The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-08 00:00:00

ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL,
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster.
THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J.
L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
Thorne.

After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boneloault, D.
Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled
BLUE BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF HUE.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar,
K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and T. Thorne.
Doors open at half past B—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, XL
Orehestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Is.;
. Pit Stalls, 2s. ; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!!
Westminster-road.

proprfeiOiT..7.7.l6:SiOrton.
A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera,
IL CORSARO,

(This opera has never been produced in this or any other
country, except at these Concerts), having met with that de-
cided success which charactise the most popular werks of
this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ;
together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI-
MENTO, by Donizetti,
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.

The Comic Department comprises 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 tire Fine Arts Gallery of the
Establishment.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON 'BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, Oh. [om.—Afternoon, Ll2h. 24m.
To-monitow.-Morning, 12h. 48m.—Afternoon, lh. 14m%

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 8, 1361. kr
THEEMOMMTER, IN THS MAIM.
53—highest since loon yesterday.
44 —lowest this morning and during the night.
57—this day atrnoon.f
BaRommTER-30.05 ; up again—great fluctuations.
WIND--South-Westerly—rather fresh; with dull weather

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THE SUN.
LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1881.

We have to thank Mr. HENNESSY for a two
nights' conversation on Italy—a conversation with
no other object in reality than that of each speaker
saying what he liked. What he, Sir G. BOWYEIt;
and Mr. MAGIJIRE could hope to gain from it, it
not easy to say. They could at best but serve as
foils to show off to the best advanfage the cause
Italy and piedmont, and the universal feeling
amongst Englishmen in direct opposition to their
own: Had they wished to accelerate the downfall
of the temporal power of the PoPE, to blacken the
memory of the expelled Italian Princes, to encou-
rage their late subjects in following our own
example of 1688, and to strengthen the hands of
VICTOR EMMANUEL and his able Minister, they
could not have done better than raise a debate on
Italian affairs.

It is, of course, childish to arraign our Foreign
office for representing in its policy the wishes of all
but there is a band of notable Irish patriots who, en-
-soying the fullest liberty themselves, are never tired
of demanding that Italians shall be slaves. So
strong and universal is the wish of England, Scot-
land, and Wales that the liberties we enjoy should
be possessed also by other nations, that nothing.
makes a Ministry, otherwise unpopular enough, more
tolerable--we might say acceptable—to the nation,
than its foreign policy in favour of constitutional•
liberty. Great Britain cannot comprehend the"
consistency of rejoicing in her own freedom, and.
wishing to keep others beneath the yoke. We•
perceive the zeal of Irish Catholics to uphold the
hated temporal despctism of the POPE, but while.
we could pardon the illiterate mob for enlisting to
win the glories of capitulation in so good a cause at
Spoleto, we fail to comprehend how men of education
enough to enter the British House of Commons
can make common cause with the superstitious
multitude. Do they, we are inclined to ask,
speak their real sentiments, or do they speak
for bigoted priests, and the voters whom those
priests will some day whip up to the poll ? Can
these legislators for a free country catch nothing
of the spirit which breathes all around them ? Are
they, as well as the heroes of Spoleto, amongst the
benightedly superstitious? It seems difficult to
believe it, yet they enter upon their cause with
such an intemperate warmth that it looks like
conviction ; Mr. BOWYER even took upom himself
to deny the facts of Perugian atrocities, a denial
for which he received an ample rebuke by Mr.
GLADSTONE, who read the return of the POPE'S
officers to the POPE himself, describing barbarities
which make one's blood run eold, as acts worthy
the commendation of his Holiness.

Mr. MACQUIRE asked what had the POPE done
that he should be despoiled of his dominions ? lie

might better have asked what he had done that he

ought not to be despoiled of them ? Especially,

when the spoilers were the people themselves who

inhabited them. It is simply absurd to quibble abou

the hospitals and charities of Rome, the amount of

taxes and so forth, when the broad fact is before
the world that all the subjects of the POPE hate
and detest his government, and throw it off as soon
as, and wherever they can. He cannot hold an
acre of his dominions, through the attachment of
his subjects to their ruler. No sooner are Austrian
troops withdrawn from the Legations, than away
go the POPE'S Legates with them, glad only to get
off with a Whole akin. And were the French togo
to morrow, the POPE if he did not go with them,
must go to '
bed that
his night as spiritual ruler only of
mornings subjects. But, in plain English, we
think the conduct of the Irish Catholics utterly
di.graceful to them. It is mean, irrational, and selfish. They fancy there is something grand in
having a Pope a temporal Princefy their
Chief Bishop, they are prepared to sell the liberties
of their fellow Catholics at Rome. Such conduct is, however, as irrational as it is mean and selfish;
for they see that the dominions of the POPE are
not such as to make him independent ; he has been
in almost all history but the tool of some great

Power, and is obviously now but the serf of France,.

His indepoadenco and dignity would be greater

P Y A LITENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.
JO
Under the Management (Alias Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.
Harrison, Sole Lessees.
THIS EVENING, LE DOMINO NOIR. Miss Louisa
Fyne, Misss Thirlwall, Miss Leffler • Messrs. Henry Haigh,
Ii t;orri, . St. Albyn, and Horncatitle.
To conclude with a new Divertissement.
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at 8.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. tiackatone.
THIS EVENING, the nerformances will oommenee with
THE SUN AND THE WIND. The Leclercqs, Sze.
After which, a new and original comedy, A DUKE IN
DIFFICULTIES. Mrs. Stirling, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr.
Bucketone, &c.
To conclude with THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE.
Mr. Compton, Mrs. Wilkins, he.
Commence at 7.1

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, the Farce of SUSAN SMITH.
To be followed by DON CESAR DE BAZAN. Don
Caesar, Mr. Fechter. Supported by Messrs. Basil Potter,
F. Matthews, J. G. Shore, Miss M. Harris, bliss C. Leclercq
and Mrs. Weston.
To conclude with a comic ballet, THE JOLLY MILLER.
M. Espinosa, Mr. Garden, Sze.

THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM.
Soie Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
' THIS EVENING the Butletta of THAT RASCAL,
JACK.

Followed by the new drama, THE HOUSE ON THE
BRIDGE OF NOTRL DAME. Principal characters by
Mr. G. Vining Mr. J. Johnstone, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Clifford,
Mr. John Rous'e, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Morris ; Miss M.Ternan,
Miss K. Saville, Miss L. Thompson, and Madame Celeste.
Alter which, the Lyceum Christmas Comis Extravaganza,
CRYSTABELLE ; or, The Rose without a Thorn, showing
THE VISION OF A ROSE, ITS FADING AT EVE,
AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR.