The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-16 00:00:00

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ITER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
SOIREES EXTRAORDINAIRE.
The Week's Performances will include the talents of Madame Son-
tag, Madlle. Caroline Duprez, Madame Flore4itinl, Madame Giuliani,
and 3ladlle. Sofle Cruvelli ; Signori Gar,Ml, Calzolari, Pardini,
Poultier, Lablache, 3fassol, F. Lablache, Coletti, and Mr. Sims
Reeves; 3fadlles. Amalia Ferraris, Marie Taglioni, Caroline Rosati,
MM. Charles, and Paul Tagliont.
Tuesday, June 17.—11 Prodigo.
Wednesday, June IR.—Gustavus.
Thursday, June 19.—Auber's new opera II Prodigo.
Friday, June 20. Il Pr,tliga.
Saturday, June 21. Fidelio, and La Sylphide, in which Madlle.
Marie Taglioni will make her first appearance this season.
Applications for Boles, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Boz-
o [Ace of the Theatre.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE,
Oxford-street.
THIS EVENING (Monday), The DUKE'S WAGER (by A. R.
Slous, Esq., author of " The rempIar")—APARTMENTS—THE
FIRST NlGHT—and the ALHA.MBRA, for the Benefit of Mr. A.
Wigan.
Tuesday, June 17.—Love in a Maze—Pauline—and the Alhambra.
Wednesday, IB.—The Duke's Wager—Apartments—and the Al-
hambra.
Thursday, 19.—The Wife's Secret—Apartments—and the Alham-
bra.
Friday, 20.—The Duke's Wager—Apartments—and the Alhambra.
Saturday, 21.—The Duke's Wager—Apartments—and the Alham-
bra.

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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
IL PRODIGO.
It is respectfitlly announced that TO-MORROW EVENING, will
be performed Auber's last grand Opera, entitled
IL PRODIGO,
Recently produced with immense success at the Academie de Mu.
algae, Paris, under the name of L' ENFANT PRODIGUE. Tie
Costumes urger the superintendence of Madame Copere, executed by
Miss Bradley and Mr. Coombes. The appointments by Mr. E. Brad-
well. The Machinery by Mr. D. Sloman. The Miss enStcheneeounder
the immediate direction of Mr. A. Harris.
Jeftele, Madame Sontag ; Nefte, Madame trgalde (of
Cornique, Paris, (her first appearance in England); Reuben, Mons.
Afassol en M
s Original Character at the Academie de usique • Azaele,
Signor Garden"; Amenoti, Signor Mercuriali ; Nemrod: Signor
Casanova; Canope, Signor Scotts ; Monaton, Signor Sespird ;
B
cons, Signor Coletti ; Ea, Madlle. Carolina Rosati (her first appeaor'':
ante these two years).
The Cc:plets of the Chamelier in the Fourth Act will be sung by
Madame tigahle.
The Sew Scenery, by Mr. Charles Marshall, will represent Act I.
The habitation of Reuben, in the Valley of Gessen. Act 2. The
Grand square of Memphis. Act 3. The Temple of Isis. Act 4. The
Desert. Act 5. The ValleyofG
MGessen. In Act 2 a grand Diver-
tissement, composed by .
Paul T
Pas de Peignard, supported by ardioni, comprising the celebrated
Rosa, Esr;er, j Madlle. Carolina Rosati, idadlles.
Kohlenberg,
don, Pascales, Ale, • •
' ' 'Mien, Lamoureux, Dantonie, A.ussan-
l'irn Soto, ioldansky, Emma, Eliza, Lavinia,
Beale, and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet.
Applications
Ultra wi!l commence at Eight o'clock.
for Boxes,
Stalls, am! Tickets to be made at the
B°l °Cllce of the Theatre, Opera-colonnade, Haymarket.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE.
Lasses and Manager. Mr. James Anderson.
Last Night of Madlle. Vietorine Legrain's Engagement.
THIS r:vkININU
presented by her Maiesty's Servant.
A new romantic Play entitled INGOMAR THE BARBARIAN',
The Timarch of Massilia, Mr. Neville ; Polydor, Mr. J. W. Ray ;
Myron, Mr Cooper ; Ingomar, Mr. J. Anderson ; Actea, Mrs. Wes-
ton ; Theano, Mrs. Barrett; Parthenia, Miss Vandenhoff.

To conclude with

new grand Operatic spectacle, enticed AZAEL, THE
PRODIGAL. iteuben, Mr. Vantlenhoff; Azad, At J. Ander-
son ; Amenorhis, Mr. W. West ; Bucharis, Mr. Cooper ; Sethos, Mr.
Manley; Jephtels, Mrs. Barrett; Neite, Miss Fanny Morant ;
Lia, Marine. Victorine Le4rain (Premier Sujet du Opera de Paris),
who has boon exaressly engaged tor the occasion.
Stalls anti Dress Circle - - - Is.

First Price. Second Price.
Boxes - - .. _ - 3s. Is, 6d.
Pit - • - - - - 2s. Is. Od.
Lower Bailor). - - - - I s.l No half-price
Upper Gallery - - - 6d. i to Galleries.
Private Boxes to admit 3 reduced from 31. 33. Od. to 21. 12s. 6d.
Ditto 6 ditto 21. 12s. 6d. to 2/. 2s. Od.
Ditto 4 ditto 21. 2s. Od. to 11. 11 s. 6d.
Ditto 4 ditto 11. 11s. 6d. to 11. Is. Od.

THEATRE ROYAL, lIAYMARKET.
'K:• B. Wet:eel', solo L. se Ana Manage, vi,. bromptet.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed THc:dtoili-DiAiioN-Ds.

To be followed by the Drama of THE WHITE HORSE OF THE
PEPPERS. Gerrald Pepper, .11 r. Hudson; Magdelene, Mrs. L. S.
Buckingham.

To conclude with anew anu original comrc drama, called GOOD
FOR NuTHISO. Tom Dibbles, Mr. Buckstone ; Harry Collier,
Mr. Howe ; Young Mr. Simpson, Mr. Clark ; Nan, Mrs. Fitzwilliarn.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
rndor direetlon of Madame Celeste,
THIS EVENING.
Will be performed THE GREEN BUSHES.
To he followed by a new comic Opera, entitled GOOD NIGHT,
SIGNOR PANTALON. Doctor Tititofolo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Signor
Pantalon, Mr. Honey ; Lelio, Miss Woolga ;Columbine, Miss Kath-
leen Fltzwilliam.

ROYAL P.RENCESS'S THEATKE, OXFORD-t,TREET.
Linder the Maniuzetne'd of Mr. C. gear and Mr. Kee..e7.
For the Benefit of Mr. Wigan.
THIS EVENING,
Will he performed a new Play, called TILE DUKE'S WAGER.
Characters by Messrs. Kean, Wigan, Wynn, Cooke. Everett; Mrs.
Winstanley, Mrs. Wigan, Miss Viva,h, and Mrs. Kean.
After which a new Farce called APARTMENTS.
" Visitors to the Exhibition may be accommodated."
With THE FIRST NIGHT.

-io conclude with a new grand spectacular Extravaganza (taken
from a Tale, by Wa.hington Irving), entitled THE ALHAMBRA ;
or The Three Moorish Princesses. Characters by Messrs. Keeley,
Harley, A. Wigan, Wynn, Cooke, Flexmore ; Misses Murray, Daly,
Vivash, Robertson, Leclerq, Keeley-, Mdlle. Auriol, and Mrs. Keeley.
Private Boxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr.
Massingham ; of whom also places may be taken at the Box-office,
Oxford-street, from Eleven till Fear o'clock.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Vestda.
Sole Lessee, Mr. Cba:.les Mathews.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed

ONLY A CLOD.

To be followed by

COURT BEAUTIES.

To conclude with

LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 16, 185

Cui bono has long been the inquiry of those who
have evinced a perverse solicitude to depreciate the
value of the Great Industrial Exhibition. Answers
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would be ample recompense for the toils and anxieties
devolving upon the Royal Commissioners. It might
be maintained, moreover, that the comparison of the
progress made by different branches of the human
family in all the various departments of art and of
industry could not but conduce to the furtherance of
the dearest and divinest interests of civilization.
Added to all which a multitude of new contrivances
could not but be suggested by the scrutiny of the
mechanism employed for divers purposes by the in-
genious members of the races of the five continents,
by the inhabitants of North and of South America,
by Asiatics, Africans, and Europeans. Reference
might likewise be made undoubtedly to the variety of
advantages accruing to the capital selected to be the
arena of the world's exposition ; but with all regard for
the benefits besto wed by this circumstance upon the citi-
zens of London and Westminster, we cannot but look
upon any such division of the subject as one of too subor-
dinate a character to
,be preserved very long in con-
sideration. Nevertheless, some allusion becomes ab-
solutely requisite even to this section of the inquiry,
under the circumstances, seeing that the royal ori-
ginator of the enterprise has been most shamefully
and shamelessly vilified for bringing down upon the
metropolis of England what his traducers have been
pleased to designate pecuniary injuries, but which, in
truth, have hitherto proved to be the most inestimable
and remunerative benefits. It has been asserted, for ex-
ample, that London has in no way profited by the
scheme of the Exhibition ; and this calumny has
been indulged in, notwithstanding the enormous
sums of money already squandered, through its in-
strumentality-, among all classes of the metropolitan
population. Because some frivolous dreamers were
pleased to indulge themselves in the most fantastic
and extravagant anticipations, and because those an-
ticipations have not been quite realized in every
particular, we cannot think it is exactly fair or just to
pronounce the whole undertaking a failure. To say
nothing whatever of the employment given to many
thousands during several months prior to the morn-
ing of inauguration, in the construction of the Crystal
Palace according to the design sketched out by Mr.
PISTON, and realized by the energy of the contrac-
tors, Messrs. Fox and HENDERSON, a very great deal
of activity has been found necessary on the part of a
large proportion of the community in preparations
altogether apart from those made at the instance of the
Royal Commissioners. Several of the trades in the
metzropolis, that of the painters for instance, have
never upon any former occasion been afforded any
similar opportunity for protracted and uninterrupted
employment. Subordinate exhibitions have in addi-
tion to this been opened in almost every quarter of
the capital, and most, if not all of these, have hereto-
fors turned out most prosperously for their proprie-
tors. Even the places of public recreation, the
operas, the theatres, and the gardens, after ex-
periencing the temporary neglect consequent upon
the superior attractions of the Crystal Palace, have
began already to reap a golden harvest from those
whc, have been fascinated to London from all parts of
the world by that novelty in Hyde-park which has
heel ► so long vilified by the very individuals it is
ten Cling to benfit materially. Perhaps next we
shall have complaints made against the Industrial
ExE ibition by the directors and shareholders
of the different railways, in spite of the
emolument derived by them from the influx of
foreign visitors and provincial excursionists.
It were absolutely about as reasonable. Consider..
able, nevertheless, as are the advantages accruing to
the metropolis from the sublime project of his Royal
Highness the PRINCE CONSORT, they are literally as
nothing, when contrasted with the benefits conferred
by it upon the world at large—benefits moral and
physical, social and intellectual—benefits tending,
both directly and indirectly, to advance the cause of
religion as well as of civilization.
Shortly after the first suggestion of the enterprise,
certainlya considerable while before the Crystal Palace
had been completed, and consequently long before
the memorable day of its inauguration, we took oc-
casion to refer to a very noble tribute offered to the
undertaking by the Rev. J. A. EMERTON, of Han-
well College, Middlesex—a prize of a hundred
guineas being extended by him to the writer of a
prize essay on the Great Exhibition. Dr. EWER-
TON'S magnificent conduct has at length produced its
fruit in a luminous paper by the Rev. J. C. IVuesu,
of East Peckham, Kent, the prize having
been formally awarded to him by the ad-
judicators at Oxford, the Reverend ROBERT
WALEER, the Reader of Experimental Philo-
sophy, and the Rev. RICHARD MICHELL, the
Public Orator in that University. To this singularly
interesting publication,* therefore, we would most
earnestly commend all captious depreciators of
the Exhibition, satisfied that if perused by them with
even a moderate share of impartiality it must necessa-
rily dissipate most of their very erroneous objections
to the enterprise. In his arguments the essayist has
revealed an earnestness and intelligence deserving o
our warmest admiration.

* " The Great Exhibition Prize Essay." By the Rev.
J. C. Which, M.A. Donor, Rev. J. A. Emerton, D.D.,
Bvo., pp. 87. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and
Longmans, 1851.

It has often been asserted that there is " one law
for the rich and another for the poor," that wealthy
persons could escape with comparative impunity from
the penal consequences of acts that would be visited
with stringent severity if committed by their less
fortunate and less wealthy neighbours. This exemp-
tion, however, arises more frequently from the means
at the disposal of the fortunate few, enabling them to
make compensation to the injured parties out of
tour

and thus to buy off prosecutions, or, if matters
were driven to extremities, to obtain the best possible
professional assistance, and to present their respective
cases in the most favourable aspects, than to any defi-
ciency in the law itself, or negligence, or undue
favouritism on the part of its administrators. It used
to be the proud boast of Englishmen that their law
knew no distinction of persons, that all, from the
highest peer to the humblest peasant, were subject to
the like obligations, and entitled to similar protection.
This was indeed a happy and an enviable state of
affairs, and no more powerful illustration could be
afforded of the excellence of the British Constitution
and the perfect freedom enjoyed by the British people.
The law was alike to all, and none could be compelled
to do anything save in obedience to the dictates of that
law. We can, however, no longer indulge in such vaunts
of felicitations. The judgment of the Court of
Queen's Bench pronounced on Friday, in the case of
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preside in that court with so much credit ..
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selves and advantage to the community. If even a
different construction could be placed on the statute
we should feel the utmost doubt and diffidence in
contesting any point that had been determined wi▪ th
the unanimous assent of Lord CAMPBELL and his
learned colleagues. But we fear that the conclusi▪
on
arrived at by these eminent men was but too well
founded, and that no other interpretation of the law
could have been consistent with the faithful and con-
scientious discharge of their onerous and important
duties. The fault, then, such as it is, must be ascribed
to the Legisleture, and not to the judicial authorities,
anti the e unquestionable grievance inflicted on the less
wealthy classes must be redressed by Parliament, and

[The signal triumph achieved by Mr. Staunton over his
distinguished antagonist, Herr Horwitz, will be scarcely
matter of surprise to those who are in any way acquainted with
the peculiar genius and remarkable powers of the conqueror.
As a master of the game he has never perhaps before revealed
such varied resources, such vigilant caution, or such scien-
tific adroitness, not even in his celebrated contest with M.
St. Amant, a contest which, like the recent
one with Herr Horwitz, left him still the glory
of being unvanquished. Those already familiar with
his " play" need not be reminded that he never indulges in
the temerity of the " gambits," adhering throughout to that
close game, which of all styles and systems on the board is
the most deadly and overwhelming. It is in this manner
that he closes in the whole power of his forces upon those of
his antagonist, striking whenever he does strike with 'a
vigour altogether irresistible, and slowly grappling
his opponent with the energy of an Athlete
of Calculations. Inasmuch as his recent struggle
has displayed these singular capacities in more than
their usual vividnesss, we have certainly not had to
record a more brilliant triumph since the days of Delabour-
donnais. The result, however, has confirmed rather than
enhanced the reputation of the conqueror, Howard Staunton
having been long recognised as the most illustrious of living
chess players. It cannot but be matter of congratulation,
nevertheless, to his fellow-countrymen to find him, in addi-
tion to all his former successes, passing more than satisfac-
torily through the present ordeal as Champion of the Great
Chess Toumament.—ED. Sun.;

DEATH OF DANIEL GRANT, ESQ.—Mr, Daniel
Grant, of the well-known firm of Grant, Brothers, Wenches-
ter, expired on Thursday, at his residence at Ramsbottom,
near Bury, having survived his elder brother William only
five years. There were originally four brothers, who left
the Highlands of Scetland with their father to try their for-
tunes in the manufacturing districts. William, the elder
brother, was apprenticed to a calico printer and dyer, near
Bury, and afterwards took the business of the Peels, at
Ramsbottom, subsequently receiving his brothers into part-
nership. Everything they engaged in went exceedingly
prosperous with them, and they were enabled in a few years
to purchase the works they at first only rented. Their bene-
volence was known throughout the manufacturing districts,
as well as their great wealth, and it was an oft-quoted re-
mark of the elder brother's, " that the more money they
gave away the more they made." Those who have visited
Ramsbottom, situated in a beautiful part of the vale of the
Irwell, a few miles only from the birthplace of the late Sir
Robert Peel, will have noticed a tower on the bleak summit
of the hills which form the northern side of this valley. It
is said to mark the spot where the elder brother and his
father sat down to rest on their first arrival in the neigh-
bourhood from the Highlands, more than half a century
ago, with a drove of cattle, and the eld man, who, struck
with the beauty and luxuriance of the vale beneath, ex-
claimed, " Oh, Willie, here's a heaven on earth ! " lived to
see the broad fertile lands he had admired so much the pro-
perty of his son (then only fourteen years old), and to live
with him in a handsome mansion erected upon it. The
only surviving son is Mr. John Grant, of Broadbottom, near
Mottram.—[lt may be interesting to remind the public that
Daniel Grant, of Manchester, was the original of one of those
BrothersCheeryble whose benevolence has been so beautifully
celebrated by Charles Dickens in his "Nicholas Nickleby."—
Es. SUM 1

INTERIOR OF THE EXHIRITION.—An ingenious
engraving has just been issued by Mr. Berger, representing
the interior of the Crystal Palace, viewed from the middle of
the transept, looking down the western nave, and including,
of course, among other interesting objecte, the crystal
fountain. The plate—which has been engraved on steel
and is adorned with facsimile autographs of the Queen and
the Prince—forms an admirable companion picture to
Berger's view of the exterior of the same building.

FINE Anze.—We have been requested by Messrs.
Clarke and Melton to look at Mr. Linnel's large picture of
"The Eve of the Deluge," which having served to illustrate
the enormous prices given for modern works of art, has found
its way into the galleries of those gentlemen in Regent-
street. The picture is certainly a magnificent one, and has
been retouched by the artist with considerable advantage.
As a work of the highest order it will repay the visit of the
connoisseur, were no other attractions of a similar character
in these galleries, which have now become of importance,
from the fact that Messrs. Clarke and Co. purchase most
evtensively from the easels of living masters, and while
under the eye of the frequenters of our exhibitions.—
Morning Paper.
THE
ROYALthe Sitoocyla .
Society, Th The
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and
last
conversazione on Saturday, at his residence in Connaught-
place.of
Prince Albert honoured the Noble Earl with his
President
company, and a large number of distinguished scientific and
pre,
literary cha
theracters, as. well as many eminent savans, were
ent on occasion.
The Blue Ribbon of the order of St. Patrick, va-
cant by the death of the Earl of Meath, has been bestowed
upon Viscount Masaereene and Ferrard.