The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-26 00:00:00

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THE SUN" ON SMOKE PREVENTION. the Baltic, on which the possession of Finland and
There really ougly, not to ne any excuse for the entire
riddance of the smoke nuisance : our own experience satisfying us the security of St. Petersburg depend. At the
that the syrtem or s 'Poke prevention and economy of fuel, invented worst, if the season has been so far thrown away
ant caste.: our by Mr. Lee Stevens, as effective as it is
tot 1 we had it ally' ea to our rwn cream-. Wane turn ice, we could
the all cannot be secured this year, it will cost
torn no idea of the ease and certsinry of its operations, without any comparatively little to complete our work next
wovestre parts, and at such very m xiirate expense."—Sun. I I
summer. The first great expenditure has been
&Or) of OFFICIAL, AND OTHER REPOR CA, and of Testimo-
,,
nista in favour of the Invention, as applied to STEAM BOILERA: made, and it will only be the difference of support-
FRY COPPERS; STILLS; CHEMISTS. DYERS, and
C 3 T
OREN;ECTIONCONFECTIONER,'E,, PANS; COAL OVENS. &c, with informat•on ing our soldiers at home or abroad.
,
respecting licenses to manufacture or u4e P4tent =make ess Fur-
It will therefore, be little short of treachery to
ven by Mr. JOHN LEE STEVENS, the Patentee, at the
Europe, if Russia be suffered to negotiate as she
afgges., gNcl. FISH-STREET-HILL, FREE f-HILL, CITY, LCNDON.
is, and upon the basis of her being able to hold
the stolen territories which make her formidable
against the armies of the allies. Silistria and
Bomarsund have settled that question ; we can, if
we will, take the material guarantees for permanent
peace ; and we are bound, instead of leaving a
faithless barbarian the means of future annoyance,
to cut them off at once and for ever. Were the
CZAR a mortal accessible to any notion of honour;
had not each of the allied Governments been
obliged to convict him of the meanest lying, there
might be some reason in talking of negotiation
and treaties ; but when his word is even mole
worthless than his armies and garrisons, it
would be madness to make the least
account of it in settling this great quarrel.
The " ticket -of - leave " system can never
answer for convicted Czars ; an honest reign
over their own steppes will never content
them. They must be deprived of the means of
menacing the civilisation beyond them—must be
driven from the robbers' fastnesses which they
have constructed on territory not their own ; and
the guns of the very forts they have erected
against the liberties of their neighbours must be-
come their neighbours' " material guarantee"
against the aggressions of future Czars.
There is no security for peace without these
humiliating and now easy precautions. To leave
Russia one mile of coast, for instance, on the
Danube, is to insure another mud-bound mouth
in the course of a few years ; but to permit her
to retain both sides of any pact of the principal
mouth would render certain another series of at-
tempts at ruinous quarantine devices and ob-
structed navigation. Turkey kept the Danube
open while she had it ; she will do it still, even
without a treaty, while Russia closed it in spite of
a treaty. A child would know what to do. No
treaty with Russia is worth the paper on which it
is written ; but restore her own to Turkey, and
Europe, from east to west, would enjoy the full
advantage of that noble stream, and the trade
with the fertile provinces through which it flows.
In like manner any limitation of the power of
Russia in the Black Sea which left her any power
there at all would be equally mischievous. If
she retained Sebastopol, partially dismantled and
with a diminished fleet, who could prevent succes-
sive additions to the fortifications and ships, each
too small to become a casus belli, yet amounting
in a series of years to a most dangerous magni-
tude ? The same remarks apply the Baltic.
We could speak of Poland also ; but in the terri-
tories just adverted to the power of the Allies to
do what they must know to be necessary is un-
questionable. Let all this be done, as done it
may be, and then will be the time to talk of
Poland. A glorious crowning achievement in-
deed it would be if the royal robbers of that noble
snation were all made to disgorge, and if the land
of KOSCIUSKO became once more the barrier of
civilisation against Muscovite barbarism. But
whatever there may be across the Channel, here,
in this land of constitutional liberty, we have no
man amongst our governors able to rise to the
height of the occasion. An ABERDEEN Cabinet
and a liberated Poland are not likely to go down
to history together. We do sometimes hope that
the head of another Government may fulfil the
promise of his great ancestor.

BREWERY, COPPER, AND OTHER
FURSA`,,ES.
" The Brewery, Lichfield, 9th kugust, 1854.
ui
"Dear Sir,—We are gla tto say that your apparatu. qte bears
Nl' the assurance you gave us that it would answer our purpose
" The doubt we had as to its adaptation t furnaces with defective
draught is enlirely removed. our liquor copper now boils qu to as
soon as the wort copper, and with both there is a diminution in the
consumption of fuel.
"The experiment we witnessed at Messrs. C HARING TON, HE AD,
and CO.'S, as to smoke prevention, we hought at the time perfectly
Sneeesstel and this impresstou we are happy
to confirm from actual
eXpericnce.
"It will give us pleasure to reply to inquiries that may be made by
any Brewery Firms at Burtoo-on-Trenr, but should suggest that it
may probably be more satin actory to those gentlemen to juke for
them-elves by seeirg the tun/ices at work, and this they can de at
any :line.

We ren.t.u, dear sir,
" Yo“ri.., very truly,
JOHN AND ARTHUR GRIFFITH.

"J. Lee Stevens. 'FM"
Copies of official and other repor's, and of testimonials in favour
, e. 6 applied to -team hollers, Brewery Copiers,
btlila Chemists', Dyers', and Confectionerof Yana Coal Ovens, &c
with 'information respecting Licences to manufacture or u..ie thie
wen-. atablished system of .woke Prevent! .n and Ec, nom, of Fuel
continues to be given by Mr JOHN LEE STEVENS, the Patentee,
at the Offices, No. 1, Fish-street-hill, City, London.

LYCEUM THEATRE.—HENRY RUSSELL,
for Thirty :• ights, commencing on ,i ON LX i ,
Au.ust 28th, and every Event:l.—, r RUS'ELL will pr, sent
TfIE PROGRES4 of the KANT from the OLD WOici D to
th. NEW, and sing several new songs —" Cheer, Boys, cheer,"
" The Gambler's Wife," tce.

The Second Part will consist of a Series of Sketches, entitled
NEGRO LIFE,

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WM be performed TFIE OLD CHA.TEAII. Characters by Messrs.
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Miss Reynolds,
Followed by the SPANISH DANCERS in a NEW BALLET,
THE GIPSY QUEEN.
The new Farce AS LIKE AS TWO PEAS.

LYCEUM THEATRE.
THIi EVENING. AUGUST 25,
FOR THE BENEFIT OF Mx. ALLCROFT.

On wlfch occasion Mr. and Mrs. SIMS REEVE 4, with Mr
CHARLE, M.-1 HEWS, will make their Last Appearance in Lon.
don th,s seas. 41, when will be presented lieldtics celebrated Opera o
LA SON N A MBULA. Amina, Mt s. Sims Reeves ; Elvino, sir.
Sims Reeves.
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After which, PATTER VERSUS CLATTER. Captain Patter,
Mr.< harlea Mathews.

To be followed by TILE WATERMAN. Tom Tti;, Mr. Sims
Reeves.
To conclude with the Grand BALLET.
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ZelL

The licensed victuallers are at length exhibiting
decided manifestations of hostility to the New
Beer Law. We cannot feel surprised that those
who are so deeply injured by its vexatious pro-
visions should take the initiative against a mea-
sure, hurried, as we have already stated, " through
both Houses of Parliament with indecent speed at
the fag end of the session." But, although we
willingly recognise the large amount of capital and
the magnitude of the interests involved in the ques-
tion, as well as the great personal annoyance in-
flicted on these gentlemen, we must look at it in
even a bolder point of view. Although the case
of the licensed victuallers alone is sufficient to
command attention, and the repeal of the obnoxious
statute, yet it must be dealt with on a still
broader foundation, and the community in general,
more especially the middle and labouring classes,
who are especially concerned, must grapple with
the intolerable grievance, and endeavour to obtain
the reversal of these stringent and vexatious
enactments.
General action is requisite. Already we may
clearly discern evidence of the intention to follow
up the blow by something even more decided
next Session, if the people remain indifferent to
this unwarrantable invasion on their liberties (!)
Yes, we use the term advisedly ; every' such re-
striction is an infringement, aye, and a very gross
infringement, ou the liberty of the subject. The
next step will be the extension of the " FORBES
MACKENZIE Act" to the entire of the United
Kingdom ; and, if
.that be tolerated, the enact-
ment at no distant day of a "Maine Liquor
Law." Persons not as yet personally interested
i❑ the question, who have their own cellars and
their own clubs to resort to on Sundays, may
sc iff at this assertion. But unless they
take a more enlightened and less selfish
view of the subject, they may possibly find
results following that will " astonish their weak
minds."

The Times has already thrown out a feeler,
without openly committing itself to the extreme
line ; and veiling its arguments under sundry
hypothetical statements, it yet clearly exhibits
the animus by which it is actuated, and the ulti-
mate object at which it is aiming. it admits
that it is treading "on dangerous ground when
it so much as doubts the right to be supplied with
all kinds of liquour, at all times and places, so long
as the soul may desire it and the pocket afford
it," and even acknowledges that "the odds are
' against it, when it interferes with full liberty of
drinking !" But, notwithstanding this candour, it
unhesitatingly ventures on the dangerous ground,
and boldly takes " the odds" on the point in dis-
pute, for it shortly after declares emphatically,
that "self-preservation requires that we should
stop an evil where we can, if we should atop it
somewhere ;" and adds, " Wo cannot give up the
right and duty of society to stop crime in the bud,
and especially to prevent that day which should
have been our welfare and happiness becom-
ing to us an occasion of falling." After
such declarations it scarcely required the addition
that it would " not be misled by a few exceptional
cases of inconvenience," when demanding the
" large classes" that would " suffer by the FoRBES
IVlAcimrzrx Act as it is called, or the correspond-
ing measure in this country," to show what it is
ouigibil
the Times wants.
Every argument is in favour of an absolute
prohibition
ofthlimited the sale
saleitoedf liquorsto Sunday byrersettraiiclt,i
restriction
crim-
If it
in the be "apparently
right and duty of Society to stop
eud," it • 'is surely as much so on every
day in the week as on the Sunday. We are not to
countenance immorality
time. is gmo
on any day, or at any
gettin derate and temperate
refreshment to recruit our exhausted faculties
" a crime" that
must be
That we distinctly and
Positively . not to cast aside the blessings affordey e are
d bW P
TinTalloxlbecause some men ill y RO-
en make use of them.
We are not to probibit the moderate and tem-
perate of the many because the " few" degrade
themselves by excess. Punish h
t ose who do
wrong, but do not inconvenience the entire com-
munity because there is the possibility of
some forgetting themselves ! The old proverb
Where there's a will there's says, " a way,"
and if the inclination for ardent spirits exists it
will be indulged in, no matter how stringent may
be the restrictions imposed by the Police.
We have repeatedly asserted that "men cannot be
made religiousby Act of Parliament." We now add
that there is great dangerto all classes in attempting
to do so.: Why shmild we. 'excite a feeling of
ble seine of wrong, in any
irritability, an iUttLqa