The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-13 00:00:00

Commences 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager--Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING, Feb. 13, the new and original Drama,
entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs.
Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Fal-
coner ; 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.
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Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Prices 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, AS YOU LIKE IT. Mr. Ryder, Mr.
W iddicomb, Mr. Jordan, Miss Carlotta Leclercq, Miss Maria
Harris, &c.

After which a Comic Christmas Pantomime, WHIWIN.cf-
TON AND HIS CAT ; or, Harlequin King Kollywobbo)
and the Genius of Good Humour. The grotesque openin,
invented and written by Henry J. Byron, Esq., author of the
Princess's Pantomime of "Jack the Giant Killer '' The
Scenery by Mr. James Gates, Mr. H. Cuthbert, and Tumorous
assistants. Good Humour, Miss Helen Howard ; Princess
Popsiwopsi, Miss Rose Leclercq ; Alice, Miss Pauline Le-
clercq ; Messrs. Garden, Cathcart, Morland, Collett, Hast-
ings. Raymond; Dick Whittington, Miss Maria Harris;
Robin Goodfellow and the Cat, Master John Haslem, (pupil
of the celebrated Gabriel Ravel ; Clown, Mr. Hildyard ;
Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Colum-
bine, Miss Caroline Adams.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.

351st Night of the Engagement of Mr. and Mrs. DION
BOUCICAULT.

THIS EVENING, the great American Drama of THE
OCTOROON. Messrs. Dion Boucicault, S. Emery, Billington,
Jamison, P. Bedford, Stephenson, Eburne, Powell, Romer,
H. Lewis ; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Marston. Miss Latimer,
Miss Denvil. After which (4th time), THE DUBLIN BOY.
Andy, Mrs. Boucicault. To conclude with MARGERY
DAW. Messrs. D. Fisher, Billington. W. Smith, Miss Wool-
gar, and Miss K. Kelly. Commence at 7.

NEW ROYALTY THEATRE,
Dean-street, Oxford-street.
THIS EVENING, A CHINESE ROMANCE.
After which Offenbach's Opera Buffo, entitled LE MARI-
AGE AUX LANTERNES. Mr. John Morgan, Mesdames
Stanley, Payne, and Mason.
To conclude with a new and original Farce, by
Messrs. Ben Barnett and George Webster, entitled CARNA-
TION OF CARNATION COTTAGE.
Commence at half-past 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Last 3 Nights of The Colleen Bawn, and of the Nor-
wegian Wonders, to make room for the Grand Equestrian
Spectacle, now in preparation, introducing Two of the finest
Performing Elephants ever seen in this country.
THIS EVENING, THE COLLEEN BAWN.
To be followe,i by the SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, when
the great Norwegian Wonders will appear.
Concluding with a favourite Farce.

The world-renowed Rumsey and Newcomb's Double Troupe
of Ethiopian Minstrels are engaged for six nights only, com-
mencing Monday, Feb. 17.

CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE
ARTS GALLERY.
"THE ENCHANTED HASH " (SECOND EDITION)
by Mr. E. Marshall, with Eleven Wonderfbl Transformations
(the mos.; talented performance ever attempted by a single
person), at a quarter-past ten. Also the following extraor-
dinary combination of Comic talent, viz.: Mr. Randall, Mr.
Frederick French, Mr. J. G. Forde, Miss Harriet Coveney,
and Miss Greene.

Grand Selections from LA TRAVIATA, by Mdlle. Negri,
Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, and a powerful Chorus, at Ten
o'clock.

Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans.
Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, is.

VICTOR JULIEN, " THE FLYING MAN,"
at CANTERBURY HALL, Every Evening at half-
past Nine o'clock.

THE 0 X F O R D,
6, OXFORD-STREET,
Two Selections Every Evening alternately from " Ernani,"
" Lucrezia Borgia," "La Traviats„" " Simon Boccanegra,"
"La Circassienne," &0., by the entire Company, Full Band
and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Solos by Mr.
Viotti Collins (the great English violinist). And other at-
tractive Entertainments, the Comic portion by Miss Harriet
Coveney, Messrs. Sam Collins, Wood and Son, E. Marshall,
M. P. Foster, and W. Randall.

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

THE OXFORD, 6. OXFORD-STREET.-
" LES MERVEILLES GYMNASTIQUES"

By HENRI and PFAU
(aged Nine and Eleven years),
From the "Cirque Napoleon," Paris, at which place they
performed for Three Hundred Consecutive Nights, creating
the utmost enthusiasm and excitement.
The Double Feats on the Flying Trapeze of these Youthful
Artistes are unsurpassed for daring, skill, and grace.
They make their First Appearance in England at this
Establishment on MONDAY next, the 17th of February.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.--Morning, lh. 13m.—Afternoon, lh. 36m.
To-MORROW. -Morning, lb. 58m.—Afternoon, 2h. 12m.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, EB R UARY

the spiritual lieges of the POPE may do,
we presume, as to the advisability of main-
taining or yielding up the temporal power
appertaining to the Papacy during the last
thousand years : but, to regard it as a dogma
of the Church, as a fundamental principle of the
Religion, would surely be the last extremity of ex-
travagance ! What an avalanche of overwhelming
texts from Scripture, dead against them, would they
not draw down upon their heads instanter! "My
kingdom is not of this world "—" a house built upon
sand "—and so forth ad infinitum. But, as " the
dog-star rages," apparently when MSEITILLoTtakes
pen in hand for the writing of his very remarkable
politico-theology—as the moon clearly about that
time must have affected the condition of his brain as
author of the Parfam de Rome—Father PASSAGLIA
falls under a torrent not by any means of Scriptural
quotations, but of appalling maledictions, resound-
ing in every sentence like a horrible echo of that
hideous refrain in one of AINSWORTH'S witch songs,
or demon chaunts—

" Anathema Maranatha,
Dread was the curse of Mandragora."

Talk of the volley of curses hurled back upon Athens
by TIMON of that ilk when quitting the city for the
sylvan wilderness in SHAKSPERE'S violet-crowned
classic drama—the words there dropping from the
poison-breathing lips of the terrible manhater, are
like sprinklings of the milk of human kindness
by comparison with M. VEUILLOT'S venomous ob-
jurgations upon Father PASSAGLIA. The Paris cor-
respondent of our chief morning contemporary,
in giving the pick of these most deplorable vitupe-
rations, says fascetiously, in remembrance of my
Uncle TOBY, " Our armies swore terribly in Flan-
ders," adding, " but nothing to this." There is
only one other tornado of curses that M.
VEUILLOT'S really can be said to pat one in
mind of—namely, that recorded in astounding
rhyme upon the grotesque tablets of THOMAS IN-
GOLDSBY—

" He cursed him in eating,
He cursed him in drinking,
He cursed him walking and talking, and thinking,"
and " the rest,"through page after page of whimsical
and horrible maledictions. M. VEUILLOT, however,
in emptying out his dreadful anathemas, appears to
be in every miserable sentence frightfully in ear-
nest. It is a clear case of stark, staring lunacy—
of fanaticism gone distracted and becoming—so far
as words can enable any one to become so—dan-
gerous. A tin kettle tied to a dog's tail at mid-
summer is about the surest possible preparation for
a hopeless case of hydrophobia. And in clattering
this tin kettle of curses at his heels in the shape
of his last literary production, the Parfum
de Rome, M. VEUILLOT is justifying as
plainly and clearly as he could possibly
justify
any act on the part of his friends, the strap-
ping him comfortably into a straightwaistcoat, and
the procuring for him of a nicely-padded room in
a salubrious and secluded maison de sante. The
publication of language so horrible as that applied
by M. VEUILLOT to the Padre PASSAGLIA is no-
thing less than a flagrant scandal to all Christen-
dom. It constrains everyone of us here, even in
Protestant England, to look for but one sequel to
this latest news about M. VEUILLOT, namely, for
tidings of his excommunication.

Accidents still continues to multiply upon acci-
dent with a rapidity and a strangeness that really
becomes appalling. It looks like a fatality incident
to the New Year. " Misfortunes," says SHAKSPERE,
" come not singly, but in battalions." The coinci-
dence that it, only too often, is so, has seldom had
so singular or in another sense so plural an illus-
tration than it has recently. A day or two has
scarcely sped by since we took occasion in these
columns the other evening to remaik upon the mul-
tiplicity of horrible accidents as having occurred
in the January and February of 1862—and already
a variety of fresh casualties have justified those re-
marks of ours. To the wholesale destruction of 200
miners, men and boys, in the Hartley new coal pit,
to the miserable destruction so soon afterwards of
the poor lady crushed to death in the machinery of
a great iron-foundry hard by, to the wretched
mutilation of some thirty chance spectators of a
casual " row" in the Waterloo-road, where an iron
grating in the pavement suddenly gave way under
the unwonted pressure of the crowd of lookers-on
—to these incidents others have been added within
the last few hours, some of them, in their
way quite as remarkable and quite as melancholy.
A cluster of new houses at Hackney, while in course
of completion, all of a sudden gives way and col-
lapses into a ruin. A young girl of sixteen falls, in
her turn, a victim to crinoline under circumstances
unusually painful. Another lady is caught
up by her dress in another factory, and
her body nearly severed in twain by the
whirling machinery before there is the possibility
of seeing to her extrication. And so the horrors
number up day by day—as though accidents at
times multiplied in some mysterious manner, or by
a sort of epidemic. The remedies to be adopted
with a view to their prevention we have
already commented upon—some of them we
have distinctly (only a day or two since)
enumerated. Some of these remedies become upon
every fresh occasion only more and more obviously
requisite. Responsible inspectors of hie ways, of
houses, of buildings generally, ought to be forced
into greater vigilance by being held yet more than
ever responsible. Machinery ought to be guarded.
And we ought to have an end to this monstrous
folly of fashion going by the name of crinoline.

Viscount and Viscountess Malden have arrived ai
the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood.

Lord and Lady de Blaquiere have left London for
Paris, and will remain abroad for aome weeks.
The Rev. W. Harcourt and Mrs. Harcourt and
Miss Harcourt have arrived at Farrance's Hotel from
their residence, York.

THE WATERLOO-ROAD CATASTROPHE.—James
Robins, carver and gilder, of Southampton-terrace, Water-
loo-road, died yesterday morning at St. Thomas's Hospital,
after enduring excruciating pain. This death will lead to
an inquest, when the cause of the accident will be investi-
gated.

At the annual meeting of the Ottoman Bank next
month the directors will recommend a dividend at the rate
of 10 per cent. per annum, free of income-tax, and an addi-
tion of about £7,000 to the reserve fund.

Intelligence was received from Newcastle yester-
day that the Pemberton pit, near Sunderland—the deepest
in the kingdom—had been flooded. No lives were lost, but
great difficulty was experienced in getting the horses out.
The water bas also broken into the Gosforth pit, and during
the works rendered necessary a large number of men will
be thrown out of employment. It is said that there are
only one or two collieries on the north banks of the Tyne
that are not flooded.

The Prince of Wales arrived at Munich in the
evening of the Bth, on his way to the East. His Royal
Highness was accompanied by his future brother-in-law,
the Prince Louis of Hesse. The two Princes travel in the
strictest incognito, and intended to remain two or three
days in the Bavarian capital.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailsa have ar-
rived at the Burlington Hotel, Cork-street, from Culzean
Cantle, Scotland.

The Countess of Lincoln was safely delivered of
a daughter on Wednesday morning.
Viscount and Viscountess Castlerosse have left
town for Manthara Court, Worthing, on a visit to the
Marehivness Dowager of Bath.
NAPOLEON AND lIIE GOVERNOR OF SEVILLA

"If the town does not surrender," said Napoleon to the
Governor, " within three days, je la feral rascr." "Permit
me to doubt it," was the quaint reply. "Your Majesty
would certainly not like to add to your titles of Emperor of
the French and King of Italy also that of Baroer of Se-
villa 1"--0710 a Week,