The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-14 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

"This place fills up an hiatus which the Crystal Palace leaves
wanting. Vocal and instrumental music of the first order, and a
display of fireworks which exceeds all imagination, are a fitting
close to a day at the Crystal Palace."

DANSON'S COLOSSAL PANORAMA of CHUSAN.

Splendid and Extensive Menagerie and Marine Aquarium—Unri-
called Military Band.

VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT,

1 Which Miss Poole. Miss Ransford, and Mr. Manvers sing
several National and Patriotic Songs—All the Amusing Novelties
o f the Gardens in succession, concluding with the " Feast of Lan-
terns," and a most magnificent display of Fireworks by Southby.
Admission One Shilling. A splendid Pavilion for Dancing has been
erected. Fun Quadrille Band, &c.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEAVtK

Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.

Appearance of Mr. CAMFBELL, formerly of the Theatre Royal
Sadlers' Wells.

THIS EVENING,

An interesting Hippodrama, called THE WOODMAN'S HORSE
or, THE FALSE KNIGHT.

After which, the Chef d'CEuvre of Funambulism, the performance
of HEEL CHRISTOFF on the Tight Rope.
The Matchless Stud of the Amphitheatre in the SCENES in the
C I RCLE, invented ani conducted by Mr. William Cooke.
To conclude with the Burlesque, called THE SIEGE OF TROY ;
or, THE UIANT HORSE. Compressed into One Act

Box-Wile. open Prom Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Ntr
W.-4t Acting Manager, Mr. Campbell. Equestrian Director, Mr.
Wm. Cooke, j tut.

TGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE
111.3 DAs —Morning 27 min.after 6 Evening 49 min.aft. 6
0 CRILOW - Morning 16 min.after 7' Evening 47 min.aft. 7

THE WEATHER.—Sur Orrion, SEPT. 14.

THELMOSIETEE, IN THE SHADE.

70—!tir;liest since noon yesterday.
62 -lowest this morning and during the night.
68 -this day at noon.

BAROMETER, down to 29.81; now up to 29.85.

WTND, S.W.—Fresh, with dull weather and rain occa-
t onsliy. It rained heavily yesterday evening. The
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LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1854.

Onr Cabinet must obey very strictly the pre,
cept not to let the left hand know what the right
hand is doing. It can never be tha t our brave
fellows in the Baltic are apprised that their col-

eag,ues in the Black Sea will have the honour
of attacking the Gibralar of those waters, while
they are to be put off with the blowing up of
Bomarsund. It would almost raise a mutiny.
They have just been allowed to show the sort of
metal both they and their guns are made of ;
and now, as the story goes, they and their NAPIER
are to slip off quietly home ! What can it mean ?
The very " times" rise up in real or affected
wrath. The country cries open shame, thus to
squander its money, and its military opportuni-
ties. What our brave tars will say when they
meet their fellow-countrymen we can hardly sur-
mise. Is NAPIER or ABERDEEN at fault? will
be the question, and who can hesitate as to the
answer. Surely he of Sidon and Beyrout is not
the man to quail with a fully proportionate force
before Sweaborg or even Cronstadt. Surely Ad-
miral CHA.DS himself, after his trial of the Edin-
burgh's broadsides on Bomarsund, must long to
blow the casemates of Cronstadt also, three or
four of them into one. No, verily, it ie not that
our Admirals fear for their vessels ; it is the Mas-
ter of the Admirals, left in power by an obsequi-
ous Parliament who fears for Russia. Compelled
by the dread of popular execration, by the fear of
having no vouchers wherewith to meet the honest
few in Parliament next February, by reluctance
to stand charged with spending 10,000,0001. of
hard-earned English gold in blockading
merely, and in keeping the troops from
action ; urged by these necessities of a
constitutional Government, they will strike a
severe blow on the lower extremities of the enemy,
knowing well that, with Austria's help in the pro-
vinces, they will be able to salve the wound nicely
in due time ; but the head of the despot—his
military head—they treacherously spare. It is
alleged that we could never reach the heart of
Russia ; we do not want ; the despot's helmet
Was knocked off at Bomarsund, and a part as
Vital as his heart lay bare for the next stroke—
yet, can it be true, the sword is sheathed ! St.
Petersburg is spared. By all the laws of war
and common sense, why ? There can be but one
answer. A peace made there must have been more
righteous and exacting, to save appearances with
this country,
than a peace negotiated with St bas-
topol alone in our hands. It is heartless policy
to Europe thus to spate its wanton disturber ;
provoking policy to this country, thus to accept
its millions, and to do as little for them as they
dare ; and dishonouring policy to
our bravo navy
thus to tie ite hands when it had just shown how
it could use them.
We have several times denounced all this as
Germanism, and as due to German influence. But
we owe an apology to Germany. It is
not she,
but her scores of little and great despots whoa,
we mean. The German people are as sound-
hearted as the English. We would use exacter
words, if we well could, than those of custom.
What the rulers of a. country do should, of course,
be the deed of their country. Facts reverse all
this. There is not a little or largea German
State which would not vote its troops to the
Russian frontiers if it could ; but there is not
a, little or a big ruler who would ob-
ject to call Russian soldiers to his OIVD
frontiers to crush his 'subjects' liberties.
Never in all history was the divorce between
princes and subjects so complete. Till 1848 the
latter regarded all their rulers as faithless liars,
who had broken every promise of granting con-
stitutions, by which the people had been induced
to expel the French from their fhther-land. Since
that time they have held them for perjured des-
pots, perjured by the help of that very Russia
who enabled Austria first to butcher and enslave
her own subjects, and then to aid the lesser des-

pots to do the like. And this detested Austria it

is—saved from utter ruin by English subsidies in
last French war—saved from liberal institu-
• ....tionit by Russian hordes in 1849—this Austria,
ht -least equally Eussianised Prussia, which
imbue all Germany with their mean and tyran-
. •nical. spirit. Again we must apologise for the

exigencies of language. We mean that the des-
pots who reign at Berlin and Vienna, while con-
tending with each other who shall influence most
of the other petty despots, both agree that all the
latter must be taught to look to Russia as the only
Saviour from their peoples. Could the people or
peoples of Germany influence France and England,
Russia before now would have been begging ear-
nestly for peace ; Poland would have arisen again
among the nations ; Hungary would hare stood
as the bulwark of the south-east, and Europe
would have adored the two Western Powers as
the restorers of European nationality and life. It
is not German influence then in its literal sense,
or Germanism, which we dread, but Cousin-Ger-
manism ; the cousin-hood of despots allied against
all liberty, and fearing for the Great Despot of
the Eastern Steppes, by whose favour they are
what they are. There is one ruler on a•Euro-
pean throne, no cousin of these tyrants—one
whom they would not indeed allow to enter the
circle of hereditary cousins. A happy thing for
him. May it prove a happy thing for Europe !
It threw him on his people ; made him what DE
TOCQUEVILLE might term a democratic Autocrat !
Perhaps the issue may be that the Cousins will
have to reign by the grace of the people instead
of the grace of Russia.

Already the unfortunate Wallachians have
learned, by sad experience, that they will profit
but little by the change of occupancy of their
Principality. The Austrians put forward as un-
reasonable demands and exhibit as great a degree
of overbearing insolence as the Russians—indeed,
in one respect, they are even worse, for the Mus-
covites had been partially gorged with plunder,
while the others come into the field yearning for
spoil. It is like the substitution of fresh and
hungry leeches for others nearly, if not altogether,
satiated. It is almost needless to say that the
new set of blood-suckers will be keener and more
exhausting in their attacks than those they have
replaced. The old movement, " from the frying-
pan into the fire," affords*Alv correct notion of
the so-called advantages oathe change.
While at Vienna the specious pretexts are still
maintained, that it is only " a friendly occupa-
tion" (!) undertaken entirely for the benefit of
Turkey, the brutal soldiery, and their scarcely
less brutal officers, do not think it worth while to
assume a disguise. They already treat it as a
conquered country, which they have acquired by
right of conquest, and which they have deter-
mined to retain against all corners, whether Mos-
lems or Muscovites. The proclamation of Baron
HESS, already referred to in our columns, offered
a gratuitous and wanton insult to the gallant men
who had stood to their colours under circum-
stances of no ordinary difficulty—whose resolute
and unflinching valour and indomitable energy
had caused the retreat of the Russians from the
soil they had so unjustifiably invaded. Scarcely
had the Austrian protectorate (!) commenced
when a demand was made for the evacuation of
the Principalities, not by the intruders, but by
the rightful owners !--not by the Russian, but
by the Turkish troops ! ! This was, however,
going a little too far. A prompt and indignant
refusal was the result of the unwarrantable de-
mand, and then, forsooth, the propriety of the
refusal was recognised, and the letter to the
Turkish Commander withdrawn.
It would have been well for the interests of
ABD-UL-MEDJID, and for the reputation of OMER
PACHA, if other requisitions had been met with
equal firmness. The first step indicative of the
disposition of the quasi protectors was the arrest
of the political refugees, who, even during the
Russian occupation, had found shelter in Walla-
chia. These men have been delivered over to
their persecutors with scarcely a show of remon-
strance. If any resistance was anticipated, a
criminal charge was trumped up to show that it
was not merely for " opinion sake" that they were
sought after. Any pretext was eagerly caught
at to get rid of the embarrassed, and the unfor-
tunate victims were delivered over to their would-
' be butchers.

But this was not by any means the most dis-
reputable feature in the very disreputable trans-
action. It was not merely ".claimants" upon
Turkish hospitality who were so readily sacrificed
by those holding high office under a Monarch who
had won golden opinions from men of all creeds
and nations for his unflinching and determined
refusal to surrender Kossuth and his fellow-suffer-
ers in the cause of Magyar independence. Many
of these gallant men had accepted commissions in
the Turkish service, and well had they repaid the
benefits accorded. " The quality of mercy," in
that case was, indeed, " twice blessed." It was
mainly owing to the indefatigable zeal and proved
efficiency of these men that the great success of
the Turkish troops in the recent campaign might
be attributed. No less than eight of the " aides-
de-camp" of OMER PACHA were selected from his
own countrymen, at least so far as being Austrian
subjects might justify the designation. The
value Of their services may be fairly estimated from
the fact that they had, in almost every instance,
nobly earned high-class decorations in the SUL-
TAN'S army.
The first demand made by the Austrians was,
that no political refugees should be employed in
the Turkish army near the Austrian frontiers.
This insidiousproposition was unfortunately acceded
to, and the corollary speedily followed. The dis-
missal of those who had previously been employed
by Turkey was demanded, and this extraordinary
application was also granted. Many tried and
faithful officers—including no less than eight of
the personal staff of OMER Pactra—were ordered
to Monastir, there to remain in inglorious inac-
tivity, or else to render, in Asia, the assistance
which has been so ungratefully recompensed in
Bosnia and Bulgaria. We should scarcely feel
surprised if the next demand was for the removal
of the General himself—for he, also, owed fealty
to FRANCIS JOSEPH.
These matters afford conclusive evidence of the
real animus of Austria, notwithstanding its plau-
sible assertions. They show how completely our
diplomatists have been jockeyed, and that those
who have so anxiously endeavoured to weaken the
Turkish Army in the point where it most required
strengthening are but pretended friends—that
their real wishes are in favour of Russia. As we
have already stated, the advantages already gained
have been more than neutralised by the culpable
weakness of our diplomatists. And there are
reasons to dread their negligence in other matters.
It is more than hinted that the expedition against
the Crimea and Sebastopol is altogether owing to
Marshal St. ARNAUD, who would not tamely bear
the reproaches to which, if he yielded to the sug-
gestions of the civilians, he would have been ex-
posed. We only hope that his vigorous and ener-
getic proceedings, albeit protracted until the
eleventh hour, may be completely successful, and
that the negotiations—when the allies are in pos-
session of Sebastopol—may be cendueted with
greater decision than those at Vienna. Notwith-
standing the doubts as to the result expressed by
some Government organs in France and England
we can only anticipate a triumphant result. When
brought face to face with the enemy, the troops of
France and England will not be found wanting.
Victory will, as in days of yore, attend their ban-
ners,amen
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mencement of the war in 1854.

Some years since there resided in the South of
Ireland a person of bland demeanour and inoffen-
sive habits. If questioned on any topic—saveone—his answers were extremely courteous;in
attentions,
too
far.
fact, lie was rather too pressing
in hisrather
and carried his anxiety to serve
But there was one forbidden subject—one matter
strictly "tabooed," any allusion to which inflamed
him to a state of frenzy. Mention " a cat," and
he was manifestly startled—exhibit any curiosity
as to " its weight," and he became exceedingly
it
; but inquire as to the party who tried the
experiment put the simple question, " Who
weighed the cat?" and he forthwith got beside
himself with rage, and would—to use his own
expression—" rush on you if you were another

GOLIATH of Gath," and at least endeavour to

knock you down.

The CAII,O of thi:: strange ex;.aetuoi,', oils as
follows :—ln the house wherein poor "DAvin
DANIEL" resided, there was kept a very extraor-
dinary specimen of the feline race—an animal of
almost miraculous voracity. Nothing was safe
against its depredations. The steak or chop pro-
cured for dinner almost invariably vanished, and
milk and butter shared a similar fate. Nay, more,

it occasionally apparently indulged in " a raking
pot of tea," for the fragrant Souchong often
vanished in company with the steak. The inflic-
tion was for some time submitted to patiently ;

at least the victim was contented with verbal
remonstrances to landlady and attendant. Two
circumstances, however, excited his suspicion.
First, that the cat aforesaid was of a decidedly
religious disposition, for it never consumed
auy meat on Fridays or other fast-days pre-
scribed by the Church ; secondly, that on days
when a beef steak had vanished the kitchen
was usually pervaded by a savoury odour of fried
onions, and the culinary nymph afforded un-
equivocal evidence that she had partaken of that
dainty, devouring the onions while the cat was
eating the steak. The accused animal also con-
tinued of lean and famished aspect, very unlike
one who had a good dinner of "prime sirloin
steak," at least three or four times per week.
" DAVID DANIEL" hesitated. He did not like
to punish an animal that might be altogether in-
nocent, and he determined to administer a test
that would prove conclusive to his own mind at
least. Accordingly, one morning before pro-
ceeding to market, he procured a scale, and ac-
curately ascertained and recorded the weight of
the quasi delinquent. He returned with a mag-
nificent steak, exactly weighing three quarters of
a pound. He deposited it in the usual place, and
went forth for a short time. His first act on
returning was again to weigh the cat, which he
found had neither gained nor lost during the
interval. Thus assured, he confidently rung for
dinner. But, alas ! again ho was distracted with
the intelligence that the cat had eaten the steak.
He did not, however, receive it so patiently as
before. Narrating his experiment, he demanded
how was possible, and boldly asserted that it
was a " two-legged cat" that had been in the
habit of purloining his provisions. The statement
of Lieutenant PERRY inculpating his brother
officers was not received with greater scorn and
incredulity, and the consequences were nearly as
damaging. The " Maid of all-work" fled at him
like a tigress, fixed her nails in his countenance,
which she scored from top to bottom, and then
charged him with an assault. He was brought
before the sitting Magistrates, and his defence
proved effectual. He was dismissed from Court
with compliments on his ingenious mode of clear-
ing the character of poor puss. But, alas ! his
peace of mind was for ever sacrificed. On his next
appearance he was greeted by the Gamins of the
" beautiful city" with the question which he ever
afterwards so bitterly resented. He adopted every
course but one to abate the nuisance. He sum-
moned the parties, and was told that "no legal
offence had been committed"—took them in to
custody himself, and had to defend sundry actions
for false imprisonment—chastised them summa-
rily on the spot, and was convicted and punished
for an assault. It was by no means an uncommon
spectacle to see three or four urchins running
away, closely pursued by poor " DAVID DANIEL,"
while if there appeared any prospect of
,his over-
taking onq of the fugitives, a diversion was
created by " popping the question" from another
quarter, which had the same effect on his excite-
able disposition that the waving of a scarlet mantle
had on a bull pressing too hard on the adven-
turous " tauridor."
What " the weighing of a cat" was to poor
" DAVID DANIEL," any allusion to the faculty of
memory appears to be to some of the gallant
officers of the.46th. A few days since Major
MAXWELL and Adjutant M'ALIsTER were to be
seen in full chase after a lad named THOMAS
Sums, in the town of Windsor. • As, however,
they " hunted in couples," and had an orderly in
attendance, they succeeded in capturing the fugi-
tive, who was forthwith consigned to durance vile
at the police-station. He was subsequently bailed
out, and on the following day appeared to answer
the charge. It then appeared that the " head and
front of his offending" consisted of saying, while
passing these officers, " You don't recollect,
do* you ?" This was sufficient to excite their
wrath, and to lead to -the rather ludicrous
proceedings subsequently adopted. The smart
chase by gentlemen in full regimentals, and the
accusation before the Mayor of the Borough for
so trifling a cause—" Tantcene animis ccslestibus
irce"—we should suggest to Major MAXWELL and
his brother officers that the less they allow the
subject of the recent courts-martial to be venti-
lated the better for themselves. There is a strong
impression on the public mind that some one, at
least, of the many witnesses examined might have
taxed his memory a leettle more than he tried to
do—that such unparalleled forgetfulness was, to
say the least of it, "passing strange." If, then,
they take every one into custody that speaks of
" failing recollection" they will have ample oc-
cupation on their hands. Had poor "Devin
DANIEL" received the interrogations respecting the
cat with indifference, he would, after a few days,
have been let alone. It was his wrath that stimu-
lated his persecutors. Major MAXWELL should
profit by the hint. He must know that, great a
man as he is, he has no right to take the law into
his own hands, and that it is rather an unseemly
spectacle to exhibit to the gaping multitude—a
field officer, and, of course, a gentleman, chasing
ragged boys, and on the qui wive to catch at any
hint which his excited imagination can torture
into an insult. It would be far better to inocu-
late with the obliviousness for which himself and
fellow-officers were so greatly distinguished than
to endeavour to keep open the case that has so
palpably been established. We suppose it would
now be regarded as a mortal offence to send one
of these officers' witnesses a copy of "the Pleasures
of Memory ; " while DICKENS' " Haunted Man"
would be equally objectionable, because it con-
tains a prayer "to keep the memory green."
Major MAXWELL may be assured that it will be
greatly to his own advantage, and that of his
regiment, at least to appear to be less " thin-
skinned" on the subject, and to smother any
manifestations of wrath on all similar occasions
henceforward and for ever.

Lord and Lady Harry Vane, who are staying in Ger-
many, return to London the week after next.
Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence has left the Ambassador's
Court, St. James's, on a tour of visits.
The Earl and Countess of Mount Edgecumbe have
sailed from Plymouth, on a cruise, in his lordship's yacht
the Elvira.
The Duchess of Wellington arrived in Upper Belgrave.
street yesterday, from Osborne, Isle of Wight, where her
Grace has been in attendance on the Queen. The
youthful ladies Ramsay, nieces to the duchess, are staying
with her Grace until the arrival of the Marquis of Dal-
housie from India.
Lieut.-Colonel J. H. Blair, the member for Ayrshire,
who is at present residing at Blairquhan Castle, proceeds
immediately to join his regiment, the Scots Fusilier
Guards, in Turkey.—Scottish Guardian.
His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury has kindly
sent 101. towards the almost exhausted funds of the
Soho Dispensary, Gerrard-street.
The Earl of Aberdeen and his son, Lord Haddo, with
Lady Haddo, arrived at Southampton yesterday from
London by rail, and alighted at Matcham's Hotel. Lord
Haddo is going to Alexandria, in the Egyptian frigate
yacht Feid Gehaad, which leaves Southampton this day.
His lordship being in ill health, and about to proceed to
the East, the State apartments on board the yacht were
placed at his service during the passage to Alexandria.
ENTERTAINMENT TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL.—Lord J.
Russell having consented to preside at the approaching
inauguration of the newly-erected Bristol Athenaeum, it
has been determined to invite his lordship to a grand
corporate entertainment. The banquet, it is understood,
will be upon a scale of magnificence worthy of the ancient
renown. of Bristol.
CRYSTAL PALACE, WEDNESDAY.—SHILLING DAY.—
Admission at the doors, 6,496 ; admission by season
tickets, 477 ; total, 6,973.
THE HORSE GUARDS.—The Military Secretary had a
levee on Tuesday last, which was numerously attended.
He holds his levees every Tuesday. The Adjutant-
General holds his levees on Thursday. Every officer is
now obliged, according to the late regulations, to put
down in writing the precise nature of his application
(a considerable difference between the present system
and that of Lord Hill.)
MR. ROGERS, THE PORT.—We are happy to state
that this eminent poet is much better. Yesterday he
took carriage airing.