The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-21 00:00:00

Doors open at half past B—Commence at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Open every Evening at a quarter-Past 7.—Day Per-
l'ormance To-morrow, Wednesday, 22d May, at 2 o'clock.—
—With Boorn's Equestrian Company—the Rocky Mountain
Wonders, and a Grand Spectacle and Ballet Troupe, under
the direction of 31. Lauri.—Reduced Prices.—Box-office open
from 11 to 3 daily.

CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS
tJ AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
EVERY EVENING,
A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera,
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA,
(First produced in England at this Establishment),
With a Chorus of Forty Voices.
Also, Verdi's IL CORSARO, never performed at any
her Concerts.
Solos on the Cornet-a-piston, by Mr. Levy.
The Comic Department comprises the Brothers Conrad (in
their new and inimitable entertainments), Mr. Wood and his
talented little Son, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Ho;
lingsworth, and Miss Rose Howard.
Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGHMANS.
H E

F 0 R D,

6, OXFORD-STREET.

Mr. LEVY, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on
the Cornet-a-Piston—Grand Selections (on the most complete
scale) from Dinorah, Martha, Stradella, ac., and other vocal
and instrumental music, by Miss Russell, the Misses Stuart,
and Miss Ernst, Messrs. C%arles Greville, Fornari, Kimber-
ley, Bernard, Beaumont, Bervon, Finish, Signor Tivoli, and
Mr. Henry Herbert, with full band and powerful and selected
chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans.—The following
Comic talent, Messrs. W. Randall, j. Blanchard, W. H. Wie-
land, Hollingsworth, E. Marshall, Harvey, and French, and
the Brothers Conrad in their latest and best entertainment,
every evening. Admission, Hall, sixpence; Balcony and
Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tats DAY.—Morning, 11h. 6m.—Afternoon, 11h. 34m.
To-monaow.-Morning, h. m.—Afternoon, 12h. Cm.

THE WEATHER.—SUN Orincos, MAY 21, 1861,
THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADS.
72—highest since noon yesterday.
54—lowest this morning and during the night.
73—this day at noon.

BARommTER-30.41.
WIND--Westerly—light and variable; with fine sunshiny
weather.

MANDEVILLE has it--in his clever but wicked
text-book of infidelity, in which his sayings are as
the sayings of LA BRUYERE, and his philosophy as
the philosophy of ROCHEPOUCAULT—that When-
ever a Victor is extremely cruel towards the
Vanquished you may be quite certain that, in
some crisis of the struggle, he was all but beaten !
The observation, which is profound, has its appli-
cation in one sense, at this moment to the course
now being pursued in regard to the treatment of
the Exiled Orleans Princes by the Imperial French
Government. Judging of that course by the light
of the simple and sententious axiom we have
here quoted, we might not unreasonably draw the
conclusion, from the excessive severity now being
evidenced towards the younger Branch of the
Bourbon dynasty by the reigning Sovereign of
France and his despotic Government, that the
point of the pen lately in the hand of the Due
d'AumALB must surely have penetrated through
the imperial panoply and gone deep into the
heart of Bonapartism. Otherwise the extraordi-
nary proceedings now adventured upon by the
councils of the Tuileries in consequence of the
issue of the late brochure must remain altogether
inexplicable. Recollect, first of all, that that
pamphlet so much complained of by the Imperialists
so much reviled in certain quarters as an indecorum
on the part of a fallen dynasty, and as little else
than simply scurrilous to the present occupant of
the throne of the NAPOLEONS—was in itself purely
a retaliation. It was provoked by a wanton and
wholly uncalled-for diatribe uttered with indecent
warmth from the tribune of the imperial senate
by one standing upon the second step of
the dais of the Majesty of France, by no
other, in fact, than H.I.H. the Prince NAPO-
LEON. Until the haughty, and even, in fact,
insolent, speech of the cousin of the Emperor NA-
roLEON 111. had been delivered, so to speak, in the
view and hearing of all Europe the Orleans
Princes had maintained a dignified silence, a silence
unbroken by the merest whisper of a complaint or
of a reproach ever since the lamentable close of their
father's reign in the February Revolution. Then,
but not until then, the earnest feelings of the D
uc
D'AUMALE could brook the continuance of that pro-
longed reticence no further, under circumstances of
such peculiar irritation. There was every imagin-
able excuse why one of the Orleans exiles should
at length blurt out the truth boldly, in answer to
those cruel and unjust accusations. Hence the
Due D'AUMALE'S pamphlet. Hence the rumour of
the duel certain to be fought between his Royal
Highness and his Imperial Highness, the Prince
NAPOLEON, the first assailant ! A duel that has

never come off, however—that turns out to have
been all along only rumoured. The answer vouch-
safed by the imperial powers that be, to that for-
midable brochure, we all know to have been a pro-
secution ! A prosecution resulting in fine and im-
prisonment—the unfortunate publisher being con-
demned, for example, to undergo, in expiation of
his offence, the galling penalty of one whole year's
incarceration. Enough, one would have supposed
—with a vengeance—under the circumstances.
Not so, however, thinks the mild and liberal-
minded Count de PERSIGNY t That Count de
PERSIGNY who was to have inaugurated under his
Ministerial regime not only Free Trade for France
(through the Commercial Treaty negotiated by Mr.
COBDEN), but, together with Free Trade—Freedom
of Speech and Freedom of Writing. We were to
have witnessed the introduction of all these ineffable
boons in France under the auspices of the new
French Minister—thanks to his appreciation, by
long residence in England, of the blessings accruing
from Constitutional Government. Whatever may
have been the momentary hopes excited in some
sanguine minds by the benignant foreshadowings
of improvement in the political institutions of the
French Empire, with which M. de PERSIGNY sig-
nalised the commencement of his administration,
those illusory hopes have long since been effectually
scattered to the winds of heaven, Under M. de

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THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1881.