The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-31 00:00:00

ER MAJESTY'S TA EATRE.
Mdlle. PICCOLOMINI.
Mme. ROSATI —LE CORSAIRE.
GRAND EXTRA NIGHT.
TIIIS EVENING (Thursday, July 31), will be presented
Donizetti's Opera,
LA FIGLIA DEL REGGIMENTO.
Marie, Macllle. Piccolomini ; La Marchesa, )(ladle. Borgaro ;
Tonio, Signor Calzolari ; and Sergente Sulpizio, Sig. Belletti.
To conclude with the Grand Ballet,
LE CORSAIRE.
Medora, Madame Rosati ; Conrad, Signor Romani.
Th© Opera will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock.
Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at
the Box-office of the Theatre, Colonnade, Haymarket.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Under the Management of Mr. Bankstone.
THIS EVENING,
SECOND LOVE.
Followed by
THE CAPTIVES. •

After which
MR. HUGHES AT HOME.
To coneude with

THE SPAYPH SFRJEMZT.

ROYAL THEATRE ADELPIII.

Tropristor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Directress, Madame Celeste.

THIS EVENING,
PAUL PRY.

Followed by
OUR GAL.

To conclude with
BORN TO GOOD LUCK.

ROYAL. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. CIIARIEs KERN.
THIS EVENING,
MUSIC H kTII CHARMS.

After which,

THE WINTER'S TALE.

STR kND THEATRE.

Manager, Mr. T. Payne.
THIS EVENING,
THAT HOUSE IN HIGI STREET.
Supported by Messrs. Stuart, G. Cooke, Kinloch, and Basil Potter,
Mrs. Woßidge, and Miss I. Adams.
Bnckstone's Farce of
23, JOHN-STREET, ADELNII.
Tomkins, Mr. Van Buren.

And the successful Burlesque on
LA SONNAMBULA.
Elvin°, Miss Thirlwall ; Al!mitt. Miss Somers; Arnim', Mr. W.

Shalders.
Commence at half-past 7.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.

Lessee ant Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan.

T fIIA EVENING

A FASCINATING INDIVIDUAL.

After whiela,
RETRIBUTIO'.

To conclude with
31 E D E A.

ASTLEY'3 ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and manager. Mr. Wm. Cooke.
THIS EVENING,
The grand military spectacle, THE BATTLE OF THE ALMA
Extraordinary scene of excitement. The Guards inv tad, and be-
holding their comrades fighting over again the memorable Battle.
After which,
The EQUESTRIAN SCENES in the CIRCLE. Mr. W. Cooke's
highly-trained and docile horses, &c., with a variety of other enter-
tainments.

Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Equestrian Director. air. W. Cooke, Jun.

ECIGR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY—Morn. 28 min. aft. I—Evening 52 rain. aft. 1
IM-Sfoßßow—Morn. 13 min. aft. 2—Evening 36 =in. aft. 2

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, JULY 31.
THEIMMIETICR, IN THIII SLIA.DIII.
82 —highest since noon yesterday.
6 —lowest this morning and during the night.
81—this day at noon.
FA ROMETIR
WIND, S.SE.—Light, with very hot weather.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1856.

Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen VICTORIA
again appeared before her troops resplendently
apparelled—yesterday, the 30th of July, being
Wednesday—and in the presence of Field-Mar-
shal the Prince ALBERT and of General the Duke.
of CAMBRIDGE, reviewed upwards of 20,000 men
upon the plains of Aldershot. Yet—Her Most
Gracious Majesty the Queen VICTORIA found it
altogether out of the questior, twenty-four hours
earlier—namely, on the 29th of July, being
Tuesday—to prorogue in person the assembled
Lords and Commons of her Imperial Parliament.
A rather curious contrast this, by the way, all
things considered. Loyal old Farmer Br= yon-
der, with your hands deep in your breeches
pockets, fumbling for a few odd millions, not by
any means there, but recently fleeced from you
in the name of a doubled Income Tax upon the
plea of carrying out a war of principle, vigorously-
-honest old Farmer BULL, over there, purple in
the face with everlastingly toasting at all public
dinners, as a matter of course, " The QUEEN-GOD
bless her !" and hoarse with recent shoutinga of
Welcome after the bronzed and bearded veterans
justcomehome again from the War—loyal, honest,
pig-headed, hard-handed, soft-hearted old Farmer
BULL, leave off fumbling in your pockets, and
puckering your brows, and pursing your lips, and
answer for once to the purpose, bluntly,
" Yes" or " No." Is it not ? Is it not
a rather curious contrast—the one we have
here but just now particularised ? Her
Most Gracious M kjes4. the QUEEN in person
presiding over a grand review of the troops on
Wednesday, the 30th of July, at Aldershot !
And Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN not
deeming it at all worth her MAJESTY'S while to
attend in person at the annual ceremony of the
prorogation of Parliament in their legislative palace
at Westminster. Voting the latter, no doubt,
bore"—and the former very probably " a treat."
Delighted with the gimcracks, and kickshaws, and
gewgaws, and all that sort of thing, inseparable
from the blending upon some gala day (like yes-
terday) of courtly and military magnificence.
Sick to death, on the other hand, of the old lum-
bering glass coach, of the old waddling beef-eaters,
of the old twaddling Speech from the Throne, and
all that sort of thing, inseparable (no less) from
the grand Parliamentary gathering day of the
Opening, and from the grand Parliamentary scat-
tering day of the Prorogation of the co-ordinate
branches of the Imperial Legislature. It is the
session when the War was concluded—it is the
year of the Pacification. No matter ! A fig for
all the patience and long suffering of the
People—a straw for all their ready disbursements
of millions upon millions with a view to the
honour of the nation and the glory of the Crown
—a snap of the fingers for all the cherished and
dissipated hopes for all the dead and buried sol-
diers sent three thousand miles away to starve
and fight for no purpose whatever ! The thing
is done. The War is over. The Peace is con-
cluded. The doubled Income Tax is secured for
another year or two. " Let the dead past bury
its dead"—as LONGFELLOW sings—and there is
an end of it. The idea—after all this—of Her
Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN fatiguing her-
self in this excessively hot weather by rolling
down to Barry's Folly in a coach and eight,
for the mere idle form of proroguing Parliament !
No—better than wearying herself thus, on Tues-
day, the 29th of July, Her Most Gracious MA-
JESTY reserves all her energies for the much more
important duty of reviewing her troops on Wed-
nesday, the 30th of July, at Aldershot. Let
Parliament prorogue itself, as it best may, by
moans of a Royal Commission. So that upon
the very day after the SOVEREIGN may enjoy the
sport of playing at soldiers, aided by Field-Mae-

shal the Prince Consort and General the Duke of
CAMBRIDGE, upon the already clas3ic and historic

ground occupied by the camp at Aldershot. And

so—loyal old Farraer BULL yonder—so actually it