The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-18 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE
GRAND EXTRA NIGTIT.
Combining the talents of Madame Sontag, Giuliani, and Frezzolini
Signori Colett), Calzolarl, F. Lablache, and Lablache ; Mdlles. Car•
lotta Grisi, Amalla Ferraris, Marie Taglioni, and Tani Taglioni,
will _take place

On THURSDAY next, May 23,
When will be presented Mozart's celebrated Opera,
DON GIOVANNI.
The Scenery by Mr. Charles Marshall.

Don Glovannl, Signor boletti ; Don Ottavio, Signor Caliolari ;
Masetto, Signor F. Lablache ; Leporello, Signor Lablache ; Donna
Anna, Madame Frezzolini (24 appearance) ; Donna Elvira, Madame
Gialiani ; Zerlina, Madame Sontag.
In the Ball Scene will be danced, by Mdlle. Carlotta Geld and
3fd:le. Marie Taglioni (who will appear as a Spanish Cavalier),
Mozart's incidental Minuet in G' • and also Mozart's celebrated
Zarabanda in A minor, as performed with the greatest success at the
Royal Opera, Berlin.
Director of the Music and Conductor, Mr. Billie.
With various entertainments in the Ballet Department, including
the new and original grand Pas ,de Trois by M. Paul Taglioni, the
Music by Signor Pugni. entitled
LES GRACES.

' Euphrosyne, Mdlle. Carlotta Grist ; Thalia, Mdlle. Marie Taglioni ;
Eglaia, Mdlle. Amalia Ferraris.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box
Oftice of the Theatre.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE
• THIS EVENING
Will be preesented Belllnl's celebrated Opera,

I PURITANi.

Elvira, Madame Sontag ; Georgio, Signor Lablache; Riccardo,
Signor Celetti; and Arturo, Signor Baucarde.
Between the acts the admired PAS STYRfEIf, by Madlle. Carlotta
Grist and 3i. P. Taglionl.

To conclude with the highly sticcesful new and original Grand
Pas de Trois (by MM. Paul Taglioni et Gosselin, the Music com-
posed by Signor Pagni), entitled
LES GRACES,

Eaphrosine, 3fdlle. Carlotta Grisl ; Thalia, Mdlle. Marie Taglion!
Egle, Mdlle. Amalia Ferraris.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the
Boa-office of the Theatre.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. 'COVENT-GARDEN.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed Meyerbeer's Grand Opera,

LES HUGUENOTS.
Valentina, Madame Grisi ;. Margarita di Valois, Madame Cal-
tellan; Dama d'Onore, Madlle. Cottt ; Urbano, Madile. de Meric ;
the Huguenot Soldier, Signer Lavia ; ,I 1 Conti di San Brie, Signor
Tagliatico ; Il Conte di Meyers, M. Ma.ssol ; De Cosee, Signor
Luigi Mei ; De Reit, Signor Polonini ; Meru, Signer Rot:Kral;
Maurevert, Signor Soldi ; Capitano dells Guardia, Signor Talamo ;
Marcello, Herr Formes ; and Raul di Mangle, Signor Mario.
Composer, Director of the Music,, and Conductor, Mr. Costa.
The Doors will be opened at Halt-past Seven, and the performances
commence at Eight o'clock precisely.
Tickets for the Boxes, Stalls, or the Pit, may be had (for the night
or season), at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open from Tea
till Five.

FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
TO:MORROW EVENING
The Performances will commence at Half.past Seven o'clock pre.
cisely, with

The favourite 'Vaudeville of
LA BARONNE DE BLIGNAC.
After which will be revived (for the first time this season) the
popular Comedy of

. .
LE 3IARI A LA CAMPAGNE.
Ferdinand Colombet, 31. Regnier ; Cesar Pollgny, M. Lafont ;
Ursule,,Madile. Nithalie.
To conclude with Alfred do Musset's favourite Comedy,
UN CAPRICE.
Madame de Lery, Madlle. Nathilie.
The Box-office of the Theatre Ls open daily from Eleven till
Five

Boxes and Stalls at Mr. 311tcliell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond
street.

THEATRE ROYAL, UAYMARKET.
Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Bromptost
THIS EVENIN

Will be prescntcd (9th time) an entirely new and original
Comrdy,by Douglas Jerrold, entitled THE CATSPAW. Captain
Burgonet, Mr. Howe ; .Mx. Snowball, Mr. Keeley ; Doctor Petgooge,
Mr. James IVallack ; Audley, Mr. Charles Selby ; Appleface, Mr.
Buckstone ; Bat, Mr. Tilbury ; Coolcard, Mr. Benjamin Webster ;
nuggens; Mr. Ellis ; Snowball's Servant, Mr. A. Brindal ; Mrs.
Peachdown's Servant, Mr. Coe; Mrs. Peachdown, Miss Reynolds;
Cassandra, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham ; Rosemary, Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with the Last Edition of IVANHOE, with all the
newest improvements.

Cedric the SiaTon,ilr. J. Bland ; Sir Briant de Bore Gullbert, Mr.
Selby ; Sir Wilfrid of Ivanhoe, Mrs. Keeley; Wamba, Mr. Buck.
atone ; Isaac of York, Mr. Keeley; Robin Hood, Mrs. Fitzwilliam
Jitohecca, Miss P. Horton.

The &a-office is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer.

THEATRE ROYAL.
Under the direction of Madame Celeste.
TIIIS EVENING, .

Will be performed an entirely original Musical Comic Drama, called
TILE WHITE SEIIJEANTS; or the Buttermilk Volunteers.
Major Slowman, Mr. 0. Smith; Jemmy Tweezer, Mr. Wright;
Captain Ginger Green, Mr. P. Bedford ; Tommy Rusk, Mr. Mutt.
yard ; 3fall e. de Tourville, Madame Celeste; Susan Pockets, Alin
K. Fitzwilliams ; Dolly Duggins, Miss Woolgar.
Tc, be followed by a grand historical Spectacle Vaudeville, entitled
PLAYING FIRS!' FIDDLE; or, Follow my Leader Principal
Characters by Messrs. I'. Bedford, Lambert, Madame Celeste, Miss
Woolgar, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam.
To conclude with TOM is.'ODDY'S SECRET.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE
THIS EVENING

Will be performed CHARLES THE TWELFTH.
To be folowed by THE ISLAND OF JEWELS. Characters by
7rfessrs. 31 Athews and F. Cooke; Madame Vestris, Miss Julia St.
George, Miss Dickinson, Miss Kenworthy, Mrs..Macnamara, Miss
Martindale, and Miss E. Honner.
To conclude with A PRACTICAL MAR.
All applications for Prirate isoxes must be made to Mr. Alicroit
New Bond-street.

The Boi-office, adjoining the Theatre, in Wellington-street, is
open dully from Ten to Six o'clock, under the superintendence of
Mr. T. F. Bennett

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
Last Night of Fitzball's gorgeous Spectacle of Enchantment.
Entire change in the popular Feat of Equestrianism. Supported IV
the accomplished Artistes of ne establishment.

THIS EVENING,
The Entertainments will commence at Seven o'clock, with
(for the last lime), the magn ficent Spectacle of

,
'THE r'OUR SONS OF AYMON ; or The Days of Charlemagne;
Introducing the entire Stud of Horses, Camel of the Desert, Zebra,
and all the vast resources of this theatre.
To be succeeded by an unusually brilliant routine of Batty's,
levies of the Arena.
To conclude with 'a favourite FARCE.

On Whit-Monday will be revived, for the First Time these seveat'
Years, on a most extensive scale of splencionr,-the immensely suc-
cessful Grand Military Spectacle, in three Acts, entitled THE
AFFGHANISTAN WAR; or, The Revolt of Cabul, and Rritith
Triumphs in India.
Box-office open From Eleven till Four.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. West.

Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty, his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, &c. &c.
Grand Whitsuntide Fetes ! and First Appearance of Mons. Jullleni
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. ,
WRIT-MONDAY, May 20th, 1850, Tuesday 21st, Wednesday,
22d, Thnrslay, 231, and en each of those days throughout the
Season.
Prodigious Success of the entirely new-modelled Dioramie Pie-
• tore representing the PASSAGE or the ALPS.by Napoleon and his
, Army! the largest Picture in the World! with innumerable moving
Figures the size of life. Modelled, painted, and produced by Mr.
Denson and Son, assisted by Messrs. Adams, Wilson, &c. &c. The
Picture has occupied the Messrs. Danson for many monthS, and it is
IfldentlY submitted to the Public as a chef-d'oeuvre of art, and not
Inferior to any production of the day.
.The Splendid MENAGERIE has lately been enriched by several
,ft
mable Presents f. oat the Queen.
iiTr. cad heMufresl;.alDepartment will be conducted by Mons. Julnen and
for the gratifich will be the aim of the Establishment to offer
most Splendid l'ltliir of the Subscribers and the Public, the
arY
Band in the Kin
Artistes Kingdom 1 ! Selected
from the Bands of hert
laMtahjaesptrya'sfeasHioorns.e and foot Guards, and the
most eminent The following list of engagements will, it is hoped, convince the
Public, that
• Establishmentthe ion-- k
maintained ! -
will ' ae
"wl'ege'l excelleTnheee of the' Band of this
will be most extensive fury_
and .Ive and varied, arranged
Operas in thisother countries. Solo-P from the moat Popular
Repertoire' of Music
, olinet, Pratten, Jarrett, Koenig,
_Lazarus, Prosperr
and Win
During the evenll4 ac grand , Sonnenberg, Sommers,
showeilr rated Picture by D
Tableau illustrating
general lieW
C(4ogaal. sceulac,vitnoild
of , the ,Pg
iirinaoat
aeo cfp hatnrhti
eca
Crossing the Alps!
Alps, stretching from the Attalla mountain lake in the foreground t 6
the distant snow-clad mountains crowned by the stupendous Mount
and obfeatth
At. Bernard and its far-famed Airma.stery.
earinlY the drums wencho ont
• Army is first seen " eii bivouac,"
and amid the clash of Military Bands
pen:tenter Heights, and
commence the Ascent. The Soldiers are seXYlaral2lusle, the Troops
c ulties are overcome,
Trunks of Trees, now ascending almost Per r --"g tbeArtillery in
ours* to the fertile
traversing the most Terrific Ravines, but all d
and the Gallant .limy is seen pursuing its
most
Plains of Italy.
• The whole to conclude with a Gorgeous Display of pin,. ..
Messrs. Southby, IniNducing, amongst vitriouas,anauov,ellvt
• 17,1.8 by
- admired feux d'artitice of former spAsolle, Jets
horsebackg—
revolvin.; pieces, a naftemiticent Transparency fifty feet in height
painted by Messrs. Danson,
representing Buonaparte on
cheering on his TroopS, surrounded by, warlike erab'e . Ens, insiguta or
hononr, flags, trophies, Scc., amidst a cerruscation of various coloured
fires.
The complicated and difitmlt machinery, and the erection of the
picture under the direction of Mr. nos Lowe. The extensive gas
fittings by Messrs. Botcherby and Dixon, 23, King-street, Covent.
garden.

Admission, is.
On Whlt-Monday, May 20th, Mons. Jullien and his unrivalled
Rand will commence a limited number of Promenade Concerts.
Selections will be made from the popular Music played by him at
the Con Certs Monstre and Congres Musicale at Exeter-hall.
__On Wednesday, May 22d, the Royal South London Floricultural
whichm occasion
will. hold their First Grand Miscellaneous flower Show, on
an Extra Brass Band will be in attendance, with all
the oth
or Attractions of the Gardens.—Dcors open at One.

Tun Rivsas.—The season now
.approaches when
chronicles of deeds on the rivers become interesting. With.
n.
outnn resents
afford good amusement to the angler. On the
Oicb, Captain Coddrington enjoyed some very
fine sport till
the dry weather reduced the stream too low.
He had, how-
ever, killed about forty clean salmon ; and has proceeded into
. Sutherlandshire to try a line on the streams there. On the
same river (Oich) theßon. Dudlay-Ward and party killed
about sixty clean salmon. The .I..ehy, exclusively held for
, rod-fishing, and leased for four years by Lord Canning, is
in splendid trim, and this is its season. Lord Clanwilliam
arrived there on Friday, and has taken up his quarters at
Banavie. His Lordship went out next day and killed five
excellent salmon--one weighing no lees than 2341bs.—the
others averaging 131bs. each, and the whole collectively
weighing 751 b,. I This was a fair day's work, with the snow
thick, on Ben-Nevis not two miles distant. llis Lordship did
" not raise. a fish vrhicli he did not kill. We are happy to ob-
. serve.that the Messrs. Hogarth now reserve the Spey, from
Boat of Bridge to the sea, for'anglers only. The preservation '
of rivers, and ei,?cciallyriver mouths, from nets is the only
way by which the 'galinon-iishings, of thiS_.ooluitry.Citla be
long preaerved.--inverness Courier.

LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1850.

Any occurrence so serious as the abrupt recall of
the French Ambassador to the Court of St. James's,
must naturally give rise to all kinds of sinister re-
ports and to all sorts of dark and melancholy conjec-
tures. It is more than ever expedient, however,
under such circumstances, that no precipitate opinion
should be formed upon a matter involving the in-
terests of two great countries, and the general peace
of Christendom. At all times it is manifestly ad-
visable for the multitude to reserve their judgment
upon whatever international differences may arise
through diplomatic correspondence, and this because
of .the secrecy in which such correspondence
must necessarily be, more or less, involved,
and because consequently, until the publication of all
the documents out of which the misunderstanding
has originated, the people are obviously incompetent
to arrive at any judicious or definitive conclusion.
But especially is the postponement of public opinion,
until such revelations have been made, advisable, when
the evidences of annoyance on the part of any
foreign power are displayed with an unusual degree
of suddenness. Now such is precisely the position
of affairs between the British Governmenl
and the French Government under exist-
ing circumstances. M. Daouvre DE L'Hurs
has been abruptly recalled by the Republican autho-
rity of which he was the delegated representative in
the English capital. His recall, moreover, has been
accompanied by such exceedingly partial disclosures
of the correspondence which had taken place previ-
ously to this new rupture of the entente cordiale be-
tween the powers at Paris and London, as to impress
upon us more than ever the necessity for that caution
which common prudence assures us to be at this mce
ment peculiarly requisite.
Every individual has turned of course a close and
scrutinizing attention to the events which, we may say
within the last few hours, have recently transpired.
All have acquainted themselves with occurrences by
which the friendly alliance of France and England
appears to be in a great measure jeopardized. To
evince any apathy in proceedings which threaten
to disturb the amicable relations hitherto
maintained by this country with the powers
of the European continent would be virtu-
ally to acknowledge an indifference to the
interests of fatherland, to the cause of humanity, and
to the peaceful advance of civilization. Such an in-
difference as this, an indifference •in the highest
degree culpable, we do not believe to exist in any one
section of the community, even among the most das-
tardly and insignificant. Hence we are persuaded, as
already remarked, that the political incidents which
have recently been observed in the British
as well as in the French metropolis are uni-
versally known by this time throughout
our intelligent population. Every, one is aware that
after the most patient and protracted delays,
England within the last few months intimated to the
Athenian Cabinet her determination to see certain
claims of hers attended to, which heretofore had been
evaded by Greece with the most impertinent display
of procrastination. Every one knows the result of
that communication—a result which only manifested
itself in the submission of 'Onto and his Minis-
terial advisers after a series of duplicities, con-
tradictions, and tergiversations which it ac-
tually required the awe of our naval supremacy
to dissipate. Almost simultaneously with the
receipt of the intelligence that the quarrel between
Greece and England had been satisfactorily termi-
nated, arrives the information that a quarrel still
more serious has, out of the very fact of that recon-
ciliation, sprung up between the French and the
British Governments. M. DROUTN DE L'Hurs, the
Ambassador, is recalled to Paris, from his diplomatic
post at Loudon. General LAHITTE, the Minister of
War, announces the fact of his recall from the tri-
bune of the Legislative Assembly. The announcement
is received with a storm of acclamations from
the so-called Republican representatives. Meanwhile
inquiries as to the exact position of affairs are put to
the Ministers of the Crown in England. Parliament
listens with suspended breath and eager curiosity as
the Lord President of the Council is catechised in the
House of Peers, or again, as the First Lord of the
Treasury is required in the Commons to give some
sort of explanation, in the absence of his illus-
trious colleague her MAJESTY'S Foreign Secre-
tary. Mere shreds and patches of information are
torn, bit by bit, from the Administrators and
diplomatists, and thereupon, of course, the very most
is made of these fragmentary intimations and acknow-
ledgements. The gobemeruches of the two great Ca-
pitals are yet gloating over such unexpected tidbits
in the way of political gossip, when the more dictato-
rial guidnuncs are already rushing to a conclusion as
to the merits of the respective powers, and already
proneuncing most authoritatively their applause
of the one, and their peremptory condemnation of
the other. After this, it is, of course, scarcely
necessary to observe that these Quixotic pronuncia-
mentos consist of the most inflated panegyrics upon
the course pursued by the reactionary Cabinet at
Paris, and of the most rancourous vituperations upon
the policy of one of the greatest statesmen in Europe,
her MA.TicsTv's Foreign Secretary, Viscount PAL-
MERSTON.
Against these. perverse and precipitate expres-
sions of opinion we protest with all our earnestness.
"At least," we would say to these miserable
apologists of reaction, " evince some decency in the
delay of these paltry accusations and most wretched
encomiums—encomiums upon a race' of men whose
congenial meanness of temperament inspires you with
a responiive sympathy—accusations against a states-
man whose innate nobility of disposition and generosity
of principle elevate him immeasurably above the reach
of your comprehension." Until such time as the docu-
ments constituting the correspondence , between the
French and British Goverments shall be formally made
etibliC, it must remain impossible for the- masses to
form any accurate opinion as to the origin of the
misunderstanding which has betrayed itself in the
abrupt recall of the French Ambassador. That the
publication of this correspondence will lead to the
exculpation of Loid PALMERSTON, and to the dis-
. cornfiture of his assailants, we are fully satisfied.
Meanwhile it may be expedient to bear one or two very
significant facts in recollection. It may be as well
to remember that a rupture with England and an
allianCe with Russia would be most welcome to the
political intriguers in,
to restore the ancient monarch
France,
monarchy
are now
wtipglotbtainokg
'the Bourbons to the throne across the Planche Na-
poleon' nienne. It may be as well to remember that these
reactionaries have gradually insinuated themselves
into the councils of, 'the French PRESIDENT, and that
they have gradually monopolized the majority of the. Legislative Assembly. It may be as well to remem-
ber that, according to the reactionist journals of
Paris and of London, the announcement of the rup-
ture with this country was received with shouts of
delight in the Assembly by "all but the Mountain..
And it .may be just as well to remember, that among
those who are thus designated the "Mountain" are
visible such men as General CAVAIGNAC and his
associates ! Let us whisper a hint or two
to the reflective::—The continuance of amicable rela-
tions with England,
necessitating, as it does, the
continuance
from Russia, is just now
inconvenient
reactionary gentlemen !
ot f o estrangement
the
},renh
These same intriguers owe a bitter grudge to Lord
PALMIDISTON, because on the occasion ofthelast re-
volution he did not emulate the infamous policy of
his predecessors, by interfering with the move-
toeuts of a free-people in the selection of
their form of government, but stood serenely

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
It is said by the Legitimatist Union, that Gene-
ral LAHITTE recalled the. French Ambassador from
London without consulting the PRESIDENT of the
Republic, 'who, on being informed, on his return
from Fontainbleau, of what had taken place, ex-
pressed himself as dissatisfied and veied. General
LAHITTE is a Legititnatist, and in this instance he has
betrayed the PRESIDENT, in order to forward his
LeAgitmimeassteisntgevir wews.ass dispatched to St. Petersburgh
yesterday, and orders were sent to the dockyards
to fit out several ships of war and to make extraordi-
nary levies of seamen.
General CAYAIGNAC and his friends opposed the
motion for printing the papers on the Greek question.
They are opposed to the rupture of the English
alliance, as are all the friends of liberty in France.
The National says, that all the pretended suscepti•
bility of General LAHITTE and the reactionaries on
this subject is "got up" to cover an intrigue having
in view two objects. First, to enable the Orleans
party to gratify their revenge on Lord. PALMERSTON,
P ossible, to substitute Tory for Whig
in England ; and, secondly, to break up the
tutional country in Europe, in order to
between France and the only • consti-
tutional
Courts of Russia, and thus to establish a solidarity
alliancef3jor icdnei sitfrhyer into an alliance with the Absolutist
between the French Republic and the Monarchies
of the Continent. . This is the true object of what the
National calls " the comedy of honour," the prologue
of which was performed in the National Assembly
on Thursday.
The speech of General LAHITTE does not ap-
pear in the Maniteur of yesterday, and it was
said it had been suppressed by order of the PRESI-
DENT of the Republic. General LAHITTE yesterday
said in the Assembly that its suppression was
a mistake, but that it should appear in a sup- ,
plement.

- All the English in Paris have refused the invi-
tations whi
iich they had received to attend the parties
at the Elyse.
The Presse, after having stated that but for Eng-
land there would have been an immediate invasion of
France by the Absolutist Powers in. 1848, thus
proceeds to bear testimony to good faith which
the
England has ever since observed, 111 From that timet says-_
, whether with regard to Italy or
the affairs of Germany, the English Cabinet never gave
us a, single'catise' of complaint. On th contrary, it
showed itself full of' benevolence and goode faith towards
the new Republic. It soni4hi• to simplify difficulties
standing in our way, instead of aggravating them; it