The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-02 00:00:00

OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
IA) Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, an adaptation of Victor Hugo's cele-
brated Play of RUY BLAS, by Edmund Falconer, Esq.
when Mr. Pechter, the favourite actor of Parisian renown,
will make his 6th appearance on the English stage,'eupported
by Messrs. W. Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond,
Borland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ; Miss Rose
Leolercq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath.

To be preceded by7SIISAN SMITH.
After which, THE FIRST NIGHT. Mr. A. Harris and
Mi s Maria Harris.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING. the performances will commence with
CoYman's celebrated comedy of THE JEALOUS WIFE :
principal characters by Mr. George Vining, Mr. H. Neville,
Mr. John Rouse, Mr. Forrester, Mr. T. Lyon, Mr. H. Butler,
Mr.. J. Johnstone, Mr. J. Morris, Mr. Clifford, Mrs. J. Rouse,
Mhas M. Ternan, and Miss Goughenheim.

After which. THE ABBE VAUDREUIL. Mr. H. Neville
an d Madame Celeste.
To conclude with MAGIC TOTS. Valentine, Miss Lydia
Thompson.

Commenoe at 7.

A DELPHI, NOW THEATRE-ROYAL.
r 34 Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. Ben). Webster.
Gros t Success of the new Drama, by Dion Bonrcioanit, Esq.,
" The Colleen Bawn."—Miss Agnes Robertson every even-

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'PHIS EVENING. THE RIFLE CORPS. Messrs. W.
Sm tilth. D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss W °Nor, Miss Kate Kelly,
an. I Mrs. Millington.
/Liter which, THE COLLEEN BARN. D. Monrcloault, D.
Fir ;her, Millington. Falooner, Sty~e C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgs.r, Mrs. Millington, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Mr. David
Fisher.
Doors men at half-put B—Commence at 7.
Box-effice open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes.-11.
Orchestra Stalls, Is. ; Balcony, 4s. • Front Carole Stalls, 31. •
Pit Stalls, 2a.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, ad:
/Laing Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
' Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. Barm
ri!riumphant success and increasing popularity of the Grand
Spectacle of Ronrs HOOD.
First appearance of Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome,
and their Troupe of uneqnalled performers, dm, including
the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest
Wonder of the age.
This Evening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three
Acts, by E. Fitzball, Esq., entitled ROBIN HOOD ; or. the
Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducing the Stud of highly-
trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag Hounds, dre, Allan-
a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit-
chard.
To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena—Star Riders of
Europe.
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=-Mr. Pearson,

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING,
A. Grand Selection from the opera of
NORMA.

Norma ..... Miss RUSSELL.
Adalgisa
(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
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. JONGHMANS.
Balcony, ls . ... Hall. 6d.

TUB WEATHER.—Scrw OFFICE, Nov. 2, WC
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

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37—lowest this morning and during the night.
48—highest since noon yesterday.
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WlND—Easterly; fresh breeze. Fine dry weather.

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THE SUN.

IfINDON, FRIDAY, NOV. 2. 1860.

There is an air of almost school-girl simplicity in
the three questions put by ingenuous Austria to the
wary old Governments of Russia and Prussia.
They are such natural, artless questions, as were
enough to touch the hearts of even hard, selfish old
calculators like the Ministers and Sovereigns of
the two countries who feel, as yet, much safer than
poor plaintive Austria. How the hard-hearted
monarchs could leave their broken-hearted sup-
pliant unconsoled, we cannot tell. What could be
more in keeping than a conquered Emperor,
threatened with fresh attacks from without, and
his throne shaken within by the upheavings of un-
amalgamated nationalities demanding their old
liberties, thus appealing with the most pertinent
questions to his autocratic neighbours in better

circumstances. " Will you recognise these melan-
choly facts—and the equally melancholy facts
likely to follow—in Italy? What will you do if your
afflicted sister Austria should be attacked by
that rough Sardinian Nimrod ; and especially, ii
another Great Power should back him ? And, in
the event of another war, and its touching any part
of the German Confederation, what would you.
generous, disinterested Prussia, do ? To you the
defeated never'looked in vain—you could always
relieve them of the charge of some portion of their
territories, and take it under your kind protection
—witness Silesia, Poland, Saxony.
We do not wonder that innocent Austria pub-
lishes to all Europe the plaints she presented at
Warsaw, and which, by her publishing them alone,
seem almost officially to tell us that they got no
answer. In her simplicity, she imagines that to
tell them frankly is to justify herself. And so it
would be were the people of all European nations
in love with absolutism, and did their rulers dare
to shed more of their people's blood in its defence.
He of Russia, and he of Prussia too, the father-in-
law of our PRINCESS ROYAL, have hearty goodwill
enough in the cause of that divinest thing on earth—
absolutism. The anguish of Austria on her knees was
painful enough to them, pxrely from consideration
of what it indicated. To them it pointed to a
threatening tide of national life, from the South
rolling North and East, and not unlikely to reach
them too. The looks of Austria must have struck
the chill thought into their hearts, that self-govern-
ment might, sooner or later, be demanded by their
own subjects. But what could they do 4 That
was the question. In their hearts they Cursed the
the Emperor of the FRENCH, and cursed the King
of SARDINIA, and thrice cursed GARIBALDI ; but
GARIBALDI was not to be quelled by their curses.
Had accomplished facts, and facts likely to be
accomplished in Italy, been capable of annihilation
by that kind of artillery, the Vatican is a perfect
arsenal of such weapons. " Would they recognise?"
asked Austria—what cared the facts • whether
Russia and Prussia recognised them or not ? There
they are, and there, even in spite of General GoYON
at Rome, and the French Admiral at Gaeta,
they will be. And if they were meddled
with, the only probability was, that they would
propagate themselves so much the faster in the
countries of the intermeddlers.

Austria had done her very best to present an
attractive and hopeful appearance to the gods she
was invoking. She timed her Hungarian conces-
sions to the moment. They were intended to cause
greet joy on their first announcement ; that joy
was to be used at Warsaw as a proof that Hungary

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would not be so great a danger after all ;
though it was hinted that a large Russian army
of observation would be a wise precaution. The
quieting of Hungary at first, by what she might
scout if she liked when Italy was settled, was to be
pleaded as a master stroke of policy, while he could
truly say to the despots, " What I have conceded
is only the appearance of self-government. I have
kept taxation and the army in my own hands."
Unfortunately, however, Hungary saw through the
very obvious snare at first, and refused to be
caught. The diploma was baptised at Pesth
in Hungarian blood. But Austria could point
to Venetia itself, and declare herself equipped and
ready for war ; only they would warn off the
Emperor of the FRENCH. IF ; but, most unluckily,
at the very moment, forth came the famous Im-
perial leader in the Constitutionnel, proclaiming
the Emperor of the FRENCH as " The Moderator of
the Revolution," and " The Pacificator of Europe."
It was all over. There was nothing for it but that
each should go their way—one to his sick and dying
mother, another to his Prussian Number One, and
Austria, to make the best shift she could with
Venetia and Hungary and her mocked and irritated
provinces.

What her shifts will be it is hard to say. Did
net pride and tyranny stand in the way, a babe in
politics could indicate to her the path to a safe
happy future. To replenish her exchequer by the
sale of Venetia, which she must soon lose, and to
reign with the 'goodwill of her nationalities, by
a full and frank concession of their ancient
rights, are the simple means which all, outside
of the Austrian Court, can see to be at once
her duty and her salvation. But Hapsburg
sin is, indeed, original, and no baptism of tribula-
tion can expel it. The letter from Florence we
published the other day, giving the observations of
a long and recent residence in Venetias, show that
Austria is mad upon the military occupation and
defence of the country, while its misery, and even
depopulation, beneath their iron rule, surpasses be-
lief. She is sinking herself beneath the enormous
cost of her army there, and sinking Venetia beneath
her repression of all commercial as well as politi-
cal activity. Last long it cannot. Austria will
either make some mad attack on ;Vly, or provoke
Italy to attack her, and, then, who will answer for
the results ?

Perhaps, however, the foolish Hapsburg may
find Hungary his insuperable difficulty. He has
already learned that the Hungarians were not,
from the first, dedeived. The smalleininnber who
think it well to accept what is offered, do it
avowedly as the means of an organised enforcement
of their real demands. Not one Hungarian of the
slightest note acknowledges that the diploma is a
final charter. They hardly look on it as an instal-
ment of their rights. It is but a lever wherewith
better to move the heavy mass of Austrian Impe-
rialism. Already the most able Hungarians have
protested strongly against the illusory concessions;
and to-day we have the protest of General KLArKA
himself, in reply to the single Hungarian of any
note who wished to make the best of the diploma.
" We ask," he says, " a simple question ; What is
a Sovereign Diet which has not the right of dis-
cussing and voting a tax, which has no control
over military levies, and which has neither an
opinion nor a wish to express on international
difficulties ? The Hungarian question, so far from
being solved, remains just as it was ; nothing is
changed in the state of affairs ; Hungary
of 1860, faithful to her traditions, will act contrary
to the Hungary of 1848." Such views will, we
can hardly doubt, be predominant in Hungary ; if
se, what avails all the preparations in Venetia.
What can be done with the Hungarians in the army
there ? Already we have evidence that they spiked
the very guns they were to work, and some were
even caught in the act. FRANCIS JOSEPH is, we
may hope, in a position of inextricable difficulty.
If he content the Hungarians, it must be by
ceasing to wrong Venetia as well as Hungary. If
he do not content them, they will shoot their officers
and spike their guns. Real Liberalism or utter
ruin are, we almost hope, his only alternatives.

At one o'clock, on the morning of Wednesday,
the 31st of October, there expired, at his house, in
Kensington, in the eighty-fifth year of his age, one
of the most dauntless heroes that ever trod the
quarter-deck of a British ship-of-war—THOMAS
COCHRANE, Earl of Dundonald. The name of this
great sailor can be ranked upon the bede-roll of the
world's most illustrious sea-captains as second only
to that of our immortal NELSON. For deeds of
daring it can, in truth, be ranked as second to no
one—not even to the glorious victor of the Nile and
Trafalgar. There are achievements actually upon
record in the history of the Gate Earl of DUN-
DONALD that for valour, for coolness, for indomitable
resolution, has never been surpassed in effect, and
cannot by the nature of things be surpassed. They
are the very acme of chivalric audacity. They are
the reiterated illustrations of the determination
of this man's unblenching courage literally
again and yet again to " seek the bubble
reputation even in the cannon's mouth !"
In the maritime annals of England he
is better known as Lord COCHRANE than as
Earl of DUNDONALD. Precisely as in the political
history of Great Britain, the second Marquess of
LONDONDERRY is far better known to fame by his
complimentary title of Viscount CASTLEREAGH.
As Lord COCHRANE, it was that the late Earl
performed those marvels of prowess that rendered
his title, under either designation, the very
synonym of heroism. He came of a long lived
as well as of a noble race—his father, the previous
Earl, having survived until ho was eighty-four—
he himself, as we have now seen, very nearly
reaching before his death his eighty-fifth
anniversary ! For it was on. the 14th of
December, 1775, that TilomAs COCHRANE, Earl
of Dundonald, was born—so that he was only one
calendar month and a fortnight from the eighty-
fifth anniversary of that day, when he expired on
Wednesday evening last at his house in Kensing-
ton. Reading his wonderful career, whether as
related incidentally by WILLIAM JAMES, the Naval
Historian of England, or as now very recently de-
scribed in detail by the venerable Earl himself,
with true sailor-like frankness and simplicity of
manner, in his enthralling autobiography—one
really marvels that he should have died at last
quietly in his bed—he who passed so repeatedly
through the very jaws of death upon the great
deep in the midst of a whirlwind of flame and shot.
It is something to say of any blue-jacket ever afloat
that, when he breathed his last, eighty long years
had elapsed since his career was first inscribed upon
the books of the Royal
Navy. B
say this truly of a BritishTarlikeuTt,or whdceon w
eriße nAcNaE,
the Earl of DUNDONALD, it is, in very truth, some-
thing wonderful to tell—it partakes somewhat
of the marvellous, remembering what were his
achievements. He must truly have had a
charmed life to have passed thus scatheless through
such storms and tempests of destruction,
and with his faculties bright and vivid
and undimmed to the very last to have tranquilly
at the great age of eighty-
fiexypeilred in. h bed
In
his
fifth year it was that THOMAS
COCHRANE'S name was first entered on the books