The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-21 00:00:00

EOiAL OPERA, DRURY•LANE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.

SVENIN(4,

Will be performed T. SO S'N %. Characters by Alak.m.
Gassier, Martini, and -ignors ilettini and Gassier.
To conc'.ud with a Grand FttEN-C supported b
licite- Pal nyra, Wife. Paolo, ~ Friant, &c.
Prices of admission :—To the two galleries, 6d.; second circle
boxes and pit, Is ; dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; sta Is, 45.; private boxes t,
admit two persons, its. 6d.; four persons, one guinea. Box-ofidc
open from 10 to 6 daily.

vcrr.ATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Under •he management of Mr. Backstonc;

THIS EVENING,

Will be performed BERTA ; or, The Gnome of Bartsberg.
After which, ONLY A HALFPENNY.

To conclude with the new Extravaganza, called THE NEW
aAYMARILET SPRING MEETING, 855,

ROYAL. PRINCE T FIE ATRE. OXFOR D-ST RE ET.
Under the Management of Mr. Cakat.za
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed AWAY WITII MELANCHOLY.
To conclude with KING HENRY THE EIGH CIL Queen Ea-
tiarine, Mre. C. Kean ; Cardinal ,Volsey, Mr. C. Kean.

TTIZATRE ROYAL ADELPRI.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Mc. Jame Ce:este.

THIS EVENING,

Will be performed HELPING HANDS. Characters by Mosrs
B. Webster, Keeley, L. Murray, C. Selby, &c.; Madame Celeste
Mrs. Keeley, &c.
Followed by FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
To conclude with TaE PRETTY GIRLS OF STILBERG.

W)YAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.

Lessee and Manager. Mr. A. Wigan;

TITIi EV:ENING,

Will be performed PERFECT CONFIDENCE. Characters t),
Messrs. F. Robs ,'n and G. 'Vining; Mi,s viarston and Miss Br.,mier

To be followed by ST ILL ‘VA.TERS RWN DEEP. Characters
by Messrs. A. Wigan, Emery, G. Vining, Danvers, Miss Masksll,
and Mrs. Nlelfort.

To conclude with THE GARRICK FEVER.

ROYAL ATRAND THEATRE..

Under the direction of Miss Rebecca Isaacs.

THIS EVENING,

Will be performed THE HONEST LAWYER.
Followed by 'TWAS I.
After which. CHERRY AND FAIR STAR. Principal character
by Miss Rebecca Isaacs.
To be followed by I'VE EATEN MY FRIEND.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Leggee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
Boundless Magnificence and Majestic Effect.
THIS EVENING,

The Grand HTppodramatic Spectacle called. ENGLAND and
FRANCE in the DAYS of CHIVALRY; or, the Brothers in Arms.
Caparisoned steeds, knights in armour, tournament in the Field of
the Cloth of Gold. One gigantic arena formed by the ring and the
stage! razzling ,rilliancy and vivid reality !
Each night the unique ACTS in the CIRCLE, arranged by Mr.
William Cooke.

Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Acting \Tanager. Mr. W. H. Cooke. Equeerian Director,
Mr. W. Cooke, jun.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

T bay —Morning 6 min.after 6 I Evening2Bmin.aft. 6
To-4naepw Morning 50 min.after 6 I Evening 13min. aft. 7

THE WEATHER.—Sus Orrics, June 21.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
C 2 —highest since noon yesterday.
43 --Lowest this morning and during the night.
61—thi4 day, at noon.
-AARosfirrsm, up to 30.51—n0w 30'43.
Wnw, N.E.—Moderate, with very fine sunshiny weather.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1855.

May we be permitted respectfully to suggest
that his Royal Highness the PRINCE CONSORT was
labouring under some unaccountable misapprehen-
tion, on the 9th of June, when he intimated to
his brethren of the Trinity House that, in the
instance of the present War with Russia, a heavy
trial is now being passed through by our Consti-
tutional Government ? The trial, we would ven-
ture to hint, is not by any means a test of the
strength or weakness of our Constitutional Go-
vernment itself, but rather an ordeal for those
who palter with it—a path of burning plough-
shares to be traversed .by the leaders of our aristo-
cratic cliques, the champions of our patrician
coteries, the chiefs of a dominant oligarchy. It
has not been left for us to prove the soundness or
the unsoundness of those grand root principles
which form the very basis of our Constitutional
Government. Century after century the Constitu-
tional Government of England has been tested,
and has not been found wanting. It has grown
with our growth—it has strengthened with
our strength. It has survived the hurricanes
of more than one revolution. Whatever a
Prince of the house of Saxe-Coburg may
think to the contrary, it is not now that
the palladium of our national liberties, the au-
cyllfe of our popular rights, the charter of our
insular freedom, have to be weighed in the ba-
lance. Their ponderable worth has long since,
we take it, been calculated by preceding genera-
tions. It has not been left for us or for our children
to decide whether or not the somewhat essential
principle of vitality is anywhere discoverable in
our Constitutional Government. The struggle
now taking place on the shores of the Euxine is a
heavy trial no doubt—but it is a trial of our
administrators, not of the whole scheme of our
political constitution. Already the system of
popular government in the United Kingdom is
Ally comprehended and entirely appreciated. It
does not admit of any fresh test, or trial, or ordeal,
or scrutiny, or analysis, or criterion. All such
have been long since exhausted. What the people
of these islands are at present aspiring to bring
about are certain administrative reforms—not any
radical change, or fundamental modification in the
elaborate fabric and complicated scheme of our
vast Constitutional Government. It is idle,
therefore, for any one to talk nowadays, midway
in the nineteenth century, of a war like the one
at present waged against Russia, being a " heavy
trial " undergone by our Constitutional Govern-
ment. As well dream of some mighty oak of a
thousand years' standing being imperilled by a
night's frost, like the tenderest sprout just grafted,
or the most delicate seedling just budding through
the mould. There are but three tests for such as
this Oak of England. It may wither out after the
lapse of ages, crumbling into gradual decay out of
the fullness of time, from having passed the
limits of possible survival. Or it may be laid
low by the axe of some new ALartic, some
" Scourge of Goo," some appointed Destroyer.
Or it may be struck down, reverently so to speak,
by the " stretched-out arm" of the ALMIGHTY, by
the lightnings of HEAVEN, by the thunderbolts
of His awful Providence. Not by any frivolous
ordeal, such as that of a single campaign, or even
of a sustained contest—the ordeal rather of an
unconstitutional Ministry than of a Constitu-
tional Government. Again, therefore, we insist
upon the extravagance of any one talking of the
present War with Russia, be the speaker Prince
or Peasant, as a " severe trial" which is being
undergone by our Constitutional Government.
it was no less unfortunate, we cannot but
think, that his Royal Highness the Prince Con-
sort should, during the course of the same speech
to which we have already here alluded, the speech
delivered by him on Saturday seennight, the 9th
of June, 18i55, have given utterance to an extra-
ordinary sentence like the following—Dais
Royal
Highness, it will be understood, while speaking the
words hereinafter subjoined, referred to the recent
exposure by the Press of the late mismangement of
our army before Sebastopol]—" No mistake," said
the Prince " however trifling, can occur, no want
or weakness exist, which .is not at once denounced,
and even sometimes exaggerated with a kind of
morbid satisfaction." Language, we repeat, which
wcannot but designate as somewhat extraordi-
nary urAcier misting circumstances. In testimony