The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-10 00:00:00

HHE R MAjE S T Y'S THE AT R E-7 the railways, now in contemplation, existed
It is respectfully announced th it her MAJESTY'S THEATRE _
will RE-OPEN early in May. Engagements of great interest have before the commencement of the War, the result
been effected both in Opera and Ballet, and the best exertions used
to make the arrangements worthy of the occasion. might have been very different. Men and sup-
The prospectus will shortly be issued.
plies could hay, been poured into the Crimea
from the interior of Rilssia, and the difficulties
which proved insuperable would have been com-
pletely got rid of. In tot there is but too much
reason to suppose that Russia has merely post-
poned, not abandoned, her cherished policy. It is
now perceived that NIOIIOLAS had made a wrong
calculation, and that his attempt was decidedly
premature. His successor can, however, afford to
bide his time. He clearly perceives the difficul-
ties by which he was defeated, and can direct all,
his energies to their removal.
The alliance between France and England was
his most formidable obstacle, and that he will
endeavour to destroy or weaken. Very decided
manifestations have already been made, all tend-
ing in that same direction. The Philo-Russian
journals all flatter the EMPEROR, and lavish
praises on his subjects, while England and the
English are unsparingly abused. They strive to
establish an entente cordiale with France, while
;they are really hostile to England, and pretend
to be so towards Austria. The construction of
the military lines of railway in the interior of the
empire is another point to which they are
directing attention ; and, as wo have seen, it is
with English capital that they hope to achieve
the desideratum. Thus doubly injuring this coun-
try, by increasing the strength of a nation whick,
has very recently, and may again speedily, be
arrayed in arms against her, and withdrawing
the bullion• on which the national industry is de-

SHEATHE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE,
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS ETE GI,
IL TROVATORE.
go e'n lade with
THE ENCHANTED GARDEN.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
'Mier the Management of Mr. Backstone.
THIS EVENING,
THE EVIL GENIUS.

Followed by
EL GAMBU3tXO ; or, The Mexican Goldsteker.
In which PER El :MENA and the Spanish Dancers wit appear.

After which,
THE POSTMAN'S KNOCK.
To conclude with
ONLY A HALFPENNY.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-SrREST.
Under the Management of Nfr. CUMIN HEAL
THIS EVENING
;-
HENRY VIII.
Queen Katharine, Mrs. C. Kean; Cardinal Worsen Mr. C. Kean.
To be followed by
THE VICTOR VANQUISHED.
To conclude with ,
A PRINCE FOR AN HOUR.

taIiCATIM 11,01TAL ADKL,Pai.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Web3tor.—Directress, Madame Ce

TILTS EVENING,

LIKE AND UNLIKE.

To conclude with

I WIC AND THE BE 4.,N- Harlequin and Mother

Goose at Home Agala.

Ia whie4 Veqsrs. J. 131,ind, P. Bedford, Madarne Ce!elite, Miss
Wyndham. and Miss E. Arden will apaear.

ROYAL OLYMPIC TITEATRE.
Lessee and Manner, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
THIS EyENING
STILL WATERS RUN DEEP.

After which will be produced a New and deubly-moral, though
excessively old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled
THE DISCREET PRINCESS; or. the Three Glass Distaffs.
I, wii.en tiieacry. Erne-y, F. Robson, U. Cooper, Miss Marston,
and 4ias Maskell will appear.

pendent.

Were the Louis NAPOLEON of 1854 on the
Imperial Throne, we should entertain but trivial
apprehensions respecting the possibility of a Russo-
French Alliance. But circumstances have changed
New dynastic considerations are in operation that
may possibly, and at no very remote period, lead
to a truly Imperial fraternisation very injurious
to the cause of liberty and cis ilisation throughout
the entire world. We earnestly pray that the
alliance between France and England may be
perpetuated, that every day may strengthen • the
bonds by which the two greatest monarchies of the
earth are connected ; but we cannot remain blind
or indifferent to the insidious attempts that may,
and we fear have already been made to separate
and disunite them.
While matters are in this state, and while we are
still ignorant of the terms of peace, the nation is.
to be amused with a naval review to show the
power that we really possessed when too late to
direct it to any useful purpose. They may talk
of "shutting the stable-door after the steed. has
' been stolen," but the English Government has
been guilty of equal absurdity. So long
as gun-boats were urgently required,. when
their services would have enabled us to maintain
the maritime supremacy of which we were accus•
tomed to boast, and to inflict heavy, and Possibly
fatal, blows against the enemy, we could not ob-
tain them ; but the moment that we were really
in a position to adopt decisive measure's—that we
were in possession of all the necessary means and
applianees—then a humiliating truce is patched
app. which .gives neither compensation for
the past nor security for the future. We shall
have the exhibition of the costly -farce as
the sole compensation for the many serious
sacrifices so cheerfully and unhesitatingly
Aubinitted to by the tax- paying column
- And then we snprse that they will Ix,
:laid up in ordinary as enduring 'monuments.yf
British folly in the latter part of the nineteenth
century.. `Veil may .we be made the laughing-
stock of Europe, when the ridiculous subservience
of the.once formidable British Lion to its Ger
Manic keepers is noticed, and when it ii also shown
that for two years we are accustomed -to defer
the preparations es-ential to success, and when
we have obtained them are ready to close with the
first advance towards a reconciliation, although
all the objects of the War may remaia unacco.n.
plislied!. Wo are sold ! we are sold ! An I by
whom ? and for whom ? LA the insidious but
ungrateful German answer !

ROY it SC /REY TUSATRE.

Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick.

THIS EVENING,

Will be eerformel a new Drama, entttled
ROW WE LIVE IN THE WO MD OF LONDON.

Followed by
THE POSTMAN'S KNOCK.

To conclude with
TUFFLEFIAUSEIN"; or, Th 3 Lawyer's Legend.

ftJYAL WritASl) TkiltATß&.
Er Icier the direction of Mr: Pk ne

THIS EVE lING,
31Y WIFE'S COE-31N.

After which,

THE LOS C DIAMONDS.
Fo'lowel by
A Ba'kt Divertissement.

After which,
COOT) QUEEN B M.

To conclude with

XO! NO!! NO!!!

ROYAL MARYLEBONE THEATRE.
THURSDAY, Apr.l 10 h, last night tut one of 3fr.CII.4.RLY.S
MATHEWS' Engagement.
This Evening will be per'ormsd," THE GAME OF SPECULA-
TION. Mr. Affable Hawk, Mr. Charles Mathews.
After which, TIIE GREAT GUN TRICK. The Wizard of the
S S.W., Mr. Chas. Mathews.
To cone:ucle with KATHERINE AND PETRUCHIG.
Boxes, 2s. ; pit, Is.; gallery, Gd.
Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. E. Stirling.

ANTI/Erg ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
•
Lessea and Manager, Mr. win. Cooke.
Tlll3 EVENING,
That unique and umi, aralle'ed Ben xintre Equestrienne, a GENU-
INE ENGLISH STEEPLECIIASE!
' Also, the Oriental Spectacle, TIIE AT1.113 OF THE 13E$Ellt
•AND 1118 FAITUFUL sIfEED. " • •
,
After which, the WONDER.g or 'VIE ARENA,_ by riders of
•first-rate talent. • • . •
• -
To c,intinde with a •Dramt of 'Peril, Exclement. Laughter, 111s-
haps, tiroisings, Jostlings, and Adventuies, with Terrific -F.,exas from
-tha Atage to the 1.414 in ENOr.A.NIY6 lid.RVE3t 1.1031 K ant
NATIONAL rEET.LE'I3.IA.SE.

Box-Wine open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager. iir
West. Equestrian Director, AU Vi Cooke, Inn.

EMMA STANLEY'S "SEVEN AGKS Or ,WOMAN."

Tho Mana;er respectfully announces the THREE EAST molpf-
ISO PERFORMANCES of this mist popular an lant!tug Enter-
tainment, Saturday, the 12th, Wednesday, tha.l6th, and Satur&iy,
the 19th, at half-past two. ,

Evening perfoemancee as ttsusl, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Tharsdayi
and F-idays, at g

Admission—Back Seats, Is.; Centre Seats, 2s. ; 82.0,115, as.
SAINT MAR rIN'S UALL, Long-acre. .

HIGH' WATER AT LONDON

THIS Det —Morn. 8 win. aft. s—Evening 31 min. aft. 5
PI-Honnow—Morn. 53 min. aft. 5 —Evoning 17 win. aft. 6

THE WEATHER—Strx OFPICE, APRIL 10.
THIERMONItTER, IN TIM &lAD&
55 highest since noon yesterday.
43—lowest this mu; 4nd Itirrnt ch., night.
6) -Ws day at
BAR()IfETER, 2 )•22—now np to 29'33.
WIND, variable from S.W. to W.N.W.—Fresh and
squally, with dull, rainy weather in the morning ; now
lino.

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A popular author says somewhere that there is
a passion in human nature to hunt something,
and really the tenacity with which the Oath of
Abjuration is maintained lends some sort of coun-
tenance to the remark, so far as the members of
the Legislature are concerned. Here is an o tth,
which, however well or ill calculated originally to
operate as a safeguard against a positive danger,
has become practically useless for its avowed ob-
ject, through the utter extinction of that danger,
still enforced and defended, not because the non-
existence of an heir to the PEETENDERis doubted,
but because the oath is so worded as to exclude
an industrious and inoffensive body of religionists
whom it was never designed to exclude, and
whose only fault, so far as we can discern, is—
they believe in the Old and not in the New
Testament. All sorts of restrictive and
pertecuting laws the present century has
seen repealed— Dis-ienters and Ronan Ca-
tholics have alike been relieved of their civil
and-. religious disabilities yet the luckless
Jew' remains to this hour excluded from a seat in
Paillanient. And this notwithstanding the citi
zens of the metropolis have elected and re-eleced
Jew as one of their representatives, and he for
nine long years' has sought admission, during
Which,period successive efforts have been made in.
the House to have such admission granted ; not-
withstanding, too, the execution of the .last dreial
penalty of the law has been entrusted to a Jew in
the Capacity of High Sheriff ; and, since iVovem-
ber last, a member of the same long-persecuted
race has occupied the chair of Chief Magistrate of
the metropolis of the kingdom, and has had the
insignia of the highest civic dignity borne before
him. The remark of the author referred to may
be an exaggeration; - but to a large proportion of
he members of the Legislature the hunting of a
Jew would seem to aff)rd a singular gratification.
Sir FREDERICK DIESIGER,.it is true, discovers
in the wording of the Abjuration Oath a formal
reengnition of, the Protestant succession to the
Crown ; but, with all deference to his lawyer-like
ingerOity, that, if,_ as he asserts, not to be .found
elsewhere, might
• maintaining intaC readily be provided for without
t an oath unintentionally -produc-
tive of so gross an injustice.. That the terms of tl e.
oath, 4.4 on the trite' faith 'of -a Chtiatian " were not
)
originally directed, agalnst the Jews he himself
admits, but would have it- inferred they were
designedly included,in its meshes afterwards, of
which there is not the shadow of .a proof...= This,
we suppose, was thrown out to get rid of the
grave imputation of countenancing the perpetva-
tion Hof
.an
.a-dmitted wrong to obViate. the re-
motest Possible:danger: Still more apparent -was-
the real animus of the opposition to the bill in his
introduction of the hackneyed and utterly-absurd
argument, that the admission of Jews would un-
Christianise the house. Is there any special con

tamination, it may well be asked, in a Jew tLat
he should eireet what infidels, givers of bribes,

and forgers -and robbers (SA DLErn, fur instance)
ba,va been unable to do ? A Jew at least believes
the Old Testament, and professes to be bound by