The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-29 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL. HAY MARKET.
Lessee. Mr. ,J B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING. at Seven o'clock, will he performed
( ANIERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck-
stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern.

Alter which, a new and erl,inal Extravazanza, entitled
RASSELAS, PRINCE of ABYSSINIA; or, The Happy
Valley. Rasselas, Miss Louise Keeley.
Concluding with OUR MAR ,Y ANNE.

THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under
the Sole Management of Mr. FECIITER.
THIS EVENING, Jan. 2), to commence with an Ori2inal
Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore,
Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss llenrade, and Mrs. Lee.
After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic
Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr3logue, entitled TIIE
DUKE'S 51OTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham.
The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter,
supported by Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham, H. Widdi-
combe, W. M`lntyre, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, H.
Butler, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E.
Lavenue, and Elsworthy.
Mr. Phelps and Mr. W. Montgomery are engaged, and will
hortly appear.
Doors open at half-past Six, performance to commence
at Seven. Private Boxes, £2 125. od., and £2 2s. Places
registered. Stalls, 6s. 6d.; Dress Circle, 55. 6d.; Upper
Circle; 45. 6d, Prices at doors—Stalls, 6s. ; Dress Circle, 55. ;
Upper Circle, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. No half-price. Box-
office open daily from 11 till 5. The public are entreated to
take notice that no charge is made to the occupants of boxes,
box places, or stalls, either for playbills or for the safe keep-
ing of hats and cloaks : and that the attendants in all parts
of the house are forbidden to receive any gratuities whatever
Stage-Manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. H.
Barnett.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr Lindus.
THIS EVENING, LAW v. LOVE: Miss M. Oliver.
Followed by ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES AN-
OTHER. Mr. R. Roxby and Miss Amy Sedgwick.
After which, the New Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME,
" RIQUET WITH THE TUFT ; or, Harlequin and Mother
shipton." Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. C. Seyton, Misses Gray and
Hudspeth, Mr. Milano, Mr. R. Power, Miss A. Collinson, and
Mr. Halford.

MEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor find Manager, Mr. B. Webster.

THIS EVENING, THE LI i TLE TILE %SURE. Mr
Billington, Mr. R. Phillips, and Miss Marie Wilton.

After which, A TICKET OF LEAVE : Messrs. J. L.Toole,
P Bedford. and Mrs. Billinzton.

To conclude with " GEORGE DE BARNViTELL :
or, Harlequin Folly in the Realms of Fancy." Miss Woolgar,
Miss K. Kelly, Miss Seaman ; Messrs. J. L. Took, P. Bed-
ford, Stephenson, C. J. Smith. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri;
Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams ; Clown, Mr. W. Hildyard ;
Vantaloon, Mr. J. Paulo. The celebrated Arthur and
Lertrand.

Commence at 7.

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

THERMOMETER.
Highest since Noon yesterday ,, 45
Lowest during the night
This day at Noon .
Barometer-29.83 ; fallen rapidly since yesterday.
Wind—N.-West; weather fine and bright.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 9h. 22m.—Afternoon, 1011. 3m,
To-moßnow.-Morning, 1011. 41m.—Afternoon, 1111.45 m

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LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1863,

Nothing could be more temperate, more humane,
or more dignified than the whole tone of the re-
markable despatch addressed on the 9th instant by
M. DROUYN DE LHUYS, in the name of the EMPE-
ROR, his master, to the French Minister at Wash-
ington. The argument is as symmetrical as could
be in its arrangement. It has throughout it the
most accurate logical sequence. There is no am-
biguity whatever in the language. The motives
inspiring the whole correspondence of which this
notable communication is but a part—though, as
the sequel will doubtless prove, a most important
part—are herein quite clearly and quite candidly
explained. They are explained, moreover, with-
out one particle of affectation without any
ostentation of generosity—without the faintest
tinge of the consciousness, or of the mere
suspicion of the consciousness, of anything at all
partaking of the character of exceptional benevo-
lence. M. DROUYN DE LHTJYS—Vito is in some
respects second only to his Imperial master as a
writer of State papers (and the Saturday .Review
reeently remarked, with conspicuous truth, that
NAPOLEON 111. is without any exception the most
brilliant and successful writer of State papers now
living)—M. DROUYN DE LITUYS in this despatch
to M. MERCIER, the EMPEROR'S ambassador at
Washington, goes at once directly to the point with-
out apparently an instant's inclination to in-
dulge in the old diplomatic habit of circum-
locution. He first of all intimates that but for
the friendship entertained by the Govern-
ment of the EMPEROR for the United States
of America, the ill success of the recent overtures
from Paris, with a view, if possible, to shorten the
duration of hostilities, might be supposed to have
" cooled down" (refroidir) the interest with which
Prance, the EMPEROR, and his Majesty's Govern-
ment regard the incidents of that dreadful struggle.
Any supposition of that kind, however, he repu-
diates as altogether erroneous. "We cannot be-
hold," he says, " without profound regret, this more
than civil war, which may be compared with the
most terrible intestine commotions of the old re-
public, and the disasters of which multiply in pro-
portion with the resources and the courage dis-
played by each of the belligerents." Surprised by
the ill success of those earlier overtures,
the EMPEROR'S Government hastens to examine
into the validity of the objections raised
to the project of interposition on the part
of the chief maritime Powers of Europe,
of their interposition between the Federals and the
Confederates.

And here it is at once seen that the genial
and manly recognition by France of the per-
fect reasonableness of those same objections cannot
but go far towards winning the attention of both
North and South to the new suggestions now prof-
fered in the name of France with a view to their
-ulterior reconciliation. The susceptibility of the
American race is throughout borne especially in
mind. While the French Minister does not hesi-
tate to maintain, still, quite frankly, " We conceive
that in offering to place ourselves at the disposition
of the belligerents, for the purpose of facilitating
between them negotiations, the basis of which
we abstained from prejudicing, we ren-
dered to the patriotism of the United
States the regard more than ever due to it now,
after so many proofs of moral force and
energy"—while insisting almcst in a tone of in-
dignant self-vindication, " Assuredly, air, there is
nothing in recurring to the good offices of one or
several neutral powers incompatible with the legi-
timate pride of a great nation"—M. DROUYN DE
LIIUYS immediately adds, " We are nevertheless
prepared, in the desires we entertain in favour of
peace, to make allowance for the susceptibilities
of national sentiment, and we in nowise dispute
the right of the Federal Government to decline
the co-operation of the great maritime Powers of
Europe." The next thought comes to view na-
turally, therefore, in this wise—ls that, however,
really all that can be done with a view to the allevia-
tion of this frightful war ? In answer to which ap-
pears the new proposition. And that ? Well—it is
simply, as we know, the opening up, ?possible, of
negotiations between the belligerents themselves.