The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-08 00:00:00

EMMA STANLEY'S " SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN."

The Mana;er respectfully announces the FOUR L kST MORN-
ING PERFORMANCES of tais most popular and amusing Enter.
tainment, Wednesday, the 9th April, Saturday, the 12th, Wednesday,
the 16th, and Saturd ty, the 19th, at half•past two.

Evening performances as itsual, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays,
awl I,7idays, at 8 o'clock.

Admission—Back Seats, ls.; Centre Seats, 25.; Stalls, 3s.
SAINT MARTIN'S HILL, Long-acre.

ROYAL MARYLERONE THEATRE.
Engagement of Mr. CHARt.F.S MATHEWS.
This Evening, TUESDAY, April Bth, 1856,

THE BACHELOR OF ARTS. Harry Jitspar, Mr. Chas. Mathews.
PATTER VERSUS CLATTER. Capt. Patter, Mr. C. Mathews,
Tu coneutle with THE DUMB POSTILION.

Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. E. Stirling.

HIGH. WATER AT LON'DON BRIDGE.

TRIO DAT—Morn. 47 min. aft. 3—Evening 8 :nin. aft. 4
Tn-Nfonsow—Morn. 27 min. aft. 4 —Evening 48 min: aft. 4

THE VirESTHER—SuN OFFICE, APRIL 8.
TIITR3IOIfS:TER, IN par SHADE.
59 -highest sine° noon yesterday.
49 --iow2st thid morning anti (lux!mit the night.
51 -this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 2)'27.
WIND, S.W.—Fresh and squally, with rain and heavy,
clowly weather.

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L'DNDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1856.

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This deplorable, because at once futile and san-
guinary, War, has been the touchstone of almost
all our great public reputations. It has been the
test of patriotism, and the criterion of ability.
And how many of these reputations—military,
maritime, diplomatic, administrative— having
been weighed in the balance, have been found
wanting?_ gather, we should say, perhaps, how
many have not ? How many " shining lights "
before the struggle commenced with the crossing
of the Pruth by the Russians, and the mustering
of the Allies at Varna, how many who were
" shining lights " before then, have not (since
those incidents transpired) paled in the glare of
this grand European conflagration ? Scarcely
half-a-dozen altogether—viewing them (states-
men and warriors alike) indiscriminately.
Scarcely half-a-dozen we sty altogether. Why,
those great reputations almost at the first blast of
the war-trumpet went down like a pack of cards
built up only to be tumbled into ruins at a whiff !
or at a vibration ! The London Gazette bad scarcely
given the official announcement of this righteous
War against Russia having commenced, when—
just to begin with—the boasted ABERDEEN
Coalition, the Ministry of All the Talents, the
Cabinet containing within it the creole de la
create of living Administrators, suddenly collapsed
—collapsed shamefully, instantaneously, ignomi-
niously. Athenian ABEEDEEN himself—the tra-
velled Thane—ce cher—cet excellent--was sent to
Coventry for once and for all—for ever anGl ever
afterwards ! Being rewarded—(Eleaven knows
fur what !)—with the ribbon and star, with the
collar and mantle, with all the paraphernalia; the
gimcracks and gewgaws of the Most Noble Order of
the Garter—perhap3 (absurd though it may seem)
for the very reason that the old man had posi-
tively not a leg left to stand upon ! However,
sent to Coventry Lord ABERDEEN was—beyond
all do4twith a bee id' his bonnet. And after
him—with the double-prongs of a curiously
pointed cap budding through the velvet of his
coronet, and sundry strange bells tinkling among
his strawberry leaves—went the luckless Duke of
NEWCASTLE ! .Followed, a little later, by a Par-
liamentary triumvirate, still to this very day re-
maining under a sort of Ministerial taboo_a
tricky First Lord of the Admiralty, a crotchetty
Secretary-at-War, and a hair-splitting Chancellor
of the Exchequer t I Scarcely had these three
unfortunates gone to the wall--quite calmly and
unconsciously, and, as it were, comfortably arm-
in-arm—when down came , tumbling from the
top of it, perilously, irretrievably, that
wonderful diplomatic Humpty-Durnpty, my
Lard JOHN RUSSELL ! And "0, what a fall
was there, my countrymen ! " Insomuch that
since the time of that very memorable casualty,
"all the QUEEN'S -horses" however- delicately