The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-27 00:00:00

INDIAN FAMINE RELIEF FUND.
The Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR having convened*
Publicileeting at the Mansion House, Messrs. Grindley and
Co. beg to announce that all Subscriptions remitted to them
will be made over to the London Committee.
East India Army Agency,
55, Parliament-street, S.W.
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THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee. Mr. J. B. Baeltstone.
On EASTER MONDAY (April 1)„ will be performed
A. DUKE IN DIFFICULTIES. Mrs. Stirling, Miss F.
Haydon, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr. Buckstone,
Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, /ts.

After which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery
and effects, and all the original music by the late Sir Henry
Bishop, the melodrama of THE MILLER AND HIS MEN.

Commence at 7.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL—
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Novel Attraction for the Passion Week. —{TO-NIGHT
(Wednesday), and every evening during the Week (Friday ex-
cepted), the celebrated Italian Illusionist, •Chevalier ANTO-
NIO POLETTI, in his extraordinary and wonderful enter-
tainment of NATURAL and CHYMICAL MAGIC ; and
Pall's (the Original Bones) Ethiopian Minstrels. Doors open
at half-past Six, commence at Seven. Box-office open To-
morrow (Thursday), and Saturday, from 10 to 5. No charge
for booking.

ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Bole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
On EASTER MONDAY, a new drama, MAGLIORE,
PRESTIDIGITATOR. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole,
D. Fisher, &Z.; Miss K. Kelly, Miss 11. Simms, &c.
After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN.
Miss Julia Daly.
Doors open at half past 6—Commenee at 7.

CANTERBURY-HAL r-Lroad. CONCERTS!!!
Westminste
Proprietor ........C. Morton.
A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera,
IL COEUR°,
(This opera has never been produced Is this or any other
except at these Concerts), having met with that de-
country,
aided success which charactisei the most popular werks of
this great Master, will be performed EVERT EVENING ;
together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI-
MENTO, by Donizetti,
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. FL Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
c. W. Bernard. Director, hfr. F. Jonghmans.
The Comic Department oomprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A.
B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and
the Brothers Conrad.
John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on
view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the
Establishment.

T"E 0 X F O R D,
No. B. OXFORD-STREET.

Near Tottenham-court-road.

Mr. C. MOR CON and F. STANLEY respectfully announce
that this building, which for architectural beauty and chaste-
ness of decoration, is unrivalled, WILL OPEN THIS EVEN-
ING (WEDNESDAY), March 27.
Varied Entertainments of the highest order will be pre-
sented, and Musical Novelties of magnitude and importance
produced in rapid succession, under the directorship of Mr.
JONGIDIANS, and supported by the elite of the profession.
Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, is.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tuts DAT.—Morning, 2h. 14m.—Afternoon, 2h. 20m.
To-lionatow.-Morning, 2h. 53m.—Afternoen, 3h. 16m.

THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, MARCH 27, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
67—highest since loon yesterday.
44—lowest this morning and during the night.
55—this day at noon.

BAnoweren-29.50.
WixD—Southerly—light ; with fine sunshiny weather.

THE SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1881

If fortune favours the bold, Count CAVOUR has
made sure of her smiles; The temporal rule
for which the heroes of Spoleto so gallantly
surrendered, will soon have to surrender
as gallantly to the irresistible demands of popu-
lar right. It is time it should do so. Reli-
gion ought no longer to be disgraced by
the head of a large sect, perhaps the largest of the
Christian sects, defying the primary rights of man,
and that too in glaring defiance of the precepts of
the Great Author of our faith. If ever any people
had a just claim to demand self-government under
a monarch of their own choice and in union with
the rest of their nation, it is the unfortunate people
of Reme: For ages they have detested the tem-
poral rule of their Popes ; indeed can mortal con-
ceive anything in its very elements more revolting
to common sense than subjecting a whole
people to the despotism of unmarried priests,
destitute of all the first sympathies of our social
nature except so far as they broke their own
vows, and plundered the people to maintain a host
of " nieces and nephews."
But the time of the end is at hand. The POPE
has long been exhibiting himself, and exhibited, as
the most helpless and dependent of temporal rulers.
He and his have been raving about independence,
and temporal power as its basis, while all the world
has been laughing at his puppetship. Surrounded
by a French guard of honour—certain of immediate
deposition from his temporal Princedom as soon as
that guard was withdrawn, he has not had the
shadow even of temporal independence. He has
been spiritually it is true independent enough, he
could decree the immaculate conception of the
Virgin, for which we hope the Virgin is grateful,
or anything else he pleases—but so he could if the
Piedmontese were his guard instead of the French,
and if he had but the ecclesiastical side of the Tiber
for his home, as Prince NAPOLEON proposes, or even
if he preferred it, to cut and run to Jerusalem or to
Spain.

This last of Count CATOUR'S will turn some faces
in the Vatican pale, and flush others with rage.
Hope and fear have been alternating there of late
with the proceedings of the Chambers of that coun-
try on which the POPE is now so entirely dependent.
Prince NAPOLEON'S speech filled the Papal Court
with dismay, but the vigorous debate, and the com-
bination of all the scepticism of France to vote with
the few deputies who ever attend mass or confession,
in a large minority in favour ofthe"temporalpower,"
again gave hope. But now again that hope is
rudely dashed. Count CAVOUR speaks not only
the language of confidence in his object, but of
confidence in the Emperor of the FRENCH too.
So at least we interpret the telegraphic
combination of sentences which make him
assert that Sardinia—Italy rather—must go
to Rome " with the consent of France, and
which yet speaks of the entry of the Italian army
or Government into Rome as certain, It can
hardly be that the Count is not the interpreter of
Napoleonic ideas. The eldest son of the Church
has faithfully warned his superannuated father ; he
has performed the part of SHEM and JAPHET as long
us he could ; but the weak old man is still intoxi-
cated with the idea of a temporal power, which
means slavery to the Romans ; he will not awaken
from the fumes of this pleasant wine, and no
alternative is left but to take it from him, or him
from it.

The Count in the face of Europe, which
thoroughly believes him, enunciates the fatal
words—" We have a right to Rome as the capital of
That settles the question. In the present
temper of Europe, the right of a nation of twenty
millions is what can never be long withheld.
Little Austrian nationalities are fast regaining
their rights; and it cannot be that a large and
highly civilized people just risen again to
nationality should fail to gain possession
of their ancient capital. Turin even with
its many claims, if only from its being the
centre of the liberating movement, as well as
capital, defacto,—is ready to sacrifice its positicl
to Rome. To no other capital could she do so.
Naples, said to be the pet capital,,i for the present,
of our intermeddling Lord Jot's,, s out of the qua.
tion t, so is Florence, indeed any other Italian city;
but there is not one of them which would feel

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