The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-10 00:00:00

TH EA TRI?I,-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lesgee, Mr. J. B. Bnekstone.
TBIS EVENING the performances will commence with
HALLOWEEN. By the Leclercqs.
And THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews,
Bucketone, Compton, Chippendale. Rogers, Mrs. Charles
Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins.
After which, the new comedietta, HIS EXCELLENCY,
in which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear.
To conclude with THE KING'S GARDENER.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
• THIS EVENING, will 133 performed THE LADY OF
LXONS. Mr. G. Melville and Miss Heath.
After which, UNE FILLE TERRIBLE. Characters by
the Zouaves.
Followed by AN AMBUSCADE AT INKERMAN.
To conclude with THRICE MARRIED.

Commence at 7.

ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Sole eroprietor and Manager, Mr. Ben, . Webster.
THIS EVENING, JANET PRIDE. Messrs. B. Webster.
J L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stuart, C. Selby; Miss Woolgar and
Miss Laidlaw.
After which, THE FOOL OF THE FAMILY. Mr. Paul
Bedford and Miss Julia Daly.
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Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, I'l.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, 3s. ;
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d.; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. B tTTY.
Immense Success of "Mazeppa."
A Grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on
SATURDAY next, Aug 11. commencing. at Two o'clock.
This Evening, Lord Bvron's splendid Hippo-drama of
MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely new
and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments,
introducing the largest stud of highly-trained Horses, Fo-
llies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World.
To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders
of the day. •
Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arr4a—M. Felix Revolti.

CANTERBURY HALL
THIS EVENING.
C. H. GOUNOD'S OPERA.
FAUST.
First 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, ls, Hall. 6d.
Comic Vocalists - Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), and C. Marshall.
The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised
expressly for this Establishment), for the performance of
Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with
Negro delineations, anecdotes, &c., in addition to the usual
entertainments.
The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

CONCERTS.-

TEE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 10, 1560.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
64—highest since noon yesterday.
52—lowest this morning and during the night.
67—this day at noon.
BAnomEnn-29.93.
WlND—Westerly ; light, with doubtful weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 6h. 43m.—Afternoon, 7h. Gm.
To-monnow.-Morning, 6h. 43m.—Afternoon, 7h. 6m.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1860.

There is a great deal more of vulgar claptrap
written and spoken in favour of than against the
Harse•ride in Kensington-gardens. Any one living
in the neighbourhood, who protests against it, is at
once sneered at as a /vestryman. The refined cham-
pions of Mr. COWPER'S Folly endeavour to make
good their case (so very ingenuously !) by talking
loudly of the fears entertained by these westrymen
and. patresfamilice, lest their children should be
trampled to death by homicidal equestrians, or
gored and partially devoured by infuriated blood-
hounds. To hear the advocates of this ridi-
culous crotchet one might really be led to
suppose that there is something essentially
mean and despicable in our municipal institutions
—that, in fact, there is only one thing meaner or
more despicable, namely, being a parent endowed
with the ordinary instincts of philoprogenitiveness.
Those who like ourselves have been opposed to this
uncalled for whim of the Chief Commissioner, have
opposed it as an unasked and in every way unde-
sirable innovation. Is it not an " innovation ?"
Nobody ever heard before of a horse ride
being carried through the very centre of
Kensington-gardens. Nobody ever heard of
such a horse ride being desired by one
single individual. Until one fine day—the thing was
done—without an ordinary " with your leave, or
by your leave"—in obedience to the autocratic
mandate of the Chief Commissioner. In this un-
authorised manner £250 worth of hurdles were

planted jn double lines, sweeping round from the
western extremity of Rotten Row, between the
Round Pond and the old red-brick Palace, parallel
with the Broad Walk, to the Notting-hill
entrance, then turning eastwards at a tangent,

and. running thence under the trees, side
by side, with the Bayswater turnpike road. The
utmost derision has since then been directed
against those who venture to express any solici-
tude as to the safety of the scores of little children
hitherto crossing and recrossing the line of this
horse-road, whether on foot or in perambulators.

Those who, naturally enough, complain of the in-

troduction of any horse-ride at all in that particu-
lar locality—a locality hitherto restricted entirely
to pedestrians—are jeered at coarsely, and most
illogically as selfish lv desirous to render what is "pub-
Ec"—,' private." Than which imputation nothing
certainly could be m ore utterly preposterous. Accord-
ing to this mode of reasoning not one of our publis
parks can be deemed worthy of the name of public
until a horse-rido shall have been conducted right
across it. And in, the name of justice we ought to
insist upon having another of Mr. COWPER'S
nonsensical ridefi carried sheer through Green
Park, from 'the Mall to the Triumphal
Arch at Hp le Park Corner. Whatever
may be though .t, however, of the result of last
evening's debaf,e and division in the House of
Commons—cert ain are we that neither will be
found to have settled the question definitively.
The hurdles fencing off the horse ride will be paid
for to the tun eof £2so—and that is all. The
horse ride its, Af will sooner or later follow Mr.
HAWKSLEY'S icheme of filtration.
Let it be r emarked for a moment how exces-
sively absurd are the statements made in defence
of his pet en .terprise by the Chief Commissioner
himself onl y yesterday. His predecessor
Lord JOHN 3i [ANNERS had insisted upon the recog-
t ition of th,.e tolerably self-evident truth that
"Parks are p. irks, and gardens are gardens." What
is Mr.
e°"%VP:. LR's reply ? Why, he denies the pro-
positionl o wonder the House listening to him
was at on
convulsed with "great laughter.'
Then note v;e
hat the sapien tMi nister said immediately
afterwards. "ge believed that the House would
agree with - him that the mere fact of Kensington
Gardens hay -lug hitherto been kept for pedestrians,
was no reas. Dn why People
should not be admitted
who took recreation on horseback” [mark the words
that folio we .1 this] " provided only that they could
do so withourt inflicting any matorial discomfort on
other classes,." So that the infliction of some dis-
comfort is a thing to be tolerated—the only pro.
vision is that the discomfort is not to be very
material ! Now, according to this, we might have
it insisted upon as only a reasonable proposition
that a parallel road should be hurdled off for the
use of the donkey-carts of our useful and indus-