, Miss tnderton, Miss Cleveland, Miss M. Oliver, Miss
Talbot, Mrs. Frank Matthews. Mrs. Selby, Miss Robertson, Miss
Wadham, Miss De Vere, Miss Topham, Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mr.
Stuart, Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. R. Roxby, Mr. E. Stirling, Mr. A.
Yeuntte, Mr. George Wild, Mr. Edgar, Mr. w
M San, Mr. Vincent,
Mr. Robertson, Mr. Worrell, Mr. Craven, r. Templeton, Mr.
Laporte. The Ballet :—Madame Louise, Miss ltosina Wright, Miss
Charles, Mdlle. Therese, Miss Smith, miss Brown, and 24 ladies of
the Corps de Ballet. The orchestra will be enlarged and complete.
A full and efficient chorus from the Royal Opera, end upwards of
300 auxiliaries will he employed in the procession and pageantrles of
the Egyptian drama, presenting a coup d'mil of surpassing magrt.
licence and grandeur, occupying the whole of the largest stage in
the world, the whole of the orchestra being converted into the stage.
In course of preparation a grand historical drama, by W. J. Robson,
Esq., author of " Love and Loyalty." The box-office, under the
direction Of mr. E. Chatterton, open from 10 to 6. The theatre will
be open at half-past 6, and commence at 7.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.

Under the 3 anagement of Mr. Buckstone.

THIS EVENING.
WM be performed THE MAN OF MANY FRIENDS.
After which, THE PRETTY GIPdEY AND THE BULL-
FIGHTER.
Followed by COURT FAVOUR.
After which, a BALLET.
To conclude with JOHN JONES.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. J. H. Anderson, 18, Norfolk-street, Strand.
Increased Attractions, and success in equal ratio !
THIS, AND EVERY EVENING, at Eight o'Clock,

Will be presented, with entirely New and Magnificent Appoint-
ments, MAGIC and MYSTERY, in twelve acts, arranged in two
parts, by Professor Anderson.

After which, the startling illustrations of Spirit-Rapping. HALF-
AN-HOUR WITH THE SPIRIT 4, being the most surprising and
interesting series of experiments ever given within the walls of any
theatre.

84,721 persons have visited the Lyceum already to see the Grew
Wizard of the North.

Prices of admission:—Private 111xes, 1/. 11s. 6d. and It. ;
Orchestra Stalls, 45.: Dress Boxes, 34 ; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit,
Is.; Gallery, 6d. No Half-price. Box-office open from 11 to 5
daily.

Grand Morning Performance ou Saturday Next at Two o'Clock
doors open at Half-past One.

rtOYAL STRAND TTIEATRE.

Under the direction of Mr: Payne.
THIS ItVglel).TO.

Will be performed THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH.
Followed by LA CHALET.
To which will be added THE BUMP OF BENEVOLENCE.
To conclude with SALLY SMART; or, The Clockmaker's Hat.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Nana:Tr, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
Tremendous excitement ! Electric effect andincomparable success

TEM EVENING,

A Grand Military Equestrian Spectacle, by J. H. STocQUELER,
Esq , called, The FALL of SEGASTOPOL !

After which the skilful GYRATIONS of EQUESTRIAN ART in
the C ERCLE, including the Champion Vaulter and the French Troupe
of Voltigeurs.

The effect produe.d by the stage and ring being formed into one
vast battle-field, with a host of auxiliaries and a supers stud of hor
is one beyond all precedent ! The Fall of Sebastopol will be acted
every everting.

Dox-oftlce open from Eleven V.ll Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
Wvt. Acting Manager, Mr. Nelson Lee. Equestrian Director,
M. W. Cooke. sun.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

TIM DAY—Morn. 39 min. aft. 6 —Evening 9 min. aft. 7
TO-MORROW—Morn. 44 min. aft. 7 gvening 34 min, aft. S

THE WEITHER.—SIIN OFFICE, Oct. 3.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
65—highest since noon yesterday.
53—lowest this morning and during the night.
61—this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 20'71.
WIND, S.W.—Rather fresh, with dull rainy weather.

,LAI L.,14.1

3111.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1855.

We have repeatedly directed public attention
to the untoward operation of the Royal Marriage
Act, or rather of the custom which renders it in-
dispensable to obtain a. consort of blood royal for
one of our own Princes or Princesses. It is an
ancient delusion, founded on the alleged "right
divine" of kings, that " the common puddle "
which stagnates in the veins of ordinary indivi-
duals cannot commingle with the sacred ichor of
those born on the footsteps of a throne. The
natural affections were supposed to have no place
amongst those of exalted birth. The feelings of
ordinary humanity could have no influence on their
hearts. They were to be offered up as exalted
victims on the dynastic altar, and the happiness
of their future lives completely destroyed to
support a worn-out, and, what we trust will
speedily become an obsolete, prejudice. There
has been a glorious precedent established. A
truly Imperial reformer has afforded a brilliant
example, which cannot be disregarded by the
Court which received the fair EUGENIE with such
heartfelt cordiality.
We rejoice to find that a very powerful and
energetic auxiliary has entered the field in sup-
port of the views which we have so long advo-
cated. We earnestly commend the admirable
article, which we have extracted from the
columns of the Times, to the attentive considera-
tion of the community. It is indeed one that
Fill bear thl most stringent examination on every
point. There is not a single argument which can
be controverted, or which will not carry convic-
tion to every unprejudiced mind.
These Royal marriages have almost invariably
been ppttions of the great conspiracies of
dynasties against peoples, framed for the pur-
pose of coercing the popular will, and avert-
ing or putting down with the strong arm,
and the red hand, the expression of national exe-
cration. It is a portion of the detestable system
that ssbjects high-minded races to the tyrannical
domination of men of the 130 MBA class—half
knaves, half fools—who cax profit by no lessons,
however striking. But "the great fact" has
been announced by a
statesman, who now occu-
pies a high and influential position, that " king-
doms have no cousins ;" and wo trust the proper
deduction may be drawn from that glorious prin-
ciple. England has repeatedly been seriously in-
jured in consequence of the matrimonial alliances
of the Royal Family. She has never profited,
:even to an infinitesimal extent ; and it was not
the least of the blessings that inaugurated the
accession of our most gracious QUEEN that it pro-
duced a complete separation of the. English and
Hanoverian Crowns. There is most decidedly no
- inclination to procure the junction of another
German Kingdom with that of England, and we
oaanQt coiceive a greater national calamity than

that which would unite the- Crowns of England
and Prussia on the same lultad—a junction that
would inevitably create a new revolution, and
lead to the most serious inconvenience to all

classes in society.
It is at this time that the popular 'voice should
be uplifted—before a fine family has been
sacrificed—when a noble victim is actually bound
at the vary horns of the altar. Our gracious
QUEEN cannot be insensible to the future hap-
piness of her own children. She has witnessed
the results of the system in the family of her
grandfather, has seen how the numerous offspring
of GEORGE 111. were immolated at the shrine.
Let her carefully consider the consequences to
her numerous uncles and aunts—reflect how dif-
ferent might have been their lots had they been
permitted to contract suitable marriages at home.
If she do so, she must be desirous of avoiding the
rock on which so many promising vessels have
been shipwrecked.

It is notorious that at this moment a new
marriage is contemplated, against which every
true-hearted Englishman should protest while
there is yet time. The heir presumptive to the
Prussian throne has returned from Balmoral, after
putting forward his pretensions to the hand of
the PRINCESS ROYAL, now in her fifteenth year,
and scarcely qualified to judge for herself on such
a point. Nor has the question been broached for
the first time. The project was put forward five
years ago, before the young Princess had emerged
from the nursery. We repeat the startling in-
terrogatories which the Times has so boldly
put forward. "Is it, then, or is it
not, expedient that a daughter of Eng-
land should take her place upon the Throne
of Prusssia ? And, in forwarding such a match,
are the parties principally concerned consulting
the happiness of the young Princess, or the safety,
honour, and welfare of our Sovereign and her
dominions ?" We believe that there will be com-
plete unanimity as to the answers on these points
—that every Englishman and Englishwoman
throughout the length and breadth of the
land will emphatically negative the propositions.
But there is even a greater danger, and one not
so very remote, that it should not be guarded
against. What if the male scions of our Royal
stock should die without issue ? There aro
happily three promising youths—but there are
instances on record where even a greater number
were passed over, and noble heritages devolved
on unexpected owners. What, then, would be
said if England were annexed to Prussia—if
our Sovereign were, for the safety of his German
territories, transferred into a vassal of the
AUTOCRAT, desirous of ruling his British
dominions in accordance with the Russian
or Prussian system May the omen be averted !
It would, indeed, be an event as fatal to the na-
tional welfare and happiness, as we fear these
marriages de convencences will, if persisted in,
prove to the felicity of the fair and princely vic-
tims of this most impolitic and indefensible
system.

We had. hardly dropped the warning on Mon-
day that, unless the people looked well to it, we
might after all lose the Crimea, than the danger
is confirmed. " Our own correspondent" himself
describes the first step. " Our Sappers and Miners
are at work sinking great mines to blow in and
destroy the 'unrivalled docks, which have cost Russia
so much anxiety, money, and bloodshed ; and if
it were not that they were intended to be, and
have been, accessory to insolence and slaughter,
one would regret that such splendid monuments
of human skill should be scattered to atoms. But
the fleet of Sinop° sailed thence, and were re-
paired there on its return ; and they were built,
not to foster peace and commerce, but to smite
and destroy them."
Now, we feel the mischief of Parliament not
being sitting. There is no one with authority to
ask, and no one to give an authoritative answer.
The danger was felt •:nd proclaimed in the House
before Parliament separated of leaving our Mi-
nisters to commence again negotiations for peace
which might commit us to points as worthless as
the "four " of Vienna before we had opportunity
t,o intervene, leaving us nothing but the barren
power of censuring those who had disgraced and
defrauded us. The power to choose unquestioned
a policy for the War is as dangerous as the power
to select bases for a peace. The pompous decla-
mations about the undoubted right of the Crown
to declare war and make peace must pass for what
they are—empty phrases. They mean the power
of the Government of the day, under the fiction
of saving the dignity of her MAJESTY, to sell the
results of an. our expended blood and treasure to
aristocracy, despotism, Germanism, or anything
else they please, with the penalty, at the worst,
of being sent to the Opposition Benches for
a while, but with the reward of Court favour
and of aristocratic approval. Yes, the ap-
proval even of that portion of their fellow-aris-
tocrats who, for party purposes, denounce them in
Parliament, while in their own drawing-rooms they
whisper that thesefellows we have turned out served
"the order" admirably well after all. PEEL
went out of power for serving the people, and he
had his reward in the people ; " the order" gave
him the cold shoulder. A Government who went
out for such things as "sparing Olessa or Ismail,
or giving back the Crimea to Russia," or " respect-
ing her territorial integrity and dignity," would
repose pleasantly in the lap of Court and Tory
favour, and care but little indeed for the contempt
of the people. Unless an election impendel they
would not care at all.

In default of. any one to answer, we must ask
the common sense of the country what can. be
meant by this fact, described by an eye-witness,
the visible preparations for blowing to atoms the
splendid docks of Sebastopol ? It is inexplicable
if the Crimea is to be permanently retained by
any of the civilised powers of Europe. Diplo-
matic perversity will hardly all oge that they would
be a lasting inducement to Russia to aim at the
reconquest of Sebastopol. They would be but
one item of many inducements ; little indeed
compared with blotting out the disgrace of
conquest, and with the possession of an other-
wise strong naval and military position. No—
the real reason must be a veritable Russian one ;
—the intention to leave the CZAR his town, but
to leave it a perfect ruin. The burning, sink-
ing, and blowing up policy; the genuine barbarian
3pite, stronger than all considerations of senti-
ment or huma.nity,—this, no doubt, is the motive
for recklessly destroying such "splendid monu-
ments of human skill." Lord PALMERSTON told
the Northamptonshire farmers that the Allies in-
tended thoroughly to humble Russia the
humbling, therefore, is to be done a la Russc.
" There, take your Crimea again ; we
do not mean to do such a democratic
thing as to keep back territory which
an Imperial despot has once appropriated. We
will never suggest to the oppressed by Austria or
Prussia, or by Russia itself, the possibility of
oppressors losing the lands they oppress—we are
too real aristocrats for that. No, take back
your Crimea again, but take it back with the
marks that we beat you out. and-out." Well,
that would be humiliation—but, we think, humi-

liation to us quite as much as to Russia. Most
humbling Vandalism, most humbling policy. Of
course Lord PALMERSTON would not live to see
it—perhaps Prince ALBERT and our treacherously
advised SOVEREIGN might not. There cannot,
however, be a shadow of doubt that Russia would
quickly commence the restoration of the pirate's
nest ; that English money market would soon
be tightened by loans to repair the military and
naval mischief we had done, and that in the "rise
of Bank interest," and " less accommodation,"
we should soon be literally taxed to restore these
noble works.

But, besides the weighty considerations of
avoiding humiliations of an enemy degrading to
ourselves, and a policy which would sacrifice in a
few years all we have gained, the civilising, the
noble uses to which Sebastopol and its docks
might be applied, and the infamy of handing over
the graves of the heroes of Alma, Inkerman,
Balaklava, the Tchernaya, and the siege, to the
CZAR and his serfs, ought to stir the blood of all
France and England. The dust of the Crimea
is, alas ! now, to a sad extent, the dust of the
bravest of France and England. Russia, and
her superstitious Church, began this broil by a
quarrel about a holy sepulchre, the site of which no
mortal really knows. But the Crimea is but a
too well-known land of holy sepulchres—
of sepulchres holy to the affections of thousands of
the kindred of the victorious dead. Surely ten
thousand families of all ranks in England and
France will rise up and forbid this gratuitous de-
secration of their holy sepulchres.
And, then, to think of what these docks and Se-
bastopol might be. Why here we have accommo-
dation for the Great Britain, we presume, and the
Himalaya themselves. Here, made to our hands,
we have the mechanical means of supporting a
traffic which might vie with that of Southampton
and still larger ports. And for destroying all
this our consolation is to be that these docks sent
forth the murderers of Sinope and healed their
wounds ! As wisely take vengeance on the blun-
derbuss of Russ and give him back the fragments,
instead of placing it for ever beyond his power to
repair and use it again. We have already shown
the vengeance which humanity and policy alike
point to. Take the Crimea for ever from Russia ;
give it to a commercial nation—say Sardinia
let it be a stipulation that Sebastopol shall be
for ever a free port, .free to all the nations of the
earth ; or, if any exceptions be made, let the
three leagued despots be the only ones. Let it
be the more splendid Hamburg of the East. That
is the policy which all honest politicians must,
know to be the best for the interests of civilisa-
tion in all the vast territories within reach of
traffic through the Euxine, and the policy which
alone will really humble Russia, because it will
destroy alike her prestige and her means of effec-
tive military communication with the East.

Alderman SALOMONS is now " Lord Mayor of
great London," and a worthy successor, no doubt,
he will prove of the legendary WHITTIIGTONS and
modern BECKWITHS. To be sure, the elite of his
subjects have deserted the narrow territory over

which he reigns, and have left him little but the
custody of their counting-houses, shops, and ware-
houses; and even Lord Mayors themselves stay
in their now half-depopulated capital no longer
than they are compelled to do so. Still it is re-
garded by the citizens of the old central portion
of the modern London as a high civic honour to
be their Lord Mayor. He has the honour of
belonging to an unreformed Corporation—one
which quite disagrees with Mr. ACLAND and the
Commissioners as to its needing any reform. He
is not like their Worships of Bristol or Liverpool,
or even of York, a Mayor of a " new series."
He has all the value of a genuine antique, and
rides in a coach made, we forget when, perhaps
in the time of the TUDORS ; and though ASTLEY,
it must be confessed, can beat his exhibition of
the oth of November, yet Mr. ASTLEY'S is a
modern and mercenary display. The procession
of Lord Mayor's Day is as ancient as traditional
memory—a part of the Constitution itself—and,
out of pure patriotism, is paid for by My Lord
Mayor, not by us—that is, we do not give our
shillings and half-crowns direct to see it. If we
be taxed for it, it is in the true Royal style ; you
are not allowed to see the money go direct from
you to him. Rumour and Radicalism foretell
Mayoralty Reform in the spirit of the age—we
suppose when the War is fairly over. Civic Pu-
seyism may, however, prove too strong for the
irreverent tendencies of too many ; and, like the
new churches all about us, the Mayors may re-
tain the forms of the middle ages, though made
of modern materials.

Mr. SALOaIONS, to the honour of the citizens,
be it said, has not knocked at the door of the
Mansion House in vain ; nor would he indeed,
we acknowledge, have tried to no purpose at St.
Stephen's, unless Lord SHAFTESBURY, and the
Lords spiritual and temporal had tied the knocker.
We are loud, all of us, just now, in praise
of education as the great panacea for all social
evils, for bigotry and persecution amongst the
rest. Yet Lord SHAFTESBIRY and his bishops
would probably resent being put on a level with
the citizens of London in respect of education.
How, then, are we to account for the superiority
of London Citizens, nay, of London Aldermen, to
vulgar prejudices, which bestride the souls of
Lords Spiritual and Temporal ? The citizen less
bigoted, less persecuting than the Lord !—and the
Leader of those Lords, too, the Earl of SHAFTES-
BURI Disguise it how they will, the exclusion
of a Jew from St. Stephen's is a punishment, a
disability at the best, inflicted on account of the
difference of his faith. He believes in the Law
and the prophets, he believeS in ONE FATHER, and
in a MESSIAH to come ; but not in the MESSIAH
who has come. He believes all that ABRAHAM,
and DAVID, and ISAIAH believed, and for which
we assign them a place among the blessed ; but
not all that PETER and PAUL believed. For this
difference Lord SHAFTESBURY and his friends, as we
suppose, shut him out of Heaven, for certain they
bar in face the door to earthly honours. The
citizens cherish, what we think, more Christian
sentiments. Our LORD certainly did not teach
his followers to exclude Jews or Heathens from
the honours of this world. Indeed so strong are
many of hie weightiest sayings in the opposite
direction that earnest and sincere Christians,
in every age, have frequently abjured worldly
rank, and chosen voluntary poverty. Surely
there is vastly more to ba said, on Christian
grounds, against Christian Ministers being Lords
temporal—State Lords—and Lords spit:tua'L ;—_
and even against Lord SHAFTESBURY wearing any
title but what a Quaker would give him, than
there is for a Christian's refusing a Jew the full
privileges of a citizen.

We quite sympathise with Mr. SALOMONS in
regarding his election as a tribute to the rights of
conscience. Men educated at common schools,
and disciplined by the intercourse of commercial
life, somehow understand those rights far better
than the men of Oxford and Cambridge. Educa-
tion is, indeed, but a small part of it to be gained
from school-books, or from books at all. Many
nations of political slaves surpass Englishmen in