The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-17 00:00:00

RE R MAJ F, STY'S THE ATRE horses finally cutting their way out, prisoners,
FAREWELL NIGHTS. horses, and all—except their booty, we for-
clElE tP PRICES.
OBERON. got to bear that in recollection, as being
TO MORROW EVENING (SATURDAY), will be per- the one only concession to probability --
termed (second time), Weber's Grand Romantic Opera,
OBERON. except their booty (whatever that might have
The following is the unrivalled cast :
Si'r Eluon, Mr. Sims Reeves; Oberon, Si;. Bettini ; Scher- been !)—through the serried ranks of a fresh body of
agra In, Mr. Sintley ; Babekan, Sig. Gassier; Puck, Mdlle.
Treb 4-111 ; Fatima, Mdme. Aiboni ; and Regia, Mae. Titiens. foes consisting of one hundred and fifty mounted
Chor us of Knights, Nobles, Spirits of the ELments, People, Confederates ! " Tremendous" fighting, indeed !
Jr•C•
After that the phrases of the telegrams hardly read
like words of exaggeration. If Lieut. KNOWLES'S
doings aro, in truth, to be regarded as a sample
of the Federal display of pluck at Gettysburg,
the contest there may reasonably enough be
spoken of, either as "the most terrific of the
war," or as " the most awful of ell." Only
somehow, after reading these latest despatches
brought to us from the Federal haunts beyond the
Atlantic—there confusedly recur to our remem-
brance, thoughts of a full hour's broadsword exercise
within sight and sound of Shrewsbury clock, and
of divers doughty deeds done by certain daring
knaves in buckram !

Conductor, Sig. Arditi.

Restrictions to Evening Dress not enforced. Commence at
Eight o'clock on each evening.
Prices :—Gallery, 2s ; Pit, is ; Boxes, is ; Dress Circle, 7s ;
Orchestra St .11s. 12s 6d; rivate Boxes from Half-a-Guinea
irds ; Pit Tier Boxes, to hold four, Two Ginneas.
Bo c-office of the Theatre (under the superintendence of 3lr.
Nug,,e.at) o•-en daily fom Ten till Sx. 'tickets ale to be ob-
tained, on the evening of the perfermance, at the special
offi es open at the entrance of the Pit and Grand Tiers.

Zl H E DUKE'S MOTTO.
111,ND11.F.,, A• 0 FIFTY-FIFTH NIGHT,
and Last Week bat Three of the present Season.

'ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.-
Under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER.
Last Week but Three of the present Season.
THIS EVENING, to commence with an Orizinal Sketch,
entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden,
Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee.
After which, at a Quarter-past Eight, the Romantic
Vrama, in Three Acts, and Pr3logue, entitled THE
PUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham.
The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Pechter,
supported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. Brougnam,
‘Viddimmbe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson;
Misses Carlotta Leelercq, Kate Terry, E. Cayenne, and
Elsworthy. Doors open at 7, commence at half-past.
Actin -Manager, Mr. H. Barnett.

speTehiael airnrtievlalligeonfnet—he In
a facdtiawnhiMchail brings
is
byrinnos us n
means
o
unsatisfactory.
an old saying about no
news being good news, is
which in this respect is
true. The best that we
necaunwveinshauflorlape ours of time,
Empire is a quiet and
marked only by the increase of trade and the open.
ing of fresh branches of commerce and industry.
One of these that may possibly prove of considerable
value in the future is already indicated in the news
just received. In the small States on the Thibet
and Punjab frontiers grows a native grape, which,
it is said, promises with care to become of con-
,iderable importance. The flourishing condition
of the tea trade we have already heard of,
and the present news brings us no reason to
question its steadily increasing progress. It
the present ventures at all realise the anticipa-
tions of the speculators, and there seems no
reason to fear that they will not do so, we shall
probably soon hear of the plantations spreading
over every available space of the Hill districts; at
least wherever the obnoxious restrictions, so highly
prized by Sir CHARLES WOOD, do not intervene to
check enterprise and expenditure. The neighbour-
flood of the Hills of Scinde is said to be very well
adapted for the cultivation of tea, and probably it
will not be long before the experiment is made on a
large scale. The great drawback to all commercial
enterprise unfortunately still exists, and in many
parts of India rich and valuable lands are now
lying idle simply because of the preposterous
regulations by which it would seem the Govern-
ment intends to keep off purchasers. We
must hope that the sight of the increasing trade and
commerce of India, and the contrast between the
busy tea gardens and cotton fields, will at length
produce their effect in mitigating those extreme and
,uconsistent laws with respect to the purchase and
survey of the waste land which an hon. member
recently charitably suggested must have been
tramed as a joke. The cotton trade is rapidly
bringing in English gold to India, and the state of
the currency is satisfactory. Our able Governor-
General has recently been giving a reception to the
small chiefs who own the estates on the frontier of
the Punjab. They appear to be most amicably dis-
posed towards the Government, and the language
and conduct of Lord ELGIN are well calculated to
increase their confidence. The disturbances in
Assam are at an end, and the tax which occasioned
so much irritation has been modified. This is the

OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
11- Sole I,tissee and Manager, Mr. G. Vining
vim EVENING, at Eight o'clock, Shakespere's Play of
RO AND JULIET. Romeo, Mr. Walter Montgomery;
Mercutio, Mr. G. Vining; Friar Lawrence, Mr. H. Marston;
Apothecary, Mr. Belmore ; The Nurse, Mrs. H. Marston ;
Juliet, Mdlle. Stella Colas.

To be preceded by the new Comedietta, entitled COUSIN
TOM.

NECW THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.—
Sole P romlotor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE IRI-H TIGER.
Alter whicb, at Eight u'cloek, a new drama, entitled THE
HAUNTED lAN; T ~E GHOST'S SARGAIN, in
which will be exhibited 'Professor Pepper's adaptation of
the Great Spectra 1 Illusion. Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phi:lips,
Sefton, C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alt red Mellon and Miss H. Simms.
Followed bY a new Burlesque, ent fled ILL-TREATED
IL TROVATOME. Messrs. Toole. P. Bedtord, R.
Ebnrne, C. J. lirnitb, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and
Sara, and Miss K. Kelly.
Commence at 7.

OLOYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough.
TO-IGH HT WHILE
ouTHERE'3 LIFE THELIE'S HOPE.
Messrs NW. . Swanborgh, Parselle, Voltaire, G. Honey ;
Misses Ada Swanborough, L. Thorne, F. Hughes, Manders,
and E. Bufton.
Followed by (2nd time) THE MOTTO, "I'M ALL
THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier
Clifton ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Mari;
Simpson, Wallace, anti Jenny White.
Concluding with MY WIFE'S SECOND FLOOR.
Mr. Clifton ana Miss Josephs.
Commence at 7.

TIIHE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,"
Containing the Dttest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,
can be had Every Evening of
G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT,
No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park.

The Weather—Sun Office, July 17, 1863,

more important owing to the numerous tea com-
panies preparing to start in North-eastern Bengal.
W e may hope that this new source of industry being
once fully developed the rude inhabitants of this
fertile district will be diverted from thoughts of war
and rebellion into the more profitable paths of peace
and commerce. There can be no question that all
these fresh sources of interest and occupation will
prove of valuable assistance in the civilisation and
Christianising of the Indian population. We have
already seen some striking cases in which rude and
savage tribes, whose chief amusement, and most
profitable occupation, was war, are transformed into
peaceable and regular labourers. The greater
admixture of Europeans, too, will be beneficial, espe-
cially as the recent improvements tend to introduce
another class of Englishmen into India—men who
will not from their position keep so much aloof nor
surround themselves with a host of native servants.
Overseers, managers, and foremen must be more on
a level with the men they employ, where all labour
is free, and if these men will but remember their
moral responsibility to those below them, as well as
Their duty to their masters, their presence will be
most beneficial. It will not do for them to look on
the native as the American slave-driver does on his
unhappy negroes. The Indian overseer must regard
his workpeople as men of great natural acuteness
and independence. He must avoid wounding their
feelings or trenching on their prejudices, though, of
course, without giving them encouragement.
the Indians are made to feel that truth and justice
are the recognised principles of English daily life,
as well as the foundation of our laws, a great step
would be gained towards their acceptance of ow
religion and our views. Can we honestly say that
we have hitherto endeavoured to do this ?—that
the example which exceeds all precept has taught
them to believe in the purity, the charity, the self•
denial which our missionaries tell them are indis-
pensable
as
There is room for
well
pensable elemewntes
foefeor,uirefathitehA?
and the time of peace and
asprosperit3
it would seem, dawning upon our Eastern
now, -
will, let us hope, enable us to practice that
improvement,
the H i ndoo ,
moderation and political wisdom, both of
too long neglected by English-
which have been
pErinivpaitree'
ment towards India.

Colonel CRAWLEY appears likely to figure most
unpleasantly before the English public when he
returns. It now
appears that there has been
another Mhow Court-martial. This time it was a
tcho
ar pt or
Colonela whosuffered.cßAw ii E y was
has
re
ee
snpsaid s
responsible
very f often
rh
t t
manner in which the imprisonment
of the sergeant-
majors was conducted, and as for thefact of the
sentry being placed inside the apartment, that hat.
been also indignantly repudiated by himself and his
friends. BLAKE, the corporal, whose charge it was
to post the sentry, placed him outside in the first
instance, supposing
that in that position at the door
or the sick room he could maintain sufficient guard
over his prisoner. This arrangement would have
answered in any case, but,
was highly desirable, a s
not,u nodnel
yr t
Sergeant
mLs tiaLnLcEeys ,
had to suffer the annoyance, but also his dying wit,
was in her last days harassed by this cruelinterfer•
ence. This lenity did not suit th
the Colonel, who resolved that
guiltyoeneauete re v
oi ef wsuch
moderation should pay the penalty.
of May he brought the corporal to On the 6th
a court-martial
for " disobedience of orders," and
th unfortunate
man was sentenced to forty-two dayse'
hard labour,
and also the loss of his good conduct stripe. Surely
this is most extraordinary conduct, and the strange
thing is, that on the 7th of May Colonel CRAWL
made a statement to the effect that he was not
aware of the sentry having been posted inside the
room. This court-martial, however, was entirely
Colonel CRAWLEY'S own affair. It is said that he
summoned th© court himself, he selected the mem
he fiadini, and sentence,
Um, and he epprond t

and this was on the sth, while on the 7th of May,
ne stated that he was not aware of the position in
which the sentry bad been placed. It will not
then be possible for him in this instance to adopt
the course he has previously done of throwing the
blame on the superior officers, as he has throughout
made it his practice to do in the case of the unfor-
tunate Sergeant-Major LILLEY. Another point to
be considered is, that although_mANtshrnD
eaLpp,roivtadlooefs
notthe
arrest was given by Sir W.
appear to have been proved that he knew accurately
about the affair; he may have noted for the best, as
he thought, when under erroneous impressions,
owing to the misrepresentations that had been m:.de
to him. When Sir WILLIAM MANSFIELD approved
of the arrest, he thought that it was only to last
sew:.
atiwasthhtote:enodri rinanhststhorerrewaeeade days.
regards
ilatooryfndgtsahColonel
t eithohcewearistiiegnimprisonment
gcopouorurti CRAWLEYlshdooetnrnsmtohteteonhsta
ievanweftoughtaebrsneeetiehni
sentence,
hav
e,
stated
rlboyretasshteteoe:
inexorable manner in which it was carried out. It
was not as if the affair took place in this country,
,o,rtimaneyisteevmepryertahtiengclwimnea. It is
ntetnequesttirounly
is
ssaoiod that
nfine-
ment in an Indian casemate at the hottest time of
the year." The court-martial on Corporal BLAKE
is a very important feature in the case, and it is
earnestly to be trusted that full attention will lat
paid to it at the trial of Colonel CRAWLEY. It
should be minutely investigated, and all the atten-
dant circumstances well weighed. It certainly com-
promises Colonel CRAWLEY to a very considerable
extent, and throws upon him the onus of the inside
sentry, which was a truly disgraceful pro-
ceeding, and revolting to the feelings of
any considerate individual. That any man
calling himself a gentleman could have given
such an order is hardly to be credited; but having
done so, from whatever motive, it does not improve
the baseness of his conduct nor lighten the enormity
of his cruelty to throw the blame on others. It is
even worse still to cast disgrace on a man who was
possessed of too much innate good fee ing to carry
out with scrupulous exactness the orders that com-
pelled such inhuman severity. To many minds the
effair of Corporal BLAKE will appear nearly as bad
as that of Sergeant LILLEY. However, the one
follows on the other, and testifies to a spirit of re-
venge and a cold-blooded cruelty that makes one
indignant at their exhibition in the ranks of our
army. Such conduct must be put down with a
strong hand. It must terminate now and for ever,
or our country will be a byword and reproach in
those foreign lands where it was once so respected.
It is long since such a notorious case as this of
Sergeant LILLEY has come before the public, but
it is to be feared that many such cases in a minor
form have appeared. So much ought not to be
left to the discretion of one man. Such vast
responsibility is never safe ; and where the indivi-
dual entrusted with so much power does not recog-
nise justice, how can he show mercy to those who
have offended him ? Also, the higher authorities
should not be in such haste always to believe that
in a dispute the superior officer must be right, and
the inferior one wrong. Of course, discipline is of
the utmost importance, but there are things of more
consequence still. There are honour, truth, and
justice, all of which have been violated in this affair.
Sergeant LILLEY being dead, yet speaks to us of
his cruel confinement and unjust treatment alto-
gether. There are other sufferers, also, whose claims
must be considered. However or wherever the
court-martial is conducted that is held on Colonel
CRAWLEY, the English public will not rest satisfied
unless the fullest and clearest accounts are given
and the most searching investigations instituted.
Nor will they patiently brook that on any pretence
a men shoat'!" be acquitted who has so injured the
fair fame of our army and cast such reproach on his
country, whose proudest boast has been that she is
►he refuge of the oppressed and the champion of the
wronged.

STRAND THEATRE.

The success of the 's Duke's Motto" at the

Lyceum has induced Mr. Byron to try his hand at
a burlesque, and last evening it was produced at this
favourite little theatre under the title of " The
Motto; I'm all there." Although the French
drama does not present great opportunities for such

a conversion, yet, it must be confessed, the watt

author has made the most of his materials, and his
last burlesque is in no way inferior to his former
productions. The principal points in the Lyceum
drama are all parodied in the most whimsical man•
ner. Albeit, the "baby" was somewhat unruly, as
instead of going quietly up in a clothes-basket at
the termination of the first act, " missie" refused
the aerial trip and pitched herself headforemost
out of the wickerwork amidst the hearty laughter
df the audience. Capt. Lagardere, in the present
instance, was sustained by Mr. George Honey, and
although a very good performance, it would have
been greatly improved had he thrown a little more
mellowness into it. Miss Ada Swanborough's
Blanche d'Nevers was a perfect success, her bur-
lesque of the mesmeric situation is the last scene
was capital, and elicited the loudest applause. Miss
M. Simpson played the Duke Gonzagues with great
spirit and effect, whilst kiss Josephs made a most
bewitching Zillah. The scenery is really beautiful—
a better specimen of painting than the last scene
has rarely been witnessed. In it distance is so ar-
tistically managed that the little stage of the Strand
appears twice its actual size. The dresses, as is
usual, are splendid, and in the best taste; and, taken
as a whole, " The Motto" is perhaps one of the beat
burlesques that has yet been done at the Strand.
At the fall of the curtain the applause was unani-
mous. All the leading performers were called for,
and the piece was announced for repetition every
evening by Mr. Swanborough, amidst the loudest
expressions of delight.

DEATH OF MR. CALCUTT, M.P. FOR CLARE.—We
have to announce the death of Mr. Calcutt, which
took place yesterday morning, at his residence, Upper Sey-
mour-atreet West, after a painful and protracted illness of
more than a year's duration. He represented his native
county of Clare in Parliament, with only an interval of a
few months, since 1857. In 189, Colonel White, M.P.
for Kidderminster, was elected in opposition to Mr. Calcutt,
but soon after unseated on the ground of bribery. Mr.
Calcutt was a consistent Liberal, and never missed an op-
portunity of giving support to all measures calculated to
advance the Liberal interest. He was a favourite in the
how., and highly esteemed by all who knew him. He was
in the 44th year of his age, and only a few months ago was
received into the Catholic church by the Bishop of South-
wark.

ourtove.n teen
OLD LIMOGES ENAMELS.--Se
d Pierre Ray..
the enamels of Limoges, by Jean C pieces of
mond, the property of a lady in whose fanliaill
they had been
many years, were yesterday sold by alu2cat:an
plates sold
Foster at their Gallery in Pall•mall. lon by Messrs.
for £314; 4 round dishes (8 inches in diameter), £l4O
a salver the very large sum of - £4(10. se fine a set ) and
---"e not
been seen at an auction for many years.
THE FRENCH FIASCO AT Ni ADAGA SCAR—a,
summarised by the Saturday Review.—M. Lun,
bert, an enterprising Frenchman, had undertaken to do for
Madagascar what M. Lessees had neatly done for Egypt
He had obtained concessions which would have enabled
him, under pretence of establishing various beneficial public
works, to gain a foothold fur French influence. This of
itself was disgusting enough to the councillors of ola
Queen Ranavarola, who had waged uncompromising war
with foreign ideas. But, to make the insult as galling as pos-
sible, this adventurous Frenchman was decorated with the
title of Duke of Emerina. The feelings of that outraged
province may be conceived by imagining the condition of
mind into which the metropolitan boroughs would have
been
threw, if _
cial favour Mr. Train had been taken into the spo-
of the Queen, and had been created Duke of
Lambeth I
Mr. Lavoie
tors of the 54,4 E' Farley, one of the managing direc-
tistioal Society of Lyndon,
d'Egypte, Fellow of the Sta-
y upon Turkey
handon, and author of several well-known
of the Institut Egyp' ti been unanimously elected a member
ell of Alexandria.