The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-09 00:00:00

MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 18481

FOR GRAND BALLET AND SPECTACLE.

Mdlles. Plunkett and Sophie Fuoce (both from the Grand Opera
de la Nation, Paris), Mdlle. Celeste Stephan, Mdlle. Moncelet, Mdlle.
Genie, and Mdlle. Arnal (all from the principal Theatres of Paris),
Mdlle. Louise, and Mdlle. Maywood (principal danseuse from the San
Carlos. Naples) ; M. Petipa and M. Desplacee (both from the Theatre
de la Nation, Paris), M. Jules (from the Grand Opera La Scala, at
Milan), M. Paul, Mr. W. H. Payne, Mr. T. Matthews, Mr. Cormack
(from the Theatre Royal, Liverpool, his first appearance), M. 11"1-
Her (his first appearance these eight years), and the most renowned
Dancer now on the Continent, M. Durand ; with a more numerous
and effective body of Corps de Ballet, Figurantes, and Promeneuses,
than has ever yet been engaged in an English Theatre.
♦monist other novelties of the season will be produced the new
Ballet of "The Amazons," now performing with great saccess in
Paris), and a new grand Ballet by M. Barrel (expressly composed
fur Mdlle. Plunkett.) _

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The celebrated Opera of Haydee (the last production of Messrs.
Scribe and Auber, and adapted to the English stage by Mr. Lavenu),
will be instantly produced.
♦ grand Opera, in three acts, composed expressly for this Theatre
by Mr. W. T. Wallace.
" The First Wulpurgls Night" MIA Poem by Goethe, and the Mu-
lls by the late Dr. Mendelssohn), will be given in a dramatic form
by all the immense resources of the Theatre.
A celebrated Musical Work (dramatised for the first time by J. P.
Planchi) is in preparation, and will be produced as speedily as the
magnitude of the subject will permit.
A new grand Opera, entitled Kenilworth," by Signer Selaira ; and
a grand semi-serla Opera, composed expressly by Mr. W. Belle.
An entirely new Ballet will be produced for the debut of Mdlle.
MskTwood.
Numerous treaties are pending, and amongst others, an answer is
daily expected from the celebrated Herr Pischek.
Principal Scene-painters—Messrs. Grieve and Telbin.
Property Maker—Mr. Blamire.
Ballet Masters—MM. Barrea and Mazilier.
Under Ballet Master—Mr. B. Barnett.
Stage Director—Mr. G. Ellis.
ENTRANCES AND PRICES Of ADMISSION.
Grand Entrance, Bow-street.—Grand Tier Boxes, 31. 35.; First
Tier Boxes, 21. 2s. and 11. 1 ls. 6d. ; Pit Boxes, 21. 2s. ; Stalls, 10s.
6(1.; Single Admissions to a Private Box ou the First Tier, Is.
Bow-street Entrance.—Pit, 3s. 6d.
Piazza Entrance.—Public Boxes, as. ; Gallery Amphitheatre,
21. 6d.; Gallery, Is. 6d.
Half-price to take place, as usual, at Nine.—To the Public Boies,
35.; Pit, Is. ; Amphitheatre Galley, is. 6d. ; Galley, is.
Doors open at Half-past Six, performance to commence at Seven.
The Box-oftice is open from Ten till Five, ander the direction of
Mr. John Parsons.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
under the direction of Madame Celeste
During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated„tke
original designs by Digby Watts, Esq., executed by Mr. Sang. 1
new Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved iys-
tem of Ventilation, &c., &e. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs
added to the Beats, and Stalls rendered more comfortable.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed THE WHITE HORSE OF THE PEPPE:RS
After which, THE DANCING BARBEL
To be followed by HIS LAST LEGS.
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To conclude with THE MARRIED BACHELOR.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Vestris.
Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed a eomis Drama, entitled ANYTHING FOR
A CHANGE. Characters by Messrs. Harley, C. Mathews, Homier;
Miss K. Fitzwilliam, and Miss Marshall.
Artier which, COURT BEAUTIES.
To conclude with THE CRITIC,
Dress Boxes, ss. • Upper BOZOS, 45. ; Plt, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No
'ialf.price to any part of the house.
The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to 'the
Public every day, from Ten till Six.

PRINCESS THEATRN.
Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager.
Duriag the Recess this Theatre has been re-deeorated and embol-
'shed in a ■upsrh and costly manner by Mr. Elurwitz. Anew Chan-
eller has been fitted, and the best arrangements have been made ;for
he due Ventilation of the Theatre, and the comfort and cony cadence
of the audience.

THIS EVENING,
Will be performed the Opera of LA VIVANDIERE.
After which, PAT ME I OR IF YOU DONT-
To conclude with the Ballet of LA HOMERIC.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
No communication can be attended to unless authe ti
cated by th• name and address of the writer.
Rejected communications cannot be returned.

Whatever may be said to the contrary, there is not
"an end of confidence in any constitution which may,
be established in France." The elaborate and so-
phistical argument which makes this very deliberate as-
sertion will fail in carrying the conviction of its truth
home to the mind of the multitude—its refutation is
visible in the unanimity and devotion of thirty-five
millions of French citizens. Yes I the confidence of
France in the Republican Constitution is verified by
the burning words of her orators, and by the heart-
born acclamations of her people, by the inspired
voice of the tribune and by the impassioned re-
sponse of the market-place. France has repu-
diated the worn-out stigma of her volatility;
her old characteristic of fickleness is thrown away
like a threadbare garment; she stands at last before
the world in the conscious vigour and permanence of
Republicanism—abhorring the mobility of monarchi-
cal rights, and trampling into the dust the muta-
bility of every institution save the sublime and ever-
i► lasting institution of a moderated democracy.
Nobly, grandly, gloriously has this devotion to
Republicanism been expressed by the fervid lips of
LAMARTINE. The oration delivered on Friday last
As we anticipated on Saturday, the trial of Mr. by that great man is one of those master-
SMITH O'BRIEN was brought to a conclusion on that
pieces of eloquence which carry the imagina •
day. At a little after five o'olock the jury returned
tions of an auditory away in a whirlwind
a verdict of guilty, accompanied with an unanimous
of enthusiasm. He soared immeasurably above
recommendation to the merciful consideration of the
all his former oratorical achievements. The
Crown, and expressing their anxious desire that his
tribune was no longer a tribune—it seemed to be
life should be spared. The gentlemen of the county
transfigured into a tripod ; and the Assembly hung
of Tipperary have thus honestly and conscientiously
with an indescribable pleasure upon the accents of
discharged the important and deeply painful duty lin-
his Pythonic declamation. M. DB LAMARTINE
posed upon them. They have, in accordance with
spoke upon the momentous question as to the manner
the solemn obligations by which they were bound
' of election to the Presidency—whether, in short, the
recorded a decision branding as a traitor a high-
President of the French Republic should be chosen
minded and enthusiastic gentleman of rank and by the National Assembly or by universal suffrage.
station in society, of an 5- amiable and chivalrous d'lln discussing the difficulties and the responsibilities
position, who for many years had sat in the Imperial
of this great problem, the orator gradually revealed
Parliament as the representative of a large and its solution with a felicity of logic, a splendour of ii.
influential constituency, and thereby, unless the lustration, a profundity ofargument, and a grandeur of
highest prerogative of the Crown should be exercised
utterance, such as defied even a whisper of opposition,
in his favour, consigned him to an ignominious death and commanded an universal outcry of admiration
upon the scaffold, and deprived his innocent children The debate has been abbreviated by this magnificent
of the inheritance derived by ancient descent discourse, and the decision of the national represen-
through a long line of illustrious progenitors.
tatives arrived at without further hesitation. After
Deeply painful and heartrending as might be the perusing the speech which has accomplished so
result of their verdict, brilliant and persuasive as Wes much in a single sitting (a translation of which
the eloquence by which their feelings were appealed ' speech will be found elsewhere in this even-
to on behalf of the unfortunate gentleman, and in- in-g's impression), it becomes to us no mat-
genious and acute as was the argument by which the ter of astonishment to hear that the orator,
only possible solution of the various circumstances on descending from the tribune, was surrounded
by a great number of representatives offering
that had occurred, short of the grave offences charged
in the indictment, was suggested, there was no hesita-
him their felicitations, or to find the Parisian
tion on their part. They decided in accordance with .
reporters appending this remark to the discussion,
the law laid down by the Learned Chief Justice, but,
that " no one dreamt of addressing the Assembly'
as they were constitutionally entitled to after the address of M. DE LAMARTINE." As in the
do, they expressed their decided opinion that
instance of Si:mama/es philippic upon the Princesses
the prisoner had not merited the extreme penalties
or Begums of Oude, the House was immediately ad-
prescribed by the law—that there were many
journed to allow the first rapture of admiration in
mitigating circumstances that should be attended to
some measure to subside. Yet the next morning the
—that the justice of the case would be fully met, and
acclamations may be said to have been renewed with
the majesty of the law sufficiently vindicated, by a
redoubled earnestness—the plaudits of the Assembl
minor punishment, not involving the life of the y
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being re-echoed by the panegyrics of the various
prisoner whom they had just convicted. In the .
journals. In this instance the applause has been equiva-
propriety of this recommendation we most fully and
lent to an ovation; and—what must be of infinitely
cordially concur, and we believe that there are few
greater importance to the orator—almost every
indeed on either side of St. George's Channel
tongue, with scarcely one exception, acknowledged
who would not rejoice to find justice tem.
at once the correctness of his deductions those
the British Governand-
pered with mercy,deductions tended directly to the election of the
ment following the brilliant example exhibited . for
President five years by universal suffrage.
by Republican France, and declining to
How majestically the orator vindicated tile y riority supe-
of human life for an
sanction the sacrifice of the popular or national right over the right
merely political offence, for the attempt to obtain of birth, over the right of primogeniture, over the
what the party conscientiously believed to be essen-
right of conquest, over the right divine, over the
tial to the rights and liberties of his country by even right of hereditary succession, may be discerned
illegal and unjustifiable means- from the following eloquent apostrophes :—" The
Apart, however, from
the general question, as to
right of birth ! What is it ? All the world is suf-
the propriety of capital punishment for political
peculiar circumstances in thoef ficiently enlightened now-a-days to penetrate the
offences, there are
mystery. The right of birth—it is the right of
present case that render an extension
hazard ! The right of primogeniture ! What is it ?
mercy not only politic and expedient, but
The right of the first arrived, the right of the one
merely an act of justice to the prisoner. Without
who first emerges from the womb of the mother ! The
in any degree anticipating what may be the decision
right of conquest ? It is the right which secures the
of the highest tribunal on the points submitted by
degradation of the races who submit to its pre-
the Learned Counsel for the defence, and which may
dominance—it is the right of violence and of brutal
probably form the subject of a writ of error, it
authority I The right Divine ? It is nothing more
is certain that the prisoner was deprived of advan-
tages which in this country he would have been en-
than the sanction or benediction of the priesthood
titled to, and for the partial loss of which, the son-
bestowed upon the royal dynasties ! It is now a
long time since this sign became nothing more than a
muted, although the objection was not taken in
tences of FROST, JONES and WILLIAMs, were com-
muted, and this symbol nothing more than a symbol !
The right of hereditary succession ? But this
proper time.
right is sometimes only the right of idiotcy I" Again,
On Saturday we pointed out the reasons why this
in exposing the dangers which must inevitably accrue
difference of the law in force in the sister kingdom
from the choice of a President by the National
would, whatever might be the result of the trial,
Assembly, the orator exclaimed that the factions
afford an ample and sufficient ground for claiming any y might thus address themselves to the different repre-
extension of mercy to the prisoner. An additional

TIIE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 8.
TIEBILMOMETER, Lowest., 58; Highest, 68; Noon, 66.
BAROXITER, 30.09.
WIND W. ; light breeze, with sunshine and clouds;
()aroma 9.
Trucamostwrza, Lowest, 51; Highest. 65 ; Noon, pa
BA.RODIETER, 29.95.
WIND S.W.; small rain and thick weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning .. B min. after 11 l Evening .. 36 min. after 11

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