The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-01 00:00:00

ROYAL THE kTRZ ADELPIII.

Propriator and Manager. Mr. B. Webster.
Directress. Madame Celeste.
TIM EVF,‘ITSM.
LIKE AND UNLIKE.

After which.
THE CUSTOJIS OF THE COUNTRY.

To concludo with
TILE IRISH LION.

R31"Al: OLTITPIC THEATRE..
Lowe and Ifanager, `Sr. Alfrea Wigiva.

TEII3 EVENING

A FASCINATING INDIVIDUAL.

After which,

RETRIBUTION.

To conclude with
CATatIVTG A Mwitlf AID.

ASTLETS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager. Mr. Win. Cooke.

THIS EVENING,
The Romantic Equestrian Spectacle. THE HOME OF THE
CAVERN, or the Mounted Brigands of the Abruzzi, introducing Mr.
W. Cooke's wonderfully trained horses.
After which,
A select variety of SrIENES in the CIRCLE. The laughable
exhibition of Desaral's troupe of Doss and floakeys. The extraor-
dinary performance of the German Brothers.
Te concitme with
THE FESTIVAL OF PEACE; or Honour to the Brave.
Box-office open from tid nem. Stare Manager, Mr. W.
West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, Jun.

MGR WATER, AT LONDON BIUDGE. -
THIS DAY—Worn. 34 min. aft. 12—Evening 2 min. aft. 1
Ttl-510100w—Morn. 30 min. aft. I—Evening Er) min. aft. 1

quarter. That, hovrever, was ouly gaining a loss,
as the prices obained by no means represented the
ori4inal cost to the Exchequer.

Ou the whole, while wa cannot greatly exult
in the manifestations of national prosperity, so
loudly insisted on by some of our contemporaries,
we may thank our stars that matters are not far.
worse, as they might easily have beet', considering
the high price of money and the enormous and
oppressive taxation to which all classes of her
MAJESTY'S subjects are still liable for the expenses
of the War that has recently been brought to so
"lame and impotent" a conclusion.

Somebody—an English officer—called out on
Saturday evening; upon the occasion of the ban-
quet given by the Army and Navy Club to Sir
FENWICK WILLIAMS, " One Cheer more for the
EMPEROR of RUSSIA !" A Cheer ? Good GOD !
What for ? For the bones of some 20,000 of
our heroic fellow-countrymen, buried away not far
from that dreadful Crimean Camp, or within
pistol shot from the walls of those awful Scutari
Hospitals ? A Cheer? Is it because of the
death of so many thousands of our brave Allies
that we are expected to " Cheer," that English
officers actually do "Cheer" the "name, style,
and title " of The EMPEROR of RUSS/ A ? Make an
ignominious peace, if you will, with this .Ex-
PEROR of Russ's—but in GOD'S name don't
cheer him ! By the memory of the infamous
massacre at Sinope, by that of the dastardly
and cold-blooded assassinations at Hango-Udd—
by all the horrible recollections of Muscovite
insolence and brutality during the course of the
late odious War—by the remembrance of NEssEL-
RODE'S diplomatic circulars (full of lies) and of
MENSCHIKOFF'S diplomatic mission (replete with
the evidences of savagery)—Not " One cheer
more for the Emperor of RUSSIA !" Yet, in the
presence of the Hero of Kars, whom they wore
assembled to honour, the English officers partici-
pating in the banquet at the Army and Navy
Club on Saturday evening, responded to the call
'for this Cheer—" most heartily !"

Why don't we after this at once set about the
organisation of a grand Banquet—'-say at the Rag
and Famish—in honour of Mr. CRAMPTON—And
have Somebody else call for, and elicit, " One
Cheer more for President PIERCE ! " It would,
we declare positively, be far more decent ! For
President PIERCE has, as yet, indulged only in a
bloodless insolence—just so much empty bully-
ragging ! Whereas the CZAR has his title in-
famously associated with a wholesale carnage, the
mere thought of which is absolutely sickening.
The blackguards of Virginia are just now pre-
senting gold cups, gold-headed canes, and other
elegant testimonials to that ruffianly fellow
BROOKS, who the other evening belaboured
Mr. SUMNER, the great Abolitionist Ora-
tor in the American Senate—an outrage,
bluff honest old Maga cilia it to-day
(vide July No. of Blackwood)—" so unprovoked
and atrocious that we believe the veriest coal-
heaver in this country would have scorned to have
perpetrated it." Well, perhaps—after the inci-
dent of Saturday—perhaps we shall hear Some-
body calling for, and eliciting "One cheer more"
for mar ! For Citizen BROOKS, who cudgelled
the bare head of Citizen SUMNER in the sacred
Hall of Congress of the great IJ-nited
States ! Who knows ? Perhaps there really
are men among us who would not blnsl:
to respond " most heartily " to the call for
" One cheer more for Mr. BROOKS ! " Certainly
not quite an extravagant conjecture, this, remem-
bering the enthusiasm with which a similar ap-
peal in behalf of the E nperer of Russra. was
welcomed under the roof of the Army and Navy
Cub on Saturday evening. " One cheer more
for the Emperor of RUSSIA !" Recollecting
that the policy of PETER is hereditary, till,:
actually means—One Cheer M)re for the un-
provoked assailant of Turkey, for the wilful dis-
turber of the tranquillity of Europe, for the
pitiless destroyer, within a few months, of some
50,000 of the Allied Soldiers, to say nothing of
very nearly 150,000 of his own miserable sub-
jes ! One Cheer More for him—officers of the
British Army and Navy assemble 1 round the
festive board to d) honour to the Hero of Kars !
One Cheer More for the Emperor of RIISSI A—
UpStall ding—uncovered—glass in hand—" the
sun in your eyes !" Certainly without tilt
principles of The Sun in your hearts—without,
at that moment, one throb of patriot ardour or
civic self-reepect—witliout one thought for the
dead and buried far away on the shores of the
Black Sea and of the Bosphorus.
*,(!- Wire, in the name of HEAVEN, we should
like to know, was this pro-Muscovite Toast-
master ?

While whole nights must be devoted to work
which ends in nothing, to debates on May-nootb,
or on motions to rectify blunders made , whil'
senators were dancing .at the QUEEN'S ball, real
business must be either taboOed or kicked out of
the House. The American difficulties for instance
—the Press here and at New York may discuss
them, clubs may chat over them, every circle
may converse over them—they are in
fact everybody's business, for everybody
feels that how they are managed may con-
cern his pocket and his comforts very materi-
ally ; yet members of Parliament, "in their place
in Parliament," may not discuss them. " The
greatest inconvenience," they are always assured,
miglat arise from it "to the public service." If
it were stated that particular Ministers would be
inconvenienced and pet schemes thwarted, we
could believe it ; but in all common sense, when.
the negotiations are about public facts, carried on
by public persons, and to terminate in public
results, why all this secrecy ? Take the Cen-
tral American question, for the other is, we sup-
pose, finished, and the praise and blame may
surely, therefore, be now awarded what is
there in the CLAYTON•BULWER Treaty, the boun-
daries of Belize, the Mosquito protection, or the
colonisation of Ruatan, on which intelligent meu
might not properly give their opinions ? On most
subjects which are discussed in the House some
information we should not otherwise have had
is brought to light. It would be singular,
indeed, if between six or seven hundred
gentlemen, the political elite of our towns and
counties, " the collective wisdom of the nation,"
o could express no valuable opinion, or bring to the
common stock of knowledge nothing which would
otherwise have remained as the property of them-
selves or of their numerous connexions only. It
is a premium on the indolence of Senators when
they are not expected to hunt out all,the informa-
tion within theirreach on some important question,

to verify it, and make it public. Is the House really
such an uninstructed and mentally inactive body
that when the political relations Of a hitherto
little-noticed country threaten to, generate
at the best, between us and our American cousins,
the whole six hundred could utter nothing which
might
be of service to the Cabinet ? We are sin-
cerely glad, therefore, that Mr. MOORE has suc-
ceeded in forcing the Enlistment question into
the House, as it was not permitted to be touched
while the business was in progress ; and we hope