The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-29 00:00:00

FRANCE.

When the Chamber, on Saturday, voted the diffe-
rent clauses of the budget, and the President ar-
rived at the chapter relative to the registry dues, M.
de Montalembert rose and said that he was happy to
state that the Assembly had not been a party to the
decrees of the 22d of January, which had despoiled a
family—decrees which the Government, no doubt, had
a right to issue, but which the country had witnessed
with pain, more in the interest of the Government itself
than in the interest of the persons affected thereby.
The President, interrupting M. de Montalembert,
Observed that those decrees were now laws of the
land, and besides were not under discussion. That
chapter and the following, with the exception of the
three last, were subsequently voted without further
opposition. The Camber after wards adjourned at
half-past six o'clock.
It is stated that the property of the Duke d'Aumale,
which he inherited from the Prince of Conde, is to
be forthwith placed under sequestration, pending the
proceedings commenced by the parties in whose
favour the yearly sum of 100,000 f. was left to found
a beneficent establishment at Ecouen. Advertise•
men ts have appeared in the papers from the agents of
, announcing the sale on the 4th
next of portions of the Chantilly
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Julynm a 1 e

The annual religious servile in commemoration of
the death in the streets of Paris of M. Affre, late
Archbishop, was celebrated on Saturday morning in
the Cathedral of Notre Dame. The Archbishop of
Paris pronounced the absolution. Their Eminences
Mathieu,Archbishop Archbishop of Besancon, and
Donnet,Cina is
Bishop of Algiers, of Bordeaux, together with the
and several other dignitaries of
the Church, 'were present at the office for the -dead.
Amongst the laymen present were General Piet and
Viscount Alphonse Ricard, who accompanied the il-
lustrious martyr to the barricades.
It appears that the visit of the President of the
Republic to the southern departments will not take
place so soon as had been expected; and that he has
promised Cardinal Donnet to see him at Bordeaux in
the beginning of September next.
The Prince President has, according to the Siede,
purchased a property, Villeneuve l'Etang, adjoining
the park of St. Cloud, for a sum equivalent to
44,0001. sterling. The Prince has also agreed to
purchase the hotel of the late Marshal Sebastian',
which adjoins the Elyse-e,
for sake of making an
addition to the palace. A Bill has been introduced
for auth?rising an exchange for this property of the
old Foreign Office on' the Boulevard de Capucines,
to which some objection is felt, on account of the
estimated greater value of the latter.

GREECE.
Accounts fleni Greece state-that the Monk Christ° -
foros, who seems almost to be deified, has been
chiagainst the Government, and obtained
many converts to his opinions. It would seem that
so many people had enrolled themselves under his
banners that the Government has sent troops to arrest
him. A g
fisorionagbe in our power."
Private letter says :—" Our troops have
landed, 'and
fortunately we have calmed the people
prean
a shot. Christoforos is surrounded,
andcvit h owui tl

The Ria ITALY.
orgimento' of Turin, states that the direc-
tors of the Natio
na 1 Bank have reduced its discount
on bills to 3 per cent.
,
The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa of the 22d states,
from a source which, it says, may be relied on, that
the Prince el MONACO is treating with Austria for
the salehl3
iits Piedmont against his will. The above
principality, now, as is well known, in-
corporated
paper kids that both-the French and English Govern-
mentsof
vi
have expressed their disapprobation of such: pro-
ceedings to the. Court of Vienna.

R, °YAL ITALIAN OPERA.
On oaturday Le Prophete was repeated at this house
to a crowded auditory. This might be fully expected
from the circumstance that the transcendent Grisi was
about, for the first time, to impersonate Fides. With
shejsingle exception of the substitution for Viardot of
the great Grisi,
the cast of Le Prophete was as oa pre-
vious occasions. Mario was John of Leyden; Taglia-
fico, Count Oberthal; Herr Formes, Zaccaria; Po-
Mathisen•' Stigelli, Giona; Soldi, the Sergeant;
and Madame
Grisi, Castellon the Bertha •of the evening.
on her entrée, was enthusiastically greeted.
Her first coup was in the duet with Bertha in scene 4 ;
thenceforward Fides is but little seen, except for a brief
period, thill the third act. Throughout this, the mother
of the Prophet is almost continually before the footlights,
and from this time till the fall of the curtain Grisi
achieved a never-pausing triumph. In the cathedral
scene her histrionic energy and vocal excellences were
fully developed. Her tender suppliance when soliciting
alms to pay the priests for a mass for the soul of her lost
son; her revulsion of feeling when she finds him in the
church under the ban of his fanatical followers, himself
an impostor and renegade, was finely expressed; and her
renunciation of " the Prophet King," when, on her knees
before the simulating scoundrel, he prays heaven to
restore her reason, was the perfection of lyric tragedy.
Her vehement prayer, " Gran Dio,de lei pieta," thrilled
through the whole auditory, and when the drop scene
fell, atter this, Madame Grisi was recalled two several
times. The fourth act in its great point—the interview
between Fides and her son—was fully developed. Her
denunciation of his awful sins and prophesy of his fate
were chef d'oeuvres of acting and singing; and in the
finale of the opera, when, staid roaring frames, she em-
braced her son and forgave him, even his unnatural de-
nials and awful blasphemies, Grisi fully held her posi-
tion as the first of operatic tragedians. Mario was in
admirable voice, and his acting and singing in the scene
with the Anabaptists, in act 2, and with his mother in
each of the concerted portions of the opera, left nothing
to be desired. The orchestral and scenic efforts were as
magnificent as ustal, and the skating scene, with its fa-
vourite pas de Patineurs and incidental ballet, unexcep-
tionably executed.

BOTAL.--On Saturday
DUBLIN THEATRICALS.
evening, the inte-
resTtilingEldTri:sta of ihe Love Chase, by Sheridan Knowles,
was produced to a well and fashionably-attended house.
The part of Master Waller was sustained by Mr.
whose version of the character evinced
of conception, and displayed a certain
dmTeiligcCrhe'el°i.rioingfgin,jadieitnYthy with the character, such as true
genius alone, whether it be faulty or otherwise, can sus-
tain. The character of Sir Willian was performed by
Mr. Granby in his usual clever and effective manner.
Kirby, as Lydia, looked, acted, and deli-
nMerastedlitilhdescohn aracter to perfection, and was received with
loud demonstrations of applause. The part of Conitance
was performed by Miss Emma Stanley in her usual credit-
able and talented manner—the stock company doing full
justice to their various characters. The interlude con-
sisted of a pleasing ballet divertissement by the female
danseuses of the company, led by Mademoiselle Ernes-
favourite nautical drama of Black•eyed Susan wound up
tthineeaSnitu.
sLeomueinnt,swoifththe
here usual agility and grace. The
evening, the part of Williams being
personated by Mr. T. C. King, in which he displayed a
versatility of genius which cannot fail in rendering his per-
formances successful; and Mrs. Hudson Kirby, as
Black-eyed Susan, was a piece of acting highly credi-
table to. her talents
and received the unanimous com-
mendations of the house. The music incidental to the
piece was executed by the orchestra with its usual effici-
ency, under the direction of its excellent . leader, Mr.
Levey.

n ‘O4I:TEEN, m S x11nTRE......
•
The entertaining drama of
Paul
,Cliyord Was performed at the above interesting
place of amusement on Saturday evening, the house
being, as usual, densely
Clifford was allotted to Mr. Geier, in which he acquitted
himself (partieultul- thronged. The part of Paul
yin the incidental musical parts),
very credstabl3' • Mr. Barrett, as the accomplished old
nobleman, Lord
Mauleverer, acted his part admirably,
and with a true aristocratic bearing. The acting of Mr.
Vandenhaf was also-much applauded. Miss Fanny
Reeves as Lucy Brandon, displayed an ability of no
ordinary degree. The Miss Slopperton of Miss Harriet
Gordon, and Sally Rosemary of the clever Mrs. Goward,
were most creditable representations. The scenery is
entirely new, atd admirably painted, especially that por-
tion in which the robbery is committed upon Lord
Mauleverer; a
horses being pm into requisition for the occasion, and
green carriage and dashing pair of grey
piloted by the enterprisie& manager's own coachman
(Curran).—.Telegraph,et

NAVAL DISCIPLINE.
(From the .6rismouth Times and Naval Gazette.)
Having ourselves served on the blue water many .a
long year, We recognise the discipline of the navy as its
moat healthy saNuard, therefore wo shall not be accused
of any intention to weaken that discipline, or bring
into disrepute those who enforce it, by the following
remarks:—

In, a preceding page will bo found a report of the trial
by Court-martial of Mr. Serocohl; Second Lieutenant of
her Majesty's stip Retribution, on a charge brought
against him by his brother officer, tho senior lieutenant
of the. same ship (Mr. Willes). On carefully perusing
the evidence, we cannot arrive at any other conclu-
sion than that the sentence is unduly proportioned to
the character of the offence. Dismissal from the
ship would of itself have been a most salu-
tary measure, and one that could not have failed to ,
be a source of comfort to the prisoner, whilst, at the
same tune, it carried with it a due amount of disgrace.
Let IL3 not ho misunderstood; we would Lot for a mo-
ment impugn the juigment and accuracy of decision ar-
rived at by the members of the Court who tried Mr. So-
rocold, for each rind all of whom we have long enter-
tained the highest sentiments of respect, but we may, as
"an old salt," venture to opine that there was no neces-
sity fur a court-martial at all The case was frivolous
and fragile in its ground work in the extreme, and arose,
it appears to us, in the first lieutenant's desire to perform
all the junior lieutenants' duty most zealously except the
dirty part of coaling the ship when another lieutenant
could do that just as well, but who, thinking his senior
was still pursuing Lis hobby, made a mistake, and in
reply to the snap at himself, too hastily conceived a
meaning on the part of the said senior of impertinence,
with the view of wounding his feelings or lowering his
position in the eyes of the surrounding spectators.
Now, could nut a couple of old heads have put this
matter to rights , without the pomp
,and
..trouble of a
court-martial? Here, for a whole day 'nearly, were
seven naval officers taken away from their respective du-
ties to examine into a COO which never ought to hays