The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-18 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
a new drama, entitled THE MASTER PASSION. Messrs.
Ryder, G. Melville, Graham, R. Cathcart, Garden ; Miss C.
Lec'ercq and Mrs. Charles Mitz.

Moorish Govertment on the 11th October, when
on the 13th of October, only two days later, a
THIRD and larger pretension was put forth by the
Spanish, for instant consideration by the Moorish,
Government. Possession was now demanded by
the Spaniards—possession of the heights required
from the defences of Ceuta. Finally, on the 16th
of this present November, a FOURTH, an entirely
new, a much larger, and a hitherto undreamt of
demand was brought forward in due diplomatic
form (for the consideration of the Moors)
by the Spanish representative. " This time,"
says the Moorish manifesto, "it was a demand for
the possession of a vast territory comprised be-
tween the valley of Gibel Noma and Ceuta." And
the Circular goes on to say—and no wcnder—" To
that pretension we replied that we could not give
a precise answer without applying to the SULTAN,
our master." Adding, what is, if possible, still
lesS reason for surprise—" From that moment rela-
tions ceased between us, and war was threatened."
The European public is now in possession of the
facts of the case in regard to these recant and
hitherto somewhat bewildering transactions. That
public can now decido whether or not the Moorish
Government has acted throughout these transactions
honestly, frankly, and unreservedly ! Or whether
on the other hand the Spanish Government has put
forward unjustifiable and exorbitantly increasing
pretensions, doing this, moreover, in a manner fla-
grantly characterised, to use the very mildest
phrase, by—disingenuousness ! Of the nature of
the European verdict we have no doubt whatever.
Our only solicitude in the matter now is to know
as speedily and as distinctly as may be possible ;
How far the diplomatic strings at Madrid have
been dragged inimically to Morocco, throughout
these negotiations, by the strong hand of that in-
scrutable Chief whose policy is now the enigma of
Europe, not merely in reference to the affairs of
Spain and Morocco, but in regard also to the des-
tinies, more or less, of all the various races of Chris-
tendom ?

To be followed by A WONDERFUL WOMAN. Mr. A.
Harris, Shore, Frank Matthews, and 31i3A C. Lederer'.

After which, a new farce. in one act, entitled NURSEY
CHICKWEED. Messrs. Widdicomb, Meadows, H. Saker ;
Miss L. Keeley and Mrs. Weston.
To conclude with the Divertissement from LOVE AND
FORTUNE.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs
B. Webster. J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Paul Bedford. Stuart,
Billington, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Moreland; Miss Woolgar,
and Miss K. Kelly.
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Followed by the successful piece of extravagance, called
DINORAII UNDER. DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. J. L. Toole,
P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, and Miss K. Kelly.

Doors open- at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box-
OUlce open from 10 to 6. No charge for securing seats,
nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. The nearest Theitre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West-
minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen-
gers all hours of the night.
THIS EVENING, a new Comedy, LONDON PRIDE ; or,
Living for Appearances. Messrs. R. Robins, Barrett,
Charles Young ; 3lesdaiaes Frank Matthews, Murray, and
Nelly Moore.

After which (third time) a new Fairy Extrava,cranza, entitled
TILE SWAN AND EDGAR. Messrs. Barrett, Francis,
Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, and the Corps
de Ballet.

To conclude with A DEAD SHOT. Mr. R. Cockrell.
Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, ls. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform
ance commences at 7.

London appears at length to have a tolerably
fair prospect before it of being traversed in all
desirable directions by divers railways bringing
the now scattered termini of the great existing
railways into direct and harmonious intercommu-
nication. One enterprising company has but very
recently avowed in plain terms that it looks to the
construction of a grand central terminus, say upon
the site of the Old Fleet Prison, as a project so
feasible, so practicable in every way, and that im-
mediately, that it simply asks now for permission
to construct it. It asks permission, of course, of
the Metropolitan Corporation. The railway com-
pany in question being no other than the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway Company.
The petition of this Company, addressed to the
Mayor,Aldermen,and Commonalty of the Cityof Lon-
don in Common Council assembled, certainly opens
up a very alluring prospect to the imagination of a true
Londoner. Fancy a tunnel at last burrowed under
Skinner Street ! Fancy a viaduct spanning that
roaring and ceaseless current of the world's
traffic running simultaneously to and fro
along Ludgate-hill! Fancy a central station upon
the very site we have before specified, namely, to
the east of Farringdon-street, with an entrance to
it at each end of that noble, but really hitherto, for
the most part, vacant and scarcely used thorougfare !
We are not talking this way, observe, at ran-
dom—we are not uttering thoughts that are
merely fathered by our wishes. There is the peti-
tion or memorial addressed by the Railway Com-
pany before mentioned to the Great Metropolitan
Corporation, proving distinctly that these projects
arc no longer in nubibus—that they are literally,
as the phrase is on the cards—that we have
but, as it were, to close our hand and
grasp the realisation of them all. The memorial
indeed states the matter plainly enough in one
singlesentence, but a sentence it must be confessed
sufficiently long-wilded. The paragraph—alluded
to for the one pregannt sentence, goes to the
length of a whole paragraph—runs in
the words and manner following :—" But Parlia,
ment has already decided that your petitioners are
to have independent access to the east and west
ends of the metropolis ; but the lines over which
such access can now be afforded are insufficient
for their existing traffic; and your memoria-
lists, in anticipation of the speedy completion of
their line between Beckenham and Dover, have
determined to apply to Parliament for authority to
extend their line from Beckenham, through Penge,
Sydenham, Norwood, Dulwich, Brixton, Herne-
hill, Denmark hill, Camberwell, Walworth, and
Newington, crossing the river below Blackfriars-
bridge, crossing the foot of Ludgate-hill by
a screened viaduct, to a terminus on the
east side of Farringdon-street, communicat

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.

Sole Lessee 3lr. William Cooke.

Extraordinary prosperous career of the new historical
Drama, in four carts, by Tom Taylor, Esq., called GARI-
BALDI. New scenery -Magnificent Tableux.—
Supported by a Powerful Company—Mr. R. Phillips, Ennis,
Belmore, Raymond, Miss Kate Carson, &c. -The Scenes in
the Circle will he sustained by the best and most talented
Equestrians of the day, Mr, John Henry Cooke, Miss Rosina.
Maine. Mar,.•uerite. and a host of British, French, and
American talent—Little Menoni, the wonderful Juvenile
Equestrian—Facetious Clowns, Parisian l'ierrots, and Ec-
centric Drolls—terminating to-night with THE WATER-
MAN.

Stage Manager, Mr. P. Phillips

CANTERBUR Y HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING.—The INluslc of Verdi's Opera of
MACEETII (now first made public in England at these Con-
certs).

And a Grand Se!eetlon from Meyerbeer's new opera of
DINORAII.

Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George }Tolson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney.
Several intercstincr Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified. and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.
ROSA RONHE R'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE
FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of
Paintings in the Canterbury Rail Pine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is open from 0 a ns. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six-
pence.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFIet, NOVEMBER 18.
TifitRMOMMTER, IN THE. SIIADB.
48—highest since noon yesterday.
35—lowest this morning and during the night.
48—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.30.
Wnsrn, South-Westerly; light, with foggy weather.

HIGH WATER, AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This DAY.—Morning, 7h. 27m.—Afternoon, Sh. 6m
To-Monnow-Morninz, Bh. 48m.—Afternoon, 9h. 24. m.

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THE SUN,
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1859.

The Moorich Circular has thrown a food of light
upon the hitherto somewhat obscure causes of the
threatened war upon the frontiers of Morocco. The
document is as clear, as honest, and as explicit, as
any State paper we ever remember to have perused.
It shows the disingenuous manner in which the
Spanish Government has acted throughout the
whole of these recent transactions. The change of
rulers over the empire of Morocco appears to have
held out to the Cabinet of Madrid an opportunity
too tempting to be resisted. Always on the watch
for any plea, however4limsy, for the extension of
her small African colony, Spain has found it impos-
sible to forego the chance now opened to her for
the speedy increase of her ;hitherto minute stand-
ing point upon the northern shores of the great
Southern Continent. Nothing, indeed, could well
have been more propitious for the realisation of these
long-cherished hopes, than the circumstances im-
mediately following the death of the late Sultan of
the Moors, his Imperial Majesty MULEY ABDER-
RAMAN. Scarcely had the late SULTAN breathed
his last when the Arabs of Anjera afforded the
Spaniards the desired pretext for complaints and in-
terference, by lawlessly destroying the post mark-
ing the limits, at that point, between the Moorish
territory and the Spanish settlements. The outrage
occurred, be it especially borne in:mind, during the
period of the interregnum between the death of the
late SULTAN and the accession to the throne of Mo-
rocco of his Imperial Majesty's successor, the pre-
sent Sultan SIDI 'MOHAMMED. At that precise
juncture the Moorish Ministers were, to all
intents and purpose, no more than Minis-
ters upon sufferance. They required confirmation
in their several posts by their new liege lord before
they could act in any way energetically as a Go-
vernment. The very peculiarity of their official, or

ing by junction lines with the Met: o

politan Terminus in Victoria-street and with
Smithfield." It being immediately afterwards
added in another and a briefer paragraph : " That
the proposed extensions also comprise corn-

mucications in a direct line from Beckenham
with the Brighton and South-Eastern Rail-

ways at Sydenham, the South-Western Rail

rather semi-official dilemma was the very oppor-

tunity of which the Cabinet of Madrid had been
• so long in expectation. In consequence there fol-
lowed, in due course, one—ttOO—TIIREE—FOUR
successive and increasing pretentious on the part of
the Spanish Government.
First of all it was demanded by the Spanish
Cabinet that in the Camp of Ceuta certain
public buildings might be constructed. Upon
this point the protest now issued by the
Moorish Government says explicitly, " In the
old stipulations, and in that of 1815, mention
is made of the Camp, and of ground for pasturage
belonging to the Spaniards; but M. BLANCO, in his
letter, only speaks absolutely of the Camp." And
the protest adds, " The StSLTAN, our master, in his
exalted wisdom, and inspired by the sincere wish
to maintain friendly relations, ordered us to ac-
e. pt the demand made, and consented that the
Spattisras might construct fortifications within the
Camp." Consequently the First Demand, deemed

Rot unreasonable by the Moorish Government,

was, it will be perceived, frankly and readily
acceded -to bg the Moorish Government. Sca.rcely,

way at Battersea, and the Victoria. Station

Pimlico." There is the whole of this grand scheme
really in a nutshell, or, at any rate, in just simply
two sentences, a long and a short paragraph. And
the petitioners, as though they were conscious
to themselves that the natural surmise among
business men, with the members of the London
Corporation, would instantly be that people coming
thus to them, hat in hand, with an air of over-

whelming courtesy, might rather be suspected
of having a design of carrying the hat round after-

wards—the petititioners we say conscious to them-

selves that some such thought might be uppermost
in the mind of the Common Council, close the me-

morial thus distinctly with a repudiation of any

such intention. whatever.

Namely, by ob-

serving "That your memorialists do not seek any
pecuniary assistance from the Corporation of Lou-

don, but pray your honourable court will be pleased

to refer the subject matter of this memorial to a com-

mittee, to inquire and report as to the proposed un-

dcrtaking with regard to the interestsofthe citizens

of London ; and that, if it should be approved,
your Honourable Court will give it the weight of
your influence, support, and sanction, and its re-
ference to a committee to treat for the purchase or

rental of the site on which the Fleet Prison for-

merle stood, or of other vacant ground in that

locality belonging to the Corporation which may
be required for the purpose of the undertaking."
The fact 'heir g afterwards stated before the Common

Council in viva voce evidence yesterday, that the
capital of the London and Dover Railway Com-
pany being at present £2,000,000, not more than
£1,500,000 additional would be required to
carry these grand ulterior designs of the
company to actual completion.. Heartily and sin-

however.. had this magnan:m.)us concession
been olirited from the Moors when a Second pre-
tension. was thrust upon their attention by the
Spanish. Chargé d'Affaires. This was a demand,
says the' protest, " to erect fortifications on the
ground irb,ich we had conceded in 1815, and which
was exclo iively intended for the pasturage of
the flocks ." Tt was a demand contrary to
what hail: already been formally promised
by the Span iards. hardly had this new protpn-
sion come to the knowledge of the

cerely do we wish well to the undertaking. It is

just precisely such an enterprise as we ourselves,
in these columns have long and repeatedly advo-

cated.

The Earl and Countess of Lichfield have arrived
in town. The noble earl has taken a house in Bruton-
street•for a few months. ,

The Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley
will leave town to-morrow for Knowstoy.

mu: SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 18, 1859,:

LATEST NEWS•

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Renter's office

PARIS, FRIDAY.

A note appears in the Illoniteur of this day
stating that several journals, from improper mo-
tives, enumerate daily the pastoral circulars of the
Bishops, in order to represent the French episco-
pacy as a body filled with mistrust towards the
Government.

These papers endeavour to give publicity to all
those circulars, not withstanding they express entire
confidence in the intention of the Emperor towards
his Holiness the Pope.
The Powers who will be in•rited to send Repre-
sentatives to the Congress are those who signed the
Final Act of Vienna, and the three principal
Powers of Italy.
The Congress will therefore be thus composed :
—France, Great Britain, Austria, Russia, Prussia,
Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Sardinia, Rome, and
Naples.

TURIN, Nov. 17

The states of Parma, Modena, and the Romagna
have tendered their thanks to the Prince de Carignan
for the naming of a substitute whom his Royal
Highness recommended to their several deputations,
and they inform the Prince that they accept with
gratitude the regency of the Chevalier Buoncom-
pagni.

PARIS, Nov. 1

It is asserted that General Garibaldi is about to
resign his military functions, and retire to the
Island of Sardinia. It is also stated that the de-
parture of the Chevalier Buoncompagni for Central
Italy is postponed.

The Paine of this evening says :—" It is stated
that Cardinal Antonelli will represent his Holiness
the Pope at the approaching Congress."

The Pays announces the death of the Colone'
Montalembert, who commanded a regiment of ca•
valry of the expeditionary corps of General Mar•

timprey.

VENICE, Nov. 16.
Fifty Venetians belonging to Garibaldi's corps
have returned to this place.

VENICE, Nov. 1

A new journal having a semi-official character will
be published here from the first of January next,
under the name of " Donau Zeitung." Its chief
editors will be Dr. Giehne and M. Warrens. The
statement that a deputation from the students of the
University of Cracovie had arrived at Vienna, to
ask for liberal reforms, is without any foundation.

MARSEILLES, Nov. 17,

Advices have been received from Constantinople
to the 9th inst. " The Ministers Fuad Facha and
Riza Pacha remain definitively in office; all the
ministers have now acquiesced in the reform mea-
sures of the new Grand Vizier. The tax on fund-
holders is approved of by the European holders
of stock, who hope that their property will by
that means be recognised and respected by the go-
vernment: The proposed financial reorganisation
and the contemplated loan have already tended to
raise the price of government securities, and lowered
the rate of exchange. A decree has been published,
in which the sumptuary life, the luxury, and the
corruption of the women is censured, and wherein
certain changes regarding their costume are ordered.

It is asserted that Vely Pacha is to be appointed
ambassador at Paris. The sentence of death and
penal servitude in the bagnes, recorded against
those concerned in the late conspiracy, have been
commuted into imprisonment in certain state for-
tresses.

TRIESTE, Nov. 17.
The Austrian Lloyd's steamer Calcutta brings
advices from Constantinople to the 12th.

Ministerial committees hare been appointed to
ake into consideration administrative reforms in
he State.

The camps of Sophia and Schumla have been

broken up.
The Ofticitel Gazette declares that the Porte has
by no means placed a definitive veto upon the carry-
ing out of the Suez Canal.

The whole of the troops quartered here have

received their pay.

A decree of his Highness the Sultan puts a limit
to the luxuries of Turkish women of high position.
Several decrees for the regulation of tithes and
leases have been published.

Sentences have been passed on 41 persons con-
cerned in the late conspiracy: five to death, 13 to
penal servitude for life, eight to several years' im•
prisonment with hard labaur, nine to imprisonment
of shorter duration, and six have been acquitted.
The Sultan has commuted the sentences of death.

A Government steamer, having on board prisoners
of State, has left for Lemnos, Tenedos, and Mytilene.
The Telegraph Company between Smyrna and Con-
stantinople has reduced its tariff of charges.
Arrivals of Circassian emigrants continue to take
place ; 700 have been sent to the Island of Rhodes.
The editor of the Presse d'Orient has received
permission to publish again that paper, but under
certain conditions.

The screw gunboat Intrepid, returning from
Smyrna, having on board Sir Henry Bulwer, ran
ashore near Mytilene.

CORFU, Nov. 12 (Via Trieste.)
A committee has been appointed to draw up laws
for an academy of sciences.

PARIS, THURSDAY.

M. de Bourqueney, who is to be replaced at
Vienna by the Marquis de Moustier as French
Ambassador, will retire from public life. M. de
Menneval also retires from diplomacy, and is going
to enter a convent. M. Armand, Secretary to the
French Plenipotentiary at Zurich, will leave for
Zurich on Saturday next, with the ratification of
the treaty of peace. The exchange of the ratifi-
cation is definitively fixed for the 21st. inst.