The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-28 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE
Piccolomini, Giuglini,_ Vialetti, Belletti.

away into nothingness. Hungary is still to the
last the despair of Kosstrra and of all such poli-
tical day-dreamers, and one of the many baubles
loosely set in the Hapsburg diadem. Germany—
well, even Germany, is it not still, to all intents
and purposes, the most heterogeneous conglomera-
tion of big and little independencies I' Looking like
Forty States rolled into one ! Having a national
song ever on the lips of its motley population,
with a doleful burden like the refrain of UHLAND,
asking, by iteration upon iteration, without the
smallest.apparent chance of ever eliciting a satis-
factory reply—" Which is the German's Father
land ? A lethargy hanging over continental Eu-
rope the while—a lethargy not by any means
restricted in its influence to the countries border-
ing upon the Rhine—to the fair land of Pesth
and Peterwaradin —to the dead realm whose
noblest heroes were SOBIESKI and KOSCIUSKO—
and, last but not least in the mournful catalogue,
to the once powerful and still beautiful Roman
Peninsula. It droops appreciably elsewhere far
and wide over Europe. It stagnates in Sweden
and Norway. It paralyses the action of the
Danish Government. It palsies every nerve and
sinew of the constitutional monarchies of Spain
and Portugal. And while the peoples of Europe
are thus deplorably and obviously at a standstill,
the Sovereign Princes, we say, we see, we hear,
we read, everywhere, are wandering about indus•
triously from Court to Court, in the midst of all
sorts of old-world ceremonials.

EXTRA NIGH e.
THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, May 25,
LUCIA DI LAMNIER viOOR.
Lucia, Piccolomini ; Edgardo, Sig. Giuglini.
After which will be produced an entirely New Ballet, in
Two Tableaux, composed expressly for her Majesty's Theatre
by M. Massot, entitled

ACALISTA.
FIRST TABLEAU—Terpsichore, Maxine. Rolla ; Acalista,
Madame Perea Nena; Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosyne, Mdlle.
Michelet, Mdlle. Karliski, and Mdlle. Brunetti; Amyntas,
M. Baratti.
SECOND TABLEAU—(The Vision Realised).— Seville.—
Acalista, Madame Perea Nena; Conchitti and Carmen, Mdls.
Pasquali and Morlacchi ; Pepe, M. Gambardelli; Manolo,
M. Massot. Spaniards.
For particulars, see bills.
A limited number of Boxes in the Half-eirele Tier have been
specially reserved for the public, and may be had on applica-
tion at the Box-office, at the Theatre Colonnade, Haymarket.
Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each.

H
ER MAJESTY' S THEATRE.
GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE.
MONDAY, JUNE 1.
Piccolomini, Alboni, Spezia, Ortolani, Giuglini, Reichardt,
Bottardi, Beneventano, Belletti.
To meet the many applications that have been made, and
to accommodate the numerous families resident in the en-
virons. a GRAND EXTRA PERFORMANCE will take place
on MONDAY MORNING, June 1, whon will be performed
Verdi's opera,

LA TRAVIATA.
Violetta, Piceohnini ; Alfredo, Sig. Ginglini.
Germont Giorgio, Sig. Beneventano.
To ,be preceded by (arranged in one act), Rossini's opera,

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IL BABIE RE DI SEVIGLIA.
Rosina, Madame Alboni.
Between the Operas a DIVERTISSEMENT.
Morning Dress only will be necessary. Doors open at One,
to commence at half-past One, and end at half-past Five.

LES BOUFFES PARISIENS—St. JAMES'S
THEATRE. Triumphant Success of the
FRENCH PLAYS. _ _ .

THIS EVENING (Thursday), May 28, the entertain.
ments will commence at half-past 8 o'clock precisely, by
the production of (for the fourth time), Operette, en un
Acte, LE DUEL DE BENJAMIN. M. Guyot, M. Jean
Paul, Mdlle. Mace.
After which (first time) LE VIOLONNEUX. M. Guyot,
M. Mesmacre, and Mdlle. Mareschal.
To conclude with (for the sixth time), Operette, en un
Acte, M'SIEU LAN oRY : M. Guyot, M. Mesmacre,
Mdlle. Dalmont, and Mdlle. Mareschal.
The Orchestra of the Theatre des Bouffes will accom-
pany these Representations, under the direction of the
composer, M. Offenbach. _

It is a magnificent farce, all this, from first to
last. It possesses a fantastic resemblance, we can-
not but think somehow, to the whirl of pomp
and frippery at Paris immediately anterior to the
outburst of the first great Revolution. For we
cannot believe for an instant that this all but
universal lethargy can be of any very lung dura-
tion. It really appears but the merest mockery,
now that continental Europe is under the leaden
weight of it, to find the Grand Events of the hour
chronicled somewhat to this effect :—That his
Imperial Highness the Archduke CONSTANTINE is
slowly making the best of his way from Fontain-
bleau to- Osborne—He having been until very
recently the deadliest foe of France and England!
That her Majesty the Empress Dowager of
RIISS/A is the recipient of the most uproarious
welcome at Turin—Her dead spouse having,
comparatively speaking, but a very few months
back by his outrageous violation of treaties
caused the sword of the Sardinian King, weak
and powerless though he was by contrast, to leap
from its scabbard in scorn and indignation !
That the King of BAVARIA has gone to Paris !
That Prince NAPOLEON has returned thither
from Potsdam and from Dresde❑ ! That the
Duke and Duchess of MONTPENSIER are coming
to England ! That this High Mightiness,
that High Mightiness, and the other, are going
just in fact anywhere but precisely where we
should vastly like to send some of them—namely,
either to Coventry or to Jericho ! And these are
the Grand Events of 1857—the Grand European
Events of a Public Character !

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This Engagement being limited to one month, Performances
will be given EVERY EVENING.
Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's
Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street.

THEA TR E-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.

OPEN EVERY EVENING_

GREAT EQUESTRIAN AMERICAN and CONTINENTAL
COMPANY, under the direction of Miss Ella.

,
Prices—Pit and Promenade, is ; Boxes, 2s. 6d., 25., and ls.
6d.; Galleries, 6d. Doors open at half-past 7. Commence
at 8.

First Equestrian Artistes in the World : —Madame Schap-
lain, Madame Newsome, La Petite Wells, Signora Delavanti,
and Miss Ella ; Miss E. J. Wells, Mdlles. Flora, Fabia, and
and Marie, Misses Newsome, Moffatt, Delavanti, Potter, Jen-
nings ; the Manchester Boy,
,Masters J. Wells, A. Wells, E.
Moffatt, ifenrico and Carlo Delavanti, Sig. Felix Delavanti,
Mons, Becq, Mons. Ferdinand, Mons. Eugene, Mr. Tom
Swann, Mr. B. Fuller, Mr. W. Fuller, and the great Shaks-
perian Clown, Wallett, will appear each evening in a series of
Performances, original and nnanproachable. Director—Mr.
Stokes. Acting Manager—Mr. E. Stirling.

THRATRE ROYAL, HAYMA.RIKET
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
NEW ARRANGEMENT OF PRICES OF ADMISSION.
THIS EVENING (May 28) to commence at Seven o'clock,
with THE RIVALS.
Followed by a new farce, MY SON ! DIANA.
After which, tho successful Classical Love Story, un-
der the Apple-lation of A CAL A.NTA ; or, The Three Golden
Apples : in which Miss M. Oliver will appear; also Miss M.
Wilton, and Miss Ellen Tertian.
In future the prices will be :
Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the
evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.)
First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d.
Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0
Upper Boxes ....... ....,... 3 0 Upper Boxes
Pit...
Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery ... 0 6
Upper Gallery 0 6 No half-price to Upper Gallery.

Looking even at home in a strictly political
sense, the year now fast flitting away seems to be
awfully barren of incidents of a satisfactory de-
scription. It was thought by many that the
Leader of Her MAJESTY'S Opposition was going a
" little" too far in his address to the Electors of
Buckinghamshire, when he described the object
of Lord PALMERSTON in dissolving the last Par-
liament, and appealing to the country to create a
new one, to be literally this —" To waste
a year !" Yet is it not so, obviously, noto-
riously, undeniably in the strictest sense of
'he words ? Is not the year being wasted
systematically, deliberately, and with malice pre-
pense ? Have we not the clearest possible prospect
before us of its being wasted politically down to
'he thirty-first day of December inclusively ?
Everything in the way of Reform is postponed till
"next session."

ROY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE,
THIS EVENING will be performed
Shakespere's tragedy of
• KING RICHARD THE SECOND.
King Richard 11., Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean.
Preceded by a new Farce, in one act, called
AN ENGLISHMAN'S HOUSE IS HIS CASTLE.

THEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI.
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.
THIS EVENING, will be performed the new Adelphi
drama, entitled JOSEPH CHAVIGNY ; or, Under the
Thumb. Mr. B. Webster, Paul Bedford, Madame Celeste,
&c.

After which, DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. Wright, &c
To conclude with A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL.

THE TRE-ROYAL; ADELPHI. —Madame
CELESTE'S ANNUAL BENEFIT.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3.
Madame CELESTE begs to inform her friends and the
nobility and public in general that her Annual Benefit will
take place on the above evening, when will be produced a
new and original drama of powerful interest, to be called
GEORGE DA [MLLE, in which Mr. BenjaminWehster, Mr.
Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford, and Madame Celeste will perform.
With other novel and attractive Entertainments.
Private boxes, tickets, and places to be had at the Box-
office daily, from 11 till 5, and at the residence of Madame
Celeste, 98, Piccadilly.

"Man never is bat always to be blest."

This general rule holds good even in the present
particularity of its application. " The Good
rime Coming" turns out, after all, to be a very
long while cowing—and it proves but sorry com-
fort, in sooth, for the delay, when we are told by
way of encouragement to wait yet—" a little
longer." Next Session !—lt is our political To-
morrow ! And if we wait for it always in
this way we shall very much indeed resemble
that old Classic Lubber, " familiar to every
schoolboy" that, we believe, is the correct
phrase " familiar to every schoolboy"—the miser-
ible rusticus who sits down by the river side, in
chat hackneyed couplet of dog's-eared latinity,
carrying on his journey until the stream shall have
passed by 1 Candidly let us say—while these
royal and imperial visitors are going their rounds,
ind while our present parliamentary session is being
Idly frittered away to no purpose, and with
scarcely a murmur heard at the melancholy fact
that it is so—We all seem to have grown wonder-
fully phlegmatic

OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE
Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
THIS EVENING will be performed THIEVES '
THI EVES ! '
After which,. a new drama, called DADDY HARDA CRE,
Mr. Robson, &c.
To conclude with A SPLENDID INVEST NIENT.
Commence at half-past Seven.

A.STLETS ROY AL AMP FEITH EATRE
AND OPERA HOUSE.
_ _

Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
Under the patronage of Her Majesty and His Royal Highness
Prince Albert.
The most perfect triumph ever witnessed at this theatre
has been achieved by the eminent Operatic Artistes, in IL
TROVATORE, which has been nightly received with the
utmost enthusiasm, while Mr. Wm. Cooke's Equestrian Il-
lustrations have met with every demonstration of approval
and applause.
THIS EVENING, and during the week, Verdi's far-famed
Opel., of IL TROVATORE ; or, Me Gipsy's Vengeance
The whole of the Music as performed at the Italian Opera.
and Equestrian Illustrations.
Miss Rebecca Isaacs,
Miss M. Somers,
and
Miss Fanny Huddart.

Mr. Augustus Braham,
Mr. Brookhouse Bowler,
Mr. Francis Kirby,
Mr. J. A. Leffler, and
Mr. Borrani.
Conductor and Composer—Herr Meyer Lutz.
With a powerful Band and Chorus.
Manager and Director of the Opera Company—Mr. Augustus
Braham.

In our impression of yesterday we gave in ex-
tenso the bill recently introduced by the Attorney-
General " for the punishment of frauds committed
by trustees, bankers, and other persons entrusted
with property," on which we offered some obser-
vations in our leading columns on Friday last. It
is simplex munditiis, going directly to the point
without that circumlocution or tautology too fre-
quently contained in similar enactments. It seems
to have achieved the happy medium by which it
will be difficult, if not impossible, for parties
guilty of wilful and deliberate fraud to escap e
the penal consequence of their offences, while, at
the same time, parties who have not intended to
do wrong, and have only been guilty of an error
of judgment, will be protected by the saving
12th clause, which provides that no proceeding
or prosecution for any offence included in the Ist
section shall be commenced without the previous
sanction of some judge of one of the superior
c tufts of common law or equity, or of her
MAJESTY'S Attorney-General, or (should that
office be vacant) of the Solicitor-General ;
and also, if civil proceedings should have
been taken, of the Court or Judge before
whom such proceedings had been instituted. It
is likewise, by the 13th section, very properly
provided, that the receiver, with a know-
ledge of the fraud, shall be liable to the
same punishment as the principal, and that
whether the latter shall or shall not have been
previously convicted, or shall or shall not be
amenable to justice. This is as it should be,
and, as we have already said, entitles Sir R.
BETHEL!, to the thanks and gratitude of the cern-

To conclude with a recherche programme of novel and
matchless SCENES in the ARENA, in which the celebrated
Brothers, Francisco's, will appear for the fourth time since
their return from America.

Commence at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s, ; Upper
Boxes, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from 215., no charge for booking;
Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, Oct.

Notice- —Darin7, the Opera Season. Half-price will take place
at 9 o'clock.

Box-oftlce open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager,
Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, vlr. W. Cooke, jun.

CA.NTERBITRY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The
ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance 01
Selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses
Glees, Duets, &c., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield,
Miss Brunell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr. J
Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S.
Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Con j. Senor Antonio M.
de Solla, and E. L. Rime ; Masters Bennett and Corri ;
Messrs. Sam Cowell, Sam Collins, and E. Mackncy.
Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.;
director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre
cisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock.

BIOS WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

THIS DAY—Horn. 4 min. aft. s—Even. 30 min. aft. 5
To...MOMROW—Mona. 57 min. aft. s—Evening 21 min. aft. 6

THE WEATHER—SUN °max, MAY 28.
TIMMOMETER, IN VIZ SHADE.
71 'biggest sine° noon resterdty.
53 -lowest t}.‘.l‘ morning tnd (luring the night.
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this at noon.

WIND, S.E. ;
-114110MILTER, 29.88.
light, with fine weather.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1857.

The Sovereign Princes of Europe are wander- munity.
ing about from Court to Court exchanging civi-
lities The first section relates to the cases of trustees,
with each other most industriously. And
properly so called, those who have been placed in
the Sovereign Peoples of Europe—are they not, a fiduciary character towards others. It includes
for the most part, all the while at a dead stand_ not only those holdinroperty, for the benefit
g p
still ! Not a whisper now about Poland being of others, under any deed of settlement, but also
Restored ! About Hungary being Emancipated ! their heirs and personal representatives ; and also
all executors and administrators, and all assignees
About the revival or reorganisation of German
iu bankruptcy
Unity ! Or about the vindication of Italian In- ,
and insolvency, bailers of goods,
deemed, as and every person holding, or having the disposi-
dependence ! Italy, in fact, is still
METTERNICE deemed it, "a mere geographical Lion of any property for the benefit of another
nression." Poland is still considered
to be a i while the word "property" has an equallyextensive
'lna Ghat has not merely been destroyed and 1 signification, inasmuch as shall include every de-
'property,
t as one that has actually mouldered 1 ecription of real and personal
money, 1