The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1863,

SURREY THEATRE.

The success predicted for the " sensation "
drama " Jessie Ashton, or London by Day and
Night," is now being verified nightly, and an ample
return will be the reward of the great exertions of
Mr. Shepherd, the sole lessee of this favourite
place of amusement. As a specimen of stage
"mounting," the drama is a perfect masterpiece,
as nearly every other scene is one of the most
elaborate description. The " cellar in the old house"
is a very striking and original picture, and the
next that equals it is the exterior of the same build-
ing. In this scene we have one of the most telling
situations of the drama, viz., the first escape of
Jessie Ashton, and the bravery with which Miss
Pauncefort descends the rope from the uppermost
part of the " OldHonse " to the river is perfectly
I astonishing. Space precludes us from entering into
all the other striking features of the drama, but we
cannot omit to mention the admirable manner in
which the "fire at the Golden Tankard" is arranged,
and the extreme truthfulness and beauty with which
the last scene--" New Westminster-bridge, the
River, and the Houses of Parliament by moonlight"
—is painted. As a scenic illusion it is one of the
most remarkable ever seen, and of itself will be con
sidered quite sufficient to repay a visit.

It is rumoured that the late director of lit r
Majesty's Theatre is preparing for publication a
History of the Opera" during the period of his connection
with that theatre. Such a work cannot fail to possess great
interest for the musical and artistic worli, since the mate-
rials for its composition must be of extraordinary value, in-
cluding personal anecdote, correspondence, and other de-
tails of varied character,

CRYSTAL PALACE,—ONE SHILLING
terday the admissions on payment were 1,650; ditto by
season tickets, 808; total, 2,458,

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

DENMARK.

DENMARK AND THE THRONE OF
GREECE.

COPENHAGEN, APRIL 1&

The Denmark of to-day says :—" The day before
yesterday the question of Prince William's candi-
dature was the subject of an animated debate in the
Privy Council. It is asserted that Prince Christian
abandoned some of the conditions he formerly re-
quired for his son's acceptance of the Crown, but
still most positively insists upon the abdication of
the ex-King Otho."

SPAIN.
THE SPANISH CONGRESS.
MADRID, APRIL 15 (Evening).

The rumour acquires consistence that the Cortes
will be dissolved after having voted the authoriza-
tion for the collection of the taxes.

To-day in the Chamber of Deputies, Senor
Gonzalez Bravo defended the Ministry of Marshal
Narvaez, and endeavoured to prove that the Mode-
rate party is not dissolved, and is united in the
manner required from a party when called upon to
form a new Ministry.

Sen ,r Caivo Asencio enumerated the acts of
Marshal Narvaez since 1848, which he said rendered
his return to power impossible.

FRANCE.
THE POLISH QUESTION.
PARIS, APRIL 16.

The Constilutionnelof to-day, in an article 2igned
M. Limayrac, asks what will be the consequences
of the amnesty, and says
Blood continues to flow iu Poland. Europe
has not ceased to be uneasy. Will those who were
the victims of the conscription be amnestied ? The
amnesty testifies to the noble sentiments of the
Emperor Alexander. We are willing to believe it
to be the first step in the path amicably advised by
the great powers, namely,
the pursuance of a policy
which would insure the tranquillity of the interior
of Russia and the repose of Europe. The amnesty
is not a solution, but the hope of a solution."
We are assured, says L' Opinion _Nationale, that
NI. Adolphe flarrot has addressed to the Spanish
Government a demand for an amnesty in favour of
the unfortunates condemned for making an at-
tempt at a Protestant Propaganda. We cannot
doubt but that the Cabinet of Madrid will
defer to the wishes of our ambassador, and
we are happy that the initiation of this interven-
tion should come from the French Government. In
effect, when a Protestant Cibinet advances a claim
in favour of its co-religionists, one can only see in
that advance the inspiration of the spirit of sect;
but when the chief of a great nation, the
immense majority of which is Catholic, takes
in hand the defence of the unfortunates who
expiate in durance vile the crime of evangelically
propagandizing, there is in that intervention an
imposing manifestation in favour of the principles
of justice and tolerance, and an act worthy of
that France which has given to the world the grand
Philosophy of the Eighteenth Century.
According to a despatch received by Le Pays
from Cracow, the Imperial Russian manifesto of
the 12th has only had the effect of imparting a new
impulse to the Polish insurrection.
BOURSE, April 15.—The market is again heavy,
but without any further decline in quotations—
Threes being now at 69f. 95c. The RAilway Share
market also without animation. The following
were the closing prices :

Italian Loan 72
Do. end month 72 10
New ditto
Do, end month,... 73 20
Russian
Austrian -
Spani,h Threes 62: 50
Home Debt .. 5O 75

it per Cents. 97 30
Do. end month
3 per Cents.
Do. end month 69 95
Credit Mobilie- 1470
Do. end month 1470
Bank Shares 3.80
Credit I oncier

BAIL'

Cash. Account.
Orleans lO3O .. 1028 75
Northern
New ditto • • ..
Lyons and Mediterranean 1192 50 .. 1195 :--
Geneva.. 445 .. 445 --
Southern BOO ~ 805
Western.
........ 525 .. 532 50
Eastern
Sardinian 467 50 .. 468 75
Austrian
.......
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa .. 757 50 .. 757 50
Ditto to Barcelona .• • • 365 .. 370 --

THE THRONE OF GREECE,

A letter from Athens of the 3d inst. gives the
following details of the proceedings of the Senate in
respect to the adoption of the Prince of Denmark as
King of Greece :

" ATHENS, April 3.

" In the sitting of the 30th of March the Senate unani-
mously proclaimed Prince William of Denmark Bing of
Greece. The text of the decree voted by the Assembly is
as follows :

" ' Art. I. Prince Christian 'William Ferdinand Adolphus
George, second son of Prince Christian of Denmark, is
proclaimed Constitutional King of the Greeks, under the
name of George 1., King of the 0-reeks.
" ' Art. 2. His legitimate successors shall profess the or-
thodox law of the East.

" Art. 3. A commission of three members, selected by
he National Assembly, sha I proceed to Copenhagen to offer
he Crown to the Prince in the name of the Greek nation.'

" Immediately afterwards the members of the Assembly
proceeded in a body to the Cathedral, where a solemn 2'e
Deum was chanted, and 101 guns announced the cere-
mony, presided over by the Archbishop of Athens, sur-
rounded by his clergy. The members of the Provisional
Government, the holy synod, the archbishops present at
Athens, and all the high dignitaries and officers of the
Government attended,

" Whea the re Deunt was over, the President and the
representatives, as also all the members of the Provisional
Government, proceeded to the square in front of the Palace,
where a review of the troops was held, to the shouts of
'Long live George 1., King of the Greeks
" At night the city was illuminated.
"Another decree rendered by the National Assembly
refers to the cession of the lonian Islands. It is couched
as follows :

" ' The Second National Assembly of the Greeks at
Athens—

" Taking into consideration the declaration made in the
speech of H.M. the Queen of Great Britain, pronounced on
the opening of the British Parliament, concerning the ces-
sation of the protectorate of England over the lonian
Islands, as also the communications on the same subject
made to the Provisional Government by the Envoy Extra-
ordinary of the said Power, a benefactor of Greece ;
" ' Making ittAt, after the election which has just taken
place of the King of the Greeks, the interpreter of the
wishes of the nation, decrees :
"' 1. The Greek nation expresses its ardent wish to see
the Greek State cf the lonian Islands united as soon as
possible under the constitutional sceptre of George 1.,
King of the Greeks, to Greece, which is now free.

" 2. Thanks are offered to her Majesty the Queen of
Great Britain by the Greek nation, for the benevolent in-
tention she has already manifested as regards the accom-
plishment of the ardent wish of the Greek nation.

"„' 2. The Executive Power is ccarged to communicate
this decree to the proper quarter.' "

THE MISSISSIPPI,

The Mississippi ("father of waters") is by far the
largest of North American rivers. Rising in the
small lake of Itasca, on the verge of the middle
table-land, at an elevation of 1,500 or 1,600 feet, it
runs southward through the great central plain, re-
ceiving numerous accessions from either side, and,
after a winding course of 3,160 miles, falls through
a swampy delta into the Gulf of Mexico. Its main
tributaries on the right or Rocky Mountain side, in
which they take their rise, are the Missouri—a
river even longer, larger, and having more effluents
than the Mississippi itself—the Arkansas, having
also many affluents, and the Red River; a bile on the
left its chief tributary is the Ohio, with its numerous
feeders from the western slopes of the Alleghenies.
Between the Rocky Mountains on the west, and
the Appalachians on the east, lies, therefore, the
great conjoint basin of the Missouri, Mississippi,
and Oaio, having an area of more than a million
square miles; containing every description of soil
and scenery—prairie, barren, and woodland;
watered by innumerable streams and several navig-
able rivers; and possessing every variety of climate,
from the coldly-temperate highlands of Nebraska
to the subtropical warmth of the Gulf of Mexico.
The Missi: sippi, we have said, has a winding course
of 3,160 miles, but if the Missouri be taken as the
main stream, its length is 2,260 miles ; while that
of the Arkansas is 2,000, and the Ohio more than
1,000 miles. The breadth of the Missouri and
Mississippi at their conflaence is about half a
mile, and the main stream downwards is very
little more. Though gentle, the current is by
no means sluggish; and thus, during floods, from
the melting of the snow in the higher latitudes, the
rivers sweep downwards immense quantities of mud,
driftwood, and other debris. The Missouri is said
to be navigable " from the Great Falls in the Rocky
Mountains to the sea, a distance of 4,000 miles ; the
Mississippi, from those of St. Anthony, 2,240;
while the Ohio, being connected by a system of
canals with Lake Erie, and thence to Lake Ontario,
carries out a water communication between the
Gulfs of Mexico and St. Lawrence." The Delta of
the Mississippi, which projects itself forward into
the Gulf of Mexico, is a low and unhealthy region,
nearly 14,000 square miles in area, and full of
lagoons, creeks, and pestilential marshes.—Page's
" Introductory Text-Book of Physical Geography."
--This day published by the Messrs. W. Blackwood
and Sons.