The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-09 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC.

TUTS EVENING, at 7, SLASHER& CRASHER: Messrs Atkins,
Vaughan. G. Vincent, &c.: Miss Lennox Grey and Mrs Caulfield.
After which, at 7.45, THE YELLOW PASSPORT : Messrs. H
Ne,ille, G. Vincent, E. Atkins, H. Vaughan, H. Cooper, and H.
Wigan; • Mesdamss Furtado, Lennox Grey, and Caulfield

ROYALTY THEATRE.
Tinder the Management of Miss M. Oliver.

THIS EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss
M. Oliver. To be followed by THE RISE AND FALL OF
lICHARD III.; or, A New Front to an Old Dicky: Mr. Dewar
1(1r. Danvers; Miss Collinson, and Miss M. Oliver. To con-
tlude with EVERYBODY'S HUSBAND.

PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE.
Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton'

Tins EvENINa, SOCIETY: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague,
Blakeley, Montgomery, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White,
Miss C. Addison. and Miss Marie 'Wilton. After which, WHO
SPEAKS FIRST Messrs. Montague and Blakeley ; Miss C.
Addison.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN.
TIRE EVENING, The Great Cane Troupe and magnificent Stud
of rk Horses: also Alfred Bradbury, Clifton, and THE
MARVELS OF ELECTRICITY.

CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8
Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET,,
Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. Is. Box-office
open from 11 to 4.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regert's-Park, OPEN daily (ex
cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mendays, Cal.; Children
under twelve, 6tl.

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LONDON, SAT UDAY, JANUARY 9, 1869.

NAPOLEON'S saying at St. Helena that fifty years
would not elapse without leaving Europe either Cos-
sock or Republican, has had, since the utterance of
the words, every now and then a whimsical illustra-
tion. Of these illustrations, Spain is just now afford-
ing the latest, and certainly not by any means the
least remarkable. The haughtiest and most monar-
chical of nations during a long series of centuries, it
has now discarded, almost contemptuously, the last of
its Bourbon Sovereigns, and appears to be educating
itself, with a sort of complacent deliberation, in
the dogmas of Dtmocracy. When ISABELLA II
withdrew across the frontiers, there was a talk of a
Republic being formed as the result of her dethrone-
ment. The only obstacle to its being so formed was
the fact of there being no Republicans anywhere
discoverable throughout the Peninsula. 'lime has
since then been running on—days, weeks, months
have elapsed, and already a tolerably respect-
able number of advocates of Republicanism has
" cropped up" in various directions among the six-
teen or seventeen millions of the Spanish population.
PRlM—SERRANO—ESPARTERO—anysufficietitly popu-
lar political and military:chieftain, might, with no
small hope of success, aspire to assume authority
permanently as ruler of the nation in the capacity
of President of a new and Republican form of Go-
vernment. The Spanish nation, since the Queen was
got rid of, has, it is true, been coquetting now with one
dynasty now with another, to the end that it might, if
posssble, find amongst the younger members of one
of the reigning Royal houses in Christendom a suitable
suceessor to the throne vacated by the QUEEN'S expa-
triation. All this would really, appear to belittlebetter,
however, than the merest make-believe. It has served
the purpose of filling up time, and has so far been of
use that it has afforded the country at large leisure
for a calm and deliberate reconsideration of the whole
political position before its final selection shall have
been made as to the new form to be allotted to its
Government upon its final reconstruction. As yet
the Government, such as it is, is simply provisional.
PRIM and SERRANO, for the time being, are masters of
the situation. But they are so simply until such period
has come to the interregnum as shall admit of the
nation declaring for itself what its definitive choice is
as to its future form of Government. The Prince of
the ASTURIAS—the ex-King-Consort of PORTUGAL—
'he Duke of EDINDIHIGII—Prince NAPOLEON—the
Duc DE MONTPENSIER—the Duke D'Aosra—these,
and others, have all been mentioned, and have
had their claims more or less forcibly and seri-
ously discussed and deliberated upon, as candidates
for the crown dropped in the dust the other day at
Madrid by Queen ISABELLA—scared at the tidings
that her hour had come, and that Gen. PRIM, among
others, was advancing at the head of a large body of
insurgents. One after another these candidates have
been set aside as unsuited for the emergency, or at
any rate as distasteful to the mass of the very
people it was being proposed that they should be