The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-24 00:00:00

lating to Justice, the later to Legislation. Three
chapters make up the third Book : the first having
regard to the Home Depaatment ; the second to
Foreign Affairs, as well as to the Army slid Navy ;
the third to our Financial system. Firally three chap-
ters are the subdivisions of th•ie fourth book--having
reference, the first to counties,the second to parishes,
the third to municipalities. Having recounted
all which, the scheme of file whole treatise may
now very readily be comprehended. And it is
worth, comprehending when it comes to be
examined into—we hardly know which We
would say by preference, whether of more
worth in France or in England. Through
it, the English reader:may learn, with advantage to
himself, how magnanimously and appreciatively a
truly liberal-minded Frenchman can survey the
whole complicated fabric of our English Institu-
tions. Through it, moreover, the French reader
may learn, with advantage to hinzself, how
much real liberty is fostered here in England
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under cur political, judicial, and administrative
institutions—as the reigning Emperor, his Majesty
Napoleon 111., took occasion to remark hardly
twelve months ago, when pronouncing a panegyric
upon our English institutions in words that M. de
Franqueville has, in this book of his, unconsciously,
it may be, but most effectively enforced_words
that (some of them at least) even M. do Montalem-
bed himself might have articulated as the cham-
pion of true Liberty and the admirer of a strictly
Constitutional form of government.

Charles Mathews' Continued Success at

Paris,

M. Nestor Roqueplan,the theatrieal critic of the
Constitutionnel, has the following remarks in his
last feuilleton :
" Here we have another feat which has its merit

—an Englishman playing a French vaudeville at
the Varieties. The French vaudeville is bad, the
English actor excellent ; at the first representation
a part of the public hissed the piece. The hissers
were but clumsy ; the experienced and delicate
hissers of the Odeon would not have failed to treat
the foreign actor handsomely, and to detach him
from the piece to which he puts his name, and
which may have been originally good, but spoiled
by some subsequent patching. However that may
be, the English press testifies a good deal of
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humour at the reception given to Mr. Mathews, a
charming and distinguished artist, who takes his
place on the same line with our most subtle and.
celebrated comic actors. The English papers are
right, for it would be impossible to say with what
refinement of hospitality our artists are received in.
London. At this very moment some French de-
serters are there, murdering the English language
at a rate that might well make the three kingdoms
tremble ; they, are, nevertheless, listened to and
encouraged by a polite public, which seems as if
grateful for the effjrts made to please it. If the
conduct of our hissers has been taken amiss, on the
other hand it has done no harm, and Mathews is
drawing crowded houses. The Anglais Timide has
resumed upon the bills the rank of which the
theatre had thought it right at first to dispossess it.
The reparation comes, then, entirely from the
public, which of its own free will adds an adjective
to the title of the piece, and calls it,
ti?nides et applaudi.'"

Upon this the Times' Paris correspondent remarks
as follows :—I know not what part of the English
press was angry at Mr. Mathews's reception, or .
imagined there was shown to him on ac-
count of his being a foreigner, but nobody who was
present at his first performance at the Varieties
could fairly have said that such was the case. A
few persons—" fastidious outsiders," onA of th©
Paris papers called them—hissed and shuffled with
their feet, but their dissatisfaction was manifestly
with the piece, and not with the actor. In its
French garb the little farce was too long, and hung
fire; it was cut down between the first and second,
performances, and has gone well ever since.

A Ladlefull of " Punch;'