The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-19 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
First Night of FIDELIO.
First Appearance of Madlle. CRITVELLI.
It il respectruily announced that TO-MORROW EVENDiG will
be produced (first time at thilyrrphi:eaLtro) Beethoven's Opera,
madue. sena Cruvelli (her fir;
isatelauto,
Signor Mercu-
PPearanne) ; PlZarro
Leonora,
ietti • Rocco, Signor Balanchi '
Signor Co ,
ad e Giuliani •11lc ' '
rtsai ; Marcellini, M am , . mistro, Signor Casanova ;
Florestan, Mr. Sims Reeves (first appearance).
The celebrated Chorus of Prisoners will be strengthened
powerful aid of Signori Gardoni, Calzolari, Pardi ni by the
, Poultier, Scott!,
Ferranti, Lorenzo, F. Lablache, and 32. Masao]
indly consented to appear, in order to give , who have most
kof Ws great work. effect to the production
Previously to the Opera the Orchestra will
Overture Leonora, and between the acts perform Beethoven's
'Sided°. Beethoven's Overture
To conclude with the admirable Ballet (arranged in one act) of i.
LE DIABLE A QC ATRE, !I
By Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi 31d11 .
Allegrini, Aussandon, Kohlees.
nbe Rosa, Esper, Julien, Lamoureux, I
Ahrick, Paul Taghooi Go rg, Pascales, Dantoine, 3131. Charles, t
, arlet, Venefra, and 1)1 Mattis. 1

REA TRE .80 Y
andMA-1"-
Mr. 8. Webster, sole Lessee Manager, Old Brompton.
THIS EVENING,
Will be Performed an entirely New Comedy, entitled RETIRED
FROM BUSLNESS. Zachary Pen-yweight, Mr. Lambert ; Creep-
mouse, Mr. Buckstono ; Lieut. Tackle, Mr. Stuart ; Captain Gunn.
Yr. B. Webster; Paul Puffins, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Kitty Penny-•
weight, Miss Annie Romer.
To be followed by Ni Y FRIEND I N STRAPS.
To Conclude with HIS LAST LEGS.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Under the direction of Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed THE GREEN BUSHES.
After which a new and original Farce called LONDON FOG. MT.
/rank Copal. Mr. P. Bedford ; Mr. Simple, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Brisk,
Miss E. Harding.
To conclude with SLASHER and CRASHER.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean and Mr. Keeley,
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Bhylock,
Mr. C. Kean ; Portia, Mrs. C. Kean.
After which a new Farce called APARTMENTS.
" Visitors to the Exhibition may be accommodated."
To conclude with a new grand spectacular Extravaganza (taken
from a Tale, by Washington Irving), entitled THE ALHAMBRA ;
or The Three Moorish Princesses. Characters by Messrs. Keeley,
Harley, A. Wigan, Wynn, Cooke, Flexmore ; Misses Murray, Daly,
Vivash, Robertson, Leclerq, Keeley, Mdlle. Auriol, and Mrs. Keeley.
Private foxes, Sze., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr.
Massingham ; of whom also places may be taken at the Box-office,
Oxford-street, from Eleven till Fear o'clock.

ROYAL LYCEUM TIIEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Veetrlf.
Hole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews,
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed
COOL AS A CUCUMBER.
To be followed by
A DAY OF RECKONING, in which Madame Vestris will appear,
To conclude with

THE QUEEN OF THE FROGS. Characters by Messrs. C.
Mathews, R. Roxby, Bellingham, Horncastle, Morris ; Mrs. Frank
Matthews, Miss it. George, Miss Martindale, and Miss Oliver.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Farren.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed TB LADIES' BATTLE ; or, Un Duel en
Amour.

To be followed by the VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.
To conclude with THE LOTTERY TICKET.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Under Vas Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Ellgtuniti
Prince Albert.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed a grand new Spectacle, entitled ELEANOR
THE AMAZON; or, Queen of France and England.
To be followed by new Scenes of the Circle, introducing an en-
tirely new Company of English, French, Italian, and anbarican
Artistes.
To conclude with a laughable Farce,

80,.-office open from Eleven till Four.
Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson.

PITNCE'S PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. W. R. COPELAND, Liverpool.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed a new Comedy, entitled KENSINGTON GAR-
DE.NiI. Principal characters by Messrs. Tilbury, A. Davies, Nor-
ton, T. Rogers, and Romer ; Mrs. Seymour, Mesdames E. Sourer,
N. A. Marshall, and Wallis.
With a new Farce, entitled A CHEAP EXCURSION.
An ILLUSTRATION OF THE EXPOSITION'. Principal charac-
ters by Mesdames Marshall, M. Taylor, C. Horsman, and Dibdin ;
Messrs. J. Reeve, Norton, J. Rogers, and Romer.
To conclude with a new comedy proverb, teaching people the
beet method of LIVING IN GLASS HOUSES.
The prices of admission are arranged as follow :—Orchestra stalls,
4s ; boles (first circle), 35.; (second circle), 2s, ; Pit, Is.
Doors to be opened at Half-put Six, and the performances to
Commenoe at Seven precisely.
A second price will be taken to the Boxes only at Half-past Nine
—Drat circle, 25.; second circle, Is.
Private Boxes One Guinea and a Half each.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
s oRAN,Ou for the season.
JULLIE'N' - Open for the 'eason.
JILTLLTEN's OTtANi) CONCER r MONSTRE, TO-DAY.
The Proprietor has the gratification to announce that he has suc-
ceeded in engaging Moas. Jullien and
short season
elite of his unrivalled
band, and that he will commence a
Msecaosion with a, grand Con-
eert Monstr e, including Herr Koenig,
glais, Mr. Lazarus, Mr. Jarret, and other eminent
ltnet, Lavigne, L`An-
Gand Cold-
soloists. The
2d
ythe
kihdrds,
splendid bands of the Royal Artillery,
Lifepermission
bandeoterthis
t of
s
Cold-
stream Guards will attend in full uniform, b
their respective Colonels, in addition to the effective
establishment. Four Solos by Herr Koenig. M. Collinet,
Hr. Lazarus. Jullien's Exhibition Quadrille with increased, and
d
hovel effects ; also, first time, Jullten's new Amazon Galop, sug-
gested by the splendid piece of Sculpture in the Great Exhibition.
Representation of a gigartic modelled Panorama, painted by
the Messrs. Danson, representing the Temple of Janus in the Eternal
City, with a striking View of th, Colosseum, Palace of the Caesars,
ale. The Menagerie is both varied and extensive, including two gi-
raffes, two elephants, which promenade the grounds, appropriately
teParisoned and attended. The band, composed of musi-
V3ne of first-rate celebrity, is conducted by Mr. Godfrey.
Moored on the lake is seen a real Chinese pleasure junk, with masts
itd sails complete. Also Remington's aerial bridge, and various
vellie:; and at dusk will be given, on a scale of surpassing meg-
c a representation of the Closing of the Brazen Gates of the
septa4,ol7 Of Janus, with (for the arse time ever attempted) a grand
pat and
ttransparent diaphonio panopticon, showing the horrors of
di:L.and he blessings of peace, terminating with a most brilliant
of-z of fireworks by Messrs. Southby ; and an allegorical tableau
et and sciences, depositing their treasures at the feet of her
title ,tyver QUeen Viwitnessed.ctoria, the whole forming the most gorgeous spec.

Exhibition ADMISSION—ONE SHILLING.Friday. nights—Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and
The FLORAL EXHIBITIONS of the Royal South London Flori-
cultural Society will be repeated during the Season ; the First will
take place on Nsr ednesday, May 28.
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HIGII WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE
281/ DA w
—M"Aule 0 Y —Morning 20
rein. after 4 1 Evening 39 min. atter 4
110-110 R" rain. after 5 1 Evening 20 Rain. after h

THE WEATHER -
THERSIOATETER, LYT°:FICRic. ITAY
18.
62—highest since noon yessj—E ATADE.
48 —lowest this morning anCr .
61—this day, At nOOll. during the night.
BAitokucTEß, 29.92
wuw was.w.—strong breeze and du. 11
with passing showers. Ev„in't,c;:ulY weather
MONDAY, MAY 19. n*
THIMMOMETER, IN THE SHAD&
63—highest since noon yesterday.
41—lowest this morning and during the night.
54—this day, at noon.
BesomErsdt, 29.89.
NVIND W.—strong breeze and fine, with alight showers o
hail and rain.

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.
State of
Places at the Wind and Weather at each of the following
Nine o'clock on Saturday morning.—The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
.I'Lvmotrrli—oiviod
Poßramouni_,_ W., gentle breeze—overcast.
Bitrairrox—win",,iuc,d,..:W., gentle breeze—overcast.
souTHAvaToN___V__,W, Calm—rain.
For..s.r.gro:NE—virio:i'us.%)V., strong breeze—overcast.
gentle breeze—overcast.
Th.geßEDGE—Wind w ~ gentle breeze—overcast.
BASLNISTOICE—Wind g
.nvVe breeze—overcast.
swnwo2.7—Wind S., gentle bbrre:rze
GREENWICH—Wind. 4
gentle breeze—overcast.
overcast.
overcast.
Wind S., gentle
LauisafTor•r—
Wind S.W., gentleeb—
COLCHESTER—
CAMBRIDGE.—Wind S., gentle brezreeze—oyercast.
RUGBY—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—e—purtaiini;
ExamninarfAx—Wind S. W., gentle bree—aY cloudy.
YARMOUTH—Wind W., gentle breeze—rzaei7o,. varcast.
Hour-HEAD—Wind S., gentle breeze—foggy
Lrvimpoot.—Wind W., gentle breeze—cloudy.
The returns from the following p!aces inth thezate
date of
o'clock :
the wind and weather eon Friday morning
at nine
LtmEnicx—Wind S.. calm—partially cloudy.
CARLOW—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
MoLuNomt— .v inci S.E., strong breeze—ove,cast.
COLCHESTER—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
FETERBORGUGH—Wind S. w., calm—cloudless'
CREWE—Wind S. W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
LIEDS— Wind W., gentle breeze— partially cloudy.
Yoax—Wind S. W., calm—partially cloudy.
DiatuNciTox—Wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
WHITEHAVEN— Wind S.W., gentle breeze —partially cloudy.

Tai
HOP PLANT, OLLERTON.—We ars very glad
to state that this plant is looking prosperously
in most of the
yards round (Merton. Although there is not such a large
extent of ground planted in this vicinity as formerly, yet we
were highly gratified to observe on passing through the Earl
of Scarborough's and Mrs. Williamson's hop yards, at Ruf-
ford, a few days ago, the strong and healthful appearance of
She young shoots.

The performance will commence with the second and third acts of
daberie celebrated Opera of

MUTA DI PORTICI,
(Masaniello).
Alfonso, Signor Scott! ; Lorenzo, Signor Mercurall ; Seiva, Signor
Ealanehl ; Muaniello, Signor Pardini ; Pietro, M. Massol ; Borella,
giignor Lorenzo; Elvira, Madame Fiorentini ; Fenella, Mdlle.
Monti.
In act first, a Grand Divertissement; La Gurache et Napolltaine,
by Messrs. Kohlenberg, Soto, Aussandon, Soldansky, Allegrinl, Pas-
calea, Emma, Dantonie, and the Ladies of the Corps do Ballet ; Le
Bolero, by Madlles. Mathllde, Roca, Julien, and Lamoreux, and M.
Ehrick. Finale Generale, in act third, La Tarantella, by Madlle.
Junalla Fear's, M. Charles, Madlles. Kohienberg, Soto, Aussandon,
Soldansky, Allegrini, Pascales, Emma, Dantonie, Mathilde, Rosa,
Julies, and Lamorenx, MM. Ehrick and Gouriet, and the Ladies and
Gentlemen of the Corps de Ballet.
To conclude with a Divestissement LES COSMOPOLITES, by
Madlle. Carlotta Grist, Madlle. Amalie Ferraris, Mesdlles• Rosa,.
Riper, Julien, Lamoureux, Aussandon, Pascalles, liehlenberg,
legriut, MM. Charles, Ehrick, and Paul Taglioni.
The Opera will commence at Half-put t
the Box-
Applications fbr Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be mad
*Mee of the Theatre.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE,
THIS EVENING Oxfd-street.
R (Monday) The MERCHANT of VENICE—
APATMENTS--and the AHAMBRA..
Tuesday, 20.—The Prisoner of War—Pauline—and the Alhambra.
Wednesday, 21.—The Wife's Secret--Apartments, " Visitors to
the Exhibition may be accommodated."—and the Alhambra.
Thursday, 22.—Love in a Maze—Apartments—and the Alhambra.
Friday, 23.—Twelfth Night—Apartments—and the Alhambra.
Saturday, 24.—The Stranger—Apartments—and the Alhambra.

LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 19, 185'

A sorrowful but dignified protestation has, within
the last month, been addressed to the Sublime Porte
by the late Governor of Hungary, from Kutabja, the
place of his imprisonment. In this eloquent appeal
to the justice of the Ottoman Cabinet, KOSSUTH has
exhausted the vocabularies of reproach and laments •
tion. His rhetoric appears in no respect to have suf-
fered under the deteriorating influences of incarceration.
On the contrary, his voice rises in accents more than
ever persuasive under the incitement of almost un-
paralleled wrongs, and under the anguish of
almost unendurable disappointment. He re-
minds the Government of Constantinople of the
peculiar circumstances attendant upon the arrival in
their territories of himself and his compatriots. He
calls to recollection the fact that the refugees from
Hungary came as expatriated unfortunates to seek
from the Sublime Porte either safe passage or protec-
tion. He reminds the Ministerial advisers of ABDUI,
MBD,TID that their Cabinet opened its sheltering tent
to the fugitives—" it entreated us to cross the threshold,
and swore by its GOD and its faith that it would grant
us hospitality and a safe asylum." Allured by this
show of humanity, the Magyars trusted themselves to
the honour of the Turks with implicit confidence.
" We ate of their bread," says Kossum, " and of their
salt—we reposed under their roof—we prayed to
GOD to bless, and we offered them our courage, our
experience, matured by vicissitudes, and our everlast-
ing gratitude." What, however, has been the un•
happy consequence of this brilliant generosity and
this noble reliance ? The banished children of Hun-
gary have been kept in rigid seclusion in the interior
of the Ottoman dominions. For more than a year they
have been pining in bootless expectation of a release
that has not yet comforted them in their misfortunes.
" Pursued by those misfortunes," exclaims Kossura,
"we stopped before the threshold of the Mussulman and
asked from him in the name of GoD, in the name of
humanity, in the name of his religion, a hospitable
asylum or a free passage." How has this appeal for
assistance been responded to ? The hero himself
answers us, alluding to the conduct of the Turks
towards himself and his compatriots—" They
offered us hospitality, and they gave us a
prison ; they swore to us that we should
meet with an asylum, and we have found
banishment." Well may he cry out in an agony
of indignation—" GOD will judge, and GOD is jUSt."
There is a tone very touching in the sentences which
follow immediately upon this ejaculation, sentences
eloquent in their simplicity. "We have suffered,"
says the leader of the Hungarians, at once their Dic-
tator, their Liberator, and their participator in cala-
mities, "we have suffered; but, for the sake of not
c: fusing embarrassment, we have been silent. They
b egged us to have confidence ; we have shown it.
They begged us to wait ; we have waited long."
Long I well may he speak thus, twelvemonths having
[thready elapsed since their first entrance into
Cue land of the Mahometans. In contradiction to
t'bn apparent faithlessness of the Turks, KOSSUTH
points to the honourable truthfulness of the Hunga-
rians. " The Hungarians," he says, "keep their
word. Look," he continues, "at Bosnia, where
Afussulmans, subjects of the Sublime Porte, are in
revolt against it. A handful of Hungarians are in
the ranks of its soldiers. It is but a handful, for the
P orte would not accept more. Well I who are first
upon the breach ? Who are first in the charge ?
Who are they who never retreat, who advance in the
idst of fire and grape-shot, bayonet in hand, to vic-
tory ? They are this handful of exiles. They die
for Turkey. The Hungarian keeps his word." From
this reiteration of the veracity of the Magyars, it is,
we conceive, sufficiently apparent what inference is
implied by the illustrious leader of the Hungarians.
iVhilo regrotting the course pursued in this in-
stance by the Sublime Porte, we cannot but regard it
as traceable entirely to the unfortunate position of
Turkey as one of the powers of the European Conti-
nent, and not as in any way attributable to a want
of magnanimity on the part of its Government.
So many splendid evidences of liberality
have already from time to time been afforded
by the Sultan ABDULMEDSID that it would
be unfair to regard his conduct towards the Hunga-
rian refugees as arising out of anything but a miser-
able and unavoidable necessity. England is remote.
France is remote. Austria, on the contrary, is con-
tiguous, and so is Russia, and, through the Danubian
principality, both these despotic powers bring to bear
upon the Ottoman Government an influence scarcely
in any way resistible. KOSSUTH seems to allude to
this where he reminds the Sublime Porte that the
date of his emancipation was fixed at the indefinite
period when Austria should have thoroughly re-
established order and tranquillity, " the order," says
he, "of oppression, the tranquillity of the tomb."
" Well," he resumes, " she has re-established this
order, this tranquillity by her executions. She has
re-established it so far as to dare to provoke Prussia
to war ; so far as to dare, trusting to the support of
her master, the CZAR, to encroach upon the nations
of Europe, to extend her forces from the Baltic to
Rome—so far as to threaten Piedmont and Switzer-
land—so far as to bribe the border provinces of
turkey to revolt ; she has re-established this
tranquillity—she has even announced sts re-
establishment to the Sublime Porte—find we
are still prisoners." The subterfuge has. conse-
quently been rendered by time sufficiently trans parent.
Nevertheless, though delayed thus lamentals ly, the
prospect of ulterior liberation has not been alto gether
denied to the refugee Hungarians. Our confidence,
in spite of every disappointment, has been at length
here verified. The protest of KOSSUTH has hardly
reached its destination before intelligex ice is
received that even the Cabinet of Vien rla has
consented to the liberal project so long chi srished
by the Government of Constantinople. Before
many more weeks have elapsed we may
have the gratification of welcoming amongst us, on
his way to America, not only the ilia strious
KOSSUTH himself; but the majority of his distin-
guished fellow-sufferers. The LORD MAYO. a will
consequently have, we trust, an early opportas City of
redeeming his promise of hospitality to the Hun-
garian Liberator ; and among the more remarkable
visitors to the Crystal Palace may be not only 2 he fu-
gitive CABAL, the exiled BRAGANZA, and the fallen
princes of the Orleans dynasty, but the Eu! •opean
/A74BHIISGTON, KOSSUTH, the greatest and nob: ,est of
the Hungarians.

Board of Customs,
00 Saturday we alluded to the mode in whi, oh the
discharged thotnimmissioners for Foreign R( :venue,"
MA2E co , or, to speak more correctly •, " her
more tolerable to the
station. i
rendering the existing imposts
In
of
frtant functions belonging
power to multiply
ceremonies, so as to
ante to all who are to their
frneerchants, they do all in their
ivolous forms and v a xatious
With
hortunate as I o hare
produceso
a maximum of annoy-
their Honoi irs or
any business transactions
British
to ti lose to
their subordinates. In a
every possible facility should hceoTfiTercial
may oc:i :upied
el )untry
But it '1
whose enterprise and activity the
would
seem indebted for the exalted position it bhas eml sire is
during so many years, and we trust
itinue
to occupy during successive ages.
seem as if the object of the Commissioners wei
far as practicable, to neutralize the advantage i that
might otherwise follow from the free-trade legisla-
tion, to create formal restrictions fully equii talent
to those substantial measures that have been
6..0 wisely and judiciously abolished, or materia ,11, y mo-
dified. The letter of the law is strained to the . v .tmost
point,end men who are appointed to control a ir ,d con-
duet the
affairs of a most important branch of the
1
public service, from which more ,
vidually," for than two-fifths of the
national revenuebieds obtained, act collectively witl i a de-
gree
severity which any of them , indi-
vidually,
gree of rigour
We
believe
hithat in their private ci paci-
fies they are all men of
. h
honour and integrity , and
even were it otherwise
we have no ream)n to
suppose—we should be the last to adisAil private , cha-