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

THEATRE-ROYAL,HAYMARKET.
Lessee Mr. J B. Bnckstone.
THIS EVENING, THE WOLF AND THE LAUB.
After which, at halt-past 7, will be performed (135th time)
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck-
stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern.
Followed by a new Spanish Ballet entitied LA CONTRA-
BANDISTA. Senora Perea Nena, Senor Ricardo, and the
Corps de Ballet.
To conclude with THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE.

It 0 YAL LYCEUM THEATRE
Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer.
169th Night of the continuous run of "Peep o'Day."
THIS EVENING, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish.
Messrs. Waiter Lacy, .
Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville,
and Edmund Ealconet • Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara
Weston, and Miss M. Hudson.
After whit,h, a new musical, pictorial. poetical, and ballet
interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and
Miss Lydia Thomson.
To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T
HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and
Miss Lydia Thompson.
Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 8, to commence at
!!. Box-office open daily from 11 tillS.
Commence a 7

I_ll OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, THE RENDEZVOUS. Messrs. Higgie,
Meadows, &c., and Miss Maria Herrin.
After which, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Fabien
and Louis de Franchi, Mr. Charles Kean ; Messrs. Jordan,
Everett, R. Cathcart, Meadows, &c. ; Mesdames Fielding,
Chapman, R. Leclercq, Henderson, and N. Chapman.
To conclude with THRICE MARRIED.
Commence at 7. No half-price.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
sole Pronrfator and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, a new domestic drama, entitled DOT :
'Messrs. .1. L. Toole, Emery, Billington, Stephenson Miss
L. Keeley, Miss Wuolgar, Miss H. Simms, Miss K. Kelly,
and Mrs. H. Marston.
To be followed by THE OCTOROON. Messrs. Dion
Boncican It, Emery, Jamison, Billington, P. Bedford, Phillips,
Stephenson, Powell, Romer; Airs. Billington, Mrs. IL Mar-
ston, Miss Latimer, and Miss Denvil.
Commence at 7.
CANTERBURY HALL
AWfB GALLERY.

AND FINE

The miraculous STECKEL at a quarter to 11.
Grand Selections trom " Lucretia Borgia," by Miss Ru.s:
sell, with Band and full Chorus, conducted by Mr. "nga
mans.

Great success of UNSWORTII, in his celebrated Stump
Speech " Or any other man " the original), and EUGENE,
in his Burlesque Singing and Dancing, at Ten o'clock.
JOE BROWN, the renowned American Prize Jig Dancer,
for a few weeks only.
Also the following Comic favourites —Mr. Randall, Mr.
tiollinvsworth, Mr. J. G. Forde, and Miss Caroline Parkes
in her new entertainment.
Messrs. Morton and Stanley beg to inform visitors to Lon-
don during the Exhinition that the GALLERY of PAINT-
INGS well be Open, free between the hours of Twelve and
Two o'clock on and after Monday.

rf' HE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STRE
Every Evening.—TlENßl and PFAU on the Flying
Trapeze (last two weeks). The unrivalled Ethiopian Come-
trans, Rumsey and Newcomb's Minstrels, and Unsworth and
Eugene, in addition to a host of comic talent—Operatic Selec-
tions and the cantata of " MAY DAY" (by G. A. Macfarren)
and the "Jolly Beggars" (by G. Linley), supported by the
entire company. including Miss Reese , Mame. Enderssohn,
Messrs. Morley, Greene, and Albert.—Full Band and Chorus.
Musical Director, Mr. P. Jonghmans.
ii all, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, Is. ; Private Boxes, 108. 6d.

lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 2h. 58m.—Afternoon, 3h. 15m.
To-MORROW.-Morning, 3h. 31m.—Afternoon, 3h. 48m.

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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
assl%rances were heard yesterday, the danger ap-
peared to be that the policy which two-and-twenty
years ago led toe British forces into such appalling
disasters, among the rocky passes of Cabool, might,
perchance, be revived there speedily after that long
and blessed interval of tranquillity. History, it
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
peril was, however, that again that minute and
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-
rantees 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
o five years in
f
been regulated now for upwards
of
with the treaty which, in the March of
1857, closed the last war between those two coun-
tries. And according to An express stipulatio nof
that treaty, the Shah of PERSIA distinctly disclaimed
any right whatever of sovereignty over the SULTAN
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-
rain. Through the Treaty of 1857, in fact, the
Persian SOVEREIGN deliberately foregoes for once
and for all any right of authority he might pre-
viously 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 in any way in future with

the internal affairs of Alfghanistan ; but stipu-
lating, as plainly as could be, " that if any
difference arose between him and any of the states
of Affghanistan he was to ask the good offices of
the British Government, in order to endeavour to
obtain a proper settlement. On the other hand,"
as Lord PALMERSTON observed the other day, " the
British Government undertook to nse its good
offices 'with the States of Affg,hanistan to prevent
them from in any way giving offence to the Shah
of PEr.stA, and that if any differences should arise
between Persia and
woAffghanistan the Government
of Great Britain would endeavour to compose the
quarrel in such a manner as might be honourable
and satisfactory to Persia." N . •
ow, in the light of
these diplomatic reminders, We can all
of
us com- '
with some-
thing the more readily, and examine
thing more of equanimity, the incidents that hays • 1