The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-13 00:00:00

(New York Herald.)

What our Government has now to do is to demand the
unconditional surrender of the Shenandoah, just as we de-
manded and obtained the ram Stonewall of Spain—not
under the ridiculous assumption that wo are heirs of rebel
effects, but as property confiscate to us by acts of lawless-
ness committed against our commerce and of outrage
against our flag. We do not believe England will refuse
to concede our unconditional right to the pirate now in
her waters any more than we at one time conceived it
prudent to surrender Mason and Slidell to her. The
cases are not precisely parallel, but the difference is all in
our favour. In regard to Captain Waddell we apprehend
we shall have no material difficulty. Being regarded as
a pirate by Great Britain, and ourselves knowing him to
be such, we have only to remind the British Government
that we have an extradition treaty with them which
requires the rendition of all criminal offenders against the
laws of either power. On this ground the United States
will demand Waddell, anti punish him as the laws and
courts of our country shall decide. England cannot deny
this claim, or refuse to grant it ; or, if she do, she may find
in an incredibly short time Fenian Shenandoahs on the
St. Lawrence and Fenian Alabamas on the seas.

pastor' Journal.)

The final appearance of this piratical cruiser shows that
occasionally Wash " chickens, like curses, come home to
roost." The London Time 3 calls it an " unwelcome and
untoward event," and all the other British organs are busy
hammering out logical excuses and arguments against any
demands on the part of the United States before our
Government bad the least information of the matter.
These are signs of a troubled conscience, and we have no
doubt that the news of the Shenandoah's having been en-
gulfed in a hurricane, or captured by a United States'
frigate, would have been heartily welcomed, in preference
to the present state of things.
But it was fated that some of the most important items
in the great bill of issues now making up between the
Governments of the United States and Great Britain should
not be blotted out nor slurred over by any such contin-
gencies. It is not creditable to the English presses that
we already see them resorting to sophistries to break the
force of this unwelcome return of the Shenandoah. Where
else should she have gone? She was built, and equipped,
and armed, and manned in and from England. There
never was a ship immortalised by the English song-writers
that was more thoroughly British than this same piratical
Shenandoah. She was the creation of British capital, she
was launched amid British sympathies, she was let out to
sea through a negligence which had the same effect as the
connivance' of the British Government, and her piratical
exploits were received with ill-disguised complacency by
the British public—and so, when her career of plunder and
piracy was at an end, she simply went home.
_ _

What is the British nation going to do about it ? No
amount of talking will have a feather's weight. They have
laws of their own and international laws. If Capt. Waddell
and his crow are not at least brought to the forms of a trial
the inference, of course, will be that they have done no-
thing worthy of being called to account, and that British
approval extends from the beginning to the close of their
nefarious enterprise. We shall know how to deal with
such a conclusion, for it would be substantially the same
as if the British iron-clad, the Black Warrior, had run out
and destroyed fifty or sixty of our merchant ships on the
coast of England. The English papers have already raised
the question whether Capt. Waddell did not continue his
depredations long after he knew, or might have known,
that the war was at an end, and thus became, in fact, an
absolute pirate. Very well, this is a question that can be
settled. There stand open the British courts, with the
reputation of being as good as any in the world ; there
are Capt. Waddell and his 130 companions, and there are
the means competent to draw testimony from all quarters
of the globe. Now let us see, then, what mother England
proposes to do in this matter. That she really thinks of
ending it by giving up to us the naked ship, and saying
nothing about the men, is too preposterous for a moment's
belief.

SUSPICIOUS ASSOCIATION IN THE UNITED
STATES.—The Montreal Witness of the 16th inst. says :
" Can any one tell what is the object of a regularly orga-
nised association, composed exclusively of French Cana-
dians, all over the United States, with a central committee
and annual conventions ? Do the interests of this class
in the States suffer in any special way, or is the sole
object of the association to exert an influence ? Are they
going to try to enlighten their friends at home, and
awaken the somewhat passive French Canadian mind to
new life ? Are they going to tell the Wilma either to
get rid of the tythe, or leave it and Canada together."
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- John Davis and J. P. Pilbrow were-indicted for
setting fire to a stack of hay
.on the 27th of August,
at Aldershott, the property of R. J. Strevold.
Mr. Bullen was counsel for the prosecution.
It appeared that about 1 o'clock in the morning
of the 27th of August the police saw that the rick
was on fire, and proceeded to the spot. Upon
searching about they found Pilbrow lying on the
ground on his back. He was asked what he was
doing there. He said he was all right. The police
told him they should take him into custody on a
charge of having set the rick on fire. Pilbrow said,
"Don't do that; lam all right. I came here with
a friend to lie down." He was searched, and a
Lucifer match and two newspapers were found upon
him. Another field was then searched, and Davis
was found lying down in a furrovi' among some
potatoes. He was taken into custody. The fire
had been burning more than an hour when the pri-
soners were found. They were not near each other
when found, but they had been seen together in
Aldershott between 11 and 12 o'clock that night.
There had been fires at Aldeishott, and 10 cottages
were burnt down one night. Both the prisoners
said before the magistrates that they had been
drinking, but not together. Davis said he was
going to his lodgings, but was so drunk that he fell
down and went to sleep. Pilbrow said that he was
very drunk, and he went and lay down, and slept
until he WllB-111VQ4 by the police and taken to the
station:

They now both declared that they were strangers
to each other, and that they were innocent.
The damage done amounted to £lOO. The rick
was so far from any house that the fire could not
have been accidental.

The learned Judge having summed up,
The jury retired for some time, and then returned
a verdict of guilty with no malicious intent.
The Judge said he did not understand the jury.
If any person intentionally set a rick on fire that
amounted to the charge.
The jury said they believed they had set the rick
on fire, but they did not know whether it might not
have been an accident.

tenTtihoenJalulydgesestaidthief threiyekthoonugfihtret,hethpenristohneeyrswienre-
guilty. They had better reconsider their verdict.
The jury said the majority were for finding them
" Guilty.' They then retired. In about half an
hour the jury again returned into court, and gave
a verdict of guilty against both prisoners.
Davis then said . the forma' verdict was the cor-
rect one • he had not set fire to the rick either
intentionally or with his own knowledge. Pilbrow
said he was innocent.

The Judge said drunkenness was no excuse for
crime, and if the crime was committed while the
party was drunk it mist be expiated when sobriety
returned ; they must be kept in penal servitude for
five years.
James Stone was indicted for setting a stack of
wood on fire at Aldershott, on the 10th September.
Mr. Russell prosecuted.
The rick was seen to be on fire in the middle of
the night. The prisoner was seen near the fire,
and going from it, and he afterwards returned to
the fire and assisted in putting it out. After the
fire was out the prisoner said he should not go home
that night.
The chief witness against the prisoner was a lad
who was acquitted of an offence yesterday. He
stated that in coming to the court in the van yes-
terday he asked the prisoner what he was in for,
and he said, " I set fire to a rick of wood, and I
shall be lucky if I get off with three years." Upon
being pressed, however, he said the prisoner said,
" People say I set the risk on fire."
The Judge said it would be unsafe to convict
upon this evidence, and he, therefore, directed an
acquittal.

Thomas Brown and Joseph Cherry were indicted
for setting fire to a rick of wheat, at Aldershott, on
the 27th of August.
Beetham prosecuted, and Mr. Bowen de-
fended Cherry.
It appeared that Robert Allden, a farmer, was
aroused before 12 o'clock on the night of the 27th
of August by a cry of " Fire !" He got up and
sent for the engines. Ile proceeded to the fire. The
prisoners were taken from under some straw which
was probed with a barley fork. They were covered
with straw. The straw was many yards from the
burning stack. The people who were at the fire
wanted to burn the prisoners. Brown said, "We
left two men in the road while we went into the field
and done." The provost-sergeant took Brown on
his shoulder and said, " Before you are burnt you
had better tell." Brown said they had not done it.
The prisoner said they were going " hopping,"
and had lain down in the straw to sleep and rest
themselves.

Mr. Bowen, in addressing the Court for Cherry,
complained that upon the evidence they had heard
these prisoners had been committed to gaol,
where they had already been for three months,
and had it not been for this winter assize they must
have remained in prison until the March assizes.
Ile then urged the want of motive. As to matches
being found upon them, there wore very few persons
on the tramp who did not carry matches with them
to light their pipes. It was clear that these men,
who were strangers, were proceeding to the hop
country, and had crept under some straw to obtain
rest.

Brown said they had been travelling a long way
the day before with little to eat, going hopping,
When they saw this straw they thought they might
rest under it, as it was a very cold night. They
covered themselves with the straw, and slept
sounder, he supposed, than any person ever did
before, and he was awoke by some one trampling
on his head.

A clergymen from Sussex came forward and said
that Cherry had lived in his parish all his life. He
bore the very highest character possible, and was a
most sober man.

A brother of the clergyman also spoke in the same
high terms of Cherry. Both gentlemen had come
long distances to give Cherry this character.
The jury acquitted both the prisoners.
The Judge said he did not mean to say that now
there was any suspicion against the prisoners, but
he thought the magistrates were justified in sending
the case for investigation.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—YORK, Dec. 12.
(Before Mr. Justice Shee).
Thomas Locker was charged with firing a loaded
pistol at Eleanor White with intent to murder her,
and was further charged with firing the pistol with
intent to do grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Shepherd prosecuted ; Mr. Waddy defended.
The prosecutrix, a young girl 15 years of age, re-
sided with her mother at Whitby. The prisoner, _a
youth of 18 or 19, also lived in the same place. He
had kept company with her, but she had ceased to
go with him in consequence of her mother's orders.
About 7 in the evening of the 12th of October last the
prosecutrix was in Baxter-gate-street, looking in at a
shop window,when she heard a whistle, and on turn-
ing round she saw the prisoner standing in a passage
leading to Smith's-yard. She went across to him. The
prisoner went up the yard and the prosecutrix fol-
lowed him. She told him that her mother would
himselfoul
dnot
allow her to go with him. He then placed
between the passage and her topareventher returning
to the street. At the other en
of
were steps leading to the Thethgeirylardtrietdhetroe
theesca steps
ep bsythte hesteps. llscisuliaeyw as about to mount
prisoner fired a loaded pistol at her ;
the shot passed on her left, peppering her straw hat,
and occasioning five or six small wounds on the left
side of her head. She was rendered insensible, and
as she fell the prisoner jumped over her head and
ran away. The prisoner was apprehended the same
evening. A loaded pistol was found upon him, and
some powder and shot. When charged with this
offence he said, " I wish I had blown her brains
out."
The jury found the prisoner guilty of firing the
pistol with intent to do oTievous bodily harm.
His lordship sentenced the prisoner to five years'
penal servitude.
The court are now engaged in trying the last case.
The assizes will finish this afternoon.

PROPOSED CHANGE IN THE DEPARTURE OF THE
SATURDAY'S AMERICAN MAIL FROM LIVERPOOL.—After
an
animated discussion, the LiVerpool Chamber of Commerce
on blondayresolved to memorialise the postmaster-General
to change the day for despatching the mails from Liver-
pool to the United States from Saturday to Friday. The
memorialists urge that the present arrangement is incon-
venient and unnecessary ; that Friday, especially in Liver-
pool, is the business termination of the week, and that an
late news and despatches might easily be telegraphed to
Queenstown, as both in London, Liverpool, and other
large towns, most letters to foreign correspondents are
written on Friday, the day on which mercantile circulars
are invariably published. With reference to the conveni-
ence of answering letters on Saturday, when the incoming
steamer arrives the same day, the memorialists state that
this might still be arranged by despatching the steamer
from New York a day earlier than at present.

The first paper, " On Madagascar," contributed
by Capt. ROOKE, R.N., gave an account of a boat
journey along the coast lakes on the east of the island.
He commenced his journey in a light boat in April,
1864, commencing at Tamatavi, situated about the
18th degree of south latitude, and he travelled south-
wards for 400 miles, in which course he traversed a
series of lakes near the coast, crossed many rivers,
and had to carry the boat over 20 miles of land.
The country along the range of lakes seemed very
fertile, and was well watered by many rivers that
flowed from the mountains in the centre of the island.

The next paper was on Ankova and the royal or
sacred cities of Madagascar, by the Rev. W. ELLIS,
a missionary, who gave an interesting account of the
progress of Christianity in the island, and of the
manners and character of the people. lie had been
in Madagascar 14 years, during the first seven of
which there had been the most cruel persecution of
professing Christian converts, many of whom were
put to death for having abandoned idolatry. The
Queen who then reigned in the island ruled in the
most arbitrary and tyrannical manner, and cruelly
killed those who offended her without any restraint.
When she died there was great rejoicing in the island,
and her son, who succeeded her, favoured the Chris-
tians. He did not live long, but his widow who
reigned after him continued her protection to the
missionaries, and all further persecution ceased. Mr.
Ellis ascribed the great bitterness of feeling enter-
tained by the idolatrous natives to the Christian
converts to reverence for their ancestors. Every-
thing belonging to them was respected, and no one
would do anything that it might be thought their
spirits would object to ; and as they worshipped
idols when living it was considered they would take
great offence when dead to see the idols despised.
The interior of the country is very hilly, and there
are three mountains of great height—one of them
13,000 feet above the level of the sea, and the
valleys abound in cattle. A great part of Mr. Ellis's
paper was occupied with the narration of native
legends, and with descriptions that had little re-
lation to geography, at which some of the
audience became rather impatient. A great
number of interesting photograghs taken by Mr.
Ellis were on the table, representing dif-
ferent parts of the country, and more par-
ticularly the inhabitants and their occupations.
One of these photographs showed the interior of a
school, another the national assembly of the people,
and others the costumes of the natives, and some of
the most distinguished personages. From these
pictures, rather than from the account given by Mr.
Ellis, it appeared that the nfltives of Madagascar,
who reseinble African negroes, have made consider-
able advances in the arts, their buildings being con-
structed with some architectural pretension.
Mr. CI:AI:FORD attributed part of the civilisation
of the natives of Madagascar to the Malays, whose
language is discernible in many of the words in
common use in the island.

Lord Strangford and two or three other members
made a few remarks on the paper ; and Sir P.
Murchison announced that at next meeting, on Jan.
Bth, M. Du Chaillu would be present, and would
read a paper on his explorations in Africa.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zcaland, via Southampton.. —Dec. 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles Dec. 13.
Brazil and Cape Verds, by British paolet Jan. 4.
Ditto, by French packet
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Dec. 22.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton—Doc. 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles Dec. 13.
Falkland Islands

Gibraltar, Nia Southampton. . Dec 19.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton... Dec. 19
Ditto, via Mar:eilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Dec. 27.
Ditto, via it arseilles ' Dec. 2t.
Mauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseil e Jan. 5.
Newfoundland • • Dec. 20.
Portugal
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... ...
United States and British North America, by Bri-

tish packet
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southarnp.

ton

Ditto, via Cork
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry Dec. 15.
West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe Jan. 10.
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba,
and Mexico Dec. 14.
Cuba and Mexico Dem. 29.
Bahamas, via New York. Jan. 11.
Bermuda, ditto Dee. 20.

TALL TALK !—lt is not the policy of the United.
States to quarrel at this time with any foreign power. We
do not want to go to war now. It is our best course to keep
quiet for the present. Lot us devote ourselves to the labor
of reconciling the whole country, in restoring domestic tran-
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gthera't they
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with us nor go to war with any other • h impunity.
We hold them both by y power with quarrel
the throat. At a solitary signal,
ten lines of a proclamation from the President of the
United State; or five lines of a resolution in Congress, we
can, without going to war ourselves, make tho Atlantic
ocean swarm with Mexican and Fenian privateers that
will sweep their commerce from its surface like an East
Indian simoom. All that we require of England and
Franco now is to keep civil and step up to the captain's
office and settle. Otherwise we assure them that our
causes of quarrel with them
will keep, like a barrel of
mackerel well salted, until the proper day of reckoning
shall arrive. We now have a cause for war with Eng-
land which we can make use of at any time. We hold
the wage of battle, which we can throw down whenever
it suits us best to do so. Besides this clear case which is
made out against England on authority furnished by her-
self, we have also other causes of complaint which can bo
urged against her when we deem proper ; or we can reci-
procate by giving her like for like, tit for tat. As she re-
cognised the slave States as belligerents during the rebel--
lion, so can we turn the tables against her by recognising
the Fenians as belligerents ; and as she winked at the
equipment and departure from British waters of the Ala-
bama as a rebel cruiser, so can wo wink at the departure
from the waters of the St. Lawrence of a Shenandoah
as
a Fenian cruiser. England has made the issue, and the
United States will meet it triumphantly at the proper
time.—New York Herald.

BREAKFAST BLVERAGE.—II
the medical profession generall
omceopathic praaltioners, and
37, recommend cocoa as belly::
the most healthful of all beverages. When the doctrine of
hommopathy was first introduce7l into this country, glue
were to be obtained no preparations of cocoa either attrac-
tive to the taste
either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully manu-
or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut was
taztured as to tbtain little notice. J. Epos, of London,
homceopathic chemist, was induced in the year 1839 to tarn
hil attention to this subje t, and at length site ceded, with
the ivaistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to
produce an arti:le pure in its composition, a Id so refined by
the
pert et trituration it re:eives in the process it passesthrough, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach.
For general use Epps' cocoa is distin2ufehed as an invigo-
gTOWtll and
rating, grateful breakfast beverage, with a delicious aroma.
Dr. ilassall in his work, "Food and its Adulterations,'.
says—" Cocoa contains a great variety a importa-nt nutritive
limeitlk-s, an
sb As a nutritive, cocoa
psurisnteenipalneces; eovrertrieinbgerdeyd.ite,ntAngaeicen:sary to .the
Secured csaro
leddatinis. tin-linedaa.per
stands very much higher than either coffee or tea." Direc-
tions ; —Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a breakfast cur,
V.blin.
lgabwealiteedr
pour
lb. by grocers, Confectioners, and Chemists,
ifi-llb., ui
-11 b, with
db

success, and the ranks of the Liberal party and the
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ifsflPed-Pan%l unftur-i-h-
-;:ri dor Tan litadicals appear to a better chance of combin-
7,aarbaircbuaanr,
1 todrviCAnetdrYtoltr EtbSrieDe EstNarn"ps6, upon stating exactt ing than they have had for some time, but we warn
requirements and rental. Offices, 2, conduit-street,llegen
the one and the other that neither will he stand as
street, and South Kensington, lacing the M.useu
the first Minister of this country, nor will they
succeed in gaining the respect or confidence of the
people if the noble Earl, as the head of the Govern-
ment, yields to the senseless clamour of a preju-
diced sect, and if they as a party support such
notions. They will throw away their chances, and
prove that they are not deserving of trust and unfit
to be leaders of the people. If there is one thing
more another that the English people love and reve-
rence it is fair play, equal laws and equal rights
for all, and it is the principle, the vital breath, the
native air of our Constitution which has been vio-
lated in the suspension of Governor EYRE during
the inquiry. Talk of an impartial investigation !
The affair is prejudged and the verdict virtually given
already. The very classes whom it is most neces-
sary to impress will consider that he is condemned ;
they will not stay to chop logic, or to weigh
words ; they will see that the man who feared
not to take a decisive stand against the leaders of
the outbreak, is deserted by his own superiors in the
hour of difficulty. This is not what we should have
expected, and it is not what we have a right to ex-
pect from the Ministers who form the Council of this
mighty empire. Already we feel the loss of the
statesman so recently interred in 'Westminster Ab-
bey. Lord PALMERSTON would never have allowed
such an act of injustice to be perpetrated as the
suspension of Governor EYRE. He never for-
sook a friend or gave up a subordinate, no
matter how many offences he might be
charged with. If Earl RUSSELL had been wise
he would have joined in the same track,
but he seems to think it better to yield to
clamour, and to stultify himself and his col-
leagues. If this is to be the fashion of the day
with them, it is high time for the nation to be on
the alert, and not to allow the world to believe
that the spirit of the English people is degenerating.
If anything could make the conduct of Ministers
more absurd and unreasonable it would be the
language which is employed by the projectors of
the scheme for ousting Governor EYRE. No rational
or temperate man can really be impressed by
extravagant assertions such as " three thousand
killed," and " eight miles of dead bodies ;" and it
is mean and contemptible for those in high
places to yield to such manifest intolerance and

0 UTII KENSTN GTON, HYDE-PARK,
Queen's, and Rutland Gates, Queen's-gate and Peters-
ham Terraces, Queen's-gate, Cornwall, and Princes Gardens,
Elvaston-plac, Cromwell-roul, Onslow and Thurloe Squares,
Bolton s. Stc. Messrs TOPL and ROBE EtTS have RESI-
DENCES to SELL and LET in these and surrounding
localities. Offices, 2, Conduit-street, Regent-street, and
South Kensington, facing the Museum.

TO ALL in DEBT or DIFFICULTIES.—
Consultation Gratis. -JAMES GOLDRICK, Attorney-
at-Law, and :•olicitor of all the Courts, obtains immediate
protection tor the person and property of debtors, in ten-ill or
country. twethgr with entire relief from all debts and lia-
bilities, under a recentact of Parliament, in all cases with-
out imprisonment. Utarges modrrat e, payable by instal-
rnents. every clesceidtion of legal business conducted, in-
cluoinv, Bankruptcy, Chancery, a cl L.:yore° caws. Wil:s
searched for and miter copies obtain,l. Claims m vie out and
meney and property recovered.- Who's, 1, Brunswicii.-street,
Liver, 001, and 342,
,Strand, London, W.C. Strictly 1 rivate
N
and confidential. .B —County Courts attended.

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
GA li DEN.
(Opera Company, Limited.)
Last night but Three betore the Christmas Holidays.
THIS EVENING, VI ednesday (first time), Mr. C. Deffells
New Opera, in One Act. entitled CHRISTMAS EVE. Lady
Kate, Mdme. F. Lancia; Lady Ethel, .3I !me. E. Heywood ;
King Christmas, Mr. A. Cook ; Sir Hubert, Mr. D. Mirauda,
his first appearance.
Alter which, at 9, Auber's celebrated Opera, LE DOMINO
NOIR. Miss Louisa Fyne. Mesdames ThirlwalDuesLeekler, and
and
A. Cook; Alessrs. J. U. Patey, C. Lyall, E.
Henry Haigh.

Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon.
Commence at a quarter to S.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Signor ARDITI'S CONCERTS, Every Evening.
POSITIVELY THE LAST NIGH I' BUT FOUR.
ImmE lase Success of the New Grand"
w SelectioFull n from
Wagner's Romantic Opera, "Tannhauser,ith Or-
chestra and Chorus.
MISCELLANEOUS NIGHT.
TO-NIGHT (Wednesday), December 13.
VOCALISTS.
Mdlle. Laura Barris, Mdtle. Edi ; Sigs Stagno and Foll.
VIOLIN.
31dlie. Emilia Arditl.
Conductor, Signor ARDIII.
Commence at Eight. Promenade, One Shilling.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.-
anagers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
,Shaks 1 ere's Tragedy of h I G JOHN : Messrs. Phelps, James
Anderson, T. Swinbourne, Raynor G. Belmore, E. Phelps,
C. Harcourt; Miss Atkinson, Mrs. H. Vandenhoff, Mrs.
Hodson, &O.
After which, GAL W AY-GO-BitAGII ; or, Love, Fun,
and Fighting : Messrs. Edmund Falconer, F. Barsby, C.
Harcourt ; Misses Hazlewood, E. Falconer, u ose Leclercq.

Commence at 7.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYiNIARKET.-
Sole Lessee and ManEga, Mr. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, THE OVERLAND ROUTE : Messrs
Chas. Mathews, Buckstone, Chippendale, Compton. Rog, rs,
Clark, Gordon, Braid, Coe, (&c ; Messdames Mathews, Snow-
dev, Hill. Wright, Coleman, Lovell, &c.
To be followed by WIIO KILLED COCK ROBIN?
Mr. Chippendale, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mrs. Charles Mathews,
Mrs. Fitz william, &c
To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST.
Commence at Seven.

ROYAL LYCEUM T EIEATRE.-
Under the sole Management of Mr. Pechter.
THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, THE DAY AFTER
THE WEDDING. Mr. and Mrs. Horsman.
After whi3l3, BUY BLAS. Mr Pechter ; Messrs. Emery,
Fitzpatrics, Evans, Westland, Clifford, H. Butler, Raymond ;
Mesdames Lavenu and Horsman.
To conclude with THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER.
Messrs. H. Widdicomb, Raymond, Westland, Evaus, More-
land ; Oilesdames Boyce and Lavenu.
Box Office open daily from Eleven till Five.
Actin.; Manager, 11. Barnett.

prejudice.

By this unpardonable concession to the demands
of the anti-slavery people, the Ministers are holding
out a premium to the negroes to revolt again.
Why should they care for the anger of local autho-
rities if the Government at home are to take their
part, and supersede and suspend those whopresume
to put them down? Mistakes of this important
nature are not often made by the Cabinet of Eng-
land ; but when they are, those who make them rue
the day when they fall short of the requirements of
the rulers of a great country and the representatives
of a free people. There is no possible reason why
the inquiry should not be conducted while Mr.
EYRE is in authority as Governor, and it is quite
ridiculous to state that any suspension is necessary.
What we want, what all lovers of justice want,
what the community require is that Governor EYRE
should be treated exactly the same as if no society
had been held in this country to call him a mur-
derer, and as if no violent partisan had denounced
him. Such is not the case. Some of those who
have joined the ranks of the negro-apologists
are important in their way and their wishes ;
their prejudices and their intolerance have
been considered by the Ministers to ,be of
more consequence than the claims of justice, the
spirit of fair play, and the principles of good
government, order, and peace. It might
have been inconvenient to offend the mem-
bers of the powerful deputation who waited in
Downing-street, but it will be found that there is
a power stronger than they are and mightier than
any opinions they represent. A full and impartial
inquiry was desired to take place, and when that
was satisfactorily concluded, there would have been
every opportunity afforded to the authorities to
supersede the Governor if he had been proved to be
in fault ; but then, and not tilllthen, should they
have acted. By appointing another to fill his
place the Ministers have sacrificed the claims
of Governor EYRE to the clamour of an
unscrupulous set, and to the unfair demands of a
prejudiced party. When Parliament meets they
too will be called to account, and it will then
remain for the representatives of the people to tell
them of their misdoings. A greater error of
judgment could not have been committed
than this suspension of Governor EYRE. It will go
through the length and breadth of the land, and be
received with delight by the votaries of the violent
party, while it will be received with consternation
by all independent men who desire to find the
Ministers of England act worthy of their high
calling, and not regard convenience or political
interest as objects of greater regard than the
maintenance of those principles which have made
the Constitution of England everywhere re-
spected. Impartiality is the one thing needful in
the conduct of all Governments, and without it
they are unworthy of confidence.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPIII.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, at 7, MOTHER AND CHILD ARE
DOING WELL. Messrs. Felix Rogers, P. Bedford, &o.
After which, at 8, RIP VAN WINKLE. Rip (his E7th
appearance), Mr. Jefferson, supported by Messrs. thllington,
P. Bedford, It Phillips, Felix Rogers, Ashley, Lburne, C. J.
Smith; Mrs. Billingtor, &c.
To c ,nclude, at halt-past 10, with THE WIDOW'S
VICTIM. Messrs. Bil ington, Felix Rogers, Ashley; Miss
Godsell, Miss Seaman, and Miss Jenny Willmore.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Nlana;zer, Mr. Geo. Vining.
THIS EVENING, QUIET LODGINGS.
After whi,b, at a quarter to Eight, IT IS NEVER TOO
LATE TO MEND. haracters by Messrs. Vining, T. Mel-
ville, T. Mead, D. Murray, S. Calhaem, F. Villiers, J. G.
shore, G. Murray, B. Mellon, C. Seyton, R. Cathcart; Misi
L. Moore and Miss Katherine Rodgers.

ROYAL Sri RAND THEATRE.
6ole Lessce and Managertss, Mrs. twanborough.
T lIIS EVENING, at seven, NOTTING VENTURE
NoTHING WIN.

Alter whic'i will be produced a new Opera ilurleque,
L'AFRICAINE ; or, The Queen of the Cannibal Islari :
Blessrs. Stoyle, James, Thorne; Mesdames Swanborou,gt,
Itaynliam. Johnstone, &c.
Tu conclude with MRS. GREEN'S SNUG BUSINESS

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Notwithstanding the more exciting topics which
are occupying public attention, the quieter but not
less important question of Parliamentary reform is
not suffered to be altogether overlooked. Its ad-
vocates probably feel that it has been left in abey-
ance long enough, and that the conjuncture of a
new Ministry and a new Parliament affords so
favourable an opportunity that it must not be
neglected at any cost. The Ministers of late years
have found a very convenient excuse for their own
supineness in the matter, and in the apparent inac-
tion and supposed indifference of the people, but
so far as meetings, and addresses, and memorials
can undeceive them, they must now be more en-
lightened. The fact is that those who were indif-
ferent were precisely those who already possess the
franchise, and have little or no inclination to divide
their power or influence with others ; while the
working men, or those who arereal really most
paeefor
influ-
ential and reflective among them,
wisely believe
that in showing their respect for law and order,
and proving that they can wait with patience
any desired change, they are giving the best proof
that they are really fit for the possession of
political power. The speeches delivered by
various artisans and small tradesmen at
the working-men's meeting at St. Martin's-hall
gave certainly no mean specimen of the intelligence
and education of our working men, even while they
manifested indications of that hasty judgment and
intemperance of opinion which are the natural
dangers of inexperienced or partially cultivated
minds. Reformers of this stamp are too apt to
believe that everything can be put right by mea-
sure and rule, that all the evils and grievances of
a country can be removed by Act of Parliament,
ant that the troubles of Ireland and Jamaica, the
difficulties of commercial legislation, and the
op
adoption
sof trade can be at once mitigated by
the
of certain popular theories. Those
who have mixed
theforday,
many years in the actual
politics
and who are familiar with the