The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-11 00:00:00

CANTERBURY HALL -CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of
MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con-
verts), the extraorainary Violin Performances of the cele-
brated Infant DELEPIERRE FAMILY, and the usual
Vocal Conceit.

Comic Vocalists -Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Hackney.
Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-de a
nt
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.
Will shortly be produced, a Grand Selection from Meyer-
beer's new opera of DENORAH.

THE WEATHER.-8 tas Oxagez, Comes= 11.
THEILMOYETEB., IN THE SHADE.
61—highest since soon yesterday.
56 lowest this morning and during the night.
59—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-28.54.
WIND, N.W. ; light, with dull cloudy weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins DAY.—Morning, lh. 25m.—Afternoon, lh. 41m,
T o-liaonno w-Morning, lh. 55m.—Afternoon, 2h. 10m.

It is impossible to contemplate without a shudder
the dreadful tragedy which has recently desecrated
the streets of Parma—the hideous and brutal mur-
der of the unfortunate Colonel ANVM. Further
particulars have now enabled us to recognise only
too vividly the whole horror of this atrocious and
most lamentable catastrophe. Musing over those
particulars, one cannot but instinctively call to
mind that despairing cry which rang from the lips
of the beautiful RoLAND when she stood upon the
scaffold of the guillotine awaiting her own turn
for execution—that lamentable cry which will re-
sound for ever down the lengthened perspective'of
history—" Oh, Liberty ! in thy name what crimes
are perpetrated!" Here, in this detestable assassi-
nation of the Count ANVITI, is the latest and not
the least execrable of these peculiar atrocities.
Until ANVITI was "done to death" in the streets of
Parma, during one of the earlier days of this
month of October (the Fifth)—the calm, ma-
jestic, resolute, and. tranquil attitude main-
tained by the population of the Duchies from
the moment when their respective Princes
had fled to the camp of the Austrians (there
flagrantly to draw the sword amongst the foes of
Italian independence), this calm, majestic, resolute,
and tranquil attitude on the part of the population
of the Duchies had been the theme of very general
and of nobly-deserved admiration. Sympathising
here in England with the loftier hopes and aspira-
tions of the Italians, we all said exultingly, in the
presence of that superb self-command on the part
of the inhabitants of those central portions of the
Roman peninsula—They are worthy of realising
those glorious dreams of their social and political
emancipation ! Suddenly, in the midst of which
emotional greetings of applause from their sympa-
thisers, come from Parma the tidings of this most
unlooked for calamity! Happily—(it is about the
only thought by way of compensative mitigation
left to us)—" It all passed," we do believe, as it is
said to have done by an eyewitness, or rather by one
who was there in Parma at the period of the assassi-
"lt all passed in a sudden whirl." It was
—we are firmly persuaded—the act resulting from
an outburst of popular delirium : a deed—abrupt
and unpremeditated.

n at ion—'

Intelligence suddenly falls like a bombshell into
the midst of the city of Parma—news that Colonel
ANVITI, commander of the Parma soldiery during
the brief interval when martial law was enforced,
that Colonel ANVITI of all men, he who was among
the most detested among all the adherents of the
late dynasty (as his dreadful death, indeed, has but
too signally demonstrated)—that Colonel ANVITI
had been discovered on the frontiers ! That the
ex-commander of Parma had been discovered there
—disguised—in company, it was said, with an Aus-
trian general—he himself (ANVITI) having in his
possession letters, money, and aPapal passport. To
get 'tier with these sudden tidings came the knowledge
that Col. ANVITI had been placed in the custody of
the gendarmes (by the patriotic volunteers by whom
he }tad been captured), and that he was then actually
at that moment in Parma in the barracks of the
gieridarmes under temporary confinement. Here
obviously was the error of the authorities. A pri-
soner of such importance, oie so especially hateful
Ito the population, ought in reason to have been
encircled by a guard proportioned in energy and
determination to the extent of ANVITI'S unpopularity
and to the exceeding gravity of the time and cir-
cumstances. The tidings of the wretched prisoner's
capture, we are told, " ran suddenly like a shock
through the city "—it passed mysteriously through
all Parma with "a thrill of execration." The cor-
re.ipondent who recounts the murder to one
of our principal morning contemporaries, the
Post, sums up the deed of blood in a
single sentence when he writes—" A crowd
gathered romsd the barrack, and on a sudden move-
ment a number of the most brutal of the populace
burst in, stabbed the wretched man to death,
dragged his body through the streets, and having
Qat off his head., placed it upon the column of the

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THE SUN.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1859