The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-08 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. ,

THIS EVENING will be presented the drama of
THE POOR STROLLERS, in which Madame Celeste, Mr.
B. Webster, Paul Bedford, and Mr. Wright will perform.
After which, a new operatic spectacle, THE CALIPH
OP BAGDAD. The characters by Mr. Rolfe, Paul Bedford,
J. Bland, and Misses Rode*, Keeley, and Arden.

STRAND THEATRE.—Lessee and Directress,
Miss S wauborough. —This Evening will be
produced the new comedy, by Stirling Coyne, Esq., called
NOTHING VENTURE, NOTHING WIN.
After which, a new burlesque, FRA DIAVOLO.
And a Farce. Supported by Diesel's. Bolton, Ray, Belfort,
Kinloch, Seymour, C. Young ; Mesdames M. Oliver, Teruark,
C. Melville, Selby, Victor, Portman, and Swauborough.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The
ingcompany of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
Se:ections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CHORUSES, GLEES, D UETS, do., viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs.
Badzey, Miss Brunell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, and
Miss Montague; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Renshaw, S. Jones,
J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Hime, Mr.
Badzey, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Beraard ; Messrs. T.
Maclagan, W. T. Critchfield, John G. Forde, and E. Mackney.
Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Master Williams ;
Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock
precisely. Suppers, &a., until twelve o'clock.
Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appear every Evening.
Mr. WOODHOUSE (by permission of Charles Kean, Esq )
will have the honour of introducing, every evening, his
highly successful Performance on the new REGULATION
DRUM.

THE WEATHER—SUN Omoz, APRIL 8.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
47—highest since noon yesterday.
47—lowest this morning and during the night,
55—this day at noon.
BAROMETER, down to 29.48—n0w 29.59
WIND. E.S.E. to S.E. ; light, with fine sunshiny wea-
ther, inclining to change. It rained heavily all yesterday
afternoon, and until late in the evening.
Two o'clock—Wind, South-Easterly; fresh and squally
with more lain, and dirty weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

'lns DAY—Morn., 44 min. aft. 8 —Even., 30 min aft 9
['o-MORROW--Morn., 30 min. aft. 9—Even., 10 min. aft. 1

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LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1858.

We ha'o reason to know that we are not un-
known to many parts of Europe, but we make no
pretension to being the European journal. If we
did so, however, we would not sacrifice our Eng-
lish character to please all the censors of the press
and post-office in all the capitals or border towns
of Continental nations. Our pride would still be
to represent, wherever we went, the best, the
most English qualities of the English. First
amongst these we take to be an instinctive, and
an intense hatred of despots, tyrants, dictators,
slaveholders, and autocrats of every variety.
Even when we have been ready enough to ac-
knowledge the good personal qualities of the man,
we did not lose our aversion to the thing. Ia the
good old days of negro slavery, the paternal
planter was confessed to be a mild specimen of au
inhuman class ; and we all felt that a slaveholder
was not one of us, although he might be British
born. Indian "Nabobs," of the same era,
whatever their genius, were seldom thoroughly
at home when they returned to the
land of their birth. They had lost their
genuine British character when they had dallied
with absolute power, and had reigned over
a host of cringing and fawning slaves. And to
this day we regard an American slaveholder,
although of Anglo-Saxon origin, as less kindred
with us than a foreigner thoroughly imbued with
the love of freedom. This is a notorious and
undeniable fact—to say that we are Englishmen is
equivalent to saying that we will suffer no restraint
on our own freedom, and that we detest the class
whose rule depends on fettering the freedom of
our neighbours.
It is, therefore, much to be deplored that a jour-
nal which, as foreigners imagine, represents the
general feeling of Englishmen, should, so far as
foreign despots are concerned, almost completely
misrepresent them. Foreigners find the Times
commonly adopting the side of their oppressors,
and lampooning or bitterly denouncing their
noblest patriots. In 1848, for instance,

and generally ever since, the despots of Austria,
or of Italy, or of Germany, despots every
where, were the class it patronised ; if almost

compelled to rebuke them, the rebuke was as mild

as old Era's ; while the KOSSUTH; MazziNts,
and LADLARTINES were hardly tolerated in the
hour of success, and denounced with exulting
satisfaction, as soon as foreign force had trampled
them and their nation's liberties afresh under the
hoofs of despotism. It was the same with the
cause of Poland during the Crimean war. Pules
were attacked in the persons of the most unfortu-
nate of the exiles resident in London, and the
emancipation of their country, although the con-
dition of European safety against Russian aggres-
sion, and the easiest means by far of bringing
Russia to terms, was scouted as madness.

Now, Englishman almost universally were tho-
roughly opposed to all this. KOSSUTH and Hun-
garian liberties, MAZZINI with his brother trium-
virs, and the emancipation of Rome from Papal
rule ; the Poles, the Polish Legion, and Poland
as Europe's bulwark against Russia, were topics
of interest everywhere. All must remember, so
recently as the Russian war, that while the Times
was, almost cruelly, attacking Poland and the Poles,
a meeting could be held nowhere which did not
respond enthusiastically to the mention of the
rights of Poland. Whether it were a Radical
gathering in St. Martin's-hall or a gathering of
LincAnshire farmers, in town or in country, Poland
was always a welcome topic, and the speaker who
introduced it needed no eloquence to secure pro-
longed cheore. The very name was eloquent to
Englishmen. What Pole abroad could have
imagined for a moment that the whole English
nation—a few aristocrats and their supporters in
the London press excepted—desired nothing so
much as that the war should be carried on through
Poland, and that its restoration to the map of
Europe should have been the chief result of all
our sacrifices.

These remarks have been suggested to us by
the recent attack of the Times on MAZZINI and
the highly respectable publisher of his last pm-
phlet. MAzzINI has written a highly im-
pressive letter to T
....OXUS NAPOLEON. It
is strong, but often eloquent in denuncia-
tion, the sting of the eloquence being
a very clever arrangement of undeniable fact?.
Louis NAPOLEON is pitted against LOUIS NAPO-
LEON, and his whole policy arraigned in no inea.-

sured terms. Of course we should dissent from
many of the opinions, and challenge many of th,

statements, yet no one can deny that they are sub-

stantially true, and all would confess that NIAZZINI

had a right to attack, with the most legitimate of

weapons, the ruler who bad crushed the Roman

republic in the blood of Romans, and driven
MAZZINI and his fellow triumvirs from the post
to which the people had elected them into art-.

We never did, and never could excuse the murder
Roman liberties by the arms of a foreign re-
public. MAZZIIII was, at least, as legitimate a