The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-06 00:00:00

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OBSCURE DISEASES of the BRAIN and
MIND.

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HEI LRM ANN, P RESTIDIGITATEUR.-
Pi tINCEq'S THEATRE.—IIERR HERRMANN'S
Performs nces, EVERY EVENING, at Eight. In Two
Parts—au ; given by him in all the principal Theatres and
Opera Ff 9uses of the Continent of Europe and America. The
whole of the Marvellous Illusions entirely new, and invented
by Herr Herrmann. Prices of admission as usual. Doors
open at half-past 7.

TITEATRE ROYAL DRURY- LANE.-
Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING, THE DEAL BOATMAN : Messrs. G.
Belmore. F. Charles; Miss R. Leclercq, and Mrs. Edmund
Falconer. _ _

To conclude with the new and original Comedy, by Ed-
mund Fal,oner, entitled NATURE'S ABOYR ART A Ro-
mance of the Nursery : Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Ryder,
Barrett, G. Delmore, F. Charges. Neville; Miss Charlotte
launoers. Miss Murray, Miss It. Leclercq, Mrs. Melville, and
Mrs. Edmund Falconer.

Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. Prices as usual.
Commence at 7.

Tl-I.EATRE ROYAL HAY MARKET.-
Open for the Season.

THIS EVEI,7ING, and during the Week, to commence at
7, with AN UN LUCKY MORTAL : Mr. William Farren,
Miss 11. Harris, &c.

Atter which, at a quarter to 8, the new Comedy of
FINESSE; or, Spy and ounter Spy: characters by Mr.
Alfred Wigan., Mr. Chippendale, Mr. Howe, Mr. Buckatone ,
31rs. Dowton, Miss L. Angel, and Mrs. Alfred Wigan'

Concluding with TURNING THE TABLES.
MAT u EIS'S
On Monday, Oct. 26, Mr. and Mrs. CLIA.S•
will return to the London stage.

NE" THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII.-
Sole Probriotor and Alanager. MT. B.
THIS EVENINGS Webster.
Eny QUEEN : Mrs.
Stirling. at 7, THE TRAG
At 8, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bateman. supported
by Messrs. Arthur tirlin H. Phillips.
A. Wood, Eburßillino-to, Stuart,
ne, ss.Simms
AN TlElithSB : Miss
Mi If' and Dirs. Billington.
To conclude with CATCHING
Woolgar and Mr. A. Wood.
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ISS BATEM Ate.—LEA 11.—Th e celebrated
young American Actress, bliss BATEMAN, having
on her first appparance in the New Drama of LEAD. ob-
tained the most triumphant and enthusiastic success that has
been wi.uessed for many years, and the profound impression
created b her impersonation of the character
ratLEAH Pt
a crowded audience h.tving been completely fied by the
unanimous verdict and critical approval of the entire Daily
Press, the manager oi the NEW ADELPIII
AN wilt has
the honour to unce that M.ss BAT Ebl aeaanma ono H. f LEA EVERY EVENING till further
in the New Drr
notice.

Y A.L STRAND THEATRE.
R 0 manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, WHERE'S YOUR WIFE. Mr. Bel-
ford, 2dins Simpson.
Followed by (68th time) THE MOTTO, "I'M ALL
Tin; KB" Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier,
Clifton: Mesdames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maria
oimpann, Wallace, and Jenny White.
To conclude with TURN HIM OUT. Mr. Turner, Miss
Thorne.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, ocr. 6, 1863.

The Emperor NAPOLEON having just now re-
turned from the south-western extremity of his

empire to the capital, expectation is already
beginning to be awakened in regard to the early
meeting of the Chambers and the probability of
some light bQing at length thrown through the
bewildering haze by which his foreign policy has

for a long while past, but more particularly of
late, been enveloped. Glimpses of the inner mean-

log of that policy have been caught, it is true,

from time to time, affording even the general public

a notion of its tendency at those rare moments.

But the tendency of every foreign policy—no

matter whether that of a despotism or

of a democracy, of an oligarchy or of

of a constitutional Government, necessarily and

inevitably fluctuates with the fluctuations of the

events of the hour. It is necessarily—parpetuaily

—passing through a series of more or less appre-
ciable modifications. Those well nigh incalculable
variations—in a free and outspoken system of Go-
verareent like our own, Vr3, the peeple, so governed
are aware of, so to speak, almost interruptedly.
We are continually gazing into the tube of the
Diplomatic Kaleidoscope. The interminable series
of changes, both of colour and of form, there pre-
sented to view, are before us, as it might
be said, always,
are
there, conspicuously
visible, en permanence. Witli
our per-
fectly guaranteed liberty of speech and of writ-
in;, with our unrestricted liberty of the press, and
with the absolute and unconditional independence
accorded to our Parliament, it is necessarily,
have here stated. Diplomacy, in our c
stitu as
we
tional
system of Government, could not be continued for
any, even the briefest interval, upon the old obsolete
plan of secrecy and mystification. Popular feeling
would not tolerate it. To a considerable extent it
is thus nowadays, even with countries the most
arbitrarily ruled. Nowhere is it 8° con-
spicuous, however, as it is in England.
among our neighbours it is partially thus
already, but only, at the best, very partially. The
EmrEitoß has :conceded—(having had everything
within his grasp after the coup d etat)—has volun-
tarily conceded a certain small proportion of freedom
to the press, and a modified species of independence
to the members of his Legislature. Thereby enabling
the nation to catch at intervals the brief, or rather
momentary glimpses of a foreign policy that must,
otherwise, save when it suited his, the EMPEROIVe,
Own will and pleasure, must have remained altogether
inscrutable. If ever the truth in that matter can
be dragged to light, it is while the Chambers are
sitting. Darin(' the intervals between the sessions
the journals l€f& altogether to themselves, are
simply guessing in the dark. If ever the official
imirnall the Monzteur, speaks out at these times, it
only does
50 oracularly, or in other words quite
enigmatically.
it would b® . As to the rest of the Paris journals
difficult to say, in spite of the
unquestionable ability of
many amongst them, of
such distinguished
example, as the Cone,'
Oratns of the French people, for
Debats, and of several t onneland the Jourual des
others not necessary here to
be particularized,org„
s as various and as widely con-
trasting their character,
as at one extremity the ar-
dent and believing Unionitaidoualtathboe other the frigid
and incredulous Sicc/e—
-which amongst them difficult to say
all
ill:. pronounced the I
enunciator of the thoughts
governing power. As moett
valiance
intentions of the
we should be disposed to imagine
11Ce in this
way,
buiti tz
the generality of the French r,ai.,-is,rePosed by
e ...ic - ..
ances of La France, even, •
as in the „min.
forth in the swarms of political p
over the counter of M. DENTIT. It is to
the meeting of the Chambers
pamphlets published
Put
that all
look with eager curiosity—when diplomacy
has become the most obscure, and when the juncture
is just becoming the rnest momentous. Such a
period having just now been reached, the,
at all times, eager and comprehensible curi-
osity of the French People is, in a manner,
intcn,Aecl the re-assembling of the Cham-
bers being looked for with more than ordinarily
heightened expectation, now that the EMPEROR I

has, -within the last few hours, returned from Es
autumnal repose at Biarritz to the Palace of St.
Cloud.

We have now before us the particulars of the
new Constitution proposed for Denmark and
Schleswig. The President, M. HALL, in introduc-
ing it to the Assembly, remarked that the reasons
which necessitated a complete revision of the Con-
stitution had increased in strength by recent events
both at home and abroad. As with usconswtatituh-
tional and political reform has always began
a reformed Parliament ; sdo
reor-
ganisation of the Rigsraa
amended system of go.
iianfell)tentmaarbke
anthe
the Rigsdag or
vernmen .
indis-
pensablet conitdiiteioen of
conjectured
j
ecta un red that
with, or rather
Parliament for the kingdom ptrope will
raelarery
a assembly.
bee
mdbolne.
away me
dn t
es off
si
Isi
fil ictat
tl
okni.n
certainly in gr
dom are
The representative arrangements of this little king.
dom are certainly in great
ee e e
population of less than three millions has no less
than eight assemblies ! There is the Rigsraad for
Denmark- Schleswig ; the Rigsdag for the king.
dom proper ; the separate estates for the two
Duchies; other assemblies for Lauenbnrg and the
northern islands ; besides Colonial Councils for the
Danish West Indian possessions. Such a cumbersome
arrangement cannot fail to create confusion, and
fosters that spirit of jealousy, rivalry, and inde-
pendence which has so greatly added to the per-
plexities of Danish rulers. The object proposed by
the new system is, according to the President, " to
strengthen the Risgraad sufficiently, not only to
meet the great demands Which the future may soon
possibly bring with it, but also to enable it, in the
course of time, to become the corner stone of our
whole constitutional development." In order to
attain this object it is considered necessary to in-
crease the number of members, and by means of the
two chamber system to secure a due proportion
alike of conservatisra and liberalism. It is by its
happy combination of these two elements that the
English Constitution has secured its marvellous
strength and durability. It avoids alike the de-
structive force of the headlong torrent and the
dangers of the stagnant pool. It gives scope for
the bold advancing spirits who help forward the
progress of a people, at the same time that it affords
the more stable and cautious as opportunity of
tempering rash and hasty measures. The results
have often excited the wonder and envy of foreign
States, and in most countries where liberal
principles prevail the political institutions
of England are looked to as the model.
In the Danish Rigsraad the object is to
give a more liberal character to the Assembly,
while retaining its present conservative elements.
It is proposed to divide it into chambers under the
appellations of Landsttring:and Folkettring, already
known as constituent ports of the Rigsdag. The
Landsttring, or Upper House, is to consist of 75
elected members, one third of whom are to be
elected by the KING for a term of 12 years, while
the remaining 50 are to he chosen by immediate
vote in the larger elective districts, the franchise
depending on au income of 1;200 rix dollars. The
Folkettring is to have 130 members, divided like
those of the other Assembly between Denmark and
Schles wig, these members being elected by smaller
elective districts. The conditions of the franchise
prove the liberal spirit of the new constitution.
" Every man of good repute, and holding the rights
of a native, shall be in possession of the elective
franchise for the Folkettring when he has completed
his 30th year." The only modifications of this uni-
versal suffrage are the exclusion of servants not hav-
ing houses of their own, oil insolvents, and the con-
dition that the voter should not be in receipt of
public relief, and should have had a fixed residence
of one year within the district in which he resides
at the time of the election. The same conditions are
necessary to constitute voters for the Upper House,
with the additional stipulation of the income referred
to, which is only £132 of English money, or in its
place, evidence of having paid to the State annual
taxes of 200 rix dollars, or £22. The Assembly is
to be convened by the KING every other year. He
has also the power to prorogue it for a defined time,
but not for longer than four months without the
consent of the Rigsraad itself. This clause is an
important guarantee of the liberties of the subject,
and was perhaps learned from the history of the
English civil war. The Danish language is to be
employed for the resolutions, but the protocols are
to be written both in Danish and German, and any
member who chooses may address the Assembly in
the latter. Section 43 is another of the important
clauses, and decrees that any member can with the
sanction of his chamber bring forward any public
question, and challenge the Ministerial explanations.
Such permissions as these augur well for the prospects
of Danish Reform. They prove that the KING
and his Ministers are sincere in their professions,
and honestly intend to fulfil their promies. In
Place of fine writing and lofty dissertations on
the theory of liberal government and the rights of
" Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," the new bill goes
straight to the point, and defines in plain language
the rights and privileges of the people. Both
Landsttring and Folkettring are likely to have
enough to do if Germany fulfil her threat, but
the brave little kingdom is Ball undaunted, and
stands with resolute front refusing to abandon
its rights. This is the moment for Constitutional
England to step forward in its aid, and to forbid
the occupation of the Duchies. It lies with us to
retard the outbreak of that European war which,
it seems, will not be much longer delayed, and into
which we shall inevitably be dragged sooner or
later. However cautious or pusillanimous our
foreign policy may be, we cen scarcely stand still
to witness another State dismembered. Every small
State weakened, divided, and absorbed into the
shadow of some towering and aggressive neighbour
is a loss to the general welfare and tranquillity.
The partition of Poland has cost us too dear to
allow a repetition of it. Lord RUSSELL'S neu-
y
trality may be wise, cautious, and generall ad-
mirable, but at present it
looks somewhat as
i
he was steering the country into a war with the
Federal Government and
with the German Con-
federation, besides alienating the
So
and own people. Tr
and disgusting outhulern States
y an hulas.
trious Foreign Secretary !

The Archduke 11IAx1miLiaN's
r
Mexican deputation appears very; sensible
his
the
on
the whole. He expresses himself f
-rankly
and fearlessly, and while heffera
thanks to those who have proposed to do
him the honour, he at the same time declares his
intention not to act without due care and considera-
tion. This is Luting with due caution, and all must
agree that his prudence is most praiseworthy. He
commences by stating that he is deeply touched
by the wishes of the Mexican Assembly. ~ It can-
not but be exceedingly flattering for our House
that they have turned their eyes to the descendants
°f CIIAELEs the FIFTH." This is a very suitable
beginning, for the compliment is a great one, and
as such
should be duly appreciated. The ARCH-
DUKE next passes
that have been addressed°t
lie in the way of his carrying state the difficulties that
—is carrying out the proposals
although it is a most n
independence and noble mission to maintain the
institutions and a solid f of Mexico " with free
weofhim, and remarks that,
"1144ti91';' it could not be ,