The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1867.

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By MRS. DUFFUS HARDY.I
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INDIA OFFICE, 23d December, 1867.
%IRE SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA
_IL in COUNCIL hereby GIVES NOTICE that the
Rate of Interest of FOUR PER CENT. on East India
Bonds, will cease and determine on the Ist January, 1869,
and that from and after that date, such Bands will carry
Interest at the rate of Three Pounds per Cent. per annum.
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CANTERBURY lIALL.-NEW MANAGEMENT.
X.) —W. HOLLAND, Sole Lessee, late Proprietor of Weston's
Music Hall, High Holborn, will RE-OPEN THIS EVEN ING,
December 26, this favourite old established Music Hall Great
Alterations and Improvements are being made, and an entire
new Company, comprising most of the popular artistes of the
day, will have the honour of appearing. W. Holland's known
liberality as caterer for the entertainment of the public is a
sufficient guarantee that the amusements will be both novel and
unequalled. W. Holland has great pleasure in stating ho has
engaged the marvellous pantomimist, Mr. Fred. Evans, of the
Royal Alhambra and Crystal Palace, who will produce, with his
company, including Miss Randall, Miss Biltington, Madame Ar-
tent, Messrs. F. Towers, Vincent, Simpson, J. Jamand, and corps
de ballet, a new grand pantomimic Ballet, entitled BUMBLE,
TUMBLE, and STUMBLE, with new scenery and effects. Or
ginal music by Alfred Lee. First appearance of George Ellis,
the Australian Comic; Nat Ogden, the comical comiquc; George
Washington, negro delineator, from New York; Pat Sellers,
Erin's brightest gem; the irresistible scrio-comic, Annie Adams;
Miss Marian Fitz Williams, the new serio-comic ; the Brothers
Girardes, in their wonderful double trapeze performance; the
truly wonderful Leoni, the greatest sensation in the world; Miss
Fitzhenry. the charming English ballad singer, by the kind per-
mission of C. Morton, Esq., of the Oxford Music Hall; Mr. Row-
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nificent new band, selected from the late orchestra of Her Ma-
jesty's Theatre, numbering 23 performers, assisted by the drums
and bugles of the id Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards, by kind
permission of Lieut.-Colonel Commanding. Musical Director,
Mr. Alfred Lee, composer of "Champagne Charlie" and upwards
of 100 of the most popular comic songs of the day. Arthur Lloyd
will shortly appear. In active preparation, a Superb Ballet Di-
vertissement, with gorgeous scenery and effects. Bars will be
under entire new management, and every article will be of the
choicest quality. Every attention will be paid to the comfort of
the visitors. The stalls superbly carpeted, and seats covered
with Utrecht velvet. The splendid picture gallery, with several
additions by eminent artists, on view as usual. In the supper
room will be found every delicacy of the season, at greatly re-
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Stalls,.ls. Doors open this evening and next two days at half-
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are considerably weaker than our dockyard con-
structions, it is equally certain that they have in
other cases spent far more than they should haw
done to obtain particular results. But what is it
that they are fortifying? The approaches to tb eir
capital and chief arsenal. If it be possible among
the dia of hunters for popularity and disappointed
inventors, let us be reasonable. Shall certain points
on our coasts be made unassailable by all the navies
' in the world, while London and Liverpool are at the
mercy of half a dozen ironelai gunboats.
We would not be understi-?e l as claiming perfec-
tion for Government plans, nor as desirous to cover
whatever faults in design or construction there
may be in our new embryo faults. Let them be
well tested and let opportunity be given to prac-
tical—and theoretical men, too—to push their own
ideas. If the War-office designs are radially bad,
or if their constructors have failed to avail them-
selves of such practical improvements as have been
suggested by experience since the drawings were
first made, bring the culprits by all means before
the bar of public opinion, but let it not be on a
flawed indictment. The conditions required to be
satisfied are—not to build absolutely impenetrable
structures at any price,—nothing could be eaaier
than that,—but to gain a reasonable amount of
protection for men and guns at a reasonable price.

One word more before we proceed to describe the
experimental structures erected at Shoeburyness and
soon to be tested. There is such a thing possible
as to take too much care of your men. We don't
expect the ruddy glow of health nor buoyancy of
spirits in the child whose mother wraps a shawl
round his shoulders every time he moves from the
nursery to the drawing-room. The means will surely
defeat the end in time ; and, in like manner, we
may come at last to coddle our soldiers and
sailors into effeminacy, and horrible thought—
even persuade them that their dear bodies are too
precious to be trusted outside the protection of iron
armour-plates. There is a medium in all things,
and we may be too careful by half of life—so care-
ful as to lose it and honour together. It was the
utterance of true genius, not false sentiment, when
Napier, who was far from undervaluing proper
caution, wrote this passage :
When the Roman Pompey was adjured by his friends
not to put to sea during a violent storm, he replied, 'lt is
necessary to sail ;it is not necessary to live. It was also
necessary to save Tarragona. Was no risk to be incurred
for so great an object ? Was an uncertain danger to be
weighed against such a loss to Spain ? Was the British
intrepidity to be set at nought? Were British soldiers
to be quiet spectators while Spaniards stood up in a fight
too dangerous for them to meddle with ? Is that false
but common doctrine, so degrading to soldiers, that brick
and mortar sentiment that the courage of the garrison
is not to be taken into account, to be implicitly followed ?

The Crimean soldiers, accustomed every day to
dodge shot in the trenches by taking shelter behind
traverses, tried the plan once too often in the Redan,
instead of rushing on. Let us have bricks and
mortar where bricks and mortar are :due, and iron
plates too, where needful. Let us have big guns,
stout forts, and cruel torpedoes ; but let us not put
our trust in them chiefly, but rather in the bigness
of the limbs and the stoutness of the hearts which
are the life and health of the country,