The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-13 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVE.NING, Juxz 13,
Will be performed NORMA. Principal characters by Madame
C tradort, Madame Sedlatzek, and Madame Heinrich ; Signor Ar-
uoldl, Signor Santi, and Herr Ptiz.
Followed by the new BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled
vNR FETE EN OLTSiPE.
Fece4--Stal!s, 7s; Dress Circle, 55.; Boxes, 3s ; Pit, 25.; Gallery,
is. ; and Private Boxes, One, Two, Three and Four Guineas. The
Box-office ope ; daily from Ten till Six, where places may be
secured. Private Boxes and Stalls to be had of Messrs. Leader and
'Cock, 63, New Bond-street.

THE kTRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Under the management of Mr. Unckstone.

THTS EVENLNG, Jr:ix 13.
Will be percormed the Drama of THE KNIGHTS OF THE
ROUND TABLE. Characters by Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, G.
Yandenhoff, W. Farren, Compton, and Buckstone ; Miss Reynolds,
Miss E. Grey, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam.
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After wnicit. the entirely new and original extravaganza, entitled
11R. BUCKSTONE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE (IN LEI-
CESTER-SQUARE), written by J. R. Planehe, Esq.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES KEAN.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 13,
Will be performed FROM VILLAGE TO COURT. Principal
characters by Messrs. Harley, Fisher, and Cathcart; Misses Mur-
ray, Heath, and Vivash.
Followed by FAUST AND MARGUERITE. Characters by
Messrs. C. Kean and David Fisher ; Mrs. Winstanley and Aim C.
Leclercq.
To conclude with A STORM IN A TEA-CUP. Principal cha-
racters by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy.

LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the management of Madame Vestris.
THIS EVENING, Juan 13,
Will be performed BEFORE BREAKFAST. Char
acterS by Mr.
C. Mathews, Messrs. F. Matthews and Baker; Miss Wadham, &c.
Followed by GIVE A DO(} AN ILL NAME. Characters by
Messrs. C. Mathews and F. Matthews ; Misses Oliver and Mar-
tindale.
To conclude with LITTLE TODDLEKINS.

THEA.TRE ROYAL ADELPHI,
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING, Julie 13,
Will be performed THE MARBLE HEART; or, The Sculptor's
Dream. Characters by Messrs. P. Bedford, L. Murray, Ben. Web,
- ster, and C. Selby ; Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, and Miss E.
sr. /Larding.
1. After which -,ill be produced the New Extravaganza, entitled
A. MOVING TALE, supported by Mr. Keeley, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with the popular _Nautical Drama of the CA.BIN BOY.
Julien (her original character), Madame Celeste. Tickets, Places,
' and Private Boxer to be had at the theatre.

ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S .NATIOITAL ANIPIIITUEAttsz.
Lessee and Nanager, !qr. William Cooke.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 13,
Will be produced the new Grand Historical Jil itary spectacle, en-
titled THE COSSACKS; or, Vlve la France.
, . Followed by a total change of the Scenes in the CIRCLE.
To conclude with a new Grotesque Extravaganza, called THIS
HORSE NILL BE SOLI) 10 PAY EXPENSES IF NOT
CLAIMED WITHIN FOURTEEN DAYS.
' Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

Open for the Season.

THIS EVENING, JUNE 13,

Will be repeated an entirely NEW and BRILLIANT PIECE
et FIREWORK on a gigantic scale, representing the British Lion
and Gallic Cock Trampling on the Russian Eagle. All the numerous
attractions of the gardens as usual, including the beautiful Panorama
of Chusan, by Dawson—the extensive and interesting Menagerie—
Vocal and Instrumental Concert Miss Poole, Miss Ransford, and
• Mr. Manvers, &c. Concluding with the attack of the British Fleet
on Chusan—Explosion of the Batteries and Ships, and final Grand
Dispigy of Fireworks, by Southby. Feeding the animali, Half•past
Five. Concert, Half-past Six. Fireworks, Quartet to Ten. Ad-
' mission to the whole, Is.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDOK.
Tars DAT —Morning 15 min.after 3 1 Evening 40 nitnokft. 3
• To•Nronanw—Morning 4 min.eter 4 1 Evening 29 min.et. 4

THE WEATHER.--Buy Orttce, Junta 13.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
69 highest since noon yesterday.
52—lowest this morning and during the night.
61—this day, at noon.
BAROMETER, 29.69.
WIND, N.W.—Heavy rain.

WAg ;,,--; 4,

LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1854.

Expectation is still on tiptoe. Everybody is
beginning to ask when this doubtful state of
things may probably terminate. There has been

so much said about the great things which the
allied forces, both by sea and land, were to have
accomplished, that people at home are naturally
becoming rather impatient at finding week after
week, month after month, actually season after
season, flitting by without our receiving any news
,~ whatever of their accomplishment. So that when
the summer of 1854 has arrived we are still re-
ceiling the gratifying intelligence that the Angle-
French contingents are "going" to the seat of
war—not that they are " gone," but that they
are going, and that the combined fleets, here in
the Baltic, and there again in the Euxine, are
still complacently " biding their time"—with not
a single broadside yet fired, by the war-vessels of
' tbe two great maritime powers, either at Cronstadt
or at Sebastopol. It is altogether begging the
question to maintain that complaints of this cha-
racter are nothing better than mere tokens of im-
patience—that in regretting, as we do, the de-
plorable lapse of time which has taken place without
the maritime or military annals of France and
England being, in regard to this war with Russia,
illustrated in a befitting manner by any very bril-
liant achievement, we are only betraying ignorance
as to the difficulties of both land and sea cam-
paigning. It was not thus that NELSON hesitated
and procrastinated. It was not after this fashion
that NAPOLEON prepared for an advance against
the enemy, by reiterated delays, in the way of
precaution. The former chased the imaginary
fleet of his foe to and fro across the ocean in the
eagerness of his heroic pursuit during an interval
of time equivalent to that occupied by his succes-
sor in the command of the maritime armament of
England in the Mediterranean, in crawling from
Besika Bay to Beycos in the Bosphorus. The
latter completed a campaign in fourteen days,
taking the capital of the opposing territory, and
returning to his own, there to receive the felicita-
tions of an astounded population--effecting all this
within an insignificant portion of the time consumed
by the warriors of nowadays in taking leave of their
friends, and getting their baggage together, and ar-
ranging the fashion of their accoutrements, and in
selecting first one place and then another place
of preliminary encampment. In everything we
have said, there is not, we insist, detectable any-
• where the smallest exaggeration. And while we
would not, of course, be so preposterous as to ex-
pect a NELSON in every Admiral, or a NAPOLEON
in every commander of a division—heroes like
those scarcely appearing once in a thousand years,
if either of them, indeed, can be thought to have
been ever paralleled—we may, at any rate, expect
from their posterity, in the generation coming im-
mediately after themselves, some feeble effort, at
least, at the semblance (if nothing more than that),
at the semblance of emufation. Instead of which,
we behold the results of a dawdling ..-olicy
such as those we have just taken occaslon -o
paaticulatise. We find that the summer of 1854
has.actually arrived, while we still continue to be
told that our fleets are going to do great things,
and that the allied armies are going to do great
things—but that, of course, all those wonderful
achievements, about which we have heard so much
in the way of anticipation, have yet to be accom-
plished. The British contingent is to hasten
from Scutari, by way of Varna, to carry assis-
tance, at last, to the Turkish and Egyptian forces,
under OUEIL PACIIA., between Schunila, bis head-
quarters, and Silistria, still invested by the Rus-
sian soldiers of PASKIEWITCIL The French con-
, • tingent is to march with all speed in a similar
direction from Gallipoli, hastening towards the
Balkans by way of Adrianople. Meanwhile
the fleets--under DUNDAS and 11 ,
deem it more
prudent to wait in the safe
tranquillity of their anchorage, rather than punish
the Muscovite marine force for all the enormities.
•
perpetrated by them long since at Sinope, rather
than avenge the
fate of the "Tiger" by a more de-
Odessa
cisive movement against , rather than take
al mouths of the
possession of the three principal
against the enor-
Danube, and daringly adventure
f the Crimea at Se:
mous fortifications on the coas t
bastopol. Hearing of
decision on the
hich prudent
w
part of one of the great maritime armaments
sent . forth against Russia by the nations recog-
nised as the two mightiest chatnpionS of civilisa-
tion, we receive intelligence at the same time from
the Gulf of Finland, that one portion of the cm-
panion Pleet of the Baltic is at Poskala, Bay,
three miles from Sweaborg, and that an-
other is at Hango-head, as a glance at the
map will show, not exactly within gun-shot of
Ilelsingfors. As yet—though June is advancing—
no intimation of a descent upon Cronstadt, much
less of any advance beyond Cronstadt, with the
aid of gun-boats and land forces, directly upon
the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. If we
presume to comment at any length upon these
circumstances, however, we are told not to be