The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-29 00:00:00

The Musee Napoleon 111,

The Magee Napoleon 111. has been thrown open
to the public. It occupies the nine large rooms in
the Louvre formerly occupied by the paintings of
the French school, and which follow each other to
the east of tittsquare salonnv It is here that the
Phconician antiquities, acquired during M. Renan's
' mission in Phccaicia and Asia Minor, have found
their place. A selection from the Due de Lbuyne's
collection, paintings from Pompeii, and a portion of
the Ceramics in the Campana Museum have also
been placed there. The first room is occupied by
antiquities from Rhodes, Cyprus, and Judte s. One
of the glass cases contains an antique vase from
Judaea, some fragments of Moabite pottery—which
somewhat resembles the pottery introduced by the
Arabs into Europe—and also some fragments from
Gaza, the city known in connexion with Samson's
astounding feat. The second room shows the first
hunt-
ing-scenes, public games, and the like, are ranged
round the shelves of this division. These pitchers,
they
middle is found a
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in the burial-ground of Argyllm. Vases painted
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called the Lydian
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tomb. In the glass cases ai
ranged sound the rooms
are funeral urns for holding the ashes of the dead,
sepulchral lamps, and bas-reliefs from the tombs.
Many of these urns represent the deceased recum-
bent on his death-bed. One of these sepulchral
tables represents a dog and some geese picking up
the crumbs under the table. In the fifth room is ex-
hlbited earthenware found at Cceri, an Etruscan
established themselves 655 B.C.P
town, where the Baechidte,
made great progress—the
artistic, the patterns more correcte,l
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designs were more
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fetched at Rome their
price in gold. Some of the
Augustan period these vases
elegance to those worn in our time. The period of
em are in boots not inferior ie
the decadence in Greece follows. The vases in the
next room are inferior in every respect—materiel,
pattern, finish, and all. Metal began to reignl
supreme, and the art of pottery was neglected•
the eighth room are found a collection of red earthen-
warel
and others, varnished with various colours,
together with painted dishes. Tho greater number
of the paintings represent, as usual, games and
ivine
my thological subjects—Theseus and spa :.
deka, Hobe
otaurus,
the Centaur, Nessus, Hercules and J
and Jupiter, &c. Besides these there area groat
variety of cups and drinking ves 3.
t. 1.0 exhibited
ns:eshuman
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with
the middle of the room, together i
heads more or less grotesque, heads of stags and
ninth room contains a collec-
tion boars, Sc. The
opaque glasses, mosaics, and
tion of transparent
and decorate the houses at
frescoes, which served
.to
are
e paintings extremely fresh
Pompeii. All these
paintings repro.
and rich in colours. One of these
looks as
sents a party sitting in a garden, and it
painted yesterday.
had been pain

5 „,,,mANcA, the well-known Spanish banker
Aff:y-concessionaire, is repor44d to
and - t have recently been
is de Salamanca.
are Marclu
pfaxii
amp of A QUARTERLY REVIEWER.—
created
tonshire has recently l North.
lost one of its learned
worthies in the shape of the Rev. Thomas James, M.A.,
who died a few days since at Sheddingworth vicarage. in
that country. lie was Hon. Canon of Petersburougb, Rural
Dean, Vicar of Sibbertoft and of Theddingworth, Hon:
Corresponding Secretary of the Northamptonshire Archi-
tectural Society, &c, He Was educated at Christ Church,
Oxon, BA., 1832;
ALA.., 1835. His literary tastes and
abilities brought him a very large number of friends, by
whom his death will be deeply regretted. He contributed
several articles, such as 44 Northamptonshire," "Bees,"
" Flower Gardens," "Labourers' Cottages," &e., to the
Quarterly Review. He alsa edited "hurray's Illustrated
Edition of
.2Esop's Fables," and was the editor e, ah,ut
ft
"Illustrated Edition of the Book of Common Player," t
;natters,
to be issued by the same publisher. Mr. James was
re-
nowned for his taste and learning in archtecl.ongi
improve-
and many of the recent church restorations
The
tonshire were effected under his guidance.
principal aims,
ment of labourers' cottages was one of his hMisidlands owe their
and most of the model dwellings in the
also
lectured on this
origin to his ceaseless activity.
tlitche South Kensington
orthamp-
subject, about two years since,
midland ccuutie;7"---..
in the In'
archaaological associations
Museum. His death will be severely felt by the various

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ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.
tinder the Manag•ement of Miss Louisa Fyne and
Mr. W. Harrison.
THIS EVENING, Wallace's Romantic Opera, THE
r);;,:sERT FLOWER : Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne •
Me,gmrs. W. 11. Weiss' H. Corti. A. Coojc, and W. Harrison.
Conductor. Mr. AlMellon.—Doors open at hall-past Seven.
continence at Eight.

FT EATRE -ROYAL DRURY - LANE.-
Tmanager., Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.
THIS EN-ENING, GONE TO TEXAS. Mr. Walter LP.cy
and Miss Murray.
After which, Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy, MINFIII.gD.
Messrs. helps, Ryder, Rayner, M,agreson, Ward, Spencer ;
Heath, 3,liss E. Atkinson, Miss Leclercq, and Mrs. E.
yalconer. Vocalists—Miss Poole, Miss I,itter, Miss Cicely
Noti, Miss Heywood, and Mr. Swift.
To conclude with A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.-
Sole Lessee and Mantrer. Mr, Buckstone.
THIS EV.EMNG, OUR MARY ANNE.
After which, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles
31athews.
Followed by THE GOLDEN FLEECE Messrs. Charles
Mathew, Compton,Weathersby, ; Mesdames C. Mathews,
L, Keeley. Griffith, &c.
And MY HUSBAND'S G dOST.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE
Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter.

Mr. PECHTER begs respectfully to inform the Nobility
and Public tnat the above Theatre will 0 P fi.N on SATUR-
DAY next, with a new Drama, entitled BEI, DEM.ONIA,
a Love Story, in Four Acts, in which Mr. Fechter will ap-
pear, supported by 3leesrs. ilr.nr.„rhim, S. Emery, G. Jordan
and F. Charles ; Miss Kate Terry, Miss Lavenue, Nrs. Lee
and Miss Elsworthy.
The WA-office will be opened on Monday, Oct. 26, from
eleven till five.

MISS BATENIAN.—LEAH.—The celebrated
young Americla Actress, Miss BATE MAN. having
en her first appearance in the New Drama of LEAH ob-
tained the most triumphant and enthusiastic success
impression
has
been witnessed for many years, and the profound
created by her impersonation of the character ot LEAH upon
a ciowded audience been completely ratified by the
unanimous verdict and critical approval of the entire Daily'
Press, the Manager of the NEW Al
' II THEATRE has,
the honour to announce that 3liss BAT EMAN will appear
in the New Drama of LEAR EVERY EVENING till further
notice.

ADELPHL
Ew fr HE ROYAL,
sot. Pronriator and Manscrer, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, at 7, THE TitAGEDY QUEEN: Mrs.
kt 8, the New Drama of LEAFlBateman, supported
by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, R. Phillips, Billing-ton, Stuart,
A. Wood, Eburne, Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Billington.
To conclude with
ood. CATCHING AN HEIRESS : Miss
Foolgar and Mr. A. W

CE SS' S THE ATRE. --HERRMANN
PRIAESTIDIGATATEUR.—Great Success of Herr
„ Performances.—" tie always keeps as close to his
roabnir, astierity he can, and courts their vigilance, that his superior
may be legitim,,tely triumphant" Times, Oct. 27.
His celebrated FISH, RING, HAT, and MONEY TRICK,
xNERY EVYNING. Constant change of programme.
Commencing at Eight. Half-price at Nine o'Ciock.
Y.B.—First Grand Morning Performance on SATURDAY
next, at Three.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanboroup-,h.
THIS EVENING, TURN HIM OUP. Hr. C. Fenton.
After which, MIMAII'S CRIME. Messrs. G. Honey,
parselle, Belford, Turner, Miss K.Saville, and Miss Manders.
Followed by THE Nf OTTO, " PM ALL THERE." Messrs.
Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier, Mesdames Ada Swan-
borough, F. Hughes, Weston, Thorne, Wallace, and Jenny
White.

Commence at 7.

711 HE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,''
Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,
;lan be had Every Evening of

G. R. GLICNIE, NEWS AGENT,
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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This DAL—Morning, n. 22m.—Afternoon, 3h. 40m,
To-momiow.-Morning, 3a. 53m.—Afternoon, 4h. 18m,

The Weather—Sun Office, Oct. 29, 1863.

THERMOMETER.
This day at Two o'clock 54
Barometer-29.28.
Wind—S.-South-East; moderate breeze, and cloudy,
with rain.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, OCT. 29, 1863.

Among the most urgently required of all legal
reforms i❑ this country is the creation of the office,
and the selection of a fit and proper person to fill
that office, of—A Public Prosecutor. Sooner ovo later
—probably later, though Heaven grant it may be
sooner, than the majorityof us anticipate—England
will, for certain, number that Great Llw Officer of
the Crown and of the People among her public

functionaries. In the meantime, until the date of
his summons into official existence—he has his re-
presentative, and no undistinguished representative,
in a volunteer substitute, ever vigilant in the detec-
tion of wrongs, ever prepared to plead for the weak
against the powerful, with a voice we have all of us
long since come to recognise as familiar, a voice
strangely penitrant in its accents, uttering words of a
very singular though of a very simple eloquence, and
this, moreover, from the most conspicuous tribune
(in this land sacred to free speech, to free writing,
and to free printing) outside the walls of Parlia-
ment. The Great Tribune or Rostrum we refer to is,
as every man of common sense and observation will
at once have recognised, the Times Newspaper. And
the Volunteer Public Prosecutor who speaks from
that rostrum, who pleads from that tribune, at uncer-
tain intervals, never but when there is some very sad
or most serious occasion for his so doing—who does
not know him ? whether by his nom de plume, or
byhts mare initials, chiefly by the latter, simply
as J.U,, otherwise JACOB WINIUM. A SAUL
amongst publicists,
towering above them by a head
and shoulders,Never wielding his formidable
scourge save
the
backs of wrong doers pos-
sessing power,
usingthat power cruelly, The
very snap of his thetoric%l thong, so to speak, we
seem to recognise even at
its first stroke—that very
first stroke, as it
were,
BOANERGES, in his w invariably drawing blood.
this Volunteer as a
pabYlileNvith a voice of thunder,
i)
rosecutor is the very
antithesis, the exact antipode
s to FOT:QUIER
viLLE, of terrible memory.
agaiust any and
every physical wrongdoer vvhornhees
have singled
out for Prosecution thus before tatahy
Public Opinion, his selection of the
Tribunal of
be prosecuted has hitherto been What
to
never was—just! His selection is jest, but
far more than that, it is generous. It is jut itasia
means, as the most effectual means, for bringing any
more than usually henious offender to rctribution
and it is generous as the securist and the readiest
means whereby to vindicate the reputation and re_
habilitate, wherever that might yet be possible, the
broken and ruined fortunes of the victims of
the wrong done, namely, by the pillorying thus of
the doer of that wrong in the sight and hearing, to
the scorn and horror, of all thoughtful men.
Although JACOB OMNIUM has chosen now—for
some reason that we care net at this moment
even to conjecture—to plead ter the weak
against the strong, from a less conspicuous and ele-
vated position than that from which the public
at large has been for years past in the habit of
listeninghie to his voice, of noting the keeness of
incisive logic, and of following first of all to be
b-
Jrne away afterwards upon its rushing
pcurrent
the 4 weep
o
his persuasive and overwhelming
arguments—he has neve
moments r, even at his happiest
h
' \v"en he has been
addressing the
nation throo3,
the columns of the ?hoes,
he has never once ,
more signal aavyaen't appeared to greater or
now, at this present rooarnf'Pnt than he appears
powerful papa on the " the writer of the
Court -Martial " in
the pages of the newly published numbs of the
Cornhill Magazine for Drcecnber
the cudgels this rim:'—for Ills blow, fall
taken up
l with a more
deadening effect than even from his
own double-
weighted and triple-knotted se,
urge of iron
though gentle-hearted vindie,tY—as
the terrible, thou
the memory of poor Sergeant-ANor I.leLLyarkot f
of the 6th Dragoons—as the dispassionate,
champion of the ignored and scattered right, of
Captain SMALES, also (though not by dying, by being