The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-28 00:00:00

THE A. TIIE-ROY AL, DRITRY-LANE,
M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS.
LAST WEEK BUT ONE.

THE BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL, THIS EVENING.
TlllB EVENING, Tuesday. Nov. 28, the Beethoven Festival will
take place. The First Part of the Programme will include the fol-
lowing selection from the works of the immortal composer:—Over-
ture to Leonora—Allegretto from the Symphony in F—Larghetto
from the Symphony in D —Grand Concerto in D, for violin, per-
formed by Mr. Blagrove—and the Grand Symphony in C minor (the
complete work). The Second Part will be Miscellaneous, and will
Include the new DESCRIPTIVE QUADRILLE, THE ALLIED
ARMIES, Jollies, assisted by the Banis of her Majesty's Grenadier
Guards, 2d Life Guards, and Coldstream Guards —new Song, " Minnie,"
sting by Madame Anna Thillon—the American Quadrille—Solo. cor-
net-a-pistons, by Herr I{o3nig ; oboe, M. LaTiglle ; and the Charge

Galop. 1 -
Pawls or Arnassiox.—Promenade, boxes, and galleries, Is.,
dress circle, 2s. 6d.; private boxes 1/. ls. and 11. lls. Gd.
M. JULLIEN'S QRAND BAL MASQUE will take place en
MONDAY. Dec. 11, and terminate the season.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Under the management of Mr. gnekstone.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 28,
WU/ be performed the Comedy of PRESENTED AT COURT.
Pencipal characters by Messrs. Buckstone, W. Farrell, and Howe;
DI Imes Reynolds, E. Chaplin. Grantham, and Lavine.
To which will be added THE BALANCE OF COMFORT.
To be followed-by THE 1111311 AMBASS
ers, ADOR.
Cullen Chara
tord ;cters
by Me.srs. Ilad:on, Chippendale, Howe, Rog and
bias Ell .n Chaplin and M iss Martindale.
To C mclude with POPPING THE QUESTION.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S TIIEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. Clunks Kw.
Tiil3 EVENING. Nov. 28,
Will be presented FAUST AND MARGUERITE. (Principal
characters by Messrs. C. Kean, David Fisher, Raymond, Cathcart,
and Saker ; Mrs. Winstanley, Misses C. Leclercq, Daly. and K.
Terry.
Atte acts will be presented a mew Melo-dramatic Spectacle, in
three , entitled SCHAMYL, the Warrior Prophet.

LYCEUM THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 2s,

Wilt be performed THE GAME OF SPECULATION. Charac-
ters by Messrs. C. Mathews, R. Roxby, F. Matthews, and Baker ;
Mrs. Hughes, Misses Oliver and Wadham, and Mrs. Foote.

To be fsUowed by a new Conic Drama, entitled A COMICAL
COUNTESS.
To conclude with the Farce entitled MY FELLOW CLERK.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celesta.
THIS EVENING, No*. 23,
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Wlll be performed THE SERIOUS FAMILY.
,arseCharacter by
Messrs. C. Selby, Leigh Murray, and Keeley ; Miss Woolg nd
Mrs. Keeley.
After which, a new Fares called THE SLOW MAN.
Followed by BONA FIDE TRATELLERS.
To which will be added a new Farce, entitled THE RAILWAY
BELLE.

ROYAL OLYMPIC) THEt TR&
Leases and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.

THIS EVENING, Nov. 28,
Will be presented TAE BEULAH SPA. Principal characters
by Messrs. A. Wigan, Emery, F. Robson, and H. Cooper ; Miss
Marston, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Fitzallaa, and Miss Julia St. George.
To be followed by THE FIRST NIGHT. Characters by Messrs.
Alfred Wigan, Leslie, Harwood Cooper, and Gladstone; Miss Julia
8t George, and Miss Emily Ormonde.
To conclude with the Farce, called A BLIGHTED BEING, in
which Mr. Robson will appear.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.
Miraculous attraction, and success without parallel!
THIS EVENING,
The Magnificent and heart-stirring MILITARY SPECTACLE, in
2 acts, byJ. H. SvocquELLas, Esq., called THE BATTLE OF THE
ALMA 1 graphically realising that terrible conflict, and occupying
both the Stage and the Ring, with 400 Armiliaries ;
After which. the Celebrated SCENES in the ARENA, invented
and conducted by Mr. William Cooke.
To conclude with a Grand Entrée called VIE WILD INDIANS
ON THEIR FLEET HORSES !
N.B.—An early attendance is respectfully suggested, in consequeace
of the numbers who nightly throng the doors of the Theatre.
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Box-oonce open Kona Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Acting Manage:. Mr. W. H. Cooke. Equestrian Director,
yr. Wm. Cooke, jun.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tam DAT —Morning 11 min.after 8 Evening 52 min.sft. 8
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oanow - Morning 28 min.after 9 Evening 4 tain.aft. 10

THE WEATHER.--Sux 0111031, Nov. 28.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
42—highest since noon yesterday.
35-4owest this morning and during the night.
46—this day, at noon.

BARONNTNII, 29.75—falling.
WIND, W.N.W. to W.—Light, with dull hazy weather.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1854.

The doom of Austria is sealed. Whatever be
the issue of the present war, she is ruined. The
triumph of Russia would be to her, slavery ; the
triumph of the Allies, disruption. She has
brought on herself the double danger. She
would deserve to be the galley-slave of triumphant
Russia ; her glaringly selfish mode of entering
the Principalities evacuated by her old saviour,
her truckling when there, to the Allies or to
Russia, according as success inclined to either, and
her congratulations at the battle of Alma, all
have merited that she should be chained to the
oar of Russian convict-service, could the CZAR be-
come Lord Paramount of Middle Europe. She
has had a slight taste of the thing, indeed, ever
since the Hungarian wickedness, and if she but
help NICHOLAS enough by reinforcements from the
Danube—if she enable him to smother the Allied
Armies in the Crimea by mere numerical superio-
rity, she will find in every sense of the word that
she has caught a Tartar. She might Boon begin
to w ish herself within her little hereditary territory,
to live in quiet as the heir of the HAPSBURGS
in the snug little dukedom.

If, on the contrary, we conquer, as we mean to
do, and we can do what we mean, and Austria
knows it, she will fall to pieces, or be blown to
pieces. She is a fit subject for utter disruption.
Not one of her deceived, betrayed, and oppressed
peoples loves either her or each other. Enjoying
a splendid cpportunity to become the common
centre of attachment to all, she has become the
object of common and deep-seated hatred. Hun-
garians, Italians, and Poles are ready to burst
her yoke, and, if they could, to gore her to death ;
'and her Scla.vonian population almost equally hate,
her rule. The whole empire, as it is called, or
more properly the whole collection of States
forcibly clamped together under the name
of Austria, needs but some adequate stroke
from without to tumble the whole mass to pieces.
Its coherence is entirely artificial, entirely at
variance with all the laws of political gravitation ;
it could endure no shock.

Now, the very principle of the Allied
war is
one of disintegration for Austria. It is a war for
the autocracy of the nations, just as the last long
contest was a war for the autocracy of the
Princes. Some 800,000,0001. of debt did Eng-
land incur to keep the perfidious wretches on their
thrones who have burdened all Europe since 1815,
to saddle the French with a dynasty which
they have ejected for over, and to strengthen the '
enemy, who now repays our folly by wanton war.
But we have changed all that. We have paid a
Ileavi penalty, indeed, for attempting to settle,.
ell Europe at Vienna, not on the basis of its
natural nationalities, and of national indepen-
dence, but of accommodation amongst the despots
who wished to parcel it out among themselves.
Now two mightya
the rulers
each independent,
each governed by
each having rulers of its choice,
cordially shaken hands over. old
quarrels, and convinced that national inde-
pendence is the one
_condition of permanent
European peace, these two nations have deter-
mined that at any cost this greatpr
inciple must
be so firmly asserted as never again to be called
in question. We know, indeed, that Lord ABBa.
DEEN and his ,clique, and it may be some
.an amen_
higher
than they, descried the danger of Enrop
cipation afar off, and were most anxious to avert
it. They foresaw that Russia, °nee committed to
the war, would not soon draw back---that she
would be prodigal of the lives of her serfs to km,_
taro her ambition—and they knew that if the war
lasted Europe would eventually be in a state
of revolution, and that all might end in the
downfall of tyrants and the resurrection of
peoples. Still, they were obliged to fight, and,
once engaged in the contest, they cannot prevent