The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-30 00:00:00

THE NEW NOVEL,
NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES, in 3 vols.,
THE DISCIPLINE of LIFE,
A NOVEL.
" These volumes declare themselves the work of a female hand,
and one in which the sweetness, simplicity, and pathos of the best
old English style of narrative seem to us revived. The writer will
make herself widely known, and will find loving welcome. There 1$
no merit ner hazard in predicting it. Since Miss Austen ceased to
write, and Mrs. Marsh began, we have had no other story-telling of
its class that we would place upon a level with this, for freshaess,
straightforwardness, and truth of tone and feeling. Its Ray to the
sympathies is direct, swift, sure. Criticism notices faults of haste
and inexperience, but forgets them in the presence of emotion as real
as the heart can undergo, or the eye bear silent witness to. There
are passages in these stories which even Mrs. Inchbald has hardly
surpassed, for the sweet cunning with which the secrets of the female
heart are touched and revealed in them." —Examiner.
Henry Colloarn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

'A ROMANCE OF THE RED INDIANS.
MR. BENTLEY HAS THIS DAY PUBLISHED,
In 3 vols., poet Svc,
THE BEE HUNTER;
Or, OAK OPENINGS.
_ . _

A Romance of the Red Indians.
By J. FENIMORE COOPER.
Author or " The Last of the Mohicans," " The Prairie," " The
Pathfinder," &c.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Under the Management et Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed THE HARVEST HOME,

To conclude with a Farce, called GOING TO THE DERBY THE
DERBY DAY. Mr. Jeremiah Twiddle, Mr. Wright; Mr. John
James Chucks, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Captain Nobble, Mr. Worrell ;
Mrs. Chucks, Mrs. Matthews ; Mrs. Twiddle, Miss Woolgar.

IiuYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Under the direction of Mr. Kerschner.
Re-engagement or Mr. G. Bennett.
Enormous success of the Tower of Neste.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed THE TOWER OF NESLE. Burldan, Mr. G.
Bennett.
Atter which, DID YOU EVER ? NO ! I NEVER SAW SUCH
A BABY I

To conclude with a New Melodrama, entitled THE PLANK
ACROSS THE STREET.
Manager and Treasurer, Mr. B. S. Falrbrother.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
Revival of the Popular Equestrian Spectacle of Mazeppa.
Unparalleled Equestrian Feats.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed Lord Byron's Hippodramatic Spectacle of
lIAZEPPA ; or, The Wild Horse.
To be followed by the inimitable EQUESTRIAN and GYMNAS-
TIC EXERCISES in the ARENA.
To conclude with a Grand Pageant, entitled LADY GODIVA
AND PEEPING TOM OF COVENTRY; or, Clearing the Toll.
Box-office open from Eleven till Five.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. West.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Attraction unprecedented.
M. JULLIEN'S BENEFIT THIS DAY.
New Series of GRAND PROMENADE CONCERTS.
Continuation of MISS SARA FLOWER.
The DAYLIGHT VIEW of ROME, by Damson.
Superb and Unique MENAGERIE.
Grand Display of FIREWORKS, by the Messrs. Southby.
No Extra Charge.
MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and
FRIDAY.
View of Rome —Promenade Concerts, Vocal and Instrumental,
conducted by Mr. GODFREY, the splendid Band of Solo Performers
Includes Messrs. Cloth, Collins, sen., George and Viotti Collins, Eger-
ton, Griesbach, Stevenson, Hardy, &c.—Several favourite Songs by
Mica Sara Flower—Also to be seen, during the day, the beautiful
Menagerie—Shakspere's House—The Magic Bridge—and other no-
velties will be exhibited, the whole concluding with a most mag-
nificent and not to be rivalled display of Fireworks, by the Messrs.
Southby
Gates open al' Ten sax.. Feeding Time Five—Concert at Six
—Fireworks at Nine.
THIS DAT M. JULLIEN'S keneflt, on which occasion
Miss Miran, Mr. Sims Reeves, and other Artists have kindly pre-
ferred their services.

Admission, as usual, One Shilling.

TUE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, AUGUST 30.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 53; Highest, 67; Noon, 64,
BAROMETER, 30.12.
WIND W.N.W..; fine sunshiny weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
horning .. 56 min. after 2 I Evening .. 15 min. after 3

and those we are still enduring, and become in every
respect a happy, contented, and industrious people.

There seems to have been sad bungling of late in
the French capital. The National Assembly has
consented to the judicial prosecution of MM. Louis
BLANC and CAUSSIDIERE for conspiracy on the 15th
of May, on evidence which many regard as of the
clearest character, and yet it has refused to treat the
latter as in any degree implicated in the rebellion of
the 23d of June, though many regard the evidence
brought forward in this instance as still more incon-
testable. The Executive Government, on the other
hand, has prosecuted the ex-Commissary of Police
and the ex• Provisional Minister of the Luxembourg
with a stubbornness and promptitude which are be-
yond all eulogium, and yet it has by a ridiculous
oversight permitted the accused politicians to
escape at their pleasure beyond the frontiers of
the Republic, and to defy the vengeance
of an outraged country. Surely there is in all this
a mixture of the wisest circumspection and of the
saddest blundering. No Administration could have
acted with more laudable precision than that of
General CAVAIGNAC, and none could certainly have
allowed its subprdinates to nullify its most difficult
and daring schemes by a poverty of contrivance and
a neglect of precaution more utterly indefensible.
Why VlDocq would have made a better President of
the Council without portfolio, as far as the capture of
Representatives charged with treason against the
state are concerned. DANIEL FORRESTER would have
fulfilled the responsibilities of Minister of the Interior
more judiciously if the late failure of the intentions of
the French Legislature be only taken into considera-
tion. If the ruling men of the Republic had been
the leaders of the Opposition on the eve of the 9th
Thermidor escape from the territories of France
would have been possible to COUTHON and ROBES..
PIERRE. And yet we are satisfied that even that
spangled coxcomb of conspiracies, Citizen TALLIEN,
would have effectually prevented such an evasion of
the wrath of the infuriated Parisians. Looking
at the matter in the simplest light, in the
light most favourable to the present Cabinet,
in the light which would be best calculated to colour
with the beams of extenuation the course of the
dominant statesmen, it is impossible to deny that
their recent proceedings have been marked with a
pitiful inconsistency.
In the midst of all these remarkable occurrence in
the French metropolis—while the Commission of
Inquiry into the conspiracies has been un-
ravelling the entangled skeins of intrigue and
tracking the clue of complicity from the
brothel to the palace, from the costermonger to
the Commander-in-Chief, from the most miser-
able ruffian who shot poisoned bullets through
the chinks of a barricade, to the palatial offices of
ALBERT, and the princely residence of COURTAIS—
one man has arisen high up from among the mob of
the suspected, and has gone very far towards changing
abhorrence into admiration by the dignity of his bear-
ing, and the majestic elevation of his eloquence. If
there was any one administrator who was regarded with
more peculiar ill will than another among the Deputies
who were lifted to supreme power by the glorious Re-
volution of February—we may safely say that that
administrator was the Provisional Minister of the In-
terior. If there was any one man who appeared more
peculiarly than any other to justify the odium of
every beholder by the insolence of his deportment,
and the almost ferocious absolutism of his policy, it
was the man who immediately after the outburst of
February dispatched his commissaries into the pro-
vinces armed with despotic powers, and backed by
an appalling irresponsibility. And yet it is this very
man who has suddenly dazzled the eyes even of his
bitterest enemies by the luminous beauty of his
oratory, who has entranced them by the audacity of
his declamation, and who has by a single speech
taken the National Assembly by storm, blighting the
scorn of the scorners and annihilating the
power of the powerful. There is an old adage, im-
pregnated with the genuine spirit of fraternity, which
tells us to " Give even the Devil his due !" And
to the honest and fearless sincerity of Englishmen it
will only appear as a natural expression of emotion
on our part when we pronounce a deserved eulogium
upon the brilliant genius recently evinced by M.
LEDRU ROLLIN as an orator, even while we the most
earnestly reprobate his pernicious philosophy, his
dismal and destructive dreams of socialism, and the
rashness, the stubbornness, and the egotism of his
whole conduct while a member of the Provisional
Government. Still, even those who regard the ca-
reer of M. LEDRU Roeux as most reprehensible,
must acknowledge that the defence put in by him
from the tribune of the National Assembly during
the sitting of Friday afternoon was characterised by
a dignified simplicity, which almost approached the
Grandeur of Innocence. "On the 15th of May !" he
exclaimed, " was I not at my post? On the 23d of
June ! was I found wanting ? And as to any act of
mine which was prior to the convocation of the Re-
presentative Legislature, has not the National As-
sembly deprived itself of any power to condemn
by its initiative decree that the Provisional
Government had merited the gratitude of the coun-
try ?" So noble was the eloquence of this defence
so powerful was this display of rhetoric and indig-
nation, that even M. DE LAMARTINE has not thought
it beneath the glory of his panegyric. In the Bien
Publique he has thus expressed the sentiments with
which he viewed the oration delivered by his col-
league. "If the powers of MiaasEau, in virtue of
some miracle of transubstantiation, have passed any-
where," says the historian of the Girondists, "it is
in the bosom of M. LEDRU. ROLLIN. Since the re-
volution he has grown a hundred cubits : we
cannot be suspected of partiality for him, but he
will always henceforward be considered as one of the
greatest orators of our tribune. He was crushing
in his argumentation and his passion ; he annihilated
his adversaries, while he magnetized and carried
away the Assembly ; he transported and fanaticised
members to such a pitch, that he could, without
shocking them, address them as his friends ; his lan-
guage was lyrical in its terse sublimity, and men
trembled beneath the electric influence of that interior
power, which is always superior to mere eloquence,
when he cried, Here am I, LEDRU ROLLIN, the
libertine and the robber! Libertine, with courtezans
I never saw; and robber, in spending my fortune to
further my opinions !' "
Far—immeasurably—beyond those medium poli-
ticians, those trucklers to the hour, those men who
coquette with popularity merely for the sake of find-
ing themselves wafted into authority—far beyond
the unimpeachable mediocrity of M. ODILLON
BARROT—far beyond even the convenient alle-
giance of M. ADOLPHE TRIERS—do we respect and
reverence the manly bearing of a politician like M.
LEDRU ROLLIN—yea ! in spite of his egotism, and
his insolence, and his theoretic and erring philosophy,
we are satisfied that the Republic has snore to fear
from covert Legitimatists than from Red Republicans,
and would see the vigilance of General CAYAIGNAC
not only continued towards those who conspired with
BLANQUI, but extended to the men who are now
fawning at the heel of Republicanism, and who are
kissing the hand that smites them into obedience.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING.—The Paula-
sular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Pacha, Cap-
tain Olive, has arrived. Her dates are—Civita Vecchia
August 15th; Leghorn, 16th ; Genoa, 18th; Gibraltar:
23d. Her freight consists of 5 packages of specie, 85
bales of silk, and a general cargo.
Her Majesty's steamer Polyphemus was at Gibraltar.
The American frigate United States was at Leghorn;
and also the Princeton steam-frigate, on her way to
Civita Vecchia.
The British schooner Fencer was struck by a heavy
sea on the 18th instant off Cape St. Mary's, which
so disabled her that the masts had to be cut away to
save her from foundering. She was towed into the Bay
of Gibraltar by the British schooner Vivid on the even-
ing of the 22d.

LOUIS BLANC.—We have been informed that
Louis Blanc arrived at Dover by the packet yesterday
afternoon, and was expected in town by the last of the
South-Eastern trains at London-bridge last night.—
Chromele.—M. Louis Blanc left Dover this morning,
and is, we believe, now in London.
OTAHEITE.—At the Society Islands matters are re-
presented as quiet and peaceful. Queen Pomare had
opened the Legislative Assembly on the Ist of March,
when she announced the conclusion of a treaty of peace
with France.
Taoors FOR INDIA.—The Minerva freight-ship
htchaaesn bpn era oennvoi
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taken up for the conveyance of detachments of
albattalion from Chatham to Bombay and
the ship Prince of Wales for the con-
veyance of detachments to Bengal.

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