The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-03 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
GARDEN.
Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.
'Harrison, Sole Lessees.
THIS EVENING Wallace's new Opera
e. Lau of LOVE'S
TRIUMPH : Miss Louisa l'yne, and Mdmra
Cooke,
Barter ;
Messrs. George Perren, W. EL Weiss, H. Corri, A.
and W. Harrison.
Conductor—Mr. A. Mellon.
Alter which, the Grand Comic Cu:lamas Pantomime, en-
titled HADoors open at half-past i',---fiommence at 7.

Tg E A TRE-R 0 Y DRURY-LANE.-
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING, the Comic Drama of THE NEXT OF

EIN.
After which, the Grand Pantomime of LIT'LE GO )DY
TWO SHOES.

Commence at 7.

TILEATB E 7A HAY MARKET.
Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, will be performed
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck-
stone ; Lord Dunclreary, Mr. Sothern.
After which, a new and original Extravaganza, entitled
IASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA; or, The Happy
Rasselas, Miss Louise Keeley.
Concluding with OUR MARY AN-NE.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under
the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTE R.
THIS EVENING, Feb. 3, to commence with an Orioinal
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 Pr3logue, entitled TRE
DUKE'S _MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham.
The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter
w ,
iddi-
supported by Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham,
combe, W. M`lntyre, F. Charles, Garden, -Raymond,
Butler, Dawson; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, I.
Idavenne, and Elaworthy.
Mr. Phelps and Mr. W. Montgomery are engaged, and will
shortly appear.
erformance to
Doors open at half-past Six, p commence
at Seven. Private Boxes, £2 Is. cid, and
is£2 2s ;
Upper
. Places
registered. Stalls, 6s. 6d.
; Dress Circle, . 6d.
Circle, 4s. ed. Prices at doors—Stalls, 65.; Dress Circle 59 •
Upper Circle, 4. ; Pit, 2s. Gall tails, o half-price. Box-
office open daily from 11 till 5. The public are entreated to
take notice that no charge is made to. the occupants of boxes,
box places, or stalls, either for playbills or for the safe keep-
ing of hats and cloaks and that the attendants in all parts
of the house are forbidden to receive any gratuities whatever
Stage-Manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. H.
Barnett.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
f,::ssee and Manager, Mr Linduh.
THIS EVENING, LAW v. LOVE : Miss M. Oliver.
Followed by ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES AN-
OTHER. Mr. R. Roxby and Miss Amy Sedgwick.
•
After which, the New Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME,
"RIQUET WITH THE ruFT; or, Harlequin and Mother
Shipton." Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. C. Seyton, Misses Gray and
Iludspeth, Mr. Milano, Mr. R. Power, Miss A. Collinson, and
Mr. Halford.

NEW THEATRE-110 PAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE and
I TLE TRF, \ SURE. Mr.
Billing,ton, Mr. R. Phillips, and Miss Marie 'Wilton.
After which, A TICKET OF LEAVE : Messrs. J. L.Toole,
r Bedford. and Mrs. Billington.
To be followed by " GEORGE DE BARN-WELL :
or, Harlequin Folly in the Realms of Fancy.'' Miss Woolgar,
Miss K. Kelly, Miss Seaman ; Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bed-
ford, Slephenson, C. J. Smith. Harlequin, Nr. John Lauri;
Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams ; Clown, Mr. W. llildyard ;
rantaloon, Mr. J. Paulo. The celebrated Arthur and
Zertrand

Commence at 7.

The Weather.—Sun Office, Feb. 3, 1863.

THERMOMETER.
Highest since Noon yesterday
Lowest during the night
This day at Noon 4B
Barometer-29.77.
Wind—Westerly ; light, dull and rainy, with light rain
yesterday afternoon and during the night.

lIIGH 'WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAT.—Moraing, 2h. Bm.—Afternoon, 2h. 26m,
TO-mo.nitow.-Morning, 2h. 40m.—Afternoon, 2h. 59m.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1863.

The Bust of BRUTUS would really appear to be '
nothing compared to the Prince NAPOLEON. Like
that particularly dull man who was spoken of by
the French wit so very cynically as having " a
great talent of silence," H. I. H. seems to be re-
garded by some as having been wonderfully con-
vpieuous the other day by his absence from the
Palace of the Tuileries when the Senate presented
their loyal address to the Emperor. Precisely for
that same reason, the Bust of BRuTtis aforesaid was
the most thought of, we are told, among all the
memorials of the great men of Ancient Rome, be-
cause nowhere visible in the procession. As it

happens, however, a great deal more importance
than, it appears to us, is any way reasonably worth
while attributing to his Imperial Highness's say-
ings and doings in France, is attached to them by
certain observers, from this side of the Channel, of
events occurring there in Continental Europe.
Almost all the influence really appertaining to the
Prince NAPOLEON is nevertheless in point of fact
simply reflected. He stands very near to the
throne of his particularly able cousin the reigning
Sovereign of France. Until the birth of the
Prince Imperial, H. I. H. the Prince NAPOLEON
was, moreover, the Heir Presumptive to the Crown
Of NAPOLEON 111. Since the advent of that
youthful Hope of the BONAPARTES, the Prince
NAPOLEON has shrunk back into the subordinate
position of being no more than one of their Impe-
rial Highnesses. The first of them, if you will ;
but still only an Imperial Highness. Before the
advent of the second Empire—long before the
coup d'etat—nay, for that matter, prior to the
passing from view of the National Assembly—
the Prince NAPOLEON, then, observe, not in any
way affecting to be an Imperial Highness at all,
but priding himself, it would seem, above all
things, upon being one of the popular representa-
tives in the great Democratic Parliament : at that
fugitive epoch of enthusiasm for Republican In-
stitutions, it cannot be forgotten that the
Prince NAPOLEON almost settled down, for
a time, among the avowed Reds, upon

one of the benches of the Mountain.
hovered about in the neighbourhood of those
benches. He loitered into the lobbies of the ultra-
democrats. He rubbed elbows with political op-
timists of all kinds ; evidenced something of a pro-
clivity towards the ouvrier set, of which Citizen
ALBERT was, so to speak, Xhe arch prophet ; could
upon occasion lend an ear to the speeches of
BARBES, or an eye to the writings of PROUDHON.
-La proprieto c'est le vol did not so much affect him,
for example—probably from the simple reason that
he had none! However this may or may not have
been—a very little time had elapsed after the Presi-
dent Louis NAPOLEON had somewhat further ad-
vancedon his way towards the acquisition of a
throne, thelmperial throne of the BONAPARTES, when
—from having regarded his cousin,the P resident, as it
were, askance—the Prince NAPOLEON gradually be-
came more and more that cousin's " most obedient."
Actuated, probably,Prinee NAPOLEON was, in this,
at the particular time we are referring to, by what
spoken of as "a lively sense of
has been whimsically
favours to come." Stepby step as the BONAPABTES
were then borne onward, " the coming events,"
to use the already proverbial metaphor of CAMP-
BELL, " cast their shadows before." The Presi-
dent of tw French Republic became after a while
the " Prince President?' Then "Monseigneur the
Prince President." Then finally, before the coup
d'etat had come to prepare the way for something
yet more authoritative, the Prince assumed, at
that transition period, the incongruous and contra-
dietory name, style, and .itle—ithis was the strange
superscription, in fact, upon the majJrity of letters
and documentepoured in, ,at that time, upon the chief
personage then inhabiting the Palace of the Elysee]
.—the utterly extravagant and contradictory name,
style, and title of Monsiegneur, 5.A.1., Le Prince
President de hi Republique Franeaise.
Evan Mr. KINGLAKE, in the midst of his poiso-
nous outpourings of vitriol-like vituperation, even
Mr. KINGLAKE does mercifully drop, as it were,
one eivgle refreshing drop of cold water