The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-12 00:00:00

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Amphitheatre
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Gallery
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Private Boxes, £3 3.1., L 2 25., and Li I Is. 6d. Orchestra Stalls, Ss.
Stage Manager, Mr. 5. M. MORTON.
Director of Spectacle, Mr. W. WES r•
The whole under the management Of
Mr. BUNN, LESSEE.

Is. 6d.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager,
THIS EVENLY(),
BroMpton.
Will be performed the admired Comedy of THE LADIES' BAT-
TLE ; or, Un Duel en Amour. Le Baron de Montrichard, Mr.
Howe; Henri de Flavigneul, Mr. Parselle ; Onstage de Grignon,
Mr. Leigh Murray; Countess de Autreval, Mrs. Stirling ; Leoine
de is Villegontier, Miss A. Vining.
ith the highly successful Operetta, entitled SON AND STRAN-
GER. The Mayor, Mr. Lambert ; Herrmann, Mr. W. Harrison ;
Kautz. Mr. Weiss ; Ursula, Miss Pyne ; Lisbeth, Miss L. Pyne.
After which a new Fairy Burlesque, called THE PRINCESS RA-
DIAN f AND THE STORY OF MAYFLOWER. Characters by
Messrs. Bnckstone, H. Bedford, J. Bland, Caulfield, Clark, Plimmeri,
an
-To
Fitwilliam, Mrs. uckingham, d Miss Collins.
castle, Mrs. Buck-
-Ts; conclude with theß Farce, called THE TWO BONNICASTLES.
Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Bonny
Mr. BonnYeastle'
Ingham.

THEATRE ROYAL, A.DELPIII.
Lessee, Mr. B. Webster ; Directress, Madame Celeste.
?he popular Comedian, Mr. Wright, having recovered from his in.
disposition, will appear This Evening.
]Enormous succeas Of THlSinakee Comedian, Mr. Josh Silsbee.
EVEN
Will be performed the Farce of THE MOTHER AND CHILD
Ant& DOING WELL. Lieutenant pre O'Scupr, Mr. Paul Bedford'
Mr. Felix Fluffy, Mr. Wright ; Maxwell, Mr. Worrell ; Emily, xis,
itnims Herathr.
To be followed by a characteristic sketch, called THE YANKEE
PEDLAR; or, Old Times in Virginia. Hiram Dodge, Mr. Silsbee ;
Borland, Mr. woad' ; miss Nancy Bantam, Miss Emma Harding.
Aker which MY PRECIOUS BETSY. Mr. Bobtail, Mr. Wright.
Lr exaclude with a new and original Christmas Tale, called LIT-
TLE RED RIDING HOOD. Wolfram, Baron of Burliburg (bur-
named the Wolf of Biberich) Mr. Paul Bedford ; Scraggenheim,
Butler; '1 en (coramency called Little Red Riding Hood), Miss
Kathleen Fitz William.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE,
OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Managementot Mr. C. Kea2.
TlllB EVENING,
Stakespere's Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR.
Principal characters by Heasrs. Bartley, Keeley,
Mea-
dows, Addison. Harley, J. Vining, C. A. Wigan,
Kean ; MesdameS Winstimley, ,
Keeley, and C. Kean.,
With a new grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN
BILLY TAYLOR ; or, The Flying Dutchman and the King of Ra-
ritongo. Harlequin. Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Fleamore; Pant.l-
and Columbine, Miss Carlotta Leclercq.
loon, Mr. Paulo ;

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
ruder the M
THanagementEVENl of aflame Veatris.
IS
Will be performed

TIM GAME OF SPECULATION. Principal characters
Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthew!, R. Roxby, B. Raker ; Mrs. byC
Horn, and Miss M. Oliver.
To cowhide with
A new and original Fairy Extravaganza, by J. R. Planche, Esq
entitled TILE PRINCE OF HAPPY LAND or, The Fawn in ta
Forest. Characters by Madame Vestris, Miss St. George, miss
Lanza, Miss Martindale, Miss Grove, Miss Ellis, Miss Rosins Wright
Messrs. F. Matthews, B. Baker, Suter, Horncastle, Butler, and
Vernon.

AS TLE 7C 'S ROYAL T B.E A TRE.
Under the Patronage or her Sisjeaty and his Royal HlV:mesa

Prince ilbert.
Proprietor and Manager,
Mr.
The moat successtui and popular Theat Batty.
re in London.
W.
Mr. Batty begs to inform his patrons that he has entered into an
engagement with Mons. FRANTZ BENSOO, the great Rope
Dancer, (rota Vienna, who will make his first appearance To-Night.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed, a Magnificent Spectacle, entitled BLUE
BEARD ; or, Female Curiosity, in which will be introduced a pair of
highly-trairled Elephants, male and female, allowed to be the most
docile pair ever brought into Europe.
With Batty 's Inimitable Scenes of the Arena, combining talent
a the highest srder, both Native and Foreign.
With the most popular and only Equestrian Pantomime in London,
entitledhiE. and MEd. BRIGGS ; or, Punch's Festival—Mirth,
Harlequin, Mr. Hary .
wit, and eY Columbine, Misa Avery ;
Pantaloon, Mr. Buckman , Clown, Arthar Nelson, who will in the
COMM of
_ each
evening play a number of favourite airs on the
Rock Hannonic4ll-
nava to Do at the Rex-office from Edevea till rot,
sup manissers Mr. T. tampion.

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67,
LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1852.

Throughout its existence, under the conduct of its
present leader, there has been a remarkable consist-
ency in the blunderings of her MAJESTY'S Govern-
ment. Mediocrity has everywhere been applauded
by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and genius contemned ;
failure has apparently awakened his enthusiasm, and
success his indignation. He has carefully associated
Sir CHARLES 3VOOD—although notoriously the most
inefficient member of his Cabinet—with the idea of
the very maintenance of the Administration. Mean-
while he has as sedulously thwarted, in every in-
stance, the liberal and patriotic policy of the Foreign
Secretary—as notoriously the most distinguished
statesman among our administrators—completing his
unnatural system of opposition by the ulterior
dismissal of Lord PALMERSTON. Precisely in
the same way have the proceedings of the
Prime Minister been regulated in regard to
other and scarcely less important matters connected
with the carrying out of the labours of government.
While the country has been cursed with an incapable
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and deprived abruptly,
not to say without reason, of the genius of an illus-
trious chief of the Foreign Department, the military
posts in our more remote and more valuable pos-
sessions have in cases of extraordinary emergency
been filled up by the Premier upon a system
revealing a similar perversity of judgment. It
cannot already be forgotten with what re-
luctance Sir CHARLES NAPIER was permitted
to assume the chief command of the Indian army,
after the most energetic efforts to evade the appoint-
ment—the conqueror of Sinde being, in fact, thrust
into that position of responsibility immediately on the
receipt of the
and Chillianwallab
disastrous intelligence of Ramnugger
by the united voices of the Eng-
lish press and the English
it by any possibility lopsotputolatrieonan.emNbreanitheeer
hcoawn
very different indeed was the treatment experienced
by Sir HARRY SMITH, who was hurried almost di-
rectly after his return home to the Governorship
of the unfortunate colony
hi
that
heen embroiled with the
ever since
then
which has has Cape
re Colony,
savages of Kafirland. Assuredly, therefore, with
these memorable facts in their recollection, it
will be
admitted by the public that we are not guilty of ex-
travagance in surmising that failure would seem to
hold the preference over success in Lord Joni.; Rus.
SELL'S very perverse estimation.
A glance at the news received during some time
past from the Cape wiii be sufficient to convince the
most incredulous that very extraordinary incapacity
has been displayed in the conduct of the recent cam..
psigos against the barbarians. A careful examination
of the narrative will do more than this, it will
satisfy the mind of every dispassionate observer that
the recent disasters experienced by our troops in
those quarters threaten to he irreparable unless speedy
assistance arrive at the seat of war, in the form at
once of men, of fodder, and of ammunition. Behold-
ing these occurrences at the Cape, and aware that the
General in supreme command at that point has been
in every instance petted and favoured by her MA•
JESTY'S Government, it is impossible not to bear simul-
taneously in remembrance the very different
career and the very different treatment of the
illustrious soldier the conqueror of Sinde,

what is yet more, its first and succesful adminis-
trator. Such was the prejudice evinced on the part of
Lord JOHN RUSSELL towards that distinguished
captain that he is known to have retarded until the
latest moment the fact of his appointment as Coal-
mander-in•Chief in Hindostan, and afterwards, when
permission was at length reluctantly granted, the
Noble Lord pointedly refrained from countenancing
the conqueror of Sinde by his presence at the ban-
quet given to Sir CHARLES NAPIER by the Directors
of the East India Company. The circumstance of the
absence of the Prime Minister upon that occasion was
sufficiently significant to be noticed very particularly at
the time, and in addition to that was of sufficient im.
portance to be borne since then in the popular re-
membrance. Contrasted with the slights and annoy-
ance lavished upon General Sir CHARLES NAPIER,
the applause and honours showered upon General Sir
HARRY SMITH appear to us to be absolutely prepos-
terous. By way of showing the relative proportion
of the title of the two soldiers to this very dissimilar
treatment, it is only necessary to compare their se-
veral achievements. The achievements of Sir HARRY
SMITH at the Cape are, unhappily, too well known to
the community at large to render any enumera-
tion of them requisite. Those of Sir CHARLES
NAPIER are renowned as among the most splendid
recorded in the annals of British conquest. His
proceedings i❑ Cephalonia, preparing the way as they
did for his noble labours, both of a military and ad-
ministrative character, in Hindostan, were, in the
first instance, of a kind eminently deserving of re-
membrance. Afterwards, in the province of Sinde,
his magnificent victories of Meanee and Hyderabad
were only surpassed as historical events by the
spledid acts of his civil administration. For the events
which marked the conquest of that vast and fruitful
country, added by the sharpness of his sword
and the grasp of his genius to the rest of our ori-
ental dominions, it is possible to find them all care-
fully recounted in the luminous pages written upon
them by the conqueror's brother, the historian.
While for the subsequent events, unfolding the whole
of his remarkable system of administration, we may
find them described with equal exactitude by the
same master-hand in the subsequent volume, in which
he has just recorded the history of Sir CHARLES
NAPIER'S Sindian Government. As we have al-
ready remarked, it is absolutely impossible
to regard without feelings closely approximating to
those of indignation the unfairness of the conduct dis-
played by Lord JOHN RUSSELL towards the hero of
Aliwall and towards the victor of Meanee and
Hyderabad. Those who cannot already enter into the
fullness of our disgust at this shameless course of
blundering prejudice and of purblind patronage, would
do well simply to contrast the lamentable attack made
by Sir Maar SMITH on the Amatela Hills, when
the barbarians were afforded the opportunity of
wreaking a most terrible vengeance on the beads of
the unfortunate colonists, with Sir CHARLES
NAPIER'S memorable attack on Trokkee,
where, though debilitated by severe indisposition, and
obstructed by the execrable system of opposition
shown towards him by the Government, the illustrious
soldier organized the whole of his baggage corps, and
elicited by the brilliancy of his proceedings through-
out the earnest admiration of WELLINGTON. Yet
these are the men treated so very differently by Lord
JOHN RUSSELL, by the statesman whose predilections
appear to favour melancholy blunderings and disas-
trous failures, consonant with his own scheme of mis-
government.

The amount of bullion in the Bank of England
continues increasing. The anticipations which we
have from time to time put forward in reference
thereto have thus been fully verified. The returns
for the week ending the 3d January instant show
that the stock of specie iu both departments amounts
to the enormous sum of 17,557,5411., showing
an improvement within the week of 237,9971.
This might not be very remarkable in itself,
but when we couple it with the facts
that the " other securities" have been augmented
within the same period by no less than 467,4171., and
that the circulating medium is simultaneously in.
creased by 564,6601., we may fairly look forward to a
year of unexampled activity in the Money-market.
Capitalists must now look for investments for their
money. An over-caution has heretofore been their
characteristic, let us hope that they will not fly to
the other extreme, lest in " shunning Scylla they
may fall into Charybdis." Those who have fol-
lowed our advice within the last two years will
have ample cause for self-gratulation, and many gol-
den reasons for appreciating our judgment. But
much as they have accomplished, and although they
may have nearly doubled their original stakes, more
is still to be achieved by those who have discretion to
avail themselves of the golden opportunity. We have
already pointed out the evils of our present monetary
code—evils that are no less perceptible when
the Money-market is easy, and every reasonable
accommodation can be obtained, than during periods
of the greatest gloom and depression. The provisions
of the Act of 1244 necessarily add to any existing
excitement, are even calculated to produce it, and
will speedily increase it, until it becomes "a mania."
Provident speculators, who take time by the fore-
lock, will acquire immense wealth before the "over-
cautious," have made up their minds to take a single
step in advance. The former, who carefully note and
attend to every sign and indication, will be on the
point of retiring when the others are coming forward.
They will have realized fortunes which the others are
about to lose—we say about to lose, for they will not
be contented to make small sacrifices. They will
stick to a losing game with as much pertinacity as
they formerly did to the state of inactivity. If
gaining, they will sell out at the very first advance,
in order to realise a few paltry shillings, but if
more unfortunately circumstanced, they will stick
to the last until their ruin is accomplished, and then
they will complain loudly of their misfortunes and
sufferings.

It is, indeed, desirable that a better monetary sys-
tem should be introduced. We, at least, have spared
no pains to bring about the ;much-required reforms,
under which these violent fluctuations and alterations
should be no longer possible. But while the present
iniquitous laws are in operation it becomes our duty
to indicate the paths that may, in our opinion, be
safely pursued.

There is, then, at this moment a rising market for
every species of boat fide security, and never, per-
haps, was there a more favourable opportunity or
greater " encouragement for a judicious and mode-
rate application of every man's surplus means."
Prudence must be observed, but not unnecessary
and unwarranted distrust. The former is a
most necessary and valuable servant—the latter
a serious clog and impediment, that must
prevent the possibility of any great success.
Let those who choose to profit by the opportunity
carefully investigate the changes for some time
past. They will find that railways have improved
on an average of at least 40 or 50 per
cent.; and they will also perceive the enormous
returns that have been made on mining shares. In
our City article of Thursday last we pointed out the
enormous dividends that have been obtained during
the past year in some of the undertakings, in one
case to the extent of no less than 4,000 per
cent., or 401. for every 11. paid, and others appeared
scarcely less miraculous, for that is the only term to
convey an adequate idea of the returns. We still
adhere to the opinion then expressed, that "Cali-
fornia and Australia both hold gout temptations,
and that handsome returns will be obtained if the
management be honest and able." That will be
the great point to look to. If the persons
put forward on the direction be men of
ability, and integrity, and energy, there can
scarcely be a failure. Where isolated individuals have
achieved fortunes, what may be hoped for from
joint-stock enterprise, with every auxiliary that
Science has invented and money can supply.?
We
certainly
look with confidence to large
profits being obtained from the different gold
mining
or are in
which have either been formed,
in course of formation.; At the
same time,
to
the comparative] advantages of each
should be carefully investigated and calculated, that
those about
favourable proarsepeetscuolfataeusshpoicuioldusdroessoulwtsi.th the most

Lord Clanricarde has declared his intention to leave
the Cabinet so soon as a successor can be procured. The
Noble Lord has been solicited to take the French embassy
should Lord Normanby become, a member of the Cabuiet•—
hierald.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and of yesterday.
The Moniteur of Saturday publishes the following
decrees :

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