The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-05 00:00:00

THE SUNI_LONDOW, 19:71118nAY

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-dARDEN,
Lessee, Mr. J. H. Anderson.
THIS EVENING,

Douglas Jerroid's Drama of
BLACK-EYED SUSAN.
Principal character by Professor Anderson.
To conclude with the gorgeous Pantomime of
YE BELLE ALLIANCE.
Clown, ]lr. Flexmore ; Pantaloon, Mr. Barnes; Harlequin, Mr. C.
Brown ; and Columbine, Miss E. Horne.

THEATRE ROYAL. DRIIRTZA.NE.
Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith.

THIS EVENING,
TILE GREAT GUN TRICK.
After which,
HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE; or. Harlequin King Nonsense and the
Seven Ages of Man.

THEATRE ROYAL. HAYMARK ET.
Under the Management of Mr. Buctstone.
THIS EVENING,
THE BE ita' STItA.TAGESI.
After which the New Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled
THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL AND THE GRA.SITIOPPER'S
FEAST; or, Harlequin and the Genius of the Spring.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OZFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. CaLll.llll KRAL
THIS EVENING,
KING HENRY THE EIGHTH.
Queen Katharine. Mrs. C. Kean; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean.
After which,
HARLEQUIN AND THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE ; or, the
Fairy Paradise and Hanky Peaky, Use Enchanter.
Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. liutine ; Pantaloon, Mr.
Paulo; and Columbine, Miss Caroline Adam.

TEIZATRE ROYAL ADELPHT.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Calcite.
THIS EVENING.
THE BOOTS OF THE HOLLY TREE INN.
After which,
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
To be followed by
ITRGEN I PRIVATE AFFAIRS.
To conclude with

SACK AND THE BE .%N STALK; or, Harlequin and Mother
Goon at Home Again.

In which Meqsrs. J. 1314nd, P. Bedford, Madame Celeste, Mise
Wyndham, and Miss E. Arden will ap,mar.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfrel Wigan.
THIS EVENING,
THE JEALOUS WIFE.

the commissioners, who were really but trustees
for the public benefit, found but few and trivial
obstacles to extending the principle to a de-
, gree never anticipated by the Legislature or the
Government, or possibly of converting it to pur-
poses altogether different from those for which it
was originally granted. Thus at Liverpool, out
of more than 100,0001. levied on shipping, barely
3 per cent., or 3,0001. per annum, was expended
on maritime purposes, the enormous balance being
applied in aid of the municipal funds for beautify-
ing and improving the town, or possibly in ban-
quets to the administrators. And yet the plea
advanced in favour of this flagrant abuse is, that
the trustees have an absolute right to dispose of
the funds as they think proper, and that Parlia-
ment should not interfere until the matter has
been thoroughly investigated before the legal tri-
bunals of the country, and any private party who
may come forward has been thoroughly impo-
verished by protracted and expensive litigation,
which may be ruinous to him, although a matter
of trivial moment to those who have such ample
funds wherewith to play out the legal game.
We congratulate Mr. LOWE on his vory com-
mendable onslaught on one of the last remaining
strongholds of corruption. No Knight-errant of
the olden time ever made a more determined and
vigorous attack on the enchanter's castle to liberate
the innocent captives therein detained. Public
opinion, loudly proclaimed, is the horn—the
sound whereof will dissipate the infamous spells
that so long prevailed, and which, we trust, will
completely overthrow the• defences, without
leaving a single stone thereof standing on
another.

It is sufficiently amusing to listen to the dia-
tribes of beardless politicians, guiltless of jobbery,
against the correspondents of the independent
portion of the Press, because of their alleged in-
accuracies and misstatements while exposing the
delinquencies of men in office who happen to be
the gods of their youthful idolatry. One cannot
but sympathise with the lads in their regard for
truth and fair play, and thus have one's zest in-
creased for the enjoyment of their child-like igno-
rance of the subject with which they feel them-
selves all-competent to deal. Still more amusing
is it to listen to the puffy ejaculations of elderly
gentlemen, rubicund with sherry, and as indignant
as Church and State can make them with the
newspaper men who, having no reverence for
truth or the powers that be, have lyiugly mis-
spelt a surname, given a wrong Christian one,
represented what took place late on Thursday
evening as having occurred early on Friday
morning, and blamed a man who everybody knew
was impeccable. "Why JACK, sir—Tom ? Well,
Tom, then, went to school with my brother, 'sir,
and married HlCKS'—not HICKS' ? 0, aye, DICK'S
daughter, and was always a good fellow, sir.
JACK do such things—never !" The poor inno-
cents alike unaware that a correspondent can not
help occasional blunders, not being oranipresont,
having at times to trust to fallible rumour, and
at best to ferret out, comparatively unaided,
what it is the interest of the delinquent; to
conceal, and what, from the position they
have more power than others to keep secret.
Very far, however, from amusing is it to glance
over the unhesitating denials, the unscrupulous
charges of misrepresentation, and the manifold
slanders with which the allegations of the inde-
pendent Press are met by the TADPOLES, TAPERS,
and other hangers-on of men in office, whether
ignorant of the falsity or cmscious of the truth of
those allegations, yet aware that the honour and
welfare of the country imperatively demand that
they should be thoroughly investigated
and the offenders brought to book. Few
things can be more painful to peruse than
the decorous falsehoods of men like these—know-
ing, as we do, how many well-meaning persons
are likely to believe them, and what serious mis-
chief they may occasion. Great, however, is
truth ; and we have the satisfaction, in the long
run, of witnessing their discomfiture, and the vin-
dication of the integrity and fidelity of the men
whom they have so vilely maligned.
A memorable illustration of this unfairneses to
newspaper correspondents, and of the important
services they have it in their power to render,
and have rendered, to the public has, as no one
now attempts to deny, been furnished during the
present War. Conscious of the goodness of its
Cause and of the greatness of its resources, and
but too apt to credit offieials with the capacity
and honesty they attribute to themselves, th e
nation entered on the War with the utmost confi-
dence that a single campaign would see Russia
prostrate at its feet, her armies dispersed, and :her
fleets destroyed. Hew lamentably it was disap-
pointed—how well it bore up against that disap-
pointment--and with what renewed confidence it
looked to the speedy capture of Sebastopol is suffi-
ciently notorious. Our soldiers, amply equipped
and cared for, would, as of old, go anywhere,
and do everything, and our fleets were only
biding their time. Presently rumours became
current that our army was anything but well
provided and cared for, and was likely, if not
speedily relieved, to have much to do to hold its
own. The whole tribe of placomen set up a
laugh of derision, and pronounced them
utterly untrue. The rumours survived the in-
fliction, and were cenfirmed in detail letter after
letter by the correspondents of the Press. The
noble army that was to sweep the Russians from
the Crimea was shown to be labouring shoeless
and shirtless, and far beyond its strength, in the
trenches—its bed the cold wet ground, its food
insufficient in quantity, much of what there was
uneatable, and not a little unwholesome. Bluff
faces grew sallow with want and exposure, the
strength of strong men failed through being
overtasked, dysentery came of want of clothing
and bad diet, the hospitals were crowded, patients
died by.hundreds weekly, and still there was not
room for the sick. Green coffee was served
out to men hardly able to stand from ex-
haustion, no bread was to be had for:
the many whose sore gums were lacerated
by biscuit, and who could get no lime-juice. The
horses eat each other's tails and manes, and tore
their 'very hersecloths to satisfy their hunger.
One-third of the entire British army perished
from over-work, want, and exposure, before the
walls of Sebastopol, in six months. Not one-half
was in an effective condition. Such were the
statements that reached the public, by piecemeal,
through the correspondents of the Press. The
Government knew, or affected to know, little or
nothing of all this ; their mendacious scribes
denied it point-blank—then admitted there was
some truth in it, but abominably exaggerated.
" FERDINAND MENDEZ PINTO was but a type" of
the newspaper correspondents, who were " liars
of the first magnitude." The nation awoke from
its sleep, and, to the confusion of the Ministerial
hacks, measures wore taken by the Govern-
ment which certainly lout a countenance
to the notion that the newspapers had all along
told the truth, and if not the whole truth,
certainly nothing but the truth. The report of
Sir JOHN WNEILL and Colonel TULLOCII goes
further, and settles for ever the question as to

After which will be produced a New and doubly-moral. though
excessively old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled
THE DISCREET PRINCESS ; the Three Glass Distaffs.
In which Messrs. Emery, F. Robson, 11. Cooper, Miss Marstoi,
and Miss Maskell will appear.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick.
TIIIS EVENING
THE SHADOWS OF CRIME.
To conclude with
A PRINCE OF PEARLS; or, Flarleluln and lane Shore.

ROYAL STRAND TOEATRE.
Under the direction of Mr: Payne.
TIIIS EVENING.

WIRLEQUIN BLICK-EYED SUE; or. All in the Downs and

Daly Jones's Locker.

- After which,
THE R)MANTIC WIDOW.
Followed by
THE PRISONER OF ROCHELLE; or, Inns and Outg.
To conclude with

A. PLAGUE O' ROTEL YOUR UOUSR3 ; or. The Doub'e-barrelled

Gun Trick.

who were the liars throughout.. Not an allegation
of importance made by the newspaper correspon-
dentSbut is substantiated—not a slander directed
against them but is refuted ; and in the saving of
the remains of our army from ruin, in the over-
throw of an imbecile Ministry and the substitu-
tion of a vigorous Cabinet—in the fall of Sebas-
topol—in the existence of a noble British army,
well supplied with provisibns and necessaries, and
ready to drive the enemy from the Crimea, and in
the proud attitude of the country at the present
moment; the correspondents of the press may trace
their handiwork, and see cause to congratulate
themselVes on the fidelity and fearlessness with
which they discharged their task, and on the good
service which, however previously humble and
unknown, they have done their country in the
teeth of venal
.slander and official discouragement.

terday

LATEST NEWS.

TILE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

PARIS, TUESDAY, FEB. 5, 8 A. M,

The Moniteur publishes the names of the
Plenipotentiaries for the Conferences.
They are the same as those we published yes-

France ..

{Count Colonna Walewski.
Baron de Bourqueney.

'Earl of Clarendon.
England .•• Lord Cowley.
Austria .l Count de Buol-Schaunstein.
Baron de Hubner.
Turkey r Aali Pasha.
Mehemed Djemil Bey.
Sardinia
Russia
Baron Brunow.

MARSEILLES, TUESDAY, FEB. 5, 8.5 A.ll,

The Euphrate has arrived, with advices from
Constantinople of the 28th, and from the Crimea

Gtli January.

Despatelles leave at 9 a.m.

The English transport. Swiftsure, which left
Constantinople on the 15th of January, with war
materiel, has arrived.

Your Constantinople correspondent, writing on
the 28th of January, says :

" A Grand Council assembled on the 26th of

January, to discuss the propositions of the repre-

sentatives of the Allies on the fourth point.
" It is believed that they are accepted."

MARSEILLES, MONDAY.

We learn by the Indus that the conferences
relative to the Rayas are terminated, and the

result will be communicated to the powers inter•

estecl in the question. The discussions relative
to the Principalities will be shortly resumed.

The Sardinian ambassador is to leave Constan

tinople in a few days. The Journal de Constan

tinople states that he has been recalled by his

Government to take part in some important
councils. He is replaced in the Turkish capital

by a Charge d'Affaires. The repair of the sub-
marine telegraph from the Crimea will be very

difficult ; nothing can be (lone to it at present.
The acceptance of the Austrian propositions by
Russia continued to cause general astonishment
in Turkey. The deputation of Circassian chiefs,
who had been at Constantinople for some time,

have left for Trebizonde. Accounts have been
received from Bulgaria of disturbances having
taken 'Place with the Bishi-Bazeuks at.
Shumla. Orders have been sent for the
punishment of the rioters. The .Presse
d' Orie lit announces under date of Sebas-
topol, 19th, that General Lekeuf had re-
turned to head-quarters from his visit to ICinburn.

At the above date the allied generals were not

aware of the pacific turn in affairs, the submarine
telegraph not being in working order. Accounts
from Persia, state that M. Beuree, the French
Minister there, is on very friendly terms with the
Shah, and is endeavouring to smooth down the
differences which exist between the English and
Persian Governments."

STOCKHOLM, MONDAY EVENING.

The King's Chamberlain, Count Charles Bjor-
sistjerna has gone to London to invest Prince
Albert with the Seraphin Order.

FRANKFORT, MONDAY.

Though not entirely approving or adopting the
proposals to Russia, the smaller German States
aro disposed to forward the views of the Paris
Conferences, to send representatives, and to accept
as a basis the conditions agreed to by the Allied
Powers and Russia. As this plan satisfies
neither Austria nor Prussia, some moyea terme
will be adopted.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.

A private telegraphic despatch announces that
Count Orloff and M. do Brunow have left St.
Petersburg for Paris.

The Emperor and Empress yesterday received
several foreigners of distinction presented by the
English Ambassador, and the Belgian and Spanish
Ministers.

The Emperor yesterday gave audience to M. de
Baumbacb, who delivered to his Majesty his letters
of credence as Minister Plenipotentiary of the
Elector of Hesse.

We have received the Moniteur. It does not
contain any news of interest.

I BOURSE, reb. 4.—The following were the last
quotations :
Mush. fr. e. End of Month.
4i per,Conts 96 -- —f. —O.
3 per Cents 72.20 73
New Loan 72 60
Bank Shares 3,380 Roman
Credit Mobilier 1575 Austrian
Belgian Fives 96i— Spanish Threes —
Piedmontem(s)...... 83 50 Home Debt 371
RAILWAYS—SOB CASE.
• fr. e. fr. 0.
Orleans ... ,.1,240 Western BlO —lsTorthem
Lynne a .••••• • 10225 New Ditto B2O
Mediterranean 1,370 Grand Central 642 50
Lyons Geneva 755 Testa ........... 630
Cette , 745 Austrian Com. ...... 860