The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-21 00:00:00

Miss Rebecca Isaacs every Rven-Ing%

Notice.—There will be no half-price during the engage-
ment of the Lions, except for children under ten years of
age, and then to Pit and Boxes only.
This Evening, a new Spectacle, entitled TAE LION
CONQUEROR; or, The .Death 'Jungle, expressly for the
Introduction of the Wonders of the Wor'd, " The Groupe
of Performing Lions." The Lion Conqueror, Mr. J. Crockett.
To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by
talented Parisian and British Artistes.
CoDcludin7 with the First Ac, of THE DAUGHT.ER,
OF THE REGIMENT. Marie, Riss Rebecca Isaacs.

Doors open at half-Fast t 3, performance commence at 7.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4
Stare Ntanazer—Mr. W. Wrwr.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.

Batty's Prize Pantomime will be produced on a scale of
great magnificence at Christmas.

CANTERBURY
Open Every Evening at Seven.
GRAND-SELECTIONS (First Time) from LA FIGLIA
DEL REGIMEN TO (Donizetti), NORMA, SONNAMBULA,
and MARTHA.
Principal Artistes Miss RUSSELL, Madame MARTA, Miss
TYRRELL, Miss WILLIAMS, Mr. HENRY HERBERT, C.
W. BERNARD, and Signor Tivom.
Musical Director...., Mr. F. JONGTIMANS.

HALL

The Comic Department compri- es Messrs. J. BL Twit ARD,
A. B. Bor.LlNGswoßni, Master BARRY, G. W. PELL,
CHARLEY Fox, and E. MARSHALL.
The Fine Arts Gallery has been enriched by the addition of
the late John Martin's three Grind Pictures—viz., "THE
GREAT DAY of TITS WitATH." "TAE PLAINS of
HEAVEN," and "THE LAST JUDGMENT," on view
until 12 o'clock at Night.

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33—this day at noon.
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THE SUN.

LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 21, 1880.

Of all our public men none owes more than Lord
PALMERSTON to our Volunteers, and handsomely
he repaid the debt on Wednesday at Romsey. To
them he owes, in great Dart, the position he has
been able to take in the Councils of Earope
throughout this year, If the moral influence of
England has, according to the testimony of Italians
themselves, worked wonders in their behalf, if
Austria could not be haughty towards us; but
above all, if the French army could not ask of their
EmpEROR, to lead them
to the sack of London, or to
scout our representations on the right of Italy to
settle its own affairs, all this is very much to be
success of the Volunteer Move-
attributed to the
ff
ment. It is remarkable how di erent the tone of
the continental press has been, ever since the
We increased our army,
Review in Hyde Park.
with them we doubled our navy, still there
were the chances of war for an invader, they might
be in his favour; and then, when he landed, and
had defeated the English army, why, there
was but the nation of shopkeepers a
set of bourgeoisie who would pay anything
to save their shops from being
plundered.
One short year taught them, however, that these
shopkeepers were soldiers in heart ; though honest,
civil tradesmen, earning an honest livelihood, that
they were very apt, and handy too, at soldiers'
exercises, and that, if need were, the hundred and
fifty thousand would very quickly multiply to a
million, and leave small chance indeed to any army
which could possibly be landed. With a sullen
growl or two the foreign press tacitly acknow
ledged that, should accident ever carry an invading
fleet safely away from our navy, or even through
it, yet the land of Rifle Volunteers was not to be
ea 55.137 rifled by marauders.
Ve are not quite sure that LOO PALMEASTON -

gave an exactly correct account of the feeling
which originated the rifle corps. He compared it
with that which gave birth to the volunteers when
an army threatened our shores from the other side
the Channel; it was necessary that then the
young and vigorous of the nation should arm to
any extent. But he attributed the present move.
ment to a conviction that the army needed, per-
manently, such a supplement as the volunteer force.
We think it would have been more correct to say
that conviction followed the movement rather than
caused it. The cause was undoubtedly the myste-
rious and hostile proceedings of our next neigh-
bour. When the country saw a fleet building
which could have no object but that of readiness to
attack this wintry at any time—when it knew
that, though to the last degree improbable, it was
always possible that our fleet might be evaded or
beaten, than the -feeling arose that we ought to
train ourselves to the possibility of meeting any
enemy which might break through our first line of
defence ; • and after the fear of this danger passed
away, there was what Lord PALMERSTON, incor-
rectly we think, describes as the origin of the
movement, " a deep and reflecting sense on the part
of the people of this country that there might be
an occasion for the services of such men. They felt
that though we were at peace, though-there was no
immediate chance of any danger to the country,
that still nevertheless there was wanting some
additional force in support of the regular army and
the militia." May that feeling deepen and spread
till the number and efficiency of our volunteers may
enable us to reduce that worst of institutions in a
free State—our Standing Army.
Lord PALMERSTON remarked, justly enough,
that to dwell on the merits of our army and navy
in proposing a toast was quite a work of surplus-
age; their merits were historical, and the only
thing on which they could be congratulated was,
on keeping up their old renown. He seems dis-
posed, however, to commend what his Government,
of course, would have the chief credit of, the ad-
mirable equipment of the army which has just con-
quered peace at Pekin. We have had, he said,
" recently, in those operations which we were com-
pelled to undertake in China, an example of the
most perfect discipline, of the most complete effici-
ency in every branch of the service, and not only
of the most distinguished gallantry but also of the
most complete and rapid success. There never was
an expedition that was better appointed, better
equipped, better supplied with everything that is
necessary for carrying on war, and war at the
opposite part of the globe ; where, from difficulties
of distance, difficulties of the means of transport,
and difficulties peculiar to the nature of the country
in which the operations were carried on, more
allowance ought to be made, if any portion of the
service had been found wanting in anything requi-
site for its complete efficiency. But on the contrary
we may say it with pride that there never was a
military and naval force better equipped, and more
successful than that." We have every reason to
think, from all the accounts that have yet reached
us, that these self-congratulations are not more
than the noble Lord was entitled to give utterance
to as the head of his Government. Every hind-
rance and delay in the China expedition has been
due to the unpreparedness of our allies not of our-
selves, and though the extent of the operations is
so different, yet every one must have been struck
with the difference between them and the opera-
tions parallel in point of time of the Crimean war.
But Lord PALMERSTON is everything by turns,
and the object of the meeting at Romsey found
him equally at home, on military and agricultural
topic. In the morning addressing agricultu-
ral labourers, in the evening the gentry
and respectables of the district. To the former
he talked, in awarding them their prizes, of the
double blessing of a good conscience from having
done their work as they ought, and the com-
mendation of our fellow-men as expressed
by the. prizes given. And—following up his
doctrinal theology delivered, if we remem-
ber: rightly, in the same district, " that all
children are born good," by practice—he urged the
labourers not to spoil the good little creatures be-
stowed on them by Providence, for " the goodness
or badness of the conduct of children depends not
simply upon their natural disposition, but still
more, and more greatly upon the example and upon
the precepts which they receive from their parents."
A text on which he preached a very respectable
little village sermon, which we trust will be better
heeded than most delivered by duly authorised
teachers.

In the evening came the landlords' turn ; and to
them cottages was the topic. Here, too, he was
on the watch to " improve" his theology to practi-
cal purposes. Having exhorted the labourers in the
morning to keep their children as good as they were
born, in the evening he told the landlords that they
must help the labourers in this effort. They must
build them cottages adapted to preserve the
families who inhabited them from the
most debasing of immoralities, cottages which
should not at the same time injure the
health and utterly destroy that grand safeguard of
virtue, modesty. His main arguments for this
were, however, we must own, of a rather commer-
cial character. Landlords would, he showed, find
that it paid to build good cottages adjacent to their
farms. A healthy, respectable class of labourers, who
had not the needless fatigue of a long walk to their
work, would snake a farm let for more, and then, if the
landlord got but a very low interest for the money
laid out on the cottages, he would more than
make it up in the better rent of his farms. He
compared the cottages with the outbuildings and
sheds for cattle on the farm, and told them that good
buildings for labourers would raise the value of a
farm as much as good shelter for cows and horses.
Herein his Lordship is unquestionably right, and
we hope that under his instructions the old adage
of the degeneracy of each generation compared
with the preceding one will be altogether removed
—that we shall be better than our fathers, and the
next generation better than ours.

Honour to whom honour is due. It is the
instinctive wish of every warm-hearted Englishman.
And in obedience to this generous instinct Lord
CLYDE has been cordially welcomed back to
England. His first grQeting was from his gallant
companions in arms assembled together to do him
honour in the great Military Club at the West
End. The City has now emulated the course
already pursued in his regard by his professional
brethren in the fashionable part of town. His
Lordship has received the Freedom of the City—
, presented to him, according to custom, with all
due ceremonial in the Guildhall. He was last
evening banquetted with a yet pleasanter ceremo-
nial, in the estimation at least of a Briton, at the
Egyptian Hall of the Mansion House—his host
being the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, his
fellow-guests inelm:in g many distinguished
citizens of the empire—among them one of the
Ministers of the Crown, one of the ex-Ministers of
the Crown,
and his Royal Highness theCommander-
in-Chief.

It was the last mentioned illustrious Prince
who enjoyed (as became him) the privilege
and satisfaction of passing upon the Honoured

G:est of the Evening- that tribute of praise for good
and g:eat deeds done at the point of his own sword
and at the:noatla of th e enemy's cannon, that high
and enviable cCtinmendi ition which in the sight of us
all, in the view of the whole empire, Lord CLYDE
has so often earl:fed by his heroic achievements.
It was a soldier's ti ibuto, that proffered last night
at the LORD MAYC NR'S hospitable board to the
Conqueror of the Beni;
ml Rebellion—it was a true
soldier's tribute, worthy CLYDE and
, alike of Lord
of H.R.H. the Duke of CA-.
VBRIDGE. Not that the
Commander-in-Chief had fiwmally to propose the
toast of the evening, " The Health of COLIN CAMP-
BELL, Lord CLYDE"—tkat office, the pleasurable
office of proposing that toast to the convivial assem-
bly in the banqueting-hall of the Mansion-house,
devolving, of course, by right s upon the LORD
MAYOR as the chairman and host of these festi-
vities—but that the Duke of CAMBRIDGE availed
himself of the opportunity presavted to him for
dilating upon Lord CLYDE'S conspicuous merits as
a military commander when responding in his
own capacity as official head of the profession,
namely, in H.R.H.'s capacity as the General
Commanding-in-Chief. Conscious whilst uttering
the words we are about to transcribe
from the close of the Royal Duke's speech yesterday
evening, conscious while uttering these words that
he was in some measure infringing upon the prero-
gative of the Chairman, inasmuch as he undertook
thus by anticipation to be the eulogist of the noble
and gallant lord, his Royal Highness said, frankly
nevertheless :—" I feel that I cannot conclude the
few observations T rose t o make without expressing
the great pleasure and satisfaction which I derive
from being present on an occasion when the citizens
of London have met to do honour to my noble
and gallant friend who sits on your right
(Lord CLYDE). The highest compliment which
can be paid to a soldier is to be assured of
the confidence and respect of a great community
such as this assembly represents. The city of
London has always shown itself willing to express
its gratitude to its illustrious citizens, and I am
sure no greater honour could be done to Lord
CLYDE than that which you conferred upon him to-
day by electing him to your freedom. Of this,
too, I am persuaded, that you could not have be-
stowed that honour upon a better soldier, or one
who deserved higher of his country, than my noble
and gallant friend." That manly and most grati-
fying expression of admiration from the lips of
H.R.H. the Commander-in-Chief, brief though it
was in itself, was, in spite of its brevity, all. suffi-
cient. It left the Lord Mayor but little to say
when he came at length in due course to the toast
of the evening. That little, however, was right
well said by Lord Mayor CUBBITT when
after the utterance of the now historic name of
Lord CLYDE, he averred that so long as English
history should be read, the story of the siege and
relief of Luckaow would be regarded as one of its
most brilliant episodes. It is an old story by this time,
but one that we all yet love to linger over, familiar
though we are long since with all its varied and
thrilling incidents. And it is a tale of lofty
valour and of most affecting endurance with which,
as the avenging and succouring hero of that romance
of reality, the name of Lord CLYDE is for ever glori-
ously associated. Epitomising the whole story in
a few sentences full of deep feeling and most heroic
remembrances, Lord CLYDE spoke as follows of the
part it had been his privilege to take in that most
memorable adventure :—" England," said Lord
CLYDE, " nay the whole civilised world, was horror
struck at the massacre of Cawnpore, and General
HAVELOCK had just commenced his heroic march.
That was an anxious moment for England
and for the destiny of our empire in
India ; but, happily for that country, its
destiny was confided to a Governor-General
who had a mind and a heart equal to the
emergency. I was sent to join an army which any
man would have been proud to command, and from
the beginning I felt certain that the restoration of
British sway in India was merely a work of time.
I can never forget the singleness of heart and
devoted loyalty which animated all ranks of that
army, from the highest to the lowest. Nor can I
refrain from rendering a tribute of hearty admira-
tion for the gallant behaviour of our brethren of the
civil service. I. must also refer, in terms of equal
admiration, to the planters and other private indi-
viduals who suddenly found themselves thrown
upon their own resources, and in the midst of a
savage enemy showed a courage and determination
worthy of all praise. I think, therefore, that
England may well be proud of her sons in that
part of the world. By the blessing of a kind
Providence I left India in the enjoyment
of peace and tranquillity ; and I believe that
a new era of development and prosperity is in
store for that great empire under the sway and
protection of our gracious SOYEREIGN." To these
magnanimous sentences not another syllable need
be appended. They are very nobly commemo-
rative of our anxieties of the past, and most
auspiciously anticipative of the fulfilment of
all our more eager and sanguine hopes in regard
to the future—the past and future, that is, of
British rule in Hindostan.

BURFOR.b'S PANORAMA.—MESSINA.

Mr. Burford has prepared his annual for the
Christmas holidays, as well as the other caterers for
the public entertainment. It is somewhat of the
largest size, but it will not be the less acceptable
on that account, seeing that it is a very beautiful
and accurate panorama of the city of Messina, just
now one of the most interesting localities in Europe.
The view is taken fiom the Lighthouse, whence the
eye takes in the whale of the city and famed
suburban Orange Groves, the waters of the
Faro, and the distant Calabrian coast. Nothing
is omitted, the spacious harbour, the gloomy Laza-
retto, and the deep waters in which, close up to
the quay walls, are moored the commercial ships
of the world. The classical student may see the
fained Charybdis, and the admirer of scenery will
be charmed with the perspective of the straits and
the distant mountains just tipped with snow. There
could hardly have been chosen a better time than
the present for the opening of a panorama of
Messina, when the incidents of the Sicilian revolu-
tion are fresh in every one's memory, and the end
is still in suspense. The spectator who visits Mr.
Burford's picture will be not only pleased with its
artistic beauties, but he may rely upon its having
all the correctness of a map.