The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-01 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

THEATRE-RCY AL, HAY MARKET.
Leone .Mr..l. B. Finckstone.
For the Benefit of Mr. Sothern.
THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, will be performed
Wit A3IERICIN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck.
~tone ; Lord DuudreAry, Mr. Sothern.
Followed by AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. Windsor
Brown, Mr. Sothern.
Alter wh'ch, MAKE YOUR WILLS. Mr. Buckstone.
To conclude with THE GALICIAN FE FE. Miss Fanny
Wright.

THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under
the Sole Management of Mr. PECHTER.
On EASTER MONDAY, to commence with an Ori,inal
Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore,
Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee.
After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic
Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr3loc.fue, entitled THE
DIME'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John BroughPech ,am.
The principal character will be sustained by Mr. ter
supported by Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham, H. Widdi-
earnbe, W. M'lntyre, P. Charles, Garden, Raymond, H.
utler, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E.
Layenne, and Elsworthy.
Stage-Manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. H.
Barnett.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE
Lessee and Manager. Mr Lindu'.
On Easter Monday the drama of AT F LOYD. Messrs.iqs
Amy Sedgwick, Miss 'Henderson, and Mrs. Simpson ; M
Boxby, G. Melville, G. Belmore, C. Scyton, Wallace, and
Collett.
To conciude with a new whimsical Extravaganza, entitled
BEAUTIFUL MAUDE E ; or The Sea Nymph and the Sallee
-Rovers.

gA' TR It A LRE-1-a) Y AL, ADELPIij,—..
Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING (13th time) AURORA FLOYD. Miss
AVOWS Jones, 31184 11. Simms, Mrs. Billington Mr. Benj.
Webster, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. R. Phillips. Mr. Billington,
Mr. Stuart, Mr. Sefton, Mr. Romer, Mr. C. J. Smith.
After which, A VALENTINE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul
Bedford, Miss Kate Kellmy, amndence Missat 7 Seaman.
Co.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1863.

The Ministerial crisis in France, it will be per
ceived through our latest telegrams, has ended in
all respects satisfactorily. The EMPEROR has dis-
tinctly declined, or rather, we might even say,
refused to accept, the resignation of the portfolio of
Finance, which it appears this time was positively
tendered by M. FOU LD. His Majesty has displayed
a wise reluctance to allow himself to be deprived of
the valuable, almost we had said invaluable, assis-
tance of the ablest living Financier of France.
Rather than consent to M. ULD'S retire-
ment from office, the EMPERO FOR
has pre-
ferred to give his exiquatur from the Cabinet to
MAGNE, the immediate predecessor of M. FOULD
as Finance Minister, and latterly M. FouLD's im-
practicable ministerial colleague. The dismissal
(for it really amounts to that, and to nothing less
than that, if we adept a well-known law stationer's
habit of not putting too fine a point upon it!) the
dismissal of M. MAGNE from the Cabinet, his
banishment to the otiunz cunt dignitate of the
Privy Council in the politest way possib'e by his
imperial master, has been a political trans-
position all the more easy of accomplishment
seeing that M. MAGNE has, ever since he gave way
to M. FOULD, as Financier, occupied a seat in the
Cabinet, in that anomalous position for a Minister
known in France as a Minister without Portfolio.
How politely the EMPEROR has given this notice to
quit to M. MAGNE, in consequence of his new int-
broglio with M. FOULD Ca Minister, this latter,
with a Portfolio, and that Portfolio as impor-
tant as the Portfolio of Finance), may be here
perhaps most accurately indicated by repeating
the very words of the imperial " My dear M.
MAGNE," writes the EMPEROR, in that curiously
familiar style of correspondence somehow become
habitu a on the other side of the Channel in
these official communications between Statesmen
and Sovereigns. A familiarity of,style that would
be utterly bewildering here in England if we had
occasion some fine day to insert an epistle after this
fashion from her MAJESTY, beginning, let us say,
My dear Mr. GLADSTONE," and ending
with a Royal benediction, authenticated with
the sign manual of " VICTORIA 13,." Here,
however, as the judicious close to the late
• Ministerial juncture in Paris, we read
on, quite as a matter of course, an imperial letter
addressed to the Minister whose resignation has
been accepted, a letter beginning "My dear M.
MAGNE," and continuing in these wonderful cour-
teous terms—" An incident, the responsibility of 1
which does not rest with you, has rendered mare ap-
parent the difference of opinion which exists between
FOULD and you on several financial questions.
Under these circumstances you have considered
yourself bound to tender your resignation. In tem-
porarily relinquishing your services, I wish it to be
known that I have never had but to congratulate
myself on your zeal and devotion. I have therefore
resolved to give you a striking proof of my confi-
dence by creating you a member of the Privy
Council. I hope that you will never entertain any
doubt of my sentiments of sincere friendship.—

NAPOLEON."
The meaning of all which—taking the
gloss or varnish of the EMPEROR'S exceeding
politeness off these princely phrases—the real
meaning of all which, quite manifestly, is—that the
EMPEROR has, by this time, had quite enough,
and more than enough, of M. MAGNE as one of his
Administrators, and that he is heartily glad to be
rid of him—as such! That he transfers him mean-
while from the Cabinet to the Privy Council is merely
that there is a luxuriously embroidered cushion, as
it were, generously placed there for the falling