The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-16 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

NAPOLEON is generous, and that mortal is Louis 1
NAPOLEON himself.
To him, the EMPEROR is even
prodigal in hi fie"
nerosity. Romans, POPE, Italians, VICTOR EAVYLA-
s:
NUEL, GARIBALDI of course, England—nothing- is
too much to sacrifice or bestow, so far as it lies in',
the EMPEROR'S power, on the EMPEROR. He
wants occupation for his vast army, he wants
notoriety for it, he wants Vile l'Empereur to be
heard in all parts of the world if it might be.
Syria and China are convenient for this purpose,
but the display of Zouaves there must have its ter-
mination. Algeria makes little show before the
world, but to be master of Rome is to be heard of
throughout Catholic Christendom. PADDY in Con-
naught hears of him, and subscribes for swords
to his Generals, and sends recruits to preserve their
skins whole for him and his POPE at Spoleto. Hs ad-
vertises himself all over the world by making Rome
his placard board. It gives also a little importance
to his pretorians who made him what he is, and
whom, therefore, he is obliged to please in all ways
possible.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, DON C.ESAR DE BAZAN. Don
Cwsar, Mr. Fechter. Supported by Messrs. Basil Potter,
F. Matthews, J. G. Shore, Miss M. Harris, Miss C. Leclercq,
and Mrs. Weston.
After which, a new Christmas comical pantomime, entit
led
ld
ROBINSON CRUSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday, and the K
of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and l
theatres
Mdlle. Marie Dumilatre, of the principal continenta
will appear. Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest.

TTIFATRF -ROYAL LYCEUM.
So:a Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING the al new drama, THE HOUSE
aste ON THE
BRIDGE OF' NOTRE DAME. Princip charrs by
Mr. G. Vining Mr. J. Johnstone, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Clifford,
Mr. John Rouse,' Mr. Forrester, Mr. Morris ; Miss 3LTernan
Miss K. Saville, Miss L. Thompson, and Madame Celeste.
Alter which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza,
CRYSTABE LLE ; or, The Rose without a Thorn, showint.
VlslOv OF A ROSE, ITS FADING AT EVE
TAE
AND •r HIS MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR.
To conclude with a new Divertissement. MI Ldi
Thompson, &c.ss y a

ADgLPHT, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster.
THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J.
1,. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
Thorne.
After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Rousicault, D.
Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith. Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Billington, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled
BLUE BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF HUE.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford. C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar,
K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Si. Thorne.
Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, .£2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Is.
Pit Stalls, 2s. ; Pit.ls. 6d. Amphitheatre, ls ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor and Manager. Mr. WM. BATTY,
Immense auce,ese of " Turpin'a Ride to York."

The Last Morning Performance will take place on Friday,
Feb. 22, when the Boys of the Duke of York's School will
attend with their splendid Brass Band, commencing at two
o'clock with the Pantomime and Scenes in the Arena.
THIS EVENING. will be reproduced TURPIN'S RIDE
TO YORK, Ar/D 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 GreeKing, roduced with Goeous Scenery. b Mr.
Cuthbert new Costupmes and Appointm rents, and Introducing
in the comae scenes Ratty's Prize Equestrian Harlequinade,
and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley.
Box-oflice open daily trom 11 till 4
Maze Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.
Commence at '7.

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!!
A Grand Selection from Verdi's Opera,
IL CORSARO,
consisting of the following Morceaux:—
Pre
Coro Scena ed Aria. "Tutto parca Sorridere"
Coro di Odalische " Oh qual perenne"
Cavatina
Coro ed inno
Scena ed Aria " Cento ?eggiadre Vergini"
Terzetto Finale "Vol tacete lo non"
will shortly be produced, in the oriznal key and Italian
lanevaze—the first time of performance in this country—in
addition to the usual attractions.
Mr. F. JONGHMANS, Musical Director.
Also, in preparation, Selections from Verdi's New Operas,
111 n Ballo in Maschera," "Simon Boccanegra ;" and Flo-
tow's celebrated Opera of "Stradella."

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, sh. 36m.—Afternoon, sh. 54m.
To-mosatow.-Morning, 6h. Bm.—Afternoon, 6h. 24m.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEB. 16, 1661.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
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Europe must see in this persistent occupation
also a great deal of petty spite. " Generous Inter-
vention," he terms it —he should have said, " Mali-
cious Intervention." Italy will not do his bidding,
therefore Italy must be vexed to the last.
Acknowledging in words that the Italians ought
freely to choose their own Government, he is
yet galled beyond measure that they think
they know what is best for themselves. He
told them they were to be a confederation, with a
puppet Pope at their head, and M. PLON-PLON was
to be monarch of Tuscany, and some one else, if
possible, was to be installed at Naples. The ungrate-
ful Italians took their liberty but not the advice of
the EMPEROR; hence to this day, by mere brute
force—by the army which, like burglars, without
the shadow of a pretext, broke into a city which
had committed no act of hostility against France—
he crushes the freedom of the great capital of Italy
beneath his dapper regiments. History will know
how to describe the atrocious utterly unprovoked
attack of a French Republican army on a sister
Repubjic. But if there can be anything which
exacerbates the cruelty of the first outrage, it
is what he is now doing. Gaeta has
surrendered ; with the exception of the
northernmost corner of Italy, no foe to
her union and liberty, but the Frenchman is to be
found south of the Alps. In central Italy union,
harmony, good administration, commercial pros-
perity are all beginning to make themselves
apparent ; a social and political, as well as a natural
spring is commencing, but in the midst of this
hopeful scene stands the sulky Emperor of the
FRENCH, marring all, blighting all like a pest, and
perfectly unmoved by the groans of the victims of
Papal bondage.
As to the arguments of the pamphlet it is really
impossible to find.them. " The safety of the Holy
Father" is too transparent a hoax, it being well
known that VICTOR EMMANUEL is both politically,
and personally, a far better Catholic than himself,
and that the POPE'S life,property, and spiritual posi-
tion are safer in the hands of a King of ITALY
than they can be in those of an Emperor of FRANCE.
We must say, however, that the pamphlet is ob-
viously intended to supply want of reasons by
mere declamation, and that its sum is—l
will keep at Rome. It suits my military, my
dynastic, my revengeful purposes.
The time is, however, come, we think, when our
Government ought, on behalf of the Italians, to
protest to some purpose. If we are to spend again
£12,000,000 on our navy, it ought not to be that
we should demand non-intervention, and see it
wantonly violated year after year without the
shadow of a pretext. We have precisely the same
right to send an army to Rome as LOUIS NAPO-
LEON has, as much right to intervene one way as he
the other, to intervene for liberty as he for the
worst despotism on earth. Let him be reminded
that we are not any longer disposed to put up
I with intervention, if we abstain from it ourselves.

THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, FEB. 16, 1881.

After all the rumours, then, of better promise
the French intervention at Rome is to be continued.
Such, we understand, to be the drift of the new
pamphlet written professedly by M. DE LA GIIER-
RONIERE, and published with the sanction of the
Minister who defends his severity towards another
writer who went, in his judgment, too far. Of
course, under such a regime the views of the new
pamphlet " France, Rome, and Italy," must be con-
sidered only second to columns in the official por-
tion of the Moniteur itself. This country will
read the pamphlet, of which, indeed, a few extracts
contain all that is essential, with regret. It had
been hoped that on the fall of Gaeta, Imperial am-
bition itself would be ashamed to perpetuate
the oft condemned intervention at Rome.
But the pamphlet looks like the vindication of
a policy at Rome closely resembling that of pre-
venting so long the capture of Gaeta, and we have
little doubt that whatever the alleged reasons, the
real reasons are the same.

The Secretary of State was certainly determined
last evening to make the best of it in regard to the
late outbreak of the convicts at Chatham Prison.
Mr. Alderman SALOMONS, the member for Green-
wich, having put an inquiry to Sir GEORGE LEWIS
as to the alleged cause and the general character of
these disturbances, the Right Hon. Baronet imme-
diately avails himself of the opportunity to give
the most charming little milk-of-roses account of
a revolt really and truly in itself of the most fright-
ful and formidable description. If one might
. listen only in this matter to the mild and dulcifluous
accents of the Home Secretary, all that has taken
I place within the last few days at St. Mary's Con-
vict Establishment, down in the neighbourhood. of
Chatham, Strood, Brompton, and Rochester,
might be described as nothing more than
a mere momentary tiff between the felons
' and their warders. Let us examine for an
instant, statement by statement, Sir GEORGE
LEWIS'S account yesterday of what took place on
the 11th instant, when Captain GAMBIER was down
at the Convict Prison instituting an official inquiry
(into what had already recently occurred there) in
his capacity as the Visiting Director. While this
was taking place, observed Sir GEORGE, " it was
reported to him"—that is to Captain GAMBIER,
then and there invested with the chief responsibility
of maintaining order and discipline in the esta-
blishment—" it was reported," says the Home Se-
cretary "to him," that is to Captain GAMBIER,
" that the men OD the parade, returning to their
work, were in a state of insubordination." A long
word, that last, that might mean anything or
everything. We shall see presently what it really
did mean, in spite of the pretty gloss thrown over
the transaction by Sir GEORGE'S milk and
water way of giving the narrative anew. " A
number of men," continue the Home Secretary, with
apparently the least possible wish to be explicit
as to -what that number really might be when accu-
rately stated, " a number of men began shouting
and throwing up their caps." Surely a very harm-
less amusement. Then follows a much more con-
fused account of what took place thereupon, a very
much more confused account than any that has yet
made its appearance in relation to these disgraceful
proceedings. Listening to what Sir GEORGE
LEWIS said, reading what he said, last evening in
answer to the very natural interrogatories ad-
dressed to him by the hon. member for Greenwich,
one cannot but regard the Secretary of State's ex-
planation as one partaking considerably of the
jumble of these very riotous proceedings them-
selves which it affects to describe with
such extreme lucidity. This explanation, in
fact, of the Secretary of State throws so much
light upon the matter that we suppose the result is
precisely what is described Miltonically, as " dark
with excess of light," or if neither light nor dark-
ness, just simply " darkness visible" like (not inap-
propriately here) the very atmosphere of Pandemo-
nium. Of the situation of things in the Convict
Pandemonium on the 11th of this preser.t month of
February, thus spoke last evening in the House of
Commons, in sentences that read to us uncommonly
like dust thrown into the eyes of the public, thus
Iwith the most elaborately bewildering perspicuity
spoke the Right Hon. Baronet the Home Secretary:

It were useless to follow all the rhetoric of the
pamphlet. What is the result, is the only inquiry
of importance ; this it is : " The EMPEROR will
leave his sword at Rome in order to protect the
security of the Holy Father. He cannot sacrifice
Italy to the Court of Rome, neither can he deliver
up the Papacy to the revolution. Impassible, he
will patiently await the hour when the Pontifical
Government, at last disabused in regard to the
dangerous allies who have imposed their support
upon it, shall be able to distinguish between those
who have done everything to bring about its ruin,
and those who have done everything for its preser-

vation."
Of course a show of reasoning is produced for
such a policy ; indeed, the declarations, which we
may well suppose to be almost verbally those of the
EMPEROR himself, are intended to convey their own
reasons, however—reasons as little likely to be satis-
factory to other con fifties as they are to be the Em•
PErboß's private opinions. They err at least griev-
ously by defect. He likes, it is true, neither the
Court of Rome, nor the Revolution which is making
the King of a Italy a Monarch only second to an
Emperor of FRANCE ; he has done his best, as our
last Blue Book on Italy shows, to prevent such a
consummation. He fretted and chafed under the
:ievolution which was giving Italy Union and In-
ut Gaeta the cause which England would not allow
elm to obstruct when GARIBALDI was waiting to
cross the straits of Messina, but over and above all
this, the great intermeddler likes meddling for its
.own sake. He acknowledges in explicit language
• in this pamphlet that he is guilty of 4, intervention"
at Rome, and calls it " generous intervention !"
Generous, it may well be asked, to whom? To
the Roman people, on whom ha forced it at the point
of the bayonet ? or to VICTOR EMMANUEL, to
-whose Government they make every effort to unite
themselves ? To the Court of Rome, with whole
he declares himself at variance ? To Italy, which
desires the completion of its unity and the restora-
tion of its historic capital, as much as the poor
Rommas themselves de sire the same thing ?—No,
there is but one being on earth to whom Louis

Easter.

- -Speaking still vaguely of " a number of men" who

were amusing themselves with shouting and
throwing their caps into the air like so
many larking schoolboys, Sir GEORGE ob-
served—r" They were separated by the warders
of the civil guard, and the remainder were
LI ordered by the Governor to return to the prison.
They obeyed the order, and the remainder were
sent to their cells." The Secretary of State cer-
taiinly adds hereupon that "the disturbance became
gineral," and adds yet further, what appears to us
w holly incomprehensible and even ludicrous under
the circumstances, that " Captain GAMBIER
n?monstrated with them"— the felon-rioters ! But
immediately afterwards Sir G. LEWIS is contented
to observe simply, that " the military were sent for"
—without mentioning how many of the military !
What followed last evening in the Home Secretary's
explanation is really worth looking at very care-
fully—" Before the arrival of the military," re-
marked Sir GEORGE LEWIS, " the convicts broke
some windows and threw some stones, but the
military on their arrival suppressed the outbreak
without loss of life, or any serious wounds, and the
prisoners were locked up." Surely nothing
simpler than all this—surely nothing at all here
that can be deemed in any way extraordinary !
One would never suppose, listening to these
very bland assurances of the Secretary of State,
reading what he said last evening from his
place in the House of Commons, that the Facts and
Figures of the cases were as they must now be
very briefly recapitulated—That the ruffians who
revolted on the 11th inst. in Chatham Prison num-
bered altogether from one thousand to fifteen hun-
dred of the most abandoned miscreants on GoD's
earth !—that this formidable band of felons had to
deal in the first instance with an insignificant
minority of 150 warders who were quickly over-
mastered !—and this, not very wonderful to relate
under the circumstances, especially remembering
how the visiting director, Captain GAMBIER,
resorted to the extreme measure of actually
remonstrating with the rioters in the very crisis of
the revolt, when they were showing themselves
to be most infuriated !—that the whole of that
huge convict establishment at Chatham was, for
two hours or thereabouts, completely in the
possession of these insurgent desperadoes !
that during that interval of two hours the whole
interior of the prison was reduced to a complete
wreck—everything the miscreants could lay their
hands upon being smashed remorselessly, and the
building itself absolutely set on fire in two or three
different directions ! Knowing this, one cannot
but marvel to read the complacent assurance of the
Home Secretary that "some stones were thrown,"
and that " some windows were broken "—when
scarce one whole pane of glass was anywhere dis-
coverable—when the riot was at length put an end
to, how we shall soon see—scarcely one whole pane
of glass was anywhere discernible in the entire
establishment.

Any one reading for the first time about this
outbreak of the convicts at Chatham by the light
of Sir GEORGE LEWIS'S explanation would hardly
guess that " the military " spoken of by the Home
Secretary numbered altogether upwards of ONE
THOUSAND BAYONETS ! Yet that WAS never-
theless absolutely the Fact these, in round
numbers, were literally the Figures. And it is now

regarded down in the neighbourhood of these disas-
trous occurrences as nothing less than absolutely
providential that the troops of the garrison were
all at their quarters—instead of being absent from
the barracks brigading—at the moment ,4 hen they
were summoned to quell those appalling disturb-
ances. Otherwise had they chanced to be away
from barracks at the time—the convicts, it is felt
certain would, in all human probability, have con-
trived to make their escape from the Prison before
the scattered troops could have b3en mustered.
Under which instructions, under the supposition of
which alarming contingency, it is the opinion of a
correspondent, writing as recently as yesterday from
Chatham to our contemporary the Morning Post—
"that the probable sacrifice of life and property would
have been appalling, as there is no doubt that 1,100
convicts loose would have completely sacked
Chatham and Brompton." Recollecting the for-
midable character of this revolt of the convicts at
Chatham, we do earnestly trust that the remark.
able solicitude yesterday manifested by her MA-
JESTY'S Home Secretary to make the best of it—isnot
indicative of a predetermination on the part
of the authorities to hush the matter up
according to official custom as—inconvenient !
It is for the good of the public service
essential that nothing of this kind should
be attempted, or if attemyted, should be for
one instant tolerated. Into these frightful
occurrences at Chatham Convict Prison the most
searching inquiries should be instituted--so that
the causes of them should be brought to light
and those who are in any way culpable dealt
with accordingly.

THE EARL OF DERBY.—Yesterday the Earl of
Derby, who appears to have lost all traces of his recent
severe illness, honoured Mr. Mayall, the photographer,
with a visit at his studio in Regent-street. The weather
was far from favourable to photographic manipulation,
but Mr. Mayall was fortunate enough to produce several
remarkably successful portraits, some of which, we under-
stand, are to bo published.

The Dnke and Duchess of Buccleuch and family
do not intend to gave Dalkeith Palace for town until after

The Duchess of Norfolk and family have arrived
at Norfolk House, from Arundel Castle.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Winchester
have arrived in town from Amport House, Andover, for
the season.

The Marquis and Marchioness St. Antonio and
Madame Costella have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-
street, for Portugal.

The Countess Dowager of Tanksrville entertained
at dinner yesterday, at her residence in Hertford-street, the
Countess of Chesterfield, the Hon. Frederick and Lady
Adelaide Cadogan, the Earl Granville, the Earl of Shel-
burne, Count de Jaucourt, and Mr. Charles Greville.

The Countess of Mount Edgeumbe and Lady
E rnestine Edgcumbe have joined the Earl of Mount Edg-
eumbe at Farrance's Hotel, from Mount Edgcumbe,
Devonport.

The Earl and CounteEs of Lincoln are expected
in town early next week from Paris. _ _

The Countess Cowley and the Ladies Wellesley
have left town for Paris.

Viscountess Palmerston will have an assembly
this evening, and on Saturday next.

Lord and Lady Chelmsford entertained a select
party at dinner last evening, at their residence in Eaton-
square.

Lord and Lady Egerton have arrived in St.
James's-square from their seat in Cheshire, for the season.

Lord Richard Grosvenor has just returned home
after several years' absence, during which period his lord-
ship has travelled in America, Australia, China, and Japan.
The Hon. C. Bertie Percy and family have left
Guy's Cliffe, for Torquay.
Among the passengers who landed at Soul hamp-
ton yesterday from America, per Teuton, was Herr Formes,
the celebrated basso.

CHAPEL BURNT DOWN, AT BRADFORD.-011
Thursday afternoon the Providence, Primitive Methodist
Chapel, Manchester-road, Bradford, was burnt down in
less than an hour, property.to the value of £3,000 being
destroyed.

LONDON AND WESTMINSTER BANK.—The joint-
stock banks, at a meeting held at the London and West-
minster Bank yesterday, decided not to make any alteration
in their allowance on deposits. A similar resolution has
been adopted by the discount houses.
It is stated that a kind of joint-stock combina-
tion has been foamed at Manchester to purchase cotton in
India, America, or wherever it can be obtained. The prc.
posed sum is £1,000,000, each subscriber contributing
£l,OOO, and about £200,000 is said already to have been
paid down,

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 16, 1861.

perial rescript, and in favour of the electoral law
of 1848. While on the subject, it may be as
well to call attention to an out-spoken article
in the Ost Deutsche Post, which reviews the
dangers now threatening the Austrian Empire,
and shows the urgency for adopting a new
policy. The following is part of the article :
" Things are in as bad a state as possible in
Austria. Her finances are deplorable; her consti-
tution is still in an embryo state, and no one knows
what will become of it. The Patent of October,
drawn up in haste, and executed with hesitation,
has precipitated us into a host of contradictions
and half•measures, of which it is not yet possible
to see an end; in many cases a want of good will
and of decision is displayed; and what is still
worse, we see no men of talent and character. And
yet, in spite of all these misfortunes and all these
faults, Austria will live. Attempts have been
made to unite the different parts of Austria by
force, by absolutism, by bayonets, but all in vain.
Let now a directly contrary line of policy be
adopted with energy. Let Austria be organised by
liberty and civil courage; let her not be centra-
lised at the green tables of Ministerial offices, but
let her be centralised in a great Parliament !"