The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-21 00:00:00

Stage Manager. Mr. R. Phillips.

A Morning Performance of the renowned Pantomime every
Saturday, at Two o'clock.
Carriages for day performances at half-put four, and for
night representation at half-past 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 DAT AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12
o'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec-
tton 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 Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently
added Ante-Hall, will 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 MURICAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at
Seven o'clock.
In addition to the usual entertainment, the SAUVLET
FAMILY, of Amsterdam, Eight in number, whose varied
instrumental performances have created so marked a sensa-
tion in the principal cities and towns of the Continent, will
perform every Evening at Nine an i Eleven o'clock.

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JAN. 21.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

52—highest since noon yesterday.
47—lowest this morning and during the night.
49—this day at noon.

BAROMETEN-30'3.

WIND, S.W.; moderate, with dull mild weather.

THE SUN.

FRIDAY. JANUARY 21, 1869.

King FERDINAND 11., of Naples, is no more.
He died, after a very brief illness, yesterday. In
the case of Sovereigns we cannot accept the doc-
trine—tie inortuus nil nisi bonunt. They are public
characters, and historical truth requires that they
should be dealt with in strict accordance with
veracity, and that no delicate scruples should inter-
fere with the real facts. The deceased KING will
be lamented by few, if any, beyond his own imme-
diate family and dependents. We are told that
even NERo had mourners, and there are few, in-

deed, who have not earned the gratitude of some of
s their followers. But King FERDINAND was pecu-
liarly unfortunate, so far as his subjects,
and the peoples and rulers of other
States, were concerned. He could never do
anything with a good grace. Even if intending to
make a concession, he spoiled its effect by some
sinister addition or useless sarcasm. He had even
the hardihood to insult England and France—a
matter which led to the suspension of diplomatic
relations, and very considerable annoyance to the
KING, whose petulant insolence led to such unto-
ward results. Again, in the case of the English
engineers, he disregarded, as he had been accustomed
to do with respect to hiS own subjects, every consi-
deration of justice and equity ; but, thanks to the
firmness and determination of Lord MALMESBERY,
he had not only to make complete submission and
to release the intended victims, but to make pecu-
niary compensation for the terrible sufferings they
had endured. These were some of the matters that
soured his disposition and made him wreak his
vengeance with stringent severity on those who,
being his own subjects, were liable to endure his
tender mercies.

Whenever he granted a nominal boon there was
always something in reserve to convert the appa-
rent blessing into a real curse. It has been so with
POERIO and his companions, who, after having
endured ten year,,' incarceration, and that, be it
remembered, in Neapolitan dungeons (!) and in
chains, were banished from their native land, and
may already be sent off if the death of their perse-
cutor and the accession and marriage of the Crown
Prince does not in some degree alleviate their
condition. It was certainly as doubtful an
attempt at an act of grace and amnesty as was
ever perpetrated by a crowned despot.
The death of the man will be thought little of in
this country, but it may exercise considerable in-
fluence on the state of Italy and the prospect of
European peace. Of all the divisions into
which Italy was separated, there was none
in which reform was so urgently required as
in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Not only were
the people
,justly and reasonably discontented at
the oppression under which they groaned, but they

had not the shadow of constitutional protection
against the tyranny to which they were exposed
on the slightest or most trivial suspicion. The
slightest spark would have enkindled a flame
which would not only have prod Iced a serious
conflagration in Naples and Sicily, but also in
the States of the Church, in Lombardo-Venetia,
Tuscany, and other petty principalities which
ought forthwith to be mediatised. We need not
say what would be the consequences. The speeches
of the Ist and of the 10th of January supply the
response. VICTOR EI4IMANITEL is burning for the
opportunity, to obtain which he has sacrificed his
child, while NAPOLEON bides his time, watching
the suitable occasion, and ready to strike
sharply and suddenly whenever the scale of per-
sonal advantage, either at home or abroad, shall
incline the hundredth part of an inch in favour of
hostilities. Europe is at this moment placed on a
volcano, the lava being composed of earnest enthu-
siasm and selfish and unscrupulous cunning. The
accession of the Crown Prince may make a change.
There may be some hope from him,while FERDINAND
11. was utterly beyond even the most sanguine
anticipations of improvement. The last drop
of PANDORA'S box appeared to have been poured
forth in his case, and despair was the lot of his
unfortunate subjects.

A very brief period will suffice to show the
spirit in which the new King intends to govern
the beautiful territories to which he has just suc-
ceeded. A straw thrown up will indicate the
direction of the wind ; and a slight demonstration
on the side of mercy will gratify the people, and
make the King a popular monarch, particu-
larly if he displays any indications of
a resolution to introduce a better regime. It is an
important moment for him—the hinge on which
his future happiness and that of his subjects rests.
Let him strive to win their affections—to bestow
on them good institutions—to satisfy every reasop-
able demand, and he will be loved and respected.
Let him follow in the path pursued by his father,
and he will be hated and despised. The death of
King FERDINAND is one of the points that affords
additional security for the peace of Europe, and
which will probably prevent any interruption of
its tranquillity, should his successor be influenced
by wise and prudent counsels.

The Hudson's Bay Company have found an un-
discriminating champion and eulogist in one of the
contributors to the current number of the Edin-
burgh. Several years back, when criticising the
writings of the late reverend author of " Woman,"
" Satan," and the " Omnipresence," Lord (then Mr.)
MACAULAY designated the last-mentioned effusion
as a specimen of what might be aptly termed " the
Turkey carpet style of poetry." Speaking of the
political plea here advanced in behalf of the fur
traders of North America, we might define it no
less aptly, we conceive, as a sample of the true
Kidderminster style of argument. The key in
which the whole strain of this argument is pitched
is unquestionably—low. It is penned by an adept
in that peculiar line of advocacy expressed by the
familiar axiom inculcating the advice that, if a
counsel be in any doubt as to the precise course to
be pursued, he should at once resolutely begin by
abusing the opposing attorney. Altogether, the
construction of this particular " article" in the Whig
quarterly bears a very striking similitude to that often
expressing "the very age and body of the Times"
—and characterising the " form and pressure" of
certain of the political lucubrations in the chief
among our morning contemporaries. For example
—as a direct indication in point—the Edinburgh
Reviewer sets out, as his alter nos elsewhere, with
an affectation of dealing only in the most unim-
passioned generalities. The very article which,
before its close, rises from the first sad monotone

of despondency to a wild shriek of despair as to

the probable fate of the Hudson's Bay Company,
begins—how upon earth does the reader suppose it
begins ? It begins as PLUTARCH'S biographies end
—with a contrast and a comparison—a parallel and
an antithesis. But such a contrast, such a com-
parison ! The Reviewer sets forth in his argument
with a recognition of what he is pleased to regard
as the extraordinary resemblance discernible be-
tween North Asia and North America! A resem-
blance in reality about as wonderfil in its way as
there might be found between any two men as
dissimilar as possible, save in their being. equally
free from anything like actual deformity. The
likeness consisting entirely in the astounding cir-
cumstance of their both possessing the usual number
of limbs and features—seeing with their eyes,
hearing with their ears, walking upon their feet,
and so forth. Having exhausted a really senile
wonder upon the astonishing facts—that North
Asia and North America alike consist of land, alike
are washed on either side by the waters of the
ocean, alike possess mountains and rivers, together
with other geographical peculiarities no less calcu-
lated to excite our surprise and admiration—as, for
instance, that truly amazing circumstance, that, as
each extends northwards beyond the boundary lino
of the arctic circle, so each, in the most incompre-
hensible way imaginable, enters the regions of
eternal ice, where the cold stands at ever so many
degrees below zero of Fahrenheit—the latent advo-
cate wriggles at last, snakewise, from under all
these blooming flowers of rhetoric; is discovered at
length, with uplifted crest, in his true character--
hissing, deadly, poisonous ! A single sweep, how-
ever, of the trenchant brand of Truth and that
formidable " head—and front of its offending,"
might be lopped off as readily as the bloom of a
thistle at the switch of a rattan.

The whole of this elaborated argument of the
Edinburgh Reviewer, indeed, carries with it its
own refutation. The writer acknowledges, at the
very outset, that the Hudson's Bay Territory—his
theme—is, to say the very least of it, jeopardised.
According to his own showing, there is no rational
hope left of the retention of power by its present
rulers. " Canada," he observes (p. 123), "is pressing
towards them on the south-east frontier—the United
States are approaching them on the south from
Minnesota ; while the recent gold discoveries on
the Fraser and Thompson rivers have emptied half
California into a region unknown and untrodden,
till within the last year or two, by any except a
few tribes of Indians and the servants of the Hud-
son's Bay Company." Yet it is this moribund
company, now confessedly in the midst of its death
agonies, that the Reviewer would see rehabilitated
as the heart and soul, and head (a very Caput
mortuum) of our North American governments. And
by a singular distortion of the straight and obvious
rule of justice--deflected by the current of the
writer's prejudice, as a rod when steeped in water
—the very statesman who has had the courage and'
the genius, in the midst of all theseanomtaolieusn,
under-'
d-
at this supreme moment of emergency,
take the solution of the complicated problem of our
North American difficulties, is, for so doing, ren-
dered the object of the bitterest reprehension, and
of the most malevolent misrepresentation. There
is, happily, in all this one obviously satisfactory
consideration; namely, that most agreeable and
encouraging reflection, that while the Whig apolo-
gist and champion of the Hudson's Bay Company
IS Spitefully, but, at the same time, most innocu-

ously vilifying the man in whom we rejoice to be

lieve the nation may at last recognise the inevit-
able
Destroyer of that long effete Monopoly—the
death-blow has already been stricken, the doom of
the. Company has already been pronounced.
As many as ten years ago we wrote in the
columns of this journal, on the 26th of June, 1849,
in reference to the then recent acquisition of Qua-
dra by the company, for the period of that very
decade which has since then elapsed—
"lt was the circumstance of WILLIAM RUFUS preclud-
ing the possibility of anything like agricultural progress in
the largest and most fruitful portions of Hampshire (the
New Forest), that imparted to his reign an air of such
savage austerity. Yet, what WILLIAM Rufus did to a
portion of a new province of his dominion, at a time when
that dominion extented no further than beyond the boun-
dary line of the Grampians and the shores of England, the
Hudson's Bay Company have done (and that too in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries I) to half of a vast con-
tinent like the northern continent of America. What
WILLIAM Iturus did for the sake of the manly sport of
hunting, the Hudson's Bay Company have been, and are,
• doing for the sake of so much profit as traders I Let them
draw a warning, in the shape of a deduction, from the
annals of their native country ! Let them remember how
the second WILLIAM fell a victim to his inordinate passion
for sport ! And let them beware lest they may find them-
selves destroyed by some Parliamentary Sir WALTER
TYRRELL I Unless they be absolutely blinded by their
avarice as speculators, by their greed of emolument, by
their lust of an exorbitant per tentage in profit, they will
yield before their barbarous and extortionate proceedings
have driven the country to desperation ; they will, in par-
ticular, shrink from the ridicule attached to those who emu-
late the fabulous dog dropping the substance to snatch at
the shadow. To them, we are satisfied that Vancouver's
Island will prove nothing more than a shadow, a shadow
reflected, to their avaricious eyes, in the waters of Nootka
Sound. Even now, in this early stage of the proceeding,
when the ink is scarcely yet dry upon the document which
to
manifest itself
consigns Quadra to their tandeiertedstoamtiinonioonf,
theirthe ebffaercbtarisoubsegicsnitening,
which must inevitably tend, at last, to undermine the whole
superstructure of their sway in North America."

What we thus wrote on Tuesday, the 26th of
June, 1849, we now distinctly reiterate on Friday,
the of January, 1859. And we ask if every
s,we penned more than ten years ago, has
not, in the interval that has since elapsed, been in
every particular justified.? The odium, long ago
inspired, in this regard, by the Hudson's Bay Com-
pany, has been matured, by reason of their ten years'
occupancy of Quadra, to the present climax of
detestation as to their sway generally upon the
North American continent. Vancouver's Island
has melted from them like the shadow we predicted.
For snatching at that shadow they are now losing
the substance of which they had previously so long
held possession. And as the disaster foreshadowed
by our reference to the fate of the Red King—have
not the rulers of the Company at length found
themselves brought face to face with a " Parlia-
mentary Sir WALTER TYRRELL " in the creator of
British Columbia ? And as we do confidently hope,
Sir EDWARD LYTTON will yet prove himself to be
the regenerator of the whole of the vast sweep of
our British North American possessions.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF
CHARLEVILLE.

(BY BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
DUBLIN, FRIDAY.
Saunders announces the death of the Earl of

Charleville at 10 o'clock last night, at his seal
Charleville Forest, Tullamore.

THE PRINCESS CLOTILDE.—A letter from Turin
says Prince Napoleon is charmed with the Princess Clotilde.
And well he may be. Imagine a girl with golden-brown
hair, and a skin of pearly whiteness, just dawning into
womanhood—a form already full and round, a figure of
commanding aspect. Then the expression of the Prin-
cess's face is tenderly intellectual. Occasionally you observe
a reposeful and meditative charm ; then again her features
suddenly light up, and flash with the quick thoughts of a
mind evidently of no ordinary perception and of quick
appreciation.
We (Wolverhampton Chronicle) regret to state
that the venerable Lord Northwick is very ill and is n•t
expected to survive many days. His lordship is nearly 90
years of age.
The Hon. William Preston, the American Minis-
ter to Spain, and the Hon. J. Glancy Jones, American
Minister to Vienna, are expected to arrive in the United
States mail packet Fulton, now due at Cowes.
The Duke of Buccleuch and the Earl of Dal-
keith, M.P., have left Belgrave-square for Dalkeith Palace
near Edinburgh, after attending the funeral of the late
Lady Montagu.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, who
came to Stafford House on Tuesday from visiting the Duke
and Duchess of Manchester at Kimbolton Castle, Hunting.
donshire, have left town for Lilleshall, Shropshire, where
a select circle is about to assemble.
The Earl and Countess of Harewood have arrived
in town from Harewood House, Yorkshire.
Lord and Lady Raglan are still staying with the
Earl Beauchamp at Madresfield Court,Worcestershire. The
noble lord has caused 40 poor families to be supplied with
clothing suitable to the season on his estate at Llandenny,
Monmouthshire.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has issued
cards for a full-dress Parliamentary dinner on the 2d of
February, at his private residence, Grosvenor-gate.
Mr. Fitzwilliam Hume, M.P., had an interview
yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer at his
official residence in Downing-street.
Mr. J. R. Graves, of Liverpool, had an interview
with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley yesterday, at the office
of the Board of Trade.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has addressed
the following circular to the supporters of the Administra-
tion in the House of Commons :

" Downing-street, Jan. 13.
" Sir,—l beg leave to inform you that the meeting of
Parliament has been fixed for the 3d of February, and as
the House of Commons will immediately proceed to the
consideration of business of great importance, I earnestly
request your attendance at the opening of the session.
" I have the honour to remain, Sir, your faithful and
obedient servant, "B. DIsItAELI."

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in
Downing-street. The Ministers present were—the Earl of
Derby, the Right lion. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor,
the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, Mr.
Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir E. Bulwer
Lytton, Major-General Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir John
Pakington, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord John
Manners.

Lady Montague and Miss Leeds have arrived at
Wallace's Hotel, St. George's-place, Hyde-park-corner,
from Bath.

Captain Tottenham and Mrs. Tottenham have
arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood, from
Tunbridge-wells.
DEATH OF LADY GEORGIANA WOLFF.—The
village of Isle Brewers and neighbourhood have been thrown
into a state of gloom by the sudden demise of Lady Geergiana,
the beloved wife of
.the Rev. Dr. Wolff, which took place
early on Sunday morning last. The deceased lady returned'
from a dinner party at about half-past 11 on the previous
evening, and retired to rest in her usual state of health, when
about two o'clock in the following morning she was seized
with a suffocating sensation in the chest and a rattling in
the throat, which continued to increase in spite of every effort
which her domestics most diligently used to relieve her,
until her death, which occurred about half-an-hour after-
wards, and before her medical attendant could arrive. An
inquest was held on Monday, before 'W. W. Munckton,
Esq., and a respectable jury, when a verdict of " Died by
the visitation of God" was returned. This estimable lady
was a daughter of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford, and
born at Wolverton, Norfolk, the 19th Feb., 1795 ; she
married the Rev. Dr. Wolff in 1823, by whom she leaves
one son, Mr. Henry Drummond Wolff, who is now the
private secretary of Sir H. Bulwer Lytton.—Sherborne
Journal.

BANKRUPTCY REFORM.—The Government have
abondoned the bill introduced by the Lord Chancellor at
the close of last session, and are now preparing an act for
the amendment of the Bankrupt Law Consolidation Act,
1819. The draught of this measure is being prepared by
Mr. Francis Savage Reilly, who, it will be remembered,
was secretary to the Bankruptcy Commission Inquiry of
1854. The committee of the Cabinet who have charge of
the measure consists of the Lord Chancellor; Mr. Walpole,
Home Secretary; and Mr. Henley, President of the Board
of Trade.

THE MERSEY.—Yesterday (Thursday) three of
the finest vessels ever built on the banks of the Mersey
were launched into that river. One was the Sir John
Lawrence, a medium clipper, built by Messrs. Thomas
Royden and Son, for Messrs. Farnworth and Jardine, of
Liverpool. She-is -1,140 tons builders' measurement, and
classed A 1 at Lloyd's for 13 years, and is intended for the
Calcutta trade. Messrs. Thomas Vernon and Son launched
the Slieve Donard from their yard. This vessel, of 1,450
tons burden, classed A 1 for 12 years, and built for Messrs.
William Sinclair and Son, of Belfast, is the largest iron
vessel ever built at Liverpool. She is also intended for the
East India trade. At Birkenhead Messrs. Clover and
Foyle launched from their yard, adjoining the woodside-
ferry, the Jessie Beazley, of 500 tons, one of the hand-
somest clippers ever built on the shores of the Mersey.
This being the first launch in the locality it was witnessed
by a vast crowd of spectators. The Jessie Beazley, which
is owned by Mr. James Beazley, of Liverpool, is also in-
tended for the East India trade. In spit© of a stroll°.
104th-east breeze all the launches were perfectly successful, .

LYCEUM THEATRE.

Last night a new drama, entitled "A Sister's Sacrifice,"
was produced here with complete success. It is adapted
from a French piece, called " Les Orphellines do Valneige,"
which is derived in its turn from " Genevieve," a celebrated
tale by M. de Lamartine.
The heroine is Genevieve herself (Madame Celeste), a
sempstress and shopkeeper in the village of Valneige, who
by honest industry supports herself and her half-sister
Josette (Miss Julia St. George). Such a model of virtue
and honesty is Genevieve that notwithstanding a perpetual
feud between the mountain and the valley, she, an inhabi-
tant of the latter, so thoroughly gains the respect of M.
Girard (Mr. Barrett), a wealthy farmer in the upper regions,
that he consents to her union with his son Cyprien (Mr.
Emery). Under these very favourable circumstances hap-
piness seems absolutely inevitable, when suddenly a diffi-
culty occurs. The Girard family is composed of good
steady people, who are, moreover, strict Catholics, and
Genevieve is exactly fitted to their standard ; but Josette
has been brought up in the faith of her father, who
was her mother's second husband and a Protestant.
Genevieve will be welcomed at the mountain farm as
the bride of Cyprien, but she must leave the
little coquettish heretic down in the valley—an arrange-
ment which causes such overwhelming grief to poor Jo-
sette that Genevieve is obliged to remain with her and
break offthe very advantageous match with Cyprien Girard,
though she well nigh breaks her own heart at the same
time.

Several months are supposed to elapse before the second
act begins, during which Josette dies, and in the course of
that period Genevieve has been on business to Paris,
whence she has returned to weep over her sister's grave.
Surely we have here another chance of happiness ; for
though Cyprien is engaged to marry a somewhat unamiable
maiden named Catherine (Mrs. Keeley), he is quite pre-
pared to return to his old love, Geneviiive, now she is re-
lieved from the sisterly incnnlbrance. But a fresh cloud
soon darkens the horizon. Poor erring Josette has died
without diminishing the population, an illegitimate off-
spring immediately supplying the vacancy caused by her
decease. To save the honour of the dear dead
girl, Genevieve allows her neighbours to believe that she
herself is the mother of the child, the revelation of whose
existence has caused a village scandal.
The scene of the third act is laid down in the mountains
outside Girard's farm. Genevieve, wretched and an out-
cast, wanders thither to die. It is the morning on which
Cyprien is to be married to Catherine, for everybody believes
the tale of Genevieve's shame, and when she is discovered
she is about to be hunted from the place, but Madame
Belan conceives that she has kept silence long enough,
comes forward, and declares the right of the story. Cyprien
is overwhelmed with remorse, Genevieve is free and blame-
less, but his promise is given to Catherine and he will keep
it. Now Catherine shows her generosity ; she sees the
strait in which her betrothed is placed, she voluntarily
surrenders his hand, and the curtain falls on the union of
Cyprien and Genevieve.

The simple story is very skilfully worked out, and it has
the advantage of remarkably good acting in a considerable
number of characters. Genevieve is most touchingly deli-
neated by Madame Celeste, who, though she has played in
far more showy parts, has seldom appeared in any that
have gone more thoroughly to the hearts of the audience.
Mrs. Keeley is excellent as Catherine, Mr. Emery as
Cyprien, Mr. Barrett as the farmer Girard, and Miss Julia
St. George as Josette, are all good ; indeed there is a ge-
neral completeness in the production of the piece.
The scenery, dresses, and decorations are exceedingly
beautiful and appropriate, and reflected great credit on the
management. Amidst the unanimous applause of a house
crowded to the ceiling, the piece was given out for repeti-
tion every evening until further notice.

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