The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-05 00:00:00

MOTHER SHIPTON ;

or, Harlequin Knight of Love, and the Enchanted Whistle.
Harlequin and Columbine ea la Watteau), Madame Celeste
and Miss Wyndham ; Clown, Mr. Garden ; Pantaloon, Mr.
Moreland ; Scaramouch, Mr. Le Barr. Characters in the bur-
lesque by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. J. Bland, Mr. R. Romer,
Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham, Miss Mary Keeley, Miss
Kate Kelly, Miss Arden, dm.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
1:1.. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.

THIS EVENING, Shakspeare's Tragedy of RICHARD
THE THIRD, with Mr. W. Cooke's Equestrian Illustrations.
Richard, Mr. James Holloway.
After which, the Inimitable SCENES in the CIRCLE,
by first rate Equestrian Artistes.
To conclude with a new grand equestrian comic pantomime.
replete with fun, frolic, risibility, and extravagance, called
PAUL PRY ON HORSEBACK ; or, Harlequin and the
Magic Horseshoe.
Doors open at half-past six; commenee at seven o'clock.
Pox-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr.
W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun.
A Morning Performance every Saturday, at Two o'clock.

CANTERBURY HALL. Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
Selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses,
Glees, Duets, &c., viz.: —Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield,
Miss Brunell, and Miss Summers; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F.
Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Raino. T. Farrant, S. Jones, J.
Barker, W. Melling, and P. Corrie ; Masters Austin, Ben-
nett, and Corri; Mr. Sam Cowell and E. Mackney. Piano-
forte, J. Harroway, R.A. ; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun. ;
director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre
cisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. In addition to
the usual Vocal Entertainment, the celebrated SPANISH
MINSTRELS will appear in costume at Nine and Eleven
o'clock Every Evening, and sing some of their favourite selec-
tions.

RIGA WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TaiS DAT—Morn. 33 min. aft. B—Evening 8 min. aft. 9
r(V.MOBBOW—Morn. 40 min. aft.9—Evening 17 min. aft.lo

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, JANUARY 4.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
52 —highest sines noon yesterday.
41—lowest this morning and during the night.
45 —this day at noon.
BAROMETER, down to 29 15--now up to 29'22.
WIND, W. to W.S.W.—Light, with dull weather and
heavy rain in the afternoon. The wind changed to N.E.
in the evening—fresh. _

JANUARY 5.
47 hlgtast sine® noon yesterday.
37—lowest this morning and during the night.
36 -V3 is day nt noon.
EAtiomruß, 30—a rise of nearly an inch since yester-
day.
WIND, N.N.E. to N.E.—Fresh, with bitter cold wind
and slight snow.

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L )N -DON, MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 13f7.

Monsignor SIBOUR, the Archbishop of Paris,
was on Saturday last, at fonr o'clock in the after-
noon, barbarously assassinated ! Assassinated by
•an ecclesiastic--a priest, named VERGES. Assassi-
nate t in a church—the Church of St. Etienne du
Mont. Assassinated at the close of a religious
ceremony—the end of the solemn procession ter-
minating the sacred rites of the netwaine of
Sainte Genevieve. Every attribute of the hor-
rible seems united to enhance the atrocity of the
crime which has just startled and horrified the
Parisians. The sanctity of the place, the sanctity
of the time, the sanctity of the victim, even, be it
said, the sacred office of the priesthood, outraged
in the person of the wretched being by whom this
deed of blood was dreadfully perpetrated. Al-
though the news of this terrible occurrence has
been brought to U 3 in the first place abruptly and
almost incoherently, through the flashes of the
submarine electric telegraph, we are already in
possession of the fact that the assassin, though a
priest, was a priest under an interdict, a priest
whose functions had been suspended. Obviously
with full reason on the part of his superiors—
seeing the frightful atrocity by which the cause
of his spiritual suspension has been consummated !
No wonder the event which is now spreading an
universal feeling of horror throughout Christen-
dom should have immediately carried, from one
extremity of Paris to the other, but one mingled
sentiment of grief and consternation. No wonder
that a crime so wholly unparalleled—the murder
of a bishop by a priest, and that too within the
sanctuary of a temple dedicated to the GOD of
Christianity—should have been heard of at the
first moment with a very general sense of incre-
dulity. No wonder, however, when the tidings
were recognised directly afterwards to be beyond
the reach of any doubt whatsoever, no wonder
they were regarded then, even by our volatile
neighbours, with feelings that can be only ex-
pressed as those of profound horror and astonish-
ment.

1 It is remarkable, to say the very least of it,
that the two last of the venerable Archbishops of
Paris—Amn and SIBOUR--should have " died
the death" by assassination. The former by the
bullet of an incendiary revolutionist, the latter by
the dagger of a suspended priest. The murder
of Archbishop AFFRE, i t cannot easily be forgotten,
partook in a great measure of the glory and of the
sublimity of martyrdom. The victim fell, carry-
ing in his hand—literally—the Palm of Peace and
of Victory ! His death, be it reverently spoken,
was an illustration, a Visible, historical illustra-
tion, of the DIVINE Beatitude—" Blessed are the
peacemakers." His life, as he prayed it might
be, was the last sacrifice in that deadly civil war.
His last words were memorable, were magnificent
—Bonus Pastor dat animam suam pro oribus suis.
His memory is embalmed in the grateful recollec-
tions of the multitude.

The assassination of Archbishop SIBOUR,
none the less in reality than that of his
revered predecessor, partook so far of the
august attributes of martyrdom, inasmuch as
he fell a victim to the rigid
discharge of his
ecclesiastical duties, for inasmuch, indeed, as he
fell a victim actually to his resolute vindication
of the sanctity of the office of the priesthood.

Nominated in the summer of 1848 to the Archi.
episcopal see of Paris, and to the Primacy of
France, by the then Republican Dictator, General
CAVAIGNAC, Monsignor SIBOUR has for eight
years presided over the Gallic Church with so much
dignity and equanimity—with such an admirable
blending of decision with toleration—that he has