The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-22 00:00:00

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ROYAL OPERA, DRURY., ANTE. )ut thinking of his own selfish ingratitude 7 If
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
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THIS EvENING, e people of England applaud the one—and what
Will be performed DER, FREISCHUTZ. Characters by Messrs ;rue-hearted Englishman does not do so ?—how
Formes, A. Lockesley, H. Brathara, and Hodges; Misses Dyer and
Lanza, rao. itronly must they condemn the other, the pen-
To conclude with MIDAS. iioner of the English Treasury, the deve of Eng-
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Prices of admission :—To the two galleries. 6d.; second circle o/
boxes and pit, Is.; dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; ?dais, 4s. ; private boxes to
admit two persons. Its, 6d.; four persons, one guinea. Box-odic(
open from 10 to 6 deity.

aIf.A.TEX KUYAL ttA X ratAmst.. f .
Under the management of Mr. Backstene,
THIS EVENDIG,'
Will be presented THE SECRET AGENT. Principal characters
by Mr. Beekstone and Miss E. Chaplin.
After which, THE ABBE IN LOVE, by the Spanish Dancers,
Followed by COURT FAVOUR.
To which will be added ONLY A HALFPENNY.
To conclude with THE SP INIS ti D 1.1. CC ERS.

PRINCBSS's fiZATRE, OXFORD-tiTREET.
Under the Management of Mr. Caear.za HEAL
THIS EVENING,
WM be performed HOW STOUT YOU'RE GETTING.
After which, KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen Katha
rine. Mrs. C. Kean; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean.

THEA ERE ROYAL ADELPELL
Proprietor. Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, CeleetAh
THIS EVENING,
Will be Performed THE WRITING ON TEIF, nine!
pal characters ,}y Veicrs. Wright. O. 4elV, P. Bedford, Mrs. Leigt
Murray, miss Wyndham, and Miss Woolgar.
After which, PRATE 4,N ISA EION.
To conclude with THE SC"TOOT. FOR I'IGFx.

ROYAL IV:ILAN i) T KAT.K.E.
Under the direction of Mr. Payne.
THIA EVENING,
Will be performed MARRIED DAUGHTERS AND YOU,, G
HI'S KA DS.
After which, EL TOREA.DOR.
Followed by a new Farce, LATCH KEY.
THE (3ALICI ‘N FETE.
To conclude with GANEM.

ASTLEY'S KOTA!. AMPHITHEATRE.
liessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke,
Unabated and triumphant attraction cf Mazeppa. —Fourth and is
week of Mr. George Wild and Miss Fanny Williams.
THIS EVENING,
Lord Bvron's MAZEPPA and the WILD HORSE.
After which, the Premier's EXERCISES of the ARENA, by th.
elite of Equestrians.
To conclude with THE ARTFUL DODGE, in which Mr. Gem(
Wild and Miss F..nny Williams will appear.
Mr. William Cooke flatters himself that the above announcement
proves the astmnding success of this the most terrifically thrilling o
all spectacles. The Wild Horse. taught and trained by Mr. W.
Cooke, pursuing his mad career, defies all description, and must b.
witnessed to be credited.
Ito.v.ottice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
W sat. Acting Manager, Mr. Nelson Lee. Equestrian Director,
Mr. W. Cooke, Jun.

land's bounty. LEOPOLD has done much to bring
contempt on the House of Coburg. Let him
beware that the contempt be not exchanged for a
4tronger feeling, if he perseveres in his anti-
English aned in striving to defeat the
objects
fionguriwheiesh,
w have engaged in a just and
necessary War.
We cannot dismiss the subject without in-
viring what advice has he given to his nephew,
the young King of PORTUGAL, so lately a visitor
tt his capital. We see that Sir RICHARD PAKE..N-
HAM has just been despatched on a special mission
to Lisbon to congratulate the young KING on
attaining his majority, and entering on the full
exercise of his Royal functions. Has there been
I. hint given that it would be desirable, at length,
to inaugurate a Constiuutional Government in
Portugal ? Or, that the rendering some small
instalment of justice to the much-wronged bond-
Aolders of his country would be very accept-
.ble in England, and that 43 to 45 is not
4. very creditable quotation for Portuguese Four
per Cents. LEOPOLD lived many years in Eng-
land. He knows the value set upon Consti-
tutional Government and probity of dealing in
this country. He has had the opportunity of
instilling sound principles into the mind of his
grand Nephew, and we shall soon know by the
oroceedings of the youthful KING the nature of
..he lessons he has received.

There are few unofficial men whose judgment
we should be more disposed to respect than Mr.
LAING'S. His capacities for the administration
)f business have placed him already at the head
of two very large public companies, and recent
events have proved how highly his ability and
integrity are valued in such positions. He has
aow also had some little experience of the duties
of a Member of the British House of Commons,
'.nd it may be supposed has somewhat extended
the range of a naturally good vision. It is not,
however, perhaps much to be wondered at that
the ledger view of the War should commend itself
to his mind. Abeunt studia in mores, is a fact
which most men, energetic in their own line, must
;enerally exemplify, and without imputing in
any criminal sense to the Hon. Member for
Wick that Vienna railway speculations may
have biassed his judgment his commercial habits
as a whole may have done so. Mr. GLADSTONE,
whom we can hardly regard in any other light
than an intentional sophist, knew his advantage
with men of the counting-house, and to the
counting-house and Stock Exchange mind he ac-
cordingly addressed himself. He reduced the
Four Points to fractions. " Now," says he,
"gentlemen, you have got, or may get, seven-
eighths of them; the remaining eighth will cost
von a pretty sum to get. Are you prepared to pay
it ?" Every chairman of a comm rcial company,
every head of a great firm, thinks he sees through
the whole question. Frequently enough he has
gladly written of 12i per cent. rather than spend
20 per cent. or more to get it. Nothing like
feather, said a certain one in }Esor, and
nothing like trade principles said Messrs.
COBDEN and BRIGHT, and now Mr. LAING joins
them. The laws of the counting-house should be
the laws of nations ; eighths and per centages are
the tests of international right and wrong. We
may forgive the business men who echo Mr.
GLADSTONE'S figures, but we cannot forgive him
for becoming the Bull of Russian interests, and
the Bear of English interests by such a conscious

imposition.
Does, then, Mr. GLADSTONE, or does the corn- '
!non sense of the country, believ,e that interna-
tional relations can be settled by halves and
eighths, like a bargain for Three per Cents., or
for some of his own Exchequer Bonds ? Did
Oxford and his AmsroTLE teach him to include
such distinct subjects under one category ? The
instincts of every unbiassed mind revolt from
such reasoning. Even those who cannot lay their
finger on the fallacy yet feel quite sure that there
is one somewhere. But, in truth, it is nothing
else but fallacy ; it makes the huge assumption
that national honour, and that the value of the
terms of a treaty can be determined by arithmetic
—by a calculation in vulgar fractions 1 That the
position at 'Vienna could be expressed thu4 :
that Russia offered of honour, and asked England
to give up for luck—why what Englishman ever
refuses to give back the shilling for luck in a bar-
gain 1 If arbitration is to be carried on by arith-
metic, we only hope the decimal scale will very
quickly come into universal operati in.
But setting aside what moral and cultivated sen-
timent alone can estimate, and descending to more
material considerations, is not histor3 replete with
instances of the mischief of conceding what might
he figuratively viewed as but the eighth part of
the terms of a treaty ? The dreadful Thirty Years'
War, and above all the wars and villanies of Russia
since the wicked concessions at Vienna in 181.5,
are sufficient illustrations. In truth, however, the
obvious fallacy is that the terms of a treaty must,
like arguments, be weighed, not numbered. W'd
appeal, then, to the sober part of England—an'a we
may take the Tory but venerable Lord LvF,Dannsr
as its representative--were the Four T.„%oiriti alto-
gether worth going to war for t Lord LYND-
HURST replies--" They were not worth the paper
they were written on." If, however, there was
a particle of value in them, it was just that part,
that despised eighth, which BuoL and GORT-
SCHAROFF coaxed Lord Jonx out of, and which;
when Mr. LAING got to Vienna, he also learned
to give up. We own, freely own, the difference
was insignificant. How could it be otherwise
when the whole four proposals were worthless ?
But we affirm, that take away the difference and
the Treaty would have been even worse than waste
paper : it would have been a boon to Russia.
Mr. LAING nays that our rejection of the Vienna
proposals " alienated from us the whole moral
support of Europe 1" Of course Poland, Hungary,
Italy, the peoples of Germany as distinguished
from their Courts, and from those Government
officials with whom great speculators in foreign
railways come in contact, Sardinia, and we suppose
we must even add Spain, are no part of Europe ;
Turkey, of course, is only now fighting to become
one of the happy European family—and France,
why she certainly goes for little in Europe. It
is really a pity to find men like Mr. LAING, re-
turning from a business trip to Vienna, the
very centre point of Russian influeme and chica-
nery, only to prove, like Lord JOHN, the seduc-
tive powers of the head-quarters of European
despotism.

We must take the liberty to tell Mr. LAING
that if he did not, the nation generally did know
what it was fighting for; it has been treacherously
served by the Russian-hearted men whom he
praises as great statesmen, but it always wanted
to have the claws of Russia cut and its
teeth drawn. Those with any tincturo of
barbarous power nauil no ti p V
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overpowered the more civilised. And thousands
Who had nem reacl I, pap of history could
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