The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-09 00:00:00

:YOUVIN and CO.'S (Porte St. Denis, Paris)
r GLOVES, Medaille d'Or.—Wholesale Depot, 166,
Pic.mdilly.-3s. 6d. per pair for either ladies or gentlemen. No dd-
, far nce by the dozen,.

/LOYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.—NEW THEATRE
Tao nobility, gentry, subscaers,and the laiblie are respectfully
fns wined that the season will terminate Co Saturday nc--tt. There I
wig be no extra nights.
EXTRA NEfliT THIS EVENING (MONDAY).
Last Night but 'I hree.
Last Night of DON GIOVANNI.
THIS EVENING (MONDAY), Aug. 0, the la.3t Extra Night of the
season will take place, on which occasion will be performed (for
;b' last time this season) Mozart's Opera,
GIONNI,
with the following powerfulDON VA
cast i—Donna Anna, Madame, Grisi ;
Zei lin, Madame Bosio ; Elcira, Madile. Mixed ; Don Giovanni, Signor
Mario; Leporello, Signor P.onconi ; Masetto, Signor Polonini ;
Il
Ce•amendatceke, Signor Tagliaaco ; Don Ottavio, Signor Tamberlik.
Conductor, Mr. Costa.
The Minuet will be danced by Madlle. line and M. Desplaces.
The Opera commences at half-past 8.
Pit tickets, 10s. 6d.; amphitheatre stalls, 10s. 6d., 75., and 55.;
eriphitheatre, 2s. 6d. Second tier boxes, £2 125. 641.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Managerneut of Mr. Cbarles Kean.
THIS EVENING be presented *halapere's Play of THE
X r:1101IANT OF 'VENICE : Shylock, Mr. C. Kean ; Portia, Mrs. C.
Pretedtd by the Farce of DYING FOR LOVE.

BOYAL STILAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanhorough.
THIS EVENING, the Comedy of COURT FAVOUR: supported by
pssra. Emery, Belford ,royater, Turner, Mi -sea 31. Wilton, Hughes,
and Mrs. C. Melville. After which, HUNTING A TURTLE: by
11.:ssrs. Belford, Burt. Turner, J. Clarke, and :Miss M. Wilton. To
&include with RAISING THE WIND: by Messre. Belford, Turner,
J. Clarke, Mrs. C. Melville, and Miss E. Wilton.

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insANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
IL.) OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The following company of Vo-
aclists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the
popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, &c.,
Russell, Mrs. Badsey, Miss Brunel], Miss Ray, Madame
B:atolatti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson;
Farr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Henshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling.
il!'nor Antonio, E. L Ilime, Mr. Badzey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens,
Rell, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. Yanin, John G.
I%)rde, and E. W. Hackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; laarmo-
'n 'um, Mr. Courtnay ; Director, Herr P. Jonghmans. Commence at
a .:ven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock.

THE SUN.

MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1858.

Immediately before the close of the first Atlantic
-voyage—who does not remember it ?—there were
divers curious and picturesque indications of the
success of the glorious expedition undertal:en by
COLUMBUS and his Companions. There floated by,
• hour after hour, as the bows of the little caravels
(bearing on board the destinies of the human race
and the hopes of civilization) cut their way through
the waste of waters towards their unknown and un-
seen destination—evidences that land, in the far west,
actually did lie there before them—evidences visible
and tangible, so unmistakeable in their way, that
there remained no longer any fear of despair and
mutiny bringing to a premature termination the
magnificent enterprise upon which the greatest man
of his age, one of the greatest men of any age in the
world's history, had so sublimely adventured, and in
,the conduct of which he had so heroically persevered.
And these auguries of triumph—these sureties of ul-
terior victory, of the peaceful victory won by the
discovery of a new world—of another hemisphere ?
They hardly require enumeration. They are familiar
to almost every one's imagination ! Impalpable at
first—floating vaguely in the atmosphere—exqui-
sitely strange and delicious perfumes borne upon
the winds from the ripened spices and flowering
'vegetation of the land beyond the ocean ! After-
-wards—birds flying among the tapering masts and
the uncouth rigging, birds of a perfectly novel
Tlumage, birds flying now singly, now in flocks and
clusters—living harbingers of leafy island or of
forest-covered continent ! Surging by upon the
waters themselves—at first some smaller twigs,
at last some larger branches covered greenly
with fresh foliage or redly with glistening berries-
-waifs and strays cast upon the deep as auspicious
omens sent as encouragements from heaven, no less
distinctly to that little band of mediaeval navigators
than the olive spray carried in the last
hour of the Great Deluge, by the dove, to
the primaeval voyagers in the Ark I Lastly
a gourd carved with rude indications of
some human handicraft—tokens that the old world,
- before the prows of the little squadron of COLUMBUS
had, beyond the radiant birds and the exotic vegeta-
tion, had also, like the old world left far away there,
in the wake of the expedition, its intelligent popula-
tion ! So the last day of the great voyage closed;
and then after the night had fallen—towards the
dawn of the morning which was to bring at last the
glorious sight of land to the Commander and
his followers—there on the dark impenetrable horizon
of the night were seen the gleaming lights, appearing
and disappesring, shifting fitfully hither and thither j
carried in the hands manifestly of the invisible in-
habitants.

In this later and hardly less memorable voyage
of the Agamemnon to Valentia, and of the Niagara
to Newfoundland, it is remarkable to note the equally
romantic incidents on their way, strewn more or
less thickly along the watery pathway of the adven-
turous navigators. Harbingers of success there were
in abundance, happy omens swift and swarming,
-visible, even audible in the clicking deflections of
the miraculous needles of the electric telegraph—ab-
aolutely unmistakeable evidences of the marvellous
current being throughout, to the last moment,
uninterrupted. But together with these testi-
monies of success—there were threatenings of
disaster perpetually hovering about the bows and
the sides of the Agamemnon. After splicing the cable
in lat. 52 deg. 8 min. N. long., 32 deg. 27 min. W.,
at a distance of 816 miles from her destination, there
is the startling record, on that first day of the paying
out of the cable—the 29th of July—that-she had to
atop, perforce, two hours, to splice it anew, a defec-
tive place being clearly discernible. During the
night following the day after, the motion of the
-vessel is said very seriously to have endangered the
fast uncoiling line of what is truly now the veritable
&a Serpent. Another day, says the log-book, " ba-
• rometer falling ;" and, a few hours afterwards,

very threateni❑g appearance of the weather."
Next evening the alarm—" Cable seriously endan-
gered by an American schooner passing close
astern of the Agamemnon"—one of the most
imminent risks of all ! Even after changing
to the last coil, there comes the hor-
rid intimation, threatening destruction, as it
were, in the eleventh hour—" Several whales near
Agamemnon." In spite of all which, in spite of
wind, and waves, and weather, and blundering vessels
baying nothing to do with the expedition, and last,
not least, in spite of the monsters of the deep—we all
know the glorious result, we need hardly finish the
seritence—the grand work of a few days is trium-
• ihantly completed ! Europe and America are con-
nected by the sensitive and instantaneously intercom-
municative thread of the delicate copper wire trailed
• along the unfathomable depths of the Atlantic Ocean I
'Time and space are virtually annihilated between the

mew world and the old. Thousands of miles of salt
-water rolling between them—the Eastern and the
'Western hemispheres are brought permanently to-
geOer—are one in thought and feeling—are as
mends standing face to face !

The .history of the first voyage of eoLumnus may
IiCoR in truth find a companion tale of mar vel in the
ainnals of this last and in some respects greatest of
„all the triumphs of physical philosophy—the one
,itifieeted by the memorable voyage, during which the
'ttric cable was laid down along the awful and
c ru Abbe bed of the Atlantic by the -.Niagara and the
gan. lemon.

The OtEENf, PRINCE Cossaar, and other members
ttf the Rodyid Family of England, have paid their
visit to the E.. 4PEROR and EMPRESS of the French,
u ad, as we have ..•lready stated, received a cordial and
warm greeting. It was right to show that there was
1.3 paltry jealousy or L•uvy—that neither the Som.
It }UMW nor People of Gre:ti Britain would repine at
4).937 aecessi on of power to a ',talon which of late years
:has been a faithful friend and ally. Such events are
L It mere "it 'its of ceremony between the Monarchs.
If V., they would be of comparatively little import-
Brice --seal' 11Y more so than one pf those marriages
.k.A.
to
whiol:, re many promising scions of Royalty have,
and, it is 10 .",Pe feared, will yet De, sacrificed. The

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