The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-11 00:00:00

THEATRE MOYAL DRURY LANE.

Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
Great Attraction for the Million.—SMlTH'S PROMENADE
CONCERTS.

Passion Week.—For TWO NIGHTS ONLY : TO-MORROW
EVENING ; Wednesday, April 12 ; and Thursday, April 13.—An
Assemblage of Vocal and Instrumental Talent Unrivalled. in a Temple
Decorated for the Occasion. The Pit will be converted into a Grand
Promenade, forming a vast Arana for the Visitors. Among a host
of talent, the following eminent artistes will have the honour of ap-
pearing:—Vocalists—Miss Poole, Miss Susannah Lowe, Miss Rans-
ford, Miss Featherstone ; Mr. Elliot Galer, Mr. Ransford, and Mr.
Henri Drayton. Instrumentalists—Messrs. Distill, the celebrated
performers on the Sax Horns. Pianoforte—Herr Carl Wohlfson.
Concertina—Mr. R. Blagrove. Flute—Mr. R. S. Pratton. Conduc-
tor of the Vocal Music—Mr. J. F. Duggan. The Orchestra will be
most powerful and complete, consisting of 70 performers. Conductor
of the Instrumental Music—Mr. G. Haward. The programme will
comprise all the most popular selections of the day, vocal and instru-
mental, including the successful opera of Leonie. Pit promenade
and upper boxes, IL ; dress boxes, 2s. 6d.. private boxes, it.
8.1
s
158., and 10s. Doors will open at half-past 7, and commence a

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Under the management of Mr. Buckstone.

This week being Passion Week. the Theatre will be Closed, and
will Re-open 011 Easter Monday, April 17, with a Comedy. After
which, an entirely new and original extravaganza, entitled Mr.
BIICKSTONE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE, GLOBE (IN LEICES-
TER-SQUARE), written by J. R. Planche, Esq., Author of Mr.
Puckstone's Ascent of Mount Pstrnasans, and which will be produced
with entirely new scenery, machinery, dresses, and appointments.
Principal characters by Mr. Bucks:tone, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Clark,
Mr. J. Marshall, Mr. H. Marshall : Mrs. Fltzwilliam, Mrs. Caulfield,
Miss E. Grey, Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Laura Morris, and Miss
Featherstone, who is re-engaged at this theatre. With other En-
tertainments, The box-office will be opened on Saturday next, the
15th inst.

STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee Mr. F. W. Alleroft.—Directreas, Miss Rebecca Isaacs,
THIS EVENING, APRIL 11,
Mr. G. Hodson's Entertainment of PADDY'S PORTFOLIO.
After which, Mons. Delavine and his two sons in their celebrated
Drawing• Room Entertainment.

To be followed by a 3fuslcal Melange, entitlel THE GIPSY
HAUNT.
To which will be added 3fons. Delavine on the Revolving Globe.
To conclude with Mr. Cox's Dissolving Views.

ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.
The Public are respectfully Informed, that this popular establish-
ment will RE-OPEN on Easter Monday, April 17, with an entirely
new Grand Nautical Equestrian Spectacle, written expressly by Mr.
Nelson Lee. Various Novelties are in preparation for the Scenes of
the Circle. Arrangements are pending for the appearance of emi-
nent Continental Equestrian Artistes.
The Rom-office will be opened on Thursday, the 13th instant, from
Eleven till Four.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tail DAY —Morning 46 min.after 12 Evoning 7 min.aft. 1
To.Mortztow—Morning 25 min.after 1 Evening 43 min.aft. 1

THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICB, APRIL 11.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
55 —highest since noon yesterday.
40—lowest this morning and during the night.
58—this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 30'19,
WIND, N.E. to S.E.—Light breeze, and fine, sunshiny
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LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1854.

RECAL OF THE PRUSSIAN
MINISTER FROM LONDON.
BERLIN, Monday.---The Russian party has tri-
umphed, and Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister
in England, has been recalled.
Nothing but decisive and successful action on
the part of the Allies will ever change the vacillat-
ing policy of the King.

Notwithstanding all that has been heard within
the last few days about the Protocol between
Austria and Prussia, and about the Four Powers
having at last come to a satisfactory agreement,
there are still formidable doubts as to whether
the Cabinets of Berlin and Vienna may not, after
all, prove traitors to the cause of Christendom.
There is no question whatever that the King of
Prussia is rendered in a manner subservient to
the wishes of the CZAR, if by nothing else, by the
stress of the ties of relationship. Neither can
there be any uncertainty that the Emperor of
Austria was all but formally pledged to a com-
pliance with the designs of the Russian AUTOCRAT
upon Turkey prior to the advance of the troops
of the latter across the Pruth into the Principali-
ties. As regards FREDERICK WILLIAM, the fact
is visible enough on a merely cursory
glance at the august records of the Al-
manach de Gotha. As regards FRANCIS JOSEPH,
the truth of our remark is sufficiently
apparent from the revelations of the supplemen-
tary Blue Book containing the " Secret and Con-
fidential Correspondence." Insomuch is the con-
sequent uncertainty as to the good faith of the
German Governments understood to be reason-
able under existing circumstances, that even those
who had hitherto been most credulous in antici-
pating an honest policy from the Ministries of
Duo'. and MAN'rEurFEL are at length beginning
to look askance and with eyes of undisguisedly
jealous suspicion, in the direction of the Courts
of Charlottenburg and of
Schoenbrunn. No
wonder ! No wonder, we say, that France and
England should hesitate to believe in the loyalty
of the Austrian and Prussian Goverrrments—
after all that history relates
of their duplicity
and faithlessness. Austria especially
:has long
shown herself the most traitorous of Allies,
and perhaps no country was ever ruled elver by a
more vacillating prince than Prussia wider her
present Sovereign. Remembering the past, and
looking to the period immediately before US, we
cannoti marvel that even the most complaisant of
the Ministerial organs, even the journal most
obsequious in eulogising the weak and hesitating
-
Policy of Lord ABERDEEN, should at length, in
striving to anticipate the future of the tremendous
struggle upon which the Western Powers are
adventuring—it is not surprising we say, that,
under these circumstances, even the Times should
at last begin to express a doubt as to the good
faith of the Austrian and Prussian Governments.
It is, however, from the very fact of this un-
certainty as to the course likely to be pursued by
the councils at Berlin or Vienna, either in oppe:
sition to, or in accordance with, those more
obvious councils at St. Petersburg, that
we would more than ever insist, with all ima-
ginable earnestness, upon the necessity o f energy
and promptitude in carrying out the Angl, a-French
expedition. Surely, surely we have had: enough
and to spare of these complimentary dim
aers and
feastings in the way of farewell, Mfg° is no

leisure now for dawdling over adieus or for telling
the world, while we are doing so, of all that is
going to be effected by flood and by field in the
shape of heroic achievements. Having drawn the
sword let us strike the blow and have done with
it. HEAVEN knows the sooner we have done with
it the better. Certainly it must he allowed to
derogate somewhat from the glory of France and
England to have all this vapouring, and loud talk-
ing, and fanfaronading. During all which the sol-
diers of the SULTAN are fighting like men, on their
own ravaged soil, against the vast numerical supe-
riority of the Russian forces under Prince GORTS-
CHAKOFF ! All the while we have been amusing
ourselves with banquets and reviews, and every
variety of military and maritime self-glorification,
our gallant allies on the banks of the Danube
have been contesting the ground, foot by foot,
against their barbarian assailants—the jingle of
champagne glasses, and the voice of the toast-
master amongst ourselves, drowned by the rever-
beration from Turkey of that heroic music sung
by LONGFELLOW—

" The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder,
The rattling musketry, the clashing blade,
And ever and anon, in tones of thunder,
The diapason of the cannonade."
Club-banquets in St. James's, or in Piccadilly, have
been despatched at the point of the knife and
fork, while the Turks at the point of the bayonet
have been withstanding the Muscovite foe on the
hard " foughten fields" of Citate and Dobrudscha.
Is this well ? Is it creditable to our Government?
The reason for it all we can readily comprehend—
namely, a last, desperate, lingering, almost de-
spairing hope that the CZAR might yield, and that
diplomacy might be enabled at length to bring
about a tardy pacification. The circumstance of
Lord ABERDEEN being at the head of the Cabinet
accounts indeed for this lamentable and deplorable,
and, we had almost said, disgraceful procrastina-
tion. The end of all which is, that the April of
1854 has arrived and is rapidly passing by, and has
already brought with it such gratifying morsels
of information as the account of the Czar having
ordered the baggage of Sir HAMILTON SEYMOITR
to be detained at St. Petersburg, and of British
merchant ships having been molested at the
mouth of the Danube by the war vessels of the
Muscovite ! Not a shot meanwhile having yet
been fired at the Russian ports or men-of-war by
either of the combined fleets—and only a mere
handful, comparatively speaking, of the French
soldiery having landed at Gallipoli, as far as we
can learn up to this moment by authentic intel-

igence.

At any rate it is gratifying to know, at last,
that Lord RAGLAN, the Commander-in-Chief of
the English Forces, accompanied by H. R. H.
the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, took his departure
yesterday, to proceed viti Paris en route for the
neighbourhood of Constantinople. Even in this
movement our gallant allies across the Channel
have been before us, as they have been, in fact,
in almost every successive step of these proceed-
ings. The Commander-in-Chief of the French
forces in the East, Marshal ST. ARNAUD, accompanied
by H. I. H. the Prince NAPOLEON, had already
left the shores of France to hasten with all con-
venient speed to the seat of war along the borders
of Turkey. Whatever festivities have yet to take
place before the last of the chiefs of this Anglo-
French expedition can hurry after Marshal ST.
ARNAUD in the same direction, It is earnestly to be
hoped will be gone through with all the despatch
that may be practicable under the circumstances.
The necessity of the crisis is the necessity for
action—for action bold, prompt, and energetic.
Enough of reviews, enough of banquets, enough of
compliments. Yea, we repeat—enough and to
spare. The alternative before the armaments of
the Allied Powers of Western Europe is the alter-
native placed by the peasant bard on the lips of
BRUCE—to "do or die." And GOD knows the
cause for which war has been declared against
Russia by France and England is a cause worthy
of the swords of brave men, of the heroic sons of
heroic sires—the cause of truth, of justice, of
humanity, of civilisation.

The illustrious "JOB JONSON," alias "FREDE-
RICK DE COURCY," could not display greater con-
tempt and indignation at the larceny of the five
lumps of sugar, by " a gentleman of most noble
air," than the organ of the Coalition is exhibiting
at the bare-faced plunder by the AUTOCRAT of
the goods and chattels of au individual, and that
individual, too, an Ambassador, clothed with a
sacred trust and covered with a protection which
even the greatest barbarians have hitherto re-
spected. So long as the robbery and murder was
on a grand scale—so long as he dealt with whole
provinces, and thousands of human beings—hisacts
were, if not laudable, at least venial. His " appre-
hension as to the dissolution of the Turkish Empire"
might appear to be " perfectly well-founded," and
his advisers and friends, like the "dear and excel-
lent" Premier, could discover in his elaborate pre-
parations for appropriating the large proportion
of the assets of " the sick man," to whom he was
about to administer the coup de grace, nothing
but what was wise ! what was moderate ! what
was judicious ! There could be no theft in grati-
fying his very natural longing for the dominions
lying in such tempting proximity—" Steal ! foh ;
a fico for the phrase ! convey, the wise it call !"
Not merely was it fitting that he should annex
the Danubian Principalities, but the whole of
Turkey in Europe, occupying Constantinople
and the entrance to the Euxine. There
would be nothing in such conduct un-
becoming an " Imperial Gentleman," By
narrow-minded men it might be supposed to
exhibit too great a degree of acquisitiveness. But
" young ravens must have food ! "—and au
A UTOC'RAT should surely be bound by no ties but
of convenience. He should be allowed "to follow
his own vagary " in any way he thought proper,
so long as he flew at high game, and did not con-
descend to private spoliation.
But NICHOLAS appears to have no consideration
for his friends and admirers. He cares not how
grievously they may be brought to shame, and
compelled "to eat dirt " (to use the expressive
Eastern phrase) for his misconduct. He has now,
it appears, appropriated the palace of Sir G.
HAMILTON SEY3IOUR, with all its contents, imme-
diately after pledging his honour as a gentleman,
that " private property should be respected."
The paltry act of which he has been guilty,
however, shows the amount of credit to which he

is entitled, and furnishes an instructive commen-
tary on the text "Put not your faith in Princes."
Those who, trusting to these promises, have suf-
fered their persons or property to remain subject
to the caprices of the faithless despot, and the
patriotic
0) individuals,relying who, on i
probably similar
protestations, invested in Russianßond s the
capital which they had withdrawn from
thet
t, foundation
English
deceived hon
funds,ythe specious
wwhiilelh uow see the rottenness of
the they
appearancehavbeen roof s t ing
haaffairs,
t,liey have literally been slumbering at the edge of
a volcano. The latter class, and,' indeed, any
penions capable of helping themselves, we do not
pity. They will richly merit all the losses they
may sustain. But those who were compelled ex
necessitate
to throw themselves on his mercy, will,
too late,
discover the difference between a des-
potic and a constitutional Government, where
the voice of public opinion has some influence.
In the fornaor
they see the Palace of an Ambassa-
dor s,Hzed, mud the law of nations violated. In
the latter, no less than six weeks' time allowed to
the merchant vessels of the enemy to complete
their cargoes and sail (with protection) for any

and
tion

Rus, siau port. " Look here upon this picture
and on that," and say whether the principles of
despotism and of freedom are not, indeed, in every
respect, " wide as the poles asunder ?"

When opposing the extreme Liberals in the
Reform Bill debates, Lord JOHN RUSSELL endea-
voured to neutralise the appeal to American prac-
tice, by the remark that it is " of its Senate, not
of its House of Representatives, that America is
proud." This Senate, however, has just done a
deed, by a majority of more than two to one,
which will make all the better part of America
blush at the very mention of its name. While all
England, and almost all Europe too, is absorbed
with the CZAR and his wanton aggressions on
Turkey, the Senate of the United States has been
engaged in perpetrating a territorial aggression,
in some respects worse than the CZAR'S. Our
readers have doubtless been too much interested
in the unknown names they have become
acquainted with on the Danube, to pay much
attention to names equally unknown in American
correspondence ; they may, however, have won-
dered what the Nebrasca, Bill can bo. We will
tell them.

Nebrasca is a vast territory, many times larger,
it is said, than the New England States, lying
between the settled part of America and Cali-
fornia, and bordering, on the north, on British
America. The territory itself has been filched
from the Indians after a solemn contract guaran-
teeing them its possession ; but, of course, abori-
gines everywhere are of no account when civilised
men need their land. This extensive district lies
north of the parallel 30 deg. 30 sec., from which
slavery is excluded by what is called the Missouri
Compromise ; and the Nebrasca Bill is nothing
less than a bill to legalise slavery throughout
the whole territory, and thus, as it becomes
settled, to render the slave States in North
America what Russia aims to become in
Europe, the power which dominates over every
other. " The Senate of which America is proud"
cannot complain of interference on the part of the
English press, of English vagabond orators, or of
_English Exeter-hall meetings, on this question.
It has been hardly noticed by our journals, and
the Earl of SHAFTESBURY and his lady have been
silent. America and its Senate have not even the
silly pretext of English intermeddling to excuse
this unpardonable insult to the' whole civilised
world. While the CZAR has been braving living
and formidable warriors in his efforts to extend
political slavery, tha Senate of the United States,
a full half of its members being elected by so-
called free states, has been consigning an occupied
and defenceless region to the horrors and abomi-
nations of personal, of negro slavery. It has
strangled liberty before it could wield its
arms, has deliberately plotted to enslave a
State, or States yet unborn, and over a land
of greater extent by far than the territory
now coveted by the Czan, and tenanted
at present by the roaming Indian, the buffalo,
and the other free creatures of the wilderness, the
tainted breath of United States legislation would
spread for ever the malignant pestilence of slavery.

We do not ask England to interfere, certainly
not by its Government, nor even through its sin-
cere philanthropists. We have other work to do
just now ; and if we had not, Despotism, whether
in the East or in the West, is but irritated, not
shamed, by the exposure of its selfishness. We
do feel, however, a deep interest in the question.
We long to respect America as much as we have
always done ; the abominable Fugitive Slave Law
gave us a shock hard to overcome; " Uncle Tom's
Cabin," its authoress, and its tens of thousands of
admiring readers in the States, helped us to realise
that the American people were freemen at heart
after all; but if this bill should pass the House of
Representatives as well as the Senate, and receive,
as it would do, the willing assent of such a
thoroughgoing pro-slavery man as FRANKLIN
PURCE, it would be difficult for Englishmen to
regard the United States with the feelings it de-
sires
to cherish towards our kinsmen in blood.
We are glad to see that its progress is at least
delayed; by a majority of 110 to 95 it is "re-
ferred to a committee of the whole" in the House
of Representatives. Mrs. STOWE is earnestly ap-
pealing to her countrywomen ; the clergy of New
York have sent a petition against it, signed by
151 names of ministers of all denominations in a
few days ; and a monster petition, 200 feet long,
and signed by 3,000 clergy-men, has also been
presented. We hope the delay of the bill
will be made use of to evoke an expression
of feeling so strong and so universal in the States,
which, despite the Fugitive Slave Law, still call
themselves free, that the House will be compelled
to reject it. We have many fears to the con-
trary ; but, if it becomes law, the Slave Power
will bestride America as Russia does Austria and

the rest of Germany. It is truly mortifying to
see the House, which should be composed of the
elite of American statesmen, the House which
most Radicals would think chosen on a plan
so far superior to that on which our. House of
Lords is nominated, embracing so cordially a bill
so infamous, that we believe our House of Lords
would have hardly conceded to it a first reading,
even if sent up by three-fourths of the House of
Commons, and which they would certainly have
kicked out at the second reading without a divi-
sion. We only pray that America may have to
be prouder of her House of Representatives than
she can now possibly be of her lauded Senate.

One of the most extraordinary impositions
ever attempted has just been brought to a conclu-
clusion—the curtain has fallen on the last scene
of the strange drama of the pseudo " Sir RICHARD
HUGH SMYTH, Baronet." The impostor had been
detected at the last assizes for the county of
Gloucester—his nefarious machinations brought
to light, notwithstanding the almost unparalleled
audacity displayed in carrying out his original false-
hood. No doubt could have remained as to his
guilt when the eminent gentlemen by whom he
was represented had indignantly flung down their
briefs, having struggled zealously and efficiently
so long as there was the remotest chance of the
claim being well founded. No person but the
criminal himself supposed that there was the
slightest possibility of carrying on the deception,
and evading the penal consequences of his mani-
fol offences. He, however, remained obdurate,
with a perverse and unyielding determina-
continued to the last moment, even until

the verdict of the jury and the sentence of the
Court were pronounced, to assert the accuracy of his
romantic statements, declaring that although he
had committed " some irregularities" (!) it was
nevertheless strictly true that he was the legiti-
mate son of the deceased Sir HUGH SMYTH, by
his first wife, and as such the lawful owner of the
wide-spread domains and princely inheritance be-
longing to his quasi father.
The trial lasted two entire days; so great is the
consideration shown even to criminals of the deep-
est dye by the constitutional law of the land.
Everything, no matter how obvious, should be
brought home to the accused beyond the possi-
bility of reasonable doubt. It was not deemed
sufficient to show that he had endeavoured to put
forward a Bible purchased by himself a short time
previously, as one that had descended to him
from his maternal grandfather, that he should
have represented the old picture belonging to Mr.
Pirovrs, the carpenter (his real father), as that of his
alleged parent, Sir HUGH SMYTH, or that lie should
have ordered the engraving of the seal with which
the alleged will was sealed. All these were merely
links in the chain of evidence, but to warrant a
conviction the jury should be satisfied that he had
actually forged, or uttered, knowing to be forged,
the document on which the indictment was
founded—the suppositious will of 1823. Even
though perfectly aware of his fraud in setting
himself up to be the lost heir, it would not have
authorised a hostile verdict on that indictment,
if he could by a possibility have believed the will
which he was endeavouring to sustain by these
fictitious means to have been a genuine document.
We do not say that ho could not have been
Punished for any and every one of these fraudu-
lent acts, but it should have been under a different
indictment ; and we merely allude to this to show
the humanity of the British law, and the corn-