The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-27 00:00:00

ADELPHI THEATRE.

A new farce, by the author of " Domestic Eco-
nomy," called " The Star of the Streets," was pro-
duced here last evening. The incidents of the plot
are not very numerous, but they are worked out
by the actors with such somic spirit as to afford
to the audience that genuine enjoyment which
laughter, fresh, hearty, and spontaneous, infallibly
occasions. Mrs. Mellon, Mr. Toole, and Mr. C. J.
Smith sustain the principal parts.

HAYMAE.KET THEATRE.—Her Majesty and the
Prince Consort, with the Princess Helena and Prince
Alfred, honoured the Haymarket Theatre with their pre-
sence last evening, to witless the new comedy of " The
Overland Route."

REPRESENTATION OF HARWICII.—We under-
stand that Montague Chambers, Esq., Q.O , late M.P. for
Greenwich, intends offering himself to fill up the vacancy
in the representation of the borough of Harwich in Par-
liament, caused by the elevation of the Hon. Mr. Camp-
bell to the House of Lords.

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The price of the new Austrian Six per Cent.
Loan will be about 951 at Vienna, reckoning the depre-
ciated paper with which it is to be met, and this would be
equal to only £7l sterling. Still, it is not expected there
will be any subscribers, except under a system of virtual
oempulsion.
The Cleadon is announced from Melbourne in 116
days, with 17,111 ounces of gold, worth about £68,000.
Although no immediate anxiety was felt about the safety
of this vessel, the length of her passage caused the rate of
insurance at Lloyd's to advance on Saturday to 6 or 6 per
cent. The Africa, from New York, has brought £67,000.
ARRIVAL OF A RUSSIAN FRIGATE FROM JAPAN.
—PLY MOVT it, Monday.—The Rusian steam-frigate Askold;
Captain Ounkovsky, 46, arrived here this morning from
Japan, for Cronstadt. She touched at the Cape, and left
there Jan. 27 ' ditto St. Helena, Feb. 5 ; Ascension, Feb.
10. Leaving the Cape so recently after the January mail,
she brings no later news. in the interim (seven days)
nothing o importance having occurred. She will lie here
for a few days.
THE INCOME TAl.—Sir S. Northcote stated, in
last Friday night's debate on the income tax, that he had
been engaged two years in investigating the claims of cer-
tain persons connected with the Ecclesiastical Courts for
the abolition of their offices, and for which compensation
had been made. One gentleman had been paying as income
tax on £3,000 ; it was proved beyond a doubt he had been
making profit from his position of double, and at one time
treble that sum ; and he had to pay £609 as arrears for
income tax before he could put his claim in force. Another
had earned £31,432, whilst his return for income tax was
only £B,BOO. Another £2,000 to £4,000, and had returned
£2OO.
THE CASE OF THE REV. MR. BONWELL.—
Referring to the paragraph in which surprise was expressed
at the non-prosecution of the Bonwell case by the Bishop
of London, his lordship's secretary writes to state that the
bishop has neither abandoned nor suspended the proceed-
ings. Immediately on receipt of the commissioners' formal
report, with minutes of the evidence, his lordship's proctor
was intructed to carry the matter with all despatch into the
Court of Arches, and it is to be hoped that the case may
shortly be in train for a hearing. Meanwhile, Mr. Bon-
well has been entirely absent from the parish, which has
been in charge of his assistant-curate.
THE EXCOMMUNICATION.—It is said that as soon
as the bull excommunicating the King of Piedmont is pub-
lished, Cardinal Moilot, Archbishop of Paris, means to
resign his offices at Court, all of them highly lucrative.
The Grand Almonership 41ona is said to bring in £4,000
a-year, and as a senator the right rev, prelate enjoys £1,200
per annum. When Talleyrand was excommunicated he
took it more coolly. The same day that the bull reached
him, the incorrigible Bishop of Autun penned wharfllowing
note to a Madame de F--, with whom he on very
intimate terms. This note, I may observe, is as yet unpub-
lished. Talleyrand's gems won't bear translation. I there-
fore give it in the original :—" Ma chi re Amie,—C'est
aujourd'hui que la bulle du Pape me voue h l'esprit des
tenebres. J' irai cc soir souper avec vous ; le diable
me
voyant dans la companiie d'un ange n'osera pas in cm-
porter."—Letter
THE MATERIALS OF PAPER.--"A paper-maker,"
in a letter to a contemporary, says—" We have only just
succeeded in shaking off the fibre merchants, who have long
enough pestered us with their inventions (which they would
have naturally kept to themselves had they been worth any-
thing), when another class of kind friends seems likely to
arise. 'J. C.,' in his letter to-day suggests that India and
China are markets which ought to supply a large quantity
of rags, Had 'J. C.' known anything of the subject he
wrote about it would have been unnecessary for me to in-
form him. Rags from India have been for many years
import .d, compressed in bales by hydraulic power. Rags
have also Leon imported from China, Australia, the Cape
of Good Hope, and from every known country from which
a free importation is allowed, by that ' supposed non-enter-
prising' person the British papermaker, who now only asks
for fair play and no favour from his countrymen—viz., that
paper should not be admitted hero free of duty unless we
are allnwetl free access to the rag markets of those countries
whence the paper is imported,