The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-04 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPER A
COVENT-GARDEN.
Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.
Harrison, Sole Lessees.
THIS EVENING, TROVATO If E. Madame Palmieri
Miss Leffler, Mr. Henry Haigh, A. Lawrence, T. Distin, and

To conclude with the Second and Third Acts of LE
DOMINO NOIR. Miss Louisa eyne, Miss Thirlwall, Miss
Leffler ; Messrs. Henry Haigh, H. t.:0111, A. St. Albyn, and
Horncastle.
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at 8.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMAItKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstone.
THIS EVENING, the performances will oommenae with
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Miss Ffardeastle, by Miss
Fanny Stirling; Tony Lumpkin, by Mr. Buckstone.
After which, a new Pantomime, QUEEN LADYBIRD
AND HER CHILDREN. The Pantomimists by the un-
rivalled Leclercip, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, the Farce of SUSAN SMITH.
To be followed by DON CiESAR DE BAZAN. Don
Cvesar,, Mr. Pechter. Supported by Messrs. Basil Potter,
r. Matthews, J. G. Shore, Miss M. Harris, Miss C. Leclercq
and Mrs. Weston.
'To conclude with a comic ballet, TIIE JOLLY MILLER.
3t. Espinosa, Mr. Gardtn, &c.

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E -ROYAL LYCEUM.
Sots Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENINC the Butletta of Til AT RASCAL
JACK.

FoNmvo(l by the nrw ►lrama, THE irons': ON THE
BRIM EOP NOT I; I)AM I'rincipai characters by
Ilir. G. Vinino-, fir. .J. Johnstone, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Clifford,
Yr. John Rouse, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Morris ; Miss M.Ternan,
Miss K. Saville, Miss L. Thompson, and Madame Celeste.
After which, the Lyceum Christmas Comte Extravaganza,
CRYSTABELLE ; or, The Rose without a Thorn, showing-
rHE VISION OF A ROSE, ITS FADING AT EVF
AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL
AI) ELPHI,
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Ben]. Webster.
AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. .7.
rimrs E yENING,
L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss IC. Kelly, and Miss E.
Thorne.
Alter which, T lIE COLLEEN BA WN. D. Boucicault, D.
Fisher, Billing-ton, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer.
Mrs. iss Agnes Robertson, Miss Wopigar, Mrs. Billing-ton, and
M
To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled
BLUE BEARD FROM A NEW roln, OF HUE.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar,
K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and k. Thorne.
Doors open at half past B—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 2e. ; Family Boxes, .fl.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ,• Front Circle Stalls, Is. •
Pit Stalls, 2s. ; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith.

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!
Westminster-road.
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 works 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 Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, 11. Drummond, and
C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.

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The Comic Department comprises Messrs, Fs. Marshall, A.
B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and
the Brothers Conrad.

John Marti'n's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on
view a Hhort time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the
Establishment.

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS,
In consequence of its Great Success,
THE ENCHANTED HASH
EVERY EVENING,
The whole of the Characters by Messrs. E. MARSHALL
and P. BELL.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
MIS DAY.—Morning, 6h. 56m.—Afternoon, 7h. 23m.
T o-moRROW. -Morning, 7h. 54m.—Afternoon, Bh. 44m.

THS WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, MARCH 3, 1561.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
sO—highest since noon yesterday.
44 —lowest this morning and during the night.
51—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.62; a sudden fall.
WlND—Westerly—blowing a gale, with heavy squalls,
It was very stormy in the nigkt.

MARCH 4.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADF.
53 —highest since noon yesterday.
37—lowest this morning and during the night.
14—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.08 ; a sudden rise.
WlND—North-Westerly fresh ; with fine sunshiny
weather. Tho weather has been very boisterous for the
last two days.

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TIIE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1881.

It may yet prove that this recent enteute has
been nothing less than the spark to light the long
expected European conflagration. The whole
continent of Europe, or at any rate, a very con-
siderable portion of it, has long been known, nay,
even fit to be but one vast mass of combustibles.
Hungary, Poland, Italy, Schleswig-Holstein, Mol•
do-Wallachia, Turkey, Denmark, Austria, any
one of these points we have long been conscious
might at any moment, under any chance combin-
ation of circumstances, burst into a flame. Sepal..
ately or collectively, they might be a blaze at any
instant of time—involving contiguous states in war
either in rapid sequence or simultaneously. A life
and death struggle has for years past been visibly
impending over the Viennese Government. The
sick man at Constantinople has not been less visibly,
or during any briefer interval, lying extended upon
his death bed at Constantinople. It is not without
such contingency of a general war constantly be-

fore him, that the most daring and the least
scrupulous ruler of this age has been syste-
matically multiplying his forces, both by
land and by sea, through all this lengthened
period of seemingly permanent but really hollow
tranquillity ! Multiplying those originally ample
and enormous forces of his so sedulously, in spite of
his wily axiom l'Empire c'est la paix, that the army
now constantly ready at his command numbers in
all not less than 600,000 of the most disciplined
troops in the world! While the navy—built in
those dockyards and equipped from those arsenals
which are ever ringing through the bland refrain
of " Peace," ever ringing louder and louder
with the busy note of preparation—while the
we say, under the reign
imperial navy of France,
of NAPOLEON 111. has already obtained an emi-
nence in every respect, except that derivable from
the actual prestige of victory, second only to that
of England ! It is not, we repeat, without as Eye
to the Future that France long notorious as the
most aggressive of all the nations of the
earth, has been thus carefully husbanding
her strength, and arming, arming, arming
as though the confederated powers of Europe were
again mustering their forces along her frontiers,
as though she were again threatened with invasion
by another Brunswick Manifesto, and as though
DANToN and his brother revolutionists were again
summoning the Gallic soldiery to rise for another
and, if possible, deadlier war of extermination. It
is not yesterday that these and other probable
sources of, or excuses for,: a collision have
been recognised and appreciated by the more
intelligent and dispassionate throng of Europeans
watching the progress of events in the character
purely and simply of spectators. The unification
of Italy—the dismemberment of Austria—the dis-
solution of Turkey—the settlement at last of one
little problematic difficulty after another, either
wholly apart from, or indirectly connected with,
these graver questn _
ins of European polity, the
difficulty, we will repeat, here of Schleswig and
Holstein, t here of Moldavia and Wallachia—any one
of these things or al lof them together might, England
at least has long felt, at any moment plunge all the
States of Europe into war, and cover with the
appalling devastations of battle the whole length
and breadth of the most civilized of the four
Continents.

It may absolutely be, we repeat, that the inci.
dent which has transpired within the last few days
at Warsaw may prove to have been the kindling of
the first spark of the conflagration. Under date