The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-24 00:00:00

LYCEUM THEATRE.

Under the management of Madame Vestris.
THIS EVENING, Juin 21,
win be performed A CHARMING WIDOW. Principal charac-
ten by Mr. C• Mathews and Miss Talbot.
youowed by a new Drama, entitled SUNSHINE THROUGH
Tag CLOUDS. Characters by Messrs. Rosiere, Gladstone, F.
Matthews; Madame Vestris, Miss Hughes, and Miss Oliver.
To conclude with BEFORE BREAKFAST. Characters by Mr.
C. Mathews, Messrs. F. Matthews and Baker; Miss Wadham, Soc.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 24,

Will be perfonmd TWO LOVES AND A. LIFE. Characters by
MeSiti. L. Murray, B. Webster, and Keeley; Mlis Woolgar, and
Madame Celeste.

After which will be presented the New Extravaganza, entitled
A MOVING TALE, supported by Mr. Keeley, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude whh the popular Nautical Drama of the CABIN BOY.
Julien (ber original character), Madams Celeste. Tickets, Places,
and Private Boxe^ to be had at the theatre.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEXTRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 24,
Will be performed the Comte Drama called lIIJA/1 MONEY.
Characters by Messrs. F Robson, Emery, White, and Vincent ; Miss
Dormer, and Mrs. A. Wigan.
Followed by A MODEL OF A WIFE.
To conc:ude with the Farce of THE WANDERING MINSTREL.
".Teni Daggs, Mr. F. Robson.

STRAND THEATRE.

Sole Lessee Mr. F. W. Allcroft.—Directress, Miss Rebecca Isaacs

THIS EVENING, JUNE 24,
Will be presented THE SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER. Widow
Cheerly, Miss Fitzpatrick.
After which, THE MORNING CALL.
After which, THE PETS OF THE BALLET.
To conclude with MY FELLOW-CLERK.
Stalls, 55.; Boxes, 35.; Pit, Is. Gil; Gallery, Gd. ;
Private Box, 5,
XI I Is. 6d., to be had of Mr. Alleroft. 15, New Boni-street.

ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITUEAT RE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.
THIS EVENING, JANE 24,
• • -
Will be presented the new Grand histories' Mi.itarysp?ctaele, en-
titled Z COSSACKS ; or, The la France.
ollowed by a series of Chef d'Ouvres of Art, or Equ!tation DE
LA. HAUTE ECOLE deve'oped In the 4'enes in the CIRCLE, the
whole arranged and conducted by Mr. William Cooke
To conclude with (sth time) a Comic Ballet, cAlled TIIE RIVAL
rriSA NS.
Boa-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West.

HIGH WATER- AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tars DAY —Morning 5 min.aftor 1 I Evening 26 min.aft. 1
To.Monnow—Morning 46 min.after 1 j Evening 7 min.aft. r 2

THE WEATHER.—Strs Orptcs, JUNB 24.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
77 highest since noon yesterday.
60—lowest this morning and daring the night.
73—this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 30.25.
WIND, W.N.W.—Light breeze, and fine weather.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1854.

The Honourable Gentleman the Member for
Aylesbury has given promise of the fulfilment of
our most sanguine expectations.
On Tuesday evening, the 20th of June, we
spoke as follows—one sentence will be sufficient
out of a whole column of equally pertinent ob-
servations. We said :
"Reviewing all the Ministerial acts and all the
" words which have fallen from, the lips of Lord
" Aberdeen, in reference to the war, in regard to
." Russia, and in particular allusion to the North-
`` ern Autocrat, we can only wonder that some
" resolute and honest member of the House of Com-
' .." mons has not long since risen in his place and
" boldly demanded the impeachment of the First
." Minister of the Crown in the presence of Parliaw
nyeiit."

A resolute and honest member of the House of
Commons has at length risen in his place and
virtually demanded the impeachment of the First
L-)rd of the Treasury.
It was, as we have already observed, on Tues-
day evening, the 20th of June, that wa spoke,
:through these columns, the very words forming

the.above quotation.
' . And it was on Friday evening, the 23d of June
(yesterday), that Mr. LAYARD announced his
-intention to move, on Thursday next, a resolution
somewhat to the effect here subjoined :
" That, in the opinion of this House, the lan-
" guage held by the First Minister of the Crown
" is calculated to raise great doubts in the public
" mind as to the objects and ends of the war,
" and to lessen the prospect of an honourable and
durable peace."
It was rather a significant circumstance, that
the House received with " loud cheers" this de-
claration of the Hon. Gentleman the Member for
Aylesbury, of his determination to brink forward
at last a detailed inquiry into the Ministerial con-
duct, both by words and by acts, of the Earl of
ABERDEEN, still unhappily Prime Minister of Eng-
land,. and in so doing to at length necessitate a
formal discussion of the foreign policy of the
Government.
The incident referred to, it may not be un-
worthy to remark, took place 'at the commence-
ment of.. the prod
edings in the House of Com-
mons' sitting of yesterday. Aud therefore it is not
altogether incomprehensible how it should have
so
happened that towardi the close of last night's
, .
sitting in the House of Lords, the Earl of ABER-
DEEN should have risen and
naid__,,
Mon-
day I shall
On
move for the production of a
despatch, addressed by me
Government Y form
Ituasian
the
with respect to the T toreaty of
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Adrianople ; and I will take that opuo. rtnnity of
great
removing
misapprehensions Which •
some
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in reference to some observations that I addressed
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to _your Lordships the other night." Wonderful !
so'v-erY-weederful that the announcement of the
.._ _ . _ .
Premier was.receiVecl by one feeble, little, insu-
lated modest, :chillino, "Hear"—unlike the "Loud
ch.ceri: which had previously greeted &tr. LAYARD's
intimation to the" Lower House of Parliament.
'SO:that my Lord ...41:Eanr,Eic, hearing what Mr.
LAYARD bad threatened for Thursday, proposes to
move on Monday for the production of a
despatch addressed by him formerly to the
Russian Poi,ernment in reference to the Treaty
of Adrianople. In reference to the Treaty
of;.-AdKian°Ple). -As it• the question before 'the
country-were not the settlement of one of the
in- f,iest and most Momentous struggles the
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blundering absurdity called the Treaty of Adri- i
anople ! Moreover, be it observed, my Lord
ABERDEEN proposes, on Monday, to remove some
great misapprehensions, existing, be says,
in reference to some remarks recently ad-
dressed by him to the hereditary branch
of the Imperial Legislature. An acknowledgment,
that is, we take it, au avowal sufficiently clear and
explicit that there are soiree words of his really
requiring explanation. Not a doubt about it—
my Lord ABERDEEN. And an explanation that,
notwithstanding all its past apathy, the country
will have-.--whatever the result, and no matter
what the sacrifice.
Well—the clay of reckoning appears to be ap-
proaching at last, thank HEAVEN. The thunder-
bolt of a virtual impeachment is about to descend
upon the " forty years' friend" of the Emperor
NICUOLAS—upon the Statesman among all States-
men
living, the very least qualified by his past pro-
ceedings principles to preside with
and his known
Crown—during
honour to the country and with advantage to the
the period of a war with Russia
—over the councils of the British Administration.

And the effects of this thunderbolt the sagaci-
ous Premier actually dreams of warding off by
lifting deprecatively above his head the tat-
tered rags of a yellow, old, half-mouldered,
nearly forgotten despatch, relating—to the Treaty
of Adrianople !
The straw to be thrown up on Monday will
only indicate the more clearly the direction in
which, towards Thursday next, the political hur-
ricane will be blowing in the Lower House of
Parliament.

Already the Hon. Gentleman the member for
Aylesbury has the credit justly due to him of
having delivered some of the most brilliant
and effective orations yet heard within the walls
of the British Legislature, in reference to the
Eastern Question—the Question which gradually
became complicated from a squabble between the
CZAR and the SULTAN to a terrible and stupendous
warfare between Russia and the chief naticns of
Christendom. If Mr. LAYARD only acquit him-
self, as we confidently believe he will acquit him-
self, on Thursday evening, of the responsible
duty which he has chivalrously volunteered to
discharge, he will enhance his already distinguished
popularity as an Oriental traveller, as a profound
Biblical scholar, and as the illustrious discoverer
of the ruins of Nineveh, by the contrasting
and auspicious promise of an elevated and endur-
ing political reputation. Beyond which, suppos-
ing the Hon. Member for Aylesbury to be success-
ful in his projected enterprise, he will have de-
served well of his country by ridding its Councils,
at a moment of supreme emergency, of the pre-
sence of a Minister so blind in regard to the Past,
the Present, and the Future, as to dream of
the 'Solution of our European difficulties being
effected at the suggestion—of all men in the
world—of Prince METTERNICH !

Sir WILLIAM CLAY and Mr. BERKELEY may
well rejoice in their defeats, compared with those
sustained by Lord JOHN RUSSELL and the Cabinet.
The Government have lost ground with their mea-
sures, while ground has been as unquestionably
gained both for the Ballot Wand Church-rate Abo-
lition. Lord JOHN'S half-and-half measures com-
pelled their own withdrawal, because, even with-
out a war, they had not enough in them to arouse
public interest ; and, had he persisted, he would
doubtless have been left in a smaller minority
than the Honourable Members just mentioned.
On the other hand, the splendid debate on the
Ballot, with all the argument on one side, and,
compared with 1853, the large proportional
minority, have assured its advocates of a not very
distant triumph ; while in regard to Church-rate
Abolition, the Whole force of Government, aided
by all the old-school Toryism, could not muster
i more than a paltry majority of twenty-seven to
defeat Sir WILLIAM CLAY. Not to speak of the
distressed condition of all the hostile speakers,
such a minority was, of course, substantially a
victory.
The uncertain and confused fire of the enemy;
however, for military figures must be excused
just now, was very obvious. Every shot fell short,
and even the few which seemed to reach the mark
missed their aim. The powder, indeed, was
damp. No set of speakers avowing, as all did, in
terms more or less strong, their conviction that
the present law was too bad to be retained, could
use their oratory with much effect. Even Mr.
GOULBURN, who thought " abolition unjust in
principle, and opposed to every dictate of Chris-
tian charity!"—who characterised the bill as one
which would " deprive us of the privileges of reli-
gious liberty!"—even ho, really did think that
" the law of Church -Rates required amendments."
The most curious production of the evening un-
doubtedly was that of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer ; he found himself in a perfect labyrinth
of perplexities, till, as Mr. BRIGHT observed, it
was very difficult to see which side of the argu-
ment he took. _ He confessed to speaking with
reserve. It was, wo think, clear that he would not
dislike the increased independence the Church
would gain by relinquishing a tribute to her
sovereignty which enables Dissenters very fre-
quently to trample it in the dust ; but he seemed
haunted by a singular and a most absurd fear,
that if a rate were a voluntary contribution, per-
sons who had not contributed would step in and
share the administration of the money ! We can
assure Mr. GLADSTONE that if such would, as
ecclesiastical laws stand, be in that case a legal
right, the Englishman who should dare to exer-
cise it must be the object of parish contempt, and
would indeed be powerless. His concluding
words, however, sufficiently show his real con-
victions. He thought it "possible, in the enor-
mous difficulty of the question, they might be
driven to the total abolition of Church Rates ;"
indeed he seemed only anxious to show that " to
make the measure just, it ought to include pro-
visions to enable the ratepayers, who were willing
to contribute as private individuals, to take into
their own hands, subject to the law, the manage-
ment and application of their own funds." We
cannot doubt that Sir W. CLAY and the Dis-
senters would willingly aid in releasing Churchmen
from all laws opposed to this suggestion. No one
hitherto has imagined that abolishing Church
Rates would not leave Churchmen masters of
their own contributions. Mr. GLADSTONE ought I
to know, but the supposition seems incredible.
As to the Dissenters' quondam friend, Lord J.
RUSSELL, he asked for no such securities merely
for Churchmen, but contended out and out, in
the best style of Sir HARRY INGLIS, for hard-held
morsels of Church tyranny. He sees in his old
friends nothing but a pack of hungry animals,
who are eager to swallow up the whole Establish-
ment, and who, if what honestly belongs to them
be gived up, will only fly upon all the rest as soon
as 'they can. He disapproves of Voluntaryism,
and supports a National Church ; therefore he will, not encourage Voluntaries by demolishing Wholly
an outwork, as lie deems it, of the Establishment,
w4iehi s already more than half taken, and its
strength
turned against the Establishment itself.
NC4 having enou 1 f foreign.war on our hinds,
he -will get np a gg 11
- number of parish battles,
to while away th ci-It°e:d: idluYztoff
ments in the Nortl
well also to read
formists, -to show, • what _ 1-11,8 Lordship thought
. extracts Item the early Noncon-
ry
evpeeople knew, ew, that
some of the most learnedmenwerenonoteVoluntaries !
1
As if Nonconformists, of all
t!:e world
and to '
adopt their
fporroeffeastsheedr st'oebc eel e's'ifinality"
i views, 'a
s well as the sub-
stance of their theology ! The most pathetic part
doubtless, his appeal to lovers
off histlie sapneteigehuewtas, o preserve the fine old palish struc-
tures, though many of theaish. wre
them were muchwitsoho
them
for the population of the
to be preserved too, but notbeyCrheures n
Church Raatd anti-
es. if
these the parish does not want uci

qua' feLns do, let the antiquarians subscribe and
pre Jserve them. Let not the preservation of costly
m onnments of the past be confounded with pro-
-177 iding for religious worship and instruction. The
rin rishioners might, and would spontaneously pro-
Vic le for the latter, but the former is, if we look
at, it fairly, the concern of those only whose taste
inc lines that way. Lord JOHN does not regard
the le churches, he says, " as the churches of a
sect , but as national churches ;" if so, he ought
to 4 ;ive all the sects free use of them in their turn.
Mo: it singular of all was his thorough old Tory
conclusion. The Church, he says, the hereditary
Monarchy, and the hereditary Artistocracy--he
should have added the Army and Navy—are all
bound up together. If one falls, the others will
fall with it. Abolition of Church Hates would
be the beginning of the fall of the Church—there-
fore, of the ruin of "our glorious Constitution in
Chvrch and State." Most certainly, then, our
poor Constitution begins to shake. It came within
twenty-seven votes of the awful danger on Wed-
nesday night, with every appearance of something
worse next session. Lord JOHN, to the rescue,
then ! It is, however, deplorable to see this
almost venerable Whig statesman thus rehearsing
the ELDON predictions concerning Catholic Eman-
cipation. A short time will prove the RUSSELL
forebodings to be as groundless as those of ELDON.

Again and again we have asked why our army
was never sent into the Baltic as well as into the
Euxine, to aid the combined fleets by land opera-
tions ? Is it simply because the Black Sea is very
far removed from the Russian capital, and be-
cause, consequently, an army sent into the Baltic
to aid the maritime movements of NAPIER, and
DESCHENES would tend, of course, to secure the
settlement of the war at once, and effectually ?
Whatever the reasons may have been for sending
an army into the Black Sea, and no army at all
into the Baltic, the facts of the case are suffi-
ciently suspicious. A kindred circumstance
—a circumstance we cannot but still think most
deeply to be deplored—is discoverable in the man-
ner in which Sir CHARLES NAPIER has been sent
out to the Gulf of Finland, without not only
troops to aid his fleet by land, but without also
an adequate supply of gun-boats, having a light
draught, to enable him to push forward beyond
Cronstadt, in spite of all the obstacles in the way
of shoal-water navigation. It might be as well
for Mr. LAYARD, as for some other Members who
may follow him on Thursday evening, to demand
from Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in regard to all these
facts, the why and the wherefore.

SIR CHARLES NAPIER AND THE

BALTIC FLEET.

It is said that at the last Cabinet Council a despatch
from Admiral Sir Charles Napier was discussed, in
which he defined his intentions in reference to the ope-
rations against Russia in the Baltic. The propositions
of the gallant Admiral are understood to be of a cha-
racter quite consonant with the tenour of the most re-
markable points in his past career, and great news from
the North may be expected before long—should no un-
foreseen changes of intention arise. If we had the most
exact kno wl edge of Admiral Napier's plans, our patriotic
sense of duty would forbid any publication of them--
remembering as we do that there are electric wires from
London to St. Petersburg, and, unhappily, too many
people, who,—enjoying the privileges and flourishing
under the shelter of our constitutional. system,---would
like no better task than giving information or other aid
to the Czar. But this we may say, that we have heard
enough of the plans in question to justify a confident
belief that a great blow will be effectually struck against
Russia before long. The Czar's frontier is long and open,
and he need now watch its whole line. But no watching
is likely to guard him with success from the coming
shock.—Daily News.