The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-03 00:00:00

THE StrN,

THE NEW NOVEL,
THE DISCIPLINE of LIFE,
IS PUBLISHED THIS DAY,

By Mr. Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street,
And may be had at all the Libraries.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
lildlle. JENNY LIND.
By Special Desire.
The Nobility, Patrons to the Opera, and the Public are respectfully
informed that a GRAND EXTRA NIGHT will take place-THIS
EVENING, on which occasion Mdlle. JENNY LIND will appear
as ELYIRA, in Bellini's Opera of
I PURITANI.
To conclude with the admired Ballet Divertissement, entitled
LE JUGEMENT DE PARIS. •
The Free List is suspended, the public Press excepted.
Pit Tickets may be obtained as usual at the Box-offlce of the
Theatre, price 10s. 6d. each, where applications for Boxes, Pit Stalls,
and Tickets are to be made.
Doors open at half-past Seven, and commence at Eight o'clock.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed THEMYSTERIOUS.STRANGER.
After which, the Burlesque, entitled TAMING A TARTAR.
Count Cracovienintkl, Mr. Worrell ; Kickerwhiski, Mr. Paul Bed-
ford ; Mazourki, Mr. Wright ; Ivan, Mr. Manyard ; Monsieur Con-
pee, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Strelenskl, Mr. Cullenford ; Countess Craco-
vieninskl, Miss Woolgar; Alazourka, Madame Celeste.
To conclude with the original farce, called HOW TO SETTLE
ACCOUNTS wini-YOUR LAUNDRESS. Whittington Widgetts,
Mr. Wright ; Jack Brown, Mr. Manyard ; Squibb, Mr. Redmond
Ryan; Mary White, Miss Woolgar; Mdlle. Cherry Bounce, Miss
E mug Harding.

FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Lessee. Mr. John Mitchell. 83, Old Bend-street.
M. ALCIDE TOUSEZ'S BENEFIT.
Last Night of the Season.
TO-MORROW EVENING,
The Entertainments will commence at half-past Seven o'clock when
Will be performed LE LION ET LE RAT.
To be followed by PHILTRE CHAIIPENOIS.
After which lIENRIETTE ET CHABLOT.
To conclude with LA SUR DE JOCRISSE.
During the Evening God Save the Queen will be sung by. the Com-
pany, assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Lea, of the Theatre Royal, Drury-
lane, and Mr. C. Graham.
Boxes. 6s. • Pit, is. 6d.; Amphitheatre, is. • Gallery. 2s
Boxes and !stalls may be obtaln,d at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library,
33„ Old Bond-street.

' ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
ROBERT HOUDIN continues to attract crowded and fashionable
audiences at the St. James's Theatre, to witness his extraordinary
and original SOIREES FANTASTIQUES, which, on account of
his provincial engagements, must unavoidably terminate at the end
of next week ; the remaining peribrmances will be arranged In ths
following order:—
THIS EVENING.
and SATURDAY EVE NINO.

During the ensuing week Robert Houdin will have the honour of
giving Six Representations OR Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sa-
turday Evenings, commencing at Half-past Eight; and Two Day
Performances, on Wednesday and Friday Mornings, commencing at
Halt-past Two. ♦ Grand Farewell Mottling Performance, on Mon-
day, August 14.
Boxes anti Stalls may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library,
33, Old But 4-street.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Under the direction of Mr. Kerschner.

Engagement otMrs. FITZWILLIAM and Mr. BUCKSTONIZ, fer
Twelve Nights.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed JOSEPHINE, THE CHILD OF THE REGI-
MENT, in which Mrs. Fitzwilllam and Mr. Backstone will perform.
Atter which, a Comic Drama. called A ROUGH DIAMOND, in
which Mrs. Fitzwllliam and Mr. Buckstone will perform.
To conclude with THE IDIOT OF THE MILL.
Manager and Treasurer. Mr. B. S. Fairbrether.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPLIITIIEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
Fitaball's new and completely successful Spectacle.
Unparalleled Equestrian Feats.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed, the new brilliant Spectacle, founded on Sir
Walter Scott's celebrated poetical Romance, and entitled MAR-
MION ; or, The Battle of Flodden Field.
To be followed by the inimitable EQUESTRIAN and GYMNAS-
TIC EXERCISES in the ARENA.
To conclude with a Grand Pageant, entitled LADY GODIVA
AND PEEPING TONI OF COVENTRY; or, Clearing the Toll.
Box-office open. from Eleven till Five.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. West.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Attraction unprecedented.
JULLIEN and his UNRIVALLED BAND.
GRAND MONSTER CONCERT.
New Quadrille, composed expressly for the Gardens.
Continuation of the Engagement of Miss HUDDART.
Engagement of MISS SARA FLOWER.
The DAYLIGHT VIEW of ROME, by Danson.
Superb and Unique MENAGERIE.
Grand Display of FIREWORKS, by the Messrs. Soathby.
No Extra Charge.
MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and
FRIDAY.
♦iew of Rome —Promenade Concerts, Vocal and Instrumental,
conducted by Mons. JULLIEN, whose splendid Band of Solo Per-
formers includes Messrs. Baker, Barrett, Bauman, George and Viotti
Collins, Cieffl, Collinet, Kcenig, Lazarus, Richardson, Sonnenberg,
kc.—Two Solos each Evening. —Several favourite Songs by Miss
Sara Flower and Miss Huddart during the Evening.—Also to be seen,
during the day, the beautiful Menagerie—Shakspere's House—The
Magid Bridge—and other novelties will be exhibited, the whole
concluding with a most magnificent and not to be rivalled display
of Fireworks, by the Messrs. Soutliby, representing the Glrandola
during the Holy Week at Rome.
Gates open at Ten A.m.. Feeding Time Five—Jullien's Concert at
Six—Fireworks at Half-past Nine.
Admission. as usual, One Shilling.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
No communication can be attended to unless autheati.
sated by the name and address of the writer.
&ejected communications cannot be returned.

THE WEATHER.—Scx OFFICE, AUGUST 3.
THERDIUMETZB, Lowest, 51; Highest, 67 ; soon, 68,

BAROBIETER, 29.9.
WIND S.S.W. ; morning, heavy showurs ; afternoon,
cloudy.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning .. 31 min. after 4 I Evening .. 40 min. after 4

LONDON,

to address the clubbists, and there is no reason to
doubt that the prudent advice will be followed by the
latter. Mr. LALOR, however, appears to reckon
without his host in supposing that the hurricane, as
he terms it, will so speedily pass away. It will in
its progress purify the atmosphere from the treason
taint by which it has so long been polluted, and
can- with it the hopes of those who fancied that
iielan-dc—oura exist as a separate republic, and that
they could with impunity renounce the allegiance
they owed to the SOVEREIGN of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland.

Much, however, now depends on the manner in
which Government will follow up the victory they
have attained. The clubs, which clearly were the
hot-beds of treason, in which the arrange-
ments for the rebellion were concluded,
have dissolved themselves. Care trust be taken
that they shall not be re-established under any
pretext whatever. The arms which were purchased
with so much ostentation must be surrendered to the
proper authorities appointed to receive them, before
any relaxation whatsoever can be permitted. A strict
surveillance must be kept over those who, by their
connexion with the principal traitors, have afforded
too strong a presumption of their own participation
in the guilty designs now happily exposed and de-
tected; and if a necessity should arise, the pro-
visions of the recent Act should be freely
brought into operation. It will be an act
of kindness to the misguided individuals them-
selves to withdraw them for a time from the
opportunity of committing mischief or implicating
themselves still more deeply than is at present the
case. It would have been fortunate for Messrs.
O'BRIEN and MEAGHER if verdicts according to the
evidence had been returned by the juries who tried
them. If that had been the case, they would now, in
place of being proscribed fugitives with large rewards
offered foi their apprehension, be undergoing a tem-
porary imprisonment only. They escaped moderate
punishment in consequence of the admission of sym-
pathising confederates to the jury-box, and have now
exposed themselves to the extreme penalty of the
law if justice should not be tempered with mercy,
and the sentence of death exchanged for perpetual
banishment. How far superior is the condition of
JOHN MITCHEL, the prime instigator of the rebellion,
to that of his still more unfortunate associates.

The_ approaching trial at the commission, which
will be opened in Dublin on Monday next, will in-
dicate in some degree how far a healthy tone has
been restored to society in Ireland. The law officers
of the Crown, in the discharge of their important
duties, will doubtless take every proper precaution to
guard against a failure of justice. No person who
is at all supposed to have been implicated in the
treasonable practices that have taken place
should be placed upon the panel, or if such persons
should chance to be summoned, and should answer
to their names, the prerogative of the Crown should
be freely resorted to in setting them aside. Let the
spirit of the instructions given by the Attorney-
General on Mrrcuces trial be strictly adhered to.
Exclude no person on account of his religion, but
strike off every man who professes political opinions
in accordance with those of the prisoners about to be
tried, or who justifies a resort to physical force under
any circumstances whatsoever.

It is the good fortune, or, shall we call it, the ine-
vitable prerogative of some families to identify them-
selves in a particular manner with the history of their
country; but it seldom falls to the lot of a distin-
guished house to associate the name of its members,
individually and collectively, with the civil, military,
naval, literary, and administrative genius of a whole
generation. In this respect the NAPIERS stand almost
without a parallel. Ia the reign of the first JAMES
of Scotland, according to a famous heraldic legend,
the ancestor of this noble race, himself a chieftain of
the, ancient clan of the Black Douglass, originated
by his : gallantry on the battle-field the name
which has of late years been rendered so
celebrated by his descendants. Instead of dege-
nerating, the family has only been matured
in vigour awl ripened in intellectual strength by the
lapse of centuries. To quote the chivalrous pun of
the Scottish monarch, the present generation of the
NAPIERS can find Nae-peers, even among the most
memorable of their remote progenitors.

Last evening a complimentary banquet was given
by the members of the Junior United Service Club
to the Conqueror of Sinde, Lieutenant-General Sir
CHARLES JAMES NAPIER. Apart from all other
considerations, it must have afforded a profound
sense of gratification to the gallant officers in the
British army to welcome back to his native
land the victor in the' great battles of
Meanee and Hyderabad. The personal daring,
the military skill, the indomitable resolution,
and the imperturbable calmness displayed on those
occasions by this illustrious soldier, were facts which
of themselves would have been sufficient to inspire
the members of the Junior United Service Club with
an anxiety to greet him, soon after his arrival in
England, with their cordial and fraternal congratula-
tions. But when it is remembered that to his bril-
liant services as a captain Sir CHARLES NAPIER
had added the solid merits of an administrator ;
when it is borne in recollection that he com-
pleted as governor what he had commenced as
conqueror, that ho not only carried the prowess of
our troops triumphantly over enormous hordes of the
Asiatic aborigines, but that he also ensured to his
country the permanent allegiance of the population of
Sinde by his wise and temperate administration—it
must be acknowledged that there was sufficient reason
for the enthusiasm with which Sir CHARLES was
yesterday received by his gallant brothers in her
MAJESTY'S service. Nor could their sen-
timents have been otherwise than enhanced by
the presence of the Earl of EnnENßoßouan, seeing
that it was during the governorship of that nobleman
over the vast empire in Hindostan that Sinde was
first attached to the Oriental dominions of Great
Britain, and that thus the navigation of the Indus and
its tributaries, a navigation extending for two thou-
sand miles inland, was opened to the commerce and
the enterprise of the merchants of England.
What we would especially wish to be understood,
in connexion with this congratulatory entertainment,
is that the banquet is something more than a
noisy compliment. Inadequate as it may be, we would
have it regarded by Sir CHARLES NAPIER himself
as a genuine English welcome, a welcome coming, it
is true, immediately from the lips of some sixty gen-
tlemen, but one which finds a responsive echo in the
hearts of many thousands of the people of these
realms. Powerful as the precedents may be, from
NELSON and BRONTE of the Nile downwards, per-
suasive as. may be his own experience to the contrary,
we would have Sir CHARLES NAPIER under-
stand that his country is not ungrateful, but
that she appreciates his eminent and splendid
services, if that be possible, to their very
uttermost. If slander and misrepresentation have
bee❑ conspicuous among the returns received by the
Conqueror of Sinde, for having enlarged the pos-
sessions of his SOYEREIGN by the acquisition of a po-
pulous and fertile kingdom like that of Sinde, he
must remember the superior misfortunes of one who
had preceded him by nearly three centuries. History
has bewailed, and will continue to bewail until the
end of time, the calumnies which embittered the
glory of the Adelantado of FERDINAND of Arragon
and Castile. And if the aspersions cast
upon the colonial administration of the
Conqueror of Sinde were equally undeserved, there
is a certain consolation in reflecting that they have
been immeasurably less prejudicial to his happiness
than those which gave to chains, degradation, and
penury the discoverer of Guanaharni. With all ear-
nestness, therefore, we would convey to the heart of
Sir CHARLES NAPIER the consolatory conviction that
his countrymen respond to the enthusiasm of the
Junior United Service Club, that they appreciate his
many and brilliant achievements, and that they regard
his name at once with emotions of pride and gratitude.

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