The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-30 00:00:00

THEAT RV-ROY AL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee. Mr. J. B. Bnckstone.
THIS EV-ENING, THE WOLF AND THE LAMB.
After which, at hall-past 7, will be performed (186th time)
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck-
stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern.
Followed by a new Spanish Ballet entitled LA CONTRA.-
BANDISTA. Senora Perea Nene, Senor Ricardo, and the
Corps de Ballet.
To conclude with TAE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer.
169th Night of the continuous run of "Peep o'Day."
THIS E VENLVG, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish.
Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville,
and Edmund FalcOner Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara
Weston, and Miss M. Hudson.
After which, a new Lnusical, Pictorial, Poetical, and ballet
interlude, entitled KILLARNEY' Miss Anna Whitty and
Miss Lydia Thomson.
To conclude with the newf entitled I COULDN'T
Addison, Mr. Warlow, and
HELP IT. Characters by Mr:
Miss Lydia Thompson.
Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Prices as usual. Doors open athalif-past 6, to commenCe at
Roz-office open daily from 11 tills.
Commence a 7

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11..? OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr A. Harris.
ri IS EVEG, THE RENDEZVOUS. Messrs. Higgie.
Meadows, anditc. Mies Maria Harris.
After which. THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Fabien
and Louis de Franchi, Mr. Charles Kean ; Meors. Jordan,
Everett, R. Cathcart, Meadows, dm ; Mesdames Fielding,
Chapman, R. Leclercq, Henderson, and N. Chapmait
To conclude with THRICE MARRIED.
Commence at 7. No half-price.

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Solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.

THIS EVENING, a new domestic drama, entitled DOT :
Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billington, Stephenson • Miss
L. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, Miss H. Simms, Miss H. Kelly,
and Mrs. H. Marston.
To be followed by THE OCTOROON. Messrs. Dian
Boncicault, Emery, Jamison, Billington, P. Bedford, Phillips,
itephenson, Powell, Romer; 'qrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Mar-
ston, Miss Latimer, and Miss Denvil.
Commence at 7.
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CA NTERBURY HALL
ARTS GALLERY.
The mit'sctilous STECKEL at a quarter to 11.
Grand Selectioos from " Lucrezia Borgia," by Miss Rus-
sell, with Band and full Chorus, conducted by M.
Jongh-
mans.
Great success of UNSWORTIL in his celebrated Stump
Speech "Or any other man " the orig-inal), and EUGENE,
in his Burlesque Singing and Jouncing, Ten uclutaL.
JOE BROWN, the renowned American Prize Jig DaliCer,

AND FINE

for a few weeks Only.
Also the following Comic favourites —Mr. Ralinendall, Mr
Hollingsworth, Mr. J. G. Forde, and Miss Caro Parke
in her new entertainment.
nley beg to inform visitors to Lon-
Messrs. Morton and S
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don during the Exhibition that the GALLERY of PAINT
INGS well be °Pen, free. between the hours of Twelve and
'Two o'clock on and after Monday.

rrHE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET._
k Every Evening.—HENßl and PFAU on the Flying
Trapeze (last two weeks). - The unrivalled Ethiopian Come-
Rumsey and Newcomb's Minstrels, and Unsworth and
in addition to a host of comic talent. —Operatic Seleo-
Eugene,
and the
the cantata of " MAY DAY" (by G. A. Macfarren)
and the ",lolly Beggars " (by G. Linley), supported by the
entire company, including Mies Russe Mdme. Enderssohn,
liessrs. Morley, Greene, and Albert —FUII Band and Chorus.
Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
bail, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, ls. ; Private Boxes, los. 6d.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1862.

A very alarming possibility was, last evening,
hinted at as actually " upon the cards" by Mr.
GRIFFITH. It is satisfactory to know at once,
however, that it was swept aside as an utter impro-
bability by a few authoritative words from the lips
of Lord PALMERSTON. Until the Premier's
assurances were heard yesterday, the danger ap-
peared to be that the policy which two-and-twenty
years ago led the British forces into such appalling
disasters, among the- rocky passes of Cabool, might,
1.,s revived there speedily after that long
and blessed interval Of tranquillity. nistery,
was felt, might here again (according to its mys-
terious wont, so often observed elsewhere) repeat
itself. A cloud, no bigger than a man's hand, it
is true, is perceptible still to this very moment
upon the verge of that remote horizon. The
hat again that minute and
peril was, however, t
apparently insignificant forewarning might
spread—upwards towards the zenith, to the right
hand and to the left—until we might suddenly
awaken to the recognition of the fact
that it altogether over-shadowed us !
Remembering the horrors of that last
miserable war in Affghanistan ; remembering the
three sanguinary campaigns that were fought in
rapid succession in those innermost recesses of the
continent of Asia ; remembering the blood and gold
that was poured out there so lavishly by the pride
and ambition, incarnate in the British Government
—the question put to the First Lord of the Trea-
sury last, evening by Mr. GRIFFITH was certainly
one calculated to produce a shudder of anxiety
among those members present whose recollections
went back vividly to the events of 1840. Was it
likely that upon the fresh pretext now, to all ap-
pearance, at once temptingly and threateningly
held out to us, we might once more be dragged into
another cruel and costly conflict in Cabool and
Affghanistan ? By a very few words of explana-
tion, we repeat, Lord PALMERSTON has dissipated
this momentary cause for solicitude. He has de-
monstrated, as clearly as language could demon-
strate anything, that the idea of any such renewal
of hostilities is altogether preposterous. He has
recalled to mind, the formal and substantial gua-
ran tees we have of the maintenance of peace between
our own Government and that of the Shah of
PERSIA in regard to the very point now in dispute,
in respect
to this precise source of disquietude.
The relations between the two Governments, those
namely, of Great Britain and of Persia, have
been regulated now for upwards of fi
—ve years in
accordance with the treaty which, in the March of
1857, closed the last war between those two coun-
tries. And according to an express stipulation of
that treaty, the Shah of PERSIA distinctly disclaimed
any right whatever of sovereignty over the SuvrAli
or Ruler of HERAT. The Shah of PERSIA further-
more distinctly undertook by that Treaty no longer
to allow of money being coined in Herat (as it had
been coined at intervals previously), stamped with
the name
and effigy of himself, the Shah, as Suze-
the Treaty of 1857, in fact, the
rain. Through
Persian
ght of authority
SOVEREIGN deliberately foregoes for once
he might pre-
and for all any ri
Tiously have claimed over the people and the
Sultan of HERAT. The Shah, moreover, posi-
tively engaging, by the terms of that treaty,
not to interfere idany way in future with
the internal affairs of Affghanisttsn ; but stipu-
lating, as plainly as could be, " that if any
difference arose between him and tiny of the states
orAffghanistan he was to ask the good offices of
the British Government, in order to endeavour to
obtain a proper settlement. On the other hand,"
a, Lord PALMERSTON observed the other day, " the
British Government undertook to use its good
offices with the States of Affghanistan to prevent
them from in any way giving offence to the Shah
of PERSIA, and that if any differences should arise
between Persia and Affghanistan the Government
of Great Britain would end,
aYour to compose the
quarrel in such A manner as ebt,_
—9OA be honourable
and satisfactory to Persia." Now; In the light of
these diplomatic reminders, we can all of us com-
prehend the more readily, and examine with some-
thing more of equanimity, the incidents that have