The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-07 00:00:00

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EIE A.TRE RO' .L DRURY - LANE.
Managers, Messrs.. : I,:dmund Falconer and F. B.
Chatterton.—The Public is respectfully informed that the
above (the National) Vieat re will be OPENED for the
WINTER ;SEASON, on SA TURDAY NEXT, September
12th, when will be prot luced an entirely new and
oric,,inal Comedy, by Ed mund Fal'oner, Author of
" Extremes," " Woman." " Peep o'Day," Scc., entitled
NAT Uli E'S ABOVE ART : A Romance of the Nursery, in
which Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Ryder, Barrett, G.
Belmore, F. Charles, Nevi_lle ; Miss Charlotte Saunders,
Miss Murray, Miss R. Lecleraq. Mrs. Melville, and Mrs. Ed-
mund Falconer. assisted by other artists, will perform.
Atter the Comedy will be pre tented a Popular Farce, prin-
cipal characters by favourite' members of the Company.
Box-offlce open from Ten till .rive daily.

ROYAL PRINCBSS'S THEATRE,
Lessee, Mr. George Vining.
Open under the Management of Mr. Walter Montgomery.
THIS EVENING, Shakespe re's Tragedy of OTHELLO.
Othello, Mr. Henry Lorraine ;, lago, Mr. Walter _Montgo-
mery; Desdemona, Miss Kate Saville; Emilia, Aliso Atkin-
son.
To be followed by FAMILY JA RS.

Comore ace at 7,

hW 'l'Y. EA FEE-RO YAL, ADEL? hi.—
Sole Pronriptor and -tanager. M. B. Webs ter.
THIS EVENING ("d weelt), at 7, a new comic drama, THE
TIEN AND CFA iCK ENS ; or, A Sinn of Affection. Messrs.
It. Phillips, Stephenson ; Mrs. Stirling; and Miss
H. Simms.

After which, at a quarter-past 8, the new drama of THE
HAUNTED MAN; uR, T,,141 (HOST'S 13AF,GAIN, in
which will be exhibited Professor Pepper's athiptat!on of
'be Great Spectral Illusion. Messrs. J. L. Toole, 3t.
efton C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss H. Simms.
Followed by a new Burlesque, entitled ILL-TREATED
IL TRO VATORE. Messrs. Thole. P. Bedford, R. Phillips,
Ebtirne, C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and
Sara, and Miss K. Kelly.

'ROYAL STRAND THEATRE,
Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough.

THIS EVENING, HIS FIRST CHAMPAGNE. Mr,
Leigh Murray.

Followed by (111 time) THE MOTTO, "I'M ALL
THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier,
Clifton; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maria
Birapson, Wallace, and Jenny White.

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To conclude with TURN HIM OUT. Mr. Turner, Miss
Thorne. . _

Commence at 7.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 9h. 2m.—Afternoon, 9h. 45m
To-nonnow.-Morning, 10h. 29m.—Afternoon, 11b.. 10m

The Weather—Sun Office, Sept. 7, 1863,

TILEBUOMETER.

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This morning .__
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This day at Two o'clock 6l
Barometer-29.79.
Wind—South-`Vest; strong breeze, and fine.

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SUIT

LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 7, 1863.

The rumoured drawing together—in alliance—of
France, Russia, and Prussia, is, in many respects,
as it appears to us, a thing incredible. Supposing,
for the sake of argument, that it should, notwith-
standing our incredulity, turn out to be an arrange-
ment actually in preparation, it would be a distinct
abandonment, all of a sudden, by NAPOLEON 111.
of the whole intricate scheme of his European
policy, such as it has unquestionably been hitherto.
Cossack or Republican, and that within less than
half a century ! Such, as every student of modern
history knows full well, was the startling alterna-
tive held in terrorem over Europe by the
Political Seer who was the founder of the
Dynasty of NAPOLEON 111. Such was one of the
last and most memorable predictions uttered by
NAPOLEON the FIRST shortly before his death in
exile upon the rock of St. Helena. And, with a
very slight modification indeed, that famous pro-
phecy is now, within the easy recognition of all, in
rapid process of fulfilment. Simply reading, for
Republican, Constitutional—it is already virtually
fulfilled. Virtually, we say, because, wherever
Constitutional Government has not been actually
established already in Europe, it is either being
established, or it is more or less confidently pro-
mised as the goal towards which each absolute ruler
is hastening or affecting to hasten, Everywhere
the "forms" at the very least, if not the principles,
if not the practices, if not the rights, if not the
prerogatories of Constitutional Government have
been introduced. Everywhere the blessings of
Constitutional Government are vaunted even by the
Satraps and the Viziers of the more arbitrary Rulers
of Christendom. The insensate inheritor of the
Crown of FREDERICK THE SECOND ("called the

Great,"as his most eulogistiu biographer has it naïvely

upon his very title-page), even that blundering,
stumbling Swashbuckler of a KING who seizes his
diadem, at the time of his coronation, as being his
by "right divine," rather than vouchsafed to him by
the permission of GOD and the will of the people
he rules—even he, through this last arbitrary act
of his, the abrupt dissolution of the Chambers,
evidences, in a distinct though left-handed way,
his recognition of the rights of popular representa-
tion. Nay, the Russian Autocrat himself, while
striving, through the bloody thongs wielded
by his creature MOURAVIEFF, to scourge the
unhappy Poles back again into subjection, affects
the virtue, though he certainly has it not, of
being desirous to ensure to his people the
consolations of a tranquil, and regular, and even, to a
certain extent, of a representative form of Govern-
ment. Since the death of ABDUL MEDJID, his
brother and successor, the new Sultan Caliph,
ABDUL AZIZ, has not simply inaugurated, but has
ever since its inauguration been firmly and steadily
consolidating, at Constantinople, a new order of
things altogether, both politically and socially, a
sort of translated version of Constitutional Govern-
ment, done into Turkish, and revised and
modified by the Moslem Padischah. Upon
a smaller scale, under the auspices of the
Ottoman Porte, the new Pasha of EGYPT, son of
laßA'lx, grandson of MAHOMET ALT, the en-
lightened
euccessor of those able and gifted Vice-
roys, is doing
the like with regard to his own pro-
vince. R
ta
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eines committed themselves fully and frankly to the
free air
and teild
broad noonday light of Constitu-
tional Government, Al: Germany is rousing itself
to political activity, after a
period of protracted tor-
por, at the summon, of
the KAISER himself; and this,
at the very period in the annals of Austrian's absolu-
tism, when the Eatreleoßof that great central Power
has
of the European Continentbat just freshly in-
scribed,a u
imperial gonfanon, the symbols
o on his
' p
so to speak, upon his
banners
the
insignia of
r
Constitutional Government.

From the very outset of his a
e2"sion to
supreme power at Paris, NAPOLEON 11L
mean.
while has persistently and ostentatiously held
out to the French people as the new
order
of things distinctly withia their view, „hum
within their reach—as the goal clearly before

them, in perspective, and that not by any means
afar cff—a certain form or kind of Constitutional
Government. Imnerialism bated upon Democracy.

An Imperial Throne upon Democratic, institu►ions,

An EmrEr..on, a CiEs.ut, a NAPOLEON pre-
siding over a Representative or Coustitutional
Government. S:owiy, very slowly indeed, here
and there, his Majesty has been making good his
word upon one or two points. But—in regard to

the main points of all—in that grand programme ?

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Remembering his last magnificent and magnani-

moos speech, referring in terms of profaned admira-

tion'to the liberty enjoyed here in England under oar
Constitutional form of Government—How far, we

may ask, has NAPOLEON advanced towards the

realisation, for France, of any kindred institutions ?

Freedom of speech, of meeting, of writing, of

printing ? Witro in France is the concession
of freedom to the journalists and to the occu-

pantb of the Parliamentary tribune? patience