The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-05 00:00:00

Commence at Seven. Doors open at Half-past Six.

THIS EVENING and during the week, THE MARRIAGE
OF GEORGETTE : Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. H. Corr'.
Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. After which, the Grand
Oriental Pantomine of BLUE BEARD. The opening writ-
ten by J. V. Bridgman, Esq. Supported by a combination of
talent unequalled in the annals of pantomimic art. Mr. W.
H. Payne, Harry Boleno, Henry Payne, Hildyard, Milano,
Fred. Payne, Tanner, J. Barnes, the Zelin skis, Miss Clara
Morgan, and Mdme. Boleno. The Pantomime produced by
Mr. Edward Stirling.

The MORNING PERFORMANCES each week, WED-
NESDAY and SATURDAY, commencing at Two o'clock.
Stage Manager, Mr. Edward Stirling. Acting Manager,
Mr. Edward Murray.

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA,

COVENT-GARDEN. -
Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.

son, Sole
THIS EVENING,arri the MARRIAGELessees. OF GEORGETTE :
Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. H, Corrie. To conclude with the
Grand Christmas Pantomime, BLUE BEARD ; or, Harle-
quin and Freedom in her Island Home. Clowns, Messrs. H.
Boleno, H. Payne. Hildyard, and Lilliputians. Harlequins,
Messrs. Milano and F. Payne. Pantaloons, Messrs. Barnes
and Tanner. Columbines, Mdme. Boleno and Clara Morgan.
Sprites, the Zelinski Family. Mr. W. H. Payne, Mlle.
Lamoureux, &c.

Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mallon. Commence at Seven.

THEA TRil'-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Les4ee, Mr. J. B. Baekstene.

THIS EVENING, SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Tony,
bumpkin, Mr. Buckstone ; Young Marlow, Mr. Howe ; Miss
Hardeastle, Miss Fanny Stirling

After which, a new Pantomime, QUEEN LADYBIRD
AND HER CHILDREN. The Pantomimists by the un-
rivalled Leclereqs, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright.

Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE,—Lessee,
and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.—A GRAND MORNING
PERFORMANCE of the Pantomime, ROBINSON
CRUSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday and the King of the C9,tlb-
bee Islands, on MONDAY, Jan. 7, commencing at Two
o'clock. Again acknowledged to be the best Pantomime in
London.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Hants,
THIS EVENING, Jan. 5, ERNESTIN.T. Messrs. J.
G. Shore, R. Cathcart, Basil Potter ; Mesdames Heath, Car-
lotta Leclercq, Weston, and Murray.
After which, a new Christmas comhal pantomime, entitled
ROBINSON CRITSOE ; or, Harlea•,un Friday, and the King'
of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and
Mdlle. Marie Dumilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres,
will appear. Clown, Mr. A. P. Forrest.

A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Sole Pernrir,tor and Manager. Mr. Beni. Webster.
THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J.
L. Toole, C. Serby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
Thorne.
Atter whirih, THE COLLEEN PAWN. D. 'Ronde:mit, D.
Fisher, Millington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. 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 k,. 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, XL
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, is. ;
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, Is. tiel. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
THISVEVENING THE OMNIBUS. Pat Rooney, Mr.
John Drew.
After which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic F.xtravazanza,
CRYSTABELLE •. or, The Rose without a Thorn, showinz
VIsTONT OF A ROSE. ITS FADING AT EVE,
AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF TUE WILD BRIAR.

Followed by the comic Drama, entitled HANDY ANDY.
Messrs. Campbell, .Tohnstone, T. Lyon. Forrester, 1:11liers,
Butler, and .Toon Drew; Mrs. J. Rouse, Miss Hudspeth, Miss
M. Tertian, and Miss Neville.

A gTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE...-.
...LP. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY.
This Evening, a new Spectacle, entitled THE LION
'CONQUEROR ; or, The Death Jungle, expressly for the
introduction of the Wonders of the World, " The Groupe
'of Performing Lions." The Lion Conqueror, Mr. J. Crockett.
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 HART.EQU DI 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 comic scenes Batty's Prize Equestrian Ilarlequinade,
and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley, and Brandon Ledger.
Harlequin Mr. Sylvester.
Columbine Mlliss Hariet Dalton.
Pantaloon Mr. G. Perks.
Clown Mr. James Cooke.
Sprites—Messrs. Thorne, Lockhart, and Sons.
Doors open at half-past C, performance commence at 7.
Box-office ope'.l daily from 11 till 4
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WERT.
• Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.

HALL

CANTERBURY
Open Every Evening at seven.
GRAND SELECTIONS from LA FIGLIA DEL REG-
MENTO (Donizetti), NORMA, SONNAMBULA and
MARTHA.
Principal Artistes Miss RUSSELL, Madame MARIA, Miss
TYJIRELL, Miss WILLIAMS, Mr. HENRY HERBERT, C.
W BERNARD, and Signor TIVOLI
Musical Director Mr. P. JONGTIMANS.
The Comic Department comprises Messrs. J. BLANCHARD,
A. B. HoLLrNoswouTn, Master BARRY, and E. MARSHALL.
The Fine Arts Gallery has been enriched by the addition of
the late John Martin's three Grand Pictures—viz., " THE
GREAT DAY of HIS WRATH." " THE PLAINS of
HEAVEN," and "THE LAST JUDGMENT," on view
until 12 o'clock at Night.
CH RES TMA S HOLIDAYS.
OPERA, DRAMA. BURLESQUE, and PANTOMIME.
EVERY EVENING.
Clown .
'qr. E. MARSHALL.
Harlequin.. ..
Pantaloon Mr. F. BELL.
SPRITES, by the celebrated BROTHERS CONRAD.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JAN. 5, 1861.

The political "situation" all over Europe is every
day becoming more and more significant. Every-
thing gives indication of a coming collision. The

thunder clouds are still quietly but ominously in

movement—hither and thither, right and left, here,
„there, everywhere, in more and more inextricable
confusion. From what point the lightning bolt
will first flash as th© signal for the inevitable storm
of war is yet left vaguely to our conjecture. But
that 1861 will not pass over without that looked-
for tempest breaking over the nations of Christen-
dom is fast becoming the universal conviction. All
that NAPOLEON 111. has said at the dawn of the
year is that he " wishes " for Peace. He acknow-
ledges while so speaking that be can recognise no
better or more reliable assurance of its continuance
than the friendly relations subsisting at this
moment among the various Governments. Building
upon which is certainly building upon a most sandy
foundation. Yet in this amiable understanding we
are alone to look for a guarantee of the maintenance
during 1861 of European tranquillity. The Regu-
lator of Europe, the Moderator of the Revolution,
has said it. And in so saying, he has said truly
though in a different sense than that in which he
would fain have his words unders+ood. Designed,
doubtless, by his Imperial MAJESTY upon the Jour
de ran to be enigmatically auspicious, they are,
when looked at closely, only most ominously sig-
nificant. The Peace of Europe does rest—not a
doubt of it—upon this hollow amity, this affected
friendship among the different powers of the
European Continent. Upon nothing else It rests
alone upon that shifting quicksand. It has no
more stable basis than that specious and variable,
that simply assumed and pretended good under-
standing between the Governments.

How much of the electricity of war there is a+,
this moment in the political atmosphere, we may
very readily perceive through a multitude of very
comprehensible indications. Looking abroad over

Europe, It is as impossible not to recognise the warn-
ings of the storm as it would be impossible not to

I'OJvaA~

n like adrent in the physical world,
were the magnetic needle to fluctuate under our

gaze and the quicksilver to fall and fail in the
tube of the barometer.

It is not alone in Europe either that those
startling signs of the times ara ♦isib le. It
was only yesterday that the citizens of the
great North American Republic were, in an-
swer to the summons of their PRESIDENT, plead-
ing to Heaven, as it were, in sackcloth and ashes,
with fasting and prayer, with all the evi deuces
of patriotic solicitude and national humiliatiion, for
some Divine intervention in their behalf—t o ward
from them so many impending, and formidable, and
otherwise apparently inevitable perils—pleading
thus for the beneficent interposition in their
fa•vour of an ever-watchful and all-merciful Pro-
vidence.

From the opposite extremities of the earth too,
from the eastern borders of China come the sounds
of the recent struggle between the Tartar hordes
and the Anglo-French Expeditioa under the walls
of Pekin—a strife nominally resulting in a rapid
negotiation of Peace between the recent
bekligerents, but—through the tidings of which—
come to us at the same time, audibly
enough, the resounding intimations of the
downfall of the old Tartar Government, and of the
rising and spreading wider and wider over that
Immense empire of the great LUPINO Revolution.
Reverting to Europe, however, looking exclu-
sively for a time over thebroad expanse of our own
quarter of the globe, what are the truths we there
chiefly recognise ? They are truths so visible, so
glaring, that in the familiar words of H
" those who run may read." Everywhere
oliyt Writ,
is tho
Bran everywhere there is perceptible a calm but
resolute preparation. It is not alone, however, that
this note of preparation is sounded in the arsenals
and in the dockyards. It is observable also here
and there throughout Europe in the inner changes
making themselves manifest in the various adminis-
trations. It was only the other day that in France
herself the whole ministerial organisation was trans-
formed. Among ourselves, still more recently, while
the Cabinet remains unaltered, there has yet been
introduced into it within the last few hours a modi-
fication of some significance. The Secretary of
State for War—with a view to his disembarrass-
ment from the arduous labours devolving upon a
Ministerial leader of a great department who has
his seat in the House of Commons—the Secretary
of State For War (to this end) is removed
to the Upper House, so that his energies may
be directed uninterruptedly and undisttarbed to the
more energetic direction and governance of his all-
important and solemnly responsible department.
As a consequence of which eminently judicious
and manifestly most significant elevation of Mr.
SIDNEY HERBERT to the House of Peers, that right
hon. gentleman's (or, as we shall soon be able to
call him, that noble lord's) present lin& tr-Secretary
in the War Department, to wit, Lord: DE GREY,
will have to give place to a successor occupying a
seat in the lower branch of the Legish;ature. By
that successor of Lord DE GREY'S in the Under
Secretaryship of State for the -War Department
the business of the Department in relation to the
Commons will now be of course entirely. transacted
—leaving the chief of the Department, the new
Peer, to devote, as we have said, his. undiiided
attention, his wholly undisturbed energies, to the
conduct during this year of grace, 1861, of the affairs
of the War Department. High and lo,w, it is the
same, looking all over Europe, lookiran either to
the more important or the less imeportant of
the States of Chri9tendonii Nay, ev+en without
the pale of Christendom, though still within the
boundaries of Europe, these charges, 'by way of
preparation, are apparent. From Con aitantinople,
under date the 29th of December, arria re tidings of
the abrupt dismissal of SAAFETI PACMI., President
of the Council of State. Even looking to the cen-
tral point of Europe, to the core of the I fallen ques-
tion, to that Gordian Knot, for the severance of
which so many are now awaiting the s'qord-sweep
of some new ALEXANDER, even looking to that
State, which, among all the States of lc.':nrope, has
become, in a novel way, so especially remarkable,
namely, by collapsing from a territory to, :little better
than a town—even turning to Rom e —what is
the last news we read of thence, of a pure ly political
character ? Why, oddly enough, no other tidings
than that the retirement of Monsign,cm MIRODE
was then, when the last despatches left, being
hourly looked for, and that hi& successor
there as Minister of War was confidently
expected to be (by a ludicrous cokncidence of
names) no other than Monsignor BEix...a.—shall we
say " BELLti, horrida BELLA P" It is not, how-
ever, from deductions drawn from xnore or less
notable changes, or from more or le i significant
tokens all over the European Continent of
unostentatious, but steady and rapid pre-
paration, that we derive the conviction now
fast becoming universal that war in. 1861, is all
but unavoidable. War has been plan nised in ex-
press words, by the man of all men living who has
shown himself qualified to speak trumapet-tongued
to the Europeans? GARIBALDI has said it. He
has promised to emerge in the early sl raring from his
island-farm at Caprera, and to sum mon a million
soldiers to his banners—for what achievement ? For
the realisation—if ever that is to be—of the golden
day-dream of his life, the dre I.m of Italian
Unity ! For the wresting froanKthe grasp
of Austria of the last of her bra aitiful Italian
Provinces ! For the establish to tent of the
Italian Kingdom, " one and visible," from
the Alps to the Adriatic, from the -foot of the Car-
pathian range to the southernmoA;; spur of Cape
Spartivento. That, if the signal comets not sooner,will
be the clarion sounding the Charge, it rying " Havoc I
and letting slip the Dogs of War!" for 1861, over
the nations of Christendom. Italy m 21y then rise and
take her place among the great Po c ers of Europe !
Austria may then fall, dissolve, and disappear !
Turkey, on this side the Bosphon ts. , at least, may
then lapse at length, after an anomalous existence
of four hundred years, may then lapse at length,
and permanently, from the power oof the SULTAN
CALIPH of the Mussulmans !

C Paddy and Popery are such persistent com-
plainers that even their just complaints are likely
to be overlooked. They are always wronged—out-
wronged. Now the Sa snenach, now the
ra,geously
Protestant, or more commonly
evlytebre zr persecuting and
nt co
bination of the two, are for
afflicting Paddy and hispriestisan grievance, the'Thegreatwork-
house grievance, the great pr
great eviction grievance—the worst of
Irishmenal
all; the
great Cabinet and Ministry grievanceof
not being adequately valued by evcry new Premier ;
the great Italian grievance, especially that of
Spoleto—the grievances are really so innumerable
and so perennial that we have c pane to look upon
them as a matter of course. We turn to the Irish
columns or paragraphs in the newspapers, in-
wardly saying, what grievance now ? We look
for some account of toes trodden . on till they ar4
crushed, expecting to find, after a few mails, that
they were but accidentally toughed, as the suf-
ferer squeezed along in the crowd. If, therefore,
poor Paddy sometimes cothplains, with reason, that
he is not attended to when he ought to be, he must
really thank himself for it.

Bishop PLuNii.LT.'s ar tize

grievance of Ireland. They have been before
the public with assertions and counter-asser-
tions for some time ; but at length we have
the authentic evidence of the Lord Bishop
and of the Roman Catholic priest, Mr. LAVELLE,
to deal with, as given before a court of justice;
and, beyond all doubt, a hard case on the poor
peasantry it seems to be. On two points the evi-
dence is as clear as it could well be—that the Bishop,
through his agent, required his tenants-at-will to
send their children to the Irish Mission schools,'
where the Bible was taught, on pain of eviction ;
and that Mr. LAVELLE had emptied these schools
of the children, and encouraged the people to keep
possession of their holdings, though possession of
them was demanded by the Bishop's agents. The
Bishop and the priest were, in fact, at open war. The
Bishop had determined that all the children on his
estate should be taught the Bible—the priest had
resolved that the Bible they should not learn; but the
Bishop wielded temporal weapons, the priest spiri-
tual weapons, in this battle for children. The Bishop
gained his temporal battle, for the strong arm of
the law was with him, The priest gained his
spiritual battle, for the children have been with-
drawn from all danger of Mission school and
Bible corruption.
But we ought to give the substance of the
evidence. The processes were against two tenants
for over-holding and non-title ; Lor d PLUNKET
was examined—to the question, whether " In this
terrific weather he was purposing to fling seventy
unfortunates on the snow-covered mountains in
Partry, and specially, whether it was really for
purposes of eviction, and not merely for non-
payment of rent, he had brought these actions,"
he answered "certainly ;" and in several forms he
firmly answered that "the sole object he had in
view was to evict these wretched people and drive
them on the world." The remark of the Bishop,
that LALLY (now sought to be ejected) was a " bad
character," led to a series of questions designed to
show that his "badness" consisted in not sending
his children to the Bible schools. These questions
the Bishop fenced ; and said that his object was to
"stripe the land," and to "prevent the interference
of Mr. LAVELLE, who was acting as landlord."
Subsequent questions showed that the land,
with insignificant exceptions, was "striped"
already; and to the question how, therefore,
the object could be to "stripe the land,"
the Bishop would not return an answer P The
questions then aimed at eliciting from the Bishop
his knowledge that the exertions of Mr. LAVELLE
had reduced the attendance in the Bible schools to
three, " the Master, the Mistress, and the Piggery
Boy." These questions the Bishop also fenced.
Finally, came the questions, intended to prove,
what in an English county election we should call
" undue influence" of tenants-at-will, or of any
tenants. As a Tory or Whig almost never says in
direct terms, vote blue or vote yellow, or quit next
year—se Bible school Bishops in Ireland do sot,
personally, at least, employ the threat direct. The
examiner, therefore, dropped the plain word
" force," and put to the episcopal landlord of the
poor potato•growers, the question, " Did you ever
express your ' earnest desire' to the parents, that
the children should attend your school, and did you
impress this ' earnest desire' on them, at every op-
portunity :" BISHOP (warmly), " I did, and I will
continue to do so." The question, with some
appearance of surprise, was repeated, and the
Bishop firmly repeated his answer, " I did and I
will." Undue influence is, indeed, a thing hard to
define, but were this an election ease, we imagine that
the most Tory judge and jury in England would
agree, that this, at least, was "undue influence,"
The Bishop, however, could not perceive that it
was equivalent' to a command—" No," said he, "it
is no command," which was not the question;
and fairly enough his examiner retorted—" No, my
lord, not in words; but every right-minded man
will pronounce it nothing less than a most stringent
command." After some attempts by the examiner
to instruct the Bishop in episcopal duties from the
Apostle PAUL'S charge to Bishop TIMOTHY, which
the judge stopped—the examination of the Lord
Bishop was concluded.
Mr. LAVELLE'S examination followed, and as
Lord PLUNXET had virtually attacked his charac-
ter he was, very fairly, allowed to give his own
explanation. Its substance has been given in the
statements we have already made. His "acting as
landlord" resolved itself into advising the tenants
not to quit voluntarily. But to a Roman Catholic
priest the circumstances were not a little provoking.
After he had resealed the Roman Catholic children
from the teaching of the Bible, twice, with a short
interval, several members of the Bishop's family
and the agent present in court, assembled the
tenants at the school-house, and demanded of each
of them separately, that he should send his children
to the school. On both occasions the tenants re-
fused, and were told on the spot they should be
evicted. The agent came the day following that of
the second refusal to take possession of the land,
because " Lord PLUNKET would have no tenants
who did not send their children to the school."
Hereupon Mr. LAVELLE advised the people' to
refuse; which he—firm as the Bishop—said he
would do again.

Such is the sum of the evidence as given by
the Dublin Morning News, and, assuming the
correctness of the report, very little can be said
for Lord PLUNKET. It must have been very
annoying to find his schools, previously
full, dwindle down to one scholar, " the Tour-
makeady piggery boy." For an Anglo-Irish
Bishop to be beaten by an unauthorised Dissenting
parish priest, of whom no one ever heard before,
was mortifying enough to Episcopal flesh and
blood ; but it was a religious battle ; .the Bishop
had no moral right to " impress his desire" on his
tenants, and to permit his family and agent to
follow up non-complianee with that desire by the
severest of temporal penalties to an Irishman short
of death. It is like a soldier using his bayonet
or swordbelt in a struggle with a civilian.
We recently had occasion to reprobate similar
conduct on the part of a Welsh lady, at, the
instigation of her clergyman, towards English
Protestant Dissenters; it is equally unchristian
and equally unrighteous towards Roman Catholic
Dissenters, According to his own statements, we
can perceive not a shadow of justification for Lord
PLUNKET'S conduct; nor do we see how the evidence
can easily be explained away. Accepting the un-
contradicted facts, we can only say that the conduct
of Lord PLUNKET, in the Partry evictions, would
justify any persecution whatever for conscience
sake ; for if landlords have a moral right to turn
out of house and off the land, those whom they
cannot convert to their own views of religious
duty, Roman Catholic proprietors on the continent
would be justified in doing the same—the great
landlord, the Government, might plausibly follow
them ; and Roman Catholic countries might adopt
Rome
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A morning contemporary, in an article on the
Canada extradition case, in which the impossibility
or a,-ertrri, ret leers to