The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-22 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
ELECTION.

46, Chester-square, Jan. 22, 1856.
Leas BUNECAY,—In reply to your letter of yesterday's
date, lam happy to tell you that I am not one of your op-
ponents, and am not going to stand for the University of
Cambridge. The facts are simply these :—On Saturday
morning I received the very unexpected information that
some persons of uonsiderable influence at Cambridge, and
elsewhere, wished me to come forward as a candidate. I re-
plied that if they would bring me a requisition sufficiently
weighty to justify my coming forward I would do so. My
friends, however, soon found that they were too late in the
field; and that such men as yourself—upon whom, perhaps,
they might have counted, if you had been applied to in the
first instance for me—were already actively engaged on one
side or the other. I am, therefore, absolved from any
obligation to move further in the matter. Yon will
probably be surprised that I should have consented even
conditionally to come forward, for I have more work to do
than I know how to get through, and there is no one, I ima-
gine, to whom, personally, a Parliamentary life would be less
attractive ; but there are social questions to which, and to
the legislation about which, I have of late years given much
attention ; and it Seems to toe (perhaps wits the captious-
ness of a bystander) that these questions are not adequately
duscu.ssed in Parliament, and that even the voice of one addi-
tional person who cares about these might be valuable. I
felt it, therefore, to be a duty not to reject such an oppor-
tunity of becoming a Candidate, whatever presumption there
might be in eeking to represent a constituency who may
justly demand to have the first men in the country as their
Representatives. I am th 'roughly glad, however, that the
burden of contest is not upon my shoulders, but on the far
stronger and abler ones of Mr. George Denman, to whom I
beg to tender my vote.
I remain, my dear Sunbury, ever faithfully yours,
ARTHUR HELPS.
E. H. Sunbury, Esq., Chairman of
Mr. Denman's Committee.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRETRY.LANE.
Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENLY(,
THE GREAT GUN TRICK.
After which,
REY DIDDLE DIDDLE; or, Harlequin King Nonsense and the
Seven Ages of Man.

THEATRE ROYAL: HAYMARKET.
Under tile Management of Mr. Bnekstone.
THIS ICTENIVG,
THE BEAUX STRATAGEM.
Alter which the New Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled
TILE BUrTERFLI"S BALL AND THE GRASSHOPPER'S
FEAST; or, Harlequin and the Genial of the Spring.
To c,n dude with •
ONLY A lIALETgNIT..

ROY kr, PRINCEM'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Nader the Mansgeinelit of Hr. Ccuu.i.
THIR EVENING',
KING HENRY THE EIGHTH.
Q ieen Katharine. Mrs. C. Kean; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean.
After which,
B.IIII4EQUIN AND THE MUD AND THE MAGPIE ; Or, the
retry Paradise and Hanky Peaky, the Enchanter.
little:pin. Mr. Cormac%; Clown. Mr. Maine ; Pantaloon, Mr.
PVC* ; and Columhine, Wes Caroline Adams.

THEATRE ROYAL /DELPHI.
Proprtetor, Mt. B. Webster.—Directress, I/Mum Celesta.
THIS EVENLVG,
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
After whicll,
URGENT PRIVATE AFFAIRS.
To conclude wit

AOK, AND THE BEAN STALK; or.Harlaqula stul Mather

00034 at Houle Alen.

wtiteh 514are..Y. Eland, P. Bad Ford, Madame ("elate. Miss
anl 31 Lit E. Arden will ap)ear.

ROYAL SURREY 'MEATH:E.
Lases. Mcurs. Shepherd and Creswlck.
THIS EVENING;
PARIS IN 1792.

To couclude with
A PRIgCE: OF PEARLS: or, Harlequin ant line Shore.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Under the dlrectfon of Mr: Parns.
THIS EVENING,
THE HOLLY THEE INN.
Followed by

A PLAGUE ON ROTH YOUR. HOUSES.

♦lter watch,

NOEMIE or..lhe Foster Sisters.
To conclude with
NOT TO BE DONE.

ROYAL OLYSZPIC THRITRE.
Lame. and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wlzan,

THIS EVICNING,
THE JEILOIJS WIFE.

Attar {which will be produced a Yew and doubly-moral, though
"easlvely old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled
THE utscßp:mr PRINCESA; a`. the Three Glass Distaffs.
Ia which Messy. Emery. P. Rebsort,,M. Cower. Miss Marston,
au .% Mho Ilaskell will appear.

♦STLET'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. ' ,
Lease and Manuel. Mr. Win. Cooke.
FIVE GRIND JUVENILE NIGIIPS, by particular desire.
THIS EVENING,
@rand Equestrian Comic Pantomime, called lIARLEQUIN
AND ST. GEORGE AND TIIE DRAGON; or, the Seven Cham-
pions of Christendom.
After which the unequalled Exhibition of EVESTRUN ART
in the CIRCLE, including' the perforinance of Miss Kate Cook, la
leur de l'Arne. The sagacious Elephants will appear.
To conclude with the faithful portraiture of one of the most popular
Romances ever written called ROOK WOOD; or, TURPIN'S RIDE
to YORK.

Ilox•oOlee open from Veiren till Yotzr. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Equestrian liirector. M. W. Cook.. ;nu.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

T4lll th&T—Mora. 10 min. aft. 2—Evening 31 min. aft. 2
T 1-3101i0Ww—Morti. 32 min. aft. 2—Evening 8 min. aft..",

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, JAN. 22.
THERIfOIIETEII, IN TILE SLIADE.
&t -highest since noon yesterday.
—inwest this morning and daring the night.
43 —this day at citron.
BAROSEErER. 29.46—rising.
oirrirty, N.Y.E. to N.E. —Light, with dull, cold
weather, inclining to :root.
Heavy rain last evening.

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LONDON, TUES V JANUARY 22, 1856.

If ever there was a time when the welfare and
happiness, not only of England but of Europe,
required a steady and determined. hand to guide
the i'Cig94ll of the State through the shoals and
quicksands by which it has been surrounded, its is
at this moment. In nautical language, there are
"breakers ahead," and it is no ordinary skill and
vigilance that will enable us to weather the storm,
and to bring the gallant ship, unscathed by the
tempest, into a secure haven. We confess that
we fear the diplomacy far more than the arms of
Tn War, although slbe has many sympa-
thisers, she has no open and. avowed auxiliary.
But she has many active abettors in the Cunacil
Chamber—and a variety of mysterious influences
all operating in her favour, and conducing to
triumphs which she could never achieve by physi-
cal power. The spirit of " Germanism" which
is now, unfortunately, beginning to be but too
well underAteod in this country is rampant on
her behalf. Every effort has been made, and we
fear will still be made, to save her from the penal
consequences of her uaconseieutious and piratical.
aggressions to secure her from the scrape in.
which she has been involved without any real
humiliation or loss of power, and without giving
any adequate guarantee for future good conduct.
Russia had beau encouraged by a long course
of successful plunder and unexpiated guilt. She
WAS also induced to believe that the pear was
actually ripe for the consummation of one of her
most darling schemes—that she had only to stretch
forth her baud to seize the coveted possessions of
"the Sick Man,"
to obtain an entry into Con-
stantinople and complete control over the Bos-
phorus and the Darola,nelles. She Was partly mis-
led by the position .of the Cult's "friend of forty
Years' standing," " the dear and excellent ABER-
bgtN)" at the head". of the British Government.
A very serious misapprehension respecting the in-
fluence of Me. Co HDBN and his broad-brimmed
coadjutors wee eriother leading cause of error—.
and the presence. of persons in the Cabinet, who
had grossly insu heel the Emperor of FRANCE,
enhanced the del union. Perhaps there may have
been outer calt.p. t, that may be developed at some
future time, and wlalch aro not as yet so decidedly
dissipated as those to which we have above
aimed—whick I Lave persuaded her that
she might still. : persevere, with a certainty
of eventually, au I under- the most inau-
spicious circuy Mat Ice; obtaining a means of
escape from her • dill"( ;ulties whenever they became
°"""1"'Imil3g and is resistible.
The fertile ming negotiation, or Conference,
effere the lay A chanceetf impunity. Should another