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Q OUTH-13ASTERN RA TLWAY. GRAND ' like to know for what ? For a Peace which
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April 14; 1856.

dignation has been thoroughly aroused it does
not speedily or easily subside, and in such case no
secret or unconstitutional influence, however great,
could guard her against its natural consequences.
The time may not be far distant when the
feelings and wishes of the various constituencies
may be more fully-and fairly represented in Par-
liament than at -present. A general election is
"looming in , the future," and wa believe
that when the inspiring cry of "England
for the English, and not for the Germans," has
been proclaimed from the hustings—when candi-
dates must speak out boldly and intelligibly, in
order to have the slightest chance of election—
the results will be such as to convince the uncon-
stitutional intermeddlers that they must sink back
into their legitimate positions, and abstain from
interference, highly prejudicial to the safety,
honour, and welfare of our SOVEREIGN and her
dominions, and very dangerous to themselves, and
to those whom they fancy they can shield from
the natural consequences of their own misconduct.

QOIITII-WESTERN RAILWAY.-The
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Be order.
Railway Offices, Waterloo Station, 14th April, 1856!
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adroitly contrived to evade, to the end that their
diplomatic representatives may be admitted at last
upon a footing of equality with the rest of the
Plenipotentiaries gathered together in the sanctum
sanctorum of the Parisian Conferences?
Rejoicings ! In the name of common sense,
we repeat, for what? For Austria's having all
along retained—for her still retaining up to this
present moment inelusively—undisPuted posses-
sion of the Danubian Principalities ? For
Prussia's having • made money " galore,"
through her sinister monopoly of the Russian
markets while the two yeare'struggle lasted—
at the close of which profitable interval the Cabi-
net of Berlin is rewarded for its selfishness and
pusillanimity, by an invitation to take part,
through the person of its ambassador, in the pre-
liminary arrangements for the, Premature Pacifi-
cation, as well as immediately afterwards by the
prospect of a dynastic alliance, to be effected by
means of an unien cunningly arranged between
the heir of King CLICQUOT and the Princess Royal
of England ?

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.-
It is resPechhily announced that. her MAJESTY'S THEATRE
will RE-OPEN early in %fay. Engagements of great interest have
been effected both in Poem and Rallet, and the best exertions used
to make the arrangements worthy of the occasion.
The 'piospectns wilt shortly be issued.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRITRT.ILANH,
Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith. ,
THIS ErENRG,
TROVA
7o e'rtjade with
THE ENCHANTED GARDEN.

-- • TIIEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARK&T.
ruler the Management of Mr. Buckatone.

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Nothing is more objectionable to the English
People, nothing should be more so to the French
ExrEaan than foreign interference in the internal
affairs of an independent State. Had it been
attempted in France Louis NAPOLEON might have
held a situation very different indeed from that
which he now occupies. If the present Congress
be anything better than a conspiracy of
crowned , heads against popular liberties, such
armed intervention should be expressly and
unequivocally prohibited, and every nation
shOuld be allowed to arrange its domestic affairs
and all relating to its internal government, with-
out the presence of foreign troops etziving to con-
trol- and smother the voice of public opinion.
Now military occupation is the favourite specific
of Austria, she fancies that it is the panctiect for
every disease, and that as she was enabled to
rivet the chains on the' gallant Magyars by the
assistance of Cossack hordes, without which they
would speedily have shaken off the detested yoke,
she may is like manner crush liberty in every
neighbouring state. •

TIM EVENING,
THE EVIL GENIUS.

Followed by
Et GAHMT.3[ETO ; or, The Hexican Goldseeker.
In hlch PER EA. NE NA. acid the Spanish, Dancers wi/1 appear.

After which,
LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS

To conclude,with
THE rOST3IA.N'S KNOCK.

ROY.U. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the. Management of Mr. Cam= LUX.
THIS EvENING,
A WONDERFUL WOMAN.
To be followed by
FAUST AND MARGUERITE.
To entitinde with
A PRINCE FOR AN HOUR.

Rejoicings, ye Gods !—rejoicings for what? For
millions upon millions sterling spent for no purpose
whatever ? For hundreds, and thousands, and tens
of thousands, of bravefellowsperishingon the shores
of the Black Sea to no end at all that any one
can discover beyond that of adorning the Tale of
this deplorable Conflict, and pointing the Moral
of our most criminal Mismanagement ? Rejoic-
ings—can they be—for the bones of those struck
down by pestilence at Scutari ? For the ashes of
those dying in the trenches through privation? For
the dust of the gallant veterans killed, in vain asfar as
the glory of the West is concerned, among the
hills and valleys, among the rivers and ravines of
the inhospitable Chersonesus ? Rejoicings !—Are
we to hear of rejoicings fora Peace sneaking into
existence out of a • Diplomatic Palaver !
Enstead of a Peace dictated by the
conquering power upon the historic field of
some supreme and ever-memorable victory
Never—we undertake to aver thus explicitly what
the annals of the world everywhere demonstrate
beyond the possibility of contradiction—never has
a great international permanent Peace been accom-
plished other wise than in the way we have here last
mentioned. A Peace to be secure even for a few
years, rnustbe aPeaceso obtained—a Peace won by
the edge of the sword—a Peace thefruit of some de-
cisive triumph—a Peace the result of a grand and
crowning Battle, a Waterloo, or an Austerlitz.
Effect a Peace, or what you call a Peace, by a few
scratches of a Pen--(uo matter whether you carve
it out of the quill of an Eagle or of a Goose 1)—
and at best it will only be an unsafe Truce conse-
quent upon an uncertain Compromise !
And surely we have no such crowning vic-
tory to boast of—no great battle won, upon
the morrow of which we could dictate, not
"arrange," but dictate, terms of peace to•
an enemy effectually vanquished. In this
way, indeed, we cannot even now exult over
the complete and final capture of Sebastopol—
the huge Northern Forts being still resolutely
retained in the possession of the stubborn and
unyielding Muscovites I While as to the other
scenes of conflict illustrating the prowess of the
combatants during this last two years' struggle,
wo cannot by any means boast of them as in any
essential particular in. any way decisive. The
Alma was glorious, no doubt, but it was
so far from being a consummation that it was lite-
rally onlia commencement. Inkerman ?—Well, we
all know that was a Surprise—splendidly repulsed
beyond all question—but still a Surprise. Bala-
klava ?—that again was worse than a Surprise ; it
was a Blunder—but a Blunder glorified into the
Heroic by a valour of unparalleled magni-
ficence. Traktir-hridgo or The Tcbernaya—which-
ever it may be called—it vra.i merely a brilliant
episode. And as for the•Redan—well, the failure
at the Redan was just redeemed, fortunately, by
the success at the Malakhoff ! At any rate,
nowhere throughout all this terrible conflict
of two years in the Crimta, nowhere is
there discoverable for France and England,-for
Turkey and Sardinia, for Europe, for Christen-
dom—nowhere is there discoverable what has
already been here mentioned as the only
sure basis for the building up upon it,
of anything at all pretending to the gran-
deur and solidity of a Permanent Pacifi-
cation. Matchless feats of arms there have
been during this War both for France and fur
England, and let us add too for Turkey—but not
one decisive victory, not one victory that could
be taken as the foundation for a lasting Peace.
And therefore it is that we cannot Rejoice. Re-
joice ! Remembering all that has been squandered
iu blood and treasures upon this deplorable be-
cause wholly futileand bootleso straggle with a law-
less aggressor—rather than cause for rejoicing we
can only disc Over in this most destructive War,
and in this most despicable Peace—reason for
bitter and profound lamentation!

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,
- LIKE AND UNLIKE.,
• Messrs, B Websti.f;Wright, P. Bedford, C Selby, Garden;
Madame Cel, ste, Miss Wyndham.
To conclude with
,SACK AND THE BEtN s'TALK ; or, llarl?quin and Mother
Goose at Home Again.

RIYAL OILY vIPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Mans.;:er, 11r. Alfred Wigan.

T3I EVENING

We have already seen that she regards Italy as
completely her own, its nominal Princes as her
mere satrap witnessed last year the course
adopted in Tuscany, which completely ignored
the claim of the so-called Grand Duke to any ves-
tige of independence. A similar movement to-
wards Parma now appears to be in contemplation.
The question arises, and it is truly moment-
ous, is the attempt about to be made with the
sanction and connivance of the'Congress, or of any
and which of its members ?, or is it merely by Aus-
tria, in the hope of bullying the other members,
and by a step so decided getting rid of the very
distasteful topics that have been introduced by
the Sardinian Plenipotentiary, with, as it is as-
serted, the full assent and unqualified approval of
Louis NAPOLEON ? We should earnestly hope
that the latter may be the correct solution of the
all-important problem. A short time since we
should not have had the slightest hesitation on the
point, or imagined for a moment that the Monarch
who owed his exalted position to the suffrages of
his people would for a moment tolerate the inter-
ference of other Sovereigns with the most sacred
and inalienable privileges of a free community,
viz., that of selecting the form of Government
suited to their wants and wishes, and best calcu-
lated to develops the national prosperity. Unfor-
tunately, hoWever, there have been too, many
recent symptoms of undue weight being attached
to dynastic considerations, and a desire to
strengthen a throne founded on the popular will
by the aid of despotic rulers. There are too fre-
quent allusions to "the Uaion so happily re-esta-
blished between Sovereigns," and far too few to the
friendly and cordial feelings between the Peoples.
We therefore'aniiously look forward to some de-
cided demonstration that may dispel the mystery,
and enable us once more to place implicit reliance
on the Imperial Ruler of the French. Should that
demonstration be• in the right direction, as we
fervently pray may be the case, he should
abstain from any objectionable proceedings
himself, and not strive to prop up any
foreign power by the' air OrFreneh biyonets.
He should be enabled to come into court with
clean hands, and carefully remove the beam from
his own eye before he endeavours to purify the
vision of others. Italy cannot always be coerced
—the quondam, Mistress of the World cannot
for ever be kept in a state of thraldom. A libera-
tor may arise—the oppressed nationalities may
put forth their mighty, although dormant,
strength, and woe to those who endeavour to resist
the torrent, and render the contest one of the
most formidable that has ever occurred—a War
to the knife between the conflicting principles of
liberty and of despotism, of civilisation and of
blind and degrading barbarism.

STMT. WATERS RUN DEEP.

After which will be produced a New and deubly-nloral, though
xcessively oil, 14felodranaPtio Fairy Extravaganza, entitled
THE DISCREET PRINCESi; o", the Three Glees Distaffs.
which llessrs. Emery, F. Robson, 11. Cooper, Miss Marston
an I Nfiss Maskell will appear.

BOYIL SUrtEY TIIEA.TRE.
Lessees, Blesers. Sbaphenl and Creswick.

TIII4 EVENING,
Will be performed 4 new Drama. entitled ,
BOW WE LIVE IN TII%-WORLD OF LONDON.

'Followed by
THE POS TMA VS KNOCK.

;To conclude with
TI7FFLEI/1113EST; or, The Lawyer's, telend.

ROYAL MARYLEBONE THEATRE.
Unger the Management of Mr. E. Sttrling

Engagement of NlTqs FITZPATRICK, of the Theatres Royal Drury-
lane, and 'event-Darden, for Six Nights only.
_ _

MONDAY and TUESDAY, April 14th and 150, will be performed
LOVE CHASE Constance, Miss Fitzpatrick MeSifS. Belford.
Lewis Bail, Saunders. Carter, Langton, M•esas Anderton; 'rawer,
and Mars.

Tv conclude with

TIIE H lUNTED INN'. Messrs Lewis Ball, Saunders, Bedford,
Misses Morrell, and Mars.
On Wednesday, VIE SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER. Widow Cliperly,
3/11.!s Fitzpatrick.

♦µTLISY'S ItOYAi. A.MPIIITELeIs.TRIC.
Lessee and Manager. Mr. Wm. Cooke.
THIS EVENING. '
The Performances wll embrace that startling novelty, a Real
English Steeplechase, with all its exciting incidents.
The Entertainments wUI c mmence with THE ARAB OF THE
DESERT ..*ND HIS FAITHFUL SPEED.
After which, the EQUESTRIAN WONDERS OF THE ARENA,
Trampoline, Gymnastics, &c.
To conclude with a Drams intreducingENGLA'ND'S HARVEST
IiONIE ant NATIONAL SrEEPLE.;IIISE, with a noble Stud of
Horses, trained by Mr. Will am Cooke.
Box-ofXce open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. F.qu-3strqui litreetor, &tr. W. Cooke. jun.

THE Sribis LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1856.

the winter before last. The result was an over-
whelming defeat.
There was hardly one of the resolutions which
was not the subject of deservedly hostile criticism,
but the grand points 'of attack were the compul-
sory rating and attendance, and the religious
teaching. What evidently stung his Lordship
more than anything else was the evident leaning
of Sir JAMES GRAHAM and Mr. GLADSTONE to
voluntaryism. He taunted Sir JAMES as he :lid
Lord STANLEY in the Church-Rate debate,
with the logical bearing - of their argue
ments, if carried out, against all religious
State Establishments. • His Latter-Day Saint-
ship seems specially concerned to upheld what
bishops and statesmen now begin somewhat
to tremble for. Church Rates and the Crown, he
thinks, must stand or fall together ; yet even
Tory speakers repeated-the-argument which was
employed frequently in the debate—that an edu-
cation rate, with religious teaching in the schools,
would increase the intolerable contests by which
Church Rates are so injuriously distinguished,
and with even greater bitterness, this rate being
a new infliction. Sir JAMES and Mr. GLADSTONE
both avowed their concurrence with Mr. MILNEE
GIBSON in his position—that " a compulsory rate
and secular education must go together." They
both also strongly asserted their opinion that such
a rate would be the "death-warrant of voluntary
education."

LATEST NEWS.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.
We have received the following telegraphic
message from Trieste :

A somewhat careful attention to this long de-
bate inclines us decidedly to agree with the two
statesmen we have just referred to. We have had
occasions enough of difference with them, but in
this debate they appear' to have been inspired

TRIESTE, MONDAY.
The steamer Australia arrived this morning
from Alexandria in 114 hours.

afresh by the spiri t of Free Trad e. They reasoned not
as special pleaders, in which character they have
appeared so much of late, but with the freshness
of cleared up doubts and decided conviction. 01
late both have been in opposition to the better
instincts of the country, but now they were the
advocates of that personal freedom, and those sell
governing arrangements which are so dear and so
natural to Englishmen. Lord JOHN was spread-
ing a continental—a German net for the nation,
they were tearing it to pieces before the eyes of
those whom it was designed ultimately to enfold.
The evidence adduced to prove that the nation
was advancing rapidly to as, high a state of edu-
cation as that of any country was quite conclu-
sive. It is needless to weary our readers with
statistics, but partisans cnly, .we think, can now
refuse to acknowledge that voluntary education is
doing its work with such extraordinary rapidity,
that it were madness in 'a Statesman to hazard in-
terference with it. What the Council of Kluca-
tion are now doing is the utmost limit to which
Government aid can be carried without endanger-
ing spontaneous exertions. Indee3, authentic evi-
dence is adduced of its having already induced
wealthy subscribers to lessen their subscriptions.
Sir JOHN PAHINGTON asserted that the " ques-
tion to be decided was whether England should
be educated or not." We beg to differ entirely
from the worthy member—it was not " whether"
but " how." All agree in the desirableness of
universal education ; but the majority, we be-
lieve, of thinking persons, are becoming aware,
that education can no more be healthily forced
than trade and commerce. An artificial .unifor-
mity of school attendance and lesson-learning
might be attained by taking lesson from Prussia
or Austria, but. an Englishman who cannot read
a word is generally a nobler fellow than the duly
trained German. Re has a courage, an indivi-
duality, and above all a self-reli4nce and hatred

The Indian Mail left Alexandria on the 9th
inst., with dates from Calcutta to the 10th, and
Bombay the 19th of March.

of Government interference with his freedom,
which raises him far above the ignoble races
drilled by the schoolmasters and police of despots.
Contrast the English peasant and the German
bauer during the Russian. War, and who does
sot feel proud of even the illiterate part of his
countrymen. •

One fundamental objection to Lord Jollies
whole scheme.is that it must end in universal
compulsion of parents to educate their children,
and that Englishmen vrillnot be compelled by Lord
Yonx,' or by any. of thsir Lordships. It proposes
at once to enforce on agricultural employers, of

labour, as on manufacturers, the education of their
children. One is, of course, as equitable as the
other ; but Lord SHAFTESBURY worked his philan-
thropy through the hatred 'of landlords to manu-
facturers, and the latter were thus made to edu-
cate their children. There certainly ought,. on
the same grounds, to be inspectors entering farm
houses, and country gentlemen's seats and model
farms, examining all the children employed in
connection with agriculture ; but, as Mr. GLAD-
STONE observes, one qualification fur such, inspectors
ought certainly to be "robustness," and even then
the vicinity of th• pump and the horsepond would
have to be carefully avoided. To all compulsory pro-
jects, except as applied to some devoted class, one
answer is sufficient--" We were born in England,
not in Saxe-Coburg-Gotha." There are coinci-
dences, certainly, which have no casual conneo-
tion, but it is a singular fact that from the time
the Whig Ministry introduced his Royal Highness
to her MAJESTY, Lord J. RUSSELL has declined
more and more from the liberal measures of his
earlier days. Whether it was that he took fright
at, his own Reform Bill, or that he had reached
the Conservative age, or that the Bishops seduced
him, or that German Courts impregnated_ his
policy with their own, it is Hot easy to say. Per-
haps all 'these catnes co-operated. Certain it is
that the Lord J. RUSSELL of the Test and Cor-
poration Acts is now pohind *ir J. GRAHAM, Mr.
GLADSTONE, Lord STANLEY, and frequently be-
hind more extreme Conservatives.

His Royal-High cgs PehTWAillert Will, it is said, pay
a short visit to Paris in the course of the summer. The
object of the Prince Consort's visit will be to represent
her Majesty at the baptism of the Imperial infant son' of
the Emperor and Empress of France.
The Canard steamer Persia was announced yesterday
with 117,000/. from New York, and is stated to have
performed the passage in 9 days, 12 hours, and 7 minutes,
being six hours less than the fastest ever made.
The following hoax appears in La Palma, a Cadiz
paper :—" Most people will, doubtless, be surprised at
learning that the celebrated English Minister, Lord Pal-
merston, contemplatesretiring into pri rate life, and fixing
his future residence at San Ducar-de-B,rranuela.
~We
learn on good authority that a negociation is going on
for the purchase of a magnificent property, on which the
opulent lord intends settling with his family, and where
he hopes to spend the last days of his agitated and cele-
brated existence amid the perfume of orange groves and
under the abode of gigantic olive trees."
CABINET COUNCIL.—A Cabinet Council was held on
Saturday afternoon at the Foreigdoffice. The Ministers
present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord
,Chan-
cellor, Earl Granville. the Marquis of Lansdowne, the
Earl of Harrowby, Sir G. Grey, Mr. Secretary Labou-
chfre, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Sir C. Wood, the Right Hon, R, V. Smith, Lord Stanley
of Aiderley, the Right Hen, M. T. Baines and the Duke
of Argyll. The Council sat four hours.
PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.— An account of
the public income and expenditure for the year ended
the 314 ult. giveathe total receipts at 65,704,4901., and
the total disbursements at 83,428,345/., leaving a defi-
ciency, or excess of expenditure, amounting to the enor-
mous sum of 22,722,854/. Of the receipts the sum of
21,788,770/. accrued from Customs, 18,636,669/.• from
Excise, 6,894,307/. from stamps, 2,958,626/, from
taxes, 14,814,7561. from the income tax, 1,171,6967,
from the Pest office, 281,515/. from Crown lands,
527,377/. from sale of old stores, 472,029/. from miecel-
laneouareeeipts, and 98. 471/..from unclaimed dividends.
Of the expenditure, 28,112,824/. -went towards the rin-
terest and management of the public debt, 1,723,419/.
to the charges on tbeconsolidated,funcl, and 58,592,100/.
to the supply service?, including 17,395;0591, for the
army, 19,654,885/. for the navy, 10,411,543/. for the
:Orgnanbe, 4,20D.,0001. for the vote of "credit (additional
expenses, war with Russia). and 6,930,91.21. for "mis-,,
cellexteerus-qiirit-:ffervices." -The- balatrce in the-Bzc~ec~t~r
GitllkPetiat 111114066 a 401/Mataita 5,x 6,