The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-05 00:00:00

THEATRY.-ROYAI., HAYMARKET.
Lesime. Mr. J. B. Bankston.
THIS EVENING, the pertonnanoes will comments?. with
A DUKE IN ►)IFFICULTIES. Mrs. Stirling, MN F.
Haydon, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr. tiuckstone,
Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, to.
Alter which, will he_ revived, with entirely new scenery
irnd elects, and all the original music by the late Sir Henry
Bishop, the melodrama of THE MILLER AND HIS MEN.
Commence at 7.!

TAEA TRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.
Sots Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
Two New Tlramas.—Reapßeyance of Mr. John Drew, and

sth appearanceOf Miss Matilda Heron.

THIS EVENING, THE TWO GREGORIES.
After which. a new original comic drama, written by Semi.
Lover, Esq., entitled MAC CART MORE ; or, Posseesion
Bine Points of the Law. John Drew, J. Johnston, Forrester,
J. Rouse, Medlin ; Misses Rawlings, Hudspeth, Arc.

To conclude with a new drama, NEW YEAR'S EVE ; or,
The Belle of the Season. Messrs. H. Neville, Villiers, Jas.
Johnstone, tr. Rouse ; Mrs. Wlnstanler: Miss Ma'ilda Heron,
Mist Willard, aic.

110 YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lassee and Monster. Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore,
Meadow, Garden, and Miss C. Leclercq.
Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup-
ported by Messrs. Ryder, Hermann Vezin, Graham, Shoro,
Meadows, ; Misses Heath, R. Leclercq, and Elsworthy.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Great Attraction for the Easter Rolidays.-sth appearance
this season of Mr. B. Webster and Miss Julia Daly.
THIS EVENING, a new drama (2d time) MAGLIORE,
PRESTIDIGITAIOR. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole,
D. Fisher, &c.; Miss K. Kelly, Miss EL Simms, &c.
After which, OUR G
Mr. which,
3U Mr. `G
RA! Miss Julia Daly, Mr. Romer,
Doors open at halt past R—Commenee at 7.

CANTERBURYstmtne-HAL r-Lroad CONCERTS!!
Wete.
Proprietor ........C. Morton. •

A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera,
IL CORSARO,

(This opera has never been produced is this or any other
country,
except at these Concerts), having met with that de-
cided success which charactise, the most popular werka of
this great Master, will be performed EVETT EVENING ;
together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI-
MOTTO, by Donizetti,
principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
L. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
The Comic Department oomprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A.
B. Hollingsworth, J. 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.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tam DAT.—Morning, 10h. 40m.—Afternoon, 1112.19 m.
To-moDaow.-Morning, 11h. 56m.—Afternoon, —h. —m.

THli WEATHER.—SUN ORRICE, Aria, 5, 1161.
THERMOMETER, IN TIM SHADE.
54—highest Mace noon yesterday.
38—lowest this morning and during the night.
49—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.95.
Wmo--North-Westerly—light; with dull weather, but
dry.

However much we may be opposed to the views
entertained by Mr. ROEBUCK in regard to the
position in which Austria stands relatively to
Italy through Venetia, that is to say, to Italy One
and Indivisible—there is no doubt at all that the
hon. and learned gentleman not only hit the right
nail on the head, but hit it moreover a good down-
right sledge-hammer blow when he remarked the
other day at Sheffield that NAPOLEON wanted his
own relatives established there in the Roman
Peninsula, That is indubitably the arriere pensee '
of the Italian Policy of that idol of Europe, the
self-styled Motierator of Revolutions. And that
arriere pewee furnishes us with a clue through all
the windings and doublings of that more than
Cretan labyrinth guarded by the grim imperial
Minotaur. Was it not manifest at the
very":outset of the War of Liberation ? The
Prince NAPOLEON, for example was he
not, for this express purpose and to this
distinct end, united to the daughter of VICTOR
EMMANUEL, in order to render him, at once, an
Italian Prince by marriage ? Was he not sent
round by Leghorn manifestly in order that he might
be in readiness, at the first opportunity, to slip into
the vacated'shoes, and ascend the vacant throne of
the Grand Duke of TUSCANY ? What was the
avowed design of the EMPEROR'S General when
marching upon Milan and meditating in the saddle
his famous Proclamation ?—that illusory Procla-
mation promising, in express terms, the liberation
of Italy from the Alps to the Adriatic, and then
almost immediately afterwards dashing down to
dust the high hues raised by that superb promise,
dashing them down to the very dust by the miser-
able compromise of Villafranca ? W hat was the
EMPEROR'S project, even then, in his better mo-
ments, in regard to the future of the Roman
Peninsula ? What but the now almost
forgotten .scheme of an Italian Confederation ! And
the meaning of this was clearly enough manifest.
It would have been readily comprehensible in the
simple remembrance that the proposition emanated
from a BONAPARTE. It was as visible and glaring as
the noonday sun when viewed in the light of the then
situation all through that peninsula ! With 20,000
of his MAJESTY'S troops still then (as now) firmly
established in the very midst of Italy, at Rome, on
the vantage ground of the seven hills ! With
Prince NAPOLEON at the head of his division of the
" Grand Army"—in Tuscany ! His Imperial High-
ness having been opportunely allied just before to
the Royal House of Savoy (house of Savoy now
no longer), having taken to wife the young Princess
CLOMDE, daughter of King VICTOR EMMANUEL !
Above all, with his MAJESTY himself yonder in the
north of Italy, upon the plains of Lombardy, as
Commander-in-Chief of a force of 200,000 men, hav-
ing there martialled under his banners the soldiers
not only of France but of Piedmont ! Southwards—
everything then to hope for, in the interests of
MURAT, through the paralysis fallen upon theßoutt-
RON rule, and through the consequent certainty that
there too would be empty shoes for another Imperial
Highness, there too would be a vacant throne for
another dear cousin to ascend as Sovereign. Why
in the glare of the light of that the then situation
of affairs in Italy, the real meaning of the Italian
Confederation talked of by NAPOLEON 111. was
perfectly obvious. It meant a snug family party
at the council board of that proposed Confederation
—under the nominal Presidency (just to keep up
appearances and to hoodwink the Ultra-
montanists) under the nominal Presidency of the
POPE, bat under the real presidency of the Head
of the Inamily, his disinterested Majesty NAPO-
LE•N 111,. That magnificent Liberator of Italy
who had gone forth to accomplish the work of
her I •
--Iherat ion, affecting all the chivalrous
mag-
nanimity of .DON QUIXOTE, but who returned from
the labour of 3ts only partial achievement with the
purloined realty of Savoy and Nice slipped into
his pecicet with an adroitness worthy of " One of
Mr. FAQIN's
‘'HARLEY BATES, or the Artful
Dodger.

The ignominious. eistap,: pointtnent of all his
h
MAJESTY'S hopes about
teltalian Confederation,
the futility of all his indirect , Tpts to establish
one of his Imperial
.Cousin, s (1,4
. nee NAPOLEON)
on the throne of Tuscany, and
au other (Prince
MuRAT) on the throne of the Twoes—the
wonderful simplification of the Whole originally
complex problem of Italian Liberation by
the merging of all the various o, %cited
States Lombardy, Parma, Modena, ,
canY• the Legations, the Two Sieilies—into .ok:kc

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THE SUN.
LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1881.