The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-14 00:00:00

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE

L',.; Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.
; :THIS EVENING, JUNE 14.
Will be,perfornied the Comte Drama called lIIIATI MONEY.
Characters by Messrs. F Robson, Emery. Will e, aid Vincent ; 311,s
Dormer, anti Mrs. A. Wigan.
To b 3 followed ty THE FIRST. NIGHT. Characters by Messrs.
Alfreo ;sRe, :.ants, Harwood Cooper, and Vincent ; Miss
T. Horton, anti Elias Wyndham.

After which, VIE MUMMY.- Charreters by Messrs. U. Wigan,
Robson, H. Cooper; Misses Marston and Turner.

STRAND THEATRE.

Sole Lessee Mr. F. W. Al.lcnil.—Blrectresi, Miss Rebnca Isaacs.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 14,
Will be presented THE LOVE CHASE. • Censtance. by Miss
Fitzpatrick.
After whicb. THE PETS OF THE BALLET.
To conclude with X. Y. Z.

Atli, 55.; Domes, 35.; Pit, 13. 6d; Gallery, Gd.; Private Boa's.
41 113.6 d., to be had o Mr. Alleroft. 15, New Bor_l-stroet.

ASTLErS EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.
THIS EVENING. Just 14,
Will be produced the new Grand Historical Mi itary spectacle, en-
titled IHE COSSACKS; or, Vlve la France.
Followed by a total change of the Scenes in the CIRCLE.
To conclude with a new Grotesque Extravaganza, called THIS
HORSE .v ILL BE SOLD`iO PAY EXPENSES IF NOT
CLAIMED WITHIN FOURTEEN DAYS.
Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

Open for the Season.

TUB EVENTING, JCNE I

Will be repeated an entirely NEW and BRILLIANT PIECE.
of FIREWORK on a gigantic scale, representing the British Lion
and Gallic Cock, Trampling on the Russian Eagle. All the numeroal
attractions of the gardens at usual, including the beaatiint Far orama
'of Chusan, by Ranson—the extensive and interesting Mena.:erte—
•Vecal and Ina: (mental Concert: Miss Poole., Miss Ransford, and
Mr. Manvers, &c. Concluding with the attack of the British Fleet
on elms:Lit—Explosion of the Batteries and Ships, and final Gran d
Display of Fireworks, by Southhy. Fcedin; the animal+, Half-past
Five. Concert, Half-past six. Fireworks, Quarter to Ten. .kd-
rrission to the whole, Is.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tits DAY —Morning 4 min.after 4 Evening 29 min.sft. 4
To.VoßKow—Morning 56 win.Rfter 4 / Evening 24 min.aft.- 5

TEIT: WEATUFdt.—Sus Comes, Jun.. 14.
THEEMOUETEB, IN THE SHADE.
65 highest since noon yesterday.
53-I_owest this morning and during the night.
68—this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 29 82.
WIND, S.W.—Light, pleasant breeze, and cloudy at
times.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1854.

Silistria still holds out gallantly—but its brave 1
defender, MUSSA. PACHA, has been killed by a
cannon-ball. Behold the latest news from the
seat of war—one fragment of it dated up to the
10th instant from Bucharest, another up even to
the 13th instant (yesterday), by telegraphic
despatch, from Hermanstadt. Additional evi-
dence is hourly afforded, as must of course be ob-
vious at a glance, that the heroic Turks have
themselves to bear the brunt of the attack made
by the Russians upon the peace and liberties of
Europe. Hitherto, indeed, the soldiers of the
SULTAN have been unaided on land except by the
Egyptian con't,ingent. Is this creditable, we
ask again and yet again, is this cre-
di'Lable to the Western allies of the
Sublime Porte ? Does it reflect honour this
now sufficiently notorious fact, does it reflect
honour upon the kindred departments presided
over by General VAILLANT in the French, and by
the Duke of NEWCASTLE in the English Govern-
ments? Is the circumstance that the Anglo-
French military armaments sent out long ago
from Marseilles and Southampton for the defence
of invaded Turkey are still only on their way to-
wards the field of battle, instead of being actually
there to. participate in the dangers of the con-
test with 0:-IER PACHA and his gallant followers—
_ is this circumstance calculated to inspirit the brave
fellows hitherto encamped at Scutari and Galli-
poli, or to attach any additional lustre either to
Lord RAGLAN'S reputation or to Marshal St.
ARNAUD'S fame as the Generalissimo ? We venture
still to put forth these inquiries--although at the
risk of being sneered at as impatient, of being
scorned as ignorant,
of being derided as impor-
tunate.

The intelligence received of the
glorious but
deplorable death of MIISSA. PACHA, killed by a
Sustained
defence while conducting the still - ained
defence of Silistria, urges us once more to raic,3
our voice at these unaccountable, and lamentable,
and we had almost said disgraceful delays, and to
do so now more than ever in mingled tones of
reproach and lamentation.
It is to be hoped that the ministerial
vision of the war being at length placed under
the care of a distinct department of the Admini-
stration, greater promptitude, resolution, rnd
daring than have yet been apparent in the con-
duct of the campaign of 1854 against Russia may
—for the sake of Turkey, for the sake of Europe,
for the sake of humanity—be manifested. Instead
of his Grace the Duke of NEWCASTLE having relieved
"himself from a heavy charge by consenting to the
separation of the heretofore Siamese departments
de, , .of War and the Colonies—he has =Wally in
t ~.... , o doing, in resigning the Colonies to the admi-
t_VV ,I•_ - ' •
.4, - _ . ) - _-_!niti'ative abilities of
-,':;' *.l- L-,-- --. ,--,1. Sir GEORGE GREY, and in
..?;._)tb., - ' C isa,e•servAng the post of peril and
honour to him-
i, N. 7- ', ~:,--,„ . 2 Li
'tV ; t '-se and,
A & k
'','T P ''-. -= 7 on increased his
....: ..i,
think, ob-
already weighty responsi-
llailVd(' 4 r ie3. Formerly, while the 'offices were united
•1.:1_.'::11 his Mn,do there might hate been some 43=11110


from the multitude of cares devolving
upon him in consequence, there might have
been every excuse for occasional remissness in one
or other of the twin departments. As Colonial
Secretary of State, the virtual Minister of War
during a time of war might, in the event of any
blundering or forgetfulness in regard to the carry-
ing out of our bellicose operations, have found in
the forty gigantic and scattered colonies of Eng-
land ample and indeed all-sufficient extenuation.
Not so can it be any longer with his Grace the Duke
of NEWCASTLE. He is no longer the custodian of the
destinies of our remote and enormous possessions.
.His responsibilities may be reduced in number,
but they are, at the same time, wonderfully en-
larged in importance. To him the country will
now look for the prosecution of the war against
Russia in a manner and upon a scale befitting the
might of the empire and the grandeur of the cause
upon the vindication of which England and France
have together adventured. That cause, grander
even than the defence of the tranquillity of Chris-
tendom—the repulse of the Barbarism threatenine,
.
the destruction of Civilisation—the punishment of
a blasphemous schism for its many heinous out-
rages upon the Divine glory and ineffable benefi-
cence of Christianity.
The Poles saved Europe h a former age from
an werwhelming incursion of the infidel hordes
of Asia. As her recompense for this sublime
triumph over the enemies of Christendom, Poland
was dismembered. Her very name as a nation was
swept frOm the map .of that very Europe which
her hero-sons had defended under the walls of
_Vienna. • Can we believe that a similar fate is
reserved for Turkey—that Turkey is to bo dis-
membered and destroyed in return for fight-
ing so long . and so gallantly against the
enormous armies sent forth by the Rus-
sian AUTOCRAT for the conquest of Christen-
dom and the destruction of Civilisation. It is ,
incredible, utterly incredible, notwithstanding the
mutterings so frequently heard of late as to the
Sublime Porte being a Power completely worn
out, and therefore to be 'got rid of with all con-
venient despatch. Turkey henceforth has claims
upon the aid and upon the friendship of
Western Europe. Turkey has approved herself
worthy of being admitted to the fraternity of the
civilised, as we may hope she may one day be
among the community of the chief, Powers of
Christendom. She has vindicated her right
to be numbered among the nation 3 of the
earth—among
,the nations to be preserved, and
not to be dismembered —by the generous
magnanimity and enlightenment of her Sultan
AED-UL-MEDJID, by the valour and constancy
of her gallant troops, by the skill and
heroism of their Commander OMER PACER,
and, among , the many brilliant incidents in '
the campaign in the Danubian Provinces, by that
glorious and hitherto successful defence of Silis-
tria, which appeals to our sympathies, arouses our
enthusiasm, and commands our admiration.

A question of immense importance, involving
ihe well-being and happiness of thousands of her
MAJESTYS subjects, and exercising no inconsider-
able influence on the national morality, was last
night discussed in the Upper House on the second.
reading of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes ,
Bill. This measure is mainly founded on the 11>
port of the Commissioners appointed in 1851 to
inquire into the interesting topic. It, however,
differs in some respects therefrom, chiefly in the
constitution of the tribunal about to he invested
with authority to pronounce a divorce a viacuto
matrirnonii, and also in sending cases going merely
for one a meitsa et th,oro to the Court of Chancery,
where they may be brought to a hearing before
any one of the seven Equity Judges. On the
contrary, the Commissioners recommended that all
matrimonial disputes should be brought under the
, same jurisdiction, viz., of a court consisting
of a Vice-Chancellor, a Common Law Judge, and
an Ecclesiastical Judge. In other matters it cr ly
slightly varies from the suggestions of the Learned
Commissioners.

In one point t7lere was perfect unanimity. All
persons agreed in the impropriety and inexpe-
diency of the existing system, and looked anxi-
ously for the much-required improvements. But
here the agreement ended, for while some per-
sons, no Lord RADESDALE, would insist on the
ied;ssolubility of the nuptial tie, the others would
extend the remedy, and make a dissolution of the
marria;e contract open to all who had well-
founded grounds of comp7aint against their part-
ners, such as would prevent the possibility of a
reunion. Some would only afford relief within
the narrowest limits, surrounding the applications
with so many difficulties as to deter the great
majority of claimants, and also making it a
very expensive luxury, while others would fling
open the portals of the new tribunal to every bona
fide suitor, and render justice to the humble as
well as to the wealthy sufferer.
It was the object of the Commissioners, as it
now is of Lord ORAN WORTII, to steer a middie
course between these conflicting opinions—to pre-
vide a more simple, easy, and cheaper remedy
thr4n is possible under the present system ; while
at the same time there would be nothing to en-
courage separations on trivial or inadequate
grounds, but that the parties, from knowing the
impossibility of forming other connexions, might
be induced to display mutual forbearance and even
forgiveness towards one another. This latter
feeling, laudable as it unquestionably is, appears
to have been carried to a very great extent-so
much so, indeed, as to render the measure wholly
inadequate to the exigencies of the care, and to
render relief impossible in ninety-nine instances
out of one hundred where it might safely be
granted, where, indeed, the aggrieved p.,rties
should be entitled to demand it e,.; de,;it,o
Indeed, although unquestionably a ste? in the
right direction, it is only valuable rs the intro-
duction of the sharp end of the wedge, by means
whereof mare useful results may be anticipated at
some future time.

Under the New Bill, the divorce, a vin~ulo
matrimonii, is in accordance with the recommenda-
t:_on of the Commissioners to be granted solely for
adultery, and except in cases of extreme atrocity
—such as bigamy or incest—on the ary2lication
of the husband only. On the first y ,int the
problem is, indeed, one of great difficulty, in
which the arguments on either side ace co de- :ly
balanced that it is hard to arrive at a
satisfactory conclusion. ' That then) may
be cases of extreme cruelty and oppre3sion
sach as would prevent thb possibility of Vie in-
jured party again living with the aggrrcor, is
certain. The law has not been accustomed t.,
look on any injury sil!o.:t of adultery as bang
irreparable. Nor has it, we reg..et to say, treated
females at all fairly or eciy.tabiy in matrimonial
matters. The Divine iwecept that a man should
not put
away his wife and marry another, save
fog fornication only, has unquestionably great
weight ; and if the separation from bed and
board, with full p-:otection to the injured party
,echlst a
I.e.an,_ accountl,it
is
si)
perhaps
a pthe
other, could be cheaps
demands
from auy acts or d
going as far as ought to be sanctioned. But the
rule, that however great the injury no relief
shal be given to the female, appears more ques-
tionable. Surely a woman has feelings as well as
with
a man. Surely when all her prospectsreiecinioiio:s forbid
ini
i lifep
are
blasted—when herrm
outragedrer t
afra
her resuming her
the man who has violated his nuptial vow—she
should not be condemned to a solitary and miser-
able existence. As it is, the rules adopted are
one-sided, and, unfortunately, no
.ender them more just and
epla,r)tr partial
is
m andade ,
to 1
equi-
table. Gran6e-I L. L
• that there may be greater reason
to suspect collusion, that the man may not have
itheieier
ei.aen
, and that its
t
yebpe affordeduancetoo3 the woman the offence for which alone
1 future consequences would not fall so heavily on