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

LYC EMI THEATRE.—HENRY RUSSELL, shrunk from their odious proposition, as he did
for Thirty Nights. THIS EVENING (the 12th tone), Sept. from their Vienna Note, but he was obliged to ask
9th, and.every Evenirg. Many friends having expressed a whh "
that Mr. Russell shoald appear again previous to finally withdraw the hated Austria to enter to preserve order.
ing his Entertainment, he has, in compliance with their request,
made arrangements to appear ever/ evening. Mr RUSSELL will Order ! What disorder on earth was there, or had
present THE FAR WEST; or, THE PROGRESS of the EMIGRANT
from the OLD WORLD to the NEW. Mr. Russell will relate his there been save the brutal ravaging and ravishing,
anecdotes, and sing several new songs, " Cheer, Boys, cheer," " Far, and robbing, by the defeated Russians ? They
far upon the Sea," " Sunshine after Rain," " Land ! Land ! Land !"
"The Falls of Niagara," "Long have we been parted," "I'm gone, disorder was gone too. Austria, too, to
Afloat," " Many changes have I seen," "The Icebergs" (descriptive
song), "Newfoundland Dog," "The Gambler's Wife," Sr.c. The preserve order; the order of provoking revolu-
Second Part of the Entertainment will corsist of a Series cf tions by intolerable tyranny and quelling them in
Sketches, entitled NEGRO LIFE in Freedom and Slavery. blood. She has shown, however, what she wanted
Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6(1. first, and chiefly, to expel refugees ; next, to
feed her army on another country's harvests ;
then to stand in the place of final arbitrator be-
tween Russia and the Allies if the latter pressed
the vanquished savage harder than was conveni-
ent for one who might need his savagery in Hun-
gary again. A capital move for Austria to be
able to say, " Now, if you will not grant Russia
better terms than you like, why get me out
of the material guarantee if you can." Any
result of diplomacy more hateful than the
pro-
vinces reconquered and liberated by Ottoman
valour, now grasped by the fellow-officers of
HAYNAU, and that without a battle, and enslaved
beneath the "orderly" police of Austria, we can
hardly conceive. Prussia openly helping the CZAR,
Austria qualifying herself to settle the terms of
peace in his favour when our troops and ships
shall have conquered it—this, and nothing else, is
the result of allied diplomacy. .Ah ! and it was
diplomacy too which sacrificed those noble crews
at Sinope. The weakest reliance on vague en-
gagements or understanding with an already con-
victed liar and plunderer, this it was which
kept our ships far from Sebastopol, while
cunning and violence were watching their oppor-
tunity. But for diplomacy we should have had
no passage of the Pruth at all ; no Sinope ,after
it was passed—no delay in sending the fleets and
troops—no lingering of either at one place and
another, instead of proceeding at once to the scene
of action. But for diplomacy at this moment
Sebastopol would have been ours, and the cowardly
three-deckers at the bottom of its harbour. Diplo-
macy we may thank for its increased garrison, for
its extended land-works, and for men sufficient
lost by the cholera to have blown the whole works
to atoms. But we have done. If - our Cabinet
can look back and witness the disgrace which
must accrue to it through all history, for its timid
negotiations with the Despot and his two hangers-
on;--and look around and see how everywhere each
bold step has brought its share of honour—if it
can behold the double result and hesitate a
moment longer, it deserves to be ejected from the
nation's councils, and to be ranked with the
Cabinet's of JAMES I. or CHARLES 11. We hope,
however, better things. The season is not quite
gone ; Englishmen are very forgiving ; and, with
a bountiful harvest to pay their taxes, they
will, perhaps too readily, forget the past, if the
immediate future be what it should.
i
THE WEATHER.—Suw Orrin, San, 9.

THE iTRE ROYAL HAYMARKZT.

ruder the management of Mr. itackstone.

THIS EVENING, Saw, 9,

Will be performed THE OLD CHATEAU. Characters by Messrs.
Powe, Rogers, H. Marston, and Buckstone; Mrs. Fitzwilllans, and
Mrs. Reynolds.

Followed by the SPANISH DANCERS in a NEW BALLET,
called LA FLOR DE LA MARCARENA.
A PRETTY PIECE OF BUSINESS.

To c ,nclade with a second New Ballet, LOS MANOLOS DE
31.1DRID, in which the Spanish Dancers will again appear.

STRAND THEATRE.
S )le Lessee Mr. F. W. Alleroft.
THIS EVENING, SEPT. 9,

MI be performed HARD TIMES.

Followed by FAUST AND MARGUERITE. Idephiatopheles,
Mr, Raiford; Faust, Mias G. Hodson ; Marguerite, Miss IL Gordon.
To conclude with NEVER TASTE WINE AT THE DOCKS.

Stalls, 45.; Boxes„2s. 6d.; Pit, la.; Gallery, 6d.; Private Box,
al o be had of Mr. Al'croft. lb, Sew Bond-street.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

"This place fills up an hiatus which the Crystal Palace leaves
Wanting. Vocal and instrumsntal mi..sic of the first order, and a
ciLsplay of tirewcrio which exceeds, ail imagination, are a fitting
'close to a day at Um Crystal Palace."

'What is a traveller ? The question so fre-
quently put must again be repeated—so loudly,
too, as if possible, to penetrate the recesses of
Downing-street, and elicit from the law officers
of the Crown a satisfactory reply. As might
easily be imagined, the "great unpaid " are
sticking out for the rigorous interpretation of the
act, and rendering its provisions, sufficieutly
vexatious under the most favourable. circum-
stances, even more annoying than they might
otherwise prove. If the object were to render the
law intolerable, and to excite such universal dis-
gust, that it must inevitably be repealed at the
very commencement of next session, we could
understand some of the decisions that have been
given. But, strange to say, it is those who
profess to believe that its results will really
prove beneficial to the country who are thus
striving to bring about its repeal; and, still more
strange, not one of them has ventured to offer any
reasons for the decisions which they have given,
in direct opposition to. the opinions of the more
enlightened Magistrates of the metropolis—men
who had acquired professional experience, and
were, therefore, competent to determine legal
questions.
The Bench of Magistrates at Chelmsford had
heretofore decided most erroneously, that although
the passengers by a railway train might be " tut-
yellers" within the meaning of the act, the engine-
drivers and stokers—men who were compelled to
" travel" in discharge of their business; could not
be considered in that light. The pleasure-seekers
might obtain refreshment, but those whose 'occu-
pations were necessary to the public welfare—
whose exhaustion or over-fatigue through the
lack of that needful support might be productive
of very injurious, and possibly fatal consequences,
should be precluded from receiving even a glass
of beer ! !
The reputation (I) for stolid disregard of the
law, thus acquired by the Essex Magistrates, has,
however, been eclipsed by a Bench of Lanca-
shire Justices, sitting at Salford, the spokes-
man whereof was a certain Mr. H. L.
XRAFFORD, who appears to have evinced
a more profound ignorance of the com-
monest principles of law than any even of
his brother DOGBERRIES, and who was apparently
most desirous of being " written down an ass "
and as "serenely unconscious" of his true posi-
tion, as the gentleman described in i" The Lily
and the Bee." Mr. TRAFFORD seemed to forget.
that he was not a Legislator, that his business
was to enforce existing laws, and not to make
new ones. He clearly considered himself " h wise
fellow--and, which is more, an officer ; and,
which is more, a householder ; and which is more
as pretty a piece of flesh as any in Messina
(query, Manchester ?) And one that knows
the law, go to ; and a rich fellow enough,
go to ; and a fellow that hath had losses ; and
one that bath two gowns, and everything hand-
some about him." His opinion, therefore, seems
not so very surprising, that the question was, not
what was the law, but how the magistrates should
assist certain memorialists who had petitioned
against "crowds of rough and disorderly people
come from Manchester and elsewhere ; stalls and
booths put up in the village ; buying and selling
openlyand effronterily (sic in origine) carried on ;
tossing, and other modes of disposing cakes, &e.,
by chance, resorted to ; parties with wheelbarrows
going up and down the village selling nuts, kc.,
and cries of`toss or buy" (where was the
promising offspring of SAIREY Gear with
the proweds df the wooden leg ?) and other
such expressions grating upon the ears."
But with all submission to his worship, the
pOint was, whether the parties who were receiving
refreshment were " travellers," and not whether
there were in the village " roughs from Man-
chester going up and down with wheelbarrows
selling nuts, &c., and crying " toss or buy !"
If these scenes were considered disgraceful, they
should be suppressed by the punishment of the
really guilty parties, and not of an innocent inn-
keeper, who had merely afforded to parties,

L-sant,

" none of whom were kilown who lived in the
village of Eccles, but some of whom came from

Salford, four miles distant," and which he might
be indicted for refusing.
Mr. TRAFFORD, however, elicited that the
parties charged had actually signed this very
memorial. We certainly cannot perceive the per-
tinency of the question to the charge. But the
admission seemed quite conclusive to Mr. TRAF-
voila), who apparently considers it " flat burglary
as ever was committed !" which warranted the
condemnation of the defendants "into everlasting
redemption."

But, in sober sadness, it is reallytime that same
instructions should be issued, to prevent such un-
reasonable and vexatious trouble to innkeepers.
Justices should be informed utfie rolmed that they aro not • to
convict persons
assumption that persons
not known iu the
isneighbourhood are not " travel-
lers." The presumption,that where strangers
are assembled, they are ~
travellers"
must be a prima facie case establi • There
shed to war-
rant a man's being called On for a defence.
The sagacious Mr.
TRAFFORD asserts that "
man be proved to have committed an offence, if
ita
would lie with him to prove a
negative." . cc n
learned judge ! 0 excellent young man r, We
must, however, venture to differ from this modern
DANIEL, and to dispute his conclusions. The
offence must be proved--not assumed. It is easy,
if such be the fact, to show that some one or more
of the parties named resides in the vicinity. If