The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-18 00:00:00

THE DIRGE OF THE " DAILY MAIL."

The proprietor of the Liverpool Mail has tried the ex-
periment of a Conservative penny Da;101 oil, and after a
month's experience he has withdrawn the publication of
the diurnal sheet, which he finds he could not proeuce
without serious loss. In announcing the decease of the
young child, the editor says—" Instead of a monster ad-
vertising sheet, filled to overflowing with sbiling and
sixpenny advertisements, and so necessarily printed on
the thinnest tea paper, and not in the best type, we
wished to issue a concise and readable four-page journal
printed on paper equal to first-el.-, s journals, and in
legible types periodically renewed. We wished to limit
the repulsive acreage of cheap advertisements by stand-
ing out, like them, for a fair advertising price—for
our own sake, and for the take of England's
Press. In a word, unless such a hazardous enter-
prise could be carried out respectably and creditably, and
with well-merited remuneration to all parties crncerned,
we would have no hand in it. Obviously such an enter-
prise, to be enduringly established as a succe. r •
quires (much more than any Liberal newspaper) a large
and liberal outlay at the first. How is that expeLditure
to be reimbursed ? Will the profits on circulation reim-
burse any appreciable portion ? Not on our scheme of a
j iurnal first-class in quality, paper, and type ; e g :
Each Daily ATail coats above one halfpenny for the
blank paper; the newsvenders get at least a farthing per
copy, so that a very fractional part of one fsrthing per
copy remains towards waste, spoil 4, ret.urns, carriage, and
the innumerable expenses necessary to secure even that
infinitesimal fraction. Will the homces-pathic profits on
cheapest' advertisements defray it Y We trow not. The
ordinary scale of advertising charges in Liverpool was
previously much below that of Manchester and other great
towns—was scarcely ball that of Londor—aad is nose
reduced to the veriest minimum. For advertisements in a
penny paper we were prepared to make farther consider-
able reduction ; but we were scarcely prepared for what
we bad to submit to (aye, and from our own Tory frienb),
either to go to press with a few or no adv ertisementq, or
else to accept even Liverpool guinea' ad vertisements at
3s. each insertion, and to insert the ad vertisements of
even our merchant princes' at the abs ard rate of 61.1,
each. Yes; and on credit. A clerk to call about its in-
sertion; printers to put it into type ; a book-keeper to
open a ledger account for this precious 6c1., and to make
out a bill for the same; another clerk to deliver the truly
little bill' to he examined; and a confidential collector,
to call, and call, and call again to-morrow for these few
beggarly sixpenny items ! In fact, to cut a long story
short, even to make our daily paper pay its way,' leav-
ing profit out of the question, we should regain) from
three to four times the quantum of these cheap a ivertise-
ments which have as yet been accorded* to iv. E ;en that
small quota (one-third or one-sixth of tho le in the Liberal
pheap prints) often occupied nearly half a ur relict), What
could we do with a heap three cr four tunes as large ?
Why, simply convert our daily organ into a moto adver-
tising sheet, without any legitiniate protein ion to rank as
a newspaper. Clearly, then, if such a real newspaper as
wo would alone be connected with, is to hove a chance
of living and flourishing long alter we and our readers
are gathered to our kindred dust, it can
ade o
vbbY
making a determined stand against that ' cheap f
oal:
tieing mania which is working so much 11116 e
established press."

THE COBURG SUCCESSION.—A letter from Coburg to
the .Kreuz Zeituvg says:—"According to our fu ndanaen-
tal law, Prince Alfred of England is destined to mucceed
to the united Sovereignty of the Duchies, of Goburg.
Gotha. His Royal Highness is now in Switzerland, but
it appears will arrive at Gotha en the 6th May, and
after a short sojourn there will come to this pltkce, and
remain at the ducal country mansion of Roserrau. He
will subsequently remove to Bonn, where his father,
Prince Albeit, completed his studies."

The French have discovered that there is some-
thing the matter both with the foundation and the
roof of their social-and political edifice. A recent
census has inrormed their own public, and the Euro-
pean world, that for the last five years French
Population has been all but stationary. On the
other hand, the Ehaperor and his Ministers have dis-
covered that a singular want of respect is shown for
titles of nobility. Those who are entitled to wear
will not wear them ' • and those who have no right
to do so assume them ; , and thus the coronets of
duke, count, and baron are traines dans la bone.
Thai latter catastrophe seerriS to have aflliwel the
Imperial Government much more than the first, for
the Minister of Justice has been ordered to inquire
into it. • Thereupen his Excellency, M. or Count
Abhattucci, has published a report, and drawn up
a law, which is under the consideration of the Coun-
cil of Stag. The Minister is quite right.. What is
ati hereditery Emperor without an. hereditary and
respected noblesse ? We Would, however, suggest to
the Coreican Solon, M. Abbattucci, that a noblesse
is a, thing that must grow rather than be made. The
only way to support a noblesse, and to' make it
respect ed, is to allow i t to renderi tself independent,
and leave it sortie thing to do as an independent body.
A. noir:?,sse like that whiCh existe.d.,hefore the,Revo-
enjeying privileges, and living Upon court
pensions, whilst performing no duties, must corn-
mandthe contrary of respect.
The Times, indeed, has been propounding a judg-
ment upon the state of France which would seem
not to harmonise with this opinion. ;It attributes
the decline of French spirit and population to the
Revolution of 1789 ; that naughty Revolution that
Swept away the noblesse, that dispossessed the clergy,
that gave to the people the soil of the country
which they were previously prevented from even
cultivating as tenants by the dimes and the corvees,
and the weight of exclusivetaxation. It is a strange
thing to reproach with a want of enterprise a Re-
volution whose sons marched to Cadiz and to Mos-
cow, to the Pyramids and to Sweden, and whose
grandsons were by no means inferior to us at the
Malakhoff the other day.
But-the population ? Well, the French area very
prudent people. They haVe small trust in Provi-
dence; and like to confide their future to themselves.
They seldom marry without good surety of liveli-
hood, and when events disturb human calculations,
and render life a lottery, the French abstain ft Om
marriage altogether. The statisticians of Paris
have been taxed to account for the stationarycrisis
at which the population has arrived. They have
laboured to palliate and explain, but have really
said nothing to the purpose. The fact is, that the
French are a people who will not increase in num-
bers without an increase of wealth. And this re-
solve does them infinite honour.
Now, of late years, unfortunately, there has been
no increase of wealth. There ha-, been an infinity of
speculation, a brisk movement of money out of the
pockets of all into,the pocket of the State. But of
real trade, productiveindustry, there bas been little;
whilst of that frugalif.T and economy which were
always the great so-arces of French accuinulation,
there is infinitely less than ever. M. Proudhon
has just published a book, in which he sets down
speculation as a source of riches. And, as a proof
of bis assertion, be instances a log or a piece of
fancy rosewood. The purchaser bas acquired it at
a small price, but as soon a 3 he begins to saw, plane,
and polish it, he discovers that the wood is worth
not only infinitely more than he paid for it, but
more than be lapped or imagined. Here, says M.
Proudhon, is an increase of national wealth. If
so, Law's scheme was a mighty source of national
wealth. And M. De Morny or M. Mires are
monthly adding incalculable riches to the natural
ones of France.
•We can see no analogy between the rosewood
which is rendered, more valuable by the 1-kbour which
converts it into useful or agreeable articles, and the
sum of money which is made to multiply itself (in
appearance) by being made the excuse for innume
rable "promises to pay." We differ altogether
from- M. Proudh )n ; and, instead of thinking
France the richer for the fancy.prices of all things,
we deem that she has been spending far more than
her capital in enterprises which, however useful
mary of them may finally be, hare still interfered
with Vie employment of capital in industrial and in
commercial enterprise, and subjected her to liabili-
Ves which she may find it difficult to meet. The
Times, we think, need not go back so far as to
throw upon the Revolution of 1789 any present
lack of enterprise in France. The economical and
political cecamstances of the time are quite suffi-
cient to account for this, without borrowing a leaf
from the Legitimist's book of horrors, and casting
the blame of all evil upon Revolution.
The material prosperity of a country and the de-
velopment of its wealth are seldom the, results of con-

tinuous progress. They rather advance by bounds, or
rise by steps. The Revolution of 1789 gave an im-
pulse to the prosperity of France by throwing the
land open to her industryand her population. But all
that could be done by the industry of a peasant popu-
lation has been done. Another step is now wanting
—another stride must now be made ; and that is,
the application of capital and skill to land. It
would require far more than the limits of an article
to describe the impediments which obstruct or re-
tard this in France. But there is nothing, in the
state or division of property in France to prevent
its inhabitants from doing what the Belgians have
done, and of making the soil a speculation (not in
M. Proudhon's sense), a foundation for the outlay
of capital and for the employment of skill, instead
of being a mere area for men to live, like savages,
upon the roots or the crop that nature sends them.
It was a fortunate circumstance for England that,
when the time came for seriously applying capital
to the land, she was shut out from the continent,
and from foreign speculation, and from a world of
distraction, so as to be able to turn to account the
high prices of provisions which ranged 'through so
many years, and which gave an ample return for
the capital and skill then lavished upon her soil."
France has now bad the advantage, if she had
known how to use it, V several years ofi high prices ;
but they have not produced the outlay of an addi-
tional. million of francs to the land. On the con-
trary, loans and speculation have drawn forth the
little money that used to collect in the rural dis-
tricts, and, of that money, what was not spent in
the Crimea has been spent in.the towns. The rural
population of France has -ollowed the rural capital
as it migrated, just as sheep follow the shepherd.
No other explanation is needed of the deplacement
of population demonstrated in the recent French
census.

The Imperial Government does not seem alive to
either the cause or the remedy of the evil. It en-
courages loans for making Russian railroads. It
approves and sets in execution project upon project
for fructifying the barren soils of the Landes or St.
Sologne. But when the best tracts of the country
produce no morethan they did in the last century—
from the n ant of either skill or capital applied to
them—of what use is it to sink millions in inferior
soils ? It is not the breadth of land that is wanting
in France ; it is the intelligent cultivation of that
which has been for ages alternating between the
fallow and Ills plough. But the small and peasant
proprietor is in the way, it is urged. And this small
proprietor is the result of the law partitioning pro-
perty. Let the work be begun of applying skill
and capital to land ' • and the large returns will soon
make it the interest of the small proprietor to let
or sell. He cannot long resist the overflow of capi-
tal upon the land. His existence is an excuse for
indolence, not a real impediment to progress.
If the French Government would give an onward
impulse t, population, remove the limit and
pu
a4ndprecatiostricn
tion to it, it must be, we repeat, by the
of capital and skill to agriculture. And if the Em-
peror wants to found a noblesse, let him leave some
local authority and dignity in the provinces other
than the Prefect and the officials Who are subject
to him. - In order to have farmers; a country must
have landlords—landlords who reside on their pro-
rerty and have a legitimate influence in their dis-
trict. The country may be said to have no politi-
cal, it is
existence in France • inhabited exclusively
by functionaries and peasants. And all the inde-
pendence of the latter, without intelligence, has
not been able to preserve a political freedom.—
Daily 11 en's.

IMPROVIIIHNT OF THE PORT OF BRRST.—The Men iteur
de /a Plotte states that M. Vorrier, engineer, charged
with the work of clearing away the Rose Rock, which
obstructs the entrance of a part of the harbour of Brest,
called the Penfield, made an experiment a few days
ago, which was perfectly successful. One of the con-
victs, covered with a diving dress, descended to the
rock at half tide, and deposited a box full of gunpowder,
to which were fitted two gutta-percha tubes, also simi-
larly filled. As soon as the man had cone up a light
was applied to the tubes, and shortly after a loud crack-
ing noise was heard, and a large column of water, with
fragments of stone and a quantity of sand and mud, wore
thrown up to the height of 20 feet. The commotion was
so great that the Bastion de Is Rose, which stands near,
trembled to its foundation. The mass thus monad has
been considerable.

The sailing transport 111,16.kr
Arsenal has shipped three conkete sties of
Artillery,, a large quantity of reserve sares, -lin d t}
greater portion of the baggage belonging,4o the
troops orc'ered to take passage on board thit vessei
for China. The shipment of :the baggage will be
completed to day, and the troops Will embark from
the pier at 2 o'clock p.m. They, consist of two
•
full cinnpanies of the 13th battalion Royal Artillery
—namely, Captain Longden and Captain Middle-
ton's companies. Lieutenant-Colonel W. T. Crp.w.
ford, 13th battalion, who is appointed to the chief
command of the Royal Artillery in China,. takes
passage in the Mooresfort, with Commissary-Ge-
neral Young, C. 8., and Dr. Pickett, of the trans-
port department.
The Royal Marine Artillery being below its re-
quired establishment, an order has been issued
from the Admiralty for volunteering to be opened
from the Royal Marine Light Infantry companies.
he qualifications of volunteers are that they be
not less than 5 feet 8 inches in height, of good con-
duct, and general intelligence. On the orcler:beiqg
announce lat Chatham yesterday, 40 men belong-
ing to that division immediately volunteered, and
as soon as they have been approved by the Admi-
ralty they will he handed- over to Captain W. p.
Draffen, Marine Artillery, who has been sent from
Portsmouth to take the command of the voluateers.
The new heavy-class steam-frigate Diadem, 32,
is nearly ready for trial of her machinery; she got up
steam in her boilers on Thursday in the basin at
Portsmouth.
The Blenheim' 60 depot Sip of the.steam reserve
in Portsmouth harbour, Capt. the Hon. F. T. P
ham, C. 8., has moved from 'her moorings at the
north ,patt of the dockyard to Gosport side, .Out of
the way of the run of the slip from which the Royal
Sovereign screw three-decker is to ba_launebed this
day week.
Mr. Grant, the Controller-General of Victualling,
visited Portsmouth yesterday, and transacted busi-
ness connected with his department.
The ward-room officers of H.M.S. Excellent gave
a complimentary dinner on board on Thursday, in
honour of Mr. Charles Stark, on his retiring from
the position of mathematical instructor, after
period of 25 years' service on board that ship, dur-
ing which time he has instructed nearly 400 officers
in the mathematical branch of the gunnery ceurse.
His total service in the navy amounts to a period
of 39 years.
The Scorpion, 6, Master-Commander J. Parsons,
which was paid off at Chatham yesterday, has been
in commission neariy fain- years, having sailed from
Plymouth in 1853. During the whole of that
period she has been stationed iu the West Indies,
where she was employed as surveying vessel,.prin-
cipally off the northern coast of South America,
Carthagena, Bay, St. Lu:ie,' St. Thomas's, Santa
Cruz, Cuba, and Bermuda. While surveying off the
northern coast-of Cuba the Scorpion discovered a
large Spanish vessel of 1,000 tons, called the Pri-
mers de Catuluna, on shore on a reef; and w total
wreck. The vessel was bound from Barcelona for
New Orleans ; and the Scorpion, after great diffi-
culty succeeded in rescuing the whole of the pas-
sengers and crew and landing them at Havannah.
On arriving at Bermuda Commander J. Parsons
left the vessel for the purpose of continuing his
surveying duties, when the command of the
ship devolved on the master, Mr. J. P. Dillon,
The Scorpion left at Bermuda the Nile, 91, screw
steamer, Captain G. R. Mundy. During the
time she has been in commission the crew were
generally healthy, and only one death occurred
on board. On the occasion of the crew being paid
of yesterday, the Lords of the Admiralty awarded
a good service medal, with a gratuity of 151. to
Richard Coutts, ship's cook, for long service and
meritorious conduct ; a gratuity of. 71. was also
awarded by the Admiralty to John Richards for
godd conduct. The Scorpion will be placed in ordi-
nary at Chatham.

The freight ship Admiral, under orders to embark
the 23d company of Royal. Engineers, bas bee-n de-
layed at Deptford to complete her fitment. She is
ordered to embark 200 tons of engineers' tools :,t
Woolwich, and 17 passenger, exclusively of the
'company of Sappers. Mr. J. R. Fittock, R.N.,
late on special service at Deptford, having .heen.
gazetted to the post of Agent of Transport Ship-
ping in China, will also embark on board the Ad-
miral. The accommodation of the vessel is on a
well-arranged and superior scale ; and the middle
deck, appropriated for the troops, is arranged with
the various appurtenances which may serve to ren-
der the floating quarters comfortable and healthy.
The gunboat Minx, Lieut.-Commander Roe,
whose arrival at Woolwich was delayed in Margate
Roads from the disabled state of her machinery,
was yesterday morning brought up to London by a
merchant vessel, and was immediately ordered to
'bout ship under canvass, and proceed down the
river on the trial of her sailing qualities. She was
subsequently ordered to be admitted into basin to
return dockyard stores and prepare for the payment
of her crew, to be discharged. The Minx is not to
be dismantled for the present, but to remain stand-
ing. The four gunboats remaining in Woolwich
inner basin—namely, the Quail, Ripple, Porpoise,
and Clinker—are ordered to be cleared out of the
basin and removed to Chatham, as well as the mor-
tar floats Nos. 115, 120, 130, 135, and 136, which
are also to be despatched to Chatham. Her M -
jesty's steamer Monkey, Master-Commander Syn-
dercombe, was yesterday morning hauled under the
sheers in Woolwich basin to be fitted with anew
boiler.

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.
The Agamemnon, which has been devoted to the
peaceful service of laying down a part of the Atlan-
tic submarine telegraph cable, is now undergoing
the necessary alterations at Portsmouth. Her ar-
mament of 90 guns is being removed, the hold
cleared, and her stowage room increased. She is to
be fitted with frigate's masts instead of her present
rig of a line-of battle ship. It will be remembered
that this is the famous Agamemnon, the flagship
which took up such a daring and perilous positi
rig,ht in front of the united fleet before Sebastopol,
and earned such glory-for her commander. On the
other side of the Atlantic the Niagara is also under-
going preparations for the same object. She is the
largest screw-propeller in the world, not even ex-
cepting the famous Himalaya. Her length is 345
feet, beam 55 feet, and burthen 5,000 tons. The
Niagara is one of that fleet of swift and heavily-
metalled ships whose qualities have recently been
subjected to so searching an investigation. There
are already 1,100 miles of the Atlantic cable com-
pleted, and upwards of 2,000 miles of the gu:.ta
percha wire has passed through the machines of the
Gate Percha Company. The total length of the
seep-sea portion of the cable will be 2,500 miles. To
this at each end will be attached the shore portions,
each about 30;miles long, and consisting of a very
strong and heavy cable calculated to resist a vessel's
anchor or any casualty.

PEMBROKE DOCKYARD. —The greatest activitypre-
vails at this establishment, and no relaxation is
visible in the construction of the ships on the slips.
A magnificent ship-of-the-line, the Howe, pierced
for 121 guns, is making rapid progress. She will be
upwards of 4,000 tons burthen and 1,000-horse
power, and is to be the largest ship of her rating in
the navy. Another of the new class 91's, the Re-
venge, will so on be ready forlaun
,chii,ll also ordered.
g. She is of
800-horse power, and will rank with theAgaMe
Agamem-
non, James Watt, and other first-rate models: She
will be succeeded by the Defiance,
The Windsor Castle is to be cut iu two and
length-
ened,ered
after which she will make a good man-of-war.
Her present rating is 116 guns, but this will not be
continued. She will require, however,kwith our Lew
considerable
alterations before she can take l.
classfirst-rates. Thera are 4 first-classnae frigatesbuild-
t
build-
ing, viz., Immortalite, Melpomne
Orlando—all pierced for 50 Runs, besides Aurora;h and
e wual
pivot gun. The two first named were sailing
ships, but have been cut in two and considirably
lengthened, and instead of 60, as originally intended,
they will carry 50 heavy guns. The Aurora is
entirely new, and will have engines nominally of
40:-horse power .The Orlando is one of the new
monster frigates iatended to match the large -Vessels
of this class built by the Americans. She will be
.p5O feet in her full length, and about 3,700' toms
• burthen, and armed with 51. .guns of large calibre.
Great exertions are used to push her on to'compie-
tion. The smaller vessels are the Greyhound, 17,
screw-sloop, of about 900 tons, and the Garnet, 8,
about 600 tons. The whole of the above ships will
be fitted with the screw propeller, and in
armament.
form a squadron of line-of-battle ships, frigates,
and sloops, of great size and weight of m
The greatest care and attention have been exhi-
bited in the modelling and construction of Vie liew*
ships, whilst those vessels which have been adapted
Id the screw show a marked superiority over -the
old description of vessel now so rapidly being be-
uisbed, by the introduction of better ships, from
theij3ritish navy
Majesty's screw-ship
y.
of the line
BER,attrpA
Nile, 91, Car., R. 'Mundy, arrived at Bermuda
from the Weft 'lndies on the 20th of February,
having exneriented severe gales in the Gulf of
Florida and the coast of North America. The' Nile
has received orders to proceed forthwith to 'E tag.
land, and will sail about the 11th of March, if re-
fitted by that time.

The Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's have presented
the Rev. Lawford W. T. Dale, 8.A., curate of St. Pan-
cras ion of one of the canons), to the vicarage of Chis-
wick.

ITER MAJ E S T Y'S THEATRE. in itself as the most elementary mathematical
SEASON 1857. proposition.
THIS EVENING (Saturday), April 18.
SPEZIA, POCCHINI, GIUGLINI, VIALETTI, and BENS- England, at the same time that she cares not
VENTANO• one doit for the military or maritime co-operation
Opera--LA FAVORITA.
Ballet—LA ESMERALDA. of an auxiliary force—when contending either with
A limited number of boxes in the Half Circle Tier have
an empire like China, or with an empire like
been specially reserved for the public, and may be had on al-
plication at the Box-office at the Theatre Colonnade, Hay- Russia—cannot at the same time but look askance,
market.
Madlle. PICCOLOMINI will make her first appearance on and with a jealous eye, upon every power inti-
Tuesday, April 21, in Donizetti's Opera, La Figlia del It'g- rnately allied with herself which, upon the out-
gimento.
break of a great war like the one just kindled at
Canton, evinces a reluctance to accord to her cause
the moral sympathy of a merely passive ac-

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
EXTRA NIGHT, THURSDAY, April 23.

LA TRAVIATA.

PICCOLOMINI, GIUGLINI, BENEVENTA.NO, ?OCCHINI
Opera—LA TRAVIATA.
13allet—LA. ESMERALDA.

For particulars, see bills.
A limited number of Boxes in the Half•circle Tier have been
specially reserved for the public, and may be had on app'ica-
tion at the Box-office, at the Theatre Colonnade, Haymarket.

THEA TR E-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
Engagement of Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES DILLON, who will
appear THIS EVENING and Every Evening during the
week, supported by Miss WOOLGAR and the principal
members of the Drury-lane and. Lyceum Companies.
THIS EVENING, RICHELIEU : Richelieu, Mr. Charles
Dillon.

To conclude with THE KING'S MUSKETEERS. Mr. C.
Dillon, Mr. Stuart ; Miss Woolgar.
The Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5. Private
boxes, 2/. 25., 1/. ifs. 6d., 11. is., and to hold two persons,
10s. 6d. ; stalls, ss. ; dress circle, 4s. ; first circle, 2s. 6d. ;
upper circle, is. 6d.; pit, 2s. ; first gallery, ls. ; second
gallery, 6d. Half price to all parts, except stalls and upper
gallery, at 9 o'clock.

ROY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE,
THIS EVENING, will be performed

Shakespere's tragedy of
KING RICHARD THE SECOND.
King Richard IL, Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean.
Precededby A GAME OF ROMPS.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone.

NEW ARRANGEMENT OF PRICES OF ADMISSION.

THIS EVENING, and during the week, the new
Drama of A LIFE'S TRIAL. Messrs. Buckstone, Comp-
ton Howe,.W. Farren, Rogers; Mesdames Reynolds, Poyn-
ter, Fitzwilliam, oftc.
After which, for the sixth time, a Classical Love Sto, y. tin-
der the Applc-lation of ATALANTA ; or, The• Three Golden
Apples : in which Miss M. Oliver will appear ; also Miss M.
Wilton, her first appearance here, and Miss Ellen Ternan, her
first appearance in London.
Concluding with GRIMSIIAW, BAGSITAW, AND
BRADSHAW. Mr. Bnekstone,

In future the prices will be :
Orchestr4 Stalls (which may be retained the wtole or the
evening), 6s. cacb. (No charge for booking.)

First Price. s. d. Second price. S. d
Dress Boxes
Upper Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0
Pit........ . 2 0 Pit 1 0

Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6
Upper Gallery 0 FNo half-price to Upper Gallery.

THEATRE ROYAL, A D ELPHI,
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.

THIS EVENING, will be performed the new and
original domestic sketch, entitled WELCOME, LITTLE
STRANGER. Mr. Wright, Mr. Faul Bedford, &c.

Followed by THE ELVES, in which Madame Celeste will
make her first appearance
After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL, in which
Mr. Wright and Paul Bedford will appear.

TRAND T HEAT R E.—Manacfer Mc. T.
.7, Payile.—THlS EVENING will be performed
RITTFI OAKLEY.

After which, WILLIAM TELL (Burlesque.) Mesdames
Leigh Murray, Cuthbert, Somers, &c.
To conclude with a Farce.
Commence at Seven. Stalls, 3s. ; Bases, 2s. ; Pit, ls. ;
Gallery, 6d.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE,
Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Crsswick.
THIS EVENING, the new drama of THE IRON ARM.
After which, MIDAS. Apollo, with songs, Miss Poole.
To conclude with THE DUMB SAVOYARD AND HIS
MONKEY. The Monkey, Mr. Flexmore.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
THIS EVENING, will be performed a new drama, called
DADDY HARDACRE. Mr. Robson, &c.
The new drama, by Tom Taylor, Esq., A SHEEP IN
WOLF'S CLOTHING.
To conclude with THIEVES ! THIEVES ! ! Messrs, F.
Robson, G. Vining, &c.
Commence at half-past Seven.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. I
Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
THIS-EVENING (First week), a New and Grand Mill-
iary Spectacle, introducing Mr. W. Cooke's admired Stud of
trained Horses, 4c., called THE FRENCH IN ALGIERS ;
or, The Battle of Constantine.
Atter which, A novel Series of EQUESTRIAN ACTS in
the CIRCLE, in "which Miss Kate Cooke will appear.
Appearance of M. Croueste. the inimitable Clown, and of
Signor Corelli and Family.
To conclude with THE TAILOR OF TAMWORTH.
Commerce at seven o'clock. Dress Tlexes, 48. ; Upper
/loxes, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from 11., no charge for booking ;
Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d.
her office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager,
Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun.

CANTERBURY HALL. Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
Selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses,
Glees, Duets, dte., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield,
Miss Brunel], Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta ; Mr. J.
Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S.
Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Celli, Senor Antonio M.
de Soils, and E. L. Hime ; Masters Austin, Bennett, and
Corri ; Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Mackney, and C. J. Wilkins,
Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.;
iirector, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre
ciaely. Suppers, die., until twelve o'clock.

quiescence.

Extraordinary though it may appear that it
should be so, it is nevertheless altogether beyond
denial that there is at this moment a very preva-
lent rumour to the effect that a reluctance of this
precise kind—a reluctance to co-operate simply
in this manner with England in her just and
necessary struggle against the Chinese, has recently
been displayed by—the Upited States Government !
It is actually so stated. It is so stated—and so
believed. Supposing the rumour to be accurate,
it would imply but a sorry commencement to the
policy of Mr. BUCHANAN'S Presidency ! It would
be but poorly and inauspiciously inaugnrative of
his newly-organised Administration ! For what in
reality is positively at this juncture involved in
the war between the British and the Chinese t
What, in truth, but the old contest, " never end-
ing, still beginning" between Asiatic barbarism
and European civilisation I Not, of course, that
we would for one instant entertain the frightful
notion enveighed against, the preposterous notion
repudiated, in such a wholly superfluous burst
of impassioned rhetoric, during the course
of the memorable Chinese Debate in the
House of Commons by the Hon. and Learned
Gentleman the ex-Member for the borough of
Leominster—the notion that " Christianity is to
be propagated among Pagan races by being borne
in triumph over the crumbled breach and the
blood-stained rampart amid the crash of bayonets
and the roar of artillery !" A mere oratorical
flourish, that—evasive of a problem difficult
(otherwise than through battle, through open
force of arms) of any honourable or even
comprehensive solution ! The Problem as
to How British interests, British lives, Bri-
tish property may be the most effectually pro-
tected against the lawless and fanatical bar-
barism of a permanently inimical race like the
Chinese ! That is the Actual Question all this
while immediately before us ! The protection of
those interest 4, of those lives, of that property,
constitutes the very aim and object of the war into
which the Chinese authorities have impelled our
own Government. That is the cause which Mr.
COBDEN'S sympathisers cannot recognise and
which not recognising they have openly repudiated
—and which having thus repudiated they have
found to be so strongly fixed and cherished in
the brains, and hearts, and consciences of their
fellow-countrymen, that they themselves (blind to
all this, deaf to all this, impervious to all this)
have been scornfullf rejected in consequence by
the different constituencies they have had the
temerity to appeal to ! And it is this rational,
manly, and it is hardly necessary to add clearly
justifiable, cause which America is said to repu-
diate as dully, and obdurately, and obtusely as the
most obfuscated Peace-at-any-Price Yehite in all
that long list of the defeated section of Mr. COBDEN' s
notable majority ! " Can such things be, and"
not " overcome us like a summer's cloud," but
rather be it said like a fog born of a political
miasma ? It is scarcely creditable that Mr.
BUCHANAN can have so egregiously blundered at
the very outset of his Presidency, It is scarcely
conceivable that an error of j udgment so monstrous,
and at the same time so very frivolous, should be
tolerated, much less that it should be deliberately
connived at, by the " free and enlightened" citi-
zens of the United States, by the collective wis-
dom of that far-seeing and keen-eyed population.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

THIS DAY—Morn. 13 min. aft. 7—Evening 15 mia. aft. 8
rn-Mozzow—Morn. 3 min. aft. 9—Evening 50 tmn.aft. 9

THE WEATHER—SUN Orrpn, APRIL 18.
THERMOMETER, IN THR SHADE.
59 —highest singe noon yesterday.
50 —lowest this morning and during the night.
63 —this day at noon.

There are two outstanding "difficulties " that
may possibly disturb the peace of Europe, viz.,
the questions at issue between Prussia and the
Swiss Confederation, and between Austria and
Piedmont. We do not believe that matters will
proceed to the final arbitrament of war, the
ultima ratio regum in either case. Still it is well
to be prepared for any alternative, especially
when firm and decided action on the part of
France and England, in the first instance, may
avert such deplorable contingencies. We cannut,
so far as either of the German Powers are con-
cerned, place any reliance on the mere arguments
of the diplomatists. We have witnessed their utter
futility during the discussions respecting the Rus-
sian war, the cost whereof—not merely in money,
but also in the lives of French and English sol-
diers—was greatly enhanced, if not altogether
occasioned, by waiting for Austria and Prussia to
make up their minds. The Allied Governments
seemed to forget how hard it was "to stir such
dishes of skimmed milk to honourable action."
Both parties taok care to look solely to their
own interests—the one, by obtaining a spe-
cious pretext for the military occupation of
the Danubian Principalities ; the other, by
enabling its subjects to become the carriers of
Russian produce, thus virtually neutralising the
effect of the blockade in the Baltic. They carried
out their own views merely, without the slightest
regard for the opinions or interests of the rest of
Europe, and they will now act in a similar
manner, unless the screw be firmly and judiciously
applied to restrain them in their operations ; and
it should be the business of the Western Powers
to apply that "screw," so that there could be no
possible mistake by the Cabinets either of Vienna
or of Berlin.

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The Neuchatel question now resolves itself into
a mere matter of £ s. d., or, rather, of thalers
ani groschen. FREDERICK WILLIAM affects to
love honour much, but he certainly loves money
more. He will pocket any affront, however glar-
ing, provided he receives an equivalent in hard
cash. He will bring his empty title as Prince of
Neuchatel to an excellent market if he can obtain a
good round sum by way of compensation for his
injured honour. We may, however, feel t )lerably
certain that all his vapouring is only intended to
enhance the price, thinking, perhaps, that France
or England may give something to get rid of a
troublesome question. His motto seems to be
—"the Smallest contribution thankfully accepted."
The promise of a handsome dowry with the six-
teen year old Princess Royal would smooth down
every obstiole. We have heard of a judge who
proposed to settle the litigation between neigh-
bours by paying the sum iu dispute out of his
own pocket; but it would be a little infra digni-
tatum for any of the Great Powers to purchase
peace under such circumstances. FREDERICK
WILLIAM will not, however, enter into war

in any event. He will " take all he can get,
and keep grumbling," but that is all. Even if
he wore allowed to deal with Switzerland he would
think twice, and closely count the cost before he
entered into hostilities, where he might, in the
long run, get far more than they bargained for.
We believe that Switzerland could vindicate her
own honour and insure her own independence
without any assistance from other nations.
The real point at issue betemen Austria

and Piedmont is the freedom of the press
in the latter country. Count BuoL may
speak of• the protection afforded to political refu-
gees, and the fortifications of Alessandria,
but the veritable lapis offensionis, the actual
stumbling-block, is the liberty of Journalism. To
muzzle the free expression of public opinion is
the great desideratum to FRANCIS JOSEPH and
his advisers. They are quite aware that the mere
attempt would be fatal to the political reputation
and position of Count CAVOITR. It would neces-
sarily occasion the loss of confidence of the entire
people. It is an attempt to dictate to an inde-
pendent and constitutional Government respecting
the management of it 3 internal affairs. If any
of the obnoxious journals transgress, if they tres-
pass beyond the bounds of legitimate discussion,
they become liable to stringent punishment, and
FRANCIS JOSEPH may put the machinery of the
law in7operation, on his mere motion.: He cannot
reasonably ask, nor can Sardinia honourably grant
more.

But the first step in the direction of war being
taken in a fit of petulant ill-humour, what more
will he do ? We believe nothing ! Sardinia will
still maintain the even tenour of her way. VICTOR
EMMANUEL will still flourish, albeit deprived of
the benefit of diplomatic intercourse, and although an
envoy from -Vienna is absent from the reunions of
the Court at Turin. An invasion is not a very
easy, or a very safe procseding. It would cost
much money in the first instance, which Aus-
tria cannot easily spare, although she has for some
time past been replenishing her exhausted
treasury with English gold. The mere pecuniary
outlay would alone present att insuperable impedi-
ment to a further movement on the part of Aus-
tria. But were it even otherwise, and she had
ample means for prosecuting a costly war, and if
the neutrality of France and England could be
insured,she would still hesitate before taking a '
step that would place the invading army in
serious jeopardy, and enkindle the torch of insur-
rection in the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, if
not throughout the whole of Italy. The Pied-
montese have approved themselves gallant and
efficient soldiers, and within a few weeks at least
100,000 experienced veterans could be assembled
in arms for the defence of their native land. The
well-devised chain of railways would bring the
Sardinian army to almost any point where their
services were required, so that the concentrated
force could be thrown on any Austrian battalion.
These railways would not assist the invaders.
They could not be resorted to in the centre of an
adverse population, every man being actuated
by an unflinching determination to resist to the
last extremity the assailants of his fatherland.
We believe that if Austria could move an army
of 100,000 men on Piedmont, but few would
return to tell the tale of their disastrous defeat.
Any detachments separated from the main body
would be crushed in detail, while the combined
force could make but little impression on the gal-
lant and unflinching Piedmontese.
But what would occur in the other parts of
Italy, from whence the troopshad been withdrawn
for the invasion of Sardinia. The discontented
linhabitants—and their name is legion—would
' soon create an important diversion in favour of
" the Champion of Italian freedom." A flame
would be excited which all the force of Austria
would vainly attempt to extinguish. The " talis-
manic word" would be proclaimed in stentorian
accents throughout the length and breadth of the
land, and Austria would bitterly repent her un,
justifiable and impolitic aggression. We cannot,
then,imagine that actual hostilities will follow. But
there may be considerable inconvenience to France
and England, who, in such case, would be bound
by every principle of honour to sustain their
faithful and efficient ally. Under such circum-
stances they are not only entitled, but impera-
tively bound, to explain clearly and distinctly to
Austria the probable consequences of her puerile
and unwarrantable conduct. A little plain speak-
ing is all that is required in either case, and the
Prussian and Austrian difficulties will be readily
disposed of—the dark clouds dispelled from the
political horizon.