The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-25 00:00:00

Conductor, Signor ARDITI.
To conclude with the New Ballet, LA FARFALETTA,

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Tuesday Next, April 28, LUCREZIA BORGIA. New
Ballet.

Doors open at half-past Seven. The Opera will commence
at Eight o'clock precisely.

Prices :—Stalls, One Guinea; Reserved Box Seats, Half-a-
Guinea ; Pit Tickets, Bs. 6d. ; Gallery Stal!s, ss. and 73. ;
Gaiety, 2s. 6d. ; Private Boxes, in the Gallery Circle, to
admit three persons, 21s.

Notice. - It will be necessary for those parties who intend
visiting the Reserved Box Seats (at 10s. 6d. each), to attend
in Evening Costume.

Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets may be had at the Box-office of
the Theatre (ender the Colonnade in the Ha.ymart. et), which
is open daily, under the superintendence of Mr. Nugent, from.
Ten till Six ; and at all the principal Libraries and Music-
sellers.

THE A TRE-R YA L, DRURY-LANE.--
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer.
For the Benefit of Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING, April 25, NAVAL ENGAGEMENTS.
Messrs. Addison, Henry Lorraine, J. Morris, E. Falconer ;
Mrs. E. Falconer, Miss Clara Weston.
Followed by a GRAND CONCERT : Mr. Sims Reeves, &c.
To conclude with THE SPITALFIELDS WEAVER
Mr. J. L. Toole, &c.

Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAY MARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnckstone.
THIS EVENING, STILL WATERS RUN DEEP.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Chippen-
- dale, and Miss Louisa Angel.
After which, an apropos Dramatic Sketch, introducing a
Panorama of the Tour of the Prince of Wales in the East.
To conclude with BORROWING A HUSBAND. Pamela
Miss Maria Harris. BORROWING a 7.

THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under
the Sole Management of Mr. PECHTER.
THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with an Original
Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore,
Garden, H. Widdicomb, MSS Henrade, and Mrs. Lee.
After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic
Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr3logue, entitled THE
DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham.
The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Pechter,
gnoported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. Brougham,
H. Widdimmbe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson;
Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, and
Elsworthy. _ _

Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE
LollBef s, Dress's. Lindus and Vining.
THIS EVENING the drama of AURORA FLOYD. Miss
Amy Sedgwick. bliss Henderson, and Mrs. Simpson • Messrs.
K. Roxby, G. Melville, G. Belmore, C. Seyton, Wallace, and
Cathcart.
After which, KILLING TIME. Mr. Geo. Vining, Mr. C
Seyton, and miss Amy Sedgwick.
To conclude with a new shimsical Extravaganza, entitled
BEAUTIFUL HAIDE E ; or The Sea Nymph and the Sallee
Rovers. Misses M. Oliver, Helen Howard, Hudspeth, Hen-
derson, and Murray ; Messrs. C. Seyton, G. Belmore, Fitz-
james, Moreland, and Cockerill.

NEve THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI,
Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. J. L.
Toole, Miss Kate Kelly, Miss A. Seaman. and Miss Stok
After which, at Eight o'clock, AURORA FLOYD. Miss
Avonia Jones, Miss H. Simms, Mrs. Billington ; Mr. Benj.
Webster, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Billington,
)Ir. Stuart, Mr. Sefton, Mr. Romer, Mr. C. J. Smith.

Commence at 7.

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The Weather—Sun Office, April 25, 1863.

The forbearance of the English public may be
tried too far. They have been willing to trust our
relations with America to the hands of the Govern.
ment, in common with our dealings with other
from complaint
foreign powers; they have forborne.
an important
or opposition, although branch of
trade and commerce was paralysed and a large body
of the population reduced to pauperism. They have
endured, with the calmness which true dignity con-
fers, taunts, vituperation, and insult from the in-
habitants of a so-called friendly state. So long as
any good or right end could be served by silence
and inaction, so long as any wise or
just reason could be adduced for such a
line of policy, they were content to make
great and lasting sacrifices for the general good.
But the face of affairs is gradually changing. The
war, which was always deprecated among us, is no
longer conducted oa reasonable
grounds. The
advo3ates of Northern supremacy openly declare
they would rather reduce the South to a desert
than submit to acknowledge its independence.
Such a feeling may sometimes be tolerated, nay
even honoured, in a protracted warfare. In the
case of Polish patriots fighting for their • national
existence, of Italians striving for the in-
dependence of their country, of brave Mag-
yars struggling vainly against the Austrian
yoke, the sentiment that animates the ranks is
spirit of noble desperation. Death or victory is a
glorious warcry when men are fighting pro aril et
focis, and in any ordinary and allowable warfare
wo can admire the spirit of the Grecian matrons

clearly for the hon, member for Liverpool, and
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
THIS EVENING will be repeated as clearly against the Attorney. General. Mr.
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR.
With the following powerful cast : WHITESIDE has often before this distinguished
Edgardo, Signor Giuglini ; Arturo, Signor Übaldi ; Nor-
compli-
manno, Signor Casaboni ; Enrico Aston, Signor Gassier; himself for the clear view he takes of a
Raimondo, Signor Boss! ; Alias, Madame Corsi ; and Lucia,
Hide. Titiens. cation question, and on this occasion he has not
fallen short of the mark. Sir HUGH CAIRNS
brought the question back to its starting point,
and told the noble lord at the head of the Go_
vernment, that he had said the consequences
would be serious if they attempted to alter the
laws of the country at the request of a foreign
Power, but they must bear in mind also what would
oecur " if they suspended or stretched those laws
in order to please or pacify a foreign Power.°
In this case her Majesty's Government had been
put in motion by the American Consul, and the
House ought, therefore, to watch the result.
Sir HUGH CAIRNS then animadverted upon the
strange manner in which the whole proceedings of
the seizure of the Alexandra had been conducted,
and said that the House must expect to hear some-
thing more of this freak of the Attorney-
General, Mr. COBDEN made one of those
prejudiced and perverse orations for which
he is famous. He began by strenuously sup-
porting the Foreign Enlistment Act, but he did not
say that it should be employed to prevent the ship-
ping of arms to the Federals. He only insisted on
the necessity of stopping such vessels as the Ala-
bama and the Florida from entering any British
port. It would surpass even Mr. COBDEN, with all
his logic to prove the truth of one assertion that he
made, namely, that we were bound by all the tra-
ditions of the past to exhibit towards the Northern
States of America a generous and forbearing policy.
Mr. COBDEN is one of the last men that we should
have expected to appeal to the influence of tradition,
he is singularly hard and unimpressionable, but
perhaps it is his want of practice in that line of
argument that caused him to fail so entirely when
he adopted it. He was resolved to try the effect of
paradox last night, for he concluded by informing
the House of a fact of which they were doubtless
ignorant, that the Foreign Enlistment Act was a
benign law, and if they interfered with it, they
would roll back the axis of the moral world. It
might be suggested that, to carry out a moral law,
it is necessary to observe it strictly, and it is altered
from its original purpose if it is perverted to suit
particular ends. Mr. HORSMAN spoke strongly on
the subject, and declared that the secession
of the South was an accomplished fact. They
were prepared fer peace, but the North had resolved
to make the South a desert sooner than acknow-
ledge its independence. Mr. HORSMAN exposed
the fallacious conduct of those who called them-
selves the friends of peace, but disgraced their pro-
fessions by sending a laudatory address to President
LINCOLN, " adjuring him to go on as he has begun,
burning and extirpating, and assuring him that the
hearts of Christian England are with him in his
holy work." Why, said Mr. HORSMAN, the blight
that has fallen upon free America has spread its
contagion, and the house should rescue the country
from the stain which such misrepresentations would
cast upon it. It should attest to all parties in Ame-
rica that these apologists for despotism were bat as
units among us, and that the general voice of the
country was raised against a suicidal war that is
destroying a nation and disgracing the age. Mr.
HORSMAN is one of the most decided speakers in
the House; if he is roused by any wrong or injus-
tice he does not stop short by any deterring in-
fluences of expediency, but goes straight to the
point, and states his case with force and
fervour. Mr, MILNES made a speech for
the Government, and said that as wise men and
patriots they repressed their feelings and kept to
neutrality. It is idle to bring forward such argu-
ments as these when they are showing their feelings
only too plainly. As Sir HUGH CAIRNS truely ob-
served, they are stretching and suspending the laws
till they answer their ends. Our merchants and
shipbuilders are to undergo an ordeal similar to that
experienced by those who slept on the bed of
PROCRUSTES—their rights are to be sacrificed
and their property destroyed, while, on the
other hand, the powers of the law are to be
augmented to their utmost limits against the
Confederates, and to be conspicuously waived to
suit the Federals. This question of seizing the
Alexandra ought to be considered separately, and
stand or fall by its own merits, but it needs no
prophetic power to know that such is not the treat.
ment that Englishmen will submit to. If Lord
PALMERSTON wishes to rouse the country against
his Government he cannot take a speedier step for
the attainment of that end than by making our fel-
low-citizens suffer the penalty of the law in a most
harassing form, and refusing to state the
charges against them in open day. These
are not the wrongs to which Englishmen will
tamely submit, and the Government need not
think that they will be allowed to make nameless
martyrs of the gentlemen whose case was brought
before the House last night. They are now the
tests -of the limits to which forbearance will be
extended before a decided course is taken, and
the nations of the world who are looking on
with curious eyes must never witness such a
degradation as that we can submit to being
dogged by the spies and persecuted by the aeony-
mous charges of the emissaries of a foreign
State, while our Ministers are not only too
tame or too unwilling to protect us,
but offer every facility to the plans
and projects of the impertinent interferers with our
rights. The sooner such proceedings are summarily
stopped the better, and the longer our Ministers are
allowed to act in this unworthy manner the greater
will be the damage inflicted on the interests of in-
dividuals at home, and the reproach that is occa-
sioned to our reputation abroad.