The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-25 00:00:00

TDB SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, 1862.

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has none of their advantages ; and why ? Because to all
those defects it adds the greatest of all in matters of Go-
vernment—instability. It is temporary, short, precarious,
and fugitive ; the electoral oligarchy of the cardinals, urgent
as the Roman history said to see an end of and to devour
this reign of a moment, elected an old man, chose a de-
crepid hand in order to sooner have to relieve it from the
weight of the sceptre. Sometimes it is deceived, and meets
with a SIXTUS-QUINTUS; but in all cases the ideas of the
PorE die withlim. In such a Government there is no
hereditary succession, no survivance of system, no consti-
tution to guarantee the future; the POPE of yesterday
does not engage him of to-morrow. All policy is merely
personal ; everything depends on one man's life."
He sums up all in the following pithy lan-

guage :
" Rarely has the world rendered an account to itself of
the singular, complicated, and confused mechanism of the
Papal Government at Rome, considered as a temporal
Power. It may be defined in these few words :—The de-
fects of all kinds of Governments without their advantages,
united in one single Government."
In 1847 we have the following from the French
Ambassador, M, Rossi, to M. GuizoT :
" In ten years, in twenty years, I cannot say exactly
when, there will not be in the Italian States a man, a
woman, a functionary, a magistrate, a monk, or a soldier,
in whom the national sentiment will not predominate over
every other. What can prevent this, unless we pretend to
exterminate Italy and make it a land of helots ? We must
resign ourselves to what a future, more or less distant,
carries in its womb."
Indeed, the diplomatic representations of Rome by
France cannot be better summed up than in the
recent words of M. BILLAULT himself in a speech
in the Senate :--
" During the last 60 years all the French Ambassadors at
Rome, those most pious and most sincerely devoted to re-
ligion, have all used the same language. Look at the long
list of the glorious or illustrious names who have succes-
sively represented France in the Eternal City ; there is
not one who has not passed the most formal condemnation
on the defects of that Government ; I do not except, at the
period when the feeling was the strongest in favour of
Rome, in 1814 and 1816."

As curious a document as any is one by the pre-
sent EMPEROR himself, addressed to the POPE,
while he was residing in Italy in 1531, and ani-
mated by the youthful ardour of only twenty-three
years' experience, two of the concluding paragraphs
will indicate the views of the nascent Imperial occu-
pier of Rome :
" It is very bold in me who am nobody, to dare to write
to your Holiness, but I hope to be able to be useful to you.
There appears to be a decided determination to effect a
separation of the temporal from the spiritual power. But
your Holiness is beloved, and the general belief is that you
would be ready to remain at Rome with all your riches,
your Swiss Guards, and the Vatican, and to allow a Pro•
visional Government to be formed for temporal affairs. . . •
" ' Nothing more remains for me but to assure your
Holiness that all my efforts are directed towards a good
object. lam not aware what reports have been made to
your Holiness, but I can assure you that I have heard
almost all the young men, even those the least moderate,
say that if Gregory XVI. renounces the temporal power,
they will adore him, and would themselves become the
firmest supports of a religion purified by a great Pope, and
which has for basis the most liberal book that exists—the
Holy Gospel.

NAPOLEON-LOUIS BONAPARTE."
Such a series of documents do one thing at least
—they exonerate English Protestants from the per-
fectly groundless suspicion of bigotry in their de-
nunciations of the Papacy. Englishmen have al-
ways kicked against the rule of Churchmen. They
did so before the Reformation, they have done so
since. They now see a noble kingdom marred in
its unity, cruelly disturbed in its social life, and its
capital occupied by obnoxious foreigners, all -under
pretence of upholding the temporal power of the
POPE. They see the temporal subjects of the POPE,
themselves, subjected to a degrading and malicious
Government of Ecclesiastical " Eunuchs for the
kingdom of this world's sake." Their whole
soul loaths the tyranny, the avarice, the imposture
of the whole thing. They could respect the religious
chief of a portion of their fellow subjects, but they
cannot respect an Arch Pharisee, whose religion is
a cloak for the most sordid ambition.

E WS.

BERLIN, Nov. 21.

The Neue Preussiche (Kreutz) Zeitung of this
evening publishes the reply given by the King to
several fresh addresses expressing devotion which
have lately been presented to his Majesty.
The following passages occur in this reply :
"There exists in all classes of society an agita-
tion which grieves me, because the people have
been made to believe that the Constitution is in
danger. This is not the case. By standing still or
retrograding public detriment is caused. The pro-
gress at which I aim will only be a wise and mode-
rate one.

A" People speak of making up differences and con-
cluding peace ! Who has broken peace ? Not I.
" I hope that the opinion which is opposed to my
acts is not the expression of the majority of the
people, but only of a party in the country, which,
I am sorry to say, has misled many, and that no
conflict will arise. The weakening of the power of
Prussia compromises the dignity of Prussia, and the
realisation of her mission in Germany, which is to
bring about, not the unity tut the union of Ger-
many. Should evil days come I hope that all well-
dispos3d people will rally round me."

FRANCE.

PARIS, Nov. 24.

BOURSE, Nov. 24.—The market was heavy at
the opening, and showed rather a downward ten-
dency, but afterwards rallied. Threes, which had
receded to 70f. 10c., are now again at 70f. 20c.,
the closing price of Saturday. Little doing in
Railway Shares, and fluctuations but trifling. The
market left off as follows :

44 per Cents. 97 75
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7O 10
New 3 per Cents
Do. end month —
Credit Mobilier 1060
Do. end month 1060

Bank Shares , 3350
Credit k oneier 1290
Piedmontese Fives 71
Italian Loan 7O 90
Roman
Russian
Spanish Threes 53 50
Home Debt . 6O 50

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans lO4O ~ 1040
Northern .... 1036 .. 1030
New ditto . •. -
....
Lyons and Mediterranean 1042 53 .. 1140
Geneva ..
Southern
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian
Austrian 492 50 ~ 490
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa 632 50
Ditto to Barcelona

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Nov. 22.

Had they had time so to do, the representatives
of the people would duly have made known to the
Upper House their resolve to restrict the outlay for
the army to 111,000,000f1. ; but the Minister of
'War was so impatient to get the matter settled,
that he at once informed the President of the Com-
mittee of Finance that the Government had been
empowered by the Emperor to consent to a reduc-
tion of 6,000,000fi. in the Army Estimates, Al-
though the proceeding was excessively irregular,
no one finds fault with it, as it is known to all that
Count Degenfeld is a sturdy supporter of the Con-
stitution, though somewhat regardless of consti-
tutional forms and observances. The Minister of
War was willing to make still greater reductions
in the army, but his hand was stayed by his
Sovereign, who, !like the King of Prussia, has
very many non-official military advisers. Origi-
nally it was resolved that all the cavalry regi-
ments should be reduced, but his Majesty, at
the instigation of his military Chancellerie, sub-
sequently made an exception in favour of the
" Prince Charles of Prussia" Cuirassiers, a regiment
which distinguished itself in the year 1619, when
the Emperor Ferdinand I. was subjected to very
great moral pressure by the Austrian Estates.
Count Dagenfeld told the Emperor that such favour
shown to one regiment would not fail to produce
a bad impression on the army, and the veteran was
right, for military men now speak much of the
"questionable" conduct of the Prince Charles of
Prussia Cuirassiers during the year 1849. The
draught of the so-called Finance-law for 1863,
which will be valid for the wEole empire, is in sub-
stance as follows:
" Art. 1. The total expenditure for the administrations-
year 1863 is fixed at 366,479,661f1. Art. 2. Of the foregoing
sum 304,58.5,0741 will be coverer! by means of direct and
indirect taxes. Arts. 3 and 4. The sums voted are to be
expended in the departments and kr the purposes for which
they were granted. Art. 5. The deficit for 1863, which
amounts to 61,894,5671, is to be covered in the following
manner :—First, by an extraordinary augmentation of the
land-tax, of the house-rent-tax, of the house-tax, of the
trade-tax, and of the contribute arts e commercio in the Lora
bardo:V enetian kingdom; and secondly, by doubling the
income-tax and raising the tax en the coupons of State
bonds from sto 7 per cent. Art, 6, The Finance Depart-
ment is empowered to sell bonds lelonging to the English
loan of 1859 of the nominal value 0t11,164,0001, and bonds
belonging to the first issue of the ruottery Loan of 1861) of
the nominal value of 9,106,0001 The sums of 6,990,0001
in silver, and 6,730,0001 in bank notes, which are owing
on the abovementioned bonds, havizg been paid off, the sur-
plus is to be used for covering the deficit. Art. 7. The
produce of the bonds belonging to the third issue of the
Lottery Loan of 1860, which the lank, in consequence of
the new convention, will have to )lace at the disposal of
the State, is also to be employed in covering the deficit.
Art. 8. The remainder of the deficit is to be covered by
means of a loan of 30,000,0001 Art. 9. Should the last-
mentioned sum prove insufficient far the purpose in ques-
tion, the Government will, by
empaorntemyent is directed to put the
mewattsicolif amasyepbaeratreeglauwis,itbee.
Arempt.olwoe.reTdhetoprinasisnocothDe
present law into execution, and to obtain the above-men-
tioned loan on as favourable terms is possible."

EXTENSIVE BURGLARY AT T
the
course of last Friday night an extensive burglary was com-
mitted at Leeds. The office of the Aire and Calder Navi-
gation Company, one portion of which is occupied as the
dwelling of the manager, was broken into, and the sum of
£B3O, in Bank of England and provincial notes and gold,
was stolen therefrom. The circum3tances of the robbery
show that the perpetrators, or some of them, had been well
acquainted with the premises ; for after admission had
been obtained a key had been taken out of a room in the
dwelling, a safe had been opened in the office with the key,
and the money abstracted. While on the premises the
thieves had regaled themselves with two bottles of sherry.
It would not Le prudent to say more at present than that
the police are in possession of such information as is likely
to lead to the apprehension of some, if not the whole, of
the delinquents. Though the robbery ap?ears to have been
committed with deliberation, the sum of £l3O, or there-
abouts, was left behind in the safe from which the £B3O was
taken.

GLASGOW, Nov. 22.—Cotton.—In the beginning
of the week the market was very dull, with drooping prices,
but closes firmer, at a reduction of Id. per lb. on the quota-
tion of last week. Goods and Yarns—The market con-
tinues dull and reduced, as the production is, it appears, in
excess of the demand. Iron—The pig iron-market, which
was pretty firm on Monday last at 56s 9d cash for warrants,
has since become weaker, and the price has given way 9d
per ton. A very extensive business was done on Thursday
and Friday about latter quotations, the sales principally on
Liverpool account. To-day there has been scarcely a market
—a single transaction at 56s 2d, one month, only reported.
At close 66s cash and 568 6d three months might have been
made, sellers asking per tone more. G.M,B. No. 1,55 s
9d ; No. 3,53 s 9d ; Gartsherrie, No. 1,57 s 6d ; Nu. 3, 545;
No. 1 Coltneks, 58s; Calder, 66s 6d; Glengarnock, 55s 3d;
Forth, 54s 9d ; Kinniel, 54s 9d.
THE FEDERAL FINANCES.—The following hope-
ful view of the future of the Federal finances is from a
recent circular of Mr. Satterthwaite. It is only fair that as
the English public have the black side in all American
matters presented to them so frequently, should occasionally
catch a glimpse of the views entertained by practical
persons who do not believe that the whole nation is drifting
rapidly and helplessly on the road to " universal ruin," and
"financial chaos." The arrival of the American Govern-
ment at this latter stage was predicted six months ago, by
a certain financial writer, as sure to occur at the expiration
of "ninety days"—another proof of the folly of prophecy.
Mr. Satterthwaite says
Tho total debt of the Federal
Government is stated to have reached 660,000,000 dols.,
and the expenses of the aar are estimated at not over
1,000,000 dols, per .day, so that if the war should continue
another 12 months the debt would be about 1,000,000,000
dols. ; now, supposing this to be funded in. a 5 per cent.
Stock, the annual interest would bo 50,000,000 dols., or say
£10,000,000 sterling—a sum which need not be difficult for
a powerful and wealthy nation of about twenty millions of
inhabitants to raise; even supposing the burden to rest on
the Northern and Western States alone,—.From the
‘4 Money Market

PRINCESS'S 7H PA7 RE.

THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE.
A very agreeable version of Scribe's highly in-
genious comedy " Le Verre D'Eau," was produced
at this theatre last evening with unqualified
success. Mr. Oxenford, its adapter, has trans-
ferred the scene of action from the Court of St.
James's to the Court of Portugal, and rendered its
spirited dialogue in very terse and pleasant Eng-
lish. The " Verre D'Eau" is a specimen of the
drama of intrigue on the French stage, which ex-
hibits to perfection the unequalled art of French
construction. Without anything very distinc-
tive or very humorous in the characters—or
anything very elevated, or even agreeable in the
subject—which is simply a satire on Court society,
as shown under the old regime, the attention,
if not the sympathies, is seized and attracted to the
end by the singular skill with which the movement
is put together from first to last. Even though the
incidents are much alike, the infinite art with
which they are developed, and interwoven, scene
by scene, really renders the action a study almost
as engrossing as a game of chess_ Any minute
description of the plot is wholly out of our power.
It would be like endeavouring to give our readers a
written idea of a Chinese puzzle. Suffice it that
its generalscope is the rivalry of two Court favourites
for the possession of place and power, Don Estevan
D'Alcunha, and the Duchess Marialva, who, in their
game of finesse and strategy, make use of a
' young couple of Court attendants, Se-
nora Beatrix de Mondora and Don Miguel de
Naronha, who love each other, and whose happi-
ness being the sincere aim of the said Senor Estevan,
leads to the union of his fortunes with theirs, and
the formation of 'what bestows the present title to
the drama—" The Triple Alliance"—the end of this
Court campaign being the triumph of the said
alliance in the union of the lovers, and the eleva-
tion of their patron to the desired post of Prime
Minister. The acting of this comedy was in many
respects most creditable. Mrs. Buckingham White
played the DuchessMarialva with an easy dignity and
spirit, which showed how sensible has been her ad-
vance as a comic artist in recent years. Her intel-
ligence and graceful bearing, combined with the
advantage of her handsome person, render her now
an acquisition to any theatre in London. Miss
Oliver was not less attractive in the character of
the Maid of Honour, in which her mingled grace
and naturalness sustained the entire interest
of the piece. Mr. Shore, always intelligent
and earnest, was very agreeab!e in her lover, whilst
Mr. Vining, in Don Estevan, is to be congratulated
on an effort which is to be numbered among the
pleasantest and most artistic that we have ever had
at his hands. Wholly exempt from that excess
which we have so often had cause to charge on it,
whilst more than usually distinguished by the
quaint humour which just as often we have had to
praise, his acting was marked throughout by
an amount of ease, tact, and expression,
that could scarcely have been improved.
The only defect in the performance was the error
of entrusting the Queen to Miss Constance Aylmer,
whose professional inexperience rendered her
wholly incapable cf exhibiting the equal dignity
and ease which such a character demands. Always
intelligent, and at times spirited—still, till this
young lady has been enabled to master her diffi-
cult art, something much simpler than such a trial
should be allotted to her hands. The house was
well attended, and the calls for actors and author
were very hearty at the close.