The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON) TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEVIBER

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compensation for the enormous cost, should any
one over his wine think of such a vulgar considera-
tion as cost. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE, to do him
justice, did seem to feel that he belonged to a pro-
fession which saddled the country with enormous
burdens in time of peace, and half-apologised by
commending the liberality of the people.
But Lora BROUGHAM, recollecting his old
inspirations as a man of the people, passed by a
very natural transition from the generosity of the
Lord Mayors of London in originating Relief Funds,
and the noble generosity of many contributors, to
the " admirable conduct of those who received the
relief." They were " entitled to all possible com-
mendation and praise, even to veneration, for the

manner in which they had borne their privations.'

Lord BROUGHAM could speak of the recollections

of forty or fifty years ago, when under far less pres-
sure a less nnmerous population had broken out in

strikes and distruetive disturbances, destroying
themselves the means of their own livelihood. The

venerable statesman himself, while he could not
contrast the past and present conduct of the Lanca-
shire operatives, under trials of this kind, without
wonder and admiration, attributed it, we should
th

.nk justly, to the progress of education. The
operatives were now sufficiently educated to know
the causes of their distress, and not to waste their
fury on those who certainly were not ac-
countable for it. " I have heard it said," he
added , " that their education ought to have
taught them to lay by for a bad day.
But ought education to have taught them what
their masters, and their betters, and the well-
educated classes knew nothing about—namely, to
foresee the cotton famine ? They could no more
foresee the famine from which they were suffer-
ing than their masters and betters, who did not
foresee it nor provide for it, but as for ordinary
wants they provided for them by savings banks,
by insurances, by becoming member of co-opera-
tive societies, and by economising their small
means; they did make provision for the
ordinary calls upon them, but so unexpected
a crisis as that of the cruel situation of affairs
on the other side of the Atlantic- they could
in no way be expected to foresee or to know."
Lord BROUGHAM made one very fair appeal to
the Americans in the midst of their cruel and un-
natural war. Perhaps on both sides they might
feel very little gratitude to England and France
for looking with such equal kindness on each, but
he thought they might pay some attention to those
among as who had been their own advocates in this
country. "We who supported them half a century
ago when no one said a word in their favour—we
who were eharged with being almost seditious, if
not treasonable, advocates of America as against
our own country in the disputes then existing ; let
them listen to our advice, to our strong and earnest
entreaty that they would as speedily as possible
put an end to this cruel and unnatural
war. And I will tell them that besides
the ordinary evils of war, besides the waste of
blood and treasure, the suffering of every kind,
the anxieties and miseries involved upon the whole
country, and which they ought by all means speedily
to terminate, there is another risk which they run,
and which they run more and more every month
that this contest is continuing—l mean the in-
creased number of armed men habituated to blood-
shed, rapine, and every sort of violence, and in whom
those habits are becoming their second and savage
nature. Then we shall see the whole of America
consist of armed men, brought up in war and in the
habits which war engenders. There is nothing
worse than the tyranny of a mob. Yes; there is one
thing still worse, and that is the tyranny of an
armed mob. Theirs would be the worst kind of yoke
under which men could live, and the worst foe to
civil liberty. For Heaven's sake, for their own
sake, for humanity's sake I trust they will escape
a fate at once so deplorable and so degrading."
There are many in England who can endorse
Lord BROUGHAM'S words. Many who, setting
aside slavery, have been sincere admirers of Ame-
rican institutions. TherA are, indeed, a COBDEN
and a BRIGHT now who have been reproached with
Americanism as their political folly ; yet all these
older and more modern. friends of America would
concur in giving her one piece of advice, and that
is to bring these savage struggles to a close in a
way more worthy of a civilised and Christian
nation, and with less injury to neutral nations than
iu the horrible one which they seem determined not
to relinquish.

Yesterday—the morrow of the twenty-first anni-
versary of the Birth of His Royal Highness the
Prince of WALES, the day upon which the Heir to
the Crown of England came of age—although still
clouded by the remembrance of the irreparable loss
sustained by the widowed QUEEN of these realms,
and by the loyal subjects of that beloved SOVEREIGN,
was still held in this capital of the British Empire
as a high Holiday, as a day and night for especial
rejoicing ! The PRINCE himself abroad—no Court
festivities, no Court at all in fact, either at Buck-
ingham Palace or at Windsor Castle—the QUEEN,
hiding her grief down in her widowed seclusion at
Osborne, drawn back, however, from her sorrowful
recollections of the past to more genial hopes in
regard to the future by her temporary companion-
ship just now with the fair betrothed of her eldest
son, the heir apparent to the Throne of Britain—
London still could not but give some signs of re-
joicing at heart yesterday over an event in itself so
auspicious. There were illuminations in almost
all of the principal thoroughfares—several of these,
as for example, Bond street and Regent-street, a
blaze of stars, initials, mottos, and other courtly
and loyal symbols of exultation. Illuminations
these were, moreover, not in any way " done to
order"—being, on the contrary, every one of them
perfectly sp'ontaneous. There were banquets in all
parts of the capital, festive gatherings of the royal
tradespeople, of public companies, of city guilds, of
I the inns of court, and so forth. Above all there was
the Feast of the Day, the Feast indeed of the Year,
postponed, for once in a way, twenty-four hours,
because of the LORD MAYOR'S Day failing in 1862
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Sovereign of these realms. Yesterday it was thus
regarded and thus accepted by the banqueters in
Guildhall, because not only of the annual coinci-
dence of the day of the Prince's birth being identi-
cal with the day of the Lord Mayor's inauguration,
but because of the anniversary of the birthday of
his Royal Highness ALBERT EDWARD, Prince of
WALES, being in this year of grace 1862, the day of
his coming of age. The only prince of the blood
present yesterday in the old Guildhall as a guest
at the table of the new Lord Mayor
(WILLIAM
RosE), the only member of the Royal Family who
who was there to take part in those proceedings—
Field-Marshal his Royal Highness the Duke of
CAMBRIDGE thus gracefully alluded to the circum-
stance of this clouded, coining of age, of the heir

to the throne : "This day," said his Royal High-

ness, we presume we may add now, Field-Marshal
the Commander-in-Chief, "This day, therefore, is

a day not only of immense interest, but of vast im-
portance to this great country. How much de-
pends on the character and position of that youth-
ful and illustrious prince! I can only say—not

simply because he is the Prince of WALES, and
a relation of mine—that I firmly believe that the
education and general disposition of that young

prince justify us in hoping that he will be an orna-
ment to this great empire; and that during his
career he will be, as head of this nation, an object

of pride to the country. There is one circum-
stance, however, connected with this day that
cannot be overlooked in connection with the 1
Prince of WALES—namely, that he is not at present
in this country. Why is he not here ? The reason
that he is absent on this day is the sad and painful
bereavement which the nation and the SOVEREIGN
sustained in the course of last year. But for that
sad event he would have been here, Providence
willed it otherwise ; and though rejoicing with the

Sovereign on this happy day, we deplore that her
feeling of joy cannot be shared by one who shared
in every feeling of her joy and happiness." Oratory
with all its arts could not go beyond those few,
simple, touching, manly words. The Duke of
CAMBRIDGE, there, in one sentence articulates the
full meaning of the thoughts and feelings animat-
ing not merely his hearers of last night in the
Guildhall of the City of London, but the whole of
the people of this great country.
Our anticipations on Saturday evening as to the
announcements likely to be published in a London
Gazette Extraordinary, have, it will be observed,
been in a very great measure realised. Our thinned
and almost extinguished list of Field Marshals, has
now, in honour of the Prince of WALES'S coming of
age on Sunday, the 9th of November, been increased
by four promotions to the coveted baton. The four
Field Marshals being enumerated as follows—
strange to say (in England), under date Sunday,
the 9th of November :
General the Right Hon. Sir EDWARD BLASENET,
G.C.8., G.C.H.
General HUGH Viscount GovGll, K.P., G.C.8., K.S.I
General His Royal Highness GEORGE WILLIAM FREDE•
RICK CHARLES, Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.G.,K.P., G.C.8.,

&c. ; end
General CoLIN, Lord CLYDE, G.G.8.,
His Royal Highness the Commander-in-
Chief, every one will rejoice to see now
awarded the baton of Field Marshal. That gallant
old vderan Lord GOUGH—dubbed in a roystering
war-song that caught the public ear shortly after
the sanguinary battle of Chillianwallab, a war-
song that MICKEY FREE himself might have
carolled over the bivouac fire—
"Paddy GouGH—a cross betwixt
A Bulldog and a Salamander I"

our veteran hero Lord GOUGH every one will re-
cognise again as worthily rewarded with his baton
To Lord CLYDE, famous of yore as Sir CoLIN
CAMPBELL, the new and crowning honour of his
life occurs only a s a thing perfectly en regle—a
supreme reward added to the others already
showered abundantly upon him. To Sir EDWARD
BLAKENEY the award of the Field Marshal's
baton must be immensely gratifying. One cannot
possibly help thinking, however, while observing
this lavish distribution of the highest of all mili-
tary dignities, that of Field Marshal—one cannot
help thinking with regret, almost with indigna•
tion, of others, great soldiers, great captains, war-
riors of the first order, conquerors of resplendent
reputation, who have died, old in years but not
in honours, without any baton ever having been
i❑ their grasp as Field Marshal of England. A
single name will be enough to mention in illostr.—
tion of our meaning—NAPlEß! The Conqueror of
Scinde ! The Victor at Meannee and Hyderabad !
Who died full of years, but not like Sir EDWARD
BLAKENEY, a Field Marshal—not like so many other
more fortunate (who, however, would ♦enture to say
more successful or more distinguished ?) soldiers—
raised to the Peerage. However, if Sir CHARLES
NAPIER died only a G.C.8., not a Field Marshal,
net raised to the Peerage—Lord NELSON died a
mere Viscount at Trafalgar, when he ought to have
gone into that last and grandest of all his
victories a Duke and a Knight of the
Garter ! Sir JOHN JERVIS, for one of the
earliest of NELSON'S own victories (that of St.
Viacent) being recompensed with an Earldom—
though NELSON had actually won the victory for
him by flagrantly disobeying Sir JOHN JERVIS'S
orders! Verily there is indeed something of the
character of a lottery in the distribution of this
world's recompences. Upon the whole, however,
we cannot but commend as judicious the distri-
bution of the batons just now awarded in honour
of the Prince of WALES attaining his majority.

OLYMPIC 7HEA7RE.

CAMILLA'S HUSBAND.
A very agreeable drama by Mr. Watts Phillips, which
with a very little distension would have made a very
charming play, was produced at this house last evening

with the most unqualified success. Its story, which is new

.o the stage, is another of those instances of truth exceeding

fiction which find their proof in real life—its prototype in

many respects occurring publicly at Liverpool only a
couple of years ago. A girl of noble family who has been
left her fortune on condition that she marries when she

comes of age—in order to escape a man she detests, enters
a neighbouring village where she encounters a
young and humble painter, the companion of a
travelling tinker, to whom she offers a sum of money if
he will marry her on the spot and part from her directly
afterwards, promising never to see her face again. His
want and desperation prompt him to accept her offer. They
are married, and they separate the moment before her pur,•
suers come upon her track. With the means he has thus
acquired the painter goes abroad and studies, and a year
after returning to England is enabled accidentally to save his
wife from drowning. This leads to an interview, in which
he avows his love for her, which he says is the spring of

his ambition, but bids her, at the same time, be under no
alarm, as he is firmly resolved to keep his compact ; and so
leaves her in a tumult of new and strange emotions. The third

act carries us to London, where the painter has risen to
eminence, and where his wife, who is still apart from him,
has learnt to return his passion. On hearing he is
about to fight a duel with her cousin, who has
publicly insulted him on the score of his abject birth/
she flies to him, avows her passion, and extorts
from him on return a promise to avoid the combat.
Her cousin, however, arriving, and learning his decision,
taunts him with cowardice; upon which his wife, stung by
his suffering, releases him from his oath, and bids him de-
fend his honour. This admirable position, which is one of
the finest that we have witnessed for a long time upon the
stage, thoroughly electrified the house, and secured the
triumph of the piece. The combat results in disabling the
cousin, and in being attended by the news that the painter
is of honourable origin, which we consider a great mistake
—and husband and wifo embrace at last, all the happier
for the separation. With undeniable defects of structure,
both in respect to motive and to development, the
strength of character and strength of writing which are
presented in this drama place it among the most genuine
successes that have ever done honour to this house. They
are another testimony to the power which so eminently dis-
tinguishes Mr. Phillips at present, and places him so far
above the ordinary run of English dramatists. The acting
of this drama was quite on a level with its merits. Miss Kate
Saville in the heroine fully realised the anticipations which
we formed of her accession to this company, playing the
proud and wilful girl with a bearing as true to her sta-
tion as her spirit, and rising from her usual grace and
tenderness to a display of power in her great scene, which
recalled the memory of Helen Faucit, and we can scarcely
give her greater praise. Mr. H. Neville, as the
painter, in the three phases of his career, his
low and desperate commencement, his passionate
growth, and his dignified close—showed the true
soul of an artist, and played with an earnestness
and feeling which served to place his claims in a
new and superior light. Mr. Robson, also, who sustained
the comic portion of the drama in the travelling tinker—
who is a sort of practical philosopher, into whose mouth
Mr. Phillips has put some of his happiest conceptions
—it is needless to say rose to the side of his
serious associates and contributed his full share to the
general success. This drama —which awoke throughout
the greatest attention and excitement—was announced for
repetition amidst the loudest possible applause, followed by
calls for all the performers, and lastly, for the author, who,
as Mr. Robson informed his patrons, could not possibly
acknowledge the compliment, as he was at that moment in
Paris. We anticipate a long run for this very able and
attractive novelty.

PRINCESS'S TH EA7 BE.

ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER.

A lively and clever adaptation from the French was pro-
duced at this theatre last evening, under the above pro-
♦erbial title, and met with the most complete success.
Broadly farcical in character, both in its incidents and writ-

fairly sustains the reputation of Mr. J. M. Morton,
its adapter, and will doubtless prove attractive to the doors
of this agreeable theatre. Its plot turns on the intimacy
of a blacksmith's wife with that of a Plebeian Knight,
the latter of whom pays her friend a visit in company with
.her husband, to discover, working at the farrier's forge, an
old admirer of her own, who has thus disguised himself in
order to gain access to his former idol. To shield the fame
of this lady, the blacksmith's wife pretends to the knight
that this person is in love with herself ; and thus a good comic
scene arises, in which the two husbands mutually pity each
other's blindness, winding up with the worthy farrier finding
reason to suspect bis own peace is in danger by discover-
ing the disguised lover offering a salute to his own wife.
In the second act the two ladies are induced to change
dresses and positions, in order to avoid some further em-
barrassments which are only thereby hastened, till at
length the entire enlargement unwinds to the satisfaction
of all parties. This pleasant piece has the advantage of
being excellently acted—especially by Mr. Vining and
Miss Sedgwick, as the worthy farrier and his wife—the
quaint spirit of the one, and the exuberant humour of the
other, giving pictures of their respective • characters that
were as full of vigour as reality. Mrs. Marston was also
very happy in the character of Mrs. Woodpecker. This
drama elicited the loudest laughter throughout, and was
announced for repetition amidst the loudest demonstrations.

LATEST NEWS.

BOMBAY, OCT. 27.
Shirtings and mule twist improving. Cotton
firm. Malwa opium, 1,530 r. per chest.
Exchange on London, 2s. ld.
Government Securities, Four per Cents., 93 ;
ditto, Five per Cents., 1031; ditto, Five-and-a-
Half per Cents., 111.

CALCUTTA, OCT. 26.
Shirtings and mule twist firm. Copper dull.
Linseed and rice quiet.
Exchange on London, first class credits, 2s. Old.
Government Securities, Five per Cents., Mi.
Freight to London for seeds, 90s.

THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 11.

The Royal mail steamship Armenian has arrived
here with the above mails. She brings 1,928 oz. of
gold dust, 525 dots., and 3,151 f.

Alarm had been caused at Cape Coast Castle by a
mutiny among the soldiers of the Gold Coast Artil-
lery. All was quiet when the Armenian left.
It was expected that the war between the King
of Bonny and the Eboe country would end a few
days after the departure of the steamer.

The King of Dahomey is expected to attack
Lages this mouth. He has been sacrificing some of
his slaves, and is preparing for a grand human
sacrifice to exceed his former atrocities.

Major Burton, Consul at the Bights, has suc-
ceeded in ascending the Elephant Mountain.
Captain Traeey, of the Pride of Canada, and five
of his crew, died on the 28th.
Trade at the various stations is dull, but the
health of the trading districts is, on the whole, good.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 11.

The Inman steamship City of Manchester, from
New York on the 30th ult., arrived in the Mersey
this morning.
Nothing has yet been landed.

PARIS, Nov. 10.

The Patric of this evening says :
" The statement made by a Paris journal, tha
the Porte was about to occupy Vonitza, is withou

foundation.

" Turkey has confined herself to concentrating an
army of observation on the frontiers of Epirus and
Macedonia."

TURIN, Nov. 10

The Dtscussione of to-day says :
" We believe that the journey of the King to
Naples will not tare place until next month. It
will be preceded by the cessation of the state of
siege. The period for the adoption of this measure
has not yet, however, been fixed."
Part of the brigands composing the band of
Cataniello, in the province of Avellino, have deli-
vered themselves up to the authorities. The re-
mainder having been taken prisoners, the band is
entirely broken up.

WARSAW, Nov. 9, ETENING.

This afternoon M. Telkner, Chief of the Secret
Police of this city, was found stabbed to death on a
landing in his own house. His ears had been cut
off.

The perpetrator of the deed has not yet been dis

covered.