The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-31 00:00:00

OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
L L GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA.
PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees.
THIS EVENING, DINORAII. Miss Louisa Fyne, Miss
Leffler, Miss Thirlwall ; Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. T. Chapel,
Alr. H. Corr!, Mr. St. Albyn.
To conclude with the First Act of TROVATORE.
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon.
Doors open at Seven. Commence at Half-past.

TH EA THE-R 0 Y AL, HAY MARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Baelcstone.
THIS EVENING the nertornaances will commence with
THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leclercqs.
Followed by DOES HE LOVE ME ? Messrs. Howe,
Chippendale, E. Villiers, and Buckstone ; Miss Amy Sedg-
wick, Miss Florence Haydon, and Mrs. Wilkins.
After which, the revived comedy of THE IRISH AM-
BASSADOR. Mr. John Brougham, Miss Florence Haydon,
E. Fitzwilliam.
And ANY PORT IN A STORM.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE....
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, an adaptation of Victor lingo's cele-
brated Play of RUY BLA'S, by Edmund Falconer, Esq.
when Mr. Fechter, the favourite actor of Parisian renown,
will make his 4th appearance on the English stage,'supported
by Messrs. W. Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond,
Morland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ; Miss Rose
Leclercq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath.
To be preceded byISUSAN SMITH.
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After which, THE FIRST NIGHT. Mr. A. Harris and
MI a Maria Harris.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
THIS .EVENING. the performances will commence with
Sheridan Knowles's Comedy of THE LOVE CHASE. The
Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott.
Principal characters by Mr. T. Lyon, Mr. Henry N eville, Mr.
George Vining'. Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell,
Mrs. Keeley, Miss K. Saville, and Miss Gougenheim.
After which. THE ABBE VAUDREUIL. Mr. H. Neville
and Madame Celeste.
To conclude with THE MIDDY ASHORE. Harry Hal-
cyon, Miss Lydia Thompson.
Commence at 7.

A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. Benj. Webster,
Great Success of the new Drama. by Dion Boureioault, Esq.,
"The Colleen Bawn."—Miss Agnes Robertson every even-

ing.
THIS KVEVING, THE RIFLE CORPS. Messrs. W.
Miss W oolgar, Miss Kate Kelly,
Smith. D. Fisher, C. Selby,
and Mrs. 13111ington.
After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Bourcicault, D.
piwher,gton, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer.
miss Agnesertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with arusrc HATH CHARMS. Mr. David
Fisher.
Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; amityF Boxes,"Xl.
Orchestra Stalls, is. ; Balcony, 4s. nt Circle Stalls, Is.;
Pit Stalls, 2s.;Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager Mr. Wm. Smith.

A S'rLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—
'Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY.
Tritunphant success and increasing popularity of the Grand
Spectacle of ROBIN HOO-D.
First appearance of Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome,
and their Troupe of unegnalled performers, &c., including
the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest
'onder of the age.
'this EVening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three
Acts, by E. Fitzball, 141:5q., entitled ROBIN HOOD ; or. the
Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducing the Stud of highly-
trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag Hounds, &c, Allan-
a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit-
chard.
To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena—Star Riders of
urop e.
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—Mr. Pearson.

f IANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
/ EVERY EVENING,
A Grand Selection from the opera of
NORMA.

Norma ...... • • . . Miss RUSSELL.
Adaloisa ...... •• • • .......... Madame MARIA,
(Her first appearance in this country.)
Afti2r which the ETHIOPIANS, consisting of Seventeen Per-
formers,
Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and
Sentimental, with Negro Delineations, Anecdotes, &c. Prin-
cipal Nero Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H.
Drummond, and Charley Fox.
Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGIDIANS.

Balcony, ls, .............Hall. 6d.

THE WEATHER.--SIIN OFFICE, OCT. 31, 1860.

THER.3IO3iBTER, IN THE SHADB.

62—this day at noon.
46—lowest this morning and during the night.
51—highest since noon yesterday.

BAROMETER-30,20.
WEND—North -easterly ; fresh, and rather cold, but dry.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

THU DAY.—Morning, 2h. 29m.—Afternoon, 2h. 4iSm.
To-itoaaow.-Morning, 3h. 2m.—Afternoon, 3h. 18m.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 31, 1860.

If we may believe our contemporary, the Daily
News, " the Emperor of the FRENCH has placed
four ships of the line before Gaeta," and with
orders not hostile to the ex-King, nor even to ob-
serve neutral ity, but to intervene between the ex-
King of NAPLES, and the King elect by popular
suffrage; for " the French Admiral has orders to
prevent an attack on Gaeta by Admiral PERSANO,
and if necessary for that purpose to sink his ships."
" Under these eircumstances," it is added, " Admi-
ral PERSANO will take no part in the approaching
siege of Gaeta." Of course not, if the state-
ment be correct, though we are not told by our
contemporary the authority on which it rests.
Assuming its correctness, the interference is intole-
rable, and the threat outrageous. What Admiral
PERSANO can do, we know at Ancona ; and we
know also how the Austrians dread the thought
dr his visiting Venice with his fleet. To prevent
his joining in the attack is to prolong uselessly the
siege, and by liberating the entire garrison to
defend the land side is a virtual French rein-
forcement of it. We may well ask what the
motive can be ? Can it be to show that notwith-
standing PERSANO'S splendid success at Ancona, a
large force of
_French ships could vanquish him ?
No one, however, needs that information. Can it
be to help himself, as he is! doing at Rome, into a
better position for demanding the talked-of ces-
sions, if he consent to complete Italian emancipa-
tion ? But England and all Europe, we fancy,
would be of one mind, if he dared really to demand
Sardinia and Genoa. Or is it a mere blind ? Does
he wish to act the " Moderator of the Revolution,"
at the eleventh hour, by taking some part in the
final
settlement with FRANCIS II.? Perhaps he
thinks
it Perfectly certain that GARIBALDI and the
Piedtrwilte''e together are quite able to take Gaeta,
and that a little
by-play, to make them take it in the
way he chooses, may present him in the light of
arbilzator in the final arrangements.
It may be useless to speculate on his movements.
We are warranted, however, in assuming the most
selfig.h to be the most
likely, and in asserting this
new intervention to be
grossly inconsistent with
his orwn professions. We may uope, however, that
thing's have already gone too far for even Louis
NAPOLEON to venture on much mischief.
VICTOR
EMM:ANUEL is now King of the T •
Two Sicilies by the
same right as Louis NAPOLEON is Emperor of
Framce. The notice to quit will soon be enforced
on tb e unfortunate, but hardened young Bourbon;
and lye trust that England will not allow VICTOR
DOE ASITEL, abjectly, yet further to " mar his
inheritance" for the aggrandisement of France;and
to ott r injury in the -Mediterranean.

An Europe could not show, what to us does not
seem anything surprising, a First Minister of the
Crow n presiding at a succession of public meetings,
and. speaking with interest at them all. Italy may
possibly in no long time have again, as in the days of
the old Roman Republic, a number of leading states-
men, who are also able speakers both in the Senate
House and at the Rostra. But in Europe, at pre-
sent, we stand almost alone in that characteristic
of our social life, which makes it natural that our
first men—our high official class—should be looked
up to to sustain the interest of public meetings of
all kinds. Besides Lord PALMERSTON we have but
just had Lord STANLEY and Sir J. PAKINGTON ;
and we may celiainly look for Mr. GLADSTONE and

Lora RUSSELL to be called on soon to become the
~ great guns" of some social gathering, and to

have their speeches as fully reported as if they
were speaking in Parliament, perhaps at greater
length. Even the despots will not deny that
this is a' great political advantage. On these

occasions, generally, party feeling is forgotten in
the object, or party allusions are but the humorous

and enlivening part of the oratory. Even when
our Ministers or ex-Ministers address a one-sided

meeting, like Sir JOHN PAKINGTON at Worcester, 1
it is expected to be with geniality, and good feel-
ing towards opponents. But the grand advantage
is, that it makes our official men, far more than the
Ministers of despots can be, men of the people.
The Ministers learn to know, almost as personal
friends, their political supporters, and often their
opponents, too. And a -vast amount of good-will
from all classes is conciliated towards their actual
governors, from whom they have so often to differ.
It would not be easy to estimate the extent to
which the public social habits of the servants of
the CuowN of both parties conduce to the easy
working of our Constitution. The unofficial public
work of our high officials is not One of their least
valuable services.

And when our Premier does "ride abroad,"
there are few members of the Ministry, or of the
House of Commons, whom the public like better
to hear. We were very near writing our " Vene-
rable Premier ;" but we found our pen stuck at the
word. Lord PALMERSTON Venerable ! When will
that ever be. Lord LYNDHURST is so ; Lord
BROUGHAM is so. The Duke was so, and his suc-
cessor as political moderator is so; but Lord
PALMERSTON can never lose his wings and his
mischievous arrows—no more venerable at seventy-
five than at twenty-five—should he reach the age
of the patriarchs he must be what he ever has
been—he would doubtless skip up JACOB'S ladder
itself. Many a quarrel we have had with him.
As deep as he is genial we know him to be. Yet
we have no doubt that, should he be a Prime
Minister at four score and ten, he would still, as he
had done before, send us away laughing with the
rest of a deputation, while we were about to
assemble again and to pass a rote of dissatisfaction
with his answers. Who can tell how much his
light heart has to do with his political success,
perhaps as much as his adroitness and untiring
industry.

Our Leeds friends will certainly agree that he
was genial enough with them—pleasant as pleasant
could be; and sensible things, of course, he said,
as he can say, on any subject, from town sewerage
and dirt, at agricultural meetings, to high politics,
and science and literature, at mechanics' institutes.
We liked much even the report of his speech at the
soiree of the mechanics' institute. He could not
be as learned as GLADSTONE, or as profound in
science as Lord BROUGHAM, but he could illustrate
with exceeding aptness the value and extent of
literature and science. He gave his hearty en-
couragement to introducing good works of imagi-
nation into the libraries of institutes. He pointed
out the absurdity of the objection that the little
knowledge learning persons could get was of little
use, and did them as much harm as good. " And
then we have," said he, " dinned in our ears the
old and trite quotation that ' a little learning
is a dangerous thing.' It is true that
a little learning is a bad thing—that is
to say, it is a bad thing to have only a little
learning ; and the less learning a man has the
worse it is for him. But there is one thing worse
even than having a little learning, and that is having
no learning at all." He was also very happy in
insisting on the advantage of variety of knowlege.
We have lately had, and from a distinguished man
too, earnest inculcations of the necessity of
thoroughly studying what we begin—but Lord
PALMERSTON put the other side in a rather striking
light. "I am glad," he remarked, "to see by the
report which you have heard read that this institu-
tion will have the means of imparting to those who
will be its members learning of the most various
kinds, acquisitions of the most different natures,
adapted to all callings, and fitting men for all em-
ployments. And if I were permitted to give
to the working and industrious classes a
single word of advice, I should say this :
—' Whatever your calling in life may be, learn
fully, deeply, and completely, everything that bears
directly on that calling. Make yourselves masters
of everything that will tend to help you in the
particular sphere of industry. But don't confine
yourself to that. Cultivate your minds by acquir-
ing as much knowledge as you can on as many sub-
jects as you can. You will learn but little of each,
but that little of each will make an important
aggregate in the main, and ,every new branch of
knowledge which you enter into, every addition
made to your general stock of information will im-
prove the faculties of your minds, just as various
exercises improve the powers of the body, and will
make you more skilful, more able, more clever in
the performance of your particular duties than if
you were skilled only in that particular and simple
branch."
On the advantage of reading good works of
imagination our merry Premier was almost philo-
sophical. " I would not," he said, "recommend
those who frequent the library to confine
themselves solely to books of serious reading
and of practical or scientific utility. The
human mind requires variety of exercise for its
different qualities and its different functions. The
imagination was implanted in man not merely for
the pleasure of others by the works of imagination,
bat for the pleasure of the individual in exercising
that faculty. That pleasure is great and laudable, I
and, therefore, though I would not recommend a
man to waste his time in what is called novel-
reading, uninstructive and not improving, yet
works of imagination, the works of our great poets
and our distinguished novelists, such as WALTER
SCOTT, BULWER, and others, are works which
teach him good principles by examples in the
recitals which they contain ; tend, in the first
place, to improve the moral feelings of the man,
and, in the next place, give a legitimate and
proper enjoyment, by exercising and cultivating
the imaginative faculties of the readers." Our
readers will certainly agree with us that all these
observations, as well as so much more which we
might quote, are replete with practical good sense.
But besides the mechanics and their friends,
whom his lordship went specially to meet, he had
to address an assembly of West Riding merchants,
who earnestly pressed on him to pass his bank-
ruptcy bill next session, which they found him
nothingßeformloth do.ttoil. l Irh
willtreuhe had suit hd to speak
betterimmuehata
Ragged School meeting ; and again in reply to an
address in big own praise from the corporation, not
to mention exereitations
were
Pontefract
and
elsewhere. Few,
however, re his words on
d
foreign politics. Just one
g
Italy—but not a word of Wa:slci wv—isl o
e: r
Austria—oftwo for
Venetia—of Rome—ol Hungary. Right so far as
it went, but we should have liked a little more at
such an opportunity on the grave question whether
England's Cabinet wanted Austria to surrender
Venetia, and to give Hungary not a sham, but a real
constitution. Very remarkable too, it struck us,
his not saying a word to the corporation of
I was