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

WHITSTTIT HOLIDAYS.-ROYAI
SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—Ascent in a
BALLOON from the Esplanade, in front of the Lake, by the veteran •
GREEN, the only ascent here fcr Eighteen years. Vocal and Instru- , -
mental Concert, by Miss Poole, Miss Ranstord and Mr. Manvers.
An extra Military Band during the day. Extensive and interesting
Menagerie, ten Lions, three Elephants, two Tigers, two Giraffes,
two Camels, &c. Various novel amusements, concluding with a dis-
play of Fireworks, gorgeous beyond description. The bombardment ,
of Chusan Explosion of Fireships, and Balloon a cent at halt-past
six. Concert at Seven. Fireworks quarter to Ten. Doors open
from Nine in the morning, Admission to the whole, Is.

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
THI-1 EVENING, JUNE 6,
Will be performed FIDELIO. Fidelio, Madame Rudersdorf:;
Marcellina, Madlie. Sedlazek ; Florestan, Herr Reichardt; Don
Fernando, Mr. Hamilton Braham ; Don Pizarro, Herr Holzel ;
Jacquino, Herr Castelli ; and Rocco, Herr Formes.
Followed by the new BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled
UNE FETE EN OLYMPE.
Prices—Stalls, Ts; Dress Circle, 55.; Boxes, 38. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery,
ls. ; and Private Boxes, One, Two, Three and Four Guineas. The
Bost-office open daily from Ten till Six, where places may be
secured. Private Boxes and Stalls to be had of Messrs. Leader and
Cod, 63, New Bond-street.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Under the management of Mr. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, Junk 6,
Will be performed the Drama of THE KNIGHTS OF THG.
E
ROUND TABLE. Characters by Messrs. Chippendale, -Howe ,
Vandenhoff, W. Farren, Compton, and Buckstone ; Miss Reynolds,
Ildiss E. Grey, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam.
After which. the entirely new and original extravaganza, entitled
Ma. BUCKSTONE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE (IN LEI-
(: KSTER-SQUARE), written by J. R. Planche, Esq.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. Cnaar.zs KW.
THIS EVENING, Juwe 6,
Will ba performed FROM VI LL AGE TO CO
TURMisses T.
Principal
characters by Messrs. Harley, Fisher, and Cathcart ; •
say, Heath, and Vivash.
Followed by FAUST A'.ND MARGUERITE. Characters by
Messrs. C. Kean and David Fisher ; Mrs. 37/installley and Miss C.

To conclude with A STORM IN A TEA-CUP. Principal cha-
mfers by Mr. and Mrs. VT. Lacy.

LYCEUM THEATRE.

under the management of Madame Pastes.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 6,

Will be performed BEFORE BREAKFAST. Characters by Mr.
C. Mathews, Messrs. F. Matthews, Roxby, and Baker; Miss Wynd -
ham, Br,c-
-7L.llowel by GIVE A DOl AN ILL NAVE.
To conclude with TRYING IT ON.

THEATRE ROYAL ADE.LPHI,
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 6,
Will be performed THE MARBLE HE A.lll' ; or, The Sculptor's
Dremn. Cbaracters by Messrs. P. Bedford, L. Murray, Ben. Web-
ster, and C. Selby; Madams Celests, Miss Woolgar, and Miss E.
I tailing.

rulowed by THE WOUATA.CfIE MOVENf&Nr. cha—
rslters ig Messrs. 0. Smith, Keeley, and farselle; Mrs. Keeley,
O.lAt ,41.113 Mary Keeley-

Atter which, Tile. OVEIMA-NO JOURNEY TO CONSTANT -
s Oet,r., Ai UNDERTAr.UN BY LORD BITENIAN, WIT :I
Ii F,REs mai rAturcui..kn OF TILE FAIR t'OPIIIA. Prin-
c-pal chaia:tera by Mr. Paul Bedford and Mrs. Keeley.

KOYAL OL YMP Lc II F. A. 2is E.

Lessee and liana-pm', Mr. A. Vr;.ga.n.

THIS EVENISG, JUNE
NVUI be performed THE 1I ‘PPIF,tiT TINY OF MY r,TFP:. chn_
r %;rprs by Messrs. F. 11.073 'it, J. It. I.u.iie, sal Vincent ;
Chatterley, MOS I'. aiot llts3 :tlarston.
To be tollowe4 by THE F(I.S C SilO.llT. Characters by Mesqrs..
Ali. e 1 Wigan. Frank., I lamoosi Coop.3r, an! Vincent. ; Miss;
Horton, ant I,llsa Wyndham.
Aner vehte,,. THE MUMMY. Charicto-s by Ifes3rs. Ft. Wiga*.i,
Robson. 11. Coo;er; Misses Marston and E. Turner.

ziTIZA.ND TREAT ax..

&RD:, Lessee Mr. F. W. ll:c7cift.—Directre 4,, Miss liabecca -Isaacs

THIS EVENING, Arsz
Will be performed THE L 1D1." OF L PONS
To he followed by the New Ballet Dwerti3semmt, entitled THE
SEA NYMPti.'i CAVE.
To be followed by THE PirATERAtisT.
Atter which, THE MARBLE LOVER.
~Letle, be.; Boxes, 35.; Pit, ls. lid ; gallery. Gd.; Private fl,oces
.41 Ils. 64., to be bad of 34. r. Allcroft. 1.5, New Bond-itreet.

ASrLEY'S EUROPVA NA.TIOAAL A APDATDEA.f
Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.
THIS EVENING, Joss 5,
Will be produced a new Grand Historical Military spectacle, en-
titled THE COSSACKS; or, Vlvc la Franca.
Followed by a total change of the Scenes in the CIRCLE.
To conclude with a new Grotesque Extravaganza, c lII.d THIS
HORSE WILL BE sOLD 'lO PAY EXPEN3E3 IF NOT
CLAIMED WITHIN FOURTEEN DAYS.
Dos-Wilco open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West.

,IIGI.I WATER AT LONIiON
T7tl Der —Horning 39 mia.after 9 I Evening 8 min.aft. 10
IN)-xfoaanw—Moruing 38 min.after 10 / Evening 7 m,n.aft. 11

WEATLIER.—Scrs Oriics, JuNs 6.
THERMOMETER, IN TiE SHA.DE.
62 highest since noon yesterday.
50—lowest this morning and during the night.
57—this day, at noon.

BA.RomUTER, 30.13—falling.
WIND, N. to N.N.E.—Moderate breeze, but cold, with
cloudy weather.

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LONDON, TI7ESDA V, JUNE 6, 1854.

Additional hard fighting before Silistria, we be-
lieve, may be given as about the sum total of
the news last received from the seat of war in the
Principalities. Until the allied troops become
united with those of the Turks and Egyptians
already actually engaged with the Russian armies
under PASKIEWITCH and GORTSCHAKOFF—nothing
decisive can of course be anticipated- The sol-
diers of the SULTAN have shown themselves al-
ready, it is true, from first to last, perfectly well,
qualified to maintain a defensive war with their
Muscovite assailants. This capacity they have
displayed again and again down to the latest intel-
ligence from the head-quarters of OMER PACHA at
Schumla from the period of their first serious en-
counter with the enemy at Oltenitza. They so
entrenched themselves at Kalafat, that their posi-
tion at that point was virtually admitted by the
foe to be impregnable—insomuch so, that having
tarried before it for some months after the sangui-
nary struggle at Citale, the Muscovite armament
was compelled at last to evacuate the whole of
Lesser Wallachia, and march hastily, in full re-
treat, in the direction of the Dobrudscha, unde r
the strategic plea of the necessity of concentra,-
tion. Again, even no we see the heroic defence
of Silistria by the Turks, week after week, and
month after month, when invested by a formidable
multitude of armed and infuriated Muscovites.
We have been watching this heroic defence of
Bilistria with a consciousness that it is one un-
paralleled in heroism since the memorable defence
of Komorn by Klapka and his gallant Hungarians.
Wt accept it as an incident affording additional
testimony of the capability undoubtedly possessed
by the Ottoman forces of repelling the further
advance, at any rate for some time yet, of the
enormouslydisproportioned hordes directed against
them by the despotic power and daring ambition
of the AUTOCRAT. Alone, we believe the Turks,
though numerically so inferior, to be capable of
maintaining for a long while unaided a defensive
warfare with Russia. But beyond that, to count
Yet farther' would be preposterous and utterly
.extravagant. Unassisted the Turks would still
a thnedlinit
edirnof°lllthtetemai,ntain for any length of time
range of the Balk
Mountains.
beinb
Danube, or even of the gigantic
an oluntains. But—to dream
to
of theicarry the r
iness assisted by auxiliaries
awlea; unless
were simply ridiculous tothe
. enemy's country,
ion of their brave
With all our apprecia-
ry
and skill, with all
our admiration for the courage
taraanedir men and
of th •
for the genius of their heroic co
should
of
commander—.to cal-
culate on their performing
and lotacreoosanduthet
good generalship as
valour and
them unaided across the Danube
e
Pruth in pursuit of their Russian invader, were
to look for miracles where we have only a right
to expect matters-of-course. Therefore the repulse
of the Russians, the effectual repulse of them so as to
necessitate their withdrawal through Wallachia
and through Moldavia, beyond the boundaries of
Bessarabia, can only be reasonably expected when
the Anglo-French contingents have proceeded
from Scutari to Schumla, by way of Varna, and
from Gallipoli and. Adrianople, thence to be
united with the Turks and Egyptians, looking for
orders to the head-quarters of OMER PACHA.
When these movements, already commenced,
shall at length have been satisfactorily completed,
the united forces, ranged on the field of battle
.)
abinst the enormous army of the CZAR, will be
,--"PrePared at last to draw the sword in earnest for
----the decisive encounter, the Franco-Anglo-Turkish-
ggyptran armament being directed against the foe,
sager due deliberation, by the collective authority
clglega-tdd to Marshal ST. ARNAUD, as Generalis-
, simo., Then, in earnest may we "cry havoc and
'l'l jet slip the dogs of wae—expecting, as the no
longer remote result of the conflict, the termi-
nation of the scarcely memorable horrors of a ge-
neral encounter, and the final restoration of trail-