The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-19 00:00:00

CHINESE PROCLAMATION.

The following proclamation has been posted on
the walls of Shanghae ; the translation is taken
from the North China Herald :

Le, of the verily Heaven-ordained Celestial King.
dem of Great Peace, Commander of the Imperial
Body Guard, Imperial Commander-in-Chief, Loyal
and Righteous, the Faithful King (Chung Wang),
once more most impressively and distinctly proclaims
and ordains, that all may understand and not be
confused, thereby calling down sorrow on themselves.
I, carrying out the heavenly commandsaueiv
-no smaappmber of years" led nsi one man my mightf
soldiers "to the slaying and extermination of the
destructive imps. It having occurred to me that
within a hundred li of Nanking itself were many
myriads of demons, my heavenly soldiers swept
them away as by a flood. Everybody has either
seen or heard of these things, so there is no use in
my repeating them. After leaving Nanking we
came through Chu Jung, Tanyang, Changchow, and
Wuhsi, to Soochow; through a journey of many
hundred li we never received a check. We have
recovered every place (from the Manchoos) and all
the imps have now hidden their carcases by the
seashore. Now I ask you people what is the use of
shaking and trembling ; why don't you choose the
right side ? Everybody is aware of my forbearance.
It is my determination now to lead the whole of
my mighty troops to the capture of Shanghae and
the extermination of the imps, nor shall this my
intention ever be absent from me early or late.
During my march the people everywhere fled, first
to Soochow and afterwards to Shanghae—like
birds fearing the bow, there is no resting place for
them. Is it not so ? It was on this account that
I, looking up and acting according to the life-
loving benevolence of God (Shang-ti) and the
world-rescuing heart of the True Holy King, did
not wish to lead troops against Shanghae too
quickly ; but having pity on you, I issued a pro-
clamation for your guidance. All good people
should have deeply reflected (lit. wash head and
wipe face), and with all speed have submitted
themselves, thus walking on the right path.
Shanghae is but a hundred li or so from Soochow,
in which place I have now been for two months;
you should have made a book for presentation to
me, containing a list of your houses and families ;
or standing on the roads, you should have respect-
fully offered a cup of wine as a token of your sub-
mission. Instead of so doing, you have seized and
killed the messengers sent by me to execute my
commands; your wickedness has really no limit,
and is unpardonable.
The ancients previous to a fight exchanged cour-
teous civilities, nor were the heralds ever killed.
How is it that yoti Shanghae people alone with-
stand all reason, and still listen to impish man-
darins who do you nothing but injury ? Your
offences have now reached the climax that compels
me to set troops in motion for your extermination,
and I have consequently ordered a Pai-yuen-shih
(Generalissimo) to precede me on the way to
Shanghae.

Alt-hough I should properly spare you on no ac-
connt whatever, yet apart from punishment, I have
still a merciful intention towards you, and therefore
once more emphatically advise and direct you at
once on seeing this to reform. I hero hitherto
taken cities without number, and it would behove
you to amend your faults, and so be in the way of
having your lives spared. From the first outbreak
of righteousness in Kwangsi until the present time
ten years have passed, during which time no enemy
could withstand, and no attack could repress us.
Should your little place, only a span in size, brave
us and refuse to listen to us ? Shanghae is an intel-
ligent city enough, let the people take the good and
the evil, and make their choice (of sides). I issue
this proclamation strongly to command and advise
you ; you know that an egg can't oppose a stone ;
make up your minds, then, speedily, and submit
yourselves; and when the soldiers shall have come,
not one fraction of anything shall be exacted from
you. If you won't put confidence in me, but run
away, every one of you, with the idea that you can
withstand me, why, do exactly as you please. I will
establish my will firm as a mountain, and my com-
mands shall be as flowing water. Immediately after
I have informed you by this my soldiers will arrive;
they are not going to wait for you ; don't say that I
gave you no warning. Tremblingly obey, and don't
slight this.

Heavenly Kingdom of Universal Peace,
10th year, 6th month.

THE END OF THE SEA-SIDE SEASON.

(From Punch.)

Our Ramsgate correspondent writes to us as fol-
lows :—" If the ghost of Goldsmith were to rise up
at this time, with a wish to add aline or two to his
Deserted Village,' he could not well do better than
take the train to Ramsgate, and muse in mournful
numbers' on its melancholy aspect. Everything
and everybody soon would clearly enough show him
that the season is all over. Even the poet Thom-
son, who wrote four books about the Seasons, could
hardly find materials to write two lines now about
this. The few visitors who linger sadly on the pier
flit noiselessly as though they were the ghosts of
the departed, and pass with downcast looks as
though ashamed of being seen there. They move
about with all the air of melancholy maniacs, and
if they stay much longer they will run the risk of
being carried off to private madhouses and clapped
into strait waistcoats. The steamboats come in
daily with nobody on board except the crew and
captain. The shilling-an-hour boatmen have laid
up their crafts in winter quarters, and have rigged
their better halves in bran-new gowns and bonnets.
The bathing machines are all drawn up so high
and dry that it seems to be a problem if they ever
will be wet again. Not a donkey brays defiance on
the beach ; not a bath chair is now visible, even
with a telescope. Not a wooden spade or sand-heap
is there by the sad sea waves ; not an organ, or a
bagpipe, or a German band is audible. All the
Minstrels with blacked faces have taken themselves
off to Charlestown' or some other locality ; and the
Tyrolean tenor who sings so sentimentally and
sweetly out of tune, with one eye closed in strong
emotion, and the other looking out for coppers, has
left us with his wife and small harmonium-playing
son, and is probably now singing to some al fresco
inland audience. More saddening fact still—the
vocal vendor of crisp hardbake, delicate drops, and
tempting toffy, has at one fell swoop deprived us of
his sweet songs and his sweet stuffs, and has left
us lollipopless to lament his absence.

" Paragon is a wilderness ; grass is growing in
High-street, and hay, if there were sunshine, might
be made on half the pavements. The shopkeepers
have mostly put their chains and shutters up, and
are now engaged in counting over their unholy gains,
and in sending conscience money to the income tax
collector. The lodging-letters have emerged from
their coal cellars and dust bins, or whatever other
holes be in the summer time their sleeping places.
It is believed that they would occupy the bedrooms
which in summer time fetch fire guineas a night,
but that they are haunted with the ghosts of recent
victims, who came, saw, and were fleeced, and flea-
bitten
into the bargain. The flys have flown
away, or else hybernating in back slums; the riding
horses have returned to their normal occupations,
and ate now drawing bakers' carts or working in a
circus. The hotel-keepers have vanished to visit
their estates, or confer with Baron Rothschild
about buying up the Bank, as a safe way of employ-
ing some of their spare millions. In short, so dullheir
is Ramsgate, that the brigand's occupation is, like
Othello's, gone. A cat or two are now the only
beasts of prey left payable. Even the fleas, it is
affirmed, have this week hopped the twig. T
flight has been described as the retreat of the ten
thousand."

AUTUMNAL HERRING VOYAGE,
report, is LOWESTOFT.—
This fishery, we are happy to Progressing most
favourably. On Monday nearly all the boats had good
feand one or two had as many as three lasts. Prices
ranged from 3s. 7d. to 4s. 10d. per hundred. One boat has
already wade °ter 4200,—.8ury and Aronvich Post,

Procrastination its advantages, which are
hidden from the etes of superficial and common-
place moralists. Phe philosophers of the Admiralty
are clearly alive to/this fact, and are resolved to show
that a vice which is said to be the thief of time shall
at least prove in their hands the means of saving
English money. They will allow the French Go-
vernment to waste time and money in naval experi-
ments, and emaimit the folly of being prompt,while
they stand ready to reap the advantage and bor-
row the experiment which, at any rate until ,
yes-
terday, they determined not to pay for. Sheridan's
maxim of doing nothing to-day that can be done
to-morrow, because when to-morrow comes you may
not have to do it, seems to be earning some justifi-
cation in the case of frigate building ; and it is just
possible that the habitual propensity of our naval
officials, of always being in the wake of the national
determination, may in this instance prove an advan-
tage. The game of paradoxes is, however, always
a difficult one, and in such an important affair as
shipbuilding is actually dangerous. It is possible
that by having waited thus long the Admiralty are
just in time for positively the latest invention in
naval architecture ; and the country may be saved
the expense of six Warriors and as many Rams,
which, if it had possessed a hasty and lavish Admi-
ralty, it would have been obliged to pay for.
Without thinking it necessary to consider the
Times the supreme authority upon naval architecture
the public will commend the enterprise of our con-
temporary in promptly bringing under its notice the
latest scheme for casing our ships with iron. So
long as it seems to be a law that Englishmen can-
not go to bed without the prospect of being faced
in the morning with some new warlike contrivance,
no invention whatever is entitled to be regarded as
final, and every one sees that the difficulty of the
authorities lies in the surprising energy of the
suggestive or creative faculty of our scientific men.
All that can be done is to lose no time in balancing
the qualities of each new-born scheme, and to take
care that in settling the differences to a nicety we
do not get behind our less discriminating and more
sanguine rivals. They at least have adopted what
seems to be an undeniable truth, that iron is more
durable than wood, and while we have been
struggling to ascertain how much better one is
than the other they have been content to rely upon
the general truth. Procrastinating and undecided,
the Admiralty have only had time to admit the
superiority of iron in a general way, and then in
all haste to make an iron construction of some kind
upon the most likely principles. The question of
its penetrability must be settled at a future time;
no matter so that the ships are built. It must be
confessed that amid the consternation of alarmists
and the differences of scientific men it is something
of a relief to hear of a plan which offers a plausible
expectation that the difficulty is met—at least for
a time. It is too much to hope that the combined
efforts of nature will in this case be as final as the
poet tells us they have been in the construction of
a Shakespeare. If Mr. Jones is not the victim of a
fallacy, or ensnared by the sanguine temperament of
a man who has patented an invention, we earnestly
hope that for the present, at least, the force of nature
will no further go, because, in the event of that lady
not being exhausted, there is a fear that Great
Britain will get no navy.
" The rules of the game" which had been going
on so long between shots and butts have included
the condition that the shot should hit the object at
something like a right angle, and an impartial con-
sideration of the results has proved the contest to
have been as nearly " drawn' as possible. Some-
times the shots have pierced, at others they have
failed, and in each case they have done more or less
damage—perhaps an inconvenient quantity of less
has been observable. But Mr. Jones has devised a
plan by which the plane of the mark, instead of
being at right angles (speaking in round and not
strictly accurate terms) to the line of the projec-
tile's flight, is at an angle of 50 degrees—that being
the angle which a ship built upon his plan makes
with the water. All the additional power of resist-
ance which a ship of this kind may get is clearly
due to the direction of its sides, which by their
inclination may be said to shirk the bolt directed
against them, just as of old an arrow that struck
anything at a particular angle would glide off in-
stead of entering it. Experiments have been made
upon a butt encased in iron, 5 feet by 21 in size, and
though as many as 17 shots were fired against this
limited space, not one effectually penetrated. Not
only is the new ship to have the power of resisting
shot, but it is to have engines of 1,200 horse power,
by which it will run through the water at the rate
of 14 knots an hour ; and since it is presumed invul-
nerable, steam power and steam mechanism are its
sole reliance for locomotive purposes.
Such is the attractive sketch which is offered to
England of the implement by which she is to main-
tain her naval supremacy. Have we really reached
the solution of the problem which has distressed us
so long ? or will this last vaunt serve only to delay
the Admiralty and provide materials for discussion
among mechanists and port captains ? There is
nothing in the opening statement made by its ad-
vocate which has not been predicated of nearly every
similar contrivance that has been offered to the
public, and we are rather dismayed by the old array
of assumptions under shelter of which it is pressed
upon our notice. Nothing seems easier to the un-
initiated than to discover whether a shot does or
does not penetrate a given material, or, if it does
penetrate, to ascertain what amount of damage is
received by objects placed in arrear of the target.
But this is, we all know by this time, a popular
delusion. It is a matter upon which there may be
half a dozen opinions. Englishmen may be for-
given for dreading the announcement some months
hence, by an eye-witness or his initials, that Whit-
worth's bolts play old Harry with Jones's sides,
or that the Jones vessel cannot be got to move in
the water on account of a shot being lodged in her
principal boiler. It may not be so ; but we must be
prepared for something of this kind and its attend-
ant embarrassment. It is best not to be too sanguine,
and, above all, to put a limit upon theoretical as-
sumptions of the capabilities of a fleet made up of
vessels that have never yet been tried or seen. All
the balances that are made between sails and
steam, between relative capacity for unprecedented
rapidity and being waterlogged, must be of limited
value until we are unfortunately compelled to test
them in the only school in which their truth can
be ascertained. Hitherto the results of war have
shown that it has a great tendency to equalise, to
take the edge off nice schemes and nice weapons,
and to throw combatants back upon the good old
qualities which have always been followed by vic-
tory. A great deal was said during the late war
about the havoc made by the French rifled cannon;
but no one doubts that if the the Austrians had
been properly handled the war might have ended
very differently. Solferino was won by the French
because the Austrians had a line of battle twelve
miles in extent. All these uncertainties, how-
ever, do not interfere with the one great fact, that_s
we must speedily have a fleet of iron-cased vessels
of of the best kind. The Admiralty
must at once
in judgment upon the new plan, and if it promises
speedily
well an experimental vessel should
con-
structed. It may be the ill luck of
but there is no
be
this generation
to have these things forced upon k
it,
of help. We have escaped tb
gunpow-
der, which our forefathers einvention
had_ to endure and to
discuss, and should not complain that we have
to decide the question of shot. To determine the
merits of a vessel and its armament with the
requisite nicety
in time of peace it Would be
worth while to anchor the Hato two that shall
so yards from ppotsbiteeman by be completedto each
other, load the guns of botth, afnd fire
harm's way,
electric battery, placed OR 0
and
then compare the damage. It ought not to be
very
great—at any rate the experiment would re-
duce conjecture to a minimum, and purchase some-
like security at a not very costly rate.—
thing
Herald.

Private letters from Brazil express great dis-
satisfaction at the circumstance of the English Govern-
ment having suddenly put a stop to the procedings of the
mixed commission sitting at Rio de Janeiro, by the appoint-
ment of the two Governments for the
adjustment of all
outstanding and long-pending claims. There are many
claims made by lii itish subjects against Brazil which have
never been settled, and at least au equal number on the part
of Brazilians against the English Government. The mixed
commission, which had sat for a few months only, had
given in three eases decisions in favour of Brazilian sub
jects? when Lord John Russell put a stop to further pro-
ceedings. It is reported at Rio that Mr. Morgan, the
Commissioner for the English Government, has requested
to be removed from his appointment, feeling the false posi-
tion in which he has been placed, but that as yet his desire
has not been acceded to. The reason suggested by the
Brazilian claimants for the suspension of proceedings by
the English Government is, that the reclamation against
England on account of vessels and property seized are so
numerous that wo are alarmed at the amount. Looking at
the fact that we sanctioned the appointment of the com-
mission by a special treaty, and nominated our own com-
missioner, it is not unnatural that in the absence of expla-
nations severe remarks should be made; but the English
public will hope that whenever the question may be mooted
in Parliament the answer will be such as to prove
isatis-
factory not merely in a technical point of view, butin that
-
liberal and equitable sense which alone would be creditable
to Great Britain in such a matter.

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The Free Library presented by , Mr. Willie.tig
Brown to the people of Liverpool, was inaugurate&
on Wednesday. The building itself is described as
very handsome :
It is placed on the north side of Shaw's-brow, in
close proximity with the north end of St. George's
Hall, and on a level corresponding with the general
features of that structure. Externally its principal
front consists of a handsome hexastyle portico,of
Corinthian architects-". surmounted by a pediment.
The shafts of the c,,,,,.ins are plain, and rest 'on a
basement to which access is obtained by a hand-
some flight of steps. At each side of the central.
portico there is a wing, with a slightly projecting
flank, sufficiently ornamented to relieve it from any
charge of tameness or monotony, yet not of such
importance as to interfere with the predominating
aspect of the portico. Interiorily the chief architec-
tural feature of the edifice is a noble central hall, en-
tering from a vestibule of moderate dimensions and.
tasteful decoration. The hall spoken of is 96 feet long
by 55 feet wide and 70 high. This hair is divided into
two portions in its height by a gallery, on the front
of which a handsome stone balustrade extends com-
pletely round the hall. The gallery is supported
on square pillars, above which there is a correspond-
ing range of lonic columns extending nearly to the
roof, and supporting a series of groined arches. The
ceiling, which is richly ornamented, is pierced by
three square apertures filled with ground glass,.
which transmit a copious supply of graduated light,
further augmented by the light of seven large win-
dows on the east and west sides of the hall, so high
as to be almost top lights in all the cases. The
lower portion of this fine hall it is proposed still
further to enrich by the introduction of statuary.
lts upper portion or gallery is be appropriated to
the purposes of a picture gallery, for which its Roe
mellowed light and great extent admirably fit it.
The wing portions of the edifice contain the
really working or practically useful apartments of
the institution. The right hand, or eastern part of
the building, is devoted exclusively to the purposes
of the library ; the left, or west part, to those of
the museum. The leading feature of the former is
la large and commodious reading-room, 108 feet long,
49 feet wide, and 56 feet high in the ceiling. its
eastern side is to a great extent occupied by a coun-
ter, from behind which the librarian's assistants
will supply books to the readers. To the south-
east of this is a " reference" reading-room, in which
books of a more valuable class may be consulted.
An interesting feature of the museum depart-
ment consists of the spacious hall, devoted to the
purposes of a Polytechnic gallery, or museum of
practical mechanical science. This is 86 feet long,
by 50 feet wide, and 60 feet high. Mr. John
Weightman, the borough surveyor, designed and
superintended the building, which, as a minor
matter of detail, it may be mentioned has cost
somewhere about £40,000.
The munificent donor of this very handsome and
useful edifice, it should be mentioned, is Mr. William
Brown, the principal partner in the extensive mer-
cantile firm of Brown, Shippley, and Co., of Liver-
pool, a gentleman who has long occupied a promi-
nent position among the leadingeommercial men of
this town, and who, it may be remembered, was die
of the Parliamentary representatives of South Lan-
cashire in three successive Parliaments, from which
position he retired at the last general election. The
library has been purchased by the Library Com-
mittee of the Town Council, and paid for out of a
rate imposed, with their own consent, on the inha-
bitants of the town. The collection of books amount
to upwards of 40,000 volumes, of which man are
valuable and standard works; and it is rapidly y in-
creasing in the number and importance of the works
which it contains.
The museum consists chiefly of an admirably-
preserved collection of objects of natural history,
bequeathed to the town by the late Earl of Derby,
to which, however, valuable additions have since
been made, partly as purchases and partly as
donations.

A meeting of the working classes was held the
same day preparatory to the final presentation of
the library. The working men presented Mr.
Brown with a silver shield and a clock—testi-
monials of their gratitude.
Mr. BROWN, in returning thanks, said—We hope
you will influence your fellow-workmen to visit the
library and museum. We promise them spacious;
apartments, well ventilated, comfortably warmed,
well lighted, and handsomely furnished, and most
intelligent and intellectual society, without cost.
Many of you will recollect the ignorance and want
of thought that prevailed among a large body of the
working classes 30 or 40 years ago. When they
had any dispute with their master about wages,
or anything else, they thought they were reveng-
ing themselves and punishing him by breaking
and destroying his machinery, forgetting that his
capital and his works wore the instruments with
which they had to earn bread for themselves and
their families. Far different is their conduct now.
Education has made such progress that they are
much more intelligent ; they see that such
suicidal conduct would be as bad as the carpenter
destroying the tools by which he lives. It
is now pretty well understood that the more we
improve oar machinery the more we increase our
customers throughout the world, and the more hands
are wanted to make articles to meet the demand.
We do not give the present generation of working
men sufficient credit for their intelligence. They
clearly see that accumulated capital is necessary to
give them regular employment, and that if by any
means that increase of capital was prevented they
would be great sufferers. Hence the volunteer
movement now going forward as necessary to guard.
against invasion, which would be most disastroW
to both master and man. It would be a very great
misfortune if these two parties were independent of
each other or of other nations. It would be a
very great grievance if I were to be compelled to
be independent of my bootmaker, and I think he
would be as great a sufferer without my custom.
Mutual dependence of man on man and nation on
nation is wisely ordained by Providence. I wish
we were more depending on France and France on
us. Our mutual material interests might have re-
lieved us from the anxiety we now feel as to their
relative position and ours. Just consider the effect
of an invasion of our soil from any quarter. None
has more to fear from it than the industrial artiza n•
for our commerce would be paralysed, all our im-
provement suspended, and hundreds of thousands
of men thrown out of employment without wagnes
s,
on which the bread of their families and themhsot _
depends. I hope the good sense of thosewt
address, and others, will not leave the connrysub-
ject to the caprice, whim, or ambition of any man,
but that they will volunteer their services to ma
pre_
vent such a dreadful calamity as an invasion would
produce. Our Library will.iinformyouhowdespots
govern their people, and i_ teach us the blessings
wedge
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brought under the rule of a
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our constitution, our liberties, and our laws. It
rests with ourselves to protect and preserve these
inestimable advantages, and
by the great council of the nation
continueand tour
virtuousb ruled
and noble Queen.
Lord Bnoun
GIIAM was the next speaker. He
delivered an address on the value of free libraries
and museums to the working classes. He alluded
to Watt as one who, being a working man, was as
well
entitled to remembrance as Stephenson, to
show that
working men, with properly directed
energies
are capable of producing the most bene-
ficial effects. There was another working man,
however, whom he had two years ago met with ;
that was John Plummer, a working shoemaker of
Kettering, in Yorkshire, who had just published an
address to the working classes, showing the danger
and detriment of strikes.
The Hon. ALGERNON EGERTON was the next
speaker. He said, within the memory of men still
living, it was believed that knowledge was and
ought to be confined to the aristocracy, and that
if any of what was then called the " lower orders,"
were able to acquire knowledge. the first use they
would make of it would be to tear the aristocracy to
pieces. That opinion was now exploded. He hoped
that before long England, which at present was th©
freest, would also be the best educated in the world.
JOIIN PRIEST said, while fully recognising thef
advantages which arise from several distinctions
rank, he gloried in being a working man.
lioved, in fact, that the full object and attrilbeuttes
of humanity were to be found in conjunctiwoenrewinho
hard work. The distinctions of
doubt, valuable to society ; but theirirt rank
kmost reach
could not fora moment compare w
distinc-
tions of intelligence. If he might h the
be allowed such
a liberty, he would say of the learned and noble
and venerable lord who had addressed the meeting,
with the
tdistinction which
su h ee
subject
had
earned by his intellecy
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comparison
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Sir J. BOWRING, who arrived late, delivered an
address on
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Intelligence has been received from Madrid of the
decease, after but a few hours' illness, of Mr. O'Shea, the
eminent banker there. Mr. O'Shea had resided uwards of
50 years in Spain, and. was greatly esteemed throughout
both Spanish and Engheb, ociety in that country.

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REALITY. Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, Rogers, W. Farren
rind
John Brong,ham ; Miss Florence Haydon; Mrs. Wilkins,'
;aid Mrs. E. Fltzwilliftm.
And TILE SUN E
AND TH WIN D. By the Leelereqs.
Commence at 7.

THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM.
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
- TuiS EVENING, the performances- will commence witfi
CHI.S an Knowles's admired Comedy of THE LOVE
CHA. Principal char cters by Mr. T. Lyon, Mr. Neville,
Mr. GCOVI,C Vinine:, Mr. Henry Butler, Mr. Forrester, Mr.
Campbell, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Kate Saville, and Miss Gnu-
v,enhenu (from the principal Theatres of America, her 11th
appearance in England).
After which, a petite comedy, entitled GRIST TO THE
MILL. Mr. Forrester, Mr. G. Vinin,r, Mr. Johnstone, and
Miss Rose Howard (the popular American actress and voca-
list, her 2(1 appearance in EntatiP.
PTo conclude with THE MIDDY ASHORE : Harry
Halcyon, Miss Lydia Thompson.

A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
fAL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster.
Great Success of the new Drama, by Dion Bourcicault, Esq.,
"The Colleen Bawn."—Miss Agnes Robertson every even-
ing.
TIIIS EVENING, THE RIFLE CORPS. Messrs. W.
Smith. D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss Woolgar, Miss Rate Kelly,
and Mrs. Billington.
Alter which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Bourcicault, D.
Fisher, Billinzton, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolg,ar, Mrs. Billingrton, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with MUSIC MATH CHARMS. Mr. David
Fisher.
en at half _past 6—Commence at 7.
Doors op
ffi
Box-oce open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxis,'Xi.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, h. •
Pit St Is, 25.;
Pit, Is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, Is ; Gallery, 6d.
al
Actin Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
~ proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY.
• Immense success of Fitzball's new Spectacle of RoI3TN
nOOD, pronounced by the Pre and the Puhlitt the meat
beautiful and interesting Hippo-Drama ever produced at this
Theatre.
This Evening, the entertainments will commence with the
new Spectacle, in Three Acts, entitled ROBIN HOOD ; or,
the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; Allan-a-Dale, Miss Rebecca
Isaacs ; Robin Hood, Mr. John Pritchard.
To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders
Of the day, including Mdlle. de Berg and Mr. James Cooke.
Doors open at half-Fast 6, performance oommenoe at 7.
Bog-office open daily trom 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.—
EVERY EVENING,
A. Grand Seloetion from the opera of
NORMA.

Norma .... ••• • • • .. Miss RUSSELL.
Adalgisa .• •••• • • • • .......... Madame MARIA,
(Her first appearance in this country.)
After which the ETHIOPIANS, consisting, of Seventeen Per-
formers, organised expressly for this establishment, for the
Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and
41, Sentimental, with Negro Delineations, Anecdotes, &c. Prin-
cipal Negro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H.
Drummond, and Charley Fox.
Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGIIMANS.
Balcony, is 6d.

THE WEATHER.—SUPT OFFICE, Oar. 19, 1860,

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

56—this day at noon.
41—lowest this morning‘and during the night.
57—highest since noon yesterday.
BAROMETER-29.73.
IVIND--South-Westerly ; fresh breeze, with slighi
showers ; morning fine.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. 38m.—Afternoon, sh. lm.
To-monaow.-Morning, sh. 24m.—Afternoon, sh. 48m.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, FRIDAY, OCT. 19, 1880.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S despatch of the 31st of i
August is now before us in his own words. We 1
felt, of course, some little hesitation in criticising
the retranslation of a translation, as a slight
turn of expression might make a serious differ-
ence in the character of a document of this kind.
We have no such restraining considerations now;
but we are sorry to say that our terms of regret
and censure could hardly have been too strong.
We are accustomed to think of France as the Dic-
tator to Piedmont, and repeatedly has -this country
felt grieved and annoyed that the Italian KING
should be checked and thwarted continually by the
vetos of a French EMPEROR. All those prohibi-
tions being, as might be expected, in the interest of
France, so far as its interest was the ignoble one of
a weak and divided Italy. England was not,
however, prepared for her own Government rival-
ing France in the same mean unworthy line. And
we believe that nothing Lord JOHN RUSSELL has
done, since his last advent to power, has so damaged
him as this inconsistent despatch—inconsistent,
alike, with the well-known sentiments of the coun-
try he represents to Europe, and with Lord JOHN
RUSSELL himself speaking in the BritisblHouse of
Commons. England is deeply mortified that patriots
abroad, and despots too, should judge of her by this
document.

If our readers will glance at it again, they will,
we think, object decidedly to the substantial en-
couragement given to Austria, to the discourage-
ment of the Italian patriots, and, not least, to the
tone of superiority in which the King of SALDINIA
is told of his " duty," his " interest," his " Royal
word," and the danger of "pernicious delusions."
Lord JOHN RUSSELL ought to understand the eti-
quette of GovernMent correspondence far better
than we can pretend to do ; but we can only say
that, if in social life, we were lectured in similar
style, in regard, we may suppose, to some muni-
cipal or parish duties, we should feel that our cen-
sor was quite wanting in the higher sentiments
which belong to good breeding. We should pro-
bably not trouble him with a reply. Certainly not,
'unless we thought that his misrepresentations might
injure an important, cause in the eyes of others.
It is obvious, at first sight, that the drift of the
hole despatch is to save Austria from attack in
Venetia. To save a brutal tyrant from expulsion,
where his presence is a curse and a blight. As
Count
eAx"R, in his able speech, observed, the
intolerable oppressions of Austria in Venetia are a
necessity of her position there. After the peace of
Villa Franca, the Count says he believes that
Austria sincerely endeavoured to conciliate; but
she found it impossible. There is a settled, in-
curable repugnance between the Italians and the
Austrians. No time can heal it.
No administra-
tion can remove it. It is they, the Austrians
themselves, that are and ever will be the burden.
It is inevitable, therefore, that those who arc
loathed should hate those who loathe them, and
that Austria in Venetia should be a political sore,
or blister, which will one day have to be dealt with
by political surgery. Austria in Venetia is as
intolerable as the Bourbons in Naples, and to
speak of her fighting in a "just cause," when
fighting for the defence of her territory, is but a
mischievous paltering with words. It is just
enough if the settlement of 1815 was justice; but
we need not ask Lord JoaN RUSSELL if
ho knows what all liberal-minded men
think of that settlement—nor if he known
how utterly Austria has even failed
to carry out, in Italy, what was expected of 1161
when that arrangement was made.

Lord JOIIN might, reasonably enough, privately,
have pointed out, if he thought fit, the hazard to
Italian liberty, so far as it was already achieved,
of Sardinia permitting GARIBALDI to attack AU- r
tria, much more or joining in it herself. Tho