The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-05 00:00:00

Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West-
minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen-
gers all hours of the night.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
GARIBALDI'S ENGLISHMAN. Messrs. Barrett and C.
Young.
Followed by MAGIC TOYS, supported by Miss Lydia
Thompson, Clara St. Cassc, &c.
Followed by a new sketch, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY.
Miss Wyndham and Mr. H. T. Craven.
To conclude with the new pantomime of PUNCH AN D
JUDY. Introducing. Miss Lydia Thompson and the Corps
de Ballet. Clown, Harlequin, Columbine, and Pantaloon, and
the wonderful Performing-Dogs.
Reduced Prices—Gallery, Ed ; Pit, ls. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform
anoe commences at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell. Season.
THIS EVENING, the grand entertainments will com-
mence at 7 o'clock with new and extraordinary features in
Horsemanship, by the best Riders in Europe. After which,
the Successful sporting Pantomime, abounding in comicality,
called HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY; or, Old Tow!er the
Huntsman and the Goddess Diana, with songs by Miss
Esther Jacobs.—Gorgeous and Dazzling insclianical transfor-
mation scene. Harlequin, M. Richarde ; Pantaloon, Mr. P.
Abbot, Columbine, Maddle. Mazzoni: Clown, Mr. Hilde-
brand; a family of Sprites by the Elastic lncomprehensibles.
Morning performances of the Pantomime, and Scenes in the
Omit every Satuzday durin,r the Holidays at Two o'clock.

stage Manager. Mr. P. Phillipa

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING. Sternaale Bennett's MAY
QUEEN.

_ .
And a Grand Selection from Meyerbeer's new opera of
DINORAH.

Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Machiey.
Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.
ROSA BOIsTHEUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE
FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of
Painting,s in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATIIER.-SUN OFFICE, JAN. 5, 1860.

THEICMONCETER, IN THE SHADE.
52—highest since noon ycsterday.
41—lowest this morning and during the night.
41—this day at noon.

BATIOMETEIt-2S.S:?.

WIND, Southerly; I Tght, with dull rainy weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins DAY.—Morning, 1011:41m.—Afternoon, 11h. IGm.
To-moßßow.-111orning, Oh. Om.—Afternoon, 12h. Om.

,c 0-? 4 ~.....,
• 7P, s 'f°-.:,-...;' ~`,.,:. it
4t40 A ',,,,,..,.-7 ',,t,-,P, S 5e
_IA,•-• -
~-., -:-..,-,7:-.;-,:!;t:s':,l*
,0,,,. , T•;,17'.7.4
~‘7.... ',..... -4.'t•,--,-.--.;.!,'-.,, _ ,
~,,. .
44' ..
Ift- r . -_Ner' '''', ' ii,,,,,7**`i,.in‘ ~.'lyC;k'gf.t.l
)Q e..-`43.4i'ltpc'.. ' '''' •ilo , " .'"':•'ZT;;T,-,.--1- © <::-- - '..,..:,
i• -„,LTI';--", -Y.,..'r ' -''.22f---' ''
,

THE SUN.

LONDON, THURSDAY, JAN. 5, 1860.

''''''.7---.'.,)...

Saturday, the seventeenth. of December, wit-
nessed, upon the opposite shores of the Atlantic,
the virtual inauguration of the latest triumph
achieved in—what the projector of the magnificent
scheme thus realised, himself once happily desig-
nated—the poetry of engineering ! The Victoria-
bridge, connecting Canada and the United States,
in other words, was upon that memorable morning
opened for traffic—the grandest iron tubular rail-
way bridge ie the world—the last, and the greatest,
among all the numerous and gigantic works
raised in all parts of the world by the Cyclopeian
genius of the late ROBERT STEPHENSON. The
formal opening of this colossal structure is under-
stood to be reserved by the Company for more par-
ticular celebration in the ensuing spring. But the
energetic representative of the distinguished firm
of the Contractors—Mr. HODGES, the agent of the
Messrs. PETO and BRASSEY—not unnaturally felt I
irresistibly impelled to mark the very day when
the Victoria Bridge was actually opened for traffic,
immediately before the close of 1859, by some pass-
ing festivity at- least, such as might give !
a sort of anticipative relish to the more
carefully prepared and elaborated inauguration.
Hence, on the morning, of the 17th December,
1859, the first train consisting of fourteen car-
riages passed throuterh the resounding tube of
the great bridge from shore to shore,high
up in
mid air above the broad current of the St. Law-
rence, from the Canadian soil at Point St.
Charles to the United Stateseside at St. Lambert.
The engines gaily adorned with flags and ever-
greens, the crowds of spectators upon either em-
bankment cheering lustily. Afterwards the
guests of the day partook of a collation ; toasts
were given, speeches were made, songs were
sung ; there were all the formalities, in
fact, of a regular convivial celebration..
it is not in reference to what was done orsaid upon
on Saturday, the 17th of
this occasion at Monteealo
this last December, that we wish here to point the
moral or adorn the tale told elsewhere with due
precision, in our impression of-day, by the reporter
of the Montreal Herald—it is neither upon the re-
port nor upon any of its oratorical or musical accom- I

crowning emanation. There, graven deep into the
granite over the entrance of each enormous abut-

ment, is the name of that Great Englishman. It
is a glorious monument of his genius—an inscrip-
tion of most simple but of most eloquent corn-

memoration.

The English public, who are interested in Italy,
are much indebted to Mr. Layard for his transla-
tion of the remarkable pamphlet, "The Court of
Rome and the Gospel_"* It is written by a man who
is both an earnest patriot and an earnest Catholic,
the Marquis ROBERTO D'AZEGLIO, a member of the
Piedmontese Senate, and brother of the well known
MASSIMO D'AZEGLIO. He is, Mr. LAYARD tells us,
a statesman of "liberal, yet very moderate views;''
and one who was " frequently an earnest advocate
of the claims of the Catholic party against the policy
of the Count
,DE CAVOLTR." Nothing, however, can
be in more gratifying contrast than the language
of the Marquis on the civil rights of the Romans
and Bolognese, and on the danger of claiming tem-
poral power for the POPE—and the language of our
Hibernian fellow-subjects. Many of the more
respectable of the Irish noblemen and gentlemen,
indeed, refuse to accept ultramontane resolutions'
and to sanction them by their presence at public
meetings ; yet even these better Catholics can talk
of "sympathy with the POPE ;" and his Holiness
gratifies them by thanks for their sympathy in Latin
letters. The difference between them and the Marquis
is, that his " sympathy" is not with the POPE but
with the people. They, in his well-informed judg-
ment, and not the POPE, are the sufferers. Irish
Catholics, at ease in their liberties, and protected
by a n efficient and impartial administration, can
afford sentimentally—or bigotedly—to " pity the
sorrows of the poor old POPE," because a large
part of the subjects whom the first NAPOLEON gave
him have escaped from his temporal dominion ; the
Marquis de'AzEGLio, en the contrary, rejoices
that, to this extent, Italians have freed themselves
from intolerable tyranny and misgovernment, and
that the " Vicar of CurasT" is delivered, to the
same extent, from the execrations of his temporal
Government, which are so likely to lead to rejec-
tion of his spiritual authority.
It must not be suspected that the Marquis
feels, or betrays, any sympathy with Protestan-
tism. His pamphlet, as well as his past course,

shows that he is a sincere believer in the Ecclesias-

tical Supremacy of the PorE. " When (he says)
the Tread of the Church deals with Ecclesiastical
matters, Catholic believers, as in duty bound,
listen and obey"—he evidently believes as sincerely
as Dr. CULLEN himself in the " Supreme

Pastor," and the " Vicar of CHRIST," but he
.brings forward unanswerable facts and argu-
ments which show, that to unite temporal
power with this spiritual character is to shake the
foundations of faith in the latter by the miserable
consequences which flow from the former. We cannot
dissimulate (he observes) the painful scandal to the
whole of Christianity occasioned by the reflection
that, under the dictation of a Minister to whom
Italy attributes the principal part of her misfor-

tunes, the Vicar of Christ, whose sacerdotal hand
should weigh in the even scales of justice the tears
and blood of nations, and the deceit and cruelty of
princes, should speak with such worldly levity of
events which are the consequences of the contempt
shown by his government for that precept of justice
imposed by GOD equally on those who rule and
those who obey." lie shows that the spontaneous
impulse which prompted all the Italian peoples to
seek union beneath the crown of a constitutional
king was no more faction, but sprung from the
evils under which they groaned, more especially
where the Papacy was the supreme authority ; and
lie notices the remarkable fact, that not one Italian
has sought the temporal dominion of the POPE as a
blessing, while all have been eager to place them-
selves, in temporal things, beneath a monarch whose
government is the very antithesis of that of the Re-
presentative of Heaven upon earth

The cause of this is not far to seek: The Gospels,
the written accounts of the Pounder of our Faith,
are, he tells us, now in the hands of all classes of

people ; Austrians read them in their workshops ;
for education is now pretty general. When, there-
fore, they hear from the Vatican such an " Allocu-

tion" as that to which he refers, " they listen to it
attentively, and anxiously comment upon it among
themselves, comparing it with the Word of Rim who
was their first pastor, confronting one with the
other, and judging of them by the simple light of
their own reason." It would seem that the Bible
has entered pretty extensively into Central Italy,
and that wit', an almost amusing
st simplicity and
raightforwardness they are _wanting to find a
reasonable resemblance between the Head of the
Church as described in the Gospels and his Repre-
sentative with whom they have more to do than
they v.ish at Rome ; also between." the fisherman"
who dwelt by the sea of Galilee and" the fisherman"
who lives on the banks of the Tiber. And mar-
vellous to say, the Italians find it extremely difficult
to detect the resemblance between the Divine

Murray, Albemarle-street.

panimeats that we wish to indite here some passing
words of commentary. The harangues for the
most part are, we must confess it, too high-flown
for our taste, too exaggerated and hyperbolical
both in style and sentiment. While in reference
to the musical honours aforesaid—while there may
perchance be something appropriate in following
up the toast of the Governor-General with the air
(blown, and scraped, and thumped upon the instru-
ments of the Band) of the " Old English Gentle-
man"—what shall we say of the " Grand Trunk
Celebration Polka" following the toast of the
G. T. R. Company—or what can be, what in the
name of fortune can be said of the dignified
propriety of the toast of The Contractors
being followed by the big drums, the fid-
dles and horns of the band striking up " For
they are jolly good fellows ?" With our senses
deafened, or at least jarred upon by this unpoetical
mode of celebrating "the poetry of engineering,"
we prefer alluding rather to what was not visible
and audible upon that day—the voice and ihe
form of the Great Engineer whose last and
grandest work was there accomplished !
Scarcely six years have elapsed since
ROBERT STEPHENSON stood upon the banks of
the St. Lawrence near the spot where his
genius has since raised the iron tube of the Vic-
toria Bridge—raised it there from abutment to
abutment, from embankment to embankment, by
the aid_of those Gnomes of the modern Cyclops of
EngineTring, such men as PETO and BRASSEY, the
Contractors ! When STEIIENSON stood there, six
years ago, that gulf was already spanned—in his
imagination !He has, unhappily,-not survived to
witness the completion of his superb enterprise.
But his absence from the scene on the 17th
of December, while it was the most melan-
choly, was at the same time the most notable
circumstance of the day's celebration. It was
the bust of BRLTCS again because ?canting, the
most conspicuous incident in the procession.
Everyone there thought most of the man who was
not there—thought, with a retrospective thrill of
homage of the great mind of which that gigantic
engineering achievement was the noblest and the