The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-19 00:00:00

4.IRD EDITION
or.
"THE N,"
,oing the Latent STORTING INTELLIGtN'TE,
can be had of
G. R. GLENIE,
NEWS AGENT,
No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park.

ROYAL --
ENGLISH -OPF.IIA, COVENT-
.. 0 A.11.D11T.7.
t., rider the al auluOuteut ot bliss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.
liarriaou. Sole Lesaees.
'THIS EVENING, Bellicas Opera, L 3 SONNAMBULA :
Id aile Parepa, Bars. Aycsley Coo e, Miss Thiriwall ; Meagre,
Wets, John Rouse, C. I.yall, and G. Perren
. .
After which. FREYA'S GIFT, an Allegories] Masque, in
which Mi3S Louisa Fyne Nina appear.
Allegories]
A, Mellon.
Doors or.en at half-past '- ( ommenee at 7.

TII EA T RE-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE.—
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING, EXTREMES ; or, Bien of the Day
rs. henry Lorraine, H. Sinclair, S. Calhaern. J. Robins
tte. ; Aire. D. P. Bowers, 3liss tiara Weston, and Mrs. Ed-
mund Falconer.
After which, BONNIE DUNDEE, introducing the Picto-
rial and Spectacular effects of The Gathering of the Clans.
To conclude with THE SPANISH DANCERS. 3lr. J.
llobins ttivl Lydia Thompson.
Commence at T.

ti EAT it E-R.O YAI, HAY MARKET.
Lessee. Mr..T. R. Rnckstone.
TCHS EVENING. at Seven o'clock. will be performed
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Ass Trenchard, Mr. Buck-
pf.ute t Lord Dondreary, Mr. Sothern.
Followed by THE I.ITTLE TRItASrR E. Messrs. Howe,
yrthern. Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Miss E. Terry, !cc.
To conclude with THE GALICIA FE lE. Miss Fanny
Wright.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under
the Sole Management of Mr. FECIITEIt.
THIS EVENING, March 19, to commence with an Orialnal
Firetch. entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore,
Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee.
Alter ~rhieb, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic
Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr)loo-ne, entitled THE
DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feral and John Brouzliam.
H
The principal character will be sustained by -Mr. Feehter,
sun ported by Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham, H. Widdi-
combe, W. M'lntyre.. F. Charles, Garden. Raymond, 11.
Butler, Dawson: Misses Carlotta Leclerc Kato Terry, E.
Lavenue, and Elaworthy.
To concluile with an rpithalamium to the Prince and Prin-
cess of Wa es.
Stage-Manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. H.
karnett.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE
I.,,rsee and Manager. Mr Lindut.
THIS EVENING,4.A-W, v..LOYE. Miss M. Oliver.
After which, at a giorrer to 8, AURORA FLOYD. Miss
Amy Sedgwick. Miss ft emit rson, and Mrs. Simpson • Messrs.
Roxby, H. Vezin, G.2.Belntore, C. Licyton, Wallace, &id
Collett.
'Jo conclude with the I retina of ALL THAT GLITTERS
IS NOT GOLD. Mepsrow!Fitz.james, iselmore, Vezin, and
Seyton: Misses Constlnee Aylmer, M. Jones, and Mrs:
IL Marston.

N THFATRE-RO VAL,
Proprietor and Msnazfr. Mr. R. Webster.
THIS 'EVENING (2d time) AURORA FLOYD. Miss
Avonia Jones, Miss H. Simms, Mrs. Billington ; Mr. Benj.
wcbster, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. R. Phillips. Mr. Millington,
Mr. Stuart, Mr. Sefton, Mr. Romer, Mr. C. J. Smith.
To be followed by THE GAMBOLS OF ARTHUR AND
BERTRAND AND GEORGE DE BARNWELL • Messrs.
J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stephensm, C. J. Smith., homer;
Miss Woolgar. Terminating' with the Traneormation Scene.
Atter which, A VALENTINE •. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul
Bedford, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mies Seaman.
Commence at 7.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1863. 1

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In the House of Commons yesterday Mr. BRADY,
in moving the second reading of the Diseases Pre-
vention (Metropolis) Bill, said that the measure
would impose penalties upon diseased persons
hiring public vehicles and upon the drivers of
those vehicles whenever they knowingly con-
veyed such persons. Mr. AYRTON said he believed
the bill was uncalled for, and would be found
praoically inoperative. Mr. HENLEY said he
thought it was desirable they should take some
step for the purpose orabating the evil in ques-
tion., but IT Apubted whether the present measure
Annld be carried itip operation. Sir G. GREY
said he believed it would be hardly possible to place
-the biii in a satisfactory shape; and he would sug-
gest that they should postpone the further conside-
ration of the subject. Mr. BRADY acceded to this
suggestion, and the second reading of the bill was
postponed to the 27th of May. The Consolidated
Fund (£10,000,000) Bill was read a third time and
Passed. The House adjourned at 20 minutes past
one (Mock.

Another series of exporiments in Gunnery
has again demonstrated the cotraordinary
advances made by our scientific Er gincers. There
has-been a new trial of strength, speed, and accu-
racy between the Whitworth and the Armstrong
cannon. Remesntering the derision that used to
be cast cf yore. npon what—not so very long ago,
. -
by the way I—people were wont to regard as the
hallucinations of a poor crack• brained dreamer, like
Captain WARNER, the extent of the advance made
in the fabrication of heavy artillery, partakes, in-
deed, of all the attributes ot the marvellous. In
evidence of this, it is only requisite to enumerate
very briefly, and in the plainest terms, what it was
that was actually done on Tuesday last, that is as
recently as only the day before yesterday, at the old
scene of their c Intentions, between those real
Masters of Ordnance," Wnrrworan and ARM-
STRONG, viz., Shoeburyness.
It should be premised, moreover, that those who
witnessed on Tuesday, at Shoeburyness, these ex-
traordinary feats-of-arms, were precisely the very
men best qualified to appreciate them. There were
officials and there were men of science looking on
with deeply scrutinising eyes at the all but miracles
accomplished under their gaze. Among the crowd
of visitors, his Grace the First Lord of the Admi•
ratty, the noble and gallant Secretary of the Admi
ralty, all the juuior Lords of the Admiralty :
Togel her with their lordships, Earl DE GREY and
ItrroN, from the War-office, attended by the gallant
general the Deputy-Inspector of Ordnance. Be-
sides these most competent witnesses, there stood
upon that familiar grouniJ, slued to Bellona
though bloodless, shaken with tremendous concus-
sions, blackened with gunpowder, and strewn
with fragments of shattered iron and timber.
attesting by their splintered appearance the de-
structive force employed against them—there stood
t here, upon those debris-littered il.tts at
ShoeburynEss, smo,g a throng of civil engineers,
the Ilero4s of the bay, Sir Av./L/I,m ARMSTRONG
end Mr. WitiTwonrrn, together with the members
of the Ordnance Select Committee, and the mem-
bers of the Iron Plate Committee.
A fit audience
and true, it will be allowel
Now for the
marvels that were actually dune be-
fore this gathering of spectators, as recently as the
day before yesterday down at Shoeburyness. They
there accomplished these feats of arms by the
aid of guns, in which Were pitted
against each other, the capabilities ot
the old smooth-bole 68-pounder, Sir WILLIAM
ARMSTRONG'S 110 pounder service gun, suppliei
with special steel shot cut down at the base for the
purpose of reducing them to 651 b. weight, Sir
WILLIAm's 3ile-pounder muzzle-loaded rifled shunt
gun, Mr. WarravonTn's muzzle-loading 150-
pounder or "l-inoh gun, and Mr. LYNALL THOMAs's
f';-inch or 300-pounder rifled muzzle-loading gun.
two guns last mentioned, it should be
observed en Passant, being made by Colonel
ANDERSON, at Woolwich, on the built-up

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