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

STRAND THEATRE.

Sole Lessee Mr. E. W. Allcroft.—Directress, Miss Rebecca Isaacs,
THIS EVENING, Anil, 11,
Mr. G. Hodson's Entertainment of PADDI"S PORTFOLIO.
After -which, Mons. Delavirie and his two sons in their celebrated
Drawing-Boum Entertainment.
To be followed by a Mus'cal Melange, entitlo I THE GIPSY
RAUNT.
To which will be added Mons. Delavino on the Revolving Globe.
To conclude with Mr. Cox's Dissolving Views.

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ment will RE-OPEN on Ea ter 51onday, April 17, with an entirely
new Grand Nautical Equestrian Spectacle, written expressly by Mr.
Nelson Lee. Various Novelties are in prep tract in for the scenes of
the Circle. Arrangements we pending for the appearance of emi-
nent Continental Equestrian Artistes.
The box-ofilcu will be opened ou _Thursday, the 13th instant, from
Eleven tilt Four.

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THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFIOB, APRIL 11,
MICLUSOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
55—highest since noon vesterday.
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
weather.

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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
BUOL and MANTEUPFEL are at length beginning
to look askance, and with eyes of undisguisedly
.jealeus suspicion, in the direction of the Courts
of Charlottenburg and of Scboenbrunn. No
wonder I No wonder, we say, that France and
England should hesitate to believe in the loyalty
• of the Austrian and Prussian Governments—
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 over by a
more vacillating prince than Prussia under her
present Sovereign. Remembering the past, and
looking to the period immediately before us, we
cannot 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, s 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 oppo-
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 of energy
and promptitude in carrying out the Anglo-French
expedition. Surely, surely we have had enough
and to spare of these complimentary dinners and
feastings in the way of farewell. There is 110

leisure now for dawdling over adieus.or for telling 1
the world, while we are doing so, of all that is I
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 be 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 sun°.
0
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,
arid, we liad almost said, disgraceful procrastina-
tion. The end of all which is, that the April of
T 854 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 SEYMOUR
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-
ligence.

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 via 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,Ma rshal 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 tke
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 an 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 lie dealt with whole
provinces, and thousands of human beings—his acts
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
AUTOCRAT 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 SEYMOUR, 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 (?) individuals, who, relying on similar
protestations, invested in Russian Bonds the
capital which they had probably withdrawn from
the
English funds, will now see the rottenness of
the foundation on which they have been resting—
that, deceived by the specious appearance of affairs,
they have literally been slumbering at the edge of
a volcano. The latter class, and, indeed, any
persons 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 former they 2ee the Palace of an Ambassa,
dor seized, and the law of nations violated. lii
the latter, no less than six weeks' time allowed t)
the merchant vessels of the enemy to complete
their cargoes and sail (with protection) for any

Russian 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 ?" jza

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 be. 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 Euglish.vagabond orators, or of
English Exeter-hall meetings, on this question.
It has been hardly noticed by our journals, and