The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-10 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.

Lessee. Mr. B. Webster ; Directress, Madame Celeste.
The popular Comedian, Mr. Wright, having recovered from his in-
disposition, will appear This Evening,
Enormous success of the Yankee Co
Gmedian, Mr. Josh Silsbee.
T EVENI,
Will be performed the comic Drama, entitled THE FOREST
ROSE! and the YANXEE PLOUGHBOY. Jonathan Ploughboy,
mr. J. susbee. Bellamy, Mr. Worrell ; Harriet Miller, Miss Col-
, Mr. Wright.
line; Sally Forest, Miss E. Chaplin.
After which MY PRECIOUS BETSY. Mr. Bobtail
T• conclude with a new and original Christmas Tale, called LIT-
TLE RED RIDING HOOD. Wolfram, Baron of Burliburg (sur-
named the Wolf of Biberich), Mr. Paul Bedford ; Scraggennehn
$ Mr.
Butler ; Trndohen (commonly called Little Red Riding Hood), miss
'Cathleen Vitzwilliarn.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S TILEA, rRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Coder the Management° f Mr. C. Koala.
THIS EVENING,
Shakespere's In ay of TWELFTH NIGHT, as acted at Windsor
Castle, by Royal Command. Characters by Messrs. Bartley, Keeley,
Harley, Ryder. Meadows, J. Vining; Cathcart, Wheatleigh, Miss
Murray, Mrs. Keeley, and Mrs. C. Kean.
With a new grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN
BILLY TA.YLOR ; or, The Flying Dutchman and the King of Ra-
ritongo. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack • Clown, Mr. Flexmore ; Panta-
loon, Mr. Paulo; q
—Prite, Mr. Le Barr' ; and Columbine, Miss Carlotta
Leclercq.
envate Boxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr.
Ussishigham ; of whom also p
Oxford-street, from Eleven till Five o'clock
laces may he taken at the Dos-office,

ruNCIFS PLAYHOUSE A-ND STRARD THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. W. R. COPELAND
,Liverpool.
_ The Warmest Theatre in London.
TH s EVENT N(
will be perfonned THE TWELVE LABOURS OF HERCULES.
After which, MY SISTER FROM INDIA..
be followed by a new Chinese burlesque, called THE MANDI-
- DA.I.T.GHTER or, Willow Pattern Plate. Characters by
esTA. J. Reeve, Rogers. Romer, Attwood, Hudspeth ; Mesdames
Ma
with a Far ce, 11, Sanders, Bell, Eglinton, and Maskell.
:T&nciude entitled THE FIFTH OF NOTEM-
ut y Messrs. Tilbury, Rogers, Hudspeth, Misses Saunders and
Me:ll4n sof admission are arranged as follow :—Orchestra stalls,
cis; toixesceoirst circle). es.; (second circle), 23, ; is.
Dcors to be opened at Halt-psut S.a,
and the performances to
so mmence at Seven prechlel.T.
A second price will be taken to the Boxes only at *Mint o'clock
—lirst circle, 25.; second circle, is.
Private Boxes One Guinea and a Balt each,
stage kiguager, lir. E. Stirling.

TO CORRESPONDENTS
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ticated by the name and address of the writer.
Rejected communications cannot be returned.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1852

Broadlands must before long release from retire-
ment the foremost statesman of England, the neces-
sities of the time not merely restoring him to the
direction of the Foreign Department of the Govern-
ment, but reposing in his hands the responsibility of
conducting the entire affairs of the Administration.
These are no idle hopes or illusory anticipations.
They are inevitable deductions from the events that
have already transpired. That the GREY-RUSSELL
Cabinet in its present, or even in a modified form, can
survive much longer is an idea now universally scouted
as preposterous. The people are sick of it. They
have by this time had enough and more than enough
of the ruling Ministry. They have learnt again by a
bitter and most tedious experience the truth of the
saying, that the Whigs are always best in Opposition.
Thereupon they have arrived at that stage in their
alternations of hope and despair when the accession
even of the Tories to power would be almost prefer-
able to the perpetuation of the existing Government,
Happily such an alternative is by no means forced
upon the nation under these circumstances. Instead
of seeing
themselves driven into the arms of the old
Conservatives, or of the obsolete sticklers for Protec-
tion, the people
recognise the possibility, and not
only the possibility, but the certainty (with a little
show of resolution on their
the restoration tooffice
a t Y
lifeioti CV,
sacoCuOntltr courageous, an experienced, a of a liberal, an enlightened,
own part) of witnessing
chi-
valric administratorrandthis time not simply as Foreign Secretary, but as
Leader of a new Administration.
Inspired by these
si
ands
T orc a,
prospects, we look with confidence to the community
for that bold and explicit d •ec aration of its wishes
which is alone required as the signal
for this remark-
able change in her MAJESTY'S Government. Imme-
diately the population has pronounced, beyond
all further doubt, the nature of its desires and
the tendency of its aspirations, Lord I
• OLIN
RUSSELL must forthwith retire from his official resi-
dence in Downing-street, making way for a states-
man in every respect more suited to the age, and
more qualified to deal in a valiant and magnanimous
manner with the difficulties affecting the State, whe-
ther of an external or internal character.
It is remarkable that every successive attempt
made within the last fortnight by the PRIMR MINISTER
with a view to strengthen his tottering and worn-out
Administration has revealed on his part a retrogres-
sive tendency more decided than even those most
suspicious of his policy could have anticipated. His
peremptory and abrupt dismissal of Lord rALIIERS-
TON from the Foreign-office, it can never be for-
gotton, was hailed with undisguised expressions of
delight at Vienna, according admirably, as it did
with the secret and ulterior designs of the Cabi-
net of Prince SCHWARThENEURG. While gratifying
the councils of the Red EMPEROR, however, and while
imparting profound sentiments of pleasure to his
imperial master, the AUTOCRAT, Lord JOHN RUSSELL
should have remembered that he was in the most
effectual manner, at the same time, estranging himself
from his quondam admirers, insulting them, as be
bag unqaestionebly done, by his rupture with their
favourite statesman. Circumstances of another kind
have corroborated the accuracy of cur first assertions

in reference to the causes of this recent movement in incurring such an expense, as " steam-vessels were
the Administration. It has been demonstrated be- very seldom burnt." We have also seen the
yond all denial, for example, that one of the almost magical effects of PHILLIPS' patent
proximate reasons for the removal of Lord PALMER'S. fire annihilator, and yet we do not find
TON from the Cabinet was the fact of his avowed that anything of the kind was prepared
sympathy for the Hungarians ; and that another was to meet the contingency whenever it might
his clearly expressed approval of the memorable arise. Surely, the proprietors of steam-packets,
coup cloth of the 2d of December. The existence of and, indeed, of all other vessels taking pas-
these particular opinions, in the judgment of the late sengers, should be compelled to adopt every possible
Foreign Secretary, we ourselves all along main- precaution against such terrible calamities.
tained. We protested, from the first, that such But there is another cause to which, more than any
were the real sentiments entertained upon these other, the calamity may be ascribed, viz., the absurd
vitally important subjects by Lord PALMERSTON. regulation of the Government, forbidding the use of
We recognised the truth that such must inevitably Trams vessels to the various mail contract companies,
prove the case on investigation, aware that the reality and thus imposing not only an immense
of our convictions upon this head could alone render additional expense, but much greater danger of loss.
consistent the whole of his bold and liberal policy of The Select Committee of the House of Commons
foreign government. Recent disclosures have verified reported most strongly last session on the
the assertions then made in our columns, and have decided advantage of Iron over wood in the
shown beyond the gainsaying of a very large section construction of vessels fitted for the packet service,
of the so-called Liberal party in England, that such more especially, to those to which the screw propeller
".
were actually the views taken in regard to France is applied ; but still "My Lords persist with
and in regard to Austria, in regard to Louis KOSSUTH dogged obstinacy in their old course, " seeing no
and in regard to Louis NAPOLEON, by the great reason to alter their opinion," although its folly and
English statesman who for so many years had been absurdity has been exposed by many eminent prac-
the presiding genius of the Foreign Department. tical and scientific men. We trust that the
Aware of these facts, the Liberals throughout Legislature will see to this matter early in the ensu-
England would do well to review their past opinions ing session. All must not be sacrificed to the crotchets
upon subjects intimately connected with the cause of her MaJEsTvs Commissioners for executing the
of liberalism in Great Britain, and with the office of Lord High Admiral in England.
interests of civilization throughout Europe—subjects
upon which they have unhappily, within the last few
weeks, allowed their minds to be darkened by the
evil influences of impassioned abuse and ill-considered
misrepresentation. Let those who have thus been
carried away in this miserable torrent of anti-Bona-
partist vituperations—pause, and consider well the
fact, that Louis NAPOLEON'S conduct has met with
the approval of a liberal and truly patriotic statesman
like Viscount PALMERSTON. Let them consider,
moreover, whether it would not be for the ad-
vantage of society throughout Christendom, to wit-
ness a cordial alliance, upon the principles of real
liberty, of our own with the Republican Govern-
ments of France and of the United States—
an alliance that would disarm the German
iespots of their power in obeying their lord
paramount, the Russian AUTOCRAT—an alliance
that would bind Louis NAPOLEON, effectually bind
him, to a perseverance in the glorious cause he
has inaugurated by the re-establishment of universal
suffrage and the restoration of vote by ballot—an
alliance that would associate the greatest military na-
tion on the continent with the great Anglo-Saxon
race scattered throughout the old world and the new,
established more particularly in England and in
America—an alliance, moreover, such as is alone
practicable on the restoration to office of the late
Foreign Secretary, in the construction of a new
Liberal Cabinet presided over by Viscount PAL,

LATEST FROM PARIS.

(BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.)
PARIS, SATURDAY MORNING, 9 A.M.
MM. Victor Hugo, Cbarras, Bac, De Flotte, and
sixty-two ex-representatives of the Mountain, are
banished from France, Algeria, and the colonies.
MM. Duvergier de llsuranne, Generals Lamori-
ciere, Changarnier, Bedeau, Thiers, Girardin, and
twelve others, are temporarily removed from France
and Algeria for reasons of public security.—Times.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
enerals CIIANGARNIER, LAMORICIERE, BEDEAU,
and their companions in captivity at Ham, have been
conducted to the frontier and set at liberty, with in-
junctions not to return to France.
The PRESIDENT intends to review the whole of the
garrison of Paris on the 22d.
The Constztutionnel says We think we may
take upon ourselves to announce that the Constitu-
tion will be promulgated between the 15th and 20th
instant. It would have been done sooner, but that
the Government wished at the same time to publish
such of the organic laws 23 are of the most im-
portance."
The Patrie publishes the following extraordinary
threat:—

" The race of lunatics and ungrateful persons, which
will never fail
in France, return to their factious
habits. The ground of the press and the tribune,
which is wanting to their opposition, they supply by
that of the salons, and turning against the band which
has saved them, and which they have blessed, they go
so far as to deny the darsger which has been averted,
to have the right of contesting the benefit. The old
parties are not only oblivious, and incorrigible, but
they risk, in their rashness, to weary the moderation
of the Executive power, and to constrain
„it to secure
the success of its work of organization of modern
society and French democracy, by measures of vigour
and exception, which are as yet far from its thoughts.''
A military commission has been established in the
Jura, to investigate the charges against the persons
concerned in the recent insurrection in that depart.
ment. Twelve inhabitants of Arbois have just been
arrested. Extensive arrests have also been made in
other departments.
We read in a Paris letter in the Independence
of Brussels :—" The PRESIDENT Of the spublic
denies to all those admitted to his confilence,
that there is any truth in the rumours of
war generally spread, and which to a cer-
tain extent derived credit faom a phrase of
General SAINT ARNAUD, relative to a possible
change in the frontiers in the circular on the
modifications in military divisions. It is not in ex-
tending the frontiers that the PRESIDENT places his
ambition ; but, if I am correctly informed, it is in
the relief of the suffering classes, in establishments
of public utility, in the organization of mortgage
credits, and in the extinction of usury, &c. —Another
letter from Paris asserts, that all the fraternal associa-
tions of workmen are to be dissolved, as many of them
have, iu violation of their statutes, occupied them-
selves with politics. The same letter states that the
National Quards are also to be dissolved.
A Brussels journal states that M. TRIERS has rented
the furnished house of DI. GALLAIT, in that city.
The Gazette de France says—" Some time back
there was an idea of establishing an immense electric
lighthouse on some lofty part of the capital, in place
of the gas-lights. We understand that this plan is
about to be carried into execution, and that already
preparations have been commenced for the purpose
on the top of the Tower St. Jacques-la-Boucherie."
The Opinion Publique has been suppressed.
M. DUPIN was present at the sitting of the French
Academy on Thursdy.
The following are the principal details of the
weekly Bank account :
Specie in Paris ••• F. 459,136,982
Ditto branches ••• ••• 105,668,664
Paris portfolio 58,954,037
Ditto branches ••• 75,975,815
Bank-notes in circulation 470.092,200
Ditto branches ••• ... 129,216,150
Credit to Treasury 57,825 863
Accounts current .• • 126,919,920
Ditto branches ••• •.• 26,202,735
Specie has declined about U million in Paris, and
better than li million in the departments ; the port-
folio has increased 3i millions, and in the depart-
iCitmyillions. The credit
ments million. There is a slight increase in the
millions. The accounts
and in the depart-
BmtoaenTn
current, have increased 91 millions in the city, and
4 millions in the departments.
I et; -e naa
son
ut circulationeirnyc rheatiss
ienoc rf esabsi
one
ud
tthe;
The Bourse was dull, with little business doing. The
Five per Cents. opened at 1051. 50c., and closed at
the same price for the end of the month. The Three
per Cents. closed at 711. 60c.; Orleans Railroad Shares,
1,1451.; Rouen, 7301.; Havre, 295 f•; Great Northern,
597 f. 50c.; Avignon, 250 f.; Vierzon, 527 f. 50c.; Basle,
2201.; Bordeaux, 4471. 501.; Paris and Strasburg, 4SOf.;
Tours and Nantes, 3301.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCILUCGE, Aff. 9.
Boulogne and Amiens, 1114—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 2114—Dutch Rhenish, 35,_
-4 Luxembourg, 3%
—Namur and Liege, ei—Northera of France, 20—Orleans
and Bordeaux, 9—Paris and Rouen, 2814—Paris and Stras-
bourg, 1711—Rouen and Havre, 111i=
/4—Sambre and Meuse,
414—Tours and Nantes. 93ii.

MERSTON.

Although several days have elapsed since the an-
nouncement of the destruction of thejill-fated Amazon,
and the melancholy loss of life on that fearful oc-
currence, the public excitement has not in any
degree abated. The utmost anxiety is felt for
further intelligence on the subject. Hope is still
entertained, almost against hope, that intelligence may
yet be received of the safety of others of the pas-
sengers and crew. The almost miraculous preserva-
tion of the 26 persons whose names we were enabled
to publish yesterday was wholly unexpected, and as
some of the boats are yet unaccounted fur,
it is at least possible that others may have been
rescued from the imminent peril in which they were
involved, although no account has reached, or fur
some time may reach, our shores thereof. Many
vessels were probably within sight of the awful con-
flagration, all of which would necessarily be attracted
to the spot. Not only the boats that may have, got
clear, but even fragments of the wreck, each
supporting some of the unfortunate sufferers,
may have been picked up by ships bound
to distant ports. It was but recently
that the entire crow of a brig .that had been run
down in the North Sea were restored to their friends,
who had for many months mourned them as dead.
We may yet have similar tidings with regard to some
of those who had embarked on board the Amazon.
That such may be the case will be fervently desired
by every one possessed of the ordinary feelings of hu-
manity. We cannot, however, conceal from ourselves
that such a contingency is so exceedingly remote,
that scarcely any reasonable expectation can be en-
tertained by the sorrowing relatives.
Next to the interest felt respecting the fate
of those yet unaccounted for, an intense desire is
felt to have the cause of the heartrending accident
clearly and distinctly ascertained, not merely from idle
curiosity, but that adequate means may be adopted
to prevent the possibility of similar catastrophes for
the future. We should endeavour to profit by our
dearly-bought experience, that the painful lesson
should not be altogether thrown away. Nothing
certain is as yet known on this point. A variety of
rumours have been put forward, but they are at leas t
mere guesses, on which no reliance can be placed.
Tha investigation held on Thursday by the Court of
Directors threw but little light on the interesting
subject. The perfect efficiency of the ship herself
and of her machinery, was clearly established.
The high state of discipline of the entire ship's com-
pany from the highest to the lowest on board—the
crew, in fact, consisting of picked and carefully
selected men—was so well known, that it scarcely
required the evidence that was obtained to show that
it could not be ascribed to any misconduct on
their part. Everything that was elicited tended to
exonerate every individual on board from any degree
of blame ; but the actual cause of the outbreak is still
unknown. Some additional information may,
however be obtained from those who were
saved by the Gertruida. We rejoice to find
the name of Mr. JACOB ALLEN, foreman of Messrs.
SEAWARD and Carnn, the makers of the engines,
among the number. As Mr. ALLEN is an exceed-
ingly intelligent person, as may be easily con-
ceived from the responsible situation which
he held, and as he was specially deputed
to watch the working of the machinery
during the voyage, we may look forward to receiv-
ing a sound and trustworthy opinion, which, although
it may not be conclusive, may yet act as a quietus to
many of the absurd rumours that have been put
forward.

There are some matters, however, which are
already placed in the clearest point of view. 'We
have already alluded to the state in which the boats
were stowed away, so as to be scarcely available dur-
ing the emergency. We have it on unimpeachable
authority—from Mr. ROBERT NEILSON, one of the
rescued passengers—that " there was ample boat ac-
commodation, and of first-rate quality, to have saved
all hands." He says—" There were two of WHITE'S
life-boats on the platforms behind the paddle-boxes,
capable of holding thirty-five men each, but
they were so stowed away as to render it diffi-
cult for any ship's company to have lowered
them under ten minutes each, even in broad day-
light ; two other life-boats, in one of which we
were saved, which would carry safely twenty-five
men each; a mail boat, pinnace, and cutter, twenty
men each; a gig, fifteen men; and the dingy. Seven of
these at least, and perhaps the gig, if well managed,
would have lived through that night if proper crews
had been appropriated to each, so as to lower
y
far as I can judge, only one survived the wreck."
In this opinion Mr. NEILSON was happily mistaken:;
et of all these, as
There is nothweinreg,
andtwo tabkometscharge of them ;
Dutchhis assertion gal l ot.
" that the two best life-boats might have been suffi-
bcyonttrbaedict
phiocwkeedveru,pto
ciently secured, and more available when wanted." We
cal
ls t
trust that the attention of the Board of Trade may be
directed to this subject. If vessels are bound by Act
of Parliament to carry a certain number of boats, it
should surely
intervening.provid
ed that
those boats could
be resorted to by crew or passengers, without fatal
delays or difficulties
e
Another point that should be attended to is, that
adequate means for extinguishing any casual fire
should be ready at hand at a moment's notice. No
" penny Wise end pound foolish" be
economy should
suffered to interpose where the lives of so many of
our fellow•creatures may be involved in the re-
sult. We are told that a plan was submitted
to the directors which would unquestionably
have saved the vessel, cargo, passengers, and
crew, but that as it would cost something
approaching to 2001., the directors declined

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