The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-28 00:00:00

To conclude with the Farce entitled MY FELLOW CLERK.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.
Proprietor. Mr. B. Webstar.—Dtrectress, Madame Celesta.
THIS EVENDIG. Nov. 2s.
Will be performed THE SERIOan US
Keeley; Miss FAMILY. Characters,
and by
Messrs. C. Selby, Leigh Murray, d Woolgar.
Mrs. Keeley.
After which, a new Farce called THE SLOW MAN.
Followed by BONA. FIDE TRAVELLERS.
To which will be added a new Farce. entitled THE RAILWAY
BELLE.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THE4.TRE.
Lessee awl Manager. Mr. A. Wigan.

THIS EVENING. Nov. 28.

Will be presented THE BEULAH SPA. Principal characters
by Messrs. A. Wigan, Emery, F. Robson, and H. Cooper; Miss
Marston, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Minna's, and Miss Julia St. George.
To be fbliewed by THE FIRST NIGHT. Characters by Messrs.
Allred Wigan, Leslie, Harwood Cooper, and Gladstone; Miss Julia
St. George, and Miss Emily ()monde.

4 To conclude with the Farce. called A BLIGHTED BEING, in
which Mr. Robson will appear.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr., William Cooke.
Miraculous attraction, and success without parallel !
THIS EVESINO,
The Magnificent and heart.stirriag MILITARY SPECTACLE, in
2 acts, by J. 11. S.rocquamosa, Esq., called THE BATTLE OF THE
ALMA i graphically realising that terrible conflict, and occupying
both the Stage and the Ring, with 400.Anziliaries ;
After which, the Celebrated SCENES in the ARENA, Invented
and conducted by Mr. William Cooke.
To conclude with a Grand Entree called VIE WILD INDIANS
ON THEIR FLEET HORSES !

N.B.—An early attendance Is respectfully suggested, in consequence
of the numbers who nightly throng the doors of the Theatre.

Boa-office open from. Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Acting Manager. Mr. W. H. Cooke. Equestrian Director,
Mr. Wm. Cooke, jun.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, NOTEKBIER 28, 1554.

The doom of Austria is sealed. Whatever be
the issue of the present war, she is ruined. The
triumph of Russia would be to her, slavery ; the
triumph of the Allies, disruption. She has
brought on herself the double danger. She
would deserve to be the galley-slave of triumphant
Russia ; her glaringly selfish mode of entering
the Principalities evacuated by her old saviour,
her truckling when there, to the Allies or to
Russia, according as success inclined to either, and
`her congratulations at the battle of Alma, all
have merited that she should be chained to the
oar of Russian convict-service, could the CZA.R be-
come Lord Paramount bf Middle Europe. She
has had a slight With of the thing, indeed, ever
since the Hungarian wickedness, and if she but
help NICHOLAS enough by reinforcements from the
Danube—if she enable him to smother the Allied
Armies in the Crimea by mere numerical superio-
rity, she will find in every sense of the word that
she has caught a Tartco'. She might soon begin
to wish herself within herlittle hereditary territory,
to live in quiet as the heir of the HAPSBURGS
in the snug little dukedom.
If, on the contrary, we conquer, as we mean to
do, and we can do what we mean, and Austria

knows it, she will fall to pieces, or be blown to
pieces. She is a fit subject for utter disruption.
Not one of her deceived, betrayed, and oppressed
peoples loves either her or each other. Enjoying
za splendid opportunity to become the common
centre of attachment to all, she has become the
object of common and deep-seated hatred. Hun-
garians, Italians, and Poles are ready to burst
her yoke, and, if they could, to gore her to death ;
and her Sclavonian population almost equally hate
her rule. The whole empire,,as it is called, or
more properly the whole collection of States
forcibly clamped together under the name
of Austria, needs but some adequate stroke
from without to tumble the whole mass to pieces.
Its coherence is entirely artificial, entirely at
Variance with all the laws of political gravitation ;
it could endure no shock.
Now, the very principle of the Allied war is
one of disintegration for Austria. It is a war for
the autocracy of the nations, just as the last long
contest was a war for the autocracy of the
Princes. Some 800,000,0001. of debt did Eng-
land incur to keep the perfidious wretches on their
thrones who have burdened all Europe since 1815,
to saddle the French with a dynasty which
they have ejected for ever, and to strengthen the
enemy, who now repays our folly by wanton war.
But we have changed all that. We have paid a
heavy
v
, penalty, indeed, for attempting to settle
'°r°l:4l at Vienna, not on the basis of its
Natural nationalities, and of national indepen-
dence, but of accommodation amongst the despots
Who wished to
Nowo parcel it out among themselves.
each governemid by
nations, each independent,
Y the rulers of its choice,
each having cordially shaken hands
quarrels, and convinced over old
inde-
pendence is the One
condition
that national
en of permanent
European peace, these two •
nations have deter-
mined that at any cost this great principle must
be so firmly asserted as never again
to be called
in question. We know, indeed, that T
as .wIER-
DEEN and his clique, and it may be
some higher
than they, descried the danger of European eman-
cipation afar off, and were most anxious to avert
it. They foresaw that Russia, once committed to
the war, would not soon draw back—that she
would be prodigal of the lives of her serfs to sus-
tain her ambition—and they knew that if the war
lasted Europe would eventually be in a state
of revolution, and that all might end in the
downfall of tyrants and the resurrection of
Peoples. Still, they were obliged to light, and,
once engaged in the contest) they cannot payout

its assuming a nobler character than they would
have impressed upon it.
Quite against their will, the struggle has now
materially changed its object. It is no longer
whether Russia shall occupy Moldavia and Wal-
lachia, but whether she shall be permitted to
make her entire frontier, from Sweaborg to War-
saw, and thence to Sebastopol, one bristling fort-
ress against all the rest of Europe. To this
contest we are now committed, and fought out it
must be. Appalling, indeed, is the general
position of Europe. Along one side stretches her
great enemy, greater already by a series of free
European States which he has absorbed and en-
slaved ; on the other side, the two mightiest of
civilised States consecrated to her defence ; but
midway between the aggressor and the vindica-
tors is a vast ignoble population of hated monarchs
and their oppressed subjects—the monarchs lean-
ing to their brother despot, the subjects praying
for the success of the Allies. What a mingling
of elements whose co-working and collision defies
calculation! HEAVEN alone can foresee the issue.
Barbarian serfs on the one side willingly
dying by thousands for their deified exalt ;
intelligent freemen on the other, as willingly
bleeding for the liberty they adore. While hover-
ing around and between both, are the vast armies
of Prussia and Austria, armies enfeebled by their
consciously guilty office of being tyrant's tools at
home; the armies perhaps not unwilling to aid
the great despot, but the peoples ready, if they
do, to hurl their own despots from their thrones.
One short rule, that honesty is the best policy,
has received already abundant illustration. Had
Austria and Prussiaacted on it the war and blood-
shed mighthavebeen spared. The CZAR could with
decency have yielded to all Europe. He would have
been glad to de it. Had Austria been honest in
the Principalities, Sebastopol would have fallen
ere now, and the contest been much nearer its
conclusion. Had the Allies, too, not tampered
with that coward, yet despotic, Court, especially
had they proclaimed a welcome to every Polish,
officer and soldier who would join to form a regi-
ment against Russia, instead of shunning offence
to Austria, this alone would have paralysed half
the battalions of Russia. It is not too late now.
Let it be known, from, the Baltic to the Black
Sea, that every Pole who can make his way to the
Allied Army shall form part of a sacred band, in,
this war for liberty. This will be an honesty which
will soon verify its worth. Let our own Govern-
ment also go honestly into the war. Let it spare
no expense requisite to send every spare soldier,
every spare war steamer, the best winter equip-
ments, and the best military implements, forthwith
to the East.

It is not merely formal matters which are to be
brought under the consideration of Parliament at
its winter session. Something more must be done
than taking power to send militia men, with their
own consent, to garrison certain ports in the
Mediterranean, from which the usual defenders
have been withdrawn to take part in the sangui-
nary game under the walls of Sebastopol. There
is a matter of great moment to be brought for-
ward, a subject of deep and - vital importance to
the welfare and prosperity of the country. The
entire financial policy of the Joint-Stock Adminis-
tration must be revised and materially modified.
We must adopt a bolder course than the peddling
system adopted by Mr. GLADSTONE, and so pro-
fusely bespattered with praise by the InnanneN
organs. It now appears that the Right Hon.
Gentleman has failed--disgracefully failed in all
his financial predictions, and that his later blun-
ders have been even more glaring and less ex-
cuseable than the earlier ones which attracted
greater attention, and which produced fixed and
certain losses, the amount whereof could be
readily ascertained. We are, however, required
to consider these failures almost as virtues,
because they were occasioned "by the best mo-
tives." This, however, appears by no means
a suitable excuse for a person who persever-
ingly thrusts himielf forward into a position
for which he is by no means qualified. We all
have heard of the place, not to be mentioned to
ears polite, which is said to be "paved with good
intentions." "He meant no harm," is not con-
sidered an adequate excuse for a drivelling school-
boy, and it cannot be accepted as a suitable vin-
dication of the character of a minister of finance
in this great country. But it now seems to be
argued that Lord ABERDEEN'S insane twaddle, re-
specting the blessings of Peace, is to be regarded
as a fit substitute for the vigour and energy that
ought to have been displayed by the head of her
MAJESTY'S Government, or Mr. GLADSTONE' S
humiliating failures are to be excused, because
"he has done his utmost to confine the expense to
the income," or that his plans have had imperfect
success because of his sanguine hopes of peace.
It would not be considered very flattering to a
general to say that he suffered his army to be
sacrificed because he did not think the enemy
would take advantage of his weak point, or strike
the blot he had left open, The strongest censure
that could be inflicted on a general or minister,
would be that tone of contemptuous pity which
declared that the poor fellow had certainly com-
mitted a great mistake, but that he did it with the
best intentions.

Nor did Mr. GLADSTONE fall into this grievous
error without full and ample warning. He re-
ceived, from divers quarters, earnest exhortations
to follow a more vigorous and decided course, and
to make the preparations which would certainly
be required, while ho could do so on east and
beneficial terms. But the Right Honourable
Gentleman seemed to think that the national credit
was to be maintaiued only by over-loading the
present tax-payers, and casting everything
on the existing generation. Ho commenced by
denuding the Exchequer of its balances, by ap-
plying eight millions sterling in payment of an
old debt, with which he was not at all required to
intermeddle. There, too, he had " the best in-
tentions." He wished to convert a portion of
the public debt into a stock bearing a lower rate
of interest. The object was unquestionably laud-
able, and, if successful, would have reflected the
highest credit on the Financial Minister. But,
unfortunately, with headlong impetuosity, ho
rushed on, disregarding ominous signs that could
not have been neglected by an experienced or
prudent financier. The result was a loss of some
8 or 10 per cont.—stock being redeemed at par
which would scarcely bring 91 in the market.
But, in place of submitting to the first loss with a
good grace, The Right Hon. Gentleman plunged
deeper into the mire. He suddenly discovered
the inutility of large balances in the Exchequer,
and conceived the bright notion that the pecuni-
ary affairs of the station could be carried on by
means of large cash advances on deficiency bills
bcit,
yredthe 1311311
of England, thus jeopardising the
payment of tine dividends, and with it the national
pecu-
niary while, he at the same time greatly impaired
the power of
the Bank to render the usual
iodation and monetary facilities to
the trade an('
1 commerce of the country. This was
a more serif ills error than the former one, leading
to far more u ntoward results. It was less excusable
too, for the former had a great public object ; the
latter Darr! ytho priymo QIN of Wing Mr. GLAD.

STONE'S vanity from the acknowledg went of 'kis
mistake. The former could have been got rid of
by writing off 800,0001. or 1,000,000/. as the
liquidated damage sustained by the failure of the
costly experiment ; the latter by leading to the
application of the monetary screw, and through
the undue restrictions imposed by the iniquitous
Act of 1844, led to losses amounting to many
millions sterling, and the general depreciation of
every description of property, real and personal.
Nor was the Right Hon. Gentleman more feli-
citous in other portions of his financial policy.
When he brought forward his budget on the Gth
of March, he endeavoured to show that all the
extra expenditure which would be required would
be covered by the sums then demanded ; that,
in fact, three millions sterling would meet
everything. It is now said that " the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer did not profess to
provide for the expenses of the War till next
February ;" and it was previously asserted
that in the March Budget he had only made " a

temporary provision for the expenses incurred by '
the Government in meeting the expenses of the
Expedition then under orders for the East." But,
unfortunately, his own words remain on record to
convict the parties putting forward these plausible
excuses of, to say the least of it, gross inaccuracy.
He asked the Representatives of the British
People to consent to the doubling of the Income
Tax for six months, by which he anticipated ob-
taining uo less than three millions sterling, and
which he boasted of as exhibiting, or to use his
own words, "looking like an intention to carry
on the War with vigour ;" adding—" I wish the
committee to understand it is our belief that the
funds for which we now ask will not suffice to
carry on the active operations of war beyond
twelve months !"
There was "no mistake" in this. There " could
be no` mistake," and Mr. DISRAELI was resolved
that there " should be no mistake." The Ex-
Chancellor of the Exchequer poured forth a
withering denunciation of "the vast and deceptive
machinery" brought into operation to obtain such a
sum as 3,000,000 L Within eight weeks, however, the
House was required to pass a supplementary budget,
asking for six millions extra, rendering the duplica-
tion of the Income Tax permanent, and putting in-
creased duties on Malt, Spirits, and Sugar ! But
this was not all : just before the prorogation, the
House was required to pass a supplementary vote
of 3,000,0001., as a credit to Ministers, to ren-
der them independent of Parliament until its
ordinary time of assembling. And now behold
the result. It is to consider the shattered
finances of the country that the Representatives
of the People are mainly required to assemble !
We are rejoiced at anything that must re-
move the " CZAR'S friend of forty years' standing"
from his dictatorship. We believe that the Bri-
tish Parliament will display a spirit worthy of the
British people ; that it will make ample provision,
not merely for the necessary expenses of the War,
but for carrying it on with such vigour and
energy, such as will teach the AUTOCRAT the
danger he is incurring, and induce him to become
an humble suitor for the peace which he despised
while he believed that England was striving to
carry on a "little war" entirely at the expense
of the present generation.