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

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. Directress, Miss Wyndham. The nearest Theatre to
Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to
carriages and foot passengers all hours of the night.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
I WILL, IF YOU WILL.
After which, FIRST AFFECTIONS. Messrs. 11. T.
Craven, G. Spencer, and Miss eiryndham.
Followed by a new burlesque called DIDO. Mr. Charles
Young, Mesdames Wyndham, Clara St. Casse, 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
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at hall-past six; perform
ance commences at 7.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
THIS EVENING,
LUCREZIA BORGIA,
(Danizetti).

Donna Lucreaia
Maffio Orsini Mrs. Anderson.
Gennaro Mr. Henry Herbert.
Don Altonzo Signor Tivoli.
Conductor—Mr. Jonghin ans.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney.
Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.
The gallery is open from 5 till II on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEB. 28, 1860.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
48—highest since noon yesterday.
44—lowest this morning and during the night.
52—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.30.
WIND. North-Westerly ; fresh, and very squally—a
gale—with fine cloudy weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tits DAY.—Morning, sh. 27m.—Afternoon, sb. 44m
To-moußow.-Morning, 6h. 2m.—Afternoon, 6h. 24m

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THE SUN.

LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 28, 1860.

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Now, if ever, we have the opportunity of securing
to the central part of the metropolis the long-
wished-for 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.
Labour, 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 sell-
ing them ? Why not diminish the amount of
labour that will be necessary for the removal bjtaking
the debris to the shortest distance ? Why not, in fact,
employ the earth, gravel, sherds, and rubbish of
the old bridge in building up a portion, at least, of
the long-projected embankment between West•
minster and Blackfriars, employing the stones of
the used-up structure for the river facing of that
embankment ? Not to do this would certainly be
the waste of an opportunity that we shall look for
in vain afterwards. For the old bridge at West-
minster, now about to be broken up and taken
piecemeal elsewhere, will be a very quarry close at
hand for the raising of this embankment. If in
this direction we went only as far as the materials
now within reach of us, as it were, would allow us to
go—itwould, even if ending there, prove for the time
being inestimable in its way if only as a commence-
ment. We should at least have made a beginning.
We should at any rate have been able thus to raise
an embankment at the smallest possible cost, and
with the least possible trouble, in front of White-
hall-gardens—an embankment supplying 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 1
which we might hope to see extended at length on
either side of the Thames, from Battersea, to Black-
friars.

A commencement has already been made a little
higher up the river, at the other side of Vauxhall.
There a fragmentary embankment has been raised,
extending along the margin of the Thames, from
Vauxhall-bridge to the western end of the river
front of Chelsea Hospital. It was originally in-
tended by the Legislature (which took this project
in hand as far back as 1846) that the embankment
at that part should extend between the bridges
respectively at Vauxhall and Battersea. To this
'end, indeed, now fourteen years ago, the 9th and
10th Vict., c. 39, was passed empowering the Exe•
eutive to carry out this particular improvement.
The
enactment was accompanied by a vote in 1816 of
the munificent sum of .£143,000 for realising the
design of tl.is embankment. Gradually, as the
work went on, and as the money was little by
little expended, difficulties arose---;he embankment
stopped short, as we have seen, at the western ex-
tremity of the river front of Chelsea Hospital—and
now (after the lapse of a few more years, during
which the project has been lying altogether dor-
mant), the
promoters of the design bethink them-
selves that they may as well be once more astir,
and deem it advisable at the veryleast that they should
ask the Chief Commissioner of P üblicWorks about the
balance yet remaining unexpended out of the original
sum set apart by the House of Commons for the
payment of the estimated cost of this embankment.
Hence the deputation which yesterday afternoon