The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-17 00:00:00

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33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Established 1749.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessiee, Mr. J. B. Buskstone.
THIS EVENING, will be performed THE FAMILY
SECRET. Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, W. Farren, Villiers,
Buckstonc, dirs. B. White, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Mrs. Wilkins,
and Miss Amy Sedgwick.
Followed by SOMEBODY ELSE. Mr. C. Coghlan, Miss
Ida Sumner, 111iss Brennan.
After which, a new fairy romance, THE PILGRIM OF
LOVE.

RO YAL PRINCE S S'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.

THIS EVENING, OTHELLO. Mr. Phelps.

To conclude with the extravaganza of THE SYLPHIDE.
Miss C. Leclercq, Miss Louise Keeley, Miss Helen Howard,
Miss Rose Leclercq, Mr. Shore, Mr. Saker, and Mr. Frank
Mi.tthews,

Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.-
OPERA COMIQUE.
Under the management of M. LAURENT, Sen.
THIS EVENING, LA CORDS SENSIBLE; Mesdam.
Dalis, Guerin ; M. Richard.
To be followed by LE MARIAGE AUX LANTERNES
Mesdames Dal* Guerin; M. Geoffroy.
To conclude with LES DEUX DIVORCES.
Commence at eight o'clock.

A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL,
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
IZe-appearance of Mr. and Mrs. A. Wigan—Third week of
the populae American Actress, Miss Julia Daly.

THIS'EVENING (fourth time), ITS AN ILL WIND
THAT BLOWS NOBODY GOOD. Messrs. Alfred Wigan,
L, Toole, Stuart, Billington, C. J. Smith, Ward, Mrs. A.
Wigan, and Miss 11. Simms..
Atter which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN.
Messrs. Stuart, C. Selby, Billington, Eburne, Miss Julia
Daly, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley.

Box-office open from 10 till 5.
Private boxes, £2 28. ; Family Boxes, £l.

Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Chile Stalls, as.;
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, Is ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. k

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. Directress, Miss Wyndham. The nearest Theatre to
Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to
carriages and toot passengers all hours of the night.

THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
a new and original comedy, entitled A FRIEND IN NEED.
Y. Robinson, C. Young, &c.
To be followed by DIDO.
After which, A CHANGE OF SYSTEM.

Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, Is. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doofs open at half-past six; perform
ance commences at 7.

A STLE Y'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Proprietor, Mr. WM. BATTY.
Manager, Mr. EDWIN HUGHES.

The GREAT MILITARY SPECTACLE nightly increases
In popularity and attraction. The brilliant and unequalled
Scenes in the Arena, now rendered the most complete and ex-
traordinary ever witnessed, by the engagement of the cele-
brated " DELAVANTI TROUPE " and the wonder of the
world " LITTLE MENONI," arc received with reiterated
aprrobation and enthusiasm.
On MONDAY, MAY 14, 1860, and during the Week,

To commence with the Great Military Spectacle, in Four
Acts, entitled "Tie HISTORY OF A I 4 LAG," splendid
Scenery and Appointments, &c., &c.
The Novelties in the Cirque introducing the following
eminent Artistes—Mdlles. Maria, De Berg, Monet, Devereux,
3lessr. H. Williams, Fernando, Watson, Delavanti Troupe,
and Little Menoni.

The magnificent Chan.ieliers manufactured by Messrs. De•
fries and Sons, Houndsditch.

Doo: s open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.
Box -office open daily from 11 till 4.

Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.

contest which has but just commenced between
GARIBALDI'S forces and those of the Neapolitan
Government ? And there, too, in central Italy—
in the very heart of the Roman Peninsula—there,
too, has not the French EMPEROR his little army
under General GOYON, and the Papal Government
its army, too, under General DE LAMORICIERE.
From Venice to the Abruzzi, from the borders of
Savoy to the coast of Sicily—all Italy is still like
a cauldron seething. It is another crucible of the
political alchemists. We will yet hope, and be-
lieve, and pray, that out of it may still come in the
fullness of time the auruin potabile of liberty.
And in the meantime—while we are hoping, and
believing, and praying—the tidings coming to us
from (what is again in truth) the seat of war are
still—

" News of battle I News of battle I "

as stirring in the mere echoes thrilling through the
submarine wires of the electric telegraph as those
chanted by the Tyrtman voice of WILLIAM AYToUN
in his Lays of the Cavaliers.
GARIBALDI—it is now known for the last day or
two—has landed in Sicily at the head of his
strongly-armed Expedition. C-ESAR burnt his
ships when he landed on the shores of Britain.
GARIBALDI has had the work of destruction done
for him by the Neapolitans. There is conse-
quently before him but one immediate alterna-
tive—to "do or die !" BONAPARTE, when he
had effected the disembarkation of his troops at
Alexandria, had his fleet destroyed or captured off
Aboukir by the thundering broadsides of NELSON'S
men-of-war. There was no looking back for the
Egyptian expedition. There is no looking back
now for the little Sicilian expedition of GARIBALDI.
With them the word of command is "forward"—
and they are obeying it. As a matter of course, the
intelligence as yet is somewhat confused, and occa-
sionally even contradictory. It is easy, however,
to note that it receives a colouring from the medium
through which it passes in coming to us. For ex-
ample, we hear from Naples simply—" GARIBALDI
is in Sicily at the head of the Filibusters. The Royal
troops are marching to meet them. No movement
whatever has taken place in the provinces." All
this (via Naples !) being couleur de rose—all
full of confidence! But then we hear from
France that the intelligence brought by telegraph
(via Paris—it is the Patric that gives it publicity)
is " grave;" it being added—" The expedition of
GARIBALDI is said to have succeeded in raising
Sicily, and the royal troops occupy the fortresses
of Messina and Palermo only. An insurrection is
said to have broken out in Calabria. A third
insurrection in connexion with the two former is
likewise said to have broken out in the Abruzzi."
Very different this from the Neapolitan account of

there being no rising . whatever in the pro-
vinces ! Again, while the first news (via
Turin) was some forty-eight hours ago to the
effect that four persons had been killed among
GARIBALDI'S band at the time of their disembar-
kation, the statement now coming to hand (via
Rome) says, " Many of GAItIBALDI'S volunteers
were killed by the Royal troops." One while,
too, we hear from Madrid (under date the 16th

inst.), that, " A despatch has been received here from
Naples, stating that, the state of affairs being preca-
rious, theKING has requested foreign intervention."
While almost at the same moment we receive tid-
ings from Munich (also under date the 16th instant!)
—tidings published in the Neue Munehener
Zeitung, which says :—" Russia has remitted to
Turin a decided protest against any attack on the
kingdom of the Two Sicilies by the Piedmontese."
And so the thunderclouds of war seem gathering
from all parts of the political horizon. The neu-
trals evidencing here and there a disposition to
break away at last from their policy of neutrality.
And the advocates and the champions of the two
great opposing parties in Italy itself, and now also
in Sicily, being brought :distinctly face to face—
armed and excited—led on by practised warriors.
Great Captains known to fame—soldiers worthy of
each other's steel—on the one side GARIBALDI—on
the other LAMORICIERE.

It is quite manifest at last to all—what was
visible at first to some—that the struggle of last
year was but preliminary. The meeting of the
EMPERORS at Villafranca led to nothing more than
a truce or armistice. Italy seemed to decide, at
the period of the signing of the treaty at
Zurich, upon adopting the wisest policy
within her reach at the moment, the old
astute policy whose motto is receuiller pour

inieux sauter. And the hour pour nzieux sauter
has now struck. The sound of its striking is but
now passing with an electric thrill through
Christendom. What we have to do here, hence-
forth, is simply to watch with profound emotion
the course of the great events now again, and
let us hope finally for the interests of Italy, be-
ginning to unfold themselves: and to record them
faithfully.

Lord SHAFTESBURY has a bill before the Lords
on the "Sites and Ceremonies of the :'hunch of
England and Ireland."—A subject which more
cogently demands attention than even Lord
EBURY'S one of Liturgical Revision. We can en-

dare the too great length and repetitions of ser-
vices vet awhile, even as we have done. But, these
new squabbles and brawls in which clergymen are,
beyond doubt, the chief offenders, are not to be en-

dured. One Saint Barnabas, and one St. George's-
in-the-East, are quite enough to bring discredit on
the system of public worship peculiar to all the
Established -Churches in the metropolis. The
Bishop is powerless; the magistrate, Mr. SELFE, is
powerless ; the Ecclesiastical Court is powerless, its
victim becoming a popular martyr ; even Sir
RICHARD MAYNE, and the police, and the Home
Secretary himself are all powerless, and powerlefa
before what—or whom ? Before the wilfulness of
one or two parish clergymen about Rites and Cere•
monies. That is at the root of all. Mr. BRYAN
KING, and Mr. LIDDELL cannot pretend that their
personal and their altar millinery, their intonations,

their choirs are necessary to the soul's health of
their flocks. And the pretence that it all ought to
do them good, is met by the plain fact that it does
them harm; that it rouses passions, which it is
rather the object of Divine worship to quell than to
kindle.

That there is, therefore, a necessity for some en-
actment on the subject of Lord SHAFTESBURY'S
Bill must be acknowlcged by all sober and common
sense Englishmen. To nothing are we more averse
than to anything bordering on theological discus.
sion in a daily newspaper ; such discussions have
their legitimate organs ;—but the general charac-
ter and length of 'the Liturgy which we
hear read every Sunday has become a public qu.)s-
tion ; and much more so, has that of the infraction
of the public peace—and, where it does not go so
far as that, the annoyance of entire congregations
by the whims of crotchety " clerks." What can be
done P Lord SHAFTESBURY'S proposal is moderate
enough. If the heads of the Church, for the time
being, are not the proper persons to say what ought

to be its rites and ceremonies, who are ? At least,
on the assumption that our Church is to be a
hierarchy, in which government, and not liberty,
as in some Dissenting sects, is to be the principal

feature.
What is it which Lord SHAFTESKURY proposes
to intrust to the discretion of the Archbishops of
England and Ireland, as advisers of her MAJESTY—
" Orders and regulations—regulating, prescribing,
and limiting the ornaments, furniture, and fittings
to be used in such churches; as well as ornaments,
vestments, and habits, to be worn or allowed" by
all clergymen when using the service of the Church
of England ; " and also all the ceremonies and
rites to be observed" by them.
Now, we dare say, our ecclesiastical dandies will
be distressed enough at the idea of sober and re-
sponsible persons making regulations in reference
to their personal finery, and their articles of Eccle-

siastical mediaeval vertu—but this is just the thing
which we laymen want to have done. In their own
houses let clergymen do as they please ; but, surely,
if they accept the status and emoluments of the
National Church, the nation has a right to require
conformity to its wishes in its own places
of worship. -Whether these gentry like it
or not, they must either submit to
national control, or quit the National Church.
Dissenters and Catholics purchase their liberty,
and at a heavy price too ; and no one would dream
of proposing to "regulate, prescribe, or limit their
ecclesiastical proceedings ," the injustice would be
resented throughout the land. If our disturbers of
their congregations want the liberty, let them,
like Dissenters, honourably pay the price, and like
Dissenters and Catholics they would have the
sincere respect of those who differ from them. But
to take all the privileges of a National Church, and

then to drive into insurrection, or greatly

annoy, the portion of the nation entrusted to their
charge, is in truth no longer to be borne. It is, in
plain English, dishonourable.

Whether Lord SHAFTESBURY'S Bill proposes the
best possible tribunal to decide on these questions,
we are not prepared to say, but we are prepared to
say this, that in the theory of our Episcopacy it
aught to be so, The Archbishops ought at least
to be the ultimate court of appeal. What are they
Archbishops for And why does the Primate rank
next to the Crown or Princes of the blood ? And
why is the QUEEN supreme judge in all things
Ecclesiastical as well as civil. The constitution of
our Church clearly places lay authority at the head
of all, but that authority is to be advised by the
few High Eccesiastics, who are virtually constituted
her Ecclesiastical Privy Council. Some of our
High Churchmen seem to forget their origin—to

forget that HENRY VIII., EDWARD VI., ELIZA-
BETH, JAMES 1., and CHARLES 11., made their
Church what it is, most of them perhaps taking the
consent of the states of the realm. But the de-
ciding authority was lay, not ecclesiastical authority.
The Church of England and Ireland is historically,
and as every educated person must well
know, a Church which owes its present form and its
very creeds too, to its lay element—to our king's
and Parliaments.

It should be noticed, moreover, that the subjects
proposed to be placed at the discretion of the heads
of the Church, and the Supreme Head both of
Church and State, are just those on which laymen
are the best judges. Indeed, the defect of the Bill,
so far as it strikes us on a first consideration of it,
is, that it does not recognise the lay rights of each
congregation. On matters which do not belong to
theology, and doctrine, and interpretation of Scrip-
ture,—matters of which the eye chiefly takes cog-
nisance, we should be inclined to refer to the wishes
of individual parishes. To perfect our church•
warden system, to give to the parish the choice of
a majority of those officers, allowing the clergyman
still to be represented by one, and then to authorise
the churchwardens to carry out the wishes of the
parish in vestry assembled, on all the matters re-
ferred to in this bill. The service is for the good of
the parishioners, they form the real Church in each
place, and with them ought to rest the power to get
rid of what they find to be nuisances in their public
worship. Even if the Archbishops and QUEEN
were the ultimate appeal, we can see no reason why
the parish should not take the initiative.
Something, however, must be done. Lord
SHAFTESBURY has done good service by breaking
the ice on the subject. It will, we trust, be now
honestly and fairly discussed, and not burked
through the cunning of Romanising Bishops. If a
better and more effectual plan can be devised let us
have it. If not, let us have the plan now proposed
Some plan—any plan—that will put down clerica
disorders.