The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-02 00:00:00

MANAGERIAL ADDRESSES.

The prm-paschal season having been brought to
its termination on Saturday night, three sections
of the public were almost simultaneously addressed
by as many theatrical managers in different parts
of London.
Madame Celeste at the conclusion of the perform- ,
ance at the Lyceum delivered the following ad-
dress :

"`LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,—My first season within
these walls comes to a close to-night, and I stand before
you in my real character of your faithful and attached ser-
vant, to render an account of my service. I opened this
theatre, under many difficulties and some discouragement,
with the hope of making it a place of intellectual amuse-
ment that should be second to none in London. I opened
it with the intention of working honestly and working hard
as its directress. I opened it with the purpose of gradually
blending its various departments into an intelligent and
picturesque union that should really be expressive of the
story told. I trust that what you have seen on this stage,
under my management, has not been unworthy of these as-
pirations. Although I received ray education as an artiste
in France, and my tongue is faithful to my native country,
in an English theatre lam in spirit an English woman. I
have produced none but pieces by English writers—the
music at my feet is under English direction, the admired
pictures behind me are by an English painter, and the sup-
port I have received from all around me has been truly
English in its kindness and goodwill. Ladies and gentle-
men, on the Ist of October next I commence a lease of this
theatre for a term of years ; in the meantime I shall not be
idle, but shall strengthen my resources (as I have already
begun to do) in every possible way. The season now con-
cluded has been a mere preface to a book not yet com -
menced. Trust me, every page of that book shall be as
good as I can make it, and I hope it will be long before
you wish it at an end. Until next season, ladies and gen-
tlemen, in the name of my brother and sister artistes, no
less than on my own part, I thankfully wish you happiness
and bid you farewell. I shall see this curtain fall to-night
unwillingly and sorrowfully; I shall see it rise on the Ist
of next October hopefully and joyfully; until then fare
well."

Mr. Harris at the Princess's indulged his audi-
ence with imagery of the nautical kind. His good
ship had been refitted, re-manned, re-freighted,
and taken into the "speculative waters of the
Theatrical Ocean" by a somewhat young hand in
managerial navigation, and he alluded to foul
weather that had assailed him at the commence-
ment of his journey, merely to bring forward the
pleasing fact that by dint of good seamanship and
a willing crew he had been able to make his first
port safely and securely with colours flying. These
figurative statements were followed by the announce-
ment that Mr. Phelps would appear at the Prin-
cess's on Easter Monday as Sir Pertinax INPSyco-
phant, and go through a series of his favourite
parts.

Shunning all imagery, nautical, literary, or other-
wise, Mr. B. Chattcrton, of the St. James's, dwelt
with pride on the singular fact that his season had
last six months, a duration not accomplished at
that theatre within the last 15 years. Pleased with
his success and overflowing with gratitude to his
patrons, he intends to re-open OR Easter Mon-
day with anew burlesque by Mr. Leicester Buck-
ingham.

SURREY TREATI7B.

On Saturday evening last Miss Marriott took her
benefit at this theatre, at which she is a very great
favourite, and was honoured with a crowded
audience. The entertainments commenced with
the play "Love's Sacrifice," in which Mr. Creswick
sustained the part of Mathew Elmore with great
ability. It is to be regretted that good plays of
this description are not often represented at this
theatre, but the spirited managers must be the best
judges of the class of pieces that attracts
most to the exchequer. Miss Marriott's Mar-
garet was a fine display of artistic talent, as
every phase of the part was wrought
out with judgment, earnestness, and fidelity.
At the the termination of the play Miss Marriott
and Mr. Creswick received the usual theatrical
honours. A variety of entertainments followed, and
the performance concluded with " Rob Roy."
The part of Francis Osbaldiston was sustained by
Mr. Henry Manley; and certainly we cannot re-
collect the time when we were so delighted as we
were with his singing of " My love is like the red,
red rose," and several other favourite ballads. The
bill informed us that the gentleman in question was
a singer in the provinces, but we very much
doubt whether we have a superior musician on the
London boards. His voice is of great sweetness and
flexibility,and, that which is in the greatest demand
in the metropolis, a pure tenor. We have often
heard of the difficulty of procuring a good Eng-
lish tenor singer for grand opera, but here is a
proof of that which we have often stated, viz., that
they only want looking after in the provinces. The
audience were in raptures with Mr. Manley, and it
we mistake not he will make his mark in London.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary, attended by Colonel Purves
and Lady Geraldine Somerset, left their residence in the
Ambassador's Court, St. James's Palace, on Saturday, for
Cambridge cottage, Kew, for the Easter holidays.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and
family left St. James's-square on Saturday for Blenheim
Palace, near Woodstock, for the Easter recess.
The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady
Emma Stanley have left town for Knowsley-park, Lanca-
shire, for the Parliamentary recess.

Reference is made to the skirmishes that ensued
between the rivals par excellence in the debates on
the budget. It is said that the leader of the Oppo-
sition has not had justice rendered to his brilliant
answer to his opponent, when he spared no taunt
that he could employ on the first night of the ques-
tion. The newspapers have practically ignored
what was a masterpiece. This is not to be won-
dered at when we remember the Gladstone mania
that pervades the press, with but very few excep-
tions. It is also satisfactory to find mention made
of Mr. Gladstone's contemptuous manner. He
skoald remember that arrogance and anger are not
arguments, but he has become a convert to the Whig
code of etiquette, and in forsaking the Conservatives
he took a long farewell of that gracious manner,
that dignified bearing which pre-eminently dis-
tinguished all their ranks when in power, and in
which their opponents, under whatever leader they
are ranged, are always lamentably deficient. Mr.
Horsman's speech must not be omitted from a
favourable mention, and really that hon. member
has added immensely to his reputation, and stands
forth a shining example to the host of independent
Liberals who face the world in arms when the des-
tinies of the country are entrusted to benighted
Tories, but who are as meek as lambs when the
Liberal cause is deserted and betrayed by their
leaders. Some extracts are given of Mr. Hors-
man's speech on the paper duties, which are perfect
in their way, and which are worthy of notice to
ali who may have passed them on in the whirl of
affairs. They are telling and they are true. It
is this which gives to satire its sting, and all except
the most determined and devoted adherents to the
Chancellor will add their testimony to the singular
merit of these pages. Perhaps the most startling
truth was, after speaking of shams, to exclaim—
"ln the estimation of most people, probably, Mr.
Gladstone's presence on the Ministerial Bench was
the greatest sham of all." It is impossible in the
limits of a cursory notice to do justice to the many,
points of interest and importance to be found inter-
spersed in this admirable article. It is to be appre-
ciated not only from the matter it contains, but
from the manner it evinces. Now is the time for
all who can, to express themselves strongly against
the tyranny exercised by the occupants of the Tre-
sury benches, who gained their places by trickery,
and who are forming alliances with the parties at
home, and belligerent tyrants abroad,..to keep them-
selves in office, while their victims must not even
speak. If they had their way they would repeat the
nursery adage to all loquacious opponents—" You
may hear and see, but must say nothing." If one
man has been of late more over-rated than another,
it is the Chancellor of the Exchequer; but the
day must come when such fallacies will be un-
masked as those which pervade his policy, and the
voice of an oppressed and indignant people will
denounce the framers of the iniquitous Income-tax
and the manoeuvres of the unpatriotic treaty and
the unfair budget. Norman Sinclair becomes a
little more lively in this instalment, and it
is a relief to pass to Italy, and to contemplate
the dangers that befell the wanderers among
the Glaciers of the High Alps, after the mo-
notonous city life so lately led by this hero. Some
of the verses are very smart, especially those
entitled " Our worthy friend Nap," which are a
sort of sequel to the " Sly Little Man who lives
over the Way," that before appeared in this perio-
dical. " Poetic Aberrations" is the name of
an article which discusses the merits of Mrs.
Browning's last work. The decision pronounced
is not a favourable one, and the writer comes to the
conclusion that she has done no service to others,
and added no fame to herself, in the work she de-
clares an angel told her to write; but, it is said,
"the communication came direct from a pernicious
little imp who had been turned out of Pandemo-
nium for profanity." Some will be pleased with
the sketch of Lady Hamilton, and there are two
or three articles on political subjects, not, however,
possessing anything striking by way of novelty,
and some remarks on the Duke of Wellington's
career that are suggested by the work of Brialmont

Fraser's Magazine.
Fraser has several articles of interest this
month. In the first place we have the com-
mencement of a new story by the clever author
of " Headlong Hall." This introductory instal-
ment is piquant and curious, though the solitary
hero of the tower, with his seven fair hand-
maids, is somewhat extravagant. We look forward
to pleasant acquaintances among the circle that
surrounds the old bachelor of Gryll Grange and his
fastidious niece. " William the Silent," a study
of character, by " Shirley," is a very interestino,
and well-written paper on the great hero of the 6
Netherlands, that Prince of Orange who combined
qualities which are not often met with in chiefs and
commanders. After describing in a few vivid
phrases the splendid resources which the magnificent
empire and military ability of Charles the Fifth had
bequeathed to his remorseless and bigoted son, the
author goes on to say :
" It was this gigantic empire, concentrating all its forces
to crush the civil and religious liberties of the Netherlands,
that Orange had to meet in a mortal conflict. He did meet
it, and he was not worsted. Standing at bay on the ex-
tremest limits of habitable earth, his feet washed by the
stormy waters of the Northern Sea, a few thousand undis-
ciplined boors and wild sailors behind him, he drove back
the chivalry of Spain, and laid among the waves the
foundations of the great naval commonwealth. Such a
spectacle fascinates the imagination. 'We cannot but ask,
How was it possible for one man to achieve so great a work '
Fo "

,r it was in truth a single man who did the whole well.
In the war of liberation William the Silent is not only the
central, but the sole figure. Ho finished his task unaided
and alone. I have no one to help me,' he writes on one
occasion, 'not a single man.

Donoc eris &Ex, multos numerabis amicos,
Tempora curn erunt nubila, nullus erit.'

His means were of the scantiest. The material which he
had to use was often of the sorriest kind. The nobles were
commonly hostile; the people not seldom apathetic. His-
torical conjectures are particularly unprofitable; but it may
be safely asserted that had Orange not lived, Holland would
not have been freed. Sudden and scattered outbursts of the
popular indignation would no doubt have taken place. But
it needed the consummate craft and the unselfish devotion;

The Cornhill Magazine.
The tumultuous and heterogeneous household of
Lovel the Widower" reappears in the first pages
of this number., Old Lady Baker, with her man
Bulkeley, her graceless son and her departed angel,
" dragged in by the wings into conversation" when
any domestic obstacle is to be surmounted or dis-
posed of, does not improve on acquaintance. The
love affairs of Mr. Batchelor and Bessy Prior pro-
ceed most satisfactorily, notwithstanding a little
jealousy on his part and a little coquetry on hers,
not in accordance with the mature dignity of the
one or the spectacles of the other. A paper on
" Colour Blindness" gives some particulars of that
curious defect, which seems to be much more
general than was supposed. The third part of the
papers on William Hogarth is entitled "A Long
Ladder, and Hard to Climb," treating of the early
part of his career as an artist. The pleasant style,
intermixed with anecdote and illustration, retains
its attractions. "Studies in Animal Life" are
continued, the present instalment taking a more
general range than the former, discoursing on the
classification of species and the scheme of Linanasus.
" Framley Parsonage" proceeds with interest.
Lucy Robarts is likely to prove a dangerous rival
to the Archdeacon's Griselda, and poor Mark is
evidently getting seriously entangled among bills
and acceptances. " Ideal Houses" is a pleasant
paper on the writer's peculiar architectural fancies,
which chiefly turn to the old romantic localities.
He laments pathetically that the town grows newer
every day that it is older. " I cannot love new
Oxford-street, while St. Giles's Church and old
Holborn still remain. I have no affection for
Bayswater and Nottinghill, but a tender remem-
brance of Tyburn-gate. If I allow my footsteps to
wander along Piccadilly and through Knightsbridge,
they turn down on one side into Chelsea, or up on
the other side into Kensington, leaving Brempton
unvisited in the middle. I am never tired of sitting
under the trees in Cheyne-walk ; of walking round
the red bricks and trim gravel pathways of Chelsea
Hospital; of peeping though the railings at Gough
House, or watching the old Physic Garden f'rom a
boat on the river. lam never weary of roaming
hand in hand with an amiable gossipping compa-
nion like Leigh Hunt, listening to stories at every
doorstep in the old town, and repeopling faded,
half-deserted streets with the great and little cele-
brities of the past." " The Last Sketch" is one to
which the readers of the Cornhill will turn with a
mournful interest. It is a fragment of an un-
finished story by the lamented Charlotte Bronte
—the last effort of her gifted pen. Few,
under such circumstances, could read to criti-
cise, but we may say that it shows no lack of power,
and the character of Emma, more fully drawn and
developed, would probably have been among her
most vigorous creations. " Under Chloroform' is
the title of a paper which describes the amputati▪
on
of a limb, performed under the blessed insensibili▪
ty
produced by the anaesthetic. The writer, however,
does not keep his promise, that he will introduce us
to no scene of suffering, for the account he gives of
operations in the earlier days of surgical science is
most harrowing. An essay on " Long Shots and
Straight Shots" concludes a number which shows
no decline from the attractions of its predecessors

United fervice Magazine.
The United AFerviee contains an article on " The
Military Estimates of 1860 and 1861," followed by
a review of three articles upon " The Navies of
France and England," written by Frenchmen of
different political opinions; and differing, as they
naturally do on many points, they all agree that
what France most requires is an increase of the
personnel to efficiently. man her now superb navy;
but this is a requisition which can never be
thoroughly met while the French people, who
are essentially military, maintain their indifference
to all maritime matters. The necessity of flogging
in the navy is maintained; the writer stating that
he concuis entirely with Sir Charles Napier in
his opinions on that subject, but at the same time
h e requires that such punishment should not be
inflicted except by order of a court-martial ; he
compares the reports of punishments inflicted on
board ships in the navy, and shows that on board
small ships the punishment greatly exceeds that
of large ones. Thus, the Indus, 78, is returned as
having had the most men flogged, namely, 22, or 1
in every 26 ; while we find the Lyra, 8, Comman-
der R. B. Oldfield, has an average of 1 man in
every 5 togged; and the Spy, 3, Liewenant A
LBekraft, 1 in 6 during three quarters only ;
a d many more small craft where the excess of the
lash prevails. The writer recommends that an
investigation ought to take place regarding such.
ships as the Lyra, where the average of 16 out of
78 men is far beyond what ought to be necessary,
and advises that any man who has deserved flogging
twice should be dismissed the service. He explains
that some captains, in order not to fall under pubic
censure, repudiate flogging altogether, and substi-
tute other punishments, which, he maintains, are
both detrimental to the health of the crew and
cause more discontent than any amount of flogging,
and that as a quarterly return of all punishments

As this tale advances its aim and object become
more apparent, and the very name is vindicated by
the difficulty which Miss Rosa finds in suiting the
fancy of her two lovers, neither of whom she wishes
to throw over until she is sure of the other—the
one admiring her most with her hair arranged in
ringlets, while the other considers it more becom-
ing when plain ; and the same idea struck Mamma,
and Miss—" What if the whole thing should ulti-
mately turn upon the question of Plain orßinglets?”
Poor Mr. Bunting's troubles with his great bargain,
which consisted in his being taken in by a swin-
dler's advertisement, which induced him to ex-
change two good horses, with something to boot,
for two broken-winded screws, though written in an
off-hand, amusing style, carry a good moral with
them, which ought to be of service to greenhorns,
and teach them to look before they leap. It is a
great pity that country gentlemen and young men
who have more money than they are fit to be
trusted with, will not remember this truth, that a
good horse will always command a good price, and
that such animals are not given away for half their
value. On this subject the author is very decided,
and enters at some length into the modus
operandi of the extensive family of sharpers.
" No one taking either Owen Ashford or the Ex-
quisite out of the stable on trial would hesitate to
deposite a fifty pound note or give a cheque on his
banker if he had not the money with him for that
amount', conditional on the safe return of the horse,
indeed would think he was let rather cheaply off
for that amount. Half an hour, however, would
undeceive him, but when he came back he might
knock and ring a. long time at 51 A before hr got
admitted. 111‘.anv,hiie all Sligo it would be
all alive from one end to the other, and numerous
would be the inquiries if he didn't wish he' might
get it.' It may appear cruel, but considering the
torture these poor animals undergo to furbish them
up fbr their share in the deception, it would be
the
greater kindness for a dupe to give them toth
nearest horse slaughterer rather than prolong their
existence by selling them back to these barbarous
.t_
rufflins. The dupe would at all events aid in h
suppression of the fraud as far as be was concerned,
an object that we hope to promote by thus,
detail-
ing the adventures of Captain Cavendish Chi
ter's horses." c hes

The main cause of the success of these im-