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'D OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
-R.- a) GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA
I'YNE and Mr. W. HARRISON—wiII open for the Fifth
Season on MONDAY, October Ist.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstone.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Charles Mathews,
lineicstone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. Charles
Mathews, Miss Compton,
and Mrs. Wilkins.
After which, A GAME OF SPECULATION. Mr. Affable
ilawk, Mr. C. Mathews.
To conclude with ANY PORT IN A STORM.
Commence at 7.

A DELPHI', NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
.rx Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.

THIS EVENING-, a new drama, by Dion Bonrcicault, en-
titled THE COLLEEN BAWN. Messrs D. Bourcleault, D.
Fisher, Billinton, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Chatterlcy.
After which. SITE WOULD BE AN ACTRESS. Miss
Agnes Robertson, Mr. W Smith, and Mr. P. Bedford.
To conclude with MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Mr. David
Fisher.
Door 3 open at half-past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for bookinm.
Private boxes, Z 2 2s. ; Family Boxes:Al.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. •, Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Sallery, talls, Ss.;
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, if ; G 6d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Sth;

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY.
Crowded Houses.—Second Week of the celebrated Dela-
vanti Troupe, Ilr. George Mitching-son, and the Wonder of
the World, the Great Little 3lenoni.
A Grand MID-DAY pE,RFORMANCE will take place on
SATURDAY next, Sept 15. commencing at Two o'clock.
This Evening, Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of
mAzErp.A. TIM WILD HORSE, with entirely new
and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments,
introducing the largest stud of highly-trained Horses, Po-
nies, Buffaloes, and, Camels in the World.
To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders
of the day, including the greatest Equestrienn6 in the world,
Maine. de Berg, and the Wonder of Wonders, Little Menoni.
Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—M. Felix Itwolti.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.—
EVERY EVENING,
A Grand Selection from
MARTHA,
And Selections from
DINORATI, TROVATORE, MACBETH,
And numerous other Entertainments.
Balcony„ls , 6cl.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), and C. Marshall.
The wrmoruilis, consisting. of 17 performers (orzanised
Tr
'or this Establishment), for the performance oi
Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with
Negro delineations, anecdotes, &C., in addition to the usual
entertainments.
The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday
Evening.

THE WEATHER.—Strx Orricm, SEPT. 12, 1560.
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T TIE SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 12, 1880.

In one respect even Mr. GLADSTONE himself
will look with satisfaction on our "enoamous esti-
mates." The hon. gentleman is at least a staunch
friend to Italian liberties, and we hardly need
remind him how much our £30,000,000 for the
army and navy have had to do with the present
fair prospects for Italy: If GARIBALDI be dictator
in the city of POERIO, whom Mr. GLADSTONE was
the first to vindicate, and, in vindicating him, the
first to call European attention to the horrors of
Neapolitan tyranny, we may thank our powerful
navy especially for this. Italians are well aware
of it. It is worth while that Englishmen should be
aware of it. For no object not strictly national would
the great majority of Englishmen more cheerfully
submit to a little extra taxation, than for the
liberties of Europe—of Italy, and of Hungary
especially. We believe the investment to be a
good one too. Wherever we gain liberties
for the peop:e we find them disposed to trade with

us. We have not a doubt that emancipated Italy
will become to us such a commercial customer as
she would not have been for a century under her
despots. Free Piedmont is proving this already.
But, even without the commercial advantages sure
to follow, all Englishmen will rejoice to be able to
speak efficiently on behalf of Italian liberty.
This, thanks to our fleet, we have done. Had
we been, as we were a year or two ago, but barely
on a naval equality with the French, we have
ample proof that their EMPEROR. would have as-
sumed a very different tone. We should have
been, perhaps not in the politest language, told in
effect, to mind our own business. LOUIS NAPO-
LEON intended that he himself, not GARIBALDI
should be dictator in Italy; and once and again he
has thwarted the plans of the great patriot, who
has now completely superseded him.* But why
has GARIBALDI been free to carry out his pro-
jects ? Because the British Government and the
British House of Commons said that be should.
Because the British natiqn which applauded
and cheered GARIBALDI, raised a hundred and
thirty thousand volunteers in a trice, and could
send into the Mediterranean a fleet which was
more than a match for that of Prance. We could
say with effect, Italy shall settle her own affairs,
because we were as competent to enforce our
view as Louis NAPOLEON his—perhaps more so.
If Italy is not at this moment obliged to bow to a
" confederation" of the BOURBON, the Pop; and

the King of SARDINIA, with perhaps the present

ruler of Venetia included, she may thank our " esti-
mates." Some consolation this, that the very
money which makes us safe at home, achieves the
second thing which Englishmen care for—it makes
us, without bloodshed, liberators of the nations.
The very last piece of Imperial impertinence—
mingled impertinence and cunning probably—is a
corroboration of our view. The Marches and
Umbria are in insurrection. The old A]gerine
LAMORICIERE threatens to repeat the massacres
and pillage of Perugia at any town that dares to
move. The ling of SARDINIA advances a large body
of troops to protect the Italians of the States of the
Holy Father, threatened by the bloodhounds of his
Holiness. VICTOR EIIMANUEL could do no other-
wise unless he meant to renounce the object to
which he has avowed his devotion,—that of
relieving the anguish of Italy. What does, there-
fore, the Emperor of the FRENCH but read his MA-
JESTY a public lecture through a Parisian journalist.
VICTOR EMMANUEL is warned not to commit an
aggression which must separate him from the Im-
perial policy—warned that the Protector of the
PoVe must disapprove of assistance given to
armed insurrection in the Papal provinces ; warned
that Piedmont must not renounce respect for inter-
national rights (France being so respectful towards
them herself), which alone can preserve the French
alliance, and must not commit a political fault
which would be a misfortune for Italy.
Now all this is jugglery or impertinence, or both