The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-03 00:00:00

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ATKE ROYAL, DBURY.LAISE
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
ENGLISH OPERA.
THIS EVENING will be produced
LUCIA DI L&MMERMOOK.
To auclude with
THE YANKEE HOUSEKEEPER.

THEATRE ROYAL. HAYMARKET.
Tinder the Management of Mr. Buckstons.
THIS EVENING,
THE EVIL GENIUS.

Followed by
EL GAMBURNO; or, The Mexican Goldsecker.
ra which PERE& NENA. and the Spanish Dancers will appear.

After which,
GRIMSHAW, BAG HAW, AND BRIDSHA.W.
To conclude with
THE POSTMAN'S KNOCK.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. Casatats ICEArf.
THIS EVENING.
THE VICTOR VANQUISHED.
To conclude with
THE WINTER'S TALE.
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Principal characters by Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean.

ROYAL THEATRE ADELPHI.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING.
LIKE AND UNLIKE.
After which,
URGENT PRIVATE AFFAIRS.
To conclude with
BOW'S YOUR UNCLE ?

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
THIS EVENING
STILL WATERS RUN DEEP.

After which will be produced a New and doubly-moral, though
•acessively old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled
• T lIE DISCREET PRI ESS ; or, the Three Glass Distaffs.
In which Messrs. Emery, F. Robson, H. Cooper, Miss Marston,
sod Miss MaskeU will appear.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creavrtek.

THI3 EVENING,

Followed by
frinAll'S YOUNG MAN.
To conclude with
THE TWO POLTS.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITII EAT It E.
Lessee and Manner, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
THIS EVENING,
The Grand Spectacle, Lord Byron's MAZEPPA. and the WILD
HORSE,In which the whole of Mr. W. Cooke's highly-trained horses
will appear.
After which, the EQIIRSTRIAN SCENES In the CIRCLE. Miss
Sate Cooke en her mUk-white charger, Snowdrop, in her elegant
let of Manege de la Haute Ecole.

To conclude with ENGLAND'S HARVEST HOME ani NATIO
NAL STEEPLECHASE. -

Immense preparations are in progress for Whit-lfonday,
Box-office open frnn norm ti .1 Foar. Stale Manager, Mr. W.
West. Equestriln Director, Mr. W. Cooke, Jan.

EMMA STANLEY'S "SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN."
Evening performances as asual, 9n Mondays, Taesdays, Thursdays,
juld Fridays, at Et o'clock.
Admission—Back Seats, Is.; Centre Seats, 2s. ; Stalls, 3s.
SAINT MARTIN'S HALL, Long-acre.

HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY—itorn. 32 min. aft. 12—Evening 54 min. aft. 12
Tc►-Moßßow—Morn. 17 min. aft. I—Evening 33 min. aft. 1

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MAY 3.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
53—highest since noon yesterday.
43—lowest this morning and during the night.
48—this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 30'09.
WIND, N. to N.N.E.—Fresh and cold, with passing
showers and sunshine. .
THREE O'CLOCK.—Heavy hailstones.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1856.

The whole question of the War, and the terms
of the Precious Treaty by which it was concluded,
will be brought under tho consideration of Parlia-
ment on Monday evening. An Address to her
MAJESTY will on tnat rugut be brought forward
in both Houses ; and it will be for the Noble
Lords and Honourable Gentlemen who possess the
privilege of speaking and voting to declare how
far they can concur in the opinions therein ex-
pressed. Can they conscientiously declare that
the conditions of the Peace which has been re-
established are honourable to her MAJESTY'S
Crown, or that they fully accomplish the great
objects for which the War has been undertaken ?
Can they honestly express "joy and satisfaction,"
in which the great body of the people will by no
means participate? If so—if they are still con-
tented. " to lick their collars under the Ministerial
manger"—the sooner the farce can be terminated
the better ! Let there be either a real represen-
tation of the People, or let the German model be
completely imitated, and the shadow as well as
the substance of our democratic institutions be
formally abandoned.

We detest the " lick-spittle toadyism" in which
so many public: men now habitually indulge.
The doctrine, that " the Sovereign can do no
wrong" has been largely extended, so as appar-
ently to comprehend all persons acting under the
Royal authority, publicly or privately, with or
without concealment. Time was 'when it was
JOHN BULL'S practice to grumb!e at any un-
toward events, and to give full expression to the
complaints which he believed to be well founded.
Now the system is altogether changed, and he is
expected to lavish fulsome flattery on those who
have outraged his feelings and betrayed his in-
terests. We are not, and never have been, amongst
the unreasoning " laudatores temporis acti," the
vaunters of " the good old times." But we must
at least accord to our forefathers the credit of
sincerity. They never concealed their real senti-
ments, or praised that which they believed to be
worthy of blame. "Is the Peace one on which
the country ought really to be congratulated ?"
That is the question to be determined ! and for
the credit of the members of those branches of the
Legislature whose functions have been so seriously
invaded of late years, we earnestly hope that the
matter may not pass quite so easily as seems to be
anticipated in Ministerial circles.

What, we repeat, is there to rejoice at ? Is it
the useless sacrifice of the lives o: seventy-five
thousand -of the best and bravest of our brethren,
and of seventy-five millions of public money ex-
tracted from the pockets of the previously over-
burdened tax-payers 7 Who can honestly assert
that England has obtained, not a glorious Peace,
for that is unfortunately out of the question,
but
a creditable and permanent Peace? Rye have
already painted'out some of the elements of dis-
turbance that overcloud the political atmosphere.
Each day materially increases their number, and
their intensity, and affords evidence of how little
the power of Russia has been diminished—how
few of " the objects of the War have been accom-
plished."
Last night the Premier declared that " there
was nothing in the Treaty which would preclude
the Russian Government from exercising its own
discretion with regard to the military forts on the
the .Circassiau coasts." Will Englishmen believe
that "the forts were simply defensive works for
the protection of the small garrisonsplaced there."
Is it not obvious that they have been kept up
for the purpose of overawing and reducing to
servitude the gallant inhabitants of the neighbour-
hood r in this-respect most certainly, the objects
of the War have not been accomplished.
We also find from another answer of the First
Lord of the Treasury that the vessels sunk be-
fore-Sebastopol, and which it was fondly hoped
had been completely destroyed, may be *wed to