The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-27 00:00:00

AATaY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.

Under the Patronageof her Majesty and his Royal /lighten
Prince Albert.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
The most gocce,dnl and popular Theatre in London;

The Last Week of Bonaparte in Egpyt, in consequence of the
production of St. George and the Dragon on Whit-Monday.
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THIS EVENING,

Will be presented a new grand Military Spectacle, which is now
exciting all Paris, entitlei BONAPARTE IN EGYPT; or, the
Battle of Aboukir. _

To be followed by Batty's Inimitable Scenes of the Arena.
In addition to the extraordinary talent at the above Establish-
ment, Mr. Batty has engaged the celebrated Equestrian Mr. A.
Cooke; also Mr. Boswell, tho renowned Comique, and Madlle. Re-
becca, the graceful Equestrian, the whole forming the most elegant
and unique perfoamance ever witnessed within the walls of an am-
phitheatre.
To conclude with a Laughable farce.
Tickets to be had at, the Box-office from Eleven till Four daily.

stage manager, Mr. Leclercq.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGUAL GARDENS.
Open for the Season,
Exhibition of Dan.son's Colossal Daylight View. of MOUNT
ETNA and the CAVES of 'VULCAN and 'the CYCLOPS=-Splendid
and interesting Menagerie—Promenaile Concert by Godfrey's un-
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
Ancients), 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 Siriads receiving the
Armour of Achilles.
Doors open from Nine A.M. Feeding the Animals at Five. con_
Out at Half-past Six. Fireworks at Half-past :Sine.
ADMISSIOX, ONE §IIILDLNG.

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TABLE..
State of the Wind and W
at each of the following
Vaces at Nine o'clock yesterday
__Nvid E., hard wind—rain
are arranged in order of latitude. morning.—The ratio
PLYMOUTH
poßmfouTH......wind E., strong Lr •
rain.
HsTurG2—Wind N. 8., strong , breeze—heavy
SouTivaipTcor—Wind N.E, strong br ram.
eeze--rain
FoLK-Wind—Wind N.E., strong breeze_ov •
Tui.BALDGz....qind N.E., strong breeze—raitrast.
GREENWICH—Wind N. 8., gentle breeze beau
&noon —Witia N.E., strong breeze—rain. y rain.
SWri-DoN—W ind N.E,, gentle breeze—rain.
COLMESTER—Wind S.W., strong breeze—
he - ~
rain.
The returns from the following Places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Tuesday morning
at nine
o'clock :
losul.K.lcK—Wind E., calm—cloudless.
emAßL°w—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
Fau"*"--Wind E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
_WI-A—Wind N.E., strong breeze—cloudless.
romatsmount—Wind B.E , gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
-Y mourri—wind N. ' b e.—foggY•
BELOUNGRAzr w,_
,! StrOng reeZ
Ina b.E gentle breeze—ovarcast.
HoLykuun—wind N.E " very fine.
LANCAST ex—Wind E,, , gentle breeze—
winTny—Wind N., gentle breeze--foggy
'clear.
akitunrrorr—Wind. N.
, cal . gentle b
SHAP--Wind N. w reeze— overcast.
Rl—principally clear.
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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1852.

Extraordinary opportunities are presented at this
moment, not merely. to one but to several among the
departments of the Administration, by availing them-
selves of which our existing rulers might cause their
names to he remembered with gratitude even in the
event of their being ultimately driven from office by
an overwhelming majority in the next Parliament.
In reference to none of the principal departments,
however, are these opportunities more tempting than
they ar3 in regard to the authorities at the Admiralty.
Nowhere have the evils of the old system become
more glaringly apparel,;, and consequently nowhere
those evils be More Fasi,y remedied without doing

violence to public feeling, or rather, we might say
with greater truth, by acting in obedience to the
national solicitude. The Lords Commissioners,
moreover, are fortunately at this juncture presided
over by a sailor instead of a civilian, and by a sailor
no less popular and no less influential than his Grace
the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND. It was with a satis-
faction only inferior to that which witnessed the con-
tinuance of the Duke of WELLINGTON at the head
of the Horse Guards, that the people of England ob-
served the appointment of the Duke of NORTHUM-
BERLAND to the head of the admiralty. They were
rejoiced—and no wonder—to perceive the maritime
service of the greatest naval power in the world en-
trusted once more to the management of a distin-
guished member of the profession. At the period
when the names of the DERBY Cabinet were first
gazetted we ourselves expressed the unfeigned satis-
faction with which we remarked the advent to power
of one or two of the administrators enumerated—
an open foe to a merely nominal friend,
preferring
and having a somewhat larger partiality for
an able than for a decidedly incompetent
member of a Government. It was in this spirit that
we hailed with a sentiment almost amounting to
relief the displacement of an administrative ignora-
mus like Sir CHARLES WOOD by a man of the people
as indisputably capable as the present CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER. From a nearly similar emotion
of relief—relief after so many chagrins, anxieties,
and disappointments—we expressed at once the gra-
tification with which we notified the removal of
Sir FRANCIS BARING from the Board of Admi-
ralty, to make way for Rear-Admiral his
Grace the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND. Latterly, it
is true, there had been some important concessions
made by Sir FRANCIS BARING and his colleagues in
reference to points upon which public opinion had be-
come both unanimous and importunate. Still those
concessions were so peculiarly restricted in their
character, and were only extorted by such painful
pertinacity of demand, that we exulted at the pros-
pect of men coming into office more qualified to
pronounce upon the suggested necessity for improve-
ment, and calculated to develope the energies of the
Royal Navy by a wiser and more active scheme of
administration.

As illustrative of the most remarkable among the
reforms required in the maritime service we would
now especially direct the attention of the public to
the extraordinary proof recently afforded of the ad-
vantages of the screw propeller as applied to the pur-
poses of navigation. From the New York intelli-
gence just received it will be observed that the prin-
ciple of the screw had, in the instance of the Great
Britain, achieved a success such as remains altogether
without parallel. Although encountering peculiarly
:unfavourable weather, that splendid vessel had accom-
plished her passage across the Atlantic solely by the
employment of her steam power by means of the
screw propeller (her sails being rendered by adverse
winds unavailable) in thirteen days and four hours—
having on the 12th instant, run a distance of 301
miles in 24 hours—a speed never before attained by
a screw steamer. It is worthy of remark, moreover,
that throughout the entire voyage the eagines were
never once eased until the noon of the twelfth day from
starting, and then only for the purpose of obtaining
'soundings. Yet, according to information of an
authentic character, which_ we have received from
New York, the return voyage of the Great Britain
might immediately after her arrival at the United
States have been commenced as far as the machinery
was concerned. Surely this is a very memorable
demonstration of the efficacy of that screw power
which we have long yearned to see more generally
employed in the Royal Navy of England. Re-
peatedly as we have in these columns insisted
upon the advisability of applying the screw to
our ships-of-war, we have never more earnestly,
'as we have certainly never more hopefully, called for
this reform than we do at the present moment, when
the Great Britain—" once more upon the waters, yet
once more"—has thus marvellously illustrated the
benefits of the screw by her recent passage to Ame-
rica, and when at the same time we bear in recollec-
tion that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
are now presided over by ALGERNON, Duke of
Northumberland.

Conspicuous among the few improvements intro-
duced by Sir FRANCIS BARING and his colleagues to-
wards th 3 close of their otherwise negligent administra-
tion, was the fitting up with the screw of a magnificent
vessel like the Royal Albert of 120 guns. Why,
may we not hope that this almost isolated example of
sagacity on the part of their immediate predecessors
will excite the generous emulation of the present
Lord Commissioners ? There are other ships now
on the stocks to which the same vitalizing or vivi-
fying power—the screw—might as judiciously be ep.
plied. Why not adopt the same principle which
has been deemed advisable in regard to the Royal
Albert, 120 guns, in reference to the Princess Royal
of 00 guns, to the Royal Frederick of 116 guns, to
the Prince of Wales of 120 guns, and to the Royal
Sovereign with the same formidable armament—the
four superb men-of-war now building side by side in
the dockyard at Portsmouth ? By acting thus be-
times the authorities at the Admiralty would be
preparing for the service an increase of power equiva-
lent not to four only, but to half-a-dozen, or possibly
more, vessels of the first class—vessels capable, when
thus completed, of carrying triumphantly through
" the battle ar.d the breeze " for a portion
of another " thousand years " the "meteor
tug " which may merit being celebrated
once more by some future CAxtrBELL. Supposing it
be found necessary, in order to apply the screw to
vessels already in course of actual construction, as it

has
clready been found necessary to cut them in
two, let them b 3 so dealt with, and,

it be possible, let them be likewise transformed from
cumbrous three-deckers, with unnecessary ornaments,
into two-deckers, each with an armament of 100
gune, like the St. Jean D'Acre, now build-
ing in Devonport. The decrease in the num-
ber of the guns might be readily compensated
by an increase in their calibre—the screw
propeller meanwhile imparting to the vessel thus
constructed a principle almost equivalent to that of
vitality, a power almost comparable to that of actual
volition. It is worthy of remark, by the way, that
an improvement somewhat in the desired direction
has been latterly observable in the peculiarities of the
structure cf our comparatively recent men-of-war
While the Queen, one of Sir 'WILLIAM SYMONDS' first-

rates, of 110 guns, has a tonnage of 3,104, the
Albion, a second rate, of 90 guns, and the Aboukir,
another second rate, with the same armament, have
respectively, the rst a tonnage of 3,110, and
the second of 3,o9l—both likewise from the hand of
Sir WILLIAM SYMONDS. Together with changes
like those already specified, we should rejoice to
witness a different arrangement in regard to the
system of manning the Royal Navy of England, ac-
cording to the scheme repeatedly suggested by our-
selves, and one the value of which we feel confident is
generally recognised by the profession. Under this
improved system, we should then be spared the
chagrin of witnessing the dispersion of the
efficient and experienced crew of the Su-
therh, now on the eve of being paid off—
sailor being, under those more rational
regto
.ations exchanged (of course, with holiday inter-
vals), from one ship
to another, being engaged, more-
over, for five instead of three years, consecutively.
•
For innovations,
such as these, we have long looked,
but hitherto, alas► in vain let us hope that a benefi-
ci-,ut serLs •
ups may at length be witnessed,
changes for the
concession of which the country will
be indebted to the present Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty, presided over by his Grace the Duke
of ISTORTHUMIIERIAND.

which alluseiox
appeared in the Paris Presse of
The article which
-Representative, M.
will be found in
yesterday from the pen of an
COLLARD, and to
replete with
considerations of a very rational chara.
our summary of foreign intellig:ncharacter.itser. The pro-
babilitiesof hostility between the
C
by
somehannel being
of the ancient fires of
two great nations at either side
rekindled have been dwelt on
continuea
with no ordinary gusto. Nevertheless, though
us
two
gresatt:stthoef
a " phobia "is got well on foot in England when
it
flou-
rishes most vigorously in its season, we must
to cherish an extreme degree of scepticism
likelihood of a collision between the
the European natiuns, which would be but a sangui-
nary absurdity, disastrous and disgraceful to oiyiii7a_
tion, and m4st pernicious to the substantial interests of t