The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-31 00:00:00

ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL.

This time-honoured property—the Methuselah of
*public gardens-6 announced to open for the season this
(Monday) evening, on which occasion the veteran a: o-
naut, Mr. Chines Green, will make the first of a aeries
of ten farewell ascents in that monstre lethal
machine. the great " Nassau Balloon." During the
recens, Mr. Robert Wardell, the director, has beeti
actively engaged in devising and realizing many important
improvements, amendments, and novelties. The changes
thus effected in the " Royal Property" commence from
the vcry entrance, not the least of which is the conver
'out-, of the Equt,itriau 11,)tunda into a Theatre de Ballet,
in wHch a f.i I corps of Parisian dancers (selected from
the Grand Oliera, by the permission of M. Nestor Ro-
queclar.), under the direetion of M. Honor& Maitre de
Ballet i‘f Thear.re an Msrseilies, will appear in a ro_
inisct'e divertissement, entitled Zelita, or the, Maid of
Calabria, To; great f.teto,e, which i. 13,4 bec.one so ins-
porw.a: a feature at Vauxhall, represents th, famous
Piazza de Torres at Madrid, on the occasion of a Royal
Bu 3 Fight, frote the pencil of Mr. Nieols; while the
Garden Theatre is devoted to the peculiarly interesting
subjects of the. Arctic Regions, during the winter and
r awls ices, painted by the Messrs. Adams. There
are aiso the Hall of the Arabs, two n(w Cafes, Hall of
the Golden Lillies. Chinois), Vintage Bower, and
dioisanie views of l,he Like of L •cerne, with all the varied
and exquisite beauties and poetical associations of that
lovely spot.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST
RAIL WAY.

Traffic—Week ending May 29,1852• ... £13,875 910
Traffic—Week ending May 31, 1851 10,008 11 9
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1852 .... 193,891 2 10
Total of the half-year, to this date, 185.1 ... 196,041 6 0
Total number of Passengers—Week ending
May 29, 1852 82.752
Passengers ...Z11,522 7 4
Goode ... 2,353 2 6

Total... —. £13,875 910
Total miles open, 1852, 173%; ditto, 1851, 173%.
Epsom Races.
London Terminus, May 31, 1852.

HER MAJEiTT'S THEATRE.—The Queen and his
Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the performances at
her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday evening with their pre-
sence. The suite in attendance upon her Majesty and his
Royal Highness the Prince consisted of the Marchioness of
Ely, the Hon. Lucy M. Kerr, Lord Galway, Lord Charles
Fitzroy, and Colonel the Hon. Francis H. Seymour. Her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge also honoured the theatre with
their presence. Amongst the noble and distinguished indi-
viduals present were his Grace the Duke of Wellington, the
Marchioness of Douro, and Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley ;
the Marchioness of Ailesbury, his Excellency the Russian
Minister, the Baroness Brunnow, and Mdlle. de Brunnow;
his Excellency the French Ambassador, the Countess Wa-
lowski and party; his Excellency the American .ainister
and Mrs. and Mias Abbott Lawrence; the Earl of Wilton
and party ; the Earl and Countess of Glengall and Lady
Margaret Butler, the Countess of Harrington and Lady Jane
St. Maur Stanhope, the Countess de Flahault and Mademoi-
selle de Flahault, Lord George Paget, the Duke and Duchess
of Cleveland, Lord Gardner, Lord Southampton, Lady Trim-
leston, the Earl Mountcharles, the Viscount Combermere,
Major the Hon. James Macdonald, the Viscount Cracbourn,
the Earl of Lonsdale, the larquis of Clanricarde, Lord
Ward, the Duke and Duchess of Leinster, Lady Palmer, Mr.
George Dodd, M.P., and Mrs. Dodd, Sir George Armitage
and party, Sir George Wombwell, Bart., General the Hon.
H. Cavendish, Sir Ralph "Howard, Bart., M.P., Lady Howard
and Miss Saunders, &c., &c.
ARRIVAL Or THE DUKE AND DUCHESS DE MONT..
PENSIER.—Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Montpensier arrived at Dover on Thursday, on a visit
to the august parentlof the Duke. The ex-Queen of the
French, with Prince de Joinville and his Excellency Signor
Isturitz (the Spanish Ambassador), arrived by an early
train from town, in order to receive the illustrious tra-
vellers. At about half-past eight o'clock the Belgian packet
Chemin de Fer entered the harbour,
with their Royal
Highnesses on board. The Queen Amalie (who was stand-
ing on the quay with the Spanish Minister) rushed forward
to embrace the Duke, her son, whom she had not seen since
the events that exiled the family of Louis Philippe from
France. After the disembarkation the Royal personages
Proceeded to the Ship Hotel, and aftor a abort stay, proceeded
by special train for Claremont. The Duke and Duchess, en
route to this country, visited Coburg, where the Duke Augus-
tus, the Duchess Clementine, and:Duke Alexander of Wur-
temburg assembled to welcome their relations. Their Royal
Highnesses travelled via Aix-la-Chapelle, and took the boat
at Ostend.

PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM COMPANY.—
At a half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this
company held on Saturday, a very satisfactory report from
the directors was read and unanimously adopted, together
with 'a dividend of 4 per cent , clear of income-tax, ter the
halt-year ending 31st of March last, payable on and after the
23d of June next. In reply to a recommendation m lde to the
directors to take into consideration the claims of the offictrs
and men employed by the company for some provision in old
age, or in case of death or serious casnAltY, for
their wives and families, Mr. Hadow (a.director). who
has ever taken the deepest interest in this important ques-
tion, had the satisfaction to state that his colleagues and
himse f had, together with the Royal West India and Gene-
ral Screw Steam Companies, projected a plan by which so
desirable an object may be effected, upon an extended range
of utility, by which all persons connected with the maritime
profession would be benefited. The report of the directors
refers to the efficient state of the company's fleet—now con-
sisting of 33 vessels, of 39.400 tons, and 11,930 horse power,
employing 1,500 men of all grades, exclusive of Aaiastics
in
India—the increased speed and number of vessels—and the
'arrangements for ensuring the extension of the company's
operations in Australia. After a vote of thanks to the ehitir-
man and directors the meeting separated.
SIGNOR VALLF.TTA.—The course of lectures de-
livered
by this accomplished scholar en the " Purgatorio and
Paradise" of Dante, at Willies Room, terminated on Satur-
day, the 29th., They were received with great and deserved
favour.

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday I
riri yesterday.
The marrit.g... of M. DE PEESIGNY with Msdlle.
DE LA MOSSOWA v,as celebrated at a late hour on
Friday night, at the chapel of the Elys6, in presence
of Louis NAPOLEON. The PRESIDENT'S household,
the Ministers, the widow of Marebal .1%.h.r, the
Prince DB LA Mosxowe, and a few relations, were
the only persons present at the ceremony.
There is an article in the Pays on the rumours
which have been current recently respecting the in-
tentions
of foreign powers, and which, although there
was reason to doubt their exactitude, appear to have
had an injurious effect by creating a want of that
confidence in the future without which all the opera.
tiona of commerce and finance must be paralysed, and
every interest except that of the systematic opponents
of tranquillity and stability be injured, more or less.
The remarks of the Pays are some of them confirmed
by an official article in the Moniteur, which is the
more important from the fact of its having been pub-
lished immediately after en extraordinary Council of
Ministers, and with the direct authority of the chief
of the State, who has very recently expressed himself
in the strongest possible way in favour of the main-
tenance of peace. The Pays says :
"For some days peat there has been a good deal of
talk at Paris and London of the visit of the Emperor of
Russia to Vienna and Berlin, and of its results on the
general affairs of Europe. An English newspaper, the
Times, goes so far as to present the private conversa-
tions which have taken place between the august Sove-
reigns premeditated conferences, in which a plan of
conde ag
t t with respect to France was laid down, in ex-
pectation of certain eventualities. The same journal,
which by the way is known for its systematic malevo-
lence to the French Government, goes further, and pub-
lishes a sort of resume of the pretended resolutions said
to have been taken in these pretended conferences. As
the paper in which we read this strange document has
great notorioty, we cannot leave its inventions without
reply. What does the note falsely ascribed to
? Although it is very long, we can
telialSiotveurepign y
ins sla t
word—it denies the sovereignty of
France in France. Yes,.if the Times is to be believed,
it is not Franca which is sovereign in France, but Eu-
rope, Thus Europe would have the right to say to us,
You are a nation of 36,000,000. You have never sub-
mitted to the law of any one, and have often imposed
your own. Yon hevp made war, on many occasions, not
only for questions of territory, but for questions of in-
fluence and dignity. Servitude is repugnant to your
nature, to your history, to your manners, to your senti-
ments. What matters 1 I forbid you to take such or
such a government because it does not suit me, and I
derive the right of making this interdiction from the
Treatythe immutable imprescriptible Constitution to which
Europe wishesof
Vienna.'to e The Treaty of Vienna! That is
chain France. But is that possible?
Is it serious? In truth, the Times mocks too audaciously
the. Sovereigns whom it causes to speak, and France,
which it wishes to intimidate.

The Pays concludes:—
" Did Europe protest after the 10th December, 1848?
Did she protest after the 20th December, 1851? Nol
She respected France in the exercise of the most incon-
testable right of a ustion—that of its sovereignty. What
Europe did not du either with respect to the election of
the.loth December, 1848, or with respect to the election
of 20th December, 1851, ebe will not do with respect to
any other act of the will of France. She will respect
that will, whatever France may decide. She will respect
it from equity and necessity. Let us then not be at all
alarmed. What is just and necessary in the world is
always inevitable. Europe is not called on to change
her conduct with respect to France. She has nothing to
impose on her; and she will impose nothing. She can
only demand of her in her turn to respect her own in-
dependence. The name of Bonaparte, which re-appears
after a long eclipse, disquiets her perhaps. But in the
measure in which she sees the name farther off, and the
man who hears it nearer, she will become more tied
more reassured, and she will console herself for what the
uncle cost her, by thanking God for what the nephew
has spared her, by saving Fiance from a wreck, and Eu-
ropean civilisation from a tempest."
The following is the official article in the .Moniteur
above referred to :--
"Some foreign journals endeavour to attach credit to
the report that the Northern Powers, in the prevision
of certain eventualities, would be ready to renew the
coalition of 1815, and that they have determined before-
hand the limits beyond which France would not be per-
mitted to modify bee government. This report is a
falsehood; the eventualities which are the pretext of it
base no probability. There is nothing to indicate the
necessity for any change in our institutions. France
enjoys the most complete tranquillity. All the powers
Iteep up the most amicable relations with her, and they
have never made less pretensions than at present to in-
terfere with our domestic " regime. They know that
France will, in case of need, cause her rights to be
respected, as she respects those of other nations, but
these rights are neither threatened nor disputed. Let
fallen parties rely as formerly on foreign intervention to
cause the triumpn of their pretensions over the national
will ; they will find that this old tactic will have no
other result than to make them more odious to the
country."
The Moniteur publishes the returns of the customs
and indirect texee for the month of April, which
amounted to 14 244,917 f., or 4,567,797 f. more than
in the corresponding month of 1861. The receipts
for the first four months of the present year amount
to 46,773,364 f.,
an increase on the same period of
1851 of 10,347,119'.
The Constitutionnel, after quoting from the Ami de
la Religion the paragraph respecting the Bill -on
public instruction, which has been given in the _lies-
senger, says L is now certain that, in C011he•
qu, Lice or the Opposition which this Bill has encoun-
tered in variou- quarters, it will not he presented to
the Legislative Body this session, and that the ques-
tion is thus adjourned till next year."
The 31,,quis of Losinosnsaar has arrived at the
Hotel du Rhin.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. MAY 29,
Dutch Rhenish, 4%—East Indian, 2254—Great Indian
tUri6%—Northern of France, 23}x-Orleans and Bor-
ligii ex d.—Paris and Lyons, 10%—Paris and Rouen,
30—Paris and Strasbourg, 21%—Rouen and Havre, 11—
Sambre. cid Meuse, 4r4.