The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-09 00:00:00

TREATRE ROYAL, lIAYM ‘.RICET.

Under the management of Mr. guckstoue.
THIS EVENING, MAC 9,
' Will be performed a new comic drama, called
Characters by Messrs. VALI lenhoff, W. Farren, Buckstone, Tilbury,
and Rogers; Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Sce.
To be followed by THE HOPE OF THE FAMILY. Character
by Messrs. Chippendale, Compton, and Buckstone; Mrs, Fitzwilliam,
Ilss E. Grey, lice.
To conclude with MRS. WRITE.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. Clients KEAN.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 9,
Will be performed THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Principal
character by Mr. C. Kean.
Atter which will be presented the new Grand CHRIST HAS PAN-
TOMIME, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE HILLER AND
His ALEN; or, Kin; Salamander and the Fairy of the Azure
Lake. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack; Clown, Hr. llnline; Pantaloon,
Mr. Paulo; and Colamblne, Miss Desborough.

LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Vestris.
THIS EVENING, Maser' 9,

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Will be performed A NICE FIRM. Principal characters by
Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Roxby ; Mrs. F. Matthews.
To be followed by A CHARMING WIDOW.
After which, the orbrinal Fairy ExtraviurAnza, called ONCE
UPON A TIME THERE WERE TWO KINGS. Characters by
Messrs. Roxby, F. Matthews, and Bland; Madame Vestris, Misses
St. George, Eslanton, Mason, Martindale, Ellis, Walham, and
Foote.

To conclude with PATTER VERSUS CLATTER. Principal
character by Mr. Charles Mathews.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Dtrectress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING, Meacu 9,

Will be presented ties highly Popular New Nautical Melo-drama
In five tAbleaux, with new scenery, the Sea of Ice, &c., new
dresses and appointments, called THE THIRST OF GOLD; or,
THE LOST SHIP AND THE WILD FLOWER OF MEXICO.
Principal characters by Messrs. B. Webster, Keeley, Paul Bedford,
Madame Celeste, &c.
To conclude with THE SERIOUS FAMILY. Characters by
Messrs. B. Webster, Leigh Murray. Parselle, and Keeley ; Mrs. L.
Murray, Misses Woolgar, Fanny Maskell. and Laidlaw, and Mrs.
Keeley.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager. Mr. A. Wigan.
THIS EVENING, Mum 9,
Will be performed TO OBLIGE BENSON. StippOrted by Messrs.
Emery, Robson, and Leslie; Mrs. Stirling ant Miss Wyndham.
After which, THE BENGAL TIGER. Principal characters by
Messrs. Alfred Wigan, and F. Robson ; and Mrs. Wigan and Miss
Marston.
To be followed by THE FIRST NIGHT. Characters by Messrs.
Alfred Wigan, Leslie, Franks, 1-13zwood Cooper, and Vincent ; Miss
P. Horton, and Miss Wyndham.

STRAND THEATRE.

Sole Lessee, Mr. F. W. Allcroft.—Directress, Miss Rebecca Isaacs

THIS EVENLNG, Maacst 9,
Will be performed THE HEART OF AN IRISHKXN. Princi-
pal characters by Messrs. G. Hodson, Herbert, and Miss Noel,
Followed by the ANONYMOUS LETTER.
After which, THE WATERMAN. The principal character by
Miss G. Hodson.

To conclude with THE CORICONIAN BROTHERS. Paddy and
Tim Mulligan (the Brothers), Mr. G. Hodson.
Stalls, 55.; Boxes, 35.; Pit, is. 6cl; Gallery, Gd. ; Private Boxes,
V. Its. Gd., to be had of Mr. Alleroft, 13, New Bond-street.

ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.
THIS EVENING, MAisca 9,
And during the week, will be presented the new, grand, and
romantic spectacle entitled THE ATOODNIA N'S HORSE; or, The
Elise Knight—the Woodman's Horse by the pet steed, Beauty,
expressly trained by Mr. William Cooke.
After which, Scenes of the ARENA.
To conclude with the Domestic Drama of THE WHITE FARM.
liox-office open from Eleven till Four. Stare Manager, Mr. W.
West.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TIM Di —Morning 22 min.after 9 Evening 6 min.aft. 10
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To-Mmutow—Morning 51 min.after 10 Evening 32 min.:dr. 11

TILE WEATHER.-8u s Onion, MARCH 9.
THERNIOXIITIra, IN THE SHADE.
56 —highest since noon yesterday.
52 —lowest this morning and during tha night.
60 —this day at noon.

BAROffETER, 30.37.
WIND, W.—Fresh breeze, and very fine, warm, sun-
shiny weather. A very great change since Tuesday.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1854.

THE BALTIC FLEET.

We understand that such is the determination
of the Government to proceed without an instant's
further delay in the warlike demonstrations of
the allies of Turkey against Russia, that it is
no longer intended that the Baltic Fleet shall
moor in the Downs—but that orders have already
been transmitted for it to proceed forthwith to its
destination. The secret of this alteration in
the general arrangements in regard to the Fleet,
may be discovered, we believe, in the fact that in-
dications of the early approach of spring have
already become perceptible even in those north-
ern regions—the snows an-I ice at Revel
having begun to give way under the influence in-
dicated by an appreciable rise
.iu the thermo-
meter. There are tokens, moreover, of the solici-
tude of the CZAR. to concentrate his maritime
forces in the Baltic at as early a period as
possible, with a view to the protection of
Cronatadt, and through Cronstadt, ofl course,
of St. Petersburgh. England, however, is at last
awakened in earnest to the necessity of prompt
and energetic action--..as manifest now very
markedly in this sudden and peremptory order
for the Baltic Fleet to hasten without any
further delay northwards. Remember, also, with
this—that Sir CHARLES NA.PI ER has promised,
directly he gets his fleet into the Baltic, to declare
war against the Russian .A.,.nrocaa.r ! And
remember, likewise, that that promise of the
naval commander-in-chief of the expedition was fol-
lowed by an assurance from the First Lord of the
Admiralty that Sir CHARLES NA PIER had his entire
Permission so to declare war, or, in other words,
that he had the permission of her Britannic
MAJESTY'S Government ! Wherefore-is it
not manifest that we are really now in earnest
witnessing
the beginning of the end ? "
With Admiral NAPIER in the Baltic, there will be
hot work.- enough, we promise him, for the Russian
AUTOCRAT.

Everything is still simply in preparation in re-
gard to this long-threatened war with Russia—
nothing as yet actually
commenced. Nothing
partaking of the character even of a
the fighting has
preliminar
skirmish. inHitherto, fact y
been entirely reitricted to the 'Turks and Mus-
covites. Possibly the adv,,
en of Spring will
effeet a decided change in this particular—bring-
ing the French. and English among the number
of the belligerents. As indications that
at atthleent:tiot
great countries of Western Europe are
really iu earnest in this determination to maintain,
-at all hazard and all cost, the integrity of the
Turkish Empire, there may now be accepted as
decisive, the munificent sums voted, vitliout one
dissentient voice, by both L-3gislatures, and
placed unconditionally by them at the disposal
of their respective Governments. Au enormous
loan of 950,003,090 francs, namely, of about
10,000,0001. sterling, we find decided. upon
at once by the tepresentatives of the
French multitude, and decided, upon by them,
.
``- taoFeover—how l—ananimlusly ! Nay, with such
• - unahimity and with such fervour, that the whole
• - tiaTY:'-of them, headed by their President, pro-
:. • teed .iorthwith to the Tuileries, for the purpose
4 of laying their instant decision before the SOVE-
,
RgIG4. It has been equally manifest in the Eng-
lish House of Commons that no difficulty what-
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