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London, England, 1854-04-15 00:00:00

STRAND THEATRE.

Sole Lessee Mr. F. W. Allcroft.—Directress, Miss Rebecca Isaacs,
THIS EVENING, APan. 15,
Mr. G. Hodson's Entertainment of PADDY'S PORTFOLIO.
After which, Mons. Delavine and his two sons in their celebrated
Drawing-Room Entertainment.
To be followed by a Musical Melange, entitled THE GIPSY
HAUNT.
To which will be added Mons. Delavine on the Revolving Globe.
To conclude with Mr. Cox's Dissolving Views.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1854.

The cordiality of the alliance between France
and England is no longer a matter in any way
questionable. It is a fact no less completely than
happily established. A Fact, if ever there was
of no possible misapprehension.
a Fact, admitting
This alliance, too, is one founded upon no perish-
able basis. It is something better than a merely
dynastic compact. It originates in no disgraceful
complicity for evil ends brought about by the
skill of diplomatic intriguers to serve the tempo-
rary purpose of a designing and ambitious admi-
nistration. It is an union of the two States, ef-
fected among every class, section, and party in
each, with a deliberate and earnest co-operation.
If ever there was unanimity, it has been visible in
every step which has marked the rise and develop-
mentof this international friendship. It is a friend-
ship of that propitious character that its aim is
mutually honourable to the associated countries—.
being, in reality, the vindication of justice, rather
than the pursuit of aggrandisement. It is a friend-
ship of that comprehensive character that it knits
together the interests of the two Courts, of the
two Cabinets, of the two Peoples, of the two Go-
veznmen It is a friendship of that practical
character that it has already blended together
in one common cause the forces of France and
England, both military and maritime—that it has
already despatched large bodies of the soldiers of
both realms to that point on the shores of the
Dardanelles at which Gallipoli is situated, to
the end that marching onwards from that
rendezvous they should, as opposed to the
barbarism of the Russian autocracy, fight side by
side the great battle of civilisation. Furthei
illustration of the sincerity of this friendship be-
tween France and England has been given in the
advance of their united fleets towards the coasts
of Russia, through the channels of the Sound and
of the Bosphorus. Is it not better, is it not more
real, this union between the two States under
Queen VICTORIA and the Emperor NAPOLEON,
than that hollow and boasted entente cordiale
which only served as a screen to the duplicity of
King Loris PHILIPPE, and which enabled him
the more successfully (for the time) to complete
the heinous atrocity of the Spanish marriages,
and which crumbled into dust simultaneously
with the noise of his own contemptible downfall
in the February Revolution ?

Wonderful indeed have been those astounding
events which have resulted in the establishment
of this cordial understanding between the English
and French Governments. Half a century has
not elapsed since the close of that great war which
VMS waged by England with such implacable ani-
mosity for fifteen years almost uninterruptedly
against the extraordinary man who, during those
fifteen years, wielded, first of all, for five years,
the fasces of Republican France, and subsequently,
for ten years, the sceptre of Imperial France,
ruling supremely, more or less during the whole of
that memorable interval, over the destinies of the
European Conti nen t. Half a century has not elapsed
since the termination of that marvellous epoch, and
lo ! France and England are no longer estranged
from each other by their almost immemorial
jealousies. Instead of that, they are allied,
heartily and thoroughly allied, although their
Sovereigns are—over France NAPOLEON'S nephew,
and over England GEORGE granddaughter.
The prediction of the Captive of St. Helena is
being fulfilled—Western Europe, bef >re fittY
years have gone by alter the BAttle of Waterloo,
is mustering, its force.; to oppose the advance of
those Cossack hordes which along the whole line
of the Russian frontiers threaten the triumph of
Barbarism and the destruction of Civilisation.
The aspiration expressed years afteirwards by
the British Foreign Secretary, on yielding to the
desire of the French nation that the remains of
their dead hero should repose, as he himself had
wished, on the banks of the Seine, in the midst
of the people he had loved so well, that notable
aspiration expressed by Lord
L-ALmeitsToN,
has already been realised the aspiration
that the ancient. enmity which had Subsisted dur-
ing so many centuries between France
and Eng-
land should be buried in the tomb of NAPOLEON.
A crowning testimony that it has been so
buried, and that out of that buried hatred has
sprung up this living, and let us hope perennial,
friendship between the two countries, between
between their people and
France and England,
their rulers--4vas visible on the historic dust of
the Champ de Mars on Wednesday, the 12th of
April, 1854, -erlien 25,000 soldiers of the army
of France were reviewed by the Emperor NAro-
LEON, his Majesty having on his right hand a
Prince of the RiTal House of England, and on
his left a British Commander-in-Chief, one of
the heroes of Waterloo, one of the most honoured
and beloved of the lieutenants of the Duke of
WELLINGTON. It was altogether a spectacle, that
review, such as must have appealed to some of the
noblest emotions among all who regarded it with
impartiality and intelligence. It must have been

an occasion productive of no feeble emotions,
especially to the Emperor NAPOLEON 111., and
to his guest the Duke of CAMBRIDGE -- that

review of 25,000 of some of the finest

troops of France, infantry, cavalry, artillery,
Guides, Cuirassiers, Carabineers--passing before

being replaced by one of less eminent rank, in
order to allow of this arrangement. While the
united armies despatched to the seat of war are
to be placed under the supreme authority of the
Marshal ST. ARNAUD, the French Commander-
in-Chief. Division of Council will, by the adop-
tion of this plan, be avoided. Unity of action
by sea and land will be ensured—and while this
advantage is secured to the cause of the allies of
Turkey during the course of the campaign—a
magnanimous tribute is offered respectively by
France and England to their relative pre-
dominance. The greatest maritime and the
greatest military nation on the earth, yield-
ing to each other the undisputed title of
command on that element on which their
chief glories have been won ! So that the navy
which has hitherto vanquished all others against
which she has been opposed, obtains, as was only
reasonable, the precedence ! While the same grace
is at once very naturally accorded to the army
which has proved victorious alike in Europe, in
Asia, and in Africa, overrunning in its triumphant
course all the chief states of the former continent,
taking almost everyone of its great capitals, Vienna,
Berlin, Lisbon, Madrid, Milan, Rome, Naples,
Warsaw, and Moscow, and being only conquered
at last after all these amazing victories when the
earth had risen " from the Tanais to the Thames,"
and Europe in arms appeared at the gates of Paris
to avenge itself on the Revolution, and to over-
throw, in the person of NAPOLEON, its Imperial
representative.

England at the head of the navies, and France
at the head of the armies, of the Expedition—
Western Europe may, with a humble reliance on
the aid of GOD, rest confident in the issue of the
struggle proving the defeat of Barbarism, and the
triumph of the interests of Civilisation.
Preliminaries having been arranged—the diffi-
cult and delicate etiquette of precedence having
been considered satisfactorily—let the allies of
Turkey, by sea and by land, go to work at once,
and that in earnest. Delays have already been too
many. Lost time must be niade up for. The numbers
of soldiers sent from France and. England to Galli-
poli are altogether inadequate for what has by
them to be accomplished. Even those have not
been sent out to the scene of conflict with suffi-
rapidity. Larger bodies of troops must
follow, and greater despatch must be shown in
their movement in the direction of the Crimea
and of the Principalities. Energy may
then repair betimes the evils produced by
oar deplorable procrastination. Vigour tu
the end may compensate for weakness in the
beginning. Abortive notes, and hesitating proto-
cols, and Ministerial blundering, and diplomatic
incapacity may in that case be forgotten iu the
glory of victories won in the cause of Truth and
in the interests of Justice, by the brave fellows
conducted to battle—at sea by the Union Jack of
England, and on land by the Eagles of NAPOLEON.

Many useful reforms have been shelved in con-
iequence of the war. It seems as if our rulers
conceived that the evils necessarily incidental to
hostilities were not sufficiently onerous by them-

•
selves, but that they must carry many others,

even more vexatious and annoying in their train_
No grievances, however intolerable,- will be re-

dressed —no burdens mitigated —no reforms
sanctioned—for the "country is at war," and

all our energies must be devoted to its

maintenance, and the public attention
concentrated thereon, to the exclusion of
all other topics, no matter how interesting
or important. If Ministers had resolved upon
making war unpopular—upon making the people
join in the " peace at any price" twaddle of the
Premier, and sacrifice honour, justice, and future
security, to patching up a transitory and pre-
carious truce with the unrelenting opponent of
constitutional freedom and civilisation, they could
not adopt a line of policy better calculated to pro-
duce such a result. The tightness of the money
market must be aggravated by artificial means.
As if the drain of bullion occasioned by the dis-
turbed state of the political horizon would not
alone prevent oug merchants and manufacturers
from obtaining the monetary accommodation
' which they might require, they must be exposed
' to the formidable competition of a financial Mini-
ster, who will not be denied, and who instructs his
organ to threaten the Directors of the National
Bank with the severe retribution they may draw
upon their devoted heads if they dare even to murmur
while obeying his demands. As if casting the
entire expenses of the contest on the present gene-
! e-
ration were not a sufficient tax on our national
resources, we must also pay off 8,000,000/. of
the old debt, just at the moment of engaging in
transactions of which it is impossible to calculate
the duration or predict the result. But the
same organ tells us that the sacrifice of
that enormous sum was valuable as " a finan-
cial demonstration" ( !), and tells us, in a vein
of banter in which the Leviathan does not fre-
quently indulge, that the pecuniary loss is nothing,
for, " if the war goes on, as it is to be feared it
will, we shall want so many millions to carry it
on, that a balance of eight millions or so will sig-
nify little.in the reckoning." We can almost fancy
the sardonic smile that must have played on the
conntenance of the writer when patting forth
these extraordinary argu:oents, and we can form
Koine estimate of the motives of those behind

the sceues, by whom the wires are palled
which set the gigantic puppet in motion, when
;boy Werate the publication of such extraordi-

nary opinions. Yet it is quite clear that war is
co be made intolerable, all its burdens bein,,
aggravated to the utmost extent, so that the de-
wand for peace may be universal.
But it would seem as if " the Old Lady" were
running a little restive, arid that the Financial
Minister is meeting some strange and unexpected
opposition in that quarter. Ominous warning
are uttered, significant intimations are ventilated,
The mysterious oracle is aroused, and the Sybi,
of Printing-house Square feels the coming in
spiration—

" Deus, ecce 1 Deus. Cui talia fanti.
Anti forts, subito non rultus, non color unus,
Non comte, mansere come; sed pectus anhelum,
Et rabie fera corda tument ; majorique ridere
Nec mortale sanans ; afflata est numine quando
Jam propriore dei."
Never did the oracle fulminate such threats
against its most favoured protegee. It alludes to
b.`etfhoereelit_tldthe we spoiled, the wife we over-
indulgedservan t we have pampered,"
can trust itself to speak of
those naughty boys of Threadneedle-street.
Then, at length, it gives vent to the sorrows of
its mighty heart, and hurls forth its indignation
against the delinquents. "But, certainly (says
the Times), we never saw relations more com-
pletely inverted, and claims put forth more arro-
gant and devoid of foundation, than those which
aie now urged against Government by the
Directors and supporters of the Bank of En laud"
—that "most singular of all our institutions"--
as it is shortly after termed. There, certainly,
must have been some terrible cause for
this onslaught. We should not other-
wise have had so emphatic a reference
to the various exclusive privileges enjoyed by the
Old Lady, or the suggestion that " the question of
their continuance may come before Parliament next
session, seeing that after August, 1855, they may
be abolished on twelve months' notice." What means
the interrogatory, "When the Bank and its
friends threaten (Quere—When did they do

them in rapid succession to the mingled cries of
Virent les Anglais, and Vive Erapereur, their
bands playing alternately the National Anthem
of England, and that plaintive but inspiriting air,
composed by the EMPEROR'S mother, the beauti-
ful Queen HORTENSE, Partant pour la Syrie, the
sound of which is not inappropriately audible,
now that the lawless aspirant for the seizure of
Palestine is about to be opposed by the military
and maritime power of the Anglo-French Expe-
dition.
Another and a scarcely less remarkable token
of the perfect cordiality of this noble al-
liance between France and England has only
just now been manifested. Allusion is made,
of course, to the decision arrived at, that
the united navies in the Black Sea shall
be placed under the supreme command of the
English Adrmral—the French Admiral, HAMELIN,