The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LOM3ON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1860.

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.—
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their direction at the above Theatre, on WEDNESDAY,
July 25, 1860, for the Benefit of the Widow and Children of
the late ROBERT B. BROUGH.
The following Gentlemel connected with Literature and
Art, have already consented to act as a General Committee
on this occasion :
Charles sickens, Esq. Landells, Esq.
Wilkie Collins, Esq. E. F Roberts, Esq.
J. It. Planche. Esq. Harrison Weir, Esq.
Bayle Bernard, Esq. Grattan Cooke, Esq.
G. A. Sala, E,•cf. F. Vizetelly, Esq.
W, Blanchard Jerrold, Esq. R. B. Barton, Esq.
Thornton Hunt, Esq. Sydney French, Esq.
Horace St. John, Esq. Godfrey Turner, Esq.
Percy B. St. John, Esq. Edward Draper, Esq.
F. G. Tomlins, Esq. J. Crawford Wilson, Esq.
Morgan John O'Connell, Esq. T. Foster, Esq.
Richard Ansdell, Esq. Charles Furtado, Esq.
Alfred Mellon. Esq. Stephen J. Meany, Esq.
Leicester Buckingham, Esq. Herbert Ingram, Esq., 31. P.
J. Palgrave Simpson, Esq. George Cruikshank, Esq.
Edmund Falconer, Esq. Henry Mayhew, Esq.
James Lowe, Esq. W. H. Wills, Esq.
Andrew Halliday, Esq. H. Sutherland. Edwards, Esq.
Walter Thornbury, Esq. R. Hammerton, Esq.
W. J. Sorrell, Esq. W. R. Markwell, Esq.
Jonas Levy, Esq. T. German Reed, Esq.
J. Deffett Francis, Esq. Edmund, Yates, Esq.
F. Wallerstein, Esq. Dante Rossetti, Esq.
W. M'Connell, Esq. Francis Talfourd, Esq.
W. Foard, Esq. H. Ottley, Esq.
Tom Taylor, Esq. H. J. Byron, Esq.
A. Arcedeckne, Esq. John Hollingshead, Esq.
J. Stirling Coyne, Esq. D. W. Deane, Esq.
Mark Lemon, Esq. Frederic Lawrance, Esq.
E, L. Blanchard, Esq. W. Moy Thomas, Esq.
James Hannay, Esq. James Fraser, Esq.
Colonel Addison. • J. Langford, Esq. ,
Thomas Archer, Esq. A. 0. Christie, Esq.
C. H. Bennett, Esq. Dr. G. L. M. Strauss.
Julian Portch, Esq. James Kenny, Esq.
J. Barnard, Et q. Charles Watkins, Esq.
W. H. Angell, Esq. J. Hollis, Esq.
The Committee have greatpleasure in announcing that the
following Metropolitan Managers,
B. WEBSTER, Esq., Theatre Royal Adelphi,
J. B. BUCKSTONE, Esq., Theatre Royal Haymaket,
F. ROBSON, Esq., Royal Olympic Theatre.
W. S. EMDEN, Esq.,
A. HARRIS, Esq., Royal Princess's Theatre,
Miss SWANBOROUGII, Royal Strand Theatre,
Have, with the utmost promptitude and liberality, given
their valuable co-operation by permitting principal Members
of their respective Companies to appear. The performan es,
full particulars of which will shortly be announced, will con-
sist of a selection from the repertoires Of the Theatres enu-
merated, and the following distinguished Artists have already
kindly volunteered their services :
Mrs. Stirling. Mrs. A. Mellon (Miss Woolgar)
Miss M. Oliver. Mrs. Weston.
Miss Carlotta Leclerq. Miss Henrietta Sims.
Mrs. Wilkins. Mrs. Selby.
Miss Fanny Stirling. Miss Button.
Miss Rosa Leclerq. Miss Louise Leclerq.
Mr. Buckstone. Mr. Webster.
Mr. NV: Farren. Mr. A, Harris.
Mr. Paul Bedford. Mr. J. L. Toole.
Mr. Parselle. Mr. J. Clarke.
Mr. Garden. Mr. J. Bland.
Mr. Roiers. Mr. Billington.
Mr. Clark. Mr. W. H. Eburne.
The Entertainments will conctude with the Burlesque
written bythe Brothers Brough,entitled THE ENCHANTED
ISLE, in which Mrs. A. Mellon (Miss Woolgar) will sustain
her original character ; and Miss Vann), btirling will also
appear, supported by Members of the Savage Tub.
Mrs. Stirling has kindly consented to speak an Original
Prologue to the Burlesque written for her ; and in the course
of ,the evening Mr. Leice •ter Buckingham will recite Robert
B. BrouA's poem of " Godiva," and Mr. G. A. Sala will de-
liver an Occasional Address, written by himself.
Acting Manager, Mr. Leicester Buckingham ; Stage Ma-
nager, Mr. Edmund Falconer ; Hon. Secretary, Mr. Andrew
Halliday ; Hon. Treasurers, Mr. Francs Talfourd and Mr.
John Hollingshead.
Subscriptions to the Separate Donation Fund will be re-
ceived at Messrs. Coutts and Co.
Prices of Admission—Private Boxes, from £2 2s upwards ;
Stalls, £1 Is. ; Dress Circle, 18s. ; First Circle, 7s. ; Second
Circle, ss.
Admission to the Stalls can be obtained only by means of
Vouchers issued by the Committee, for which application
should be made, by letter, to Andrew Halliday, Esq. Honorary
Secretary, at the officl of the Dramatic Author' Society, 10,
Lancaster-place, Wellington-street, Strand, W.C. Tickets
for the Stalls will be issued in exchange for the Vouchers
crranted, on application at Mitchell's Royal Library, 33,
Old Bond-street ; or at Sams' Royal Library, 1, St. James's-
street. Tickets for Private Boxes, and all parts of the house
(Stalls excepted), may be obtained-of the principal Libraries,
and at the Box office of the Theatre.

TULLIEN FESTIVAL, ON TUESDAY, 31st
t./ JULY, at the ROYAL SURREY GARDEN-I, for the
Benefit of MADAME JULLIEN. On which occasion the
Proprietors of the Royal surrey Oardens have in the most
generous manner placed the entire establishment and the pro-
ceeds at the disposal of Madame Jullien. The following cele-
brated artists have also most kindly volunteered• their valu-
able services, gratuitously, for this occasion. Vocalists—
Madame Catherine Hayes, Madame Gassier, Maddlle. Marie
Brusetti (of her Majesty's Theatre, by kind permission of
E. T. smith, Esq.), Madame Louisa Vinning Madame Weiss,
Madlle. Enrichetta Camille, miss Pocle. Miss Palmer, Miss
Laura Baxter, the Misses Brougham. Miss Kate Raeoe, and
Mad,le. Parepa. Mons. Gassier (by kind permission of E. T.
Smith. E-q.), Mr. Weiss, Mr. Wilbye Cooper, Mr. Leonard,
Mr. Patey, and Mr. sims Reeves. Instrumentalist—Miss
Arabella Goddard. The Choir of the Vocal Association, con-
sisting of Two Hundred Voices, under the direction of Mr.
Benedict. The Orchestra will include the principal members
of the Bands of her Majesty's Theatre and the Royal Italian
Opera, and the Sol dsts of the late M. Jullien's orchestra;
the Band of the Grenadier i'nards (by kind permission of
Colonel Lambert), under the direction of Mr. D. Godfrey •, the
Band of the Coldstream Guards :by kind permission of Colo-
nel Lord F. Paulett, C. 8.), under the direction of Mr. God-
frey; the Band of the l usilier Guards (by kind permission
of Colonel Ridley), under the direction of Mr. Charles (4 od-
frey, junr. Conductors—Mr. Alfred Mellon, conductor of the
Orchestral Union ; Dr. James Peck; Mr. Emile Berger; and
M. Benedict. The programme will include Jullien's cele-
brated British Army Quadrilles, English Quadrilles, and his
Last Waltz (first time of Performance). Admission—One
Shilling. Dress Circle, 35., Second Circle, 25., Gallery, ls.
extra. Places can be secured at Messrs. Chapoells', 50, New
Bond-street ; Mr. Sams', 1, St. James's-street ; Messrs.
Keith and Prowse's, 48, Cheapside ; and Pizott's, Kenning-
ton Common. Concert commence at Half-past Six.

VI3IT OF THE QUPEN TO THE STEAM

YACHT FOX.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY.
This gallant little vessel, which played so con-
spicuous and interesting a part in the final expedi-
tion that succeeded in solving the mystery.as to the
fate of Sir John Franklin and his companions, and
which leaves this port this evening. on another" ex-
pedition of great commercial and scientific interest,
was honoured with a visit to day by her Maj▪
esty
and the Prince Consort. On the occasion of the
Prince embarking in the docks on Tuesday evening
for Osborne, on his return from the Internati▪
onal
Statistical Congress in London, his Royal Highness
expressed a wish that the Fox should be taken
down to Osborne-bay; in order that an opportunity
might be afforded to the Queen and himself to pay
her a visit. The Fox•was accordingly sent to Os-
borne last night, and took up her moorings off the
Royal landing-place ; and this morning she was
put in readiness for the Royal visit.
At half-past 10 the Fairy steamed alongside, with
her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and the Royal
children now at Osborne, on board. The Royal
party were received, on stepping on board the Fox,
by the officers who are going on the expedition—
viz., Capt. Allen Young, the commander ; Mr. T.
E. Davies, R.N., second in command ; Dr. Rae,
F.G.S., who volunteers as a surgeon and naturalist;
Col. Shaffner, the principal concessionnaire ; Lieut.
Von Zeilaw and Mr. Olaffsson, two Commissioners
sent out by the Danish Government; Mr. J. E.
Woods, secretary to the expedition; and by other
gentlemen interested in the undertaking. Captain
Young and Dr, Rae wore their Arctic medals.
Her Majesty and. the Prince walked round the
ship, minutely inspecting the various instruments
to be used for taking soundings, &c., and thesledges
and appliances provided for the land travel and sur-
vey. The sledge used by Captain M'Clintock in his
Franklin voyage, which is on board the Fox, was
an object of especial interest to the Royal party.
The Prince Consort and some of the suite went
low, and examined the cabins and berths occupied
by M'Ciintock and Young in their Arctic voyage,
expressing surprise at the smallness of the apart-
ments in which those heroic men were confined for
so long a period in those desolate regions.
The Queen then desired the officers to be pre-
sented to her individually, and her Majesty graci-
ously addressed a few words to each of them spe-
cially. To Dr. Rae her Majesty said that she had
heard much about him and his great scientific re-
searches, and jocularly remarked that Arctic travel
could not be such very bad service after all, as he
was looking so remarkably well. Her Majesty en-
tered freely into conversation with Captain Young
about his former voyage in the Fox, and the remains
of Franklin's expedition, and asked him if he be-
lieved there was any possibility of any member of
that devoted band of men being yet :live. The
Queen expressed her surprise at the smallness of
the vessel for such expeditions as she had under-
taken and was about to undertake ; and Captain
Toung, explained to her Majesty the mode of her
construction, and the strength with which she was
built, which fitted her for any service whatever.
The Prince Consort expressed his admiration at
the manner in which the Fox is fitted out, and in-
quired under whose directions, and at whose ex-
pense it had been done. On Capt. Young reply-
ing that it was Mr. J. R. Croskey, that gentleman
was, at the request of the Prince, introduced to the
Queen and himself. Mr. Croskey explained to the
Royal visitors the proposed route and the general
nature or the undertaking, and took occasion to
thank her Majesty. for the grant of the Bulldog,
with which vessel it is intended the Fox shall co-
operate, and communicate on all possible occasions.
Colonel Shaffner was also honoured with an intro-
duction, and gave some explanations of his former
voyage over the route proposed for the cable, and
showed to the Royal party the action of the deep-
sea sounding apparatus and other instruments to be
employed in the survey. Copies of the maps and
plans connected with the line were handed to her
Majesty.

The
Royal party remained on board the Fox
about half an hour, and on leaving both her
Majesty and the Prince Consort expressed their
satisfaction with everything they had seen on board,
and stated that they considered the project a very
feasible one and likely to be accomplished, and they
wished it every success. The crew of the Fox
manned the rigging, and gave three hearty cheers
as the Royal party left for the Fairy,
The Fox is fitted out with every possible conve-
nience for her interesting voyage, on which it is
hoped that she will not be occupied longer than
until the end of November. A complete set of
meteorological instruments has been presented by
the Board of Trade, through the kindness of Rear-
Admiral Fitzroy, the hydrographer to the Ad-
miralty ; and a full supply of astronomical and
mathematical instruments has been lent by the
Admiralty. She also carries out the necessary
apparatus for deep sea soundings, and all the requi-
site appliances for the survey by sea and land.
Most probably the Fox will proceed by the north
of Scotland direct to the Faroe Islands, where it is
anticipated she will not be delayed longer than two
or three days in selecting a favourable landing place
for the cable. On leaving the Faroe Islands she
will proceed direct to Iceland, making deep sea
soundings by the way. Captain Young and his
officers will be engaged on the east side of Iceland
in sounding for and selecting a favourable place for
landing the cable; whilst the survey of the interior
for the land line will be simultaneously carried on
by Dr. Rae and his party, consisting ef Colonel
Shaffner, Mr. Woods, and the two Danish mem-
bers of the expedition. After visiting the west
coast of Iceland, at a point selected by Captain
Young, the Fox will proceed to some point on the
southern coast of Greenland, making deep-sea
soundings and examining the character of the bot-
tom as she continues her voyage. Here again
Captain Young and his officers will be engaged in
examining the various bays, for the purpose of de-
termining the favourable point for the east of Green-
land termini, while Dr. Rae and his party will
make an exploration ,of the interior through
,ground never yet crossed. After visiting the
west coast at some point near Julianshaab, whence
the cable will be carried across
to Labrador,
the Fox will take the proposed route to
Hamilton Inlet, on the Labrador coast; and, after
making a complete survey of the inlet, she will re-
turn direct to Europe.
In addition to the primary object of the voyage—
viz., the survey for
.the North 'Atlantic Telegraph,
the officers composing this expedition will take
every opportunity of o.bserving and recording such
scientific facts as will increase the amount of
knowledge at present. possessed in reference to the
geographical,. geological, and mineralogical features
of this portion of the globe.
The Fox returned to this port after the Royal
visit, and she sails hence on her interesting mission
some time to night.

the greatest danger from the horse-riding would
result to nurses and children.
Sir J. SHELLEY, M.P., said his table was daily
covered with letters from his constituents and others,
begging him to use what influence he possessed to
prevent this act of Vandalism for the mere advan-
tage of the aristocracy being carried out. He
warned the right hon. gentleman that, if he per-
sisted, they would have to make an appeal to
her Majesty, as unless that was done an im-
pression would get abroad that her Majesty sanc-
tioned the proceeding, and it might lead to some
serious public disturbances on the working classes
and mass of the people, who felt that they were
being deprived of their rights.
Mr. EDWIN JAMES, M.P., agreed with Sir J.
Shelley that a persistence might lead to a popular
excitement, so deep was the interest felt in the
question. His own belief was that her Majesty
would not. tolerate this proceeding.
Mr. BOYLE, Mr. ANTROBUS, Mr. BANTING, and
other gentlemen addressed the Hon. Commissioner,
and contended that while the Ranger could restrict
these encroachments in Hyde Park. the only appeal
was to the Crown in places like Kensington-gar-
dens.

The Hon. W. COWPER combated the argument
that there was any distinction with respect to his
own authority in Kensington-gardens and in Hyde
Park, and he must say that the way in which the
name of her Majesty had been introduced by his
hon. friends, Sir J. Shelley and Mr. James, he con-
sidered. most unconstitutional and uncalled for. It
was on the Minister who advised a particular
course to 'be taken that the responsibility rested,
and in reference to the position he held he (the
Hon. Mr. Cowper) was fully prepared to take
upon himself that responsibility. He believed
tifat in carrying out this ride he was not only
paying deference to the feelings of the riding
public but of the walking public also. (" No
no.") As a proof, of this he appealed to the
hundreds of pedestrians who daily delighted to
sit or walk and see the equestrians in Rotten-
row. The three points urged against this new ride
were its danger, that it destroyed the quiet of
Kensington-gardens, and also injured the beauty
of the gardens. He could not see that either of
these points was sustained. He must confess he was
surprised at the number of the memorialists, as
from what he had heard he considered people were
generally in favour of it. (No, no.
In answer to Lord Enfield, the Hon.
Mr. Cowper
admitted that no representation had been made tq
him, either public or private, that equestrians re-
quired further accommodation for riding than
Rotten-row, but he had made the road on the prin-
ciple of giving pleasure to all classes. He further
said, if a good case were made out, he had no ob-
jection to make such alterations as would obviate
any supposed inconvenience or danger to the public.
The deputation then withdrew.

THE BANKRUPTCY AND IASOLVENCY

BILL.

The country will learn with much less satisfaction
than was manifested by the House of Commons
—which invariably cheers every intimation of
abandoning a bill at this period of the session—
that the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Bill is aban-
doned. We had hoped that we should have been
able to show this one completed measure as
the result of this laborious session. We had even
believed that out of the mass of intentions we
should have had this one performance. But it
is not to be. The session is to be barren of all
good. The Attorney-General had succeeded
in getting the principle of his bill affirmed;
he had passed all his money clauses through the
perilous stage of the committee ; he seemed to have
tided over all the most difficult rocks in his course ;
when suddenly, upon the occurrence of a little
danger, which, as he himself says, was not very
fatal even at its wor3t, he deliberately scuttled his
ship in calm water. Perhaps, it may have been a
vessel of too deep a draught ; perhaps, as Sir H.
Cairns suggested, it would have been better to
amend the present law by a separate bill, and to
consolidate the whole law by a subsequent Conso-
lidation Bill ; perhaps, as Mr. Matins observed,
the measure had already been so deprived of its
symmetry that it would not do the Attorney-Gene-
ral the credit which the labour he had bestowed
upon it ought to have obtained for him; but still
an immense deal had been done, and a little judi-
cious firmness might have got through the rest.
As to the difficulty of the House of Lords, we can-
not suppose that the Attorney-General has not
been in communication with the law lords upon the
provisions of his bill. Whether this session or
next session, it would be useless to send a bill of
this character to their house without having pre-
viously ascertained the opinions of the sages. But
the discussion there would be in five or six hands,
and the decisions are doubtless already formed. We
are very glad to echo the compliments which were
skowered upon Sir C. Bethell from both sides
of the house for the zeal with which he has
laboured on this subject, but we wish the Cabinet
had shown a little more persistence. We commend
the toil with which our legal Sisyphus has rolled
the stone so far up the hill, but we repine at the
decision of those hard Fates which compel him to
faint at the critical moment, and to allow it to roll
down again.
The point at which this bill broke off was that
which swept all the non-trading portion of the com-
munity under the provisions of the general Law of
Bankruptcy. We venture to think that the dis-
agreement between the House of Commons and the
Attorney-General upon this subject was only a
misapprehension, which two or three well-drawn
clauses might have removed. Sir R. Bethell com-
plains that he had been encouraged to believe the
house agreed with him as to the policy of submit-
ting all insolvents, whether traders or non-traders,
to the same process of law. We apprehend that
the house and the country generally do, to this ex-
tent, agree with Sir It. Bethel!. The principle is
that every man, be he trader or non-trader, if he be
unable to pay his debts, ought to be deprived of what
property.he has, and that, when this has been dis-
tributed pro rata, he shall go free if he has been only
unfortunate, and that he shall be further punished if
he has been fraudulent or prodigal. That principle
is still admitted. The mistake made by Sir R.
Bethel! was in applying the same test of in-
solvency to traders and to non-traders. Here it
was that the house interposed; and the house was
right both in practice and in theory. There is no
identity in the circamstances of these two classes
in this matter. The non trader is not a man whom
anybody is obliged to trust. Credit is his habit,
but it is not his business. Credit is, for the most
part, forced upon him by the trader, and the term
of that credit is almost always indefinite. The
country gentleman, or annuitant, or professional
man goes about with a certain quantity of loose
debts which no general policy requires that he
should be seized by the throat and made to pay at
any particular moment. He shuts up his house and
goes abroad, he corresponds with no one but his
private friends and his bankers, and if he were put
under the same stringent rules as the trader, any
cost-seeking attorney or malevolent individual
might make him a bankrupt, and divide his pro-
perty while he was enjoying himself in his autumn
holyday. On the other hand, the trader's whole
business is credit, and his whole life one of eon-
tinual watchfulness as to the collection and dis-
charge of debts, which have an exactly aseer,
tained date of payment. Ho has a cow:Ail-Ig-
house or a shop, with olerks or foremr..4l always
upon the spot, always ready to pay and to re-
ceive. He does not shut nil ills shop and
paper his blinds. If ho goes to the lakes
of Westmoreland or to Switzerland, nobody
can make him a bankrupt by surprise, for, unless
he be really insolvent, his debtor finds the counting-
house open, and some one may to, pay him. The
cases are in no way alike, and provisions which are
reasonable, and even necessary, in the one case
would be a gross tyranny in the other. We pointed
this out some days since, and are probably in some
degree the cause of the opposition which has arisen
to this part of the bill. All the house asked
was that this difference should be acknowledged,
and that the mode of testing insolvency should be
different in the case of the trader from that of the
non-trader. When these tests have operated, then
the house was quite willing to let the law take its
course evenly over all debtors. Surely this was
not an unfounded or a vexatious objection to the
bill as it stood, nor did it go to the vital portion
of it

Nothing, then, had occurred which justified the
Government in abandoning this bill on the ground
of opposition from the House of Commons. It was
really the only good bill which has been brought
forward this session. Yet this is the measure they
are so ready to abandon. They might have got
this bill through, and they have wilfully sacrificed
it. Nay, it would have got through by its own
allurements, for everybody wanted to see it safe.
The have abandoned it, and for what ? Perhaps,
as they think, to get their supplies voted more
rapidly, their Indian measures continuously consi-
dered, the necessary bills passed, and the session
brought to a close. We are afraid they reckon