The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-22 00:00:00

"regularly sold" by the New York Herald, and
that suspicion ripened into certainty on reading,
in the next . Rlage, the original document which
our contemporary thought fit to transfer to
his broad sheet in extenso. It is true
that productions of an extraordinary nature ap-
pear not rarely in the American newspapers, but
our friend of the New York Herald is by no means
such an ignoramus as to put forth seriously a tirade
such as that which galled the Times into an affrighted
belief in its sober import. The whole affair would,
however, have passed away like every other nine days'
wonder, but the English journal seems resolvedwitball
to
try and have the last word, and thereby,
re-
spect be it spoken, to write itself down
Herald,ain kindredtbe
animal to honest DOGBEERT. The
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oh haswbiorbeascohemduEoburiompe, poratnanneoeunwcaesa
House-square, was—as it
given in Printing
" a slight missile sent but, with
needed no ghost fromfrom
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an adbmitierabinle
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tner
first instance been so successful. And our contempo-
rary, with some degree of ponderous jocularity, la.
hours to prove himself a little less frightened than
before, when (as the _Herald remarks in a paragraph
which our contemporary did not include in his nume-
rous quotations therefrom on Wednesday morning)
" he treated the menacing intelligence with a terrible
anxiety to be cool, and devoted his serried columns,
day after day, to explanations, affecting to laugh, and
appearing very much like a traveller in some great,
dark forest, whistling to keep his courage up, while
looking backward and forward to see some frightful
spectre at every turn."
It is really "milking a ram" for a print professing
to be " the leading journal of Europe," to address
itself to refute such a bouncing hoax as the assertion
that, when the aforesaid " playful missile" reached
London, "the Prime Minister sent offa note instanter
for the Duke of WELLINGTON—the Ministers ten-
dered their resignations—Lord STANLEY tried to
form a new Cabinet in vain, and the politicians, so
conservative, so grave, so self-confident in the Yeo-
manry and in the business population, did not even
dare to venture on a general election, to form a new and
reliable Government. England trembles from top to
toe, and even the QUEEN, who has considerable nerve,
was so much frightened, that Prince ALBERT
regretted that an American newspaper con-
taining such alarming suggestions should have
reached the shores of happy Albion ! Apprehensions
of this character soon begat worse fears, and with the
speed which an emergency only can create, thirty
thousand brilliant bayonets bristled in the neighbour-
hood of Hyde-park, besides we know not how many
parks of artillery were ready at a moment's call."
Our contemporary has given the benefit of the im-
mense circulation which he enjoys to a full elucida-
tion of the marvellous treasures which are piled
within the crystal walls of the matchless Palace of
Industry, and that in a free and cordial spirit. It is,
moreover, mainly, if not altogether, owing to his
powerful pen that a check has been applied by the
Commissioners of Police to that excessive nuisance the
cab-ex•ortion system, which, if permitted to riot un-
checked, would be found materially to interfere
with the comfort and accommodation of a great
number of visitors to the metropolis during the
present memorable season. But we must be per-
mitted to say that a worthier occupation might be
found than giving currency to humbug, which may
leave an ineffaceable and alarming impression on
the minds of many respectable aged females, besides
affording a hearty laugh in New York at the capacity
of gullet which exists in this instance on the part of
the foremost journal of "the Britishers."
We shall not enter now into a consideration of an
article entitled " The World's Fair in London. Its
Objects and Effects," published also in the New Fork
Rerad of the 6th of May. We regret and pity the
uncandid tone in which a string of fallacies,
which may go down with the unthink-
ing or prejudiced among our Transatlantic
kinsmen, are couched. It is much to be ap-
prehended that there is just a leetle spice of envy or
disappointment lurking at the bottom. It is notorious
to the world that the display of contributions in the
American department in the edifice at Hyde. park is
far behind that furnished by any other country; in
fact, to speak the word plainly, it is unanimously
voted "shabby." Whose fault is this ? The great
Republic is amply supplied with sources, natural and
artificial, sufficient to have rendered her a proud com-
petitor with the states of the Old World at the " Fair
of the Universe." And we confidently believe that it
would have diffused a sincere and wide-spread
pleasure amongst our own people had our Co-
lumbian kinsmen, or, as we may justly term
them, our Anglo-Saxon brethren, come out
with a little more strength and effect on such
a great occasion. But there is no use in assum-
ing the airs of a discontented child, and scolding us
in such terms as the following, which we extract
without a further word of comment, trusting that we
shall hear no more of a paper warfare which
reflects no credit on either of the parties con-
cerned, both of whom, and one in particular, ought to
know better than to make such an ado about nothing :
" The British see that their supremacy is gone—that
the glory of Ichabod is departed, and the cowed
bully becomes the abject sycophant. England sees
that her destiny is under our control." it!) . * .
" Our opinion, then, of this great show is, that it
originated in selfishness ; that it will not tend to advance
peace throughout the world, as it was intended it
should ; that it is a Yankee trick to make the rest of
the world contribute to England's wealth ; that as
far as arts and manufactures are concerned, it will be
a failure ; and that, on the whole, it looks like a
gigantic humbug." (! ! )

ITER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
It is respectfully FIDELIO.
announced that Madlle. SOFIE CRUYELLI wilt
make her Second Appearance on SATURDAY next, May 24, in
Beethoven's Opera, FIDELIn.
Leonora, Madlle. Sofia Crnvelli (her 2d appearance) ; Pizarro,
Signor Coletti; Rocco, Si4nor 13alanchi ; lacquino, Signor Mercu-
niarl ; Marcellini, Madame Giuliani ; II Ministro, Signor Casanova ;
Florestano, Mr. Sims Reeves.
To conclude with the admirable Ballet (arranged in one act) of
LE DIABLE A QUATRE,
By Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi, Mdlles. Rosa, Esper, Julien, Lamoureux,
Allegrelt Aussanrion, Kohlenberg, Pascales, Dantoine, MM. Charles,
ltbaiNk, ul Taglioni, Gouriet, Yenefra.. and DI Mattia.
Applicitions for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the
Box Office of the litheatre, Opera-colonnadc, Haymarket.

TIER MAJESTY'S THEATEE.
GRAND E,XTRA. NIGHT.
It respectfully announced that a Grand EXTRA NIGHT Will
take place THIS EVENING, May 22, when will be presented, for
the first time this season, Rossmi's celebrated opera,
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA.
Rosins, Madame Sontag ; Il Conte d'Alinaviva, Signor Calzolari ;
Figaro, Signor Ferranti ; Basilio, Signor Casanova ; Bartolo, Signor
Lablache.
In the Lesson Scene Madame Sontag will introduce Rode's cele-
brated Variations.
To be followed by a selection from the admired Ballet of LE ES-
MERALDA, including Treandaise, by Madlle. Carlotta Grisi and M.
Charles.
The performance will commence with the second and third acts of
Auber's celebrated Opera of
MUTA DI PORTICI,
(Masaniello).
Alfonso, Signor Scotti; Lorenzo, Signor Mercurall ; Selva, Signor
Bajanad ; 3lasaniello, Signor Pardini ; Pietro, M. Massol ; Berens..
Signor Lorenzo; Elvira, Madame Fiorentini ; Fenella, 3ldlle.
Monti.
In act first, a Grand Divertissement; La Gurache et Napolitaine,
ny Messrs. Kohlenberg, Soto, Aussandon. Soldansky, Allegrini, Pas-
raise, Emma, Dantonie, and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet ; Le
Bolero, by Madlles. Mathilde, Rosa, Julien, and Lamoreux, and M.
Ehrick. Finale Generale, in act third, La Tarantella, by Madlle.
kmalia Feraris, M. Charles, Madlles. Kohlenberg, Soto, Aussandon,
Soldansky, Allegrini, Pascales, Emma, Dantonie, 3lathilde, Rosa,
Julien, and Lamoreux, MM. Ehrick and Gouriet, and the Ladles and 1
Gentlemen of the Corps de Ballet.
To conclude with a Divestissement LES COSMOPOLITES' by
Madlle. Carlotta Grisi, Macllle. Amelia Ferraris, Megenles* Rosa,
Leper, Julien, Lamoureux, Aussandon, Pascalles, Kohlenberg„ ju
legrinl, MM. Charles, Ehrick; and Paul Taglioni.
The Opera will commence at Half-past Seltr,Ln.at the Box-
Applicatflons for Bores, S,alls, and Tickets to be made
office of the Theatre.

TELEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. 3. Vrebster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old BromPtOn•
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed an entirely New Comedy, entitled RETIRED
FROM BUSINESS. Zachary Pennyweight, Mr. Lambert ; Creep-
mouse, Mr. Buckstone ; Lieut. Tackle, Mr. Stuart ; Captain Gunn,
Mr. B. Webster ; Paul Puffins, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Kitty Penny-
weight, Miss Annie Romer.
To he followed by Moliere's Comedy of TARTTIFFE. Oregon,
Mr. Lambert; Damis, Mr. Davenport; Valere, Mr. Howe; Cleante.
1
Mr. Rogers ; Tartuffe, Mr. B. Webster; M. Loyal, Mr. Selby; El-
mire,
Miss Reynolds ; Marione, Miss L. Addison ; Dorine, Mrs.
Fitzwilliam.

TILEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI,
Under the
THIS EVENING,of M dame Cele Sit
Will he performed THE GREEN BUSHES,
'io be followed by a new musical, historical, pastoral, comical
airy drama, called O'FLANNIU'AN AND THE FAIRIES ; or, A
fidsumrner Night's
Dream.
Phelim OTlannigan, Mr. Hudson;
Cl,eron, Mica E. Chaplin; Mary, Miss K. Fitzwilliam.

,ROYAL PRLNCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. C. Keaa and Mr. Keeley.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed a new and original Comedy entitled LOVE IN
A MAZE. Characters by Messrs. C. Kean, Keeley, Wigan, Harley,
Addison, Meadows; Mrs. Keeley, Mrs. Winstauley, and Mrs. C.
Sean• _

After which a new Farce called APARTMENTS.
"Visitors to the Exhibition may be accommodated."
To conclude with a new guld spectacular Extravaganza (taken
from a Tale, by Washington Ming), entitled THE ALHAMBRA ;
or The Three Moorish Princesses. Characters by Messrs. Keeley,
Harley, A. Wigan, Wynn, Cooke, Flexmore ; Misses Murray, Daly,
Vivash, Robertson, Leclerq, Keeley, Mdlle. Auriol, and Mrs. Keeley.
Private Boxes, to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr.
M,Ls.tingharn ; of whom also places may be taken at the Box-office,
Oxford-street, from Eleven till Feur o'clock.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Maaame Veer!lL
ele Le3EICEI, Mr. Cr:arles PYiathewn.
THIS EVENING.
Will be performed

ONLY A 'LOD.

To be followed by
A DIY OF RECKONING, in which Madame Vestris will appear
To conclude with

ra QUEEN OF THE FROGS. (IT...aracters by Messrs. C.
14athew•, R. Roxby, Bellingham, Herncast.le, 3lorrls ; Mrs. Frank
Sfattbevit,, i.il3R t. Georre, Migs Martindale. and 15:ss Oliver.

ROYAL OLi M.PIC T TEATY.E.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Farren.
THIS EVEIiKrG,
Will l);o performed T LIE LADIES' BATTLE ; or, to Duel en
Arnour.

/9 be followed by the VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.
TT) conclude with THE LOUTERY TICKET.

ROYAL AIIThiIITIIEATRZ,
U.tkiei-filc Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Hightail
Prince Albert.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
THIS EVENING,

Wit be performed a grand new Spectacle, entitled ELEANOR
THE AMAZON ; or, Queen of France and EAgland.
To be followed by new Scenes of the Circle, introducing an en-
tirely new Company of English, French, Italian, and American
Artistes.
To conclude with a laughable Farce,

13oz-OJc/a open irem Eleven till Four,
Stage Mana.:er, Air. T. Thompson.

PUNCH'S PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. W. R. COPELAND, Liverpool.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed a new Comedy, emitted KENSINGTON GAR-
DENS. Prizcipal characters by Messrs. Tilbury, A. Davies, Nor-
ton, T. Rogers, and Romer ; Mrs. Seymour, Mesdames E. Romer,
M. A. Marshell, and Wallis.
With a new Farce, entitled A CHEAP EXCURSION.
An ILLUSTRATION 0)! THE EXPOSITION. Principal charac-
ters by Mesdames Marshall, M. Taylor, C. Horsman, and Dibdin ;
Messrs. J. Reeve, N9rton, J. Rogers, and Romer.
To conclude with a new comedy proverb, teaching people the
best method of LIVING IN GLASS HOUSES.
The prices of admission are arranged as follow :—Orchestra stalls,
43 ; boxes (first circle), :is. ; (second circle), 2s. ; Pit, ls.
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 Half-past Nine
—first circle, 25.; second circle, is.
Private Boxes One Guinea and a Half each.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Open for the z-eason.
JULLIEN'S GRAND coscEßr MONSTRE.
The Proprietorhas the gratification to announce that he has suc-
ceeded in engaging Mons. Jullien and the elite of his unrivalled
band, and that ho will continue a short season with a grand Con-
cert Monstr e, including Herr Koenig, M. Collinet, Lavigne, L'An-
glais, Mr. Lazarus, Mr. Jarret, and other eminent soloists. The
splendid bands of the itoyal Artillery, 2d Life Guards, and Cold-
stream Guards will attend in full uniform, by the kind permission of
their respective Coicnels, in addition to the effective band of this
establishment. Far Solos by Herr Koenig, M. Collinet, Ciotti, and
Mr. Lazarus. Jullien's Exhibition Quadrille with increased and
novel effects ; also, Jullien's new Amazon Galop, suggested by
the splendid piece of Sculpture in the Great Exhibition.
Representation of a gigartic modelled Panorama, painted by
the Messrs. Hanson, representing the Temple of Janus in the Eternal
City, with a striking View of the Colosseum, Palace of the Cmsars,
&c. The Menagerie is both varied and extensive, including two gi-
raffes, two elephants, which- promenade the grounds, appropriately
caparisoned and attended. The band, composed of musi-
cians of first-rate celebrity, is conducted by Mr. Godfrey.
Moored on the lake is seen a real Chinese pleasure junk, with masts
and saps complete. Also Remington's aerial bridge, and various
novelties ; and at dusk will be given, on a scale of surpassing mag-
nificence, a representation of the Closing of the Lrazen Gates of the
Temple of Janus, with (for the first time ever attempted) a grand
colossal transparent diaphonie panopticon, showing the horrors of
war and the blessings of peace, terminating with a most brilliant
display of fireworks by Messrs. SollthbY ; and an allegorical tableau
of the arts and sciences, depositing their treasures at the feet of her
Majesty Queen Victoria, the whole forming the most gorgeous spec-
tacle ever witnessed.
ADMISSION—ONE SHILLING.

Exhibition nights—Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and
Briday.
The FLORAL EXiIIBITIOSS of the Royal South London Flori-
caltural Society will be repeated during the Season ; the First will
take place on Wednesday, May 28.

rtwa WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE
THIS DAY —Mcrning 29 ruin. after 6 I Evening 52 min. after 6
I°'hf ,ItsOW —Mom n 4 20 rain. after 7 I Evening 50 miv.. attar 7

TRE WE.kTHER.—Stne OFFICE, MAY 22.
'himnuossETEE, IN THE SHADE.
63—highest since noon yesterday.
48—lowest this morning and during the night.
66 -1153 day, at noon.

BeßowrrEst, 30-29.
WIND V7.S. W._ dull, close weather.

O.A.ILY WEATHER TABLE.
places at Nine o'cloc
Stets ,
a o, the wind
and Weather at each of the following
order of yesterday morning.—The stations
latitude.
are arranged in
PormsmooTH—wind ;
132.9TINGs—Wind W., NV, gentle breeze—overcast.
Ls--iwndgsVe,
gberneetzlee—br(e,vezee_oreast;e
W., stron
~ gentle breeze—partiallyreast.
FB°oLullisAsPT°ToNE
TussEmciE-Wind
w, fentle breeze—rain.
cloudy.
BAsniasToKz_wind s.w g breeze—partially cloudy.
breeze—overcast.
GREENWICH—Wind
il)reeze—overcast.
COLCHESTER—Wind S.W.,'-ienniale
CAMBRIDGE—Wind S.W., ggantle
W.N.W., gentle bree—zrsain.
YARMOUTH—Wind W., strong breeze rain.
overcast.
artially cloudy.
g breez-e-2
Vi HITBY— Wind
DARL/NGTON—Wind N.W., stron
The returns from the following places incrially cloudy.
the wind and weather on Tuesday m eate the state of
°riling at nine
o'clock ;
MULLING-lA—Wind W., gentle breeze—partially Cloud
Has.rurcia—Wind W. gentle breeze—partially cloudy-3%
lavEaroot..—Wind N.W., strong breeze—partially Cloudy.
lA/LDS—Wind N.W., hard wind—partial rain.
Warn:lir—Wind N., strong breeze—cloudless.
DARLINGTON—Wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy,

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean daily
reading of the barometer was above 30 in. on Tuesday,
i`below in. Wednesday,and Thursday, and the mean of the week was
a,A;;-ri• Alter Sunday the mean daily temperature was
--'w ,aeaverage on every day of the week, and on Tuesday
and Wednesday it was respectively 5° and 7° below the
average of
the same days derived from ten years. The
on v. temperatureetnesdeontinued to fall during the first four days, and
BO°. The Z the mean was 46Q.2, after which it rose above
generally in thaell4 jah.seaswte.ek was 50°•9. The wind was

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY - 22, 1851.

"Let well enough alone" is a standard maxim far
more profitable in the observance than in the breach.
A morning contemporary, whose flank, we are bound
to acknowledge, is seldom turned, would have better
consulted his own reputation for sagacity had be
borne in mind that :ialutary doctrine, as well as the
familiar dogma of the Dean of St. Patrick's, relative

to the effect proJuced by a perseverance in stirring
what is incdorous by nature. We were among the
rawly sirtio perused vial a smile of surprise en article
which served to fill the columns of the journal alluded
to not long before the opening- of the Great Exhibi-
tion. On conning it over, a shrewd suspicion per-
,. 'bind that,.the Times wee, as the saying is,
,fr
Ot-5-AAt:ll.P'
ni.

THE S TN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING,

the lovely, the graceful, and the beautiful, and in a
worship of the hideous, the awkward, and the un-
natural. How this league of the extremes of folly
against common sense is to be carried out
remains to be seen, whether Mr. CLARKE will give up
his Puritanism to join the Pre-Raphaelites in their
ultra-Catholicism, or whether, giving up their ultra-
Catholicism, and deriving their inspiration from Mr.
Roouroar CLARKE, they will found a new second.
commandment school of art, in which beauty shall be
deemed blasphemy, and the least approach to nature
sin, is as yet uncertain ; but that Clarkeism and Pre-
Rapbaelism are but different stages of the same
disease, is, we think, abundantly evident.

THE SHARE MARKETS

BRITISH RAILWAYS.

Railways.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

vy e have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
They all contain long articles on the question of
the revision of the Constitution, one of the most re-
markable of which is by M. DB LAMARTINE. In that
article he distinctly states that it was the Legitimatist
Deputies who, on the 24th of February, 1848, urged
him to conclude his speech by proposing a provisional
Government, and that having precipitated the
monarchy of July into a republic, they now seek to
plunge the republic into anarchy ' • and he significantly
reminds the BEERYERS, the DE FALLOCX, and their
clique, that on the 18 Fructidor, when the Legiti-
matists were intriguing and conspiring against the
first Republic, the Directory crushed the treasonable
conspiracy by seizing 53 of the, conspirators, with
PICIIEGRU at their head, and deporting them ; an act
which was approved of by all France. He concludes
by recommending the PRESIDENT to propose a repeal
oftthe Electoral Law of the 31st May—that is, a return
to universal suffrage, and to appoint a really Repub-
lican Ministry.
M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN has a long article in the
Presse on the intrigues of the Monarchists, which he
concludes in the following terms :
" The Republic will not be overturned, for to be so,
monarchy should be re-established. But it is all over
at present in France with the monarchy, for it could not
there resume its course, four times interrupted, except
in going back at least to 1750. A whole century fallen
to ruins does not spring again into life. If Charles 11.,
brought back by Monk in 1659, could again raise up the
throne in the place of the block on which the head of
Charles I. fell in 1649, the reason was that in England
only a king fell. Tile institutions remained standing ;
the British aristocracy, the inequality of property, the
regime of substitutions had survived the protectorates of
Oliver and Richard Cromwell. But is it so in France,
where the right of the eldest son has been abolished,
where equali'y of division in the property left has become
part of the system, where the hereditary aristocracy has
disappeared? The impossibility of re-establishing the
reor.archy is equivalent to the impossibility of over-
turning the Republic. No, it will nut be overturned,
because it could not be repbc:rd."
CLOT BEY, chief physician of the PacnA cf
Egypt, has just arrived in Paris- from Alexandria.
The Bourse was feeble, with very little business
doing. The Five per Cents., opened at 90f. 65c., end
closed at 90f. 35c.; the Three per Cents. closed at 56f.
sc. Orleans Railroad Shares, 8201.; Havre, 245 f; Great
Northern, 472 f. 50o.; Avignon, 220 f.; Vierzon, 430 f.;
Bale, 145 t.; Bordeaux, 398 f. 75c.; Paris and Strasburg,
363 f. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 271 f. 25c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 21.
Boulogne and Amiens, 9'—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 17t4—East Indian, 16—Northern of France,
t4o,4—Paris and Strasbourg, 101,2—Rouen and Havre, 91/,,
Sambre and Meuse, 3:%.

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