The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-18 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

A DRT,PITI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL
_FA. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
Gr^at Success of the new Dram% by Dion Boureic lull, Esq..
"The Colleen Bawu."—Miss Agnes Robertson every even•

in
THIS EVENING, THE LOAN OF A LOVER. Messrs.
W. Smith, Killington, Romer, C. J. Smith, and Miss Emily
Thorne.
After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Bonrcicault, D.
Fisher, Billint!Ion, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith' Ito mer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar,
Mrs. Billing-ton,
Mrs. Chatterley. and
To conclude with MUSIC MATH CTIABAIS.
Fisher,

Mr. David

Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking-.
Private boxes, £2 29. ; Family Boxes,"Xl.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s.
hi theatre,
Front Circle Stalls, Is ;
theatre, is ; is.
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, le. 6d. ; A.mp
Azting manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

Alioxy,s ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—
oprietor and Manager, Mr. Wu. BATTY.
Last Nights of "Mazeppa."
This Evening:, Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of
MAZEPPA AND costlyD HORSE, with entirely new
and beautiful scenery,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.
Doors open at half-Fast 6, performance commence at 7.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—AL Felix Itc..volti.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING,
A Grand Selection from
MARTHA,
And Selections from
TROVATORE, MACBETH,
And numerous other Entertainments.
Balcony, is, Hall. 6d.
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
Sei.-fro delineations, anecdotes, &c., in addition to the usual
entertainments.
The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 5 tillll on Sunday
Evening.

THB WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, SEPT. 18, 1860,
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

62—this day at noon.
53—lowest this morning and during the night.
54—highest since noon yesterday.
BAROMETER-29.50.
WlND—Northerly, inclining to East ; fresh, with dull
cold weather ; heavy rain for the last twenty-four hours—
now dry.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 33m.—Afternoon, ' 3h. 54m
To-moßßow.-Morning, 4h. 15m.—Afternoon, 4h. 36m

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THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 18, 1860.

M. GRANDGUTLLOT, in the Constitutionnel, spea,
again—and this time his text is indeed—La Ques•
tion Ronzaine—it being nothing less than the flight
of the POPE! M. GRANDOTJILLOT'S ears must be
exceedingly good; he lives to be sure a little nearer
Rome than we do, but he has heard, it seems, what
we have as yet heard nothing of. According to
our semi-official authority, there is "an extreme
party which, after having counselled the POPE to
follow a policy without •concessions, now advises
him to take to flight without honour." Whither
he is to flee we have no intimation. Gaeta, not-
withstanding the presence there of his dutiful son
and doubtful soldiers, is rather too near GARI-
BALDI, whose terrible red-shirts are fast mustering
at Naples. Vienna, that would be an unkindly cut
of his French Protector—Avignon again, perhaps,
there he would be safe enough, under the care of
the eldest son of the Church—but that recals the
memory of a Papal schism. However, it is useless
to conjecture ; we hear of the POPE'S flight only by
the aid of M. GRANDGUILLOT'S long ears, and he
has only told us that the extreme party—the
wicked fanatics of whom the King of SARDINIA
speaks, we suppose—now counsel his HOLINESS to
a dishonourable fight.

We must confess we can hardly avoid reading
31. GRANDGUILLOT'S entreaties the backward way ;
he begs the POPE so earnestly, for his own sake,
not to go, while he insists on the disinterestedness
of France in giving such advice. France would
be so greatly relieved by your going, says he, that
for her own sake she could not but rejoice to see
you far, far away; but she is so concerned for the
Papacy, which lies so near her heart, that she begs
you not to relieve her of the burden of taking care
of you.

Thus, then, the argument of this Janus-like adviser
runs. Your HOLINESS is safe while French troops
are in Rome—the security of your person and your
authority are guaranteed. But while we earnestly
desire that you should not leave Rome—remember
that it is the interests of the Papacy only we have
at heiirt ; for " that which at present eonzplicates
the position of France is the presence of her army
at Rome. And if the occupation could cease all
would he simplified, at least in a political point of
view !!" Surely this is very much like saying to a
guest, " Don't leave till it's convenient to you
nevertheless, your stay certainly does put our
household about a little—l have had myself for two
or three nights to turn unto the sofa." We do not
know how the POPE estimates the honour or dis-
honour of flight; but the honour of keeping the
French soldiers in Rome, after their master has
told him that it would make the French position
lunch more easy, politically, if they were with-
drawn, appears to us to be of a very doubtful
character.

M. GRANDGUILLOT proceeds in what seems to
us, also, to be but refined taunting--" It is not
Rome that tce occupy, but it is the Papacy we
defend ; our occupation could in no case assume a
political character." "The first consequence of
the flight of the PoPE would be the evacuation
of Rome by the French, and in leaving we should
great uneasiness respecting the future
carry with US
of the temporal power of the -P,-,PE.7,
Of course all
this may be susceptible of another inttvPretation ;
but the question is, how was it intended to strike
the POPE ? At the close, to be sure, solicitude
respecting, the temporal power of his Holiness is
expressed, under the conditions of POPE and
French soldiers equally gone. What would
1°4°313340t it, in that case, with GARIBALDI and his
Royal Master's Generals so close at hand, is cer-
tainly not matter of conjecture. But what means
the careful distinction between "occupying Rome"
and "defending the papacy,,, The King of SAR-
DINIA was told to the same effect the other day,
that the mission of France at it9lne was a religious