The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-12 00:00:00

RIISTAL PALACE.
N '
CThe PRIZES WON at the NATIONAL RIFLE
ASSOCIATION MEETING at WIMBLEDO, will be
publicly presented to the successful COMPETITORS on
the Great Orchestra, at the Crystal Palace, on MONDAY
next, July 14, by his Royal Highness the' Duke of CAIsI-
BRIDGE, Commander-in-Chief.
The Great Handel Orchestra will be appropriately deco-
rated for the occasion, and such general arrangements made
that 20,000 visitors or ma see and hear the interest-
ing proceedings at thismore great nay tional ceremonial with ease
and comfort.
To afford all classes the opportunity for attending, the
admission-will be ONE SHILLING. A limited number
of reserved seats will be issued at Half-a-Crown each. May
be had at Exeter Hall up to 12 o'clock on Monday, and
afterwards only at the Ticket Stands in the Crystal Palace.

CRYSTAL P ALACE.—
MONDAY NEXT.
Orchestral Band at l2 30
Display of Fountains at
Distribution of Prizes Continued at
Organ Performances at.. 5 30
Military Bands during the day.
Doors Open at Nine. Admission One Shilling.

"F U N "

EVERY WEEK.
ONE PENNY.

THEATRE-ROYAL. DRURY-LANE.
Dion Boucicault, Lessee.
TO-NIGHT, Saturday, July 12, 1862, the performances
will commence at 7, with the SPITALFIELDS WEAVER :
Messrs. Atkins, F. Robinson, Sara Stevins.
After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN : Messrs. Dion
Boucicault, H. Vandenhoff, F. Robinson ; Madame Celeste,
Jessie M`Lean, Stevins.
To conclude with THE KISS IN THE DARK : Messrs.
Atkins, Farrell ; Mrs. G. Jordan.
Box-office open from 10 to 5.

THEAT.RE-ROYAL. HAY MARKET.
Lessee. Mr. J. B. Bucketone.
THIS EVENING, at Seven, THE HAPPIEST DAY OF
MY LIFE. Mr. Compton, Miss Caroline Hill, &c.
After which, at a quarter to 8, will be performed (173 d time)
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenclaard, Mr. Buck-
stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothorn.
Followed by a new Spanish Ballet entit►ed LA CONTRA-
BANDISTA. Senora Perea Nena, Senor Ricardo, and the
Corps de Ballet.
To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, THE RENDEZVOUS. Messrs. Higgie,
Meadows, &c., and Miss Maria Harris.
After which, at a quarter to Eignt, KING HENRY VIII.
Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. Charles Kean ; Queen Katharine, Mrs.
Charles Kean.
To conclude
Co with
mm THRICE MARRIED.
ence at 7. No half-price.

1.11 OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
.111; Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer.
206th Night of the continuous run of "Peep o'Day."
THIS EVENING, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish.
Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville,
and Edmund
Miss Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara
Weston, and M. Hudson.
After which, a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet
interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and
Miss Lydia Thomson.
Followed by a new Farce, entitled THE COLLEEN
DAWN SETTLED AT LAST. Mr. Charles Selby and Miss
yydia Thompson.
Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6,
7, Box-office open daily from 11 tills. to commence at
Commence a 1

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. B.
Webster, J. L. Toole, D. Fisher, P. Bedford, , BiMissllinK. gton, C.
J. Smith, Stuart, Eburne, &a ; MissWoolgar Kelly,
Miss Laidlaw.
To conclude with THE SHILLING DAY. Messrs. J. L
Toole, P. Bedford, Emery, Miss Latimer, Mrs. H. Lewis. •
Commence at 7.

STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE._
A Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY.
Revival of "Mazeppa."
THIS EVENING will be performed MAZEPPA ; or, The
Wild Horse of Tartal7, with New Scenery, Dresses, and
Decorations.
To be followed by a brilliant routine of novel and daring
Scenes in the Circle.
Concluding with a Comic Ballet, in which the Misses
Gnnnis and the whole of the Corps de Ballet will appear.
Commence at 7.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle.

et ANTERBURY HALL.
The renowned Performers, DEBONNAIRE and
AUGONARD (from Paris), will make their first appearance
on Monday evening.
Grand Selection from Donizetti's Opera,
" DON SEBASTIEN,"
Arranged and conducted by Kr. Jonghmans.
The Great Comic Trio, Eugene, DuleV, and Unsworth
(the original of tbe celebrated Stump speech, Or any other
man "). And a great array of other Comic Talent.

THE 0X F ORD,
6, OXFORD STREET.
" TEE DAUGHTER OF THE ISLES,"
a Cantata composed by H. LESLIE, Esq., and written by A.
MATTHISON, Esq., in honour of the Marriage of her Royal
Highness the Princess Alice, EVERY EVENING,
in addition to the usual entertainments, which include
operatic selections by Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn,
Messrs. Morley, Greene, and Albert, with Full Band and
Chorus ; the Comic performances of Miss Caroline Parkes
and Mr. W. Randall, the Ethiopian oddities of Rumsey,
Newcomb, Little Bob, Eugene, and Unsworth (the original " or
any other man"), and the astounding feats of the miraculous
BTECKEL, Champion Trapezist.
Admission, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, is. ; Private Boxes,
10s. ed.

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THIS DA.Y.—Morning, 2h. sm.—Afternoon, 2h. 30m.
To-Xonßow.-Morning, 2h. 58m.—Afternoon, .3h. 21m.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1862.

While we still hold, and with increased confi-
dence, our opinions on the Fortifications Scheme,
we think Lord PALMERSTON and his obsequious
majority have erred in not yielding for the present
on much lower ground than seeing things as we
do. We cannot in this case attribute much weight
to the numbers who vote with the Premier. The
reason is that the appeal to their former vote has
been so reiterated, and so tauntingly pressed, that
for shame's sake too many would not reverse
it. That that vote was obtained on represen-
tations now proved to be false is certain ; and
despite the remarks of Mr. GLADSTONE, it is equally
certain that when he surrendered the demand for
eleven millions of money into the hands of the Pre-
mier, it was because he would not make the demand
himself. Indeed his speech last night amounted to
no more than that he was, with the rest of the
Cabinent, officially and
constitutionally responsible
for it. "He assented Upon considerations which
appeared, and still app„r
, to him sufficient."
What those considerations
were he does not tell
us. Were they, that, much as he deplored what he
thought a useless waste of public
money—on which
account he could not bring himself to propose and
defend it—he still thought that his fiscal measures
and the French treaty were of more consequence
than that large sum of money ; and, as his retire-
ment would have shattered the Ministry, and put
off indefinitely the accomplishment of his financial '
objects, he thought this reason sufficient for con-
tinuing in office.
Paying little regard, therefore, to a merely self-
justifying majority or Mr. GLADSTONE'S concur-
rence, we do affirm that the strong difference of
opinion which has shown itself both amongst the
ablest professional men, and the ablest civilians, on
the subject of the fortifications, is reason enough
why Lord PALMERSTON should have paused. Even
at his age he may live long enough to repent of
having built these fortifications, by dealing with
the House of Commons in what Mr. OSBORNE
justly characterised as "the sic rob sic jubeo style,"
or in plain English the style of—

--I am Sir Oracle,
When I speak, let no dog bark.
There are certain little erections built on the
termination of lofty hills in some parts of the
country, which ever after have borne the name
of " Such an one's FOLLY." The time is not fur
distant, we believe, when any one of the forts now
building, will be Painted out to strangers by the
local cicerone, as a " PALMI.P.STON'S Folly."
We must put the case thus. Money is almost
certain this year, through the great cotton failure,
to run short. Iron-clad ships are agreed on all
hands to be essential; and by expending what
permit on them, We shall be
money a bad, year will
certain of &sing so far right. There is no difference

of opinion on that point. On the forts there is the
greatest difference of opinion. One, therefore, we
say of two things a reasonable Minister ought to do.
Either he ought to spare the country the expenditure
at a time when its danger from the distress
of its manufacturing millions is a far greater dan-
ger than that of an invasion some years hence—for
the forts will be of no use for years or if in-
creased defence be really urgent, then as all the au-
thorities agree, let the first thing in importance be
the first attended to. Let the Thames, the Mersey,
the Clyde, and the Tyne resound with the building
of iron ships. If we get up our forts, or get them half
built, then their advocates being judges, they cannot
hinder an invasion elsewhere. But if we get up
an iron navy as superior to all nations as we have
the power of doing, invasion is absolutely imprac-
ticable. We could lock up any fleet of transports in
Cherbourg or Brest till they rotted. Without dog-
matising, therefore, in favour of an opinion we do
not doubt, we are entitled to ask—that, as no one
denies the necessity and efficiency of iron ships,
while the highest authorities and the best civilian
judges are divided on the efficiency of fortifications,
the money should be spent on what is certain to be
effective ; and, that the nation's pocket should have
the benefit of the doubt. We mean that till the utility
of forts is as generally admitted as that of ships.
Lord PALMERSTON should not risk the hard-earned
millions of the nation on what as so many believe,
will prove but PALMERSTON follies. _ .

Nothing surely is better made out than that our
fleet is our reliance. It kept us safe from invasion
in the time of the first NAPOLEON, and if there
should be a fiftieth NAPOLEON, he will fare no better
than the first while we maintain our naval supre-
macy. Once let an enemy get so far as
to place himself within range of Portsmouth
or Plymouth dockyards, and we would give
but little for them. These forts are after
all a craven looking sort of thing for Englishmen.
We quite sympathise with Mr. OSEOENE's senti-
ment that they are an insult to our navy. Useful
things for French and Russian fleets to skulk be-
hind no doubt—Englishmen, like Spartans, know a
better way of defending their soil. They defend it
by advancing. They defend it as DRAKE did when
he singed the King of SPAIN'S beard. As he did
when he and his companions went out to meet the
Spanish Armada. Nor have we now a niggard
money-loving Tudor QUEEN with her hand on the
key of the Treasury door, starving the fleet for want
of ammunition, and preventing the complete
destruction of the enemy by her miserable parsi-
mony. We confess we dislike forts which seem to
say, we are afraid an enemy may come here. We
have no such fear. We believe in our "first :ine of
defence." And, if we want a second line, it shall
be a second line of Warriors and of English Moni-
tors. These forts betray, indeed, the timid caution
of aged landsmen, rather than any apprehensions of
our sailors, old or young. We own that we are
ashamed of them.

As to the debate of Thursday night, long as it
was, we fear too few have read it. If they have,
we think they will agree with us that Mr. OSBORNE
was really unanswered. We reasonably fear that
his prediction will be verified to the letter, when
he said, " Parliament goes on year after year vot-
ing these sums, when the noble lord threatens
them with a dissolution. They care more for
their individual pockets than for the pockets of
the tax-payers at large. But I tell the noble lord
and his supporters that I am not content to register
the imperial edicts of a dictator. Yes, of a dic-
tator—l repeat the word—whose 'plans, if carried
out, mean increased expenditure, and who is leading
the country into heavier taxation and to financial
embarrassment."

Strongly as we share the popular sentiments in
regard to our jovial Premier, we must yet deal
honestly with him, and we do think that in this
business he is sacrificing, unconsciously, the inte-
rests of the country to a personal crotchet. So
strong, indeed, is the concurrence of reason and
authority for creating an iron fleet, that it looks as
if the Premier had some deep laid scheme to in-
crease the magnitude of the more aristocratic ser-
vice, the army. He will first get his forts, and
then come forward and tell us, that now we have
got them we must add fifty thousand more men to
the army to man them.

Yesterday's ceremonial at the International
Exhibition down at South Kensington passed off
to every one's admiration—to the admiration, that
is, of every one out of the seventy thousand
persons who were present as spectators. In the
history of this second gigantic display of the accu-
' mulated products of the world's art, science, and in-
dustry or manufactures, the 11th of July will take
rank as the companion festivity to that which ren-
dered memorable the Ist of May, 1862. In some
respects, the 11th of July will be looked back to by
those more immediately interested in the fortunes of
the Exhibition, as a date more memorable even than
that of the Ist of May. Upon a moderate calculation,
it is estimated that altogether nearly three times as
many beholders were present yesterday, both within
and without the walls of the building—we find it
still difficult (almost impossible) to call it the Palace
—of the Exhibition, than was there assembled on
May-day. The prevailing melancholy which clouded
the glory of the inauguration, though not of course
absent from the minds and hearts of those who
witnessed the Distribution of the Prizes among
the throng of exhibitors, was more subdued, was at
any rate certainly less apparent. Not but what
one and all yesterday thought still with poignant
regret of the premature disappearance from amongst
us, of the gifted and virtuous PRINCE, from whose
cultivated intellect and active benevolence the idea
of these superb International Exhibitions originally
emanated.• Time, however, while it has failed in
any way to obliterate the recollection of the over-
whelming magnitude and of the irreparable nature
of this loss to the QUEEN and the country, has in
some measure assuaged the bitterness of our regrets.
Besides which, it must be borne in remembrance
that the ceremony of last May-day was here and
there remarkable
for very painful reminders both
visible and a •
udible of the death of the PRINCE
CONSORT. At the
commencement of that cere-
mony, at the filing
off of the magnificent procession,
all
who were present there upon the occasion of the
opening
of the International Exhibition of 1862,
profoundly
were affected by the point blank
re-announcement, as it were, of the fact of
that lamented calamity at once to the nation
and to the SOVEREIGN: its sad and signal
notification
circumstance that the New
by
the
be opened vicariously
Exhibition had to by
the
his Royal Highness Commander-in-Chief.
bile the guns were
The widowed QUEEN—W
firing, and the drums roiling, and the
,ion that the
is
trumpets sounding, in declar,
'World's Fair of 1862 was Inaugurated—was
hastily speeding nortawards ; seeking distraction
from her sorrowful thoughts by a hurried journey
to her Scottish retreat at Balmoral. Again, any
momentary exultation in the crowd assembled
together on that once Ist of May, was dashed by
the renewal of the general grief felt at the demise
of the
PRINCE CONSORT by the choral voices of the
musicians peeling forth those exquisite lamenta-
i tions on the memory of " ALBERT THE GOOD," arti-

culated by the plaintive words of ALFRED TENNY-
SON, and by the pathetic music of STERNDALE
BENNETT—recalling to mind, with mingled pride
and grief, him who had—

"Borne the white flower of a stainless life,
In that fierce light which beats upon a throne,

And blackens every blot I"
Yesterday the mere repetition of the circumstance
that the chief personage present, the leader of the
ceremonial in his capacity as the appointed Distri-
butor of the Prizes awarded to the Exhibitors, was
H. R. H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, rendered the
incident somewhat less melancholy than upon the
Inaugnrative Day. It seemed, yesterday, in some
measure a mere matter of course that the stalwart
form of his Royal Highness should close the courtly
procession, and that his hand, and no other, should
distribute the Prizes, just as a little more than two
months ago his voice had announced the International
Exhibition to be opened. The ceremony of the
distribution was,
as might have been expected, in
no way whatever comparable to the ceremony of
inauguration. Saving and excepting the proces-
sion which filed through the edifice between the
throng of well dressed spectators, there was little
or nothing to be seen as a ceremonial. There was
the Exhibition itself, of course, in all its complete-
ness as it certainly was not on Mayday. And to wit-
ness that Exhibition, and to scan the faces and fea-
tures of the eminent public men recognisable in the
procession as it passed, as nearly as might be com-
puted, at a glance, three times as many beholders
assembled on the 11th of July as there were collected
together on the Ist of May. Those who were pre-
sent yesterday beholding, as they could not fail to
do, upon all hands the brilliant and complete suc-
cess which had resulted already from this daring
enterprise !
As a whole, no doubt, the Crystal Palace
in Hyde Park surpasses, in our mere memory
of it, the actual and substantial fact of its far more
gigantic successor, with its far more costly, and
in several respects its far more wonderful
contents down at South Kensington. But then
the Exhibition of 1851 was, in all the circumstances
attendant upon it, exceptional. It was the first of
these great International Expositions. It .was as
such especially, the cynosure not only of neighbour-
ing eyes but of foreign eyes as well, of the eyes of
spectators for the first time upon such an occasion,
for such a pacific cause assembled together in one
edifice, bringing with them specimens of their art
and of their industry from the uttermost ends of
the earth. Just as (architecturally viewed) Captain
FOWKES'S building at South Kensington is the
veriest abortion, Sir JOSEPH PAXTON'S fairy-like
Crystal Palace in Hyde-park, was a lovely and
radiant masterpiece. The effect of that crystalline
edifice, with its matchless collection of the treasures
of both hemispheres, glittering there during all
that glorious summer :of 1851, upon the Hyde-
park greensward, was a fact not to be re-
peated. It lives still in the recollection of us
all—as with the splendour of " one entire
new and perfect chryssolite." We looked not
for its repetition in the new building erected
eleven years after to be the temporary receptacle of
the second, the present International Exhibition,
And, therefore,:not looking for that repetition, we
have not been, as we assuredly must have been other-
wise, doomed to disappointment. The wonderful
collection now on view at South Kensington—the
collection for the pick of the marvels in which
the principal exhibitors yesterday received each
respectively the award of the commemorative medal
—that extraordinary collection of specimens of art,
and of produce, and of machinery, and of manufac-
tures surpasses in its completeness as such, as an
International Exhibition, anything of the kind that
has ever yet been brought together. With the re-
cognition and acknowledgment of that fact
we must, perforce, rest satisfied. And in
itself it is assuredly sufficient to satisfy
us that the Exhibition of 1862 will infallibly
be looked back to as having been in all
essential particulars brilliantly successful. So
looking back to it, when, like its predecessor of eleven
years ago it shall have been again scattered, and
shall have been brought to end, like a tale that is
told—there will still survive in our recollection as
" things of beauty that are joys for ever," various
wonders of art, that after the lapse of years will
still be distinctly visible :to the " mind's eye."
Such wonders of art as, according to their re-
spective merit, let us say—that marvellous pair of
seated figures in the Roman Court, the " Sybil"
and " Cleopatra !" Or GIBSON'S exquisitely
beautiful " Venus," tinged with a faint and deli-
cate flesh tint, and bearing in her hand the
golden apple, the prize of her perfect loveliness !
Or, again, that astonishing group, in bronze, of "The
Wrestlers." Or even MINTON's richly-coloured
and sparkling Majolica Fountain.

The warmest supporters of the North are com-
pelled to acknowledge a grave defeat in the battle
we heard of by the last telegrams. As they were
from Cape Race, only the next packet can bring us
any details, and these even will probably present
the least dark aspect of a dark affair. For our-
selves, we can feel none of the partisanship which
some of our contemporaries seem to cherish so
strongly. The anti-negro, anti-commercial, anti-
English feeling and policy of the North balances so
nearly with the pro-slavery, free-trade, and Euro-
pean leanings of the South, that we find the scales
cscillating strangely when we endeavour to arouse
our enthusiasm for the North. The Northerns are
freemen, but, singularly enough, they are now shed-
ding their own blood and that of the South like
water : for what object ?—To reconcile themselves
with the Slave States, and to make the infamous
Fugitive Slave Law yet more than ever a reality.
Even within the last few weeks these Northern
freemen, with a war around them of which they
wish us to believe that slavery is at the bottom,
sent back fugitive slaves under this disgraceful law
to the masters who claimed them. Mr. COBDEN
and Lord PALMERSTON had a discussion the other
night on Providential retribution. Without touch-
ing on the transcendentalism of the subject, we
must all believe that obvious causes and effects are
, the arrangement of the Providence which governs
the world, and judged by this standard, few his-
torical retributions can be more obvious than that
which Northern debt, defeat, and expenditure of
life, as well as money, are inflicting on the Free
States. They nursed slavery in the South as long
as it was politically gainful, they have indulged
the most heartless and cruel feeling towards every
fellow-American who had a trace even of the Afri-
can colour on his finger nails, they refused, when
the South rose to make slavery its sole object, to
abolish it—and now the South is overwhelming
them with debt and disaster. The sins of the
North are finding them out at Ricitmond, and even
at Charleston.

gAtnatehnetl:tter place the defeat was a cruel one.
Irte
is
i sithilsa, to too
the toomany in this war. The Northern
generous confession of the
Southerns themselves' fought most creditably. The
evidence from both
aides is conclusive, that, with
the exception of one regimentthe 46th New York
—the men both advanced
and retreated with the
greatest courage and
coolness,under what was,
without exaggeration, a murderous fire. But, again,
they were badly led. The officer in command was