The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-27 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

AD EL PHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Sole proprietor and Monomer, Mr. Beni. Webster.
Last nights of the popular Adelphi Drama of Janet Pride.
TUTS EVENING, JANET PRIDE. Messrs. B. Webster,
J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stuart, C. Selby ; Miss Woolgar and
Miss Laidlaw.
To conclude with THE ENCHANTED ISLE ; or Raising
the Wind under the most approved Principles. Messrs. .L
1.. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, C. Selby, Powell, Romer,
Misses Woolgar, K. Kelly, and Emily Thorne.
Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l.
Orchestra Stalls, 5.5. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, 38. •
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, ed:
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
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Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BAT" Y.
Continued Success of " iiazeppa."
A Grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on
SATURDAY next, Sept 1. commencing at Two o'clock.
This Evening, Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of
MAZEPPA AND THE 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 Equestrienne in the world,
Madlle. de Berg, whose wonderful Leap through the body of
a Mail Coach (a feat never before a'tempted by any other
female) has bean nightly received with enthusiasm.
Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.
Boa-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WERT.
Director of the Arena—M. Felix Revolt!.

CONCERTS,

CANTERBURY HALL
EVERY EVENING,
A Grand Selection from
MARTHA,
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And Selections from
DINORAII, TROVATORE, MACBETH.,
And numerous other Entertainments.
Balcony, is Bail, fid.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come
dian and Mimic), and C. Marshall.
The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised
expressly for this Establishment). for the performance of
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.—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 26, MO.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
65—highest since noon yesterday.
54—lowest this morning and during the night.
64—this day at noon.

BAnomrml-29.92; rising.
WIND--Westerly, inc'ining to North; with fine sun•
shiny weather, after four or eve days of incessant rain.
AUGUST 27.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
68—highest since noon yesterday.
54—lowest this morning and during the night.
64—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.90.
WlND—South-Westerly ; light, with doubtful weather,
but fine during the forenoon. We had more rain in the
night. a.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1860.

The progress of Gen. GARIBALDI appears to be a
continued triumph. A long line of successes has
marked his career since he first embarked in the
great cause of the liberation of Southern Italy.
With the prudence which so often accompanies the
most distinguished courage, and for which the
Italian hero is especially remarkable, he has secured
Reggio instead of at once proceeding to Naples, as
some supposed he would do. He has thus secured
a base for his operations which has greatly strength-
ened his position, and will enable him to march to
the capital with increased confidence. There is little
to oppose his progress. Between Reggio and Naples
there are no fortresses, and the great forests which
cover the sides of the Appenines will serve, if neces-
sary, for the purposes of concealment or temporary
retreat. Neither is there any doubt as to the result
of an attack upon the capital. The train has long
been laid, and at the first spark it will ignite, For
long years have the people groaned under the
tyranny of their miserable rulers ; for many months
have they watched with eager eyes the gradual
liberation of Italy, and the daring march of GARI-
BALDI'S Volunteers. It is not likely when the
prize is within their reach, when the chance of
freedom is brought to their very doors, that they
will suffer the enterprise to fail for want
of their cordial aid and active co. operation.
Let GARIBALDI once reach Naples and we
shall be much surprised if either army or navy
prove very formidable opponents. Though in the
employ of a despot, wearing his uniform, and re-
ceiving his pay, they are still Italians, they are
men. They can remember as well as their com-
patriots the long years of crushing tyranny that
preceded the outbreak of 1848 ; the fleeting
triumph that followed it ; the treacherous pledges
of the intimidated Monarch, the political perjury
which succeeded. They can recall the revelations
of the secret dungeons which may one day await
them and their associates—the bands of noble,
intelligent, and patriotic spirits that have been
crushed by the rack and the chain. Will they
fight for a dynasty whose works are such as these ?
whose misrule has made their country the byword
of civilised Europe ? We cannot believe it. The
Neapolitans, so often the victims of tyranny and
foreign domination, have sometimes thrown off their
lethargy and showed their spirit at last. They
proved it long centuries since when resisting the
yoke of another Bourbon in the bloody Sicilian
vespers. Now a better way is open to them, a path
to national freedom is before them less stained with
bloodshed and cruelty. The one man who has
been found equal to the occasion is advancing
to the rescue of the down-trodden Neapolitans, let
us hope with the same success which has attended his
former efforts. When GARIBALDI first set out on his
memorable expedition it was looked upon by many
as the rash adventure of a hairbrained enthusiast,
or the wild scheme of a reckless democrat. He has
proved himself no less the general than the soldier,
no less fitted to plan a campaign than to lead an
army to a victorious charge. While statesmen
were fettered by treaties and monarchs were ham-
Pored by allies, it remained for the free and fearless
patriot, responsible only to his conscience and his
countrymen, to achieve the realisation of the idea
on which they had all been descanting so
°4llentlY but so unsatisfactorily. Whatever
may be the
result of his enterprise the English
sympathies will be enlisted on the side of GAni-
B, ; and -east that result will he we can hardly
doubt. Two Neap•Aitan brigades; have already
„•sur-
rendered at discretion to General COSENZ, and their
c sample will probably be &eerily followed by many
others. with Naples once in the possession of
OARIDALDI the keystone of des petism will have
fe,llen, and the chase of Italiaan liberation be,
humanly speaking;

SCCLIFC.

The second session of the sil:th Parliamont
of
her Majesty Queen VICTORIA :;:s closing at last.
From the 24th of January till the same time nearly
in August—seven calendar months, hard upon
eight lunar moltiths—it has been pursuing its, at

first, sprightly, then quarrelsome, then weary way
—till, at last, the members get free for more con-
genial pursuits. Much could we wish, for higher
reasons than the pleasure of Members of Parlia-
ment, that the weather may be as propitious as
they could desire for the slaughter of another kind
of innocents than those on which they have re-
venged themselves while confined to their legisla-
tive home.

The wise man says, that better is the day of
one's death than the day of one's birth ; the latter
teaching us the sober reality in which all the ardent
parental hopes of the former so commonly terminate.
And, most assuredly, if we compare the Speech by
which her MAJESTY announced that the session
had begun to breathe, with her farewell confes-
sions, and with the hard facts of its close, the un-
certainty of early sessional hopes could scarcely be
better illustrated. Hardly one of its domestic pro-
mises have been fulfilled; and foreign affairs are
certainly not in the position which might have been
anticipated at the opening of the year from the
words and deeds of our nearest neighbours. Of the
noble paragraph on Italian affairs we may say that
—as it was, perhaps, the very best in the
Speech—so events in August smile brightly on
the Royal sentiments of February. Whatever
became of congress, said her MAJESTY, " whether
in congress or in separate negotiation, I shall en-
deavour to obtain for the people of Italy freedom
from foreign interference by force of arms in their
internal concerns, and I trust that the affairs of the
Italian peninsula may be peacefully and satisfac-
torily settled." This was all Italian patriots needed

—and firmly have our Ministers held this language
throughout. Indeed, they have gone farther. The
Premier has declared that the best settlement for
Italy would be to get rid of her remaining tyrants
from Rome and Naples, and Lord J. RUSSELL
has not hesitated to compare GARIBALDI to
WILLIAM 111. and WASHINGTON. On foreign
affairs, indeed, throughout, the language of our
Foreign Secretary and his colleagues has gone, in
the direction of their countrymen's sympathies, to
the utmost length which official decency could
permit. a

Not quite congruous, however, with the hopes of
February are the facts of England's and indeed all
Europe's position just now. That, however, is in
no sense due to our Government, unless indeed their
placing too much confidence in the man who so
barefacedly violated every oath and promise to
mount his throne may have encouraged his temerity.
We must, we confess, wonder how any one can
place the slightest reliance on Imperial words and
professions; but diplomatically it may be necessary;
and the diplomatic propriety which induced the
QUEEN to speak of only a congress on the state of
Italy, deferred sine die, was soon compelled to speak
out when with a barefaced LIE any secret inter.-
tions about Savoy were disavowed—when it turned
out that they had existed before the Italian war—
when they were renewed on the most utterly baseless
pretexts—when promises were made to respect the
rights of Switzerland in the two small districts—
when these promises were cancelled—and when, last-
ly, the stronger said without reserve, " I will swallow
all I please of the Alpine territories." Then began
that general distrust with which the session closes,
which shows itself not only all over Europe, but in
the altered language of our Prime Minister—in our
naval and military estimates, in our volunteers and
our fortifications. We co operate with France in
China and in Syria ; but we, and all Europe, have
changed our whole policy since February. China,
too, does not seem likely to realise the commend-
ably peaceful anticipations of our QUEEN ; the
American " difficulty" of San Juan does look better.
Mr. BUCHANAN has in that matter acted worthily
of his position, though the dispute remains where
it was. Internal peace has continued to bless
India, and the " Viceroy " can probably still trans-
mit " the most gratifying accounts of the loyalty of
the QUEEN'S Indian subjects ;" whether the internal
resources of the country will be developed as her
MAJESTY hoped, and financial prospects decidedly
improved, time has not yet elapsed sufficient to
prove. Respecting Syrian calamities, England's
Government could not be expected to anticipate
them. The Government, whose stamp the mus-
kets distributed among the Maronite Catholics
bear, and in whose capital the Arabic newspaper,
full of venom against England, was printed, might
perhaps be looking for something which should
serve to talk about instead of an Italian war.

But it was in what we were to do at home that
the great display was made. The Budget, resplen-
dent with the French gilding of a commercial
treaty ; the Reform Bill ; the improvement of our
jurisprudence—bankruptcy, the transfer of land,
the consolidation of statutes, and such fusion of law
and equity that suits could be begun and termi-
nated in the same court—these, besides all the
routine work of the session, were all to be got
through in 1860 ! A splendid programme to be
sure ; and the first article of it quite a novelty—
the consummation of Free-trade, and the opening
up of untold commerce with France—all parts of
the Great Budget of 1860 ! The other things were
remanets of repeated former attempts, but they
seemed all to have nearly passed their chrysalid
state, and to be ready for transformation into Acts
of Legislature.

Alas for the vanity of even Royal hopes, what
has become of them all ? The first and great one
—the Treaty• Budget—it has achieved one great
good we must all acknowledge--it has swept away
400 insignificant articles paying customs duties,
and left but a few, all of which pay well for collect-
ing. That is, no doubt, a good clearance ;it was
the well-known intention of Sir ROBERT PEEL
to come to that result. But the treaty itself
is quite another question. Would that great
and cautious financier have sacrificed the wine
duties for no conceivable object, but that of
looking liberal towards a community—(for we
acquit the EMPEROR here, because we believe him
to be in advance of his subjects)—a community who
refuse even the free export of rags, not to mention
the high protective duties which they clutch to the
injury of their own national revenues He would
either have said to the French, we shall levy the
duties most profitable to our own Exchequer, with-
out consulting your wishes; or, if we consult
them, we must have reductions of your duties pari
passu with our own. Such, we may bo confident,
would have been the language of a PEEL. Time
will show—and sincerely do we hope our fears may
be groundless—but we much fear the narrow-
minded, close-fisted Frenchmen have.induced Mr.
GLADSTONE to sacrifice our revenue, and to saddle
us with an increased income-tax for their benefit
chiefly—it may be, only. As to the rest of the
Budget, Mr. GLADSTONE certainly contrived to
bring on the House of Commons such a humiliation
as it has never suffered for hundreds of years. To
the ill-judged scheme which gave up the paper
duty, and laid on the additional penny of income
tax to make good the loss, we owe the famous
" Lords' aggression." The real meaning of which
we take to be this—the Lords see equal taxation
approaching, therefore they furnish themselves
with a pretext to reject any bill which shall sub-
ject real property to its just share of taxation.
As to alithe rest of the proposed measures we have