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

THE %.TltE ROYAL HAYMARKET.

Under the management of Mr. Mackstone.
THIS EVENING. DONE 7,
Wall he peeormed the Drama of TIM KNIGHTS OF THF,
ROUND TALE. Characters by Messrs. Chlopendale, Howe, G.
Vandenhotf, W. Farrell, Compton, and Buckstonc; Miss Reynolds,
Xiss E. trey, and Mrs.
After w the entirely new and orldnal extravaganza, entitled
MR. BUCKATONE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE (EN LEI-
C rEf4-B'./UARE), written by J. R. Planche, Esq.

ROYAL PRINCE:I3'3 OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. Casattra 'Craw.
Tilt% EVENING, JUNE 7,
Will be performed FROM VILLAGE TO COURT. Principal
characters by Messrs. Barley, Fi,her, and Cathcart; Misses Mur-
ray, Heath, and Vivash.
Followed by FAJTST AND MARqUERITE. Characters by
Messrs. C. Loan and David Fisher ; Mrs. Winstanley and Miss C.
Leclercq.

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

LYCEUM T LIEATRE.
Under the management of Madame Veetris.

THIS EVENING, JUNE 7,

Will be performed BEFORE BItT,AKFAST. Character, by Ifr
C. IS athews, Messrs. F. Matthews, Swa,, and Baker; Miss Wad
ham, &c.

Followed by GIVE ADO 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, JUNE 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 TII! FIIS NIGHT. Characters by Messrs.
Alfred Wigan, Leslie, Franks, Harwood Cooper, and Vincent ; Miss
P. Horton, and Miss Wyndham.
After which. TIIE MUM WY. Characters by Messrs. H. Wigan,
Robson, IL Cooper; Misses Marston and E. Turner.

STRAND THEATRE.

Fele Lessee Mr. F. W. A.lle:roft.—Diroetresq, Mk Rebecca Isaacs

THIS EVENING, *lusts 7,
Will be performed THE LADY OF LYONS.
To be followed by the New Ballet Divertissement, entitled THE
SE& NYMPIUS CAVE.
To be followed by 141 E WATERIItN.
Alter which, 'FLIP: MARBLE LOVER.
Stalls, os.; Boxes, 35.; Pit, Is. (Id; Gallery, Cd. -, Private Boxes,
X 1 lie. fid., to be had of Mr. Alleroft. 15, New Bond-street.

ASTLF.Y'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 7,
Will be produced a new Grand Historical Midtary spectacle, en-
titled THE COSSACK'S; or, Vivo la Franca.
Followed by a total change of the Scenes in the CIRCLE.
To conclude with a new Grotesque Extravaganza, called THIS
HORSE. WILL 13E SOLD 10 PAY EXPENSES IF NOT
CLAIMED WITHIN FOURTEEN DAYS.
Boa-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West.

EIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDOE.
Tills DAY —llording 38 min.after 10 Evening 7 min.raft. 11
Tv-lioß.Row—:Morning 35 min.after 11 Evening 0 rnin.at . 0

THE WEATHER.—Strx Orriox, JuNn 7.
THERHOMETER, IN THE SEIA.DI4-
58 highest since noon yesterday.
50—lowest this morning and during the night.
57—this day, at noon.
BAROMETER, 30'14.
Wm% 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 °LAr
and sympathisers wish 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 the French soldiers have
at last taken their departure from the
coast of the Dardanelles to
upon Adriano march forward
ple, now
when we learn that
the English troops have really (incredible though
it may seem) been ordered to push
onwards to
Varna and thence to S:thwalla, from t 1 •
leir en-
campment on the Asiatic borders of the 1305_
now, forsooth, we hear it coollyphorus, sug-
gested that all the Turkish army has it within its
power to do is to fall back upon the lino of ehe
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

'lB4-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 liclicrous of all, however, is this
Wet, the one in. the progress of which an influ-
t
11;7:-,iinlial 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 Sebumla, 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 an enormous disproportion
of foes—numerically. 'We repeat it—Ministers
have entered upon the war with Russia without
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 Juno
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 deiperate 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 I 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 sempstresses. 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,
he 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 the
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
11P4iltY FITZROY, second illegitimate son of
Ring Ca arAs 11., by the then Countess of
~
CASTLAILI4 (who was subsequently created
Duchess of OnnvELA./ TD).
when about nine The fortunate youth,
years of age, was created a
Baron, Viscount,
and Earl of England, and
before he was quite twelve years of age, -was
Five
rank in the Peeraae.
elevated to the highest
years afterwards,when as yet scarce seventeen
years old, he was installed as a Knight of
of honours,
Garter. N othing further, in the way the
were within even sovereign power. It was only
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 Earl of ARLINGTON was under its juris-
diction, and the wealthy young lady was be-
stowed on "little GRAFTON," as a provision fur
the fitting
support of his all
-but regal dignity.
This; however; did not satisfy the claim of his