The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-19 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LAn.

Lessee; Mr. E. T. Smith.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Hader the management Mr. Iltuskatons.
EVENING, Arm 19.

THIS EVENING, APRIL 19,

LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame \Testis.
THIS EVENING, APZIL 19,

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THIS EVENING, Aram 19,
-peribrmad NORMA. Principal chars:o4n by Madame
caradorl. Madame Sedatsek, and Madame SondSeim ; Signor Pa-
'eel, HlQaoc Santi, cad Signor Arnold].

Will be performed A CURE FOit LOVE. Characters by Messrs.
Chippendale and Buckstone ; Mist Chaplin, &c.
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After which, an entirely new and original extravaganza, entitled
MR. BIiCESTONE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE (IN LEI-
CESTER-SQUARE), written by J. It. Planche, Esq. Principal
characters by Mr. Buckstone, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Clark, Mr. J.
Marshall, Mr. H. Marshall; Mrs. Fitzwiliiam, Mrs. Caulfield; Miss
E. Grey, Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Laura Morris, and Miss
Featherstone.
To conclude with MRS. WHITE.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES Miele.
THIS EVENING, Aram 19,
Wlll be performed THE MARRIED UNMARRIED. • Characters
by Messrs. W. Lacy, Ryder, and Cathcart ; and Misses Heath and
Murray.

Foßowed by FAUST AND MARGITERITE. Characters by
Messrs. C. Kean and David Fisher ; Atrs. Winstanley and Kiss C•
Leclercq.
To conclude with A -STORM IN A TEA-CUP. Principal cha-
racters by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII.
proprietor, Mr. D. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste.

Will be performed TWO LOVE 3 AND A LIFE. Supported by
Masers. C. Selby, Leigh Murray, Benjamin Webster, Keeley. and 0.
Smith ; Mlss Woolgar and Madame Celeste.
Followed by THE OVERLAND JOURNEY TO CONSTANTI.
IMPLE, AS UNDERTAKEN BY LORD BATEMAN, WITH
INTERESTING PARTICULARS OF THE FAIR SOPHIA.

win be performed A CHARMING WIDOW. Principal charac-
ters by Mr. C. Mathews ; Miss Talbot and Miss Oliver.
To be rouuwed by GIVE A DOG AN ILL NAME. Principal
characters by Messrs. C. Mathews and F. 3fatthews.
Alter which. NUMBER ONE ROUND THE CORNER,
concluding with A HOUSE OUT OF WLVDOWS..

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lanett and Manager. Mr. A. Wigan.
THIS EVENING, Ann, 19,
Will be performed THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE.
To be followed by TO OBLIGE BENSON. Supported by Messrs.
Emery, Ronson. and Leslie; Mrs. Stirling and Miss Wyndham.
To conclude with the Farce of THE WANDERING MINSTREL.
Jem Baas, Mr. F. Robson.

STRAND. THEATRE.
Sole ;ease. Mr. F. W. Allcroft.—Direetreas, Mies Rebecca Isaacs.

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THIS EVENING, Apait, 19. -
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Will be performed TIIE ENCHANTED LIKE.
Followed by AN ADVERTISEMENT—" T N
AND HUSBANDS." " WAISTED, WIVES
C°llclalthB with a new bnrlesque on RICIIARD THE THIRD.
Stan 4 Ss.; Boxes, 34.; Pit, Is. '6d ; Gallery, 6d. ; Private Boxes,
Al Ils, 6d., to be had of Mr. Alloroft, 15, New Bond-street.

ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.
Great attraction and powerful Novelties for the Easter Holiday&
THIS EVENING. Aram 19,
And during the week, a new grand Nautical and Equestrian spec.
facie, embodying novel and extraordinary effects (written by Mr.
Nelson Lee), entitled A TALE OF THE SPANISH WAR ; or,
The Horse or the Wreck. Thl horses expressly trained by Mr. W.
Cooke.

Followed by an'entire change of the Scenes of the CIRCLE, .
intro-
ducing Miss Kate Cooke, Miss Emily Cooke, Mr. Alfred Cooke, and
uie most talented Equestrian and Gymnastic Artistes in Europe.
Concluding with the new Farce of DALRYMPLE versus TUBBS.
Box,:offiee open from Eieveu till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W
West.

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HIGH WATER AT 14024.100 N BRIDGE.
Tins "DAT —Morning 58 min.:titer 5 1 Evening 24 min.al. 6
To-Moanow—Morning 57 min After 6 1 Evening 32 min.eit. 7

THE WEATHER.—Strzt OPTION, APRIL 19.
TUERXONETER, IN THE SHADE.
62 —highest since noon yesterday.
'49—lowest this morning and during the night.
68—this day at noon.
BAROMETER. 30'03—falling gradually.
WIND, S. to S.W.—Light breeze, and fine summer
weather.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1854.

It is discovered this morning by some of our,
contemporaries that England and France have
been rather slow in sending assistance to their
Turkish ally in the Principalities. The idea
would seem never before to haVe presented itself
to their imaginations. They recognise at last,
however, the existence of the evil, and are, con-
sequently, sufficiently vociferous in denouncing it.
Why, the fact of these delays we ourselves have
been insisting upon, more or less earnestly, day
after day, during the last fortnight. We have pro-
tested against them as most detrimental to the cause
which we have so much at heart, as injurious to
the interests of Turkey, and 'as derogatory to our
own reputation. We have euveighed against the
folly of these protracted festivities and reiterated
compliments, against these balls, and routs, and
banquets of farewell by which, first of all, our sol-
diers, and then their chieftains, have been com-
pelled to tarry overmuch on their way towards
the seat of war beyond Constantinople. We have,
again and again, in these columns, evening after
evening, charged the authorities with the heinous
culpability of either causing or tolerating this
systematic procrastination. And, at last, to-
day; upon this nineteenth of April, 1854—not
earlier !--the guilt of this dawdling policy is
[wonderful to relate] dimly perbeived by some
among our more enlightened contemporaries. It
is suddenly discovered by theSe contemporaries of
ours—nobody in all the world dreamt of it before,
of course !—that our troops have been very dila-
tory in their movements eastward, and that they
ought long before now to have energetically be-
stirred themselves.
Well—the pother- made about this same as-
tounding -discovery of theirs, by our morning con-
temporaries, is, to say the least of it, sufficiently
amuaing. It will be found sufficiently amusing
by those of our readers who have for some time
past marked, upon this identical subject, the course
of our own arguments. It betrays on the part of
the discoverers a wonderful amount of exhilaration
of spirits' at the recognition by them of this sin,
prising evidence of their OWEL sagacity.
Altogether, it recalls to our mind a memorable
incident in the life of Mr. WILLET, of the May-
pole. : That gentleman, it may be remembered,
being rather slow of apprehension, had remained
for a long While impervious to the light of a fact
perfectly obvious to the understanding of every-
body else, but altogether invisi.ble to his "mind's
eye"--7-an eye somewhat
in s eculation. lacking at most times
p
" It chanced,. however, that
sitting over the fire on. this particular occa-
-1
sion"—;relates Mr. -WlLlft's historm. n—v" per-
haps
.because he was, ai it
'were, done
to a turn ; perhaps because h
e was 14 an
unusually bright state of mind ; perhaps heoause
he had considered the subject so long ; perhaps
because of all these favouring circumstances taken
together—itchanced that, sitting over the fire on
this particular occasion, Mr. WILLET did, afar off
and in the remotest depths of his intellect, per_
ceive a kind of lurking hint or faint suggestion
that "—things were really what his associates
had all along been insisting, but such as
he himself had previously failed to recog-
nise. " And this dim ray of light," conti-
nues our author, " did to diffuse Wolf
him, and dal so Liudld up and shine, that at last
,he had it asklaii,l-1- and vi3ibly '4'. the
blaze by which he se.t :' anal f-,;ily perzMidzd that he
was the first to make the discovery, and that he had
started,hunte- dOU,a , fallen upon, andkaoaed on the
head aperfectlyorigilialidea,whichhadntverpresented
itself to any other man, alive or dead, he laid down
his pipe, rubbed kis hulas, and chuckled audibly."
Don't we hear to-day just such another audible
chuckle of self-satisfaction ? Is not Mr. WILLET
r one of a gelfiti ? And have we not among us, yet,
case lelis lineal descendants ?
Beta: ii enormous and Perfectly obvious