The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-29 00:00:00

THE
_SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY RIPENING-, MARCH 29, 1854

ELECTRIC POWER LIGHT and COLOUR
COMPANY.
The Electric Colour Company are now able, by the completion o f
their works at Frogmore-creek, which aro at present in full opera-
tion, to SUPPLY any quantity of their DRY ELECTRIC COLOURS,
which, from their brilliancy, durability, body, purity, and price,
cannot fail to obtain a preference by the trade generallv over those
made by the ordinary processes. The celours consist of starlets,
reds, yellows, greens, and blues, of all shades and varieties. For
price and all other particulars all applicatiogs must be made, and
all communications addressed, to the Commercial Manager, William
Prosser, Esq., at the works.
Local agencies are required, for which app'leations may be made,
by letter,.to the Commercial Manager, as above.

GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH (used in
her Majesty's Laundry), and WOTHERSPOON'S Machine-
made CONFECTIONERY, MARMALADE, JAMS, JELLIES, &c. ,
(which gained the Prize Medal of 1851), may be had of all Grocers ;
Wholesale of Wotherspoon, Mackay, and Co., 66, Queen-street,
Cheapside, London, and Robert Wotherspoon and Co., Glasgow.

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE.

Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.

THIS EVENING, 3feßca 29,

Will be performed LEONTE. Principal characters by Mr. Elliot
Galer and Mr. Henri Drayton; Misses Lowe and Featherstone.
After which, THE FEAST OF THE DRAGON, and Magical
Performances of the Chinese Troupe.
To conclude with a new Ballet, entitled THE STAR OF THE
RHINE, introducing those favourite Artistes, Mddles. Therese and
Annie Ctisimie, Miss M. Charles, Moils, Milano, and Gr..nd Corps
de Ballet.

TFIEITRE ROYAL HAYMIRKET.

Under the management of Mr. tuckstone.

THIS EVENING, MAN.= 29,

ba performed GUY MANNERING. Supported by Messrs.
St, Albyn, Vi. Farren, Compton; Rogers, Howe, Clark, Cord, and
Cullenford; lilt=s Cushman (as Meg Merriliei), Miss Julia Harland,
and Mrs. L. S. Buckingham.

After which, WILLIKtND AND HY'S DENAH. Supported by
Mend. Buckstone and Corti ; Miss Louisa Howard, Mrs. Fitzwll-
liarn, and Mrs. Caulfield.

After 'which, the opening Scenes of the PANTOMIME, called
HARLEQUIN AND TILE THREE BEARS; or, Little Silverhair
and the Fairies.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.

1./nder the Management of Mr. CHARLES KEAN.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 29,
Will be performed THE MARRIED UNMARRIED. Supported
by Messrs. W. Lacy, Ryder, and Cathcart; and Misses Heath and
Murray.

To be followed by TILE RIVALS. Characters by Messrs. W.
Lacy, Harley, Meadows, J. Vining, Mellon, and Addison ; Mrs.
Winstanley, Mrs.W. Lacy, Miss Heath, and Miss C. Leclercq.
After which, AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. Characters by
Messrs. Meadows, D. Fisher, and. Baker ; and Misses Murray and
Daly.

LYCEUM THEATRE.

Under the Management of Madame Vestris.
TIIIS EVENING, MAacti 29,

Will be performed WANTED, A SIIE-WOLF. Characters by
Messrs. Charles Mathews, F. Mathews, and Baker; Miss Oliver.

To be followed by A CHARMING WIDOW.

Concluding with NUMBER ONE ROUND THE CORNER.
After which, the popular Fairy Extravaganza, entitled ONCE
UPON A TIME THERE WERE TWO KINGS. Characters by
Messrs. Roxby, F. Matthews, and Bland; Madame Vestris, Misses
St. George, Egianton, Mason, Martindale, Ellis, Wadham, and
Foote.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL

Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste.

THIS EVENING, Mallen 29,
Will be performed TWO LOVES AND A LIFE. Supported by
Messrs. C. Selby, Leigh Murray, Menjamin Webster, Keeley, and 0.
Smith ; Mies Woolgar and Madame Celeste.

To conclude with TilE SERIOUS FAMILY. Characters by
Mensrs. B. Webster, Leigh Murray, Parselle, and Keeley ; Mrs. L.
Murray, Misses Woolgar, Fanny Maskell, and Laidlaw, and Mrs.
Keeley.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.

Lesseo and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.
THIS EVENING, MARCEI 29,

Will be performed THE WRONG BOX. Supported by Messrs.
Alfred Wigan and Robinson ; Miss P. Horton, Miss Wyndham, and
Miss E. Turner.
To be followed by TO OBLIGE BENSON. Supported by Messrs.
Emery, Robson, and Leslie ; Mrs. Stirling and Miss Wyndham.
To be followed by THE FIRST NIGHT. Characters by Messrs.
Alfred Wigan, Leslie, Franks, Harwood Cooper, and Vincent; Miss
P. Horton, and Miss Wyndham.

STRAND THEATRE.
Solo Lessee, Mr. F. W. Allcroft.—Directress, Miss Rebecca Isaacs.

THIS EVENING, Meßca 29,

Will be presented "NO IRISH NEED APPLY." Principal
characters by Messrs. G. Hodson, Warren, and Herbert ; Misses 11.
Noel and Hammond.

Followed by WHY DON'T SHE MARRY?

After which, THE BLUE JACKET 3.
Followed by THE PET OF TIIE PUBLIC. Emily de Laney,
Miss R. Isaacs.

To conclude with Malone's Travestie of MACBETH.

Stalls, 55.; Boxes, 35.; Pit, Is. 6d; Gallery, rid. ; Private Boxes.
'. I Is. 6d., to be had of Mr. Alleroft, 15, New Bond-street.

into execution very soon afterwards how
the Four Powers, England, France, Austria,
and Prussia, interposed between the belligerents
negotiation after negotiation—how the failure of
these diplomatic endeavours to bring about a
pacification has conducted us at last to the neces-
sity of proclaiming war against the marauding
AUTOCRAT as the violater of the peace of Christen-
dom—how all this has been accomplished is at
length recounted, calmly, truthfully, and tem-
perately, in the Royal Declaration. That Decla-
ration, indeed, is altogether so calm, so truthful,
and so temperate, that it is worthy at once of the
age, of the cause, and of the SOVEREIGN.
It recapitulates facts, of course, which have
long since become familiar to the whole of Chris-
' tendom. It states the cause of dissension from
the commencement. It indulges in no violence
of language. It profanes no text of Scripture.
Its force is truth, and not blustering. England
will be satisfied to the full, with this last
of those State papers which, in regard to
the contest between Russia and Turkey, have
emanated from time to time from the British
Government. It is no longer a contest
between Russia and Turkey, but between
Russia on the one side,- and on the other
Turkey, supported by the two most powerful
races in Christendom—the greatest military and
the greatest maritime power on the globe—the

recognised and accepted champions of civilisation.
Especially, let the closing sentence of this memo-
rable Declaration of War be remarked—"sHer
MAJESTY humbly trusts that her efforts may be

successful, and that, by the blessing of PROVIDENCE,
peace may be established on safe and solid foun-
dations." That, indeed, is the great object of all
wars, but peculiarly of this war—Peace. A peace,
moreover, as here intimated, re-established on safe
and solid foundations. Nevertheless, before this
, glorious and desirable end can be attained, what
difficulties have to be overcome, what perils have
to be gone through, perils extending before our
forces at this moment in grim and awful perspec-
tive ! The responsibility of all this, however,
belongs not to us, appertains neither to England
nor to France, nor yet even to Turkey, but de-
volves entirely and exclusively upon one man,
the despotic chief of the Russian Government.
Intelligence has come to us of the continued
advance of the troops of the CZAR upon the soil of
the Danubian Principalities—.no longer to the
right of the Pruth, but at last even to the right
of the Danube—no longer in Moldavia and Wal-
lachia alone, but within the limit of the
Bulgarian boundaries. 'War actually declared,
our fleets already in the Black Sea and
in the Baltic, our military forces far on their
way towards Constantinople—the time has now
arrived for prompt and energetic action by flood
and field, against the Cossack hordes poured
down from the north by the Russian AUTOCRAT along
the frontiers of European civilisation. The hour
has at last struck for the commencement of those
great victories of which England and France, un-

der the aid of GOD, rest confident—the victories
won not for conquest, but for right, by the heroic
descendants of the Gaul and the Briton, fighting
side by side under the union-jack and the tri-
colour—bearing triumphantly through the scat-
tered ranks of the Russians the standards of
Vi CTORIA and the eagles of NAPOLEON.

lingly captured and destroyed, if a faVowea' ble*op-
portunity occurred. There are so many instances
in which such transactions have occurred , that it
would be superfluous to show that similas c matters
might again take place. The line of der narcation
between " privateering" and " piracy" !is so very
slight, and so frequently disregarded,. :that civi-
lisation and humanity alike demand tat every
distinction should be abolished, and ho th placed
in the same category, of course. We only go to
this extent with respect to strangers interfering.
It is, however, almost equally desirable that the
entire system should be abolished, and. that the
subjects of one of the belligerent states should be
compelled to fight, if at all, under the shelter of
their national standard.

The third point, as to the prevention of all un-
necessary obstruction of the commerce of neutrals,
is a most praiseworthy experiment--one, how-
ever, that involves many considerations before
we can finally decide on its policy. How far it
is expedient to allow strangers to do that which
we forbid to our own fellow-subjects, is a matter
that cannot, at once, be determined. We can,
however, justly praise the laudable anxiety of her
MAJESTY'S Government to free warfare of one of
its many horrors—and, even if they fail, we are
bound to give them credit for the good intentions
by which they have been actuated.

We invite the serious attention of the Horse
Guards to a letter in another part of The Sun
on the use of the Lance. It is from a prac-
tical man, who has served three campaigns in
Spain, during the Civil War, and afterwards for
several years in one of her MAJESTY'S Regiments
of Light Dragoons.

WAR WITH RUSSIA.

dence, peace may be re-established on safe and solid
foundations.

Westminster, March 28, 1854.
DECLARATION.

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, having been com-
pelled to take up arms in support of an ally, is de-
sirous of rendering the war as little onerous as
possible to the Powers with whom she remains at
peace.

To preserve the commerce of neutrals from all
unnecessary obstruction, her Majesty is willing, for
the present, to waive a part of the belligerent rights
appertaining to her by the law of nations.

It is impossible for her Majesty to forego the
exercise of her right of seizing articles contraband
of war, and of preventing neutrals from bearing
the enemy's despatches, and she must maintain the
right of a belligerent to prevent neutrals from
breaking any effective blockade which may be
established with au adequate force against the
enemy's forts, harbours, or coasts.

But her Majesty will waive the right of seizing
enemy's property laden on board a neutral vessel,
unless it be contraband of war.

It is not her Majesty's intention to claim the
confiscation of neutral property, not being contra-
band of war, found on board enemy's ships ; and
her Majesty further declares, that being anxious to
lessen as much as possible the evils of war, and to
restrict its operations to the regularly organised
forces of the country, it is not her present inten-
tion to issue letters of marque for the commission-
ing of privateers.
Westminster, March 28, 1854.

THE USE OF THE LANCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF TUE SUN.

SlR,—Seeing that the 17th Lancers are under orders
for the East, and having lately noticed several articles on
the use of the lance as a weapon for a dragoon, I beg
leave to offer a few remarks on the subject. In the first
place, it is but right that the force sent out should be as
efficient as possible ; and that brings us to the question,
Is the lance really a fit arm to send a man into the field
with ? In my opinion it is not. The Lancer is fur-
nished with a pole, ten feet long, which on coming to the
guard presents a leverage of five feet to his opponent.
He is told to secure it well under his arm, of course to
prevent its being parried. But the moment he extends
his arm to deliver a point, there is no longer the elbow
to secure the lance, and his thrust might be parried by
a cane or a riding whip. In the first division of the
lance exercise (against Cavalry) the front parry, as it
is called, is ridiculous. The idea of breaking a swords-
man's guard by moving this pole 12 inches to the left,
same to the right, and then point ! I believe it was
once termed " front wave and point." Properly speak-
ing, it is a wave of the flag and nothing else. We are
told it is done to frighten the horses, but I would advise
them to settle the man first. In the third division
(against cavalry) he is told to make a sweeping parry
round the body, so as to knock a man off his horse. This
cannot be done by any Lancer unless he is extended to
give room. With closed files he would knock his com-
rades right and left ; in fact, it could not be done at all,
and if separated in the field, I would advise him to throw
away his lance, draw sword, and become at once a Light
Dragoon.

To
allow the free use of the lance his belt is shortened,
so as to place the pouch between the shoulders, almost
out 'of reach when wanting to load his pistol. At one
time ten of a troop carried carabines, to use which they
had to sling lance on the bridle-arm, making it almost
, useless—for, encumbered in that way, he would make
but a poor skirmisher. On active service the Lancer
will often have to pass through wouds, and rough ones,
too; he will again find the lance troublesome either slung
or at the trail. Depend on it, it is more for sight than
service. Stay, if they must be sent out, let them be at-
tached to theCommisaryDepartment,fore lance is a capital
thing to drive oxen with. My object is to remove what I
firmly believe to be a false notion as regards the lance
for a mounted man. It is true a high opinion has been
formed of the lance from the exploits of the Cossacks in
the retreat from Moscow. Wonderful affair ! hordes of
rough warriors harassing half-frozen soldiers during a
long and toilsome march ! Let them try it on in the
more genial climate of Turkey, and I'll back the Hussar
and Light Dragoon.
Should you be pleased to insert this, it may be the
means of drawing attention to the subject, and will I
much oblige your humble servant,

COUP DE SABRE.

GUN-BOATS WANTED FOR THE BALTIC.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—As it appears that Russia has been for some
time using prodigious efforts to increase the number of
her gun-boats, it is earnestly to be hoped that our gal-
lant Baltic fleet will not be suffered to be deficient in
this very important class of vessels in that sea.
Some of our splendid line-of-battle ships may (as has
before happened in those waters)lrun aground at a most
critical period of action, and perhaps be exposed to be
disabled and destroyed by the raking fire from swarms
of heavily-armed gun-boats, who could choose their own
position in shallow water.

It is, therefore, most essential that we should have
abundant means of occupying the attention of this kind
of craft.

The employment of steam gun-boats in addition to
those of the ordinary construction would afford us an
immense advantage ; but this suggestion, although re-
peatedly made by naval officers and others, has not yet
met with the attention which it deserves.
Of course it is to be presumed that both the Baltic and
Black Sea fleets will have powerful divisions of bomb-
ships attached to them, carrying the heaviest description
of mortar.—l remain, sir, your very obedient servant,
A RETIRED ARTILLERY OFFICER.
Portsmouth, March 27, 1854.