The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-27 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.

THIS EVENING, at 7, MY PRECIOUS BETSY: Mr Atkins and
Miss Johnstone. At S. THE SERPENT ON THE HEARTH:
Mr R. Phillips, Mr E Atkins. Mr Stuart. Mrs M. Eburne, Mrs L.
Murray, .Cc. And DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr Atkins and
Mrs Leigh Murray.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough

MIS EN-ENING. at 7.30, AMONG TtlE BREAKERS: Mr
Clarke. THE TOODLES. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne,
James, Fenton; mesdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland. Bufton. To
courtlude with THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL Mr. D.
James.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining.

Tins EVENING. at 7, PRESU3IPT►VE EVIDENCE. After
which, AI; 1 A\ D GAL 4T.EA : Herr Formes, Dlr V. Rigby. Mr
M. rr_mith, and Miss Blanche Cole. To conclude with A QUIET
FAMILY.

ROYAL AL II AMBR A PALACE. THREE BALLET i
Promenade Concert. Band of CO. Begin at 8. le. Box-oult o
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ROYALTY THEATRE.
Under the Management of Miss M Oliver.

Ting ETENING, at 7.30, A 'ROVING COMMISSION. After
which CIIECICM AV k. Followed by Tit E MILI RY BILLY
TAYLOR. To conclude with IN FOR A HOLID .Y Mr
Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Miss M. Oliver Miss Saunders, &c.

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

Tins TiilsEvErlNf3, SC EMU : Messrs. Hare, IT. J. Montague,
Addison, Glover, and Baneroft; Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss
C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING
ELIZA RV. And A LAME EXCUSE

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

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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1869.

No news is good news, according to a proverb so
old and trite that it may surely be regarded as one of
approvedrespectability. Familiarly acceptable though
it is, however, in all other directions, it obtains no
credence wbateverapparently on the Paris Bourse. The
official journal contains no mention whatever of the
EMPEROR'S health and, at once, there is a panic. The
funds are prejudicially affected. All kinds of siniter
rumours get afloat. And what is stranger still than
the going down of the market, was the fact of that
decline occurring in very despite of the rise of
an eighth in Consols on the London Stock Ex
change. Everything is attributable in this
to the alarming reports prevalent in reference
to the EMPEROR'S health—reports encouraged accord-
ing to those who go in for a fall in the funds by the
fact that nothing at all is said about his Majesty's
health one way or the other by the official journal.
The Bears argued strongly that that silence was
at once ominous and significant. They even set
afloat a statement that so seriously ill was the En-
PEROR that, after the EMPRESS and PRINCE IMPERIAL
had gone as far as Fontainebleau, they were recalled
to St. Cloud, and the intended Imperial trip to
Corsica put off indefinitely. A telegram soon dissi-
pated into thin air this wholly unfounded declaration,
announcing her MAJESTY'S arrival en route at Lyons,
and her favourable reception there by the popu:ation.
The EMPEROR, meanwhile, continues to take his
usual walk in the Gardens at St. Cloud. He pre-
sides at one Cabinet Council after another. He is
left, in the midst of his sufficiently laborious occupa-
tions, by the EMPRESS and the PRINCE IMPERIAL,
while the latter speed on their way to Ajaccio for
the Centenary Fetes there in honour of NAPOLEON
the Great in Lis historical birthplace. The out-
rageous absurdity of all these sinister growlings of
the Bears on the Bourse, one might fancy,
must be sufficiently apparent for recognition
as such by the very meanest capacity. But
no— the shrug, the hum, the ha," have their evil
influence—down go the funds and, for a while, there
is a panic. Even the well-informed correspondent

of the 7lines at Paris, is for once in a wanner be-
wildered. " There is no one point," he writes, "on
which it is morn difficult to. get at reliable informa-
tion than the EMPEROR'S health. For some time past
uneasiness has been felt concerning it. We have
been assured that he suffered only from rheuma-
tism, and from a local affection painful and incon-
venient, but by no means of a dangerous character.
It is certain that one of his medical attendants this
week declared that he had got over his attack, and
was, or very soon would be, in his usual state of
health. But, says the distrustful public, who can
believe even what thedoctors sly in such cases ? Who
can tell what the mot d'ordre may be, and how far
they may lie bound to represent things more favour-
ably than they are ? In short, there cannot well be less
Lath than is here generally shown in such matters.
The assurances of the semi-official papers of course
go for nothing. The Emperor is well,' says to-
day's Constitutionnel, and has taken his usual
walk.' But there are persons'-who ought to know,
at least as well as the Constitutionnel, but whose
tongues are less fettered, who declare that his
MAJESTY has not been out for several thy; and even
that he is confined to his bed, and sees no one, not
even M. RounEn." Now, it seems to us, in every
imaginable way, improbable that the EMPEROR
should be thus invalided, and that the fact of his
being so should become known thus merely through
conjecture. how his MAJESTY can possibly be
so ill as to be confined to his bed, and yet,
when the Council meets at St. Cloud,
take his place, as usual, at the head of
the table, and preside over its deliberations
—how he can possibly be so ill as to be confined to
his bed and yet walk down to the gate of St. Cloud
and meet the PRINCE IMPERIAL on his return from
the Camp at Chalons—how he can possibly be so ill
and yet allow the EMPRESS and the young PRINCE
to wander all the way off to Ajaccio— certainly
passes our comprehension ! Why the notion of his
MAJESTY being thus seriously ill, and there being any
doubt whatever about it appears to us in the last
degree improbable. If he were really thus ill there
would be no question at all upon the matter—bulletins
would, as a matter of course, be issued—the EMPEROR
and the Prince ImrEntaL would, equally, as a matter of
course, not have taken their departure for Corsica—
all Paris would be aware of the fact, and would be
watching for better tidings of the EmrEnon's health
with profound solicitude. As it is, the facts all go
clearly to demonstrate that the evil statements set
forth at the Bourse are, in their darkest aspect, happily
without foundation. The circumstance of rumours
of this sinister character having been set afloat im-
mediately after the Senatus Consultum and the De-
cree of Amnesty, cannot but be regarded, awl what
is more, cannot but be regretted as in the
last degree ungracious and ungrateful. The wish,
one cannot help thinking, is father to the thought.
It is all the foes of the EurEllort and the enemies of
his Government have left for them to look forward

to. It is all the ground be has left fur them to stand
upon. In regard to everything else, he has fairly cut
the ground from under their fees. lie has transformed
his Devotisai into a ConE.titutia:tal Government. Ile
has e,lebrated the hundredth anniversary of the birth
of the Founder of his Dynasty, by au act of grace, as
full and free and unconditional, as open-handed and
as open-hearted in its beneficence as ever EMPEROR or
KING has adventured upon. lie has made the largest
concessions possible to the moderate reformers in the
newly elected Corps L6gl4latif. The opponents of
his reign and of his dynasty have only his death to
look forward to and, therefore, by a sort of necessity