The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-30 00:00:00

AFFAIRS OF TURKEY.

A letter from Constantinople, dated October 17,
says :—Th.e return of Mehemet Kiprisli Pasha to.
Constantinople has not yet led to any material
changes in the Administration. Asli Pasha, who
acted as the Grand Vizier's Caimacam during his
absence, has resumed his funct;ons of President of
the council of the Tanzimat. He also undertakes
the office of Act;ng Minister for Foreign Affairs
until Fuad Pasha's return, in lieu of Savfet Effendi.
So far as one is enabled to judge from the very
limited expression of public opinion which obtains
in this country, all hopes are centred in the pro-
jects of reform which it is believed the Grand
Vizier will now inaugurate. Those hopes are, I
fear, doomed to disappointment ; for, giving
Mehemet Kiprisli Pasha credit for every good in-
tention, I do not see how he can succeed in his
efforts to place the administration of affairs on a
more satisfactory basis. Almost without exception,
his colleagues are is political opponents; and many
of them are even now, I have reason to believe,
plotting his downfal. Foremost among his enemies
is Riza Pasha, the Minister for War, and favourite
of the Sultan ; his Majesty, too, is supposed to look
with bat little real affection upon the onlyman who
enjoys the confidence of the nation, and whose
popularity might otherwise suffice to appease a
gathering storm, fraught with no small danger to
the throne. To make matters worse the whole
weight of French and Russian influence is thrown
into the scale against the Vizier. Sir Henry
Bulwer will, I believe, afford him some support ;
but it remains to be seen how far this will avail
against the many adverse influences.
Both M. de Lavalette and Prince Labanoff pro-
test against the decision by virtue of which Mehe-
met Kiprisli Pasha was recalled. They maintain
that his mission has been a failure in the provinces
which he has visited; and yet, with singular incon-
sistency, demand that his tour of inspection shall be
extended to Bosnia and the Hersegovina. It is
easy to listen with some degree of equanimity to
complaints of oppression of her subjects preferred
against the Porte by a French Ambassador ; but I
confess to losing all patience when similar charges
emanate from the mouthpiece of such a Government
as that of Russia. Would even Prince Labanoff
venture to say that the condition of the rayah is
not immeasurably preferable to that of the Russian
serf ? Nevertheless, if I be not mistaken, the
European Powers will very shortly hear a reiteration
of Prince Gortschakoff's complaints and demands
against the Turkish Government. He in his ortho-
doxy is the man without sin who may cast the first
stone. •

I have, on more than one occasion, alluded to a
practice, by which numbers of rayahs, after a short
absence from this country, return metamorphosed
ur auLLIV inner lOrelg. CitAatc.
It was necessary to put an immediate and effective
stop to these proceedings, and the Porte has been to
blame for allowing the abuse to pass so long unchal-
lenged. I think, notwithstanding, that Turkish
Ministers have been ill advised in issuing the circu-
lar sent to all the Legations here, and a translation
of which was published in the Mites of the 3d inst.
That circular could not but give great offence to the
Russian Government, at a time when all unneces-
sary cause of offence should have been sedulously
avoided. It is, however, open to graver objections.
In the first place, it appears to me to savour of
harshness to order all " these newly protected per-
sons" to sell their property and to leave the coun-
try with their wives and children. Moreover, all
the blame is thus cast upon the shoulders of the
recalcitrant rayahs, and none upon the unoffend;ng
Governments. In the second, to decide that " these
newly protected persons shall be subjected to the
laws of the Ottoman Government for all affairs
previous to the epoch of their change of na-
tionality," is, in some measure, to admit the
validity of their transformation. Surely, the alter-
native allowed by the circular itself would have
sufficed, without any intimation at all to the Lega-
tions. A simple instruction to the Governors of pro-
vinces to treat all such newly protected persons as
subjects of the Porte, and not to permit the inter-
ference of any Consul in their behalf, would have
been a more quiet and equally efficacious remedy.
However, the abuse, which had assumed serious

proportions, will probably be carried no further, for
I am told that the Russian Minister has entirely
failed to convince M. de Lavalette of the propriety
of insisting upon the recall of the offending circular.
A letter from a person necessarily well informed
lias just reachell me from Syria. I will not trespass
upon the dominion of your correspondent there by
giving any detail of the operations against the
Druses. 1 may, however, perhaps be permitted to
say that the General commanding the French troops
appears to have received instructions not quite in
consonance with the protocols signed in Paris. By
manifesting a disposition to adopt an independent
line of action he has caused Fuad Pasha some em-
barrassment. Great complaints, too, are made of the
atrocities committed by the Christians, who follow
his march, eager to take vengeance upon their
enemies now that they fancy they may do so with
impunity. On the Ist inst. the French camp was
at the bridge on the River Littany, on the road to
Damascus by Djob-Jenin and Rasheya. Fuad
Pasha had gone to Muktera.
On Wednesday morning last Prince Couza left
Constantinople for Bucharest. During his stay here
several Poles were arrested on a charge of con-
spiring to assassinate him. I cannot, however,
learn that there is any evidence to support the
accusation.

The origin of the fire which I mentioned in my
last letter, and which broke out in one of the centre
portions of the second bridge across the Golden
Horn, has not been ascertained. The story told by
the Turkish authorities is that some soldiers passed
over the bridge just before the occurrence; that
some of them were smoking in opposition to express
regulations to the contrary ; and that it is supposed
the end of a cigarette, thrown on the bridge, set fire
to it. Another version is to the effect that the
bridge in question having been recently opened to
the public free of charge, the farmers of the re-
venue of one of the other bridges caused it to be
burnt. I believe, however, there is not the slightest
foundation for the rumour. A third, and not the
least current report is, that the bridge was fired by
persons engaged in a conspiracy against the Go-
vernment. The fleet and a considerable portion of
the town were to have been destroyed, and the con-
fusion would have enabled those engaged in the
plot to take their. measures. For this, too, I should
be sctrry to vouch. One thing, however,
appears
certain ; had not the wind first changed, and then
fallen entirely; the fleet must have been destroyed.
The election of the new Greek Patriarch took
place, after much violent discussion, on Tuesday
last. The choice fell upon Monsignore Joaktnos,
Archbishop of Cyzicus.

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In that ancient city which stands ike a monu-
ment over the ruins of Polish indepe dente have
just met the three lineal representative of the three
Sovereigns who ninety years ago co enced the
work of extinction and partition whicl it has been
reserved to our own days to see fully co summated.
Austria. Prussia, and Russia have met in beir second
triumvirate, a conjuncture of ill o en to the
liberties of Europe, as when of old i proclaimed
wrath "to Poland and to man." But e spoil that
they divided among theni has not hriven with
them. They meet, not, as of old, to 'plot the ruin
of their neighbours, and to divide among themselves
that which is not their own. They meet in terror
and dismay—with discontent at the present and
sinister forebodings for the future. The pillars on
which they believe their power immutably based
are cracking and tottering beneath them. A new
spirit has arisen in Europe, no longer the frantic
spirit of innovation which burst forth so vehe-
mently in 1793 and 1848—the easiest antagonist
with which an absolute Prince can have to cope, the
most suicidal of all manias, which, if it suxeeds in
overthrowing despotism, is sure to lay a broad
foundation for a worse tyranny in its stead. The
spirit of the present day is more moderate, more
rational, and therefore to those who rest their claims
neither on reason nor moderation more truly for-
midable. The spirit of modern Europe spurns at
theocracy, whether in the person of a priest who
has made himself into a temporal monarch, like the
Pope, or of a temporal monarch who has made him-
self' into the head of a religious sect, like the Czar
of Russia. It demands equal rights and equal laws,
freedom of commerce, the abolition of invidious and
exclusive privileges, and a voice tor the people in
the affairs of the liaTernmeut under which they
live and suffer.
These things must sound to the ears of men
swathed in the purple, and taught to lisp in the ac-
cents of absolute dominion and Divine right strange
and horrible indeed, and we cannot wonder that the
Sovereigns of Eastern Europe have met together to
take counsel how this plague may be stayed and
matters retained a little longer in their original
happy state. But the Council, if we have been cor-
rectly informed, has ended in nothing. It has been
a solemn display before the eyes of Europe of
anger and impotence, of alarm at approaching
danger, and of feebleness which has no power to
avert it. The interview has, if we mistake not,
revealed to each of the triumvirate the secret of his
own and of his associates' weakness. But it has
done something more. It has taught these Empe-
rors and Princes how little real harmony there is
in their views ; how little they possess the will, even
if they possessed the power, of united action. The
solemn hunting which was to conclude the delibera-
tions of these mighty personages has been ad-
journed, ostensibly on account of the illness of the
Empress Dowager of Russia, but really, webelieve,
because the terms on which the Emperors met
each other were such as to render a protracted in-
tercourse extremely undesirable. They are gone
back, each to his own home, with little contentment
with themselves or each other, and with, we sus-
pect, the firm conviction that those principles of
non-intervention which they so cordially detest are
forcibly imposed upon them alike by their weak-
ness and their disunion. The Emperor of Russia
must be well aware that he has enough on his
hands in the interior of his country without
plunging into the stormy waters of Italian politics,
He is standing face to face with a whole servile
population, which he has taught to know and
demand its rights without having devised any
means of conceding them. Were he as powerful
as the greatest of his ancestors, he might tremble
before the domestic troubles by which he is sur-
rounded, and which threaten not only the subver-
sion of government, but the destruction of society
itself. The southern half of his dominions is deso-

ated by the war which the rashness of his father
provoked, his army is much reduced in numbers,
and even those numbers it is difficult to support.
The credit of the Government is gone, and it is
next to impossible for it to borrow even on the most
exorbitant terms. Russia can recall her Minister
from Turin, can advise the Pope to stand firm, can
frame protests on behalf of that martyred saint the
King of Naples, but the days when Suwarrow
crossed the Alps to reconquer Italy from Napoleon
are passed, not to return. Russia cannot spare her
army, and, if she could, she has not the money re-
quired to put it in motion. The Czar may pray
against, but he cannot fight against, the new
Italian kingdom.
Prussia must. at length be thoroughly convinced
of that of which she ought to have been convinced
long ago—that the arts of a truckling and ambigu•
ous policy are unsuited to the urgency of the pre-
sent time. She has tried to persuade Russia and
England, the two poles of the political world, that
she is entirely in accord with both. After the
failure of the conference at Warsaw, she has
nothing for it but to relapse into that semi-consti-
tutionalism from which for a moment she seemed
to wish to emancipate herself. But we should
imagine that no one has returned from this abor-
tive meeting so utterly discontented as the Em-
peror of Austria. His feelings and prejudices have
been as much outraged as those of his neighbours,
but with him the evil does not stop there. The
emancipation of Italy is to him something more
than a speculative injury. It commenced by
robbing him of Lombardy, and it will assuredly not
terminate without depriving him of Venetia. He
has played the last card in his hand by the grant
of a Constitution to his discontented provinces
The Constitution is scanned in a narrow and dis-
trustful spirit, and, as far as we can judge, has done
nothing towards allaying existing discontent. His
troops are collected in immense masses behind the
fortresses of Venetia ; his resources are exhausted
by the effort, and yet he dare not take the decisive
step for which he has made every preparation. He
is not sure of the provinces he leaves behind—he
is not confident against the enemy whom he may
have to meet in front. Something is apprehended
from Hungary this winter, something the proba-
bility of which the Emperor can scarcely admit to
himself. If Russia were only able and willing to
give the same assistance in case of need as she did
in 1849—but that is hardly to be thought ef.
Whatever be the extent of the reconciliation of
which so much has been made, it cannot give
Russia the means, even if she had the will, for a
second crusade against the liberties of Hungary.
Then there is the question of finance, or rather the
certainty of almost immediate bankruptcy. Nor is
this all. The Emperor of the French adds a bat-
talion to every regiment, pours his troops into the
Romagna, and, while ho recall his Minister from
Turin, secretly approves and stimulates the very
policy which he disavows. As far as the letter of
treaties is concerned, Austria might invade Modena,
Parma, Tuscany, the States of the Church, or
t
Naples, without giving France a cause of war. But
France has already shown how easy it is
would to be a
itmake
a castes belli when she wants it, and
very dangerous confidence which should
Emperor to violate the principle ofenmo induce the
n- tiintervenon
phasis in the
recently laid down with so
much
7titionna. Besides,
semi-official article in the
the Emperor has recalledCbt'o'st 'the recollection of
Austria that she herself has violated the Treaty of
Villafranca by her treatmentre I.To remain in her
present position of arm ofi Venetia, so that is
a sufficient cause of
quared expectation is to Austria
financial ruin, and a sacrifice of all the prestige
which she has not lost already; to advance alone
is full of danger, and to recede is scarcelylarsaw anv possible.
No wonder that the Emperor sought
at
escape from
these troubles in the alliance of Russia
and Prussia. Thathope has also failed him, and
he returns
honw with very little reason to congra-
tulate himself on his journey, on the state of things
Warsaw or the state of things he finds at
We cannot pretend to regret these things.
Vhe
ien left
Vienna. a.t
Could we see in the actions of these great Powers
any wish to preserve the balance of power in Europe'
while respecting the right of every nation to choose
its own Government, the case would be different ;
but we see nothing but narrow and dynastic oppo-
sition, and a policy having for its object the alliance
of Princes against peoples, and we cannot regret
that such councils should be covered with confusion,
and that such schemes should come to nought.-
7 imes.

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The Solicitor-General (Sir W. A the, lon)attende
a meeting of his constituents at 1)u rha m, on Thurs-
day, and reviewed the legislatior. Lof the session.
He expressed approval of the bill a for ilfeventing
adulteration, for opening endowed schools to dis-
senters, and for the managgment of 'endowed chari-
ties. Sir W. Atherton next explained, by re fer-
ence to dates and facts, how the bills for the refo rm
of the bankruptcy laws and for the consolidation of
the statutes had failed. He then referred to other
law bills that had passed—the mills for reform of
the Court of Chancery, for reform' of the Divorce
Court, and for reform of the Ece losiastical Court.
The French Treaty had been sanet'ioned and the
national defences improved. New laws for the
government of the navy and for the ,a tvalgarnation
of the Indian armies had also been
sed. The
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Solicitor-General next referred to the bill
regulat-
ing the admission of Jewish members of th'*° House
of Commons by standing order, and not by . resolu-
tion in each case; the Census Bill, a bill refoi, *ming
the Ecclesiastical Commission, the Mincs In, sr"'
tion Bill, the bill for repressing party process ions
in Ireland. Besides these bills, in themselves
proofs that Parliament had not been very idle, t. sir
W. Atherton spoke of' the subjects discusser 1,
church. rates, the Maynooth grant, the ballot, whiel i
he advocated, and the paper duty. On this last
point he said :—The House of Lords had the,
power to refuse its assent to any and every mca
sure coming from the House of Commons ; the
Sovereign could refuse assent to any and every
measure coming from the Lords and Commons;
but if they were to do so, though acting f n
accordance with the letter of the law, there
would be such a departure from its spirit as to
throw the state into a condition of anarchy and re-
volution. (Hear, and applause.) However, the
Lords had frustrated by their unconstitutional
rejection of the bill for the abolition of the papee
duty, a part of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's
budget which had been looked forward to with
great interest. He believed there was no reason to
apprehend a repetition of such a course-
-sui
as it must be—on the part of the House of Lords.
(Hear, hear.) Now, a word about the Reform Bill-
In his opinion that bill was a good bill, and if
adopted by Parliament, it probably—at all events
for some time to come—would have given satisfac-
tion to itic ..u.try. But how had it turned out ?
The bill failed to pass the Rouse of Commons, and.
he would explain how that occurred. The opposi-
tion—that was to say the supporters of the late
Government—had committed themselves to the
principles of Parliamentary Reform; and it would
have been too bad—a thing that they could hardly
well do with regard to their own Parliamentary
reputation—their standing before the country—to
oppose the introduction of such a bill. The second.
reading was consequently allowed to pass without
opposition ; but, upon the motion of going into
committee, certain tactics of delay were resorted to,
which made it perfectly hopeless to carry the mea-
sure. Sir W. Atherton next briefly referred to the
Chinese war, and then to the Italian question, and
said her Majesty's Government had scrupulously
adhered to the determination expressed in the
Queen's Speech, at the opening of Parliament, not
to interfere with other countries respecting the form
of government which they might choose to select.
The people of this country had their sympathies,
and he believed the vast majority of them were in
favour of Italian liberation. (Loud applause.) A.
vote of thanks to the Solicitor-General was then
moved, and carried unanimously.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE,

GREAT INDIAN PENINSULAR.
The directors of this company state in their* re-
port that satisfactory progress in the prosecution
of the company's enterprise was effected during the
half-year ending the 30th of June last. At the be-
ginning of the half-year 245 miles of railway were
open for traffic. This length of line was increased
in the course of the half-year to 2971 miles by the
opening of the following sections, viz. :—On the
2d of January, 1860, Barsee-road to Mohol, 281
miles ; on the 2d of February, 1860, Wa,ssind to
Shapoor, 31 miles; and on the 6th of June, 1860,
Mohol to Sholapore, 20+ miles; total, 52,!-;
Of the 297+ miles of railway open, 92+ miles are in
the Concan, and 205+ in the Deccan. The Deccan
portion is entirely on the Southern line, and is'
separated from the Concan portion by the break at
the Bhore Ghat, across which steep ascent of eight
miles the whole of the traffic has to be transported
by carts and pack bullocks. By the revenue state-
ment it will be seen that in the half-year the
company realised from all sources of traffic the sum
of £101,250, by an expenditure of £60,091, which
leaves the sum of £41,159 at the credit of net reve-
nue account. This sum, added to the previous net
earnings, raises the amount which the compaor
havo to place against the advances made by Govern-
ment as interest upon paid-up capital to £256,160.
The amount of those advances to June 30, 1860,
was £1,034,431. On comparing the receipts, on an
average of 279 miles, during the past half-year,
with those on an average of 1941 miles in the corre-
sponding half of 1859. it appears that the receipts
for passengers amounted to £40,041, againsti.:32,369;
for merchandise, £53,352, against £48,607; total
receipts, £101,250, against £87,607. The
average receipts per mile were £363, against
£450. The total expenditure was £60,091,
against £39,091, or £215 per mile against
£2Ol per mile; and the net profit £41,159, or
£l4B per mile, against £48,515, or £249 per
mile in the corresponding period of 1859. The
receipts from the carriage of permanent way mate-
rials were 9 per cent. of the gross receipts, against
221 per cent. in the corresponding half of 1859.
The last opening of 201 miles was made in the final
month of the half-year, after the close of the trad-
ing season. The traffic of the last half-year
was also affected very injuriously by the severe visi-
tations of cholera throughout the territory served
by the railway; and, owing to the depressed con-
dition of the Bombay cotton-market, the traffic in
the article of cotton fell off very considerably
towards the end of the half-year, the merchants in
Barsee and other places preferring to store their
cotton rather than to send it down to Bombay-
for shipment. Considering these points, and
bearing in mind the very peculiar position of
the opened lines in being separated into two
sections by the long break at the Bhore Liut
the directors regard the traffic already ob-
tained for the railway as highly encouragit
op'en
permanent way, works, and stations of t
line, have been maintained in good order.md!ileri.nghhee
half-year, at a cost of 61.-d. per thrai
rolling stock has also been thorc.mg yin
was at the end of the half-year in a y
upheld, and
hl efficient
state. The number of
f railway in process of
construction at the
dmiolefs toile half-year was 512.
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tcilri
on e
stahtei
scfhaicetfiores-
: withident
tehi
is
Upon the Bhore Ghat
gineer expresses
trreasourldtsinoafryt haenodp
ae rdavti
e rosnos ,c
tnotwithstandingh
which
the
haeyxo-
retardeJ their progress. These have been the
unfortunate death, in November, of Mr. Solomon
Tredwell, the contractor, and two outbreaks of
cholera among the people employed upon the
works--th© first in January along the lower seven
miles of the incline, when the labourers speedily
dispersed, so that the number of hands was re-
duced in a fortnight from 10,000 to only 1,000 ;
and the next in April, over the whole length of
the incline, at which time several European agents
and inspectors were cut off by the disease. These
were serious causes of interruption ; butthe direc-
tors hope they will occasion no delay in the com-
pletion of this important work. Upon the 22+
miles of the north-east division of the Concan
line from Shapoor to Kassarah, at the foot of the
Thull Ghat incline, the works were, at the date of
the chief resident engineer's report, finished with
the exception of a few cuttings through basalt of
the hardest description. That portion of the railway
is to be completed in December next. It is also ex-
pected that at the same date 32 miles of the line
from Egutpoora, at the summit of the Thull Ghat
incline, to Nassick, will be opened, and that a fur-
ther section of 61 miles from Nassick to Nandgaon
will be completed in the course of next spring.
Satisfactory progress is being made on the other
less advanced portions of the railway under con-
struction, with the exception of those comprised in
Messrs. Duckett and Stead's contracts, in respect to
which the board are taking active measures for tb°
protection of the company's interests. The totsl
receipts on capital account from the beginning of,
operations to the 30th of June last have amounted
to £6,016,30.1, and the total expendirture-
..Cs,4Bl,342,leaving au available balance of J 534,
The The company have (wen able, without ptimei,
to
upon the money market up to the presentet convertible
borrow on debentures, which r
recei
into stock, ,w
cllll9,h7aoao,
beenin addiatiorenedntporethv
ieo
us
sulmy
to
ofthe3othdoly,
June.i Proposals for oats continue to
be received

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marriage certificate ; but as the chief con-.
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tpielerpaeoterkateo
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Cu
stable, Mr. Grantham, ticould not then substantiate the
charge, he,was discharged. Thousands of persons crowded
the streets as he was being led to the court-house, and the
court itself was crowded to excess bag before the time
commencing business. After his discharge he for
the area of the court-house, not daring to
face the crowd
remained in
outside, the female portion of which especially
in-
tent upon administering some punishment seemed
this continued till night. Margaret Sutton, upon
him ; and
expectations of the surgeon' continued contrary to the
—so much so, indeed, as toto
lead yesterday to
unprove
ultimately recover, the belief that she may

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ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
[I, GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA
PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees.
THIS EVENING, LURI,INE : Messrs. H. Wharton, H.
Corti, G. Kelley, and Mr. W. Harrison ;
Miss Leffler, Miss
Albertazzi, and Miss LOUISfa Pylae.
To conclude with the Fourth Act of T RVATORE.
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon.
Doors open at Seven. Commence at Hail-past.

THEATRy,_RoyAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Baetstone.
Trust F.VENINo the performances will eommenoe with
VIE LADY. OF LIONS. Mr. Howe and Miss Amy Sedg-
wick.
After which. the revived comedy of THE IRISH AM-
BASSADOR. Mr. John Brougham, Miss Florence Haydon,
ors. E. Fitzwilliam.
And THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Loclercqs.
Commence at 7.

OPAL PRINCE S S'S THEATRE.--
Loagee and Manazer, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, an adaptation of Victor Hugo's cele-
brated Play of RUY BLAS, by Edmund Falconer, Esq.
when Mr. Fecbter, the favourite actor of Parisian renown.
will make his 3d appearance on the English stage, supported
by Messrs. W. Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond,
Morland, Collett, Paulo.. Daly, A. Harris • Miss Rose
Lecleroq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath.

To be preceded byiSifISAN 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
Sheridan's comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL.
Principal charasters by Mr. T. Lyon, Mr. Henry_Neville, L.
Georee Vining.. Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell,
Mr. Villiers, Mr. J. Johnstone, Mr. John Rouse, Mrs. Keeley
Mrs. J. Rouse, Miss M. Ter.
and Miss Gougenheim.
After which, a BALLET DIVERTISEMENT, in which
the celebrated Dancers the Misses Marie and Annie Collin-
eon will appear.
To conclude with THE ABBE VAUDREUIL. Madame
Celeste.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
ADELPHI,
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
Great Success of the new Drama, by Dion Bonreiesult, Esq.,
The Colleen Bawn."—Miss Agnes Robertson every even-

ing.
THIS EVENING, THE RIFLE CORPS. Messrs. W.
smith. D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss it oolgar, Miss Kate Kelly,
and Airs. Billington.
After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Bouredcanlt. P.
Fisher, 13111ington, Falconer. stebenson. U. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Wvoolgar, Mrs. BiLlington, and
Wm. Chatterley.
To conclude with MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Mr. David
Fisher.
Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open trom 10 till 5.
No charge for booking'.
Private boxes, £2 21. ; Family Boxes,°£l.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, is. •
Pit Stalls, as.; Pit, 15. 6d. ; Amphitheatre. is ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
' IL Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wu. RATTY.
Triumphant success and increasing popularity of the Grand
Spectacle of ROBIN Hoop.
First appearance of Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome,
and their Troupe of uneqnalled performers, &c., including
the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest
Wonder of the age. _ _

This Eyening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three
Acts, by E. Fitzball, Msg., entitled ROBIN ROOD ; or. the
Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducing the Stud of highly-
trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag Hounds, Am, Allan-
a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs ; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit-
chard.
To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena—Star Elders of
Europe.
Doors open at half-Fast 8, 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 Seleetion from the opera of
NORMA.

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Norms
Adatrisa .• •
(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, Comie 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. le, ....Hall. 6d.

THR WEATHER.-Bux OFFICE, Oar. 30, 1660.

THERMOMETER, 111 THE SHADS.

59—this day at noon.
48—lowest this morning and during the night.
61—highest since noon yesterday.
BAnommTER-30.25; still rising.
WlND—Easterly; light, with very fine autumnal weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TRIA DAY.—Morning, lh. 58m.—Afternoon, 2h. 14m.
To-moaßow.-Morning, 2h. 29m.—Afternoon, 2h. 4im.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 30, 1860.

"It went up a rocket and came down a stick,'
is happily the history of the Warsaw meeting.
From the hour of its announcement almost to the
hour of its break up, it looked so splendid an
affair that something seemed sure to come of it.
Three such great Sovereigns, as the last century or
half century has counted Sovereigns—and at a
time so big with events to Sovereigns—the an-
nouncement that the dangers to Sovereigns was the
cause of the meeting—and the exclusion of elected
Sovereigns and the rulers of smaller states—all
looked so portentous that it seemed scarcely pos-

sible that the august assembly should separate with

nothing done. On one point, too, they were
all in such thorough harmony the divine
right of legitimate Kings that it seems
almost miraculous they should not have
agreed on something which they could proclaim
to all Europe, as likely to strengthen that venerable
old right now not only so rudely questioned, but
so fiercely and successfully attacked in the two most
highly civilised states of the Continent. It was
indeed time for the old dynasties to do something,
when two great nations practically assert popular
suffrage to be the basis of supreme authority.
There can now, however, we may hope, be hardly
any doubt that each of the Monarchs might write
home to their Consorts—g." I came, I saw, I went,"
for, 'what they did beside appears to have been little
enough. Each must have left sadly mortified.
Russia, as was industriously announced, by way of
feeling the state of opinion, wanted her old access
to the Danube, perhaps a little more liberty on the
Black Sea ; laut •
to " revise the Treaty of Paris," in
the sense of making Russia again master of
the great Austrian River was more than
even Austria liked to concede, and there were
other powers who would not have permitted
it had Austria wished to strengthen against herself
a neighbour already so powerful. What Austria
wanted is patent—to secure Hungary while she
attacked Italy. For this she was ready to offer
Hungary a sham restoration of der rights, and to
Russia the boon of a Hungary really without self-
government, provided Russia would only place on
the borders of that country an army which should
deter the Hungarians from rising while her back
was turned. That, however, was not enough this
time. Russia could not afford another Hungarian
intervention, and, if she could, she cannot wholly
forget how the last was repaid, and how little the
suppression of Hungarian liberties then has done
towards quieting the demand of her own serfs for
more liberty now. As for Prussia, the
Rhine was doubtless her chief thought,
and, probably, it was also an object
to make her Constitution, if possible, still more of
a sham than it is. But, apart from the awkward-
nesan of too open divergence from England, any-
thing like a guarantee to aid the projects of the
other two Powers was too high a price for the
laddit.conal help she might gain.

Selfishness was no doubt the frustration of their
counsels. Each wanted something, but each had
nothing they liked to give, or could give in return.
Austria
1:11;17 well believe to be half rufued

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already by the army she keeps in Venetia, after
having exhausted her Exchequer and her credit too
in the Italian war. Russia has been worse than
~
penniless ever since the Crimean war. Neither could
do anything that involved expense, and the armies
of despots are very expensive ; and Prussia does not
like to spend a penny, even if she could afford it.
Hence, after a little sifting and sounding of each
other, at the single official meeting which, we are
informed, was held, the Monarchs had nothing to
do but to express their best wishes for each other,
but to be sorry to be unable to contribute to each
other's necessities. And so ended as a farce what
was meant to be a rectification of the Continent.
Sickness of somebody is one of the most common
subterfuges of Russian diplomatists ; this time it
was thought best to have " a lady in the case"—
the Dowager EMPRESS ; and hunting, accordingly,
and Conferences all came suddenly to an end; the
CZAR, the EMPEROR, and the KING posting north,
south, and west as fast as they could.
Who is the most disappointed cannot be doubted.
The object of the meeting was to save Austria a
double humiliation—the humiliation of parting
with Venetia for money if she will take it now, for
nothing if she hold out too long ; and the humilia-
tion also of dealing sincerely with Hungary by
conceding in reality the liberties she seems to offer.
For all that appears yet, Austria is left entirely to
ohift for herself; and it may be hoped, therefore,
thot she will be coerced into liberality and honesty
by sheer necessity. It must be wormwood and
gall indeed to the young Hapsburg who has, ever
since his accession, been manifesting even in
youth all the odious political vices of his family, to
have to inaugur3te a free Italy and a free Hungary,
but it seems as if ht.:' must do it or sink altogether.
It may be doubted ,vrhether the alternative of
banishment does not se.lm to him almost as de-
sirable as that of reignit.' over a free people
through a responsible Miniso.v,
. What is the
glnry of Queen VICTORIA, what oncicara her to
her own people, and even to our jeAlous descend-
ants the Americans, would seem td a Hapsburg
hardly worth calling power. A Haoburg must
not only reign, but govern, and not on ;o govern
but govern by the scaffold and the bullet, the
dungeon and the stick. This is not declamation.
FRANCIS JOSEPH might in twenty-four hours be
the most popular Monarch in Europe. Could he but
make up his mind honestly to give to all the nations
composing his dominions (Venetia excepted,
since she must belong to Italy) the same free insti-
tutes as we possess in this country, the past would
be forgotten, the occupation of KOSSUTH and
GARIBALDI would be gone ; and freedom would har-
monise into a strong empire the nationalities which,
under a despotism, are ever ready to explode it into
fragments. Let all who have the least sympathy
for the Hapsburg, if there be such persons, re-
member that all his sorrows are caused by one
thing—and one thing only—he hates the thought of
reigning over freemen. If he be ruined it will be
by obstinacy for despotism.

At the Conservative Demonstration whieh—took
place on Thursday last in the Guildhall of Wor-
cester—and a report of the proceedings of which
we laid before our readers in our impression of
Saturday—Sir JOHN PAKINGTON rather cruelly
"told the secrets of the prison house," "let the
cat out of the bag," turned QUEEN'S evidence (or
however we may please to term his conduct, speak-
ing of it metaphorically) in regard to the secret or
only suspected disquietudes of her MAJESTY'S Go-
vernment. It may be objected in reference to any
such accusation as this that it is hardly within the
limits of possibility that Sir JOHN PAKINGTON,
from the mere nature of his political position, could
act in this manner in regard to any member or
members of the PALMERSTON Administration. It
will be said, the thing is impracticable—Sir JOHN,
as ono of the Conservative party now in opposition,
could notpossibly have the chance of laying bare the
secret discomforts of the Cabinet, the heartburnings
and jealousies of the sixteen Ministers of the Coali-
tion. His knowledge upon the matter could not
be any more than the average esoteric' knowledge
appertaining to any one of the vigilant
leaders of heTITATEsTVO-4apposition. Anything
f 9
like esoteric information would belong only to some
of the "gods" themselvewto a HAROLD SMITH or
to a SOWERBY—not by aNy possibility, or at any
rate, by any very apparenteprobability, to one of the
" giants" banished from office, and biding their
time in the limbo of Opposition. Nevertheless, Sir
JOHN PAKINGTON did have an opportunity ofjudg-
ing for himself of the happy internal condition of
the Coalition Government—the right hon. baronet
actually did have this opportunity during the course
of last session—and what is more, he appears to
have thoroughly availed himself of it. He caught
a peep behind the scenes upon the occasion of the
memorable Committee of Inquiry, as to precedents
in regard to the extremely vexed question of the
Lords and the Paper Duties—and we may now all
of us enjoy is our turn, through the reflexion of
Sir JOHN PAKINGTON'S memory, the same agreeable
little peep behind the scenes vicariously.
Casting his mind a few months back, Sir
JOHN PAKINGTON on Thursday last reminded his
hearers at Worcester of what has latterly been in
a great measure overlooked or forgotten—viz.,
that the differences in the Cabinet have, from the
moment of its formation, been extreme, and in
many respects really extraordinary. Sir JOHN
added that, having been himself on the committee
we have just now referred to, he had then an
excellent opportunity of observing the intensity and
effect of those operations. Yet he cannot help
observing immediately with a still vivid sense of
what we may term retrospective admiration—
" Notwithstanding the railing of Mr. GLADSTONE
and the quieter opposition of Lord J. RUSSELL,
Lord PALMERSTON (then and there) triumphed."
This triumph it was of the veteran Premier
which in the concluding part of Sir JOHN
PAKINGTON'S speech led him to remark that
—" It would be wrong if, while speaking
on the subject, he did not allude to the part which
Lord PALMERSTON had taken on the occasion of
the rejection of the bill for the repeal of the paper
duty by the House of Lords." The Right Hon.
Baronet observing, moreover—" He considered that
the Conservative party throughout England owed
to Lord PALMERSTON a deep debt of gra-
titude for that step." Sir JOHN adding emphati-
cally that " since he had had the honour of
taking a part in public affairs he had never seen a
man conduct a difficult state of affairs with more
tact, more ability, or more firmness than Lord
PALMERSTON had shown on that occasion." It is
peculiarly worth while, we believe, calling those
unquestionable facts to remembrance. They ought
not to be lost sight of. In justice to Lord PAL-
MERSTON himself they ought to be sedulously kept
ii no
view b
recollection.ythose
ought
patriotic hey
to be
regardt
held o
the continued efficiency of the public service : all
the more so because, as Sir JOIIN remarked—
" Although successful, Lord PALMERSTON succeeded
at the cost, as nearly as possible, of breaking up his
party and his Government." The admirable tact
displayed by Lord PALMERSTON upon that occasion
above all redounded to his honour as the chief of
4 Coalition, because upon the very occasion, as it

u.•...w.:".
►ere, of thus warding off evils threatened from II
within by the internal dissensions in the Cabinet
itself, the noble lord (as we all are proud now to
bear in remembrance) assumed a tone in regard
to all the rest of the Powers of Europe worthy of
him in his best days when recognised throughout
Christendom as the Minister not of France, nor
a? Austria, nor of Russia, but peculiarly and essen-
tially as the Minister of England.

THE THEATRES.