The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-19 00:00:00

TIMATRE ROYAL DRURY LANZ.

Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.

TIIIS EVENING, krin. 19.
Wilt be performed NORM.i. Principal characters by Madame
Caradori. Madame Sedatzek, and Madame Sondlteint ; Signor Pa-
„No, signor Santi, aad Signor Arnoldi.

THE t TRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Under the management of Mr. Racketone.

THIS EVENING, APRIL 19.
Will be performed A CURE FOR LOVE. Characters by Feasts.
Chippendale and Buckstsne ; Miss Chaplin, dec.
After which. an entirely new and original extravaganza, entitled
MR. BWCIESTONE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE (IN LEI-
CESTEIt-SQUARE), written by J. R. Planche, ESQ. Principal
characters by Mr. Buckstone, Mr. W. Farrell, Mr. Clark, Mr. J.
Marshall. Mr. H. Marshall ; Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Mrs. Caulfield, Miss
Z. Grey, 3111 s Lydia Thompson, Vigs Laura Morris, and miss
Teatherstone.
To conclude with MRS. WHITE.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Undo' the 3lianagement of Mr. CHAItLES SERA.
THIS EVENING, APaiL
Will he performed THE MARRIED UNMARRIED. Characters
Ay Megan. W. Lacy, Ryder, and Cathcart; and MLsses Heath and

(array.
Followed by FAUST AND MARGUERITE. Characters by
Messrs. C. wean and Day.d Fisher Mrs. Win,tanley and Miss C.
Leclercq.
To conclude with A STORM IN A TEA-CUP. Principal cha-
racters by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webeter.—Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING, APRIL 19,

Will be performed TWO LOVES AND A LIFE. Supported by
Mem". C. Selby, Leigh Murray, Benjamin Webster, Keeley. and 0.
Smith ; Miss Woolgar AM Madame Celeste.
Followed by THE OVERLAND JOFRNEY TO CONSTANTI-
NOPLE, AS BY LORD B.kTEMAN,
INTERESTINGUNDERTAKEN PARTICULARS or THE FAIR SOPHIA. WITH

• LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Vorris,
TIII3 EVENING, Aram 19,
Will be performed A CHARMING WIDOW. Principal charac-
ters by Mr. C. Mathews; Miss Talbot and Miss Oliver.
To be followed by GIVE A DOG AN ILL NAME. Principal
characters by Messrs. C. Mathews and F. Matthews.
After which, NUMBER ONE ROUND THE CORNER.
Concluding with A HOUSE OUT OF WINDOWS.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
• • • " Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.
THIS EVENING, APRIL 19,
Wlll be performed THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE.
To be followed by TO OBLIGE BENSON. Supported by Messrs.
Emery, Robson. and Leslie ; Mrs. Stirling and Miss Wyndham.
To conclude with the Farce of THE. WANDERING MINSTREL.
Jem Beggs, Mr. F. Robson.

STRAND THEATRE.

MISS Rebecca Isaacs, Sete Lessee Mr. F. W.A.llcroft.—Directreas,

TIII3 EVENING, Apart 19,

Will be performed THE ENCHANTED LAKE-
Followed by AN ADVEETISEMENT—.. WANTED, WIVES
AND HUSBANDS."
C"cluding with a new burlesque on RICHARD THE THIRD.
qtails, Ss.; Boxes, 3e.; Pit, Is. 6d; Gallery, 6d.; Private Boxes,
.£1 l ii. 6d., to be had of Sir. Alicroft, 15, Sew Bond-street.

ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIOMAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.
Great attraction and powerful Novelties for the Easter Holidays.
THIS EVENING, APRIL 19,
And during the week, a new grand Nautical and Equestrian spec -
tacle, embodying
my.: and extraordinary effects (written by Mr.
Nelson Lee), entitled A TALE OF THE SPANISH WAR; or,
The Horse of the Wreck. The horses expressly trained by Mt. W.
Cooke.
Followed by an erttre change of the Scene 3 of the CIRCLE, intro-
ducing Miss Kate Cooke, 3flss Emily Cooke, Mr. Alfred Cooke, and
„el the most talented Equestrian and Gymnastic Artistes in Europe.
Concluding with the new farce of DALRY3IPLE versus TUBES.
Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W
• West.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

Tun DAT —Morning 58 min.after 5 f Evening 24 min.e.t. 6
To.Moitaov—Morning 57 nain.after 6 Evening 32 rain.mt. 7

THE WEATHER.—Sus Onnes, Aram 19.
THERMOMETER, 111 THE SHADE.
62—highest since noon yesterday.
49—lowest this morning and during the night..
68—this day at noon.
BAROMETER. 30'03—falling gradually.
WIND, S. to S.W.—Light breeze, and fine summer
weather.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1854.

It is discovered this morning by some of our'
contemporaries that England and France have
been rather slow in sending assistance to their
Turkish ally in the Principalities. The idea
would seem never before to have presented itself
to their imaginations. They recognise at last,
however, the existence of the evil, and. are, con-
sequently, sufficiently vociferous in denouncing it.
• Why, the fact of these delays We ourselves have
been insisting upon, more or less earnestly, day
after day, during the last fortnight. We,ha,ve pro-
' • tested against them as most detrimental to the cause
which we have so much at heart, as injurious to
the interests of Turkey, and as derogatory to our
• own reputation. We have enveighed against the
folly of these protracted. festivities and reiterated
compliments, against these. balls, and routs, and
banquets of farewell by which, first of all, our sol-
diers, and then their chieftains, have been com-
pelled to tarry overmuch ou their way towards
the seat of war beyond Constantinople. We have,
again and again, in these columns, evening after
evening, charged the authorities with the heinous
culpability of either causing or tolerating this
systematic procrastination. And, at last, to-
day, upon this nineteenth of April, 1854—not
earlier !—the guilt of this dawdling policy is
[wonderful to relate] dimly perceived by some
among our more 'enlightened contemporaries. It
is suddenly discovered by these contemporaries of
ours—nobody in all the work]. dreamt of it before,
of course !—that our troops have been very dila-
tory in their movements eastwaid, and that they
ought long before now to have energetically be-
stirred
themselves.
Well—the pother made about this same as-
tounding discovery of theirs, by our morning con-
temporaries, is, to say the least of it, sufficiently
amusing. It will be found sufficiently amusing
by those of our readers who have for some time
*t•
past marked, upon this identical subject, the course
of our own arguments. It betrays on the part of
the discoverers a wonderful amount of exhilaration
of spirits at the recognition by them of this sur-
prising evidence of their own sagacity.
Altogether, it recalls to our mind a memorable
incident in the life of Mr. Wiumr.; of the May-
pole. That gentleman, it may *remembered,
being rather slow of apprehension, had remained
for a long while impervious to the light of a fact
perfectly obvious to the Understanding of every-
body else, but altogether invisible to his "mind's
eye"—an eye somewhat lacking at most times
in speculation. "It clian'eeld,. however, that
Bitting over the fire on this particular occa-
sion"---relates Mr. WILLET'S historian---e" per-
haps because
,he was,
aa
it were, done
to a turn ; perhaps because he was in an
Perhaps because
• unusually bright state of mind .
•he had considered the subject so long ; perhaps
•because of all these favouring
cirena3tances taken
together—it chanced that, sitting over the fire on
•
flit particular occasion, Mr. WILLET did, afar off
and in the remotest depths of his intellect, per-
ceive a kind of lurking hint or faint suggestion
that "—things were really what his associates
had
~all along
,been insisting, but such as
he. ',himself had', previously failed to recog-
se ru • .- •
"•And this dim ray of light," conti-
" did so diffuse itself within
nues. our author,
him,
and did-sokindle up and shine, that at last
he had it. as phiiiilY and visibly liefore him as the
t and fully parguaded that he
blaze by which be lo• • •
• • and that he- had
was the first to rthikd tl.r•
andknocked on the
s rted,hunteddowg,j'alleli.l4.port4
head aperfeetlyoriybwlidea, tvhichhadneverpresented
itself to any other• man, alive or dead, he laid down.
' his, pipe, rubbed his /lamb, and chuckled audibly."
:, Don't we hear to-day just' such another audible
..,‘ • chuckle of self-satisfaction ? Is not k f
r. WILLET
one of a genus ? And have we not among us, yet)
, some of Iris lineal descendants ?

Non is the %ormolu sucl perfectly. obTious

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