The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-27 00:00:00

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MADAME WA.RTEL'S GRAND
MORNING CONCERT.

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another summer.
The Reform Bill Mr. WILLIAMs did not mourn
over ; he numbered himself with those who did
not care to give the franchise to a couple of
hundred thousand, while four or five millions
remained without it; nor did the redistribution
of members find much favour in his sight. In
one remark we thoroughly concur with him, that
it is a perfect farce to give more representatives
to the counties at all, while they are, as at pre-
sent, mere preserves of Landlordism, generally of
Tory Landlordism. Fifteen, it may be remembered,
of the twenty-five seats taken from rotten boroughs
were handed over to the counties, " where the
electors were driven to the poll to vote, as they
were ordered, like sheep to the market."

A grand Morning Concert was given at the As-
sembly Rooms, St. Leonards, Hastings, last Satur-
day, by Madame Theresa Wartel, which afforded
great enjoyment to the visitors and residents of
that town, as it consisted of first-class and highly
attractive music, rendered, as such music should be,
by Artistes fully equal to the responsibility.
The Concert opened with Mendelssohn's beautiful
" Trio in D" for piano, violin, and violincello ; re-
latively executed by Madame Wartel, M. Sainton,
and Signor Piatti, whose finished and accurate per-
formance left nothing to be desired.
M. Sainton gave a " Fantaisie" on the violin,
which exhibited his qualifications of vigorous tone
and firm touch to great advantage. His rapid
transitions and clear harmonics stand prominently
out in his style ; and are electrically effective at
times.

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dinary Service.

He justified his vote on the Bankruptcy Bill,

though it had affronted Sir R. BETHELL ;
and as a Financial Reformer, Mr. WILLIAMS
was right. Sir R. BETHELL was also
right from his point of view. It has been
the inexcusable fashion in past times to
bribe the tongues of the lawyers in the house,
whenever Law Reform was in hand, by the most
extravagant compensations. We know what may
be said in its defence. But what abuse cannot be
defended? The truth is, that if the State abolish
any service in which it has so long trained those
who conduct it as to unfit them for other service,

Signor Piatti executed the " Allegro Assai Op.
45" of Mendelssohn's on the violincello with that
purity of tone and delicacy of treatment which we
can now only meet with on this instrument from this
master of it. The " Solo" which he played in the
Second Part was perfectly entrancing, and elicited
great applause from the 'audience, who evidently
possessed a musical ear and critical judgment.
Madame Wartel sustained her reputation as a
Pianiste most admirably. Her touch is brilliant
and smooth—blending expression with tenderness,
and energy with taste. Her pianoforte " Solo" was
a great treat to hear, especially its latter move-
ments.

the supAseded servants are entitled to moderate
pensions. But, if they are capable of other service,
perhaps of service in the reformed Department it-
self, they ought to be required to perform it, or to
forfeit all claim to pension. Now, surely the pre-
sent staff of officials in the Bankruptcy Courts
could work as well under Sir R. BETHELL'S bill as
under the present one, and for those which the
alterations rendered really needless, employment
ought to be provided elsewhere. While we are
still paying for idlers under the last Reform of
Bankruptcy, it was certainly too much to
ask the house to throw more money into
the sink of compensation to do-nothing lawyers.
We miss in Mr. WILLIAMS'S speech any reference

The weight of the instrumental music was
charmingly relieved by Madame Sainton Dolby,
whose vocal assistance was hailed with rapturous
acknowledgment.

Handel's exquisite Aria " Canges d' Aspetto" was
given by her with equal power and tenderness, and
the " Skipper and his Boy," "Janet's Choice," and
other ballads of that character, received the justice
at her hands—or rather lips—which they seldom
meet with from other singers.
The room was crowded to an overflow, and we
trust Madame Wartel will be induced to offer the

inhabitants of Hastings frequent concerts of the
same elevated and sound class as that which proved.
so eminently successful last Saturday. Her spirit
and energy well deserve the liberal patronage
which we feel certain she will receive.

to his own proposals respecting the just equilization

of Legacy and Probate Duties, as the best means
of dispensing with the necessity for an unjustlncome-
tax. He cannot do better than press that subject.
He might compare the equity of the one with
the iniquity of the other, with untiring
energy, for they are moral facts, and will
bear insisting on again and again. Such
a policy has a double advantage —if well
worked it will either be successful in subjecting the
holders of real property in England to the same
burdens as those borne by professional men and by
the commercial community of all classes ; or it
will induce the former class, who for more the part
expend our taxes, to reduce them to the level which
shall render equalized legacy duties needless for
the present. Either way the great object
will be attained. We shall get from the
landed gentry the taxes they ought to
pay in common with us, or we shall compel them
to relieve Us from taxation, in order to save them-

selves.

We may add that Mr. BRIGHT, Mr. WILLIAMS,
Mr. COBDEN, perhaps we might add Mr. GLAD-
STONE, and all our financial reformers would do
probably more to economise public expenditure by
rendering the incidence of taxation simply just,
than in any other way. If those who at heart
relish our increased expenditure did but pay their
fair proportion toward it they would think twice
before they voted away their own money. Gene-
ral condemnations of Government policy and ex-
penditure go for little in an assembly of a business
character like our House of Commons. What is
needed is some clearly practicable method of im-
proving on our present course. There is 'room
enough for it, and we hope, therefore, our financial
reformers will choose some definite and practical
scheme of action before next session.

There will be a universal feeling of regret at the
long postponement of any further inquiry into the
Road murder. When it was announced that a rule
nisi to quash the inquest and to issue a commission
ad melius inquirendum had been granted, the
uninitiated supposed that all was now in due course
for speedy action. That after hearing what the
coroner had to say for himself—and in such a busi-
ness he ought to have his answer ready without
difficulty—the rule would be made absolute, the
commission appointed, and that we should soon be
perusing the reports of its daily examinations of
witnesses. Lawyers knew better. They quite under-
stood that tne application to the Court of Queen's
Bench had been so long delayed, that the coroner
could not even be heard in his defence before
Hilary term, which does not commence till the
11th of January ! It is not for us to fix the blame
on individuals. Sir R. BETHELL had a case which
it seems impossible to resist in, favour of a fresh
inquiry. Why he did not bring it earlier before
the court, and thus expedite the issue of a commis-
sion, we cannot tell. We can hardly bring ourselves
to believe that the commission will not be granted.
Let the coroner defend himself as successfully as
he may in regard to all the appearances against him
presented by the record and the affidavits, it will
still remain matter of fact that he grossly misdi-
rected the jury on a vital point of law, telling them
that it was not for them to determine who com-
mitted the murder—that that belonged to the
magistrates ! It seems also undeniable, from the
evidence produced, that thelury protested, some of
them at least, against the verdict, if verdict it can
be called, which he almost compelled them to sign ;
and that but very few witnesses were examined. We
cannot answer for what legal ingenuity may do,
but we hope the Court of Queen's Bench will be
enabled to vindicate its own dignity, by showing
itself adequate to remedy one of the greatest failures
of justice in modern times. Our readers saw also
yesterday that fresh evidence of a most important
character has come to light. Nothing less than the
concealment and the making away with a night-dress
stained largely with blood, and that although the
police knew of it ! Doubtless it has now vanished
from existence, but there ought to be a most rigid
•
inquiry into the reason for its not being brought
forward. There appear to us to have been
evident attempts at concealment in quarters of
which we least of all ought to have any such sus-
picion. Under all these circumstances, how
mortifying is it that yet further time is to be al-
lowed for concealments, and making away with
traces of the crime, if any still exist, and for the
fading of recollection on the part of the wit-
nesses: We believe that in cases of long
delay like this, the memory of wit-
nesses often becomes confused; it mixes what
it retains from others' testimony with its own re-
collections ; and often probably, in regard to what
the witness has previously heard or seen, memory
fixes rather on what he has said before, than recals
the facts in their fresh and living form. There is
however no help for it now. Well will it be 11
if this case and others issue in giving us a
Ministry of Justice.

Their Serene Highnesses the Hereditary Prince
and Princess of Holstein-Auguatenbourg left Lowlox
Sunday evening, for the Continent.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER' 27, 1860.

NE WS.

(REUTEIt'S TELEGRAMS.)
PARIS, Nov. 27.
The Emperor is on the point of leaving for

PARIS, Nov. 27.
The Moniteur contains the following appoint-

Count Persigny as Minister of the Interior.
M. Billault as Minister without portfolio.
M. Forcade Laroquette as Minister of Finance.
M. Magne as Minister without portfolio.
M. Benedetti as Councillor of State for Extraor-

PARIS, Nov. N.
Count Flahant is definitively appointed French
Ambassador to the Court of St. James's.

ROME, Nov. 24.

The majority of the Cardinals are said to be
opposed to the policy of Cardinal Antonelli. It is
also asserted that dissension exists between Cardi-
nal Antonelli and Mgr. de Merodi.
It is the general conviction here that the Pope
will remain for some time without temporal govern-
ment.

The Spanish Minister remains at Gaeta. All the
other Ministers have withdrawn to Rome.

The Pope, dissatisfied with the departure of his
Nu.ncio from Gaeta, will send another representa-
tive to that place. Should King Francis 11. leave
Gaeta, he is expected to go to Rome.
The former Franco-Belgian battalion complains
against Mgr. de Merodi.

VIENNA, Nov. 27.

The official Wiener Zeitung of to-day says :
" Count Forgach, Governor of Moravia, has been
appointed Governor of Bohemia ; Count Johann
Cziraky, Obcrgespann of the Comitat Weissenburg,
has been appointed Index Curiae of Hungary."

MARSEILLES, Nov. 26.

Letters received from Naples to the 21st inst.
state that a Garibaldian demonstration had taken
place in the Teatro Nuovo. The same advices state
that the bands infesting the Abruzzi had been in-
creased, partly by disbanded Royal soldiers and
partly by former Garibaldians, and that some dis-
turbances had occurred in the three towns of
Tagliano, Celano, and Tagliacozzo.

TURIN, Nov. 26.

The Opinione says :—The project of Farini for
the division of the State of •Naples into districts
been discussed and adopted by the Lieutenancy has
Council. The project will be immediately sub-
mitted to the Council of State.

The substitution of the title of King of Italy for
that of King of Sardinia has not been delayed by
diplomatic considerations, but as a mark of respect
to the Italian Parliament, to which the Ministry
will reserve the right to proclaim Victor Emmanuel
King of Italy.

BERLIN, Nov. 26.

The official Prussian Gazette says:—We learn
that the Foreign Ambassadors who followed King
Francis to Gaeta have left that place and pro-
ceeded to Rome at the express desire of the King,
who would not expose the diplomatic corps to the
inconvenience of residing in a besieged town."

BERNE, Nov. 26.

The Sardinian Government, in a note addressed
to the Federal Council, protests against the seques-
tration of Church property in Ticino, and demands.
the re-establishment of the status quo ante.