The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-28 00:00:00

ISTLErs ASIP_EIITHEATRE.

We seem indeed to have arrived at a new era in dra-
matic entertainments, for in all directions a praiseworthy
zeal is become manifest for the restoration of that high
moral tone which has so long been laid aside for melo-
dramatic trash and French frivolity. Nor is the public
taste sluggish in the matter. Time was when a Shak-
sperian representation was invariably rewarded by an
almost empty house, but now we find the immortal
bard in the ascendant. At Astley's, where everything
pertaining to the legitimate has been carefully excluded,
nay, where rant, spEctacle, and equestrian skill has
always superseded anything like dramatic excellence, we
have the unprecedented circumstance of nearly eighty
consecutive representations of " Richard the Third ;"
and, although the piece has been compressed into three
acts, all the principal incidents and effects are not only
Preserved, but given with extraordinary magnificence.
We understand it is to be succeede by another of Shak-
spere's plays, and we doubt n.ot Mr. W. Cooke will find
abundance of reason to conwratulate himself upon the
admirable change he has effected.

ESCAPE OF CONVICTS.—A number of convicts of the
bagne of Civita, Vecchia, iu the Roman States, having
succeeded in cutting a hole through. a wall in the bagne,
five of them, who are under center co to hard labour for
life for having formed part of the. band of the famous
brigand Passatore, passed through it in the morning of
the 10th, and found themselves in a building called the
Palazzo Apostolico, in which clothing and other articles
are stored in for the French troops. There they dis-
guised themselves in uniforms of French engineer sol-
diers, and taking pickaxes and spades on their shoulders
walked out. Every one, of course, took them for French
soldiers, and they got clear off.

LATEST NE WS.

Accounts from Russia contradict the reports
published by the Constantinople journals of a
victory having been gained over the Russians by
Sefer Pacha at the head of a considerable army of
Tcherkesses.

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post
'second Edition), in his letter dated yesterday,

says :

" According to telegraphic intelligence from
Vienna the Turkish Ministry had resigned. I
believe no official information has reached Paris
to this effect, nevertheless the intelligence is likely
to be correct. I believe the British Cabinet has
used every endeavour to impress the Sultan with

the necessity of a most jealous observance of the
treaty. Some of the advisers of the Sultan were
by no means inclined to attach the same import-
ance England did to the Serpents' Island dispute
—a view of the question which was shared by
the representative of France ! It remains to be
seen from what pressure the present Ministry has
fallen (if such be th• case) ; should it be from
English influence we may expect the Sultan to
call around him a more reforming assembly."

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY.

A private telegraphic despatch announces the
departure this day of Baron Brenier from Naple3.
The parting interview with the Neapolitan Mini-
ster for Foreign Affairs was very friendly, and
Baron Brenier received assurances that every pre-
caution should be taken for the protection of
French subjects. The same assurances wore given
to the English Minister, who was also to leave
Naples about the same time.
The Pays repeats the assertion it made yesterday
relative to the demand which the Porte has made
for the evacuation of the Principalities by the Aus-
trians. The semi-official contradiction of the
Austrian Correspondence it contradicts in turn.
" France," says the Pays, "has honourably kept
her engagements. France, alone free from reproach
and arriere pensee towards the Congress of Paris,
cannot allow to any one power the right to judge
and arbitrate. And this which we say to Austria
we say to every other power which may find itself
similarly circumstanced."
The Debats does not credit the contradiction
given by the Austrian an-respondence to the as-
sertion of the French semi-official journal, that the
Porte protests against the Austrian occupation of
the Principalities. None of the other papers com-
ment upon the Vienna despatch. The Constltu-
tionnel does not even reproduce it. Considerable
doubts are entertained as to the correctness of the
French version of M. Thouveuel's achievements at
Constantinople.
The Paris correspondent of the Nord, in alluding
to the diplomatic despatches recently published
relative to the affairs of Naples, states that there
are thirteen others still not made public.
The following telegraphic despatches have been
received to-day
VIENNA, 26th.—Accounts from Naples announce
that the ambassadors of the Western Powers, after
having signified their recall to the Neapolitan Cabinet,
were preparing to le9ve immediatelv."
" Vienna, 27th.—According to accounts from C3n-
stantinople the Turkish Ministry has resigned."
"Sr. PETERSBURG, 21st.--The Gazette du Senat pub-
fishes a declaration re-establishing the old treaties be-
tween Russia and Sardinia, and the relations which had
been broken off by the war. Several soldiers have bad
farms given them in the domains of the State. The
tradespeople of Moscow have given 300,000 roubles to
the military hospitals."

BOURSE, Oct. 27.—The following were the las
quotations :

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