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

Commence at 7.

OYA T, PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
OPENTNCT of PARLTAMENT by her MAJESTY in
state and DAY PERFORMANCE of the Pantomime.
ROBINSON CRITSOE commencinv at half -past 2, and
g* concludin at half-past 4, on TUESDAY, Feb. 5, and posi-
tively the last.—Excursion Trains from all parts of the
country.
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VOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—
Lopotee and Manlyzer. Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING. the performances Will comm
Gardenence with
BUY BIAS. Messrs. Pechter, Basil Poter, , Ray
mond, Graham, Cathcart, and A. Harris.
AChristmas comicalntoime,
ROBINSON CRUSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday,m and theentitled Kina
of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and
Mdlle. Marie Dumilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres,
will appear. Clown. air. A. F. Forrest.

THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.
oois *Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVICNING, a new Drama, entitled THE IRISH
EMIGRANT. Messrs. G. Vininz. J. Johnstone, T. Lyon.
Forrester, and John Drew; Miss Kate Saville, Miss Stuart,
and Mrs. .1. Rouse.
After which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravazanza,
C'TtYSTABET.LE ; or, The Rose without a Thorn, showint*
ruF. VISIONT OF A ROSE, ITS FADING AT EVE,
AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR.
To conclude with MORE BLUNDERS THAN ONE.
Larry Hoolagan, Mr. John Drew.

A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
golf. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster.
THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J.
L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
Thorne.
After which. VIE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Tioucicault, D.
Fisher, Billine-ton, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer.
!Miss Agnes Robertson. Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with a n:-v; Burlesque F,xtravarranza. entitled
BLUE BEARD F ftOM A NEW POINT OF HUE.
Nressrs. J. 1,. Toole. P. Bedford. C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar,
K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Thorne.
Doors open at halt past o—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l.
Urnestra Stalls,Circle Stalls, Ss.
Pit Stalls, 2e.; Pit, 15. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, ls ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

41, STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Proprietor and Manacrer, Mr. Wm. BATTY.

Last week of Mr. J. Crockett and the Trained Lions.
This Evening*, a new Spectacle, en-titled 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 Bri,ish 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. rodci and Grociosa, the Uglchess and
the Greedy King, puced with Gorgeous Sccenery. by Mr.
Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing
in the comic scenes Ratty's Prize Equestrian Harlequinade,
and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley, and Brandon Ledger.
Doors open at half-Feet 6, performance commence at 7.

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!
A Grand Selection from Verdi's Opera,
IL CORSARO,
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consisting of the fo
Prelud llow
ioing Morceaux :
Coro Scena ed Aria. "Tutto rarca Sorridere"
Coro di Odalische. "Oh qual perenne"
Cavatina
Coro ed inno
Scena ed Aria.. " Cento 'ezgiadre Vergini"
Terzetto Finale "Voi tacete lo non"
will shortly be produced, in the origmal key and Italian
lanq-unze—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 celebrated Opera of "Stradella."
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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tale DAY.—Morning, 6h. 30m.—Afternoon,:6h. 54m,
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THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE,: FEB. 2, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN TIES MIAMI.
52—highest since noon yesterday.
36—lowest this morning and during the night.
42—this day at noon.
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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, FEB. 2, 188

IMPERIAL AND ROYAL

SPEECHES !

On Monday next we fully expect to present our
readers with the Speech of the Emperor Louis
NAPOLEON to the French Chambers ; and, on
Tuesday, that of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen
VICTORIA to both Houses of the Imperial Parlia-
ment. May they be worthy of each, and fraught
with peace to the nations !

Yesterday we had to draw attention to the
sinister designs of France in the direction of Syria.
To-day we have only too much reason to comment
in a similar strain upon the suspicious projects of
Prussia in the direction of Schleswig-Holstein. It

augurs but ill for the new reign that scarcely has
the Regent become KING, when the covetous grasp
of the Prussian Monarchy appears to be again
extended towards and again closing around those
southern provinces of the King of DENMARK. It
is as if the evil example set by France, in the
acquisition of the western provinces of the King-
dom of Sardinia, in the absorption into the Empire
of Nice and Savoy, in violation of all the laws
of territorial demarcation laid down by the
great Powers of Europe in solemn con-
clave assembled, in dereliction of all honour,
in defiance of all the most solemn and re-
iterated promises that no annexation of the kind
was even meditated--it is, we say, as though this
nefarious policy on the part of France had proved
so far contagious that it had revived anew in the
heart of the Prussian Government the old, shame-
less lust of spoliation for which that monarchy has,
so often before now in the annals of Europe, ren-
dered itself so discreditably noticeable. With
Prussia, as with Austria, the rise into existence of
a great Power has been the rise of robbery—
the rise of diplomatic fraud and military bri-
gandism. As with Prussia and with Austria
—so has it been also in this way
in the mightier instance of the great Russian
Autocracy. With each of these three among the
great powers of Europe it has been virtually as it
was literally in the instance of Ancient Rome. The
legendary and almost mythical narrative of the
Vise of the Roman autho'rity sets forth, as even the
Proverbial schoolboy knows, with the clustering
together of a band of robbers, championed at first by
chieftians, nurtured by no less grimly foster-parents
than wolves. Reading the history of the rise and
firowth,and development of the three great northern
i'o v. era of Europe, it would seem almost to be like a
repetition of the old familiar tale. There alike in
Russia, in Austria, in Prussia, as in the

antique pre-classic age when Rome sprang
into being is Central Italy, under the rival leader-
ship of REMUS and ROMULUS--it is a little cluster
of robbers, led on by chiefs as pitiless in their
spoliations as though they too had imbibed into
their being, in some mysterious manner, strictly
.wolfish temperaments. From the apparently
trivial nucleus of an insignificant principality, the
circumference (in each) of an expanding domi-
nion has rapidly spre4.d and spread around it in all