The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-15 00:00:00

"J-vnia

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM.
(Summer
THIS EVycENING
Season—Leum Company.)
ill be presented a comic drama, in two acts, entitled MAR-
GUERITE'S COLOURS. Principal characters by Messrs. Emery,
Wigan, Vining, and Johnston; Mesdames Dickenson, Viliars, Arden,
And Griffiths.
After which, a new drama, called THE NINTH HOUR.
To be followed by the new GRAND BALLET, in which the
Spanish Dancers will appear.
To conclude with THE MOMENTOUS QUESTION.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager.
THIS EVENING.
Will be produced a new drama (with music by Loder) entitled
DYING FOR A KISS. The characters by Madame Vestris, Miss
Emma Stanley. Mr. J. Webster, Mr. Granby, and Mr. Compton.
To be followed by USED UP. Sir Charles ColdstreamMr, C.
Mathews.
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After which the new farce, entitled A SOVEREIGN REEDY.
Captain Pendragon, Mr. Ryder ; Mr. Bottlehy, Mr Gf anby ;
quaeltit, Mr. C. Mathews; Alfred, Mr. J. Webster; Mrs. Botdeby,
Mrs. Fosbroke ; Mary, Miss Marshall.
To conclude Vith a comic drama, entitled "LADIES BEWAI: :"
Vavainur, Mr. Granby • Sir Charles l'avasour, Mr. James
Matilda, Miss Cooper.

TRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Lessee. Mr. John Mitchell.
TO-MORROW EVENING .4
Will be presented LE CODE DES FEMMES. Pardrvel, M.
IMo:evil ; Emma, Mdlle. Rabut.
After which Sonnaet's celebrated tragedy of JEANNE D'ARC.
Jeanne d'Arc, Mdlle. Rachel. " '
Reserved seats, Dress Boxes, 7s. 6d.; Pit, 55.; Amphitheatre, ss. ;

Vallery, 3s.
Boxes and Stalls may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library,
la, Old Bond-street, and at the Box-office of the Theatre, daily,from
11 till 5.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Proprietor and Manager. Mr. William Batty.
Under the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and the
Royal FAmily.
THIS EVENING
WM be ..404 Borg eous Peruvian Drama, to illustrate tha
datorieal events of the Spaniards' conquest of Peru, arranged from
"be_ uriginal text of Brins'ey Sheridau's play of " Pizarro," entitled
.11R STORMI .TG OF QUITO ; or, the Warrior of the Sun. Rolla,
w
* • West.
Thet extraordinary equestrian performances of La Petite Davidson
entVlew Scenes of the Circle, with the who'e of the Entertain-
rinepeatening been attended with the most complete success, will be
Fint
__ery evening.
exrearerobie. takee or Professor Jamieson and Son, in their peculiar
To ccacitme with
Stage Manager,
BEIGE OF MONTGATZ.
at
'la/Lager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mrs. Frances Davidge, Lessee.
I
win be presented the operTllaS oEVENINGf CINDERELLA.. Prince, Mr. W.
Harrison ; Baron Pompolini, Mr. Lamer ; Alldoro, Mr. I4l'Malion ;
Qen, cuni,
Miss Isaac Mr. H..
s. liorricastie; Cinderella, Qe Miss Rainforth ; Fairy
To conclude _with RICHARD TUE TIIIRD. Duke of Gloster,
31r. .T. B. Scott.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE,
THIS EVENING
iviD be performed a grand historical drama, entitled wir.Tvp
TYRRELL, THE SAXON AVENGER; or, The Life and
King WilliamTyrrell, William U., Mr. Dale; Walter sth '
WOO; Editha, Miss Vincent. Mr.
To be followed by a splendid drama, by Iritzball, called JANE
PAUL ; or, the Victim of Persecution. Jane Paul, Miss Vincent ;
Michael Patti, Mr. Hicks; Necker, Mr. Bird; Hedgehog Jack, lam,
Sea:le.
To conclude with THE MYSTERIES OF THE FAIRY LADY.
Half Price, 6d. Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, ad.
Boxes, IS.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
e-engagement of M. Jullien for Ten Nights more.
THIS DAY and TO-MORROW, July 15th, and 16th.
Daylight -View of Gibraltar—•-P
Menagerie—Promenade
Concert by Jailien's band of One Hundred performers, two of whom
17.!11 perform a
All each evening ; Conductor, M. Jullien ; Leader,
:aar. Godfrey. All the attractions of the gardens will be added, eon-
ndine with the grand Pyrotechnic Display of the Siege of Gibraltar.
.proiti7 nut the Anima;s at Five; Concert, Quarter-past Six; Fire-
elleaiT,ter-past Nine.—No e:ara charge.
Tht
tO and rated_I:ARMONIC ROCK BAND will perform previous
betw
the parts of the Concert.
Athaission to the whole, One Shilling.

THE INTENSE HEAT.—The intensity of the heat
during the past three days has been much greater than
bas been known for many years past. The therm°
meter ranged during the afternoon of Monday as high
as 96 degrees in the sun, and 84 degrees in the shade,
with wind W. ; on Tuesday, 08 degrees in the sun, and
86 in the shade, with the wind N.N.W. ; and yesterday,
from two to four, the mercury was up to 104 degrees,
being six degrees above blood heat aid only six degrees
below fever hest, and in the shade the mercury stoo.l at
92, with the wind due north, with n brillinnt clear sky
ovtirbt-ad, although to t'-e south and ea,it.
.there were in
the diAtance masscs of clouds. Lest eventi,g the sun set
very red in a cloudless but hazy sky, and at eight o'clock
the thermometer still showed 80 degrees.

LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1847.

So remarkable are the circumstances which are
recurring in foreign countries simultaneously with
the dissolution of our English Parliament,
,that it
cannot be unprofitable to enumerate those which
demand the most consideration as directly affecting
ourselves. Formerly it was considered in these
islands that any thought about our continental rela-
tions was an injudicious exercise of popular curiosity,
and that those relations were best consigned to the
diplomatic skill of the Chief Secretary for the
Foreign Department and his subordinate colleagues,
while the population at large contented themselves
with the development of their mercantile and agri-
cultural resources. That old pig-headed notion is
exploded. Neither the immaculate mechanism of the
heavens, as conceived in the Peripatetic Philosophy,
nor the beautiful hypothesis of the nebular system, as
imagined by the elder HERSCHEL, are more signally
refuted than this presumptuous adage. Neither the
Galilean telescope, as applied to the scheme of Pr-
THAGOB,A.S, nor the monster speculum of Lord Rosso,
as directed to the nebula in Orion, have more effec-
tually revealed the shallowness of a dogmatic and
theoretic astronomy than the experience of the last
quarter of a century of popular legislation has dis-
played the absurdity of the old drawing-
room doctrine, which restricted the consi-
deration of foreign affairs to a particular class
of statesmen and diplomatists. It is not only, there-
fore, considered allowable, but most advisable and
even most essential, that the people of this free country
should sedulously contemplate, in order that they
may fully comprehend, the position and move-
ments of the Governments of the different nations
on the globe. For in England the conduct of
the State is perpetually regulated according
to the impulses afforded by Public Opinion,
and in order that that external authority may in-
fluence in the right direction, it is absolutely neces-
sary that the affairs of the other kingdoms of the
earth should be debated and digested in the popular
mind. Without some such preliminary examination
of the Ministerial doings across the water, the British
Administration would be incessantly plunged into
the most bewildering and perilous dilemmas. .
Immediately anterior, therefore, to the dissolution
of our Parliament, before we are involved in the ex-
citement and ardour of a general election, it were a
judicious precaution on the part of the possessors of
the franchise to cast a final and comprehensive
glance over the situation of affairs, not only of
Christendom, but of Heathendom into the bargain,
But, above all, one fact should be remembered, one
paramount circumstance should be continually borne
in recollection, and that is—that the two great forces
are still at war in the cause of civilisation, the im-
pulsive and the repulsive, the progressive and the
retrogressive. And—a remembrance, this, pregnant
with meaning !—that an affection for freedom seems
dying away in the council chambers of the land of
liberty, while that sublime love of the natural rights
of the people is rising into life in the council chambers
of a land which has for centuries been in a particular
manner a land of slavery and degradation.
We have recently referred to the denationalising
and despotic tendencies of the policy latterly adopted
by the KING of the FRENCH, and we have contrasted
with it the ennobling and liberal policy recently
adventured upon by the Sovereign PONTIFF.
As a fitting corollary to those observations, we
now hear from raris or rue igu0...1.-......, .......-4.....
don of the associates of the French Minister—l-
PkIIMENTIER, CUIIIERES, TESTE, and PELL/MLA—
we receive ' the disgraceful details of their official
peculation—we receive accounts of the ineffectual
attempts made by M. TESTE to pistol himself to the
death ; and from Rome we hear of the refusal of
Pius to proscribe one hundred persons, whose liberal
sentiments render them obnoxious to the Cardinals.
Such are the dishonourable and degraded instruments
of Louis PHILIPPE'S new-fangled scheme of Orleans'
absolutism ! Such is the turpitude of the Ministerial
colleague of GUIZOT ! Such is the assiduous oppo-
sition offered to the reforms commenced by Pope
Pius IX.—an opposition not merely of the Austrian
authority beyond the frontiers of the Papal States,
but of the authority of the Cardinals within the very
precincts of the Vatican !
Leagued in the same malign cause as that which
has enginsed the imagination and obscured the
judgment of the Citizen King, are the Kaiser of
AUSTRIA and the Csar of Russia.. Leagued in the
same glorious cause of political and social emancipa-
tion with the . reforming PONTIFF, are the King of
PRUSSIA, the King of SARDINIA, the King of the
BELGIANS, and the Grand Duke of TUSCANY. All
the energies of the Cabinet of Berlin are directed to
the liberatiye movement which has latterly been per-
ceptible in. the vicinity of his Italian provinces. The
Incorporation of the Cracovian republic has not
been sufficient to appease the anxieties of the im-
perial FRANCIS. With NICHOLAS, on the other hand,
everything is being done for the consolidation of the
vast power already under his yoke for the prosecution
of certain ulterit intentions. Among the most im-
portant means.ajopted to this end by the Emperor of
all the Russias 'is, unquestionably, the projection of
a gigantic line of railway, connecting thevcapitits of
'Moscow, St. Petersburgh, and Warsaw. That rail-
road will be the spine of the Russian empire. - While
:the United tiet of Prussia is progressing happily in
its novel duties, and FREDERICK WILHELI IV. is
observing with satisfaction the present and
prospective happiness conferred thereby upon
his loving subjects, the Venerable Pius is
embarrassed by the sudden accumulation of
obstacles to his refoims. So, in like manner, is the
Sardinian CHARLES. ALHERt and so also must,
very speedily, bewpthelad Grabyndtht4Dlratabio a
ke.nof TUSCANY.
stte of
'sing LEOPOi,p, dr
his health, and the momentary antagonism of the Bel-
gians, threatens to abdicate in favour of a stripling
Prince ; and the
,thrones of Spain and Portugal are
still only doubtfully occupied by IsanELLA and
MARIA DA GLORIA.
Among the lesser points of European interest are
the partial reconciliation of the Greek King OTRo
and the Sublime Porte, and the opening of the Diet
of the Swiss Confederation at Berne, amidst urgent
and numerous anxieties. Probable as many of the
consequences are, which may be inferred from the
foregoing circumstances, the most likely amongst them
are, however, as uncertain as the elevation of the
Due D'AUMALE into the Viceroy of Aleria, or of
AED•ELJiADER into the Emperor of Mogrocco.

The attention of the House of Commons was on
Tuesday evening taken up with another case of great
apparent hardship, and we will add of injustice, to
ones of the official servants of the Crown in our colo-
nies,frequentlyie too which
places in the strongest light the system
and serious injury,lif not only of the individuals
adopted in our Colonial-office, to the
deep
and insufficient pre
whose prospects in
wtehxiteseh, abtrhnetraulisnne
ofd ot
hnesionmh frivolous
aebitants o f
enstusffienred to
tpohewseerttlareme
prevail,ese instances of arbitrary
with and impedes the course of
justice. The necessity of
and which interferes
hoyfd theainthdbo eluentacrhtnheoadft
establishing the perfect independence
men
recognised
who may be elevated the judicial rank from
justice, of preserving those distinguished tine'n
every undue influence, has long been
no y
fo
guarantee for d
thein
r
this country. It has been feltue
gthuaart
tahnedr e
liberties,
i b
ecrotui
el could ,
discharge of the important duties
ranrdigebf
rights
sc i e n t
honestp independenceop u l popular
of their station. To suffer them to remain dependent
on the mere kill and pleasure of the Ex.cwivi.. ,;.h.,,
in th.., €1,,,,t a rill S• GU:. ,), •:::. —4.'l. ...sil t- • •

iii9trurnents of t,yranny and
oppression, could crush and ruin them, was found to
involve a principle of the most dangerous character.