The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-24 00:00:00

HE AT R E-ROY AL, DRURY-LANE.--
``Order." Turning in the directioo of the Speaker
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer.
—" I want to know," quietly remarks Mr. ROE
F. r the Benefit of Miss Lydia Thompson.
THIS EVENING, April 24, for the 363 d time in London. I BUCK, " where lam out of order." Whereupon—
PEEP O'DAY. Mea rs. Henry Lorraine, W,lter Lacy, C.'
the House " Cheers.' Louder " Cheers" however
Verner. Addison, J. Graham. G. Spencer, T. Neville, &c. ; ~
Misses Cleveland, Clara Weston, M. Hudson, &c.
To conclude with MAGI(' TOYS. Valentine, mt,s Lydia 1 than any of those which were so frequently elicited
Thompson. by the burning words uttered last night by Mr.
ROEBUCK in the English House of Commons—loudest
of all the Cheers from the earnest throng of mem-
bers wbo were listening to him, yesterday with
manifest delight—were those called forth by his in-
dignant reference to Mr. ADAMS, the American
Ambassador to the Court of St. James's as occupy-
ing virtually at this moment the anomalous
position of " Minister for Commerce " here in
England ! The derisive cheering of the House of
Commons marking at once, the instant recog-
nition by the:members generally, of the perfect j ust •
ness of Mr. ROEBUCK'S taunt. Nor, by the way,
would it, we may be sure, have tended to hush the
words of Mr. ROEBUCK or the respondent Cheers of
the House, could he and they the next instant have
heard echoed mysteriouslyto them from the House of
Lords, the no less (perhaps we should say, the still
I more) energetic expressions of indignation with
which the noble Earl the Foreign Secretary was at
that very same time, in " that other place," reprobat-
ing (as Lord RUSSELL can reprobate when he
pleases!) the late extraordinary conduct of the Ame-
rican Ambassador here in London.
" There could be no doubt," Earl RUSSELL
was then remarking in the House of Lords,
" that the conduct of Mr. ADAMS had been
entirely unwarrantable. However," continued the
Foreign Secretary, he (Earl RUSSELL) "should not
think of complaining to Mr. ADAMS. He would
bring his conduct before the consideration of the
United States Government. It was for them to say
in what manner such an act should be visited."

Commence at Y.

THEATEE-ROY AL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. ,7. B. Rtickstone.
Tuts EVENING, STILL WATERS RUN DEEP.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Chippen-
dale, and Miss Louisa Ang,e .

After which, an apropos Dramatic Sketch, introducing a
Panorama of the Tour of the Prince of Wales in the East.

To conclude with BORROWING A HUSBAND. Pamela
Miss Maria Barris. Commerce at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under
the Sole Management of Mr. PECHTER.
THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with an Orlinal
Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore,
Garden, if. Widdicomb, M:ss lienrade, and Mrs. Lee.
Alter which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic
Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr31.02-,ue, entitled THE
DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Peval and John Brougham.
'the principal character will be sustained by Mr. Pechter,
supported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. Brougn am,
Ff. tt iddbombe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson ;
Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, and
E/sworthy. _ _

" Cheers," at this too—even in the usually staid and
decorous House of Peers.
Returning, however, to the House of Com-
mons and to Mr, ROEBUCK, the latter thus
forcibly summed up what it was, precisely,
that he was desirous of asking from the noble
lord at the head of the Government. "The
noble lord," he said, " has shown himself hitherto
the friend of the honour, the dignity, and the
prosperity of England. He never showed that
more," continued Mr. ROEBUCK, "than in his
conduct as the head of the Administration in the cir-
cumstances of the Trent. We have been subjected
[since then] to every species of violent language—
not of insinuations, but of accusations. We
were threatened with war, and King Cotton was
to be the power to reduce us. Well, King Cotton
tried his power and has failed! We then resented
an act which was flagrant, insolent, and overbear-
ing—we called them to account, and they truckled
in their answer ! Well, sir, now again another
insult is given, and by the conduct of the same
man who perpetrated that deed with respect to
the Trent." Having recapitulated then the cir-
cumstances with which we are all of us by this time,
unhappily, only too painfully familiar—the English
Tribune thus put his closing inquiry thereupon
point-blank to the House, to the Noble Lord, and
to the Government. "Now, sir," he said, "I would
put it to the noble lord, who has hitherto shown
himself alive to the dignity and honour of England,
and would ask whether the Government, of which he
is the head, has come to any determination on this
matter, and if he has come to any determination,
whether the noble lord will tell Parliament now
what that determination is. Sir, I know the con-
sequences of the action which he may take. It may
lead to war ; and I, sir, speaking here for the
English people, am prepared for was . Aye,
and that language may strike the heart of the
Peace Party in this house, but it will strike the
heart of the insolent people who govern America
now: and we shall have justice done to the honour
and dignity of England, and the commerce of this
country will no longer be subjected to the overbear
ing and domineering insolence of an upstart
race—(CHEERS)." To this—the reply vouchsafed by
the Prime Minister was, almost as a matter of course,
under the circumstances, remarkable merely for its
brevity and reticence. It will have to be answered,
however, and that quite plainly, one way or the
other, a very little later on. Last night, in point of
fact, the answer simply was evaded and postponed.
It will, however, sooner or later, have to be given,
we repeat: and upon its purport may probably
depend the fate of the present Government.

I Last night Lord PALMERSTON proposed the
grant of £50,000 towards the expense of erecting a
suitable memorial to the late Prince Consort. The
noble lord began by alluding in touching terms to
the irreparable loss which the nation has sustained
by hi 3 premature decease. He then went on to
state that every one felt "it was an occasion
on which it would be becoming, both for the
satisfaction of the public feeling and as a tribute
of respect to the Sovereign, that some permanent
and substantial memorial shou'd be erected to
commemorate the virtues of the man whom we
i had lost." Lord PALMERSTON then gave a brief
outline of the arrangements concerning this memo-
rial. It was intended from the first by her Ma-
jesty's Government not to leave the commemoration
of a great national loss entirely to the result of
private contributions. They believed that, besides
Ithat testimony from individuals, it was fitting that
Parliament should offer something of a more
national character. Various events had arisen
which had prevented in many quarters
so large a sum being obtained as whs
at first expected. The magnificent public
generosity which had in a great measure supported
the workpeople of Lancashire was one important
reason that ho might cite. The noble lord then
expressed himself in eloquent terms concerning the
practice of monuments. He said that they answered
a double purpose, since they not only gratified the
feelings of those who were contemporaries of the
individual thus honoured, but they also served as
landmarks to future generations. In that twofold
capacity no one more deserved to have his name
recorded and his memory honoured than did Prince
ALBERT. He concluded by saying that he was sure
hon. members would consider the vote one worthy
of that house to concede} to. They had to consider
their SOVEREIGN to whom her people looked with
such deep attachment, and that house could
national
dnieovnearl
prove itself a more fitting exponent ot. the
sentiments than when it sanctioned a pro-
posal like the present one. He believed
that if they now granted the sum he asked
for, "it would be amply sufficient to erect a
memorial that would be worthy of the nation, and
do adequate honour to the memory of the PRINCE
CONSORT, while it would be soothing to the feelings
of those to whom the house and the country were
wishful to do honour." Mr. DISRAELI said that
he considered the Government had taken a judici •
ous wane in the matter, which was one that was
not free from embarrassment. He thought that the
ministers had come forward and appealed to the
1 common sense of the house to terminate a state
of things thatlhad become from unforeseen circum-
stances, one of awkwardness. The right hon.
gentleman said that there could be no doubt as to
the real sympathy that pervaded the length and
breadth of the land, on the occurrence of the
death of the PRINCE CONSORT.. Much confusion