The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-19 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, IiAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Baokstone.
THIS EVENING, the performances will oommense with
A DUKE IN DIFFICULTIES. Mrs. Stirling, Miss F.
Haydon, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr. Suckstone,
Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, (to.
After which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery
and effects, and all the ginal music by the late' Sir Henry
Bishop, the melodrama of THE MILLER AND HIS MEN.
And A DAUGHTER TO MARRY.
Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
Last Two Nights of the Season.
THIS EVENING, THE SECRET.
After which, MEDEA. Miss Matilda Heron.
To be followed by HANDY ANDY. Handy Andy, Mr.
John Drew.
To conclude with a Ballet. .

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE...-.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore,
Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leclereq.
Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Feehter. Sup-
ported by Hermann Vezin, Ryder, Meadows, ac. ; Misses
Heath, lilsworthy, and R. Leelercq.

N" TIM ATRE-ROY AL, ADELPHI.—
Sole Proprietor a- ne4,-rer, Mr. B. Webster.
Tins EVENING, ' ama, MAGLIORE, THE
PRESTIDIGIT Al -- B. Webster, J. L. Toole,
D. Fisher, f- s 11. Simms, &c.
To be fall Sketch, THE CENSUS.
Messrs. J. 1. mer, C. J. Smith ; Miss
Kate Kelly, Mit. re. Chatterley.
After which, Tit F. FAMILY. Mr. Paul
Bedford, C. J. Smith, .aidlaw, and Miss Julie
Daly.

nmmence at 7,

Doors open at hat. k

CANTERBU RYestmins-II AL
roadL CONCERTS!!
Wtez-.
Proprietor.. ...... C. Morton.
A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera,
IL CORSARO,

(This opera has never been produced in this or any other
country, except at these Concerts), having met with that de-
cided success which charactise; the most popular werks of
this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ;
together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI-
MENTO, by Donizetti,
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Marla, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A.
B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and
the Brothers Conrad.
John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on
view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the
Establishment.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tilts DAY.—Morning, 7h. 54m.—Afternoon, Bh. 40m.
To-mosnow.-Morning, 9h. 14m.—Afternoon, 9h. 58m.

WEATHER.-Bnx OFFICE, APRIL 19, 1361.
THLB.MOMETER, IN THB SHADB.
53—highest since noon yesterday.
40—lowest this morning and during the night.
48—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30.21.
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THE SUN•
LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1881.

" Government must and shall hear us or Europe
shall." Such, according to one letter from Warsaw,
is the language of the Poles. Once more this
cruelly oppressed nation is resolved to be heard,

even if it be struck with the bullet and the sabre o

the Cossack to gain a hearing. Poland understands

that it is useless now to shed its blood in battle, for

all disarmed, as it is, and garrisoned with its well
equipped oppressors, fight in the field is a hopeless
'reliance. But with a unanimity unknowr before,
all classes seem to think that Europe will not look
on unresisting martyrdom, for what Europe herself
guaranteed Poland in 1815, as patiently as she
looked on Russian atrocities, aided by the com-

plicity of Prussia in 1831. Then, even, Poland was
but resisting the grossest infractions of treaty rights.

Europe, however, seemed to have settled down to the
conviction that NICHOLAS was to crush by his
relentless bloody will everything that opposed it.
And the Poles, after superhuman prodigies of

valour, were obliged to yield to overwhelming
numbers, and to troops sheltered by Prussia, when
they escaped the Poles by marching within her
frontier, while, if the Poles passed it, they were
immediately disarmed ! The conduct of Prussia in
that war of a noble people, her patronage of the
strong and her weakening the weak, are among the
many things which compel Englishmen to regard
her as one of the meanest of States; weak
Poland, weak Switzerland, weak Denmark—for
a fight with any of these feeble powers,
this cowardly people are ever ready—we
do not wish for war, anywhere, but when we
remember these things it makes one almost wish
that she should try her strength single-handed
with an antagonist on the Rhine. In that case,
Prussia ought to be left to take her chance, and to
be reminded that she did worse than leave the Poles
to take theirs in 1831.

The conduct of Russia in the present case is inex-
plicable. The Czau doubtless foresaw that he was
to enter upon a struggle with Poland, like, in many
respects, to that of Austria with Hungary. He
probably would have been glad enough to have
escaped such a contest, yet be ought to have known
his own mind. There was little or no likelihood of
an armed insurrection. The Agricultural Society,
which was more or less at the head of the movement,

was free from any such intention or even thought,

It had not attempted the slightest preparation for
it. Had the CZAR seen fit in the first instance to
speak in the tone of his savage father, there would
have been deep disappointment, even just indigna-
tion ; but there would have been no insurrection.
But the Viceroy, under his master's instructions,
seemed to be inclined to something like fairness
and moderation. Unjust intimations were, indeed,
thrown out against imaginary seditious leaders,
but reforms were promised and specified,
and the air assumed of readiness to re-
cognise the treaty rights of the kingdom. Then
suddenly the CZAR, for we fear the orders
came from St. Petersburg, ordered bloody suppres-
sion of unarmed assemblies. These meetings might
have been so easily at first peremptorily forbidden,
and in that case would almost certainly not have
been attempted, that it is difficult to believe the
CZAR and his advisers did not deliberately plan a
scheme for wholesale military murder, thinking it
would be a wholesome lesson to the entire king-
dom of Poland. The conduct of the authorities
eould not have been better planned had this been
their object. They owe it to Europe to prove that
it was not so. The very intimations sent to all the
Courts of Europe were calculated to lure the Poles
to • the unarmed and peaceful manifestations in
which they indulged, as well as to mislead foreign
Governments.
While we write it would seem likely, from the
very
last accounts, that excitement is extending
thronahout the country. Indeed, the comparatively
small
terns of the provinces appear to be more
turbulent than Warsaw. The feeling extends even
to the Ukraine, for at Kiew we learn that disturb-
ances broke out, in celebrating a funeral service
for the victims at "Warsaw, resulting in a bloody
conflict with the Russian troops. Lublin, the Rus-
sian authorities appear
to have actually left, and
General CARULEFF to be marching on the city.
the other hand, the Rsssiang are
At liratsaWy on
or insincerely, it is not
asking, whether sincerely
easy to son Count ZAMOYSKI, the President
of the Agricultural Society, whose dissolution
caused the late excitement, to undertake the vice-
presidency of the Council of State, and M. Ltynt.
SKI to become Minister of the Interior for Poland.
The Count is, perhaps, the most popular man in
Poland ; but they both require that the troops
should be withdrawn into the citadel and barracks,