The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-10 00:00:00

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of
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most
BONNETS,
which their Manager has selected in Paris, and brought
back with her to this Est +blishment.
247, 249, 251, Regent-street.

viAMILY MOURNING.—Messrs. JAY would
respectfully announce that great economy is effected
by purchasing Mourning at their establishment. 2,7 and 249,
,tease T-S'lltbi ET, their Stock of FAMILY MOURNING
13, ing the largest in Eur pc. Thou4l Nlessre. Jay professedly
ket p the best a -tees for Mourning' and Hall- ourning—at
all times the cheapest -they supply a Complete Suit of
ponicstic Mourning r,r 2, guineas.
moCTIINLNG COSTUME of every description is kept
Beady .Made, and can be forwarded in town or country at a
momenta notice. The most reasonable prices are charged,
and wear ct every article is guaranteed.
TUE LONDON GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE,
.Regent-street (next the Circus).
JAYS'.

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—Daring the recent
heavy gales some of the Coats of the Royal Na tonal
Lifenoat Institution have been instrumental in rescuing the
crews of the following wrecked vessels:—Schooner Theophi-
Ins, of Aberdeen, 5 men ; barque Tamworth, of Norwayf
St.
, 17;
schooner Northern Lights, ut Preston, 4 • pilot boat, o
Ives, 7 ; schooner Aron, of Workington, ; schooner Gipsy,
of Drogheda, 4 ; smack Saucy Jack, of Inverness, 1 ; barque
Marietta, of Lisbon, 1 ; fishing boat, of Filey, ; Tenby
fishing boat, 3; and barque Providence, of Dantzic,7. Total
lives saved, .55. The lifeboats also assistel in bringing safely
into port, with their crews, consisting of 20 m en the Italian
brig Cameglino, the schooner Sir Colin Campbell, ot tuba,
the schooner Guilia, of Palermo, and the ketch Snip, of Am-
ot
Sterdam. The lifeboats also went off in reply to signals
distress on fourteen occasions, but their services were not
ultimately required. The amount of reward p ,id for all
these services was £216.
The Committee of the Institution earnestly AP PEAL to the
public for ASSISTANLE to enable them to meet the con-
tinued heavy demands on the Society's 125 Web :at estab-
lishments. Contributions are receivsd by all the Lon.t9n
and country bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis,
Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London.
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RO YAL ENGLIS II OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.
Opera
UndeilhiManarr,ement ot Miss Louisa Fyne and
Mr. W. Harrison.
T.HIS EVENING, for the 16th time, Bslfe's new
B.T,AN en i,; DE NEVERSLouisa ryne, Miss Anna'
Co, its
Emma Heywood; Messrs.W. 11. Weiss, H. Corri
A. ok, A. tt. Albyn, C. Ly.ill, J. Rouse, and W. Harrison '
To conclude with the Second Act of THE n
FLOWER. DESERT

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

iriiHEATRE ROYAL DRURY- LANE. -
31ana.,ers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.
EvENING. hPr Majesty's Servants will perform.
THIS?, ot BEAUTY- OR THE BEAST. Principal cha-
the Fa" -e Messrs. Addison, G. F. Neville Barret, Spencer,
.swrbYeston ; Mrs Edmund Falconer and Miss Lecicrq.
ra afloat ear
After which. Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy, MANFRED.
bLessrs.helps, Ryder, Rayner, M-agreson, Ward, Spencer ;
iiae F.burne, Miss E. Atkinson, Miss Leclercq, and Mrs. E.
realconer. Vocalists-3liss Poole, Miss hitter, Miss Cicely
Nov, Miss Heywood, and Mr. Swift.
Followed by MY IRART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS:
characters by Mr. ,J. Neville, Mr. G. Weston, Mr. Warde,
Mr. J. Marris ; Mrs. C. Melville, and Miss Harileur.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.-
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, USED UP. Messrs. C. Mathews,
Howe, Rogers, Braid, Clark, Cullenford, &c. ; Mesdames
.3
Angel, Fitzwilliam, c.
Followed by THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Messrs. Charles
Mathews, Compton,Weathersby,&c.; Mesdames C. Mathews,
L, Keeley. Griffith, &c.
With COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. C. Mathews.
And MY HUSBAND'S G tiOST.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter.
BEL DEMONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated
Every Evening until further notice.
THIS EVENING, the Comerlietta, by W. Gilbert, entitled
UNCLE BABY: Mess's. Widdicombe, J.G. Shore, Charles;
;Hiss P. Le.dercg, and Carlotta Leclereq.

After which, at Eight o'clock, BEL DEMONIO, a Love
Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's "Italian
Chronicle,," by Mr. John Brougoam. Principal charac-
ter by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles,
Urougham, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford,
Collett, Andrews, Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, Alrb.
Lee, and Miss Elsworthy.
Doors open at half-past 6—commence at 7.

LEAH.-EVERY NIGHT.

MISS
BATEMAN.-LEAH.-THIS EVENING,
the 61st appearance of the great Trag,ic Actress, Miss
BATEMAN, in the character of LEAH. In c.msequence of
the unbounded success with which Miss Bateman's imperso-
nation of the prir:cipal character in the new Five Act Drama
of LEAH has been atterhied. Mr Webster begs to announce
that it will be performed EVERY EVENING until further
tfotice.

EW THE A.TR E-RO YAL, ADELPHL—
soict Pronriotor and M anntror. Mr. B. Wohater.

THIS EVENING, at 7, TIIE TItAGEDY QUEEN : Mrs.
S
e, the New Drama of LEAH : Bth wee,: of Miss Bate-
man, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, R. Phillips, Bil-
lington. Stuart, Stephenson, Eburne; Miss H. Simms, and
Mrs. Billingtcn.

To conclude wrli THE IRISH TIGER, : Miss K. Kelly
and Mr. 6teplienson.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. W. 11. Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, MiRIAM'S CRIME. Messrs. Geo.
Honey, Parselle, Belford, Turner, Miss K. Saville, and Miss
Ma:riders.
Followed by (15th time) PATIENT PENELOPE ; or, The
Return of Ulysses. Messrs. honey and Fenton ; Mesdames
Swanborough and Simpson.
After which, MY NEW PLACE. Mr. A. Wood.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL SADLER'S-WELLS THEATRE.
Manageress, Miss Marriott.
THIS EVENING, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL :
3les4rs. H. Marston, E. Phelps, D. H. Jones, Bennett,
Brooke, Denial, Miss Marriott, and Mrs. Wallis.
To conclude with THE BRIGAND: Mr. D. H. Jones, Miss
Mandlebert.

Box-office open from 11 to 4.

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LONTON, THURSDAY DEC.
10, 1863.

_EtiroN 111. recently
It was an alternative that IST4lott
submitted to the Sovereigns of
momentous.
alternative was one in every way nlcil:t•mcbAnd that
Either-3 Gen eralWar or a general p,eir:
icntion Or
_it not Chat precisely, at any rate Nvlatxt
thus expri !ssed—Eit her an imminent prob4Y
iat be
ali but eel tainty of War, of a General war or
pr
an
the Power s of Europe, or an attempt at least,
mediate and strenuous effort at a General Paeifi,:.
tion.

Seeing :now that there is to be no such Congress
as the one proposed by the French EMPEROR—for
the refust.l of England to take part in it abstracts
at once from the notion of that Congress, even sup-
posing any Congress at all to be held, its only
authoritative character, that of its universality—
seeing now, we repeat, that there is to be
no such Congress es the one proposed by
the French EMPEROR, the one inevitable
conviction to be arrived at thereupon is—that
there must be war. It is the admitted conviction
beforehand of the despotic ruler of the greatest
military nation upon the European continent. The
Preach Emperor has avowed such, quite frankly, to
be his lirra conviction—he did so, in effect, in the
very „et
of
submitting his alternative to the
European b.,verei
t s, or, in other words, to
the European
INa
Governments. Wations and their respective
War or Peace, he virtually sub-
mitted to them as t e alternative—his courtly
letter to the
Euoph:Sovereigns meaning
simply, Choose for
Yourseles. Englandh has chosen.
Curtly, rudely, precipitately, She will have none
of the Congress—she Will consent
to no attempt
andmor hopelessly
and
,even at a pacific adjustment of
long-standing,e
some of them, of late, more
entangled differences. The Italian Problem, the
Polish Problem, the Greek Question, the
Question, the difficulty about Venetia, end the
difficulty about Sch!eswig-Holstein—hil
these
things are to be left 8611 purely to the
Chapter of Accidents. The problems are to

o bttiin their solution— somehow. Questions,
nig; nalical to the last degree many of them,

tre to get answered as best they may, any-
IP?' : whether satisfactorily or unsatisfactorily
remain sto be seen. Difficulties, however tortuously
involv 'ed in the cunning webs woven about them by
'ant agonistic and unsympathetic diplomatists, are to
work out—if they can—their own disentanglement.
En rland turns with hopeless bewilderment and
wit. h mutterings of suspicion, from the mere sug-
ges• tion of a Congress—that might (there is no deny-
inc ; this), if ably conducted, have led to a pacific
re adjustment of differences! And, despairing thus of
ar 1y good coming from any such Congress, England
le ayes everything to the chances of—War ! What-
es •er may now come of these long standing and still
es :istina., and some of them more than ever urgent,
di f Farences—France may, with a certain show of
re a son, charge England with having, by her refusal,
rot dared war_inevitable—England cannot possibly
accuse France, cannot possibly accuse the French
E StPEROR of plunging Europe into war without
pi. eviously making any effort whatever to discover
if
war might not, by possibility, be avoided
b:r means of certain pacific discussions over the
co uncil board of a Congress among the
N ations. By entering into these suggested discus-
si:,Es at the council board of the Congress, England
we nild in no way whatever have stood pledged (any
more than would France herself) to any decision at
all upon any single point under discussion.
It is idle to insinuate that France, by suggesting this
Congress, was digging
a trap for England, or for
any other of the Powers of Christendom. If digging
a trap for any
one, she was equally digging a trap
for herself. France, as a continental Power, is
more directly affected than England, as an insular
Power, can possibly be, by.the various difficulties
agitating the family of the European nations. The
Danish Question, by reason of its complication with
the Germanic Question, is brought to the very
threshold of France geographically. The Italian
Question affects France far more intimately in
many ways than it can possibly affect England.
It does so for one reason, because France is what
England is not, a Catholic Power, the Catholic
Power, after Italy, as the Eldest Daughter of
Catholicism. It does so for another reason,
because France, during the reign of the
EMPEROR NAPOLEON 111., has shed her blood
(which England has not),‘has squandered her gold
(which England has not), in vindication of the
political rights and national independence of Italy.
It does so, for yet another reason, one more potent
still to the comprehension of all Christendom—

because France has an armed garrison at Rome

France being thereby most intimately effected (as
England could not possibly be) by the mere discussion
of the Italian Question at this proposed Congress.
Finally—is it not obvious that France would have
appeared necessarily in a far more isolated character
at the council board of any such Congress than Eng-
land could possibly have done—because, as NAPO-
LEON 111. long ago remarked, so modestly to all ap-
pearance, yet in truth so haughtily, he is a parvenu
among the Sovereigns—because as he just now said
to each of those Sovereigns he is the one to whom
ambitious motives have been mainly attributed
throughout Christendom—because he is, as we have
already observed, at the bead of the greatest military
power upon the continent--because he is a crowned
democrat—in a word, because he is a NAPOLEON.
England, however, through her judicious and
courteous Foreign Secretary, has declined point-
blank to take part in the Congress proposed by the
French EMPEROR. The alternativa submitted to
Europe by the French EMPEROR comes back, there-
fore, rather vividly just now upon the general re-
membrance. If by declining to take par in a Congress
we do not actually "cry havoc and let slip the dogs
of war"—at any rate we refuse to attempt the
adjustment of stronger leashes than the old ones in
which those dogs have been so long and so fiercely
straining.

The news from Germany does not afford any
indication of a speedy or pacific solution of the
difficulties with Danmark. The Federal Diet has,
it seems, passed the resolution for Federal execution
in Holstein, for which many of the representatives
of the smaller States have been eagerly pressing.
The motion, it is true, was only passed by a small
majority, but, nevertheless, it is a decisive step, and
one likely to hasten the crisis that, thanks to the
stubbornness and shortsightedness of the Germans,
appears to be well-nigh inevitable. The Diet re-
serves to itself the settlement of the question of the
succession, being content to leave that matter in
abeyance so long as it has sufficient excuse for
coercing Denmark without pressing for ward the
claims of the Prince of A UGUSTENBURG. At the
same Bitting of the Diet it was proposed by some of
the minor members that neither King CHRISTIAN
nor his rival should be recognised as ruler of
Lauenburg, bat that the Diet should retain the
administration of that duchy in its own hands.
This proposal, according to the usual form, was
referred to the committee, but it is difficult to see
what grounds it is based upon, since Austria and

Prussia were themselves compelled to admit that
the claim of King CHRISTIAN to Lsuenburg was
indisputable, and the conduct of tho inhabitants of

the duchy affords no pretext for interference. The
KING has already expressed his sense of their fidelity
to his throne, as offering a favourable contrast to
the proceedings of their more turbulent neighbours.
At the close of last week a meeting was held in
the duchy of the nobility, peasantry, and mem-
bers of the Assembly, at which a resolution was
passed declaring their intention to remain faith-

ful to Denmark, and to recognise King CHRISTIAN.
The conduct of Austria is anything but satisfac-

ory. The Emperor has suffered the Danish Ex-
raordinary Ambassador to quit Vienna without
being received at Court, although his office was to
rify the accession of the new King. So marked
f slight is certainly significant of mischief, and
follows strangely on the withdrawal of the patent
of the zoth
the • March. It is not easy to understand
views of Austria in this matter. She is acting
with her woot
may
chance
ted inconsistency and duplicity, and
part in a strife Nsr,
ea. p
unpleasant results from her
bothe has very little real concern
afoorishteerin.
shlenis
rog
iind otirertaagiti.ng Federal execution in
a serious responsibility,
and very probably embroiling
a nciherself with Eng-
o
difactit
necessary and useful
to explain
encouraged
the projectdted of
by ex
thee two great how it
tl her. whose
She alliance
will
.oii
Ger man Powers
was that her representativecuth cio at
the
°lstei° g
a step of
which no one can foresee the cense,
luences.
tone The
with reference to the pretensions of
tone
t" Prine3 of'
AUGUSTENBURG indicated moderation and
good
sense ; but the favourable signs were of brief dnra_
tion, and the Governments appear to have already
yielded to the foolish clamour of the people. It is
certainly tempting to transform an unpopular Ad-
ministration into the leaders of the people by sup-
porting those views of pretended liberty and real
ambition which all Germany has gone mad about.
The Austrian Emperor, however, does not seem to
be much inclined to stand popular suggestions, to
jndge by his reception of the Municipal Council
o£ his capital. A deputation having presented
him with Et petition relative to the much-vexed
question of the Danish duchies, FRANCIS JOSEPH
445ared the members of his dotermication to fulfil