The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-08 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

"This place fills up an hiatus which the Crystal Palace leaves
wanting. Vocal and instrimental music of the first order, and a
display of fireworks which exceeds all imagination, are a fitting
close to a day at the Crystal Palace."
DANSON'S COLOSSAL PANORA.MA. of CIIUSAN.
Splendid and Extensive Menagerie and Marine Aquarium—Unri-
valled Military Band.
it r, VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT,
In which Miss Poole, Miss Bansford, and Mr. Manvers sing
several National and Patriotic Songs—All the Amusing Novelties
of the Gardens in succession, concluding with the " Feast of Lan-
terns," and a most magnificent display of Fireworks by Southby,
Admission One Shilling. A splendid Pavilion for Dancing has been
erected. Full Quadrille Band, &c.

A.STLEY'S .ROYAL AMPHITLIEAritE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.

The pcvniar piece, the Cossacks, whose career has been most
will shortly be withdrawn, to admit the production of a
Grand Military Spectacle, embracing many of the principal events
of the present War between Russia and Turkey !
Enthusiastic reception of the new Equestrian Ballet d'Actlon, the
poetry of motion !

TIIM EVENING, ArcrsT Fl,

And daring the week, THE COSSACKS; or, Vive la France.
After which, LES PREIIVES DU GENIE, or S nes In the Circle,
invented and arranged by Mr. William Cooke, who, in the course of
the evening, will exhibit (upon his hand) a horse whose height is
only 15 inches.

HERR C/IRISTOFF, the first Rope Dancer in the universe.
To conclude with the new Equestrian Ballet d'Action, by Mrs. S.
G. Healey, called THE KNIGHT AND THE WA fER LILY ; or,
Love amung the Mermaids.
Boa-office open from Eleven. till Four. Stage Manager, Mr, W.
West.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tut. Div —Morning 14 min.after 1 I Evening 41 min.aft. 1
TaVoaaow—Morning 8 min.after 2 I Evening 35 min. aft. 2

Tti E WEATHER.—Sus 011,101, Aro. S.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
66 highest since noon on Saturday.
56—lowest this morning and during the night.
70 —this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 30'11.
Winn, SW.—Light, with fine sunshiny weather.

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the consequence of what Austria and Russia were
then suffered to d). As to France her repre-
sentative " blushed to sign the treaty ;" and as to
England her people felt themselves the butt and
laughing-stock of the diplomatic world.
The present then seems to be a fair time for
keeping a great end in view. The first NAPOLEON
sought conquest and universal empire, the third
NAPOLEON declares the age of conquests past, and
that the Empire is Peace. Now peace can never
be stable while nationalities are oppressed, and
France and England can never be secure against
a renewal of late' villanies, while all the despots
East of the Rhine are band©d by the necessities
of a Robber Confederacy. The two chief German
Monarchs, and the Tartar Autocrat, whose
dominions consist so largely of stolen terrritory,
are the constant danger of Europe. They must
keep up large and costly armies themselves, and
compel us to do the same. Force them to be
honest, and the Continent might repose. It has
often occurred to us that whatever oligarchies,
family compacts, and coalitions, here may be
devising, this may not improbably be the final
aim of NAPOLEON the Third. He has both ex-
traordinary prudence and a lofty ambition. He
has marked out a nobler course for himself than
conquest. Revolutionised France has always
sighed to see the nations of Europe delivered from
oppression. What if his mind, the master-mind of
European thrones, be really occupied with a scheme
which would certainly immortalise the name of
NAPOLEON 111.

A Testimonial of a very graceful kind was
offered to the honourable and veteran reformer
the member for Montrose, on Saturday last, the
sth of August, 1854, by several of the most emi-
nent members of the House of Commons. It was
a full-length, life-size portrait of JOSEPH HUMS,
painted by LUCAS, and presented to Mrs. HUME,
at the private residence of the hon. member in
Bryanstone-square—the presentation being accom-
panied by an address feelingly read by Lord JOHN
RUSSELL in the name of the numerous subscribers
towards the purchase of the picture, including
among them no less than seventy-five of the more
influential of the national representatives. The
country at large will feel that the tribute thus
offered to Mr. Huaim by his immediate admirers
was one in every respect eminently well deserved.
It was a meed of grateful recognition won from
his compatriots by forty-three years of distin-
guished public service, the last thirty-six years of
which the hon. member himself remarked on
Saturday afternoon had been wholly " uninter-
rupted." For it was as long ago as 1811 that he
first entered the House of Commons, taking his
post there among the ranks of the national re-
presentatives as the elect of the Weymouth con-
stituency. Having been originally educated for
a career in the medical profession, Mr. HUME, as
his terse Parliamentary biographer informs us,
proceeded to Hindostan in the twenty-fifth year
of his age, remaining there until his thirtieth,
namely, from 1802 till 1807—during which five
years of his Indian career he so well acquitted
himself of his various duties, in a variety of very
different offices, now as surgeon, now as paymas-
ter, now as postmaster, now as Persian interpreter
to the army during the Mahratta war, as to have
elicited official acknowledgment through the pub-
lic thanks offered to him by Lord LAKE and other
distinguished functionaries. It was in 1808,
when he had only just completed his third decade,
that Mr. HUME returned home, having in the
brief interval of his absence in Asia already real-
ised more than a mere competence. After re-
maining in this country during 1809, he appears
to have occupied the next two years, namely,
1810 and a portion of 1811, in a tour
through the countries bordering the Medi-
terranean, including, among others, Spain,
Egypt, Greece, and Turkey. Immediately
on his second return to England, as we have
already observed, ho was returned M.P. for Wey-
mouth—entering the House of Commons, conse-
quently, in his thirty-fourth year, and persevering
Tra-v&ersiiiect -Isuice-ttien, fra-iniiidrtant period *Hi-
tervening between 1811 and 1854, in his arduous
labours as a Radical Reformer and a practical eco-
nomist. So consistently, that, during those forty-
three years, he has, while battling frequently
with Ministry after Ministry, secured to himself
throughout the esteem and respect of all parties
without any distinction whatsoever.

Although some years Mr. HUME'S junior in age,
Lord PALMERSTON is five years his senior as a
Member `7)f the House of Commons, the latter
having first occupied a seat within its walls as far
back aslBo6 [being then in his twenty-second year]
as one of the Representatives of the University of
Cambridge. Yet, having this undoubted pri-
ority, and in many respects, moreover, an un-
rivalled reputation among the representatives,
the Noble Lord the Member for Tiverton may be
said, with his ineffable air of unfading adoles-
cence, virtually to have yielded up to Mr. HUME
the prestige customarily appertaining to the Father
of the House of Commons.

In the seventy-seventh year of his age—born
in 1777— JOSEPH HUME, in 1854, has received
the spontaneous tribute already specified as hav-
ing been offered to the wife of the Hon. Member
for Montrose, in the name of the subscribers to
a very graceful and appropriate testimonial. The
portrait of the veteran reformer, it will have been
remarked, was generously transferred by him and
his lady to the safe keeping, henceforth, of the
authorities of the London University.
As Lord JOHN RUSSELL remarked, in the
course of the eloquent address read by
him on Saturday, to the recipient of the
testimonial, "Mr. Hun has laboured long, with
perseverance, with courage, with energy, to change
the state of our laws and of our Legislature"--
adding—" More especially in the cause of eco-
nomy and retrenchment his untiring efforts have
been conspicuous and successful." The address
remarking immediately afterwards—" The voice
of the people has encouraged his efforts, and a
spotless reputation is a part of his reward." After
forty-three years of arduous Parliamentary labour,
it must be pleasant for Mr. FIUME to hear an
avowal such as that made in his regard—

"A spotless reputation is a part of his re ward"
an avowal made iu his regard in the name both
of political friends and political opponents. The
secret of all which is simply discoverable in the
circumstance of the beneficent aim of the ambition
set before himself on his entrance into public
life by this aged and honourable Member of the
British Legislature. Hum's ambition was based
upon BENTIIAM'S philosophy. It was founded
upon the beautiful and noble principle inculcated
by that eminent sage—the principle of securing
for the greatest possible number the greatest pos-
sible advantages obtainable from good govern-
ment. It has been in accordance with this
generous principle that Mr. HUME has acted
throughout the forty-three years of his
energetic and laborious career in Parliament.
He has grown grey in toiling for the good of his
fellow-countrymen. As he himself says—He is
now an old man. As his compatriots say of
him, through the address read on Saturday in
their name by Lord JOHN RUSSELL—" The con-
sciousness that he has served his country as an
honest and disinterested patriot will, we all trust,
brighten his remaining
day give course, and after the heat
of th©
of his
calmness and serenity to the
eveninguntil the career be closed honourable
l. So
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omrkaybeitenbde--ed
—tach43 sans tache ! until

The Bribery Bill has been decidedly
of
improved
in
ns iitsgn
ipfiacsasnatg emtohdri
couu
mg h
oftirlee Hu
form, sanctioned by
rds. The
popular branch of the Legislature, was disfizurtleicl e
i
I by one unsightly blot that would have rendered
; its other provisions worse than useless. By
[ legalising the payment of travelling expenses for
ivoters it would have opened a door for corruption
of the most extensive and objectionable charac-
ter. It would, likewise, have rendered the costs
lof many elections so very extravagant as to pre-
vent any but wealthy candidates from offering
themselves for the suffrage of large constituencies.
When once the evil practice had obtained the
sanction, of law, it would.bcconp all but universal
in its application. Even conscientious voters