The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-26 00:00:00

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Lord Palmerston's Visit to Scotland.

The arrangements for the various public enter-
tainments to do honour to this illustrious statesman
are now all completed. His lordship will arrive in
Glasgow on Saturday evening, and take up his
residence with the Lord Provost while there. Oa
Sunday, it is probable he will attend Divine service
in the cathedral, and on Monday at one o'clock, he
will be formally installed as Lord Rector of the
University of Glasgow it. St. John's Church. The
students have agreed, irrespective of political par-
ties, to present Lord Palmerston with an address. -
Immediately after the installation the noble lord
will be entertained at luncheon by the Senates
Academicus in the Fore Hall of the college, where
a select party will meet his lordship. The banquet
in the City-hall in the evening will be a brilliant
affair. At least 22 members of Parliament will be
present, and several members of the House of Peers,
besides nearly all the local celebrities. The chair
will be taken at six o'clock by the Lord Provost,
with Messrs. Buchanan and Dalglish, the city
members, as etoupiers and, as the toast list is not
a very lengthy one, it is supposed the proceedings
will be over by 10 p.m. The Lord Provost will give
the usual loyal toasts. His lordship will then pro-
pose the toast of theevening," Viseount Palmerston.'
Sir James Campbell of Stracathro is to give " The
Houses of Parliament ;" the Hon. W. Cowper,
M.P., the Duke of Argyll, or Lord Denfervalir e,
will probably reply. Mr. Dalglish is to propose
" The brave defenders of our country ;" Mr. Bucha-
nan, " Success to Representative Governments
throughout Europe ;" the Lord Advocate," Economic
principles of Adam Smith;" Viscount Palmerston,
" The Lord Provost and Magistrates, and Prosperity
to the City of Glasgow ;" the Duke of Argyll, " The
University of Glasgow," which, of course, will be
responded to by the Rev. Principal Barclay ; Lord
Belhaven„ " The Clergy of Scotland." Sir A. Alison
and Sir Edward Colebrooke, M.P., will also give
toasts. On Tuesday his lordship will be as busily
employed as on Monday. At Greenock, about one
o'clock, on Tuesday, he will be presented
with an address by the authorities; at six o'clock
the same evening he will be entertained at a soiree
in the City Hall of Glasgow by the working men
of the city, when another address will be presented
to him. An address will subsequently be presented
to him by the unemployed of the city. The same
evening a ball will take place in his honour in the
Corporation Picture Galleries, where he is expected
to be present. On Wednesday he goes to Edin-
burgh, where a grand political banquet will take
place; and on Thursday he visits Leith, and will be
p resented with another address.—. North British
Daily Mail.

PROBABLE EFFECT OF MR. SOMES'S SUNDAY
CLOSING BlLL.—Workman : Well, Betsy, if they won't
let us get any refreshment o' Sunday out o' doors, we must
lay in a stock, and drink at home, like the pious Scotch."
—Punch,

CIIARIVARL—The Charivari publishes a woodcut
in which Europe, as a female figure, is represented
interrogating severely an enormous Russian armed to the
teeth. This latter points to a diminutive child in the Polish
dress and replies, "It is not my fault, I assure you. It is he
who began. He is always maltreating me!"
The Independance of Brussels relates the following,
which we must hope to be devoid of foundation :
" Last summer the Princess of Alexandra being in this city,
visitedthe Zoological Gardens. That very morning a pony
had been foaled in the stables of the establishment, and her
Royal Highness expressed a wish to stand godmother to it.
She gave it the name of Alexander, but as the word was
rather too long that of Joujou was subs ituted at the sug-
gestion of the Duchess do Brabant. The protege of the
Princess of Wales is going on well, and above his box is
painted the date of his birth and the honour which ho re-
ceived. On the day of the Princess Alexandra's marriage,
an Englishman went to the Zoological Gardens, and having
sent for the director, asked if it was true that Joujon was
the godson of the future Queen of England, The reply
being in the affirmative, the Englishman said in that case
here had been a want.of consistency in not decorating the
animal on such a day with a white rosette, and that he
would himself give money for the purpose. Since then the
English residing at Brussels perform pilgrimages to the
Zoological Gardens to see the animal."

BURLESQUES and extravaganzas have now be-
come so completely recognised institutions tat it
seems strange to call them in question. Aud yet it may be
doubted whether there is really any drollery in, for exam-
ple,,
calling King Lear " a monarch the reverse of leary,
and making him the subject of seven or eight hundred lines
of limping rhyme, garnished with streat slang and mutilated
English. It is a favourite fiction with the manufacturers,
and, indeed, with the newspaper critics, that the verbal
distortions which form the great attraction of these pro-
ductions are puns. They are nothing of the sort.
A pun is a play upon words, but these are merely words
beaten out of shape, and ill•treated in a way that does not
suggest even horse-play, for there is a stupidity about it
which is not characteristic of that member of the equine
family, Nevertheless, if a man can perpetrate a good num-
ber of these outrages, sufficient ly vulgarise some well-knew n
piece of literature, and throw in plenty of allusions to your
poor feet, your hatter, or any other man, he is sure to keep
a crowded house in a state of guffaw for a couple of hours
on a stretch. Even this small amount of pails and intel-
lect is not absolutely necessary. If he is physically
equal to the task, all he has to do is to jump up and down
in striped calico, singing a perfectly meaningless song.
By these means he will so endear h'mself to an apprec*ative
public that his portrait will be in every music-shop, he will
have engagements seven deep at the Music Halls, and the
directors of the Crystal Palace, suspending their ownjudgment i n the subject of popular improvement, will be
compelled t) recognise him as a vehicle for conveying in-
struction, to the people,---Saturday AM*,

THE HEROISM OF NAPOLEON 111,

AND THE
Cowardly Attacks of Mr. Kinglake.

(From the Paris Correspondent of the Times.)
Mr. Kinglake's work on the " Invasion of the
Crimea" is not much known in Paris. I have,
however, seen three copies of it, one at least of which
I know to have been procured in the usual way at a
Paris bookseller's. The French papers have not
noticed it, with the exception of one or two that
spoke of "ignoble calumnies," referring with natu-
ral indignation to the insinuations about the
Emperor's personal courage. I cannot affirm
that Mr. Kinglake's book is refused admittance
into France, but I am pretty certain that
the Emperor would gain immensely in publio
estimation if his people were to know that the
very quality for which, of all others, they have
always given him credit, and for the absence of
which none other in their eyes could ever compen-
sate, is now called in question, however timidly, by
the historian of the Crimean War. May I be allowed
to say that I have during the last 15 years seen
Louis Napoleon, as Representative of the people in
the National Assembly, as President of the Re-
public, and as Emperor of the French on occasions
the most trying. I have seen him thus probably as
much as any man in France, and certainly more
than Mr. Kinglake. I was close to him at Besse con
in 1850 on the night of his visit to the Halle,
when, separated from all his attendants, he stood or
walked alone in the midst of infuriated bands com-
posed of the very dregs of the populace, who were
shaking their caps and their fists in his face and
shouting in his ears, Viva la Republique Demo •
cratique et Sociale !" and, as I thought, on the
point of tearing him to pieces. He looked as calm,
collected, and unmoved by this wanton outrage,
his countenance the same, as when he was a few
hours before reviewing the troops, and the mob
fell back before him while he walked slowly along,
for his wonderful self-possession extorted respect
even from them. I saw hcm a few days after-
wards penetrate almost alone into the Croix Rousse
of Lyons, the most revolutionary quarter of that
revolutionary city. On his return from his tour
in the provinces, on that and subsequent occa-
sions, all Paris saw him, at a time when political
p .scion was at the highest, when men were roused
almost to madness, traverse the long line to the
Boulevards, from the Bastille to the Madeleine, and
riding alone at least 50 paces in advance of his Staff,
which he would not allow to run the risk he himself
was ready to meet. Th way was no doubt lined
with troops, but there was nothing to prevent an
assassin in the houses, crowded to the roof, from
aiming at so good a mark as he showed himself.
Yet there was no sign of trepidation, no change of
countenance, not the slightest agitation, as he
bowed, hat in hand, in recognition of the few salutes
which greeted him. It would be no imputation on
the courage of any man to allow his escort to ride
by his side or to follow him, but Prince Louis
Napoleon did not do so.

I was near the spot in the Champs Elyse,q; when
Pianori took his stand a few paces from the Em-
peror and deliberately levelled nis pistol and fired
two shots point blank at him, and I observed the
Emperor display the same calmness as if he
was in his private room at the Tuileries, salute
the bystanders, and ride on at the same
pace as if nothing had occurred. I was not far
from the spot when the three shells of Orsini
exploded. I will not again describe the scene
presented on that terrible night, but if anything
ever occurred to make the heart quail and to
destroy all presence of mind, it was that murder-
ous attempt, The Emperor, not knowing in the
darkness and confusion whether he and his wife
were not still tracked or encircled by murderers,
stepped deliberately from his carriage, ascended to
the balcony, and showed himself to the people, who
gave vent to their feelings by enthusiastic shouts,
excited not merely by his escape from a horrible
leath, but by admiration of his marvellous compo-
sure at such a moment. And the next day and the
day after every one saw him move slowly along the
Boulevards, and in the most crowded parts of the
city in an open carriage, unattended by a single
soldier. The man who passes through scenes
like these with unaltered courage, who encounters
without a change of muscle and with such complete
self-possession the worst the assassin can do, is not
one to turn craven on the field of battle, which he
seeks of his own free will, and amid the pride,
pomp, and circumstance of war, which tend to in-
spire courage even where it is wanting. If Mr.
Kinglake believes that the Emperor Napoleon is
not fearless, he i, alone in that belief. For my part,
I have known his friends and partisans as well as
his bitterest enemies; but at no time, either of public
tranquillity or public convulsion, do I remember to
have heard from friend or foe the slightest doubt of
his courage. Whatever other cha.ges may have
been brought against him on personal or political
grounds, that never was in the number.

THE THEATRES.

There will be a change of performance at most of
the London theatres at Easter.

At Drury-lane the Irish melodrama of "Peep
o'Day, or Savourneen Deelish," which had so pros-
perous a career at the Lyceum, will be revived in
a more attractive form than ever, the more ample
proportions of the stage at the national theatre af-
fording greater opportunity for the display of those
picturesque views and brilliant scenic effects in
NV hich the piece abounds.
At the Haymarket, Miss Louisa Angel, an actress
of some provincial celebrity, will appear as Beatrice,
in "Much Ado about Nothing." The comedy will
be Icllowed by a new piece from the pen of Mr.
Sterling Coyne, described as "au apropos dramatic
sketch," in the course of which will be introduced a
new panorama by Mr. William Telbin and his son,
illustrative of the tour of H.R.H. the Princo of
Wales in the East. With a view to the more accu-
rate execution of this panorama, both artists under-
took a journey last autumn through Turkey, Syria,
the Holy Land, and part of Egypt.
At the Princess's will be produced a new extra-
vaganza of singular structure, by Mr. H. J. Byron,
rounded in equal proportions on the poem of " Don
Juan," the ballad of "Lord Bateman," and tb.,. le-
gend of "Lurline." It will be entitled " Beautiful
Haidee ; or, the Sea Nymph and the Salee Rovers,',
and will include in its cast Miss M. Oliver, Miss
Hudspeth, Miss Helen Howard, Miss Murray, and
Messrs. Roxby, Seyton, and Bclmore.
At St. James's there will be a travestia of the re-
cent dramatic versions of "The Heart of Mid.
Lothian ;" and the title suggested is " Circumstan-
tial Effie Deans." Mr. James Ragers, late of the
Strand Theatre, and Miss Marie Wilton are to have
parts in it.
The Olympic will produce a classical extrava-
ganza by Mr. F. C. Burnand, called " Acis and
Galatea," the principal characters in which NI ill be
represented by Miss Latimer, Miss Hughes, and
Mr. Atkins. Mr. Tully will compose the' music,
and the scenery will be by Messrs. Telbin and
Grieve.

The Strand will be furnished by Mr. H. J.Byron
with an extravaganza founded on the popuiar story
of " The Forty Thieves," end bearing the title ot
" The 'Thirty•Nine Thieves," a name which we ate
assured is "designed to illustrate the author's
incorrigible propensity to take one off."

At the Westminster Mc. F. Lloyd, a comedian
who is held in high eateem at Manchester, will
wake his first appearance before a London audience.
Neither at Diury-lane nor at Westminster will
;here be any performance during Passion•week.

ACCIDENT AT THE 1-I.UNGERFORD BRIDGE CF
ruE CHARING• CROSS RAILWAY. Yesterday an
,tceident which was calculated to have resulted in fearful
loss of life, happened at the Charing-cross Railway bridge,
which crosses the river on the site of the old Hungerford
suspension bridge, while the last-named structure was
being removed. The greater part of the bridge has already
been taken away, and in removing the chains en the east
,ido of the bridge, nearest to the Slr,ind, there was a sud-
den snap, and the chain gave way, and the men at work
,n it were precipitated to the ground with fearful violerct..
l'hey wero at once picked up and conveyed to the Chat-
ng-cross Hospital, where they were promptly attended to.
None of the injuries are of a nature to prove fatal.