The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-05 00:00:00

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II 0Y AL ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.
Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.
Harrison, Sole Lessees.
THIS EVENING, and during the Week, Balfe's New
Legendary Opera, BIANCA, THE BRAVO'S BRIDE :
Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Thirlwall ; Messrs. A. Lawrence,
J. Wharton, H. Corri, A. St. Albyn, G. Kelly, Wallworth, T.
Lyall, and W. Harrison.
With the Grand Pantomime, BLUE BEARD ; or, Harle-
quin and Freedom in her Island Home. Clowns, Messrs. H.
Boleno, H. Payne. Hildyard, and Lilliputians. Harlequins,
Messrs. Milano and F. Payne. Pantaloons, Messrs. Barnes
and Tanner. Columbines, Mdme. Boleno and Clara Morgan.
Sprites, the Zelinski Family. Mr. W. H. Payne, Mlle.
Lamoureux, Arc.
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven.

THEATRE-ROYAT., HAYMARKET.
Lessee. Mr. J. B. RaeYstone.
T FEN EVENING the nertermanopa will nommenee with
THE RIVALS. Sir Ltvius O'Trio,,ger , Mr. John Brougham;
Lydia Languish, Miss Fanny Stirling.
After which, a new Pantomime. QUEEN LADYBIRD
AND HER CHILDREN. The Pantomimists by the un-
rtvalled Leciercqs, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright.
Commence at 7.

IptOYAT, PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
-11-a) OPENING of PARLIAMENT by her MAJESTY in
commencing, at half-past 2, and
state and DAY PERFORMANCE of the Pantomime.
ROBINSON' CRUSOE:
concluding at half-past 4, TO-MORROW (TUESDAY) posi-
tively the last.—Excursion Trains from all parts of the
country. _

OYA T. PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
T.assee and Manurer, Mr. A. Harris.

THIS EVENTNG, the performance, will commence with
RUY BLAB. Messrs. Pechter, Basil Potter, Garden, Ray
mond. Graham, Cathcart, and A. Harris.
After which, a new Christmas comical pantomime, entitled
'ROBINSON CRUSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday, and the KinZ
of the Caribbe islands in which Monsieur Espinosa and
Mdlle. Marie Dumilatre. of the principal cantin«-mtal theatres,
will appear. Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest.

THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM.
Sore Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
i`if's'lße-appearance of Madame Celeste and Mrs. Keeley.
THIS EVENING, the new drama, ADRIENNE ; or,
THE SECRET OF A LIFE. Principal characters by Mr.
Henry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. Ff. Butler, Mr. Villiers,
Mr. G. Vinin,r, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Clifford,
Mr. J. Johnstone ; Mrs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste.
After which, the Lyceum ChristmaA Comic Extravaganza,
CRYSTA BELLE ; or, The Rose without a Thorn. showinz
nix vrsiov OF A OSE. ITS FADING AT EVE,
AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR.
Followed by THE YOUNG WIDOW. Miss M. Ternan
and Mr. H. Neville.

A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Sole proprietor and Manager, Mr. Ben,. Webster.
THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs, I.
L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
Thorne.
Alter which, THE COLLEEN SAWN. D. Boucle,ault, 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 E. Thorne.
Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, Al.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s ; Front Circle Stalls. IL
Pit Stalls, 21.; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor and Manager. Mr. WM. BATTY.
THIS EVENING. will be reproduced TURPIN'S RIDE
TO YORK, Ar4D THE DEATH OF BLACK BESS, in
which the Brothers Edwin will appear with their celebrated
!Reed Black Bess.
To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by
talented Parisian and British Artistes.
Concluding, with Batty's Prize Equestian Comic Panto-
mime, for Good Little Boys and Girls, by T. L. Greenwood,
entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE WONDERFUL
HORSE ; or. Percinet and Grociosa, the Ugly Duchess and
the Greedy King, produced with Gorgeous Scenery. by Mr.
Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing
in the comic scenes Ratty's Prize Equestrian Hariequinade,
and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley, and Brandon Ledger.
A Grand Morning Performance will take place on Friday,
Feb. 8, commencing at two o'clock with the Pantomime.
BoZ-office open daily from 11 till 4
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.
Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!
A Grand Selection from Verdi's Opera,

IL CORSARO,
consisting of the following Morceaux :
Preludio.
Coro Scena ed Aria. "Tutto parca Sorridere"
Coro di Odalieche. " Oh qual perenne"
Cavatina
Coro ed inn()
Scapa ed Aria. "Cento leg,giadre Vergini"
Terzetto Finale "Vol tacete io non"
will shortly be produced, in the orignal key and Italian
lancruave—the first time of performance in this country—in
addition to the usual attractions.
Mr. F. JONGIIMANS, Musical Director.
Also, in preparation, Selections from Verdi's New Operas,
"Un Ballo in Maschera," "Simon Boccane;ra ;" and Flo-
tow's celebrated Opera of "Stradella."

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tam DA.Y.—Morning, 9h. 4Gru.—Afternoon, 10h. 34m,
To-stointow.-'Nlorning, Rh. 19m.—Afternoon, Oh. Om,

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THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE,
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HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH.

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

It is with great satisfaction that I meet you
again in Parliament, and have recourse to your
assi3tance and advice.

My relations with Foreign Powers continue to
be friendly and satisfactory; and I trust that the
moderation of the Powers of Europe will prevent
any interruption of the general peace.
Events of great importance are taking place in
Italy. Believing that the Italians ought to be left
to settle their own affairs, I hare not thought it
right to exercise any active interference in those
matters. Papers on this subject will be laid before
you.

I announced to you, at the close of the last
session of Parliament, that the atrocities which
had then recently been committed in Syria had
induced me to concur with the Emperor of Austria,
the Emperor of the French, the Prince Regent of
Prussia, and the Emperor of Russia, in entering
into an engagement with the Sultan by which
temporary military assistance was to be afforded to
the Sultan for the purpose of establishing order in
that part of his dominions.
That assistance has been afforded by a body of
French troops who have been sent to Syria as re-
presenting the allied Powers. The Sultan has
also placed a considerable military force in Syria
under the direction of an able officer; and I trust
that tranquillity will soon be re-established in that
province; and that the objects of the Convention
will have been fully attained.
I announced to you also, at the close of the last
session of Parliament, that the pacific overtures
which my Envoy in China had made to the Imperial
Government at Peking having led to no satisfac-
tory result, my naval and military forces, and those
of my Ally the Emperor of the French, were to
advance towards the Northern Provinces of China,
for the purpose of supporting the just demands of
the Allied Powers, and that the Earl of Elgin had
b t:..en sent to China as Special Ambassador to treat
With the Chinese Government.
I am glad to inform you that the operations of
the allied forces have been attended with complete
success. After the capture of the forts at the
mouth of the Peihct, and several ungagements with
the Chinese army, the allied forces became masters
of the Imperial city of Peking; and the Earl of
Elgin and Baron Gros, the Ambassador of the
Emperor of the French, wore enabled to obtain an
honourable and satisfactory settlement of all the
matters in dispute.
Throughout these operations, and the negotia-

tions which followed them, the Commanders an,.
Ambassadors of the Allied Powers acted with the
most friendly concert. Papers on this subject will
be laid before you.
The state of my Indian territories is progressively
improving, and I trust that their financial condition
will gradually partake of the general amendment.
Au insurrection of a portion of the natives of
New Zealand has interrupted the peace of a part
of that colony ; but I hope that the measures which
have been taken will speedily suppress these dis-
turbances, and enable my Government to concert
such arrangements as may prevent their recurrence.
Serious differences have arisen among the States
of the North American Union. It is impossible
for me not to look with great concern upon any
events which can affect the happiness and welfare
of a people nearly allied to my subjects by descent,
and closely connected with them by the most inti-
mate and friendly relations. My heartfelt wish is
that these differences may be susceptible of a satis-
factory adjustment.
The interest which I take in the well-being
of the people of the United States can-
not but be increased by the kind and cordial
reception given by them to the Prince of Wales
during his recent visit to the Continent of America.
I am glad to take this opportunity of expressing
my warm appreciation of the loyalty and attach-
ment to my person and Throne manifested by my
Canadian and other North American subjects on
the occasion of the residence of the Prince of Wales

among them.
I have concluded with the Emperor of the French
Conventions supplementary to the 'Treaty of Com-
merce of the 23d of January, 1860, and iri further-
ance of the objects of that Treaty.
I have also concluded with the King of Sardina
a Convention for the Reciprocal Protection of

Copyright.
These Conventions will be laid before you.
GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,

I have directed the Estimates for the ensuing
year to be laid before you. They have been framed
with a due regard to economy and to the efficiency
of the several branches of the public service.
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

Measures will be laid before you for the consoli-
dation of important parts of the Criminal Law ; for
the improvement of the Law of Bankruptcy and
Insolvency ; for rendering more easy the Transfer
of Land ; for establishing a uniform system of
Rating in England and Wales ; and for several
other purposes of public usefulness.
I confidently commit the great interests of my
Empire to your wisdom and care ; and I fervently
pray that the blessing of the Almighty may attend
your Councils, and may guide your deliberations
to the attainment of the object of my constant
solicitude—the welfare and happiness of my
people.

We hardly know why, but we had somehow
looked for the EMPEROR'S Speech with more
favourable hopes than reason perhaps warranted.
We had possibly been unconsciously influenced.by
the recent verbally liberal announcements in con-
nection with the PERSIGNY Regime, unreflectingly
to expect that the performance might be better
than the promise. Whatever we had of such vague
feeling is now, however, gone, and gone for ever,
and we only wonder at the strange hallucination
which half stole over our thoughts. The Speech as
delivered is now before us, and we may sum up its
contents in two sentences—l will be as absolute as
ever at home—l will be as untrustworthy as ever
abroad.

We certainly in thus describing the Speech do
not set down aught in malice. Its long first
part is, as we understand it, a description
of his Houses of Parliament in com-
parison with the parallel bodies under the
Monarchy, of course to belaud the creations
of his own will. And what is the con-
summating excellence of Napoleonic institutions ?
Why, that while the old Deputies could upset a
Ministry, his have no such power. They may
talk and discuss, and we suppose vote, their
opinions, too, like the body which is the laughing-
stock of English business-men—Convocation ; but
power they have none. The Corps Legislatif
" discusses the laws with the most entire liberty.
If they are not approved of it is a notification of
which the Government takes into account. But
this rejection does not shake the Government, does
not arrest the progress of affairs, and does mot
oblige the Sovereign to take for councillors men who
do not enjoy his confidence." In plain words—
The old Chambers, though elected by a too
limited suffrage, had some real power. You,
gentlemen, are to have none. I will take note of
your opinions; they may very often enable me to
hold in check Ministerial servants—" sons of
ZERUIAH—who are too strong for me," or
whom, at least, I cannot easily shake off;
but beyond that, or beyond, at least,
letting me see how a collection of respect-
able gentlemen view the proceedings of
Government, you are to have no influence what-
ever. As ALEXANDER said to the Poles at War-
saw not long ago, "No dreams gentlemen, no
dreams"

It may be that in spite of Maires, Prefects, and

other Government agents which infest and domineer
in every town and village in France, some half-dozen
men may get in by universal suffrage and the
ballot, who will dare to speak their minds, and
some speeches may be made which will produce
what our neighbours call " Sensation"—but can
we expect from a body nearly every individual of
which has been recommended for election by the
Government—with much the same authority as
onr cathedral chapter have leave to elect th•
person named to them—can we expect from such
a body anything like honest opinions ? Indeed,
the members of it are carefully told their duty.
" I have deeided, says the EMPEROR, that
every year a general expositioa of the situa-
tion of the Empire shall be placed before you,
and :that the most important despatches of
diplomacy, shall be laid on your tables," but why
is this—that they may have " the faculty of forti-
fying the Government by their public adhesion, or
of enlightening it by their counsels." He goes on
to tell them of their new privilege of full discussion
of the address in reply, paragraph by paragraph,
but significantly adds that all he has conceded does
" not in any way affect the spirit of the Constitu-
tion." What that spirit is cannot be doubted.
Probably, during no ten years in the history of
France has such a complete suppression of all the
intellect and thought of the country been known.
That one mind might rule, all other minds have
been crushed into silence. The EMPEROR has
been such an incubus upon the intellect of France
as has placed her in the noblest department of life
in the rear of modern civilization.
But we turn from the rehearsal of the beauties
of Napoleonic Inststutions—the crowning one of
which is that they all form a pedestal for the
NAPOLEON of the day—to NAPOLEON abroad. We
suppose we ought to be assured, but it seems we
are not alone in our stiff-neckedness ; einee he has

endeavoured to prove in his relations with foreign
Powers that " France sincerely clssires peace."
Evidently he has found the proof difficult, nor is

this MUOI to be wondered at. When his army is

'-ept up to a point, and in a degree of readiness for
h.

action which menaces all within his reach—when
his arse).
ials resound with preparation of the muni-
tions of R -ar, and when his dockyards are crowded
with
'o:ea vessels, built and building; when
Prussia, all Germany, are thus
Ec
onnagpl ae nude
d Ault, Prussia,
enormous expense, merely that
they ma, not be at his mercy—it would rather be
wonderful if he could persuade his neighbours
that he was a manof peace. What are the guarantees
he gives us that he will not break the peace, why
that—"
It is snfficicit for the greatness of the
country that its rights IS:
maintained where they
are incontestable ; to defend'its honour wherever it
may be attacked; and to affor,4 its support where
_
it is supplicated in favour of a just cause." Above
all, we suppose we must accept the following as
conclusive—when we have read it, why not at once
beat eur Enfield Rifles into tramrails, recast our
artillery into steam engines, and lay up our ships
to rot in ordinary ? "My firm resolution," says
pacific EMPEROR, "is not to enter into any conflict
in which the cause of France is not based on right
and justice." Unfortunately, there is not one of
the great butchers of the human race, who, from
the days of NIMROD to those of the annexation of
Savoy and Nice, have stuck at no slaughter requi-
site to feed their ambition, who would not have
adopted the same language.
But he agreed with his allies, he tells us, to
respect the principle of non-intervention. And his
language here is even that of argument in
its favour—" My Government, agreeing with
its allies, has considered that the best means of
obviating the greatest dangers was to have
recourse to the principle of non-intervention,
which leaves each country master of its des-
tiny, localises questions, and prevents them
from degenerating into European conflicts."
could it be believed that all this is followed imme-
diately by the mention of such illustrations as the
" Cession of Nice and Savoy ;" which are now
" irrevocably united with France," by the mention
of Syria when he is endeavouring to prolong his
occupation in violation of a solemn contrast—of
Rome where " he finds it necessary to increase the
garrison, and to Gaeta itself. If all this be non-inter-
vention we may well ask, what is intervention ? In
regard to the latter indeed, he says, with the most
illogical nonchalance that the presence of his ships
obliged him (and that as he elswhere says for
four months to infringe every day that principle of
neutrality which he had proclaimed, and gave rise
to erroneous interpretations !" And then with al-
most iafantive innocence he adds, "indeed you know

that in politics people do mot believe in disinterested
acts." Certainly not when oaths, protestations, as-
semblies, the army, the navy, the clergy, the
peasantry, Sardinia, Rome, Syria, we are sorry to
add England, herself, have all been successively
used by one man in his own interest purely, and
discarded or retained as served that one man's pur-
poses. Perhaps the EMPEROR might learn some-
thing by asking why he was believed to act disin-
terestedly in politics, and why all Europe now
believes the same of GARIBALDI.

Of course the treaty with England was not quite
forgotten, it enables him to tell the poor that while
by a curious commercial logic, increased production
had raised the prices of all things, he had endea-
voured " to make articles of primary necessity as
cheap as possible. One piece of good luck
is all his own, though we wait to see how it
befel him, before we call on Mr. GLADSTONE
to try his plans. He sacrificed 13,600,000 of
of Revenue, and yet balanced his budget without
the imposition of a single tax! Perhaps Mr.
GLADMTONE, however, could have done the same
if our peaceful neighbour had not forced upon us
warlike preparations to match his own.

Ministers have so often of late years PROMISED
and promised largely through the constitutional
medium of the gracious Speech of the SOVEREIGN,
that the nation has at length come to regard with
comparative indifference those auguries of adminis-
trative measures and of legislative assiduity
which have, alas, proved so very often illusory—
leading session after session by an apparently in-
evitable necessity to a succession of the most cruel
and irritating disappointments. Insomuch has
this really and truly grown into a habit of late
years with her MAJESTY'S Ministers that people
have gradually come to regard with apathy that
annual Speech from the Throne which used to
be looked into of yore with such eager curiosity,
because the subsequent doings of Parliament
plainly enough indicated there in themain that
the realization of the future sketched out through
the Royal Address might be awaited with a certain
degree of confidence. What, however, was literally
the " exception" then is the " rule" now almost
invariably. The Speech from Throne composed of
so many paragraphs, contains such and such pro-
mises as to the good intentions of her MAJESTY'S
Government. Those deplorable good intentions
with which, according to one of the wise sayings of
Doctor JOHNSON, a saying of his that within less
than a century has acquired for itself the dignity

of a proverb worthy of having descended to us from

a remote antiquity—those most lamentable good
intentions with which said Doctor JOHNSON
hell itself is paved, and with which a
recent and sufficiently extended experience has
shown that Downing-street also is carefully flagged
and macadmized. Judging from the result revealed
to us of late years down at the new legislative
palace at Westminster, it might safely be predicated
that, among all the fair promises contained in the
Speech from the Throne, at the commencement of
the Parliamentary session, the merest unit or so
amongst them, and those (of all) the most mani-
festly insignificant in themselves, would, at the
close of each session thus ostentatiously inaugurate&
be found to have been even partially fulfilled in
the shape of a substantial enactment. It is only
necessary, indeed, in order to appreciate upon the
instant the force of all this, the accuracy of each
one of these deliberate statements—it is only
necessary to this end to bear for a passing moment
in recollection, the large cry and little wool of the
last past session of the Imperial Parliament.
What brave words of promise did not the Royal
Specch at the opening of the legislative labours of
1860, comprise, in regard to such distinct reforms,
let us say, as those affecting the laws relating to
bankruptcy ; or, again, to such generalised reforms
as those affecting the whole system of popular
representation. And how frequently had not the
the latter most appetising, but most illusory, vision
been held up and " dangled" like bob-cherry before
that modern Tantalus in top-boots, who, in this
epnaor
ut agh r,
the
git e
nwu os uhlodn
os e(eame
c,or isnegmtbol esp
pa cr,c)u‘rvahtoety
resembles
" Never is but always to be blessed 1"

The Ministerial promises, therefore, which are
annually contained in the Speech from the Throne
at the commencement of the yearly session of
Parliament—frum being looked to with eager
and sanguine expectation have come thus
quite comprehensibly to be listened to, and read
by the nation at large, latterly, as we have said,
and literally with comparative indifference.
It is not, consequently, by the words which have
eon now set down by the Cabinet of Sixteen, by

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THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 5, 1881.