The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-27 00:00:00

CONCERTS,

CANTERBURY HALL
THIS EVENING,
C. H. GOUNOD'S OPERA.
FAUST.
Tint Time in this Country.
Faust Mr. Henry Herbert.
Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard.
Siobel Mrs. Anderson.

Marguerite
Conductor Mr. Jonghmans.
And selections from
Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other
Entertainments.
Balcony, is, Hall, 6d.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), and W. T. Critchfield.
The AFRICAN OPERA TROUPE, their first appearance
since 1852, consisting of ELEVEN STAR PERFORMERS,
who will give the whole of their inimitable entertainment
every evening.
The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, TUNE 27, 1860,
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
63—highest since noon yesterday.
53--Lowest this morning and during the night.
63 —this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.
WlND—South-Westerly; light, with dull weather, and
slight sprinkling.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 7h. 58m.—Afternoon, Bh. 30m.
To-Moßßow.-Morning, 9h. 4m.—Afternoon, 9h. 38m,

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THE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1860,

We would respectfully congratulate his Royal
Highness the PRINCE CONSORT upon the admirable
discretion with which as Master of the Trinity-
house he presided on Saturday evening last at the
anniversary banquet of that ancient and honourable
corporation. Recognising this discretion in every
syllable that fell from the lips of his Royal High-
ness upon this occasion, we can all the more wil-
lingly for the nonce let bygones be bygones. We
can even allow for the moment the recent oratorical
display of his Royal Highness as Colonel of the
Grenadier Guards to slip from our recollection.
Permitting that latest lapsus lingual to es-
cape our memory for one brief interval
the more readily because, already in its regard, we
have said our say quite frankly without an in-
stant's thought of anything in the way of courtly
reticence or courtierlike circumlocution. Happily,
in the present instance, there is nothing whatever
that the most cynical could take exception to.
The PRINCE has afforded no one, not even the
most captious, the faintest opportunity to cavil at
his remarks. His Royal Highness on Saturday
last spoke—as it best befits the CONSORT of our
QUEEN to spe'k—that beloved Sovereign, who
from the first hour of the commencement of her
reign until now, during the lapse of all
these three-and•twenty years, has undeviatingly
" walked in the light of the Constitution !"
The excellent judgment, and we might even say
at times the exquisite taste with which his Royal
Highness introduced the various toasts of the even-
ing, as chairman of the Banquet at the Trinity
House, on the 23d instant, shine all the more
agreeably upon our recognition, in contrast with
those past words of indiscretion, of which we are
now fain to lose the remembrance. Nothing, for
example, could have been, at once, more graceful
or more apposite than the incidental references
made by the Prince to three of his Royal High-
ness's eight children, when introducing the some-
what trite toast of " the Prince of WALES and the
rest of the Royal Family." While even the
younger members of that august house are
now rapidly growing up—the PRINCE CONSORT
observed on Saturday—" The PRINCESS ROYAL
has already become the founder of a new family
destined to mount the throne of Prussia; the Prince
of WALES is following his academic course at
Oxford, which he prOposes to complete at the
Sister university, Cambridge ; while his younger
brother having by the prescribed apprentice-
ahiP evened his rating as a midshipman, serves
ze_ alously as such in the fleet." Evidences these that
educationte
i of each young Prince is, indeed,
ba~luousl
to be, tc,
Y cared for, as it ought only in reason
.710 them
ibOth for their high destinies.
impressiveness—.«
ITtl4liness added with peculiar
Will be a (eirious coincidence
that, nearly at the same time, a few weeks hence,
though almost at the o
WALES will inau,uraptposi.te poles, the Prince of
n
that stupendous work, the Gre
the QUEEN'S name.
St. Lawrence, in Canada,while;
.I3ridge over the
lay the foundation stone of
the
breakwater
ALFRED will
for
the harbour of Cape Town ;"—Qxclaimior. there-
" What vast considerations as regards our
country-, are brought to our mind in this si •
mple fact!
What present greatness! What past history What
future hopes; and how important and beneficent
is the part given to the royal family of England
to act in the development of those distant and
rising countries,
who recognise in' the British
Crown and their allegiance to it their supreme
try and with
bond of union with the mother coun