The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-26 00:00:00

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A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—
-4 _IL proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY.
Notice.-7n consequence of the vast preparation necessary
for the introduction of the Wonders of the World, " The
Groupe of Performing Lions" in the new Spectacle, their ap-
pearance is unavoidably postponed until MONDAY next,
December 3.
This Evening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three
Acts, by E. Fitzball, Esq., entitled ROBIN HOOD ; or. the
Merry Outlaws of Sherwood; introducing the Stud of highly-
trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag Hounds, &c, Allan-
a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs ; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit-
ch
Toa. rd
be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by
the celebrated Madame Newsome, Mr. James NeWSOMe
and their Troupe of unequalled performers, he., including
the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest
Wonder of the age.
Concluding with a laughable Farce.
T`mors open at half-Fist 6, performance commence at T.
Bag-office open daily from 11 till 4
Stage Manager —Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.

CANTERBURY HALL HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENLNG,
•
A Grand Seleetion from the opera of
NORMA

Norma ...• ...... Miss RUSSELL.
Adaloisa ......... .. Madame MARIA,
(Her .first appearance in this country.)
Alter wlfich (for this week only) th vocal lOPI ANS, consist-
ing; of Seventeen Performers of and In
Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Nerzro Delineations,
Anecdote., Ace. Principal Nef,rro Artistes, Messrs. Joe
Brown, G. W. Pell, H. Drummond, and Charley Fox. •
Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGIIMANS.
Balcony, IA, Hall. 6d.

The friends of the French EMPEROR have always '
assured us that if he could with safety confer con-
stitutional liberty on France he would do it to-
morrow. Now they seem to think that fugitive
day has really arrived. Constitutional liberty has
so far dawned on France that we are to be sure
the sun must soon be above the horizon. The
dawn, such as it is, has certainly followed very
quickly on the first breaking of the day, for it is
hardly eight-and-forty hours since we had the in-
timation that liberal changes were at hand; if the
daylight follow the dawn, with anything like the
same quickness, France will not be, what it now
is, about the most despotically governed country in

TIIN INTEATHEIL—SuN OFFICE, Nov. 25, MO.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
43—highest since noon yesterday.
36 —lowest this morning and during the night.
38—this day at noon.
B2ato3IETER-29.51.
WIND—Easterly; light, with &ill cold weather, with
rain in the ?-lernoon.

Nov. 26.

THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE.
38--highest since noon yesterday.
36—lowest this morning and during the night.
37—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.43.
WIND—Easterly ; with rain.

HIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins DAY.-7,lorning, 12h. 14m.—Afternoon, 12h. 33m.
To-molutow.-Morning. 12h. 53m.—Afternoon. lh. 13m.

Europe.
We desire to view in a friendly spirit any
approaches to Liberal Government. Let us see
what these are fairly worth—what can be done
through them to make intelligent public opinion
powerful in France ; what to insure that the
country should have a voice in its own Govern-
ment legislation ; what to attain the desirable
result that the Monarch should reign but not rule ?
The exordium is rather imposing. The elect of the
Grace of GOD and Universal Suffrage wishes to
mark his confidence in the " great bodies of the
State," which he created, and therefore proposes to
give them " a more direct participation in the
general policy of the Government ?" The way in
which he proposes to do this is—he first authorises
the Senate and the Legislative Corps to vote an
Address in reply to the Speech from the Throne.
Next a discussion of the Government projects de loi
is to be permitted, and lastly, he proposes to allow
the publication of debates in a fuller form. These
concessions s9em fair on the surface; but, overlook-
ing the ugly fact, that they are not made because,
as in England the " Great bodies of the State" felt
their rights and demanded them from the Monarch,
but because the Monarch finds the great bodies so
worthy of his confidence that he can trust them—
passing by this—we find every precaution taken
that the great bodies shall exercise their new pri-
vileges under proper surveillance. Government
commissioners are to attend the discussions, for the
purpose, it is said, of making the necessary expla-
nations; but may they not also have an eye on
refractory members. Then, again, the Government
still reserves to itself the initiation of all the bills,
as we term them, which will be discussed by the
Legislature ; while in regard to the reporting, if
we understand the scheme rightly, the Government
will provide the reporters, the President of the
Assembly will supervise their work, it will appear
then in the 3loniteur, and finally he furnished in
extenso to the other journals.
Of all this we may say, everything depends
on its working. One of our contemporaries,
professing to have the advantage of spe-
cial knowledge of the EMPEROR'S intentions,
understands all in the most hopeful sense. We are
told that it is the announcement of au assimilation
of French to English liberties. All is to be " under-
derstood" in the most constitutional sense. It is
" understood" that hostile amendments to the ad-
dress are to be considered as a bar to the further
employment
of the Ministers whose policy is cen-
sured ; and it is also understood that the report of
the debates is to b
Miserably short as be a "full statement" of them.
even then the French system
approach to constitutional Go-
would be of any
vernment, were the above view correct, which we
we should acknowledge
thatie
have no meansropo
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If the Ministry can be made responsiblen
France.
to public opinion, and if the speeches of a small but
honest and able Opposition can be fairly published,
we in England well know the potency of even these
simple means, and should certainly be disposed to
hope the best from them. The hold the EMPEROR

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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, NOV. 26, 1860.

The intelligence from China is certainly suffi
ciently startling, now that the telegram has brough
us news from the allied head-quarters, only eight
miles distant from Pekin, down to the date of the
23d of September. It tells us that the Chinese had
then taken as prisoners of war, and carried off to
Pekin, not only Captain BRAB kZON and two of
FANE'S Horse, Messrs. DE NORMAN and ANDERSON,
but, with these, three civilians of no incon-
siderable importance—Mr. BOWLBY, Mr. Loeir,
and Mr. PARKES—the Times' Correspondent,
the Secretary to Lord ELGIN, and her Bri-
tannic MAJESTY'S Consul. Gladly will every
one learn what we earnestly trust may be the next
tidings received in regard to these gentlemen, that
they have been released by their captors in answer
to the imperative requisition of the noble Earl out
there as the Queen's Ambassador and Plenipoten-
tiary Extraordinary.
`ware of the rumours that were flying about,
late
OR Saturday evening and throughout yes-
terday, t'n
the effect that the half dozen im-
portant 'pr-
isoners of War above named had
been barbuo
ly murdered by the Chinese—it
is profoundly consolatory to learn now by tele-
gram that not only
are those reports altogether
unfounded, but that 'these Prisoners of War
we have just mentioned
were, on thic contrary,
when the last despatches left, being well treated by
the Pekinese. Their speedy release, moreover, is
really and truly—so far as we
uponnow
can judge from facts
indisputably-record—all but a matter
of absolute certainty. And we cannot but regard
the probabilities thus hopefully for
the few
shall here in a
simple reasons weword or two
first place—there
particularize. In the were
range
the Allied forces actually' within of the
with all the re_
outposts of Pekin, armed
adorn civilization, in-1
sources and. weapons of mo
eluding ao2g these the terrible ARMSTRONG
ra
guns! There were those Allied Forces actually
but eight miles from Pekin—and within the very
week of the capture of these sis: En„olishmen the
Chinese had suffered two successive defeats h , eac of
them of eansidaralale magnitude. On the 18th of
September at Chang-I,ia-wan, and again on the
21st of September at Jang-cyan--upon each of
these occasions-30,000 Tartar horsemen were
completely routed by the soldiers of France and
F.na:le.nd. And while the Allies themselves in
these two sharp contests had only eighteen
icounded_TWO THOUSAND TArtars had been
KILLED, and FIFTrY Chinese guns had been taken
as trophies of victory! It was upon the morrow of
of the second of these signal defeats, and while the
Chinese themselves were sending a flag of truce to

the Anglo-French victors, then advancing with has on the two bodies is such at present as to insure
those formidable ARMSTRONG field-pieces (as we that he shall always have an immense majority,
\
have said) to within range of the outposts of the except possibly, in the case, that even an Emperor
capital—it was at this moment and under these might prefer to throw on the Legislature the work
circumstances that the three soldiers and the three of ejecting some particular minister whom he would
important civilians before enumerated, were unex- rather dismiss indirectly than directly. The Senate
nomination and iu his own pay ; and
pectedly "pounced upon by the watchful Chinese
is his own
and carried off as prisoners of war to Pekin. They even his Legislative Corps, elected by universal
appear to have been engaged at the moment of suffrage, consists, in great part, of persons nomi-
their seizure in choosing camping ground, when Dated directly, as candidates at least, to the
the net, being suddenly drawn round the little in- constituents, by the Government. Slow, in-
sulated group, the Chinese must have been rather deed, must be theprocess of forming that invaluable
overnment, an effective opposition.
elated to find that they had actually taken at one aid to all good g
"haul"—with Captain BBABAZON and
two of Long, we fear, will be the time during which most
FANE'S Horse, the Times correspondent ! the Secre- of the dissentients will be afraid to speak their real
tarp of the English Ambassador !! and the Consul sentiments -, or, perhaps, before many will even
REIGN !!! So far as the Chinese dare to differ in opinion from the master of 600,00
of the British SOVEREIGN 0
bayonets
themselves were concerned in this litheincident,
inl a magnificent coup ! Sc, far as But what, it may be asked, is the political signi-
it was certa y the ficance of these concessions, be they real or only
her MaJEsTY's Ambassador was concerned on
contrary— the sudden withdrawal from him (into a arent? Werather think that the course of things
pp
both at home and abroad inclines the EMPEROR
Pekin) of his Private Secretary, and still more of
that able and intelligent Consul,whom he must have to utilise, as far as he can, the support of the
people. Since the Italian war he has had far less
found almost essential tohim, for the facile conduct of
his negotiations—their being thus abruptly snapped
to fear from all the parties opposed to him
Orleanists and Legitimists, especially, seem almost
up and carried away as prisoners of war within
the walls of the Chinese capital, must assuredly to to acquiesce in their eclipse, since the great military
him (Lord ELGIN) have been in the highest degree feats of the Imperial armse
reason ton the o
plains of' Lora-
(to say the very least of it) embarrassing and in- hardy ; he has now
littl f
convenient. His lordship's instant reply, however, will trouble him in the Chambers.
to the Chinese flag of truce bringing to him But another party has become very troublesome.
the provisions for a new treaty of peace, was Ultramontanists, headed by several noisy and viru-
one in every way calculated, we may be quite sure
lent bishops, and byve France a second Emperor
of that, to put an end to this temporary difficulty, what they could to
in gi
the person of the POPE. ratef
and to lead to the return safe and sound to the
allied head-quarters of our six captured fellow- to be sure, to one who
in point of fact, one noted layman, have done
Ungul men they,
has done so much both for
them and the POPE -- but when were any
countrymen. Our ambassador,
simply demanded the release of those six
per- clergy grateful for anything short of supre-
sons as a sine qua non before the opening mac), over both the bodies and Fouls of men ?
up again of any negotiations! This, recol- The EMPEROR, with good reason enough, wishes
he has
lect, with our forces there—before Pekin ! the civil power to be supreme ;
given
This with 30,000 Tartar cavalry routed by our the bishops several lessons lately ; they had one on
troops on the 18th, and 30,000 more Tartary cavalry Peter's pence, another on their political pastorals;
routed on the 21st of September ! The French a third, more instructive than all on which we lately
carrying with them as they advanced their terrible commented, has just issued fro
advantageoff
rifle Armstrongs that have already become (and no EMPEROR being their sole master, and
wonder) the terror of the Chinese ! The Government of the priest being first a citizen, then a
at Pekin meanwhile being so far brought already to priest. is the last move of all really in the
a consciousness of the imminent peril of its position same direction ? Does the EMPEROR think that to
that the Commissioner now appointed by it to open elevate the layman in the scale of political power,
up, if possible, fresh, and, it is hoped, final negotia- as in England, fs the surest means of counterwork-
tions, appears to be no other than the own brother ing a hierarchy ?
of the Emperor, Hein-fung. Under these circum- If again he looks abroad, he sees all his neigh-
stances, it must be sufficiently obvious, at a glance, hours moving of necessity in the direction of liberty.
what the probabilities are as to the release, in per-
Italy he, himself, has enabled to inaugurate a great
feet safety, of the six gentlemen now heard of as in
constitutionally governed kingdom ; and Austria
durance among the Chinese. However satisfied
itself is obliged to propose such measures for the
any of us may be, however, upon this point, we
representation of the empire, as but two years ago
shall all of us indubitably be right glad when the
she would have scouted as visionary—measures,
mere probability shall have become a positive cer-
which if adopted just as FRANCIS JOSEPEE has
tainty. As a foretaste of the indemnity—as a sort
proposed them, would confer more power on the
of whet to the national appetite for compel- Austrian States to express, and perhaps give effect
sation, comes that little intimation towards
to public opinion, than will be enjoyed by France
the close of the telegram,—" Tea to the value of
even under the new arrangements. LOUIS NA-
£250,000 sterling taken at Chang-kia-wan."
POLEON would, under these circumstances, be one
The latest morsel of intelligence dates down to
of the most isolated despots of civilised Europe, if
the 4th of October, at Shanghai, bringing news
he did not admit some degree of constitutional
that the rebels were seriously threatening Hang-
liberty into the working of his system. There
chow. The incoming mail (that may be now looked
might even be danger from the comparison his own
for very speedily) would bring the tidings down to
people would make of their position with that of
the ensuing day (the fifth of October) at Shanghai,
inferior countries.
and nine days later still (i.e. to the 14th of Octo-
ber) at Hong Kong.

As to this country, the effect of these proposals
will all depend on the sincerity with which they
are carried out. Since 1852 there has been no sym-
pathy, but the reverse, between the people of Eng-
land and the Government of France. :We are
unable not to hate despotism. It may be a
national weakness, but the fact is undoubted. And
just as an anti-Slavery policy in the United States
will most certainly better our feelings towards that
country, so as rapid an approach as possible to
constitutional liberty on the part of the French
Government will better the feeling between the
English people and the EMPEROR. Every Eng-
lishman would rather be well abused by a free
speaker in a French House of Commons, than
have fifty letters to "my dear PERSIGNY"
about good intentions towards us, and in-
timacy with our Premier. We like to
to tell others all our minds, and to hear others tell
us theirs too. We can be hearty friends when we
all know each others' thoughts ; we have then the
basis of confidence, though it is, often enough, the
basis of agreeing to differ. But we cannot confide,

cannot therefore be friends, when we are ever sus-
pecting some mysterious plot ; especially when all
that we know is, that the one man who rules as well
as reigns in France, labours above all things to be
strong enough to invade our shores, and makes us
pay £35,900,000 a year to make sure against him.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and Princess Mary leave Brighton an Thursday
next, for Cambridge Cottage, Kew.
Prince Louis of Hesse and his Serene Highness
the Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern, with their suites, have
left Maurig,y's Hotel, on a visit to her Majesty at 'Windsor
Castle.
The Prince and Princess Kotchoubey and suite
have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris.
His Excellency the Austrian Minister arrived in
town on Friday, from Plymouth, and has since left town,
accompanied by the Countess Apponyi, on a visit to
Frances Countess Waldegrave and Mr. Harcourt, at
Strawberry Hill, Twickenham.
The Duke and Duchess of Argyll arrived at Staf-
ford House St. James's, on Saturday, from Trentham, the
Duke of Sutherland's seat in Staffordshire.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury
arrived in town on Saturday from Folkestone, axd will
leave town to-day for Dunmore-park, near Falkirk, on a
visit to the Countess of Dunmore.
The Countess Dowager of Cawdor has arrived at
Burwood, Surrey, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of
Ellesmere, where her ladyship will remain some months in
retirement.
The Countess Estella has arrived at the Bruns-
wick Hotel, en route for Scotland.
General Le Comte A. d'Essen, Aide-de-Camp to
the Emperor of Russia, has arrived at the Brunswick Hotel,
Jermyn-street, from St. Petersburg.
Lord and Lady Wodehouse have left town on a
visit to Frances Countess Waldegrave and Mr. Harcourt, at
Strawberry Hill, Twickenham.
Lord and Lady Ashburton are expe'cted at Bath
House to-day from a tour of visits.
Lula and Lady Rokeby left Montagu House a
few days since for Brighton.
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LORD DERBY.—The health of the noble chief of
the Conservative party, we rejoice to say, is quite re-estab-
lished, and the opening of Parliament will find him leading
the Opposition with his accustomed vigour and sagacity,
and with that chivalrous patriotism which is acknowledged
even by his opponents. We need hardly add that the noble
earl never had the slightest intention to retire from the
leadership of the great party with whom he has been so
long associated, and who are so devoted to him as their
chic F.—Pass.
The Hon. Julian Fane, now Secretary of Legation
at Vienna, is appointed Secretary of Embassy to the Aus-
trian Court. Lord Augustus Loftus is appointed Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of
Berlin. Mr. Henry Lockwood, paid Attache at Constan-
tinople, is appointed paid Attache to her Majesty's Mission
at Stockholm. The Hon. Henry 'Wodehouse is appointed
paid Attache at Constantinople. The Queen has conferral
the honour of Knighthood an Jean Edouard Ramond,
Esq., First Puisne 'Judge of the Supreme Court at the
Mauritius.
DEATH OF THE REV. DR. CROLY.—A Sunday
c(n)udtemhp. °I
ar ar
hood of his own residence, Queen-square, Bloomsbury.
The rev. gentleman had only left home a few minutes, and
was seen walking apparently in good health, when he
staggered, fell, and almost immediately expired. Tidings
of the melancholy event soon reached the parishioners of
St. Stephen's, Walbrook, and the deepest sorrow was
evinced. The bell of the parish church was tolled for an
hour. The ref. gentleman had been rector of St. Stephen's,
Walbrook, for 25 years, and was much respected by his
flock. We believe that he was to have preached in the
church which ho had so long adorned with his eloquence
asc rdyiedannounces
on
satiuday that
itf,e thisrn oo dnisitninFhueisnheeidobolir
divine.
yesterday. At a late hour on Saturday night other and
hurried arrangements were made for the services.