The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-19 00:00:00

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• ' TREATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE.
- Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
TRN EVENING, slar P,
wul be performed Bell:nVe Opera of LA SONNA.MBULA.
Amine. MM.,- Bury ; ,FpnAtpodolpho, Signor Arnold'; and Elvin°.
si,pior nettWl_ •
F.oilosred• by. (3d time) .a new DIVERTISSEMENT,
entitled 'USE FETE. EN OLTMPE."

Prlcal--Stalls. s • Dress Circle. 5s ; Boies ; 2s. ; Gallery,
Is. ; and Private Boxee, One, Two, :Three and Four Guineas. The
Boa-office ape.' daily from Ten tin Six, where places may be
seoured. Private Boxes and Stalls to be had of Meows. Leader and
Colt, lia,-New Bond-street.

THE I.TRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
• lJndar the management of Mr. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, MAY 19,
Will be performed A CURE FOR LOVE. Characters by Messrs.
Chippendale and Bucastane ; Miss Chaplin, &c.
Atter wriietl, the entirely new awl oricinal extravaganza, enti•led
Ult. BUCKSTONE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE (IN LEI-
CESTER-SQUARE), written by J. ft. Plaacbe, Esq. Princ.pal
characters by Mr. Backatone, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Clark, lir. J.
Marslutll, Mr H. Marshall; Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Mrs. Caulfield, Mts.,
E. Gray, Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Laura Morris, and Mies
Yeatlpratone,

Fo'lowed by WILLIKIND AND fiYffi DINAH. supported by
M,sers. Huck,tocie and Corri; Miss Louisa Howard, Mr, Fitswil-
liam and Mrs. Caulfield.

AGYAL PRINCESS'S TtiEAIRE, OXFORD.,-4TREST.
Under the Matmgem gat of Mr. C 11•11.1.13
THIS EVENING, MAT 19,
Will be performed TIIE MARRIED UNMARRIED. Characters
by Medan. W. Lacy, Ryder, and Cathcart; and Atitmeg Reath and
Murray.
Followed by FAITS/. AND MARGUEItITC. Characters by
Messrs. C. Kean and David Fisher ; Mrs. Winstanley and Miss C.
Led era].
To conclude with A STORM 114 A TEA-CUP. Principal cha-
racters by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy.

THEATRE ROYAL A.DELPHI,
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste,
THIS EVENING, MAY 19,
Will be pertbrmed TWO LOVES AND A LIFE. Supported by
Ileum
C- Selby,
Lea xurray, aen.lamin Webster, Keeley, and 0.
Bm.tb ; Mies Woolaar an. 4 Ms lame Celeste.
oui:re.CHE MOVEMENT. Principal cha-
and Parselle; Mrs. Keeley,
Followed by THE X
tacters by 'desire O. Smith, Keeley,
Insd-toles Mary ReeleY.
Afteiwidett, Tag OVERL kNT) JOURNEY TO CONSTANTI-
NOPLE. AS UNDERTAKEN BY LORD BATEMAN- WITH
INTERESTING PARTICULARS or THE FAIR SOPHIA.

LOYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.
THIS EVENING, MAT 19,
Will be performed FIGHTING BY PROXY. Characters by
Robson,and Wigan; and Miss E. Turner.
After whieb. THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. Cha-
racters by Messrs. F. Robson, J. H. Waite, Leslie, and Vincent;
airs. Chatterley, Miss P. Horton, and Miss Marston.
EmTeorbey, followedon, by TO O
sad ILME BrSON. Supported by Messrs.
S ling and Miss Wyndham.

Sole Lessee Mr. F. W. STRAND HEATRE.
Allcroft.— TDirectrees, Miss Rebecca Isaacs.

THIS EVENINcif,MAT 19,
Will be performed THE GARDENS TIN OF VERSAILLES.
To be foll Owed by BOX AND COX IN KA.FIR LAND.
After which, a BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT.
To be followed by SUMMER FLOWERS.
To conclude with 'MR. AND MRS. WHITE.
Stalls, ,
55.; Boxes, as.; Pit, le. 6d; Gallery, 6d.; Private Boxer,
£1 1 ls. 6d. to be had of Mr. Allcroft. 15, New Bond-street.

ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.
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THIS EVENING, MAT 19,
WM be presented the new grand Nautisal and Equestrian spec -
tacle, embodying nlyel and extraordinary effects (written by Mr.
Nelson Lee), entitled A. TALE OF THE SPANISH WAR; or,
The Horse of the Wreck. The horeeS expressly trained by Mr. W.
Cooke.
Followed by an entire change of the Scenes of the CIRCLE.
To conclude with a Grand Ballet, entitled THE STAR OF THE
RHINE.
Roc-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Toys DAT —Morning 56 min.after 6 1 Evening 32 m;n.aft. 7
To- Volutow—Alorning 11 inin.after S 1 Evening 52 nuu.aft. 8

TilE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFiGit, MAY 19.
THERMOMETER, IS THE SHADE.
53 —highest since noon yesterday.
42 lowest this morning and during the night.
59 --this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 30.29.
WIND, E. by S.—Light, with fine weather.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1854.

Austria having recently evinced a more friendly
disposition towards the Western allies of Turkey,
and having, at the same time, found it requisite to
raise a supplementary loan for the payment of the
extraordinary. expenses incurred by her in con-
sequence of the unavoidable necessity of increased
armaments—it may not be deemed either unin-
teresting or unadvisable to revert for a few mo-
inents to a consideration of the financial position
of her Imperial Government.
A happier regime at Vienna appears within the
last few months, perhaps we should rather say
within the last few weeks, to have been formally
inaugurated. The signal for the auspicious change
was the marriage of the young Emperor FRANCIS
JOSEPH to a Bavarian Princess. Time alone can
show whether the change alluded to is really sin-
cere, and not merely specious and temporary.
Experience and history alike urge us to regard
every modification of the policy of the House of
Hapsburg with suspicion—doubtful as to the
• possibility of its being in any way other than
most deceptive because simply superficial. Never-
theless, bearing all this in mind, conscious of the
notorious duplicity for which the dynasty in ques-
tion has long shown itself so remarkable, aware of
the folly of being in this matter in any respect
credulous or precipitate—we cannot but feel con-
vinced at the same time that the juncture is one
of that vitally important character that it would
be culpable in the journalist not to accord any
alteration whatever in the Viennese Cabinet the
fullest and the most instant consideration. Let
us still continue to doubt—but let us also observe,
let us watch, let us be vigilant. A change there
has been of late, unquestionably, in the general
scheme of the Austrian Government. It remains,
we. repeat, yet to be proved by time and by events
whether it be a change temporary or permanent,
sincere or hypocritical. Judging from the past
annals of the empire it may be either—probably
the latter, but just possibly the former. We shall
see. At any rate, there the change is—good or
bad in purpose—there it is, visibly and indisput-
ably. It is attested by the cordiality of the re-
ception given the other day by the EMPEROR and
his Court to a Prince of the Royal blood of Eng-
land: It has been illustrated by acts of grace
and clemency which would almost seem to augur
that FRANCIS JOSEPH proposes to rule his
people no longer by the sword, but by the
sceptre. It has been demonstrated yet more
plainly,. if possible, by the nioveinent of Austrian
troops towards the frontier of Montenegro, to-
wards Servia, and Bosnia, and. Herzegovina.
There is a perceptible tendency, indeed, on the
part of the Imperial Councils of Schoenbrunn
towards an, open rupture at last with those of the
-AuToOasT at St. Petersburg—in fact, towards a
startling .fulfilment of the memorable threat of
Prince SCRWARTZENBERG.
IV-I".awhile the enormous loan already nego-
tiated by Austria halt been boldly added to by a
considerable supplement. It becomes important,
therefore, to recall to mind the question as to
howfar the A uatrian finances are removed from
the chance of, na4ol
valley ? The actual state of
the finances and currency of Austria we have
lately seen described by an 1c Impartial Observer,"
in a most masterly statement. Still more recently
we have shown in these columns, by statistics
drawn from an able and authoritative work by
Bordrathay
that while the national debt of .England England
presses as heavily as by the
dollars; that of
Austria reposes as lightly as with the
(eoranara-
tively) scarcely perceptible load of 19 dollars upon
each individual of the entire population ! It may
be advisable now
to add to all our previous re-
marks upon the subject that, in spite of enormous
expenses, in spite of considerable deficits, in spite of
continual difficul ties and perpetual embarrassments,
the State has contrived not only to pay the interest
of the national debt with uninterrupted regularity,
but has continued to diminish both the funded and
the floating debt steadily and systematically since
the years 1848 and 1849, the years of war and
revolution. Nay, even during those years, the
activity and enterprise of the State can scarcely be
said to have been appreciably diminished. During
1848, for example, there were expended in the
construction of railways as many as 11,806,780
florins, and during 1849, for the same purpose,
no less than 10,366,956 florins, besides 1,361,946
florins for the purchase by the State of private
railroads, and for a like object in 1849 the sum
of 1, 000, 1 0 0 florins. Whqici renders this sus-
tained activity—and especially-,the before-men-
tioned diminution since 1848 and 1849 of the
funded-And floating' debt a Austria—more ,re-
markable is the fact that those two not Able

years (1848 and 1849) had increased both
the funded debt and the floating debt,
lad burthened the State treasury with a conai-