The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-30 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

OYA Ti PRTNCES S'S THEATRE.--
A 'll T,easee and Manager, Mr. A. Farris.
THIS EVENING. the performances will commence
Ray
with
RUT AS. Mesars. Fechter, Basil Potter, G4rden,
inond. Graham, Cathcart, and A. Harris.
After which. A new r,hristmas comical pantomime. entiWingtled
nonissoN CRTTSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday, and the
of the raribbe Wands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and
Millie, Marie Pumilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres,
will avear. Clown. Av. A. V. Forrest.

iTHFATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM.
So",,e Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING, a new Drama, entitled THE IRISH
F.IITGRANT. Messrs. Vinine. J. Johnstone, T. Lyon.
Forrester, and John Drew ; Miss Kate Saville, Miss Stuart,
and Mrs. J. Rouse.
Alter which. the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza,
cyryTARF,I,LE : or, The Rose without a Thorn, sbowine
cry, visio g OF A ROSE. ITS FADING AT EVE,
AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR
- To conclude with MORE BLUNDERS THAN ONE.
Larry Hoolacran, Mr. John Drew.

A'IIFT,PI4T, Nl'W THEATRF-ROYAL,
1).-nrrietor and Nrankqer. Mr. Ron! Wellgte.r,

TTITS EVF,ING, AN -UGLY CIISTOMER. Messrs. J.
y„ Toole, C. Selby, and Wade; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
Thorne.
Aiter which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boucicault, D.
I/ Rho?. Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Ai:meg Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Cliagerley.
To conclude with a new Burlesque EXtraVllolllZit. entitled
MATE BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF BUR
Messrs. J.. L. Toole. P. Bedford. C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar,
K. Kelly, LaidLavr, and To,. Thorne.
Doors open at halt past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office ones irom lo till 5.
No chars,,e tor hoekincr•
Private boxes. £2 25.: Family -Boxes, XI.
Orchestra Stalls, sa. • Balcony, 4s. ;Front Circle Stal:s, ;
Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery. 6d
Pit Stalls, 21.;
Pit, .I€ 4. 6d• ;
Antitur manazer—Nr. Wm. Smith.

sTLET,S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY.
Last week of Mr. J. Crockett and the Trained Lions.
A Grand Juvenile Fete will take place on Friday, Feb. 1,
commencing at two o'clock with the Pantomime, concluding
with the:Lions.
This Evening, a ne Sectacle,
ngle, en-titexpresslyled VIE
for th LION
CONQUEROR ; or, The Death Ju
introduction of the Wonders of the World,Groupe
of Performing Lions." The Lion Conqueror, Mr. J. Crockett.
To be fmcceeded 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 Hine, produced with Gorgeous Scenery, by Mr.
Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing
in the comic scenes Itatty's Prize Equestrian Harlequinade,
and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley, and Brandon L edger.
Doors open at half-rasi 6, performance commence at 7.

CANTF,RBURY- HAL L - CONCERT S! !!
A Grand Selection from Verdi's Opera,
IL CORSARO,
consisting of the following Morceauxs
Preludio.
•
Coro Scena ed Aria.. "Tutto pares Sorridere"
Coro di Odalisehe.. " Oh qual perenne"
Cavatina "Vola talor dal Carcere"
Coro ed inno
Scena ed Aria "Cento leggiadre Vergini"
Terzetto Finale " Voi tacete fo non"
will be produced in a few days, in the Orignal Key and
Italian langua-e—the first time of performance in this
country—in addition to the usual attractions.
Mr. F. JONGIIMANS, Musical Director.
Also, in preparation, Selections from Verdi's New Operas,
"Un Ballo in Maschera." "Simon Boccanegra ;" and Flo-
tow's celebrlated Opera of "Stradella."

• HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Titts DAY.—Morning, 4h. 26m.—Afternoon, 4h. 46m
To•MORROW.-Morning, sh. 9m.—Afternoon, sh. 26m.

TH WEATHER.—SUN OFFICM, JAN. 30, 1861.
THEILMOXETEIt, IN TIM SHADS.
46—highest since noon yesterday.
36—lowest this morning and during the night.
42 —this day at noon.
BAROMETER---30.19.
WIND—South-Westerly—rather fresh ; a ith dull weather.

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. THE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 30, 1861

•

The Italian Parliament now being elected will
have to decide as—the first problem of all submitted
to them for solution—the vital question of annexa-
tion, or rather, it should be said, of Unification.
It will speedily be seen, therefore, whether
Prince METTERNICH was altogether correct in his
cynical sneer about Italy having no more than a
" geographical expression." As something towards
.ct the settlement of this still pending difficulty, there
has been latterly observed in active operation
throughout the Roman peninsula a movement of a
very extraordinary kind among the various States
of that great country—a movement more or less
Active, but all tendi,ng in precisely the same direc-
tion. It has been actually there to all intents and
purposes. of late as though, upon the alternately
smooth and agitated surface of time, or of affairs
(just as we may please to call it), the rods of
the different ruling Powers of Italy had been
afloat, drifting hither and thither, upon the surface
of the current—those rods heretofore the sceptres
of different Italian Princes, henceforth (it is in-
tended) to be bound up firmly and permanently
together into the fasces of a single dominant au-

thority
The binding together of these symbolical rods
will be the first work set apart for the New Italian
Parliament. And for the simplification of that
solemn and responsible duty, it has latterly come to
pass, in obedience to one of the recognised laws of
nature as defined in the rudimentary treatises upon
natural philosophy, that the "smaller of the floating
bodies have clustered, one after another about the
largest, in accordance with the simple force of
a superior attraction or of gravitation. Have we not
seen it ? Is it not -visible to the whole world
Sardinia, the chief of the Powers that be, yonder
in that beautiful and noblo Italy, has drawn to-
wards her in succession Lombardy, Parma, Mo-
dena, Tuscany, the "'Emilia, Naples, Sicily. The
smaller sceptres or rods of power have floated, in
obedience to the force of gravitation; to that
chief sceptre of Sardinia, to that sceptre already
armed with the axe of authority ! Already,
therefore, the powers of the new Italian" Kingdom
can be recognised at this moment as existing
loosely. Around the separate rods thus together
self-collected it is only needful now that the
Parliament of the Roman Peninsula should draw
securely the bond of Unification. Europe is the
spectator. Beyond the frontiers of the new
kingdom are countless sympathisers. And even
those who are far from sympathising in the
liberation of Italy by the Italians themselves—even
those stand around, too, simply as spectators. They
are powerless to act, they are powerless to interfere.
The fiat has gone forth from Frande and from
England—reluetantly,tardily itmay be from France
—earnestly, resolutely from England—the man-
date of the epoch, the policy of theage—Non-
intervention ! Rtu.sia, even the haughty and inso-
lent autocracy of R ussia, does not interfere. Her
ambassador to the late Court of Naples, it will be
observed, has now, within the last few days, now
that FRANCIS 11. is manifestly in extremis, his excel-
lency the diplomatic representative of the CZAR to
the Court of the King (still) of GAETA bas, very
recently, as the latest indication of the power-
lessness of Russia, withdrawn from the side of the
King, (of Gaeta) to Rome ! This—from Russia!