The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-03 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL. HAY MARKET.
Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, will be performed
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck-
stone : Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern.
After which, a new and original ExtravaZanza, entitled
lASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA; or, The Happy
alley. Rasselas, Miss Louise Keeley.
Concluding with OUR MARY ANNE.

THEATRE-ROYAL "LYCEUM OPEN, under
the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER.
THIS EVENING, Feb. 3, to commence with an Original
sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore,
Carden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee.
After which, at a Quarter to Eig-ht, a New Romantic
Drama, in Three Acts, and Prplogue, entitled THE
DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham.
The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fe chter,
supported by Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham, H.
iddi
combe, W. M'lntyre, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, H.
Butler, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E
',avenue, and Elaworthy.
Mr. Phelps and Mr. W. Montgomery are engaged, and will
Shortly appear.
Doors open at half-past Six, performan 28.ce to commence
at Seven. Private Boxes, £2 12s. 6(1, and £2 Places
registered. Stalls, 88. 6d. Dress Circle, ss. 6cl. ; Upper
Circle, 4s. 6d. Prices at doors—Stalls, 65. ; Dress Circle, ss. ;
V .per Circle, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery. is. No half-price. Box-
nee open daily Croce 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, LAW v. LOVE : Miss M. Oliver.
Followed by ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES AN-
OTHER. Mr. R. Roxby and Miss Amy Sedgwick.
After which, the New Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME,
RIQUET WITH THE TUFT ; or, Harlequin and Mother
Shipton." Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. C. Se ton, Misses Gray and
Hudspeth, Mr. Milano, Mr. R. Power, Miss A. Collinson, and
Dlr. Halford.

I\--EW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
-%,1 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE Ll'l TLE TREASURE. Mr.
Billing,ton, Mr. R. Phillips, and Miss Marie Wilton.
After which, A TICKET OF LEAVE Messrs. J. L.Toole,
p, Bedford, and Mrs. Billing,ton.
„
To be followed by " GEORGE DE BARNWELL :
or, Harlequin Folly in the Realms of Fancy." Miss Woolcrar,
Miss K. Kelly, Miss Seaman ; Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bee_
lord, Stephenson, C. J. Smith. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri;
Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams ; Clown, Mr. W. Hildyard ;
Pantaloon, Mr. J. Paulo. The celebrated Arthur and
Bertrand.

Commence at 7.

The Weather.—Sun Office, Feb. 3, 1863.

THERMOMETER.
Highest since Noon yesterday
Lowest during the night
This day at Noon .
Barometer-29.77.
Wind
afternoon. —esterly ; light, dull
the ni and rai
ght.ny, with light rain
yesterday W
and during

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LONDON, TUESDAY: FEBRUARY 3, 1863

The Bust of BRUTUS would really appear to be
nothing compared to the Prince NAPOLEON. Like
that particularly dull man who was spoken of by
the French wit so very cynically as having " a
great talent of silence," H. I. H. seems to be re- 1
garded by some as having been wonderfully con-
I
spicuous the other day by his absence from the
Palace of the Tuileries when the Senate presented
their loyal address to the Emperor. Precisely for
that same reason, the Bust of BRUTUS aforesaid was
the most thought of, we are told, among all the
memorials of the great men of Ancient Rome, be-
ague nowhere visible in the procession. As it
happens, however, a great deal more importance
than, it appears to us, is any way reasonably worth
while attributing to his Imperial Highness's say.
legs and doings in France, is attached to them by
certain observers, from this side of the Channel, of
events occurring there in Continental Europe.
Almost all the inAuence really appertaining to the
Prince NAPOLEON is nevertheless in point of fact
simply reflected. He stands very near to the
throne of his particularly able cousin the reigning
Sovereign of France. Until the birth of the
Prince Imperial, H. I. H. the Prince NAPOLEON
was, moreover, the Heir Presumptive to the Crown
of NAPOLEON 111. Since the advent of that
youthful Rope of the BONAPARTES, the Prince
NAPOLEON has shrunk back into the subordinate
position of being no more than one of their Impe-
rial Highnesses. The first of them, if you will ;
but still only an Imperial Highness. Before the
advent of the Second Empire—long before the
coup d'etat—nay, for that naatter, prior to the
passing from view of the National Assembly—
the Prince NAPOLEON, then, observe, not in any
*way affecting to be an Imperial Highness at all,
but priding himself, it would seem, above all
things, upon being one of the popular representa-
tives in the great Democratic Parliament : at that
fugitive epoch of enthusiasm for Republican In-
stitutions, it cannot be forgotten that the
Prince NAPOLEON almost settled down, for
s time, among the
.avowed Reds, upon
one of the benches of the Mountain. He
hovered about in the neighbourhood of those
benches. He loitered into the lobbies of the ultra-
democrats. He rubbed elbows with political op-
timists of all kinds ; evidenced something of a pro-
clivity towards the ouvrier set, of which Citizen
ALBERT was, so to speak, the arch prophet ; could
upon occasion lend an ear to the speeches of
BARRES, or an eye to the writings of PROITDHON.
Za propriete c'est le vol did not so much affect him,
for example—probably from the simple reason that
he had none! However this may or may
not have
been—a very little time had elapsed afters
he Presi-
-
dent Louis NAPOLEON had somewhat frther ad
eed
on his way towards the acquisition of a
throne, thelmperial throne of the BONAPARTES, when
—fromhaving regarded his cousin,the President, as it
were, ask
ance—thePrinCe NAPOLEON gradually be-
came more and more that cousin's " most obedient."
Actuated, probably,Prince NAPOLEON was, in this,
at the particular time we are referring to, by what
has been whimsically spoken of as "a lively sense of
favours to come." Step by step as the BONAPARTES
war© then borne onward, it the
coming events,"
to use the already proverbial metaphor
of CAMP-
BELL, " cast their shadows before." The Presi-
dent of the French Republic became after a while
the " Prince President." Then " Monseigneureehe
Prince President." Then finally, before the coup
d'etat had come to prepare the way for something
yet more authoritative, the Prince assumed, at
that transition period, the incongruous and contra-
dietory witne, style, and I itle—Ethis was the strange
superscription, in fact, upon the majorityof letters
anallocamentspcured in, at that time, upon the chief
personage then inhabiting the Palace of the Elysee]
—the utterly extravagant and contradictory name,
style, and title of Monsiegneur, 5.A.1., Le Prince
President de la Republique Franeaise.
Even Mr. KINGLAKE, in the midst of his poiso-
nous outpourings of vitriol-like vituperation, wren
Mr. KINGLAKE does mercifully drop, as it were,
One single refreshing drop of cold water