The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-30 00:00:00

SQUASH-HOLLOW SWAMP AND BED OF
BULRUSHES.

How the Squire comes to grief and afterwards to repent-
ance, and how Jack is recognised as the rightful heir—The
reward and harmonious movements of the Fairies on a
Grand Chromatic Scale towards
WILL 0' WISP'S HOME BENEATH THE
WATERFALL.
The Transformation.

Harlequins Messrs. CORMACK and ST. MAINE,
Columbines
Pantaloons Messrs. G. TANNER and MORLEY.
Clowns
Grotesque
1861-1862

SPRITES by the RIDGWAYS and SUWELL
FAMILY.

1.-EXTERIOR OF TWO SHOPS IN " UP-OR.

DOWN" STREET.

Messrs. Huline, St. Maine, Tanner, and Miss S. Gunniss.
Christmas Presents—every Man (and Boy) to his Post,
even the Post-Man—Clown rides the high horse, which
proves his rock a-head—Two Young Men from the Country,
and Clown gets over them—a Sewing Machine (not a poor
Needlewoman)—a thorough Blow out—a Man in very re-
duced circumstance—Clown finds the Fruits of stealing
Apples in an elephantine way—a Band of Brothers—the
Police in Great and Small Force—Clown gets into a row
and blows up a policeman—the end of this scene is all
Bustle—N.B. Not Crinoline
2.—THE GREAT SENSATION KITCHEN.
Messrs. Forrest, Cormack, Morley, and Miss Gunniss.
Harlequin seeks Protection, although a Free-trader—
The Cook's Guide—Clown tries to take the chair—the head
ish of the table—Harlequin goes through a Deal, and
Clown becomes a Board-er—Silence those dreadful Bells—
Clown and Pantaloon make an ap-Peal to the Audience on
the Merry Musical Bells—Pantaloon rather hard pressed—
arrival of a distinguished Foreigner—Clown falls into his
own trap, and kills a Blue-bottle, which proves a bad
Buzz-ness for him—a Lecture on the Gorilla, by a well-
known character—Clown meets with a few Friends (not
Quakers)—this Scene ends at the finish of it.

3.—THE INTERIOR OF A RAILWAY STATION.
Eight hours at the Sea-side for 2s 6d—Duty off Paper—
''l he Times" reduced and the Times on the rise—a book
that takes leafe of Clown—Harlequin gets his horse from a
Stall and sets up a trap. No Smoking a-Loud, only on
the Quiet—Clown makes a Tremendous Christmas Tree—
late arrivals—Messrs. Neverintinie, Toolate, Dearme, and
Blessme—Clown burns his fingers (not the only person
that has done so)—Clown gives Good Bail and finds a Bale
D goods.

4.—The SEA-SIDE.
The Sands! The Sands! I The Sands II I

Come unto these yellow sands.

A Sailor telling a Yarn and a boat Lying too—the Pier
Master's ap-Pierance—Clown makes a Man's hair turn
sandy and proves himself in the wrong box—by a slight
Miss-Take, which a certain Miss won't Take—Pantaloon
gets some shell-fish in a very Selfish manner—Clown asto-
nishes the Natives—Sailors that use their Cut-Lasses but
don't Cut Lasses when they can join with them in a
National Hornpipe—Clown gets a Sensation Leader—The
Great Donkey Stir St. Leger—Clown and Pantaloon's
Concert—fine ears for Music—they fish in troubled waters
—a Divided Interest—a sudden Squall (Children and all)
—The latest Novelty in Parrchutes.

Scene—A DISMAL SWAMP—After a storm a calm
appears, a HARLUEQUIN'S HOME ON HIS THRONE
OF SPLENDOR.

Doors open at half-past Six, to commence at Seven
o'clock. Tickets for Boxes, Pit, and Galleries, may be
had at the Box Office before the opening.

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT GARDEN.
Under the management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W.
Harrison.
THIS EVENING, THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER. Miss
T,onisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne; Mr. Santley, Mr. 11. Corn,
il‘fr. George Honey, Mr. Patey, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. T.
Distill, Mr. Wallworth, Mr. Eugene Dussek, Mr. C. Lyall,
,and Mr. W. llarrison.
Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON.
After which will be produced (written expressly by J. M.
Morton), a Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled
HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, A Trip to Brobdignag, a
peep at Lilliput, and a Flying Visit to Laputa.
Gulliver, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Mrs. Gulliver, Mr. F. Payne.
Principal danseuse, Mdlle. Lamoureux, supported by the
Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. The Harlequinade sustained
by the eminent Pantomimists, Messrs. H. Payne, F. Payne,
H. Lauri, E. Lauri, S. Lauri, and Miss Jenny Lauri.
Commence at Seven.

TRE-RO Y AL, HAYMARKET,
Dir. J. B. Buokstme.
to commence with OUR AMERICAN
,•eary, Mr. Sothern; Asa Trenchard,

COUSIN.
Mr. Buckstone.

After which, a Comic Christmas Pantomime, LITTLR
?MISS MUFPET AND LITTLE BOY BLUE ; or, Harle-
quin and Old Daddy Loin:legs. Louise Leclercq, Charles Le-
clercq, Herr Cole, G. Becket, and Miss Resine.
Commence a 7.

OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
14, Manazer -lir. Edmond Falconer.
, THIS EVENINO, Tan 30, the new and original Drama,
entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. _Messrs.
Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund _teal-
&met' ; Mrs. D. I'. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston.

After which, a new and original Burlesque Extravaganza,
entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD; or, The Fairle4
the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrock. Principal charae_
ters by Mr. Chas. Selby, Mr. warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and
Miss Lydia Thompson.

Acting Manager—air. F. B. chatterton.

Aces as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commenoo t
)30x-Oboe open daily from 1L tills.

THE SUN.

LONDON, THURSDAY, JAN. 30, 1862.

Protestants may doubt the infallibility of the
POPE, but he leaves them no reason to doubt his
unchangeableness. He lives in a city of ruins, he
sits on the temporal throne of a kingdom, nearly
all of which has fallen to ruin, the ruins themselves
having become the property of another ; but
there he sits PIO NoNo still, not only in name, but
the same being as quitted his own city in the outer
man of a footman, that the inner man of the PorE
might preserve his identity. Through all he has
looked on, we can hardly say with calmness, for he
has raged fearfully in Vatican Latin, but he has
looked on with the determination to ignore facts.
Legation after Legation, this province and that,
dropped off, but he still proclaimed them his own ;
the people who took their country into their own
hands, and called on VICTOR EMMANUEL to take
the place of his legates, were thieves for stealing
what belonged to them, and the King of ITALY, as
the receiver, was as bad as the thief, if not worse
—he was the despoiler. Still, like Mr. LINCOLN
on the other side of the water, he proclaims himself
temporal prince of all the domains which nothing
but overwhelming foreign intervention could place
again under his feet. All proof is lost upon him.
He believes in the integrity of the States of the
Church, just as he believes that the sun moves
round the earth, despite all the mathematicians who
have ever lived, or ever shall live.
M. THOUVENEL'S last effort has laid bare to
the eyes of all Europe the incurable perversity of
popes and cardinals. They know nothing they
do not like to know, see nothing they do not like
to see, believe nothing they do not like to believe,
and as to conforming themselves to facts, they laugh
at them. No, the facts:must conform to them. M.
THOUVENEL goes to work with them in the
gentlest and politest way possible. He expresses his
" regrets" for the events of 1860, but not being an
ecclesiastic he proposes to deal with them as a man
of business. If twenty shillings in the pound is
now out of the question, let us, he says, obtain for
the Holy See the best dividend we can. Will the
Pontifical Government, he asks, stand upon its in-
flexibility as its first right, or whatever may be its
judgment on the transformation effected in Italy,
will it resolve to accept the necessities which follow
from this great fact ? Only three Governments—
Austria, Bavaria, and Spain—refuse to recognise
the new kingdom. Openly proclaimed or tacitly
admitted, the principle of non-intervention has
become the safeguard of European peace, and the
Court of Rome does not expect certainly from foreign
aid the means of reconquering the provinces she has
lost. I go further, says M. THOUYENEL, I refuse to
believe that the Court of Rome will consent to pro-
voke, in an interest where success would be at least
doubtful, conflagrations the most formidable yet
recorded in history. Do not the lessons of expe-
rience, combined with considerations most fitting
to touch the Holy See, command it to resign
itself, without renouncing its rights to a practical
arrangement which would restore calm to the bosom
of the Catholic world, renew those traditions of
the Papacy which has so long covered Italy un-
der its ngis, and bind itself afresh to the new
destinies of a nation cruelly tried, and restored,
after so many centuries, to herself ?
All this, very general in its terms, seems very
reasonable, as well as blandly put, and the more
precise conclusion is also worded in the most
cautious manner—the EMPEROR'S Government only
writes to discover whether it ought to cherish
or abandon the hope of seeing the Holy See
lend itself, keeping account of accomplished facts,
to the study of a combination which would assure
to the Sovereign Pontiff those permanent conditions
of dignity, security, and independence necessary
to the exercise of his power. Finally, France pro-
peace that the POPE and the King of 'TALI' should

be reconciled, and dwells on the advantages of
such a reconciliation.

Provided with such representations M. LAVA-
rT TA seeks interviews with both Pope and Cardinal
tster, but it was all the same, his Eminence and
al Holiness were one. " Let us wait events," says
r.is Holiness. " All negotiation," said the Cardinal,
is impossible between the Holy See and those who
have despoiled it. It does not depend on the
Sovereign Pontiff, it is not in the power of the
Sacred College, to cede the smallest portion of
ecclesiastical territory. As for making a pact,"
he added, " with the despoilers, we will never do
it. I can only repeat that all negotiation on this
footing is impossible. Whatever might be the re-
servations with which it was accompanied, with
whatever graces of language it might be surroun-
ded, from the moment of accepting it we should
appear to consecrate it. The Sovereign Pontiff,
before his elevation, as well as the cardinals
since their nomination, have engaged them-
selves by oath to cede no part of the ter-
ritories of the Church. The Holy Father, therefore,
will make no concession of this nature, a conclave
would not have the right to make it, a new Pontiff
would be unable to make it, his successors from age
to age would be more free to make it than himself."

M. LAVALETTE had reminded his Eminence that
he was not touching on the question of right, but
all was of no avail—no intercourse could be held
with the King of ITALY by the Holy See. Yet
strangely enough, the POPE and ANTONELLI could
proclaim themselves to be on perfectly good terms
with the Italians, though not with the Court of
Turin. " The Holy Father," says the Cardinal,
" has none but excellent relations with Italy. An
Italian himself, t►nd the first of Italians, he suffers
with her suffering, and witnesses with grief the
cruel trials which have troubled the Italian Church!"
One feels a little curious to know who the Italians
are with whom he has such excellent relations.
Do they live in Naples ? or do they live in Rome
itself ? If so, why the French garrison there ?
M. LAVALETTE is obliged, therefore, to conclude
the whole transaction in despair of reconciling
Popes and Cardinals with common sense—repeat-
ing the main question in his instructions, he says,
" Ought we to nourish the hope that the Holy
See will, taking accomplished facts into con-
sideration, devote itself to the study of a
combination which would assure to the Sove-
reign PONTIFF the permanent conditions of
dignity, security, and independence neces-
sary to the exercise of his power," and finds him-
self compelled to add :—" It is with profound re-
gret that I find myself obliged to reply in the
negative; but I should think myself wanting in my
duty if I left you in possession of a hope which I
do not entertain myself."
Thus endeth, then, the last negotiation between
the Courts of Paris and Rome—ends, like all others,
on the non possums basis. We can do nothing—
we must wait what turns, says the MICAWBER of
Rome. What will turn up ? Will the EMPEROR
take an early opportunity to inform them that as
they are so patiently waiting, he will no longer try
their patience, but give them something worth wait-
ing for—that he will withdraw his troops and
leave his Holiness in the hands of the Italians, with
whom he is in such excellent relations. Or that
he will, as was talked of a week or two ago, intro-
duce him first to a few of the Italian troops, united
with his own, who will thus take a lesson from
the devout French in the art and duty of
guarding is PGPE. Of one thing we may be pretty
sure. Louis NAPOLEON will not act hastily. He
has done enough, just for the moment, by merely
showing up the impracticability of the Court of
Rome. He will probably allow the whole negotia-
tion to be well considered by Europe, and then
whether action, or some fresh exhibition of ecclesi-
astical stupidity are to follow, time alone can tell.

The single-shaft system we may now confidently
regard as doomed even before the Parliamentary
session has commenced. The course taken by the
Home-office is in itself significant. By sending down
an official representative of that department to
watch the proceedings at the inquest at New Hartley,
the Secretary of State may, in a measure, be said to
have assumed to himself the responsibility of seeing
one way or another to the interposition of the
Legislature with a view to the effectual prevention
of similar catastrophes. Besides this—there is the
mere fact of the extraordinary publicity given to
the recognition of the evil complained of. It requires
now no argument whatever to demonstrate the bare
fact. It is visible to each and all—the scientific
and the unscientific alike. The fact itself is obvious
to the least educated understanding. The working
of every coal mine, no matter what may be its dimen-
sions, no matter what may be the number of seams
excavated, the working, we say, of any coal mine
whatever with a single shaft, jeopardizes the lives
of those employed within it at any moment, and in
a mannsr the most frightful. An accident leading
to the stoppage of a single shaft, as in the late
appalling instance down at New Hartley, may
again abruptly trap the poor fellows, so many
fathoms below the surface of the earth, and shut
them out of reach of all human aid until life has been
destroyed.

Supposing there had been but a single additional
bye-shaft in the New Hartley Pit, a bye-shaft
180 feet deep, connecting the upper seam with
the middle or yard seam, in which those doomed
199 of our fellow-creatures were caged as in the
dreadful dungeon of Ugolino, every life might have
been saved with the greatest facility. As the fact
stood down in the mine now rapidly filling with
water, and possibly doomed to temporary, if not to
permanent abandonment—besides the single shaft
leading down to the bottom of that mine by a sheer
descent of 100 fathoms, there was a narrow bye-
shaft, traversed by means of a staple from the
third or lowermost seam up to the scene
of the dread destruction, namely, the middle
or yard seam. Nay, even this was not all. There
was actually a similar perforation of the soil
from the upper seam to the surface. The one
fatal deficiency was the absence of a third little
bye-shaft, furnished in like manner with a con-
venient staple—completing the chain of commu-
nication throughout this subterranean labyrinth.
All that was requisite to have saved the lives of
just 200 of our fellow-creatures was yet a third
staple through a little bye-shaft 180 feet deep,
connecting the upper seam with the mid-
dle or yard seam in which the poor fel-
lows were trapped. It is frightful to think
of, now that the appalling horrors of the
late accident are yet fresh within our remem-
brance, that all might so easily been guarded against
—and at so trivial a cost ! It has actually been
calculated that £2OO would have been the ex-
treme sum required to bore out the little
bye-shaft alone required, for the release
of just 200 of our fellow- creat ures—
that little bye-shaft, 180 feet deep, between the
upper seam and the middle or yard seam. Posi-
tively, therefore, for £1 sterling per head, the 199
men and boys destroyed so very recently and so
very frightfully down at Hartley, might have been
saved—might have been still the stay, and prop, :clad
happiness of many a now desolated howe ix!, the
neighbouring village. Rapidly, from the lowest