The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-06 00:00:00

THE SUN

PUNCH'S PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. W. R. COPELAND, Liverpool.
])e original Bloomer Costume, by E. Stirling, received nightly
with shouts of laughter—the Hit of the Day.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed a new petite Comedy, entitle,' THE HOPE-
LESS PASSION, by Messrs. Tilbury, Davis, Morton • 31rs. Cope-
land. and Miss Maskell.
After wllich a new Farce, entitled CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVI-
DENCE. Characters by Messrs. Rogers, Belton, Romer, Misses
Marshall and _Haskell.
To be followed by a new Bursue. calll THETIS anc PELEITS.
Characters by Meiisrs. J. EfseVlee,q Romer,e Attwood, Rogers, Misses
Saunders and Marshall.
Wltn a Farce, called A FIGURE OF FUN- ; or, the Bloomer
Costume, in which Messrs. Ros'ers, Attwood, Budspeth, and Miss
Marshall will appear.
Ilse prices of admission are arranged as follow :--Orchestra
41; I..oxes (Vast circle), 3s. • (second circle), 2s. ; Pit, Is.
Doors to be opened at kalf-past Six, and the peziormane9s to
commence at Seven precisely.
A 30,011 d price will be taken to the Boxes only at Nine o'clock
—ant circle, 25.; second circle, is.
Private Boxes One Guinea and a Half each.

A STL E 1"S LOYAL AMP 111 TitE A f 6 .
o Fa:zone:v. 01 der Majesty and his goyal IllghneSS
• Prince Albert.
p M.47147:cr, Mr. W. Ratty.
The most successful and popular Theatre in London.
THIS EV &NU:Q.
Will be produced new, grand Spectacle, from the pen of E. Fitzball,
Esq.. founded ou the celebrated Opera " Il Prodigo," and written
expressly for this establishment. entitled .I.Z.tEL, PRODIGAL
OF ME.UPIIIS, in which will be tatroductho same highly-trained
H orses and Camels that appe ,red in the Opera at her
the whole
NI ajest)'s
Theatre, with an addition of Ostriches, Zebras, &C., &c.,
of the well known resources of Astley's. To give due effect to the
representation, Mr. Batty has entered into engagements with several
artists of eminence.
With atty"s Grand Scenes of the Arena, embracing the largest
h
Equestrian Company in Europe, represented by Foreign and British
Male and Female Artists of superor talent.
To conclude with a laughable Atterpiece.
Tlckets to be had at the ilea-office from Eleven till Four daily.
4,tsge Manuer..vlr. T. Tbornotv.*a.

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,NATEk AT LONDori ,t,- 11)14K
Tian DAY —Morning is rain. alter 111 Evening 38 min after 12
To-SionnOw—Morning 55 min. after 12 I Evening 12 min attar

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, NOITI3IBILE 6.
THEURIOXIC,TER, IN TRE SHADS.
40—highest since noon yesterday.
37—lowest this morning and during the night.
43 t his day, at noon.
BAROMETER, 29.92.
WIND 'N.N.E —cloudy, with occasional sunshine.

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.
State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations
art arranged in order of latitude.

Barearros—Wind N., gentle breeze—cloudless.
HAsroGs—Wind N.W., _gentle breeze—cloudless.
OIITIIJCPTON—Wind atrong breeze—cloudless.
FOLKESTOIIE— Wind N.NV., gentle breeze—cloudless.
TurrnF.naos—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
GRE EN WlCH—Calm frost.
Swwont—Wind N., light airs—frost.
COLCHESTER—Wind N.E., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
CAmisnmeas—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
Yanstorrs—Wind W., strong breeze—cloudy.
f.e.srcasTEß—Wind N.E. calm—principally clear.
Dar.rieguroN—Wind W. 'by N., gentle breeze—frost.
The returns from the following places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Tuesday morning at nine
o'clock : •
Mulasxoe.p.--Wind N.W., calm—partially cloudy.
POOLE—Wind N,, strong breeze—partially cloudy.
LaxcAsran—Wind N.W., calm—principally clear.

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ITVIb/A 1)1116
LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1851.

Bydila time we should imagine that M. Louis
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE must be convinced of the
gross mistake which he committed when he lent his
aid to the parti-pretre and reactionaries to escamoter
the Republic. No man ever so completely performed
his portion of any political bargain as did M. Louis
NAPOLEON. Did he not dispatch the expedition to
Rome to crush a sister republic, and to restore the
obsolete and obscurantist despotism of an ignorant,
corrupt, and persecuting priesthood? Did be not
deprive the University of France, which numbered
among its professors every literary and scientific
notability of the day, of all control over public edu-
cation, and hand over all the schools and schoolmasters
of France to dealt Tr:lth by the Count DE MoNTA•
LVIBEET and his Jesuit colleaguesas to
departments them might
ayord.
seem most fitting? Has he not proclaimed
in a state of siege, dismissed some
300 me
solved I% municipal councils,
and 139 regiments l
of
National Guards, as be himself tells us in his
Message, in order to
secure their sup,pohret ?noAwndteclisd
us,he
not against his better judgrn2nt, a
consent to introduce a law disfranchising 3,000,000
of electors ? And now, finding tint he has by this
wholesale disfranchisement precluded all chance
of his re-election, the only consideration
which he asked for all his services, when
he proposes to repeal that law, the whole of the
reactiouaries turn upon him as one man, denounce
him—him the author of the expedition to Rome, of
the law of public instruction of the law fettering the

press, him the prosecutor of GENT, him the persecutor
of KOSSI3TII—as an ally of the Mountain, and therefore
to be crushed at all hazards ; and, had it not been for
the votes of the Republicans whom he had denounced
as conspirators in the opening paragraph of his Mes-
sage, his Ministry on their first appeal to the Assembly
would have been left, not in minority, but absolutely
without a single vote. Well may the National
y of reparation. We
call Wednesday the da
had hoped that the PRESIDENT would have at length
perceived the folly of attempting to carry out any
further the vacillating and personal line of policy which
Ike has pursued during the last three years, but, up to
the time of the delivery of the Message, it would ap-
pear that he still clung to his old hallucinations. How
otherwise are we to account for the introduction into
his Message of such a passage as the following :
" A vast demagogical conspiracy is now organizing
in France and Europe ; secret societies are endea-
vouring to extend their ramifications even into the
smallest communes. All the madness and violence
of party is brought forth, while these men are not
even agreed on persons or things."
By this time we imagine that M. LOUIS NAPOLEON
BONAPARTE must be convinced that it would have
been much better that be should have denounced the
Absolutist conspiracy organizing in the Cabinets of
Russia, Austria, and Prussia, for the suppression of
liberty in Europe, and for the territorial division,
i f need be, of France, than have lent himself to the
propagation of this absurd fable of a demagogical
conspiracy, of which, if it exists, he himself must be,
according to the Assemblie Nationale,
.a member.
That veracious journal, which supported him in every
measure calculated to ruin and betray himself and
the Republic (for however much he may imagine to
the contrary, his own interests are indissolubly con-
nected with the maintenance of the Republican form
of government in France), now turns upon biml
and not mollified by even his denunciations of con-
spirators, or of his vigorous application of martial-
law to two additional departments, thus casts
him out as Anathema-maranatha. " The PRESIDENT
of the Republic," says the Assemblie Nationale,
has ceased to be the elected of the party of order; he
has for ally the Mountain; he has just agitated the
country ; be has just compromised the sad remains of
our prosperity ; he has just given arms to civil war."
After this declaration of the accredited organ of that
large section of the so-called party of order, which is
known as the Fusionist, and which is represented by
MM. G UIZOT, BERRYEE, MOLE, and DE BROGLIE—
after the no less solemn repudiation of himself, and
his pretensions by the Ordre, representing the
ODILON BARROT and TRIERS clique, the Union
representing the moderate Legitimatists, a'd the
OpinionePub/ique,representing the ultra- Legitimatists,
M. Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE must be in-
deed deficient in spirit ehould be ever
again truckle to this " party of order," or
seek, or even accept if offered, a reconciliation.
The Journal des Dgbats thus justly appreciates
the self-contradiction of the PRESIDENT'S Message :
it says—" As to its political portion—the only part
which we will allude to—it is confined to two essen-
tial points—it proposes the repeal, pure and simple,
of the law of May 31, and announces the intention
of persisting in the policy of order and of resistance
to anarchy which the Parliamentary majority has
supported during the last three years. From the
very first the pretension to conciliate the two articles
of this programme appeared to us difficult,
adventurous, nay impossible." The Journal des
_Mats is right, it is impossible to con-
ciliate the two articles of this programme ;
and if M. Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE will, even
at this late period, do his duty honestly to the Re-
public, and observe in spirit, and not in letter merely,
the oath which he took when inaugurated President,
to maintain the Democratic Republic (for it was to
that he swore), we see, in this very impossibility, a
chance of his yet regaining his lost ground.
Let him at once recognise the impossibility, and as
Chief of the Republic, chosen by universal suffrage,
declare his determination to restore the Republic to
its integrity by maintaining, at all hazards, the cause
of universal suffrage ; but, in order to secure
the support of the Republicans he must not
be content with this, he must at once
cast in his lot with the democracy, he must
propose the repeal not only of the Electoral but of
the Educational and the Press Laws, of all anti-
democratic laws in fact, and, having done
this, and by so ding having convinced the
French people of his sincerity, he will be in a position,
as the chief, the trusted chief of the Democracy, to
call upon the Absolutist Powers to cease their
iutrigues, to disband their armies, and to leave Italy and
Germany to manage their own affairs. In the event
of this refusal, the French liberating army might again
make the tour of the capitals of Europ•-, and whether
they refused, or whether they gave way, Louis NA-
POLEON BONAPARTE would be hailed by the eman-
cipated nations as the Liberator of Europe. That
it is in his power to do all this we doubt not, and if he
only act honestly he will do all this. Will he act
honestly?

The new Law of Evidence Act, which came into
operation on Saturday last, has already been resorted
to on several occasions of trials at nisi pries at
Westminster Hall. Indeed, the absence of the testi-
mony of one or both of the parties in disputed cases,
will henceforward prove the exception, and not the
rule. What barrister can venture to argue on pro-
babilities, or to put forward a glowing description of
supposed " facts," that had no better foundation than
his own vivid imagination, when his client might, if
he had thought proper, have come forward and given
a clear and satisfactory explanation of every doubtful
point ? The practical ingenuity of the Learned Gen-
tleman must, therefore, with few and rare exceptions,
be restricted to actions for breach of promise of mar-

riage,:or of crirn. con., which have been perhaps judi•
ciously excluded from the operation of the recent
statute. In every other case, any person who can
throw any light on the subject under investigation is
a competent witness on his own behalf, or he may
be subpcenaed by his opponent, and a refusal
to attend will be regarded as fatal to his interests,
unless the cause of his absence be fully explained
and accounted for. Even a wife may (except in
criminal cases, or actions of the kind above referred
to) be examined for or against her husband. Some
degree of doubt had been expressed on that topic,
many experienced and able practitioners contending
that the well-known rule of law, which made the con-
fidence between married persons:inviolable, was still in
force, and that, although the husband might be
called on to give evidence against himself, the
wife could not ,be required to do so. This view
of the subject was sustained by a description of the
probable dissensions that might arise between those
" whom GOD had joined together," in the event of
either suffering injury in consequence of the evidence
of the other. The verata questio has, however,
already received a judicial decision : Mr. Justice
ExLE on Tuesday held that "in other
than criminal cases the wife was a goad
witness." This opinion of the Learned Judge is so
much in accordance with common sense, ithat we
have no
doubt it will be maintained by his judicial
brethren.
11, whethertfwouldind;leadintbieff
orst defendant,rangeif,would
whenthe
party himself,
be bound to come
forward,declare
and, regardless of pe-
cuniary consequences,
the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth,
and been cognizant of
his wife, who might, perhaps, have acted
as his agent in the transaction,
every circumstance that required elucidation, should
effects of the Act
be prohibited from appearing on either side. If
such were the case, the salutary
might be got rid of by persons who contemplated
fraud taking care that their wives should re-
very negotiation and con.
s that the law
tract. It
present them in e
is not always
in accordance. We
and common sense are
s Is that the ruling of Mr.
un-
Justice DILE is as sound in point of law a
have no doubt, however,
questionably judicious on the more extended view of
the subject.
Different versions of the same transaction have
already been
put forward by different parties, and there
is no doubt that such discrepancies will but too fre-
quently arise, even where the opponents may be both
actuated by conscientious motives and anxious
to give accurate accounts of all they know.
Such things cannot possibly be avoided.
Men, where their own interests are at
stake, are accustomed to regard matters through

mitted facts.
A greater danger, and that which constitutes the
chief, if not the only objection to the system, is, the
temptation to perjury, to which dishonest persons are
exposed. This is unquestionably an evil, and one of
no ordinary magnitude. We cannot, however, hope
to arrive at perfection ; we must only strive for the
attainment of that which, on the balance of advantages,
shows " the greatest good to the greatest number:'
On calm and mature consideration, then, we are con-
vinced that the regulation will tend rather to the
diminution than the increase of perjury. An un-
conscientious and unscrupulous person, anxious
to obtain a verdict, per fas out nefas, and
heedless of the means by which his object might be
attained, could easily procure others of similar
character to bear false witness. Subornation of per-
jury is as grave an offence as the actual perjury
itself. Nay, on the same principle that " the receiver
is frequently worse than the thief," it may be more
dangerous to society, and merit a more stringent
punishment. Besides, it involves the guilt of several
distinct individuals—of the man who gives as well
as of him who receives the bribe. And yet many
prsons might be found who, with a strong perver-
sity of disposition, would not venture to commit the
offence directly, of which they would be quite willing
to receive the proceeds indirectly—that is to say,
when it could be obtained by the crime of a third
person.
The rule, too, will have the effect, if not of pre-
venting, at least of greatly diminishing, the number
of dishonest claims, as well as of unjust defences,
The bill-swindling fraternity will find that their in-
famous occupation has received " a heavy blow and
great discouragement," while those who refuse to
satisfy well-founded demands on the ground that the
claimant would find it difficult, if not impossible, to
prove his case, will begin to think that honesty is,
indeed, the best policy. On the whole we are con-
vinced that the Act will work well, and that when it
has received a fair trial and its operation has been
tested by experience, it will be pronounced one of the
most valuable measures of legal reform that ever re-
ceived the legislative sanction.

Elsewhere will be fould a paragraph announcing
the celebration of the interesting festivity of the
Polish and Hungarian Ball as certain to take place on
Thursday next, the 13th instant, under circumstances
of the most auspicious character. Assuredly no in-
ducement whatever can be wanting to attract the
sympathies of the public at large to an enterprise of
this description, more particularly when it is remem-
bered that now, more than ever, the merits of the
twofold cause here advocated are opened to universal
appreciation. Had, however, any additional at-
traction been required it would certainly be dis-
coverable upon the present occasion. We allude
here not so much to the additional efforts
made by the managing committee to secure every
accommodation to the public, though they have
unquestionably been most energetic and efficacious•
Neither do we refer to the supplementary sources
of entertainment, though these of themselves would
be sufficiently remarkable, as may be seen by refer-
ence to the arrangements made for retaining in the
Guildhall the superb decorations employed forty-
eight hours previously in the carrying out of the festi-
vities of Lord Mayor's-day, and to the fact of
the interest of the ball being very considerably
increased by the concert announced to take place in
the Council Chamber at the same time, thanks to the
generous as,isrance afforded by se►er'al artistes of
distinction. Our allusion is to the promised appear-
ance among the company amembled at Guildhall of
Lou►s Kossuzu himself, the de jure Governor of
Hungary—A personage whom every Liberal in Eng-
land is just now solicitous to honour as at once the
Dictator and Representative of the heroic race of the

Hungarians.
Tinder these propitious circumstances, we cannot
for an instant doubt that the Polish Ball of 1851 will
be the most brilliant and successful yet achieved
through the instrumentality of the Noble Lord the
Member for Marylebone.

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