The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-21 00:00:00

Zrbtrb

NOTTINGHAM RACES.

(THIS DAY.)
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SPRING HANDICAP.

Alonso
Surveyor

1

Thirteen ran. Won by a neck.
TWO-YEAR-OLD SWEEPSTAKES
Challow Boy

Seven tan.
TRIAL STAKES.

Rataplan
Sir George
Blakely

Four ran.

THE WAGNER CASE.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—THIS DAY.
LUMLEY V. GYE.
This case was resumed this morning. The witnesses
examined were Mr. Gantz, Mrs. Bradley, and Mr.
Allcroft ; after which the Attorney-General opened the
case for the defendant, and was proceeding with his ad-
dress when we went to press. The case is expected to
last for the next two days.

BANKRUPTCY COURT-(THIS DAY.)

IN RE ABBLEWEITE.
The bankrupt was described as of Mortimer-street,
Cavendish-square, coach builder, and to-day was ap-
pointed for consideration of his certificate.
The balance-sheet prepared by Mr. Watson, Basing-
hall-street, shows :—Debtor, to creditors, 1,5351 Is. ;to
ditto holding security, 8691. 6s. id. ; profits, 2,6101.155.
Creditor, by good debts, 394/. ; property in hands of
creditors, trade charges, 1,7491. 115. ; house and per-
sonal (3 years), 7421.
Mr. Linklater for the bankrupt.
Mr. Abrahams appeared for the assignees, and had no
opposition to make to an immediate certificate of a high
class, as the losses had evidently arisen from pressing
circumstances connected with the trade.
His Honour granted an immediate certificate of th•
second class.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.

---c:>--

The production of the tragedy of .Richard the Third
last evening was distinguished by a copious amount of
that " pride, pomp, and circumstance" of scenery dresses,
and decorations, for which this theatre has become so
renowned under the present management. As a spec-
tacle, it is thoroughly magnificent, and we doubt if even
on these boards so richly picturesque a scene has been
presented as that of the battle field, on which the cur-
tain finally descends. The distant view of Tamwnrth,
a triumph of the pencil, with the passage of Rich-
monds's host ; the funeral procession of King
Henry ; the Royal tent with its lurid watch-
fire, and white-cloaked solitary sentinel ; the ex-
terior of the Tower, with the issuing forth of the tyrant-
king and his gorgeous train to war ; the battle array of
his men-at-arms and archers in liosworth field ; each
and all of these rival, if not exceed, those scenic beau-
ties which created so marked an impression on the town
in Macbeth, and King John. As regards the mere act-
ing, those plays were necessarily more striking, from
their containing a greater number of prominent parts.
In the present case, there is nothing to compete with
the high tragic power of Mrs. Kean's Constance and
Lady Macbeth, or the stern grandeur, mingled with
natural pathos, of Mr. Ryder's Hubert, or Macduff.
The latter excellent actor made, indeed, the utmost of
the part of Richmond, and his impressive delivery of the
prayer on the eve of battle, merits especial mention.
Mr. Graham's King Henry, was a noble and affecting
performance, and amply merited the strong marks of
favour it elicited from the audience. But there is only
one first-rate character in the piece, and in that, Mr.
Kean may safely be pronounced excellent—better than
in either of the former tragedies. The cool villany of
Richard's satanic nature was developed by him in a most
artistic and effective style, and where vehemence
is required, be maintained his former reputation, and
won thunders of applause.

MB. COBDEN O N EASTLBN
QUESTION,
(Prom the Pi,ntes.)
Mr. Cobden laSt night entertained the house of doramdmi
with one of those argtiments that Would hardly be credible
but for t'ne sort of orecial preparation we have had for it in
the economioftt triumphs of the last dozen years. For that
period, to far a fortunate one, we have been emancipating
commerce and purifying finance, there, being, in fact, much
to be done in that way, and opportunity to do it. But there
is a time for all things, and a time has now arrived when the
question is not the duty to be levied on cotton or corn, or the
employment of foreign shipping, but how we ought to deal
with two nations, members of the European brotherhood,
one of them at this moment engaged in the destruction of
the other, and thereby- threatening the independence of
every other nation within its reach. When an argument
is conducted rigorously on one principle its faults will
be those of omission, and the omissions in Mr. Cob-
den's argument are fatal. He leaves out of the
question everything political ;—political events, political
relations, and political consequences. England has taken a
part in Turkish politics upon several questions; sometimes as
a friend, sometimes as a check, always as an arbitrator ; and
is therefore now bound to give the Porte her advice and as-
sistarien, if the latter should be required. Mr. Cobden has
omitted to state this essential part of the question, and has
thus left it to be imagined that we are now for the first time
forming an " alliance " and " entering into partnership " with
the Porte. Having thus passed over the previous history, he
omits to say what, in his opinion, were our actual relations
with Turkey at the commencement of the pending quarrel.
As to consequences, he is even more blind or indifferent. He
does not venture to contemplate the certain results of our
permitting Russia to sweep undisturbed over the whole Turk-
ish empire. For any wish ho expresses, for any principle be
avows, for any word he utters, the Czar might this year re-
peat the conquests of Alexander, from the Adriatic to the
Indus, crushing ono race, absorbing another, confounding
and amalgamating all, till, in the place of principalities, pro-
vinces, kingdoms, pashalics, and governments of all kinds,
there would be one uniform dead Russian level. We are left
to conjecture what Mr. Cobden may possibly expect or de-
sire on this point, and whether he really would like to see
that Russia, which he once crumpled up in the sight of all
Loudon, dominating over Europe and Asia, and, as the con-
queror of the Turk, actually founding a claim to the whole
of North Africa.

However disagreeable it may be, wo are bound to take a
political view of the subject. We may not like the Turk ;
we may deplore the condition of twelve million Christians
under a semi-barbarous yoke ; we may anticipate little posi-
tive good from any issue whatever of the present quarrel ;
and we may be shocked to find the strange company iu which
we are fighting the battle of independence. These, how-
ever, are the accidents of the question, and if, after suffer-
ing Russia to have her way with Turkey, we siiould
find the battle still to be fought with worse vantage
than before, we should derive small consolation from
the thought that Turkey, then no more, had never been a
very respectable Power, and that the origin of the struggle,
then to be made for our own existence, was shown by Mr.
Cobden to be a trivial one. Mr. Cobden admits that tee in-
terference of Russia in behalf of the Greeks is not quite disin-
terested, but he scarcely hints at the condition to which tilos.:
Greeks themselves would be reduced, in the event of a Rus-
sian Government at Constantinople. In any given policy
there may be passages open to criticism, but the great test is
the result—that is, the result of one policy as compared with
that of the other ; and, so long as Mr. Cobden, and the hand-
ful of gentlemen on his side, cannot explain, and do not pre-,
tend to explain, satisfactorily what would have become of
Turkey but for our i• te ference, and what further conse-
quences would have followed upon her subjugation, we beg
to prefer the Ministerial policy, with all its assailable points,
to that of Mr. Cobden's. We, know where the former has
placed us, but we can only form the most gloomy conjecture
as to the fate of Turkey and all Europe had the latter been
adopted.