The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-28 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH.
COVENT-GARDEN.:,,
Under the management of Miss L. Fyne a,nd.MT.W. Harrison.
THIS EVENING (Monday), will be producethq i.rand
Gera, entitled LIIRLINE, by W. 'Vincent Wallace. Messrs.
W. Harrison, Santley, Corri, and G. Henei Missts4Louisa
Fyne, Pilling, and F. Cruise,
• Conductor, Alfred Mellon.
den
To conclude with the •new grand pantonftme;of eallthe Gqe&PICS
IN BOOTS ; or, Harlequin and the Fairy
Palms. Messrs. W. H. Payne, H. Payne, F. Payne,
Barnes,
Tallien, infants-Lauri, and Miss Clara Morgan.
Doors open at hall-past 6—Commenet at 7.

,0 11 B it A

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, FISH OUT OF WATER.
After which, will be performed the new and original
Comedy, in three acts, entitled THE OVERLAND
ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Buckstone, Compton, Chip-
pendale, Mrs. C.,Mathews, Miss Weekes, and-Mrs. Wilkins.
Follcvved by the new Haymarket Comic Christmas Panto-
tnime, VALENTINE'S DAY ; or, Harlequin and the. Fairy
of the True Lovers' Knot. The pantomitaists the unrivalled
Leolercqs,

TITEATRE-ROYAL Lt
CelCesteEUM.7
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame .
Brilliant and Increased Success of the new Drama—Colette
Dubois and ThereSe Defame, by Madame. Celeste.
TIIIS EVENING, the new Drama of A • TALE OF
TWO CITIES, by Tom Taylor, Esq., from the story of that
name by Charles Lac Principal characfers by Mr.
James Vinintr, Walter ', Villiers, Rouse, 'Forrester, J.
Johnstone, T. Lyon, Morton, Palmer, White, 11. Butler,
Clifford, and Fredericks ; Misses Kate Saville, Stuart, Turner,
Mrs. Campbell, and Madame Celeste.
•
Atter which, will be produced the Grand Christmas Ex-
travaganza and Pantomisne," KING THRUSIIBE A.RD, the
LITTLE PET and the GREAT PASSION, in which is pre-
" sented,one Of the most' novel, costly, and brilliant effects ever
witnessed - designed and painted by Mr. William Callcott.—
King Thrushbeard, Miss Julia St. George.
Commence at 7. ,

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATItE.--,,.
-a- a) Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, the Comedy of MONEY. Messrs. Geo.
Melville, Ryder Frank Mathews, Widdicomb, H. Bland, IL,
Baker, Garden, 'Graham ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Clifford,
and Mrs Charles Young
After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomlme,byt H.-
J. Byron, called JACK TILE GIANT KILLER ; or, Harle
quin King Art'Aur and the Knights of the Round Table.
Jack, Mi.s Louise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack Panta-
loon, Mr. eaulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown,
Mr. A. F. Forrest.

~ f

KTEW: THEATRE ROYAL; AIiELP
.1.1 Sole Proprlet6r and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
First" Night of a New. and Original Comedy, by Watts,
Phillips, :entitled PAPER WINGS..
THIS EVENING: ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS, Mr. J.
L. Toole, Chas. 'Selby, Billington, Mrs. ChatterleV, Bil-
Bugton, Miss Kate Kelly, and Laidlaw.
After which, PAPER WINGS, Mr Alfred Wigan, J. L.
Toole, D. Ftslier,9iillington, P. Bedford, Stuart, C. Selby,
Eburne, e. J. Smith, Powell, Romer, Mrs Alfred Wigan,
Misses. Shun* Miss Kate Kelly, and Mrs Chatterley.
• Followed. •by ~DINORNIt UNDER. DIFkICULTIES.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Eburne,, C. J. Smith, Miss
K. Kel'y.' •
Alois open at half-past six—Commence eft seven. Box-
Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing sets,
nor ter bill,s.of performance. All lees-to -servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.
Acting Manage?—hlr. Wm. Smith.
.„

ROYAL ST.- JA-MES'S THEATRE,'
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. Direotress, Miss W.yndham. The nearest Theatre to
Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to
carriages and toot passengers all hours of the night.
TUTS NVENING the performances will commence with
I WILL, IF YOU WILL.
After which, FIRST AFF ECTIONS.. Messrs. IL •T.
Craven, G. Spencer, and Miss Wyndham.
Followed by a nett/ burlesque called DIDO. Mr. Charles
. Young, Mesdames Wyndham, Clara St. Caine, Murray, Eliza
Arden, C. Ranoe, A. Evans, and Corps de Ballet.
To conclude with MAGIC TOYS. Miss Lydia Thompson.
Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, is. The Box-office open
frdm 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform
snoe commences at 2.. -

.. _ • . , . ._ _
. CANTERB UR Y HALL CONCERTS.
THIS EVENING,
LUC-REV.-I'A. BORGIA,
(Donizetti).
Donntamoreaia ....-, __' MIAs Russell.
3fattio Orsini .... , ',. Mrs. Anderson.
Gennaro • Mr. Henry Herbert.
• - Don Alionze' ' ' . ' Signor:Tivoli.
.Conductor—Mr. Jonglima:lm
Comic Vocalists —Meacirs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchtield, and 1.. W. l‘fackney.
'SeVeral Inter4tlnix Picfnres are added .to the Fine Arts.
Gallery. The suite- of Halls have been "re-diporated and
beantifted, and 'constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
' eights of the metropolis. "--1 • • ,
• The galleryls open froins till 11 on Sunday-Pvening.

TIM WEATIIER..—.SUN OFFICE, FEB. 28; 1860.
THERMOMETER, IN THE ErilADß.`
= 488--highest since' neon yesterday.
44--lowest this morning and during the !iighti".
512—his day at 0271.
BAROMEirR-29.30. ' • - .
WIND. Nortb-Westetly ; fresh, and.' very squally—a
gale—with fine cloudy weather.

HIGH .WATER AT LONDON ,BRIDGE. -
Tins DAY.-,-Morning, 'sh. 27m.—Aftarn(AM„ sk. .44m
,To..morniow.-Morningi- pt). 2m.—Afterno9n, ph. 24m

. ~ • ' ' , , '
1,14- ~•41.„..
.67j4....1,gi,,,,,.€,,1_,.41,
ea
A.,"
- ' '''''..
~.,_ ~.!:,..q__ , -,- ~a,,,,...,,,,,,,•;1,,---1, :,.,-, , , . ;,(S), 4-4,,,,
' ''?'i • ` 4,' 41, Z").-f-qlE'f-r':' ~t- ~ ,' , . -- -'''
_.;;40-0 - • --- .-+,;,-,,,,

THE SUN.

LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 280860.

Now, if ever, we have the opportunity of securing
to the central part of the metropolis the long-
wished-lor:advantage of a Thames embankment
Little more than the cost of labour is required for
the realisation, at once, of this obvious improvement.
The .material is. there "to hand"--meaning 'the
mass of stones and .debris which will have to be
carted 'away-from the old bridge at Westminster.
LabOtr, of course, will be required to cart all those
stones and all that pile of rubbish away, and that_
labour will have to be paid for out of the proceeds
of the sale of, the material thus removed. ~.Why

not keep the rubbish and the stones instead of se

ing them!'" Why ; not diminish the' rinimiiit- of
•,
- Tabour thitWillbenegesSaryfor theremoyalbytaking
the debris to the shortest distance ? Why not, in fact, j
employ,the earth, gravel, sherds, and rribhiisli of
•1
- •..•
t.told bridge in building up a portion, at; leasti of
, the-, long-projected embankment between -West-
, minster. and Blackfriars, employing the `stones Of
the used-up structure for the river ftwing!of thrit
-embankment Not to do this would dertainly be
the waste of an, opportunity that NY; ,i3taltr4p), for
in vain afterwards.. • For the old bridge-at! West-
minster, now about to be broken rand 'taken
piecemeal elsewhere, will be a very cjuat:ri, close at
- hand for the raising of this embankment, If in
this direction We'Went only as far as the' Matt-11E11s
,now within reach of us, as it were,wonldallOwn'to
• go—it would, even if en ding there, prowl's* the time
being inestimable in its way if only as a-Coininakce-.
ment. We should at least have made kbeginning.
We should at any rate:have been able thus to raise
an etribankMent 'at the'smallest possible cost,: and.
, with theleast possible trouble, in front of White-
hall-gardens—an embankment supplyin g the inhabi-
tants of the metropolis, along that part of ;the river
with a promenade sixty or eighty feet in breadth,
thereby demonstrating the. advantages Of the system
which we might hope to see extended at length on
either side of the Thames, from Battersea to Black-
friars.
:'
&commencement. has already been intade.a
higher up the river, at the other side of Vauxhall.
There a fraginentary embankment has betnraiseti,
ettending eking -.-the margin of the-Thames, froth
Nauxhall-bridge fo the Western end-Of the river
front of, Chelsea Hospital. It was'
tended by.the Legislature (which took..this.projeet
in hand, as far back as 1846) that the embankment
at 4)14 part should extend between.. the-:bridges
'respectively at Vauxhall'And Battersea.? -To -this
Indeel,'ltrivi fourteen-years agd, the 9th end
• ''
C...A was pa.ssed emp.oweang. die .Ek:e•
-entice to. carry
out this particular amprovement.
• The enactinent molts accompanied by avote.in 1846 of
ni-unificent hum of .045;000 for rtali'sino: the
design -of this embankment. Gradually' , the
work *OA" and. as the
money was little by
little expendei,l; di6iculties al ose—th ,einbankmen
stoppeds shentits we have-seen, at the -westerm.ek-
tiiMity q ;b. river Trent Chelsea
4.0 w, ,(aft.er,lhe lapse, ot.ca, few more year,s, aing
.witial.h&Ttroject 'lir- been lying altogether dor
Of the design bethink
,th'ern
inatit) the'plianOteik
well be once.more astir,
selves that :they. May. as;;
and deeinA-adviiablent the yeryle as t that theyshould
askaskthe`Chi-ef COMMiSsiiirie.iofr u blicWolAcs about the
balanceyet,remainingunexpended ou t of the original
set 'itpa:ri liy the -Ildrise of Connions- fortie
, !
paymeneof th've estiplatesl,e9g of this eln,l*,ll,lTl9t.
Hence the dvntation which yesterday afternoon'