The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-31 00:00:00

Doors Open at Five, to commence at Six precisely.

ufzii, AURA ONEThrE iHEA RE,
ADEL UDE-STREET, WEST STRAND.
Plus EVENING. and every evening during the week,
Will be presented PUNCH A LA ROMAINE.
To he followed by a grand Ethiopian Musical Entertainment by
an extraordinary Troupe of Ebony Marionettes.
Io be followed by an entirely new version ot the Grand Eastern
tPectacle ot ALADDIN ; or, The Wonderful Lamp, produced with
%II the vast resources of this small e,tablishment.
To conclude with a new Italian Divertissement, entitled EL NANO
DEL VELLAGIS.
Doors open at Half-past Seven, and commence at Eight o'clock.
A Morning Performance on Wednesday and Saturday next.
boors open at Half-past Two, and commence at Threeo'clock.
erivate Boxes and Stalls to be had at the Box-office of the
'theatre, and ot all the principal Librarians.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
TO-MORROW
Will be presented BeethoTen's Opera of
FIDELIO.

Leonora, Madlle. Sone Cruvelli ; Florestino, Signor Calzelari ;
Rocco, Signor Susini ; Jactrdno, Signor Mercuriali ; 11 Monestra,
Signor Fortini; Pizarro, Signor Belletti.
To be followed by Grecco's celebrated Opera Buffs,
LA PROVA D'UN OPERA. if:ILIA.
. .

rornia, Madame De la. Grange; Federico, Signor Calzolarl; Cul-
len°, Signor F. Lablache ; 4.;ampenore, Signor Lablache.
To conclude with a selection from the admired Ballet,
SYLPHIDE. _ _ _ -

La Sylphide, Madlle. Regina Fore; James, M. Mathieu; Madlles.
Ross; Esper, Lamoreux,
Ipplications tor Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Opera
Box-office, Colonnade, Haymarket.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.
TO-MORROW
Will bo presented Donizetti's Opera,
LDC REZ lA. BORGIA.

Luerezio Borgio, Madame Grisi ; Maillo Orsini, Madlle. Seguin ;
Dua Alfonso, Signor lioneoni ; Don Apostolo Gazelia, Signor Marini;
aristighello, Signor Soldi ; Gabetta, Signor Taglisfico ; Astolfo, Sig.
Yolonini; Oloferno Vitellozza, Signor Luigi Mei ; Gennaro, Signor
Mario.

To conclude with the third and fourth acts of the opera,
I MARTIRI,
Paulin, Madame Julienne (of the Academie Royale, Paris) ;
Severns, Signor }Concord ; Felix, Signor Marini; Nearcns, Signor
Stigelli ; a Christian, Signor Soldi ; Calisthenea, Signor Polonini ;
Polyutus, Signor Tamberlik.
Composer, Director of Music, and Conductor, Mr. Costa.

The performances commence at Eight o'clock precisely.
Tickets for the Boae?, Stalls, or the Pit may be had ,for the
Night or Season), at the Box-oflice of the Theatre, which is open
from Eleven till Five o'clock ; and of the principal librarians and
musicsellers.

TREATILE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. R Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton.
THIS EVENING,
be performed an entirely new comic Drama, entitled MIND
OUR OWN BUSINESS, by Mesa, B. Webster, Leigh Murray,
7duckstone, and Keeley ; Mrs. Stirling, Miss Reynolds, Bce.

Alter which a new linrlesquc on ti-irightfullY popular subject, to
be called 0, OEMINI ; or, the. Brothers of Co(u)rse. Characters by
Meisrs. Buckstone, Bland, Woolger ; Mesdames Buckingham, Col-
line, Cau.tleld.Honey. &e.
To conclude with BOX AND COX, by Messrs. Keeley and Buck-
atone.

THEATRE ROYAL, kbELPHI.
Leased, ,17 r. B. Wbbster ; Direare,s, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed SEA and LAND. r!tiaracters by Messrs. Paul
Bedford, Wright, Hughes, 0. Smith. Worrell, Zmery Misses Ellen
C haplin, K. Pazwilliam, and Mrs. Keeley.
After which, a devilish new Extravaganza, called MEPHISTO-
PIIELE. Characters uy \lr. Honey, Miss Fitzwilllam, and Miss
Woolgar.
After which, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO LAM-
B iaLWELL ?

ROYAL PRINC Ess'S THE k TRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed the CORSICAN ft MOTHERS. Principal
Q.haracters by Messrs. O. Kean, A. Wigan, Eyder, Meadows, J.
Vining, J. Chester ; Misses t- aillips, Murray, Robertson, and C.
Leeltreci.
Alter which A LUCKY FRIDAY, in which Mr. A. Wigan will
aPl'ear.
To conclude with a new and original Fairy Tale (compressed into
one act). entitled WITTIKIND AND lIIS BROTHERS . or, the
;even swan Princes and the Fair Melusine.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Vestrie.
sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Ma, hews.
In consequence of the inalspositioa of Madame Vestris,
• TIIIB r.:VEN4NO,
Will be performed

FORTY AND FIt'TY.
After which

VAR GAME OF SPECULATION. Principal characters by
,Attasrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, R. Roxby, B. Baker ; 51111. C.
/font, and Miss M. Oliver.
To concutle with
A PRACTICAL MAN.

FLE 1 'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal highness
Prince Albert.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
,post successful and popular Theatre in London.
THIS EVENING,
be presented the gorgeous Equestrian Spectacle of ST.
°IIGE and the DRAGON. St. George, Mr. Alfred Cooke.
.t? be ioilowei by tsatty's Inimitable Scenes or the Arena.
4,Loonelude with a Laughable farce.
-.'"%t* to be had at the Box-office item Eleven till lour daily.

Stage Manager, Mr. Leclercq.

tOYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

Open for the Season,
Monds.y T a y ednesday Thursday, and Friday.
E"ittti3n of Deitsaon- . sW(I
VULCANolosak ,anDadylight View of MOUNT
7...T.N.A. and the cAArEs-if-the CYCLOPS—Splendid
and interestinz Az
- rivalled Militar--Anaaerie—Promenade Concert by Godfrey's un-
y Itand—Varions Amusing Novelties—Concluding at
Dusk with a Ciram
Pyrotechnic Exhibition by Messrs. Southby,
representing the Interior of the Mountain (the Pandemonium of the
Ancients), with the Caytrn. and Forges of Vulcan and his Cyclops,
the whole terminating
with the Eruption oi.hlount Etna and a
Arm Grand fableau on
our of Achilles.the Lake of Thetis, and the Nlriads receiving the
Doty open froin,Nln. e
rir _Al ~,
t Feeding the Animals at Five. Con-
cut at flalf-POt
.fromii__bW Yorks at Half-past Nine.
N. ONE SHILLING.'

CREMOR/rE (3,---,-----------
Open for the jtear)ENS.
-o
THIS EVENING—A Balloon Aftent 'e.
Mon of Entertainments from Three o'clock° uninterrupted sueces-
professor Taylor andtal Concert, the Kafir
eluding a new Ballet, Vocal and Inßtnooritil near Midnight,
Chiefs, the the Comical pegs'
the Tight Hope, Dancing on the Platform .
ar., " Son, Violante on
Open at Three (~dock.', Ore,
admission, is. ; Children, Ralf
____ -Price,

HIGH ER
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.21,18 DAT —Morning
14P-Moasow—alarning 36 Lain. after 12
altar 1

DAILY WEATHER TABLE;
'fate of the Wind and Weather at each of the felt Germ
•
Places at Nine o'clock on Saturoo morning---The atationga
are arranged in order of latitude.
Poorz—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—rain.
lboarsstourx—Wind N.E., gentle breeze rain.
t[AttTLNOi—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—overcast.
SOUTHAMPTON—Wind N.E., strong breeze--rain.
Fomorsromit—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—rain.
Tmesamiam—Wind N., gentle breeze—rain-
OR.EENWlCH—Calm—heavy rain.
BvingDox Wind E., gentle breeze—rain
C AMBRIDGE— Wi n N.E., gentle breeze--rain.
71Aaatouirri—Wind N., strong breeze—rain.
nalecaersa--Wind N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy
ind N., gentle breeze—principally clear.
-.DARLINGTON— ind N•lsi IV., strong breeze—showery.
.—Wind N., gentle breeze—principally clear.
-Vble returns from the following places indicate the state of
the. wind and -weather on Friday ;flormeg at"
bec,;er k

..v;tui K. gentle breeze partially .cloady.
.CAHLew—Wind N.W , gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
Mina-moan—Wind stri.vg breeze,—overcast.
afiorn.te— Wird N. E., gentle breeze-.-rain
linoirrox—Wind N.IJ gentle ove reast
deoLcto,sTKß—Wind N. gentle breeze -overeamt,
-Stahl tNOII.AM-- N'.E., gentle breeze—p.rtially cloudy.
N.E., gentle breeze—overcast.
.kazreasTae.—Wind N.W., calm—partially cloudy.
zitvillY—Wind N., gentle breeze—toga.
vatr'uticeros—li ind E N. E , strong breeze—overcast.
ind N., gentle breeze -overcast.
E strong breeze.—overcast.

T
rllll.l. MURDER AND ROBEItRY.—Lie funeral
of the unfortunate victim of the late murderous attack at
jdull, who was highly respected by his employers and all to
'Whom he was known, took place on Thursuay, the hearse
being accompanied by five carriages, a long train of mourners,
Mind a dense crowd of spectators, numbering nearly 2,000
pty jpie. It is stated that a chain of evidence
is in prepara-
tion which bide fair to unravel the mystery and bring the
perpetrators to justice. A reward of 50/. has been offered
-tor the apprehension
of the murde
rer by' Ur. Thomas, and it
is supposed that Government will add a further reward.

The arrival of Sir HARRY SMITH yesterday at
Spithead is well timed, seeing that that gal-
lant officer may now obtain an opportunity
of having hie character yet further vindicated
in the Legislature before the dissolution of the exist-
ing Parliament. As a military commander it must
be allowed that he requires not one .word more of
commendation. His capacity in this respect has been
sufficiently attested by the whole course of his career
in arms. Had there been at any period serious doubt
upon that subject, that doubt must assuredly have
been at once dissipated by the decisive opinion ex-
pressed not long since in the House of Lords by
the Duke of WELLINGTON. His Grace, it will
be remembered, gave to the conduct of our
troops at the Cape from first to last,
both in regard to time and to individuals, the fullest
measure of approbation. The soldiers, he said, had
acted as became the members of their profession, the
officers had displayed gallantry throughout, while
the Commander-in-Chief had revealed a sagacity in
his arrangements and an intrepidity in their de-
velopment such as must tend very considerably
to enhance his already wide and elevated reputa-
tion. After declarations like those coming from
the lips of the Duke of WELLINGTON, his Excellency
the late Governor of the Cape, together with those
who acted under his orders, previously to the arrival
of Major-General 'CATHCART, might well dispense
' with any approval from a civilian like the ex-Colonial
Secretary. But as the representative of his SO-
VEREIGN,' acting in a position of great importance,
and at a juncture fraught with the very weightiest
responsibilities, Sir HARRY SMITH requires that bis
character, in the discharge of his most difficult and
onerous duties, should pass altogether scathless from
charges such as those of shameful incapacity or of cul-
pable precipitation. Accusations tantamount to these, it
cannot be forgotten, were addressed to his Excellency
by Earl GREY in the notorious and intemperate dis-
patch of the 14th of January.. The abrupt resigna-
tion of the Ministry in February prevented the sub-
ject of the Colonial Secretary's conduct in this par-
ticular from being brought under the consideration
of the House of Commons, as was threatened by the
motion of Mr. ADDERLEY. So unjustifiable, however
was the proceeding of Earl GREY considered to
be on all hands, that it was regarded at
the time as not at all extravagant to suppose that the
dread of the exposure consequent upon the inquiry
provoked by the Hon. Gentleman the Member for
North Staffordshire in a great measure precipitated
the downfall of the Whig Government. Supposing
this to have been the case, or not, it were clearly but
justice to a distinguished officer, like Sir HARRY
SMITH, that his character should be relieved from the
weight of these most unstatesmanlike aspersions. No
mawkish sentiment of good nature towards Earl
GREY should influence the independent Members
of the Legislature, so as to withhold them from do-
manding the formal vindication of the general officer
who, as Governor of the Cape, was recently directing
the operations in Kafirland. The ex-Colonial Secre-
tary evinced so little regard for the feelings of a
brave old captain, who had, during so many years,
and in so many quarters of the globe, done good ser-
vice to the country, that we cannot recognise the
propriety of taking his own so very seriously into
account. Toe dispatch al ready referred to,
moreover, ha,, been formally printed in the
Parliamentary Blue Rook relating to the Cape
dem torl4, therefore, some
corrobp ,n knee. E
—or rather, we should say,
equally formal disavowal
some equally formal contradiction. His Grace the
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF 1185 virtually pronounced ahe
charges contained in that cruel document of the 14th
of January to be altogether unjustifiable; and surely
no Time man is going to declare a preference for
Earl GREY'S opinion 'upon it military question
beyond that pronounced Oy Field-Marshal the Duke
of WELLINGTON I Now, therefore, that Sir HARRY
SMITH has actually arrived in this country it is to
be hoped some active efforts will he made to exonerate
him explicitly and directly from the accusations con-
tained in the Colonial Secretary's dispatch of the
14th of January. This a e consider to be more
peculiarly requisite under the circumstances, seeing
that the latest accounts from the seat of war in
Southern Africa show that his Excellency the late
Governor had almost brought the negotiations for a
treaty of peace to a conclusion immediately before
the period of his departure.

Intelligence, it will be perceived, has been brought
simultaneously from the seat of war in the Burmese
dominions of ano less gratifying description. Par-
ticulars will be found elsewhere of the daring opera-
tions which during the earlier days of last April
led to the capture, of Rangoon, together with the
seizure also' of - Matarban. So signal, indeed,
have been our victories in that quarter,
that the enemy seems to hitie been routed
in absolute consternation their powder ma-
gazines being blown up, their walls battered
down, and no less than 120 pieces of 'artillery
taken after a terrible slaughter. During forty-eight
hours, according to one of the eye-witnesses of the
bombardment, "the Burmese saw nothing but falling
stars and meteors. They certainly must have thought
us devils, for shells, shrapnel, carcase, and rockets
were flying, were falling all round them ; and the
place actually stinks from the dead and dying."
Notwithstanding the comparative impunity with
which all that was accomplished, our brave sol-
diers appear to have been subsequently threatened
with a devastation no less dreadful than that car-
ried by their arms among the ranks of the
Burmese. Cholera had broken out before
the last accounts left the vicinity of Rangoon, and it
is to be feared that by.that fatal disease the conquered
race may have been very speedily and frightfully.
avenged. One reflection is irresistibly forced upon
the mind by the consideration of these particulars,
and that is the advisability of those in command both
ln.A.va and Africa carrying out as speedily as pos-
sible
seif. thgreaitir:taic:infii::.gyotiations with the Burmese and
the
People of Kafirland. By this course alone can
i our recent succeases be rendered subjects for national
further expenditure of blood
ourand money
dipionlatng
rendered unnecessary by the skill of
correspondence.

The Pap,,_ „,
is ,lready taking effect upon his supporters. It will
ourselves referred, during the
the declaration of Lord DERRY
c6111"5" of leit Wefic to we
import
hopeless of being enabled to thAt br was alts ether
corn in the course
re-
vive tte unpopulur
we predicted
or ;.bP t f aiii g P.rliirne7 uw'n
; and it cAinot be forgotten
yet wore hn .
ea readdyheing
that ppily for the Free-
traders than we had, with
all ourarelsanguine confidence,
verified,
anticioatet Our assurancesactiv
for already the more
energetic sup-
porters of the prevent Cabinet" are thl U,ting.-....
bo,lBtill i —upon the attention of their
conFitituents the pIiEMIER'B recent
proposed
acknowledgment
of the futility of the dreams of Proteci Iu the
course of a kind of supplementary address
to the
electors of Tewlio3ury, Mr. EDWARD IsTres
Cox,
of the new candidates for the representation of one
that
borough in the new House of Commons,
re-
after
minding his intended constituents ssf his resolute de-
termination to withstand all otter9ts at their dig
;au-

chisement, observes—" Since the above was written
I have received a handbill contradicing my assertion
that Lord DERV, has altogether abandoned a bread-
tax, and asking me whit ground I have for that as-
sertion. I repeat it. Lord DERBY has abandoned all
purpose of re-imposing a duty on corn. My autho-
rity for that assertion is himself. On Monday night
last he stated, in the House of Lords, that
he had contemplated a small fixed duty en foreign
cern, only if a decisive majority of the House
of Commons should demand it. But he was
now satisfied that there was no probability of
such a majority." From this it will be perceived by
the Free-traders-throughout the United Kingdom
what good effect has even, now been produced by the
PRIME MINISTER'S confession that it is idle to dream
of witnessing the restoration of the system of agri-
cultural monopoly. In auguring so well from the
first moment, on the utterance of the words here
alluded to as having fallen from the bead of her
MAJESTY'S Government, we were obviously not
speaking with any degree of extravagance
or precipitation. What says the gentle-
man whose remarks we have already quoted,
when referring to this important declaration
of Lord DERBY, in the course of his address
to the electors of Tewkesbury ? He says—
" Now, my friends, I love plain speaking and
fair dealing; and if, as An Elector' asserts,
Lord DERBY does not mean what he says/
I, for one, will not be a party to any equivocation with
you. If, after having thus intimated that he had
abandoned a corn-tax, Lord DERBY or any of his
friends should propose such a tax, I distinctly
pledge myself, not only to opp)se it, but to
withdraw my support from a Government that
could be guilty of such a breach of faith. I
hope this is sufficiently explicit. I am
thoroughly independent. I intend to continue so.
I am attached to principles, but I am not
tied to party." As far as the question of free trade
or Protection goes, this, as Mr. Cox himself wishes,
is fair dealing and plain speaking enough, but only as
far as that particular question is concerned. The
declarations of the new candidate for Tewkesbury
illustrate, however, in a very forcible manner, the
result likely to be witnessed in multitudes of other
instances comesqusnt upon the PRIME MINISTER'S re-
cognition of the impracticability of carrying out the
principles (if they can be so designated) of Protection;
Candidates, we feel satisfied, will speedily make
their appearance in all directions—wooing the posses•
sors of the elective franchise with an adroit blending
of Free-trade and Conservatism. In no instance,
however, it is to be hoped, will the Free-traders be
won over to their support without a republication of
Protectionist views as unmistakeable in its explicit-
ness as that made by Mr. Cox in his recent address
to the electors of Tewkesbury. Otherwise the more
credulous may awake on the opening of the new
Parliament to the fact that they have been
caught in a trap very cleverly (can we
be forgiven a pun upon SHAKSPERE for the
felicity of its application ?) " with 'bated breath
and whispered humbleness." Let those among the
Free-traders who have an eccentric hankering after
what is called " Conservatism"—but what in
reality tco often means an elaborately or-
ganized system of " Do-nothing-ism"—beware
as carefully as RICHARD 111. himself of what cannot
seriously be deemed otherwise than " a shallow sub-
terfuge of the enemy." Let them remember the
penalties which may follow in spite of this palateable
gilding of Free-trade, from their inadvertently swallow-
ing the bolus of ultra-Conservatism. It will bi too
late to reflect upon this when once the new Parlia-
ment has been assembled. It must be borne in re-
collection at once, and acted upon with becoming
promptitude: The danger must be discussed by the
Liberal Free-traders betimes, and, as Mr. PIPER says,
with such impressive fervour—" repeatually." What
the country has to dread now is—not ultra-Conserva-
tism without Free-trade, but Free-trade with
ultra-Conservatism.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.