The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-07 00:00:00

•onsent of the Government, extended it until the 31st
of January, 1848.
The report of the recal of Marshal BUGEAUD fruni

Algiers is confirmed.
The Duke of MONTEBELLO took the oaths of office
as Minister of Marine on the 3d instant.
The Reforme has the following on the subject of
French intervention in Portugal. " What," it asks,
" Was the result of the French intervention in Spain ?
What did it found, maintain, or protect in the country ?
The monster it was intended to defend was enabled to glut
at his will the blood of the noblest victims. Riego was
dragged to the scaffold in a basket. The most generous pa-
triots were offered as holocausts to the Royal hyena. To
this very moment Spain is a prey to factions; revolutionary
ideas are still all powerful, and Royalty is more feeble, more
degraded, and more detested than it was in 1823. What the
restoration achieved in Spain the juste milieu is anxious to
repeat in Portugal. We will not charge M. Guizot with be-
traying the dynasty he serves and driving it to its ruin.
That is there own look out. But, being attentive spectators
of events which crowd upon us, we find the history of the
future written beforehand in that of the past, and, instead of
seeking to predict, we confine ourselves to narrate. When
foreigners attempted to interfere in the intestine struggles of
France, their intervention was fatal to royalty. When French
royalty intervened in the intestine struggles of Spain it lost
itself. The road to Madrid brought Charles X, to Cherbourg.
Has M. Guizot inquired whither leads the road to Lisbon?'
General Don JOAQUIN JULIAN DE ALZAA, whose
arrest has been mentioned, has been sent, by order of
Government, to Limoges, where he is to reside.
We find the following in the Courrier du Havre:-
" According to information, which comes from a sure
source, the Committee charged with the examination of the
Customs' Bill has been struck, like every one in the com-
mercial world, with the insignificance of that work, and
not being willing to join in a measure without effect for the
shipping interest, has, on the proposition of one of its
members, whom we are assured is M. Thiers, adopted
almost unanimously the following series of measures :-
I. A reduction in the duty on coffee. 2. A reduction in the
duty on all kinds of sugar, indigenous and colonial. 3. A
reduction on the over-tax on foreign sugar; and 4. The
establishment of a duty on English copper ore, in order to
encourage that coming from South America. In support of
these propositions, M. Thiers, we are informed, demonstrated
the necessity of doing something worth speaking of for the
seaports and the merchant shipping, the basis of the state
navy; in fact, the adoption of these measures would give
nearly 80,000 tons of freight to our vessels trading to a
distance, employing 200 vessels of 400 tons each. The Com-
mittee, by a majority of 7 to 2, requested M. Thiers to draw
up the report; but M. Thiers, for private considerations,
declined that honourable task, promising, however, to defend
with energy in the tribune the views of the Committee.
The report will be presented this session, to be discussed in
January."
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Saturday at 79f. 15c. ; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 25c. ; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,265 f. ; Rouen, 973 f. 75c. ; Havre,
662 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 607 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 747 f. 50c. ;
Vierzon, 596 f. 25c. ; Bordeaux, 508 f. 75c. ; Boulogne, 405 f. ;
Basle, 190 f. ; Dieppe, 317 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg,
427 f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 413 f. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons,
440 f. ; Cette, 447 f. 50c. ; Spanish Passives, 4%.
LYONS, JUNE 3.-Paris and Rouen, 960 f. ; Avignon and
Marseilles, 756 f. 25c. ; Northern, 610 f. ; Paris and Lyons,43sf.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 5.
Namur and Liege, 31/2-Northern of France, 12-Paris
and Rouen, 38-Paris and Strasbourg, 4%-Rouen and
Havre, 25%-Sambre and Meuse, 73A.

LLANELLY RAILWAY and DOCK
COMPANY.-(THIS I)AY.)

The annual meeting of the proprietors'of this com-
pany was held today, at their offices, 9, Old Jewry.
chambers, City, but reporters were not admitted, the
reason assigned being that matters were to be discussed
which were not intended for publication.

ALARMING FIRE.-THREE PER-

SONS FRIGHTFULLY INJURED.
(THIS DAY.)
This morning, shortly before five o'clock, the greatest
consternation prevailed in the vicinity of the Surrey
Theatre, Blacktriars-road, in consequence of an alarm-
ing and destruction fire on the premises known as the
"Surrey Cole Hole," for many years the favourite re-
sort of the members of the theatrical profession on that
side of the water. At the time above-mentioned, Mr.
J. W. Tabernacle, the landlord, with his family, who
were in bed, were alarmed by a suffocating smoke enter-
ing their bed-rooms, and such a fearful hold had the
flames got of the upper part of the building by that
time, that they were compelled to make a precipitate re-
treat by the windows. Mr. Tabernacle leaped out at
the side window, near the stage-door of the theatre,
whereby he received a fracture of the arm and several
contusions. Mrs. Tabernacle was caught in a sheet by
the neighbours, but was not so much injured as her
husband, although most dreadfully shaken. The female
servant followed afterwards, and by the fall broke her
back. They were severally taken into the Surrey Coffee-
house, where they promptly received medical assistance. In
the meantime the police and others were sent to the various
engine stations, and in a few minutes the one from Waterloo
road, and that from the Southwark Bridge road, at-
tended, followed by the West of England. The whole
of the firemen set to work in a most courageous manner
under the judicious management of Mr. Henderson, the
foreman of the district, and with an abundant supply of
water succeeded in confining the flames to the house of
Mr. Tabernacle, but not before the latter was totally
destroyed and the contents of the building wholly con-
sumed. Too much praise cannot be awarded to the
firemen for their unceasing endeavours to save the pro-
perty of Mr. Tabernacle, and likewise that of Mrs.
Davidge, which for a considerable time seemed doomed
to destruction. During the raging of the fire a great
number of the actors and various officials connected with
the theatre were to be seen most actively engaged for
the best. The roof of the Surrey Theatre is much
damaged, but the interior has sustained little or no in-
jury. The Equestrian Tavern, on the other side of the
theatre, is much injured by water, &c., but all parties
are fortunately insured, Mr. Tabernacle in the Licensed
Victuallers' Office, Mr. Harris in the Westminster and
Sun offices. Mrs. Davidge is likewise insured. Great
praise is due to the police for keeping back an immense
multitude. The origin of the fire is at present unknown,
but it is generally supposed to have broken out in one
of the upper rooms.

FINE ARTS.
EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT OF HER
MAJESTY. By Count D'Orsay.

We have had the pleasure of inspecting this remark-
able production of art, and can testify to its singular
beauty. The marvel is how so faithful a likeness could
be produced entirely from recollection. Her Majesty is
represented on horseback, clothed in a riding habit of
brilliant scarlet velvet, wearing a Lincoln green cap,
with a plume of ostrich feathers " scattering" about in
the breeze. Perhaps the most conspicuous characteristic
of the composition is its extraordinary animation. The
charger, a beautiful creature, worthy of its Royal Mis-
tress, seems to be bounding at a canter out of the can-
vass. Among the almost innumerable representations
of our beloved Sovereign this is certainly about the very
best as a correct portra4ure of the features, and it is
unquestionably the most striking for effect and general
invention. As we looked at the painting we were
irresistibly reminded of the graphic and Buffonic de-
scription by Milton of the creation of the lion—
" pawing to get free its hinder parts,
Then springs as broke from bonds, and rampant shakes
His brindled mane."
There was the same visible glorying in the horse before
us, whether it was indicative of his love of freedom from
the loosened reins, or of pride at his costly burden; for,
as the adage saith, " the horse knoweth his rider." If
we wished for a text for a churlish disparagement we
might say that in the forelegs of the animal there is
somewhat of the clumsiness of Wouvermans. Otherwise
the drawing appeared unexceptionable. The colouring is
ingeniously modulated, notwithstanding the brightness
of the riding habit and the almost gaudiness of the
insignia of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. With
much care, however, in the employment of the palette
the contrast of hues is toned down admirably. Count
D'Orsay has most assuredly earned for himself
the magnificent soubriquet of the Admirable Crichton.

CONSECRATION OF LAMBETH NEW CHURCH.—
This day the Bishop of Winchester, attended by the diocesan
clergy, consecrated the newly-erected church of All Saints,
New-cut, Lambeth. The church was very respectably
attended, no person being admitted without tickets, and a
body of the L division of police-constables, under Inspector
Arnold, preserved order among the crowd assembled. This
consecration sets at rest the line the intended railway will
pass to its new terminus.
VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON'S ASSEMBLY.--On Sa-
turday night Viscountess Palmerston had an assembly at the
family residence in Carlton Gardens. His Royal Highness
the Hereditary Prince of Lucca, attended by the Marquis
Provenzali, and his Royal Highness Prince Oscar of Sweden,
accompanied by Baron Rehausen, the Swedish Chargé
d'Affaires, and attended by Colonel Berkeley Drummond,
and Captain Haffner, honoured her Ladyship with their
presence.
The Admiralty have officially announced that
Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K. 8., is to command a
squadron of exercise during the ensuing summer, the ships
to consist of the St. Vincent, 120; Howe, 120 ; Caledonia,
120 ; and Queen, 110. Not any steamers have yet been
name& but it is expected those fitting and nearly ready for
sea, viz., Amphion, Avenger, Dragon, Odin, Terrible (en
her return from the special service on which she is about to
be employed), Centaur, and Retribution (the two last not
yet commissioned), will also be placed under Sir Charles
Napier's orders. The Admiralty have directed the Rear-
Admiral to.receive and distribute on board the squadron such
half-pay officers as may wish to go, and are desirous of gain-
ing experience by the cruise. They are to be victualled as
usual, but to arrange in other respects with the officers of the
mess which they may join.—Hampshire Telegraph.
THE KING OF HANOVER.—Saturday was the birth-
day of his Majesty the King of Hanover. His Excellency
Count Kielmansegge, his Majesty's representative at the
Court of Great Britain, gave a grand dinner in honour of the
day, at his residence in Grosvenor -place.
LYCEUM THEATRE.—We perceive that to-night's
performance is for the benefit of Mr. and Mrs. A. Wigan.
Mr. IWn has achieved a very high reputation in a taiort
time, and his wife has made much of everything entrusted
to her at this theatre. We hope that their high position in
the esteem of their friends and the public will ensure them a
full house on the occasion. Mr. Wigan plays his original
part of Mons. Tourbillon, in To Parents and Guardians, in
w4Aeh is made so great a hit last season.
The Oftio of Collector hof Customs at the port of
411311auth, Jan daaica, has become vacant by the death of
T. Ashby, and tho following promotionsG have taken
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