The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-24 00:00:00

VIE JU
Orrell DE aani the JOURNALS—John
LeverG , Fag., M.P.—England on Chinese Plates,
/-I'4 this week, One Penny.

11[ER MAJI?,STY'S THEATRE.
FARES FELL NIGHTS.
CHEAP PRICES.
THIS EVENING (FRI.DAY),
MEDEA.
Medea, by Madame Ristori.
TO MORROW EVENING (SATURDAY), July 25,
FA.

TEN ADDITION AT AT CHEAP
AL FAREWEL PERFORMANCES
PRICES.

Next Week.
Monday, July 27 ; Tuesday, July 28; Wednesday, July 29 ;
Thursday, July 30 ; Friday, July 31 ; and Saturday, Aug. 1.
Week after next.
Monday, Aug. 3; Tuesday, Aug. 4; Thursday, Aug. 6; and
Saturday, Aug. 8.
Monday next, July 27.—Benefit and Last Appearance of
MADAME RISTO RI. MARIA STUARDA. Maria
stuarda (Regina di Scozia`, Madame Ristori.
Titiens, Trebelli, Santley, GiugliLi.
Tuesday next, July 28, F. US T.
Wednesday next, July 29, LE NOZZE DI FIGARO.
FAUST.
Titiens, Trebelli, Santley, Gassier, GiuglinL
Thursday next, July 30, FAUST.
Titiens, Volpini, Trebelli, Delle-Sedie, Gassier, Giuglini.
Friday, July 31, UN BALLO IN MASCHERA.
OBE RON.
Titiens, Trebelli, Lemaire
R, B ettini, Santley, Gassier,
Sims eeves.

Saturday, Aug. 1, OBERON.
Restections to Evening Dress not enforced. Commence at
Eight o'clock on each evening.
Prices :—Gallery, 28 ; Pit, 3s ; Boxes, 5s ; Dress Circle, 7s ;
Orchestra St .11s 12s 6d; rivate Boxes from Half-a-Guinea
ppw trds ; Pit Tier Boxes, to hold tour, Two Guineas.
Bo • -office of the Theatre (under the superintendence of Mr.
Nugent) oven daily from Ten till Sx. Tickets ale to be ob-
tained, on the evening of the performance, at the special
off ..es open at the entrance of the Pit and Grand Tiers.

THE DUKE'S MOTTO.
THE HUANDREF, 1) SIXTY-FIRST NIGHT,
and Last Week but Two of the present Season.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.-
Under the Sole Management of Mr. PECHTER.

Last Week but Two of the present Season.
THIS EVENING, to commence with an Original Sketch,
entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden,

Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee.
After which, at a Quarter-past Eight, the THERontic
Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr3log,lle, entitled
DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham.
The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter,
supported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. BrOttgilttM,
N. Widdhombe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson
Misses Carlotta Leclercq. Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, and
Elsworthy. Doors open at 7, commence at halt-past.
Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Sole I.i,saee and Manager, Mr. G. Vining.
THIS EVENING, at Eight o'clock, Shakespere's Play of
ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo, Mr. Walter MonlNlarstontgomery;;
Mercutio, Mr. G. Vining ; Friar Lawrence,
Apothecary, Mr. Belmore ; The Nurse, Mrs. H. Marston ;
Juliet, Mdlle. Stella Colas.
To be preceded by the new Comedietta, entitled COUSIN
TOM.

NEW THE ATRERO YAL, ADELP
sole Proprietor and Manwer. Mr. Ti. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE IRIH TIGER.
After which, at Eight o'clock, a new drama, entitled THE
HAUNTED MAN ; OR, T ,E GHOST'S BARGAIN, in
which will be exhibited Professor Pepper's adaptation of
the Great Spectral Illusion. Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phi.lips,
Sefton C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss H. Simms.
Followed by a new Burlesque, entitled ILL-TREATED
IL TROVAT()RE. M(ssrs. Toole, P. Bedford, R. Phillips,
Ebnrne, C. J. Smih, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and
Sara, and C
Miss K. t
Kelly.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE
Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough.
TO-NIGHT WHILE THERE'S LIFE THERE'S HOPE.
Messrs. W. H. Swanborough. Parselle, Vollaire, G. Honey ;
Misses Ada Swanborough, L. Thorne, F. Hughes, Manders,
and E. Bufton.
Followed by (7th time) THE MOTTO, " I'M ALL
THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier,
Clifton; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maria
Simpson, Wallace, and Jenny White.
To conclude with LOVE IN LIVERY.
Commence at 7.

Tr HE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,"
Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,
can be had Every Evening of
G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT,
No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park.

The Weather--Sun Office, July 24, 1863.

THERMOMETER.

This morning
This day at Two o'clock 77

Barometer-30.04.
Wind—S.-W ; moderate, with fine bat cloudy weather,

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Cris 7h. 15m.—Afternoon, 7h. 39m.
To-xOB.Row.-Morning, Bh. Bm.—Afternoon, Bh. 40m.

,
ti 11414 5 2 . fitti•
g *".B- \ Ali It,

LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1863.

Although M. DE PERSIGNY, happily for our

brethren of the Press in France, continues no longer

at the head of the Ministry of the Interior, thr•
journalists of the Second Empire (who does not know

it 9) are still constrained to speak somewhat with
'bated breath, they still move ueder a weight of

almost overwhelming restrictions, it might even be
said, they respire with difficulty. While such is yet
undeniably the situation of affairs in France in re-

gard to the great question of the Liberty of the Press,
under the rule of Emperor NAPOLEON 111., it is

nothing less than refreshing to come, as we have just
now done, in the midst of a juncture so profoundly
die-spiriting,upon utterances of such remarkable bold-
neas, eloquence, and precision, utterances so elevated
in their tone, so persuasivo in their fervour,

and so convincing in their logic, as those
We ourselves are to-day eager to echo as
accurately as possible in our own tongue,
precisely as they have come to us in the accents of
the Count de MONTALEMBERT. Elsewhere will
be found in this evening's impression of our journal,
the more notable fragments at least, of this argumen t
upon the Journalism and Liberalism of the age in
which we are now living—an argument but just
pat forth, we might almost say, in the
form of a manifesto, by this Man of
Mark, not only for France, but for all
Christendom. It comes to is all the more accept-
ably upon the morrow of the Count de MON TALEM-
B ERT'S rejection by those Imperialist electors in
one of the French provinces, to whom the Count, at
once, as Orator and as Publicist, but still now as
Liberal, was unacceptable by reason of his very
independence. Precluded from entering the 131
PERIAL Chamber among the so-called popular re-
presentatives, the Count DE MONTALEMBERT has
for an interval, at least, not been debarred from again
wielding the pen in the cause of truth, of liberalism,
of enlightenment, in those sacred interests,
m P °lit-
na as
cal, social, and religious, with which his e,
he reminds ns, has now for three-and-thirty 3-
ears
been identified. The importance of the press,
whether for good or fcr evil, and this, not m
for France or for Italy, but for all the various
nations of Christendom, has never been more sig-
nally proclaimed. The necessity there i 1 for its
absolute independence has never been more con-
vincingly or more resolutely vindicated. Never
has there been uttered, by the lips or by the pet,
even of the most daring among the champions of
the revolutionary party, a more scornful or a more
confident defiance of those who would dare to at-
tempt the repression, much more the extinction,
of the spirit of the age, l'esprit moderne, of that
widely extended and extending liberalime which
is, so to peak,
the very geniu3 of Modern or
Q
Christian Civilisation, To dream even of going
counter to this "civilisation moderne," he hesi-
tates not to pronounce as idle phantacy as
an attempt "enehainer a des utop'e3 ," or,
"enfeoder a deo fantomes." 'Those, no mat-
ter of what class or party, who dream o
doing this, he sweeps aside with a noble and
haughty phrase as victims d'une orthodoxie harg-
neuse. If only these latest accents, rising from the
heart and conscience of MONTALEMBERT to his
eloquent lips, or rather to the point of his luminous
and persuasive pen, might penetrate to the hearts and
consciences of all others, say there in France, say here
in England, say yonder, whether in the north, or
in the south, of
the Roman peninsula " Non,