The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 28, 1870.

OPERAS, THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS.

ITALIAN OPERA, Drury Lane.—Lucia di Lammermoor. 6.10.
A DELPHI—A t Seven, The Robust Invalid. Free Labour.
PRINCE OF WALES'S—A 7.30. Quite by Accident. M.P. Dearest
Mamma. '

QUEEN'S—At Seven, Nry Wife's Dentist. 'Twixt Axe and Crown.
VAUDEVILLE—Cupboard Love. Two Roses. Don Carlos.

WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCR B 'CIL Egyptian Hall, Pic
cadilly, every Evening (except Saturday), at 8; Saturday Morn
iugs at 3. Admission is, 2s, 3s.

CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 ; Wed-
nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. •
Zo LOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park. Open daily (except Sun-
days). Admission, is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under
twelve, 6d.

MADAME TIISSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till
° 0 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, Is.; extra

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
after 1 I Afternoon... ..... ..15 after 2

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EVENING EDITION.

f)r Sunderland and Bradford, and supported the
Government.

When we say that Mr. BAINES, Mr. WINTER-
DOTHAN, and the other Dissenters, who supported
the Government, would not be a party to a breach
of faith, we by no means intend to affirm that this
was the only reason why they voted for the bill.
1 t is quite possible for occasions to arise
in which members may have to choose
between voting for a bad measure and violating a
promise which they have made unwarily
and. unwisely. There was no such. alternative
in the present instance. The members in question
were not called. upon to deviate from their old
antagonism to concurrent endowment. It is the
grossest abuse of terms to call a loan an endoWment.
All that the Government does is to lend money
to certain persons, who, by a Government
act, have been placed in a position of
considerable embarrassment. The money is not
given ; there is no thought of giving it ; it will have
to be repaid, interest will have to be forthcoming
until it is repaid. The thing has been done over and
over again without any such urgent reason for it.
It has been done twice this session ; money has been
lent to the colony of New Zealand, and the Irish
Land Bill authorises it to be lent to Irish tenants
for the purchase of their holdings. If there is any
endowment in the cases of the Irish glebe holders
so is there in the case of the New Zealand colonists and
the Irish tenants. But it is a waste of words to argue
the matter further. Parliament, the nation, has
something better to do than to extract bees from
the bonnets of Mr. Mum, and his friends. There is,
however, one point that we should like to clear up.
We can understand why Mr. Mum. and his ultra-
dissenting friends should have supported Mr. CAND-
LISH'S bill, for their dissent is nothing except it takes
the form of active hostility to the Church. We can
understand, though we lament, the votes of men like
Mr. MonnisoN, Mr. JOHN LEWIS, and Professor FAW-
CETT, for they are essentially secularists; but in
the name of all that is Conservative, how. came Mr.
HENLEY to vote with these gentlemen ? He has
more than once this session gone into the lobby
with the extremest Radicals, but this is the most
eccentric vote given even by the right hon. mem-
ber for Oxfordshire, and father of the House of
Commons.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

lation on this point in a doubtful manner, intimating
that they permit residence in all parts of Europe,
or other continents, during peace, but the majority
distinctly declare that policies become positively
void by their holders if they visit a country or reside
in any of its possessions, while it is at war. It behoves
every man who has a family to beware in time of the
liability of his attempting to see the Continent or
the war.

THE STORM OF TIIESDAY.

The corn crops in the southern. counties of Eng-
land have been seriously injured by the heavy fall of
rain. Large patches of wheat" and oats in many
fields have been levelled flat to the ground, and

the roots of turnips and potatoes have been laid bare
by 'the powerful beating of the showers np•)n the
ridges. In many localities, but more particularly at
llolwood-park, Kent, the heavy rains penetrated the
rabbit burrows, and thousands of the younger ones
were drowned. In Surrey, also, the destruction )1 part-
ridges in. the valley districts was deplorable, the
bodies of coveys being found literally strewed about
in some places after the storm. Loss of human life
during the thunderstorm which passed over the
whole of England has been recorded in only two
instances, the victims being a man and a woman.

signed bills of lading, said he would take £5OO and
sink the ship, which had made several feet of water
on the outward passage. This led them to insure the
cargo both in England and. Bombay, and to agree to
give the captain £1,500 in the event of the ship
leaking so much that he would have to sink
her. The captain, on the other hand,
says the brokers first got him into difficulties
by inducing him to sign the bills of lading before the
cotton was shipped, and then, suggested to him to
sink the ship. The carpenter in his concession im-
plicated both parties, and it appears to have been a
sufficiently discreditable and disastrous affair to
justify 'the excitement it has created at Bombay and
Liverpool.

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lIER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, JULY 27.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accompanied
by Princess Louise, and Tier Majesty walked in the
grounds this morning with her Royal Highness.
Princess Beatrice also went out.
Viscountess Clifton has succeeded Lady Waterpark as
Lady in Waiting.

FASHIONABLE ARRANGEMENTS TO-DAY.
Cup Day at Goodwood.
At Lord's Ground (grand cricket match)—M.C.C. and
Ground v. Rugby School.