The Sun.
London, England, 1871-02-07 00:00:00

THEATRES AND AMUSEMENT

a proceeding. There may be differences of opinion
amongst the French people touching the
policy of proscription ; there can be none
touching the interference of the German statesman.
The only proper course for him was to make his com-
plaint through M. FAVRE.
M. GAMBETTA'S Conduct is lawless, and that of M.
FAVILE and his colleagues just. The refusal -Co allow
the Orleanist Princes to sit in the Assembly is one
thatcannotbe justified on any pretext. The Princes are
Frenchmen ; they are patriotic and selt-sacrdicing ;
they have preferred their duty to their personal
ambition. The case of the Imperialists is different.
The principle of freedom would be better upheld
by allowing them to stand. as candidates,
but their exclusion cannot he regarded
as an overwhelming calamity. Their lives
in general supply little that is worthy of our admi-
ration ; the country will lose nothing by their ab-
sence. They have during many years practically
upheld the same principles of exclusion that
aggrieves them so much when applied to them-
selves. They have trampled upon the freedom of
Frenchmen, and made the name of national represen-
tation a mere mockery. It is theoretically wrong; but
it is scarcely unnatural that the class of politicians
whose colleagues were shot, imprisoned, transported to
Cayenne, for the sake of Imperial safety should now
refuse to grant them the first step towards their re-
storation to power—a restoration which would be
followed speedily by the removal of M. GAMBETTA
and all his companions to a place where they would
finally cease from troubling. There is, moreover, a
powerful argument of general application. The
Imperialists are notoriJusly conspiring to replace
their master on the throne, irrespective of any de-
cision of the National Assembly. The vile agents
of a vile cause have been known to
make offers to Count BISMARCK. Conspira-
tors may justly be excluded from participation
in an otherwise free election. Thera is no reason
whatever why the calling of the National Assembly
should be made accessory to a widely planne I scheme
for overthrowing the national liberties, especially
when this scheme is favoured, as it is known to be,
by the common enemy. The French Ministers are
justified in taking all reasonable means to frustrate
the designs hatched at Lonlon, Brussels, and Wil-
helmshohe. These considerations suggest a com-
promise, which might possibly be 'accepted
at Bordeaux. Let those persons who have volun-
tarily exiled themselves from France since Sedan be
excludel, but let the Orleanist Princes be admitted,
and likewise such Imperialists as remained by
their country. These last ought to be 'sufficient to
represent the Empire, if the country chooses to elect
them. We are fully alive to the pleas that may be
urged against this compromise ; but the question
has become a practical one. There is no other course.

DRURY LANE—RuIe Britannia. Dragon of Wantley.
COVENT GARDEN—Lottery Ticket. Sleeping Beauty.
..A.DELPHI—That Rascal. Jack. Deadman's Point. The
Mistletoe Bough.
PRINCESS'S—He's a Lunatic. King o' Scots. The Happy
Man.
HAYMARKET—The Poor Soldier. The Palace of Truth.
Uncle's Will. Family Jars.
VAUDEVILLE -Chiselling. Two Roses. Elizabeth, or the ,
Invisible Armada.
OPERA COMIQUE—Found Drowned. The Lottery Ticket. ,
The Carnival Ball.
ST. JAMES'S—To Oblige Benson. Naval Engagements.
Jenny Lind at Last. An Unhappy Pair.
OLYMPlC—Poppleton's Predicament. Nell and (Bur-
lesque) Paul and Virginia.
ROYALTY—Dora's Device. Whittington Junior and his
Sensation Cat. Diamond Cut Diamond.
GAIETY—A Christmas Story. Alladin
QUEEN'S—A Day After the Wedding. 'Twixt Axe and
Crown.
ROYAL COURT THEATRE—Turn Him Out. Randall's
Thumb. Q.E.D.
HOLBORN—Jezabel. Ticket-of-Leave Man.
STRAND—Living at Ease. Coeur-de-Lion. On and Off.
PRINCE OF4WALES'S—Ours. Locked In.
ASTLEY'S —Englishmen in Paris. Little TOm Tittlemouse.
SURREY—Farce. My Son Jack.
NATIONAL STANDARD— Farce. Ride a Cock Horse to
Banbury Cross.
SADLER'S WELLS—Sinbad the Sailor.
AMPHITHEARE AND CIRCUS (Holborn)—Scenes in the
Arena.
ST. JAMES'S HALL— Christy Ministrels. Every evening.
ALHAMBRA—Grand Concerts.
PoLYTEcurric—Professor Pepper's War Lecture. After-
noon and evening.
MADAME TUSSAUD'S (Baker-street)—From 10 a.m. till 10
p.m. is. ; extra rooms, 6d.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

EMIGRATION FROM BRUSSELS.

Brussels has been the head-quarters of the Im-
perialists since Sedan. There collected a large
number of refugees, ex-Ministers, ex-legislators, ex-
officials,
besides other warm supporters of the
Empire, including the English Duchess of
Since the armistice many of these personages have
emigrated back to France, in order to become can-
didates for the National Assembly. But what are
they to do, if Gambetta persists in declar-
ing them ineligible?. They may, it is true,
secure return in some of the districts occupied
by the Germans, for not only will they there enjoy
every facility, but these districts are just those in
which Imperialists would, undey ordinary circum-
stances, have the best chance. But, it they are
elected, they can never venture to Bordeaux. They
would not be admitted to the Grand Theatre and it
might not be easy for them to escape with their lives.
The difficulties of the situation seem insuperable.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAN , FEBRUARY 7, 1671.

also have the option of becoming . sureties
for them instead of sending them to v -
lormatory schools. The pfactice of exposing
goods for sale outside the doors of shop§ is a cothltant
encouragement to crime, and should be repressed
by penalties, while the law with • respect
1 to the reception of stolen goods, requires alteration
and improvement. The defective state of the Licence
Law is passed over by the magistrate, as he under-
stands a Government measure is in prospect lie
inculcates humanity towards [animals, mention-
ing several point!! in Which the treatment
of draught horses should be amended) and thinks it
should be compulsory to supply dogs with Water,
when confined pursuant to police orders. He states
on good authority that more dogs are reduced to a
'rabid state from want of pure water than from all
other causes combined. It may be observed that though
• 4 all these suggestions refer to the local bill, they will
apply just as well to all the rest of England.