The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-16 00:00:00

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BvOYA.L ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.
Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and
Mr. W. Harrison.
THIS EVENING, IV)Nice's Romantic Opera, TIIE
DESERT FL GIVER : Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne ;
3lessrs. W. It. Weiss, H. Corri A. Cook, and W. Harrison.
Conductor. Mr. A. Mellon.—Doors open at half-past Seven.
commence at: Eight.

El EATRE ROYAL DRURY- LANE. -
_IL Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING, GONE TO TEXAS. Mr. Walter Lacy
and Miss M array.

Ater which, Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy, MANFRED.
Messrs. helps, Ryder, Rayner, M-agreson, Ward, Spencer ;
Miss Heath, Miss Y. Atkinson, Miss Leclercq, and Mrs. E.
Falconer. 'Vocalists—'Miss Poole, Miss /titter, Miss Cicely
Nott, Miss Heywood, and Mr. Swift.
To conclude with THE DEAL BOATMAN : INlessrs. G.
Beimore, P. Charles ; Miss R. Leclercq, and Mrs. Edmund
Falconer.

PRINCESS'S THEATR R.—Great Succesa of
FIERRMANN, PREST ID IGITATEU U. HERR
HERRMANN has the honour to announce that, in conse-
queues of the Brest success and flatterin, E
recept onhe has
met with, he will continue his Perfor-mances, VERY
,E VEXING, until further notice.
Commencing at Eight.

THEATRE ROYAL iIAY Nl ARKET.-
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone.
THIS EVEA ING, FINESSI•I; or. spy and Counter Spy •
11ressrs. Alfred Wig,an. Buckstone, Chippeudale, Howe, W.
Farren, Braid, and Gordon ; Mrs. Dowton, Miss L. Angel,
Mrs. Alfred Wigan. miss wright, &c.
After which, CIIARLE3 THE: TWELFTH: Messrs. 1
Wigan. Buckstone, Compton, Rowe, and Miss L Keeley.
Concluding with TYIE GALLICIAN FETE.
Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL_
s„,„ pronriator and Manager. M. B. Webster.
Tins EVENING, at 7, THE TitAGEDY QUEEN: Mrs.
S rling.
At S, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bateman, supported
bvMessrs.Atthur Stirling, R. Phillips, Billington, Stuart
W. Wood, .Eburne, Miss 14. Simms and Mrs. Billington.
To conclude will CATCHING AN HEIRESS : Miss
wooigar and Mr. A. Wood.

MISS BATEMAN.—LEA FL—The celebrated
young American Actress, Miss BATEMAN, having
au her first appearance in the New Drama of LEAH ob-
tained the most triumphant and enthusiastic success that has
been wi•nessed for many years, and the profound impression
created by her impersonation of the character of LEAH upon
a crowded audience hiving been completely ratified by the
unanimous verdict and critical approval of the entire Daily
Press, the Manager of the NEW ADEL PHI THEATRE has
the honour to announce that 31,ss BAT EMAN will appear
in the New Drama of LEAH EVERY EVENING till further
notice.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, MIRIAM'S CRIME. Messrs. Honey,
Parselle, Belford, Turner, Miss K.Saville, and Miss Manders.
Followed by THE MOTTO, " I'M ALL THERE." Messrs.
Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier, Mesdames Ada Swan-
borough, F. Hughes, Weston, Thorne, Wallace, and Jenny
White.
To conclude with WHERE'S YOUR WIFE. Mr. Belford.
Commence at 7.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 58m.—Afternoon, 4h. 16m.
To-moanow.-Morning., 4h. 36m.—Afternoon, 4h. 58m.

The Weather—Sun Office, Oct. 16, 1863.

THERMOMETER.
This day at Two o'clock .. 61
Baromett r-29.74.
Wind—South-West ; light, and fine.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, OCT. 16, 1863.

An eminent French critic has very recently
offered to a great English writer as charmingly
genial and graceful a compliment as any that we
can recall to mind for a long while past to have had
the satisfaction of witnessing. The especial and
distinctive charm of the tribute we are here alluding
to, lying in this, that it is, in every syllable of it,
so eminently well deserved. It never once blunders
into exaggeration. It is a panegyric that, with
all its cordiality, not once, by the merest phrase or
allusion, tends to run into hyperbole. The
occasion selected for the proffering of this earnest
tribute of admiration is one that we ourselves have
already commented upon. Our attention is recalled to
it, however, by our Paris contemporary, Le Temps,
thus circuitously. A correspondent of Le Temps,
the distinguished French critic already referred to—
writing to that journal under a comparatively
recent date, from (of all unlikely places in the
world to be in any way known to the untravelled
Parisian reader) the little, old-fashioned town of
Hitchin, in Hertfordshire—opens thus abruptly
upon the attention of the French public generally.
We have recently had in this neighbourhood, he
tells them, one of the annual agricultural meetings!
And, hinting immediately upon this that he him-
self is perhaps the least likely witness of the scene
thus displayed to view, to be regarded as qualified to
report befittingly upon it—Ah ! he exclaims, if
our excellent fellow-labourer (in journalism,
not in agriculture) M. JOIGNAUx had been but
there, how willingly would I not have yielded
_uP to him the pen I am now writing with !
114PPilY, say we, M. JOIGNAUX with all his in-
tricate knowledge of oxen, horses, pigs, and sheep
Was not there—his rarely gifted and accomplished
substitute for the nonce (that is as a sort of im-
promptu agricultural reporter) being there instead !
For myself, he asks, a littlew lrater on with a serio-
comic air of deprecation,
hat can I talk to you
about if it be not about the banquet which
followed the show, and about the speeches that
were delivered at it. That is, of course, we may
add, not at the show but at the banquet.
Folding still in reserve what it was that
actually constituted the feature of the evening,
whit it was, in point of fact, that induced the
writer of this communication in Le Temps to dream
of sending any report of the proceedings at all
to that journal, the amateur reporter adroitly men-
tions the fact that among the guests at this
agricultural banquet was the venerable Alarque„
of SALISBURY. Adroitly, we say, because
the allusion is rendered thus ingeniously pre-
parative to the announcement which he holds, as
we have said, still in reserve. The Marquess of
SALISBURY, he observes, is—no longer a young
man. What do I sav ! the writer exclaims in
fE:et--he is actually, I believe, of the age to
which FONTENELLE had attained, when, upon a
very old lady remarking b him that they ought to
c:tratulate ono another upon I)eatb having for-
, FONTENELLE hushed her words up
hurriedly,6thernwith a finger upon his lips, and
" hilt
vialrenh
such an ago as this, surely, say
from s
the amiable
ttendina
man, one might be excused
a
upon an agricultural show and
banquet.
True,
bit %Marquess and his com
anions are there, not
for th
desire dinner, they are there
e
simply out of a very natural
to listen to the
good and noble and eloquent Words
will they know
will be addressed to them,
banquet eTwf he do you
think presided over this
banquet at which the principal
aftsg,rleur:3t,ut his
as a mat-
icr of coarse, upon the subject
We:l, a great landed proprietor, you will •
say ! Yes
ithout doubt, but a great landed proprietor
who is also a distinguished Poet, a famous Novelist,
an able Administrator, a Ptilosopher, an Orator, a
Statesmao, and, in addition to all that, a man of
peculiar fascination individually, in a word, Sir