The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-02 00:00:00

p OYAL ENGLISH OPERA,
JI 1.) COVENT-GARDEN.
Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.
Harrison, Sole Lessees.
THIS. EVENING, LE DOMINO NOIR. Miss Louisa
Pyne, Miss Thirlwall, Miss Leffler ; Messrs. H. Haigh, H.
Corri, A. St. Albyn, and liorncastle.
To conclude with a Divertissement.
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mallon. Commence at Seven.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Baokstone.

THIS EVENING, the performances will eommenee with
SITE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Miss Hardcastle, by Miss
Fanny Stirling; Tony Lumpkin, by Mr. Buckstone.
After which, a new Pantomime, QUEEN LADYBIRD
AND HER CHILDREN. The Pantomimists by the un-
rivalled Leclercqs, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright.

Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.

THIS EVENING, the Farce of A.S.S.
To be followed by DON CIESAR DE BAZAN. Don
Cesar, Mr. Fechter. Supported by Messrs. Basil Potter,
F. Matthews, J. G. Shore, Miss M. Harris, Miss C. Leclervl
and Mrs. Weston.

After which, a new Christmas comical pantomime, entitled
ROBINSON CRUSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday, and the King
of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and
Mdlle. Marie Dnmilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres
will appear. Clown, Kr. A. F. Forrest.

THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM.
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING the new drama, THE HOUSE ON THE
BRIDGE OF NOTRE DAME. Prinoipal characters by
Mr. G. Vining, Mr. J. Johnstone, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Clifford,
Mr. John Rouse, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Morris ; Miss M.Ternan,
Miss K. Saville, Miss L. Thompson, and Madame Celeste.
After which, the Lyceum Christmas Comte 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.
To conclude with a new Divertissement. Miss Annie
and Miss Marie Collinson, &c.

A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
..1"-A. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. .1.
L. Toole, C. Selby, 'and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
Thorne.

Atter which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boneicault, D.
Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Sirs. Chatterley.
To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled
BLUE BEARD FltOM A NEW POINT OF HUE.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar,
K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and it Thorne.
Doors open at hall past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, Xi.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Is. ;
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.

Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith:

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY.

Immense success of " Turpin's Ride to York"

6th appearance of Mons. Hillier, the Greatest Equestrian
of the day, who has just arrived from Lisbon.

THIS EVENING. will be reproduced TTJRPIN'S RIDE
TO YORK, Ara) THE DEATH OF BLACK BESS, in
which the Brothers Edwin will appear with their celebrated
Steed 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 comae scenes Ratty's Prize Equestrian Harlequinade,
and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.
Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!!
Westminster-road.

Proprietor ........C. Morton.
A. Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera,
IL CORSAILO,

(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 works 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. 11. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonzhm ins.
The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A.
B. Hollingsworth, .T. 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 the Fine Arts Gallery of the
Establishment.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.
In consequence of its Great Success,
THE ENCHANTED HASH
EVERY EVENING,
The whole of the Characters by Messrs. E. MARSHALL
and F. BELL.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Trails DAY.—Morning, sh. 27m.—Afternoon, sh. 43m.
TO-MORROW.-Morning, 6h. 9m.—Afternoon, 6h. 28m.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OYFICE, MAucm:2, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
52—highest since noon yesterday.
36 —lowest this morning and during the night.
48 —this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.0.
WlND—Westerly—fresh ; with fine cold weather.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 18e1

Halving Rome seems to be the Imperial solution
of the Papal-Imperial difficulty. We gather thus
much at least from the telegrams of the Prince
NAPOLEON'S speech yesterday. The French
Senate, in discussing the reply to the EMPEROR'S
speech, did not want defenders of the Bishop of
RcmE's temporal power, nor is this to be wondered
at. .There has been no want of defenders of the tem-
poral powers of the twenty-six bishops who in this
country, as we all know to our cost, exercise their
temporal powers in the House of Lords, to the
obstruction of every liberal measure, till the lay
lords drop some hint that they must hold their
temporal powers in abeyance, " or set their house
in order." And, if temporalities of a more personal
kind are at stake, " the Church in danger" is the
watchword immediately passed down the Conserva-
tive benches. With such specimens of the temporal
power of our English Right Reverend Fathers
before us daily, and such proof of their zeal for tem-
poralities, we must not be too hard on the Holy
Father for reluctance to part with his secularities
of a Princely and Financial kind, and on those
worthy or furious Papal Conservatives who can see
nothing but ruin to religion in driving the POPE to
become simply a religious official. All the good
Churchmen in this kingdom would be in alarm if a
Bill were introduced to relieve the Bishops of their
Baronial Honours, of their Palaces, and of their
Episcopal estates at once, and to throw them on
rho offerings of those who admired a Church
government by unquestioned successors to the
Apoltles. _ _

Looking, therefore, with the patience learned by
looking at home on the French defenders of Papal
Temporal power, we yet notice with some pleasure,
one step more in advance towards the liberation of
Rome from its present secular rulers. After some
flourishes on the liberal principles of Imperial
France, principles for which she is, of course, chiefly
indebted to her Imperial head, a few words in
defence of the English Alliance, and of sympathy
withVenetia, deprecating, at the same time, an un-
seasonable attack, the Prince turned to the
"Roman Question "—there the great difficulty,
he told us, as we have been told for the hundredth
t'me is to " insure the independence of the POPE ;"
thls cannot exist if he be subject to another
Sovereign (as he is now to France),—but his
independence can be assured "by securing to the
Poei the right side of the City of Rome, with a
Papal garrison, and a Papal budget guaranteed by
the Powers."

‘, The right side "—when we first read that, it
reminded us of the old distich, giving us the rule
for passing each other in travelling—
The rule of thepraosasdig along
apoaradoxquite,
For as you are
you
in
yo;l.oau l)reggo'suwre to go right,
It' go to the ft
If you go to the leright
Now most certainly if the Hrolyg. Father, as
Tt mporal Prince, wont left hand to the wall, he
would be right for Italy, right for himself, right
for his spiritual power ; but if he goes to the right,'
as the Prince will have him, he goes wrong. No
politician but must see that such a compromise,
however it might do for a while, could last no longer
than the complete consolidation of Italian unity and
strength. The independence of PorEs lies in the

POPES themselves, not in their petty temporalities.
Nothing can conquer a firm mind which is at the
head of the creed of several great nations, let
the possessor dwell wherever he pleases ;
no temporal power, possible to be possessed
by such a person, can make him indepen-
dent, if he be naturally a trimming favour-
seeking soul. The secret of Papal indepen-
dence lies in placing intelligent, prudent, firmness
in the Chair of St. Peter, and nothing can remedy
the mischiefs of not doing so. The present dif-
ficulties are all caused by a weak and obstinate,
though pious Pope, with an unscrupulous and cruel
Ecclesiastic as his adviser, whose stronger mind
dominates that of poor Pius the Ninth. Had
the good heartedness of the old gentleman, nomi-
nally the Prince of Rome, but had in ANTONELLI
an adviser, who saw that the POPE'S temporal
power could only be preserved by seeularising
the Government, and that in a style so liberal
that the King of Piedmont would have been
outbidden, and had this but been done in time,
the States of the Church, the Legations included,
might possibly have been under the Pope's rule
to this hour, and fo; a long time to come.
There is no help now for excluding the Bishop
of ROME from the list of territorial princes. Prince
bishops are become indeed but an antiquarian curio-
' sity ; they are either mediatized or have had their
rights absorbed by the Crown, as in England ; and
the Centaur-like monstrosity is not destined to be
restored, or its lifeless skeleton to be preserved—
VICTOR EMMANUEL will, in fact, take far better
care of the POPE than he can of himself, and much
better than ANTONELLI takes of him. All the
money he needs can be supplied him by the contri-
butions of Catholic nations, and a convention of all
the nations interested can assure, if it be needed,
any such status as may be desired for him.
Rome, however, will be Italian, both right
side and left side of it, in spite of any agreement
between Pope, Cardinals, Kings, Emperors, and
their Ministers. This, indeed, the latter know full
well ; they merely leave the ecclesiastics to learn
from the only teacher who can " pierce the obtuse-
ness of their mental being," the lesson which is to
themselves so obvious. Indeed the other represen-
tatiqus of the Prince include this, as the greater does
the less. " The peoples," he said, " are not mis-
taken if they rely on NAPOLEON 111., who will not
fail in his mission." The alliance with England
was an alliance, " not with some particular
Ministry, with the great and liberal English
people,"and its use was that by its help " we can
defend the great principles of liberty and pro-
gress." Suppose all this oratory to mean realities,
and the oppressed Romans, the Venetians, the
Hungarians, ultimately, perhaps, the very Poles
are not to want a friend.

The appointment of a Select Committee of
Inquiry into the constitution of the Board of
Admiralty was, last evening, at the instance of
Admiral DUNCOMBE, and after a rather smart dis-
cussion, agreed to by the House of Commons. It
has latterly become the fashion with some to de-
precate the notion of these kind of Select Com-
mittees, to deride them as altogether useless, and
so forth. Now, without for an instant wishing in
any way to. claim for these same Committees
of investigation any marvellous or miraculous
power of doing good, of dissipating abuses,
and scattering to the winds of heaven
seemingly imprescriptible anomalies and evils
of all kind, we do nevertheless maintain
most earnestly that the hard work got through
session after session in the committee-rooms, is of
incalculable advantage to the public service, and
ought not in any way, by the community at large,
to be thus frivolously and ungratefully depreciated.
Take as a case in point that famous committee of
Mr. ROEBUCK'S, secured by him and presided over
by him in the very midst of the "horrible and
heart-rending" accounts coming to this country
half a dozen years ago, from the seat of the Russian
war in the Crimea via that dreadful slough of
despond for the British troops, the seven miles
between Sebastopol and Balaklava. Cavillers may
yet object that the evils then and there complained
of had almost to the very close of that ter.
rible war, disastrous fruition in the squan-
dering of human life on the side of the
Allies to the number altogether (in battle
and out of battle) of 100,000 men, and to the
simultaneously squandering of gold upon the
contest to the fearful amount of £100,000,000.
Yet who shall say that in our own regard,
that in reference to the reorganisation of our
War Departments generally, that maligned
and contemned Committee of Mr. ROEBUCK'S did
not sweep clear countless abuses from those
departments by the sheer force of its appalling
revelations ? As evidence, as conclusive and
irrefragable evidence, of the accuracy of which
conviction on our part, it is only necessary now to
bear in remembrance the contrast presented to view
upon a comparison of the Russian expedition sent
out half a dozen years ago merely to the other side
of Europe, to the Crimea, to be landed at Eupatoria
and reinforced at Bilaklava, and that resent Chinese
expedition of ours sent forth to the opposite end
of the earth, to the Gulf of Pechili, to
advance through Tien-tsin to the very
walls of the almost mythic city of Pekin,
yonder, as we have said, at the opposite extremity
of the globe--at the other side of this old eastern
hemisphere ! Thanks to Mr. ROEBUCK and his
Committee—thanks, we do really and earnestly
believe in a very great measure, to the voice of
Public Opinion speaking through Mr. ROEBUCK
and his Committee—this latest warlike expedition
sent forth from these shores to the conquest of the
capital of the Chinese Empire—of that vast empire
peopled by one entire quarter of the inhabitants of
the globe—is allowed upon all hands to have
been, is known to have been, the most per-
fectly organised, the most admirably equipped,
the most entirely successful that ever carried any-
whither on the surface of the globe the dominant
banners of England. The contrast already spoken
of is consequently one as wide, as vivid and startling
as any such contrast could by possibility be. It is
the contrast there of the most profligate, here of the
most thrifty expenditure —there of inextricable
confusion, here of the most perfect order and dis

cipline—there of rags, and filth, and disease, and
absolutely at times, in spite of the Costliest com.
missariat (remember the green coffee berries, and
the insufficiency of bread, bread that the soldiers
of England had at times to receive
as a bounty from their generous hearted
French allies !) absolutely at times, in spite
of our commissariat, the actual cemblance of desti

tution, here (in this recent Chinese expedition) good
clothing—and plenty of it—cleanliness, health, and
abundance ! That is no over-painting of the con-
trast visible in the retrospect of our troops as they
were seven years ago in the Crimea, and as they

were seven months ago among the Chinese And

for the happy result of the comparison to the

latest of these remarkable expeditionary forces, we
have to thank, as we have said, as we can-
not tire of saying, Mr. ROEBUCK'S Committee
—a Committee of Inquiry into abuses long
either darkly suspected or flagrantly noto-
rious. It is unjust, therefore, it is absurd, it is un-

grateful to deride and depreciate as useless what
have so often proved pre-eminently advantageous
to the public service, that is to say, namely, these
select Committees of Inquiry appointed by Parlia-
ment.

Such being our dispassionate and conscientious
estimate of the particular system of investigation
we have here referred to as in vogue in the House of
Commons, we cannot but feel peculiar satisfaction in
noticing the circumstance of Admiral DUNCOMBE'S
success last evening in moving for a Committee of
this very kind to inquire into the construction of
the Board of Admiralty as it is. Parliament
having now decided upon the appointment of that
Committee,we may rest pretty confident that sooner
or later the Board of Admiralty as it is, as it has
so long continued to be, is to all intents
and purposes doomed. Whatever Sir FRANCIS
BARING may say to the contrary, the abuses and evils
rife in that nest of mismanagement are visible be-
yond the possibility of misapprehension. They are,
many of them, abuses and evils that have long stunk
in the nostrils of the community. The Board of
Admiralty,as at present constituted,has been only too
painfully appreciable an illustration of the old say-
ing that what's everybody's business is nobody's busi-
ness. There has been then hitherto—at the Admi-
ralty—the utmost amount of inefficiency, and the
least amount of responsibility. Insomuch that only
three or four years have elapsed since the appalling,
but at the same time ludicrous result had been
reached in the marine department of the greatest
' maritime power upon the face of the globe, the
frightful but ridiculous result, that an annual
expenditure of millions sterling upon the Royal
Navy of England, had left England without the
smallest vestige of a Channel Fleet ! And had
enabled the most powerful and at the same time
the nearest of our neighbours to multiply her
steam war vessels so much more rapidly in propor-
tion than ourselves, that England had the im-
minent prospect before her had this state of
things been allowed to go on, of witnessing
gradually slip from her grasp the meed of all her
naval glory, the priceless recompense of her mari-
time supremacy. It is only since the date of Sir
JOHN PAKINGTON'S occupation of office as First
Lord of the Admiralty under the Earl of DERBY'S
Administration, it is only since then that
the national service of Great Britain, the glo-
rious navy of England, has been recovering
lost ground, and making good once more
our British claim to maritime supremacy. This,
recollect, not by means of, but actually and literally
in spite of the administrative machinery of the
Department as it is at the Board of Admiralty.
That machinery is not simply supposed to be old-
fashioned and ricketty, out of place and out of gear
—it is seen to be all that and much more. England
has long been pining to make an end of it. In
its very title it is avowedly the merest temporary
makeshift and stop-gap. For is it not in its very
name, style, and title the Board of the Lords Com-
missioners of the Admiralty, Commissioners aap-
pointed by the Crown to discharge the duties and
to acquit themselves of the responsibilities as they
best may—duties and responsibilities hitherto
in years long past devolving upon a high
and mighty personage, whose olfiee has
for-more than a reign fallen into desuetude—to wit
the Lord High Admiral of England ! The. last
Lord High Admiral—and even then the revival
of the office was purely temporary, and in
every respect quite exceptional—being his
Royal Highness the Duke of CLARENCE,
afterwards his Majesty King WILLIAM IV.
Instead, however, of many such high authorities as
a Lord High Admiral, instead of this present in•
efficient and irresponsible Board of Admi-
ralty, what England wants, what England's
navy wants for its more efficient and
responsible administration—is a Minister of
Marine, call him what you will, and together with
the Minister, his Secretary ! Whatever may
eventually be substituted for the Board of Ad-
miralty—SOMETHlNG, we may now reasonably
expect, will be substituted in the fullness of time
directly or indirectly, through the agency of Ad
miral DUNCOMBE'S Select Committee.

The Emperor of AUSTRIA is in a panic, and has
fled for protection to our Court of Chancery. He
tried first our Foreign-office ; there, indeed, he
found a person, we are sorry to say, as willing to
oblige him as Sir JAMES GRAHAM was in olden
times to oblige despots, and get the noblest patriots
shot, by violating the secrecy of our Post-office.
But the Foreign-office was "in a fix." The law
officers told it, it could do nothing—nothing
directly, at least—but it was suggested, if you
put two detectives into a cab and send them to
N essrs. DAY, who have lithographed the KOSSUTH
notes, they may get up a case. Off accordingly
started the detectives, with all the dignity of
the Foreign-office at their backs, and were accord-
ingly shewn, we are told, very politely through
that fine establishment, just as, we presume, any
respectable person, with a proper introduction,
would be asked to look through any first-rate

manufactory in the Kingdom. What, however, is
as discreditable as can well be conceived to some
party in office is the fact that though the Messrs.
DAY were carrying on their business thus in the
light of day, some one was guilty of a
deed of darkness in which he found a
willing coadjutor in English or Austrian authori-
ties. There must have been a thief, and a receiver
of stolen goods; the proof was given in court by
the receiver, or the friends and agents of the re-
ceiver, for one of the notes was produced in court.
The note could only have been obtained by
purloining it. The purloiner must have
been either icstigated to the act or re-
warded for it ; which, indeed, of the two, makes
little material difference, unless a dealer in marine
stores has been occasionally rather hardly dealt
with. The damning fact remains, that either some
honest servant's fidelity was tampered with, and
the man or boy corrupted ; or some worthless pil-
ferer was encouraged by those who wanted to pro-
duce the note in an English court of justice.
As his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador
swore that he had obtained possession of
one of the notes, it seems to us that
he ought to be called to account for its owner-
ship, and unless he can give a satisfactory account
of it, to be treated with a sight of the usual recep-
tacle for the receivers of stolen goods.
As to the merits of the legal application we can
hardly doubt that the injunction will be dis-
solved ; indeed, to our non-technical appre-
hensions, it is only wonderful that one
was granted even temporarily. It would, how-
ever, be well, lest there should be some techni-
cal grounds of sustaining the Austrian Ambassa-
dor's application, which laymen cannot conceive of,
that the case for KossuTll should be well brought
out by competent and willing counsel. The case
would seem to he one of the simplest, nor is there,
that we can see, any offence known to the English
law which would be committed by the circulation
of the note.

The printing of the notes is in the Hungarian
language ; they have the Royal arms of Hungary
at the bottom of them, and the translation of the
note is as follows :—" One florin. This mpnelary

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