The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-02 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
THIS EVENING, and during the week,
in consequence of its great success, THE SCHOOL
FOR SCANDAL, in -which Mr. Murdoch will appear as
Charles Surface; Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. Chippendale ; Sir
Benjamin Backbite, Mr. Buckstone ; Crabtree, Mr. Compton;
Joseph Surface, Mr. Howe ; Sir Oliver Surface, Mr. Rogers;
Moses, Mr. Clark; Sir Harry (with a song), Mr. W. Flrren ;
Lady Teazle, Miss Reynolds ; Mrs. Candour, Miss Talbot ;
Lady Sneerwell, Mrs. Poynter ; Maria, Miss E. Sabine. After
which, the successful new farce, A FAMILY FAILING,
in which Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Chippendale, and
Miss Blanche Fane will appear. With (for positively the
last five nights), the ballet pantomime of THE STAR OF
ANDALUSIA, by Perea Nena and her unrivalle 1 Company
of Spanish Dancers. To conclude with THE DUMB BELLE.

THEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI.
Real Snecess. Great Adelphi Hit !
THE ELVES, a Grand New Fairy Ballet Extravaganza, in
which Madame Celeste will appear as the Statue Bride every
evening.—Revival of the Mysterious stranger, in which Mr.
Wright and Madame Celeste will sustain their original cha-
racters.—THlS EVENING will be performed the celebrated
drama of THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. Messrs.
Wright, Paul Bedford, C. Selby, Parselle, Garden; Mesdames
Celeste, Wyndham, Keeley, Arden. After which, with new
scenery, dresses, machinery, and appointments, a new grand
fairy ballet extravaganza, Jailed THE ELVES, or the Statue
Bride, founded on the grand ballet spectacle, now perform-
ing with unexampled success at the Theatra Imperiale de
l'Opera at Paris, under the title of Les Elfes. Principal cha-
racters by Madame Celeste. Misses Wyndham, Mary Keeley,
Kate Kelly, Chatterly, Arden, Messrs. Weght, Paul Bedford,
C Selby, Le Barr, dtc. Concluding with BETTY MARTIN.
Miss M. Keeley.

THEATRE ROYAL.
Lessee, Mr. C. Dillon.
THIS EVENING (Tuesday), the highly successful Play
of FABIAN; or "La MesalPance." Fabian, Mr. C. Dillon ;
Pauline, Mrs. C. Dillon.
After which the extraordinary Troupe of Bedouin Arabs
will go through their surprising performances.
► Concluding with the Burlesque of THE WINTER'S
TALE. Misses Woolgar, Wilton, Mesdames B. White,
Wiston, Messrs. Toole, Calhaem, Barrett, &c.

TO-MORROW EVENING (Wednesday), the tragedy of
OTHELLO. Othello (the second time in London), Mr. C.
Dillon ; lago, Mr. Stuart ; Desdemona, Mrs. C. Dillon ;
Emilia, Mrs. Weston.
After which, the extraordinary troupe of Bedouin Arabs
will make their fifth appearance.
Followed by GOOD FOR NOTHING.
Messrs. Toole, Barrett. &c.
Concluding with a Ballet, by Miss Rosina Wright and the
Coryphees.

Miss Woolgar,

TOY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
THIS EVENING and during the week
will be presented Shakspeare's play of A. MIDSUMMER
NIGHT'S DREAM.

After which will be produced a new petite elmedy, in two
acts, called our. WIFE ; or, The Rose of Amiens. Princi-
pal characters by Messrs. Ryder, Harley, Fisher ; Misses
Mnrray and C. Leclercq.
Mendelssohn's celebrated overture to A Midsummer
Night's Dream will commence at 5 minutes before 7.

TRAND THE 4T ftE.—Manager, Mr. T.
;."7 PAyne.—THIS EVENING will be performed
BELPHEGOR' (Travestie). Messrs. Howard, G. Lee, dLe.
THE CAPT IN'S NOT A MISS. First time, a new farce,
OVER THE WAY. And THE QUEEN'S MUSKETEERS.
Mesdames Cuthbert, Fitzinman, &c.
Commence at Seven. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls. ;
Gallery, 6d.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick.
THIS EVENING, BIRDS OF PREY. Charles Ronne-
pont, Mr. Creswick.
After which, A BLOW IN THE DARK. Viltrac, Mr.
Shepherd (his original part).
To conclude with DRED.

THEATRE ROYAL, SADLER'S-WELLS.
Under the Management of Mr. Phelps.
THIS EVENING, HENRY IV. King Henry, Mr. A.
Rapier ; Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Phelps ; Hotspur, Mr. H.
Marston ; Prince of Wales, Mr. F. Robinson ; Lady Percy,
Miss M. Eburne.
After which, WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A
WAY.

ASTLEYS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
THIS EVENING (First Week), MACBETH, with Dines-
Cooke's Horses, trained by
trian Illustrations by Mr. W.
him. Macbeth, Mr. James Holloway.
After which, the SCENES in the CIRCLE ; Miss Kate
Cooke in her elegant act of man6ge, 4,3.
To conclude with OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS.
Doors open at half-past six ; commence at seven o'clock.
Box.offico open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr.
W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun.

TERBITRY HALL, Westminster-road,—
CAN
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the perform
Selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, performance of
Glees, Duets, cite., viz.: —Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. CanTiieseslFd,,
Miss Brunell, and Miss Summers; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr
Jonghmans, E. Grover, T. Rain°, T. Farrant, S. Jones,
Barker, W. Melling, and P. Cotrie ; Masters Austin, Ben.
nett, and Corri; Mr. Sam Cowell and E. Mackney. piano.
forte, J, Harroway, R. A. ; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun. ;
director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre
cisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. In addition to
the usual Vocal Entertainment, the celebrated SPANISH
MINSTRELS will appear in costume at Nise and Eleven
o'clock Every Evening, and sing some of their favourite selec-
ions.

RIGH WAITS AT LONDON BRIDGM.
THIS DAT—Morn. 23 rain. aft. 4—peening 50 nib'. aft. 4
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THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 2.
THISRMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
38 ---highent singe noon reeterdaY•
31—lowest this morning and during the night.
33 --this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 29 99.
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L lON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1856.

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Whatever doubts may be entertained respecting
the reported capture of Herat, none can exist a
to the fact that the contemplated expedition bat
actually been despatched against Bushire. in an
human probability it has already arrived at
destination, and we are at this moment engaged
in war with Persia. The force eow,lged wa, very

considerable. Thirty-two transports, exceeding
30,000 tons in the aggregate ; nearly 6,000
troops ; and, according to Eastern custom, a
numerous attendance of camp followers ; nine first-
class war steamers, and six smaller vessels—
making forty-six ships in all, constituting a
formidable demonstration, which ought to be
quite sufficient to overawe the SHAH, unless he be
is stimulated by secret promises of support by a
Power whom he deems sufficient to cope on at
least equal terms with Great Britain, and which
exercises extraordinary influence over the Court
of Teheran. This decided movement may be
regarded as a mere beginning. It will lead either
to an immediate settlement or to a fierce and
sanguinary contest ; and the event will mainly, if
not altogether, depend on the course adopted by
Russia, and how far it may suit the policy of the
CZAR to take an active part in the proceedings.
" England can wage no little war." If this he
generally true (and we have the high autho-
rity of " the Iron Duke" as to the fact), it is
peculiarly so in our Eastern empire, where
British supremacy rests chiefly on the prestige
attached to our name, and the certainty that we
shall be ready to repel any attack and to avenge
any insult offered to ourselves or those under our
protection or in alliance with us. Any submission,
or even hesitation, would be fatal to our interests
as well as to our honour, and would entail the
necessity of far greater exertions and a much
heavier outlay at no distant day. In place of
one, we should have many wars, and would have
not only to resist foreign invasion, but to put
down domestic insurrection, We cannot, there-
fore, concur with some of our contemporaries in
thinking the Persian onslaught against Herat a
matter of trivial importance, or as to the wisdom
vf what is termed the policy of abstention under the
circumstances. On the contrary, we joyously hail
the vigour and energy displayed by her MAJESTY'S
Government, and we are convinced that the
People generally will coincide in the opinion, and
feel grateful to the English Minister, Lord PAL-
MERSTON, for so fully acting up to the principles
which he so boldly enunciated, and which elicited
the warm and all but unanimous approbation of
the community. If we desire to avoid war, it is
essential that we should not only have made
ample preparations, but that we also be prepared
for any alternative, or, in the words of the Scot-
tish Knight, " Ready, aye, ready for the field."
Had similar promptitude been displayed towards
Russia, when she first sent her armed cohorts
across the Pruth, or, still better, when she
declared her intention of so doing, we
should have averted hostilities that cost
the lives of fifty thousand Englishmen, and the
useless expenditure of one hundred millions of
English money ; and if the present Eastern diffi-
culty can be averted we shall be indebted to Lord
PALMERSTON'S unflinching resolution for that au-
spicious result.

We cannot agree in the geographical difficulties
suggested by a contemporary as to the situation
of Herat. It is by no means a terra incognita.
Its latitude and longitude are clearly laid down
on every map, and the name that it has acquired
as " The Gate of India " sufficiently proves its
paramount importance. There can be little doubt
as to the quiver from whence the envenomed
shaft has been drawn. Russian inspiration is
manifest in every Persian movement since the
commencement of the late War. To that was
ascribable the insults offered to the British Minister
at the-Court of Teheran, which compelled him to
strike his flag, and suspend diplomatic intercourse
with the &HMl's advisers, to the wanton aggres-
sion on Herat, the territory of a friendly, and,
in this instance, at least inoffensive Sovereign.
The ignominious desertion of Lars and its gallant
lefenders confirmed the Muscovite influence.
The invincibility of the AUTOCRAT was univer-
sally credited throughout Persia. His slightest
word had the force of a command, and thus had we
remained quiescent under the insult the way
would have been paved for the invasion of the
Anglo-Indian Empire, and there would have been
plenty of adventurers ready to make the attempt.
Our friends would have deserted us, and we
should, single-handed, have been compelled to fight
the battle, in which we shall under the
most untoward circumstances have Allies
convinced of British fidelity and resolution,
and prepared to fight on behalf of those
r so well 'prepared to defend their friends and to
Aim formidable blows against their antagonists.
If there be any portion of the proceedings which
we are disposed to criticise it is that which makes
he expedition nominally one by the East India
Company, sustained by its own troops and its
own navy. In such a cause the parent state
should unequivocally avow itself—the question
chiefly to the quarter on which the expense will
fall; but the pecuniary interests of British India
are indivisible, and it signifies little whether the
costs be defrayed from one pocket or the other.

Surely Prince ALBERT will require Lord PAL-
MERSTON and Lord CLA.RBNDON to bestir them-
selves. The rights and dignity of Prussia are at
stake ; and with Prussia degraded, England is
degraded too. Will the English nation endure
that the PRINOESS ROTAL should not be Queen or
Protectress, er Patroness, or something or other,
of Neuchatel ? Is she to marry a clipped and
mutilated Crown Prince ? Let Lord PA.LMER-
STON look to it, or it may tell seriously on the
next election. We have lost Ruatan and our
Mosquito honours to be sure ; but are we to
tolerate the King of PAussia's losing his Neu•
chatel honours ? Would it not be a fair ground
to set aside the match, that the PRINCE had lost
the titles which he was heir to when it was
made ? We have, to be sure, long ceased to guar-
t3r the arms of France on our shield, and our gra-
cious QUEEN does not hold a title which half-a-
dozen revolutions would have rendered somewhat
Inconvenient. But Prussia is not England ; for
pier to lose parchment claims on a Swiss canton is
t serious thing. Who can tell which of the terri-
orial fragments composing the assets with which
ner royalty is credited might not soon turn out
bad also? When we last trio i to put Prussia
together on the map we gave up the attempt in
despair. The larger portions, chiefly robberies
or frauds from some neighbouring power, were easy
onough to find of course, but it was a chase which
only German patience could sustain to find out
every capital "P" marked here and there all over
the map of Germany on little patches of the
Prussian kingdom hardly big enough to hold the
:otter. It was muoh like sorting bullocks by their
brands when hopelessly intermixed in the Metro-
politan Cattle Market.

kingdom that
A kingdom of
Now, seriously, is it to such a
and all whose modern history
we are to marry our princesses?
/less and cowardice ; of selling
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allies to save herself, and kissing the feet of the
strongest in succession. To us it seems a di,
grace to be married to a country which becaan,
the common carrier of Russia during the war,.
and which may well be suspected of having
aspired to that lucrative and nobl
labour, when it refused to aid
putting the break on the wicked ambition v.(
NICEOLA.i. We do know that Prussia ackr,ow,

ledged NICHOLAS to be wrong and the Allies'
right, ; we do know that she nevertheless refused
to join them. ; and we also know that in conse-
quence of this her merchants and her King filled
their coffers by becoming the PICSFORDS, or the
CHAPLIN and HORNES, between Russia and the
Western hucksters, who would have traded with
SATAN himself if they could have turned a penny
by it. How the other Powers could think her
signature worth appending to the Treaty of Paris
is marvellous. If its conditions had to be en-
forced she would never spend a single kreutzer in
doing it. She would rather want to act the car-
rier again, and to get a good mileage charge on
supplying stores to the aggressor. Perhaps the
Anglo-Prussian betrothals required this tribute
to Prussia.

But the other day we had a fresh illustration
of the stability of the Prussian Monarchy. Sup-
pose some Herr Republicaner had been spending
a little time in our picture galleries, and in the
British Museum, and suppose he had brought
over with him some letters to the KOSSUTHS and
Loris BLANCS, or to the FROSTS and ERNEST
JONESES amongst us ; and suppose, further, that
Sir RICHARD MAYNE, trembling for the throne
of VICTORIA, had pounced on the man, seized his
papers, and hurried him off to starve for fifteen
mortal hours, in a lock-up—would not all Lon-
don have thought Sir RICHARD mad ; or, if
the citizens supposed him to be still compos
mantis, would they not alternately have laughed
aloud at his silliness, and been indignant that a
foreigner should be so maltreated, and our QUERN
insulted by such unpardonable fears for her safety?
Yet this inniat the exact counteriart of the treat-
ment Mr. M. MOORE informed us on Friday he had
just met with from the authorities at Berlin. We
need not repeat the particulars; but what must
the purchase of a throne be worth which trembles
at a foreign artist's perambulation amongst its
galleries and museums ; which is not ashamed
of the conduct of its officials ; which does
not think it needs apology ; and which
thereby implies that the Prussian monarchy
needs this sort of thing for its security ? Perhaps
it does ; we don't dispute that. We only know we
are thankful no plebeian daughter can be in dan-
ger of marriage with Prussian Royalty.

The elect of the minority will be the successor
of Mr. PIERCE in the high office of President of
the 'United States. Though the action of the
electoral colleges must intervene before this result
can be fully arrived at and officially declared, no
doubt exists as to the decision to which they will
come. Mr. BUCHANAN has not only a majo-
rity, bat also an absolute majority of the elec-
toral deputies, so to speak, in his favour, and
the votes of the majority of the American people
have been recorded in vain. So complete is his
victory that there is now no chance of a third
party wresting it from him !
It is a remarkable spectacle this issue of so
great a conflict, and apparently illustrates the
saying as to the wisdom of the wise being foolish-
ness. The sagacious theorists of the Constitution,
it may be thought, would have turned with dis-
dain from the prophet who predicted that the
ean s whereby the righteous decision of the
sovereign majority was to be attained would thus
be converted into a mockery and a snare. And
yet this is precisely what has happened. Colonel
FREMONT, who, by the legitimate action of uni-
versal suffrage, would now be the successful can-
date, is the unsuccessful one, and a minority is
triumphant. The fact, we take it, is, the founders
of the Constitution had no confidence in an abso-
lute
democracy, but, regarding the sovereign
people as but too likely to be swayed by the
passions of the hour, deemed it necessary to
interpose formidable obstacles between the
attainment of the Presidency and the expres-
sion of their unadvised will. The consti-
tution of several of the States, and the mode
by which the President is elected, tend alike
to confirm us in our opinion. The Southern
States have constitutions by no means so demo-
cratic as the Northern ; and the system of the
President not being directly elected by the people,
but by the Electoral Colleges, was evidently de-
signed to filtrate, as it were, the turbid will, and
so far control and limit the power, of the unthink-
ing masses. The intention may have been good,
and the precaution warranted byeircumstances, but
the means have proved, in this instance at least, a
failure. The majority of the people are a mino-
rity in the Electoral Colleges. That may have
been contemplated ; but the majority of the people
have had right and reason, and 'the good-will and
approval of the lovers of .berty everywhere, on
their side. Still they a7:e a minority; and the ma-
jority of the Electoral Colleges cannot be expected
to lend them a lielping hand, for the members of
the Colleges are nowadays the mere nominees of
those who elected them. Thus we have an ab-
sorption of the power of the Colleges, and at the
same time a minority of the democracy imposing
their will on the majority. Anomalies like these
puzzle Europeans and confound theorists, and, it
may reasonably be expected, will before long have
to be put an end to. Looking at Mr. BUCHANAN'S
majority, it is well to observe, in confirmation of
our remarks, that 120 of the 178 votes in the
Electoral College in his favour are given by the
Slave States ; that these 120 represent three-fifths
of a slave population of three millions and a half,
women and children included, as well as the adult
whites legally qualified to vote ; while Colonel
FREMONT'S 118 votes represent each the full
quota of free white voters. Now, the cattle
which the negroes tend, and the fields they culti-
vate, have just as much to do with the recording
of votes as they have. Their owners vote for
themselves and slaves ; and thus it is the Southern
States have overridden the choice of the free men
of the North.

What the career of the President thus elected
will be it is impossible to say with certainty. All
the information we have received goes to support
our previous vatiainations. He is represented as
studiously avoiding self-committal, and like a star
apart holding himself from communion with others.
This intention, and that intention, as to the forma-
Lion of his Ministry, whereby some key would be
obtained to his policy, is ascribed to him. He meets
each and all with tan authoritative contradiction.
There may be mow) than one solution of his
reticence—but thi which accords with ourexpee•
tation is most probably the true one. Re means
to serve his o auntry rather th
follow the
dictation of tb.e platform tr, which he owes
his election, t(J,
wear tka
events. mere worthily Eh t worthilp.--at all
the Istaveowners and
filibusters will admired., what he has obtained by
unworthy mos kIS.
Ate %people of the United States
appear to be of
opinion, for his election is now
regarded in
A more favourable light by the North
than coulil
otherwise be expected. As we said
before,
'go has a name to make, and in his avowed
hiten‘ .ton to imitate General .TacK.sorf, and make
his. Cabinet a unit, and not an aggregation of in-
',:ongruolis elements like that of Ctelltral PIERCE,
we are di4osed to recognise the initiation of a
policy conducive to tranquillity and internal de-
velopmen a rather than pir...dey and intestinal dis-
order.

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