The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-09 00:00:00

quil, and there is not a single police agent or Muni-
cipal Guard. The case was very different under the
rule of Austria."

A funeral mass was celebrated on Tuesday at the
church of St. Rock for the victims of the Evening
Star. The church was completely filled, and sorrow
was depicted on every countenance. Scarcely an
actor of Paris was absent. All, or nearly all, the
unfortunate artists who perished in that great dis-
aster had friends among the theatrical world of
Paris. Such was the affliction among relatives and
friends that many ladies fainted, and it was neces-
sary to carry them out of the church. One poor
old woman, who was present, said the shipwreck
had deprived her of her son, her daughter, and
granddaughter, and now she was without resources.

A similar service had been celebrated at Havre, at the
church of Notre Dame, which was covered with
mourning cloth. All classes have responded to the
appeal made by the artists on behalf of the victims.
Many naval officers were present at the church. 'A
collection was made by the theatrical profession
which realised about 400 f. There has also been a
subscription in the town. The amount is to be sent
to Baron Taylor, President of the Society of Dra-
matic Artists, who is to distribute the money exclu-
sively among the orphans of the artists who perished
in the Evening Star.
The death is announced of Colonel de Quelen,
the brother of the Archbishop of Paris, who died
in the year 1839. The father of the present Arch-
bishop of Paris, M. Darboy, has just died, aged 87.
It is only two months since his mother died.
The Turkish Colonel Risk-Allah, whose trial at
Brussels excited so much interest, has arrived at
Paris. His defence was rather an expensive affair.
It is said that he gave 20,000 f. to each of his two
counsel. One of the counsel for the prosecution
received 15,00 Cf. and the other 5,000 f.

The construction of the Palace of the Exhibition
is so far advanced that a general idea may now be
formed of it. It will have the aspect of a gigantic
Coliseum in the middle of the park. It will be of
immense rectangular form, 110 metres long by 384
metres in width, terminating at its two extremities by
half-circles of 384 metres in diameter. The surface
it will cover will be to the extent of 16 hectares,
corresponding with a side space of 400 square metres.
It will have a series of concentric galleries, and in
the centre a garden of half a hectare. There will be
13 circular galleries. The machine gallery will be
36 metres wide. The succeeding galleries will be 23
metres wide. There will be a profusion of light ;
and the engineer has paid great attention to the
means of supplying fresh air. The drainage will be
upon the most approved system. The general
masonry of the Palace comprises 52,000 cubic
metres, of which 37,000 are for the foundations,
10,000 for the Gallery of Fine Arts, and 5,000 for
the walls connected with the machine gallery. The
vaulted cellars have a development of 1,300 metres.
The windows of the great machine gallery have re-
quired 45,000 square metres of glass. The engineer-
ing works have been admirably carried out under the
direction of M. Kranz, head engineer of bridges and
highways. The works at the park are under the
direction of M. Alphand, engineer in chief of the
plantations and promenades of the city. The extent
of the park will be nearly 30 hectares.
The ironclad fleet, under the command of Vice-
Admiral Baron La Ronciere Le Noury, has returned
to Cherbourg from Brest. The frigate Magnanime,
forming part of the division, has sailed for Brest to
replace the Invincible. It was on board this frigate
that experiments have been made with the new
pieces of artillery which fire steel projectiles weigh-
ing nearly 300 lb. English. The Magnanhne is of
1,000-horse power nominal, but during recent ex-
periments had an effective power of 3,000, and
made more than 13 knots an hour.

Among the subscribers to the fund for the relief
of the sufferers by the inundations is M. Alexandre
Blanc for 20,000 f. The generous donor is the
nephew of M. Francois Blanc, well known in the
financial world. M. Blanc gave his nephew 20,000 f.
to buy horses, and the latter sent the money to the
inundation fund, remarking that he wished to com-
memorate;his entrance into life and business by doing
a good action.

I think in my letter, yesterday, I omitted to men

(-.)11 the title of the song of M. Rouget de l'lsle,

the author of the " Marseillaise." It is well to
supply the omission, for the title marks an
epoch. The song is called the " Song of Venge-
ance." The name given to it shows the feeling
prevalent at the time towards the English. What
a happy change has come over the spirit of both
nations! Then the aspiration was for vengeance.
Now it is for the entente cordiale.

Mr. Bright and Physical Force.

TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN.

Sin,—There seems to be considerable misappre-
hension about Mr. Bright advocating physical force
in his speech at Manchester, a short time since ; and
you, sir, must be labouring under a mistake, or you
wouldoteto
aßeform League not in your
eayesterday's impression, in a f oot-
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paragraph, have stated,
when referring to the piece of wood being thrown at
":Certainly taking
d"vocacy of physical
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force doctrines." Now Mr. Bright has never ad-
vocated physical force as a means of obtaining poli-
tical freedom. This was the sentence he uttered at
Manchester :—" It is no more immoral for a people
to use force, in the last resort, for the obtaining and
securing of freedom than it is for a Government to
use force to suppress and deny that freedom."
Mr. Bright neither justifies the Government in the
use of force to destroy freedom, nor justifies the people
to use force for the acquisition of freedom. In
fact he must look upon both as more or less im-
moral. Freedom is a precious inheritance, and if
it be immoral on the part of a Government to
strangle it by force, it cannot be more immoral on
the part of a people to extend it or to preserve it by
force. Mr. Bright only attempted to establish a
comparison between the immoral use of force by the
Government or the people. And for doing this '
he has been misrepresented and reviled. Our brave
forefathers, during the memorable reign of Charles
the First, thought it immoral on the part of the
Government to suppress freedom by force, and
moved, on the part of the Parliamentary party, to
meet force by force. Were freedom a mischievous
or even a questionable thing, then it might be moral
on the part of the Government to deny it and im-
moral on the part of the people to demand it with
force. But all Englishmen admit that freedom is a
good thing, though they are not all agreed on the
amount which could be rightfully used and enjoyed.
If it be a good thing, then Mr. Bright was right in
uttering the sentence I have quoted —a sentence
which, for its terseness, comprehensiveness, and
truthfulness, will long be remembemod by English-
men.—Yours respectfully,
J. PASSMORE EDWARDS.

[* Precisely. But the inference clearly implied, as de
ducible from those words—or they were words, in point
of fact, of mere " sound and fury signifying nothing"—the
inference implied, as deducible front those words, was
clearly this, that as Government suppressed and denied
Freedom by Force, so (immorally, if you will, but quite as
justifiably) might a people so denjed their Freedom obtain
and secure it "in the last resort"—by Force ! Those words
of Mr. Bright meant that—or they meant Nothing.]

The Sport states that the Count de Flandre has
taken the right wing of the Grand Hotel at Paris for four
months, during the Unfversal Exhibition of 1867.
THE REPRESENTATION OF PEMBROKESHIRE.—

By the death of Mr. G. Lort Phillips a vacancy
occurs for the representation of this county. Mr. Phillips
was returned in 1801 by a majority of nearly 200 over the
Liberal candidate, Sir Hugh Owen, now M.P. for the Pem-
broke boroughs. The Conservatives have already selected
Mr. J. B. Bowen, of Llwyngwair, as their candidate for the
vacant seat, and he has issued an address in which he states
he is in favour of a Reform Bill that will satisfy the just
and reasonable expectations of the country. As regards
church-rates, the settlement of the question, in his opinion,
requires mutual forbearance and concession. The Hon.
Captain Edwardes, son of Lord ICensington, the Lord-
Lieutenant of the county, is expected to be the chosen of
the Liberal party, and there is no doubt that the contest
will be a close one. It was originally thought that Mr.
Scourfield, the member for Haverfordwest, would have
vacated his seat for the purpose of coming forward for the
county, and had that been the case the Liberals were pre-
pared to contest both beats.