The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-07 00:00:00

LONDON, BRIGHTON, and SOUTH-COAST
RAILWAY.—Notice is Hereby Given, That the SPECIAL or
t'RAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of this Company, ad-
ve•ctised to be holden at the Bridge-house Hotel, in the Borough of
gmahwerk, on the 17th day of June instant, WILL NOT BE
BOLDEN on that day, such Meeting being POSTPONED until the
21st day of June instant.
Dated this 7th June, 1854. SAMUEL LAING, Chairman.
FREDERICK SLIGHT, Secretary.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, and SOUTH-COAST
RAILWAY.—Notice is Hereby Given, That an EXTRAOR-
DINARY or SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the PUOPRIE-
of the LONDON, BRIGHTON; and SOUTH-COAST RAIL-
WAY COMPANY will be held at • the Bridge-Ileums Hotel; in the
Borough of Southwark, on WEDNESDAY, the 21-se day of June
Instant, at One o'clock precisely, for the purpose of authorising the
Company to raise an additional capital not exceeding 309,0701., by
the creation of new shares or stock, or partly by the creation of new
shares or stock, and partly by mortgage cr bond. to be issued on
Such terms, and at such times, in such matter and amount, and to
such persons as such Meeting may determine, and to pass such reso-
lutions thereon as such Meeting may deem advisable.
Dated this 7th day of June, 1854.
SAMUEL L AING, Chairman.
FREDERICK SLIGHT, Secretary.

FOR THE BENEFIT OF MADAME CELESTE.
THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.
Madame CELESTE (Directress of this Popular Establish-
ment) begs to inform the nobility, gentry, and public in general, that
her ANNUAL BENEFIT will take place THIS EVENING,
June 7, when will be revived (for this night only), the celebrated
drama of THE THIRST OF GOLD ; or, the Lost Ship, and the
Wild Flower of Mexico. With the unique grand scenic effect of the
Sea of Ice. Madame Celeste, Mr. Keeley, and Mr. B. Webster sus-
taining their original characters. After which will be produced
a New Extravaganza, entitled A MOVING TALE, supported by
Mr. Keeley, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with the popular Nautical Drama of the CABIN BOY.
Julien (her original character), Madame Celeste. Tickets, Places,
and Private Boxep to be had at the theatre.

WHITSIIN HOLIDAYS.-ROYAL
SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—Ascent in a
BALLOON from the Esplanade, in front of the Lake, by the veteran
GREEN, the only ascent here for Eighteen years. Vocal and Instru-
mental Concert. by
Miss Poole, Miss Eansford and Mr. Manvers.
An extra Military Band during the day. Extensive and interesting
Menagerie, ten Lions, three Elephants, two Tigers, two Giraffes,
two Camels, &a. Various novel amusements, concluding with a dis-
play
of Firework,. gorgeons beyond description. The bombardment
:;f6hnsan. Explosion of Eireshlps, and Balloon ascent at half-past
Six. Concert at Seven. Fireworks quarter to Ten. Doors open
from Nine in the morning. Admission to the whole, Is.

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.

THIS EVENING, JuNia 7,
sgrin be performed LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Lucia, 3fdlle.
Agnes Bury ; Alise, Madame Ileadricli; Raymond, Signor Arnoldi;
Lord Arthur, Signor Santi ; Norman, Signor Castelli ; Lord Henry
Ashton, Mr. Weiss; and Edgardo, Mr. Sims Reeves.
Followed by the new BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled
UNE 'FETE EN OLTMPE.
Prime—SeillA is: Dress Circle, 35.; Boxes, 3s ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery,
le.; and Private Boxes, One, Two, Three and Four Guineas. The
Box-office open daily from Ten till Six, where places may be
secured. Private Boxes and Stalls to be had of Messrs. Leader and
Click, 62, New Bond-street.

THE A.TRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Under the management of Mr. SackstDne.

THIS EVENING, JIINEI T,

MU be performed the Drama of TETE KNIGHTS OF THE
ROUND TABLE. Characters by Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, G.
Yandenhoff, W. Farren, Compton, and Buckstone ; Miss Reynolds,
Miss E. Grey, and Mrs. FitAwilliarn.
After which, the entirely new and original extravaganza, entitled
MR. BUCKSTONE'S VOYAGE ROUND TETE GLOBE (IN LEI-
CESTER•SQUARE), written by J. B. Planche, Esq.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES KEAN.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 7.
Will be performed FROM VILLAGE TO COURT. Principal
characters by Messrs. Harley, Fisher, and Cathcart; Misses Mur-
ray, Heath, and Vlvash.
Followed by FAUST AND MARGUERITE. Characters by
Messrs. C. Kean and David Fisher ; Mrs. Winstanley and Miss C.
Leclercq.

To conclude with A STORM IN A TEA-CUP. Principal cha-
racters by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy.

LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the management of Madame Vestrts.

THIS EVENING, JUNE 7,

Will be performed BEFORE BREAKFAST. Characters by Mr
C. Mathews, Messrs. F. Matthews, Swan, and Baker; Miss Wad
ham, &c.
Followed by GIVE A DOI AN ILL NAME.
To conclude with TRYING IT ON.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste,
THIS EVENING, JUNE 7.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEITRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.
THIS EVENING, Jens 7,
Will be performed the Comic Drama called HUSH MONEY.
Characters by Messrs. F Robson, Emery, White, and Vincent; Miss
Dormer, and Mrs. A. Wigan.
To be followed by THE FIRST NIGHT. Ckaracters by Messrs.
Alfre I Wigan, Leslie, Franks, Harwood Cooper, and Vincent ; Miss
r. Horton, and Miss Wyndham.
After which. THE MUMNIY. Characters by Messrs. H. Wigan,
Robson, H. Cooper; Misses Marston and E. Turner.

STRAND THEATRE.

Eole Lessee Mx. F. W. Alle:oft.—Direetrem, Miss Rebecca Isaacs

THIS EVENING, Jmits 7,
Will be performed THE LADY OF LYONS.
To be followed by the New Ba'let Divertissement. entitled THE
•SEA NYMPH'S CAVE.

To be followed by THE WATERMXN.
Alter which, THE MARBLE LOVER.
Steil% se.; Boxes. 34.; Pit, Is. 6d; Gallery, Gd.; Private Boxes,
£1 I Is. Ad.. to be had of Mr. Allcroft, 15, New Bond-street.

ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Ceoke.
THIS EVENING. JaNI3 7,
Will be produced a new Grand Historical Ml:Rary spectacle, en-
titled THE COSSACKS ; or, Vlve la Francs.
Followed by a total change of the Scenes in the CIRCLE.
To conclude wi'h a new Grotesque Extravaganza, called THIS
HORSE WILL WM) 10 PAY EXE'ENSES IF NOT
CLAIMED WITEIIN FOURTEEN. DAYS.
Box-of lee open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West.

IGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGg.
7n DAY —Morning 33 min.after 10 I Evening 7 min.aft. 11
To-Nfolutow—Morning 35 rnin.after 11 Evening 0 min.aft. 0

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THE WEATITER.—Scrar OFFICM, JUNE 7,
THERMOMETER, IM THE SHADE.
53 highest since noon yesterday.
50—lowest this morning and during the night.
57—this day, at noon.
BAROMETER, 30'14.
Wpm, N. to N.N.E.—Light breeze, but cold, with
dull,. cloudy weather, and occasional sunshine. There are
some indications of a change.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1854,

It is no way surprising, of course, to hear the
known partisans of Russia in this country still
throwing out suggestions for the bloodless solu-
tion of the difficulty—suggestions of the most
monstrous and even laughable extravagance. In
arguing thus as they have done all along in a
great measure, these sinister friends of the CZAR
and sympathisers with his autocracy are only, so
to speak, consistent in their very inconsistency.
Now this we insist is true, although undoubtedly
paradoxical. ABERDEENISM is consistent even in
the midst of its apparent inconsistency. For--the
fact of all these delays, and delays, and delays
must be allowed to explain everything. Appa-
rently the Ministerial admirers of the EMPEROR
NICHOLAS have accepted the gauntlet thrown down
to the Western Powers by the AUTOCRAT with
such insolent bravado in the presence of observant
Christendom. Apparently even my Lord ABER-
DEEN has accepted the challenge of the Northern
Aggressor. But all the while the sending of a
powerful fleet into the Black Sea, and of another
fleet still more powerful into the Baltic, and of
ship-loads of troops to Gallipoli and Scutari—have
all been marred in effect by a series of paralysing
and disastrous procrastinations. And now, when
news Comes that th© French soldiers have
at last taken their coast of departure from the
upon Adrianople the Dardanelles to march forward
, now when we learn that
the English troops have really (incredible though
it may seem) been ordered
to push onwards to
thence to S:.thumla, from
Varna and
their en-
of the Bos-
eampment on the Asiatic borders
horus, now, forsooth, we hear it coolly sug-
has it within its
gested that all the Turkish army
power to do is to fall back upon the line of she
Balkan Mountains ! To retreat before the Rus-
sians—to yield to the many, the long defended,
and heroically retained fortifications of Silistria.
Never were suggestions more manifestly insidious.
They might actually have come to us direct
from St. Petersburg—nay, for their mean

ness and cowardice, we might almost have
expected to trace them to the council-chambers of
Charlottenburg. Instead of which, however, they
are actually the hints thrown out in the June of
1854 by an English journalist. It is deplorable
to mark the successive vagaries into which the
English partisans of Russia are driven by their
unnatural and unpatriotic infatuation. Most
grotesque and ludicrous of all, however, is this
last, the one in the progress of which an influ-
ential contemporary has ventured to propose
that the only rational course to be pursued by the

Turkish army at the very time when the Anglo-
French contingents are moving rapidly towards
his head-quarters at Schumla, is to yield up Silis-
tria to the Russians, and to withdraw in full re-
treat upon the Balkan Mountains.
Turkey, in fact, is to kiss the rod by a retreat,
we presume merely as a preliminary to the yet
more ignoble subjection of England and France
to the pride of the Northern AUTOCRAT by a
peace based on the status quo ante bellum, a vir-
tual triumph for the foe, the avowed and auda-
Cious foe of Christendom and Civilisation.
No—a very long while since we maintained
that Ministers, with all their loud talking, parti-
cularly in the House of Commons, had entered
without heart upon the war against Russia. Have
our words since then in any way been falsified ?
Or are we still witnessing the development of their
complete justification ? It is true that we have
sent enormous maritime armaments to the Baltic
and the Euxine—•but the former has been left
without proper gunboats to enable our seamen to
press forward from the conquest of Cron-
stadt to the capture of St. Petersburg ; while
of the latter, we learn that it has returned
to cast anchor snugly at Baltschick, after
!dawdling and pottering about for a whole month
before the entrance to the harbour of Sebastopol.
It is perfectly true, again, that our soldiers have
been sent out eastwards thousand after thousand—
but this, we cannot forget, was only at last done
when every ingenious contrivance in the way of
' postponement had been exhausted, and when the
country was ringing with the sounds of indig-
nation provoked by balls, and banquets, and
reviews, and complimentary farewells, while the
Turks and Egyptians were fighting desperately
along the banks of the Danube from Ibraila up as
far as Kalafat against au enormous disproportion
of foes- numerically. 'We repeat it—Ministers
have entered upon the war with Russia withou

heart, much less with enthusiasm. The evil conse

quences of which are at this moment before us when
as the Anglo-French contingent at last in the June
of 1854 are on their way to the Turkish head-
quarters, we have mutterings again about Proto-

cols and further diplomatic negotiations, accom.

panied by suggestions from the Government organ,
to the effect that Silistria should be delivered up
to the Russians, and that the soldiers of the Sul,

TAN should retreat before their Cossack assailants

to take -up a last desperate position upon the range

of the Balkan Mountains.

In our observations respecting the Public Re-
venue and Consolidated Fund Charges Bill, we
purposely abstained from commenting in any
manner on the provisions relating to the heredi-
tary pensions to the Dukes of GRAFTON and
MARLBOROUGH, and some other aristocratic reci-
pients of the public money. The importance of
the subject, and the limited amount of space at
our disposal, prevented us from putting forward
our earnest and uncompromising protest against
the portion of the measure relating to these sti-
pends, the sole, but very serious blot on that
which in other respects merits the highest praise.
It is painful to find that even Mr. GLADSTONE has
been compelled to bend to the powerful influences
brought to bear on him from every quarter, and
that these flagrant abuses have been exempted
from the operation of the proposed law. It is
not, however, mere " exemption" that we have
to complain of. There is something even worse
in the back ground. It is the intention to abolish
these scandals, but how ? Not by immediate or
prospective abolition—not by announcing to the
pensioners, "Ye have too long wallowed in cor-
ruption ! Ye have fattened for too many ages
on the painfully-acquired earnings of industry—
on the taxes wrung from the hard hands of over-
toiled operatives or miserable senapstresses. Hence-
forth, and for ever, strive to earn a more honest
livelihood. These sources must be cut off." Nor
even, taking a more lenient view of the subject,
by fixing a time for the termination of these an-
nuities, and thus breaking the fall of the reci-
pients. Far from it. Neither of these methods
are to be resorted to. It is unnecessary to say
that either would be fully, aye, more than, jus-
tified, and the limitation of any compensation to
the life terms of the present annuitants, or to
a fixed term of years, could only be regarded as
unmerited indulgence. But in place of either of
these obvious courses, Mr. GLADSTONE proposes
" to buy up, and so to dispose of these charges."
Nay, more, we are told that "a certain portion
of these pensions had already been bought
up"—that, "in point of fact, substantially the
whole matter was concluded so far as regarded the
most important pensions." The Right Hon. Gentle-
man, however, added—." But from one cause or
another, the arrangement in several cases was not
yet ready to take effect. Until it did take effect,
ho proposed to leave these pensions precisely as
they were at present, inasmuch as the Government
did not look upon them as permanent charges,
and it was not worth while to enter into new ar-
rangements respecting them." There is, there-
fore, yet time for the independent representatives
of free and independent constituencies to interpose
and prevent the contemplated arrangements from
receiving the legislative sanction, or the public
money being absorbed—more especially at a time
when there are so many and such urgent demands
on the Exchequer in relieving posterity from
burdens which might be disposed of in a very diffe-
rent manner, and at a much cheaper and easier rate.
We are required to make a strenuous exertion to bear
the extra war expenditure. We have also been
required to meet that extra expenditure with
crippled resources, in consequence of having liqui-
dated no less than eight millions of the debt con-
tracted by our forefathers. Surely these might
be considered sufficiently onerous, without sad-
dling us with the purchase money of the " GRAF-
TON" pensions, amounting, in round terms, to
some 10,700/. sterling per annum, and on account
whereof the family of the distinguished recipient
have already received sums which, at compound
' interest, would amount to more than TWELVE
HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLIONS OF POUNDS STER-
LING ! or sufficient to liquidate the whole of th©
national debt, funded and unfunded—to purchase
up every other pension—to provide for the ad-
ministration of justice without charge to the suitors,
in every tribunal—to render trade and commerce
perfectly free, removing everyimpediment of every
kind ; and, with economy, to provide permanently
for the maintenance of our civil, naval, and
military establishments, and for the support of
incapable paupers, for none but " incapables"
could then require assistance. All this has been
lavished on a single family, all this has been ap-
plied to maintain the dignity of the Ducal House
of GRAFTON—tO spread its connexion far and
wide, and furnish it with a host of defenders
ready to lend their aid to cushion anything in the
shape of inquiry, and to intimidate even a man
like Mr. GLADSTONE from dealing justly with the
unjustifiable burden on the community.
The first recipient of those pensions—..for the
Duke was, and is, a pluralist sinecurist—was
HENRY FITZROY, second illegitimate son of
Xing CHARLES 11., by the then Countess .of
CASTLEIKALNE (who was subsequently created
Duchess of CLEVELAND). The fortunate youth,
when about nine years of age, was created a
before,n Visoount, and Earl of England, and
he was quite twelve years of a was
elevated to the higheat rank in the Peerage. Five ge ,
years afterwards
when as
nteen
years old, he was installed met scarce seventeen
Garter. Nothing further, in the Knight of the
were within even sovereign waypower I oft
was honours,orily
necessary to add substantial sweets to these coveted
titles. The first expedient was a union with a
wealthy heiress. The Court of Wards had not
then been abolished. The only child and heiress
of the of ARLINGTON was under its juris-
diction Earl
, and the wealthy young lady was be-
stowed on "little GRAFTON," as a provision for
the fitting suPP
art of his allabut regal dignity.
Thin, however,
did not satisfy the claims of his