The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-18 00:00:00

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The pr, gramme at this popular place of amuse-
ment has b -en entirely chauged, M. Franconi's
French company of equestrians tit.virg been changed
for a German company under the direction of M.
Francois Loisset. M. Loisset is one of those cosmo-
politan gentlemen peculiar to circuses, who, though
born i❑ France, belongs a little to every country ;
end his well-deserved fame as an equestrian direc-
tor and rider of the " high school" has been earned
by hard work for many years throughout Germany
and the Netherlands. His company is large and
well selected, being particularly strong in clever
dashing ladies of great personal attraction, and in
precocious infants. The horses appear to be well
trained and in good condition, and all the appoint-
ments are characterised by much taste. The ap-
pearance of the ring-masters, dressed in something
tike full Prussian cavalry uniform, had a most bril-
liant effect, and even the clowns, of which there are
three or four, including the well-known Mr, Croueste,
late of the Adelphi, had something of glittering
novelty imparted to their costume.

First there was an engaging child, called Little
Clautilde, a niece of the director, who opened the
programme with a very spirited vaulting act. Next
in point of success was a French equestrian game—
a race after ribbons attached to the shoulders, exe-
cuted with great skill and neatness by three ladies,
Emma, Pezeld, and Baden. M. Loisset exhibited a
splendid " trick-horse," and went tnrough an act of
high" riding—managing two fine horses, one rid-
den and the other driven, with equal success. A
charming child, Master Charles Thompson—stated
in the bills to be only six years old—gathered a
perfect harvest of oranges for a clever Blondin per-
formance on the low rope; and Messrs. Franck and
Helbing—the first on the trapeze, the second on the
horizontal bar—gained much applause for their ex-
hibition of muscular power. The "star rider" of
the company appears to be Miss Louise Loisset—a
lady wh.. takes every leap, whether over a dcz.n
sheets or through fifty hoops, without any false
bounds or hesitation. The whole perlormance is
remarkable for its pleasant and varied character—
for style, precision, and rapid movement. Every
member of the company was most warmly received
by a very crowded and a very enthusiastic audience.

Federals Convicted of Enlistments at Cork

Assizes.

The result of the prosecution of the persons
charged, at Cora, with a breach of the Foreign En-
listment Act, disposes of at least one question about
which some controversy has been raised between
our Government and that of America. There can
no longer be any denial of the facts, which are
generally well known in Ireland, though the legal
proof was not forthcoming, that the agents of the
Northern states have set the law of England at
defiance. Whilst their Ambassador in London waft
complaining that Great Britain was not true to her
protessious of neutrality, and Mr. Seward was
penning threatening letters to our Government,
and demanding that the Enlistment Act should be
put more rigorously in force, certain officers in the
Federal service have been engaged in flagrant and
Insolent violation of its provisions in the very pre-
sence of the British authorities. In the case of the
Kearsage there was little or no attempt at evasion
or disguise. The illegal proceedings took place in
the harbour of Cork, with an amount of audacity
which rendered detection comparatively easy, But
for this circumstance they might have been carried
on with; greater success. It is satisfactory, how-
ever, that even a single case has been brought home
to the offenders. Mr. Adams, who so pertina-
ciously denied that there was any foundation for
the charge against the Federal Government, has
now a practical answer given to him in the plea of
"Guilty" which the prisoners wore well advised to
make. Had there been any failure of evidence, or
any chance of escaping by a technical point, there
can be no doubt that they would strenuously have
resisted the prosecution. But the case against theln
was irresistible, and they wisely throw themselves
on the mercy of the Crown. It is to be hoped that
the clear, impressive, and eloquent exposition of
the law by the Attorney-General will .serve to
awaken the peasant classes to a sense of the dan'
gers which they incur by yielding to the tempts'
tions which are held out to them by unscrupulous
agents. The miserable condition of so maul
thousands of their countrymen who have been lured
from their hoines by delusive representations via°
described in such terms as could hardly fail to ex'
cite their vigilant suspicion of those who t.-,eek, for
their own base and se,fish purposes, to intluce then!
to " emigrate." We trust that the lesson ekjo flea
upon theta in the kind and judicious address of the,
Attorney-General will be productive of a beneficial
effect. The observations of Mr. Justice Keogh,
which gave it additional point and force, are de'
serving the serious attention of our statesmen and_
rulers, as well as of the people in whose minds be
desired' to instil feeiings of contentment and 10373":
which are fos•eted by the just swards of honest
industry,—Daly Express,