The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-15 00:00:00

ROYAL OLYMPIC TEEEATUE.

Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.

THIS EVENING,

Will be performed PERFECT CONFIDENCE. Characters by
Messrs. F. Robson and G. Vining; Miss Marston and Miss Bromley.

Nov, however, that the mask has been withdrawn,
that disguise is no longer practicable, why should
we longer tolerate a position that must be used
against us in any possible combination o circum-

To be followed by STILL WATERS RI'S DEEP. Characters
by Messrs. A. Wigan, Emery, G. Vining, Danvers, Miss Maskell,
and Mrs. Are Hort.

To conclude with THE (ii.i.REICIC FEVER.

I^.OYAL gTRAND THEATRE.

Under the direction of Miss Rebecca Isaacs.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed THE HONEST LAWYER.
After which, 'rVirAS I. Characters by Miss Isaacs, Miss Beau•
mont, &c.
To which will be added ALORZD THE BRAVE.
To conclude with SALLY SMART.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Win. Cooke.

stances that may ariso.
As we have repeatedly pointed out, England
has nothing to fear from Austria, It requires but
the utterance of the " talismanic words" to find

The most Gorgeous Spectazlo ever witnessed.
THIS EVENING,

her ample occupation in her own territories.

the Bishop of OXFORD would not have dared to
suggest such an Act now, had he not found one
quietly lodged on the book-shelves of the Star
Chamber. We hope all similar relics of bigotry
will be dragged out, and consigned to Legislative
extinction.

Hitherto we have restrained the action of the out-
raged nationalities. Why should we do so any longer? '
Austria has most assuredly no claim upon our
consideration or good offices. She has delibe-
rately chosen her own course. She has exhibited
the same duplicity, insincerity, and selfishness for
which she has been so long notorious. She has
shown no title to the sympathies of the friends of
freedom or the lovers of justice. As we have re-
peatedly declared, she cannot be permitted to ob-
serve the disgraceful neutrality for which she is
so anxious. She will not act with the Allies, and
therefore she must perforce array herself alongside
a congenial Power, under the only standard
beneath which she is worthy to fight.
We are happy to find that our contemporary
the Morning Post, which is known to be well
informed respecting the opinions of the PALMER-
STON Cabinet, is taking a manly and straight•
forward view of the subject, such as we have per-
severingly advocated since the appearance of the
first cloud that darkened the, political horizon
that indicated a storm in the East. We have
extracted an article from our contemporary and
if, as is most probable, the policy of Lord PAL-
MERSTON is therein embodied, he will regain the
place in public opinion which was greatly en-
dangered by concessions to Austria, and receive
the cordial and unanimous support of the entire
nation.

ENGLAND and FRANCE in the DAYS of CHIVALRY ; or, the
Brothers in Arms, by J. 11. STOCQUELEI6 Esq., represents the mag-
nificent pageantry o France and England in their palmy days of
Chivalry. The Tourney in the Field of the Cloth of Gold,the Knights
in armour, the processions, the massive scenery, the heraldic ban-
ners, all shown u )en one vast arena formed by the stage and the
ring, form the most prilliant coup d'cell ever exh.bited.
To conclude with the sltil ul ACES in the CIRCLE.
Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stare Manner, Mr. W.
West. Acting Manaler, Mr. W. IL Cooke. Equestrian Director,
Mr. W. Cooke, jun.

lIIGH WATZR AT LONDON RR lI‘G

His popularity was imperilled by truckling, or
a supposed truckling, to Germanism. Let him
either repair the fault, or, still better, prove the
charge unfounded. Austria has suffered the
" cloven hoof" to be discovered. Let him treat
her as she is rather than as what she pretends
to be—and exhibit towards her, either just and
well-merited indignation, or profound and con-
temptuous indifference. Let him equally disre-
gard the whispered insinuations of the semi-
Austrian, Belgian, and all the mysterious
influences that are said to be brought to bear on our
own Government. In a word, let him prove him-
self to be, as he once unquestionably was—" Not
the Minister cf Russia, of Austria, or of Prussia,
but the Minister of England." Let him show
that he still thinks that "England has no cousins
nor uncles." Lot him do all these things, and. he
will achieve a popularity and receive a support
more honourable and more enduring than was
ever accorded to any of predecessors in office
—which will cause his name to be mentioned with
respect through all future ages.

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WTND. S.W.—Light breeze, with c'ouds and sunshine,
THREE O'CLOCK.—Very heavy shower.

One of the brightest Episcopal ornaments of
the Church of England in the times of her
greatest trial wrote a book ou the "Liberty of
Prophesying," which at that time meant liberty of
preaching. Those who gild the Episcopacy of the
present day, however, prefer to record votes
against all preaching and praying by unconse-
crated men within unconsecrated walls. Lord
SHAFTECITItY haA just obtained a majority of one, for
the committal of a bill to repeal the Act 22, of
CIEoRGE 111., which prohibits more than 20 per-
sons meeting for worship in private houses, an
Act the existence of which was probably unknown
to the vast majority of our readers, and which
could not have been °polity put in force without
exciting the indignant reprobation of all of them.
Tue flost, worldly of U 3 would resent such an un-
pardonable intrusion upon the liberty and tastes
o,c p,1•11:-,p3 nuxt door ne,r;lilymir. He would
declare it monstrous that he might himself with-

ANOTHER SIN OF OMISSION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

IR/

LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1855.

The duplicity and treachery manifested I
Austria since the commencement of the

aggression, aul the cons.equent declaration of War,
ar© beginning, to product) their natural results.
The opinions which at ono time we stood almosA
alone in promulgating have now many strenuous
supporter 3 evon amongst those who foilmrly- ear-
nestly advocatcJ propriety Of " waiting" for

out danger of fine or itnprisoument invite-a hun-
dred people if his rooms would hold them to
profane music and dancing ; but, that if Mr.
TIMOTHY STANDFAST, differing from his Puscyite
pastor, chose to read Church prayers in his house,
and to hold forth to the edification of more than
twenty, who shared his aversion to altar
candles, intonation, and other mummeries,
Mr. TIMOTHY must incur the dangers of, the first
Bishop of Ephesus. Religious men will, of
course, take higher ground, and insist with the
E-trl of SHAFTESBURY on the obvious inconsistency
of fettering the zeal of any who wish to extend
in any. way—" in season and out of season"—a
religion professedly the most aggressive of all
which ever entered the world. Christianity is
emphatically the religion which demands the sub-
mission of all, and demands it not at the point of
the sword, not by rewards end penalties, but by
persuasion and argument only. No other organi-
sation of persons relying on such weapons—the
League, for example—ever thought of interdicting
to any but ordained advocates the advocacy of their

cause.

The Bishops, however, Lord SHAFTESBURY was
told on Tuesday night, unanimously objected to
his bill ! He of Oxford would accept it in no
case ; he of London would give way to pressure
from without, provided the Earl would introduce
a clause prohibiting any clergyman from officiating
in a private house without leave of the Bishop.
The sting is here. Some religious layman of
good natural ability might bo far more acceptable
to his neighbours than the drowsy presentee of a
fat living and his poor half-starved curate ; hun-
dreds of rectors and vicars, who gain their liv-
ings through no other qualification, earthly or
heavenly, than relationship or interest, might be
liable to the same proof of their inutility ; a popu-
lar clergyman might also be invited occasionally
to interest a larger domestic congregation than the
public ono in the parish church. Tho' Bishops—
keen men they in their generation—foresee that
this really might originate for them an ecclesiasti-
cal Crimea. In the " temper of the times," which
the Right Reverend Fathers expressed such
dread of, it might reveal more than all
the efforts of Dissenters, the mal-administration of
the Church. Laymen would rise up like the Ad-
ministrative Reformers and affirm that they could
manage these things better than the officials, and
ecclesiastical LAYARDS and LINDSAYS would be
found to head them.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Cardiff, June 13, 1855.

We beg respectfully to inform their Reverend
Lordships that a majority reduced to, one, through
their votes and influence, will be regarded by the
public generally as the best proof of their selfish-
ness and intolerance. Administrative Reform
will reach the Church at last, do what they will ;
and protection for lazy or incompetent preachers
will follow the Corn Laws, the Navigation Laws,
and all other protective laws. Promotion by
merit, not by purchase of livings or by interested
presentation, will follow the demand for promo-
tion by merit in the civil and military services.
Why should reverend indolence or incapacity in
one branch of the public service be tolerated when
the same things are got rid of in the other
b
classesraneh ehsa7v e Thegot
farbi ahead oftheir
s hops will fi n d the
laity
intolerant ofanaldl
exclusive notions. The nation, with the excep-
tion of a few old maids and sexagenarian bigots,
will not knowingly
suffer any
clear infraction
of religious freedom, and such the antiquated Act
Inow to be repealed unquestionalily is. Even

THE SEA. OF AZUFF.

THE suN, LoNDotc4 FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 15. 18b5..

It was quite bad enough the cruelty and ab-
surdity of the promoters of the act prohibiting
marriage with a deceased wife's sister, avowedly
on religious grounds, and these most insutri-
cient for the future, and legalising the marriages
of this description which had taken place were
sufficiently glaring, one would have thought, to
have prevented any imitation or aggravation of
such bygone procedure.
But no. It would appear there is no extreme
of cruelty and no depth of folly at any period to
which your politico-religious Pharisees will not
cordially descend, if they can do so with safety.
Ostentatiously parading the form of godliness and
philanthropy, it is, practically, but the more
surely and satisfactorily to discharge the dark
venom of their natures on the weak and unoffend-
ing ; and thus they go on in their baleful
career, reckless that the divinest agencies
in the world are branded with their shame
and retarded in their operation by their miscon-
duct. The example, in short, was too recent to
be forgotten, and too congenial to be neglected.
Now that the bill legalising these marriages is
about to go into committee (June 20th) we learn
that certain amendments are to be proposed, we

trust only vicariously, by Sir FREDERIC THESIGER
—amendments of a nature so atrocious that, for
the sake of our common humanity, we are abso-
lutely ashamed to mention them.
Will it be believed—we are open to contradic-

tion if what we state is false, and mcst willingly
would we rectify the error—the effect of these
amendments, if adopted, would be to declare all
marriages before 1835 and after 1855 valid, and
all marriages between—all marriages in the long
interval from 1835 to 1855, an interval of 20
years—void, or at least doubtful! It maybe received
as an exaggeration, but, positively, an icy shudder
seizes us as we contemplate the announcement.
Let but the most cold• blooded reader try for a
moment to realise the case ; let him consider
that—by the legalisation of such marriages before
1835 and after 1855—the principle, the moral
legality of them is conceded ; and, with this fact
staring him in the face, let him further consider
that the effect of the amendments will be to per-
petuate the brand of shame on thousands of con-
fessedly chaste brows, the name of bastards on
still larger numbers whose birth is morally stainless,
and all the misery and confusion which a godless
law has occasioned. Let him but do this, and if his
pulse does not quicken with indignation it is be-
cause it throbs with no English blood ! That the
llouse will reject these amendments we cannot
doubt. But what an insult to have them offered !

BOURSE, JUNE 14.—CLOSING PRICES.
Cash. fr. c. End of Month.
42; per Cents 94 85 94 85c.
1 per Cents 69 69
Credit Mobilier 965 Roman
Credit Foncier 545 Austrian
BAgian Fives ... ... ... Spanish Threes
eiedmontese B7 75 Home Debt
RAILWAYS—FOB, CASE

SIR,—I see that Colonel Colt has returned t ) this
country fr9m America, I trust to hear, ere long, that,
in one sense, he is in the Crimea. Even at the eleventh
hour his weapon may be found invaluable by our army.
We have hitherto thrown away a great advantage of
which we might have availed ourselves. One of the last
official acts of the Duke of Newcastle wa,3, I understand,
to order some 5,000 of these weapons fur the army. I
am told that these have not been sent to it ! It is very
desirable that the navy should have them, qute as much
as that the army should be supplied ; but is it not at
this moment of vital consequence to our troops before
'eba,topol ? It is impossible to say what our soldiers
at inkerman or Balaklava lost, by the wanton obstinacy,
stupidity, or wilfulness of the late Government in not
' supplying the troops with such arms. For cavalry and
artillery they are, indeed, a boon, and there aro periods,
as we have seen, where they would have been invaluably,
to the hne. This was proved by the individual deeds of
of eery an.l ser4eauts, :y ho paid about three times as

!ouch for them retail as the Govuntinent Lave dor.e
trhoic••a!e. Sir, when I look at this thing, I lose

patiunce • I know tbe vaue of the weapon. TEloasAnd,,,
!mew it in Eag!a,nd more than a year ago. I have urged

its adoption since 1851. PtAti;ely, although we Li/ye
had for the last two, or three years, through the energy
of an American, a manufactory in Lindon for these
weapons, the Russians will be supplied first by the mar•

'sets of the world. Depend upon it Russia has had agents
in America to buy them up, aod we lately read of 10,000
being landed at Riga, We are about, I presume, to assist,
as the French may jibtly say, considering our numbers
and theirs, in the storming of Sebastopol. There is yet,
in all probability, " pretty tall fighting Le fore us." Do,
pray, urge in your valuable paper that this tremendous
advantage be no longer neglected. Can you toil me if
anything is being done at home in revolver drill and
practice ? The cowl and dexterous use of a Colt's re-
volver requires some little experience. No body of
cavalry in the world, unprovided with this arm, could
stand a charge from half or a third of its numbers so
equipped. lam certain that fifty fearless and tolerably
well•mounted men, clad merely in shooting jackets, but
armed each with two or three revolvers and swords, might
exterminate a hundred and fifty of our noble Household
troops or Scots Greys, encumbered with the clumsy and
useless carbine. What avail would this latter be against
the fearful multiplication of a fire that might command
fatally at a distance of some 400 yards ? Long before a
sword could he used half the saddles of those magnificent
troopers would be empty. The conical balls would pierce
through breast-plate and back-piece as if they were made
of pasteboard. _ _ _

I trust, Sir, that you will give your powerful aid to the
British soldier in this matter. No wonder that the in-
dividuals by whom Odessa was spared, an English army
sacrificed, and green coffee berries supplied to hara-sed
soldiers on active service in such a country as the Cri-
mea, were blind to the deadly properties of the Ameri-
can Revolver.

I am, Sir, your obedient serrant,
AN AMATEUR.

TERMS FOR PEACE EUROPE.

SIR, —As an advocate for justice I would suggest that
all towns in the British dominions demand of their re-
presentatives to urge on Ministers not to conclude a
peace unless sued for by Russia, and then only on the
following terms, viz., to relinquish all claim to what we
have taken from her—to have no ships of war of any
size for either the Black Sea or Sea of Azoff, as she
has no power there now ; also to leave Asia, 100 miles
at least, north of the Caspian Sea, restore the Crimea,
and, finally, to pay the whole of the expenses of the war,
which is the sincere wish of a

WELSHMAN.

A well-executed map of this sea, with the surround-
ing coasts, now the theatre of important operations
by the allied forces, has just been issued, on a scale of
ten miles to the inch, by Mr. James Wyld, geographer
to the Queen. The soundings. which are numerous and
general, are given in feet. A plan of Taganrog, with
its harbour and fortifications, on a small scale, and a
Inv of the Crimea, including a portion of the Sea of
Azoff and the Black Sea, contribute to the utility of this
valuable production.

PARIS, Wednesday.—YesterJay, after a consultation
held at the Tuileries between Dr. Locock and Drs.
Dubois and Conneau, it was formally a.nnonncett that
the Empress was enceinte.
APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—A matri-
monial alliance is about to take place between the Lady
Henrietta Somerset, eldest unmarried daughter of Emily,
Duchess of Beaufort, and John Morant, Esq., of the
New Forest, Hants. The marriage will be solemnised
on Tuesday, the 26th inst., on the evening of which day
the Duchess of Beaufort will give a grand ball, at the
family mansion in Grosvenor-square, in celebration of
the happy event.
RUSSIAN INTBIGUES.—We learn, on very good autho-
rity, that proofs have been furnished to the French Go-
vernment of the relations existing between the Carlist
conspirators and the Russian Government, and that
among other projects of creating a diversion against the
allies was that of causing a general insurrection to break
out in Spain.
Tae splendid mansion and sixteen acres of beautiful
grounds one of the most recherché abodes within the
metropolis, situated in the Regent's-park, the late resi-
dence of the Marquis of Hertford, was brought to the
hammer and sold by Mr. Phillips, of Bond-street, at
Garraway's, yesterday. The buildings, erected by the
Marquis, under the direction of Mr. Deoimus Burton,
the celebrated architect, cost the Marquis upwards of
50,000/. Mr. E. T. Smith, the lessee of Drury-lane
Theatre, became the purchaser.
Mr. George Frederick Parrett had the honour of ex-
hibiting before her Majesty, in Buckingham Palace Gar-
dens, this morning (Friday), a- portable cape-tent, re-
cently invented by him. By this invention, which
consists in looping together five or eight waterproof
capes, each weighin.. only 4 lbs., and which capes will
also serve as blankets and sacks, the soldier is always
provided with a cape, tent, sack, or blanket, by carrying
one article. Her Majesty expressed herself much pleased
with the feasibility of the plan, and honoured Mr.
Parratt with most minute inquiries as to its details.

other vessels belonging to the Baltic squadron are
daily expected at Cherbourg, namely :—The float-
ing batteries Congreve, Foudroyante, Tonnante,
and Lave, and the steam gun-boats Avalanche,
Flamme, and Grenade, the steam mortar vessel
Cassini, and the sailing mortar vessels Fournaise
and Trombe.

fr. c. fr.
Orleans
Western 732 50 _Rouen
(Jetta 662 50 Strasburg
Niediterranean 1207 50 Havre 620
Northern