The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-14 00:00:00

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it opEE.k c /De who is notoriously as sell willed as he is un-
VOY AL ENGL 5.,,
.1.11) COVENT-GARDEN. . questionably and most irritatingly self-opinionated.
Under the Mana,2;ement of 31 Louisa Fyne and
, It has been, at one and the same time, the develop-
Mr' W'livatrhrilsts°ismn Balfe's new o,Dera,
THIS EVENING, for the meat and the exaggeration of a policy as feeble in
BLANCH r: DE NEVERS : 31
is 8 rs Louisa ll.PNYVneei's 53.11 H". t -no
eon.
Hiles, miss Emma Heywood; e_ _.,,, •
Js.stionse and W. Harr icon. nets as it has been loud and ostentatious in lan-
A. Cook, A. ztt. Albyn, C. Ly.LIMI,
Second Act of' THE DES ,ERT i wage. How Not To Do It is the key to the
To conclude with the
FLOWER. , whole mystery of it, as it is in effect,
_ according to our Great Humourist, the clue
&trough the whole labyrinth of Circumlocu-
tion. Precisely, as in the matter of Reform, Earl
RUSSELL now superciliously advises the nation to
Rest and be Thankful—so does ha now cynically
affect to assume a very grand bearing, indeed,
as the representative abroad of English Public
Opinion,7a very grand bearing, indeed, in the man-
ner of his diplomatic correspondence ! his negotia-
tions, first with one foreign power and then with
another, al ways ending meanwhile either in a fiasco
or in a collapse. Everybody remembers how grossly
he blundered in the matter of Schleswig-Holstein
months ago. We all have a painful recollection of
the anti-climax closing the noble earl's exchange of
despatches with Prince GORTCHAKOIT in regard to
the affairs of Poland. While, as for his
American policy we can but still look painfully
askance at that truckling towards the Federals evi-
denced by the precipitate embargo laid upon certain
stoam rams in a shipbuilder's yard at Liverpool
To Lord RUSSELL we are indebted for an excess of
irritability that has, at one extremity of the earth,
led to a rupture of friendly relations with the
Brazilian Government, and to an excess of
passion that has resulted, at the opposite extremity
of the earth, that is in Japan, to the lamentable and,
for England, most discreditable destruction, in cold
blood, of the unfortunate city of Kagosima. Finally,
as the last achievement of Earl RUSSELL in
his capacity as chief at the English Fo-
reign Office, was the result of the recent
correspondence between the Governments of Eng-
land and France, in regard to the EMPEROR S
proposition of a Congress. A correspondence so
closed that England may be said, thereby, quite
plainly and accurately to have assumed a wholly ex-
ceptional position in regard to France—the position,
that is, of a sneering cynic who goes out of his
way to be guilty of a gross rudeness where nothing
certainly has been in any way called for but the
extreme of courtesy. England may be quite
right—probably is quite right—in declining to take
part in a Congress—but, at any rate, she could
have intimated that, as her decision, without doing
so in a manner almost insolent, beyond any doubt
of it to the very last degree most irritating and super-
cilous. Remembering all which pleasant illustra-
tions of the agreeable consequences of our having
Lord RUSSELL in authority at the Foreign-office,
we cannot but feel an inexpressible satisfaction in
reflecting that Parliament will now, in a very little
while longer, have come together in February.

Conductor, Mr. A. Mellon.
Doors open at half-past Six—Commence at Seven,:

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY- LAN E.
Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatter ton.
THIS EVENING, her ,
Majesty's Servants will pr:rform
the Farce of My iIEART IN THE HIGHT,. k.NDS:
characters by Mr. .1. Neville: Mr. G. Weston, Mr. Warde,
Dlr J. Marres ; Mrs. C. Melville, and Miss Harfleur.
er which. Lord Byron's Choral Trazedy, MANE RED.
Messrs, r helps, Ryder, Rayner, 31 agreson, Ward, Sp. encer ;
Alin, Eburne,Miss E. Atkinson, Miss Leclercq, and. !Mrs. E.
Falconer.. Vocalists—Miss Poole, Miss tatter, AVM 1 Cicely
riot.., Miss Heywood, and Mr. Swift.
Followed by BEAUTY OR THE BEAST. Priimi pal cha-
racters by Messrs. Addison, G. F. Neville, Barret, 'spencer,
Auld G. Weston; Mrs Edmund Falconer and Miss R.. Leclerq.

THEATRE ROYAL DRUR Y-L AN E.
Managers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer anct
F. B. Chatterton.

NOTICE.—The Public are respectfully request a I to take
notice that the extensive Scenical preparations for he
Cnristmas Pantomime will compel the withdrawal. on Satur-
day, Dec. 19, for a period extending o. er the 1-lolidays, of
Lord Byron's MANFRED.
THIS EVENING the rertormances will comp 2ence with
MY _HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS.
After which, comma nein.; at a Quarter before Eight o'clock,
Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy of MANFRED. Mortals:
Manfred, Mr. Phelps; Abbot of St. Mauric -, Mr. Ryder ; a
Chamois Hunter, Mr. A. Rayner ; Manuel (an aged Retainer),
Mr. Neville; Herman (a young Domestic in the Castle of
Manfred), Mr. G. Weston ; Retainers, Messrs.. Bedford,
Weaver, Kirk, Wilson, Smith, and Edwards. I n mortals :
Arimanes (Ruler of the Evil Agencies), Mr. Warde ; Ariel
(Spirit of the Ether), Miss Emma Heywood; Hes;per (Spirit
of the Stars), Miss Louisa Ritter; Undine (Spirit of the
Waters). Miss Poole ; Meserima (Spirit of MemC ry). Miss
Cicely Nott ; Auster (Spirit of the Storm), Mr. Slsitt ; As-
tarotn (infra of the Earth), Mr. Meagersna ; Nubes (Spirito of
ftle
the Shadow of Night), Mr. Ryder; Titanos (Spirit
Mountains), Mr. G. Spencer; Nemesis (Goddess of Ve ng-eance), 0
Mrs. Edmund Falconer ; Clotho, Lache -is, and Atropos—the
mo, th
Three Destinies—Miss Emma Atkinson, Rose
Miss c_...„--:Nsse—ston,
and Miss Murray: the Phantom of Astarte,bo3rl
ae ;
Evil
Leelerq ; the Witch of the Alps,
Agencies and Spirit Spectres ofMitshse 31‘-Vle;i.rd_
Messrs. T. Matthews, J. Morris, J.lv Melville,
Mrs. War-
, World, i
i s 8
S)eymour, Miss Harfleur, Mrs. Cormack
a—nd Scene h e
low, and the Ladies and Gentlemen of the CAhootLi
Ballet. Order and character of thersacue
11, tred's Castle. Scene
1: Studio and Gothic Gallery
theotlcnehJamunogis-
-2 : a Precipice and Glaciers neartenthcehaSl
frau. Act 11. -Scene a : h uetmmoti't
the Alp:,
Lower Valleys among
Hunter and Alpine Pass. T Scene 2: The Steinbach, a
Waterfall, in one of the
and Overhanging, Cliffs, eHaunt of the Witch of the
Alps. " The sunbow's raythstill arcn the torrent with the
Scene 3 : The z3now-
many hues of heaven, and rays still
the sheeted silver's waving
column o'er the crag's e. p ndicumr."
capped Summit of theP Jruneo-trau, by Moonlight. Scene I
The Hall of Arimanes in the
sNo:otheer:WToorrrlda,oopaainndtezdxbtyerlloil:
Danson and e'en. ActT.lao
Turret Studio, the Magian's
of Castle. Scene 2 :
Mid-
night Haunt. Shooks nd Illumined by Thunderst m aedvalanche.
finally Destroyed by lashing- Bolt and Crashin,A. sr—
Last Scene : A Snowy Alpine Waste or Wilde
and Choruses
gramme of the Songs an s
pirits to the MTh e e 1:
31Ys-
tical Responses ot NI —Act r ,cruness. Pro-
azian's Invoca-
tion.depth of the waters,''
..3tort,al to thy McMinn- bOAVA," Miss Emma
Ist Solo, ' In th,e,iblue
Heywood ; 2d Solo,
ad Solo,
Miss l'°c'te ' Swift • am the rider of the
, and Chorus; The Impre-
wind." Mr. N tt. N'.r. itt Septette,
Misses Poole,
When the Moon is on the Wave,"
Hey-
wood, Cicely , Not
t,
_ .
Miss
1 ' TI
Cicely Nott ;so 0, i ‘11'.;11 thy Slumber may be deep,"
3.ws Poole ; Chorus, by the whole Choir. Act. iI.--• cone 3 ;
Solo and Chorus, " The Captive Usurper," Miss Cicely Nett
and Chorus ; Song, " The Shit) sailed on, the Shin sailed
fast," Miss Emma Heywood. '..ene 4—Grand Choral Hymn
of the Evil Agencies, " Hail to our Master, Prince Of Earth
and Air," solo verses by Mr. Swift, chorus by full Choir • Ju-
bilant Chorus and accompanying Dance, by full Choir' and
the Ballet. Act lll—Last Scene: Grand Dual Chorus of
Good and Evil Spirts, by the Principal Singers and Full
Choir. The general action of the tragedy arranged by Mr.
Phelps. The incidental dances designed and directed lb, Mr.
Comack. Costumes from designs by R. W. Keene, Esq., and
from Flaxrnan's Iliustratioss f Classical and Mythological
Conceptions. lc
,-,machinery by Mr. J. Tucker and Assistants.
vas Illuminations by Mr. J. Hinckley. Spectral illusions
by Mr. Cox, under the direction of Mr. Telbin. The whole
of
the entirely new scenery designed and principally painted
by Mr. W. Telbin, assisted by his son, Mr. 11. Telbin. The
Hall of Arimanes painted by Mr. Danson and Sons. The
increased orchestra and present arrair.t-ement of the music,
oricfinally composed by Sir Henry Bishop, under the direc-
tion of Br. Barnard. The choir under the direction of Mr.
Charles Beale.
To conclude with BEAUTY on THE BEAST.

It is an old saying and a wise one, that extremes
meet, and we may see some illustration of the
truism every day. In no case is its accuracy more
vividly shown than in the similarity existing
between despotisms and democracies in many ims
portant particulars. The tyranny of the few or of
the many tends to much the same result; while
constitutional law and civil liberty suffer nearly as
much from the one as from the other. The avowed
enemies of freedom are scarcely more dangerous
than her professed friends—the emphatic protesta-
tions of the Red Republican do not prevent him
from following in the steps of the irresponsible
dictator. The experience of all history tends to
confirm this doctrine, for independent and outspoken
citizens incurred as much risk in the days of Liberty,
Equality, and Fraternity, as under the rule of the
veriest despot that ever wielded a sceptre. By
common consent the dominion of the friends of the
people has been styled the Reign of Terror; and,
indeed, it would seem as if the elected sovereigns
often feared opposition the most—possibly from the
feeling that, being supposed to represent the
sentiments of the populace, any suggestion that
they were not adequately fulfilling the wishes of
the majority must be especially dangerous. The
inconsistency of a Republican Government issuing
arbitrary laws and confiscating the civil rights of a
people, has been latterly strikingly evidenced in the
proceedings of the Federal Government. The sus-
pension of the Habeas Corpus Act, the imprison-
ment of peaceable citizens who had dared to lift
their voices against the war, the expulsion of Mr.
VALLANDIGIIAM—a man of sufficient note to have
been elected Governor of a State—have all afforded
matter for surprise and regret on this side of the
Atlantic. By the latest intelligence it would seem
that despotism has proceeded a step further, and
that the last onslaught has been made upon the
freedom of the press. This step, which is
always the herald of oppression, is doubly
remarkable in a country like America, in
in which the liberty of the Press has long
been allowed to degenerate into license. The tone
of the American journals, however little in accord-
ance with the manners and customs of this country,
has always been singularly free and outspoken, and
the American people are accustomed to comment
on men and measures which we should consider
libellous. The muffling of the press is, therefore,
an extreme measure, and it is, too, strange that it
should be deemed necessary when the great body
of the journals has been devoted to the cause of the
Government. So universal was the feeling for war
with the South, that any journalist who ran counter
to it had no chance of obtaining a livelihood ; even if
his printing-office were left standing, he would
have no sale for his papers, and American mobs are
by no means patient of opposition. It has been
charged against the press and the pulpits of America
that they have inflamed the passions of the people,
that they have, for the sake of winning popularity
and position, stimulated the popular frenzy instead
°f striving to counsel moderation and peace. Yet
the arbitrary doings of the Federal authorities
appear to have outstripped the subservience of the
Press' and an enforced conscription, probably the
precursor
of
many more, has given occasion to the
edict Millaed to. At Columbus, Kentucky, there has
been great
vxelternent owing to the enforcement of
a conscription
Orderocmaa _issued by General HURLBUT,
The same
with
tdlelr
mined to rule , who is apparently deter-
an order at Mera strong hand, promulgated
phie at the close of last month, pro-
hibiting newspapers in his department from discus-
sing the measures
or polity
be held of the Government—
the editors to
rel.B°llally responsibleany for
the violation of the order.
Whether
stricterhs arbitrary
e s on that
enforced conscription is not stated
but such was
probably the case.
It is a dark day for
rn America
ue
'
when such decrees are issued. The Norte
in fact, are under martial Jaw though gove States,
rned by
their own leaders, and the authorities, civil and
_
military, hesitate at nothing. Such incidents Ria
a curious commentary on American liberty
which some of our professing Liberals would
do well to study. The
persistency with
which the leaders of the Manchester school cndea-
vonr still to advocate the superiority of the Tran-
satlantic ways and manners is really
singular in
the face of such facts. Mr. COBDEN, who is never
at a loss for a word against the press of his own
country, would probably approve of the e:ause by
which editors are to be held responsible for any
infractien of the order. Such a stipulation is cer-
tainly more just and reasoneble than the decree

Private Boxes, its. 6d., 215., £1 Ils. 6d., £2 2s , £3 35., and
.44 45.; Stalls, 68. ; Dress Circle, 4s. ; First Circle, 3s. ; Boxes,
2s. ; Pit, 25.; Lower Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. No
half-price. Box office open from Ten to Five daily. Doors
open at half-past Six, commence at Seven o'clock. Stage
Manager, Mr. Phelps.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.-
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, A GA HE OF SPECULATION.
Messrs. Chas. Mathews, Chippendale, W. Farren, Rogers,
Clark, Braid, Gordon, &c. ; Mesdames Fitzwilliam, Hill,
Griffith, &c.
Followed by THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Messrs. Charles
Mathew 4, Compton,Weathersby, ac. ; Mesdames C. Mathews,
L Keeley. Griffith, &c.
With COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. C. Mathews.
And LITTLE DAISY.
Commence at 7.

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

BifL DE NIONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated
Every Evening until further notice.
THIS EVENING, the Comedietta, by W. Gilbert, entitled
UNCLE BABY ; Mess•s. Widdicombe, J.G. Shore, Charles ;
Miss Le,lerei, and Carlotta Leclercq.
After which, at Eight o'clock, BEL DEMONIO, a Love
Story, in Twelve Tableaux, t aken from Stendhal's " Italian
Chronicle ~" by Mr. John Brougham. Principal cuarac-
ter by Mr. Pechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles,
Bronzham, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford,
Collett, Andrews, Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, Airs.
Lee, and Miss Elsworthy.
Doors open at half-past 6—commence at 7.

QT. JAMES'S THEATRE-ROYAL, under new
Management, will OPEN for the Winter Season on
BOXING NIGHT.