The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-23 00:00:00

SUNDAY .34USIC IN THE PARKS.

Notwithstanding the threatening appearance of the
weather during the morning, the attendance in the Re-
gent's Park yesterday to hear the band play was exceed.
ingly numerous. The band has been augmented and
improved, and appeared to give general satisfaction.
Several hundred chairs were provided for the accommo-
dation of the visitors, but the demand for them greatly
exceeded the supply. A number of respectably-dres, ed
persons carried programmes, which were sold at one
penny each, "in aid of the band ;" but in several cases
the purchasers paid as much as a shilling, and even half.
a-crown, for one. One gentleman yesterday handed 20s.
to a member of the committee. The usual order and
regularity prevailed, and everything passed off in the
most satisfactory manner, with the exception, perhaps,
of the smoking, which should not be indulged in so near
the b.tnd. The following programme was performed :
Gra,,d March "Lion"
Cavat in a, " Lucia di Lammermoor" Donizetti.
Pas Redouble "Love on"
Polonaise
Waltz " Vesuvian " . Lanner.
Duet "Norma"
Grand Slow March
Selection . " Figlia del Roggimento" Donizetti.
Aria " By tho sad Sea Waves" Benedict.
Quadrille

National Anthem.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
Foreign-office. Present Viscount Palmerston, the
Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Ear!
'Granville, the Earl of Ilarrowby, Sir George Grey, the
Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord
Pam-mire, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles
Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley
of Alderley, the Hon. M. T, Baines, and the Duke of
Argyll. The Council sat two hours.
THE PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—It is confidently
ruam=red in political circles that the present session of
Parliament will be brought to a close the third week in
the ory.sning month, as it is anticipated all public busi-
ness will be concluded by that period.
The Prince Regent of Baden has arrived in Paris
from England on a visit of four or five days to the Em-

peror.
The King of Sweden has charged Prince Oscar, his
son, to present to the Emperor for the Princa Imperial
the insignia of the order of the Seraphim.
Count Orloff has returned to Paris from Montpelier.
M. de Seebach is again i❑ Paris.

Tan RAILWAY STRUM—LIVERPOOL, June 21.---The
turnouts held another meeting this morning, and ap-
pointed a deputation to wait upon the directors, respect-
fully requesting them to submit the questions in dispute
to ai'Atrittion. The deputation was informed by Mr.
Booth, the secretary, that the directors had definitively
deciled never to employ any of the men who bad struck.

REBUILDING OF COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.—AII
matters having been amicably arranged with the pro-
prieterw, the Duke of Bedford and Mr. Gye, it is now
determined that Covent Garden Theatre shall be rebuilt.
Sir C. Fox and Mr. Henderson have entered into a con•
tract, and pledged themselves that six months from the
day they enter the work of reconstruction, the theatre
will he ready for operatic performances.—Musical
World.

ITALIAN OPERA. AT THE SURREY THEATRE.—The en-
tertainments at this theatre on Saturday evening, which
were for the benefit of Miss Rosina Wright, consisted of
the second act of "Norma," and the entire opera of
" Lucrezia Eorgia"—Madame Lorini being the represen-
tative of the first heroine, and Madame Caradori that of
the second. The attendance was so numerous that, not-
withstanding the advertisements had stated that it was
the "last night of the series," the directors, relying on
the success which had attended their efforts, caused an
announcement to be made that they had determined upon
giving another series of operatic performances, com-
mencing this (Monday) evening. It was also stated that
the opera of "La Sonnambula" and other favourite com-
positions would be immediately produced, with every ad-
vantage which could be derived from orchestral and
ch, rat effects, aided by the decorative art.
THE TIPPERARY BANK.—The publication of the letter
addressed by John Sadleir to his brother James a few
weeks before the stoppage of the Tipperary Joint-Stock
Bank, detailing the plan for presenting fictitious ac-
counts to the proprietors, was, on Saturday, a topic of
universal attention in the City. If anything could in-
duce shareholders in public companies to distrust the
financiers, who parade uniatelligible statements, and
who, relying on the popularity of unbounded promises,
contrive, in their practised manner, at every meeting to
put down plain inquirers, this document should be fol-
lowed by that result. The probability is, however, that
its only effect will bo to stimulate for a moment the dis-
position to investigate the position of such few concerns
as may be notoriously opened to suspicion. Even this
limited movement will do good, and should be aided in
every way, and in that sense it is proper to inquire the
reason for surpressing in the printing of Mr. Sadleir's
letter the names of the three Banks which be appears
to have cited as establishments from whose proceedings
he had modelled his own course of infamy. As this
letter, together with such of Mr. Sadlei►•'s general pa-
pers as may have fallen into the hands of the legal con-
ductors of the case, most probably implicates others
as well as his brother James in his deliberate conspira-
cies, it is also expedient to ask whether any steps are in
progress to reach all such persons by criminal prose-
cutions.

A letter from Parma says :—" It is high time that
steps should be taken by the Government of England to
give that support to the Duchess of Parma of which she
stands in need, ii she is really bent upon resisting the
encroachments of Austria►, by giving her the moral sup-
port of the British Minister here, and thereby convinc-
ing her that if she takes the initiative in it troducing the
desired reforms, she would bs cr untenanc ,d therein by
the friends and well-wisbers of Italy. A commencement
of reform, even in the small State of Parma, would Le
the signal for reforms in the other Italian States." . .
QUICK PASSNGE FROM CHINA. • -The fine cipper ship
Stuatt . Wortley, 1,000 tons, commanded by Capt.
George Simsdn, arrived in the Downs on Saturday with
a valuable cargo, of tea and silk. This ship is one of
several built for Sir George Hodgkinson by.the late Mr.
John Smith of Sunderland, whose excellence of model
the splendid passage of this ship (only 100 days) is h
anffivimt proof.