The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-09 00:00:00

OLICE REGULATIONS.—To prevent
‘i° Obstructions at the London-bridge Ra,lway Terminus, and
streets leading thereto, at the OPENING of the CRYSTAL PALACE
on the 10th of June, 15354

at the Home-office, probably filling up the vacated
post of the Colonial Secretaryship by the admis-
sion of Sir GEORGE G REY to a seat in the Cabinet.

Carriages with company for the London-bridge Terminus, after
, setting down at the Railway Station, will immediately go away,
~• proceeding by the east side of wellington-street and Iligh•street,
g • Borough; to Blackmannltreet.
Hackney Carriages, after setting down, will proceed by the Cab
Incline into Webb street, and go away by 'Webb -street and Weston-
Street, into Long-lane.
•. No Private or Hackney Carriage, with company for the Termintui,
wig be allowed, after satin; down, to go over London•bridge or
through Caion-street.

It is the peculiarity of this remarkable Cabinet,
by the way, that scarcely any one of its members
is in his right position. The Earl of ABERDEEN,
for example, might by possibility make a
very respectable President of the Council,
as most assuredly he makes at this time the worst
Prime Minister imaginable. Mr.. GransToNE
might by chance have proved hithself a tolerable
President of the Board of Control, as unques-
tionably he has hitherto proved himself an ex-
ceedingly showy but excessively unfortunate, be-
cause a most ignorantly experimentalising, Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer. Viscount PALMERSTON
could not failto demonstrate in any position his dis-
tinguished geniusas a statesman and administrator,
but while he has been admirable as Home Secre-
tary, he would have been better as Chief of the
Foreign Department, better still as Minister of
War, best of all, in every likelihood, in the chief
post of honour and responsibility, as First Lord
of the Treasury. Without analysing the Ministry
further, it is scarcely to be questioned for an
instant whether Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTII, in-
stead of being placed over the Public Works,
or, as it is expressed in this country, the
Woods and Forests, would not have been
more appropriately empowered to do good service
to the Crown in the more onerous and elevated
post as Colonial administrator. Above all, it can
never fail to be regretted, when reviewing the
present Cabinet, that the rare administrative
genius of Lord JOHN RUSSELL himself has not
been called in some express maid:air into requisi-
tion. Organised in the first instance in a series
of mistakes, some of the more notable of which we
have just particularised, it is scarcely matter of

tICIIARD MAYNE,.
Comtnistsioner of Police of the itetropolis,
4, Whitehall-yard, June 9, 1854.

WHITSIIN HOLIDAYS.-ROYAL
SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—TIIIS EVEN.
IXG will be repeated an entirely NEW and BRILLIANT PIECE
FIREWORK on a gigantic scale, representing the British Lion
and Gallic Cock Trampling on the Russian Eagle. All the numerous
attractions of'the gardens as usual, including the beautiful Panorama
of Chusan, by Dauson—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
ren Chusan—Explosion of the Batteries and Ships, and final Grand
Display, of Fireworks, by Southby. Feeding the animate, Ralf Past
Five. Concert, Half-past Six. Fireworks, Quarter to Ten. Ad-
mission to the whole, Is.

THEA IRE t:OYAL DRURY LANE.
Le.:see, Mr. E. T. Smith.
Till EVENING. JUNE 9.
Will be performed NORMA.. Principal characters by Madame
C ir".,orl, and Maclaine Sedis.tzeit ; Signor Arnold', Signor Santi,
sod Herr Ktz.
1,,,:0wed by the new BALLET DITERTISSEME.NT, entitled
VNE FETE EN OLYMPE.
Prices—Stalls, 7s; Dress Circle, 5s ; Boxes, 3s ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery,
Is.; and Private Boxes, One, Two, Three and Four Guineas. The
'lice open daily from Ten till Six, where places may to
secured.. Private Boxes and Stalls to be had of Messrs. Leader and
Coot. 63, New Bond-street.

THE kTRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Under the management of Ntr. nuckstone.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 9,

Will be performed the Drama of THE KNIGHTS OF THE
ROUND TABLE. Characters by Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, G.
Vandennott W. Farren, Compton, and Buckstone ; MISS Reynolds,
Miss E. Grey, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam.
titer which, the entirely new and orizinal extravaganza, entitled
Ma. BUCKSTONE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE (IN LEl-
tig.T Kit-SQUARE), written by J. R. Pianche, Esq.
_ _

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. Cneams KERN.
THIS EVENLNG, JUNE 9,
Will be performed FROM VILLAGE TO COURT. Principal
characters by Messrs. Harley, Fisher, and Cathcart ; Misses Mur-
ray, Heath, and Vivash.
Followed by FAUST AND MARGUERITE. Characters by Messrs. C. can and David Fisher Mrs. Winstanley and Miss C.
Ledercq.
After which, AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. Characters ty
M•ssrs. Meadows, D. Fisher, and Saker ; and Misses Murray and
Daly,

any surprise, of course, nowadays, that the Cabinet
should display additional blunder after blunder in
the method of its internal re-organisation. Other-
wise than by some such lamentable consistency in
inconsistency we should not now have occasion to
regret the manner in which the twin Ministries
of War and Colonies are being awarded—leaving
Lord JoHN RUSSELL (without office) still Leader
of the House of Commons, and Lord PALMEESTON
still Home Secretary.

LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the management of Madame Vestris.

THIS EVENING, Jura 9,
Will be performed BEFORE BREAKFAST. Characters by Mr,
C. Mathews, Messrs. F. Matthews, Swan, and Baker; Miss Wad.
hatn,
Followed by GIVE A DO i AN ILL NAME.
To conclude with TRYING IT ON.

Experience fully proves that the act of last ses-
sion providing for the summary conviction and
punishment of parties guilty of aggravated assaults
on females and young children has totally failed
in achieving the laudable objects for which it was
passed. Although the guardians of the publics
peace have exhibited great vigilance and activity
in bringing to justice persons guilty of such
offences—although Magistrates have, in the great
majority of instances, displayed great firmness
and determination in acting up to the spirit of the
law, and bringing its most stringent provisions
into operation, the foul crime still flourishes,—
nay more, so far as we are enabled to learn, is
actually increasing. Day after day, week after
week, the records of the various Police Courts
present us with a long and dismal catalogue of
brutal outrages against inoffensive females, differ-
ing, indeed, in details, and in the extent of the
atrocities perpetrated, but all presenting similar
features of reckless and unmitigated brutality on
the part of the cowardly assailants. Generally
speaking the unfortunate and deeply-injured
wives exhibit a degreee of forbearance and long-
suffering truly astonishing. If prevailed on to
come forward, and truly to narrate the sufferings
they have undergone, we hear of a long course of
incessant ill usage, commenced almost immediately
after marriage, and continued without intermis-
sion until the last moment. We hear of former
summonses obtained, which were never acted on, of
repeated forgiveness, in the futile hope that the
truculent scoundrel might be better for the
future—of everything, in fact, save amendment,
that seldom comes. The cowardly miscreant,
who has accustomed himself to such outrages
cannot forego his "privilege," as he fancies it to
be, but continues in the same course until he has
incurred new penalties—perchance until ho has
qualified himself for a position at the dock of a
criminal tribunal, to answer the death of his
miserable partner.
It is not always, however, that any evidence
can be obtained, the sufferers either positively re-
fusing to appear, although in the immediate vici-
nity of the Court ; or excusing the father of her
children at her own expense, stating, perhaps,
that he was a good husband when sober, that she
herself had aggravated him ; or, possibly, alto-
gether denying the ill-treatment, although its
marks were but too painfully perceptible, written
in indelible characters on the countenance of
the injured party. Indeed, it was the frequency
of such reconciliations, and the all but certainty
that the criminal would escape with impunity if
A Minister of War is at length to be appointed.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL announced the committed for trial to the Sessions that led to
gratifying the enactments above alluded to.
fact to the House of Commons last evening. But If any person should discredit the magnitude
the Noble Lord omitted to state who had been of the grievance, a few days' observation will con-
selected for the office by her MAJESTY'S Govern- vince him of his error. On Tuesday last, in the
Guildhall and Thames Police Courts, there were no
ment. Possibly because the vacancy had not yet
less than eight misogynists brought up before the
been filled up definitively. It is understood to-day,
presiding Magistrates. Five of these were at the
however, that the rumours of yesterday were not
Guildhall (for the diversion appears tog e popular in
altogether without foundation, that the post of the City, where it can, generally peaking, be
honour, during this epoch of actual warfare, will obtained on very reasonable terms), and three at
be jealously retained for himself by the the Thames Court. We shall not pollute our
Duke of NEWCASTLE. Happily for Eng- columns by repeating the particulars of these
land would it have been had his Grace cowardly outrages. Suffice it to say, that six of
the eight were sentenced to various terms of im-
adopted a yet more patriotic course than the one prisonulent, and that two were remanded, in eon-
upon which he appears to have Actually adven- sequence of the absence of their injured wives.
tured. Fortunate for the cause of Europe would Since that day we have heard of other cases, where
it have been had the Noble Colonial Secretary the panacea, imprisonment, has been adopted,
evinced a generous self-abnegation— and there have been two charges for "murders"
self-abnegation—what, under
circumstances,perpetrated on that very Tuesday. What neces-
nithe would have been a really affect- .
.y, then, for recapitulating the sickening details
g magnanimity—by listening, not to the die_
city,
of other outrages to show that a further remedy
fates of his own ambition, but to the necessity of is required, that new and more stringent enact-
the time, the requirement of the juncture, the ments must be passed for the prevention or punish-
demand of a whole people, resigning the position ment of such offences.
of authority, of glory, of responsibility to What, then, is to be done to protect these help-
the choice of the nation, Viscount PALMER-
less sufferers ? to remove this foul reproach from
STON. It is deeply to be regretted that the national escutcheon ? Imprisonment, although
this was not the decision of his Grace the Duke accompanied by hard labour, has clearly and un-
Of NEWCASTLE. equivocally failed. The persons who bring them-
What is desirable at such a crisis selves within the operation of the law, generally
in a Minister of War for a great country like speaking, do not mind imprisonment. They con-
• England, is—.a man of brilliant genius, of un- vert it into a species of holiday, and they are all
doubted popularity, of inflexible decision, of the time indulging their malignity in speculating
enlarges and ripened on the privations that must be endured by their
experience. Not an
amiable mediocrity. wretched families when deprived of their earn-
Had the present Home
Secretary been Thus " nursing their wrath to keep it
ings.
boldly and promptly norni- warm," they work themselves up to the highest
nated to the
he would, beforenew office) we rest assured that pitch of exasperation against the person whom
emsalated, .11 the turn of the year, have they had injured, and, in place of craving forgive-
-1 some measure at least, the ness, are prepared to merit a further term in the
great Caallova teem
orable and splendid reputa-
repute place from which they had, been liberated !
lion, That amazing
What, then, is to he done? -'' The problem is as
which won for the illustrious Minister of War,
can the glo-
e bli
rious designation of th© o 0
o. pn difficult as it is important, and the legislator that
could offer a satisfactory solution would be en-
It were idle now, however, t:°banisQr
rest as of Victory." titled to the highest rewards that could be offered
content d
in lamentations. We must wasting our time by a grateful community.
we possibly can, while Lord eas " Flogging," the punishment suggested by a
PalaseasToe-, natural feelin
the agonising anxieties of a g ,
is deneral conflictaurin ''
ardl miscrea g of indignation against the cow-
nts, has been objected to by many
dicating his energies to the abatement of the smoke- y
conscientious and earnest men as having a bru-
rruisance, to the reorganisation of the metropolitan Wising tendency. They show that it proved
and provincial police, to the prevention of further Utterlyp ineffectual in repressing offences against
intramural interments, to the supervision of urban
ecrieupalellty, and thence argue that it would beavailing if extended to assaults against
peyr unavailing and suburban drainage, to the extension and im- '
the
provement of the militia, and to the other duties justice, say
thTther also, and with much apparent
would be very impolitic to
n exatraoltrdNivniaury powers on magistrates,
of home administration. The Duke of NEWCAS- confer such
tse all the time watching over the war depart- who might not act
and
whsuffici.ent discrimination
meat in the conduct of the arrangements of on every occasion,
o
might sentence per-
svhich his Grace has already evinced such timidity, i .sons who had been driven to the verge of insanity
incapacity, indecision, and shortsightedness.
by great provocation to the degradation. Although
i we respect their motives, and willingly accordg furl
Tbesc© may be hard words, but we eaamot for we, cannot fully coincide with thee; gentlemen
Whispered life of us speak with " bated breath and
care
rlspered humbleness" of one to whose lack of 1 weight to their arguments. We are, however,
or of capacity we are indebted for the i convinced that nothing but corporal punishment,
deplorable •
promptly and soundly administered ea
delays notorious in the trans-shipment , n prove
of our trop -
even that •
ps by way of Gibraltar and Valetta to effectual ; and emay require other ad..
Gallipoli,
afterwards to the Asiatic coast of junets in cases where there have been repeated
the Bosphorus
fore, it is, We, opposite Constantinople. Where- convictions. • •
admit, with by The argument as to the " brutalising tendency
grace in the admit with
no means the best
scarcely applicable, for the person
'distribution of the hat we observe this new of the eat" is
and without adequate
tion. A distribution offices of Administra- who wilfully, recklessly,
so
blundering
that it re- provocation maltreats a female, more particularly
serves to the Duke of N
be rendered more brutal than
*ar, retains Lord PAL EWCASTLE the Ministofwife, can scarcely
xxlisr - - ry a
himself to .
be Suoh per.
oz., perversely encnigh, I h© has already proved

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress. Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 9,

Will be performed THE THIRST OF GOLD ; or, the Lost Ship,
Ind the Wild Flower of Mexico. With the unique grand scenic
effect of the Sea of Ice. Characters by Messrs. B. Webster C.
Selby, Keeley, and Paul Bedford; Madame Celeste, and Mrs. Leigh
Murray.

After which will be produced the New Extravaganza, entitled
A MOVING TALE, supported by Mr. Keeley, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with the popular Nautical Drama of the CABIN BOY.
Julien (her original character), Madame Celeste. Tickets, Places,
and Private BoxeP to be had at the theatre.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THE.kTRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.
THIS EVENLNG. Jusx 9.
Will be performed the Comic D7ama called HUSH MOSEY.
Characters by Messrs. F Robson, Emery. White, and Vincent ; Miss
Dormer, and Mrs. A. Wigan.
To be followed by THE FIRST NIGHT. Characters by Messrs.
Allred Wigan, Leslie, Franks, Harwood Cooper, and Vincent ; Miss
P. Horton, and Miss Wyndham.
After which. THE MUMMY. Characters by Messrs. H. Wigan,
Robson, H. Cooper; Misses Marston and E. Turner.