The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-07 00:00:00

AFESSRS. JAY and CO. have now on show
i_ the most unique and perfect assortment of BONNETS,
wich their Managerhis has selected in Paris, and broegught
b h
ick with to t Est,iblishment.-247, Rent-
street. —

ONNET'S SILKS a LYON.--Every Article of
.54 commerce takes its title either from the inventor or
manufacturer. and the more perfect the production the
grater • is the credit which attaches to the originator.
BONNET'S SILKS are said to be incapable of i
dentification
in England ; but the fallacy of such an assertion is expos d
by the very trade mark of
_the firm, as exhibited by Messrs.
JAY, of Regent-street. The following interwoven mark
may be seen at th,e end of each pieee :—"Manufacture de C
J. Bonnet et Cie., a Lyon et a Injuneux." Wear guaranteed:

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.
Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and
Mr. W. Harrison.
THIS EVENING, W4llace's Romantic Opera, THE
DESERT FLOWER: Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne ;
Messrs. W. H. Weiss, H. Corri. A. Cook, and W. Harrison.
Conductor, Mr. A. Mellon.—Doors open at half-past Seven.
ommence at Eidht.

ripEl EATRE ROYAL DRURY - LANE.
Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.

T HIS E VENING the rerformance. s‘;ill co. mmence with the
Comedietta 01' .J1)/IN BOHR : John Dobbs, Mr. G. F. Ne-
ville; Peter r•aternoster, Mr. G. Beldiore 4, other characters
by Mr. j. Neville, Mr.,Warde, Misses Hartleur, and Murray.
After which, Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy, MANFRRI).
3lessrs. r helps, Ryder, Rayner, M.-agreson, Ward, Spencer ;
:Miss !Leath, Miss E. Atkinson, Miss Lcclrrcq, and Mrs. E.
Falconer. Vocalists—Miss Poole, Miss /titter, Miss Cicely
Nott, Miss Heywood, and Mr. Swift.
To conclude with an Original Farce (never acted), by
John Oxenford,l4:sq., entitled BEAUTY OR THE BEAST.
Principal characters by Messrs. Addison, G. F. Neville,
Barret, Spencer, and G. Weston; Mrs Edmund Falconer and
Miss R. Leclerq.

HEATRE ROYAL HAY ARKET.-
Sole Lessee and Mana7er, Mr, Buckstone.
THIS EVE .N ING, OUR MARY ANNE.
After which, at half-past 7 (Ist time), A. BULL IN A
CHINA Bli 01'. Messrs. Charles 11Iathews, Compton, Clark,
Rogers, and Gordon ; Mesdames Lindley, Wright, Fitz-
William, Hill, &c.
Followed by THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Messrs. Charles
Mathews, Compton,Weathersby, ; Mesdames C. Mathews,
L Keeley. Griffith, &c.
And MY HUSBAND'S GHOST.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter.
BEL DEMONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated
Every Eveninz until further notice.
THIS EVENING, to commence with a Comedietta,
by W. Gilbert, Fsq., entitled UNCLE BABY Mess s. J. G.
Shore, Widdicombe, Charles, Miss P. Leclercl, and Carlotta
Leclercq.
At ter which, at a Quarter-past Eight, BEL DEMONIO,
a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's
Italian Chronicle,," by John Broug:ham. Principal charac-
ter by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles,
Brataharn, Emery, Raymond, Sloreland, Smith, Clifford,
Collett,l Andrews Sims; Miss Kate Terry, Lavenue,rB
d Miss Elsworthy.

T)EL ; a LOVE STORY, in Twelve
Tableaux.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Nola l'ronriotor and htanazer. Mr.R. Wohater.
HIS EVENING, at 7, TIIE TRAGEDY QUEEN: Mrs.
Stirling.

At Sz, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bateman, supported
by Messrs. Arthur Stirlim, R. _Phillips, Billiunlon, Stuart,
Wood, Eburne, Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Billington.
To conclude with CATCHING AN HEIRESS: Miss
Woolgar and Mr. A. Wood.

iss RATEMAN.—LEA ft—The triumphant
111 and enthusiastic success of the great tragh artiste,
Mist; BATE3IAN, on her first appearance in the character of
I,NA H , in the new live aq Drama of that title. having been
nii.-rhtly repeated, and even exceeded during the last four
weeks, amidst the applause and tears of crowded audiences,
and tbeprofounq impression created upon all who have wit-
nessed the touching• impersonation by Miss Bateman of the
heat-hroken Jewish maiden, being confirmed by the unani-
mous verdict and critical approval of the entire press, the
anager ot the NEW ADEL I'l THEATRE has the honour
to announce that Mois BATSMAN will appear in the New
Dra ma of LEA El EVERY EVENING till urther notice ; and
In order to meet, as far as possible, the increasing demand
for stalls, has added two more rows to those previously
existing.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Man azer, Mr. W. H. Swanborough.
_THIS EVENING, FAINT lIEAttT NEVER WON
FAIR LADY. Mr. Leigh Murray.
After which, MIR fAIF.4 CRIME. Messrs. G. Honey,
Parselle, Belford, Turner, Miss K.Saville, and Miss Manders.
To conclude with WHERE'i YOUR WIFE. Mr. Belford.
Commence at 7.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAT.—Morning, 11h. 3m.—Afternoon, 11h. 32m.
ro-moituow.-Mortking, 1111. 59m.—Afternoon, h. m.

The Weather—Sun Office, Nov. 7, 1863.

THERMOMETER.

This day at Two o'clock 5O

Barometer-30.08.
Wind—South-Nest; light, with heavy rain.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOV. 7, 1863.

The Foremost European Question now is as to
whether there can be held this Grand Congress
proposed by the French Rat PEROR in his MAJESTY'S
great speech on Thursday afternoon. The next
question being, of course, as to whether, supposing
the Congress should turn out to be practicable, any-
thing whatever even then could come of it. Both
these problems are now of very dubious solution.
NAPOLEON 111. by his proposition has certainly
awoke the long silence with very con-
!iderable effect: but the effect with which he
hasdone so, while it is thus very considerable, is
also
unhappily very bewildering. The echoes of
the n.
°position are as confused and confusing as
well Could,
Euro be. Far and wide throughout
Pe i as the sound and significance of the Speech
containing that notable proposition expand and
expand, like enlarging circles when a pebble is
dropped into
smooth
water—wave upon wave of
public opinion spread outward and outward with
a sirt of monotonous
tvariation. The earliest im-
pression produced upon
came in fragmentary reading
the Speech, as it
of
trams flashed by electri-
city under the waters
ins impression that it wehannel, was a fleet-
cai scrutiny—
evening in
S -coed thought, up„ a Ominous of war.
(and this dictated our remarks
reful
a vi. lel
reference to the speech as
last
—deliberate
second thoughts appeared to consthra. us to the re-
cognition in the speech of a decidedly p
mani-
festo. The sequence of impressions in
regard to the speech produced upon our tkie7 may in
orn-
ing contemporary, appears to have been exactly— the
reverse. Yesterday it commented upon the
PEROR'S speech as a speech eminently pacific__
while to-day, it has 80 far modified its
opinions as to write of it as a speech eon_
taming thoughts and purposes very threat-
ening indeed to the peace of Christendom.
A reconsideration of the drift of the Speech, par-
ticularly towards its conclusion, impresses us more
and more with the belief indicated by our remarks
ofyesterday. Our conviction being that the Speech
is---to put it, as briefly as possible, in a phrase—
Pacific contingently ! Here is a tranquilising or
reassuring proposition put forth by the French
I.?ztrEn.oft., but within that peaceful proposal there
is latent, easily to be recognised, ready to leap
forth—in the contingency of a refusal, in
the
event, that is, of the Congress his MAJESTY Speaks of, proving impracticable alto-
gether, or if practicable, productive of no bene-
ficial result after wards—a threat ! It is a very
" nut to creek" that the
French EMPEROR has now
thrown to Europe and one- that, accordingly as
the Powersof Europe may deal with it, may turn
out to be full of the milk of human kindness, or ex-
plode like a very bombshell, scattering around it
terror and destruction.

The general feeling of this co
-7------
ith. nntrY about the
to
itself after the
American war is beginning o
manner of Englishmen in public
advocates of Federalism, the upholders meetings.
gs. The
Union,
the denunciators of slavery,have had their own
way
long enough, it scow, , and the friends of
Southern
independence and a division of the States ate now
coming boldly forward. A few nights ago a meet.
lag was held in Stockport—a town once supposed
to bo one of the strongholds of. the Manchester
sehool—for the avowed purpose of forwarding the