The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-17 00:00:00

DOY A L PRINCESS'S THEATRE. trammels of routine, and to avail himself of the
Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING, will be performed Shakspere's Play of

TrIE TEMPEST.
Preceded by LIVING TOO FAST.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.--Lessee, Mr.
Dillon.—Under the joint management of
Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON.—Open for
an OPERA SEASON of THREE MONTHS, with the fol-
lowing Distinguished Artistes :—Madame Caradori, Miss Co.
rein' Miss Susan Pyne, Miss Marian Prescott, Miss Cuthbert,
sirs. H. Manley, and Miss Louisa Pyno ; Mr. Augustus
Braham Mr. A_ St. Albyn, Mr. Edmunds, Mr. Hamilton
Braha,m, Mr. Ferdinand Glover, Mr. Bernard, Mr. Kerby,
r. Wallworth, Mr. G. Honey, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. W. Harrison.
Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. The Orchestra selected
from the Royal Italian Opera, Jullien's Band, and the Orches-
tral Union. . Tho Chorus selected entirely from the Royal
Italian Opera. Stage Manager, Mr. E. Stirling. Assistant
Acting Manager, Mr. William Brough. Ballet Master, Mr.
Frampton. Chorus Master, Mr. G. Smythson.
THIS EVENING, will be pet formed Wallace's opera of
MARITANA.

To conclude with A VERY SERIOUS AFFAIR.
Private Boxes, £2 12s, 6d., £2 25., and £1 ns. 6d. ;
t..:t ills, 6s. ; Dress Ciree, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.;
Gallery, 15.—The Box Office is now open daily, from 11 to
5, under the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jun.

TaEATILE ROYAL, EIA.YMA.RICET.
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
rms EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with
(4th time here these eight years) Sheridan Knowles' comedy
of THE LOVE CHASE. Constance, Miss A. Sedgwick.
Followed by a new farce, MY SON, DIANA!
To conclude with THE SWISS COTTAGE.
Ovehestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the
evening), 6s. each, (No charge for booking.)
First Price. s. d. Second price. s, d
Dess Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0
Upper Boxes ... 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0

it ..... . 2 01
ewer Gallery 1 0
Upper Gallery 0 6,

lPit. 1 0
Lower Gallery 0 6
No half-price to Upper Gallery.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADEL PHI.
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.

THIS EVENING, will be performed the home•marle
Extravaganza, DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. Wright and
Miss Arden.

After which, will be revived the celebrated nautical drama
of MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE. Harry Hallyard
(his original character), Mr. T. P. Cooke.
To conclude with " FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN THE
SEVEN DIALS."

STRAND THEATRE.—THIS EVENING,
will be performed
THE GENTLEMAN OPPOSITE. Mr. Kinloch, Mr. Clarke,
Miss Herbert.

To be followed by THE PHANTOM WIVES, in which
Miss Craven will sustain four characters, Reginald Rattle-
cap, Mr. Leicester Buckingham.
After which, the highly-successful and original burlesque,
written by Leicester Buckingham' entitled LA. TRAVIATA;
or, THE LADY CAMELEON. Miss Craven, Miss Victor,
Mr. P. Charles, Mr. G. Bolton, Mr. J. Howard, and Mr. J.
Clarke.

Commence at Seven. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is,
Callory 6(1. ; Private Boxes, 11. Is.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. Rob3on and Emden.
THIS EVENING, will be performed the now drama of
THE LIGHTHOUSE.
After which, the comedietta, entitled A SUBTERFUGE
Mrs. Stirling, Mr. G. Vining, sad Mr. G. Murray.
To conclude with the original Extravaganza, by Robert
B. Brough, Esq., called MASANIELLO. Messrs. Rob-
son, Cooke, Danvers, die. ; Misses Swanborough, Thirlwall,
Hughes, Bromley, and Mrs. Melfont.
Commence at half-past Seven.

)OPAL SURREY THEATRE.
4.) Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek.

THIS EVENING, will be performed AMBITION : or,
the Throne and the Tomb. Messrs. Creswick, W. Smith,
Vollaire, B. Potter, Jackson, Belmore ; Miss Webster, Miss
M. Eburne' Miss Johnstone.
After which, a new Petite Comedy, UP IN THE WORLD.
Followed by OUR TRAVIATA, The Blighted One, Mr.
Widdicemb.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow.
:n; company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
-elections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, ctc., viz. :---Miss Russell,
Mrs. Badzey, Madlle. Manetta, Mrs. Palmyre, Miss E. Scott,
Miss Brunel], Mrs. Le Jenne, and Madame Marietta;
Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Renshaw, R. Grover, T. Fareant,
S. Tolee, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L.
Rime, and Mr. St. Albyn ; Messrs. S. Collins and E. Mack-
flop. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master
Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmins. Commence at
Seven o'clock precisely. Sappers, &c., until twelve o'clock.
—Signor PICCO will perform, at hal-past Eight and half-
past Ten, every Evening.

services of Lord ELLENBOROUGII, in the existing
crisis. It is true that the Noble Earl is a poli-
tical opponent. But such considerations should
be disrogarded under the peculiar circumstances
of the case. It is not as a reward for a political
supporter that the high position should be
bestowed. The best man is required, and the
voice of public opinion almost unanimously de-
clares in favour of Lord ELLENBOROUGH.

The existing difficulty is great, far greater in-
deed than has been imagined. We look too com-
placently on such matters ; are accustomed to re-
gard the most brilliant victories, even against
odds of ten to one, as too much a matter of course,
and to think that we have only to sit down con-
tentedly at home, paying our taxes, passing reso-
lutions sympathising with the sufferers, and ex-
pecting to have the work done for us without
further trouble or inconvenience. We must put
our shoulders to the wheel, and every man must
consider how far he can help forward the State
machine by his individual exertions.
Lord ELLENBOROUQH offered a sound practical
suggestion. He has pointed out the manner in
which the young blood of England may be stimu-
lated. Let the militia be called out to a man,
and by that means, and that alone, we shall obtain
the best class of recruits. They may cost a little
more, but this is not the time to look to
matters of £ 3. d. We may be penny
wise and pound foolish, and have to
pay far more, for any undue parsimony. Lord
ELLENBOROUGH bas clearly pointed out how every
man may help the movement by obtaining re-
cruits for the regular army or for the militia. A
distinguished Scotch clergyman—the Rev. Mr.
Wm. ROBERTSON, of New Greyfriars, Edinburgh—
turned the the Fast-day to good account in a simi-
lar manner. He explained that "on our army,
humanly speaking, depended the future of India,"
and " that every brave man who joins that army
is a benefactor, not only to Britain, but to India
too." His admirable address proved that the
Christian mother might safely send out her child
on such a mission—that he would himself wil-
lingly do so ; concluding his spirited and exciting
appeal with these words :

" I speak not to others of a duty with which
I would not myself cheerfully comply. Had las
many sons as PRIAM, I should not shrink from
seeing them all in arms for a cause which, from my
heart, I believe to be the cause not of Britain and
India alone, but of the world, of civilisation, of
religion, and of GOD."

It was amusing enough to observe the course
pursued the other day at Stuttgard by Queen
AMELIA of Greece. It was so perfectly character-
istic ! It evidenced such a watchful " eye to the
main chance" on the part of that intriguing
princess. It was altogether so cunningly and mys-
teriously transparent. We cannot for an instant
believe that the real meaning of her Athenian
Majesty's presence so very opportunely, a few
weeks back, in the capital of Wurtemburg, can be
misapprehended for one moment by the least sa-
gacious observer, whether his "point of view" be
taken from London, or from Paris, or from
Vienna, or even from S 6. Petersburg.
Has anybody forgotten the sinister indications
of the secret policy of OTIIO'S Government during
the late bloody contest in the Crimea ? Indica-
tions so unmistakeably inimical to the interests of
the Western Powers, and so manifestly favourable
to the cause of the Russian A.TJTOCILAT that—even
during the crisis of the struggle before Sebastopol
—a certain small proportion of the soldiers of
France and England had to be diverted from their
direct advance towards the seat of war, and to
be disembarked at the Piraeus for the purpose of
watching grimly, sword in hand, over the good
conduct of the Greek Government.
The notorious reason for all this being, of
course, the peculiar crotchet warping the ambition
of OTHO'S Queen, in the matter of that problema-
tical question—the succession to the Throne
erected nearly a quarter of a century ago by a
whim of diplomacy among the classic ruins of the
violet-crowned Acropolis.
Childless herself, Queen AMELIA has a very natural
desire that such an exceedingly good thing as a
soeptre should not be lost altogether to her family,
because of that one very tantalising circumstance.
And as it so happens that her connexions are for
the most part Muscovite, her sympathies, of course,
tend for the most part towards an intimate asso•
ciation of her own interests with those of the
House of ROMANOFF. The "slope" of her ambi-
tion is decidedly towards St. Petersburg—just as
the "slope" of Russia, according to the happy
phrase of M. DE LAMARTINE, is unquestion_
ably towards the East. Whereupon t 3
carry out her own particular object,
the QUEEN of Greece has striven pertinaciously
in one direction for a considerable time past—an-
deavouring to accomplish her design now by fair
means, now by foul, precisely as events might
seem to afford her the opportunity. The " foul
means" we had an agreeable specimen of, two or
three years ago, when the Crimean war was com-
plicated for the Western Powers by that vexatious
little episode of the Grecian embarrassment—
namely, when the Anglo-French troops had to be
landed at the Piraeus, instead of at Kamiesh and
Balaklava, under the irritating circumstances al-
ready particularised. The "fair means" some of the
European Sovereign's had a pleasant taste of, the
other day, in the midst of the Royal festivities
at Stuttgardt. Such is Queen AMELIA'S

domitable perseverance ! Altogether presenting
(to us constitutional spectators in England) a
spectacle that would be very laughable were it
not also at the same time very afflicting. Fur,
after all, this particularly selfi3h and insatiabl6
ambition of the Greek QUEEN'S, signifies nothing
more in itself than the old Feudal Creed not ydt
wholly dead and buried—a belief still cherished
here and there all over the Cmtinent—to the