The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-11 00:00:00

THIS EYHNING

JASPER LANGTON; or. Duel to the Death.

Followed by
BROTHER 808.

To conolude with
PARIS IN 1792.

ASYLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITEIEATRIL
Lamm and Manazer, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
TUTS EVENING,
(the Last Week before Easter),
THR ARAR OF THF. DESERT AND MS FAITHFUL STEED.
The honie., whose won.lernil performance has been the universal
topic of conversation, tralne i by Mr William Cooke.
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After.vititei, the EQUESTRIAN SCENES in the CIRCLE. Also,
the mfrMitieut and incredible ascent of the Elephant from the ring
to theritigel; •
T 'Aniitirde wilh a screaming Farce, called MR. AND MII3.
WHITE.
Bos-ollioe open from Moves till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West.- Equestrian Director. Mr. W. Cooke, jun.

,EMMA. STANLEY'S BENEFIT.
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Fain tY Evening next, the 14th instant, Miss Emma Stanley's
Yienefit„..
On 1.4AV1R.D4.Y.,' the 15th, a Day Performance (the last of her
brat NitilafitNieascria}.'
ThePPOdonitSetigon ot the fashionable and popular Lyric Entertain-
ment,THE, OFSENt AGRA OF WOMAN, will commence on MON-
DAY. the 24th instant, at. SAINT NIA itTlN's H XLL, Long-acre.
Stallact;airs, 39, ; Coutrq 'sate, : Back Seats. Is.
Noperformanie during'. Passloa Week, Miss E. Stanley being
engageidAv taut hlglito at Ss:tiler's Wells Theatre.

MAR: YTATEU. AT LONDON BILTDGE.
TairstrATi-t-Mdert.'37 min. aft. 4-Evening 1G min. sit.
TnAloitgew—)Xora. 31 min. aft. 5 -Evening 55 min. aft., 5

"fiIEIrEA.THER7SwN OPTION, MARCH 11.

. VIIRRIIOHECTAIR, IN TEM SIIA.DR.
Tn .higbest since noon yestoritay.
42 -lowest this morning and dnrng the night.
4t —this flay at noon.
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Timmy Err% 3014.
Virtern, E. to E.S.E.--Fresh, with bittor cold, dul
weather..

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LONDON, TUESDAY; MACH 11, 1858.

The Counties and Boroughs Police Bill last
night received its second reading in the House of
Commons, by a large majority. Concessions were
made by the Home Secretary, which remove some,
although by no means all, of the grave objections
to the measure. The changes are in the sth and
6th clauses. Iu the former, the Right Honour-
able. Gentle Man has pledged himself to give up
the power of making regulations for the employ-
ment of the police jointly with the local magis-
tracy—or, in other words, of engaging them in
any transactions that might be considered suitable
for the occupation of their spare time. Wu need
not say to how great an extent this privilege
might lee carried. It would, practically, vest the
whole control and management of the local con-
stabulary in the Crown, and would in a very
shOrt time effect the great object of centralisa-
tion. The straightforward and manly opposi-
tion of the municipal bodies has, however,
prevailed, and, thanks to their strenuous
exertions, the obnoxious clause is, or rather will
be, so modified as to remove the greater portion
of its sting, and render it comparatively innocu-
ous. The town councils will now be allowed to
determine exclusively the extra duties of the
police. There will be no divided authority—no
power to send down orders which must be obeyed
without any reference to the legitimate authorities.
We shall not have the police engaged in serving
processes, or perhaps acting as deputies to the
sheriff-officers--a course which was some time
singe attempted in one of the easteru counties,
and attracted the attention and unmitigated re-
probation of the Lord Chief-Justice of the Com-
mon Pleas.*

The sixth clause originally authorised the Home
Secretary to make rules for the pay, clothing,
accoutrements, &e., of th• local constabulary.
This had also, and we think judiciously, been
objected to. It was not RO much its real opera-
tion, as the appearance that was complained of,
inasmuch as it, in a matter apparently trivial,
inflicts a heavy blow on the principle of self-
government, SO dear to ever:, English heart.
The precedent might easily be extended, and
carried to a very formidable point. This has
also'been waived, and the obnoxious clause is to
be omitted in committee. The proposal to make
the bill compulsory in counties is also withdrawn,
eo that much of the tints is removed by the
emasculation of the measure.

There can be little doubt of the end and object
with which it was framed. It was to substitute
management of the Home Secretary for that
the magistracy—an introduction of the sharp
end, of the wedge that would speedily produce
extraordinary results. The cautious vigilance of
the municipal authorities, however, defeated the
chief provisions of this " Trinity-House" bill--
the introduction, or rather the enlargement,
of the Coburg-Germanic system that has
for some time past been aimed at. Eng-

lishmen, ho wever, have no desire to see the '
wise enactine nts of the truly great ALFRED changed.
Like their forefathers at Runnymede, they are pre-
pared to al iit7 e by their time-honoured Constitu-
tion, and to resist with all their energies every
encroachment I. Let the Crown enjoy all its legi-
timate prerogatives. We do not seek to impair
its power or a uthority, but, and particularly, while
the Germanip influence is so prevalent, we cannot
consent to it a undue extension. Evils may possibly
arise far worse than those which are to be counter-
acted. Collilsions have taken place—and are still
possible—and regarding the people as the
undoubted source of legitimate authority, and
the prerogatilves of the Crown solely exercised
for their benefit, we cannot consent to the enlarge-
ment of the farmer at the expense of the popular
rights and privileges. These views may not be
suited to Germ an or Muscovite feelings ; but we
address ourselves to English auditors—to those
who have firmly stood by their franchises, and
whose forefathers have freely shed their heart's
blood in resistirg any approximation to despotism.
The approaches may be cautiously and secretly
made, but every outwork is worth defending to
the last ; and whether the attack be put forward
in the shape of a summary conviction or a ponce
bill, in whatever way the interests of centrali-
s Ltion are to be promoted, the same jealousy must
still be exhibited that rendered our Constitution
what it is. The creation of a life Peerage may
be a very trifling matter, as well as the prescribing
of rules for the pay and accoutrements of the
local police, or the power of indicating their extra
duties. But they are all movements in the wrong
direction, which should be closely watched, and
care taken that they should not in any way be
constituted into precedents that may impair or
disturb the well-established safeguards of the
liberties and privileges of the United Kingdom
and its inhabitants. From what occurred last
night, notwithstanding the large majority, we be-
lieve that the measure under notice will be so
purified as to prevent any considerable danger in
the event of its ultimately receiving the legisla-
tive sanction.

It is announced in a little semi-official para-
graph now going the rounds of the public journals
that the miserable pittance of 251. per annnra,
recently bestowed upon the late Mr. JOSEPH
HAYDN, has actually been continued—these are
the literal words of the paragraph—" to his un-
fortunate widow." Unfortunate, indeed, the poor
lady must iu truth appear in the eyes of any sane
observer possessed of the smallest modicum of
sensibility. But unfortunate in a very different
sense, we suspect, from that implied by the com-
miserative phrase of the Treasury penny-a-liner.
Unfortunate beyond the common human cala-
mity indicated by her widow's-Weeds. Un-
fortunate in being the witness of the petty
insult offered directly to her (since then
departed) husband while lying prostrate upon his
death-bed—and now posthumously reiterated in-
directly by its renewal to herself as the relict of
that poor dead man-of-letters ! The insult of a
beggarly pension of 251.
.. a-year—a pension al-
ready analysed in these columns as one securing
to its recipient the munificent alms of just ls. and
4id. a day 1 What tends very considerably
to enhance the poignancy of this insult,
(levelled gratuitously, and, as it appears
to us in the instance immediately re-
ferred to, most wantonly and most cruelly,
against the aggregated interests of Literature), is
the fact that, ,at the very time when a pauper-dole
of 251. a-year is awarded in the first instance to
Mr. JOSETEC HAYDN, and, in the second, to his
" unfortunate widow"—as a tribute to scholar-
ship, mark that !, as a tribute to scholarship—it
is mooted as a grievance among military men
that the widow of a Brigadier-G:Aeral recently
deceased should become entitled to a pension
from the State of merely from 2001 to 3001. p r
annum, instead of ene the champions of her
cause are sticklers for, namely, a pension of
actually from 4001. to 5001. sterling ! For the
relict of a scholar, a beggarly pittance of 251.
a-year is deemed something munificent—for the
widow of an officer, one of 2501. per annum is
considered something deplorably inadequate.
Ali, well ! it is not to-day we have to learn how
marvellously better Captain SWORD fares among
us than his luckless half-brother Captain PEN.
The one clad in scarlet and gold—the other oecF.
sionally out-at-elbows, sometimes may be even
nowadays as in the times when Grub-street bed
not yet foreshadowed the Row, hid away in a
garret, trembling at the possible advent of a milk-
score. The contrast is still at intervals some-
thing deplorable—that presented, we mean, by the
diametrically opposite estimate of the scholar and.
of the soldier, formed by our very enlir.l,itaied
rulers and our very civilised Governolent. Mi-
nisterial " swells" who appear to have as
wholesome a horror of Dldre authors as that enter-
tained by the aristocratic BYRON against—

Fellows
In fooldeap uniform turned up with ink."

For theA, 13UCEPIIA.LUS might lie up in clover
and fatten through old age into an honoured
grave—PEGASUS starving the while ignobly in the
parish pound, thence to be carted away in good
time to the knacker's yard for cat's-meat. Good
old AUSTIN CAXTON, for them, might famish upon
a wretched 251. a year over the growing folios
of his " History of Human Error "—Captain Ho-
LIND simultaneously twirling his moustache
at his club window in Pall-mall, with his
plump cob round the corner somewhere at
livery, and his keen sword hung up over
his easy chair at home, red with rust in an
obsolete scabbard. Honour still, say we, to
the warrior, whether in life or in death,
respect and sympathy and solace still bo the lot
of his weeping relict, when the rewards of his
long services have come at last in due season to
be his only posthumously. But something bettor
than insult let us accord in GOD'S name to
the scholar, and the scholar's widow. Some fitter
recompenco to the Soldier of Thought than the
alms thrown to a beggar in the kennel, than the
handful of coppers doled out grudgingly as a
Maundy offering to some pitiful typo of parochial
mend icancy.

ANOTHER JOSEPH Ant—A man named West, about
sixty years of age, who described himself as a commer-
cial af,ent, was brought before Mr. A:Beckett, at the
Southwark Police-court, charged with fraudulently ob-
taining sums of money from several persons by repre-
senting himself as an officer of the Court of Chancery.
He was remanded for a week.
THE GOLD ROBBERY.—John Hall, charged with hay-
ing received a large quantity of the gold dust stolen in
its transit from London to the continent, was placed at
the bar of the Mansion-house yesterday, and again re•
manded till Saturday. .

There is no probability of M. Manteuffel visiting
Paris et present, as stated by Borne journals. The posi-
Con of Prussia in regard to the Western Powers remains
as it was.

ATTIIIiPTED BURGLARY.—Henry Halfpenny was yes-
terday charged at Guildhall with burglariously attempt-
ing to enter the premises of Messrs. Martindale, ware-
housemen in Aldermanbury. He was remanded.
CAIIBBLIAB UNTVERSITY, March 10.—The two gold
medals given annually by his Royal Highness the Chan-
cellor to the two commencing bachelors of arts who,
having obtained senior optimes at leart, show themselves
the greatest proficients in classical learning, have been
adjudged to E, L. Brown, Trinity College, and T. B.
Rowe, St. John's College.

~IINISTLas' MONEY (IRELAND).--Mr. Fagan and Mr.
Beamish have brought in a bill to amend the act 17th
and 18th of Victoria, chap. 11, with a view to the total
abolition of the tax thereby iropoenl in lied of " Mi-
nit•tere' Mousy " in Ireland.,