The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-01 00:00:00

ASTLETS ROYAL IMPIIITHEA.TAII.

without any corresponding profit to the Revenue,
the sole gainers (if any) being the smugglers and
illicit distillers.

Levee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
THIS (MONDAY) EVENING,
ROOKWOOD; or, TURVIN'S RIDE to TORK.
After which the SCENES In the ARENA.
To conclude with one of the most extraordinary productions over
witnessed, an Equestrian Comic Pante:nime, Introducing GO horses,
pmgel, and other quadrupeds, trained by Mr. William Cooke, called
HARLEQUIN AND ST. GE.ORGE AND THE DRAGON, or the
Seven Champions of Christendom.
Morning Performances at 2 b'eloct, Saturday, Jan. sth, 12th, and
19th.

llox-offiee open from Eleven till FOIL:. Stage Manager, Mr. W,
West. Equestrian Director, Sir. W. Cooke— lan.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

Trivx DAY—Morn. 39 min. aft. 7—Evening 4 min. aft. 8
To-Moinow—Morn. 39 min. aft. B—Evening 9 min. aft. 9

THE WEA.THER--Sni Orizau, JAN. 1.
THERMOILETRII, IN TIM SHADB.
48—highest since noon yesterday.
42 —lowest this morning and during the night.
45—this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 29'92.
WIND, B.S.W.—Light, with dull, cold 'weather.

Looking to th© particular items, we find that
in the Customs there has been an increase of
609,2831. on the year, and of 292,9381. on
the nine months. These alterations were
before the last straws added by Sir G. C.
LEWIS came to be fully felt by the overbur-
dened tax-payers. In the quarter there is no
increase, but a deficiency of 315,5061. ! The
decrease is, to a great extent, on Sugar, from
whence Sir G. C. Lewis expected an improvement
at the rate of 1,200,0001. per annum, in addi-
tion to 700,0001. put on by his predecessor !—a
striking illustration of the fiscal paradox, that an
addition to taxation will not produce anything
like a proportionate addition to revenue. The con-
sequence of 3s. per cwt. to Sugar, 3d. per lb. to
Tea, and ld. per lb. to Coffee, which were not in
force in the corresponding quarter of last year,
and which were estimated to produce an increase
of 2,100,000/. per annum, has been the defi-
ciency of 315,2061. ! So much for fiscal calcula-
tions for the difference between promise and per-
formance.

In the Excise there is an improvement on the
year—nine months and quarter—of 861,7711.,
422,4071., and 53,1441. We must recollect that
Spirits alone were estimated to producel,4so, 000/.,
and Malt 1,200,0001. The million addition to
Spirits, which can only be compared in the quar-
ter, has turned out a dead loss in place of a pro-
fit ; while the improvement on Malt of 190,0001.
on the quarter, combined with a loss on Hops
during the same period, indicates that, as we
predicted, the demoralising practice of illicit dis-
tillation has been greatly stimulated.
In Stamps there is a trifling increase of 4,361/.
on the year, but a decrease on the nine months
of 139,802/., and on the quarter of 91,4001.
The latter deficiencies arise entirely from the abo-
lition of the compulsory stamp on newspapers ;
while looking to the Post-office we find no equiva-
lent in that quarter, the decrease on the year
being 133,0151., on the nine months 159,9381.
There has, however, been a small improvement
of 16,0381. on the quarter.

In the Assessed Taxes there is a falling off ou the
year of 60,6421., and on the nine months of
168,4011., but an improvement on the quarter
of 52,7061. The Property Tax shows additions
to the year of 6,517,5261., on the nine months
2,629,4771., and the quarter 434,3581. The
total receipts within the year reaching the enor-
mous sum of 13,884,942—1e55, however, than
the addition of 9d. in the pound would warrant
us in anticipating. Mr. GLADSTONE, it will be
remembered, expected 6,557,0001., and Sir G. C.
LEWIS 2,000,0001., an increase 4f 8,557,0001.,
which has vot been realised, and, we fear, the
dropping off of many contributors of the middle
classes will show the full effects of the extra

means. Ele admits ; that "at this mu- '
mentous and portent J iod there exists in
Germany but one par ,ad that is Russian 1"
All other parties are, he tells us, virtually
dead ; they take no collective part iu the great
questions of the day, and are, politically speaking,
nonentities. Yet Mr. DIEZEL dreams of a non-
existent party as the necessity of the crisis ! A
party, however, strong enough to reverse the
action of all the minor States, to lure Austria
into full co-operation with the Allies against
Russia, and to isolate Prussia, thereby compelling
her to joie Western Europe against the common
danger, is not surely a party which can be
created at the spur of the moment. If Mr.
DIEZEL'S facts be correct, and it is just these which
constitute the value of his pamphlet, his reason-
ings are utterly wrong. The Allies cannot afford
to wait for German nationality, even if the
Cuburgs would consent to extinction ; they could
walk over Germany to Poland ere the proposed
party had published its programme.
Indeed the true policy of the Allies towards
Germany appears to be that of the great Athenian
in regard to Thebes when the Macedonian proto-
type of the CZA.R, threatened the liberties of
Greece. He proposed not to ask the help of the
Thebans for the Athenians, but to proffer aid to
them as being nearest to the impending danger.
With the Russian occupation of Warsaw " me-
nacing" all Germany, as PIIILIP'S seizure of
Ela,teia menaced Greece, is there no modern
diplomatist whose oratory can arouse these modern
Thebans to a sense of their real position ? If
neither German Courts nor people can be aroused
by any appeal, then the Allies should ask of them
a passage through iigainst the enemy of Europe ;
such a course would arouse whatever national and
independent feeling may yet be latent in Ger-
many. Austria, who occupies two provinces be-
longipg to ono of the Allies, coald not refuse a
free passage to the Allied troops. The lesser
States dare not, and poor helpless Prussia, not to
speak of her Rhenish provinces, would but offer
us a shorter passage into Poland if she dared to
quarrel with us. Our Baltic fleet would make
quick work of her Baltic ports, and carve us out
a passage into Poland in that quarter in a very
short time. Instead of waiting, therefore, for
Germany to become a nation, the Allies should
take the course which would make a•lnation of
her. Germany is now but a row of ciphers'.
With two or three Allies at her head she would
count for something important.

burdens.
The Crown Lands show additions of 8,9441.,
7,9441., and 5,0001. on the year, nine mouths,
and quarter respectively, and Miscellaneous of
325,1581., 366,5491., and 167,140/. for the
same periods. The latter cannot, however, be
regarded as a permanent source of revenue, but,
as may be seen, it materially improves
the general zesults, which should, there-
fore, be reduced by the foregoing sums.
On the whole these irresistible monitors
strongly impress on us the necessity of looking
more closely to fiscal matters, and, above all, of
supplying the grand desideratum, the want
whereof has been the cause of all these evils—a
circulating medium adequate to the wants and
exigencies of the nation, which will dev elope its
miraculous natural resources, and give fair play
to its industrial population —enabling every man
able and willing to work to bear his proportion of
the additional burdens created by the War, by
becoming a creator and producer of national
wealth, in place of being au unprofitable con-
sumer.

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Is there the least hope from Germany ? Cau
she serve us as she now is ? Can she become a
nation and serve us ? We reply that neither as
an ally nor a peacemaker is she of the slightest
value. Prussia, as the Muscovite statesman
justly remarked, is but the sentinel of Russia ;
what Austria is, every Englishman untainted by
Court influence, knows to his utter disgust ; and
the thirty minor States of Germany are one and
all dependents of Russia, and exist, almost, by
her support. It must have struck all observers,
that the anti-Russian feelings which we have too
generously attributed to the peoples of Germany
have hardly shown themselves on any of the oc-
casions which might have been expected to elicit
them. Stockholm, Bucharest, Turin, and other
capitals have exulted in the Allied victories ; but
all the little capitals of the German petty sove-
reignties have faithfully reflected the nonchalance
or Russianism of Berlin and Vienna. Hundreds
and thousands of true Liberals there doubtless are
scattered amongst the apathetic burgers and offi-
cials, but they are, even more painfully than we
are, impressed with the ignobleness of the great
mass of their fellow-countrymen.

The pamphlet of GUSTAV US DIEZEL, which we
adverted to on Saturday, has confirmed us in this
growing opinion. At one time we were certainly
inclined to regard Mr. COBDEN as a slanderer of
the Germans, but now we are disposed to think
that Cobdenisna is the prevailing tone of feeling
amongst them. Anything—foreign rule or do-
tnestic subserviency—if they can have open shops,
beer, tobacco, and a little music ; if their sons
can get Government appointments, or their
daughtera marry Government officials. DIEZEL,
who writes what he certainly knows, tells us that not
only do all the petty Courts look to Russia as their
protector against absorption by Austria or Prussia,
and against patriotic domestic attempts to subvert
their little despotisms, but that the people them-
selves share very much the same sentiments. He
informs usthat every man is ranch morea Bavarian,
or a Saxon, or a Brunswicker than a Gorman ;
that during the six years of French occupation,
or domination, they showed no sense of national
ignominy. That the war of liberation was a
purely idealistic one, the work of the youth, and
disliked by the upper and middle classes ; that
even that war had no higher object than the
negative one of casting off the French yoke ; that
they had no idea of escaping foreign supremacy,
and, in fact, only changed the suzerainty of a
French Emperor for thab of a Czar. He tells BF
moreover, that even when they had Parliamentary
Chambers these only served to deepen the feeling
of separation between the States, and that we
should look in vain in them for any lateral t in
subjects beyond the paltry politics of the little
State itself. These are truly melancholy col afes-
sions from the pen of a German ; anti-Russia n as
he is, he sees no hope of the lesser States becoming
so, but through their first becoming the nucleus
of a new and united Germany 1 Long ero this
we fancy we might see a broken-up and dim' aited
Russia. The writer appears to regard industrial
interchanges as the almost single agent which will
bring about the fusion of the German States, but
he will perceive that generations must pass aw ay
before the desired result can b© attained by the so

In dealing with the subject of education
scarcely sufficient prominence is given to what the
people can do for themselves, and more especially
when aided by the countenance of those to whom
they are entitled to look for help. As an illus-
tration of what can be effected under such direc-
tion, we may point to the village of Hanwell,
where a few years ago a Mutual Improvement,
Society was set on foot for the benefit of the in-
habitants. The result is told in an eloquent
address delivered to the society in October last by
the Rev. J. A. EMERTON, D.D., the President,
and recently published. From this it would ap-
pear that, thanks to the rector, and more
especially to Dr. EMERTON, both liberal-minded
and enlightened divines, nearly every inhabitant
of the village is a member of the society, which is
self-supporting, and numbers among its agencies
a library, a reading-room, and effective lecturers,
including the President. No party spirit, reli-
gious or political, is suffered to disturb its har-
mony, and it seems to be in a fair way of merit-
ing, if it does not already, the designation said to
be given to it by the QUEEN when she looks down
upon it--viz., "the happy valley." The tone of
the society may be gathered from what follows.
"As a society," remarks the President, "we are
a union of friends, of allies, and we do not therefore
act up to our name if we ego not in all things act
as friends. We are united for a special object—
for improvement—and we do not act up to our
profession or our name if we do not take every
opportunity of advancing one another in know-
ledge and goodness. . . . We must go on
from one step to another until, by GOD'S blessing,
we make Hanwell a model of imitation for all
around—that the QUEEN shall at any time, if she
makes inquiry, learn that there is no place in her
dominions whose inhabitants are more loyal to
their QUEEN, more devoted to their GOD, more
ready to promote each other's good, more pre-
pared for the fulfilment of every duty which the
law of Goo or man requires of them." To aim
so high, and pursue so desirable an object of
attainment steadily is to go a long way to secure
it ; an,d though we may not be so sanguine as the
good Doctor, we are inclined to augur more
favourably than ever of the future career of the
society, provided no discordant element be elimi-
nated or introduced, now that the liberality or
the worthy Rector has placed his newly-erected
school-zoom at the service of the members, and
all parties can derive so much encouragement from
the paste It may be well to add that discussions
on important topics take place at stated intervals,
and at the conclusion of the debate the matter is
put to the vote. The nature of these verbal
oombats„ and the spirit with which they are
waged, will appear from a recent decision arrived
at, by a majority of one, after an animated debate
which occupied two evenings—" that England
had not been the most grasping dominion (as
compared with France and Russia), unprincipled
in its conquests and unscrupulous in its acquisi-
tions." Which of the three had been was reserved
for furth a3r discussion.

His Ert:ellenvy the Austrian Minister arrived in town
yesterday from the seat of Viscount Palmerston, Broad-
lands.

His Er cellency the Hanoverian Minister arrived at
the reside nes of th. Legation, in Grosvenor-place, yester•
day afternoon, front Kimbolton Castle, the seat of the
Duke of 'Manchester. The Countess Helene Kleiman-
iwgge will remain on a visit to the Duchess of Man-
chester ff)r some time longer.
The Swedish and • Norwegian Minister has returned to
London, from a visit to Viscount Palmerston, at Broad
lands.

Lord and Lady Edward Thynne arrived in town on
Wednes day last from the Earl of Cardigan's, at Dean
Park, s .nd have since left for Beaulieu Abbey, the seat
of the Duke of Buccleuell, in the New Forest.

Lies Lt.-Colonel Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest left
town, on Friday last, to rejoin his regiment, the Scots
Fusilirr Guards, in the Crimea,
Lord Panmure has abolished the title of Secretary.
at-Wur.

Not a purchaser could be found for the Manchester
Daily Telegraph, a penny newspaper, which was offered
for sale by auction last Friday.
The Turkish Ambassador has been raised to the dig-
nity of Ambassador Extraordinary.
Count Munster, hitherto Military Represent-Alva of
Prussia at St. Petersburg, arrived at Berlin about a
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fortnight back on leave of absence, and will not return
to his post.
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GOLD ?nom NEW YORK.—The America yesterday
afternoon from New York has brought 432,000/, in gold.
GOVERNMENT DEBENTURES.—The whole of the Six
per Cent. Victoria Government Debentures held for sate
in this country by the Banks of New South Wales and
Australasia on account of the Government of that colony
was yesterday disposed of.

The American steamer Union arrived at Cowes, on
her way to Hawke, yesterday. She left New York on
the 15th December. A. she started the day the mail is
made up in Ne w York for Southampton and Havre, it
was thought she would bring the mail. She did not,
however, and i t appear 3 that she had ceasA to be a
mail packet, an d was allowed to leave the United States
with only a ebi: p letter bag.

THE SUN, LO N DON, TU.ESDA foIYENII46-3 JAY trAllY I, 1 e`IS 8.

JENNY GOLDSCHMIDT LIND.

" The Messiah" at Exeter Hall.

Last evening afforded a glorious treat to some
hundreds of delighted listeners, assembled toge-
ther, upon New Year's Eve, in Exeter Hall, to
hearken to Madame Otto Goldschmidt, once upon
a time better known as Mademoiselle Jenny Lind,
discoursing most eloquent music, as the principal
soprano in the grandest of all grand oratorios—the
wonderful Messiah of the incomparable Handel.
Yesterday, we repeat, did in truth afford
many hundreds a glorious treat indeed, by thus
enabling them to listen to the music of Handel's
Messiah as rendered by the voice of the Swedish
Nightingale. As usual, Mr. Mitchell was the
skilled and eminently efficient organiser of the
entertain►ient. The conductor being, as hi-
therto, M. Benedict. It seems almost as un-
necessary to add that the choruses were as
adequate for the occasion, as the orchestra
was in all essential respects complete, or
that the Hall itself, vast though it is
in its dimensions, was crowded in every part almost
to a degree verging upon inconvenience. The
principal soprano—herself of course the heroine of
the night, and greeted as such immediately upon
her first appearance—was assisted, we may observe
at once, in the contralto part by Miss Dolby, in
the tenor by Mr. Lockey and Herr Reichardt, and
in the bass by Messrs. Thomas and Lawler—the
choruses having been drilled, as heretofore we be-
lieve, by the practised baton of the energetic and
indefatigable Mr. Lockyer. Extraordinary as had
recently been the success of Jenny Lind both in
" The Creation " of Haydn and in " The Elijah"
of Mendelssohn—this double success was in a mea-
sure surpassed yesterday by that won by her in "The
Messiah " of Handel, the most sublime and alto-
gether matchless of oratorios. Her amazing execu-
tive power, her tender and path° tic declamatory skill,
her depth of religious feeling, were all entitled to
what they all obtained, instant and universal ad•
miration. The marvellous grandeur of the great
chorus " Far unto us a Child is born—and his
name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the
Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince
of Peace "—followed by the exquisite suavity of
the Pastoral Symphony—prepared the way for
Madame Goldschmidt Lind in her first delicate
and solemn recitative " There were shepherds abid-
ing," followed after the choral outburst of Handel's
great Gloria in Excelsis, by that famous air for
the soprano, with all its florid decorations, "Re-
joice greatly, 0 Daughter of Zion ! Shout, 0
Daughter of Jerusalem ! " It was not, however,
until the subsequent air, " Come unto Him all yo
that Labour," that the great songstress shone
forth in all her power and splendour,
and by doing so roused her audience to a lull pitch
of enthusiasm. By her wondrous execution of
this solo Jenny Lind commanded the only encore
of the evening, thereby bringing the
.first part of

the Oratorio to a most brilliant and effective con-
clusion. In the second part, however, Madame
Goidschmidt was yet grander in her delivery of the
noble air " But thou didst not leave His soul in
hell ; nor didst thou suffer thy Holy One to see
corruption," her matchless voice thrilling upon
the sense as something absolutely delicious in the
subsequent solo, " How beautiful are the feet,"
with its dulcifluous flute accompaniment. The in-
stant chorus at the close of the latter air, " Their
sauna is gone out into all lands," seemed to baulk
the plaudits which must otherwise, we conceive,
have inevitably proved vociferous. The third
and concluding part of the Oratorio open-
ing with the renowned solo, jubilant and
rapturous in its exultation, "I know that my
Redeemer Liveth," calling forth the exquisite
voice of Jenny Lind in the quartets, " Since by
Man came Death," and " For as in Adam all Die,"
closed with her wonderful outpouring of melody in
the final solo "If God be for us, who can be
against us crowned, of course, by the grand con-
cluding chorus from the Apocalypse. Everywhere
the great cantatrice was—can we say more ?—equal
to her resplendent reputation. Her delicious sus-
tainment of the B flat in alt. towards the close of
" Come unto Him all ye that labour," was a sound
to marvel at while audible, and afterwards even in
the remembrance. Her shake in the same air was
one of a delicacy and deliciousness beyond all ima-
gining—the trill indeed of a veritable nightingale.
From first to last the great artiste was applauded as
she ought ever to beapplauded—with acclamations.
Miss Dolby rendered the contralto songs as she
always does, delightfully. Mr. Lawler delivered
creditably enough the famous air, " The Trumpet
shall sound," to an execrably shrill and faulty
trumpet obligato by M. Zeiss making one
wince and setting one's teeth on edge more
effectually than the sourest gooseberry. Mr.
Thomas, though quite inadequate for the grand
solo " Why do the tnations so furiously rage to-
gether ?" and Mr. Lockey, though far from real ising
our wishes in " Comfort ye my people," sang fairly
enough, all things censidered. While iu reference
to Herr Reichardt, be it said, if not by any means
satisfactory in the over-much subdued rendering of
" Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like
unto His sorrow," compensated nobly for
his deficiency in that solo by his animated
and impassioned delivery of the air Braham used
to sing of old so finely, " Thou shall break them
with a rod of iron ; thou shall dash them in pieces
like a potter's vessel." As to the choruses—
the distinguishing glories of " The Messiah
—they were ene and all performed magnifi-
cently. Conspicuous amongst thein, of course,
" For unto us a Child is Born"—and. " All we like
Sheep"—and " Let us break their bonds," and the
grand choral outburst of the divine " HALLE•
LUJAII !" Such were among the chief salient points
in last night's very admirable performance of
Handers " Messiah," in Exeter Hall, with Jenny
Lind as the principal soprano of the evening. It
is observable, in conclusion, that the first of
Madame Otto Goldschmidt's Miscellaneous Con-
certs is announced to take place iu the Hanover-
square Booms, on the evening of Thursday, the
10th of this present January.

LATEST NEWS.

lIVIPORTANT RUSSIAN CIRCULAR.

KONIGSBERG, DEC. 31.

A diplomatic circular has been issued by Rus-
sia, dated St. Petersburg, December 22, announ-
cing that the Emperor is willing to consent to the
third of the Four Bases, if drawn up in the fol-
lowing manner :

" The principle of the closing of the Straits of
the Dardanelles is maintained. No naval flag
shall be admitted into the Black Sea except the
forces which Russia and Turkey may, judge it
necessary to maintain there, by mutual agreement.
The amount of these forces shall be fixed by a
direct arrangement between Russia and Turkey
without the ostensible participation of the other
Powers."
The news of an armistice is false.