The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-15 00:00:00

ADELPH I THEATRE.

A new extravaganzs, intitled Mephistopheles; or,
An Ambassador from Below, adapted by Mr. Robert
Brougb, was produced last evening here with perfect
success. It is based on Machiavelli's tale of the
mission of Belphegor. Mephistopheles comes from
the regions below, on a mission to ascertain whether
matrimonial catastrophes are more generally the
fault of the husband or the wife. He commences his
quest by visiting two wedded couples, an Italian
Marquis, the Marquis di Brencador and his wife, and
his Lordship's gardener, Pepito, and his better half.
When Mephistopheles arrives all parties are enjoyingthe
intensity of the honeymoon. He interrupts the fe-
licity, for the purpose of investigation, by infusing
himself into the nature of the husband in the one
case, and into that of the wife in the other. He enters
Pepito in a pie crust; and the Marches& drinks him
in a glass of water—thereupon a gentle husband
thrashing his wife with a stick, and a modest
bride defying her spouse by a confession that
she worships dragoons and adores diamonds. Happi-
ness becomes misery—cat and dog driving out the
doves. There is a series of matrimonial eimeutes, and
in the end Mephistopheles, having satisfied himself
with the creation of the contrasts, appears to Mrs.
Pepito and to the Marquis, acknowledging his inter-
vention, and reporting that he had come to the saga-
cious conclusion that " there are faults on both sides."
One act comprehends the piece ; and, as it is occupied
almost solely by Miss Woolgar, who personates the
fiend, Pepito, and the Marchioness. Her singular
versatility and clever distinction of character are dis-
played to consumate advantage, and we recommend
her admirers, whose name is legion, not to omit see-
ing her in Mephistopheles. Mr. Honey, as a matter
of course, sustained his part of the Marquis with ad-
mirable humour, and Miss Fitzwilliam was a charm-
ing Flora. There was a general call before the cur-
tain, and Miss Woolgar, amid genuine Adelphi ap-
plause, announced Mephistopheles for repetition.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.
The following dined at the Royal table yesterday :
—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, her
Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cambridge, his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, his Serena
Highness Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, the Lady
in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de
Spetb, Lord and Lady Charles Fitzroy, Baron Knese-
beck, and Lord W. Paulet.
The band of the 2d Life Guards
LT uJullien.
attendedntnneery. . in the
Castle during dinner, and performed the following
pieces :
March ......... . ........... Grattan Cooke.
Overture, "Fest" ..........
• Waltz, " Lucrezia" ..
Selection, " Lucia di Lammermoor" Streck.
Qeadrille, " letesaniello"
Polka (MS.)
pGG:arkeiri /01: )7:3M‘v.‘de,Vjtteihbsceftt,yofr'os7uip'l'eoreiwnviant private band of erw a r s attended,and
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the Duke of Ca mbrid e, and Prince Leopold
of Saxe Coburg, attended by the Lady in Waiting
and Maids of Honour drove out in three open car-
ridge:, yesterday afternoon. The Equerries in Wait-
ing were in attendance on horseback.
Earl Talbot has relieved Earl Verulam in the
duties of Lord in Waiting; and Captain the Hon. J.
Denman, R.N., has succeeded Colonel the Hon. N.
Hood in those of Groom in Waiting.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and
the Royal Children, took their usual exams* this
morning.

Major Cotton (Ordnance-office) and Captain A. E.
Kennedy had an interview with Sir John PAU:l4ton
yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Sheriff Cotterell had an interview with Mr.
Secretary Walpole at the Home-office yesterday.
Mr. Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Iteve-
nue, had also an interview with the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman.
Major Robinson had an interview with Sir John
Pakington yesterday.
Sir Johnr Pakinton left town yesterday, for his
seat in Worcestershire.
Dispatches were sent from the Colonial office yes-
terday to the Governor of the Cape of Good 'Hope.

SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the
ending April 12, 1852 :
Passengers (8,521), parcels, horses,
and carriages ... £B7l 19 7
Goods, cattle, &c. ... 1,013 12 0
Total .. 2
Corresponding week in last year... 1;N: 1171
Perth, April 13. 1852.

--------------A—,., BTLITM.—The
MERCHANT SEAMEN'S 0
twenty-fouth anniversary of this insu
under the presi-
-11141.7u10n was OMMenaC
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dency of the Earl of Hardwic
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m Bathe, and when the cloth
rated last evening at the Londone Tavern,
provided on the occasion byusua
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rotection of.the society, to the
d a singularly intelligent and fine-look-
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fully °nd the treasurer, 0
~.,aptain Nelson, stated that
and ()there, a deserving
num),candidates for admission whom
there were
the nomwittee were compelled to exclude from want of funds.
Dona
• dons to the amount of about 940/. were announced by
the treasurer and the hon. secretary (Mr. Clarke), amongst
which were her Majesty the Queen, 10 guineas; the Corpo-
ration of the Trinity House, 1001. (their 21st donation); the
East India Company, 50/. ; the Earl of Ellesmere, Si.;
the E-irl of Hardwicke, 50 guineas to the building fund
and 10 guineas for the general purposes of the institution;
Mr. ex• Sheriff Nicoll, 10 guineas, &c. The musical ar-
rangements, which were entirely satisfactory, were under the
direction of Mr. Taylor.
StLfaicE.— The only tongue allowed in the French
Assembly, is that of the President's bell; ttni even that, we
um', is males.—PterA

FRANCE.
The Unisers has the following on the violation of
the Sabbath and the religious fete days, with the ap-
parent sanction of the Government, after an official
notification that they should be respected by every
branch of the public administration. It says—
" We recur with regret to a grave matter which we
have already spoken of. In: spite of the circulars of
the Ministers of the Interior and of Public Works,
the administration continues to violate the repose of
the Sabbath. Workmen were busy on Easter Sun-
day as on other Sundays. One of our readers points
out to us works executed at the angles of the Place
du Pantheon, and which certainly were not of an
urgent character; another person informs us that
workmen were also employed in the Rue Castiglione.
By the official circulars, the Government has itself de-
clared that such facts are deplorable, and yet they are
constantly renewed. Whence comes it to pass that
there is such a difference beteen the words and the acts?
We entertain no doubt of the sincerity of the Govern-
ment; in ordering that the works executed at the ex-
pense of the state, of the departments, and of the com-
munes should be suspended on the Sunday, it expressed
a well-considered and absolute intention. It is conse-
quently the inferior agents who are guilty of this
scandal, and who treat with mockery alike the orders of
the Government and the laws of the church. We do
not want to seek at present who are those agents, for
we wish to avoid all personal accusation; but we must
again express a hope that the Government will get itself
obeyed.
We find in the Pays and the Assemblie Nationale
articles against the revolutionary league which has
been got up in the United States by M. Kindel and
other German democratic Socialists. The Pays has
the following on this subject:—
" We neither fear this ridiculous government, organized
on the other side the Atlantic, nor its armies, nor its
finances. Society at present has need of peace and secu-
rity; the late events accomplished in France have shown
that this want is felt as deeply and as energetically
amongst the workmen and the peasants as amongst the
higher classes; it will not allow itself to be led away
by any of those, preachers of war and disturbance who
wish to throw the world into fresh convulsions. But if
the revolutionary government has not in our eyes any
principle of force and success, it is not the less true that
it is about to get up agitation, and prevent the restora-
tion of calm in that Europe which has been so sadly
disturbed during the last fifty years. These attempts,
which are almost always followed by defeat, will have
for result to arm European Governments with greater
severities. Cannot the incorrigible promoters of perma-
nent revolution see that every effort of demagogy is fatal
to liberty, and in rendering the right of a legal govern-
ment to defend itself more and more legitimate, it ne-
cessarily impels it to rigours which no man of sense
could reasonably reproach it for? In conclusion, we
may ask ourselves whether the revolutionary govern-
ment has a possibility of forming itself as it pro-
poses. Between a project and the execution of it
there is a considerable distance. Will the Govern-
ment of the United States permit the establishment of an
organized power, having at its disposal resources and
soldiers which might threaten the repose and the ex-
istence of the European Gov, rnments? We think not.
Some months since the Congress at Washington re-
sounded with very violent words; some speakers pro-
claimed the duty of the American Union to occupy itself
with the internal affairs_of Europe, and impelled it to
thus violate the principle of non-interference in the
internal affairs of other states. These imprudent re-
marks, it is true, found no echo; but can it be believed
that, if the Government of the United States tolerates
the definitive constitution of the Revolutionary League,
it will not expose itself to the energetic remonstrances
of the European powers? We submit this question to
the eminent men who now direct the affairs of North
America."
The following-letter, dated Clamecy, 4th inst., and
addressed by General Canrobert to the President
of the Republic, is published by the, Comstitutionnel :
" Monseigneur—l have the honour to render you an
account of my mission in the arrondissement of Clamecy.
All that I have read, all that I had ,heard, of the ra-
vages of socialism in this country was far below the
truth; lam here in the very heart of demagogy. The
evil is immense, the Armin& are deep, and still bleeding.
Let the increduicus come into the Niavre, let them see
what this department was before the 2d December, and
what it now is; let them examine the minutes of the pro-
ceedings against 579 inhabitants of Clamecy, condemned
either by court-martial or by the departmental commis-
sion, and however resolved they may be to close their
eyes to the truth, they will be compelled to open them
and avow that the great act of the 2d December saved
society. In spite of my wish, Monseigneur, to fulfil
your intentions of showing extensive clemency, it has
been impossible for me to do so to more than 52 persons,
and many of those only had their punishments lightened.
In visiting the prisons of the ;own I found 42 individuals
on whose case. the mixed commissions had not yet de-
cided. I pronounced their fate by making them all feel
the effects of your mercy.—l am, with deep respect,
Monseigneur, your humble and devoted servant,
(Signed) " CANROBERT."

ITALY.

We extract the following from a letter dated
Genoa, 10th inst :
" The depar..are of the Prince of Canino from Civita
Vecchia was quite as extraordinary as his arrival. He
embarked, dressed as a common seaman, on board the
commercial steamer Industry, bound for Marseilles,
vii Baßtia. The French Government had forbidden
the Prince to proceed to Rome, lest the anar-
chists should profit of his presence to disturb
public trinquiliity, but it afforded him every
facility for the adj•is:na....nt of his family affairs.
M. de St. Sauveur had arrived from France with
dispirches on the subject a week before. On the landing
of the Prince, M. de Is Tour d'Auvergne had come
from Rome to Civita Vecchia to take his orders, and
returned to Rome, from whence M. de Rayneval sent
him to Perugia, where the Princess of Canino had
retired. On his return, M. de la Tour d'Auvergne
proceeded a second time to Civita Vecchia. Thus,
the French authorities did everything in their power
to enable the Prince to settle his domestic affairs;
and it is now unvious, even to the Italians them-
selves, that M. Charles Bonaparte was not en-
trusted with any political mission. A letter written by
a clergyman, who appears to be attached to the Princes of
Canino, and published in a Piedmontese religious journal,
explains the nature of the business which brought him to
Civita Vecchia. The Prince owes an American 43,000
scndi (10,000 t), which he wished to repay him, and for
that purpose he intended to sell his 'a ialogical cabinet and
his gallery of paintings. The family refusing its consent,
the Prince applied to the French Government for leave
to proceed to Italy, which was granted to him on condi-
t . that he should stop at Civita Vecchia. Though his
wife left Rome tir Perugia, on hearing of his arrival, it
way not to avoid a settlement, but merely to bring away
her Younger son, whom her husband wished to take
with him to France. The eldest son, who is of age,
remained Rome. The two daughters, who are mar-
ried, visited their tathor, and one a them, the Countess
Capassed
mpf•lla, lately
b 'through Genoa with her hus-