The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-06 00:00:00

"MEAT RE-RO Y AL, HAYMA RKET. Governors sent to recruit their ruined fortunes by
Lessee Mr. J B. Buckstone. bribes from felons, the result being the importation
THIS EVENING, a Household Picture, under Two Lights,
entitled THE WIP'E'S PORTRAIT. Mr. Howe, Mr. W. into Cuba of forty thousand negroes yearly." Nat u-
Farren, Mrs. C.tYhosulingp,
rally enough, after taking into consideration the
halt-past will be performed (142 d time)
OtilterArLlAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck- actual state of things on the oite shores of the
stooe ; Lord Dundreary, Ur. Sothern. pp os
Followe by
anew Spanish Ballet entitted LA CONTRA- Atlantic, Lord BROUGHAM turns his g
Corp de Ballet, lance home-
BANDISTA. Senora Perea A ena, Senor Ricardo, and the
wards immediately afterwards, with a view to con-
Tos' conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOst eider briefly the probable effect of the American
War upon ourselves, upon our own people here in
England, but more particularly in our manufacturing
districts. And here, we note at once the noble,and af•
fecting patience evidenced by the population actually
thrown out of work by a lack of the raw material
required in the cotton factories. He commends not
only their wise patience under privation, bat their
rational forethought also manifested in their en-
deavours to mitigate its evil consequences. This
being evidenced of course by the progress already
made, and still making, in the cooperative move-
ment. Not only does Lord. BROUGHAM (es is but
natural) rejoice over this spectacle opened up to
the view of all in those afflicted districts in the
North, but he especially notices likewise the
significant fact that in spite of the many and
great inducements there are to crime by reason
of this wide spread distress, there is actually
observable there a very marked diminution in the
number of commitments. By a readily comprehen-
sible transition, the noble and learned lord turns
from the consideration of the number, more or less
of our criminals, to an examination of the many
schemes that have, of late years especially, been
suggested, with an eye to their more judicious treat-
ment. He gives the palm, we observe, to the Irish
system, and fairly flings down the gauntlet of open
challenge at the feet of Sir JOSHUA JEBB,
calling upon the latter to make good the
claims of his own system (if he can) to
perform. The WINDHAM Lunacy Commission, the
ROBERTSON Court-martial, the arbitrary powers
claimed of late by one or two of our Colonial Go-
vernors, the questionable capability of the Benchers
to uphold as it requires to be upheld, that is, vigi-
lantly and promptly, the honour of the Bar of
England, the different suggestions recently thrown
out with a view to facilitate and simplify the trans-
fer of land—these and other themes are passed in
swift but searching review before us as we follow
the majestic course of this stream of grave thoughts,
poured forth in language of sedate and impressive
eloquence by the genius of Lord BROUGHAM. Re-
ferring, towards the close of his address, to
the long and (of late, we all grieve to
remember) the bitterly " vexed" question of
Popular Education in this country, the noble and
learned lord we are rejoiced (though in no way of
course in the slightest degree surprised) to learn,
expresses himself decidedly in favour of the Re-
vised Code. Our surprise could only have been in
this matter had his opinion been otherwise. " De-
voted," says Lord BROUGHAM (now in his eighty-
fourtk year) " to this great subject for upwards of
half a century, having presided over the celebrated
Education. Committee in the one house, and brought
forward various measures in both, and obtained
from my colleagues in the Ministry of 1830 the first
grant of public money, the origin of the rapidly
increasing yearly grants, and of the Privy
Council jurisdiction, I may be pardoned for feeling
a peculiar interest in the expenditure of the sums
given, and in the progress of the plan, and for shar-
ing largely in the astonishment felt by all reflecting
men, real friends of education, at the attempts made
to assert a vested interest in teachers or school
inspectors, because they have been engaged and
employed—a determination to insist upon payments
by the State, but to exclude all effectual valuation
of the instruction paid for. A check of boundless
expenditure, and correction or prevention of
systematic abuse, was the chief object of the
revision applied to the code. This became the
subject of violent controversy, and though
some of the best portions of the plan remain,
much that was highly important has been
abandoned." Commending no less emphatically
the endeavours now being promoted by some of the
most earnest among our practical philanthrophists
to assist large classes of the gentler sex either to
new employments or to judicious emigration, the
noble and learned President closes his harangue
by recommending the society to enter upon its
labours this session promptly and energetically.
And certainly the systematisation of these labours
cannot but be appreciably promoted by the delivery
of a discourse at the outset so philosophically corn
prehensive as the one last evening pronounced a
the inaugural sitting by Lord BROUGHAM.

is oYAL- LYCEUM THEATRE.
1.1 Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer.
17 th Night of the ontinuous run of "Peep o'Day."
THIS ',VEND, G, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish.
Messrs. Waiter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville,
and Edmund Ealconer ; Ws. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara
eston, and Miss M. Hudson.
After whi,h, a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet
interlude, entitled KILLARN EY. Miss Anna Whitty and
Miss Lydia Thomson.
To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T
HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, sue
iliss Lydia Thompson.
Acting Manager—Mr. F. 11 Ch'ttterton.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to oommence at
Box-office open daily from 11 till&
r.ornmenciP ft 7

110YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE
Lessee. Mr A. Harris.
For the Benefit cf Miss Maria Harris.
THIS EVENING, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING.
Ziiss M. Dards.
To be followe by PLAYING WITH FIRE. Mr. John
Brougham, Dir. Ryder, Mr. Jordan, sir. Widdicomb, Mrs.
We-,ton, Misses Rose and Carlotta Leciercq.
L To conclude with THE FIRST NIGHT.
Commence at 7. No half-price.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, a new domestic drama, entitled DOT :
Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billington. Stephenson ; Miss
L. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, Miss H. Simms, Miss K. Kelly,
and Mrs. H. Marston.
To be followed by THE OCTOROON. Messrs. Dion
Boucicault, Emery, Jamison, Billington, P. Bedford, Phillips,
Stephenson, Powell, Romer; m rs. Billington, Mrs. H. Mar-
ston, Miss Latimer, and Miss Denvil.

Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE
ARTS GALLERY.

The miraculous STECKEL at a quarter to 11.
Grand Selections from " Lucrezia Borgia," by Miss This
sell, with Band and full Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jongh
mans.

Great success of UNSWORTII, in his celebrated Stump
Speech Or any other man " tthe original), and EUGENE,
in his Burlesque Singing and Dancing, at Ten o'clock.
JOE BROWN, the renowned American Frrze Jig Dancer,
for a few weeks only.
Also the following Comic favourites -Mr. Randall, Mr.
Hollingsworth, Mr. J. G. Forde, and Miss Caroline Parkes
in her new entertainment. _ .

Messrs. Morton and Stanley beg to inform, visitors to Lon-
don during the Exhibition that the GALLERY of PAINT-
INGS well be Open, free. between the hours of Twelve and
Two o'clock on and after Monday.

rl HE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.-
Every Evening.—The unrivalled Ethiopian Come-
di„, Ramsey and Newcomb 's Minstrels, EUGENE and
UNSiVORTH (the original "or any otherman"), in addition
to a host of other comic talent.—Operatic Selections and the
cantatas of the "Jolly Beggars" and " MAY DAY " (sup-
ported by the entire company. Full Band and Chorus.
Musical Director, Mr. F. Jongtnans.

It all, ad. ; Balcony and Stalls, Is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. ad.
In rehearsal, Verdi's " Great International Exhibition
Cantata," and will be produced shortly.

HIGH LATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TAIR DAY.—Morning, 7h. 38m.—Afternoon, Bh. sm.
To- mo RR 0 W. - M orn in g, Bh. 42m.—Afi ernoon, 9h. 20m,

Perhaps many of the readers of our paper, pub-
lished on the Derby Day, gave little attention to a
parliamentary paper which we quoted on the con-
dition of the French navy. We pass lightly over
the wooden ships—in these our superiority is incon-
testable. Lord CLARENCE PAGET told us in Feb-

ruary that we had 61 screw liners (four of them on
the stocks), 53 frigates (nine of them on the stocks)
and altogether a steam fleet of 580 vessels, of which
525 were actually afloat. And this against 319
French steamships afloat and 41 building. The
liners being but 36, the frigates but 42. The in-
teresting question is what is the truth, on official
authority, respecting the iron navy of France.
What about Lord PALMERSTON'S thirty-81X iron
plated ships P We can only say, that if any of our
readers will turn back to The Sun. of Wednesday,
and look over the items of the report they will
certainly be in no panic. Whatever the number
ordered, planned, and begun, the work is
going on at a pace which cannot alarm the most
timid. Only four iron plated ships are now
ready for service, and the rest making such slow
progress that had we occasion to put on the full
power of our public and private yards, we might
he prepared to run them all down as they came out
of port.

The two nearest completion are, of course, the
Solferino and the Magenta. They are naval monu.
l ments of land victories—the French not having
many naval victories from which they could name
\
their ships, As a large proportion of the men who
figure in their naval conscriptions are but lands.
I e;
perhaps this is more appropriate in their case
than it would be in ours. These two ships are
large two
u
deckers, the Solferino mounting 52 guns,
which
Probably the
Minister of Marine would now
not unwillingly exchange for a battery of fewer and
far more powerful
gns, on Capt. COWPER COLES'
principle. We can feel vt no doubt that were Ca p
-
tain COLES' new vessel to co -
the Solferino, she would serve conflict with
the Monitor did the Merrimac,
perro fba ri.,7orse than
certainly send her into port again,
7,-,17 sink her,
and the Magenta had a great .'
::eal to b -4e Solferino
e done to them
in May, when Captain HOEE visited them
- Both
_.:n-
delayed by a spur for which each is wait-
ing—that of the Solferino is to weigh 16 toes.
must be fixed before the upper plating is add
ed.
I There is little appearance, even if the work be
hastened, of these ships being ready before next
year.

When we look at the report on the character or
state of the rest, they certainly can cause us no
alarm. The French seem to act on the principle of
beginning a great deal, but proceeding very slowly
with it. instead of all being life and activity in
their dockyards, they hale work indeed enough cut )

4 out to employ thousands of men, but seem quite at
ease loitering along with a few hundreds. Thus at
Toulon there are four 36-gun ironsides com-
menced, and on one of them of 300-horse power,
" a fair number of men are employed," and she
is to be finished first ; but of three others we find
such accounts as six, or five, twenty-fourths com-
pleted—or " frame up, but very few men working
on it." So at Brest three are begun—but it is added
" little doing." Of one line of battle ship we are
told that she is in the same state in which she was 18
months ago. The larger proportion of the "ships,"
as Lord PALMERSTON termed them, turn out to
be but floating batteries intended for the defence of
the mouths of the principal rivers, and not qualified
to go to sea at all. Five are actually but small
vessels "built in compartments and can be taken to
pieces for the purpose of easy transmission."
It is impossible to read this unquestionably im-
partial report, a report drawn up by gentlemen who
certainly would not underrate what they saw, and
not to learn a lesson or two from it. There is
obviously not a trace of rivalry of England in all
that is doing. The French Government is
but slowly, though with steady slowness, building
what it does build, in accordance with the lessons
taught by their iron batteries before Kinburn—a
lesson our Admiralty had equally—though Sir
JOHN PAKINGTON in his wasteful zeal to " recon-
struct" the navy, perversely did it with wood,
leaving us the enormous cost of reconstructing his
reconstruction. Had Sir JOHN been but ordina-
rily susceptible of instruction by facts, we should,
at perhaps half the cost, have been largely ahead
of France in ironsides. We are now, indeed, the
stronger, we might have been twice as strong as
we are, had not our millions been flung away by
the Tories on wood. Sir JOHN rubbed his eyes
indeed at last, but it was when he had a spent a
fivepenny income tax to little purpose.
We think it also clear that we ought nut to re-
peat Sir JOHN'S example of a wasteful panic haste.
We have not yet, we may be quite certain, found
out all we shall soon know of iron-plated ships and
heavy ordnance. We can hardly doubt that the
French slackness in building is not mnely due to
financial reasons. France wishes to profit by others'
experience. Like her, let us be as careful to avoid
building too fast, as building insufficiently. Let
us have the smallest sufficient number of the best
kind of iron-sides known, but let the PAKINGTON
folly teach us a lasting lesson of the enormous cost
of overbuilding while everything is in a transition
state. There is one result to which we must come
—we must have ships of war built, not of iron and
wood, but of iron only. Hitherto two difficulties
have stood in the way-Ist. The difficulty
of making the plates so a part of the
hull as to give strength to the vessel,
though this is said to be obviated, 2dly, The fact
that the experiments show a greater resisting
power from wood and iron combined than from iron
alone. Still, it is so certain, that a purely iron ship,
accident apart, will last for ever, while the wood
in combination with iron decays more quickly than
even wood alone—that iron hulls must be had. Till
our engineers and mechanics attain this, we ought
not to build a single superfluous ship. No candid
man will now pretend that the conduct of the
French Government requires that we should be
extravagantly hasty.

We may as well add, that what we are actually
doing in the way of constructing ironsides is ample.
On the 24th of February Lord C. PAGET said that
we had fifteen iron-plated ships built or building,
eleven of them to be afloat this year ; that in 1863
we should have another afloat, and in 1861 three
more. And these are not like the little warehoused
gunboats, or river floating batteries of the greater
part of the French ironsides, but powerful vessels,
varying from upwards of 4,000 to upwards of 6,000
tons burden. Then there is 13(iptain COLES' vessel ;
and since the Merrimac and Monitor affair, orders
have been given to convert into cupola ships several
of our. existing liners. We may surely feel secure
enough against any eventualities for the next year
or two.

The Heralds' College will not thank Lord LLAN-
OVER any more than Mr. ROEBUCK for advertising
the tricks of their trade. Open and recent as the
decisions of judges have been on the subject of
changing names, yet probably very few English-
men, beyond legal circles, had any idea that they
were at liberty to take any surname they pleased,
except by incurring the unknown cost of Heralds'
fees, or of an Aet of Parliament. That Lord LLAN-
OVER, a law-maker, too, and technically a member
now of the highest court of appeal in the country,
should not know the law of the case, may well
excuse the ignorance of the rest of us. However,
whatever worth the knowledge be of, after the
amusing case which came before the House of Com-
mons last night, all Englishmen will know their
privileges. They will be aware that amongst the
other franchises enjoyed by the millions of this
happy island home, even those who have not the
electoral franchise, are free to elect a new surname.
They can be represented in society by the aristo
cratic name of HERBERT, instead of wearing out
life under the not to be identified names of SMITII,
or JONES, or ROBINSON. Nothing, on the autho-
rity of Lord Chief Justice TYNDAL, is requisite but
that a man "should cause himself to be known by
the name, and perform public acts under it,"—it is
then the judge says his real name. It is so even
for the purposes of receiving property by will, when
the testator has required the legatee to take any
name he mentions. In the case of DAVIS
v. SELBY LOWNDES, the judge observed that
" there was no necessity whatever to apply for
the license of the SOVEREIGN, which, though a
graceful deference, and a facile announcement of
the act, was no way enjoined by law. Mr.
LOWNDES had taken the name' of SELBY, which
was all the testator had required him to do
and he had 'taken' it just as legally by assuming
it and performing his public duties under it, as if he
had obtained the royal license to do so."
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cai have
aristocrati
in lo,Z;a1 papers, and with circulars to friends. It is
also natural that the recent acquirers of such an
aristocratic name as HERBERT should take alarm
at au invasion of that surname by the JONESES.
One JONES did it; but that JONES had married
the daughter of Lord LLANOTER ; and Mr. JONES
of Llanarth became Mr. HERBERT of Llanarth

but
QUEEN, set the
either wh
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Parliament alrlia.TNmoeuEts
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example of styling himself a HERBERT by the
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realm advertisement,
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took wethe
do
alarm for his daughter's style and title. .It seemed,
of
of
as Mr.
HENLEY would say, as if there was to be
an "ugly rush" of JONESES into the IlerbertcY
and Heaven defend the identity of the HERBERTS
of Llanarth if all the JONESES followed the ex•
ample of the JONES of Clytha. We can hardly
wonder that Lord LLANOVER wished to main-
tain
around the HERBERTS already within, and to
tolerate no outlying HERBERTS.
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