The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-14 00:00:00

0 YAL

ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT GARDEN.
Under the management of Mies Louisa Pyne and Mr. Win.

Harrison, Sole Lessees.

• Will OPEN for the Sixth Operatic. Season on MONDAY,
Oct. 21, 1861, when will be produced (first time) an entirely
Ned Grand Opera, in Four Acts, by Howard Glover, to be
entitled RUY BLAB.
The Company : —Sopranos : Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Thirl-
wail, and Madame Guerrabella (her first appearance on the
English stage). Contraltos Miss Susan Pyne, Miss Topham,
and Miss Jessie M'Lean (her first appearance on the English
stage). Baritones and Basses: t. Smiley, Mr. Muff
Corti, Mr. Patey, Mr. T. Distin, Mr. Eugene Dussek, Mr. T•
Wallworth, and Mr. George Honey. Tenors : Mr. Henry
Haigh, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. C. Lyall, and Mr. W. Harrison.
Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON.
PRINCIPAL DANCER, MADEMOISELLE LAMOITREUX.
PIUCES op ADMISSION:—Private Bozo, from 10s. 6d. to
.Z 4 4s. ; Stalls, Seven Shillings; Dress Circle. Five Shillings;
Upper Circle. Four Shillings ; Pit, Two Shillings and Six-
pence ; Amphitheatre Stalls, Two Shillings ; Amphitheatre,
One Shilling. The Box-office will be open from Ten to Five
on, and each day after, Thursday, October 17. No charge for
booking', nor fees to Box-keepers. Doors open at Half-past
Six. Commence at Seven o'clock.
Stage-Manager, Mr. Leigh Murray. Acting-
Manager, Mr.
Edward Murray.
711 1-i EA TR R. ROYAL, HAYMARKET.

Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bankston..
T 4 r EVEN IVO the nertornaanoes will commence with
A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS. Sir Giles Over-
rea,h, Mr. Edwin Booth (from the principal American
theatres); supported by the company.
After which, FITZSMYTHE OF FITZSMYTHE HALL
Mr. Buckstone and Mrs. Wilkins.
To conclude with FISH OUT OF WATER
Commence a 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
xi) Lessee and Manager. Mr. A. Harris.
T nig EVENING, JEANETTE'S WEDDING. Miss M.
Harris and Mr. H. Widdicomb.
A iter which. a new and original corne, in Bye acts, writ-
ten by John Brougham, entitled PLAYING WITH FIRE ;
characters by Mr. John Brougham (his 14th appearance), Mr.
Ryder, Mr. H. Widdicombe, Mr. G. Jordan (oi the principal
theatres of the United States, his 14th appearance in Eng-
land), Miss C. Lelelereq, and Mrs. Weston.
To conclude with LOVE AND MURDER. Mr. John
Brougham.

IL Manager
LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager--Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING, MY AUNT'S HUSBAND.
Alter which, at Eight o'clock, the new and success-
ful comedy of WOMAN; or, Love against the World.
Characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin,
J. Robins, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray,
and Miss Lydia Thomson.

To conclude with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in
which Miss Lydia Thompson will danee a New Volunteer
Quick Step.
Prices ad usual. Doors open athalf-past 6, to oommenoe at
7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5.

EW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.
-A I Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Open for the Winter Season.
TIM EVENING, MUSIC BATH CHARMS. Messrs.
D. Fisher, Romer, Warde, Misses K. Kelly and Laidlaw.
Alter which (250th time), TFIE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr.
li 3oneicattlt, D. Fisher, Billington, S. Emery, Stephenson,
Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Bomicattlt, Miss
cigar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. H. Lewis.
toconclude with LOVE AND HUNGER. Messrs. Fisher,
Etncry, C. J. Smith, Mrs. H. Marston, and Miss K. Kelly.
Doors onen at half-past s—Commence at 7.

IANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS,
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
31r. SAM COWELL every evening at Nine and a quarter
tc Eleven. _ _ _ _ _

Also, Grand Selections from

TROVATORE, Tit AVLATA, NORMA, MARTHA, Sre.,
By Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli,
Mr. Morley, and a powerful Chorus.

The Comic department comprises Messrs. Harvey and
French. " The Nerves "—Mr.' Marshall—Mr. Wood and his
talented Son—and Miss Harriet Coveney.
Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans.
Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, ls.

T H

E 0 X F O R D,
6, OXFORD-STREET.
EVERY EVENING.

SELECTIONS from Auber's New Comic Opera, "LA
CIRCASSIENNE," by Miss Ernst, Messrs. Greene, H.
Herbert, and the Company. And from Verdi's new Grand
opera, " Simon Boccanegra," by Miss Russell, Messrs.
C. Geville, Morley, Greene, and the Company. Full band and
chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Varied Comic
Entertainments by Mr. and Master Wood, Harvey and
French (The Nerves), Mr. E. Marshall, and Mr.W. Randall.
Hall, ed. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. ed.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This DAT.—Morning, 10h. 54m.—Afternoon, 11h. 26m.
To-MORROW.-Morning, h. M.—Afternoon, 12h. Gm.

THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, OcroBER 13, 1861.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
68—highest since noon yesterday.
47—lowest this morning and during the night.
64—this:day at noon.

Beamnannt-30.02.
WixD—South-Westerly—fresh and squally ; with fine
weather. Evening—Wind moderate.

OCT. 14.
THEMKOMIZTER, IN TIIII 511A.1311.
6G—highest since noon yesterday.
58—lowest this morning and during the night.
70—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.08.
Wmn—S.-Westerly--light ; with very warm fine weather.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, MONDAY. OCT. 14, 1881.

Cant and cursing—are the original sins of eccle-
siastical documents, and we might add doings.
Sometimes they are freer from it than at other
times, and a few seem to have had an immaculate
conception. This latter beatitude ye certainly,
however, cannot attribute to the last offspring of
.PIO NONO ; the original sin alluded to having been
-probably developed so largely by the midwifery
and nursing of Cardinal ANTONELLI. We worldly
folk are apt to account for these peculiarities in
our own worldly way. The holy men who pen
allocutions at Rome, and exhortations to the
clergy. which go by another name in England, we
are apt to suppose to be men of like pas-
sions with ourselves. Bat, being in power they
mu st not show their power precisely in the same
way as profaner folk—the officer on board ship
and frequently on board of land too, curses
his men to his heart's content—and we
only hear of the men exclaiming " 'Tis so plea-
sant to be cu'ssed by one's own officer." It is
hearty hot cursing without a bit of bitterness, and
Trek or the " sojer" think no more of it than they do
of the mustard and pepper which season their
mess. •But the unfortunate Ecclesiastics, although
being; men in authority, ought not, by their pro-
fession, to curse, so they oil the cursing with cant.
They can't forego the privilege of the secular officer,
but they can send men to hell, or to the peculiar
Cathartic institution of Popery, with lubrication
enough to launch a Warrior.
It has always been so, so far, at least, as our
'humble acquaintance with ecclesiastical history
extends. And a cursing, canting POPE'S allocu-
tion strikes us only as something quite natu-
ral. AU who displease Ecclesiastics by
differing from them on points of discipline or doc-
trine, or still treating sacrilegiously the
holy temporalities which they possess for the good
of their own bodies and of other men's souls, must
go to prison or the scaffold if the time
and place
permit such salutary discipline ; but if that be im-
possible, they must go to perdition as quickly as
Priestly anathemas can carry them. One of our
h a raourists talked of " buttered thunder ;"
perhaps
we .may describe the dreadful wrath of his infallible
HolYness, as "greased anathemas."
HE re is a specimen or two of them—grease and
all. ." Ileart,"eit grief," " holy religion," " weeping
"piety and virtue" in an arch-
over a dear soil)"
bishop, him of Na,v)les—lubricato the very first para-
e to make it holy, pious,
para-
graph. These expre ar
and kind, to denoun, •:e the King of ITALY and the
noble men who have at •ted with him, as "abettors
of disastrous rebellion, "—as "firming part of a
'till of ignorance and deceit
d etesta We conspiracy, as
."-as attacking with the f 37 of ancient heretics—as

/Aging against Poi:y thing -
,•”—as endeavouring to
" completely overthrow, if it .were ever possible, the
C ilurch of GOD and tho (Roman) Catholic religion
—to Wrest from every rout its salutary doctrine,
an d to
such is
"cite and inflam, 3 every bad passion."
of the firsts specimen of the cant and cursing
Paragraphs, and the "second and the
rest; are like unto it," 01 117 the cursing predomi-
flat es more and more, the dekirableness of the cant