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

JOUVIN and CO.'S (Porte St. Denis, Paris)
PATENT GLOVES, NW:dile d'Or.—Wholesnle Depot, Ic6,
Ptccadilly.-33, 6d. per pair for either Indic.; or gentlemen. No dif-
fer nce by the dozen,

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.—NEW THEA.TRY.
The nobility, gentry, subscribers, and the public are respectfully
wormed that the season will terminate on Saturday next. There
will be no extra n;glits.
EXTRA NIGHT THIS EVENING (MONDAY).
Last Night•but Three. -
Last Night uf DON GIOVANNI.
THIS EVENING (MONDAY), Aug. 9, the last Extras ight d
of the
season will take place, on which occt.sion will he peerme (for
the last time this season) Mozart's Opera,
DON GIOVANNI,
with the following powerful cast:—Donna Anna, Madame Grist;
ethos, Madame 113‘.isio ; Eivira, Marta ; Don Giovanni, Signor
Mario ; Leporello, Signor Itonconi ; Masttto, gnor Polonini ;
Commendatore, Signor Tagliatico ; Don Ottavio, Signor Tamberlik.
Conductor, Mr. Carta.
This Minuet will be danced by Matille. V.1:19. and M. Desplaces.
The Opera commeaces at hatf-pa,t S..
.tickets, Ida.
id.; amphitheatre stalls, 10.. 64., is., and 55.;
Ptt
amphitheatre, Is. ed. Second tier boxes, Et Its. 6d.

ROYAL rmrsc ESS'S TII EA.TRE.
Ender the Management of Mr. Charles Kenn.
TRIM EVENING will be presented.Shalopere's Play of THE
MERCHANT OF VENICE: Shylock. Mr.
FOR LOVE. Portia, Mrs. C.
Keen. Preceded by tho Farce of DY Mr

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss SwAnborough.
THIS EVENING, the Comedy of COUB3 FAVOUR: topported
11 ig es,
Messrs. Emry, Belford ,Poyater, Turner, Mi es
31. Withal,
end Mrs. C. Melville. After which], BUNTING A TITRIIE: by
Messrs. Belford. Burt, Turner, J. Clarke, and Miss M. Wilton. To
conclude with RAISING THE WIND: by Messrs. Belford, Turner,
J. Claiko, 31rs. C. Melville, and Miss E. Wilton.

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cANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road--
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The following company of Vo-
calists are enraged for the performance of Seleetions from all the
popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS , CHORUSES, GLEES. DUETS, &r,„
via.:—Miss Russell, MrA. Badsey, Miss Brunel', Mias Bay, Madame
itartolotti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson;
Herr P. Jonghmans, Mr. Renshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling
Senor Antonio, E. L. Hiroo, Mr. Badzev, Scnor Tiroii, Mr. Corers.
Mr. Bell, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Ai.byn. Mr. Tanin, John G.
lorde, and E. W. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; Isarmo-
ntum, Mr. Courtnay; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at
seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, 10., 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 undertaken 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, bad 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 requireenumeration. 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
plumage, 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! Lastly
a nourd carved with rude indications of
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 fir 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 disappearing, shifting fitfully hither and thither
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-
solutely unmistakeable evidences of the marvellous
currant being throughout, to the last moment,
uninterrupted. But together with these to-ti-
monies of success—there were threatening 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. 2r min. W.,
at a di3tanee of 816 miles from her d:.'stination, there
i 3 the startling record, on that first day of the paying
out of the cable—the 22th of July—that she had to
stop, perfirce, two hours, to spl it ale,v, a defec-
tive place being clearly di,cernibla. During the
night following the day after, the minim cf the
vessel is said very seriously to have endangered the
fast uncoiling line of what is truly now the veritable
Sea Serpent. Another illy, says the log-book, "
ba-
rometer falling ;" and, a few h iurs afterwards,
" very threatening 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 ! Es-en 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 b!un lering vessels
having nothing to do with the expedition, and last,
not least, in spite of the monsters of the deep—we all
knew the glorious result, we need hardly finish the
sentence—the grand work of a few days is trium-
phantly 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 !
Time and space are virtually annihilated between the
new world and the old. Thousands of miles of salt
water rolling between them—the Eastern and the
Western hemispheres are brought permanently to-
gether—are one in thought and feeling—are al
friends standing face to face !

The history of the first voyage of COLUMBUS may
new in truth find a companion tale of marvel in the
Annals of this last and in some respects greatest of
all the triumphs of phpical philosophy—the one
effected by the memorable voyage, during which the
electric cable wai laid down along the awful and in-
crutable bed of the Atlantic by the Niagara and the
Agamemnon.

The QUEEN, PRINCE COSSORT, and other members
of the Royal Family of England, have paid their
visit to the EmrEnolt and EmParss of the French,
and, as we have already state received a cordial and
warm greeting. It was right t 3 show that there was
no paltry jealousy or envy—that neither the SovE
REIGN nor People of Great Britain would repine at
any accession of power to a nation which of late years '
has been a faithful friend and ally. Such events arc
not mere visits of ceremony between the Monarchs.
If so, they would be of comparatively little import-
-scarcely more so than one of those
AIME marriages
to which so many promising scions of Royalty have,
and, it is to be feared, will yet be, sacrificed, The

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