The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-15 00:00:00

EVENING, NOVEMBER l5, 1851.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
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Ar'.l I.t ann., 2ro -;:4C•
On MONDAY, Nov. 17,
Will be performed (first time at this Theatre) the celebrated Opera
entitled KING CHARLES THE SECOND. King Charles, Mr. W.
Harrison; Rochester, Mr. C. Durand; Julian, Madame Macfarren
Captain Copp, Mr. Weiss ; Catharine of Bragaeza, Miss Pyne ;
Fanny, Miss L. Pyne.

To be followed by hUE ROUGH DIAMOND.
After which an entirely new Farce, entitled GRINISHAW I BAG-
! and BRADSHAW ! Grimshaw, Mr. Bnkstono ; Bag-
thaw, Mr. 11. Belford; Towner, Mr. Selby; Emily, Miss A. Vining.

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vas* the direction of Mr. B. Webster.
Enormous success of the Yankee Comedian, Mr. Josh Silsbee.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed the celebrated comic Opera, entitled GOOD
NIGHT, SIGNOR PANTALON. Doctor Tititofolo, Mr. Paul
Bedford ; Signor Pantaion, Mr. Honey ; Lelio, Miss Woolgar; Co-
lumbine, Miss Kathleen Fitzwilliam.

After which, the laughable comic Drama, entitled THE FOREST
ROSE! and the YANKEE PLOUGHBOY. Jonathan Ploughboy,
Mr. J. Silsbee• Bellamy, Mr. Worred; Harriet Miller, Miss Col-
lins; Sally Forest, Miss E. Chaplin.
To be followed by a new and laughable Piece de Circonstance,
entitled BLOOMERISM ; or, The Follies of a Day. Mr. Agricola
Green, Mr. Honey ; Mr. Flighty Bounce, Mr. Paul Bedford ; John
Airey, Mr. 0. Smith; Mr. Weakly, Mr. Worrell; Mrs. Portia Lu-
crezia Green, Miss Woolgar.
To conclude with THE LOTTERY TICKET.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Farren.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Shylock,
Mr. H. Farren ; Portia, Miss Laura Keene.
After which, a new Dramatic Sketch, called THE ORIGINAL
BLOOMERS.

To conclude with AZAEL ; or, the Prodigal in London, supported
by Messrs. Compton, Shalders, Norton, Kinloch, Clifton; Mesdames
A. Phillips, Fielding, Ellen Turner, and Lees.

PUNCH'S PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND THEATRE,
Lessee, Mr. W. R. COPELAND. Liverpool.
The original Bloomer Costume, by E. Stirling, received nightly
with shouts of laughter—the Hit of the Day.
Another New Farce.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed a new Farce, entitled CIRCUMSTANTIAL
EVIDENCE. Characters by Messrs. Rogers, Belton, Romer,
Misses Marshall and Maskell.
After which a new Farce, entitled THE FIFTH OF NOVEM-
BER, by Messrs. Tilbury, Rogers, Hudspeth, Misses Saunders and
Maskell.
To be followed by a new Burlesque, called THETIg anc PELEUS.
Characters by Messrs. J. Reeve, Romer, Attwood, Rogers, Misses
Saunders and Marshall.
Witn a Farce, called A FIGURE OF FUN ; or, the Bloomer
Costume, in which Messrs. Rogers, Attwood, Hudspeth, and Miss
Marshall will appear.
The prices 01 admission are arranged as follow :—Orchestra stalls,
is; boxes (first circle), Is.; (second circle), 2s. ; Pit, Is.
Doors to be opened at Half-past Six, and the performances to
commence at Seven precisely.
A second price will be taken to the Boxes only at Nine o'clock
—first circle, 25.; second circle, Is.
Private Boxes One Guinea and a Half each.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert.
Prep -toter and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
The most successful and popular Theatre in London.
THIS EVENING,
Will be produced new grand Spectacle, from the pen of E. Fitzball,
Esq.. founded on the celebrated Opera " n Prodigo," and written
expressly for this establishment, entitled AZA.EL, THE PRODIGAL
OF MEMPHIS, in which will be introduced tho same highly-trained
Horses and Camels that appeared in the Opera at her Majesty's
Theatre, with an addition of Ostriches, Zebras, &c., &c., the whole
of the well known resources of Astley's. It has been pronounced by
public opinion to be the most gorgeous and effective production ever
itnessed within the walls of a theatre, assisted with magnificent
scenery and brilliant costumes. The new Dramatic Performers
having achieved an unparalleled triumph, will have the the honour
of appearing every evening until further notice.
With Batty's Grand Scenes of the Arena, embracing the largest
Equestrian Company in Europe, represented by Foreign and British
Male and Female Artists of superior talent.
To conclude with a laughable Afterpiece.
Tickets to be had at the Bea-office from Eleven till Four daily.
Stage Manager. Mr. T. Thompson.

these Governmental bodies have talked for four yeers
and done nothing. Fortunately the removal of the
obstructions to the navigation of the Thames has
been taken up by private enterprise, and aye there-
fore entertain sanguine hopes that, however
long the Thames may continue to be a pol-
luted stream,- yet the day is not far dis-
tant when the flow of that stream will not be inter-
rupted by cumbrous obstructious, and when the lives
of those who navigate it will cease to be jeopardised,
and in many instances to be sacrificed in consequence.
Amongst the most cumbrous and the most dangerous
of the obstructions to the free navigation of the
river, the wooden bridge stretching across the
Thames between Fulham and Putney is, per-
haps, the greatest. Every passenger by steam-
boat to Putney, Kew, or Richmond must have
a vivid recollection of the dangers of passing
under its only navigable arch, whilst every water-
man, professional or amateur, looks upon it as one of
the moat dangerous portions of the river, so danger-
ous as not to be attempted by any prudent person
after sunset. This obstruction, this more than ob-
struction, this most dangerous nuisance, is, thanks to
private enterprise, we are happy to say, about to be
removed. In an advertisement which appears in
another column will be found the required official
notice of an intended application to Parliament during
the ensuing session for an Act to incorporate
a new company, under the title of the Putney and
Fulham New Bridge and Pier Company, for pur-
chasing and taking on lease, and removing the pre-
sent Bridge, and for the construction of a New
Bridge across the Thames from Fulham to Putney.
Of the necessity of the removal of the old Fulham-
bridge, the records of the Coroners' Courts of Middle
sex and Surrey bear abundant evidence, and should
the new company find any difficulty (which we cannot
imagine they will) in obtaining their Act, the evidence
which those records would furnish of the annual loss
of life on the river, occasioned solely by the faulty
construction of the present bridge, would be alone
sufficient to deprive all opposers, should any such
appear, of the Bill of their locus standi. We therefore
consider the destruction of old Fulham bridge as
fait accompli, and have no doubt that the construc-
tion of the new bridge, by affording increased facilities
for communication with Putney, will considerably en-
hance the value of property in that village, and
at the same time, by increasing the traffic
across the bridge, add greatly to the revenues of the
company. It is not Fulham-bridge alone that is to
be removed—that ruinous old nuisance Westminster-
bridge is also to come down, and a new Westminster-
bridge erected on the site, and after the manner which
we have so frequently recommended for public adop-
tion. But this is not enough to render the navigation
of the upper portion of the Thames safe.
With a new Fulham-bridge and a new
Westminster-bridge, surely Battersea-bridge will not
be suffered to remain. In its present state it is in
some respects even more dangerous than Fulham-
bridge itself, for whereas at Fulham the piers of the
bridge are boarded up, at Battersea the bridge is
built on open piles, among which, should a wherry
chance to drift, escape is impossible, and even the most
expert swimmer, caught among these piles as in a cage,
finds himself utterly powerless. Fulham.-bridge is
doomed. Westminster-bridge is doomed, and we
hope that we shall soon have it in our power to an-
nounce that the doom of Battersea-bridge is sealed also.

THE FitENt H REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
From them we extract the following resume of the
proceedings of the Assembly in relation to the Elec-
toral Bill on the preceding day :
" The important discussion of the new Electoral Bill
for the repeal of the law of May 31, came on yesterday
in the Legislative Assembly, and terminated in the re-
jection of the measure by a small majority. The dis-
cussion by no means equalled in intere,t what might
have been expected from so absorbing a subject. Of
novelty in the arguments brought forward there was
none, and the several speakers, it was generally re-
marked, were not equal to themselves on the occasion.
M. de Larochejaquelein commenced the proceedings,
by declaring himself to be, then, as always, a friend to
universal suffrage in the widest sense of the expres-
sion, and, consequently, a warm supporter of the new
Bill. M. de Vatimeseil followed, for the purpose of
proposing to the Assembly to reject at once the
Government measure, but to place on the order
of the day as soon as possible such parts of the
municipal Bill as treated of the mode of suffrage,
in order that if modifications seemed to the Assembly
necessary in the present conditions of voting, they might
be effected without delay. M. de Thorigny, the Minister
of the Interior, replied, declaring that the new Bill hae
been brought forward in a spirit of order and of justice,
the law of May 31 having evidently gone farther than
the authors of it even contemplated. M. Michel (de
Bourges), the Member deputed by the Mountain to ex-
press their sentiments, next came forward, and occupied
the tribune for a longer period than any other speaker
during the day. He claimed universal suffrage as the
greet conquest of the revolution of February, and one
which no legislation of any Assembly could ever take
away, or even diminish. M. Davie!, the Minister of
Justice, then supported the Government Bill; and, after
M. Daru, the Reporter of the Committee, had de=tend..d
the conclusions which that body had come to, a division
took place, when the new Bill was rejected by a majority
of only 7, the numbers being 348 in its favour to 355
against it. The Assembly then rose at a quarter-past
seven in great agitation."
The organs of the Bourbonists and parti-pretre
do not conceal their mortification at the small-
ness of the majority, and admit that vir-
tually the victory is with the Republicans, and they
also admit that but for the bungling manner in
which the debate was managed by the Ministers, not
one of whom is a man of business or possesses the least
experience in the conduct of political or Parliamen-
tary affairs, the majority would have been the other
way.

The Assemblie .Nationale, under the inspiration of
M. GinizoT, thus confesses the defeat of the reac-
tionaries
When the spirit of disorder pervades the high re-
gions of power, honest and enlightened men cannot feel
too much alarm. The contagion is inevitable, and the
moral sense of a nation is infected with a deadly poison.
We are not boasters in success, we are not puffed up
with our victories, neither do wo dissemble our defeats.
because victories or reverses can only be honourable to
us. We have no idea of triumphing in the vote which
we have obtained. Far from dissernhlinp;, that it deceives
our hopes, we loudly express our affliction at seeing the
party of order so divided on a question which admitted
of neither hesitation nor division. Questions of honour
do not admit of them."
No one but M. GIJIZOT, the advocate of a species
of representative government which shall represent
nobody, would have thought of msking a question
relating to the franchise a question of honour. It is
now abundantly evident that the party represented by
the Assembiee Nationale consider it a point of honour
to deprive the people of the franchise, and the people
will no doubt bear this in mind, and make it equally
a point of honour not to vote for a Fusionist.
The Ordre confesses that the vote is not only a
defeat but a complete break-up of the reactionary
faction. After describing the various tactics of the
different parties, it dolourously concludes its comment
as follows :

" From all these fine considerations, and clever tac-
tics, the result has been that the majority was ;educed
to seven votes; that is, that when one of the powers
ceases to support the cause defended in common for
three years, and now more than ever menaced, the coun-
try will inquire with a painful anxiety where is the
strength of the other?"

The Pays, which is now one of the supports of the
PRESIDENT, says—
"lt is to be remarked that the absolute majnrity
which has refused the re-establishment of universal suf-

rage, was only three votes. Three votes to 'militant
;he exclusion of four millions of electors! Such is the

positive result of the discussion. This mutt, and these

comparative figura,._ speak more loudly than any com-
ment could do." _ . _

The Republican journals triumph in the result of
the division as a victory, and in the calmness of con-
scious power proceed to calculate the probable results.
In the National Assembly yesterday it was deter-
mined that the discussion on that portion of the
Municipal Bill which relates to the franchise should
commence on Monday.
The Bourse was arimated, and a material inaprovr
meat took place in the price of Government Securities.
The Five per Cents. opened at 901.. 50c., ro:ie to 90t.
90c., and closed at 90f. 80c., for the end of the month;
the Thrce per Cents. closed at 56f.; °deans Railroad
Shares, 867 f. 50e.; Rouen, 567 f. 50c.; Flay„, 208.'. 75e •
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Great Northern, 4601.; Avignon, 208 F, 750 Vi rzOn,
.
427 f. 50c.; 13,i510, 150 f ; Bordeaux, 376 f 25c :Par;s and
Strashurgh, 355 f ; Tours and Nantes, 2531 75" e •A. • . Lnien3
to amlogne, 260 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 14.
The only transactions to-day were—Great Indian Penin-
sula, 4—Orleans and Bordeaux, 3%.

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