The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-25 00:00:00

THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE.
No. 5 (for MAY),
Will be published on SATURDAY, the 28th inst.
Price One Shilling, with Two Illustrations.
_ CONTENTS.

1 Framley Parsonage.
Chapter XII I.—Delicate Hints.
„ XIV.—Mr. Crawley of Hogg,lestock.
XV.—Lady Lufton's Ambassador.
t. Campaigning in China.
3. Little Scholars.
4. Th A Carver's Lesson.
S. William ilogarth, Painter, Engraver, and Philosopher.
Essays on the Man, the Work. and the Time. IV. The
Painter's Progress.
6. Written in the Deepdene Album.—By Washington Irving.
7. Lovel, the Widower (with an Illustration).
Chapter V. - In which I am stung by a serpent.
8. Studies in Animal Lite.
9. Paterfamilias to the Editor of the " Cornhill Magazine."
10. The Outcast Mother.—By E. J. Bronte.
11. The Portent. —I. Its Legend. (With an Illustration).
12. Roundabout Papers.—No. 3. On Ribb3ns.
London : Smith, Elder, and Co., G 5, Cornhill.

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THFATRE-ROYAT„ HAYMARKET.
Leseee, Mr. J. B. BuAstone.
THIS EVENING, will be performed THE OVERLAND
ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, P,uckstone, Compton, Chip-
pendale, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins.
After which, a new fairy romance, THE PILGRIM OF
OVE.
And THE BOARDING SCHOOL.

RO YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, to commence with MY WIFE'S
OUT. Mr. Widdicomb and Hiss L. Keeley.
Followed by THE FOOL'S REVENGE. Bertuccio, a
Jester, Mr. Phelps.
To conclude with the extravaganza of THE SYLPHIDE.
Miss C. Leclereq, Miss Louise Keeley, Miss Helen Howard,
Miss Role Leclercq, Mr. Shore, Mr. Saker, and Mr. Frank
Matthews,
Commence at 7.

ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
gnie rronrietor and Manager. Mr. Beni. VV-bster.
T EELS EVENING, the popular original Adelphi drama of
TH E DEAD HEART. Robert Landry, Mr. B. Webster ;
Messrs. I'. Bedford, J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Stuart, C. J.
Smith, liillington, Eburne, Powell, Romer, Page ; MissWool-
gar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Laidlaw.
After which the Grand Fairy Extravaganza, THE FAIR
)NE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS. King Lachrymoso,
Mr. J. L. Toole ; Count Pleniposo, Mr. P. Bedford ; Viscount
Verysoso, Arr. C. J. smith ; Graceful, :Hiss Woolgar ; Queen
Lucidora, Miss Emily Thorne ; Mollmopsa, Miss K. Kelly.

Box-office open from 10 till 5.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, XI.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 98. ; Front Circle Stalls, 3s. ;
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. Gd. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.

Engagement for a limited number of nights of Miss JULIA
DALY, the celebrated American Actress.
Mr. LEIGH AIIiRRAY is engaged, and will shortly appear
in a favourite Drama.

Actinz 111/mazer—Mr. Wm. Smith.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.-
Under the management of Mr. Wm Brough.
THIS EVENING, a new comic drama entitled NEXT OF
KIN. Messrs. Emery, S. Calhaem, Tilbury, &c. ; Mesdames
E. Travers and K. Saxon.
After which, the burlesque of THE FORTY THIEVES.
Miss I.yd!a. Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, Miss E.Travers,
Miss K. Saxon, Mrs. Wallis ; Messrs. Emery, Tilbury, &c. ;
and a numerous Corps de Balet.
Followed by WHITEBAIT AT GREENWICH. Sir W.
Don.

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To conclude with THE MIDDY ASHORE. Miss Lydia
Thompson.

Commence at 7.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. Directress, Miss Wndham. 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 onnlnumf* with
a new and original comedy, entitled A FRIEND IN NEED.
Y Robinson, C. Young, &c.
Af er which, A LADY AND GENTLEMAN IN A PE-
CULIAR PERPLEXING PItEDIC ANENT. Mr. Charles
Young and Miss Wyndham.
Followed by a new burlesque, LUC REZIA BORGIA AT
ROME AND ALL ABROAD, Mesdames Wyndham, E.
Scott, Cecilia Ranoe, Miss Clara Morgan, and the Corps de
Ballet.

Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, 19. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform
ante commences at 7.

ASTIR Y'S ROYAL AMP MT HE ATRE.-
Proprietor, Mr. Was. BATTY.
Sole Manager, Mr. EDWIN HITCHES.
The New Management, in announcing the Triumphant
Suceess of the Re-opening of this Popular Theatre, have the
utmost satisfaction in stating they but re-echo the senti-
ments expressed by the entire Press and the Public nightly,
that the NEW GREAT MILITARY SPE(7TACLE, with its
unprecedentedly magnificent scenery and effects, splendid and
appropriate costumes aad appointments, and grand mis-en-
scene, is the most perfect and imposing hippo-drama ever
produced. The renowned Contirental and British Eques-
trian Artistes are also "received each evening with the un-
bounded approbation of astonished and delighted audiences.
The novel and elegant arrangement and conducting of the
Acena give the mast complete satisfaction ; and with the truly
gorgeous decorations render the evening's amusement in this
far-famed Establishment one of the most varied, aril iant,
and recherche in this great metropolis.
THIS EVENING, and during the Week,
To commence with the Great Military Spectacle, in Four
Acts, entitled "Tiles litsTorty OF A FLAG." To be suc-
ceeded by an inimitable rontine of Equestrian Achievements
in the Scenes of the Arena, sup; ortedby a host of Star Riders
of the day, and Last Nights of the Wonder of the World,
Jonathan Jack.

Doors open at half -plst 6 o'clock, performance commence
at 7.

Box-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.

CONCERTS

CANTERBURY
TH IS EVENING,
LUCREZ IA RORGIA,
(Donizetti).

Donna Lucreala
MafTio Orsini Mrs. Anderson.
Genuaro Mr. Henry Herbert.
Don Allouzo Signor Tivoli.
Conductor—Mr. Jonc,lnans.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfleld, 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
eights of the metropolis.
The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

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THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAME.
41—highest since noon yesterday.
37—lowest this morning and during the night.
51—this day at noon.

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TII E SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1860.

" Poor little Bills" seem to be the order of the
day. If the Bill for the Reform of Parliament be
of rather puny dimensions, that for the Reform
of the Corporation of London is its twin. It
alters almost without mending. We say almost,
because doubtless a better division of the wards
is someth;ng, and some other points also are
well enough in their way. But it leaves un•
touched the financial wrongs done by the City to
the public, in which most of all reform was needed,
and the general expensiveness of the management.
It leaves untouched, also, the great absurdity of
permitting the small section of the city of London,
called the City, to isolate itself from the rest by
corporate privileges, to be, in fact, a city within a
city, to have power to make regulations affecting
the comfort and the pockets of the vast majority
who are not squeezed within its walls—and then
to strut before Europe and the world as the Cor-
poration of the first of commercial cities.
Whether Mr. AYRTON'S proposal be precisely the
one by which the right idea of the thing should be
practically carried out, we will not now pretend to
say— this point we regard, however, as beyond
all reasonable dispute, that when two millions and
a half of persons dwell in houses which all join
each other; when one part of the space occupied by
theta is that in which their great business trans-
actions arc carried on ; when all the vehicles nearly
start from or pass through this central part ; when
the chief passages over a large river aro also to be
found there ; when the docks and warehouses must
of necessity be there ;, when the central spot is that
which all the dwellers in the vast circumference
are interested in having under the best manage-
merit ; when these and many other facts combine
to make what is technically called the City the
common concern of all that is properly called Lon-
don, then it is a glaring absurdity that this little
spot should be under a separate municipal
management from the rest.

The little part, indeed, called the City, is ludi_
crously insignificant in point of both area and
population compared with the real London. It is
but 700 acres and 113,000 inhabitants, and these