The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-07 00:00:00

GRAND SELECTIONS

FROM
BELLINFS NOR3IA AND FLOTOW'S MARTHA.
PRINCIPAL ARTISTES,
MISS RITSSET,I, MADAME MARTA.
MISS TYRREL MISS WILKINSON
Mr. HENRY HERBERT and Mr. BERNARD.
Conductor Mr. JONCHMANS.
The COMIC Department comnrises Messrs. A. B. Hollings-
worth, W. T. Critchfiell, .1. Blanchard, G. W. Pell, Charley
Fox. and P. Marshall, in his transformation song*, "THE
DOMESTIC DRAMA," personating," five different characters.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 7, 1860.

The late King of the Two SICTLIES is gathering
his robe around him, and preparing to descend
with royal grace the throne which he carried from
the capital to Gaeta. He will descend, however,
in full view of all the Courts of Europe. Whatever
of humiliation may attach to the step, all his
fellow Monarchs, all who reign by Divine Right,
all Legitimate Sovereigns, all who have neither
part nor lot in that dishonourable title to royalty,
the suffrages of the people—all shall share in the
degradation of their brother. I may soon, he says,
quit my throne, now erected on the last corner of
my late dominions; but beware—it is fig virtue of

the triumph of revolutionary principles which thus

. dishonour all your thrones too. Success against
me is a reproach to you also. Not
only a reproach, it may be the precursor of a
similar success against all of you who have
neglected to help me.

We must acknowledge that his MAJESTY'S logic
is very conclusive, as addressed to his brother
Monarchs, of the Divine- Right School, and very
''tinging must be his comparison of the sympathy
!hewn him by the Popular Suffrage Monarch of
the l'R,ENeu, with the coldness and desertion of
his cousins of Divine right. FRANCIS 11. had done
his part. Overpowered by a Go4less revolution,
his army tampered with, his fleet treacherously
deserting him, I*-re-tired to his strongest fortress,
there reorganised his army, made brave and
strenuous efforts at its head to re-enter his capital,
and bad he been properly
aided might have
replaced his throne in its old palace,
and have still reigned. a .
legitimate Monarch
to strengthen the good, the holy cause of
Legitimacy against Revolution all over Europe.
His two obligations, he tells them, were, to preserve
and defend the august inheritance confided to him
by his ancestors, and to " respect that paternal
bond .which ought to unite Monarchs together by
reason of the Divine mission which is common to
them, and of the conformity of their interests."
On the first duty he did not feel it needful to say
much, but the second he makes the ground of an
appeal which, if the hearts of absolute and Divine
Right Monarchs are not judicially hardened, he
must suppose they would respond to.

Not only had he and the faithful of his army done
all that mortals could do under the circumstances;
not only were they likely to have triumphed, but his
failure at last was due to the apostacy of one of
the Divine Right Class of Monarchs. For seven
months the revolution triumphed," openly favoured
all the time by a perverse and perjured Govern-
ment;" and, creditc posteri, during these long dis-
tressful months, says his Minister, " the KING,
our master, has not been able to obtain anything
from the Sovereigns, of Europe, to whom he had
hold that his cause was dear, unless it be some

inefficacious expressions of affectionate sympathy!"
Oh, ye Czars, and Kings, and Emperors—ye
ROMAN OFFS, and HAPSEURGS,andHoIIENZOLLERNS,
was this all that ye had to give to the last of
the Legitimate BOURBONS in his very last hour?
Could neither " the interests of dynasties, nor
the common dangers, nor those of ancient
friendships and alliances, dissuade the Cabinets
of Europe from that poltical indifference of which
they gave proof in witnessing unmoved the fall of
an old monarchy."
Still more severely was this cruel coldness felt,
seeing that Warsaw had kindled some hope in his
bosom. He had thought it would lead to a Euro-
pean Congress. He had hoped that thus an end
would have been put to the violence of brute force
which overthrows and mocks at all the most
ancient and sacred laws; and an end put also to
this new principle of popular sovereignty, and that
better principles might have been made "acceptable
to the people when (delivered from GARIBALDI)
restored to the influences of wisdom and peace." But
alas, the Warsaw Conference came an d went, and not
one of the legitimate monarchs there assembled had
a good word to say for their brother trembling for
his Royal existence. On the other hand, who
could have thought it—the excluded from War-
saw—a Sovereign chosen on the new and vicious
principle—the Emperor of the FRENCH, it is
for us, says he—" a duty of justice and gratitude
openly to acknowledge it," alone showed him any
brotherly feeling—he " set the generous example
of a disposition to put an end to this state of
universal apathy." There is something almost
touching in the gratitude with which FRANCIS IL
specifies the sending of the French squadron into
the waters of Gaeta, and the fraternal reception
given to his soldiers, who must otherwise
have surrendered to the Piedmontese, by
the French troops in the Pontifical terri-
tories. Let England, however, blush—let her
bear a worse censure, even, than that awarded
to the rest of the Powers. " Loyal and
monarchical England," we are told, ventured to
reproach the French EMPEROR bitterly for it ;
while as to the others, they " merely allowed him
to bear the whole risk of the magnanimous enter-
prise contemplated." He warns the yet unfallen
monarchs, however, that there can be no peace
for Europe but through the opposite policy to that
which they are adopting, that all thrones will be
successively overthrown, and that through the fault
of Powers which " think more of their private ani-
mosities, and questions of secondary importance,
than of the groat principles of universal order and
the security of thrones."
FRANCIS 11. must, we should think, be now con-
templating the last act. For nearly a month, have
these earnest remonstrances, and warnings and
prophecies, lain before the insensible and selfish
Monarchs of Europe, and from them he hears
nothing, while already the cannon of CIALDINI are
beginning to thunder in his ears. He seems to feel
that resistance, notwithstanding the brotherly sym-
pathy of the French EMPEROR, cannot be long
protracted, and that if the blinded Monarchs will
not open their eyes very quickly to their folly as
as well as their unkindness, he will have to revenge
himself on them, by sacrificing in his person the
throne of a legitimate Monarch to revolutionary
insolence.

Poor young man ! After the pluck he has
shown just at the last, even Englishmen would be
disposed to feel a little less hardly towards him,
though they can never forget the horrid bombard-
ment of Palermo, nor the police atrocities of
Naples and of the whole Kingdom, nor the evi-
dent promise he gave of " walking in all the ways
of his father" FERDINAND. But as to appealing to
his brothers by Divine Right—what can they do
for him ? Which of them dare intervene ? which
of them has the means to it ? Want of money—
danger of upstir at home—the hazard of a quarrel
with " bitterly reproaching" England deter them
from ever thinking of it. Indeed they are all begin-
' ning to see that they must reign populi gratin
as well as Dei Gratia ; or rather that the former
must be considered as the practical manifestation
of the latter. They are thinking of restoring
abrogated constitutions, emancipating serfs,
developing liberties, and restoring the right
of discussion, and it is no time for them to
be irritating their subjects by upholding the repre-
sentative of the most odious anti-popular govern-
ment of Europe. As to the magnanimity of our
neighbour, he would have certainly have shown
much more wisdom, if he had not prolonged a
siege which must cost a needless sacrifice of many
lives. He would have shown less selfishness too,
for he could have no worthy object, nothing but

some mean and personal one, in setting himself up
an arbiter or moderator in Italian affairs.

A startling illustration of the absurdity of " Try
ng it on" just a little too much, in regard to the
Income Tax, has now come to us from our posses-
sions in Hindostan. The introduction of this hated
tax among the Asiatic subjects of the Crown ap-
pears to threaten another epoch of anxiety, if not
of disaster for our Indian Empire. The intelli-
gence brought to England by these last mails, more
particularly the tidings giving carrente calamo in
the Bombay newspapers, cannot possibly be read
here at home with other than feelings of the most
profound solicitude. It is a question more serious
even than that involved in those greased cartridges
which may be said with perfect truth to have fired
the dreadful conflagration of the Sepoy Rebellion
in the province of Bengal. The indignity supposed
to have been wantonly offered to the old immemo-
rial prejudices born of Hindoo superstition, through
the filthy and irritating agency of those detested
greased cartridges was a wound, it is true, quite
unconsciously inflicted by us upon the very soul
and conscience of the Asiatic population. It was
a wound that rankled and festered with frightful
rapidity into a hatred so deadly, and a thirst
for vengeance so fiercely insatiable, that
the result, as we all yet only too
painfully remember, evidenced itself in a series of
the most appalling massacres, and almost, it might
be said, of the most devillish abominations. Yet,
dark and treacherous, savage and pitiless, cruel
and implacable though the Bengalee is in his
whole nature and temperament, as defined by Lord
MACAULAY with a pen's point as keenly incisive as
a scalpel—the race has yet peculiarities of another
and more moderate character, kindred with peculi-
arities familiar among the Europeans, but especially
among
nmEistaisZien. With the Hindoo, as with
theE
you may touch him anywhere with
impunity ratherithan through his pocket. There,
in the pocket of the Asiatic as of the European,
the whole sensitiveness of the man, as a citizen, ap-
pears to be concentrated. It is the core of the whole
ganglionic system of each member of the body
politic. Wound him there—.through his pocket—
and the Hindon, as the Englishman, thrills from
top
to toe with anguish. Ills pocket is to him
what the unimmersed heel Was to ACHILLES.
He may
be armed otherwise cap-a-pie against
the
of being tortured by the Govern-
mn
t,
in bstb
hit there,armour
t any rate, is the one visible
chink
of defence—tbere, at any
e possibility
a
rate, through the pocket, he is vulnerable. It
WciS in the same way with our compatriots of

the last century in that portion of North Ame-
rica, now known as the United States. It was
when we undertook to tax them, whether they
agreed to be so 'taxed or not, that they turned
restive, set our armies and fleets at defiance, and
achieved through the help of the good sword of
General GEORGE WASHINGTON their political
emancipation and independence. It never

serves our purpose —it never serves the
purpose of any Government in the long run,
whether it be despotic or constitutional it does not
signify—it never eventually serves the purpose of
any Government to ride roughshod over a remote
dependency for the purpose of extorting unwel-
come taxes coute gut coute for the replenishment of
an exhausted treasury. Yet this is really and
truly what it is that we are now endeavouring to
do throughout our Indian Empire, and this, more-
over, upon the very morrow of the trampling out
of that terrible flame of revolt that swept over the
province of Bengal in 1857 with the fury and the
swiftness of a fire upon the prairies, blown onward
by the breath of a hurricane. Nor can we seriously
in our hearts quarrel with the Asiatic multitude
for deeming the income-tax a tax peculiarly un-
palatable. Let us read a little as to what has
been the effect produced by the attempt made in
the Bombay presidency to collect the income-tax
from the native population—taking our informa-
tion upon this head from the columns of our
Asiatic contemporary, the Bombay Gazette :
" We have a budget of bad news to send home
this fortnight," writes that organ. " From all
parts of the country the most gloomy accounts
continue to be received of the state of public
feeling in reference to the income-tax. Since the
forms of returns to be sent into Government have
been issued, the spirit of opposition to the tax has
been revived in an intensified form, and from one
end of India to the other there is universal discon-
tent. In Bombay the old trick of shutting up
shop' has been tried again, but this time it is
likely to be more successful than before. No formal
contract has been entered into, but there is
a general understanding that business shall
be suspended altogether till the income-tax is
abolished." The Bombay Times tells a similar
story—assuring us, in fact, that all " trade in
Bombay is at an absolutely standstill, the auctions
have to be closed, and nothing is talked but of secret
meetings of the castes to take measures in concert
for getting the tax abolished." The same Bombay
journal adding—" the most successful efforts arc
being made by the designing to aggravate the
alarm with which the tax is viewed. The minutely
inquisitorial nature of the information demanded
in these returns affords but too ample scope for
the wildest misrepresentations of governmental
intentions in issuing them, and the deepest indig-
nation exists in the native community of Bombay
in consequence !" According to the Bombay Tele-
graph and Courier a combination has been entered
into between the bazaar dealers of Bombay and
Moffussil—that journal actually adding that Bom-
bay itself—by reason of the stoppage of the supplies
hitherto coming from the interior—was then
literally threatened with famine ! The news from
first to last in ieed could hardly be more sinister
in its abundant bodings of disaster. Insomuch
that we must look forward to the next mail from
India with the most poignant solicitude.

The conqueror of the
.Sepoy Rebellion has had
his welcome now from the City of London. It was
due to Lord CLYDE upon his return homewards,
after the pacification of the revolted province, that
that noble and gallant lord should be entertained
as he was entertained last evening at the hospitable
board of one of the first companies of the capital of the
Empire, and through the lips of its Master and of
the Lord Mayor, as the chief representative of his
fellow-citizens, Lord CLYDE should be greeted with
these cordial and heartfelt congratulations. It is
one among the rewards of patriotism and valour
that London should, in one of the ancient banquet-
ting halls in the City, accord to the civism of the
victor these same most sincere and genuine congra-
tulations. And it is a recompense that the chief city
of the empire never proffers grudgingly. Accord-
ing to custom upon these occasions the guest of the
evening was formally presented yesterday after-
noon with the freedom of the city, elaborately
illuminated upon parchment. It set forth in due
form, this old-fashioned document, how upon that
day the Right Hon. COLIN CAMPBELL, Lord CLYDE,
G.C.8., K.C.8., D.C.L., and what not, was upon
that day admitted into the Guild or Fraternity of

he Body of CHRIST of the Skinners of London,

in testimony whereof the seal of the Company was
affixed to the scroll together with all necessary
signatures in the way of attestation. After-
wards by a few hours came the banquet in the
Hall of the Company of Skinners, the Master
of the Company in the chair. It was the
Afaster, of course, as chairman, who pronounced
upon the veteran guest of the evening (seated upon
the chairman's right) the panegyric due to him as
the conqueror of the Sepoy Rebels and the pacifica-
tion of disordered Hindostan. It was from the lips
of the Master, as chairman, that Lord CLYDE
received the City's cordial greeting and congratu-
lations. But, endorsing every kindly word of
welcome vouchsafed by that Master of the Skinner's
Company to Lord CLYDE, came the subsequent
felicitations, briefly and gracefully addressed to the
brave soldier by the Chief Magistrate of London,
who was seated upon the left hand of the
Chairman. It was by the Lord Mayor that the
principal source of the fervour of this hearty greet-
ing to Lord CLYDE was indicated pointedly, in a
single sentence, when, in fact, it was remarked by
the Lord Mayor that the noble and gallant Gene-

ral was welcomed there by London, as, in effect,
he is welcomed at heart by all England, as a war-

rior who has, in simple truth, done so much no

only to vindicate the honour of the country, but to
save the lives of our countrymen and country-

women.

1?,01:41L ZYGLISII OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN,

Balfe's new opera, " Bianca, the Bravo's Bride," was
produced last night with the most brilliant success. The
theatre was filled to overflowing in every part; and the
whole performance, from beginning to end, was a scene of
enthusiasm. The principal performers were called for at
the end of every act. The composer was called for three
times ; when he came forward the last time he was accom-
panied by Mr. Mellon, the admirable musical director, to
whom both he and the public were so much indebted for the
excellence of the performance, They shook hands on the
stage, amid the cheers of the audience. This opera, ac-
cording to our present impressions, appears to be the com-
poser's c?uf d'a'uvre, possessing, with all the brilliancy of
his previous works, more breadth of style and greater
power of combination. Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. Har-
rison outdid themselves in the energy and effect of their
acting and singing ; the piece was altogether, strongly
cast, and the picturesque scenery, rich and apprcpriato
costumes, dances, and tableaux, formed one of the most
splendid and beautiful spectacles we have ever seen within
the walls of Covent-garden. Theatre.

REQUIEM FOR THE DUKE OF NORFOLK.—On
Tuesday morning the Homan Catholic chapel, St, Mary's,
Mooretelds, was the scene of a "solemn mass of requiem for
the repose of the soul of Henry Granville, Duke of Norfolk."
The chapel was completely draped in black cloth, and the
daylight carefully excluded by thick, black curtains. In
the centre of the floor stood a lofty catafalque, containing
the coma of the deceased, his coronet and other insignia,
and surrounded by a number of tall wax candles. Cardinal
wi
sernan occupied his throne, and Jr, Norris, the bishop
coadjAtor, sang the mass,