The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-02 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

Al) EL PHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL,
Sole eroprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
le-appea-ance of Mr. and Mrs. A. Wigan—Third week of
the popular American Actress, Miss Julia Daly.

THIS k:VENING to commence with ITS AN ILL WIND
THAT BLOWS NOBODY GOOD. Messrs. Alfred Wigan,
J. L, Toole, Stuart, Billington, C. J. Smith, Ward, Mrs. A.
Wigan, and Miss H. Simms..

After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN.
Messrs. Stuart, C. Selby, Billington, Eburne, Miss Julia
Daly, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley.

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THIS EVENING (Saturday),
Ordre du Spectacle:—
LES FEMMES QUI PLEURENT.
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On Monday, June 4, first representation of "La Tentation

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor, Mr. Win. BATTY.

HIS EVENING,
The Grand Hippo -Drama, " TnE HISTORY OF A FLAG."
Wondrous Scenes in the Cirque, supported by the most
talenied Equestrian and Gymnastic Artistes in the World.
Concluding with a Laughable Farce.
The magnificent Chandeliers manufactured by Messrs. De-
fries and Sons, Ifoundsditch.
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CANTERBURY HALL
THIS EVENING,
C. H. GOIJNOD'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.

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Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
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The AFRICAN OPERA T itOUPE, their first appearance
since 1852, consisting of ELEVEN STAR PERFORMERS,
who will give the whole of their inimitable entertainment
every evening.
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gusty weather all the morning.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1860.

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It would be difficult to praise too highly the
whole tone and manner of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S
reply last evening to Mr. FITZGERALD in regard to
the actual state of affairs in Turkey, and the views
entertained upon that delicate subject at the pre-
sent most critical juncture by her Britannic
MAJESTY'S Government. Nothing could possibly
be more loyal or more temperate than the course
pursued in regard to the SULTAN by his English
allies at a moment when such loyalty and modera-
tion have become amongst the allies of the Otto-
man Porte perfectly exceptional. How the difficulty
has again arisen we know. It is the Russian
Government which once more pronounces the sick
man in grievous danger of dissolution. As recently as
the close of April- last a significant intimation was
given by the Muscovite EMPEROR'S Minister for
Foreign Affairs at St. Petersburg to the Tur-
kish Ambassador, informing his Excellency
that the accounts received from the Christian
Provinces of the SULTAN CALIPH were such, evi-
denced so much suffering and so many sources of
exasperation among the Christian population, par-
ticularly of Bosnia, of Bulgaria, and of Roumelia,
that in the event of any insurrectionary outbreak
—in the contingency of any popular rising and con-
sequent massacre—the CZAR could not longer re-
main a tranquil spectator of the catastrophe. The
announcement thus made to the representative of
ABDUL MEDJID by the Foreign Minister of ALEX-
ANDER was quite clearly enough in itself, but
glaringly so when looked at in the light of modern
history—what we have already intimated, namely
sufficiently significant ! It was indirectly but quite
as pointedly a reminder to the SULTAN that
it behoved him to prepare himself for the
worst, as that other reminder addressed to the
"Commander of the Faithful" himself, and not merely
to his representative, some half-a-dozen years
since by the lips of Prince MENSCIIIKOFF. ALEX-
ANDER, however, did not content himself as his
father NICHOLAS had done, with a warning or
threatening intimation addressed to the ruler of
Turkey. II is Foreign Minister having unburdened
himself viva voce to the Turkish Ambassador, a few
days lat.l. repeats the grave assurance of his Im-
perial master's intentions in a written form, trans-
mitting the account to Paris in the shape of a formal
despatch addressed to the Imperial Government of
France. Eventually, on the sth ult., the diplomatic
representatives of the Five Great Powers—
England, France, Russia, Austria, Prussia—assem-
bled together at the official residence of Prince
GORTSCIIAKOFF. His Highness having then and
there reiterated the statements already made orally
to the Turkish Ambassador, and again in writing
to the Imperial French Government—mark ! and
mark well, 0 reader ! what followed. After con-
siderable discussion—three pronositions were drawn
up—by the Russian Minister ? by the hand of
Prince GORTSCHAKOFF ?By no means—by the
rench Ambassador ! These three propositions
were drays n up " in the presence of the meeting,"
it is true, as Lord JOHN himself observed yesterday
—but the noble lord added expressly that
they were
only agreed to so far as this, that the different
Ambassadors said they would forward them to their
resspective Governments. It is important to bear
in mind particularly what these three propositions
were, and afterwards to note how they have been
received (or rather how they have not been ac-
cepted) by Her Britannic Majesty's Government.
We enumerated them in the very words in which
they were enumerated last evening by the noble
lord the Foreign Secretary, who said—" The first

proposition' was that the present state of the
Christian provinces of Turkey had become intole-
rable ; the second proposition was that an inquiry
should be made, and that such inquiry ought to be
made by the officers of the SULTAN, and that they
' should be assisted by the consuls of the five Powers ;
the third proposition of Prince GORTSCHAKOFF was
that, having failed in securing to the Christian
subjects of the PORTE that security which was sup-
) posed to have been obtained; it was necessary to
have a new organisation of the Government of those
provinces." And Lord JOHN, having thus stated
succinctly what it was that the Russian Minister
had asserted, and what it was thereupon that the
French Ambassador had written out formally in
these three distinct propositions—Lord JOHN, we
say, immediately admitted in so many words that
"nothing could be more important than these pro-
positions."
But for the enormous importance alsonf the contin-
gencies springing out of these discussions it would
be absolutely amusing to note the delightfully cool
and perfectly lucid replies vouchsafed in regard to
each of these several propositions by her MAJESTY'S
Government. With reference to the first, Lord
JOHN and his colleagues remarked simply that her
MAJESTY'S Government had not received such ac-
counts as entitled them to say that the present state of
the provinces above mentioned (Bosnia, Bulgaria, and
Roumelia) was intolerable! With reference to the
proposition which insists upon the necessity of
forcing upon the Turkish Government—for those
three provinces—a perfectly new administrative
organization, Lord JOHN yesterday speaking on
the part of himself end his colleagues declared, in
fact, upon that point the policy and mentions of
the English Government—insisting that " it was
quite impossible with reference to general principles,
or to the terms of the treaty of 1856, to agree to this
new administrative organization." The argument
of the noble lord as applied to the 7th, Bth, and 9th
articles of that Treaty is throughout so im-
portant, to our thinking, and so abso-
lutely conclusive as to its bearing at the
present juneture, that we cannot possibly do
better than give it in its entirety verbatim. " This
House will remember," said Lord JOHN, " that the
7th article in the Treaty of Paris guarantees and
supports the integrity of the Turkish empire, The
Bth article declares that if at any time any dissen-
sion shall arise between the Sublime Porte and any
of the Powers signing the treaty, which may
threaten a disturbance of peaceful relations, then
the former shall not have recourse to arms without
endeavouring, with the aid of the other Powers,
to bring about a peaceful settlement of such dis-
turbance. The 9th article declares the contract-
ing Powers acknowledge the high importance
of this communication, and will give in no
case any of the Powers a right to interfere
in the relations between the SULTAN and his
subjects, or in the internal administration of his
empire." The treaty is, consequently, so explicit,
so decisive, that nothing short of an insurrection,
as Lord JOHN has shown, could in any way justify
the Powers of Europe, whatever their inclinations
might be, in interfering thus directly in the inter-
nal Administration of the Turkish Government.
Our Government has therefore had no alternative
in the matter; they have had simply to reject the
third as they had already rejected the first of the
three propositions. Upon the intermediate or second
proposition, however theyhave intimated—as for that
matter (though in different terms), have the Austrian
and Prussian Governments—that they consider it
might be proper to make an inquiry with respect
to the present state of the Christian provinces of
Turkey, and with regard to the internal adminis-
tration of the SULTAN'S Government. By reason
of the loyalty and moderation of the course thus
pursued by the English Government there is
opened up a fair prospect enough for the improve-
ment of the position of the Christian subjects of the
SULTAN, as well as for the introduction of many
wise and desirable reforms into his Government—
at the same time that Russia—and for that matter
France too—is each, in turn, denied, for the time
being at least, the eagerly looked-for chance of a
most sinister opportunity !

On Monday, according to the programme, the
" poor little Bill" should go into Committee. But,
what a bristling frize of amendments dispute its
passage thither, make the attempt when it may.
Not fewer than thirteen notices stand on the paper,
and if honourable members stand to their notices,
may raise endless debate at this Thermopylge of
the contest. Their real meaning obviously is to
defend the little Greece of the present constituency
against the XERXES of Reform with half a million
of new electors. None of the motions indeed say so,
but most of them mean it. No parliamentary
LEONIDAS, to be sure, appears among the band of
obstructers, but a General does not always show
himself; and some professed Liberals are uniting
with the Tories and conveniently doing their work.
Mr. HORSMAN, as might be expected, stands fore-
most in barring the way against his old colleagues
in regard to Reform. He is to move a resolution
similar to that by which Lord J. RUSSELL himself
opened a way for the Conservatives to get rid of their
first unlucky India Bill. He will propose that the
house " should proceed by resolutions to determine
what should be the provisions of any bill for amend
ing the representation of the people !" A pity
he did not think of this sooner if he
meant business. The proposal seems, however,
somewhat out of place, after two Reform Bills
have been so recently brought in, one by each party,
and when the difference between the two is reduced
to forty shillings, more or less, for a borough qua-
lification—Lord JOHN RUSSELL proposing to lower
the qualification by £4, Mr. DISRAELI by £2 ;
while both had agreed on the county franchise.
Many of the motions were directly obstruc-
tive. Captain GORDON and Mr. MACKINNON
fancy we have not sufficient knowledge and
data for the work we would undertake.
They have each a motion pointing to the
Census of 1861. It would be " unsatisfactory,"
(f unjust," " inexpedient," to move on, till the re-
sults of the next year's census are before us. Mr.
GORDON, indeed, would give the Government a task
which would defer Parliamentary reform as long
as the successors to Lord ELDON could wish--he
would outvie Lord GREY'S committee in another
place by requiring her MAJESTY'S Government to
" collect the most accurate statistical returns as to
renting and rating in counties and boroughs, and
to institute a searching inquiry into the social, edu-
cational, and moral condition of those now excluded
from the franchise !! " It is truly amu ,ing to
think of the kind of political education which
the honourable member himself must have
enjoyed to put such a dilettanti notice
on the business paper of our practical
House of Commons. Where could he find artists to
execute such pre- R tphaelite pictures of the political
qualifications of the country ? And, if he could, of
what service could they be ? We know all we
want to know. The inquiry needed is rather into
the temper of our present representatives. Could
it conducted by ballot, her MAJESTY'S Government
would barely find the odd fifty desirous of increas-
ing the power of the people. Mr. GRIFFITIIS is
concerned, too, to get an actual census of each

borough whose population fell below 7,000 in 1851;
and Mr. BoVILL says the house should not be pre-
pared to sanction the subtraction of a member
from any borough, for the simple reason that in
1851 the population fell below the above•mentioned

number.
Then follow instructions of all kinds to the com-
mittee. Mr. BENTINCK'S electoral virtue has
suffered so much from the sight of liberal corrup-
tion, that he cannot let the house go into committee
till it has pledged the committee to deodorize the
offensive constituencies. Mr. HUNT desires to
bind the committee to provide increased facili-
ties for polling at elections; Mr. KNIGEITLEY
that the committee should try the polling-
paper system. Mr. DUNCOMBE that voters
should be registered more frequently, and with
greater facility. Mr. ANDREW STEUART offers a
sort of resolution that the house will view with
favour " proposals to include classes representing
property and intelligence, in addition to such as
may be laid before it in the present bill."

The counties could not, of course, be overlooked.
In addition to the motion displaying his zeal
against bribery and corruption, Mr. BENTINCK
would instruct the committee to make provision
" for giving to the counties of England that share
in the representation to which they may be shown
to be entitled by population and property ;" he
would even instruct the Committee to proceed no
further with the bill till this is done. And Mr.
ROLT has a long and com,,licated resolution, of
which the drift is to keep the seats which are lost
to any petty borough by partial disfranchisement,
within the county in which such disfranchisement
arises. He merely proposes some decent regard to
the number of electors in the county, or in the
boroughs comprised in it. An instruction to the com-
mittee, on the solemn matter of swearing, concludes
the list on the paper. Mr. ENNIS would instruct the
committee that expediency requires that one uni-
form oath should be taken by all the members, and
that it should be an oath of " allegiance and fidelity
to the succession only."
Such is the greeting prepared for Lord JOHN
RUSSELL when he moves that his Reform Bill be
committed. A long list of amendments to be moved
in committee, await the bill there. Simple, as it is,
each important clause will doubtless be the
subject of a thoroughly Fabian debate. Mr. DB-
RAELI evidently spoke without authority from those
who sit behind him when he intimated his own
preference for making no determined opposition to
the bill, but throwing all the responsibility of con-
sequences on its authors. Mr. BENTINCK has
already protested against submission to the dicta
of the front benches of his party, and their leader
seems to feel that he cannot afford to lead it by
his own judgment alone. The Quarterly _Review
and Mr. BENTINCK would like, plainly enough,
to depose him ; " So much the worse for them,"
if they could but do it ! In this case, his in-
stinct was, we cannot doubt, the safer one for
the Tory party. He knows, and sees, better than
they do, that they are playing a hazardous game ;
it is no better than political gambling to " try it
on," how far the non-electors will put up with Tory
delays and obstructions. It is just possible that
Reform may be staved off for years ; more probable
that the " ugly rush" of Mr. HENLEY will come all
the sooner for the unreasonable resistance. If
Conservatism will not accept such a moderate bill
as this, the people may soon show no moderation
towards Conservatism. Toryism has made a move
in the Lords, the possible results of which may
well fill it with apprehension. If, instead of being
alarmed at its success in its own house, it be em-
boldened to interfere not only with the long sup-
posed rights, but with the reform, of the other
House, it may well be that the next Reform Bill
will present an irresistible demand for the Ballot
itself.

THE MILITARY RIOT AT 11,41111.120

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—Observing in your impression of yesterday,
under the above heading, a lengthy paragraph
purporting to be copied from the 11 orth British
Daily Mail, and containing many extraordinary
inaccuracies, I have the honour to request that you
will give insertion to this letter, in order that the
public may suspend their judgment until a military
investigation now proceeding shall have been
brought to a corclusion. During the whole of the
events narrated, the men of the West York Rifles
never offered the least violence or displayed in-
subordination to the officers or non-commissioned
officers in charge of them.

I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedien

servant,

THOS. NELSON, Captain,
Commanding Detachment West York Rifles,
Edinburgh Castle, 31st May, 1859.

ARRIVAL OF THE KING OF THE BELGIANS.-

His Majesty the King of the Belgians, accompanied by his
Royal Highness the Count de Flandre, and attended by a
numerous suite, landed at Dover at a quarter before two
o'clock yesterday afternoon, and proceeded to the railway
station, where his Majesty was received by the Hon. James
Byng, chairman, and Mr. Mellor, one of his co-directors in
the South-Eastern Railway, who travelled in the royal
train to London. Mr. Seymour Teulon, dit ector ; Mr.
Eborall, general manager ; and Mr. Knight, superintendent
of the South •Eastern Railway, were also in attendance.
The King—having thanked the authorities of the railway
for their attention—presently entered one of the Queen's
carriages and drove off to Buckingham Palace.

The Duchess of Grafton"; dance is postponed
from the Bth inst. to Tuesday, the 19th of June.
The Countess Dowager of Carnwath has arrived
at her residence in Gloucester-place, Portman-square.
Lady Henniker has arrived at the Queen's
Hotel, Upper Norwood.

Lady Georgiana Balfour has left London far the
Oatlands Hotel, Weybridge.

Lady Emily Hesketh's ball will take place on
Wednesday the Gth, and nut on the 15th inst., as previ
ously announced.

Lady Elizabeth Stanhope has left the Oatlands
otel, for London.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs.
Glanstone returned to town yesterday from a visit to the
Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at Cliefden, near Maiden-
head.

It is understood thot the insurance losses from
the recent storms f:.11 principally upon the North country
clubs, and that the amounts in London are very small. The
estimate is that altogethEr about 300 vessels have gone
ashore, involving the sacrifice of several hundred lives.
After the recent evidence respecting the quality of 'he
chain cables used for anchors in the merchant service, few
will doubt that a large majority of these disasters are to be
attributed solely to the indifference of shipowners on that
point. If there were no facilities for effecting insurances,
regard for their own pockets would soon prompt a degree of
care on the part of those persons which considerations for
human life and national prosperity seem wholly inadequate
to inspire.

ROYAL INSPECTION OF THE COWES RIFLE
CORPS.—The Cowes Rifle Corps attended on the lawn in
front of Osborne Palace, on Wednesday last by Royal
command. The Queen, the Princa Consort, and the junior
branches of the Royal family came out and passed up and
down the line. The men were then thrown out skirmish-
ing, and recalled on the cry of "The cavalry are corning."
They were then put through some of the principal evolu •
lions. Nothing could exceed the order and regularity of
their movements. After about half an hour had been thus oc-
cupied, her Majesty was pleased to make numerous inquiries
of Captain Graham, the commanding officer. The Prince
expressed his satisfaction at the very soldier-like appear-
ance of the men, and at the state of efficiency that they
had attained, and the corps returned to their parade.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT TO SHEEP.—On Thursday
evenin-, while a large flock of sheep belonging to Mr. Geo.
Giddings, of Nethetstreet, near ll;vizes, was being driven
by the shepherd from one part of the farm to another, it
appears that by some means one of thethemstumbledin Jump-
in9. a ditch. As is always the case with these animals the
others rushed blindly on, one falling over the other; those
beneath being smothered by the weight of those above them,
or crushed by the trampling of those which went safely over,
until when the last of the flock had passed it was discovered
that 80 of the number were in a dead or dying state, viz.,
about 60 ewes and 20 lambs. Such an accident as this, and
attended with such a great loss is, we believe, unprecedented
in this district. We understand that the shepherd was
himself knocked down by some of the falling sheep, but
fortunately managed to extricate himself in time,—Sher-
borne Journal.