The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-07 00:00:00

A LEXANDER WILLIAMS, deceased.—Pur-
snant to an Act of P arliame.nt of the 22d and 23d
AZoria, chapter 35, intitule d "An Act to further Amend
the Law of Property and to Relieve Trustees."
NOTICE IS HEREBY G IVEN, That all creditors and
other persona haying any claims or demands upon or against
the estate of Alexander Williams, late of New Brentford, in
the county of Middlesex, Gentleman, who died on the 22d
day of August, 1882, and whose will was proved in the prin-
cipal Registry of her Majesty's Court of Probate on the 11th
day of September, 1862, by William Roger Williams. .of 1,
Westgate- street, in the city of Gloucester, draper, and Ben-
jamin Williams, of Cowbridge, in the county ot Glamorgan,
draper, the Executors thereof, are hereby required to send
the particulars of such claims or `demands to the said Execu-
tors, or to me, the undersigned, as their solicitor, on or be-
fore the 4th day of December next, at the expiration of
which time the s 'id Executors will proceed to distrlbnte the
assets of the said deceased anion g the parties entitled thereto,
having' regard only to the claims of which the Executors
shall then have had notice.
Dated 6th August, 1863.
19, Great Carter-lane, London.

J. CHAPPLE.

nE R MAJIE STY'S THEATRE.
LAST NIGHT.
'THE O
TO PERA. SEASON POSITIVELY TERMINATES
-MORROW EVENING (SATORDAY).

CHEAP PRICES.
FREE LIST ENTIRELY SUSPENDED.
LAST NIGHT OF FAUST.
Titiens, Trebelli, Santley, Gassier, Giuglini.

TO-MORROW EVENING (SATURDAY), August 8, will
be presented (for the last time) Gounod's celebrated Opera,

FA UST.
In the course of the evening, the National Anthem.
Conductor, Sig. ARDITI.
Restrictions to Evening Dress not enforced. Commence at
Eight o'clock on each evening.
Prices :—Gallery, 2s ; Pit, 35 ; Boxes, 55 ; Dress Circle, 7s ;
Orchestra Stills. 12s 6d; Private Boxes from Half -a-Guinea
upwards ; Pit Tier Boxes, to hold four, Two Guineas.

Bo (-office of the Theatre (under the superintendence of Mr.
Nugent) onen daily from Ten till S,x. Tickets als 3to be ob-
tained, on the evenings of the performance, at the special
offices open at the entrance of the Pit and Grand Tiers.

THE DUKE'S MOTTO.
HU DREr AND SEVENTY-THIRD NIGHT,
And Last Two Nights of the present Season.

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

Last Two Nights 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 Romantic
Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr3loffne, entitled THE
DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feral and John Brougham.
The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter,
wmported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. Brougham,
11. vViddimmbe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson ;
Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E 5. Cayenne, and
Elsworthy. Doors open at 7, commence at hall-past.
Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett.

NEW TB EATRE-RO VAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE IRISH TIGER.
After which, at Eight o'cloek, 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. Phillips,
Sefton. C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss H. Simms.
Followed by a new Burlesque, entitled ILL-TREATED
IL TROVATORE. ME ssrs. Toole. P. Bedford, R. Phillips,
Ebrorrie, C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and
.Sara, and Miss K. Kelly.
Commence at 7.'

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough.
TO-NIGHT WHILE THERE'S LIFE THERE'S HOPE.
Dlessrs. W. H. Swanborough, Parselle, Vollaire, G. Honey;
Misses Ada Swanborough, L. Thorne, F. Hughes, Manders,
and E. Bufton.
Followed by (19th 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 KEEP YOUR TEMPER.

Commence at 7.

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The Weather—Sup Office, Aug. 7, 1863.

THERMOMETER.

This morning
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This day at Two o'clock
Barometer-29.90.
Wind—S.-W. ; cloudy, with slight rain.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 7h. 33m.—Afternoon, 7h. 59m.
To-htottßow.-Morning, Bh. 30m.—Afternoon, 9h. 10w.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1863.

Who will venture to take the initiative? That
still continues to be the mot du jour in regard to
the Polish question. Earnestly united, at heart, in
their sympathies with the Polish insurgents, and
in their antagonism to the Russian rule as exercised
by sheer brute force, the on-looking nations of
Europe still shrink, one and all, from evidencing by
their acts the sincerity of that sympathy and the fer-
vour of that antagonism. Singly, any one of the chief
amongst them might venture to cross swords with
the Autocrat. Laagued together in this eminently
noble and most generous cause, the leading States
of Christendom might readily enough present to
view a warlike front, before which the legions of the
Czar might well find reason to recoil. The aim
of any war just now in behalf of Poland, of the re-
establishment of the Polish nationality, is in itself
essential good. The opportunity for such a war is
strangely tempting at this present moment. The
people of France are yearning for it. The cordial
good wishes of the people of England are

fervently with the Poles and against the Russians.

The Emperor NAPOLEON at all times regarded as
eager for war somewhere, if only to keep his enor-
mous army employed, if only to dazzle the millions
under his sway with the splendour of new victories
won by his Imperial eagles, it matters comparatively
little where or over whom, if only, in fine, to keep
up the prestige of triumphs achieved by the Napo-
leonic regime, the Emperor NAPOLEON 111.,
thirsting, according to these synical critics
of his reign, for those conflicts which, it
is hinted, are essential for that reign's
continuance, conspicuously among all the despotic
rulers of the day, is now, more than ever he has
been yet, not only in want of a war, but peculiarly
well prepared for it. Already the Mexican expe-
dition is virtually accomplished. The memory of the
Crimean expedition is perpetually slipping further
and farther away from the short-sight of France in
all such matters, it is slipping further and further
away into the remote perepectiveof a past of already
nearly
one 'whole decade. As for the Italian Expe-
dition, about the
very utmost that could by any
chance be
attempted there, even by so daring an
initiator of Ware
as the Third NAPOLEON would
seem to have been done
long since. At Solferino
the Emperor NApottol
t'
full weii
why,
eaitateck recoiled," he knew
he sound himself had
anwercined
made," recoiled i
baak,Ybafltter the crowning
victory at Solferino,
to his suddenly
improvised place of rendezvous with the
discomfited
Emperor of AUSTRIA—at Vinafren
otti dm
- All that was
afterwards accomplished by th,
p. ontese Go-
vernment, as is well known, wa5...4l
penal MAJESTY'S programme for ile R:lott
he oeif hisn.ea i
penis-mM
e
sula! The absorption of the
disintegration of the Pontifical States, the daring
seizure of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies by that
most audacious adventurer of modern times, who, it
ought never to be forgotten, was repudiated on his
setting forth by the Government of King VICTOR
EMMAN UEL, and only recognised as the precursor of
the KING when Naples and Sicily had actually
passed into his possession. The Mexican Expedi-
tion virtually accomplished, the Crimean Expedi-
tion long since past from the view of France, the
Italian Expedition within a few months of its com-
mencement, and increasingly ever since then com-
plicated, for Catholic France, to a state of utter im•
practicability—A Polish Expedition now holds
forth its attractions to the French people
and to the EMPEROR himself with a fascination
of opportuneness all but irresistible.

Yet, with his hands free for the undertaking ofnew
exploits, with his Mexican anxieties, but yeterda.Y
so urgently pressing upon him, to-day so entirely
dissipated, NAPOLEON 111., whatever may be his