The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-08 00:00:00

ROYAL .LYCEUM THEATRE,,
LeFsae, Mr. C. Dillon. •
MISS FITZ-
THIS EVENING (frr the BENEFIT of
PATRICK), DOING THE HANSOM.. After which, THFA
LOVE CHASE. Principal characters by Mesrs
s. Barrett,
J.
G. Shore, M‘Lien, and Stuart ; Mesdames Fitzpatrick, Weston,
and B White. Wi'h THE ROUGH DIAMOND. Margery,
Miss Fitzpatrick ; Joe, Mr. J. L. Toole. Concluding with a.
Ballet by Miss Rosin:lWright and Coryphees.

HER MAJESTY'S THE A.TRE.—
M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. Last
Week.—The New. Grand French Quadrille.
Programme for THIS EVENING (Monday, Dec. 8):
Part I.—Overture, Ruy Blas—Mendelssohn (received with
great applause at the Mendelssohn Festival)
Andante
; Quadrille, from.
Verdi's Opera, II Trovatore -Jr-Jullien ; Symphony,
from the Scotch Symphony—Mendelssohn ; Polka, The
Minnie Polka (the Ist time)—Jullien ; ,concerto (Andante
and Allegro), Violin, M. Le Hon—Mendelssohn ; Cavatina,
" Ab, quel giorno " (Serairamide) Madame Eliza Poma—her
second appearance in England—Rossini ; the New French
Quadrille (26th time), with variations for flute, flageolet,
oboe, clarinet, ophideide, and comet, performed by MM. De
Polley, De Yong, Collinet, Lavigne, Sonnenberg, Hughes, and.
Koenig; Finale ; Partant pour la Syrie, Vive l'Empereur—
Jullien ;
Part 2.- Opera,,.Grand Operatic Selection from Verdi's opera.
of " La Traviata, with solos by Herr Kcenig, MM. Lavigne,.
De Polley, Le lion, De Yong, Sonnenberg, Duhem, Hughes;
Quadrille, The English, with solos. by MM. Collinet, Do
Folly, Sonnenberg, and Koenig—Jullien ; Ballata, " Per non
istare" (Marie de Rohan) Madame Eliza Poma—Donizetti ;
Table, Faust —D'Albert ; Solo, Violoncello, M. Dem-tin&
jun.--Servais; Polka, the Lady Bird—T. Browne Galop,
Eglinton—Koenig,
Conductor—M. Jullien. To commence at S o'clock. Price e
s
of admission :—Promenade, ls. ; Dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; Privat
boxes, 10s. 6d., £1 ls., and upwards. Private boxes to ba
secured of Mr. Nugent, at the box-office of the theatre
at all the principal libraries and musiesellers'; aud Jullien
and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY L
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. R.
Acting Manager, Mr. C. Mathews. Stage Manager, Mr.
Roxby. Scenic Artist, Mr. W. everley.
Last week of performing before the Christmas Holidays.—
The eminent comedian Mr. Charles Mathews, and the talented
Dramatic Company, at the following, reduced tariff of prices,
lower than any other west end theatre :—Galleries, 6d. and
ls. ; Upper Boxes, ls. 6d. - Pit, First Circle, 2s. 6d. ;
Dress Boxes, 35.; ,Stalls. 'ss. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.,
ls., lt. us. 6d., and 21. 2s. Doors open at half-past 6,
commence at 7. Second price at 9 o'clock.
THIS EVENING, her Majesty's servants will perform the
comic drama entitled AGGRAVATING SAM. Characters
by Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Robert Roxby, Mr. Tilbury,
Mr. George Honey, Mr. Templeton, Mr. Walton, Mrs. Selby,
Miss M. Oliver, and Miss Mason.
After which, the celebrated drama entitled THE CAPTAIN
OF THE WATCH, in which Messrs. Charles Mathews,
Robert Roxby, A. Younge, Miss Mason, and Miss M. Oliver
will perform.
To bs followed by the laughable piece TWO HEADS
BETTER THAN ONE. Supported by Mr. Robert Roxby,
Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Templeton, Mr.Worrell, and Miss Wadhana.
To conclude with an entirely new Ballet, arranged by Mons.
Petit, of her Majesty's Theatre, in which Mdlles. Emilie and
Jenny Osmont, of the Grand Opera, will appear, assisted by
a powerful Corps de Ballet.
On Boxing Night, the 2Gth inst., will be produced a Grand
Comic Christmas Pantomime, by E. L. Blanchard, Esq.,
which, for gorgeous splendour and effects, will surpass all the
former pre-eminently successful efforts which have given to
this establishment a world-wide celebrity for pantomime.
The magnificent scenery by the inimitable artist, Mr. William
Beverley, and the pantomime produced nnder the direction
of Mr. Robert Roxby.

THEATRE' ROYAL, lEIAYMARKET.
THIS EVENINCr, will be performed
(by desire) Sir Edward Bulwor Lytton's comedy of MONEY,
in which Mr. Murdoch will make his first appearance in
this country in the character of Evelyn ; Sir John Vesey,
Mr. Chippendale ; Mr. B. Stout, M.P.. Mr. Buckstone ; Sir
Frederick Blount, Mr. W. Farren ; Graves, Mr. Compton ;
Lady Franklyn, Miss Talbot ; Georgiana, Mrs. E. Fitzwil-
liam ; Clara Douglas, Miss Reynolds.
After which, the successful new farce, A FAMILY
FAILING, iu which Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Chip-
pendale, and Miss Blanche Fane will appear.
With Perea, Nena and her unrivalled Company of Spanish
Dancers, in THE ALIIAMBRA, being the last week hut one
of their final engagement.
To conclude with THE DUMB BELLE.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHLI
Genuine Success.—TJnpreeedented Attrac-
tion.—First Appearance of Mr. Benjamin Webster, and re-
vival of the Great Adelphi drama of Janet Pride.—The grand
New Fairy Ballet Extravaganza, THE ELVES, in which
Madame Celeste will appear as the Statue Bride every night.
THIS EVENING will be performed the celebrated drama
of JANET PRIDE. Messrs. B. Webster, Wright, Paul
Bedford, C. Selby, Parselle, Garden, Bland; Mesdames Celeste
and M. Keeley.
After which, with new scenery and appointments, the new
fairy ballet extravaganza, called THE ELVES, or the Statue
Bride, founded on the grand ballet spectacle, now perform-
ing with unexampled success at the Theatre Imperiale de
l'Opera at Paris, under the title of Les Elfes. Principal cha-
racters by Madame Celeste, Misses Wyndham, Mary Keeley,
Kate Kelly, Chatterly, Arden, Messrs. Weght, Paul Bedford,
C. Selby, Le Barr, &c.

LYCEUM THEATRE ROYAL.
Lessee, Mr." C. Dillon.
MISS FITZPATRICK'S BENEFIT.
THIS EVENING (Monday). will be performed DOING
THE HANSOM. Mr. 3L. Toole.
Followed by THE LOVE CHASE. Miss Fitzpatrick, Mr.
Barrett, &e.
After which, THE ROUGH DIAMOND. Mies Fitzpatrick
and Mr. J. L. Toole.
Concluding with a Ballet, by Miss Retsina Wright and
Corps de Ballet. •
The Bedouin Arabs Tomorrow (Tuesday), Wedies lay,
Thursday, and Friday,

OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
THIS EVENING and during, the week
JILIV
will 4e presented Shakspeare's play of A MIDSUMMER
NIGHT'S DREAM.
After which (second time this season) THE CORSICAN
BROTHERS. Fabien and Louis dei Frauchi, Mr. C. Kean.
Mendelssohn's celebrated overture to A Midsummer
Night's Dream will commence at 5 minutes before 7.

ROY AL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick.
THIS EVENING, OTHELLO. Othello, Mr. Creswick;
Ingo, Mr, Basil Potter; Cassio, Mr. Calvert ; Roderigo, Mr.
F. Charles ; Brabontio, Mr. Voltaire ; Desdemona, Miss A.
Biddies ; Emilia, Mrs. Brookes.
To conclude with THE OUTCAST BROTHER..

THEATRE ROYAL, SADLER'S-WELLS.
Under the Management of Mr. Phelps.
THIS EVENING, NIRCIINITS. Virginias, Mr. Phelps ;
Appius Claudius, Mr. A. Rayner; Dent:Ans. Mr. 11. Marston;
boffins, Mr. F. Robinson. Virginia, Miss M. Eburne Ser-
via, Miss Atkinson
To conclude with I'LL WRITF, TO "THE TIMES."

1111010Y..A.L OLYMPIC THEATRE.
.Leggee, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
T
THIS EVENING, WIVES AS THEY WERE AND
MAIDS AS THEY ARE. Messrs. Addison, G. Vining ;
Mrs. Stirling, Misses Swanboron7,ll and Herbert.
And the new farce, JONES TTIE AVENGER. Messr4,
F. Robson, J. Rogers, and Miss Marston.
Commence at ba'f--east Seven.

STLEY'S ROY AL AMP HITHEATRE.
Lessee aryl Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
MONDAY. WEDNESDAY, AND FRID
THIS EVENING, Shake ease's Tragedy of MACBETH,
with Equestrian Illustrations by Mr. W. Cooke's highly-
trained Horses, &e. Macbeth; Mr. James Holloway.
After which, the SCENES in the CIRCLE. Appearance
of Mr: W. Cooke, jn &c.
To conclude with OTHER -ENTERTAINMENTS.
To=morrow, RICHARD THE THIRD.
DOOM open at half-past six ; commence at seven o'clock.
Ro"ffice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr.
W. West.. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun.

CA.NTERBIIII.Y HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
Selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses,
Glees, Duets, &c., viz.: —Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield,
Miss Brinell, and Miss Summers ; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F.
Jonghmane, R. Grover, T. Raino. T. Farrant, S. Jones, J.
Melling, and P. Corrie ; Masters Austin, Ben-
nett, and ; Mr. Sam Cowell and E. Mackney. Piano-
forte, IL A. ; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun. ;
dircojr;mirra.rrrvC3aYu'lfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre
&sely. Suppers, d'e ' until twelve o'clock. In addition to
'
the usual Vocal Entertainment, the celebrated SPANISH
at Nine and Eleven
Evening, and sing some of their favourite selec-
MINSTRELS
k Every
will appear iin costume •
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won WATER AT LONDON BRIDGB,
THIS DAI-31oni. 26 min.. aft.lo—Evening 56 min. gt. 10
Ta-Monnow—Morn. 27 min. aft. 11—Evening aft 0

THE .BATHER--Stm OFFICE, DECEMBER 7. 1
TFITBMOMETEB, IN THE SHAD&
59 —highest sinoo noon yester
d day.
the night.
55 —lowest this morning andduring
59 —this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 29.62.
ale, with fine, mild
WIND, S.W.—Blowing a strong g
weather. It was quite stormy along the Channel coasts.
DECEMBER S.
59—highest Mime noon yesterday!
55 —lewest this morning and duruig the night.
59—this day at noon.
BA ttommo, 29.65.
mild weather.
WIND, S.W.—Fresh, with fine,

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Sh.-144M0

LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1856.

The Bank Returns for the week ending the 28th
ultimo cOmplete the accounts of the Leviathan
for the month of November, and clearly exhibit
the results of the stringent application of the
screw which hss taken place within that period.
Last week we explained the operations of the old
Lady up to the 21st, and those during the last
week, of which we have an authentic statement,
are of a similar character. There is a further
addition to the reserve of notes of no less than
567,1251., making the whole increase in that im-
portant item, within the four weeks, 1,840,0001.
in round terms. The Stock of bullion has been

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enhanced by more than half a million sterling
(513,761/0—nearly 900,0001. within the last
three weeks, while the active circulation has again
been diminished by 58,2201. within the week.
Making a reduction iu the month of about
11,0:50,000/. in the measure and representative of
value. We also find thit, within the week, the
other securities which represent the amount of
accommodation afforded to the commercial and
manufacturing interests have decreased 694,697/.
And yet, with all these important changes in its
favour, the Bank has only returned to the mini-
mum rate charged at the beginning of the month,
before the drain of the precious metals had been
completely arrested, and the tide had manifestly
turned in our favour. The charge at Threadneedle-
street is still 6i per cent., which implies 8,
10, or even 12 per cent. to those who are not so
fortunate as to have discount accounts at head-
quarters, and also to be pets with their high
mightinesses the Directors.
Now this state of affairs is highly lauded by
the moneyocracy—the bullionists and usurers who
trade in money—and obtain gigantic profits for
themselves at the expense of the trading and
manufacturing classes. But it is ruinous to the
latter, who could scarcely be induced to devote
their time and labour to such unremunerative
occupations but for the hope of better times, when
they can retrieve their losses and lay by some-
thing as a provision for a rainy day. It renders
their transactions, in place of being legitimate
operations, neither more nor less than gambling
speculations, in which men of unquestionable
probity and solvency may be victimised by cir-
cumstances wholly beyond their own control, and
for which they should not be held in any degree
responsible. It adds to the cost of production or
trading, by rendering an insurance fund indis-
pensable to those who wish to act with prudence.
But as the comparatively few who would feel
disposed to adopt such precautions must encounter
the competition of reckless speculators at the
periods.when money is " a drug in the market,"
they must submit to participate in the general
excitement and to take their chances with the
general body. Fair traders cannot compete
with smugglers, nor under the existing mone-
tary system can prudent men encounter those
who, to use a vulgar but expressive metaphor,
are determined to "make a spoon or spoil a horn,"
on anything like equal terms. In vain may the
learned Commissioners deliver sound instruction
in Basinghall• street, in vain may they make
examples of the delinquents, when the practice is
stimulated by the existing monetary laws. Under
their operation there must be at one period a
hollow and delusive prosperity, while the produc-
tive and industrial classes will be periodically ex-
posed to the most frightful adversities. As a very
eminent writer* has declared—" So perilous has
mercantile adventure in consequence become, so
numerous are the risks with which the path of
the merchant is beset, that it has become next to
impossible to pursue a sober, steadfast, prudent
course. So immense have been the additions
which the mutations of the currency and periodi-
cal contractions of credit have made to the ordi-
nary perils of the winds and the waves, that the
most cautious trader is now exposed to nearly as
great risks as the most reckless. A bad harvest,
three weeks' rain in autumn, a blight in the corn,
a rot in the potatoes, a murrain in the cattle, is
at any time sufficient, by occasioning an export of
a few millions of sovereigns, to blast the most
prudent undertakings and ruin the wisest men.
* * * No amount of prudence and circum-
spection on the part of the merchant or manufac
turer can guard against the effects of a sudden
stoppage of credit and refusal of accommodation,
which arises from an exportation, trifling in
amount, but ruinous in its consequences, of the
precious metals. A nation possessing two hundred
millions a year of solid realised income, indepen-
dent of professional income, whose capital exceeds
five thousand millions sterling, finds itself reduced
to the verge of bankruptcy by the exportation of
five millions of sovereigns in exchange for food."
This beautifully graphic description clearly
explained the state of affairs some nine years
since, when, in consequence of the departure of
gold from our shores, we were obliged to decline
the purchase of food, although our Scotch and
Irish brethren were perishing from starvation or
enduring the most bitter peivations. They were
sacrificed, wilfully and deliberately sacrificed, at
the shrine of Mammon. Thousands of hecatombs
of victims attested the fearful devotion with which
the nation worshipped the bullionists' idol and
sacrificed the welfare and prosperity of the coun-
try and the lives of our brethren in order to
maintain " the integrity of the standard." The
issue of an adequate supply of 1/. National Notes
would have liberated gold sufficient to have pur-
chased corn enough to have saved the starving
Irish, and averted the destitution from the
Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
But the more recent calamities, although not
of so awful and heartrending a character, have
been more purely gratuitous. They cannot be
ascribed-to a bad harvest, corn blight, or potato
rot. There is no lack of food for the maintenance
of the People. It is solely owing to the operation
of the monetary system which deprives the Bank
prevents any allowance from
of its discretion, and
being made for the ordinary rules of supply and
demand. The Bank must, at all times and under
all circumstances, purchase gold at 3/. 17s. 9d.
and sell it at 31. 17s. 10d. per oz. It is thus
prevented from competing with foreigners in our
own markets. No advance of 2or 3 per cent. in the
rate of interest can be sufficient to counteract this
evil. -What is required is a purely domestic cur-
rency for internal trade. A Nationalll.Note that
will at all times retain its value by being limited to
the amount of taxation, and receivable in pay-
ment of every impost. As we ' have repeatedly
stated, the visits of the tax collector are not so
few or so far between that anything which can
satisfy his demands will be looked on as worth-
less rags, at which the butcher or baker would
look with contempt. We do not consider what
the sovereign is made of, or whether it contains
123 grains of standard gold, all that it is re-
quired will be the assurance that its possession
confers on us a purchasing power to a certain
extent, and
the it. note will be just as accept-
able, even more so,
in consequence of its superior
convenience,
when certain of a similar result.
We have now the opportunity of achieving this
great desideratum;
the Bank Charter has virtually
expired. It will be
11,015,000/., that costs
easy to pay off the debt of
vagant a price, and then tthhee gcooludntmryaysobeexptrrea.:
commodities, and heaping
parllodoutheetirve classes of the country.
served by raising its
Price, in place of reducing
ltoshesepsroienesthoef

* Sir Archibald Alison, Bart. : (i Free Trade and
a Fettered Currency," p. 174.

The President, in esse, of the United States still
keeps himself secluded and makes no sign.
Doubtless the precious interval allowed him is
carefully husbanded and, it is to be hoped, Judi.
ciously employed. A heavy responsibility rests
on his shoulders, and from his reticence, it may
fairly be inferred, he is aware of it and prepared
to bear himself accordingly. Most probably he

has by this time chalked out the line of policy he
means to pursue. If so, the selectiOnof his Cabinet
will be his pressing business. Whether he has com-
municated with any of the leading statesmen or not
does not yet appear. If he has he has managed
to imbue the parties with his own spirit, for
rumour itself is silent as to who has
been thus honoured. Were the parties
known a fair guess might, be hazarded as to his
intentions, for in the nomination of his Ministers
the key to his policy is to be looked for. It is
quite possible, however, he has not come to a de-
cision. Any way, reticence or vacillation, his
silence must be regarded as of hopeful significance
by the American patriot, and the best friends of
liberty, tranquillity, and order.
Let us look at his position. As we all know he
seriously committed himself by the part he took
in issuing the Ostend Manifesto. Equally notori-
ous is it that to the slaveholderi and Filibusters of
the South his election is mainly owing. What
won him their votes need not here be repeated.
On the other hand, he has had warm partisans
and numerous supporters in the North, who look
to him to keep down filibustering, and withhold
his countenance from the extension of slavery.
Thus he is committed to both classes of his sup-
porters, and must run counter to the wishes of one
or other of them. Which is it to be ? In con-
sidering this question, the character and the
past career of the man must be taken into
account. That he has not the reputation of being
very scrupulous may go for little ; but he is saga-
cious, ambitious, a staunch partisan, and approach-
ing the decline of life. Having a choice to make,
the presumption is he will throw over the Fili-
busters and slavery-extension mongers. To carry
out their wishes would be to sacrifice the great object
of a reasonable ambition, and to destroy his party.
No extraordinary sagacity is required to perceive
that piratical aggression would lead inevitably to
foreign war, and slavery-extension to the extinction
io° his party in the North, if not to a separation
of North and South, possibly peaceful, but pro-
bably the contrary. What has the South to offer
a statesman at his time of life to induce him to
enter on a career which cannot but be attended
by consequences which the great national verdict
would pronounce disastrous ? We look in vain
southward for any temptation-powerful enough to
induce a statesman like Mr. BUCHA-NAN to adopt a
policy which, instead of adding his name to the
list of patriotic Presidents, would consign it to
general execration and everlasting infamy.
The view, then, all things considered, we take
as to the coming President's career is, as we have
intimated, a hopeful one. We are, however, in
posSession of facts which greatly fortify the con-
clusion we have arrived at from the above pre-
mises. The South itself is by no means united in
its views and wishes. The North, with the ex-
ception of the extreme Anti-Slavery party, begins
to regard the recent election with lese apprehen-
sion, indeed with some degree of favour. But,
above all, the Filibustering and Slavery-extension
party are evidently tormented with doubt, and do
not scruple to intimate they are in danger of
being "sold." The supposed organ of JEFFERSON
DAYlS—the evil genius of the PIERCE Cabinet—
comes out strongly on this head. According to
it the danger is exceedingly great, and, in har-
mony with this opinion, we find it enlivened by
appeals and menaces worthy of the party whose
organ it is ; but not likely, as the writer seems
to think, to move the President from his pur-
poses, or avert the catastrophe he and his party
Ideprecate. Our hope of the Kansas difficulty being
satisfactorily dealt with is thus increased, though
the obstacles in the way of this unlucky State's being
made a Slave State are sufficiently formidable to
have kept us a long remove from despair. The
same hopeful view may not less reasonably be
taken so far as the interests of Europe are con-
cerned, and we may cheerfully look forward to
peace being preserved and a good understanding
arrived at between England and the United
States. One thing we must again repeat—the
best way to preserve peace, especially with Ame-
rica, is to be prepared for war. The stronger we
are the more likely are our rights and wishes to
be respected.

THE FLEMISH EXHIBITION.

AT 121, PALL-MALL.