The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-12 00:00:00

LYCEUM THEATRE.

Under the management of Madame Vestris.
THIS EVENING, JIT NE 12,
Will be performed GIVE A DO,l, AN ILL NAME. Characters
by Messrs. C. Mathews and F. Matthews ; Misses Oliver and Mar-
tindale.
Followed by LITTLE TODDLEKINS.

To conclude with BEFORE BREAKFAST. Characters by Mr.
C. Mathews, Messrs. F. Matthews and Baker; Miss Wadham, &c.

THEITRE ROYAL ADELPFII.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 12,

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Will be performed THE THIRST OF GOLD ; or, the Lost Ship,
and the Wild Flower of Mexico. With the unique grand scenic
effect of the Sea of Ice. Characters by Messr.i. B. Wenster C.
Selby, Keeley, and Paul Bedford; Madame Celeste, and Mrs. Leigh
Murray.
After which will be produced the New Extravazanza, entitled
A. MOVING TALF, supported by Mr. Keeley, and Mrs. Keeley.

To conclude with the popular Nautical Drama of the CABIN BOY.
Julien (tier original character), Madam., Celeste. Tickets, Places
and Private Boxe^ to be has at the theatre.

STRAND THEATRE.

Sole Lessee Mr. F. W. Allc:oft—Directress, Miss Rebecca Isaacs

THIS EVENING, JuNr 12,
Will be presented THE LOVE CHASE. Constance, by Miss
Fitzpatrick.
After which, TIIE PETS OF THE BALLET.
To conclude with X. Y. Z.

sltalls, 55.; Boxes, 35.; Pit, lg. 6d; Gallery, Gd.; Private Boxes,
£1 lie. 64., to be had of Mr. Al'croft. 15, New Bond-street.

ASTLEY's EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITHIIAPIZE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 12,
Will be produced the new Grand Historical Mlltary spectacle, en-
titled TEE COSSACKS ; or, Vive la France.
Followed by a total change of the Scenes in the CIRCLE.
To.conclude with a new Grotesque Extravaganza, called THIS
HORSE WILL BE SOLI) 10 PAY EXPENSES IF NOT
CLAIMED WITHIN FOURTEEN DAYS.
Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West.

. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Open for the Season.
TIIIS EVENING, June 12,
Will he repeated an entirely NEW and BRILLIANT PIECE,
of FIREWORK. on a gigantic scale, represent!ng the British Lion
and 041111 c Cock Trampling on the Russian Eagle. All the numerous
attractions of the gardens as usual, including the beautiful Panorama
of Chnsan. by Danson—the extensive and Interesting Menagerie—
Vocal and Instrumental Concert : Miss Poole, Miss Ransford, and
Mr. Manvers. &c. Concluding with the attack of the British Fleet
on Chusan—Explosion of the Batteries and Ships, and final Grand.
Display of Fireworks, by Southby. Feeding the animal:, Half-past
Five. Concert, Half-past Six. Fireworks, Quarter to Ten. Ad-
mission to the whole, is.

lIIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tab; DAY —Horning 25 min.after 2 I Evening 50 min.aft. 2
ra•lionkew—lforning 15 min.after 3 I Evening 40 min.aft. 3

TH.it WEATIIER.—SUN °MO; JUNS 11.
THERNONETER, IN THE SFIADN.
67 highest since noon yesterday.
49—lowest this morning and during the night.
69—this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 29.98.
WIND, W. to W.S.W.—Very fresh, blowing a gale,
with heavy clouds and partial sunshine.
JUNE 12.
69 —highest since noon yesterday.
57 —lowest this morning and during the night.
65 —this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 29.63.
WIND, S.W.—Fresh breeze, elondy with sunshine,
slight sprinkling of rain, and plenty of scud.

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LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1854.

Another allusion in these columns to the event

of Saturday may be tolerated, we venture to
hope, under the peculiar circumstances which
marked the occasion, on that 10th of June, 1854,
of the solemn opening by the QIIIMN of the
Crystal Palace of the People at Sydenham. If
for no other reason, reference once more to the
incident of that remarkable inauguration might
be deemed allowable from the fact of everything
connected with it having proved in every way
so peculiarly satisfactory. From the weather to
the smallest detail of the ceremonial all passed off,
literally, to admiration. Having supplied our read-
ers in our last impression with as complete and accu- '
rate a report of the proceedings as was at all prac-
ticable under the circumstances, we endeavour
by now laying before them a variety of additional
particulars, to make up for any deficiencies, in
the copy of our journal for this evening. Here-
after, the curious observers of the progress of
civilisation will turn, we doubt not, with scarcely
less eagerness to the details of the festive pageant
of Saturday afternoon than that which is natural
at the present moment among the vast concourse
of our own immediate contemporaries. For the
opening of the Crystal Palace, at Sydenham, is
something more than the beginning under distin-
guished auspices of a splendid and unprecedented
speculation. It is something better and worthier
than the after-shad°w t •
ng of an apparently similar,
yet really very different inauguration. The
opening of the Palace of the People in
Penge Park on the 10th of June, 1854, was less
remarkable, it is true, in some respects but also
in others infinitely more remarkable, than the
opening on the Ist of May, 1851, in Hyde Park,
of the Great Industrial Exhibition. It was not
a gathering together from all parts of the world
of the natural products and of the works of art
and industry of all nations. It was not, there-
folvj a pacific congress of the representatives of
OAEastern and
Western Hemispheres. It was
not a fairy structure of iron and glass, the like
of which had never been secs before, and under
the transparent roof of which had been collected
and arranged in symmetrical order the visible
tokens of the extraordinary advance made in the
general development of civilisation. But if the
Crystal Palace of 1851 had these advantages, the
Crystal Palace of 1854 had others, peculiar to
itself, by which the superiority, in some respects,
of its predecessor, were in others some of these very
notable advantages completely and satisfactorily
counterbalanced. The Crystal Palace near Syden-
ham, unlike that near Hyde Park Corner, was the
Palace, so to speak, of the People, and not of the
Government. It is "not for an age, but for all
time," or, at any rate, not for a passing occasion,
but for a permanency. It is another and an enor-
mous stride in the way of National Education.
An enterprise altogether so beneficent and
remarkable in its aim as at once to command the

popular interest, and with it the popular admi-
ration. Everything, we doubt not, therefore, re-
lating to the Crystal Palace itself, or to the cere-
mony of its Royal inauguration, will be noted by
the intelligent masses with peculiar satisfaction.
Every one who, like ourselves, had the satisfaction
of observing on Saturday the interior of the beau-
tiful structure now adorning the acclivity at
Sydenham, will need no reminder of the effect
produced upon the imagination by the whole
scene—especially during the movement of the
Royal procession. Those exquisite perspectives
produced by the blue, and white, and crystal
arches, supported by the clustering avenues of
red pillars along the whole length of the
nave (72 feet wide), running from north to
to south a distance of 1,608 feet—crossed by a
transept at each end 312 feet in length, and by
the centre transept, 120 feet broad and 408 feet
long—those wonderful perspectives of arches, soar-
ing to the height of 106 feet along the nave and
along the end transepts, and to the yet greater
altitude of 170 feet in the roof of the centre
transept—while to the spectator they de-
, monstrate at a glance the skilful blending
of the genius of Sir Josies PaxroN for
design, and of Mr. Owi JONES for colouring, for
any one else, for all who have not examined the
edifice, within and without, themselves, literally
defy description. As well might we attempt to
afford those who did not themselves listen on
Saturday to the glorious sounds of the National
Anthem, and to the sublime strains of the " Halle-
lujah" pealed forth by an orchestra of 1,700 musi-
cians, singers and instrumentalists, including under
the hands of the latter 100 violins, 30 violoncellos,
30 violas, 30 double basses, and a corresponding
variety of flutes, clarionets, bassoons, oboes,
horns, trumpets, trombones, kettle-drums, and
ophicleides—as well might we attempt to
describe the effect produced by that immense
torrent of harmonious sound, as endeavour to
depict by words the aspect of either the
interior or exterior of the Crystal Palace at
Sydenham. Enough for those who have already
traversed the magical gardens and the fairy-like
building, if it be said, as it may be said by them
without exaggeration, that the enterprise which
has already nearly attained the ample limits of its
completion is one not unworthy of representing
within itself the diversity, and the glory, and the
beauty of modern civilisation.
It constitutes at once the golden-palace and the
hanging-gardens of the modern Babylon —the
Acropolis of England—the Walhalla of the United
Kingdom.

MT. CHARLES CJAVENDISH FULKE GREVILLE is
a very ill-used man ! Notwithstanding that the
Honourable Gentleman is a grandson of a Duke,
the brother-in-law of the brother of a Duke, the
father-in-law of a Duke in embryo, ill-conditioned
and inquisitive persons have questioned the pro-
priety of the small increase of 5001. per annum,
to his paltry " COMPLEMENT " (like Mrs. SPA RSIT
he may object to the term "salary") of 2,0001.
per annum, and actually inquired the grounds on
which it had been made. Are these " miserable
radicals" oblivious of the onerous duties which
devolve upon this hard-working official I Are
• they aware of the burdens which oppress him ?
Is he not bound to attend in person (or by
deputy) at the meetings of the Privy Council ?
Is he not a Steward of the Turf Club--the
keeper of a valuable stud of race horses ?
But, above all, is he not the writer of
letters proving that it is right and proper for par-
ties to take their seats at, and participate in the
labours of the distinguished body to which he
condescends to act as clerk, without taking the
ordinary oaths of qualification? Why, then, should
any additional honorarium be grudged to so effi-
cient an officer--who, if holding a similar position
in the House of Commons, might have saved the
country all the trouble of the Jewish Relief Bill,
the Parliamentary Oaths Bill, and other matters
which have occasioned much Ministerial embar-
rassment, and the loss of much valuable time ? It
is true that we are at war, that the strictest eco-
nomy is essential, that we have also been com-
pelled to assent to the doubling of the Income Tax
and the increase of the duties on malt, but, for
all that, Mr. CHARLES CAVENDISH F IMRE
GREVILLE has claims which cannot be resisted or
even postponed to a more convenient period.
Whatever may be the financial embarrassment of
the country he must have his 500/. per annum
extra, and we may be thankful that the demand
has not been still higher, for who could venture
to oppose claims founded upon such meritorious
services ?

The Hon. Gentleman must have been a very
precocious youth, a very " admirable CRICHTON of
babyhood." Before he had attained the mature
age of ten years he was a pluralist, holding a
number of offices in Jamaica, which returned some
6,0001. per annum to the fortunate official, or after
making ample allowances for a liberally paid deputy,
andclerks, and other expenses,about 3,0001. per an-
num net profit. He was appointed to a reversion in
th. Clerkship of the Privy Council. The West
Indian appointment was made in 1801, and as
we find CHA RLE3 GREVILLE, Esq., was mariied to
Lady CHARLOTTE BENTINCK, eldest daughter of
the third Duke of PORTLAND, on the 31st of
March, 1793, we may assume, that even if the
earliest offspring of that " marriage in high life,"
lie could only have been seven years of age at the
time when he obtained so gratifying a recognition
of his abilities. But this was not all. Such
talents should be secured for the public service.
A colony should not secure all his exertions. Letters
patent were, therefore, issued (we believe in 1804),
granting him the reversionary office of Clerk of
the Privy Council ; while, in 1808, an order of
Council was promulgated, fixing the salary at 2, 0001.
per annum in the first instance, with an increase
to 2,5001. after three years. There was, how-
ever, some moderation even in those jobbing
times. A proviso or condition was annexed that
there should be an abatement of the additional
5001. per annum in the event of his holding any
other office producing an income equal to or ex-
ceeding 5001. per annum.

Mr. GREVILLE succeeded to the reversion in
1821, when 27 years of age. He received his
2,000/., which was increased to 2,500/. in 1824.
In 1829 the West Indian reversion dropped in ;
and consequently, as the 3,000/. or upwards which
he received from the colony exceeded 500/. per
annum, he was again reduced to the insignificant
stipend of 2,000/. per annum--a totally inade-
quate remuneration for his invaluable services.

With that, however, he rested contented until the
present year. He has, however, at length discovered
the folly of his extraordinary moderation, and
laid claim to the additional salary, and, what is
better, had the claim allowed. It is said that he
resigned the appointment in Jamaica. Whether
the "forgotten," condition in the patent, that he
should receive the emoluments "so long as he

discharged in person" the duties of the various
appointments, and the fact, that although he had
received some seventy-five thousand pounds for

his net profits he had never set foot in Jamaica,
had any influence in leading to the resignation,

we cannot say; but, at all events, it was duly sent
in, and the additional salary for the Home-office
demanded, and we hear that the demand has—
although not without discussion—received the
Legislative sanction. Mr. CHARLES CAVENDISH
FULKE GREVILLE is now, however, permanently
fixed as the recipient of 2,5001. per annum from
the public revenue.
The day after this matter was disposed of in
the representative branch of the Legislature, a
deputation of distinguished naval officers waited
_on the Financial Minister to urge the hitherto
unrecognised
_claims of one who had been be-
queathed as a le<racy to the nation by one of its
most distinguished servants, who petished in the
hour of victory, after achieving imperishable
laurels for his country--" I also leave to the be-
neficence of my country my adopted daughter
Eiortena NELSON Thompsolyt and I desire she
will in future use the name of ' NELSON' only.
These are the only favours I ask of my King and
uat this moment when I am going to fight
their battle.
May GOD preserve my King and
country,contry and all those I hold dear. My
course, be
written bu;
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