The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1860.

NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF
ENGLAND.
112, Bishopsgate-street, London, Dec. 11. 1860.
The Directors of the National Provincial Bank of England
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that a HALF - YEARLY
DIVIDEND, at the rate of Eight per Cent. per annum, will
be payable on the Company's Stock, on and after the 11th
January next, when the Dividend Warrants will be obtained
at the Company's Office, 112, Biahopagate-strect, or at the
different Branches.

The Transfer Books will be closed on and after Saturday,
the 15th inst., until the Dividend becomes payable.
By order of the Court of Directors.
DAN. ROBERTSON, Agent and Manager.

r (IHE BUCKLEYS IN LONDON, at the ST.
JAMES'S HALL, Piccadilly, Every Night at 8, and
a Day Peformance on Saturday Afternoon at 3. Full Pro-
gramme and Tickets may be obtained at 28, Piccadilly, from
10 till 5, and at the Principal Libraries and Musicsellers.
Admission, Stalls, 31.; Area, 2s. ; Gallery, ls.—Doors open
at Half-past Seven, and Saturday Afternoon, at Half-past
Two. *** Grand Change of Programme !

MISS EMMA STANLEY'S
SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN,
EVERY EVENING at Eight, at the EGYPTIAN HALL,
PICCADILLY, except Saturday, and on Saturday at Three.
Stalls, 3a. ; area, 2s. ; gallery, ls.
Office open daily from Eleven to Three.

PRINCE OE WALES HALL, Regent-street.
—Entertainments this Week: THE DOUBLE
COURTSHIP, A MANAGER'S PERPLEXITIES, RING-
ING THE CHANGES, and a varied Musical Melange, in
which Captain MORTON PRICE and Miss CATHARINE
LUCETTE will appear, assisted by the new Comic Singer,
Mr. Charles Crook, Each Evening. Doors open at half-past
7, commence a-quarter after 8. Admission, 35., 25., and is. ;
children in arms, £1 is. Charles Dudley, agent.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly.
The Handsomest and best proportioned rooms in
Europe, are open for CONCERTS and DANCING, Conducted
by the well-known artiste Mons. ANTONY LAMOTTE, of
Parisian celebrity. M. Boulcourt, the greatest Cornet player
in this country, plays solos nightly. Doors open at half-past
Seven. Dancing at Nine o'clock. Admission, One Shilling.
N.B.—A magnificent Smoking and Reading-room is added to
this establishment.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS,
High Holborn.—The Best Entertainment in London
—ln consequence of the great influx of strangers to the Me-
tropolis during the CAT rLE SHOW, and the kind patron-
age the establishment always receives on this occasion, the
Concert will commence at half-past Seven, and Dancing con-
tinue one hoar later than usuaL The Smoking and Refresh-
ment Saloons are most commodious, especial regard being
paid to the comfort of the visitors, and the Reading-room is
well supplied with English and Foreign Journals. Mr. W.
M. Packer's celebrated Band will perform Overtures and
Selections from the standard Operas, and a choice programme
of dance music. The Wines and Refreshments are of the
very first class. Admission, is.

CATTLE SHOW and SMITHFIELD CLUB.
EVANS'S MAGNIFICENT MUSIC and SUPPER
ROOMS.—Gentlemen visiting London during the Cattle
Show Week are invited to the above world-known Institu-
tion, now regarded so for its respectability and the meeting
place of the gentlemen of the country. Commencing every
evening at eight o'clock.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.—RETURN TICKETS
issued on Saturday, the 22d Dec., and intermediate days will
be available until Thursday the 27th inclusive.
ON CHRISTMAS DAY the Trains will run as on Sun-
days, with the addition of the Day Mail Trains, as per bills.

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Southern provinces, or at least so to influence the
forthcoming elections as to return a new Chamber
which may render the position of the present Cabinet
untenable.

Whatever may happen, however, I apprehend no
very serious outbreak at Genoa from to-day's per-
formance. Some of the ultra-liberals in this city
are sufficiently wrong-headed and perverse ; and
no other Italian town would tolerate the crazy
Mazzinian organ, L'Unita Italiana, which in fact
circulates nowhere else than here; but the Genoese,
taken in the mass, are a thrifty, laborious people;
they know that their trade has just doubled within
the last ten years ; and their deep-rooted, inextin-
guishable antipathy to the Piedmontese which made
them fret against the hard lot which annexed their
republic to the Sardinian Monarchy, and which, so
far as national prejudice is concerned, is in truth
as bad as ever, is however greatly soothed by their
late conjunction with Lombardy and the 'Emilia,
a consummation that has made their harbour the
great emporium of all Northern Italian commerce,
and will further increase their prosperity if a rail-
way line is ever constructed across the Gothard or
Luckmanier to put them into communication with
the South of Germany.
All this the Genoese know, and they are far more
anxious about the enlargement and improvement
of their port, the construction of wharfs, and piers,
and jetties, which may put them on a par with other
civilised harbours (for the backwardness of which
works they surely have only themselves to blame),
than for the triumph of a party which would only
unseat Cavour to raise such men as Bertani, Crispi,
or Cattaneo to power.
The ceremony of to-day, in spite of all sinister an-
ticipations, will I think pass over as quietly as ever.
The municipal and Government authorities will
preceed to the sanctuary or church of Oregina, a
plain commonplace building perched on the summit
of one of the brown bleak hills encompassing Genoa,
with a hard, stony, winding path to it, flanked with
the 15 stations of the Via Crucis ; there will be
High Mass, and Low Mass in the morning, the
Te Deum, the Tantum ergo, the benediction in the
afternoon, and all the other dumb-shows with which
the Roman Church indiscriminately celebrates all
her glad solemnities ; there will be no speech, no
commemorative oration ; and at the utmost the
National Guards, the remaining Garibaldians, and
the populace will shout themselves hoarse on their
way to church and back, or at the theatre, roaring
for the Garibaldi hymn, but that will be all.
I shall, however, leave this letter even to chroni-
cle any incident which, contrary to my expectation,
may disturb the even tenour of the day.
MONDAY, 4 O'CLOCK, P.M.

My surmises were correct. Some time after two
o'clock straggling crowds, with a stray bander here
and there, were seen moving towards the place of
the rendezvous, under my hotel windows, in Green.
water-square (Piazza Acquaverde). The day was
lovely; people were seated, as usual here, bare-
headed and in light clothing in the open air. Pre-
sently the crowd in a mass, without any order of
procession, took their road leisurely towards the
hilly and fatiguing ascent leading to the Oregina
Church, where sensible people did not much' care to
follow them. There can now be no doubt as to the
festival turning out a very quiet and rather dull
affair.

I am told that every idea of a demonstration was
abandoned from the time it was known the Gari-
baldians, or most of them, were going, and these
latter were induced to hasten their departure, not
so much by orders frolu Government as by dissen-
sions which broke out among them.

FRANCE.

- -- - AN ..

(From the Paris Correspondent of the Times.)
If public rumour can be trusted, M. de Persigny
has just acted in a manner which will not fail to be
warmly approved by those whose approval is worth
having, and condemned by those whose condemna-
tion is sometimes praise. M. de Kersaint, one of
the deputies who res;,resented in the Legislative
Corps the deps.yrtment of the Puy de Dome, died
some shcri time since. The person whs aspired to
replace him is M. Chatelus, who, besides his own
merits, enjoys the distinction, enviable or unen-
viable, as the case may be, of being the intimate
friend of M. de Morny, and with such patronage
—Which, as is boastfully declared, pulverizes all
other—the aspirant to M. de Kersaint's vacant seat
could not entertain a single doubt of success. It
was necessary to apply, but, as was thought, only
as a simple matter of form, for the sanction of the
Minister of the Interior to bring forward M.
Chatelus as the candidate of the Government, or, to
use the official argot, le candidat de Administration.
As little difficulty was anticipated in this quarter
as ever was found with his predecessor. To the
astonishment and disgust of the introducer of M.
Chatelus, M. de Persigny is said to have unhesi-
tatingly and firmly refused his sanction to M. de
Morny's candidate being put forward us that of the
Administration. He doubtless gave his reasons for
that refusal, and these reasons were so conclusive
that he declared (so the story runs) that, rather
than sanction a thing of the kind he would resign.
M. Chatelus will, therefore, have to stand on his
own merits and those of M. de Morny.
The resistance of M. de Persigny—always sup-
posing the rumour I speak of to be correok—is
said to redound to his credit. It encourages
the hope that he will persist, and, so far as
in him lies, neutralise the influence of a coterie
which has done much injury to the Government.
M. de Moray may be wronged, but he is looked
upon as the chief of a certain coterie (popularly
known by a more expressive name) of speculators
who have their hand in everything going, and who
turn the immense influence of their patron to
their common purposes. The Grande Centrale,
the coal mines and ironworks of Aubin,
the coal mines of Carmaux, the railroads, &c., tes-
tify to the skill and boldness of the President of
the Legislative Corps. That a man like M. de
Persigny:should be distasteful to this coterie, who
we are told can do what they please, is net
prising ; and he may be esetain that no intrigue
will be left untried against him,
The picture drawn by M. de Persigny in his last
circular of the state of the press in England is con-
sidered by the Debats as far too favourable ; and
the writer M. Prevost-Paradol, points to the re-
ports published in the Irish journals of the late
repeal meeting in Dublin as instances of the ex-
traordinary latitude allowed by the English Go-
vernment to the most objectionable attacks on all
that in France the public is accustomed to consider
sacred, The spectacle of The O'Donoghue endea-
vouring to ape O'Connell might, of course, the
writer observes, be passed over as unworthy of
serious notice ; but what is to be said of the appeal
to the sword of Marshal M'Mahon, and the hope
expressed that French troops may one day land
on the Irish coast ? The writer disclaims any wish
to see such a programme carried out, and affirms
that he only mentions the matter for the purpose
of proving that the press in Great Britain does not
always respect the State, and that if it has merited
an unlimited liberty it has arrived at that great
privilege not by any wonderful
,amount of pru-
dence. The artide then says:—
" Is not the Count, then, Mistaken as to the pre-
sent condition of the press in England ? He says
that in that country there is consplete liberty for
whate-ter is an advantage, or not dangtri;ust to the
State, and negation tlf All liberty of attackh the
State. If M. de Persigny has the curiosity to
peruse the densocratical and Socialist journals of
England, he Will see, on the Queen, on the 'Muse
of Lords, on the aristocracy, on the Parliametf,
and on property, theories and language which
surpass in folly and violence anything of the kind
ever published in France. • There is complete
liberty, or rather licence for these miserable pro-
auctions they have no other enemy than he
or
public indifference. We ourselves received f
n :_to
some time a journal well calculated
wound all the sentiments of religious Engl
It is
it was called the Atheist, and once eeernyd.;
endeavoured to prove that there is
bnto G
for we have
dead, but from natural causes no douain,st
► The
never heard of any prosecution g seek it
writer explains what at the present
France
accorded to the press in
time :—" We should have desired for the French
in his
nonapeinion might be
press (still regarded with
we are free to confess) a law
suspicion_ by the country,
of some kind, to place
it under the exclusive control of the courts of justice,
and definitively remove it from that of the Admi-
, nistration. If the law of 1819, which was formerly