The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-14 00:00:00

MOTHER SHIPTON ;

or, Harlequin Knight of Love, and the Enchanted Whistle.
Harlequin and Columbine (a la Watteau), Madame Celeste
and Miss Wyndham ; Clown, Mr. Garden ; Pantaloon, Mr.
Moreland ; Scaramouch, Mr. Le Barr. Characters in the bur-
lesque by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. J. Bland, Mr. R. Romer,
Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham, Miss Mary Keeley, Miss
Kate Kelly, Miss Arden, dic.

THEATRE ROYAL, SADLER'S-WELLS.
Under the Management of Mr. Phelps.
THIS EVENING, TWELFTH NIGHT. Malvolio, Mr.
Phelps ; Viola, Miss M. Eburne.

To conclude with the pantomime, THE GENIE AND
THE FISHERMAN,

OY AL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
THIS EVENING, DELICATE GROUND. Messrs.
G. Yining and Leslie ; Mrs. Stirling.
A new Fairy Extravaganza, by J. R. Planch6, Esq., called
YOUNG AND HANDSOME. Messrs. F. Robson, Rogers,
Leslie, G Cooke, Danvers. Misses Swanborough, Thirlwall,
St. Caere, Castleton, Bromley, Haskell, and Mrs. Melfort.
After which, CRINOLINE.
Commence at half-past Seven.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
_ Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.

THIS EVENING, Shakspeare's Tragedy of RICHARD
THE THIRD, with Mr. W. Cooke's Splendid Equestrian
Illustrations. Richard, Mr. James Holloway.
After which, the choice SCENES of Equestrian Skill in
the ARENA.

To conclude with the irresistibly funny equestrian comic
pantomime, called PAUL PRY ON HORSEBACK ; or,
Harlequin and the Magic Horseshoe, in which Mr. W. Cooke
will drive Eight Golden-footed Steeds attached to the re-
splendent Chariot of Gold.
Doors open at half-past siz ; commence at a quarter be-
fore seven o'clock. los•ofice open from Eleven till Four.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W.
Cooke, jun.

A Morning Performance every Saturday, at Two o'clock.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
inr company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
selections from all the popula,. Operas, Madrigals, Choruses,
Glees, Duets, drc., viz.: —Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield,
Miss Brunel, and Miss Summers ; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F.
Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Raino, T. Farrant, S. Jones, J.
Barker, W. Melling, and P. Corrie ; Masters Austin, Ben-
nett, and Corn; Mr. Sam Ccwell and E. Mackney. Piano-
forte, J. Harroway, R.A. ; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun. ;
director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre
cisely. Suppers, dcc., until twelve o'clock. In addition to
the usual Vocal Entertainment, the celebrated SPANISH
MINSTRELS will appear in costume at Nine and Eleven
o'clock Every Evening, and sing some of their favourite selec-
tions.

ZIGH. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

Trfis DA '—Morn. 30 min. aft. 4—Evening 48 min. aft. 4
;‘)- goßEow—Morn. 7 min. aft. s—Evening 25 min. aft. 5

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, JANUAR!' 14.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
41—highest Muse noon yesterday.
36—lowest this morning and during the night.
39 —this (1.4. at noon.
BAROMETER, 3010—a rise of half an inch since yesterday.
WlND—N.E.—Fresh, with fine, cold, frosty weather.

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L`) DON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1857

The Government organ is already adopting in
regard to the new War in the East the old Mi-
nisterial tactics of Begging the Question. The
Times coolly affects this morning to consider the
rupture with Persia to have originated in nothing
more nor less than a petty Court squabble at
Teheran ! It is all about a lady, we are told ;
and that lady, too, a lady of rather more than
merely doubtful reputation ! We are facetiously
offered the alternative of a City or a Lady as the
cause of the misunderstanding ! The Adminis-
tration, and the apologists of the Administration,
are driven, of course by necessity, to " smell a
rat" somewhere. And so they put their heads
together deliberatively, and arrive at last at the
very astonishing conclusion that we must, per-
force, in searching for the cause of the quarrel,
choose between Herat and (let us say) Sherat ! We
are informed, in a tone of pitying condescension at
so much ignorance, that it is sheer nonsense to talk
of the former miserable little atom—that is to say,
the City, and not the Lady—the insulated city of
Herat (according to the Times, a place of no kind
of value or importance whatever)—as the object of
the war; as the prize for which the belligerents
are fighting, as the original source of the whole
deplorable disturbance. Why, who, in the name
of fortune, ever said it was ? Who ever regarded
Herat as other than the ostensible, merely the
ostensible, germ of this new Eastern Dilemma ?
Not the actual goal towards which the Disturbers
of the Peace of the World were struggling, but
simply and literally—instead of that—the
portal to a much grander goal. Herat
being, in point of fact, not the mere
geographical " nothing " the Times pretends
it to be, but a place (from its situation) of that
extraordinary importance that it is universally
recognised, among those who know anything at all
about it, as—the Key, from the side of Persia, to
the British Empire in Hindostan ! But No ! the
Ministerial organ tells, us, Nothing of the sort—
Herat is not even the ostensible cause of the war
—it is Nothing—it is Valueless. So that, after
all, when everything has been said and done in
this official quibbling of the organ of the Govern-
ment, we are brought in the end (upon the Horns
of the wretched Dilemma of this preposterous
alternative) to the following brief but very absurd
conclusion : That the " Bone of Contention" is
—Somebody's Spare-Rib ! That the Persian
War is not the least bit in the world about Herat
(even regarding the seizure of Herat as a step
onwards towards an incursion into Hindostan), but
that it is solely, and exclusively, and entirely, and
incontrovertibly about the Mistress, Wife, Con-
cubine, or whatever you may like to call her, of
some very grand personage at the Court of the
Shah iSTA SR- 00D-DEEN.

Was ever more monstrous effrontery than this
revealed even on the part of the recognised organ
of the Government ? Scarcely, we should think !
The Times, as the mouthpiece of the Ministry,
ungenerously lays the whole blame of this new
confusion in the East upon the Hon. CHARLES
IVICTRRAY, until very recently her Britannic
Majesty's representative at the Court of Teheran.
To what end ? Notoriously, glaringly, undeni-
ably to the one end, that public attention should
be diverted from the REAL cause of the war with
Persia. That cause being the Ministerial pol-
I
troonery displayed towards Russia in the miserably
patched up, the meanly compromised, the despic-