The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-17 00:00:00

frifEß MAJESTY'S THEATRE.-
!tspectfuliya•nio.need th it h,r MAJEs ry'A THE tTRE
will RE=OPEN early in %tar. Engagements of great interest have
been effected__batli-in- lepers-and /tall% and the best exertions used
to make the-arratitterneits wor by of th occasion.
The prospectus will immediately aropar.

H 1(1
LerNee. Nfr. E. T. Smith.
THIS E .E)TI
IL TROVA TORE.
lo c n lade with
TFIzI ENCtIANTrID GARDEN'.

TfitAPRE ROYAL, HVIMARKET.
trd3er the Management of Mr. Backatone.
THT EVENING,
THE EVIL GENIUS.

After which.
EL GAIIBUAT.SO; or, rhe Arexican Goldseeker.
In whinh PLR EA. NESTA. &ad the Spanish Lancers will appear.
Followed by
COURT F +YOUR.

To conclude with
THE PO3I3I.IN'S KVOCK.

•
ROYAL PRINCESS'S TEIEATRE. ONTORD•STREET.
liachirthe lianagement of Mr: CnikLEs KERN.
-TITIFI EVENING, _
HENRY VIII: •_
Queen Katharine, Mrs. C. Kean;- Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean.

To be (allowed by
THE VICTOR VANQUISHED.
To conclude with
A PRINCE FOR. AN HOUR.

TI/E ...TEE ROYAL ADELPHI.
I'ropnator and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. .
Directress, Macaws Celeste.
THIS JEVF.
LIKE AND UNLIKE.
Messrs. B. Webster, Wright, P. Re Pord. C Selby, Garden
Madame Cel ste, Nriss Wyndham.

After which,
URGENc PRIVATE AFFAIRS.
To conclude with
MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL.

R OrAti OLY dt.EC THEATRE.
Lessee and Sranscer, lir. Alfred Wigan.,
EVENING
STILL cv.trEits RUN DEEP.
After which will be pro,lueet a New and doubly-moral, though
"e ceessively old, Afelotralistio Fairy Extravaganza, entitled
TIE DISC E PlZl:f.';Egi; 0-, the Three Glass Distaffs.
I i which Aessrs. E,norr, F. Robson, 11. Cooper, Miss Marston,
and Miss .llas's.ell will appe.ir.

ROYtG Sti7IREY TIIEXTRB.

Lessees, Ires,rs. iheaherl and Creswiek.

TLIIi EVENING,
Will be performer' a new Drama, entitled
HOW WE LIVE IN TILE WO MD OF LONDON,

Followed by
THE POS LISIAN'A KNOCK.

To conclude with
TUFFLEHILTSENT; or, The Lawyer's Legend.

ROYAL MARYLEBONE THEATRE.
T/lIIRSDAY, April 17th, will be performed
The ComPdv of THE SOLDIER'S DAUGargR, Widoc Cheerly,
Mi-s Fitzpatrick. Messrs. Belford, Lewis Rail, Saunders; htsses
Morrell and Mars.

After which,
THE rtOti DIAMOND. Joe, Mr. Lewis Ball; Mar;ery
Miss Fitzpatrick.

To 'ttle with
INTRITITTE. Mtis Francesconc Hughes; Messrs. Belford, Langton
Lewis Ball.

Boxe., 2s. ; Pit, Is ; Gallery, 6d.
Stage Manager, Mr. E. Stirling.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPFIITHFATRE.
- Lessee and Manager, 4lr. Wm. Cooke.
THIS EVENING,
The Performances -will embrace that startling novelty, a Real
English Steeplechase, with all Its exciting incidents.
The Entertainments wUI c mmence with [HE ARAB OF THE
DEAER r HIS NIFUL srl ED.
After which. the EQUESTRIAN WONDERS OF VIE ARENA,
Trirnr,Oline, Gyronastics, &c.
To conc'ude with a Drama Introducing ENGLAND'S FIARVF.ST
HOU It; ant CkTION'Ai. S MEP!. E !LUSE, with a noble Stud or
Horses, trained by lir. Will atn Cooke.
ny4,oilice ppen fr an E'er. It ti '1 Fein Stage Manager. Mr. W •
Weit. Equestrian Director, Mr. rY. Co ,ke, Jun.

"^ 'EMMA 'B"I'ANLEY'S "SEVEN' AGES OF WOMAN."
The Manager respectfully announces that the L SST MORIVNG
PERFORMANCE of tits mast popular ant amuzlng Entertainment,
will take place on Saturday, the 19th, at half.past two.
Evening performances as asual, on 3ilonklays, Tuesdays, Thursdays.
ani Fldays, at.cs e'dock." • ,
Admission—flack Seats, Is.; Centre Seats, 2s. ; Stalls, 38.
SAINT .:VIARTIN'S HALL, Long-acre.

WATER AT LONTDON. 'BRf DUE.
TUN DAY—Morn. 24 min. aft. 12—Evening 44 min. aft 12
.11.1-7.4oRana,—Ntorri. 2 min. aft. 1 —7e.vaniag 20 rah. aft. 1

THE WEATFIER—SUFI OFFICE, APRIL 17.
I:lTag SHADE.
sa-.--1!14-tegi no,iu yesterday.
44 -..l7,raftt this morning' and dur!h4 the night.
day-st tio4n.

'DM:OI:ET ER, 30'22.
WIND, N.E:—Fresh; with fine. cola, sunshiny weather
7t has blown a wile for the last four fl.ys from N.E. to E.
with bitterenld weather, such as in March.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 17. 1856.

The Congress has Molest concluded its le-tours
for the time being, and it is more than probable
that the several Plenipotentiaries will before the
end of:the, week have started on their homeward
journey% It is only, however, a temporary ar-
rangement, for several C entnissions have been
appointed, the reports whereof may give rise to
considerable discussion and cliff3rences. It
reported, on. the authority of a generally well-
informed contemporary, that the important ques-
tion of the fiee navigation of the Danube has beet,
referred to a Commission named by all the Powers
represented at the Congress. That there is
a similar Commission as to the domestic govern-
ment of the Danubian Principalities, and the
arrangement, of -the new- frontiers, save that
Piedmont has been excluded from taking any
part therein. And. a third to consider the pisi
tion of the Christian subjects of the Porte.
These ire matters that will require consider-
able titne and labour before satisfactory solu-
tions can, be , arrived at, even supposing that
all partiesare 4tettitted by a bona fide determina•
tion to act in a straightforward and equitable
manner. As, ^ however, we cannot help feeling
very serious donAti nit that part of the case, we
should not
l''e-gr!ma.r surprised if serious diffictil-
ties should arise,}e„quir.ing new Conferences, and
possibly leading, to. fresh
tilities. - complications and hos-
-

lions,

It may be premature to discuss the terms of
the Treaty-until they have been offiejaii
Y commu-
nicated to the public. But the necessity has been
occAsioned by the' unjustifiable and unco nititU_
Coma' mysteryobServed, and the attempt to de.
pr;re the --..ritish=• Parliament of one of its
most imp?rtant , functions. It is ridiculous
to say that .the People, who so cheerfully
and liberallyprovided for all the enormous expen-
diture occasioned by. the War, have no right to
interfere in the- terms and elnditions on which it
has been terminated. Before any ratification on
every part of the case, and
the part of England,
all its multifariOns details, should be subtnitted
both Rouses; and the studial n-glect of that
imperative a-0y must be regarded as a gross and
enwarrantable.insult to the co-ordinate branches
of the Legislaturean attempt to degrade them,
and to unduly extend: the powers and prerogativet,
of the Crown.

Sufficient has, however, leaked nut to enable u. 4
to know that the •Stipulatioas already agreed on can-
net by any p be agreeable to the English People. Never, iiy fact, was there a more un-
popular truce—we oinnot call it " peace "—the',
that which has just been pitched up. We Imvi•
neither gaiued crOit fuz the pa3t nor security f)i-
the future. Tiie,lives- of -our gallant brethren

rRA Nin TIEVIEW at ALTIMSITOT CAMP, hare boen ss!v
or ~,r tiice \I. c , Stc.. ,
sacrifice ,
SATE.74i) X NI; Q.: 1 Wit hollf., .tilv
A I'r an I s r, 3., ,i'l 'eave t..e
Wwerl o-t)." ,ice • ,attott r'. r lig, at 7. 4.111., et!l,ll.llst 111 1, even n.,1,,,nti +4.) felt. that we ;lave, Won co,
the eseAlinz at .1 p N.),!c-• t ) 1e ho-10. boxes ant true' .8
p yin fs that were regarded
rn.,mt •t . the Stip. r nteadent, at the Waterloo•hntUe Nta- pletely jockeyed in the
tio on' yrway.
indispen,al*.--,tliat it. will be f.und thit the 9r,.
brill .:I.ec al Train ,vitti ra also tear-L., the wlieloo-
hrid atat t f,r Varnh ini_th a: al5 Lin , reurniqg fro 'n F..rn-
o!. the Kick Set 148 1)13011
bQrua h s_3') R.re
—Tares there and back Ils., 11-st elan.
orCer. no meatis c,-)nipitte as was anticipated, and
lly
Waterlcobrldge Station, April 17th, IRK
that Russia will be permitted to retain a steam
squadron, nominally unarmed, but quite sufficient
to carry her long and nodly cherished design:,
against Turkey into execution, and to transport
a powerful army to the neighbourho)d of Con-
stantinople, without the possibility of interference
by the Western Powers. We have already seer,
that the greater portion of the work for which
the Conferences were inaugurated has been
transferred to Commissioners, and it is impos-
sible to say what may be the results of their
labours. Scarcely anything has been finally set-
tled, save that France and England are to relin-
quish their irresistible claims to indemnities for
the expenses of the War, and that Austria and
Prussia have been suffered to regain the posi-
tions which they forfeited by their own culpable
misconduct.

,t 4 nf

Meanwhile there is great discontent in many
parts of Turkey. The standard of revolt has
been raised, and both Christians and Mahomedans
are alike discontented at the changes that have
taken place. The former have been deprived of
the highly-prized exemption from military service.
A rigorous conscription will be forced on them to
which they had never hitherto been subjected,
_ and this by way of being a privilege and a favour,
just as great a one, by the way, as the press-
gangs offered in the olden time to our seafaring
men. They will also be deprived of the privilege
of selecting their own spiritual rulers, who are
henceforward to be nominated by the DIVAN.
The Mahomedans are equally disgusted at being
compelled to servo side by side with Christians
in opposition to their religious principles. The
result will be a rancorous hatred springing up
between the rival sects, that will render them ex-
ceedingly formidable to each other, although by
no means so to any enemy against whom they
may be opposed.
While matters remain in this unsettled state,
will it be possible for England to relax her pre-
parations or to receive the benefits of a real peace ?
We fear not. We fancy that the heavy expendi-
ture will be continued for an indefinite period,
until all outstanding difficulties have been over-
come; while we can derive no possible benefit
from any course save that of a renewal of the
War, after having surrendered all the advantages
so painfully acquired. Well may the people of
England be dissatisfied ; well may they look with
disgust at what has taken place, which has given
nothing to England save, perhaps, a Prussian
husband for one of her Royal Princesses, and the
possibility of the future government of the country
being transacted under a German viceroy. Ali'
this may occasion joy at Coburg, but it will excite
disgust and indignation in every English breast.

A commemorative monument is about to be
erected in the county of Durham, in grateful re-
cognition of the many eminent services done to
the State during a long life-time by the late
distinguished Marquis of LONDONDERRY. By a
curious coincidence, and one in itself sufficiently
significant, within the very same week during the
course of which the public meeting was convened
in the Town-hall of the city of Durham, for the
purpose of taking into consideration the propriety
of raising a substantial testimonial of respect to
the memory of CHARLES WILLIAM, third Marquis
of LONDONDERRY, 'there was given upon Chilton
Moor, within the limits of the sarne shire, by
the Lefict of that Lamented nobleman, a banquet
of a peculiar kind, and one in many respects
quite unexampled in its magnificence. A
monster dinner, at which no less then three
thousand stalwart Pitmen were regaled upon
good old English fare by a lady at once their Mis-
tress and their Hostess, the present Marchioness
Dowager of LONDONDERP.Y. " Itnagine,r says a
local journal in recording the circumstance of these
remark tble festivities, "Imagine a bill of fare to
the extent of eight fat bullocks, fifteen sheep, a
ton of plum-pudding, a ton and a half of bread,
fifty barrels of strong beer, and a hundred bushels
of potatoes." Imagine it indeed ! It is like a
banquet in the land of Br-olylignag. It was some-
thing worthier than this, however. It was seine-
thieg better than an occasion for so much guttling
Lnd guzzling by three thousand sturdy fellows,
,eated at thirty tables in a large hall, some
two hundred feet by seventy is its dimen-
It was an evidence of good-will
etween employers and employed, of genial
nterest on the one part and of grateful
Lttaeliment on the other, of a perfectly amiable
and satis:actory understanding between a conspi-
cuous representative of Property and three
qiousand substantial representatives of hearty
and honest Toil quite delightful to con-
template in these days of Strikes, and Tiffs, and
Squabbles between Maters and Men, residues may
he of the lamentable ferment provoked a score of
years ago by the abuninable Tomtny-shops of
the ever-detestable and thoroughly iniquitous
fruck-system. It rejoices one's heart to pause
awhile over the particulars of a gathering like
that brought about by the munificence and bene-
volence, the frank and hospitable magnanimity of 11
generous and gentle-hearted woman such as the
Lady of Wynward, the Hostess of Chilton Moor,
the owner of the Durham Collieries, the Mistress
of these three thousand Pitmen, FRANCES
,INIT'z Marchioness of LONDONDERRY. It was
n perfect kef3pinn moreover, with the whole
festivities, that the lady-hostess herself should
take a personal and conspicuous share in the en-
tertainment----,that she herself, with her own lips
;not through any spokesman, however nearly
rebated, net even through the mouth of her son
tha Earl VANE, then at her left hand, presiding
over the meeting as its Chairman), bid her guests
w,elcome, and by a few earnest words coming
directly from her heart, and going straight to
the irs, evidence her conscientious recognition of
the, heavy responsibilities weighing upon her in
ilel capa,eity as the appointed guardian of their
I
brielnghts: of their energies, of their physical well-
and of their social happiness. It is from
a Tornernbrance of the manner in which all these
:1111 3eo p"evreioigihtoYfrletissP°lircetstiirae
bilitii:twhe lateeredisLch:rrdgLedodNuprotg.
D. tRRY, that Wt' cannot but regard with more than
or denary interest the very noticeable coincidence
)f this monster banquet upnn Chilton Moor,
ajcing 'place within the comp ass of the same week
which • %witnessed the public meeting in the Town
l?all of
E* the city of Dud:l,7;e
leaveT Tae tanlereetaidn; an-
nounce :d for the purp me,
ob-
served , of taking into consideration the propriety
of erec :tin a suitable public monument, co
native of a gallant Soldier, of an able Diplomatist,
of a e .aring and successful Developer of our vast
nai resources—resources at once Mining,
Mai rttime, and CAninercid.
S. Inc(;ess, say we, with all itm_Tinable
I; Success and Godspeed to the project of
Tr ibtl to like this—a Tribute so eminently and
iv oden jalsTy well-deserved ! Fur the public

THE NATIONAL GALLW—LoRD PAL-
MBESTON AND THE "DIY-1310X"