The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-23 00:00:00

IRTH-WESTERN and
.A CHEAP EXCURSION
Julaty :6.

LONDON and IN,
MIDLAND RAILIVAYs.—
will leave the Euston Station, Lon
7.0 ,
TO LEICRSTF,R,
TO NOTTINGHAM,
TO DERRY.
TO SHEFFIELD,
Azd other Stations, at the following Fares:—
FARES FOR TUE DOUBLE JOURNEY.
First Class. cveredCarriages.
s. d. s. d.

TO LEEDS,
To BRADFORD,
TO YORK,

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Nottingham .• • • •••••• • • • •1
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liormanton •••• • • • •
Leeds 17 0
Bradford ... • • • . • . • • • • • • • .•
York
RETURNING MONDAY, July 28.
By order.
Easterh Station, July, 1856.

IT ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
LA TRAVIATA—LE CORSAIRE.
Mdlle. PICCOLOMINI—Mme. ROSATI.
GRAND EXTRA NIGHT.
To-morrow Evening (THURSDAY, July 24), will be pre-
sented Verdi's Opera,
LA TRAVIATA.
Violetta, Millie. Piccolomini ; Alfredo, Signer Calzolari ;
Barono Dauphol, Signor Vairo ; Dottore Grenvil, Signor
Baillou ; and Germont Giorgio, Signor B,neventano.
After which will be repeated the entirely new Ballet of
LE CORSAIRE.
With new Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations.
Conrad, Signor Ronzani ; Sc d, M. Dauty ; Yussuff M.
,
Venafra ; Birbanto, M. Vandris ; Sulmea, Mdlle. Clara ; Gul-
nare, Mdlle. Rosa ; Dilare, Mdlle. Lizereux ; Medora, Madame
Rosati.
The Opera will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock.
Rossini's Opera Tancredi will be repeated forthwith, for the
last appearance of Mdlle. Wagner.
Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at
the Box-oftice Theatre, Colonnade, Haymarket.

Tllt 4.TRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE•
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
ENGLISH OPERA.
THIS EVENING,
ESMERALDA.

After which
A BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT.
To conclude with

The incantation scene in DER FREISCHUTZ.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Under the Management of Mr. Buckstonc

Vinci EVENING,
A COMICAL COUNTESS.
After which
SECOND LOVE.
Followed by
The Spanish Dancers.

A DEAD SHOT.
To con3lude with
THE DOCTOR IN LOTE.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee sea Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan.

TIIIS EVENING

THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH.

After which,
MEDEA.

To conclude with
A CONJUGAL LESSON:

ROYAL, PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management 0 Mr. CHARLES Kurt.
Tlll3 EVENING,
1117 SIC 11TH CHARMS.

After whtell,

TUE WINTER'S TALE.

ROYAL THEATRE ADELPHI.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING.
THE FLYING DIITCH3fAN.

After which,
BORN TO GOOD LUCK,

To conclude with

THE CT.TSTOSIS OF THE COUNTRY.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Win. Cooke.
THIS EVENING,
Revival of the great military spectacle, THE BATTLE OF THE
ALMA, in honour of the return of the Guards. Warlike effects—
the stage and ring combinzd—Mr. W. Cooke's stud of horses, Ss c.
After which,
The EQUESTRIAN PERFORMANCES in the ARENA, Bcc.,
with other entertainments.
To condone with a Melange of High Art.
Box-office open frmn Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Equestrian Director, ➢Mr. W. Cooke. jun.

WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tais DAT—Morn. 42 min. aft. s—Evening 5 min. aft. 6
TA-b4oßßow—Morn. 82 min. aft. 6—Evening 52 min. aft. 6

THE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, JULY 23.
THEENOHETER, IN THE SHAD.

75 —highest sines noon yesterday.
60 —lowest this morning and during the night
76 —this day at noon.

BARONET SR— 29.78—falling.
WIND, S.W.—Rather fresh, with fine weather.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1856.

" Your own son, Mr. CZEUZZLEWIT, your own
son !" The exclamation of poor old CHUFFEY
may not be exactly applicable to Queen ISABELLA,
but she may be regarded as a veritable Bourbon of
the Neapolitan line. She proves herself pos-
sessed of the qualities for which her Uncle, King
BOMBA, has acquired such painful notoriety, to be
equally insensible to the obligations of an oath,
and incapable of profiting by the lessons of ex-
perience. The same mischievous cunning, with-
out the power of taking a large or comprehensive
view of the state of public affairs, are charac-
teristics of both Sovereigns ; and both the
Spanish and Neapolitan dynasties are, at this
moment, greatly endangered by the flagrant dis-
regard and repudiations of the constitutions which
they had respectively sworn faithfully to observe.
In some respects it is difficult to say which of
the illustrious pair has proceeded to the
greatest lengths in violation of the rights
of their subjects, or which has incurred the
greatest odium in the cause of absolute
and irresponsible despotism ? BOMBA. has the
advantage of ago. He has been longer is the
field and has contrived to inflict more protracted
torture on his victims. But it is a labour of
love with ISABELLA. She is a worthy niece to
FERDINAND, a true daughter, in every respect, of
MARIA CHRISTINA. To judge from the mode in
which the conspiracy against the Constitution
was conducted she has even more cunning than
BOMBA, and is, therefore, the more dangerous of
the two. Besides, as we have already stated,
her only claim to reign is based on the Constitu-
tion. It is the foundation on which her throne
rests. She has, therefore, exhibited at the same
time greater courage and greater ingratitude in
so deliberately kicking down the ladder to which
Lille owes her elevation. It is, therefore, difficult
to decide which is the more objectionable of the
two. They are apparently arcades ambo—a phrase
of which Lord BYRON has offered an appropriate
translation.
There has as yet been no eruption of the slum-
bering volcano at Naples ; but the dangerous
character of the grryand on which BOMBA is re-
posinv, is too well known to need description.
The Western Powers, who have ample means of
enforcing obedience, have iu vain remonstrated.
He shuts himself up in the peculiar obstinacy of
his disposition, and treats with contumely un-
pleasing advice. Even the recommendations of
Austria are equally disregarded, although it is
solely on the Austrian bayonets that be can
depend for a single week's security. He has
hardened his heart against the consequences—
which he will be the first, and probably the only
one, to deplore when things have taken their
inevitable course.
There can, however, be no German interfer-
ence in the affairs of the Iberian Peninsula.
There is no pretext arising from previous occu-
Patton, or poosible dangers to neighbouring

states in which Germans are interested. The '
matter is one for the decision of Spaniards, and
Spaniards only. England will keop aloof from
the contest, but it will be her duty to see that
others display similar impartiality. We may
pity the Spaniards, but they must a ,•ert their
own privileges, and display the indispnsa,ble zeal
and energy, if they hope for ultimate success.
The cunningly-devised scheme, in which Isa-
BELLA enacted the chief part, has obtained a
temporary triumph at Madrid. But it remains
to be seen what will be the results in the Pro-
vinces. As we stated yesterday, no less than 85
members of the Cortes have found their way to
Saragossa. And the Assembly thus constituted
must be regarded as the legitimate Parliament tit
Spain. The treatment accorded to the members,
who at Madrid held a meeting under their
egitimate President, General INFANTE, shows

that many others participate in the feelings
of those who have seceded to Saragossa, and
would, if possible, join them in their delibe-
rations. It will be seen that O'DONNELL refused
the meeting claimed by the Deputies, declining to
recognise its legality, on the extraordinary ground
that it had not the liberty necessary ' for delibe-
ration, "iv, consequence of the pressure which may be
exercised on it by the insurrection." Surely this
is rather a strange assertion, when, at almost the
very same moment, they state that " the rebellion
is overcome and terminated, and the empire of
the law is re-established." The authority of the

Cortes is just as legitimate as that of the SovE-
REIGN, and when she choses, in the effort illegally
to attain absolute power, and to set aside a co-
ordinate authority, any resistance that may be
offered to the illegal proceedings is fully and
completely justified.
In the telegraphic despatches from St. Sebas-
tian' which we published in our impression of
yesterday, it was said that "at Saragossa matters
were in a fair way of arrangement." It must be
recollected, however, that this was altogether a
one-sided statement, and that the telegraphic
communications ar© still interrupted, which proves
that the Constitutional party are still in the
ascendant in that city. Unless, then, ample con-
cessions are made, we cannot anticipate an early
restoration of tranquillity, or suppose that civil
strife can be averted, the flame whereof will spread
through other parts of Europe, until a general
contest shall arise between the conflicting prin-
ciples of Liberty and Despotism.

What we have a right to ask from our diplo-
macy is, that we have timely cognisance of its
doings. This practical demand implies all the
principles which are most important. Nearly ut
the same moment a noble protest comes to us
across the Atlantic, from the pen of Col. FRIMONT,
against secret diplomacy ; and Lord MALDIESBITRY,
in our House of Lords, gives a provoking practical
illustration of its oversights and incompetency.
The British public is taking at the present an in-
terest in foreign politics beyond anything it has
felt during the present generation, and now,
therefore, seems to be the proper time to arouse
public attention, if possible, to the rottenness anii
mischievous working of the system on which our
foreign relations are managed. It has already re-
ceived some rude shocks by its miserable aohieve-
ments at Vienna, Berlin, PAris, and, indeed, almost
everywhere ; but, above all, in the discreditable
termination of the CRAMPTON affair. Mr. M.
GIBSON seems very desirous we should be at the
expense of another secret service agent at Wash-
ington, but will his friend COBDEN not tell him
that he would never be worth the cost of his
voyage across, and probably, sooner or later, get
us into some fresh scrape ; unless, indeed, he be
charged to become livery-servant to the next Pre-
sident who may want one behind his chair when
he canvasses for a renewal of his office.

Col. FREMONT says plainly, " International
embarrassments are mainly the results of a secret
diplomacy, which aims to keep from the know-
ledge of the people the operations of the Govern-
ment. This system is inconsistent with the cha-
racter of our institutions, and is itself yielding
gradually to a more enlightened public opinion
and to the power of a free press, which, by its
broad dissemination of political intelligence, secures
in advance to the side of justice the judgment of
the civilised world. An honest, firm, and open
policy in our foreign relations would command
the united support of the nation, whose de-
liberate opinions it would necessarily reflect."
In America, it •is a hopeful indication, that the
COLONEL'S views are not without vigorous support
from the press of his country ; the New York
Tribune argues for dispensing entirely with high-
paid representatives at foreign courts, and in this
country we have had a journal adopting the same
strain, which a short time back would have sneered
at the suggestion, as the last barbarism of the
Manchester School. We certainly have not been
scholars in that Academy since it effectually taught
the country the single lessen it ever was master of,
but we are happy to acknowledge its merits as a
denouncer of the uselessness and mischievousness,
as well as cost, of our secret diplomatic system,
and indeed of the system altogether. Mr. GIBSON,
in his love to Messrs. PIERCE, MARCY, BUCHANAN,
and the other Ostend appropriators of Cuba,
would desert the standard of the great cotton-
mill members, and send the States another Minis-
ter. Perhaps, however, his cotton manufactur-
ing constituency share his inconsistency.
The fresh exemplification of secret-service de-
faults is the destruction by the Russians of the
fortresses of Reni and Ismail, on the Danube,
before they left that district. Lord MALMESBURY
justly pressed upon the Foreign Secretary the
injury thus done, to Turkey, and the alter-
native that either he and Lord COWLEY
had ill performed their part, or that Russia
had acted with perfidy. Let us note the answer.
It is in brief that Russia was perfidious to an un-
doubted understanding that the forts were
to be preserved, but that it was so well
understood that he (Lord CLARENDON) should
have been ashamed to require of Ressia written
stipulations. Ashamed to bind Russia by a
written undertaking ! Had our plain men of
business seen what was going on what would they
have said to omitting from the bond anything
they wished to be binding on the other patty ?
But had Lord CLARENDON himself forgotten
the value of an understanding with either
Russia or Austria? Had he forgotten the
infernal massacre of Sinope perptrated in
violation of an express understanding, indeed
of a verbal pledge ? Had he forgotten the
cowardly shirking of the un.derstandiag of a
written engagement between the Allies and Aus-
tria by that power 7 And, after such experience
of what au understanding with heartless, selfish,
despots,with no standard of honour but interest,
isworth, could he be so unbusiness-like, for we
acquit him of complicity, as to omit from the bond
anything of serious importance ? Timely pub-
corrected this. Might we
Heap would have
but have seen the stipulations before they were
unalterable hundreds of Englishmen would have
demanded an engagement, in a form which oven
Russian perfidy could not evade, so soon after it
was made, and before the Crimea was evacuated.
The blunder is in truth,
a seriota one. To a

above par,
't
important •
wofhposlace sinixg ptewrocfeonrttsr.etatsrese
,scmaroo3e,
ethouenctorYst
to her future defence, in an. efficient state of
repair, we should rather say of r( Icons zucting +:nem,
is a serious matter. Our secret ser' rants :however,
have so managed that not only h
-? .ve they secured
to Turkey no indemnity for tl A rheavy expenses
to which she has been put likv. the wanton
aggressor, but they have al'
,owed him to saddle
her with fresh charges. This innocent reli-
ance on the honour of a court whose pride at
home is not its hour iur, but its successful
A riolence and knavery, Cr mold never have betrayed. us
could we but have T,earned our diplomatists in
time. But for t'ttet popular fatuity, or indolence
rather, which tolerates a system like
this, how
different would I aave been the terms of the
peace !
—how different, for Poland, for Bessarabia, for the
Crimea, for eircassia, for Turk'sy herself.
But an end must be pu'i; to the scoffing of
Premiers and their subord;mates when our repre-
sentatives ask how our diplomatic account stands
with foreign Powers. We are not for ever to be
mocked with the reply one week, that the business
is not yet complete, and the next, that it is now
settled beyond our power to alter it. We must
now demand to look into the diplomatic ledger at
all times, and to know how we like the
items as far as they are posted up. We
could then generally tell how the thing was
working, and make provision in time. Why
should not every power on earth be told by our
Ministers that they do their business as servants
of the nation ; that they keep, therefore, all pro-
ceedings open to the nation ; that the people can
canvas every step, and that none can be taken
which they will not scrutinise. As to all the
Cores who disapproved of this plain, the less we
had to do with them the better, They could de-
sire secrecy for no other reason than some con-
templated unfairness to their own subjects or to
us. We wish for no transactions with Foreign
Governments which we are ashamed should see
daylight as they proceed ; if they need the dark-
ness, we do not, and should remind them that,
in our view, honesty and publicity were inse-
parable.