The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-25 00:00:00

This being Ash-Wednesday, the Theatres will be closed.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
TO-MORROW
Will be produced the Opera of FRA DIAVOLO. Fra Dlavolo,
Dir. Sims Reeves ; Lord Alloash, Mr. Whitworth ; LOTeIIZO, Mr.
Xanvers; Giacomo, Mr. Dehaga ; Zerlina. Mrs. Sims Reeves; Lady
Alloash, Mira P. Horton.
To conclude with a new Ballet Fantastique, entitled THE STAR
OF THE RHINE ; or, The Genius of Dancing. Starbeam, Madlle.
Plunkett; Miller (a young Peasant), M. Durand.
Box-ottice open daily from 10 to 4.
Stage Manager, M M. MORTON.
The whole under the management of
Mr. BUNN, LESSEE.

TMKATRE iiOYAL. HAYMARKET.
Mr. B Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton.
TO-MORROW
Will be performed WOMAN'S HEART. The Marquis of Albritzzi,
Mr. Vandenhoff ; Anglolo, Mr. Barry Sulivan ; the Lady Giulia,
Miss A. Vining; IsAina, Miss Vandenhoff.
To conclude with THE BEOGAR's OPERA. Captain Macheath,
Mr. W. Harrison ; Mat-o'-the-Mint, Mr. Weiss; Filch, '-`,lr. Buck-
atone ; Polly Meacham, Miss Louisa. Tyne ; Lucy Lockit, Mrs. Fitz-
william.

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THEA'CRE ROYAL, A.DELPHI.
Lessee, r. B. W eb•der ; Directress, Madame Celeste.
TO-MOR.B.AV
tul:owed by the Comedy of PAW. PRY. Colonel Hardy,
11r. Emery ; Paul I'ry, WrliTtv.; Grasp, Nfr. 0. Smith; Mr.
Willis, Mr. ; Phcebe, Miss Woo:gar ; Eliz t, Miss E. ChapliP.
n.
After which A LEGHOItN BONNET. Characters by 3lessrs.
Pedford, Wright, Worr Mks E. Harding, and Miss Courteney.
1 conclude with a new and original Christmas Tale, called LIT-
TLE, RE BIDI.NG 11000. Wolfram, Baron of Burliburg (aur-
named the Wolf of Bil)ericli). Mr. Paul Bedford ; Scraggenhema,
But er ; Trudchen (commonly called Little Bed Riding Hood), Miss
Kathleen Fitzwilliam.

Ii•RiNCILSS'S THEA fßkl, OXLYOIID-rITEEST:
qtr. C. ',Lean
For Benefit of Mr. Flezmore.
TO- M 0 RBO NV,
Will he produced (2d time) a dramatic Romance, in three acts
(adapted from th_. French), etaitled the CORSICAN isROTHERS.
Principal characters by Jlessrs. C. Kean, A. Wigan, Ryder, Addison,
J. Vining, Meadows, Cathcart, F. Cooke, Everett, and Wheatleigh ;
;Misses Phillips, Murray, Robertson, Vivash, Daly, and C. Leclercq.
after which a Ballet, in which Madlle. Anriol will appear.
With a new grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN
BILL P TA.YLOR ; or, The flying Dutchman and the King of Ra-
rttongo. Harlequin. Mr. Co.mack ; Clown, Mr. Flexmore; Panta-
loon, Mr. Paulo; and Columbine, 2ILSS Carlotta Leclercq.

11,0•YAL LYCJi,;UNI
Under the Illanworner, -44darhu Ve6tris.
TO-MORROW
woo ec .pertormed
TIM GAME OF SPECULATION. Principal characters by
Messrs. C. MAthews,.F. Matthavts, R. Rozby, B. Baker ; Airs. C.
Horn, and Miss M. Oliver.

To zoncant:e with

A new and origuial Fairy Extravaganza, by J. R. Planche, Esq.,
entitled THE PRINCE OF HAPPY LAND ; or, The Fawn in the
Forest. Characters by Madame Vestrls, Miss St. George, Miss
Lanza, Miss Martindale, Miss Grove, Miss Ellis, Miss Rosins Wright,
Me;ars. F. Matthews, it. Baker, Suter, llorucastle, Butler, and
Vernon.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
and ~.nrwer. W. rarren.
TO-MORROW
WE be performed THE ADVOCATE AND HIS DAUGHTER.
After which MATRIMONIAL, &c., &c., in which Messrs. Comp-
ton, Shalders, G. Cooke, Mesdames Phillips and Bartlett will appear
To conclude with RED II.UFUS ; or, Harlequin Fact, Fiction, and
Yawl'. Red Rufus, Mr. Shalders ; Clown, Mr. Edwards; Harlequin,
bar.. Forrest ; Pantaloon, Mr. Tanner; Columbine, Miss Lees.

A.S•r LE 1":3 t.UYAL A.RIP ILEA): ts.c.
Uhder tee el hoz Majesty and his Roya: Ilighneal
Yr+ncc APktit.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
The most successful and pnpniar Theatre in London.
TO-MORROW
Will be performed a Magnificent Spectacle, entitled BLUE
BEARD ; or, Female Curiosity, in which will be introduced a pair of
highly-trained Elephants, male and female, allowed to be the most
docile pair ever brought into Europe.
Witt, etatty's Inimitable Scenes of the Arena, combining talent
of the highest order, both Native and Foi eign.
To conclude with 'THE MAGIC BOX.
Tictets to be bad at the !fox-office 'ruin Eleven till Four daily.
Stage Manager. Mr. T. Tbomrson.

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FEBRUARY, 1852.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRI1)GE.
Tms
--54orninz, 4 min. alter 5 I Evening 19 min after 5
lAnv—wwning 3 min, after 5 , Evening 53 min after 5

TkiE WEA'riirEit --SUN ONFICE, FEBRUARY 25.
TaxEmomi.-vas, cn Fri» skilLux.
38 glied eine() noon yebterday•
31 —lowest thin mornirg and during the night.
40 —this day, at alien.

B&D.omicras, 30.39.
WIND N.N.E.—moderate breeze and fine sunshiny weather.

DAILY WE AT HF, R TABLE.

State of the Wind and Weather 1;t each of the fellow ins
yesterday
' ace- at at Nine o'clock
p a,e,. morning.—The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
PLimourrs—Wind E., strong breeze—partially
tusroGs—Wind N. E.,_fresla
strong
cloudy.
rtially cloudy.
breeze—cloudless.
TO
SOUTHANYTON—Wind N.E.,
FOLSESNF,--'Wind N.E., fresh breeze—partially cloudy.
—Wind N.E., hard wind
Ttr:rnitMciz—Partially cloudy.tiallycloudy.
GREENWICH—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—. pa.,
STILOOD--.Wind E-, strong breeze—partially cloudy.
Bwnspots--Wind .N • E., gentle breeze—partially
cloudy.
LEIGHTON--Wind N.E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
entle breeze_partiall
Cot ESTEEM N.E., hard wind—partially cloudy._
cloudy.
cammuixiz_wirld N.E. g,„,
cloudy.
YARMOUTH—Wind E., heavy gale—cloudy, '
DliumiGium— Wind S.
strong breeze—partially
laces indicate the state of
'The returns from the following p
M morning at
the wind and weather on onday tuns
o'clock :—.
LLMERICK—Wind S. E., calm—overcast.
LEIGHTON—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—cloudleas.
Brasuscsaam—Wind N.E., calm—foggy
Hourakan—Calm—frost.
LANCASTER—Wind N.E., calm—foggy
WarrnY—Wind S., gentle breeze—hard
fr froost
st.
DAELENGTON—Nrind W., gentle breeze—
SHAr—Wind E., calm—hard frost.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean daily
reading of the barometer was above 30 in. on Sunday, Friday,
and Saturday, and the mean of the week was 29.871 in.
The mean daily temperature wail above the average of corre-
sponding days in ten years on the first four days, and below
it on the last three. On I uesday the mean temperature rose
to 51.1°, and on Friday it fell to 31.9°, which is snore than
7Q below the average. The mean temperature of the week
was 39.8°. In the former part of the week the wind blew
from the west, and in the latter from the north.

41.
bienimat
xtur,
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1852.

A vocabulary of names is about as much informa-
tion as we shall obtain before Friday evening, in re-
ference to the Protectionist Administration, or, in
other words, the Provisional Goverment. According
to the latest an!! most reliable intelligence we have
been able to collect together, the Earl of DERBY has
not only Wiled up almost every Ministerial depart-
ment, but distributed even the majority of the Court
dig oitks among the more prominent, or at any rate
am„ g tar, more importunate of his political followen.
1.1, has filled up he lisp net only of the Ministry,
but of the Howehold. There is promptitude in
all this, but we fear there is likewise very

THE SUN,

considerable precipitation. It is easy enough, of
course, to nominate with perfect, safety to England

the Duke of MoNTßosz as Lord Steward ; yet a very

different matter, and one involving remarkable risk
in regard to a country so situated as Ireland, to ele-
vate the Earl of EGLINTON summarily and unex-
pectedly to the responsible post of Lord-Lieutenant.
The new Prime Minister may, without jeopardizing
the interests of the nation, appoint as Lords of the
Bedchamber three noblemen such as the Earl of
MORTON, 3S Viscount HAWARDEN, and as Baron
POLWARTH, But we cannot conceive that it is
otherwise than most hazardous to the wel-
fare of the community, to the stability of the
empire, and to the integrity of the Constitution to
proclaim such statesmen (?) es Mr. WALroLe, as Sir
JOHN PAILINGTON, and the Earl of MALMESBURY,
the three Secretaries of State presiding respectively
over the Home, Colonial, and Foreign Department.
Those three seats in the Cabinet are the most, or nearly
the most, important even under ordinary circum-
stances, and yet they are the identical ones which
the Earl of DERBY has yielded up to the three most
incompetent men in his Administration. Because
Earl GREY had by his intemperate and intermeddling
policy rendered his name detestable to the vast propor-
tion of the population, that is surely not sufficient reason
why a person whose abilities have hitherto proved
only adequate for the duties of a county magis-
tracy should be thus rashly announced as his suc-
cessor. The blundering impetuosity of Earl GREY
may have been bad enough for the nation, but we
don't know that it will be much better off with the
incapacity and inexperience of Sir Jour; PAILINGTON.
Neither can we credit for an instant that the people
of England will be to any extraordinary extent
gratified by the filling up of the office
vacated by Sir GEORGE GREY with such
en ono as Mr. WALPOLE—a very respectable lawyer,
no doubt, and one who has made a few tolerably
good speEches in the House of Commons, but by no
means qualified to assume at once, and without any
preliminary practice in administrative labours, the
high and difficult position of Home Secretary. Like
DOOBEURY, be may be " a good fellow enough, go to;
and as pretty a piece of flesh as in all England, and
one who bath had losses," and •so forth, ad infinitum,
but all that is far from arguing that he has
the capacity, the aptitude, and the experience for
conducting the affairs of our Home Government.
Mr. WALPOLE may be " a very good man no doubt,"
but at the same time a very sorry administrator.
Then there is the Earl of MALMESBURY, as Foreign
Secretary ! As if Earl GRANVILLE was not suffi-
ciently unsatisfactory to the nation as a successor to
the moat gifted statesman of our ege, we must needs
be dismayed by observing the name of the Earl
GRANVILLE followed by that of the Earl of
MALMESBURY. It must nevertheless be borne in re-
collection (while we venture to express our profound
chagrin at the last-mentioned selection) that the Earl
of DERBY at the very outset of his efforts to con-
struct his present Cabinet made overtures to Lord
PALMERSTON, placing the seals of the Foreign-office
within reach of his re-acceptance. Naturally, we
might even add necessarily, the offer was at once re-
jected by the Noble Lord the Member for
Tiverton ; but the circumstance of its having
been actually made exonerates the Earl of
DERBY in some measure from the blame attaching
to him by reason of his choice of the Earl of
MALMESBURY, while it reveals a fact at the present
moment of very extraordinary importance, and one
which we would here earnestly commend to the
general consideration. Almost immediately after
the Earl of DERBY'S interview with her MAJESTY, on
Sunday, the overtures already referred to were made,
thereby showing that, notwithstanding recent
events, there exists no insuperable obstacle
whatever to the reinstatement in office of
Viscount PALMERSTON. Consequently, although
the Noble Lord declined, as above-mentioned, re-
suming his conduct of our foreign policy, there ma-
nifestly remains no very formidable obstacle in the
way of his return to the Ministerial apartments in
Downing-street. Under any other statesman it is
not likely that Lord PaLmeaszox will henceforth
consent to act. By consenting to take office other-
wise than as himself the leader of the Government
he would be abdicating the power at present
reposing in his hands—that of a political
chieftainship such as cannot long admit of
the existence of a successful competitor.
Biding his time, therefore, the late Foreign Secre-
tary has wisely refrained from yielding to the
blandishments of the head of the Provisional
Government.

Among the subordinate, but still important ap-
pointments recently filled up by the Earl of DERBY,
there are three that must be allowed to be especially
noticeable—that of Mr. BERESFORD as Secretary at
War, a post just now of peculiar responsibility; that
of Lord NAAS as Secretary for Ireland, as
a reward, we presume, for his unsuccessful onslaught
on the Earl of CLARENDON'S Administration; and that
of Mr. AUGUSTUS STAFFORD as Secretary to the Ad-
miralty, this being not the only boon in the way of
place and power apportioned among the interesting
" stars" of YOUNG ENGLAND. Ia reference to the
last mentioned Party—once so united, now so scat-
tered and almost indistinguishable—it may be ob-
served that the Honourable GEORGE SYDNEY SMYTHE
is awaiting with serenity and confidence the
hour which must inevitably bring him into
office with the Peelites—the Coming Men as asso-
ciated with Lord PALMERSTON—whiIe his quondam
asseciates, Lord JOHN MANNERS, Mr. AUGUSTUS
STAFFORD, and Mr. BENJAMIN DISRAELI are re-
specively rejoicing in official honours as Commis-
sioner of Woods and Forests, as Secretary to the
Admiralty, and as Chancellor of the Exchequer. A
temporary cloud eclipses the genius of Coningsby,
while that of its gifted and versatile author is
luxuriating in the compilation of a Budget, in the
ringing changes of £. s. d , and in the other delightful
day-dreares indulged iu by the financier. It is thus
with the leaven of Young England that the Earl of
DERBY is sagaciously endeavouring to ferment at least
a semblance of vitality among the effete and obsolete
upholders of Toryism and Protection, out of whose
ranks he is compelled by a dire necessity to select
the principal members of his Government. The vivi-
fying influences of Young England, however,
and the genius even of its leader Mr. DISRAELI,
must fail in regard to any Cabinet in
which such a man as the Earl of MALMESBURY
is Foreign Secretary, such a man as Mr. WALPOLE
is Home Secretary, and such a man as Sir JOHN
PAKINGTON is Colonial Secretary. In those three
appointments alone, if nowhere else, we recognise the
germs of the dissolution which, in the interval of a
very few months, must necessarily and unavoidably
descend upon the heads of the Protectionist Go-
vernment.

Whatever may be said of the other Ministerial ar-
rangements, we are hap
pointments both for Elpyg l
at on d s a
ayn tdh afto
rt h
Ie r
el
leagnadl ,
aaPre
a-
perfectly unexception bnl
expected that the e. It was, of course, to be
would fill up the important members of the new Government
vacant by the recent r
legal offices rendered
whose political opinions resignations with gentlemen
all that could fairly be reancitrdeedd with their own ;
on the part of the
community was that the parties
selected
fully qualified for the efficientdischarge harge of
should be
the duties confided to their
hands—that
the public service should not suffer through
the incapacity of the appointees. So lo
as the political and judicial functions of the Lordag
Chancellorship-are united, so long as the occupant
must necessarily assume an influential Position in
the
Cabinet, so long must his feelings and wishes be in
accordance with those of the Premier. The same may
be said of the law officers of the Crown—the Attorney
1 and Solicitor .Generals. They have to advocate, and
in many cases, to originate the Government measures
—to report on matters under consideration, and in
every respect identify themselves with the party
in power. The simple fact that such offices
are always changed with the in-coming Ministry
Picientl
su . yestablishes the accuracy of our assertion,
aud, as we have already stated, provided political
nepotism be not exercised in favour of incompetent
persons, no just complaint can be preferred on the
part of " the many."
1); is, however, unnecrnslry to seek a favourable
point of view from which to regard the legal aopoint-
rneLts. we nt;ed no urge that the new Lord C'w!..-1-
ce,llor, Attorney-General, and Solicitor-General,

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should concur with their colleagues in the line of
policy about to be pursued. We can say that, look-
ing merely to the learning, experience, professional
standing, and unquestionable abilities of the gentle-
men nominated, no persons better qualified or in
every respect (non•political) fitted for their respective
offices could be appointed.
Highest in position and place is Sir EDWARD
SUGDEN, who is to ascend the woolsack, having pre-
viously been called to the House of Lords. Probably
no man in the United Kingdom could be found of
more profound legal knowledge, more extraordinary
acuteness in unravelling the tangled thread of plead-
ings and proofs in equity, picking out the infinite-
simal particles of truth from the quantity of chaff
with which it was encumbered, and applying his
almost miraculous lore to the due consideration of
the facts thus ascertained. Perhaps, as an
equity judge, none of his great predecessors in office
were in any way more competent than Sir EDWARD
SUGDEN. This is not merely a matter of conjecture.
He has already given unequivocal and indisputable
proofs of his high qualifications when he held the
great seals of office in Ireland in 1834, and again
from .1841 to 1846.

But it may be said something more is required at
the hands of a Lord Chancellor than a mere know-
ledge of law, and a power of applying that
knowledge to the cases on which he is about
to adjudicate. Many alterations of great mag-
nitude and of the most vital importance to

litigants, both in courts of equity and common law
have for some time been under consideration ; and
it is essential that the most exalted judge of the
land, whose opinions and sentiments will be naturally
looked to with profound respect, which must ma-
terially influence the ultimate result, should be a man
of enlarged and comprehensive mind, not wedded to
useless forms, or disposed to sacrifice justice to tech-
nicalities. Granted. We fully coincide in the
opinion ; and it is one of the chief reasons that in-
duces us to hail the appointment of Sir EDWARD
SUGDEN with pleasure. He has always exhibited
the strongest evidence of his anxiety to get
rid of abuses. When re-appointed to office in
1841, he directed all his energies to expediting the
business and diminishing the expenses of Chancery
proceedings. The rules and orders of the Irish
Court of Chancery, promulgated in 1842, remain
"monumentum are perennius," an unanswerable proof
of his zeal, activity, and efficiency in the cause of
Chancery reform. He taxed bis powers to the utmost ;
he abolished the toying abuse of the Master's offices,
the necessity of obtaining warrants for a single hour—
an abuse which still exists in this country, and
which is the principal cause of the delay
so justly complained of— and he autho-
rised the hearing of cases de die in diem,
until finally decided. He also made sundry bene-
ficial regulations for reducing the then existing
prolixity of pleading, and diminishing the expenses
of the merely formal parties to
_suits. It would far
exceed the limits of a single article to notice the
leading features of these rules. We would, however,
refer legal reformers, who may fear that the acces-
sion of Sir EDWRAED SUGDEN to the Woolsack
might prove injurious to the great cause which they
have at heart, to these regulations as the best evi-
dence that they should rejoice rather than regret the
change that has taken place. There is another point
which should not remain unnoticed, although of the
most trivial importance when compared with the
other matters above referred to. A pension of 3,0001.
per annum, to which Sir E. SUGDEN is entitled as a
retired Lord-Chancellor of Ireland, will be saved to
the country. We are by no means indifferent to
£. s. d. It is of greater importance to have an eli-
gible person in office as Lord Chancellor than ten
times the amount ; but still 3,0001. per annum is
something to be saved.
The new Attorney and Solicitor-Generals of
England have only resumed the offices which they
formerly held, and in which, so far as professional
attainments were concerned, they gave unmitigated
satisfaction. The public generally—more especially
solicitors and clients—have shown by indisputable
proofs, that Sirs FREDERICK THESIGER and FITZROY
KELLY are at the very head of the profession, the
persons whose nominations would be looked for,
under the circumstances. It is said that the former
Right Honourable and Learned Gentleman will, at
the next dissolution, resign his high office for the
Speakership of the House of Commons. Although
he would be fully qualified for the latter situation, we
can scarcely conceive that he would relinquish the
position of head of the English bar for even the posi-
tion of Speaker of the House of Commons.
The Irish appointments are no •less satisfactory.
As Attorney-General, Master of the Rolls, and Chief
Justice of the Queen's Bench, the new Lord
Chancellor BLACKBURNE has proved himself
to be nulli secundus. There can be no
question as to his capacity—the only doubt
is whether he will relinquish the permanent situation
of Lord Chief Justice for that of Chancellor, from
which he would retire with the Ministry. He has,
however, accumulated a large fortune, the result of
his former prudence and assiduity, and may probably
be willing to look forward to the otium cum dignitate.
Messrs. NAPIER and WinrEslDE have also ac-
quired first-class legal reputations. The former gen-
tleman, who has been named Attorney-General,
will, probably, be made Chief Justice, in the place of
the new Lord Chancellor BLACKBURNE. Every Irish-
man will acknowledge his eminent qualifications for the
office. He springs from a family whose members have
distinguished themselves in every pursuit to which
they directed their energies. Mr. WHITESIDE, who has
attained an European reputation, will then become
Attorney-General, and it is by no means improbable
that Mr. BUTT will be the next Solicitor-General of
Ireland. If all the appointments were equally good,
the DERBY Administration might look forward to a
longer lease of office than the nation, or, we believe,
even the most sanguine members of their own party
anticipate.

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