The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-17 00:00:00

OY AL LYCEUM THEATRE.
t Manager Mr. Edmund Falconer.
T I=l IS EVENT N G, 106th time of the new and original Drama
entitled, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs
Walter Lacy, Ilermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Fal-
voilet Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston.

After which, a new and original Burlesque Extravaganza,
+entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD; or, The Fairies of
the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrcck. Principal charac-
ters by Mr. Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and
Miss Lydia Thompson.

Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
P-lces as usual. Doors open at half -past 8, to commence at
7. Box-office open daily from 11 tlll5.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, CASH V. CUPID. Mr. Widdicomb,
Mr. Shcre, Miss Maria Harris, &C.
Alter which, at Eight o'clock, OTHELLO. lago, Mr.
Pechter ; Othello, Mr. Ryder.

NEW THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI,
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE CENSUS. Mr. J. L. Toole.
After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. and Mrs. D.
Blucicaul,, Mr. Billington, D. Fisher, C. J. Smith, S. Emery,
Stephenson ; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington,
To conclude with THE DUBLIN BOY, Mrs. Boucicault,
Miss Laidlaw, Mrs. H. Lewis, Mr, Emery, tc.
Commence at 7.

NEW ROYALTY THEATRE,
Dean-street, Oxford-street.
THIS EVENING, THE LOTTERY TICKET.
To be followed by DELICATE GROUND. Miss Rebecca
Powell, from the Winter Gardens, New York (her 2d ap-
) rarance at this theatre). Messrs. Charles Wyndham and D.
.games.
After whieh, the succesful Opera Buffo, entitled LE MARI-
.is .GE AUX LANTERN ES. Mr. John Morgan, Mesdames
Stanley, Payne, and Mason.
To conclude with the Ballet Divertissement, HOMAGE TO
FLORA. Misses Clara and Barbara Morgan.
Commence at half-past 7.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
In consequence of the great sensation created by the won-
drous feats of the colossal Asiatic Elephants on the stage,
a nd in the circle, their truly marvellous Performance will be
continued till further not ce.

IRIS EVENING, the Grand Eastern Spectacle of THE
.RAJAH OF' NAGPOIIE, with new and splendid dresses,
;scenery, and decorations, introducing Mr. Bell's trained Ele-
nts, pronounced by the Press and the Public the cleverest
animals ever exhibited.
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be followed by brilliant scenes in the Circle by the
unrivalled Troupe of Equestrians.
(,oncluding with a comic Ballet of Action, introducin- Mr.
IT A Iry Croueste (the favourite Clown to the Ring), the Misses
Gunnis, and the whole of the Corps de Ballet.
Commence at 7—Conclude at a quarter-past 11.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle.

C INTERBURY HALL AND FINE
ARTS GALLERY.

VI-TOR .TULIEN,

"TAE FLYING MAN,",

(Last Week but One) at half-past Nine, in new and extraor-
dinary feats.
Grand Selections from "La Sonnambula," "Dinorah,"
and " La Circassienne," by Mdlle. Negri, with full Band
and Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jonghmans.
The Coitc by Mr. Randall, Mr. Frederick French, Mr.
J. G. Porde, Messrs. Hilelebrandt and Ormond, and Miss
Caroline Parkes.

Admission—Hall, M. ; Stalls mad Balcony, le.

THE OXFORD. 6, OXFORD-STREET.-
EVERY EVENING.
HENRI and PFAU, in their intrepid Double Feats on the
Flying Trapeze.

Two Operatic Selections alternately from " Ernani,"
"Macbeth," "Il Trovatore," "La Traviata," "La Circas-
sienne," kc., by Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn, Messrs.
Morley, Greene, C. Greville, and Albert. Full Band and
Chorus—(Conductor—Mr. F. Jongrom,ns.) Violin Solos—
Mr.Viotti Collins, and other Vocal and Instrumental attrac-
tions. The Comic portion by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs.
Sam Collins, Harvey and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall,
and W. Randall.

Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, Is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

A Grand Morninz Entertainment EVERY THURS-
DAY, at Two, HENRI and PFAU and the whole of the
Company, appear.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 2h. 40m.—Afternoon, 2h. 58m.
TO-MORROW. -Morning, 3h. 13m.—Afternoon, 3h. 36m

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 16, 1862.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
45 —highest since noon yesterday.
38—lowest this morning and during the night.
40—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.0.
WlND—North-Easterly ; rather fresh, with dull weather.

MARCH 17.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
44—:ighest since noon yesterday.
38—lowest this morning and during the night.
43—this day at:noon.:

BAROMETER-29.K
Wt/m—South-Westerly ; light, with dull rainy weather.
It rained heavily last night.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1862.

The Financial Position of France fills every one
jest now with more or less solicitude. It is a
matter of anxiety, of course, in the first place,
to the French people themselves. It is a
erase of watchful curiosity no less to the
aaurrounding nations of Christendom. Hardly,
however, can it be regarded with anything
like surprise by any one. For, in point of fact, -It
is only what has been long anticipated by the more
chservant and reflective. The marvel indeed has
"ell that so fair an appearance should ',lave been
-kept /I—
-v so long. The gloss cleverly put hitherto
upon the State
has taken of things in the Iloperial exchequer
a considerable time in truth in rubbing
off. Blinked 41.
ou
fore, there hasg
h the reality has been hereto-
at
of any longer votat length been no chance whatever
reckoning. polling the inevitable day of
So specious, however
, the policy of
the reigning Soverei had beenn ot vra
the financial organisation of
thingsnee in regard to
under his
Government, that until very recently the "appear.
awe" of prosperity—though from Er
stnex
stto la i-
plicable—was regarded by the generality through.out Europe less with absolute incredulity than
with
a sort of puzzled arnazmenf People wondered
how the thing was done. They marvelled ns to
the Eecret of this seemingly substantial prosperity.
ne expenditure annually was so enormous! The
public works undertaken by the Government were
and aro still 89 numerous, so costly, and so
gigantic ! Ttie amount of taxation was and is yet
so moderately enhanced, simultaneously with
the yearly disbursements of such stupendous
aggregates—aggregates in the mere numerals em-
ployed all the more astounding to us Englishmen,

from the circumstance of the French moneys being
calculated not in pounds sterling, but in francs,
consequently not by millions, but by hundreds of
in-i7/ions--that all kinds of preposterous rumours
got afloat among the lovers of canards, as they are
called by our Gallic neighbours, among the dis-
coverers of mare's nests, as they are familiarly de-
signated by ourselves! Chief amongst these extra-
vagant on dila, or "flying whispers," as to the secret
of the ostensible financial prosperity of the French
Imperial Government was actually a statement
gravely advanced by one all-believing gobemouche
—(incredible though it may seem to say so, we are
simply relating here what absolutely was written
and printed, and what,at the time of its being written
and printed actually, made the round of the European
newspapers !)—a statement running to the effect that
the Emperor NAPOLEON 111, had obtained posses-
sion secretly, and had long held possession securely
of a gold mine in Central Africa! And that hence
it was that his Majesty could, during this decade of
his empire, do so much for France without laying any
corresponding burden upon France herself. Alas !
for the beautiful day-dream. But a brief interval
has at this time elapsed since the Imperial Govern-
ment of the reigning Sovereign of France was con-
strained at last, in spite of itself, by what has been
termed the "inexorable logic of events," to make
a clean breast of it. The hitherto concealed involv-
ments of the Imperial exchequer had gradually
become so serious, so vast, and so deplorably, and
it would appear up to this present moment like-
wise so inextricably complicated that a tardy but
complete eclaircissement became the one thing
inevitable.

A new Minister of Finance was therefore frankly
and boldly called to his Imperial councils
by the Emperor NAPOLEON. The blurred and
blotted, and jumbled accounts of the French
Treasury were placed in the hands of M. ACHILLE
FOULD. Trifling with one of the names of this new
finance minister of Imperial Gaul, it was punningly
whispered (aside) by some, that " FOULDS rushed
in where angels [might have] feared to tread ! '
The sneer, however, was speedily enough shown, by
a few startling facts, to have been somewhat pre-
cipitately and inconsiderately directed against an
administrator who, in his mode of dealing with the
fearful crowd of difficulties committed to him (if he
could) to conquer, soon enough proved himself to be at
any rate, not altogether unworthy of his other name,
that is of his heroic and classic prenomen. As yet
M. ACHILLE FOULD has only had time enough
barely to begin in regard to the Financial Diffi-
culties he has to deal with—the .Augean labour of
the preliminary clearance. Afterwards—when that
may havebeen accomplished—will come by necessity
and in due sequence the task of reconstruction, the
task, in other words, of the complete and compre-
hensive rehabilitation of the Financial Edifice of
the French Imperial Government. Meanwhile,
the first and immediate results of the preliminary
exposure of the actual state of things there in
France, in regard to the Finances, have, it must be
admitted, been in various particulars sufficiently
alarming. Insomuch, that—latterly, within the
last few weeks, at Paris—incidents have taken
place that have not been witnessed there since (eight
or ten long years ago) the iron grasp of the revived
Empire of the BONAPARTES was last grappling with
those among the more zealous champions of the
Republique Rouge, who evidenced the greatest
tenacity to life, the most eager devotion to their
political creed, the most determined and uncon-
querable adherence to their principles, as the
chiefs of the Ultra Revolution. However the facts
here alluded to as of very recent occurrence indeed
at Paris, may have originated—those facts are alto-
gether incontrovertible in themselves.

Obscurely here and there in different parts of Paris,
in the "back slums" of that gay and gilded capital—
arrests have taken plaee, personal seizures have
been made, as in the days when renowned literati
like M. Louis BLANC and M. VICTOR HUGO were
driven into exile, when formidable enthusiasts like
BLANQUI and BARBES were constrained to cast a
blank look of terror suddenly—here, to the prospect
of the galleys—there, to the more dreadful prospect
still of possible toils for years to come in the
tropic hell of Cayenne ! That—after a long inter-
val of quiescence in this way—Paris should have
been thus again "startled from its propriety" by
tidings of these kind of secret arrests, has surely
its significance, Particularly, coming to pass, as
the eve:it does, almost at the same moment when
t'ae financial embarrassments of the empire are
brought to light. Once more, there, has been heard
the muttering of those insurrectionary chants from
the Quartier Latin, from the sky parlours of the
Isle de Paris, that have before now so often pre.
saged disaster. None wish here amongst us for
the disturbance—yonder upon the opposite shores i
of the Channel—of the long-prevailing and still
continued tranquillity. But it is as well to be on
the alert, to be watchful, to exercise an unwink-
ing watchfulness as to what is occurring now, in
this new and momentous phase of the Second Em-
pire, under the vigorous but still enigmatical and
inscrutable regime of NAPOLEON M.

There is what appears to us a very foolish affec-
tation of logic amongst the opponents of the Mar-
riag9 Bill. The truth is, logical consistency is
laughed at when it does not suit Conservative pur-
poses, and worshipped when it does. If Mr.
BRIGHT would bring the representatiOn of 'the coun-
try to something like what logic dc.:,,mands, then no-
thing is so beautiful as the anomaly of Thetford '
two representatives, and Manchester two. Logic
is loathed or laughed at as the case may be, if it
would compel the rectification of any abuse, or re-
quire the concession of any measure of popular
liberty. But, if logic can be pleaded in favour of
any venerable imposture, or in lieu of any rightful
popular demand, then " great is logic !" and even a
practical bill must be weighed in the balances of
Ait/STOTLE.

Amongst the notable prohibitions which interdict
to a man marriage with his grandmother, and to a
woman marriage with her grandfather, and many
other things equally sage, is found one interdiction
which is replete 'with practical evil. Amongst
civilised people no one thinks of marrying his
" grandfather's wife," " wife's grandmother," his
" mother," his " sister," or " his daughter," &c. &c.
—if we happen to open our prayer books, where the
parallel columns, containing thirty each of prohi-
bitions of this kind occur, we read a few, laugh at
canonical absurdity, and turn over. But amongst
these ludicrous prohibitions, which affect no man in
his senses, is one which thousands have broken, and
which assuredly thousands more will break. A
man is left a widower; among the maternal aunts
of his children, generally in this case very young
children, he finds one whose love to the children,
and whose character, known to him now by pre-
vious intimacy, combine to induce him to seek in her
cmcaPanion for himself and a certainly affectionate
mother for
sister."
and superstition is the he finds
his offspring. But in this foolish list
-11 17 4. a man may not marry his wife's
Who Put that there, he asks ? Asceticism
did not ; she bide only possible reply. Nature
the case of the onlyillp marry. GOD did not ; for in
le for whom de ever legis •
lated, he explicitlye erP
limits
the prohibition to
polygamous marriage, like j
4c"l'fi) with 4 wife's

FHB SUN, LO DO

sister. He refuses, therefore, to heed the injunction.
Rightly, if he be prepared to face the consequences
which the late Bishop of LONDON induced the Lords
to force upon him, as the price of legitimatising the
marriage, from which sprung the present Duke of
BEAUFORT. Yet the Tories and Churchmen, if this
practically evil prohibition be attacked, call out,
when will you stop ? Why not repeal all these pro-
hibitions ?

It might be answer enough, surely, to an Eng-
lish House of Commons, that the rest of the droll
list is a grievance to nobody. We hear of no peti-
tions for liberty to marry our grandmothers and so
forth—and it is not the custom of Englishmen to
demand relief from lists of words which trouble
nobody. We must say, however, that we think
the whole list of prohibitions valueless; and that
we should have no kind of objection to throwing it
in the fire. It consists of prohibitions of two kinds,
the foolish and the doubtful. Either we are pro-
hibited from marriage with persons with whom we
should never dream of marrying or with persons
with whom it cannot be proved that we ought not
to marry, We agree very much in principle with
Mr. MONSELL. With him and JEREMY TAYLOR
we hold that in the earlier ages of the
Christian Church, when the antagonism between
Judaism and Christianity was better understood,
there was almost general consent that the Levitical
degrees do not, by any law of GOD, bind Christians
to their observance." We might as well turn Jews
at once as appeal to the precepts of Leviticus to
guide our Legislation. Presbyterianism has much
of this kind of Judaism in it. Episcopacy imitates
Judaism more in the matter of the Hierarchy,—and
a well-paying imitation it is. Both, however, go
to Leviticus on this question, though Paul would
as soon have thought of subjecting Gentile Chris-
tians to circumcision, as to Leviticus.
But, Mr. MONSELL contends it is the tendency
of Christianity to refine our sentiments, and one
part of the refinement he holds to be that, it teaches
us to regard the relations of affinity as equally ob-
jectionable in regard to marriage as relatives of
consanguinity. We do not admit his view.
Christianity is the religion of realties as opposed to
the artificial and ceremonial character of Judaism.
Now it is a physical fact that relationship of con-
sanguinity in man, as in the lower animals,
det€riorates the quality of the progeny. There is
a real reason therefore for preventing, as far as
may be, by the force of knowledge and opinion,
such marriages. Violation of this law has made
the royal races of Europe, for the more part inferior
to other men. In regard to affinity no such prin-
ciple exists in nature. All must be left to sense of
propriety—to sentiment—so far we agree with Mr.
MONSELL—What we deny, is, that such sentiments
are fit subjects for law. We do not object to them,
or to their indulgence, or to their cultivation, or to
their being taught. What we object to is, that
the law should be called in to affix penalties to the
absence of such sentiments in any particular case.
If our, sentiments on the subject are as strong
as Dr. CANDLISU says they are
Sociale
ri ne bSe coeopvt
ilenar
osdno,
or as Mr. MONSELL says they are in Ire-
land, ,do tthheen
work
kw
filsawu. seßleesst if there .
few parsons who are satisfied that the sentiment, in
the case under discussion, for instance, is absurd—
that it is contrary to nature and religion—then it is
persecution, and nothing less, for all the rest, to
force on him their religious and moral sentiments
on the subject. All things socially desirable, or
socially preferred by the many, are not fit subjects
for penal statutes ; and we have never seen it shown
yet that social opinions, on relationship of affinity
in regard to marriage, are fit subjects for penal law.

The political ecclesiastics will find out, before
long, that they have made a great mistake. Mar-
riage law reformers would have been content with
the rectification of one practical evil in the old
Judaiiing Tables which disfigure our Prayer-books.
They would have left the rest to those who delight
in Levitical ornaments to a Christian Liturgy.
Clerical obstinacy will compel an exposure of the
baselessness of the whole system. The people will
have to be taught that the Bible was meant to in-
fluence legislation, not by furnishing clauses for
penal Acts of Parliament, but by abolishing inter-
meddling and artificial prohibitions, and by soften-
ing and ameliorating our codes. "Touch not, taste
not, handle not," says Judaism, and it fills long
columns with prohibitions and comminations. Love
GOD and your neighbour, says Christianity, and dis-
penses with all the vexatious details of Leviticus.
It is too late in the day to prevent the truth from
coming out. The demand will now be to constitute
marriage a civil rite for civil purposes; as, indeed,
Archbishop WHATELEY has long proposed, leaving
all persons to use what religious service they pre-
ferred, or none at all. At the same time we must
require that Leviticus be left to the Jews, and that
the degrees of affinity and consanguinity be settled
and enforced by the social sentiments of a civilised
and Christianised community.

According to the present arrangements (writes
our Windsor correspondent) her Majesty the Qneen will
leave Windsor Castle on or about the 3d of the ensuing
month, and return to Osborne, Isle of Wight.
Her Majesty contemplates visiting the Highlands
at an early period, and returning to Windsor, from Bal-
moral, in June.

After a stay of about a fornight at the Castle the
Queen will proceed to Osborne, and again visit Balmoral
towards the end of the season.

His Royal Highness Prince Alfred had, we be-
Have, a slight attack of fever during his voyage. He has
grown considerably since he left England. The young
Prince is now, we are happy to say, in excellent health, all
traces of indisposition having completely vanished previous
to his arrival in this country.—Court Journal.

The civil marriage of Mlle. Adele de Rothschild
with Baron Salomon de Rothschild took place on 'Wednesday
at Frankfort, The religious ceremony was performed
on the following day, at the synagogue, by the great rabbi
of the Consistory of Paris. All the members of the
Rothschild family from Paris, London, and Vienna
were present. Baron James do Rothschild. of Paris, on the
occasion of the marriage of his son Solomon, has presented
2,000 fr. to the mairie of the 9th arrondissement, Paris, for
distribution to the poor.

The Crown Princess of Prussia, it is expected,
will take her departure for the Continent the latter end of
this month.—Court Journal.

It is expected that her Majesty will return to
Osborne the beginning of April, or soon after the departure
of the Princess Royal for Prussia.—Court Journal.

A new yacht is to be built for her Majesty;. it is
to be rather larger than the Fairy..

The Duke and Duchess of Argyll have been
visiting Alfred Tennyson, the poet laureate, at his seat at
Farringford, in the Isle of Wight.
Lord Palmerston, in giving evidence before a
parliamentary railway committee last week, stated that he
had turned his attention very much lately to the defences
of the country, and that it was most important that all the
arsenals should be connected by railway, and of similar
gauge. His lordship also stated that it was in contemplation
to make some defences on an island in the British Channel,
and that it was advisable that Portsmouth and other arsenals
should be connected with Bristol by a railway without
break of gauge. Pembroke, his lordship said in answer to
a question, was not an arsenal, it was simply a building
and refitting yard. His lordship also stated that he was in
favour of connecting all towns on the south coast by rail.
TESTIMONIAL TO MR. AP CONN ELL.—A very
superb testimonial has been presented to this gentleman on
the occasion of his quitting the management of the Loco-
motive Establishment of the London and North-Western
Railway at Wolverton. After the presentation Mr. M'Con-
nell and his friends dined together in the " Queen's
Room." A universal feeling of regret at parting pre-
vailed.
SURREY THEATRE.—Mn. Benjamin Webster
having entered into a brief engagement. with Messrs.
Creswick and Sheppard, the lessees of this theatre, he
makes his first appearance this evening in his celebrated
character of Robert Laundry, in the A delphi drama of the
4. Dead Heart." Illustrious Paul Bedford also accompanies
his manager, and he too will sustain his original character
in the game drama.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

N, MONO A. EVENING, Al A. Will 17, 1862.!

LATEST NEWS.

TURIN, MARCH 15, EVENING.

In the Chamber of Deputies to-day explanations
were requested by Signor Petrucelli as to the con-
vocation of bishops at Rome.

Signor Petrucelli was of opinion that the bishops,
similarly to other public functionaries dependent
upon the Government, ought to request leave of
absence to be allowed to visit Rome. These eccle-
siastics had more regard for the temporal than for
the spiritual power. Rome desired to proclaim the
dogma of temporal power and to make an appeal
to the Catholic world against France. Should the
bishops go to Rome without leave of the Govern-
ment, they must on their return become simple citi-
zens and lose their ecclesiastical functions.

The Minister, Signor Poggi, replied :—" The
object of the convocation at Rome is unknown, but
it is certainly not of a religious character. The
Government is stfficiently armed by laws against
those bishops who should take their departure from
the State, and should render themselves guilty of
acts contrary to the interests of the nation. Up to
the present time leave of absence has always been
requested ; but, in case of this not taking place, the
Government will consider what course to adopt."

The Minister, Signor Mancini, added a few ob-
servations, and Signor Petrncelli declared himself
satisfied.

The Valetta, with the above mail, left Malta for
Marseilles at 9 p.m. yesterday (16th).
The Ellora, with the heavy portion of the mail,
was to leave at midnight. She may be expected at
Southampton about the 26th inst.