The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-02 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, JUNE 28.—The official journal of thia
day publishes the' convention between the King of
the BELGIANS and the King of PRUSSIA concerning
the establishment of international communication by
means of electric telegraphs, dated May 16, 18.0.
It appears, from articles of this treaty, that electric
telegraphs are to be established and kept up, be-
tween Berlin, Brussels, Antwerp, and Ostend, via
Aix-la-Chapelle.
The Brussels line is to be extended to a point of the
Belgic-French frontiers, where the Belgic line is to
join that of France.

The whole of the telegraphic lines are to be laid
down at the mutual expense of the two Governments.

For the telegraphic service the railway station at
Verviers is to be cousidered the frontier station be-
tween the two countries.

RUSSIA.

It is said that the Emperor NICUOLAS intends on
be Ist of December to abdicate, in favour of his son
:he Grand Duke ALexaNDEB.

ITALY.

Accounts from Turin, of the 26th ult., state that
the Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, on the
Bill empowering the Government to contract a new
loan of 100 millions of francs, by the emission of 6
millions of Rentes, has given in its report. The re-
port is favourable to the measure. The Concordia
says that the favourable character of the report is a
circumstance of greater importance than it at first
appears, because is shows that the Gauche has given
the measure its support. Tne Church party had
strongly opposed :he Bill, and had hoped th,,t the
ultra-Liberals would have coalesced with them. Ba
the Liberals, on finding that the sole object of the
Church party was to upset the Marquis D'AzEoLL)
and his Cabinet, refused to oppose the measure.
The first conference had taken place et Naples
bet ween'the Commission appointed to investigate the
claims of foreign merchants for losses sustained during
the bombardment of Messina, and the representa-
tives of their respective Governments.
According to a letter from Bologna of the 23d ult.
in the Opinionc of Turin, the Austrian military autho-
rities in the former town had entered into a negotic.-
tion with an Englishman for the cession of a large
piece of land, called the Caprone, outside the Porta
San Felice, which they intended to use as a ground
for military manoeuvre; but the price not having yet
been agreed on, the Austrian commandant had ap-
plied, notwithstanding, to the Government for per-
mission to occupy the land, which was granted, and
men were sent to cut down the trees, and level the
ground. The proprietor, who was at Turin at the
time, has protested against such arbitrary proceed-
ings, and a courier has arrived at Bologna with orders
from Vienna to stop the works immediately, the
British ambassador having made representations on
the subject.
The Concordia of Turin of the 26th ult., devotes a
leader to the question of quarantines, which is not
without interest from the facts it contains. Ever
since the French Government directed that all sani-
tary regulations hitherto observed with respect to
ships coming from infected places, should cease in the
port of Marseilles, the Piedmontese Government has
found it difficult to enforce its own sanitary regula-
tions. In consequence of the yellow fever that pre-
vails in Brazil the arrivals from Marseilles have been
subjected to quarantine throughout the Piedmontese
coast ; but the masters of French vessels have found
means of evading the measure. They land their pas-
sengers at Cannes, close to the frontier, from whence
carriages take them to Mizza, where they find a re-
gular line of French packets to take them to Genoa
and the other ports of Italy, so that merchandize
alone, in fact, is subject to quarantine.
The Risorgimento of Turin of 26th ult. gives an ac-
count of the new Piedmontese steam-frigate Go-
vernolo, just arrived at Genoa from London, where
she was built under the direction of Captain Ricci,
and Engineer MATTEI, expressly sent to London
for the purpose by the Piedmontese Government.
She is of 1,401 tons admeasurement, '213 feet in
length, by 36k in breadth, and 23 in depth. She
carries ten guns, besides two heavy swivel guns,
which have been tried in the waters of La Spezia,
and found to answer perfectly at a distance of
6,000 feet. _ _

The Constituzionale of Florence of the 23d ult.
states from Ancona, that the Holy Office has com-
menced proceedings against all the persons who have
been pointed out as having expressed irreligious
opinions during the revolution.

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PRESENTATION OP PLATE TO MR. JUSTICE TAL-
FOUItD.—On Thursday' last a deputation front Reading
waited on Mr. Justice Talfourd, at his residence in Russell-
square, to present to that gentleman a silver candelabrum,
subscribed for by a large number of the inhabitants of the
borough, of all parties. The base of the candelabrum is a
tripod, on which stands a group of three female figures, re-
presenting Law, Justice, and Poetry, the two former mo-
delled from Flaxman's sculpture on Lord Mansfield's monu-
ment in Westminster Abbey, the latter from a drawing of
the Greek Antique, bearing a scroll inscribed with the word
"lons' in Greek characters. The :arm:; of the Judge and
.of
the torough of Reading were engraved on the bee. The
tutiniontai was presented to the Judge in the presence of
his family, including the venerable Mrs. Talfourd, mother
of the Judge, and attended by a large circle of private
friends. '
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reverse of fortune has happened to a private of No. 3 corn-
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session of a fortune of 50,00/. and two estates in the island.
His name is Marryat; lie is only 20 years of age, and of
very agreaable manners. He enlisted when only thirteen as
a drummer. He has proceeded to England, previous to his
departgre or Cabs.

FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S
THEATItv.
- , Mademoiselle Rachel, the greatest of living trage-
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dianr, indeed, we are not going too far in calling her
the creator of French tragedy in modern times, com•
menced an engagement of twelve nights at this
theatre last evening. The tragedy selected
fur the occasion was the Phedre of Racine,
and into that stiff, lumbering, unnatural, stilted play
she breathed the breath of life, and made it
instinct with vitality, with passion, with hu.
man interest. A miracle this, our readers
Will say, who have by reading it become
acquainted with the classical tragedy of the age
of Louis XlV.,—a miracle we admit, and one which
genius and genius only can accomplish. The com-
mencement of the tragedy until the entrance of
Rachel, appeared stilted, unnatural, James
Bland-y, in fact— (hy-the•bye, that king of
burlesque would make all admirable tyran,
or evil' amoureux for classical French tragsay)_
but the instant Rachel entered the stitlnet,s, the
formality vttnisht-d, we cared not for the artificial
cceiuriu,, we inarkA not the clinquant of tho rh:, mes
—the impassioned Pnedre was bcfure us in whose
bcstmn guilty hive was contending with duty,
• and both at last were merged in madd ~,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
and an insatiable desire for revenge. Racine, not-
withstanding his artificiality and his rhymes,
became natural when interpreted by the sub-
lime genius of Rachel, and we thought but
of her, felt but for her, saw but her throughout
the ritnninder of the tragedy. Sublimely did she
represent the conflict between love and duty, as she
related to CEnone her efforts to conquer her guilty
love for Hippolyte—terrible, awfully terrible
was the tempest of her passion. when her
fureur for it was love driven to madness,
breaks through all restraint, and. she declares her
passion for Hippolyte; and intense was the expression
of self-degradation as on finding her love rejected, and
Aricie, the captive, preferred to her, the Queen, she
sinks to the earth, exclaiming in accents •of despair—
" 0 tui qui vois Is honte ouje suis descendue,
Implacable Venus, suis-je asssz confondue !"
Scorchingly withering, like the lightning's blast,
was her expression of contempt and rage as, spurning
from her presence CEnone, who had counselled her to
poison Theses, she exclaims—

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" Et puisse ton supplice a jsmais effrayer
Tout ceux qui, comma toi, par de ladles addresses,
Des princes malheureux nourissent les faiblesses,
Lea poussent au ppnchant ou lcu r cccur est enclin,
Et leur osent, du crime, applanir le chernia—
DiLestables flatteurs! pi event le plus fun-ste !
Qui puissa fair aux roils la co:ere celeste l"
In the scene in which she denounces Hippolyte to
Thesee, her expression of suppressed feeling, ex-
hibited by the working of her mobile features, the
choking tone of her utterance, and the unearthly
calmness of her manner was very fine, and in the
last scene, in which the impassioned and guilty wo-
man, having done justice on herself by poison,
dies in agony, confessing her guilt, she
reached the very highest pitch of sub-
limity. She was called on at the conclusion
of each act, and again at the conclusion of the
tragedy, and bouquets and crowns were showered
epon her. M. Radon; as Theramene, de-
claimed the passages descriptive of the death
of Hippolyte most effectively. He is by far the best
actor of the troupe. The house was crowded by the
elite of rank and Eshion, not a box nor a stall was
unoccupied.