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

TIIEA. ['RE I%OYAL DRURY LANE;
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING, RINE 13,
Will be performed NORMA. Principal characters by Madame
C iradorl, Madame Sedlatzek, and Madame Heinrich ; Signor Az'
noldi, Signor Santi, and Herr Pttz.
Foilowed. by 'file 'new BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled
UNE FETE EN OLYMPE.. _
Pr:cos—Stall*. 75; Dress Circle, 5e.; Boxes, 3a. ; Pit, 25. ; Gallery,
la, ; and Private Boxes, One, Two, Three and Four Guineas. The
Box-office 011 el daily from Ten till Slx, where places may be
secured. Fr_ivati Boxeit and Stalls to be had of Messrs. Leader and
Cock, 63, 110;010n-street.
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:.THEA.TRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
'trndertho management of Mr. Bankston..

THIS EVENING, JUNE 13,
Will be performed the Drama of THE KNIGHTS OF THE
ROUND TABLE. Characters by Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, G.
Vandenboff, W. Farren, Compton, and Buekstone ; Miss lieynolds,
Miss E. Grey, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam.
After wnict4 'the entirely new and original extravaganza, entitled
MR. BUCKSTONE'S VOYAGE BOUND THE GLOBE (IN LEI-
ZSTEIt...SQUAItE), written by J. It. Plancho, Esq.

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

LYCEUM THEATRE.
-Under the management of Madame Vestris.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 13,
Will be performed BEFORE BREAKFAST. Characters by
Sce.Mr.
C. Mathew, Mews. F. Matthews and Baker; Miss Wadhatn,
Fcllowed by GIVE ADO AN ILL NAME. Characters by
Mecsrs. C. Mathews.and F. Matthews ; Misses Oliver and Mar-
tindale. -
To conclude with LITTLE TODDLEKINS.

THEATRE ROYAL A.DELPIII.
Proptletor; Mr. B. Webster.—Dtrectress, Madame Celeste,
' THIS EVENTIQG, JUNE 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 mu, E.
Harding,.
After' Which 'will be produced the New Extravazanza, entitled
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. Tiskets, Places,
and Private Boxes to be had at the theatre.

Awrizrs 21Cri/ ' OPE'S NATIONAL A APHITHE nth.;
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Lessee and Manazer, Mr. William COO e.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 13,
Will tic produced the "new Grand Historical AlLitary spectacle, en-
titled THE COSSACKS; or, Vire Ls France.
Followed bi' a total etiaage of the Scenes in the CIRCLE.
To conclude with a new Grotesque Extravaganza, called THIS
HORSE WILL. BE SOLI) TO 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 tbr the Season.
• THIS EVENING, Jung 13,
Will be repeated an entirely NEW. and BRILLIANT PIECE
of FIREWORK on a gigantic scale, representing the British Lion
and aallic Cock Trampling on the Russian Eagle. All the numerous
attractions of I,he gareens as usual, including the beautiful Panorama
of Chusan, by IY:lnfron--the extensive and interesting Menagerie—
Vocal and Instrumental C6ncert : Miss Poole, itliss Ransford, and
Mr. Maltvers &c. Concluding with the attack of the British Fleet
on Chusan—ExplOsion of the Batteries and Ships, and final Grand
Display cf Fireworks, by Southby. Feeding the animals, Half-past
Five. ' Cbrfcert, Ilitlf-past Six.' Fireworks, Quarter to Ten. Ad-
mission tb the whMe,

' • HlOl/ WATER AT LONDON •BRIDO E.
Tuns DAY —Morning 15 min.after 3 1 Evenino 40 min.aft. 3
Ib•lfoaßow--Morning •4 min.:Liter 4 Evening 29 min.i% 4

THE WEATHEE..—Suw' Orncs, JUNE 13.
THENOMYTEN, IN THE SHADE-
bighet4 since noon yesterday.
52—lewest this morning add during the night.
61---.thiis day, at necin.'
BiROMETEB, 29 69.
WIND, N.-W.—Heavy rain.

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: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-
ceiving the gratifying intelligence that the Anglo-
French cbntingents 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
tho: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 NAPOLCON prepared for an advance against
the enemy, by reiterated delays, in the way of
precaution. The former chased the imaginary
fleet of his Toe to and fro across the ocean in the
eagerness of his heroic pursuit during au 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
retttrning to his own, there to receive the felicita-
tions of an astounded population—effecting all this
within an insignificant portion of the time consmn•l
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-

pest 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 poste4ity-, in the generation coming im-
media ely after themselves, some feeble effort, at
least, at the semblance (if nothing more than that),
at the semblance of emulation. Instead of which,
we behold the results of a dawdling *-olicy
such as those we haVe just taken occaslon to
particularise. We find that the summer of 1854
has actually arrived, while We still continue to be
told that our fleets are gq,ng to do great things,
and that the allied armies are going to do great
things—but that, of cent-Se, all those wonderful
achievements, about.which we have heard so much
in thii i'vy of anticipation, Wave yet to be accom-
plished. The .13ritt.s. h contingent is to hasten
from. Scutari, ..by
the
way of Varna, to carry assis-
tance, at last,- toTurkish and Egyptian forces,
under OliEt - •
CEA, between Schuinla, his head-
quarter% andSilistria, still •
invested by the Rus-
sian soldiers of PARK/ •
en. The French con-
tingent is to march- Witt all. speed
direction in a similar
shastening towards the
Balkans:..by way of AAL„.
_Pi
f-wB, e. Meanwhile
the 'fleets— _
under busnAs and HAmmt
deem it more prudent-
ito wait in
the IN—
safe
' of their anchorage,
tranquillity rather than punish
the Muscovite marine force for all the enormities
perpetrated by them long since at Sinop;
rather
than avenge
the fate of the "Tiger,' by a more de-
cisive movenien4 against
Odessa, rather than take
possession of the three principal mouths of the
Danube, and darn],
• irly adventure against the enor-
mous fortificaticns on the Oast of the Crimea at Se'
bastopol. Hearing of which prudent decision on the
maritime armaments
part -of ono• of the great
sent forth against Russia by the nations recog-
nised as the two mightiest champions of civilisa-
tion; we receive intelligence at the same time from
the 'Gulf of Finland, that one portion of the corn-
. nallioll Fleet of the Baltic s at Poskala Bay,
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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
presutO tQ conatnea"4.t. anv length. upon these
circumstances, however, we are told not to be