The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-26 00:00:00

TN FUN, This Week, One Penny, Our Prize
Essays—Name of the Winncr ; Sir Mathew White
Iti:dley, M.P.; The Frankfort Diet—all Smoke, &c., &e.

OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. George Vining,
Under the Management of Mr. Walter Montgomery.
THIS EVENING, Shakespere's Tragedy of OTHELLO.
lam Mr. Walter Montgomery.
After which, LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS.

NEW THE ATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI.—
sou, PrOpriGtOr and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING. at 7, a new comic drama, entitled THE
SINN AND CHICKENS ; or, A Sign of Affection. Messrs.
liillington, R. Phillips, Stephenson ; Mrs. Stirling and Miss
11. Simms.
After which, at a quarter-past 8, the new drama of THE
'TAUNTED MAN ; ull, T E GHOST'S 15ARGAIN, in
which will be exhibited Professor Pepper's adaptatlon of
'he Great spectral Illusion. Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phi:lips
efton C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss IL Simms:

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Followed by a new Burlesque, ent: fled ILL-TREATED
TItOvATO RE. Alf ssrs. Toole' P. Bedford, P. Phillips,
Ylirne, C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and
Sari, and Miss K. Kelly.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE
Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough.
Tills EVENING, EIS FIRST CHAMPAGNE. Mr,
Leigh Murray.
Followed by (33d time) THE MOTTO, "I'M ALL
THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier,
Clifton ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maria
simpson, Wallace, and Jenny White.

To conclude with TI EN HIM OUT. Mr. Turner, Miss
Thorne.

Commence at 7.

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This morning.
This day at Two o'clock 65

Barometer-29.52.
Wind—S.-Easterly ; moderate, and cloudy, with rain.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1863,

The autumnal season is, this year, not only more
than usually interesting by reason of the abundant
intelligence now dropping in upon us of affluent
harvests and fruitful vintages, but by reason also
of the extraordinary variety of the aggregate meet-
ings of various kinds held in these later months of
1863, at home and abroad, here in England or be-
yond the Channel in various parts of Christendom.
SHAKSPERE'S y ear, 1864,is likely to beat least among
lettered Englishmen. This—acccording to the
reasonable anticipations of our contemporary, the
Atheneum, the principal director of which organ,
himself an accomplished man of letters, has from
first to last been conspicuously instrumental in pre.
paring the way and forwarding the general move-
ment for the national celebration, on the 23d of
April next, the tri-centenary of the Poet's birth.
Meanwhile it might also be said that 1863 has claims
to be borne in remembrance henceforth as the year
of Congresses. Simultaneously there have been
holden, there are still being held, upon the European
Continent, two perfectly distinct and yet singularly
congenial Congresses, one political, one religious, the
former affecting diplomacy, the latter education—
this at Mechlin, that at Frankfort. Perfectly dis-
tinct, though they are, in purpose, in character, in
origin, they are yet very signally and quite unde-
niably as we have said, of a distinctly congenial cha-
racter. They are each of them, more essentially than
the majority might in any way have been disposed
to anticipate, in accordance with the free and en-
lightened principles of the age. Liberty must be
recognised by Royalty, the Peoples by the Kings !
Those are the avowals of the Austrian EMPEROR
himself—his MAJESTY uttering them in the pre-
sence of three-and-thirty of the Sovereign Princes
of Germany, assembled for that very purpose
at the KAISER'S behest. Liberalism must be recogs
nised, must be accepted, must be acted with harmoni-
ously, by Catholicism ! That is the no less solemn
and explicit declaration uttered in words of bunt-
ing eloquence from the tribune at Malines—in the
presence and hearing of Cardinals, bishcps, and
other ecclesiastical dignitaries assembled from all
parts of the Continent—by no less rema '-able a
man than CHARLES, the Count DE MONTALEAL ERT.
Of course, in both instances—there is still left to
the choice of their hearers by the Count and by the
KAISER—the alternative ! Liberty must be recog-
nized, Liberalism must be accepted, or -- ! In
each instance we may rest perfectly assured, the
utterance, whether by the EMPEROR or by the
orator, is the utterance purely of common sense.
From the lips of FRANCIS JOSEPII the
avowal made by him to the assembled Kings, and
Princes, and Grand Dukes of Germany, comes in a
great measure as a novelty. From the lips of
MONTALEMBERT, the accents listened to once more
only the other day in Belgium, accents echoed im-
mediately afterwards in our own columns, will have
fallen familiarly upon the hearing of Christendom.
The devotion of MONTALEMBERT to the interests of
Liberalism is not of yesterday. The cherishing of
those interests has been, it may be confidently
asserted, in a manner, the passion of his life. It
guided his hand years ago, ss hen be held the pen as
one of the three redacteurs of L' Avenir. L' Are-
nir, it is true, has long since been of "the
Past "—but not in any way of the past, not in any

way as what was but is no longer, is the love of true
Liberalism that now glows, as then glowed, warmly
and earnestly in the heart of MONTALEMBERT. If
n no other way productive of advantage, in the
midst of the conflict of opinions in Europe, the
Congress at Frankfort, the Congress at Mechlin
will have
each respectively resulted in good, for
inasmuch as each conduced to the enunciation of
the simple truths already specified, as having been
uttered, almost simultaneously,
at Frankfort by the
Emperor of Ats
4) at Malines b the Count de
MONTALEMBERT, y In
each
instance the utterance,
we may be certain, has beenlaidthose truths bemost opportune. Let
concern
Their
heart, their being so act being
I to heart by those
whom they , wej
so laid to
ea
indicated,
here by the Count, here by the
7111 a
snore effectually than anything that could
will tend
w
Could be pro-
jected otherwise, to further the
ointerestsn_s:
curing the tranquillity, in the n
anee while se-
of all
Germany, in the other of all Christendom.

The organisation of grand international ezhibi.
tions appears to have become a recognised feature
in our social life, Twelve years ago the idea was
so novel, and the StICCCSS attending its embodiment
so complete, that is was not surprising that other
nations were inclined to enter the arena, or that
the attempt should have been repeated in our own
country. Paris summoned the idlers of the world
to her gay and pleasant city—Mancbester called on
all dilettante to witness her gathering of works of
art. The mighty metropolis itself resolved to test
the progress made in the last decade, and so the
Great Exhibition of 18G2 was decided upon, whose
official history is now being laid before us. It is
true that the ruling mind, the presiding genius,
was gone, and the calm judgment and comprehen-
sive knowledge of Prince ALBERT no longer
silenced the disputes of rivals or disposed of the
narrow jealousies and obstinate prejudices of
cliques and partisans. The shadow on the hearth ,