The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-10 00:00:00

by many have been criticised most invidiously,
HS THE ATRE. ER MAJESTY'
GRAND FXTRA FINAL Pl-RFoßmAlicE FOR And to some extent not unreasonably, would it
TH BENEFIT OF Mr. MAPLESON.
THIS EVENING (Monday), Aug. loth, will be performed have been thus looked upon—that is, had General
Verdi's favourite Opera,TROVA.T ORE. FOREY'S sword carved an Imperial Throne out of
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the Presidential chair in Mexico, say for his Impe-
The Terminating with the " Miserere."c4, m
following is the powerful cast :-31anrieo,,
Boast
Il rial Highness the Prince NAPOLEON ! In
Conte di Luna. Mr. Santley ; Ferrando, Sig.„
Sig. soldi ; Un Zin., aro, Sig. Casaboni ; Azu xna,_l,ldi e.electing
the Austrian Archduke MAXIMILIAN, Catholic
Trebelli ; Ines, Madame Corsi ; and Leonora, hiVe. piens.
After which, Weber's celebrated Overture to ,E oh,T,
To conclude with the Second Act (the renowned Garden Mexico has secured for herself a Catholic Sovereign.
FAUST.
Scene) of
hlarg,herita, hldlie. Titiens ; Marta, Mdlle. Taccani ; And an Austrian Prince has been chosen thus by
3lephistophiles, Sig. Boast ; and Faust, Sirr. Giuglini.
Conductor, ARDiTI. Mexico, at the very time when the Viennese
Restrictions to Evening Dress not enforced. Commence at
Eiiht o'clock. Government is beginning to be regarded with the
:—Gallery, 2s ; Pit, Is ; Boxes, 5s ; Dress Circle, 7s ;
Orchestra Stills. 128 6d; Private Boxes from Half-a-Guinea most favour in Europe, among the more earnest
uowd ; Pit Tier Boxes, to hold tour, Two Guineas.
Mc>,,rs-olldce of the T heatre (under the superintendence of Mr. lovers of, and believers in, Constitutional Monarchy
ictezent) o- en this day from Ten till Sx. Tickets als )to be
—as the hest of all forms of Government. To the
obtained, in the evenings, at the special offi_es open at the
entrance of the Pit and Grand Tiers.
disrupted Republican institutions of North America,
the announcement of Mexico's transformation into
an Empire, under the sceptre of his Majesty
MAXIMILIAN 1., cannot possibly be regarded other-
wise than as "a heavy blow and great discourage-
ment !" Upon Austria itself the effect of this choice
of one of her Archdukes as the future Emperor
of a State conquered by the sword of France,
cannot, on the other hand, but be one tending to
draw Austria and France more than ever har-
moniously together. A result, that, obviously, very
propitious, at this moment, for the Poles ! These
are among the principal reasons, though they are
by no means the only reasons, why
we conceive
the
t h a
Election, by Mexico, of the Emperort
we are authorised to regard with
complacency

NEW E ATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI.--
Sole Proprietor and Manazer. Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE IRISH TIGER.

After which, at Eight o'clock, a new drama, entitled THE
.11ACNTED MAN; OR, T iiE GHOST'S i3ARGrAIN, in
which wail be exhibited Professor Pepper's adaptation of
the Great Spectral Illusion. Messrs. .1. L. Toole, It. Phillips,
Sefton. C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss H. Simms.
Followed by a new Burlesque, entqled ILL-TREATED
IL TROVATORE. Messrs. Toole, P. Bedford, R. Phillips,
Ebnrne, C. J. Smith, Romer; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and
Sara, and Miss .11. Kelly.

Registrar-General lift t ouoft tohfethiteertuanrnksooffmtehree
The value and importancehem
dry figures into matterwfohriehgetnheeryalgcivonesiudsearafftoirodns.
The sound basis of fact
a foundation to most important theories, and
guards us alike against extravagant credulity or
dangerous indifference. We are enabled to detect
the first symptoms of any great epidemic without
waiting till the insidious foe is already in our
midst. We can take those hygienic precautions
which are of more value than medicine, in the same
degree that prevention is better than cure, In the
case of the recent prevalence of small-pox we were
enabled, thanks to our accurate system of registra-
tion, to remark the increasing number of deaths as
soon as the disease began to spread, and to take im-
mediate steps to enforce the practice of vaccina-
tion, to which modern society owes so much. The
attention of the proper authorities would not have
been directed to the real evil while idle gossips and
lovers of horrible tales would have circulated fear-
ful rumours among the ignorant and timorous, thus
increasing the danger by spreading the panic. As
regards the births and marriages, too, the informa-
tion thus acquired is very useful. It affords a test
of our national welfare, which is generally tole-
rably correct; and the social economist can form a
pretty good judge of the internal state of the coun-
try from its records. In England this year there
is a considerable increase in the marriages on those
of the same quarter in the last two years. It will
be remembered that last year a considerable dimi-
nution in their number was perceptible in Lanca-
shire—a fact which it was not difficult to trace to
the prevailing distress. It is therefore satisfactory,
as vindicating at all events the prevalence
of a hope for better times coming, to find them
again increasing, the numbers for the corresponding
quarters being 5,431, 4,887, and 5,245, the figures
for this year thus nearly amounting to those for
1861. The principal increase is to be found in Liver-
pool and West Derby, which are furthest removed
from the depressing area of the cotton famine, but it
is satisfactory to notice a considerable increase in
the numbers of Manchester and Salfold. According
to this evidence, Manchester, the best qualified
to judge, does not despair of the fortunes of
the county, and we trust it will not be long
before such sanguine anticipations will prove
to have been well founded. The high rate
to which the emigration statistics have risen is
doubtless due to the influence of the distress. In
the half-year ending at Midsummer no less than
121,096 quitted the country, the greater part being
bound for the United States, which, under existing
circumstances, appears to be somewhat singular.
The number for the quarter is 83,290, an amount
sufficient, one would think, to satisfy Mr. FERRAND
and the other advisers of wholesale deportation of
the unemployed masses. The birth rate is satisfac-
tory, as showing the rapid rate at which our popu-
lation is steadily increasing. The number in the
quarter was more than that of last year by nearly
4,000. In the metropolis alone there were nearly
26,000 in the thirteen weeks. It is not surprising
to find a decrease in Lancashire and Cheshire.
There has been so much said about the ill health of
London lately, that the actual facts will be looked
for with some interest. It seems that after two
years of improved public health the mortality in-
creased last autumn, and has remained at a high
rate ever since. The average for the three
quarters ending in June is 2.191 per cent.,
whereas in the last nine months it has
been 2.313 per cent., and it is singular
that this increase is not confined to one part, but is
spread throughout the country. We are not sur-
prised, for instance, to find the manufacturing dis-
tricts suffering from an unusually heavy mortality,
but the distress in the cotton districts has not
happily affected the general trade and prosperity
of the country sufficiently to render that an expla-
nation of the high death rate elsewhere. Neither
is it due to one particular ailment. Measles,
usually ranked among the mildest of zymotic
diseases, has been remarkably fatal is the manatee-