The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, W

GREAT LUXEMBOURG COMPANY•-
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that an EXTRAORDI-
NARY GENERAL MEETING of the SHAR7EHOLDERS in this
Company will be held at the Offices of the Company, No. 18, Rue
d'ldaiie, Brussels, on SATURDAY, the 17th o f December, 18 ,A, at
one o'clock. precisely, to deliberate and decldss upon the following
subjects, viz.:—
let. A proposed alliance with the Paris and. Strasbourg Company,
and a junction with the Paris and Strasbourg Railway, in such a
manner as to secure a direct and continuous line from Brussels to
Marseilles, by Namur, Arlon, Thionville, ifetz, Nancy, EpEnal,
Vesoub, Gray Dijon, Lyons, and Avignon ; thus establishing a rail-
way communication between the North Sea said the Mediterranean.
2d. The adoption of certain conceded lines in the kingdom of Bel-
gium, by means of which the most direct communication between
Brussels and Paris, and Paris, Brussels, and 61erlin, will be secured
to this company.
3d. A consolidation and re-arangement of the share capital, and
such changes in the administration of the company, as may be ne-
cessary for the accomplishment of the above objects.
WILLIAM ISt AGNAY, President.
No. 2, Royal Exchange Buildings,
London, 26th November, 1853.
EXTRACT FROM ARTICLE 40 OF VIBE STATUTES.

Every bearer of ten shares, thewhich have been duly
paid, may attend and take part in the genersd meeting; to be ad-
mitted to it he will have to deposit his shares. in return for a receipt
five days before the meeting, either with the secretary of the com-
pany at Brussels or at the company's offices ha London.
Every shareholder may be represented by Nis constituted attorney
specially appointed, but no person can accept c,r fulfil that office un-
less he is himself a shareholder.
The form necessary to enable shareholders to vote by proxy, may
be obtained at the offices of the company in P;:russels or London.

GREAT LUXEMBOURG COMPANY.-
OTICE.—The Shareholders are invited to attend a
MEETING which will be held at the London/ Tavern, on WEDNES-
DA Y, the 14th of December, 1853, at One o't :lock precisely, prepara-
tory to the General Meeting of the Company r, advertised to be held
in Brussels on the 17th of December following.
By order of the Board.
THOMAS C(XXHEAD, Secretary.
No. 2, Royal Exchange Buildings,
London, 26th November, 1853.

THEATRE ROYAL DRURI7-LANE,
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith
THIS EVENING, Nov. 30,
The GREAT AMERICAN EQUESTRIAINS will exhibit their
astonishing Feats, unmatched in the history of such Performances,
assisted by the most renowned Gymnastic Artistes, 0. Dale and
Barnes, the European and American cnampions.

THEITRE ROYAL, HAYM. REEL
Under the management of Mr. )3nckstone.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 30,

Will be performed MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Principal
characters by Messrs. Vandenhoff and Compt ton, and Miss Reynolds.
Will be performed A PRETTY PIECE C'F BUSINESS. Cha-
racters by Messrs. Howe and Buckstone ; M iss Reynolds and Mrs.
Fitzwilliam.

After which, LOVE'S ALARNES. CharA.7.ters by Messrs. W.
Farren, Corri, and Compton ; Miss Emily On onde, Miss E. Romer,
and Miss Featherstone.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, 01 0 FORD-STREET.
Unger the Management of Mr. CM/VALES KERN.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 30,
Will be performed THE CORSICAN 11 MOTHERS. Principal
character by Mr. C. Kean.
To be followed by MARCO SPADA. Supported by Messrs. W.
Lacy, J. Chester, Ryder, Graham, and Eve mit ; Misses Heath and
C. Leclercq.

THEATRE ROYAL

Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster,—Directress,. Madame Celeste.

TIIIS EVENING, Nov. :39,

Will he perforined THE DISCARDED SON. Characters by
Leigh Murray, Paul Bedford, and Keeley; IYlrs. Keeley and Miss
Woolgar, We.
To be followed by WHITEBAIT AT GREENWICH.
After which, THE C VIIP AT CHOBIIATC.
To he followed by " HOTEL CHARGES:I" or, How to Cook
" A Biffin."

ROYAL OLYMPIC TIIMATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 30,
Will be performed PLOT AND PASSION... Principal characters
by Mr. F. Robson and Mrs. Stirling.
To bo followed by THE CAMP AT THE OLYMPIC. Charac-
ters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Emery, F. Robs on, Cooper, and Galli ;
Nlesdames A. Wigan, Stirling, P. Horton, CM w;terley, E. Turner, and
Wyndham.
To conclude with TIIF. WANDERING ME NSTREL.

ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL A M PIJITHEATRE.

Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke,

who respectfully announces to the Nobility, Gentry, and Public in
general, that a GRANt) EQUESTRIAN Cl I [NESE SPECTACLE
is in active preparation, written expressly to introduce Mr. William
Cooke's most extrao,dinary THAI NED ELZEPHANTS, surpassing
everythiag hitherto witnessed—their marvel] anus feats never having
been previously attempted, and which they a ceoTriplish with unerr-
ing certainty. The spectacle will be produce:l. immediately.

Second week of Six Clowns in the Arena. Third week of the re-
appearance of the premier horseman, air. A :I.FRED COOKE. In-
creasing popularity of the daring Equestrienne, Madlie. SIASOTTA.

THIS EVENING, Nov. 3^.
(And during the week)*

The grand spectacle of BONAPARTE'S INVASION OF RUSSIA
Or, The Burning of Moscow.

Followed by William Cooke's matchless :scenes of the ARENA,
by unequalled artistes.

Concluding with JUPITER'S DECREE; iCir, The Fall of Phxton
Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Si:tago Manager, Mr. W
West.

HIGH WATER AT LONDO N BRIDGE.
THIS DAY —Mot ning 53 min.after 12 I ,E vetting 16 min.aft. 1
To-:MORROW—Morning 38 min.after 1 Mac:ming 1 min.aft. 2

THE WEATHER.—Smi OFFI ms, Nov. 30.
THERMOMETER, IN THE .SHADE•
52—highest since noon yesterday.
45—Lowest this morning and during: the night.
53—this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 30'12W...
WIND, S.W.—Light breeze, and didl weather, with rain
in the morning.

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into winter, that on the 15th instant snow was.
covering the Asiatic environs of Constantinople !

So much for the utility, so much for the wis-.
dom, so much for the blessings of Arbitration !
Why—thanks to this vaunted panacea for all
political difficulties, we have Russia and Turkey
plunged into war aft. a time of the year when war
was formerly deemed altogether impracticable.
Thanks to an infatuated regard for arbitration,
we have the peace of all Europe jeopardised,
and not only the peace of the Danubian
Principalities—we have England and France, if
not also Austria and Prussia, and the rest of the
civilised nations, threatened with involvement in
a struggle that might with proper caution
have been restricted to the vicinity of the
Danube and the Dardanelles. Reviewing
the principal events which have rendered
the past eight or ten months so deplorably
memorable, we are bold to say, and we say it de-
liberately, and from the depths of our conviction,
that with a moderate show of energy on the part of
the allied Governments of France and England
the whole of this entangled question would long
ago have been settled, and, what is more,
settled definitively and satisfactorily. Instead of
energy, however, Russia has only recognised
timidity on the side of the Allies of the Cabinet
of Constantinople. The apologists of Lord
ABERDEEN'S coalition call this Timidity, of
course, by the milder and more delectable
title of Moderation. Yes—a moderation that
has encouraged the CZAR to believe that the.
Western Powers of Europe would complacently
tolerate his lawless incursions upon the Otto-
man Dominions ! A moderation that has lured:
him on by one act of weakness after an--
other, until it has impelled him to break a,t
one desperate blow the bond of thirty-eigl it
years' tranquillity. From our heart, from ova.
conscience, from our deliberate and impartial
judgment, we avow that, according to our belief,
the responsibility of this heinous rupture will rest
in after times not so much on the evil fame of the
' Emperor NICHOLAS, as on the memory of a soul-
less, heartless, hesitating, and self-contradicting
Government.

At a numerous meeting of operatives held at
Preston on Saturday, a Mr. K. SMITH (stated to
be the President of the Executive Committee) in-
formed the assembly, that "if all the mills in
Lancashire were to lock up, and the people of
Preston were to persevere in their movement, they
would be supported until they won the day."
This assertion was deliberately put forward, and
although we cannot give implicit credence to every
statement proceeding from such a quarter, it is at
least worthy of notice, and of endeavouring to
ascertain on what data it is founded, or what
warranty there is for an opinion in every respect
so startling.

The first question that naturally arises is,
Whence are the funds to be obtained to maintain
so large a body of persons in unproductive idle-
ness, to allow them to spend their entire time
"at play," without doing anything for their own
support ? If " all the mills in Lancashire were to
lock up," other operatives, whose interests were
identical with those of the Preston malcontents,
would not only be unable to contribute any as-
sistance, but would require very considerable
aid themselves. It would involve no trifling
sum to support " at play " all the mill hands in
Lancashire with their families, to give them the
means of sustaining life even in the simplest form
during so dear and scarce a season as that on
which we have recently entered. It is manifest.,
then, that the agitators look to other sources ; and
from what slipped out during the discussion, it is
clear that the " poor rates," and funds to be col-
lected by a general confederacy of all the trades,
under the project of a Labour Parliament, to which
we alluded in our impression of Saturday last,
are expected to provide the necessary supplies.

A Mr. W. BUYER, apparently one of the dele-
gates, gave very valuable information on the first
point. He said he found the "lock-outs" " very
contented and happy, for they were receiving very
good pay from the parish. He met one man, the
head of a family, who had been for parochial relief,
and he had got twenty-one shillings. Many were
receiving ls. 6d. per head for every member of the
family, and, therefore, they were in better circum-
stances than the operatives of Preston, for, taking
the average, his hearers did not get so much as that."
Now, if there be the slightest foundation for this asser-
tion, if it be not a gross falsehood from beginning to
end, there never was so great a malversation of
funds levied under the authority of Parliament,
and intended only for the support of persons inca-
pable of earning their own livelihood from sickness,
old age, or the impossibility of obtaining employ-
ment. It was never for a moment contemplated
that persons should refuse to work on fair and
reasonable terms, and be assisted in carrying out
that determination by receiving out-door relie4
amounting, in some instances, to larger sums than
they could have earned by honest industry. It
would be peculiarly unfair, under present
circumstances, if the rates levied upon the
closed mills and the rusting machinery should be
applied to defeating the very parties from whose
pockets it was extracted, and rendering their pro-
perty (the property charged with the rates) totally
valueless. Such a course could not for a moment
be justified. The poor are entitled to support,
but not men who wilfully and deliberately, in
pursuance of an illegal confederacy, refuse to
work, in order to coerce their employers and to
transfer the control of " the destinies of trade"
to other, and, from what has already transpired,
we may safely assert, very incompetent hands.
It is, therefore, essential that a stringent investi-
gation should be instituted to ascertain whether
any guardians or relieving officers have been so
oblivious of their duties. The slightest intima-
tion to the Central Board would be followed by
results that would speedily recal the parties to a
knowledge of their true position. The first inti-
mation that the auditors could not sanction such
charges, but that they should be defrayed by the
persons ordering them, would prevent any future
misapplication of parochial funds to such purposes.
If there has been a general confederacy of the
Trades--if there is to be a central body formed
for the
purpose of constantly interposing be-
tween the employers and their workpeople,
it will require more energetic and determined
exertions to abate the social nuisance. We still
trust that the parties are reckoning without their
host—that the labouring classes of the United
Kingdom are too intelligent, and have too much
common sense to plunge into a course so mis-
chievous and suicidal. The wish seems to have
b
gone the full length of their
convulsive effort to drag others
foundettehon "the father to the thought." Those who
i
etrhi :ae
thatvi gohr tttehn ixeayiknehwhich they themselves were nearly
submerged, but why the others should suffer
themselves to be so greatly duped
passes our
or whye
ar
nt
ihnegys shouldp
por t
a
devote any
portion of their hard body
of persons as well able to work as them-
selvescomprehension.
If the attempt should
in idleness.
be made, it must be met by a counter
movement on the other side. If workmen com-
bine, masters must follow the example.
individual,
but of a single trade could r
ruin an
but the associated masters of that
trade could le. The
defeat them with their own weapons, by follow-
ing the tactics taught by their adversaries. If
the association spreads to other trades, so must
for the operatives who choose to remain at play;
that of the masters also. If funds are collected