The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-29 00:00:00

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. COVENT-GARDEN.

SUBSCRIPTION NIGHT.
b, conseqnce of so many persons having
places ouen Thursday last the same pertormance,s will be repeaed ,
been unable to obtain
THS EVENING,
In compliance withthe wislhes of many Subscribers, THIS EVEN
ING will be given as a Subscription Night, in lieu of Sa ludaY' 6°Pt*
4. All ivories and tickets, therefore, for Sept. 4 will be available
To-Night, on which occasion
Will be performed Meyerbeer's Grand Opera,
LES HUGITEINOTs.
Talentina, Madame Grist , Margarita dl Valois, pladarne Castel-
lan Dams. d'Onore, Madlle..Cotti; Urban°, Madllb. Seguin ; Mar-
cello, Herr Formes ; Conte di San Eris, Signor r0101:1illi II Conte
de Nevem, signor Tagliafico ; De Cosse, Signor Luigi Mei ; De Retz,
Signor Gregorio • the lingenot Soldier, Signor Soldi ; 2dCra, Signor
Romml ; Raul di'Nangis, Signor Mario.
The Incidental Divertissement be supported by MadlleS. Ko-
lemberg and Lebloud; M. Flusse and. M. II liana.
The performances commence at Light o'clock precisely.
Tickets for the Boxes, Stalls, or the Pit may be had (ifsoropl
eh
ne
Night or Season), at the Box-office of the Theatre, whicit
from Eleven till Five o'clock ; and of the principal librarians and
musicsellers.

THBATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
The pnblic is respectfully informed that the celebrated American
Tragetu.n, Mr. Buchanan, wiIIEVEN make his first appearaiace
THIS ING,

.M Shylock, in Shakspere's ?lac of THE MERCHANT OF VE-
NICE.
On Monday next, KING LEA tl. King Lear, Mr. Buchanan Ns
list appearance in that character.)

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL
Lessee, Mr. B. Webster ; Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENDTG,
Will be performed a devilish new Extravaganza, called ME-
PHISTOPHELES. Characters by Mr. Honey, Miss Fitzwllliam, and
Miss Woolgar.
RAfter which THE WRECK ASHORE
With THE SCHOOL FOR TIGERS,

AsmErs ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
ruder the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Elle

Prince Albert.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Ratty.
The most iniceersral and popular Theatre in London.
THIS EVENING,
Will be produced, a grand Spectacle, written expressly for the Am-
phitheatre, by E. Fitzball, Esq., entitled PETER TILE GREAT,
in which Mr. Ryder, from the Princess's, will appear.
To be loilowed by Batty's Inimitable Scenes or Vac Arena, intro-
ducing themost numerous-equestrian company in Europe-
To conclude with a Laughable fexce.
Tickets to be had at the Box-office from Eleven till Four daily.
stage Manager, Mr. Leclercq.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Open for the Season,
Monday, Tucsiay, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Exhibition of Danson's Colossal Daylight View of MOUNT
ETNA and the CAVES of VULCAN and the CYCLOPS—Splendid
and interesting Menagerie—Promenade Concert by Godfrey's on.
rivalled Military Band—Various Amusing Novelties—Concluding at
Dusk with a Grand Pyrotechnic Exhibition by Messrs. Southby,
representing the Interior of the Mountain (the Pandemonium of the
Axcients), with the Caverns and Forges of. Vulcan and his Cyclops,
the whole terminating with the Eruption of Mount Etna and a
Grand Tableau on the Lake of Thetis, and the Nereiads receiving the
Armour of Achilles. t
The menagerie now consists of several hundred specimens, In-
eluding three elephants, tNto giraffs, four ostriches, two camels,
lions, Ste. •
Doors open from Nine A.M. Feeding the Animals at Five. Con-
cert at Half-past Six:, Fireworks about Ten.
ADTSSION, ONE SIIILLDIG.

HIGH 'WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tail DAT —Morning 4 rain. after 12 Evening 37 min. after 12
To-iltioasovr —Morning I min. after 1 I Evening 33 min. after 1

Tlfl WEATIELEB.—Svcs OFFICE, JULY 29.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
75—highest since noon yesterday.
67—lowest this morning and during the night.
71—this day, at noon.
BAuoltgrEs, 30.15.
WnrD E.S.E.—fine breeze and sanshiny weather, with
passing clouds.

DAILY WEATW TABLE.
state of the Wind and Weather at each of the fzllowing
places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.--The station
are arranged in order of latitude.
Prmarounr..-Wind E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
HAsrmia—Wind N.E., gentle breeze--cloudless.
Sonmnwros—Wind N.W., strong breeze—cloudless.
FOLENSTONIC—Wind N.E., gentle breeze--cloudy.
Tuzinnrocik—Wino,N.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
GREEN W ICH—Wind' N., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
&moo D —Wine g., gentle brgehc—partially.cloudy.
Swinnon—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
CoLcliusTEE—Wind gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
CaraarxDGE—Wind N.E, gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
Luvaotrrii—Wind E., hard Triad—cloudless.

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the wind and weather on Teemilay morning at nine
o'clock :

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ktuumiGais—Wind ealra—partiaby cloudy.
POOLE—Wind N.E., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
tioLy-HEAD--Wind N., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
Witrrnir—Wiad gentle breeze—soggy.
DAr.migarort— Wind N. N.W., strong breeze—overcast.
BgAp—Wind N., gentle brEeze—partially cloudy.

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own rights and develope our own interests without
unnecessarily disallowing or trampling under foot the
rights and interests of others." The significance of
all this must, we conceive—without another word—
be sufficiently apparent. But, to render the mean-
ing of his remarks more unmistakably comprehen-
sible the Noble Lord pursued—" The time is gone
by, thank GOD! when it was imagined that the com-
merce of each country would only prosper at the
expense cf that of its rivals and competitors, and
when the principal aim of every mercantile negotiator
was to practice a deception on the other contracting
party: Juster ideas, ideas more conformable to the
intentions of Divine PROVIDENCE as far as those in-
tentions are ccmprehensible by mankind, ere happily
at this hour almost everywhere recognized, and com-
merce, which has been hitherto invariably the pre-
cursor of liberty and of civilization,
is appreciated,
and by no one more fully than by myself, as
the strongest link in that vast chain of humanity
which binds the nations of the earth together—repos-
ing the weight of the common interests in the balance
of peace." Assuredly those sentences constitute not
only a panegyric upon the principles of free-trade,
but one as fervid as any that could have been uttered
by either RIC E ARD COBDEN or by WILLIAM HUS•
KISSON.
As if to afford a direct application of his remarks to
the rumour already referred to—that of his nomination
ito the post of one of the Secretaries of State in the
DERBY Government—Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE
spoke yet more decidedly upon the subject of these
ideas during the course of his address to the English
merchants at Constantinople. We obtain our know-
ledge of his observations from the columns of a
journal of that city, transcribed in the Courrier
d' Athenes. He is there reported to have said in addi-
tion to the foregoing--" The most lively and pro-
found conviction ought to vibrate in harmony with a
chord thus elevated, and in these enlightened days I
should deem myself unworthy of occupying any public
post whatsoever, if my sentiments did not respond to them
and if my conduct did not bear testimony to their im-
perishable truth." The declaration is noble, and
worthy of a great English statesman. But how does
it in any way accord with the principles of action
guiding the councils of the most eminent in the
DERRY Government. Their convictions do not har-
msnize with those elevated ideas, in regard to the
newly established commercial system ; their sen-
timents do not thrill responsively to their
dictates, and most unquestionably some of
them bear witness, by their conduct, to the
fact of their indestructible veracity. The de-
claration of Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE C 0111.•
cides, however, entirely with the equally gallant de-
claration of Sir JAMES GRAHAM, quoted by ourselves
only yesterday—" That which I thought right I
would publicly uphold, and I ' would stand by it or
fall by it. I never would be the tool of the will of
the people of this country, I would exercise my own
private judgment." Precisely in the same manner
Lord STRATFORD asserted for his own part, that if he
acted differently from this he should consider himself
unworthy of holding office in any capacity whatever.
The concluding portion of the remarks addressed
to the English merchants in the capital of Turkey by
the late British Ambassador at Constantinople,
although partaking of a more personal character,
and having reference to domestic incidents
almost exclusively, was, perhaps, of all the most
strikingly in accordance with his known benevolence
and enlightenment. We have restricted our
allusions, however, to those observations which we con-
ceive to have a peculiar bearing just now upon public
events of great importance. Coming to us, more-
over, as the account of this speech does, simultaneously
with the rumour of Lord STRATFORD'S appointment
as Foreign Secretary, we have commented upon the
essed as illustrative in a
sentiments therein eepe
singular manner of the position of the DERBY Go-
vernment.

A very extraordinary case of alleged wrecking has
been reported to have taken place at the mouth of
the Thence, at the very entrance to the port of Lon-
don, that merits, and no doubt will receive, the most
stringent investigation. From the facts that have
already transpired it appears that the parties impli-
cated attempt to justify their conduct, asserting that
they were fully warranted in the course they had
pursued. Their object certainly could not have
been plunder, for the property taken from the wreck
was safely deposited with the receiver of droits at
Southend, thus giving colour to the allegation " that
they were acting for the real benefit of the owners,'
and very probably in the belief that their proceedings
were in accordance with the law of salvage. Nothing,
however, can be more erroneous than this opinion.
It would, indeed, be a strange code that could sane.
• tion a horde of armed men taking forcible possessionof a vessel, cutting away her rigging, and removing
portions of her cargo, against the consent, and despite
the remonstrances of the crew. If parties interested
in obtaining large remuneration in the shape of
salvage for their exertions are to be the sole
judges of the time and the manner in
which their services should be rendered the
most mischievous results would follow. Almost any
degree of violence would be justified under such
enactments. In the particular case under notice it
might have beerebetter for the owners if the men bad
pberitnelp:le ,o id rm‘,ittuedoadopt their own case. But the
be exceedingly dangerous, leading
inevitably to injuricus conkequences in the long rut.
Tne Renown/
the vessel in question, ran ashore on
the Nore Sand a little above the Nore Light and
close tO.-""within gunshot of—the guard-ship. The
crew, in the
took to the long boat, and
made their escape.
first instance,
The weather becoming more mo-
derate they shortly after returned to the veesel,
which, in the interim, had been taken posseseicn of
by some of the Coast Guard, who would certainly
have had the best right to 'remain in the vessel if any
such claim could be preferred. They, however, very
properly withdrew when convinced that the crew had
really returned to the vessel, and were about taking
active measures to free her from her untoward and
dangerous position. The crew then had commenced
their labours ; they were engaged in stripping the
masts, and a craft was engaged to come off and to re-
cover such stores as could ba come at, soas at the same
time to lighten the vessel and secure the safety of the
,goode. Such was the state of affairs when the would-
be salvors made their first appearance at the scene of
the accident.