The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-16 00:00:00

Commencing at Eight.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.-
_ Sole lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone.
THIS EVE :\ rNG, FINESSE ; or,
Spy and Counter Spy •
Messrs. Alfred Wigan Backstone, Chippeudale, llowe, W.
Fa,Ten, Braid, and Gordon ; Mrs. Dow ton, Miss L. Angel,
Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Mies Wright, szc.
After h,
w•-•ch, CHARLES' THE TWELFTH : Messrs. A
Wigan, Backstone, Compton, Howe, and hiss L Keeley.
Concluding with THE GALLICIAN FETE.
Commence at 7.

EW THE ATRE-RO YAL, AD ELPHI.-
.1_ Sole Pronriator and Manager. ST?. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, at 7, TIIE TRAGEDY QUEEN: Mrs.
Stirling.
supported
At 8, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bateman,
by Messrs. Arthur R. Phillips, Millington, Stuart
A. Wood, .Eburne, Miss 11. Simms and Mrs. Billington.
To conclude will. CATCHING AN lIEIRLSS : Miss
Woolgar and Mr. A. Wood.

ISS BATEM AN.—LEAH. A H.—The celebrated
AI young American Actress, Miss BATEMAN, having
▪ her first appea rsnce in the New Drama of LEAH
ob-
tained the most triumphant and enthusiastic success that has
bwi nessed for many years, and the profound impression
n
r
eeated by her impersonation of the character of LEAH upon
a e owded audience 11,iving been completely ratified by the
unanimous verdict and critical approval of the entire Daily
press, the anager of the NEW ADELPIII THEATRE hasM
the honour to announce that M-Ps BA.TEMAN appear
will
in the New Drama of LEA HEVERY EVENING till further
notice.

OYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough.
THIS EVENPIG, Mllt(A3i'•4 CRIME. Messrs. Honey,
Farselle, Belford, Turner, Miss li.Saville, and Miss Mande rs.
Followed by THE MOTTO, " ALL MERE." Messrs.
Honey, Turner, S. Danvers, Collier, Mesdames Ada Swan-
borough, F. Hughes, Weston, Thorne, Wallace, and Jenny
White.

To conclude with WHERE' YOUR WIFE. Mr. Belford
Commence at 7.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, OCT. 16, 1863.

An eminent French critic has very recently
offered to a great English writer as charmingly
genial and graceful a compliment as any that we
can recall to mind for a long while past to have had
the satisfaction of witnessing. The especial and
distinctive charm of the tribute we are here alluding
to, lying in this, that it is, in every syllable of it,
so eminently well deserved. It never once blunders
into exaggeration. It is a panegyric that, with
all its cordiality, not once, by the merest phrase or
allusion, tends to run into hyperbole. The
occasion selected for the proffering of this earnest
tribute of admiration is one that we ourselves have
already commented upon. Our attention is recalled to
it, however, by our Paris contemporary, Le 7emps,
thus circuitously. A correspondent of Le 7emps,
the distinguished French critic already referred to—
writing to that journal under a comparatively
recent date, from (of all unlikely places in the
world to be in any way known to the nntravelled
Parisian reader) the little, old-fashioned town of
Ritchie, in Hertfordshire—opens thus abruptly
upon the attention of the French public generally.
We have recently bad in this neighbourhood, he
And, hinting immediately upon this that he him-
self is perhaps the least likely witness of the Scene
thus displayed to view, to be regarded as qualified to
report befittingly upon it—A.lll h
(in journalism,
our excellent fellow-labourer he exclaims, if
not in agriculture) M. JOIGNAUX had been but
there, how willingly would I not have yielded
up to him the pen I am now writing with !
Happily, say we, M. JOIGNATJX. with all his in-
tricate knowledge of oxen, horses, pigs, and sheep
was 'got there—his rarely gifted and accomplished
substitute for the nonce (that is as a sort of tin
promptu agricultural reporter) being there instead
For myself, he asks, a little later on with a serio-
comic air of deprecation. What can I talk to you
about if it be not about the banquet Which
followed the show, and about the speeches that
were delivered at it. That is, of course, we may
add, not at the show but at the banquet.
Holding still in reserve what it was that
actually constituted the feature of the evening,
point of fact, that induced the
what it was, in Poi
'writer of this communication. in Le Temps to dream
of sending any report of the proceedings at all
to that journal, the amateur reporter adroitly men-
lions the fact that among the guests at this
agricultural banquet was the venerable Marquess
ofSALISBURY. Adroitly, we say, because
the allusion is rendered thus ingeniously pre-
parative to the announcement which he holds, as
we 11" e said, still in reserve. The Marquess of
SALISTsuit; he observes, a young
man- What do I say
• ago to
actually, I believe, of the
itehen:vriltoenrgeexr claims in
which Poerrß
upon a
NELLE had attained, when,
very old la
congratulate
117 remarking to him that they ought In
70NaIntoNther ripen Deatn na
• - ring for-
gotten them,
teat hushed her words up
hurriedly, with a
" hilt !' At Suchahnger upon his lips, and a.—
the amiable Frenchm:ge as this, surely, says
from attending upon
ath One might be excused
mgriealtural show and
banquet. True, bat—the
panions are there, not for the
dinner, aud his cora
that tho Zen to the
are there
simply out of a very natural desire
will they
good and noble and eloquent words
-will be addressed to them, Foe—wh° do you
know
thick presided over this banquet of farmers, this
b.lnquet, at which the principal toast as
ier of course, upon the subject of agricultu:et;
well, a great landed proprietor, you will say ! Yes,
Tiithout doubt, but a great landed proprietor
who is also a distinguished Poet, a famous Novelle?,
au able ideniaietrator, a Pailosopher, an Orator, a
stittem4o, arid, eddition to all that, a man of
peculiar fascination individually, in a word, Sir

EDWARD BITLWER LYTTON. It is in one of his
dedications, if we remember rightly, that the author
of the "Pilgrims of the Rhine" speaks of his own
reading public in Germany as, perhaps, among all
his readers, those who have welcomed his writings
the moat generously. After the genial tribute
spontaneously proffered to him in Le Temps,
by a writer himself of great eminence, we
should be disposed to imagine that Sir EDWARD
would almost be tempted to revise that opinion, at
least in so far as it relates to any appreciation by
individual critics in the different countries of the
European continent.

Having ourselves, as already intimated, com-
mented upon the brilliant speech delivered by Sir
E. BULWEa LYTTON upon the occasion referred to
by the critic in Le temps, it were superfluous here
to follow the latter, (tempted though we are
to do so) through its analysis. He mentions
the speech as a matter of course, as the
event of the evening. That, however, being its
very humblest definition. He says of it that

nothing could have been at once more practical or

more elevated. And then—after illustrating
copiously the orator's mastery of his subject in
the course of this ample analysis of the speech as
a discourse upon agriculture—the critic refers again
to his remark made in the earlier part of his CM..
mnnication, to the effect that the Chairman, who
was delivering this speech at this banquet of farmers,
upon the subject of agriculture generally, was a
great Poet as well as an eminent practical
man. "For myself," he says, "if I had ever
doubted its being so, before then, I could by possi-
bility doubt it no longer after that discourse of Sir
BULWER LYTTON'S." Alluding to the orator's
faithful attention to his theme throughout the chief
part of his speech, our French critic seems almost to
exult at last at the notion of the illustrious author of
" The Caxton Family," of " The Last Days of
Pompeii," of "Eugene Aram," of "Rienzi," and,
besides so many other equally famous romances
of poetical works less known, perhaps,
though some of them yet worthier of ad •
miration—eventually escaping from it. In the
first part of his harangue, says Le Temps' Corres-
pondent, it was the territorial locd who was speak-
ing. In the second part it was the ex-Cabinet
Minister. Earnestly would we commend the gener-
ous spirit in which this large-minded and warm-
hearted French critic can weigh in the balance of
his magnanimous judgment the distinguishing gifts,
merits, and graces of an illustrious contemporary
who happens also to be an Englishman—earnestly
would we commend the whole tone of this genial tri-
bute to the consideration of such atrabilious commen-
tators upon either side of the British Cne.nnel, of such
spiteful and acrimonious commentators, let us say,
the one upon the French, the other upon the Eng-
lish, as—that fribbling M. ASSOLANT, and, here,
upon our own shores, that historical caricaturist,
who draws his pictures of foreigners with a pencil of
lunar caustic, the hon. and learned member for
Bridgewater.

Lord BROUGHAM is certainly a model for states-
men of the present day. He perseveres in his work,
and exhibits an energy and determination that
would do honour to any age, and redound to the
credit of any vocation. Again and again, at the
proceedings of the Social Science Congress at Edin-
burgh, has he taken part in the various subjects, and
delighted his audience with his knowledge, wit,
and perspicuity. At the dinner in the Music Hall
he was the chairman, and in that capacity of course
addressed himself to the consideration of several
topics. His tribute to the excellent manner in
which the QUEEN fulfilled the duties of her posi-
tion, and the admirable way in which she brought
up her family, furnishing thus an example to
mothers, and a pattern to Sovereigns, was very ap-
propriate, and the terms in which he proposed the
health of the Prince and Princess of WALES were
also felicitous. "From the cause," ho said, "we
pass to the effect," and thence illustrated the train-
ing which had been given by her MAJESTY and
Prince ALBERT to their children. The Volunteers
afforded another occasion for the evidence of the
skill of the noble chairman in bringing forward the
most conspicuous features of his case, so as to attract
notice and win approval. In referring to the ques-
tion of war, he very vividly explained that it was
not because we were afraid of peace being disturbed,
or desirous of such an occurrence, that we
welcomed the Volunteers; but that what-
ever was done by way of defence was on the prin-
ciple of insurance. Therefore our volunteer in-
surance was of a double value, " because it not
only prevents loss, if the mischief happens, but
tends to prevent the mischief from happening."
Ills is a very correct definition of the establish-
ment of the Volunteers, and this parallel of Lord
BROUGHAM'S is the more satisfactory at the present
time, because since the war-panic has, in some
measure, subsided, the people are sometimes heard
to say that all the excitement was needless, and
that we could have done very well without the
t e that Volunteers at all. Those wiseacres appear to for-
get aatte, eethohtwo modes of rendering service to
h
of action, and one of prevention,
if not celebrated with all the "pomp and circum-
stance of war,"
blessings of those who have preserved the
peace to their country are surely
worthy of recognition, and their work may be as
valuable and as honoured as the more notice-
able and glorious achievements of war. Only
those who have studied the minutiae of the details
of foreign States, and the various plans and plots
that have been concocted and devised of recent
years, can rightly understand the importance of
the services that have been rendered to their
country by the Volunteers. The Lord Provost's
remarks on the noble President were in excellent
taste, and seemed to enter
the theme. When he g fully into the spirit of
the history of public
referring to had said that the career he was
and unabated
rarely. if ever'
men,
for beenbrilliaenqtualleclin
extended durationsuccess,
,
have had the satisfaction of knovig our," he might
recording facts, and not m wing that he was
merely rounding periods,
and dilating on events to suit the
public meeting. Lord BROUGHAM' :urpose of a
remarks on
the Association are
well worthy of notice
His
defence of the name "Social Science is in itself
an animated exposition of the causes that led to itsin-
stitution. His remarks on the subject of
ti.avery are
particularly impressive, and the zeal and energy
with which he confutes the assertions that have been
made in reference to his decadence in this •
Point are
full of the fire and fervour of his earlier years. Well
0-honoured and world-renowned States-
may this time-honoured
man be justly indignant at the impertinent re-
d conclusions that are made
marks and absurd
conduct. Loud and prolonged
respecting his
et the earnest sentences with
cheers might well greet
which the veteran orator denied the charge im-
puted to him, and disclaimed the idea of his having
derogated from his previous high position in regard
to this important question. "It is said that I
underrate and andervalne the emancipation of the
•
elves ; why ! have all the advocates of slave eman
ei,ln'ti°ll done half so much for the liberation of the
slave and self have
the abolition of slavery as I 1U
done ?"
er
L e than half a century has elapsed since
Lord BxeljG
tialesAct pasaed for übolishing the
slave trade, That Act changed the circumstances