The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-24 00:00:00

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A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—
Sole*Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
Wonderful Performance of Mr. Bell's trained Elephants.
THIS EVENING, the Grand Eastern Spectacle of THE
RAJAH OF NAGPORE, introducing two colossal Asiatic
Elephants, P ced by all to be the cleverest animals
ever exhibited. Ni
To be followed by brilliant and daring feats by the un-
rivalled Troupe of Equestrians.
Concluding with a laughable Farce.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle.

CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE
ARTS GALLERY.
Immense success of the miraculous STECKEL

(prom:timed by the press to be the most talented performer
who has appeared before the public),

EVERT EVENING, at Ten o'clock.

rand selections from' "La Sonnambula," by Miss Rus-
sell, with Band and Mil Chorus, conducted. by Mr. Jongh-
mans
The ,r7omic by Mr. Randall. Mr. J. G. Forde, Messrs. Hil-
debrand! and Ormond, and Miss Caroline Parkes, the accom-
plished dzosemge.,
Engragem,,nat 17NSWORTH and EUGENE, late
palprinci-
comedians of tie Rumsey and Newcomb Minstrels, who
will make their first appearance on Monday next.

THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.-

Extra and Important Attractions for the Easter Holidays.
RIIMSEY and
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number), MB'S MINSTRELS
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In their original burlesque, serio-comic, instrumental, and
Terpsichorean Entertainment,

By the lamented demise on the 15th instant, at
Athens of her Britannic 'MAJESTY'S Ambassador
at the Court of Greece, the Crown has lost an able
and distinguished Servant, and the people of these
realms one of their most distinguished and en-
lightened fellow-subjects. Without having any
pretensions whatever to the divine gift of genius,
the Right Hon. Sir THOMAS WYSE, P.C., and
K.C.8., in the recognition of all who had any
knowledge of him whatever, stood forth in the
front rank as a ripe scholar, an able debater, a
graceful and nervous writer, a skilled and inge-
nious diplomatist. Sir THOMAS WYSE has been
now for so many years past far removed from the
scene of his political labours, and from the arena
of his Parliamentary exertions and successes, that
so far as those long past toils and triumphs are con-
cerned, the brilliant career and abilities of the man
have been in some measure lost sight of by his im-
mediate contemporaries. During the last 12 years,
in point of fact, that into say ever since his nomi-
nation to the responsible and difficult post of
British Minister at Athens, Sir THOMAS WYSE has
"tl(CVia •
IL, "l}ww," been regarded only through his later character, in
his final capacity, as a Diplomatist. And the dis-
tinction he acquired in that character—the rare and
effective talents he displayed in that capacity—his
continuance uninterruptedly as Ambassador at
Athens ever since his nomination to that office, has
served in a very unmistakable manner to demon-
strate. Even when the Conservative Party was
In England we are ever ready to suspect whatever
last in Power, when the Earl of MALMESBURY was
cannot, stand the light of day. When the reporters
last engaged in the conduct of our Foreign Depart-
and the correspondents of the press are excluded,
meat, and when so engaged in the guidance of that
we almost take for granted that something must be,
and that everything may be, wrong. Such will be department, that noble earl made so many and such
the first impression, we .may be sure, of every sweeping changes among our ambassadors and
Englishman when he learns that Mr. RUSSELL has Plenipotentiaries all through Christendom—it was
been refused permission to accompany General remarkable enough and significant enough, upon
211‘CLELLAN'S army in its march to Richmond. For the very surface, that about the only diplomatist of
the mast part " Our Own Correspondents" in the distinction left still at his post, unremoved from it
various journals are known to the public only by in spite of every Party jealousy and Party conside-
ration, was the late Ambassador to the Court of
their comi-eenications to their respective newspapers.
Greece, the Whig nominee of 1849! There, ever
Their fidelity 1s not doubted, but their responsibility
since 1849, up to the hour of his lamented and nu-
is only to the journal they write for, and in the case
:sufficient. looked for dea th—(for the last news of him previously
of a respectable paper this is of course
No paper in this country could dispense with coin- , to the receipt of these tidings of his demise had
petency and truthfulness, even in those correspon-
I given no account whatever of his illness)—there
dents whose names never transpire. But Mr. continuously for upwards of a dozen years Sir T.
RUSSELL'S communications had a double guarantee. WYSE had held with the consent of all parties, with
He was personally responsible to the English, we the approval of each successive Administration, the
might say to the European, public for all he , delicate and difficult, and eminently responsible
wrote, as much so as anyof our well-known popu- , post of her Britannic MAJESTY'S
Ambassador.
lar authors. The public knew that even if But little more than a year has flitted by since after
the journal for which he wrote could have wished an absence of a good many years from this country his
him to colon r his descriptions in any particular Excellency paid a flying autumnal visit to England.
way, he could not have done it. He has a charao- Not a trace was then visible of any decadence in the
ter for accuracy to maintain, not only with his vital energies of the many : aged his old friends
employers, but with the world. This, with his found him to be in appearance as well as in fact,
obvious ability, gave a value to his correspondence but not aged more than might have boon rea-
similar, it is not too much to say, to that of the sonably anticipated. The wear and tear of
opinions, delivered in court, of (nor judges—and for continual anxieties of a public nature, not to hint
Just the same reason—he wrote, personally, before beyond this passing allusion at other sources of
the 'widest possible public. In giving such frequent anguish of a private and thezefore in one sense of a
insertion to his communications, and it; attending more sacred character, had—apparently at least
very pule,
et to them ourselves, we have done so, told but lightly upon that clear intelligence and
because 'lndia we look to all sources, we regarded upon that seemingly sound if not vigorous constitus
his opinions,
pleasant as is the form into which tion. Yet with the remembrance of him as it were
they are thrown, as having a kind of judicial value. only the other day here in London—we now sud-
The ex post facto reasons, for such they evidently denly receive tidings not of his illness, but of
are, for requiring Nix.
RussELL to ratan from the his death. The news comes to us so unexpectedly
journey with the arras,
of the Potomac on which that we can hardly yet realise it. Sir THOMAS
he had already entered, are
not such as will exalt WYSE, nevertheless cannot, as the years of man
the American Executive in our eyes—we say run, be said to have expired prematurely. He had
the Executive—because it yea
evidently their passed the " allotted" age—the three score years
M Work. 'CLELLAN himself and 4. •
is army no more and ten. Born in 1791, he has survived until the
shrunk from tl.e presence of an
1"3 at terin g, but f 15th of April, 1862. Sir THOMAS was the eldest
sympathising European correspondent, than did sou of THOMAS WYSE, Esq., of the manor of St.
the armits of Lord RAGLAN or Lord
eLME--we John, near Waterford. Educated originally at the
may add, the armies or of Austria, till the
Italy and Jesuit's College Of St oney!lurst, in Lancashire, he
day of Soiferino ; for even the rival armies in tom_
witnesses of graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, carrying off
bard). were pleased to have with them witnesses honours there from his young contemporaries.
tb eir deeds, who would truthfully describe them. Educated shortly after this as a student of Lincoln's
Indeed, just at this moment, one of the strongest his ambition
was diverted from the Bar (to
inducements to hope the best for M'CLF.LLAN and which, in fact, he was now called) to the Commons
his staff is, that they had confidence en.ough in House of
parliament. There he first of all repro
their own skill and power, to welcome the personal sen.fed Tipperary for the better part of three years,
observation of one who they knew was not be from 1630 to 1832—afterwards taking his seat for
either bribed or intimidated. They may mistake the city of Waterford in 1835, a constituency
their enemies' prowess, and even their represent up to 1847 inelit.
own, but :which he continued t,„ •

THE OLIO OF ETHIO VIAN ODDITIES.
Burns' celebrated "Jolly Beggars," with characteristic
Music by George Linley.
Operatic Selections by Miss Russell and the entire Com-
pany. Pall Band and Chorus.--Conductor, Mr. F. Jongh-
,
mans.
A host of comic talent, Including W. Randall and Harvey
and French (the .Nerves).
Ballads, Duets. atm, &c. ; and, at 11 o'clock, HENRI and
PFAU appear in New and Extraordinary Double Feats on
the Flying Trapeze.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1862.