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

THE GENERAL LIFE AND
FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
Established 1837.
ES ipowered by Special Acts of Parliament.
Mg William-street, London-bridge, London.
Capital, One Million.
The 1 .Iremitoy s give Notice—

let That- the ANNUAL GENERAL 3fEETING of the PRO-
_pHIETORri wi II be held at 12 o'clock precisely, .on SATURDAY,
the 20th day .of May next, at the Office of the Company, 62, King
William-street, in the city of London.
2d. That at, such meeting, the Proprietors who then hold ten or
more Shares., which they have pootessed six calendar months, may
attend and vote.
ad. That three Directors, Jacob George Cope, Esq.. Thomas B.
Simpson. Esq., and Edward Wilson, Esq., at.d ene Auditor. William
Hunter, jun., Esq., retire, all of whom are re-eligible to their respec-
tive appointments, for which the, will be accordingly proposed.
4th. Tbat any Proprietors, duly qualified, who shall be desirous
of becoming Candidates for any of these situations, mast give written
notice of their intention at the Office, to tne Secretary, at least ten
days previous to the time of such meeting.
By order of the Directors,
THOMAS PRICE, Secretary.

May 5, 1854.

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING, MAT 5,
Will be performed Bentas Opera of LA SONNAMBULA. Chit-
acters by Mffile. Bury, Signor Arnold], and Signor Paved. Con-
ductor, Herr Anchuez.
Followed by a BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT.
Prices—Stalls, 7s; Drcris Circle, 55.; Boxes, 33 ; Pit. 25. ; Gallery.
is.; and Private Boxv., One, Two, Three and Four Guineas. The
Box-office open dairy from Ten tin Six, where places may be
secured. Private Waxes and Stella to be had of Messrs. Leader and
Cock, 63, New Bo:id-street.

THR VIRE ROYAL HAYMARSI'%T•
under the management of Mr. Zuckstone.
THIS EVENING, Mai 5,

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Wiu be performed TOWN AND COUNTRY. Characters by
Messrs. Compton, Chippeniale, George Vandenhoff, and Buekstone ;
Miss Featherstone and Miss Reynolds.
After which, the entirely new anl original extravaganza, entitled
MR. BUCKSTONE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE (IN LEI-
CESTER-SQUARE). written by J. R. Planche, Esq. Principal
characters by Mr. Bucltstone, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Clark, Mr. J.
Marshall, Mr H. Marshall ; Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Mrs. Caulfield, Miss
Z. Grey, Miss Lydia Tisonmasos, Miss Laura Morris, and Miss
Featherstone.
To be followed by POPPING THE QUESTI')N.

uoy" pia NrCESS'S TIIEITRE, OXFORD-STREEr.
Under the Mansgetrynt of Mr. CIIARLE3 KEAN.
TUIS EVENING, MAT 5,
will be performed THE MARRIED UNMARRIED. Characters
by Messrs. W. Lacy, Ryder, and Cathcart; and Misses Heath and
marray.
Followed by FAITS(' AND MAR4UERITE. Chamfers ty
Messrs. C. Kean and Dard ; Mrs. Winstarley and Miss C.
Leclercq.
To conclude with A STORM IN A TEA CUP. Principtl cha-
:lasers by :dr. and Mrs. W. Lacy.

TIIEA.THE ROYAL ADELPIII,
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Dtractress, Mettim3 Celeste.

TIM EVENING, MAT 5,

Iva] be performed TWO LOVE; A. LIFE. Supported Or
M"gri* C• :•4ePtY. neigh Ilurrsy, it.enjamin Are:ester, Keetey, and O.
timith; Ntss Woorgar an 4 Ma 34 rte Celeste.

Followed by raF, xocrTAC,IE K)V .t Prln,doal cha-
raNers bJ :11. ,r, Smith, and P.irsello; Mrs. Keeliy,
and Miss Mary Keeley.
Alter which, Till,: OVP.RI, %NO ro cos-vrANT
110PLE. UNDEKTA.CKN UT I.OID 11A.rEr1AJT, WWI
JATKREsTIN PARTICULAR.; OF TilK FAIR

LYCEUM rtie.ATio.
Under the Management ut %faittme Vestrts.

EVV.NINT,I, sf.ty 5,

Will be presen•el ZER 1,-g 11. NI Chlraetere ' y Ntessrs.
C. Manews, F. Matth,ve, and nest)),; Mrs. Ilel:ort, and Miss

to be tottowed by GIVE A 1.11(1 AN ILL NA 31E. Principal
characters by Me,rs. t;'. Mat' ew4 an F. Matthews.
Alter which, NUMBER ONE ROUND THE CORNER.

• ROYAL OLYMPIC TIIF.ITKE.
Lessee and Manarren, Mr A. Wigan.
THIS EVENING, MAY 5,
Will be performed THE II OAY OF NIT LlFin. Cha-
racters by Messrs. F. Robs in, J. II Woite, Leslie, and Vincent;
Mrs. Chatterley, vliss P. Horton, and Miss Marston.
Aft, r which, THE: II APPY M.; peters oy Messrs Har-
wood Cooper, White, River, Franks, and d. Wigan; Miss E. tur-
ner and Mira Dormer.
To be followed ny TO ORLT'llt FtENT4O*.c. 4upported by Messrs,
Emery, Robson, and Leslie; Mrs. Stirling ant Miss Wyndham.

STRAND THEATRE:.

Sole Lessee Mr. F. W. Allcrott.—Direetrem, Miss Rebecca Isaac s.

THIS EVENING, MAT 5,
THE THREE TURKISH RAZOR GRINDERS.
To be followed by PAUL PRY.
After which, SUMMER FLO .VERS, In which the French Ballet
Troupe will appear.
To conclude with PIGEONWIDDrS PERILS.
qtalls, 55.; Boxes, 3c; Pit, lc $;4; 4lallery, ild.; Private Boxes,
£1 Ils. CI., to be had of Mr. Al'croft, 15, New Bond-street.

ArITLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL A +IPLIITHEA.PKE.
•
Lessee and Xanager, Mr. William Cooke.
THIS EVENING, MAT 5,
Will be presented the new gra id Nautical and Equestrian spec.
'Lade, embodying n vet and extraordinary effects (wrilen by Mr.
Nelson Lee), entitled A. TALK 0 k"l' ri SPANISH WAR; or,
The Horse of the Wreck. Ths horses expressly tralnei by Mr. W.
Cooke.
Followed by an entire change of the geenes of the CIRCLE. intro-
ducing Miss Kate Cooke, Miss Emily Cooke, Mr. ‘lfre I Cooke, Miss
and Master Gee, and the most talented Equestrian sal Artistes in
Europe.
Mdlle. Blanche, the celebrated Continental Arti te, on the
TIGHT ROPE.
MR. BRIG:1S IN HIS PLEASURE.; OF HORSE-KEEPING.
Box-office open from Elevate tut Four. Stage Manager, air. W •
Treat.

liL-111 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tess DAT —'Morning 49 rnin.after Fi 1 Evening 19 min.ftft. 7
To-Aostitow---Morning 57 min after 7 livening 41 nsindtft. 8

ttiE WEATHEIL—Sum OFFICA, MAT 5.
TEIESMOMETB3, IN THE SHADS.
F,4—highest since noon yesterday.
44 —lowest this morning and during the night.
61—this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 2914.
WIND, W.S.W.—Light breeze, with fine ,sunshiny
-weather.

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a number of explicit charges against the Turks—
came at once, in the natural course of things, to
the knowledge of the British and French Ambas-
sadors. They had already, no doubt, been watch-
ing with more than accustomed v igilance the progress
of events both in Epirus and Thessaly. They were
not ignorant of the particular occurrences which
notoriously led to the conviction that the insur-
gents in those provinces had received from the
Greek Sovereigns the most considerable and direct
encouragement. They determined to take the
matter seriously in hand, with a view to arrive at
the truth as quickly as possible. In order to ac-
complish this desirable object effectually, they in-
stituted immediate inquiries into the statements
formally made by the Greek Minister for Foreign
Affairs in an official document, as to the advance
of the Turkish troops across the frontier, and as
to the subsequent commission by them of a series
of heinous cruelties perpetrated within the
boundary of the Hellenic dominions. " This in-
vestigation," says the Protest of the two Ministers,
dated Athens, April 20, " has been proceeded to
by all the means which an honest and sincere de-
sire to ascertain the truth could furnish ; men
have been questioned, and places and circumstances
examined." The conclusion reached, therefore,
in this matter is not a conclusion which has been
Jumped at by the Ambassadors. They add, "We
are obliged to say, both on account of the duties
which we have to fulfil to our respective Govern-
ments, and of the general interest of truth, that
a great number of proofs of incontestable exacti-
tude has led us to conclude that the accusation
made in your Note, far from having any founda-
tion, leads to a result diametrically opposite, both
as regards the ensemble and the details." Where-
upon they enter into particulars. They affirm
that no corps of Albanians of about 500
men, -as stated by M. PAICOS, in his Note,
passed into the Hellenic territory on the 26th
of February. Pursuing their detailed con-
tradictions, they deny the statements put for-
ward by the Greek Foreign Minister as to
the conduct of Colonel SKnommos, as to the
reported engagement between his troops and the
Albanians in the Greek territory, and finally as
to the latter having, at the close of that engage-
ment, been repulsed beyond the frontiers they
were said to have invaded. After thus categori-
cally proclaiming the fallacy of these shameless
allegations made by M. Paicos, the Ambassadors
content themselves with recalling to the knowledge
of that Minister the fact that the engagement re-
ferred to took place, not on the Greek territory,
but at some miles from the Greek frontier,
under the walls of Arta ! Then, continues the
Protest—" By whom and for what reason has
such a perversion of facts been concocted? What
were the causes of it ? Who were the authors
of this machination ? We think (add the
Ambassadors) that it is not necessary to
pronounce in this respect." That they leave
for a more fitting and a more solemn oppor-
tunity. Later on, however, they speak thus
boldly and resolutely:—" We protest in the most
formal and most energetic terms against the viola-
tion of the Ottoman territory mentioned above,
aggravated as it has been by the attempt madein the
name of the Greek authorities to transform it into
an invasion of the Greek territory on the part of
the Ottoman troops." Enough has been said.
Tice condemnation of the Greek Court, and of
the Greek Government, has been already
pronounced. We shall await now, with
more eagerness, if possible, than ever, but
with less anxiety, the publication of the blue-
book, promised to be speedily laid before
Parliament in reference to the recent pro-
ceedings of King OTHO, and Queen AMELIA,
and their administrators—more eagerly because of
this new proof of their complicity with the
insurgents, less anxiously because this remarkable
Protest shows also that both France and England
have reason to be satisfied with their delicately
situated representatives.

This evening another "little bill" will be pre-
sented to the Hous.-3of Commons. The guardians
of the public purse will be-called upon to sanc-
tion further expenditure in our Naval, Military,
and Ordnance Establishments, to the trifling
amount of nearly Five Millions Six Hundred
Thousand Pounds sterling (5,595,8631). These
Supplementary Estimates will—without taking
into account the increase of nearly 3,000,0001.
previously sanctioned—very nearly absorb the
entire proceeds of the New Exchequer Bonds,
should Mr. GLADSTONE succeed in having the
whole amount taken. So that the country will
practically have to meet out of its ordinary in-
come, and that, too, when waging war with a
powerful opponent, some three millions of extra
expenditure, immediately after having paid
off old debts to the amount of Eight
Millions sterling, making the additional outlay,
within a single year, of eleven millions, exclusive
of the six millions taken by way of loan. This is

certainly no trifling addition to burdens that had
previously been more than sufficiently onerous,
and quite enough to induce even a more plodding
and patient animal than John Bull to turn restive,
and kick off the unreasonable driver who endea-
vours so unfairly to overload his charge. That
some such feeling is abroad may be easily con-
jectured from the fact that a new financial state-
ment (Budget No. 3) is to be brought forward on
Monday evening, when we suppose the Right Hon.
Gentleman will endeavour by some new piece of
financial legerdemain to persuade the community
that all his brilliant conceptions were formed in
the most prudent spirit, and that they ought to
have succeeded, although, unfortunately, the
results were very different from what had been
anticipated.