The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-13 00:00:00

• TLIZA.TE-E rIOYAL DRURY LANE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith,
• .
THIS EVENING, Jaz 13,
will be performed NORMA. Principal characters by Madame
C .ra4 ori. Madame Sedlatzek, and Madame Heinrich; Signor Ar-
nold', Signor Sant!, and Ilerr Pttz.
Followed by the new BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled
UNE FETE EN OLYMPE.
Prfees—Stalls, 7s; Dress Circle, 55.; Boxes, Is. ; Pit., 2s. ' • Gallery.
Is. ; and Pfivate Boxes, Oue, Two, Three and Four Guineas. The
Box-citice °pet daily from Ten till Six where places may be
secured. Private Boxes and Stalls to be hld of Messrs. Leader and
Cock, 63, blbw Bolul-street.

RTBF ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Nadel the management of Mr. linckstone.
EVENING :tins 13,
Wlll be performed THIS
the Drama of, THE KNIGHTS OF THE
ROUND TABLE. Characters by Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, G.
Vandenhoff, W. Farren, Compton, and Buckstone ; Miss Reynolds,
Miss E. Grey, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam.
After widen, the entirely new and original extravaganza, entitled
MR. BUCKSTONE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE (IN LEI-
CESTER-SQUARE), written by J. R. Pt/inches, Esq.

ROYAL' PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXYORNSTKEET.
Under the Management of Mr. Claims& Kw.
THIS EVENING, Jmra 13,
Will be performed FROM VILLAGE TO COURT. Principal
characters by Messrs. Harley, Fisher, and Cathcart ; Misses Mur-
ray, Heath, and Vivash.
Followed by FAUST AND MARGUERITE. Characters by
Messrs. C. Kean and David Fisher ; Mrs. Winetanley and Miss C.
Leclercq.
To conclude with A STORM IN A TEA-CUP. Principal cha-
mters by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy.

LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the manages ent of Madame Vestrls.
- THIS EVENING, JUNE 13,
'Will be performed BEFORE BREAKFAST. Characters by Mr.
C. Mathews, Messrs. F. Matthews and Baker; Miss Wadham, &c.
Followed by GIVE A Doa AN ILL NAME. Characters by
Messrs. C. Mathews and F. Matthews; Misses Oliver and Mar-
tindale.
To conclude with LITTLE TODDLEKINS.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webater.--Directress. Madame Celeste.

Tilts EVENING, JuNE 13,

will be performed THE X 11tBLE HEAR f; or, The Sculptor's
Dream. Characters by•sleasrs. P. Bedford, L. Murray, Ben. Web.
ster, and C. 3elD7 madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, and Miss E.
Harding.
After which `Will' be produced the New Extravaganza, entitled
A MOVING TALE, supported by Mr. Keeley, and Dirs. Keeley.
To conclude with the popular _Nautical Drama of the CABIN BOY.
Julien (her original character), Madame Celeste. Tiekets, Places,
and Private Boxer to be had at the theatre.

AwrLmrs EUROPE'S NA.TIOXAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.
THIS EVENING, Juan: 13,
Will be produced the new Grand Historical Altitary spectacle, en-
titled THE COSSACKS; or, Vive la France.
Followed by a total change of the Scenes in the CIRCLE.
To conclude with a new Grotesque Extravaganza, called THIS
HORSE WILL BE SOL 1) u PAY EXPENSES IF NOT
CLAIMED WITHIN FOURTEEN DAYS.
Sox-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

Open for the Season.
THIS EVENING, Jura 13,

Will be repeated an entirely NEW and BRILLIA.NT PIECE
.f FIREWORK on a gigantic scale, representing the British Lion
and Gallic Cock Trampling on the Russian Eagle. All the numerous
attractions of the gardens as usual, including the beautiful Panorama
of Chusan, by Danion—the extensive and interesting Mena:er,e—
Vocal and Instrumental Concert : Miss Poole, Miss Ransford, and
Mr. Manvers, &c. Concluding with the attack of the British Fleet
on Cbusan—Explosion of the Batteries and Ships, and final Grand
Display of Fireworks. by Southby. Feeding the animals, Half-past
Five. Concert, Half-past Six. Fireworks, Quarter to Ten. Ad-
mission to the whole, Is.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tuts DAY —Morning 15 min.after 3 I Evening, 40 min.aft. 3
To•Moailow—Morning 4 min.after 4 I Evening 29 min.a-c. 4

PIiE WEATHER.--Sun Orners, Arlo 13.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
69 highest since noon yesterday.
52 —lowest this morning and during the night.
61—this day, at noon.
BARoriKTEE, 29.69.
WneD, N.W.—Heavy rain.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1854.

Expectation is still on tiptoe. Everybody is
beginning to ask when this doubtful state of
things may probably terminate. There has been
so much said about the great things which the
allied forces, both by sea and land, were to have
accomplished, that people at home are naturally
becoming rather impatient at finding week after
week, month after month, actually season after
season, flitting by without our receiving any news
whatever of their accomplishment. So that when
the summer of 1854 has arrived we are still re-
ceiving the gratifying intelligence that the Anglo-
French contingents are " going" to the seat of
war—not that they are " gone," but that they
are going, and that the combined fleets, here in
the Baltic, and there again in the Euxine, are
still complacently " biding their time"—with not
a single broadside yet fired, by the war-vessels of
the two great maritime powers, either at Cronstadt
or at Sebastopol. It is altogether begging the
question to maintain that complaints of this cha-
racter are nothing better than mere tokens of im-
patience—that in regretting, as we do, the de-
plorable lapse of time which has taken place without
the maritime or military annals of France and
England being, in regard to this war with Russia,
illustrated in a befitting manner by any very bril-
liant achievement, we are only betraying ignorance
as to the difficulties of both land and sea cam-
paigning. It was not thus that NELSON hesitated
and procrastinated. It was not after this fashion
that NAPOLEON prepared for an advance against
the enemy, by reiterated delays, in the way of
precaution. The former chased the imaginary
fleet of his foe to and fro across the ocean in the
eagerness of his heroic pursuit during an interval
of time equivalent to that occupied by his succes-
sor in the command of the maritime armament of
England in the Mediterranean, in crawling from
Besika Bay to Beycos in the Bosphorus. The
latter completed a campaign in fourteen days,
taking the capital of the opposing territory, and
returning to his own; there to receive the felici:,a-
tions of an astounded population—effecting all this
within an insignificant portion of the time consumed
by the warriors of nowadays in taking leave of their
friends, and getting their baggage together, and ar-
ranging the fashion of their accoutrements, and in
selecting first one place and then another place
of preliminary encampment. In everything we
have said, there is not, we insist, detectable any-
where the smallest exaggeration. And while we
would not, of course, be so preposterous as to ex-
pect a NELSON in every Admiral, or a NAPOLEON
in every commander of a division—heroes like
those scarcely appearing once in a thousand years,
if either of them, indeed, can be thought to have
been ever paralleled—we may, at any rate, expect
from their posterity, in the generation coming im-
media ely after themselves, some feeble effort, at
least, at the semblance (if nothing more than that),
at the semblance of emulation. Instead of which,
we behold the results of a dawdling v-olicy
such as those we have just taken occas-on -o
particular ise. We find that the summer of 1854
has actually arrived, while we still continue to be
told that our fleets are going to do great things,
and that the allied armies are going to do great
things—but that, of course, all those wonderful
achievements, about which we have heard so much
iu the way of anticipation,
have yet to be accom-
plished. The British contingent is to hasten
from Scutari, by way of Yarns, to carry assis-
tance, at last, to the Turkish and Egyptian forces,
under OMER PAULA, between Schuwla, his head-
quarters, and Silistria, still invested by the Rus-
sian soldiers of PASKIEWITCH. The French con-
tingent is to march with all speed in a similar
direction from Gallipoli, hastening towards the
of Adrianople. Meanwhile,
the by way
the fleets—under DUNDAS and Haaraiara
deem it more prudent to wait in the safe
tranquillity of their anchorage, rather than punish
the Muscovite marine force for all the enormities
them long since at Sinope, rather I
perpetrated by
than avenge the fate of the "Tiger" by a more de-
cisive movement against Odessa, rather than take
possession of the three principal mouths of the
Danube, and daringly adventure against the enor-
mous fortifications on the coast of the Crimea at Se
baStopol. Hearing of which prudent decision on the
part of one of the great maritime armaments
sent forth against Russia by the nations recog-
nised as the two mightiest champions of civilisa-
tion, we receive intelligence at the same time from
the Gulf of Finland, that one portion of the com-
panion Fleet of the Baltic is at Poskala Bay,
three miles from Sweaborg, and that an-
other is at Hango-head, as a glance at the
map will show, not exactly within gun-shot of
Helsingfors. As yet—though June is advancing—
no intimation of a descent upon Cronstadt, much
less of any advance beyond Cronstadt, with the
aid of gun-boats and land forces, directly upon
the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. If we
presume to comment at any length upon these
circumstances, however, we are told not to be