The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-26 00:00:00

THE ORCHESTRA

Has been carefully selected, both with reference to the
excellency of the individual Artistes and the perfection of
the ensemble.

THE CHORUS
Elul also been selected. with great care.

BALLET.
MDLLE. ROSATI,
MDLLE. BELLON,
MDLLE. BOSCHETTI,
MDLLE. LISEREAU,
MDLLE. CLARA,
MDLLE. ROSA,
MDLLE. KATRINE,
and
MDLLE. MARIE TAGLIONI.

M. VANDRIS,
M. CHARLES,
and
M. PAUL TAGLIONI.
Maitre de Ballet,
M. PAUL TAGLIONI.
Asa dant Maitre de Ballet,
M. VANDRIS.
Regisseur de la Danse and Souis-Matro do Ballet,
M. PETIT.
The Grand Ballet of
LE CORSAIRE,
Now performing at the Acad6mie Royale, Paris, with unpre-
cedented success, w:11 be produced early in the Season.
Medora
Principal Artist to the Establishment, Mr. CHARLES
MARSHALL,
The Costume Department will be directed by Miss
BRADLEY and M. LAUREYS,
Under the Superintendence of Madame COPERE.

Principal Machinist Mr. D. SLONLAN.
Head •f the Property Department Mr. BRADWELL.

The Subscription will consist of Thirty Nights, and the
Prices will be as follows :
Pit Boxes l2O to 150 Guineas.
Grand Tier . ..........
One Pair
Two Pair 75 to 10) „
Pit Stalls 25 „

THE THEATRE
Will open on
SATURDAY, the 10ru MAY,
When will be produced
Rossini's Opera of
CENERENTOL A.
Angelina Madame ALBONI.
Don Ramiro
Don Magnifico
Dandini andSignor BELLETTI.
After which will be presented an entirely new
BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT,
entitled
•
-LES QUA.TRE SAISONS,
Founded on the
Ballet Divertissement of that name by M. Petipa,
In the Opera of
LES VEPRES SICILIENNES,
Boschetti, Lisereau, and
Peincipal Parts by Manes. Kat Bellon,
rine.

IHEATEE ROYAL. Dillar-Lea.z
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
ENGLISH OPERA.
THIS EVENING will be produced
FRA DIAVOLO.
To e•mlude with
THE WATERMA
An engagement h aving been formed with Mr. and Mrs. FLORENCE.
from the United States, these celebrated artistes will have the honour
of =Mug their first appearance in England on Monday, Arril 28th,
la one of they most popular national Comediettas.

THE A.T ROYAL, II tirMARKET.
Under the Manazment of Mr. Backstone.
TEED EVENING,
THE BALANCE OF COMFORT.
After which,
THE EVIL clEbars.
Followed by
EL GAMBUSINO; or, The Mexican Goldseeker.
In which PRREA NE NA and the Spanish Dancers will appear.
To conclude with
LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STRZET.
Under the Management of %Ir. CHARLES KEAN.
MONDAY EVENING,
For the:Benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean.
THE VICTOR VANQUISHED.
To conclude with
THE WINTER'S TALE.
Principal characters Cy Mr. and Mrs. C. 'Kean.

ROYAL THE kTRE ADELPHI.
proprietor and Macaw, Mr. B. Webster.
Directress,' Maxim. celeste.
THIS EVESING.
LIRE AND UNLIKE.
Messrs. B. Webster, Wright, P. Redford, C. Selby, Garden ;
Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham.
After which,
ldisCipST PRIVATE AFFAIRS.
"'itr"'"` concitide with -
MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELIi.

ROYAL OLYNTPIC THEATRE.

Lessee and Manager. Mr. Alfred Wigan.

Tills EVENING
STILL WATERS RUN DEEP.

After which will be produced a New and doubly-moral, though
etcessively old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled
THE DISCREET PRIgCESS ; or, the Three Glass Distaffs.
which Messrs. Emery, F. Robson, H. Cooper, Miss Marston,
tnd Miss Haskell will appear.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed a new Drama, entitled
HOW WE LIVE IN THE WORLD OF LONDON.

Followed by

SARAH'S YOUNG MAN.
To conclude with
THE POSTMAN'S KNOCK.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager. Mr. Win. Cooke.
THIS EVENING,
Lord Byron's MAZEPPA and the WILD HORSE.
After which, the skilful and varied SCENES in the CIRCLE, with
other Entertainments.

To conclude with ENGLAND'S HARVEST HOME and GRAND
NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE.
Box-office open Pram. Veven, till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, Jun.

EMMA STANLEY'S "SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN•
Evening performances as asual, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays,
and Fridays, at 8 o'clock.
Admission—Back Seats, ls.; Centre Seats, 25.; Stalls, 3s.
SAINT MARTIN'S HALL, Long-acre.

MGR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

dig DAY—Morn. 16 min. aft. s—Evening 39 min. aft. 5
T I-Mt:mow—Morn. 2 min. aft. 6—Evening 32 min. aft. 6

THE WEATHER—Sox OFFICE, APRIL 26.
THERMOMETER, IN THI4 SHAM
70—highest since noon yesterday.
52—lowest this morning and during the night.
63—this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 29'55.
WIND, S.W.—Fresh, with cloudy, mild weather, sun-
shine and rain.
Heavy rain came on last night, with heavy clouds from
S.W.

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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, 1856:

salvos of artillery, and 8,000/. worth of firework%
have proclaimed to be a splendid achievement of
war and diplomacy ?

The worshippers of the Sabbath have received
a call to arms. About a hundred clerical S ib-
batarians have indeed taken the field. The
friends of a rational worship on the Sabbath will
do well to buckle on their armour and prepare for
the coming conflict. Sir BENJAMIN HALL is not,
if the Sabbatarians can help it, to have his own
way. The pleasing, wholesome, and wholly in-
nocent recreation he has promised the frequenters
of the Parks on each successive Sunday afternoon
is, if possible, to be withheld from them—Sir
BENJAMIN notwithstanding. " The whole metro-
polis" is to be appealed to—then " the whole
people of England"—to petition against measures
conceived in such a spirit of anti-Sabbatism,
and threatening that idolatrous creed such
a mortal blow. We wish they may but
they wont. The Sabbatarians instinctively
shun appeals to the people not in print
—hole-and corner meetings by ticket—depata-
tions of oily professors to Members of Parliament
threatening them with the loss of their seats if
they vote according to their consciences—hawk-
ing petitions in quarters where a refusal of signa-
tures might be followed by the stoppage' of daily
bread—obtaining signatures privately on false
pretences—collecting them from Sunday scholars
—these practices, and others less creditable, are
more in their way.. An abundance of signatures
will, however, be obtained ; and these will, it is
not improbable, have a similar effect to that pro-
duced by the last harvest, unless the friends of a
reasonable observance of Sunday bestir themselves.
The present Ministry hold the reins of power on
too precarious a tentlre to be trusted. Unless the
people combine and strengthen them to resistance
by an unmistakeable demonstration of opinion on
the matter, Sir BENJAMIt'S measures will assur-
edly be thrown overboard. Public meetings
should be held all over the metropolis, and peti-
tions carried about for signatures in the streets
and through the parks. Deputations should be
counteracted by deputations ; sophistry by argu-
ments, and misrepresentations by fair statements
of the merits of the case. Above all things,
let it be insisted on that no intention and no
desire exists to deprive the working man of his
weekly day of rest. That monstrous calumny
has Veen hitherto but too successful, and cannot
be too speedily or too thoroughly exploded. It
is not the abolition, but an improvement in the
character, of the day of rest that it is sought for—
recreation for the mind and heart as well as the
physical frame, such a recreation of the entire
, man as will make worship a little more the act
of a reasonable being, and not abstinence from
attendance on public worship. This cannot be
too forcibly inculcated, nor can the facts that
JUSTIN MARTYR, in the second century, LUTHER,
CALVIN, and CRANMER, in their day, held the
teaching cf the Sabbatarianism of ours in abhor-
, rence, and pronounced most strongly against it,
and that it would be as Christian to insist on
"an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth"
indeed for the observance of the entire Je wish
law as it is to insist on the present puritanical
obiervance of Sunday. Scripture authority, rea-
son, common humanity, are alike in antagonism
to Sabbatism. The measures of Sir BENJAMIN
HALL do credit alike to his head and heart—let
him, we say in conclusion, be supported !