The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-29 00:00:00

LYCEUM THEATRE.—HENRY RUSSELL, !.be disposed to do at some future period. Of this
for Thirty Nights. THIS EVENING (he 2d time), August we feel convinced, that no peace can be really
29th, and -every Evegiog. Many .friends,having .ex.pr,essed 4 wish ,
that Mi. Russell shonid appear again previous to finally withdraw• beneficial unless the treaty be signed at Sebas-
tug his Entertainment, he liaS, in compliance "Ifjth their request,
made arrangements to appear ever/ evening. Mr. RUSSELL will topol, with the Crimea in the possession of the
present. THE FAR WEST ; or, THE PROGRESS of the EMIGRANT I Allies.
Item the Oj.D WCiRLD to the NEW. hir. Russell will relate his
anecdotes, and sing several new songs, " Cheer, Boys, cheer," " Far. I
far upon the Sea," " Sunshine after Rain," "Land t Land I Land !"
" The Falls of Niagara," " Long parted have we been," " I'm
Afloat," "Many changes have I seen," "The Icebergs"i(desorlPtive
song), " Newfoundland Dog," " The Gambler's Wife," &c. The
Second • Part of the Entertainment will consist of a Series of
Sketches, entitled NEGRO LIFE in Freedom and Slavery.
Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. ;•Gallery, 6d.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Under the management of Mr. Backetone.

Long ago we ventured to hope that a bountiful
harvest would provide us with the sinews of war.
IThat hope is now in great part realised. Yester-
day's fall, of Bs. or 10s. per quarter, with its in-
fluen cp „on. ther
Money Market, must have a power-
ful effect in many directions. This reduction
alone, if the millers and bakers give us the corres-
ponding reduction in the prices of bread and flour,
would, at, the ordinary reckoning of family consump-
tion, much more than pay the additional taxation
of 10,000,0001. caused by the war. Computing
that taxation at seven shillings per head, we ought
on the average to be able to pay it some five or
six times over in the lowered price of the quartern
lloaf. But of course it does not stop there ; the
Bears are destined to suffer their deserts. Stocks
will go up, as they have already begun to do, with
a good harvest. As a necessary consequence,
neither the Bank, nor the banks, can maintain
the present rate of interest ; money will be easier,
trade will be yet brisker, the working classes will
be better employed, their wages go further, and
England will pay her ten millions per annum
till she and her ally have taught the bankrupt
barbarian his proper place.
Not only from every part of England, but from
the Continent and America, the accounts are
equally cheering. The Continent appears to be
more likely to export than to need further sup-
plies ; and at home, as the corn is housed or
threshed, we hear from every quarter the most
gratifying accounts both of quantity and quality.
Not only from the ordinary sources of informa-
tion, but from plain honest farmers themselves,
in the south-eastern counties, we have heard
almost incredible accounts of both the yield and
quality. One farmer assured us that on land
where last year the wheat was given to his pigs as
it stood, he has this year had the best crop he ever
grew, and that the weight was 651bs. per bushel,
-though he never previously exceeded 631bs. Simi-
lar, if not quite so remarkable, accounts reach us
from the west and the north too. The crops in
Monmouthshire and Herefordshire especially,
and indeed in most of the midland western
counties, are represented as splendid. In the
ordinary course of things, such harvest prospects
would gladden all our hearts, and dispose us to
gratitude to the Giver of all Good ; but at the
present time, when the nation, from a sense of
duty, was ready to incur great sacrifices at a time
of high prices, the present prospects may be
almost regarded as a special mercy. It is, at
least, the very one which makes the onerous duty
of repressing the great oppressor of P4lrope sit
much lighter on our shoulders ; and we, there-
foTe, owe double thanks to a kind PROVIDENCE,
as well as .lie under increased obligations to do
our work thoroughly.

THIS EVENING, AUGUST 29,
Will be performed THE OLD CHATEAU. Characters by Messrs.
Flow*. Rome, H. Marston, and Backstone; Mrs. Fitzwilliam, and
Maas Reynolds.
Followed by the SPANISH DANCERS in a NEW BALLET
THE GIPSY QUEEN.
The new Farce AS LIKE AS TWO PEAS. Mr. Richards (a
Barrister), Mr. Buckstone.

STRAND THEATRE.
S Lessee Mr. F. W. Alicroft.
THIS EVENING, AUGUST 1;9,
Will be performed HARD TIMES.
Followed by FAUsT A vll MARGUERITE. Mephistoplia,s'
)lr. Ha:ford; Faust, Miss G. Ilodpon ; Marguerite, Miss Li Gordon.
To conclude with BOMBASTES FURIOSO.
Stalls, 45.; Poses, 2s. 641.; Pit, is.; Gallery, Gd.; Private ttur, a
el Ir., to be had of Mr. Allcroft, 15, New Bond.street.

To Russia herself a good harvest will, of course,
be a benefit, as well as to other nations ; but she
was not likely to be in want of corn, and its chief
becefit, that of selling it, and of getting some
ready cash for her needy taxpayers, her impove-
rished nobles, and her empty treasury, is now
quite unattainable. Russian trade is utterly at an
end, except through faithless and servile Prussia,
and it is to be hoped that aiding Russian poverty
through Prussian ports will not long be tolerated.
It will never do to go on enriching the mean
monarch of Berlin by giving him a broker's com-
mission on Russian produce obtained through his
dominions, and at the same time contributing to
the chief enemy's treasury by permitting him a
somewhat roundabout commerce. When this
Russo-Prussian commerce with England and
Europe is stopped, Russia may have her crops
indeed, and her poor peasants and soldiers may
get a little better bread, but money, her great
want, she will no longer get. She will want,
therefore, the great means of moving, as well as
raising and equipping, troops for modern warfare;
indeed, driven back into her own territories, she
can, no longer go on plundering the peasants as
she: did in the unfortunate provinces. She must
pay her own serfs in some way ; it will doubtless
be, as in the Hungarian invasion, by treasury
paper, to be afterwards received in payment of
taxes ; but this, of course, will only still further
einbarras her when she comes to receive her own.
worthless paper, instead of money, a few months
hence. A good harvest will do little to help
Russia out of debt while the war continues and
hex commerce is annihilated, and she will have
the mortification of seeing England pay her way
as we proceed, and our trade as active as if the
CZA.R and we were at profound peace.

What is a traveller ? By what e7idence is the
assertion that a party is a bona fide traveller to be
sustained ? These questions have recently as-
sumed immense importance, in consequence of the
New Beer Law, and it is essential that satisfac-
tory answers should be returned, with the least
possible delay. Nothing could be more unfair to
a numerous and respectable body of persons, scat-
tered throughout the entire country, than to leave
them exposed to pains and penalties, in conse-
quence of being kept in ignorance On these impor-
tant points. It is said that every citizen is bound
to know the provisions of the law, more especially
those relating to his trade or calling. It may be
so, but, at the same time, that law should be clear
and unequivocal, so that "he who runs may
read," and that every one may distinctly learn
what lie is bound to do, and what to avoid.
Now we find licensed victuallers appealing to
the police authorities for information, and that
information withheld. However injurious to their
interests, and vexatious in its application, they
wish to respect the law, and to avoid any infringe-
ment of its provisions. But they cannot ascer-
tain what it really is until they appear as defend-
ants at the bar of a Police Court, and not only
pay the costs of their own defence, but have to
encounter the risk of heavy penalties, and the
odium of being regarded as violaters of the law.
They must not only submit to very stringent re-
strictions, but must bear the heavy expense and
serious inconvenience of having precedents estab-
lished that may serve to guide the trade from the
morass in which they have been plunged through
hasty and improvident legislation.
Cases have already been decided bearing on the
points above referred to, and some magistrates at
Gravesend have very judiciously and properly
stated-their views of the law, so as to enable the
licensed victuallers of the vicinity to determine
how they are to act, and also to prevent them
from being harassed by vexatious proceedings.
In every one of these cases the statute has re-
ceived a liberal interpretation, and the summonses
were dismissed by the presiding Magistrates. It
is right that these decisions should be made gene-
rally known, inasmuch as they may serve as use-.
ful precedents to other Justices. In the last of
these cases the matter was more fully gone into,
and: the second point respecting the necessary
evidence for the defence received a decision ; we
shall, therefore, refer to that, as the clearest and
i mbeofmgotrresa: Lhe utisfea:zut,torlre.of any of the cases yet brought
the proprietor of the King's Arms
\Hotel, Hampton-court ,was yesterday summoned
before the Magistrates for the county of Middle-
sex at the Special Sessions at Hampton. The
.defendant was charged with a breach of the
recent statute, in having several persons refreshing
themselves at his house
say, between et duringeelihalf-past
the p w
r to li iob iatne d
hours, that is tod
The Learned Gentleman, who so ably conducted
the defence, willingly admitted the facts, that
these persons bad obtained refreshment after the
"travellers," and
it on the ground
that
tr
theyfor Iv ,raNleel.o closing,,
and had applied as
such to Mr. Luen, who, under the law of the
land, was bound to receive them. He also showed
thattt a t i
o n
t noticeo
the
hadenpublicly exhibited directing
nrestrictive enactments, and that a
attention
book was kept in which every person admitted to
the house affixed his name and address to a state-
ment that he was a bond fide traveller.
From this book it appeared that these persons
—from, Grand
Canada from Glasgow, and from
Cairo, from k
had come from various distances