The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-27 00:00:00

Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon.

To conclude with a new Ballet Divertissement, LA FLEUR
D'AMOUR : Mesdlles. L. Michelet, Morlacchi, and Pasquale.

ROYAL PRINCESS'IS THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING, LIVING TOO FAST.
And MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
With THIRTY-THREE NEXT BIRTHDAY.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, THE BELLE'S STRATAGEM. Mr.
and Mrs. C. Mathews.
Followed by THE CRITIC. Mr. and Mrs. C' Mathews.
After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE GUADAL-
QUIVER. Perea Nena.

Commence at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE,
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE SAVAGE.
After which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE.
WOOING IN JEST AND LOVING IN :EARNEST :
Miss Swanborough.
And'THE BONNIE FISH WIFE.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Sole Lessee, Mr. William Cooke.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips.
Engagement of John Townsend, Esq., M.P. for Greenwich,
for Six Nights only.
THIS EVENING, and during the week, will be presented
Shakspere's Tragedy of KING RICHARD THE -THIRD ;
or, The Death of White Surrey, reproduced with all its origi-
nal splendid effects. The Duke of Gloster, Mr. John Towns-
end, M.P.
Followed by the inimitable SCENES IN THE ARENA,
in which Mr. W. Cooke, Mr. Runnels, Miss Kate Cooke, and
Madile. Blanche will appear.
To conclude with the popular farce of SHOOTING THE
MOON.

No fees to box-keepers. The art of riding taught.
e Carriages at eleven.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.--
Proprietor—C. MORTON.
The public is most respectfully informed that 'the FINE
ARTS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12
o'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec-
tion of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters .and is also
devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels
he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist-
ing Music Hall, the New Pine Arts Gallery, and the recently
added Ante-Hall, wilt present an attraction which, whether
as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them-
selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations
within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the
Kingdom.
The Moslem. ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at
'even o'clock.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Nov. 27.

THERMEIEETES, IN MHB SHADE.

57—highest since noon yesterday.
50—lowest this morning and during :he night.
51—this day at noon.
BAnomrrEn-29.05.—another fall of half-an-inch.
WIND; S.W. ; light, with drizzling rain, and dull wea.
ther.

THE SUN.

SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 27, 1858.

Never, during a career of no ordinary character,
has the Count DE MONTALEMBERT acquired such
high distinction as in the trial which was intended
to crush his genius, and change the liberal senti-
ments in which he indulged. Never was the
EMPEROR guilty of so grave a mistake. Never did
he permit the sycophants of the ante-chamber to
betray him into so great an error. That they may
have writhed under the keen and polished sarcasm
of the brilliant orator and the gifted writer is more
than probable, but why their Imperial Master
should have condescended to become the instrument
of their petty vengeance—why he should have
allowed them to drag him through the mire with
which they had been saturated, is a problem that
will puzzle future historians, who will wonder that
one so astute and clear-sighted in other matters
should have so easily fallen into the trap, and been
guilty of so gross a blunder.

As to M. DE MONTALEMBERT he may accept his
imprisonment as a high honoir, more glorious far
than the cordon of the Legion of Honour,
than star or riband of any order, however
distinguished. He has proclaimed the truth
when it was forbidden has asserted
the liberty of the Press when it was proscribed.
He has rendered justice to British institu-
tions when it would have better pleased the
back-stairs influence to libel and calumniate
them. The defence of his illustrious advocates,
MM. BERRYER and 7 DUFAURE was not an
apology, but an exultation. They vindicated every
act of their clients, while proving that had it
even been otherwise there was not the shadow of
a pretext for a conviction. The law under which
they were tried was no longer applicable to their
cases. But, then, conviction and sentence was a
foregone conclusion, that proved how profitably
France might have benefited by our English insti-
tution, the trial by jury, the great palladium of
our national liberties.

It is deeply to be regretted that those brilliant
addresses cannot be published in extenso. Unfor-
tunately, however, the French Press is now tram-
melled, and cannot give publicity to anything that
will not be pleasing to " the Powers that be," no
matter how earnest the anxiety of the people to
receive fair and impartial information ; no matter
how desirous Englishmen might be to peruse a just
report of the proceedings. It cannot be given
unless the journal in which it appears is prepared
to brave all the consequences, and to be suppressed,
if such should be the will of the authorities, for its
plain-spoken and straightforward truth.

The fine of 3,000, or, taking that of the printer
who knew nothing about the article previously to
its appearance, into consideration, 4,000 f. can
easily be provided. It should not be permitted to
fall on the distinguished orator. A shilling, aye
a penny subscription would speedily defray it ; and
a noble opportunity would be afforded of display-
ing British appreciation of the candour and bravery
displayed by one of the most illustrious Frenchmen
of the age. The praises of England fell heavily
on the ears of France. The insolent sabreurs
who dared to insult us—who fulminated their
vile slanders and bootless threats—were
encouraged ; but the first—the only man—
who has bravely dared to vindicate our institu-
tions has been tried, condemned, and punished.
The freedom of tho United Kingdom forms too
striking a contrast to the absence of liberty in
France.

The Procureur Imperial contended that the in-
stitutions of France feared no comparison with
those of England. Was he not at the very moment
giving the clearest and most unequivocal con-
tradiction to his assertions, proving that there
was neither a free press nor fair trials
under the Empire ? Was he not setting
the official seal on the charges put forward
by M. DE MONTALEMBERT, and establishing
beyond the possibility of doubt or difficulty that
the praise of British institutions must be as injuri-
ous to French ones, as it would be distasteful to
many Frenchmen, and more especially to the
haunters of the ante-chamber who have so cruelly
persecuted :the talented writer for daring to state
the -whole truth, and nothing but the truth ?
The interesting trial has now terminated. The
buck-stairs clique have had a nominal triumph, but

it would be well for the future fame of Louis
NAPOLEON if the untoward chapter could be
blotted out of the annals of the Empire.

Obstacles of the most tantalising description
still interfere with the accomplishment of one of
the world's greatest engineering achievements.
The Suez Ship Canal is to this day still talked of
hopefully, but still to the.last unattempted. Miracles
of skill in art and science are elsewhere performed
—literally—to admiration. But the digging of a
broad channel connecting the Red Sea and the
Mediterranean is being perpetually postponed, and
the project set aside as a daydream defying actual
realisation. Even Despotism—both European and
Oriental—has failed to effect this wonder by its
potent fiat, though twice within the last sixty
years we have seen it elaborately accumulat-
ing its preparations. NAPOLEON projected the
traversing of the isthmus by the commerce of
Europe and Asia by means of a grand ship canal—
but NAPOLEON left the work, not only undone, but
unattempted. The enterprise remains upon record
in his biography, with various other marvels dreamt
of by his Imperial and Royal MAJESTY, but never
seriously undertaken. It survives there in that
fairy tale of modern history in the same category
with the Ideal ofLhis Eastern Empire. It is there
as much of a visionary scheme as that colossal
elephant which it was intended by the Em-
peror and King should spout forth perpetual
fountains of spring water for the refresh-
ment and adornment of the capital of his empire.
It survives, there, as a design wholly imaginary—
splendid but unsubstantial—like that intended
Palace of the King of Rome, one of the giant stones
of which was eventually carved into a stupendous
vase—yet standing in the vestibule of the National
Gallery, as a trophy of the victory won by the
allies in 1815, at Waterloo. It was imagined that
Suez would be severed by a ship canal during the
time of NAPOLEON—just as it was imagined cen-
turies before that Mount Athos would be
carved during the age of ALEXANDER,
into a stupendous effigy of the Macedonian con.
qneror—bearing in the palm of one hand a popu-
lous city, and in the other an urn from which a
river was to flow forth everlastingly. Aftemards,
during the reign of the Viceroy MAHOMET ALI,
the design of the Ship Canal across Suez was
revived. It was talked about long and frequently
—the great Pasha of EGYPT held supreme power
over the ancient realm of the Pharoahs for years
and years, survived even to extreme old age, and
at last died. But the Suez Ship Canal
still remained a mere dotted outline of what
yet some day ?night possibly be attempted
—a dim supposititious achievement, pencilled fancy-
fully in the course of a map of Asia Minor. And
so to this day the notion has lasted—as just a faint
possibility. Nothing more apparently than a possi-
bility—even at this age of triumphant engineering.
A permanent tunnel, carriage, and footway could be
excavated under the channel of a broad river like
the Thames. The gigantic and rocky barrier of the
Alps could be traversed by the wide zigzag
roadway of the Simplan. An iron tube
could be suspended in midair over the Straits of
Menai, through the resounding walls of which
wrial bridge the railway trains are now-a•days
thundering perpetually at intervals. Mystic cords
of communication have been trailed under the waters
of the great deep from kingdom to kingdom, from
continent to continent, from hemisphere to hemis-
phere, along the submerged core of which
messages could be transmitted in the flash
of an instant on the wings of the light-
ning. Yet while those marvels have
been readily enough accomplished by the engi-
neering skill of the nineteenth century—the Suez
Ship Canal remains yet to the last not even at-
tempted—a day dream in nubibus. Flying ma-
chines have been elaborately constructed, that
would not fly. Numerous other wild and fantastic
projects have been subjected again and again to
costly experiments, have been patented, have given
rise to enterprising companies, have accumulated
millions of money to scatter the same into
thin air immediately afterwards. But all this
while nothing has seriously been done towards the
cutting through of the Isthmus of Suez, with that
long talked of 'ship canal, joining the Red Sea to
the Mediterranean. It is really as though the ad-
vocates of the design were babbling about a voyage
to the Moon—as though they were projecting a
tunnel straight down through the centre of gravity,
and on to our antipodes. Whatever the cost of the
undertaking, that cost might readily, we believe,
be contributed, and once contributed and applied,
would prove inevitably remunerative. What-
ever the difficulties of the enterprize,
those difficulties we may certainly rest assured
might be vanquished with comparative facility by
men like BRUNEL, or LOCKE, or STEPH:ENS43N. In
spite of so many reiterated disappointments, there-
fore, we may still be allowed to remain sanguine
that this noble day-dream of a ship canal through
Suez may yet—even during the life time of the
indefatigable M. LEssEPs—happily arrive at last
at the period of its actual realization.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR,. Nov. 26.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, dined with
her Majesty yesterday, attended by Lady Farkny Howard.
The party also included the Dean of Windsor e Lnd the Hon.
Mrs. Wellesley, Vice-Admiral W. F. Martin, Major-Gen
Sir Edward Lugard.

The Queen rode out on horseback this morning, attended
by Lady Macdonald, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Major-General
the Hon. C. Grey, and the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West.
His Royal Highness the Prince Consort went out
shooting.
Princess Alice and Princess Helena rode in the riding-
house.

Vice-Admiral W. F. Martin, Major-Ganoral Sir Georgo
Wetherall, and Major-General Sir Edward Lugard left the
Castle for London.

Their Royal Highnesses the Count de Paris and
the Duke de Chartres arrived at the Royal t3hip Hotel,
Dover, on Tuesday last, and embarked on the following day
for Ostend.

His Excellency the. Count de Torre Diaz has left
town, for Paris, en route for Madrid, to take his place in
the Senate.

The Duke of Rutland left town yesterday, for
Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire.

The Marquis of Bath has returned to town, from
Longleat, Wilts,

The Earl and Countess of Camperdown are ex-
pected in town in a few days, from their seat in Scotland.

We are very glad to learn that the Ladies Lucy
and Charlotte Bridgeman continue to progress as favourably
as can be anticipated from the nature of the injuries they
have sustained. Neither the Earl of Bradford nar Viscount
Newport have been able to use their hands since tie lament-
able occurrence.

Count Bela Szechenyi has arrived at Howchin's
Hotel, from Vienna.
Lord and Lady Wodehouse are expected in town
early next week, from Kimberly Hall, Norfolk.
The Right Hon. F. W. and Mrs. Cowper will
return to town on Monday, from visiting the Duke and
Duchess of Marlborough at Blenheim Palace, Oxon.
The Hon. Frederick Craven comes tc► town to-
day from Hametead Marshall.
Two sons of Archduchess Marie of Russtia, widow
of the Duc de Leuchtenberg (son of Prince Eu ene Beau-
harnais), are in Piedmont, and about to leave fior a winter
in Rome. By this connection the Imperial lionise of Ito-
manoff is allied to the grandson of Josephine, now occu_
pant of the Imperial throne of France.
NEW LEGAL CHANGES.—It is undcrsttood that
ce Knight Bruce is to be made a pee ir, when he
his appointment. Vice-Chancellor Wood will
Chancery bar, is expected to be the new Vice-C i'dancellor.
bewi will
Lordth r
eejsuineltvi Lord Justice ; and Mr. Malins, M.. 1)./ of the

THE SUN, LONDON,

LATEST NEWS.

The following telegram was received at Mr
Reuter's office this morning, Nov. 27 :

MADRID, Nov. 26,

The semi-official Correspondancia Autographa
contains the following :

The Minister of Marine, Admiral Jose Maria
Quesada, having promoted two naval officers (chefs
de marine) without consulting the Council, Marshal
O'Donnell in consequence thereof tendered his re-
signation, but the Queen most graciously refused
to accept it.
The Gazette contains an official announcement of
the resignation of Admiral Quesada.
Marshal O'Donnell is provisionally appointed
Minister of Marine.

Three per Cents. closed yesterday, 42 70.
Ditto, Deferred.

FRANCE.

PARIS, F RIDAY.

A deplorable accident oceurred yesterday at Vin-
cennes. General Ardent, of the Engineers, who
was assisting at a trial of guns being fired at a
target, was struck on the head by a projectile, and
was killed on the spot. The Minister of War,
Marshal Vaillant, was standing near him at the
moment, but escaped unhurt.
The weekly sitting of the French Academy takes
place every Thursday. M. Berryer and M. de
Montalembert, who, as you are aware, are both
members of that learned body, atteneded in their
places yesterday. They were received with great
applause—in fact, their entry was quite an ovation.
Though M. de Montalembert, from the simple
fact of his condemnation even to a lighter penalty
than six months' imprisonment and 3,000 f. fine,
becomes amenable to the provisions of the terrible
penal law passed after the attendat, and might be
banished to Algeria at the will of the Minister,
he has no present intention, it appears, of quitting
France when the term of his imprisonment is
expired.
The Presse publishes a long article on the high
price of meat, and strongly recommends the Muni-
cipal Commission of Paris to take the matter into
its own hands, in the interest of the public. It
points to a plan pursued in Turin as worthy of
imitation, and as presenting no difficulties worth
speaking of. The following is an extract :—" Why
does not the Parisian municipality do for meat
what it has done for bread ? Why does not the
City of Paris, which has become miller and baker,
also adopt the trade of butcher? It has only to
apply to meat a similar measure to what has
been adopted for bread. As a precedent it
might bring. forward the municipal butchery-
trade of Turin, which has existed for more
than a century. Having been first founded for
the supply of the hospitals and colleges, it was
afterwards opened to the public for the purpose
of counteracting the increasing exigencies of the
butchers. It is placed under the surveillance of the
superintendent of police, who appoints the director.
Every week this latter purchases the cattle which
he may stand in need of. He publishes an account
of the price of the animals when alive—their yield
in meat, tallow, hide, and offal—the general ex-
penses of slaughtering, and other charges connected
with the institution. He thus establishes the cost
price of the meat, to which he then adds afair profit
for the tradesman. The butcher, it is true, is not
compelled to remain satisfied with the profit, but
as the consumers know the real price, they are able
to beat him down, and as a last resource they have
the municipal butchery to apply to. This insti-
tution, therefore, possesses real advantages. In
making known the real cost price of the meat, by
official publications, it enlightens at the same time
both the producers and the consumers. It enables '
the former to judge of the advantages of breeding,
and the latter to contend against the extortions of
the butchers. Thus, on the one hand, it favours
the cheap production of cattle, and, on the other,
enlarges the circle of consumption. It therefore
proceeds in a contrary sense to what intermediate
agents do, who by increasing the price of articles
limit the demand."
The Constitutionnel, in discussing some statistical
returns on the state of mendicity in the Haut-Rhin,
recommends that an inquiry should be instituted
on the subject in every department of France, in
order to render relief to the poor more efficacious,
without being less prompt or less general.

BOURSE, Nov. 26.—The market has been rather
unsettled. Threes have been done at 74f. 10c.
and 74f. 25e.; Mobilier, 1,015 f. and 1,023 f. 75c.;
Austrian, 645 f. and 646 f. 25c. ; Orleans, 1,397 f.
50c. and 1,400 f.; Northern, 995 f. and 997 f. 50c. ;
and Southern, 585 f. 50c. and 585 f. The follow-
ing are the last quotations :

41 per Cents. .... 96 95 Credit Foncier 675
Do. end month .. 97 Belgian 41
3 per Cents 74 15 Piedmontese (5) .. 94 .50
Do. end month 74 25 Roman 95 50
Bank Shares. 3157 50 Austrian
Credit Mobilier .. 1017 50 Spanish Threes
Do. Account ..... 1025 Home Debt 42 50

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