The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-12 00:00:00

Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.

Harrison.

THIS EVENING, THE LILY OF KILLARNEY.
Misses Louisa Pyne, Susan Pyne, Jessie M`Lean, and
Topham ; Messrs. Santley, H. Haigh, E. Dussek, C. Lyall,
ratey, Wallworth, and Mr. W. Harrison.
To conclude with HARLEQUIN GULLIVER; or, Giants
and Dwarfs. Messrs. W. 11., F., and H. Payne, H., E., and
S. Lauri, and Miss Jenny Lauri.
Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON.
Commence at Seven.

THEATRE. Ai,. HAYMARKET,
Mr. J. B. Backstone.
THIS EVENING, t ) commence with OUR'AMERICAN
COUSIN. Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothem ; Asa Trenchard,
Mr. Bucketone.
After which (3d time) a Household Picture, under Two
Liglits, entitled THE WIFE'S PORTRAIT. Mr. Howe,
Mr. W. Farren, Mrs. C. Young, &c.
To conclude with FAMILY JARS.
Commence a 7

° A :Tkilanarrijer LYCEUM
THEATRE.coner
EEdUmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING, 102 d time of 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.
Atter which, a new and origin ql 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
Aliss Lydia Thompson.
Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Prices as usual. Doo fror open at half-past 8, to commence at
7. Box-office open daily mlt till&

ROYAL PRINCESS'S TIIEATRE.
Lgebee, lir A. liarrte.
THIS EVENING, CASH V. CUPID. Mr. Widdicomb,
tr. ,511Cre, Miss Maria Harris, Ac.
ftef which, at Eight o'clock, OTHELLO. lago, Mr.
Feefiter ; Othello, Mr. Ryder.

NE-iv TFIFATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHL—
soIe propr;s9tor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE CENSUS. Mr. J. L. Toole.
After which, THE LIFE OF AN ACTRESS. Mr. and
Mrs. Dion Boucle:anit, Messrs. Emery, J. L. Toole, Billington,
Stuart, Eburyte, Sefton, Powell, C. J. Smith h; Mrs. Billington,
Airs. Harland, Mrs. H. Lewis, Miss Laidlaw.
To conclude with THE PRETTY HORSEBREAKER.
meßsrg. J. L, Toole, P. Bedford ; Misses Woolgar, K. Kelly,
Laidlaw, Mrs. H. Marston. Commence at 7.

NEW ROYALTY THEATRE,
Dean-street, Oxford-street.
THIS EVENING, GOOD FOR NOTHING.'
Followed by MONSIEUR JACQUES. Mr. Ben Barnett.
A Ballet Divertissement.
After which, the succesful Opera Buffo, entitled LE MARI-
AGE AUX LANTERNES. Mr. John Morgan, Mesdames
Stanley, Payne, and Mason.
Commence at half-past 7.

As TLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.— I
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
Continued and Triumphant success of the stupendous Per
forming-El p hants, whose wondrous feats on the stage,
and afterwards in the circle, have created the most genuine
enthusiasm.
THIS EVENING, the Grand Eastern Spectacle of THE
girJAH OF NAGPORE, with new and splendid dresses,
tfc-olery, and decorations, introducing Mr. Bell's trained Ele-
Phants, acknowledged by the Press and the Public to be the
iftost wonderful animals ever exhibited.
To be followed by brilliant and daring feats of Horse-
manship by the Troupe of Foreign Equestrians.
COzcluding with a new Ballet of Action, introduciw• Mr.
Barry Croueste, the Misses Gunnis, and the whole of the
Corps de Ballet.

Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle.

CANTERBIJiY HALL AND FINE
ARTS GALLERY.
VICTOR JULIEN, "THE FLYING MAN,"
at half-past Nine, in new and extraordinary feats.
Grand Selections from "La Sn
onambul ," "
aorah,"
and " La Circassienne, " by Mdlle. Negri, Mr. GDinreene, Mr.
Herbert, and full Chorus, at Ten o'clock.
Last Week of
"THE ENCHANTED HASH,"
By Mr. Marshall, at a quarter-past Ten, performed 70 nights.
Comic—Mr. Randall, Mr. Frederick French, Mr. J. G.
Forde, Mr. Marshall, and Miss Harriet Coveney.
Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans.
Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, is.

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,"
" MaeWh, "II Trovatore," "La Traviata," "La Circas-
sienne, Sze., by Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn, Messrs.
Morley, Greene, C. Greville, and Albert. Full Band and
Chorus---(Conductor—Mr. F. Jombmsns.) Violin Solos—
Mr.Viotti Collins, and other Vocal and Instrumental attrac-
tions. T,he Comic portion by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs.
Sam Collins, Harvey and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall,
and W. Randall.
Hall, 641. ; Stalls and Balcony, Is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. sd.
A Grand Morning Entertainment every THURSDAY,
at which HENRI and IFAU and he whole of the Company
appear. Doors open at Two o'clock.
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HIGli WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 1113. 4m.—Afternoon, 11h. 40m.
To-iwoußow.-Morning, h. m.—Afternoon, 12h. 14m.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 12, 1862.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
49—highest since noon yesterday.
41—lowest this morning and during the night.
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THE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1862,

The King of PRUSSIA has shown more obstinate

;
;

incapacity for his position than was ever expected
from him. His knowledge of Constitutional
Government, and his temper in refeienee to it were
always rated very low, but it seems not low enough.
His Chamber of Deputies {Tittered from him. They
wished for a budget not to be voted as a whole, but
specifying the principal items—and for this their
punishment is dissolution ! If the English practice
has a shadow of reason in it—if M. FOULD, the
man summoned by EMPEROR to set his Budget
right, has any reason in him, what the Chamber
asked for is a most reasonable and constitutional
thing. The Deputies were probably influenced by
the example of France. They saw that a man of
unquestionable financial ability had convinced
the EMPEROR of the substantial excellence of
the principle of making. the Government respon-
sible for giving correct estimates, and for limiting
its expenditure by the conditions under which they
had asked the money. On this point they were
therefore firm ; and on this point, as the Chamber
'le dissolved, we suppose the next step must be to
try whether the country will back its Deputies in
their firmness.

The whole proceeding is due to the KING him-
self. ilia Minister,
on the adverse vote of the
Chamber, tendered
their resignations; but the KING
declined to accept
it. He required them to remain
and to act; but et:e
act was compatible with re-
maining in office vale
a grave ministerial anu they had been out-voted on
against 143. They all,
therefore,
n by a majority of 171
fore, with one exception,
.1.. q. BETIIMAN HOLLwEG, t.
lie Minister of Public
. Worship, ag2•ced to advise adissolution—the course
preferred by the King. The Crown Prince, it
seems, young us he is, was wiser
and proposed a prorogation for six weeks,
his father,
weeks,pretext of reforming the Budget, and Ive.t eks, under
of something turning up. But the csil the hope
military_
trained King was obstinate—the Chamber,, in the
lew of a soldier, had been rnutinous—er •
vil law
Itilos,ved no severer punishment than disbandment,
se the refractory regiment is broken up.
It renntins to be seen, however, w!:, • ht r the Prus-
sian electors comprehend the difference between
.3. iailitary regiment end a civil Chamber—between
an institution, half the value and efficiency of which
depends on implicit obedience, and one of which the
chief advantage is free discussion and free action
do all topicf. It was the fear on the part of the
Ministryli3Oera_ of receive back from the country a more
I Chamber than the
present fine, which at
first made them -
resign rather than advise a disset-:'

,1,~

lution. For aught that appears, this reason is as
cogent as ever, and the Budget being yet not voted
the KING will be compelled to appeal to his sub-
jects at once, and while they may be supposed to
be irritated with the unfair treatment of their
deputies. The reactionary party will no doubt
exert themselves, backed by Court influence, to the
utmost ; but there is not, that we are aware, any
reason to think that the country will fail to sustain
its deputies, and it will probably increase the
majority against Royal wilfulness.
It is much to be regretted that Prussia should,
just now, want a Sovereign up to the standard of
his age. A King of Prussia might now be the vir-
tual Emperor of Germany. Had he only the sense
of a VICTOR EMMANUEL—had he sense to perceive
that German unity was an aspiration more ardent
than ever, but that the only path to it was through
Constitutional Government honestly accepted—he
might be the rallying point of all the Liberalism of
Germany. Instead of this the foolish old military mar-
tinet cannot get dreams of Feudal Royalty and Right
Divine out of his mind. His babblings on that
topic at his coronation, and afterwards to his clergy
too, and his uttered complaints immediately after
the elections against the Liberal majority which
had been returned, must be fresh in the memory of
Electors, and show him to be utterly incapable of
understanding the first duties of a constitutional
Monarch. He seems to have no more idea of a
power; which may check and modify his own in
a popular Parliament than the colonel of a regiment
has in his subordinate officers. While this is his
temper, and we fear he is too old to learn, he can
do little but injury to the post he encumbers. His
people, we may hope, will firmly resist him, and
the kingdom fall peacefully in due time into the
hands of the husband of our PRINCESS ROYAL; but

it is to be regretted that till that time he will be
but a clog on the advance of the nation.

In the inaugural address of President DAVIS, now
before us in full, one thing is still remarkable—we
fail to detect anything whatever beyond constructive
grounds of secession. There is nothing assigned, at
the very moment of inaugurating a permanent
Government, which an English House of Commons,
with its practical sense, could accept for a moment
as a ground for such a step as Secession, defended
by armed rebellion. The true grounds appear but
indirectly—false grounds are made prominent.
There could be no need for this—for we are told
that thirteen States were represented in the Con-
gress Mr. DAVIS addressed, that eleven had vcted
in an electoral college, and that their entire votes,
109, had fallen on JEFFERSON DAVIS for President,
and A. H. STEPHENS for.:Viee-President.
) His address was meant, no doubt, for perusal
throughout' America and Europe, yet we may sup-
pose that to such an assembly of entire and united
friends and coadjutors, the truth, as it is seen in the
South, would come out. Yet he begins his
grievances with complaining of " a long course of
class legislation, directed not to the general welfare,
but to the aggrandisement of the Northern section
of the Union." Now, nothing can be more certain
than that in all that class legislation—we suppose
the tariffs are referred to—the South concurred,
and that not a single tariff hostile to Southern
interests could have been carried through the
Senate, as well as the House of Representatives,
without the assent of the South. It may indeed have
been that the Southern politicians did this as part
of a tacit bargain for Northern support of slavery,
but if this were so, it did not suit JEFF. DAVIES'

purposes to say it.
It were almost amusing, had not the consequences
been so bloody, to see the shadowy grounds alleged
for secession—" the dogmas," not the acts, of a
sectional party are specified—it is at most said
that these dogmas " threatened to destroy the sove-
reign rights of the States." Not one single mis-
deed of the North, or of the new Government
can be laid hold of to proclaim to the world
as the reason for setting up this permanent Gawp-,
ment. There was no taxation without representa-
tion, no attacks by arms, no invasion of a Southern
right in any form—there was, indeed, nothing but
the one fact, that the Presidential Chair was no
longer a piece of Southern patronage, atid that the
"spoils of office" were consequently lost. As to
power in Congress, it was, in March last, balanced
about as nearly as in our own House of Com-
mons. Had the South been content to have
used political means merely, they were, like their
counterpart in England just now, far too strong to
permit of the North taking any unfair advantage.
They perceived a " revolution in silent but rapid
progress to place them under the despotism of num-
hers,"—but they surely might have waited till
they had proof of the fact that numbers would
at all more tyrannical than they them-
selves had become. They had no right to
assume that a majority would act unjustly, and to
plunge into rebellion and a war on such a gratui-
tous assumption.

,
The truth is, and it is useless for the South to con-
ceal it, this is a secession for political power and for
slavery. The leading men in it were the poll-
ticians who, in the days of BUCHANAN and
his predecessors, had pulled the wires of Go-
vernment, and who were mortified to find their
power gone. The Rebellion was a planned thing.
FLOYD, who as General has distinguished himself
by leading his men in flight, was their chief agent
in BUCHANAN'S Cabinet—the arch-conspirator who
armed the South and disarmed the North, against
the day of Mr. LINCOLN'S election. The South has
rebelled, to maintain in its own territory, that
mastery which it once asserted over the whole
Union. Its politicians could not be second men.
They would be first in the Union, or first in the
Confederation. And this fact, with slavery and its
demoralising consequences, account for the whole of
this, to English views of the case, unjustified re-
bellion. We do not mean to deny that Northerns
and Southerns are too diverse in character to work
in harmony, but Mr. DAVIS speaks only of political
reasons, and he has certainly not mentioned one
which will bear a moment's scrutiny.

Never has a Minister fallen with more dignity
than Baron RICASOLI. That at least must be said
of him. Whatever views may be entertained in
this country as to his policy, it is certain at least
that he has so withdrawn from power at Turin
that his personal honour is preserved. His con-
sistency at any rate is not compromised. Tout est
perdu—fars l'honneur. He tenders his own resig-
nation, and with that the resignation of his col-
leagues collectively, to his Sovereign the new King
of ITALY—King no longer of Piedmont alone, but
of Italy"—and why does he withdraw from the
leadership of the Italian Governraent ? Simply
because be will not consent to hold office in that
apparently supreme and manifestly responsible
Capacity upon sufferance as the nominee, or by
-u,factPw4reura, .r.Z`TeAhPeOreLEoNll.
P_einrtnisien, of his Imperial sty the French
to view the other • alluding
presented
to. The icicen blinkingth e
dayl in the great Representative
Chamber of the Italian parliament served to illus-
trate it as a fact altogether
in incontrovertible and in
a manner the most remarkablee
that could very well
have been. There and then it
s rendered mani-
fest that had RICASOLI
consented
so to modify
hig unity policy with regard to Italian •
thatit

would have 'harmonised better with the policy of
the French EMPEROR, he (the Baron RICASOLI)
might still have remained in office as the powerful
chief of that g rowing and strengthening nationality.
His rival and successor, M. RATAZZI, instead of
occupying, as he does now, that lofty and difficult
post of the Premiership, might still have been hun-
gering and thirsting for authority as First Minister
of VICTOR EMMANUEL, might still to that end,
with that one aim and object in view, have con-
tinued to blurt out piecemeal his "private and con-
fidential" correspondence with the famous dead and
gone organiser of the newly-created kingdom of
Italy—the Count CAVOUR. Circumstances have
ruled it, as we know, otherwise. And this, in the
first instance, because the late Prime Minister of
Italy, the Baron RICASOLI, would not condescend
to revise his policy at the dictation of the Emperor
NAPOLEON 111. Rather than yield to that extent
to the enigmatical arbitrer of the destinies of the
Roman peninsula, RICASOLI resigned. Rather
than continue to hold nominally only the
rank he had been holding hitherto, in very
deed and truth, the late Premier of Italy
gave in, as we know, his own resignation and that
of his colleagues in the Government. His successor,
M. RATAZZI, has assumed the reins which have thus
been voluntarily yielded up with so much calmness
and dignity by the Baron ItioAsou. A different
future is opening up to the new nationality and to
the Parliament at Turin. The ex-Premier has
there explained his resignation. His successful
rival has unfolded the programme of his new-born
Administration. And the sitting which has but
just now witnessed this double eelaircissement
has certainly, in many of its incidents, not been
without its significance. Those who witnessed the
spectacle lay stress especially upon the timidity, the
hesitation, the confusion both of tone and manner
marking the Ministerial explanations of the newly-
installed Administrator, President of the Council,
and Minister for Foreign Affairs—in other words,
Prime Minister of Italy—the third Premier since
the establishment of the new Sovereignty—CAvouE
being, as history, will henceforth record it, the
First, yea, facile princeps—RlCASOLl the Second—
RATAZZI the Third. Death cut short the career of
the great and astute statesman to whose genius,
quite as much as to the sword of NAPOLEON 111.,
the Italians owe their political emancipation.
A dictate no less inexorable with some, the
lofty and austere dictate of Honour, has
peremptorily closed for CAVOUR'S successor, the
Baron RICASOLI, that same career of Minis-
terial chief and supreme administrator of the
newly-organised nationality. Fallen RICASOLI
has, but voluntarily and with dignity—his honour
untarnished, his consistency maintained, his name
and fame respected even by his antagonists. The
noble and haughty oration with which he bade
adieu to power the other day in the Italian Parlia-
liament—while addressing that great legislative
and representative assemblage in language of the
severest reproof and reprehension—how was that
farewell harangue greeted by its hearers ? Why,
in
admirers
rmerasnnoefr
ptohliatticanlo
inletsesgrnitoytywbiethcamtheu
nthdeemrs as
of
acclamation ! The Baron RICASOLI retires to his
olive-gardens and his vineyards covered with the
respect and sympathy of friends and foes alike—
another pure and lofty, though an unsuccessful
and even defeated, CINCINNATUS.

ARRIVAL OF ?RR VICTORIA
2RANSPORT.

PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY MORNING.

The screw steamship Victoria, Captain Ander-
son, arrived this morning. She left Queenstown
Feb. 14, with the head=quarters of the 96th
Regiment, 21 officers and 529 men, and has been
as far as lat, 37 N., long. 28 W., and bore away
February 24, for Fayal, where she arrived on
the 28th, and left on the 6th instant for Eng-
land, Her log states, February 15th and 16th,
heavy squalls and snow from the S.E. ; 17th,
the same from the N.W. ; 18th, the boats'
davits carried away by rolling; 19th, hailstorm;
20th, sea struck starbord bow and washed away
sidehouses and bulwarks on both sides; 21st and
22d, N.W.gales ; 23d, stopped engines, on starting
again the cylinder bottom cap split, disconnected
starboard engine, ship leaky; 24th, 6 a.m. moved
ahead with port engine, at 6.15 a.m. the water put
out the engine fire and gained on the pumps, all
hands engaged, assisted by the troops and officers,
heavy gale from S.W., with high seas and squalls,
bore up for Fayal, where she arrived on the 28t1';
from Fayal she has experienced strong gales from
W.S.W., with thick weather. The surveying ves-
sel Swallow, from the eastward, arrived in the
Sound this morning.

The Hamburg mail steamer Teutor(ia; which le.
New York on the 22d ult., is now several days overdue.

The steam frigate Eldorado left Toulon two days
back for Alexandria, having on board numerous military
passengers, an immense quantity of war stores for Cochin-
China, and a complete siege battery.

The Jourdain, just arrived at Marseilles from
Algiers, had 1.50 Arabs on board, all going on a pilgrimage
to Mecca.

,
RESPITE OF HALL, THE OXFORD IVIURDERETt.—
Yesterday afternoon a communication was forwarded``-to the
governor of Oxford gaol that the Home SecretarYhad,"after
a review of the circumstances of the case of nall,'ecliiileted
at the last assizes of the murder of a gamekeeper, 'advised
that the clemency of the crown should be extended, and
Hall accordingly stands respited during her Majesty's plea-
sure.

RESPITE OF THE NEWCASTLE MURDERER.—Sir
G. Grey has had under his consideration the circumstances
connected with the case of George Clark, who was con-
victed at the last Newcastle assizes of the murder of Mr.
Mark Frater, the tax collector, and has thought fit to ad-
vise that the unhappy man be respited during her Majesty's
pleasure. An official intimation of Sir George Grey's de-
cision was forwarded to the governor of Newcastle Gaol on
Monday night.

FALL OF A HOUSE IN HOLBORN.—Shortly
before eight o'clock last evening great excitement was oc-
casioned in the immediate neighbourhood of Little Turn-
stile, Holborn, by what at first appeared the fall of several
houses, bearing with them their inmates. When the dust
had somewhat subsided it was found that the premises 294,
HighHolborn, had fallen in. It was known that Mr. Prew,
a tailor and clothier, the proprietor of the premises, em-
ployed about 20 persons upon the establishment, and in-
quiries were at once set on foot, when it was ascertained
that every person had escaped without injury. It appears
that a peculiar cracking noise was heard at an early hour in
the morning, of which no notice was taken, and during
the day nothing more than usual occurred, but shortly be-
fore the time above-mentioned a cracking noise was heard
by some of the men, who at once cautioned their fellow
workpeeple, but had scarcely done so when the whole of
the four floors fell with a fearful crash. The front wall of
the house was left standing.

M. BLONDIN AT LIVERPOOL.---NARROW ESCAPE.
—" The Hero of Niagara" gave a display of his remarkable
feats at the Theatre Royal, Liverpool, last evening. " The
excitement of the whole display," says the Mercury, "cul-
minated in the last item of the programme—the artiste
carrying a man on his back along the rope ; and this ex-
citement was still further increased by the occurrence of an
accident which was well nigh being attended with very
serious consequences. 'To a dead certainty,' as the saying
goeth, M. Blondin will proceed with his unrivalled exhi-
bition of skill and daring' until he breaks his neck, and
perhaps that of some one else, and that unfortunate
climax was nearly being arrived at last night. The high
rope was stretched from the middle of the gallery to the
back of the stage. In front of the gallery is an iron
railing, and upon this the rope rested. M. Blondin had
carried his assistant on his beck in slings from the stage to
the gallery, and was about to return, when the moment
they had passed the railing in question it gave way, caus-
ing the rope suddenly to fall about two feet, and jerking
the two men fr'orn it. They fell backwards, and might
• have been injured by the fall, but fortunately they alighted
in the arms of the people yclept the gods,' and thus
escaped any harm. Had the voyagers been but a yard or
so further along the rope over the pit they must inevitably
have been dashed to the floor. Blondin displayed admi-
rable presence of mind. As though nothing at all had
happened he picked himself and his burden up, and not-
withstanding the slackening of the rope by the accident,
conveyed him in safety to the opposite extremity amidst the
cheers of the audience;"