The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-19 00:00:00

" Prince Imperial of Austria.

" The Viscount Palmerston."

Whsn brought to this court Mr. Balderston and Mr.
Tucker, the late and present district surgeons, were
c tiled on to pronounce upon the state of his mind.
Mr. Newenhatn, who appeared with a smiling counte-
nance, and conversed freely and with seeming ration-
ality, expressed his desire to make his plan fur paying
if the national debt publicly known, as that would serve
to convince the world that he was in possession of his
rational faculties.

Mr. Newenham having been encouraged to explain
himself sa;d—Belonging as he did to the House of Haps-
burg, and born as his registry would prove in the year
ten thousand and two, his hereditary revenues as Prince
of Prussia amounted ti a million a year, or thereabouts—
he could not speak as to a pound or two more or less.
This revenue he proposed to allow to accumulate for 100
years at compound interest, and this, according to his
calculation, would produce such a sum as would enable
him to pay off the national debt slap, and leave him a
trifle or so of a few hundred millions to devote to other
patriotic purposes. He hoped the explanation he had
now given would sufficiently show the state of his intel-
lects.

The medical gentlemen having given their certificates,
Mr. Bingham made the usual order, and Mr. Newen-
ham was removed in the company of two lunatic asylum
keepers.

THAMES.—Mr. Charles Clarke, the landlord of the
Royal Oak public-house, in Plummer's-row, White-
chapel, was charged with having his house open for the
sale of spirituous liquors and beer after 12 o'clock on
Saturday night last.
After hearing the evidence,
Mr. Selfe said—l have no hesitation in saying that if
there were no other irounds for taking out the summons
than those mentioned it might have been spared. Pub.
licans must have a reasonable time allowed them to clear
their houses, and police-officers, who are public servant,
should not prefer frivolous and vexatious information;
against any one.

A deputation from the Associate Institution for Im-
proving and Enforcing the Laws for the Protection of
Women had an interview yesterday with Lord Robert
Grosvenor, M.P., at his residence in Park-street, on the
provisions of a bill for the more effectual suppression of
brothels. The deputation consisted of the Rev. W. G.
Cookesley, M.A.,
Rev. R. Plumptre, M.A., Mr. J. E.
Davis, barrister-at-law ; Mr. W. Shaen, M.A., solicitor ;
and Mr. Newman, the secretary.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills effected a most
extraordinary cure of a Skin Disease.—Mr. C. Smith,
the noted boot and shoemaker, of 115, Tooley-street,
London, had been severely afflicted with scurvy for four
years, the cracks in the palms of his hands were as
wide as the thickness of a penny-piece, and notwith-
standing he had been to the principal hospitals, and the
one ft.r diseases of the skin, yet he derived no benefit
by their medicine. Holloway's pills alone have been the
means of effecting a perfect cure..--Sold by all medicine
vendors throughout the world, at Professor Holloway's
establishments, 244, Strand, London, and 80, Maiden-
lane, New York ; by A. Stampa, Constantinople ;
A.
Guidicy, Smyrna ; and E. Muir, Malta.

[ADVERTISRMENT.I—OnIy to be known to be valued.—Dr.
Roberts's celebrated ointment, called the " Poor Mate*
Friend," is confidently recommended to the public as an un.
failing remedy for wounds of every description, a certain
cure of ulcerated sore legs, if of twenty years' standing, cuts,
burns, scalds, bruises, chilblains, scorbutic eruptions, and
pimples in the face, sore and inflamed eyes, sore heads, can-
cerous humours, &c., and is a specific for those afflicting
eruptions that sometimes follow vaccination. Sold in pots,
at ls. 14d. and 2s. 9d. each.—Also his Pilulre Antiscro•
pliuke," confirmed by more than forty years experience to be,
without exception, one of the best alterative medicines ever
compounded for purifying the blood and assisting nature in
all her operations ; hence they are useful in scrofula, scorbutic
complaints, glandular swellings, particularly those of the
neck, &c. They form a mild and superior family aperient
that may be taken at all times without confinement or change
of diet. Sold in boxes, at ls. 10., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., lls.,
and 225. each.—Sold wholesale by the proprietors, Beach and
Barnicott, at their dispensary, Bridport; by the London
houses ; retail by all respectable medicine vend ors in the
United Kingdom. Observe.—No medicine sold under th
above names can possibly be genuine, unless "' Beach and
Barnicott, late Dr. Roberts, Bridport," is ex ,graved ant
printed on the stamp affixed to each box.

E R MAJEST Y'S THE ATR E.— - i The redemption money has been charged to the
41 ft is respectfully anno,nced th it her MAJEsTY'STHEATRI
a working expenses of the different establishments,
will REOPEN early _in May. Engagements of great interest
been effected both in 4 Mera and Ballet, andthe best exertions use
to make the arrangements wor hy of the occasion. and there has been a conspiracy to deceive and
The prospectus will immediately appear.
I defraud the public, for which the parties, if in a
private stations, should have been punished with
prolonged incarceration, accompanied with hard
labour.

1 ritE 4.01 1.M.U131-I,4LNE,
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.

THIS EVENING,.
IL TROVA TORE.
o c n-lade with
THE ENCHANT :D GARDEN.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAY3IARKET.
lin4er the Management et Mr. Buckstone.
THII EVENtNa,
THE EVIL GENIUS.

After which,
EL GA:V[IE4MM; or, The Mexican Goldseeker.
In which PEREA IkTENA and the Spanish Dancers will appear.
Followed by
GRDISIIAW, ,3AGSHA.vr, AND BRADSHAW.

To conclude with
TAE POATM tN'S KNOCK.

ROYAL PRIII.CEREVB THEATRE, OXOORD-STREET.
Under the Afanuement of :tin CHARLES KEAN.

T*Tiel EvENTS'a,
THE CORQICAN BROTHERS.

To he Wowed by

TUE Ve'Toll VANQUISHED.

To concludp with
A PRINCE FOR AN TIOTIR.

ROYAL THE t.THE ADELPHI.
Proprietor and Manager. Mr. H. Webster.
Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,
LIKE AND UNLIKE.
Messrs. B. W'ehstsr, Wright, P. Helfori, C. Selby, Garden;
Madame Celeste, Misi Wyndham.

After which.
lIRGENr PRIVATE. AFFAIRS.
To conclude with
MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL.

ROYAL OLY:APIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
THIS EVENING
STILL WATERS RIJN DEEP.

After which with be produced a New and donhly-moral, though
atcessively old. Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled
THE DISCREET PRVICESS; nr, the Three Glass Distaffs.
which Messrs. Emery. F. Robson, H. Cooper, Miss Marston,
and Miss Haskell will appear.

ROYAL SITIHEY THEATRE.

Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswic.k.

TIIIA EVENING,
Will be performed a new Drama, entitled
lOW WE LIVE IN THE WORLD OF LONDON.

Followed by
TIIE POSTMANN KNOCK.

To conclude with
i'LIFFLEHAUSEN; or, The Lawyer's Legend.

ROYAL MARYT,ERONF, THEATRE.
BENEFIT of M 133 FITZP TRICK, SATURDAY, April 19th.

To commence wri4h

THE SCHOOL FOR SC "DAL. Lady Teazle, Mies Fitzpatrick,
Mossrs. Stirling, Stuart. Belford. Lewis Ball, Saunders, Langton,
Cooke; MIS Morrell and Miss F. Mars.
• After-which,
BALLET. Mr. and Mn!. Harvey.
Tu conc!ude with

THE HAUNTED INN. Messrs. Robertson, J. R. Johnstone,
Lewis Ball, Belford, Cooke; Misses Morrell, Douglass, and Robert-
son.

Bow, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d.
Stage Manager, Mr. E. Stirling.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee :tad %I,ina7,,er, \tr. Wm. Cooke.

TIIL4 EVENING,

The Performances will embrace that startling' novelty, a Real
Eriesh Steeplechase, with all its exciting incidents.
The Entertainments c-immence with THE ARAB OF THE
DEsP:RT A.ND FirT EA rTtIFUL STEED.
Afterwhich.-the EQUE,sTRIAN WONDERS OF THE ARENA,
Trampoline; Gymnastics, See.

TO conclude with a Drame introducing EIcGLAND'S TIARVFAT
HOME an I NkTIONIf, SrEEPLECFIA.SE, with a noble Stud of
'forges, trained by Mr. Will am Cooke.
wx•oflice open fr.:.rn E ev,n ti 1 Four. Stare Manager, Mr. %V
West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Co,ke, jun.

EMMA STANr.,EY'S "SEVEN AGES OF WOMIN."

The Manager respectfully announces that the LAST MORNTNG
PERFOR NT ANCE of t:113 most popular amt amusing Entertainment,
will take place on Saturday, the 19th, at half-past two.

Eydninc:performanct, as asu Al, on ',lonlays, Tuesdays, Thursdays
arid F-Idays, at n',lock.
Admission—Rack Seats, ts. ; Centre cleats, 2s. ; Stalls, 3s.
SAINT MAIL HALL, Long-acre.

TTIGq W1.7P,1t LONDIN BRTMIg.

THlit DAt—Morn. inin...nft. I,—Ev-laing 30 min. aft. 1
T6.:llfnitkow—Nforn. 3 min. aft. 2 —Evening 17 min. aft. 2

THE WF.A.TTIEt—Sing Orncr, APRIL 19.
THP.RIIOIIF:TER, IN VIE SHAM
567h1Oest ulnae noon yesterday.
47 —:owpst this morning and during the night.
48 —this •lay at noon. •

For the present we shall only deal with the
sums thus improperly, and, as we believe, illegally
applied during the past year. The large sum of
193,7771. was paid for the pension of 7,1321.
125., payable to the Duke of GRAFTON and his
heirs out of the Excise—or, in other words, from
the tax on beer. That pension (with another of
4,700/. per annum on the Post-office, which
has, perhaps, already been redeemed on equally
exorbitant terms) was granted by CHARLES
the Second to his illegitimate son, by BAR-
BARA, Countess of Castlemaine, who, after
her lapse of virtue, was created Duchess of
Cleveland. The juvenile bye-blow was subse-
quently created Baron ARLINGTON and SUDBURY,
and afterwards, in 1675, Duke of GRAFTON.
The pensions were, moreover, granted without
the assent of Parliament to him and to his
heirs when he obtained an Earldom, in 1672,
so that he, therefore, enjoyed the amount
for no less than one hundred and eighty-
four years. As we have already explained,
in The Sun, if the sums had been invested at
compound interest, there would have been not
only sufficient to pay off the National Debt, but
to have provided amply for the entire military,
naval, and civil establishments of the country, and
to have left a handsome surplus for national im-
provements—to have purified the Thames, given
handsome and commodious thoroughfares, and ren-
dered the British metropolis the first in all respects
in the world, and now when public attention had
been directed to this monstrous'', plunder, where
no public faith was pledged—nothing but the
illegal and unconstitutional grant of a licentious
tyrant miscalled a " Merry Monarch," we find
the matter compromised at an extravagant rate,
under a Treasury minute of 31 years' standing,
without the assent of Parliament being sought
for, and the matter being only discovered by a
mere accident ! If that be legal or constitutional
we may some day find that Uncle LEOPOLD has re-
ceived a million and a half sterling for the capitali-
sation of the annuity for which he has already drawn
ihvo millions from the Exchequer, or that Prince
ALBERT has commuted his allowance, for a million
of pounds to be invested in Russian or Prussian
Bonds or railways, and withdrawn in gold from
the country—all questions of monetary reform
being postponed until these important arrange-
ments have first been effected by Treasury Mi-
nutes, the consent of Parliament not being re-
quired or sought for.
As Mr. DISRAELI declared, " the principle,
whatever its advantages to the holders of heredi-
tary pensions, would by no means be regarded as
a benefit to the country." We trust, then, that
Parliament may adopt immediate measures for the
prevention of future jobs of a similar character,
and to insure their own privileges as guardians
of the national purse. It may be merely " shut-
ting the stable door after the steed has been
stolen," but it will be right to prevent the possi-
bility of similar misconduct, where it may be
effected to a larger extent, and in a manner even
more disagreeable to the nation. These vicious
precedents should be swept away, and no plausible
excuse allowed to any future jobbing Chancellor
of the Exchequer.

BAROL'AETER, 30.25.
WIND, E. to E.S.E. and S.—Moderate, with very dull,
dark weather. It rained in the morning, and threatens
more.

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In the lowest depths there is said to be a lower
deep. It may be matter for congratulation to
some people—the present House of Commons has
not got to that. BeloW r:•pentance it seems to
have stuck at the shady side of _remorse, being at
once frac;.ious, and apparently possessed of a
slight modicum' of s'iame. Its gorge rises, to
judge by the bitter " Oh, oh's" elicited last night
by the reply of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
to the question of Mr. DIINDAS, at the notion of
the exhibition of fire-works in Hyde Park. And.
no wonder. For what painful thoughts and re-.
miniscences would not the sight of that spectacle
evoke ? How suggestive the crackers to Hon.
Members of their noisy protestations.of political
virtue at the hustings—the squibs of the mer-
ciless that awaits them on a dissolution
—the rockets, aimless and harmless, of tile
vast stores of warlike missiles uselessly accumu-
lated at our arsenals, the Roman candles of May-
moth, the snakes and serpents of ABERDEEN,
GLADSTONE, and the illustrious Field-Marshal--
the golden rain of the frightful waste of expendi-
ture to which Honourable Members have heen
parties--;—the maroons of the three years' War,
with its one campaign-'—the Catherine wheels
of the thousands of our soldiers martyred through
their scandalous lathes—the Bengal lights of the
re-ributive eyes of a nation awakened to the con-'
scionsnem that it has been sold—the coloured fires
of their political doom—the entire spectacle of
their utter worthlessness, and the heavy cost of
their unsalaried stewardship to a too credulous
people.
~Any spectacle but that—the political
hereafter with its bitter reminiscences and re-
proaches was surely enough ! Hardened as Sir G.
LEWIS may be supposed to be as an Edinburgh
Reviewer, even he seemed to have a glimpse of the
bitterness of their case, judging by his reluctance,
real or feigned—let us hope real—to state what
the fireworks were for. So sink the fireworks,
and hey for the naval review!

LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1856.

On Tuesday last we directed public notice to
the national balance-sheet for the financial year
ending on the 31st ultimo. There was, however,
one. eery important item to which we were unable
to devote the partilular attention which it so
eminently merited. It figures under the rather
modest designation of " redemption of hereditary
pensions," but for the not very trifling sum of
213;1;7/. is. 2cl. That the Government should
select a time when the nation was involved in a
I:ery serious war, and when there was a deficiency
of no less than 22,753,8541. ss. ld., to redeem
any portion of the public debt seemed almost in-
credible. The country was at that time on the
borrowing tack. Sixteen millions had been ob-
tained, and as that proved to be altogether insuf-
ficient—as any one but a Financial Minister
might have known--there was a supplementary
loan of 5,000,0001., exclusive of additions to the
unfunded debt of nearly 3,000,0001. sterling.
This was certainly not the time for the redemption
of any charge, however well founded, and how-
ever strongly the national faith might be pledged
to the payment. The GLADSTONE abortion was
at the time exciting the public mind, and no
similar proposition could by any possibility have
received the Legislative sanction—a redemption
of any kind therefore seemed alogether out of

place, and when the item appeared, a natural Salt water has many virtues, and is especially
anxiety for explanation was manifested on every good if taken in a spanking breeze. If anything
sides will minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the
That explanation has just been given. Mr. memory a rooted sorrow, and relieve the over •
WresoN last night announced the pensions that charged breast of the perilous stuff that weighs
had been purchased up, and showed also that about the heart, it is this medicament taken in the
other transactions perhaps "jobs" would be a chops of the Channel. So hey for the naval re-
mors .appropriate term—of a similar kind had view ! Never mind the inconsistency of grudging
taken, place. The first redemption was that of the people places of recreation on account of the
one of the hereditary pensions,
held by his Grace cost, and shutting them out of the British
the. Duke of GRAFTON, charged on the Excise, and Museum on the only day during which
annum, for which
ameninting to 7,1321. 12s. per they have opportunity to enter it, from a pro-
file sum of 193,77 V. Was paid. The other was tended respect for the sanctity of the Sabbath,
"the remains of the SCHOHDEE.G pension,".amount- and then hastening to countenance and admire an
ing to. 7201: per annum, which was obtained at a array of gun-boats formidable and costly, so
only being paid, the Dutch
lower rate, 17,4007. many of which have been got up exclusively for
heirs of the Dutch grantee being probably anxious the review, and with such haste that one thou-
to invest in the new Russian Loan which was then gaud Government workmen have had to labour
owing out on favourable terms at Amsterdam. at them during two successive Sundays. Never
The sanction of Parliament was not required, the mind that, and away with the croaking raven that
job being perpetrated under a Treasury minute of hoalsely sings of the infinite loss the country has
more than thirty yearn' standing, and the coma- sustained from the want of a like energy in the
try would have heard nothing on the subject but construction of gun-boats when their armaments
for the recent change which made Parliament deal could have won a peace
the nation might be
with the gross revenues. Mr. WILSON, with great proud of. Away With retrospection and gloomy
apparent candour, explained that the only differ- forebodings, and hey for the Review with all its
once yva's,'that." whereas, in former times Parlia. ' fascination, the Emperor al-
-aaPoLeoat and his
went had no cognisance of the redemption of pen- princely " babby" in Jewish tinsel inclusive,
slops, the net revenues alone being returned ; in But how to get there ? A "disagreeable" at
the present instance, the gross revenues of the f the outset—a special train provided--but hon.
departments were laid before the House, and the I members to pay the expenses ! Never milid,
purchisse-meney debited in the accounts." He a ship is to be provided, with refreshments,
added that "the transaction was strictly in keep• stewards included, and no charge. The Perse-
ing: with all the precedents." verance !—insult to injury, seeing to what straits
We-have no doubt of the fact, and that the ini- I perseverance in iniquity has brought them ! The
quitous system would have been kept strictly i Perseverance ! Could Lard PALMERSTON and his
priieate but for the accidental discovery. Not the' Wood-en lieutenant entertain a notion of revenge
slightest intimation has ever hitherto been given
,for their fractiousness so cold-blooded ! Why,
of the pkoxii4.- wiiiChilas "I°l4 beeiliaoperatioz: i that Was the Ship that toppled-over iii to dock,