The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-23 00:00:00

lit D It is respectfully a tnounced th it her MAJESTY'S THEATRE
will BE-OPEN. early In-lfay. EnlagetrAds-of-great Interest hive
:been effected both in Mera and Ballet, and the hest exertions use
to make the arrangements worthy of tht• occasion.
The prospeons will immediately appear.

-«)Y41 DRUKY-LATE
Lessee,. Mr. R. T. Smith.
ENGLIKI OPERA..
THIS EVENING wilt be produced
IL TROVITORF:, or the Gipsy's Vengeance. Lucy Escatt, Mis`
Fanny Huddart, Mr. Augustus Braliam, Mr. Henri Drayton, Mr.
_Durand.

To c,ncinde with
-INIE DAUGHTER OF VIE REGIMENT.
Ah ejlgagement having been formed with Mr. and Mrs r LORENCE
; sf *PRI tAe United Staten, these celebrated artistes will nave he honou
of making their first appearance in England on Monday. April 28th
.in age oftbet moat popular national Comedlettas.

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„ THEATRE ROYAL, liIkYIdkRICET.
trader the Management of Mr. liackstone.
TMI4 EVENING,
124 THE EVIL GENIIJS:
After which,
tt GA'Nutt4rvO; or, The Mexican Goidseeker.
In Which PEREI NENX and the Spanish Veneers willappear,

Followed by
COURT F YOUR.

To conclude with
THE PO3T3IiN'3 KVOCK.

,lie-corner successes here mentioned, it is impos-
,ible, we maintain, to discern even the smallest
)retence for naval exultation. Odessa Y—Well,
, ) lessa we only blazed away at, for a few
'lours at a time, to leave at last comp,-
. ratively unharmed in undisputed p msession
. )f its Muscovite inhabitants ! Swaaborg ?
Well Sweaborg also we fas oared with a shower of
cannon balls and bombshell; thrown at it from a
safe distance of two miles or thereabouts, and never
seem to have dreamt of getting nearer to it by
- % ship's cable-length afterwards! Sebastopol I
Arell, even Sebastopol we treated from the sea in
. ,he same lubberly half-fashion, battering, and rat-
e ling, and hammering at it, with broadside after
'roadside, only to haul away from its fortifica-
, inls towards evening, with nothing definitive said
it done as to the bare possibility of its ultimate
.iihjugation by the iron-storm of our war-vessels !
Nicholaieff ? Revel ? —Riga ?—Hslsingfors ?
Jronstadt ?—Well, perhaps the less we say about
;hose the better. Untouched, unharmed, unat-
acked, they are a standing satire upon this day's
lemonstration off Spithead I They are at this
foment painfully stupendous commentaries in
,tone and metal upon that braggadociose signal to
he Baltic Fleet—" Sharpen your cutlasses I"
Sharpen their cutlasses ?Be hanged to it—if our
;allant Jacks have been polishing away at demi
.or these two years past, the blades!
nust have been pretty well worn down
o the hilts by this time I " Sharpen!
;our cutlasses ?" Pshaw I It was not after this!
dusterous, fire-eating fashion that glorious Jack
vas signalled to victory in the grand old times,
Then we had, so to speak, Giants for our Admi-
•als I Then—NELSON'S signal fur bearing down
ipon the enemy off Cape Trafalgar (we all know
t) was, "England expects every man will do his
IA
luty !" Then—llosrE's signal while leading hi. ,r:
,
wave tars to glory at Lissa, was sententiously, ft
iignificantly couched iu those two thrilling words Ir'd
—" Remember NELSON !" Now—Bth ! the ti
miserable contrast !—" Sharpen your cut il
asses !" Sharpen your fiddlesticks, quotha, !-ii

ROYAL PRINICESS'S THEATRE, OX•;ORD-STREET.

Under the 3f inagement of %fr. CHARLES BEAN.

TillS EVENING,
Tha lirstorlcal Play of LOUIS XI.
Louis (King of France), by Mr. Charles Lean.

Agt•

To be 01lowed by
THE VECTOR VANQUISHED.
To conclude with
A PRINCE; FOR AN HOUR.

ROYAL THEATRE ADELPHI.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,
THE GREEN BUSHES-
To conclude With
ITROENP PRIVATE AFFAtit.i.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHKATRE.
Lessee and Manager. Mr. Wm. Cooke.
THIS EVENING,
Lord Byron's MAZE PPA and the WILD HORSE.
After which, the skilful and varied SCENES in the CIRCLE, wit
Other Entertainments.
To conclude with EVGL AND'S HARVEST HOME and GRIM
NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE.
Ma-office open Trim E evi.n ti 1 Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W
West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, Jun.

EMMA STANLEY'S "SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN."
Evening performances as *sus', on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Fridays, at 8 o'clock.
Admission—Back Seats, Is. ; Centre Seats, 2s. ; Stalls, 3s.
SAINT MARTIN'S HALL, Long-acre.

lIIGR WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE.
T fIB DAT—Morn. 33 min. aft. 3—Evening 48 min. aft.
711 i•510/1BOtv—Morn. 3 min. aft. 4 —Evening 20 min. aft. 4

TAR WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 23.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
66,highist since noon yesterday.
44 -inweet tide morning and during the night.
57 -this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 29.97.
WIND, E. to S. E.—Light, with rather dull weather.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1856,

-on GLORY AND OUR SHAME

A Charloari of a wholly unexampled characte
has this day been given at Spithead to the Britisi
Sovereign. The most magnificent fleet that eve
*-,'lloated on salt-water—having in these few. hour
•
es" been ostentatiously passed in review by Queel
c TtorOura--has welcomed her MAJESTY with ac
*.' dlainatious. Under let us ask this just i:
~, a"vihisper—nnder what circumstances ? At th
close of a two peers' war from which this un
' PAraftereci Navy has emerged without the credi
e of, ''ono Solitary achievement commensurate is
' 'aiiir*iieither with tho vastness of its resources
Isslat • with . tbe splendour of its historic repute-
slitioner 7 IT3tl truths, no doubt—but truths whit:.
s
1, wescluseeive should be kept at this moment it
4- lostrYtartieular remembrance.
est
.The.Anierwan oyster, which was so large tha•
esit took seven men to swallow it whole—was ab-
solutely- nothing to the Russian sea fortification
a as treated during the recent contest by the Roya
Navy of England. Why, these maritime defence
4of the Muscovite empire have proved so fermi
dable that it has actually taken we don't at this
',instant recollect exactly how many screw, steam
' men-of7war ' (aided at the eleventh hour and
tliree.4ivarters by a shoal of gun-boats and mor
tarz.inisets). NOT, to take them !
'I he memorable King of FRANCE
swho, with forty thousand men marched up
''the hill and. then marched down. again
—w
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aa literally as nothing to these great, big.
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,burly, blustering war-ships of Britannia ! Geina
eiviaggering:ahout the Baltic and about the Euxine.
se .4 • • ...
.cgy.ng natioag, and then oozing home again ti :-
kiek.up a shine at the Nab, as if (according t
Tank*
,phraseology) they had been actual!
*bepping all creation. ,
it- :We nail this, with reason, a Clixrivaii—this 1
liciaetous. reception of her MAJESTY off Spit
head? .upon -the forelooti of this 23 1 of April i
4--fitrerght'hy rights to have been the Ist] —bv ..., 1,•=1.1.1
t&Ct',Oai'g4 sea:lions of Great Britain. A Chlrivari, * A very few hours must now bring the ratifict-
eAdiScithingbetter than a Ch,arivari, we take this ;ions of the so-called peace, and, what is far more
neisyslemanstration to be—funowiug up as it does 1- inportant, the terms of the inauspicious Treaty,
with such 'wholly disproportionate enthusiasmthe he consummation of England's shame and Eng-
taiseeal?le "do-nothing" tactics of the successuri t, and's folly, and also the "cooked" protocols o
of NELSON, ROWE, ;1-MIX'S, EKUDUTEI, DUdcAN, ; r,he several conferences by which so unfortunate
ant dOLLINGWOOD. What 1 all this grand to-do, ~.51 4 result was produced. The Parliament of Greet
ard this-enormous parade, all this gigantic display,
.;, 3ritain will then have the anxiously-looked for
all . this' stupendous demonstration—yarde man- s opportunity of discussing the entire question of
nod,litstiers.streaming, royal salutes fired, and .
t6t he War, and its most lame and impotent con-
eusands of gallant j Lck•tans rasping their throats ... slusion in all its varied details, and of endeavour
hoarse with shouts to make the welkin echs—all ing to trace the workings of the secret amp
this, 'forsooth, as a sequel to two of the most iranconstitutional influences that paralysed the
vapid maritime campaigns upon record ? Never "S.- Allied Powers at the very moment when a
was there such an egregious non sequitur.' Why, e 4 leery blow and great discouragement could be
thesvery grandeur of the naval display witnessed': inflicted on the enemy, and the future peace
upon this most memorable occasion near Ports- 7 lasd tranquillity of Europe placed. on a per-g
mouth, has served to demonstrate only the more
,:;` rnanent and satisfac ory foundation. tithe
glaringly the:positively ludicrous disproportion
of her the real delinquents can be detected ii
ourmeans for gaining victories, and of , is impossible to say.
o Great precautions haveode ,nulhty aa recent winners of any great doubtless been taken to secure impunity for the
maritime achievements. The reflection is rather .^ parties concerned, but it seems certain that thy
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painful, we cannot' but think, which has been . interests of Great Britain have been deliberately forced upon us by this, unequalled naval demon- ksacrificed, that England has literally been sold
stration. What—and with these weapons at our s. for the benefit of Russia, of Austria, of Prussia, ,
dirpettoti;with these ships of war, the like of •. and of Belgium, and also of the petty German T.
which were never dreamt of in the days of Trafal-
i.,,, Principalities. The principle of Germanism has':'
gar of .Ctim'perdewn, nay even, for that matter, in ;':, triumphed, its spirit has been clearly in the"
s.:': -. .
the more recent times of Algiers and Navarino with!thesie ; ascendant, even the motive power that set the
.! matchless screw steamers, independent 4's wheels of this intricate machine in action. But
y, k
of wind and.
•t.ide, and - carrying each seventprobably, pp p
according to the arovedprecedent in
eiglity, nineth a hundred, a hundred and thirty such matters, it will be declared that nobody is t
gunx (as the'case might- ba) of enormous calibre, t in fault, that all the mischief must be ascribed to
with these wonderful fleets, with these miraculous t the " system."
armaments—England has all this while done ':i; We must patiently await the ratification of our
aet lly se.OTEMIG} ! With Russia alone, single- !own disgrace and humiliation. By the "system, "1
tia•
a handed,- ' apposed to her 1 With France ',.,, the representatives of independent constituencies!
by *ea anti ty land abetting her, and abetting her have been prevented from expressing their views,l
he 4,-4:iia,with all the ardour, inseparable from while there was yet time to avert the evil. Byi
thesmesee novelty, of their intimate and chivalric:- that "system" they have seen a heavy expenditure!
alliiWrs ' y.othing, 'positively, actually, abso- ''
authorised for rejoicings, in which the People will
11144ies' gdone with all those mammoth ships: not and cannot participate ; and that without the
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of-mer Ans the way of any one distinct triumph i.- assent of the so-called guardians of the publicl
over the foe_.l63d the, by way of appropriately sparse being obtained, or even invited. But iti
celebrating the fact of this same disgraceful cannot prevent the expression of public opinion,
"nothing," for tie -to have all this hubbub of re-:::; or the disgust and indignation that must be felt
joici4efor NOthifig, about Nothing, in commemo-t at the deliberate slights offered to both Houses.
ratin-le; ot larc,shing—a gala occasion which we Fit is true that the Lords and Commons; haves• been .compelled (for want of an apt English will be powerless to prevent, but not to avengq; phrase'Sr itY to designate as nothing more nor the misconduct. Their positions will be theee.ii
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less than.a Chasiessei to the British Sovereign ! i. of professional men called in to an inquest, to Ti]
Bomareund, in the Baltic, and Kertch, ins, trace if they can the cause of death, but unable to:
the Euxine—lo 1 and behold ! the two pop-gun MsaVe the doomed patient. But let us hope that
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>reparatory to getting into a " scrtpe !" 0:
-ather sharpen your wits a little, Sir CILIRLE3, bi-
'ire indulging in b>mbast—instead of a bombard-
nent ! It would, however, have bean rash, every-
>ody tells us, to have run our heads againit stole
valls, by venturing to attack such very f muidab!t+
strongholds as—say—,Croustade or fielsingfors !
'.ties ? Did PBLLEVI hesitate through any fear of
rashness before taking his ships of war into the
:)ay of Algiers, as into th-3 arena of an im n.ense
traphitheatre, and there thundering.down into ruin 4
:hose gigantic batteries, ranged tier upan tier fr )in

he water's edge to the summit of the great forti
led city ? And so, too, in rezard to NELSON'S
wo earlier victories—that of the Nile, fought
nchor as well as at midnight, and that sanguinary

'gut glorious triumph won by him in spite at onco
if both the sea and land defences accumulated by
',he hardy Danes before Copenhagen. R tsh ?

Me great sea•captains of old—Pre speak of the
Imes of our grandfathers as of the days of anti-
pity -- they seem so far removed from u_4
)y contrast with our more prudent (might
e not say more timorous ?) generation]

sever pleaded ra3hness as au excuse for
tot, at least, attempting something is th-
tray of hard-fighting. Rashness ? It WAS an

,xcuse unknown to BLAKE—inc4avrehensiJle

his day, we undertake to assert, to our glorion,4

Ind veteran DUNDOIWALD! Yet by reason of
;error of doing anything—[we can hardly blurt,
heword out, it sonnds so strangely in coaneoiou

with the British Navy]—rash, Ye Gods ! by
•eason, we say, of a terror of doing anything
GAsii, our Admirals have brought their enormous

Teets home pate safely to get glorified by the
Thieen and by, the Pe)ple (for doing absolutely
VOTHING) through the unoar dieted incident of
his day's grand maritime Demonstration

dories of maritime England during these late pro-
-racted campaigns against Russian donaination.
lannarsund grappled after a comparatively
kloodless struggle, for the most part by the brave
14oldiers of Gaul shipped out to the north seas for a
ifew weeks' fighting, under the command of Mar-
Ahal BARAGUA.Y HILLIERS Kertoh— fairly
crapped (without any phlebotomy at all to
speak of during the process of trapping)
with all its stores of grain, and ammunition,!
Lad arc'neolo.4ical curiosities, mrAl4ls, bronzes,',
4itucracks, gewgaws, and - alt sort 3 of antique I
timber and mediaeval rubbiih!. Voila tout !
vlake the most of them—month them to the
ittermost.:—Kertch ! Blin-ar-sund There are
nix triumphs in the North and in the East—and •
for these we suppose we have to-day been having
his tremendous kick up in the way of a grand
naritime demonstration !
Elsewhere than in regard to the two hole-in-