The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-09 00:00:00

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CH- ,PL ANS —BUM THEATRE.— Y
ver noteworthy, but must also be allowed to be
MAJESTY'S' THEATRE,
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Dircetear—m. Tarexy the three dominant rulers of the European cauti-
i THIS EVENING,
BATAILLE DE DAME-, comedic en trois notes.. Udine.
nent—almest powerless for any action in the regtil
iirrtan,i; Bremond, M. Paul Barry, M. Dupuis.
acte •
tion of the affairs of Europe—although separatoly
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Dlapuis, Lueien, 31dme. Arnaand, Mad •
and collectively at the head of armed and ditici-
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plined legions, legions which, massed together,
would make an astounding whole, comparable only
to that vast army by which NAPOLEON the GREAT
out-Xerxesed XERXES in 'lBl2, upon-the invasima
of the half barbarian empire of the Autocrat.
Austria and Russia alone, by uniting their armies
—(each furnishing 500,000 men as his contingent)
—would be able to send into the field a total of
1,000,000. There is Prussia, again, in reserve
with her force of from 250,000 to 300,000 soldiers.
Meanwhile the Sardinian army—that advanced
guard of the armed Italian population—would find a
difficulty as yet in bringing together a disciplined
and efficient force exceeding 100,000 veteran troops.
GARIBALDI, we all know—it is by this time matter
000 men
of history—could disembark scarcely 2,
(adventurers, brigands, condottieri, buccaneers,
their enemies called them, as the foes of BOLIVAR
doubtless called his soldiers also), GARIBALDI could
disembark scarcely L
2,000 men upon the coast of
Sicily. YL`t with that lit tle band h
of
e iscom-
the number 20,000,
fited the royal troops to
took Palermo, took. Messina, conquered Sicily,
the straits, advanced upon
and then crossing'
the capita] of the kingdom, attended only by his
Staff, and (so atteLded) made bis triumphal entry
one fine day into Naples—a bloodless Conqueror!
And what was done only this last month by the
DictatorGARIBALDI has now t'een done this last week
by King VICTOR EMMANUEL, Ita_ly's new Sovereign.
GARIBALDI with hardly 2,000 naC.l3) VICTOR EM-
MANUEL with barely 100,000 soldiers, have done,
have actually accomplished all these' turvels'----
while the three rulers who met the other day at
Warsaw to concert together what they, in their
turn, could possibly do by way of counterpoise in
the re-adjustment of the Balance of Pow-ex in
Europe, have consulted, and then parted--have
effected nothing, have attempted nothing, have pro-
jected nothing—have found themselves povcrless
with all their boasted authority, with all their
enormous forces, consisting, as we have remarke.ip
in the aggregate of considerably over one million
of highly disciplined and veteran soldiers. The
significance of this contrast is surely then,
upon tha very face of it, sufficiently appa-
rent. The ex-Dictator GARIBALDI and the de facto
King of the Italians have with them, in support
of them, in aid of their designs the Public Opinion
of Italy, the Will of the vast majority of the Italian
population. The CzAR, the KAISAR, and the
PRINCE REGENT, on the contrary, are in direct an-
tagonism to All Public Opinion throughout Europe
—they are in distinct opposition to the will, the
wishes, the aspirations of the whole continental
population. What has indubitably come greatly
in aid of the armed leaders of the Italian movement
has been first of all the active sympathy
the avowed co-operation of the French Empire,
to begin with, and throughout, from first to last,
the moral support and the unmistakably expressed
encouragement of the English people and their
Constitutional Governments. Non-intervention is
wisely, and most happily for GARIBALDI and his
KING, the watchword of the policy of the sur-
rounding nations, nowadays, now that the hitherto
problematic Italian Question is working itself out
to the simplest of all elucidation. Non-interven-
tion, we repeat, is now, happily for the cause GARI-
BALDI has at heart, the watchword of the policy
of surrounding nations ! Happily for him and
his, however, non-intervention was not the policy
of Imperial France at least, at the commence
ment ! That, at any rate, must be allowed—
while lamenting still that France should
after that bold heroic act have sullied her glorious
flag, and blotted her fair escutcheon by condescend-
ing to be paid (in the shape of Nice and Savoy) for
having effected the liberation of Lombardy.
Bearing that paltry after-proceeding still in scorn-
ful recollection, it is impossible at the same
time not to recognise the fact that from the period
when the champions of the political inde-
pendence of Italy gained that 'vantage ground
of Lombardy, the rising of the Italian
population commenced in earnest. The Wheel of
Fortune has since then, for GARIBALDI and VICTOR
EMMANUEL, rolled uninterruptedly down one long
inclined-plane, from victory to victory, or rather
from success to success, until the acclamations which
welcomed, the "King of ITALY," not so many months
back, in the streets of Milan, from the throats of
the Lombards, have been echoed back now in his
southern capital, from the throats of the Neapo-

H.,OYAL
EN%NGLISII OPERA, COVENT-
GARD-nnder the Mang,rement of Miss LOUISA
VlNFand Mr.• W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees.
THIS EVENING, THE ROSE OF CAS rILLE. Miss
Louisa 'Pyne, Miss Thirlwall; 3lessrs.W. Harrison. A, Corti,
Durand, St. Albyn, and Wal'worth.
DIVERTISSEMENT.
" Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon.
Doors open at Seven. Commence at lief-past

Fra4EATR YAI,, HAYMARKET.
Lome, Mr. J. B. Backstone.
TriTS EVEN MO the performances will commence with
Tag' SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leclercqs.
Followed by DOES lIE LOVE ME ? Messrs. Howe,
Chippenciale. E. Villiers, and Bnekstone ; Miss Amy Sedg-
wick, stiss Florence Hayden, and Mrs. Wilkins.
After which, the revived comedy of THE IRISH AM-
BASSADOR. L'lr. John Brougham, Miss Florence Haydon,
"rs. E. Fitzwilliem.
And ANY PORT IN A STORM.

Commence at 7.

p AI, PRINCES S'S THEATRE.--
Lessee and Manatrer, Mr. A. Farris.
THIS EVENING, an adaptation of Victor Hir-ro's cele-
brated Play of RUY BLAS, by Edmund Falconer, Esq. e
when Mr. If echter, the favourite actor of Parisian renown,
will make his 12th appearance on the English stage, supported
by Messrs'. W. Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond,
holland, Collett, Paulo, • Daly, A. Harris Miss hose
Leclercq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath.
To he'preceded briSUSAN SMITH.
To conclude with THE GARIBALDI F2CCURSIONISTS.

rIIIIEATRE,ROYAL LYCEUM.
Soio.Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING. the performances will commence with
Bayle Bernard's admired Drama of THE WEPT OF
LyonTHE
WISH-TON-W ES Principal characters by Mr. T. ,
Mr. Ilenry Neyille, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. For-
rester, Mr. Campbell, Mr. J. Johnstone ; Miss Neville, Mrs.
J. Rouse, and M adame Celeste.
After which'(sth tiny.) THE PE PS OF THE PARTERRE.
Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott.
The Music by Mr. George Loder. Principal characters by Mr
H. Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. J. Morris, Miss M. Ternan,
Miss Neville, MissHudspeth, Miss Stuart, His,. Turner, Miss
Douglas, Miss Annie Collinson, and Miss Lydia Thompson.
To conclude with GRIST TO THE MILL. Mr. George
Vining, Mr. J. Johnstone, Mr. Forrester, Mrs. J. Rouse, and
Miss Rose Howard.

litany.

A catalogue—that can hardly be glanced down
without emotions of profound interest—will be found
elsewhere in our impression for this evening. It is
a carefully prepared list of the Lifeboat Stations
upon the coasts of the three kingdoms, along the
now wintry sea-washed shores of England and
Wales, of Scotland and of Ireland. The accuracy
of the list may be relied on, for it is taken from the
official recorJ of that noble and humane association,
the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Goodly
as the catalogue is, even now in its pres.nt condi-
tion—dotting the whole sweep of our island-coasts
as it does with a sequence of lifeboat establishments
admirably placed at every point where they are
now actually secured—it is, nevertheless, rendered
year after year—painfully indubitable that they
are as yet wholly inadequate to the purposes they
were intended to serve, the purposes which they
actually do serve, but which as yet they serve
only partially. It is well to recall this fact to
mind at the recurrence of the present season of
the year, in these tempestuous months which are
now opening again upon us, and which are certain
to strew our coasts more or less with the wrecks of
ships 'that our lifeboats, as they are now distributed,
will be unable to save from destruction, with the
dead bodies of those whom our gallant lifeboats' men
will be wholly unable to snatch from a watery grave.
Deplorable though these facts are in themselves,
a knowledge of them is the readiest incentive to
further exertion on the part of all those philan-
thropically disposed to aid in the development of
the noble association already particularised. The
development of the Royal National Lifeboat Insti-
tution is in truth one of the most generous labours
now appealing at all times to the public for its
hearty support and encouragement—appealing to
it at all times most persuasively, but never so per-
suasively as at this season, when we are fast
approaching the winter solstice, and when the
heroic crews of the lifeboats will be called daily,
hourly,
nightly, into more and more perillous
enterprises.
N
these appealstohtahng u b
nia repetition
nwionfrroempsuteirmeatsv
to
time
in
cf those eloquent statistics which show in a few
facts and figures, that speak trumpet-tongued
for themselves, what it is that has already
been accomplished by the Royal National
Lifeboat Institution. Foremost among these
recorded facts stands forth, of course, that
very simple one the force of which all must
appreciate upon the instant—the fact that, since the
date of the original establishment of this truly
beneficent institution, its boats have been instru-

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mental in saving 11,824 lives from shipwreck. '
Remembering that one fact, who will not re-
joice on hearing that other lifeboat stations are
in rapid formation, that among others the
Society ~!s founding one at Selsey Bill near
Portsmouth, at Ormes Head, near Liverpool)Portsmouth,
at St. Ives, in r,ornwall, and at Penartb, in Gla-
morganshire. Keeping steadily in view the selec-
tion of those particular points at which the Wreck
Chart proves that these Lifeboats are really the
' most urgently required. we may hope that the
period will eventually arrive wheii an interval of
but a very few miles indeed will separate any two
lifeboats in the noble chain of stations now being
gradually formed round the storm-beaten coasts of
the United Kingdom. Until this happy result,
however, shall literally have been arrived at, we
ought surely, in reason as well as in duty, never to
relax our efforts to secure its attainment.

ARRIVAL OF PRINCE ALFRED.

PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY, 10 A.M.

The screw steam frigate Euryalus, M, Captain
John W. Tarleton, from the Cape of Good Hope,
St. Helena, Sierra Leone, and the Cape Verde,
arrived in the Sound this morning.
His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, who is in good
health, accompanied by Major Cowell and Captain
Tarleton, landed, at a quarter to 10, at Mount
Wise, where he was received by Port Admiral Sir
Houston Stewart, Admiral Superintendent Sir
Thomas Pasley, Lord Frederick Kerr, Captain of
the flag ship Impregnable, Major-General Hutchin-
son, Commander of Forces in the West, the Bri-
gade Major, &c.
It is reported that his Royal Highness will pro-
ceed to Windser by the Sonth Devon express train,
which leaves at 10.40 a.m.