The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-15 00:00:00

K. ALFRED MELLON'S CONCERTS
EVERY EVENING, at Eight.—ROYAL ITALIAN.
orraiA, COVENT-GARDEN.
The forowing Artistes will appear This Evening :—Mdll e.
Carlotta Patti, Mdlle. Mario Krebs ; Mr. Levy, Mr. Lazarus,
and Ali Ben Sou-alle.
BAND OF ONE rIUNDBED PERFOR3IERS.
First appearance in England of the young Polish Violinist,
I. SIEDZIELsKI.
The Programme is varied every Evening.
Conductor, Mr. ALFRED 'MELLON.
Promenade, Amphitheatre Stalls, and Amphithea're, One
On Thursday next, Aug. is, a Mendelssohn Night.

OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
11 ti Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining.
TILTS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Paddy
O'llaffe.rty, Mr. Dominick Murray.
W. which, THE sTREETS OF LONDON. Messrs.
Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her. D. Murray, J. Nelson. H.
Forre-ter. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Alalston, Miss Emma
Barnett, and Miss F nuy G-Wynne.

NEW THEATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI.-
6431 e Proort 4 tor and iianazer. Ml. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, MY WIFE'S MAID. Ilessrs. J. L.
Toole, Y. Bedford, IL Phillips, and Mr . Alfred Mellon.
After wtdcl,, MASKS AN D FACES. Messrs. B. Webster,
P. Bedford, R. Phillips, BiHinton, Stuart; Mrs. atirling,
Mrs. Billington. and Miss H. Simms.
To conclude with THE ACTOR'S RETREAT. 3leisrs,
J. L. Toole, F. Bedford, 11. Yhiliii.s, and Miss Woolgar.

Commence at 7.

nOUT NRY and SEASIDE DRESSES.
C
Messrs. JAY, of Regent-street, have now in steck a
variety of WASHING DIE-3S.NS, suitatle for the
country and seaside, and at the c earing--out puce Of Only
£1 lis. ed. the dress.

247, 249, and 251, Regent-street.

BLACK SILKS.—The price of Silks in the raw
material has already r. sot 15 per cent, and it will soon
reach a far greater per-centage. Messrs. JAY, therefore,
invite their numerous patrons to take advantage of the stock
they have on hand, which they can now dispose of on favour-
able terms ; but the same qualities will naturally b. more
costly as the price of silk fluctuates to a higher average
JAY'S,

217, 249, and 231, Regent-street.

60ALs.-1. he LLLESHALL COMPANY'S
COALS.
Direct from their own Collieries.
3r„quis'. •• •• • • 235. per ton. I Double 2os. per ton.
22 Top s. „ Deep .....215. „
Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De-
pots, yVestbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf,
rsddiugton, W., and Maiden-lane, N.
Best Coke

Terms cash.
JOHN SCOTT, Sole gent.

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LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1864.

Our Ministers having, now, scattered themselves
hither and thither for the purpose of enjoying as
usual the yearly delights of autumnal relaxation—
the Russian Autocrat (wholly unmolested, even dip-
lomatically) can trample out, as he is trampling out
accordingly, the last faint sparks of the Polish Re-
volution !—the despotic and spoliating powers of
Germany can portion out at their leisure, as they
are portioning out at their leisure accordingly the
territorial spoil torn by brutal force from the right-
ful possession of the little kingdom of Denmark!—
the bloody work of civil war, and of a civil war
with all its horrors exaggerated, can "progress,"
as it is " progressing" accordingly, without the
smallest prospect of interruption far and wide over
the ensanguined battiesfields of North America !
England, herself at peace with the world,
England, now in the plenitude of her power
and prosperity, can refrain, meanwhile, at
any rate is refraining pertinaciously and
with a heartless appearance of the most perfect
self-satisfactian, from any interference whateTer
between Russia and Poland—between Germany
and Denmark—between the Federals and the
Confederates. Her own pecuniary interests not being
affected by any one of those three lamentable in-
cidents, not being directly effected, at least by any
one among the three, according to the views of the
present reaponsibie advisers of the Crown—the
interests of humanity just go for nothing ! It
may seem—all this—to be a wretchedly pounds,
shillings, and pence view of the matter, but, however
that may be, it is the view taken by her MAJESTY'S
Ministers, and it is the view acted upon, with the
consent of the Lords and Commons in Parliament
assembled,:resolutely and persistently acted upon,
by Her MAJF,STY'S Government. The spoliation of
D mmark by Germany—it is argued—does not affect
the pockets of Englishmen. The brutal subjugation
of Poland once more under the iron heel of Muno-
vite autccracy has nothing to do with England pecu-
niarily, and therefore it has nothing to do with Eng-
land politically or morally—so—Pass it by! The
appalling continuance of slaughter upon the oppo-
site side of the Atlantic is a matter in no way
affecting cur territorial or financial arrange-
, ments therefore—Give it also the go-by !
A justification all this would almost seem to afford,
on this present ninety-sixth anniversary of the
birth of the Great NAPOLEON—a melancholy
justification all this would seem to afford
at last of NAPOLEON'S famous taunt that
England is a nation of shopkeepers ! For—the
policy now maintained, now initiated by Lord
PALMERSTON'S second Ministry, the policy
now formally accepted by the House of Com-
mons, and there very recently insisted upon as the
right policy for England, is purely and simply a shop-
keeper's policy—the policy of a shopkeeper whose
first consideration in regard to everything is—Will
it pay How will it effect the till ? Can I turn
so many pounds by it, so many shillings, so many
dirty ha'pence ? How will this matter, that I am
urged to enter into, affect—not my Heart,
not my Conscience, not my sense of
Justice, of Righ., even of Heannity, but,
how will it affect my Breeches Pocket ! That,
really and truly, " not to put too flue a point upon
it" is the plain, blunt, homely English of t his
bran new policy of Non-Intervention ! It seems
to be a cheap policy to begin with ; but, we are
inclined to think, that it will prove a particularly
The question is even now
dear policy in the end.
whether after all it is a cheap policy, seeing that
our annual expenditure upon our army and navy
is such, year after year, that we might
almost call it a war expenditure. To what
end, this war expenditure—heaven alone can
tell, this continuance of an enormous outlay year
after year upon what Mr. DISRAELI designated a
couple of sessions back (and so designated not ex-
travagantly) our " bloated armaments." Viewie4
this extraordinary new phase of the foreign
of the land of CROMWELL, of C IIATIIAM even of
CASTLEREAGII, viewing it, too, on this .‘ Fete
NAPOLEON," many a Frenchman
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wall turn over in
his memory, iike a pleasant b
i,n-bou in his mouth
NAPOLEON'S met about
The Nation of Shop.
keepers !"

Lord 11' ODEHOUSE'S a'idres3 at Norwich last
week, on the cccasion of distributing the prizes to
the successful candidates at the -University
examination, is well worth Perusal. lie
referred to the movement for the improve-
ment of the education of the children of the
middle classes, and deplored its incomplete state as
yet, which is still in its infancy. It is something,
however, that it should have been commenced at all,
and there is no reason to fear that its progress may
be marked with success, for as time proves the chit'