The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-24 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining.
On EASTER MONDAY. THE COMEDY OF ERRORS.
The Two Dromios, by the Brother; Webb.
After which, PAUL'S RETURN.
To conclude with, first time, a new Farce, by J. M. Morton,
Esq., entitled DRAWING-ROOM, SECOND FLOOR, AND
AT l' ICS.

OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter.
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On EASTER MONDAY, the performance will commence
with THE DAY AFTER THE FAIR: Messrs. Widdi-
combe, Garden, Moreland, and Miss E. Lavenu.
A tter which, at Eight o'clock, the 117th Night of BEL
DEHONIO, a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from
Stendhal's "Italian Chronicle •." Principal character by Mr.
Fechter. Messrs. Jordan, Charles, J. Brough ,m, Emery,
Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, Collett, Sims ; Miss
Kate Terry, Miss E. Lavenu, Sirs. Lee, Miss Elsworthy.
The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge is
liiade to the occupants of Boxes, Box-places, or Stalls, either
for play bills or for the safe keeping of hats and cloaks, and
teat the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to
receive any gratuities whatever.
Box-office open daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the
Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER.
Nightly filled with Rank and Fashion.—rhe highly popu-
lar new Comedy of The Silver Lining every Evening until
further notice.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Stir-
ling, Mrs. Frank Matthews, &c. The following eminent
artistes are engaged to appear:—Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr.
end Mr,. Charles Mathews, Mr. J. L. Tv()le, Mr. J. Clarke,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Matthews, Mrs. Stirling, Miss Herbert,
Mr. Paul Bedford, Mrs. Howard Paul, Miss A. Cottrell, Mr.
F. Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti
Josephs, Miss Wentworth, kc.
Every Evening, at 7, UNDER THE ROSE : Mr. Ashley;
Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Patti Josephs (her second appearance
this season).
At a quarter before 8, the successful new Comedy, by
L. Buckingham, Esq., entitled 'DIE SILVER. LINIXG
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Stirling, llsss A. Cot-
trell, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ashley,
Mr. Montague.

At 10, Mr. Charles Mathews, juBt translated from the
French, in his characteristic character of Un Anglais Timide,
called COOL AS A CUCUMBER.

On EASTER MONDAY, first time at this Theatre, the
popular c as Ica` Extravaganza, by J. B. Planche, of the
GOLDEN FLEECE. Characters by Mt. and Mrs. Charles
Mathews, Mr. J. Clarke, and Miss A. Ccttrel .

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Sole Proprietor and Manazer. Mr. B. Webster.
For the Benefit of Mr. J. W. Anson, Treasurer.
THIS EVENING. THE WOMAN HATER: Mr. Benj.
Webs:er, and Miss H. Simms.
Eon Miss Poole.
Followed by THE BONNIE FISHWIFE. Mr. J. Clarke
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Commence at 7.

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Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough.
On EASTER MONDAY, a new Comedietta, A HUNT
FOR A HUSBAND.
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AND EURY ()ICE : Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton,
Mesdames Swanborough, Marie Wilton, Hughes, Sce.

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The Weather—Sun Office, March 24, 1864.

THERMOMETER.
This day at Two o'clock

Barometer-29,91.
Wind—East; moderate breeze, and fine.

HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE.
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LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1864.

The Conference is reported to have baen defini-

tively accepted by the Austrian and Prussian
Governments. Accepted by them without any de-
tailed basis, and, of course, without any prospect
even of an armistice. The intimation that such is
the understanding comes to us ominously together
with rumours of further and fiercer fighting be-

tween the belligerents before Diippel. Statements
were even put forth freely in Paris last evening to
the effect that Diippel had been actually carried by
storm at the cost of a very heavy sacrifice of life
both to the assailants and assailed, by the Anstro-
Prussians. The veracity of this flying rumour,
however (doubtful at the time of its vacillating
movement hither and thither among the Parisian
❑ewemongers), has since then been very generally
discredited. Yet, no matter what may chance to be
the veritable situation of things in that part of the
invaded territory—there at Diippel, confronting
each other in arms, are, beyond a doubt of it, the
belligerents. Holstein has long since been corn-
p!etely overrun by the German soldiery. Schleswig,
saving only one small and comparatively insigni-
ficant portion of the province, has been taken com-
plete possession of by the Austro-Prussians. Inso-
much, indeed, has it been eeizcd and monopolised by
them that the Danish functionaries have, one and all
of them, given place to duly appointed subjects of
one or another among the Sovereign houses com
posing that Diet, whose capital is Frankfort-on-the-

Maine. Added to which, as a token of the com-
pleteness of this Germanic seizure of Schleswig, the
Danish language has there been, as far as might be
in any way practicable, set aside altogether as a
tongue so far illegal that it is known to be, nay, for
that matter, is virtually announced to be under a

sort of a taboo—the grand guttural German
language being substituted for it. Nor is
this all Jutland itself, as Europe generally

knows but too well, has been invaded, has had its
frontiers overrun, and though there was a rumour
for a brief interval to the effect that the Prussians

had been, on second thoughts, withdrawn from
Jutland; that rumour turned .out only all too soon
to have been wholly without any foundation. There,

in Jutland, as previously in Schleswig, and before
that in Holstein, the German invaders have
taken up a distinct position. And it is
while such, in truth, is the actual situa-
tion of things, yonder in the Danish seat of war,
that Austria and Prussia consent auspiciously to
the proposed opening of a Conference—without as
armistice ! The territorial integrity of the Danish
monarchy under the present dynasty is to be main-
tained, no doubt. Austria and Prussia, in point of
fact,premise as much while agreeing to this proposed
Conference without an armistice. Yes, the territorial
integrity is to be maintained—but, the invasion of
the Danish territory is to be maintained also; the war
is to be continued. The arguments of the diploma-

tists at the coancil board of the Conference are liable,
all the while the Conference is sitting, to be in,

terfered with, interrupted, rendered nugatory,
rendered it may even prove to be, at any moment
during the existence of the Conference, absolutely
ridiculous—by the sheer force of the feats of war
accomplished by the rival commanders-in-chief.
The futility of Conferences holden daring a war,
holder while war is in actual progress, holden
in other words without the all essential prelimi-
nary of an armistice—the futility of Conferences of
that dubious character, has long and long ego come
to be proverbial. It is for all the world like—what
shall we say ? Well, let us say, it is like arguing
as coolly as may ba in any way practicable, as to the
probability of being able to put a stop to a confla-
gration already commenced—arguing thus (as far as
may be in any way practicable) coolly while the
floors under our feet and the walls around us are
hot and crackling with the advancing flames. Nay,
it is a more wilfully irrational proceeding in its way
than even that would be. It is arguing at a council
board, the lights at which are stuck in open barrels
of gunpowder. So auspicious, under the actual
circumstances, is this acceptance by the Austrians
and Prussians of a Cenference—without an armistice.

Clouds of ominous portent are gathering thickly
round the present Administration. Not only is their
immecliate course beset with difficulties—not only
have they fallen into contempt abroad, and arrayed
against them the general feeling of the public at
large and the patriotic sense of both Houses—not
only are they perplexed by their own vacillation
and inconsistency which causes them alternately to
do too little and too much—but they have the satis-
faction of seeing their opponents slowly but surely
gaining strength, rallying their forces, raising their
standards, and preparing their plans for the coming
campaign. The Conservative reaction is no longer
a vision or a theory, but an actual fact, indicated
no less certainiy in the altered tone of the adherents
of that party than in the e:e3tion returns. Instead
of mourning over ancient losses, they now busy
themselves in reckoning up prospective gains ;
instead of anathematising the injustice which drove
them from office, they discourse, half triumphantly,
half scornfully, on the mistakes and errors of their
rivals. The dislodgement of the present unlucky
occupants of the Ministerial benches is confidently
spoken of, and it deserves to be especially remarked
as indicative of the causes of their rapid declension
in popular favour, that the grounds of their coming
dismissal are by no means purely Conservative.
Our foreign policy, that ingenious science of nrd-
dling and muddling by which Earl RUSSELL has
contrived to abandon De mark, to crouch to
America, to fan the flame of war between Russia
and Poland, without Tanning the risk of being
scorched himself, to incense France, to encourage
Prussia on the road to ruin, to proclaim universal
peace, while Englishmen were fighting in Japan,
Chine, India, and New Zealand—this new RUSSELL
code is undoubtedly foremost among the reasons for
the Ministerial decline. But with regard to
domestic matters they do not escape scathless. Re-
form, that wonder-working word, which was at one
time the strength and the war-cry of the Whigs,
has long since become their weakness and their
bugbear. At one time the cry of Reform was suffi
cient to rally all the wavering supporters of the
House of RUSSELL. At present it points the
sharpest arrow which can be aimed at our ennobled
Foreign Secretary. The advice to " rest and be
thankful" may be very welcome and appropriate
when the mountain top is gained, bat the guide
who proffers it by word and example when only
half way up is likely to be looked upon with irrita-
tion and suspicion. The public, disgusted with the
Liberalism which avoids the question of the frau-
, chile, and unconditionally rejects the ballot, is in-