The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-15 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

TH EAT It E-RO . HAY MARKET
Lessee Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, will be periormoked.
'IJR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, 311*. 1311
atone; Lord I)undreary, Mr. Sothern.
After which, a new and original Extravatranza.hen
RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA; or, ,r
Valley. Rasselas, Miss Louise Kevley. a entitledp p y
Concluding with MRS. WHITE.

THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM
_OPEN, under
the Sole Management of Mr. PECHTER.
January 15, and every
THIS EVENING a tiritSDA:lo.
evening during the
SUDDEN commence with an Ori !in {1
A ATTACK. Messrs. Shore,
Sketch, entitled
Garden, Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee.
After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic
Drama. in Three Acts, and Pr3102-,ue, entitled THE
DUK.E'S STOTT°, by Paul Feval and John Brougham.
The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Pechter,
supported by Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham, H. iddi-
combe, W. M`lntyre, P. Charles, Garden, Raymond, H.
Butler, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E.
Lavenue, and Elsworthy.

Mr. Phelps and Mr. W. Montgomery are engaged, and will
shortly appear.

- _
Doors open at half-past Six, performance to commence
at Seven. Private Boxes, £2 12s. dd., and £2 25. Places
registered. Stalls, 6s. 6d. ; Dress Circle, Is. 6d. ; Upper
Circle, 4s. 6d. Prices at doors—Stalls, 65. ; Dress Circle, ss. ;
Upper Circle, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. No half-price. Box-
office open daily from 11 till 5. The public are entreated to
take notice that no charge is made to the occupants of boxes,
box places, or stalls, either for playbills or for the safe keep-
ing of hats and cloaks : and that the attendants in all parts
of the house are forbidden to receive any gratuities whatever
Stage-Manager, Mr. G. Vining. ACting-Manager, Mr. H.
Barnett.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Lindus.
THIS EVENING, THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. Mr. H.
Marston, Mr. Wallace ; Miss Constance Aylmer, Miss AI.
Oliver, and Mrs. B. White.
After which, the New Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME,
•. RIQUET WITH THE 'TUFT ; or, H arlequin and Mother
Shipton." Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. C. Seyton, Misses Gray and
Hudspeth, Mr. Milano, Mr. R. Power, Miss A. Collinson, and
Mr. Halford.

NEW THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHL-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE LI I TLE THE ‘SURE. Mr
Billington, Mr. R. Phillips, and Miss Marie Wilton.
After which, A TICKET OF LEAVE : Messrs. J. L.Toole,
p. Bedford, and Mrs. Billington.
To conclude with " GEORGE DE BARNWELL :
or, ilarlequin Folly in the Realms of Fancy." Miss Woolgar,
Miss Kelly, Miss Seaman ; Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bed-
ford, SleOenson, C. J. Smith. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ;
Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams ; Clown, Mr. W. Hildyard ;
antak,on, Kr. J. Paulo. The celebrated Arthur and
iiertrand.

Commence at 7.

The WEATHEIL—Sun Office, Jan. 15, 1863.

THERMOMETER.
Highest since Noon yesterday. 3B
Lowest during the night
This day at N00n.....
Barometer-30.43.
wind—..sasterly, fresh, with fine weather, but dull and
cold.
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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 9h. 6m.—Afternoon, 9h. 50m
To-mouttow.-Morning, 10h. 28m.—Afternoon, 11h. 10m.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1863.

The opening of the Prussian Chambers yesterday
awakens some interest. The armistice bctween the
KING and the Chambers is over, and the belligerents
are about to meet once more, with w hat results it is
difficult to predict. Has 'WILLIAM the First profited
by the truce to reconsider his theory of the divine
right of Kings ? We fear not, from the opening
phrases of the Speech from the Throne, which com-
mences by expressing the desire of his MAJEsTT
that a durable understanding may be arrived at
in the questions which had remained unsolved in
the preceding session. This creditable aspiration is
followed by a somewhat suspicions phrase. " This
understanding would be obtained as soon as the
constitution shall be taken as the basis for the posi-
tion of the representatives of the people, and when
the legislative authorities mutually respect their
constitutional rights." That is to say, we presume,
that matters will be pleasantly settled when the
Chambers have learned to respect the divine right
of WILLIAM the FIRST, and to accept the basis
of a despotism, instead of a limited
monarchy. After a few smooth phrases
about the satisfactory state of the finances,
we come to the bone of dissension. The Govern-
ment, we are told," will submit the modified budget
for 1863, and the budget for 1864, and will further
propose an alteration in the law on military service
of the 3d of September, 1864. The Ministers are
unanimous in abiding by the project of reorganisa-
tion of the army, and desire that it should be forth-
with determined by the legal settlement of the ex-
penditure." A reasonable wish truly 1. The
KING desires peace—the Alinist _ars unani-
mously desire war, it would seem. They had
better decide which 'wish is the strongest.
'We trust the resolution of the Chambers
may be found stronger than both of them—to hold
the rights of the people, and to yield no one
point to the dictation of the KING or the en-
croachments of his Ministers. No allusion is made
to the Schleswig Holstein dispute. Perhaps with
so hearty an ally as Lord RUSSELL, it is though
unnecessary to take, further trouble in the matter.t
The relations of Prussia with foreign powers are said
to be satisfactory; the commercial treaty with France
is insisted on, and a conviction expressed that the
Federal Constitution of 1815 no longer corresponds
to the altered conditions of the present day. Bills
on local subjects and legal r&orms ate announced,
but we cannot doubt that a struggle is to come be-
tween a King who only knows how to tyranise and
a people who are determined to be constitutionally
governed.

It seems strange that with the day actually
fixed for the new session to commence, members
should be even now addressing their constituents
concerning the events of the last year. Mr.litstet-
lAME is one of those who have rushed in at the
eleventh hour. So brilliant was his discourse, so
stirring and sparkling his style, however, that no
reader will regret this late resume of the skirmishes
at St. Stephen's, The hon. member commenced
his speech by motioning that the custom of the
electors and the elected meeting between the sit-
tings of Parliament is one that never is understood
by InrEigness. It was wily last year that his re•
marks to his constituents were commented upon
by
people who were at a great distance from this
pl=!ce. He alludcd to a pL.co called Pole, On the
other side of the Adriatic.
sea where Mr. KIN GLA They said, `c Now Nye
R.E gets his opinions from ;
it seems he does not get his op- inionta from boolL.;, like
our German professors. Ha does not even get
them from iris own blue-books, but from ids
constituents, from his borough of Bridge-
water; and they said, what they wanted was a
few places like the borough of Bridgewater..

Certainly these people are on the high road to
success; they have not the double error of the
Platonists, of ignoring their ignorance, and the
next step to seeing what they want will be to ob-
tain it.

Next Mr. F—INGLAKE went on tc
speak of his subjf.ct, waicn certainly was
a prosy one, for, as he said, no one could clll
the last a " Showy Session." He gave any ani-
mated account of the great contest on Church Rates,
adroitly bringing in as a ludicrous non eeqttitur that
this weighty question had been temporarily decided
by a majority of one. He then dilated with some
warmth on the nature of the support which be had
given to her MAJESTY'S Government.
that the support he had given was notne
that somea , ,
servile"
one. To prove this, he went on to state declared
serl
e
years ago, " he took the very first
ex-
pelled the present Prime m. I inisterstefpromwhiocffihee.,
He said, and deserves the greatest admiration for
itt hwi nags m
too rflen tdh awnr
oanng-
theth earvaorwouasle,
aroused
ts
o 1 attention, t taennyt i on, one
perpetrated towards a British subject. During last
session, observed Mr. KINGLAKE, there was
only one point on which I differed from Ministers,
and it was on the point of an English gentleman
suffering wrong through the insurrection in Italy.
An animated debate ensued on the subject, " while
the Government for some time firmly resisted the
claim which I, and the gentlemen acting with me,
put forward on behalf this British subject; but I
rejoiced to say that Lord .PALMERSTON, who is sel-
dom wrong upon a question of this kind, at length
said that justice should be done." Well would it
have been for the noble lord had he adopted such a
wise course on a more important occasion. In the
hurry-skurry of passing events much is laid aside
and passed over, but the irrevocable past is occa-
sionally overlooked, and then some direful facts bear
witness that cannot be gainsaid. The" Conspiracy
Bill" will be a blot on the reputation of Lord PAL-
MERSTON which nothing can efface, and history will
endorse the opinion that was then the prevailing
sentiment of the country. The spirit and energy
which animate such men as Mr. KINGLAKE will
always make our Parliament the true representa-
tive of the feeling of the people, and in such hands
the national honour can with confidence be
trusted. Of course a discourse like the present
must contain some allusion to the great distress in
the North, and we find some touching reference is
made to it. On this subject Mr. KINGLAKE ex-
pressed himself in an appropriate style. He said,
" How grandly the crisis has been met, look at the
patience with which these severe sufferings have
been endured." He then paid a deserved tribute to
the manner in which the country at large had met
the evil, and to the efforts which had been made
by the press to represent the sufferings to the ful-
lest extent without at all exaggerating them.

The public expenditure next engaged his atten-
tion, and here again we must express approval of
his sentiments. He said many points were open
to discussion, and in many things a change was
necessary, but when they talked of the home of the
navy that was a very different question. " You all
know that our very existence depends upon our
navy; we cannot become a second rate power, we
must be what we are, or perish out of the face of
the world." No wonder these words were received
with great applause, expressing, as they do, the
embodiment of the public spirit and national
honour. The honourable member went rather
too far, however, when he said that he left the
decision of this important point to the care
of the Prime Minister. It is too much responsi-
bility for any one man to take upon himself, and
the fitting answer should come from the House
of Commons. He then passed on to America, and
made some pertinent remarks on the question.
He said that " we have the goodwill of the Southern
States, but have failed to gain the goodwill of the
Northern States. They have been indulging in
language which, had it been used by a State
in Europe, would undoubtedly have brought
about long before this an interruption of diplomatic
relations between the two Powers." He then al.
luded to Mexico and the lonian Islands, of which
latter he said that the lonian Islands were entrusted
tons "not merely as a feather in the English Crown'
but as a means of enabling England to maintain
that naval dominion which is not necessary to the
life and honour of England, but to the honour and
safety of Europe." He said that if Government
found that this State was not necessary as a naval
and military station, he for one should support the
Cession, and be glad to do so, to save something from
the national expenditure. Altogether Mr. KING-
LAKE'S speech is much to be recommended for its
general tone and spirit, and is a fair and faithful
representation of the sentiment of the country.
There is an animation throughout it that arrests
attention and carries one irresistibly along. We
may hope soon to see Mr. KINGLAKE leave retro-
spection for actuality, and carry out in the exciting
events of the session the bold principles and daring
spirit which he has evidenced in this glimpse of the
past.

At a recent meeting of the Geographical Society
the President, Sir RODERICK MURCHISON, read an
interesting letter which he had just received from
Dr. LIVINGSTONE, the distinguished African tilt•
yeller, in which he relates his ascent of the
Rovuma river, which is situated some eleven de-
Igrees south of the equator, on the west coast of
Africa. He describes the river as navigable
for boats for some hundred and fifty miles
, during the wet season ; the country as healthy
I and cultivated in many parts, the inhabitants
scanty, but in general friendly. In fact, their
fear of strangers arose from the suspi-
cion that they were man-hunters, and
dreading personal capture, they in many in-
stances fled, leaving their store of grain unprotected.
It is many years now since Dr. LIVINGSTONE first
set foot on the continent of Africa in the capacity
of a Missionary. His experience soon taught him
that the great obstacle to the propagation of
Christianity was not the want of understanding in
s widespreadtat e andf e rootedc ommsuu pn
ie
try-
stitions, but the de
the natives, nor anysin
or a l ised
T their rude way the Africans
which the introduction of a foreign slave trade had
greatly augmented. ...n
only,
whether
was carried on amongst themselves
had always been inclined to commerce, but while it
they bartered slaves or shells, it
mattered little.
Slavery with them was, as the Southerners would
call it, a domestic institution, and was regulated by
c
national tavas. But when the white man came to
barter unknown
am: wondersover t
in
ern.
exchangeih, valueloi. liou
of
a.
nil
flesh,
a change
individual was considerable, and to pr
the market continual petty we ro
~v i d
Ine stock a
in t
a i fur
n ed
wars .
The inland tribes sent down th • • • their criminals and
sold them, thus turning them to profit, and not
killing them. All this rendered it very difficult
I for Europeans to penetrate into the interior of
Africa. Moreover, the unhealthy climate of the
western coast was described with all the exaggera
tion likely to result from a trade which led tilt:,
merchants into the most insalubrious localities.
Under such circumstances it appeared clear to Dr.
LIVINGSTONE that before the Gospel could be
preached with success confidence must he estab-
lished with the natives, and from his knowledge
of their character he saw clearly that the true