The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-26 00:00:00

Conductor Mr. Co- ta.

After which (for the second time), a new Ballet Diverti.se.
ment, entitled L' kIIOUR D'UNE ROSE in which Mtdlle.
Zina, Madlles. Delechaux and Esper, and M. Desplaces, will
appear.
To commence at half-past 8 o'clock.

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Major Nasmyth, unattacatet, has been appointed
Brigade Maj r at Sydney, vice Captain Kent, 77'h
Regiment, who has lett with his corps for India ;
and Captain Hare, 40th Regiment, is made Brigade
Major at Victoria.
Several additional regiments of Militia are to he
embodied, and the naen,when properly drilled, will
be invited to volunteer to regiments of the line.
The 6th Dragoons is to have an establi-hment of
791 men. The service troops are to consist of 491,
and the bounty to volunteers to the regiment is to
be increased from 20s. to 30s. each man.
Orders have been issued Ly the Horse Guards
for the emb-irkation, about the 3d of Aug. of 2,352
men, to join their service companies in India.
The 47th and 65 h Regiments of B-ngsl N.I. are
now on !heir pissage to China, as an augmentation
of the force at pre out stationed in that country.
The 6th leniskilling Dragoons and 11th Hussars
are to embark immediately for service in India.
Colonel C. P. Ainslie, 14'h Light Dragoon.,
commanding at Kirkee, has been ordered to proceed
immediately to Gwalior, to assume c •mmand of ihe
Second Brigade of the Central India Fi lit F. roe
under Sir Hugh Rose, in consequence of the retire-
ment of Col. Chas. Steuart-, of the same corps, from
ill health. The latter officer is now on his way to
Calcutta from Cal pee on the way to England, on
medical certificate.
The Admiralty yacht Osborne, Mr: Geo. Bower
master, steamed up the river on Saturday, from
Sheerness, at 11 n.m., and disembarked Sir John
Pakingtou, the First Lord of the Admiralty,
accompanied by Lady Pakiegton and his private
secretary, at Woolwich, and proceeded on her r -
turn to Port mouth. The oth,r members of the
Board continued their voyas e by one of the river
s'eamers to London. Sir John and Lady Peking-
ton, after leaving Os' erne, p dd a hurried visit ti
the Black E igle, moored in ihe river, and on land-
ing at the dockyard pier they were received by Coin-
mcdore Shepherd and the officers of the yard.
...,Capt. Maunsell and a company of the Antrim Rifles
on duty in the yard turned out under arms and
-.pail th $ ens oinary honours.
Fer some weeks past a large proportion of the
- men's wages in th- R ,y al Gnu Fan ere Dr'par talent
of Woolwich Arsenal has been withheld for income
tax stated to be due on over-work, &a., du ing the
past three years. The men, whose weekly pay
amounted to 355. aad 28s. were accordingly allowed
but Bs. and 7s. for nine comesutive weeks, welch
has caused considerable inc rave wencs, and in some
cases severe distress. A statement i f the cirount-
seances having lie!-11 laid before -Gen. Sir W. Cod-
ringten, one of the members of the b rough, by
Mr. Graham and some other members of the local
board of heal li, a notice has been po-ted in the
Royal Arsenal statir'g the amount A money re-
ceived from that dep'irtmeut in 1 quidatien of the
claim, amoun'ing in some cases to 131. per man
The notice concludes by informing the men that,
pending instructions from the War-effice, no fur-
ther sum will he deducted on that head, and. if it
should be proved that any overplus bad been re-
ceived it will be rtifended.
Capt. C. 0. -Thker, of the Chatham Division of
Royal Marine Light Infantry, has been ordered to
be held in readiness to embark ou board the screw
steamer Victor Einmaeuel, 91.
The contractor for meat to the tools in Ports-
meuth garrison, whose conviction (the second) for
cheating the soldiers of their weight by false scales
we reported about three weeks since, commis tad
--
another fraud upon the troops a day or two after,
but which was not adjudicated upon until last;
A great outcry has been very unnecessarily,
Thursday. It appears that on the morning of the
11th inst. Lieut. W. H. Roberts, of the. Roya, and we may say alnost foolishly, raised in role-
Horse Artillery, stationed at Hilsea, near Ports
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recce to the completion of the magnificent works
memo, examined, by weighing against weights in
h
,►sses,ion of the barrack "tlenartaleut, the weight, at Cherbourg, in the inauguration whereof our
used by
R-
the contractor for the men's meat in SOVEREIGN and many of the leading members of
weighing the daily rations, and found that the 71b. both Houses of P - twilt rdi- l'y p -rti •;-
al tamen ce a. i a t-.
weieht was 7oz. light, the 141 b. nearly fez. lish ,
and two other weigh's also light. The 4b. weight pate. The Leviathan has discovered that the
(the one most in use) was not to be found. Tie completion of a harbour of refuge, where one was
weight, however, was received the next morning by
urgently required, must be regarded as a threat.
the Hilsea orderly on his way to Portsmouth from
one of the contractot's men. The orderly stated against Erigland, because it may arse be used in
that the weir; ,e was taken from the cook and the unfortunate and, we trust we may add,
im-
secretly conveyed out of the 13:u r"ceil-s by theprobable event of war arising (absit onzeii) between
butcher. On Thursday last the contractor was
the Western Powers. This is, however, uniniii-
summoned before Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis and
Capt. J. Breadmore, two of the county justices, in gated folly 1 Why should not the Emperor of the
petty sessions, at Fareham, on the inforindion of FRENCH be permitted to complete works that
Superintendent Harvey, the Inspector of Wei 14..
and Measures for the Fareham district, when, upoe have been carried on for a series of agea, without
proof of the 71h. weight being 61oz. light, he was exciting the uneasiness or envy of a faithful
couvicted in the full penalty of 51., with co-ts ;he friend and ally? We have Plymouth and Potts-
was also convict-:d in a like penalty, with costs, fur
using uestamped w
eights. mouth,
and Cork—why should we envy Frauce
The Advice paddlewheel steam vessel, tender to Cherbourg. Nature bestowed on the United
the Nile, 91, flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir Henrs i - 1 frl 1- urai harbours, availeble alike
Kingdom severe. ..
Ducie Chad. KC. B commander-in-chief on tle
ta • •, or war. France was, unfot-
Irish stetion, art ived at P, r: on Saturday for purposes of peace
with volunteers from the Howe, Hague, and Per Icompelled to expend a large sum of
t tunate y, -
broke, steam block ships, for the Ctesar, 91, Capt. • ling ODO good one. It was her
Frederick, at Spithead, which has completed her money in providing
complement. The Advice, after discharging the 1 unquestionable right, nay, more, we will add, her
men, returned. ant undertaking long
duty, to complete the import
The Royal Sovereign, 131, 800 horse-power, in pre is no more reason
the steam reserve at Poristrestith, Mr. R. Taylor, since commenced, and th,
chief engineer, got up steam on Saturday in the why we should feel jealous or uneasy
on account
Steam basin, and proved her boilers and the work- thereof, than that a provincial squire should corn •
ing of her machinery.
-,lt is not true that Rear-Admiral Lord E. Russell plain of a friendly neighbour for adding to or
has been appointed to succeed Vice-Admiral Stop- embellishing his family mansion, and thus dimi-
ford aaauperintendent of Malta dockyard. nisbing the superiority on which his rival formerly
The Hydra, steam sloop, Commander R. V.
Hamilton, was warped out of the fitting. basin at prided himself.
Sheerness on Saturday lest. Nothing would probably have been thought of
The
Argus, steam' sloop, Commander H. F. W.
Ingram, has 'been put out of the t
fitting basin a the matter, but, for the " bounce and bunkuiu
Sheerness, and is being coaled. of some petty French journals to which the
The
greatest activity prevails in Sheerness-yard Jupiter Tonans of Printing House-square, in the
throughout all branches in bringing the -
respective
elips now being fitted for the pendant lack of something more exciting, deemed it expe-
forward with 1
all possible despatch. 1 dient to take exception. The small squibs might
The Castor, 36, frigate, has returned nearly the l
very beneficially have remained unnoticed. They
whole of her stores into Chatham dockyard, arid is 1
now being stripped and having her internal fit tines l were conceived in exceedingly bad taste, but it
removed. She is expected to be paid Mien Satur- was still worse to give them an importance which
when she will be placed in the reserve of
day nest, t o b and
they could not otherwise have obtained, to
_vessels in ordinary a,. . hat am. During the ti
was attached • tim©
try to excite suspicion, when there was no real
chiefly
she has been in commission she
_,
to the. African and Cape of Good opostetions, and foundation therefor.
very healthy.
the craw have laOtt generally
91 c healthy. Friends
Friends willnot
Capt. 141. D Eyn- long continue friends, if every
The screw steamship Orlon, , a
action of the
warees at Plymouth on one is to be regarded through tinted
court, was paid a.dvance 0 , Wednesday,
on , glasses by the and
- Tuesday, muetered and inspected
for a few days, l
. and sailed ou Friday, on a cruise - i cast thereon. In
i place of grumbling we should
previous to proceeding to Spithead. Copt, r. rejoice at the completion -of a work so mighty,
- The screw. steamship Brunswick, SO,
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°m'xiAtalay, at rived at Plyinauth on Friday from i one that will so greatly promete the welfare of
Ir land. . -_• _ • . . ! our friend and ally, and which "1 fi:
.. .. wi, e ---er a safe
.., The pailateWhrtiel Steam- vessel gireitly-,'.40"1" 1 ' - r-, -- number • • .
Laven to a lige not onlysof Freeelt but
,'ceder Q. F. MY, atriVed atPlymouth on Satur- i - - - • - •-,,_
- aa,i,, .fteat a• lona,r . liaiiage from- he .Ntest-coast of .-of English and --tmeriaan trading vessels. . It will
.
Africa-54e lei agaitr the' same evening- faii the henceforward be entitled .to - the motto
eastward._ .. ~
- . - the- Corporation of-' C ark proudly in-.
The.rfival half-pay officers at-Plymouth havin,, which
! ..• the civic • •
applied to the Admiralty, the paddlewheel steam' scribe ou
vessel Ivor, 3, eansaid maistse Palmer, has b --- r• Ste • there will
bees statie :ssasetaacesaissa:es:e, . la. ea 4..,1.,... ink there b .
for the
placed at their aervlee purpotsa ot viiitioa . I- -b - 4- -, .
Cherbourg. . 'i' a !avowable pert where the n3pehts.obed vegse
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Pit, 10s. 6d.; amphitheatre stalls, 10s. 64.. 75., and ss.
amphitheatre, 2s. 6d. ; second tier boxes, 2/. 12s. 6d.

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Proprietor, Mr. Tar'SlesTKEiel
THIS EVENING, will he presented the new farce, en.
titled DYING FOR LOV',I.

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After which, Shakspeare's Play of THE MERCHANT OF
VENICE. Shylock, Mr. C. Kean— Portia, Mrs. C. Kean.
ROYAL LYCEUM TREATRE.
THE LADY GE THE CAMEL]. AS.
THIS EVENING, the succe,sfnl Drama, THE LADY OF
TH CAMELIA S. Violette St. Valerie, Mrs. C. Younz.
Folb,wed by, THE LADY AND GENTLEMAN IN A
PECULIARLY PERPLEXING PREDICAMENT. Mrs.
Wilkins.
After which, THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES, in wh.ch
Mrs. How ,rd Paul will sing " Come into the Carden,
Maud."
Concluding with the Grand Ballet of BROOMSTICKS.
Commen,e at 7

TRA ND THEATRE. --I.,:‘sßee and Directrev,
Miss Swaylborough.—Thii Evening will 'l3l
perforwed
ASMODEUS, or the Little Drvil's share,
Followed by GOOD FOR NOT i-14 NG.
A Dance of Almas.
To conclude with DONE ON BOTH SIDES.
Comrne,ce at half,,ast 7.

Prices of Ainiisson duriilg tl,e Summer Ses.qpn —Stalls,
45.; Box's, 3s. ; Pit is ; G illery, 6d. Private B fixes,
1/. ►s and 1/. lls. 6d. Second Pr co to Bases and Pit only,
a:, Nine o'clock—Boxes, is. 6d.; Pit, is.

CIANTERBURN El ALL. Westminster-r0a.41.--
t—, OPEN EVERY EVENING.,—The folloNN,
i wcotupm.ly of Vocalists are engaged for the pc—formance
S from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CHORUSES, GLEES, DUET., &c., viz. : —Miss Russell, %Irs.
3adzey, ell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti,
Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ;
err F. J,Rghmans, Mr. i-ienshaw, S. :o or, J. Barker,
W. Melling. Senor An r.onio, B. L. clime, Mr. Badzey, Senor
Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, !tir Ber,srd , and Mr. St. Albyn
Ai% Yanin, John G. Forde, and E. W. Mackney. Piano-
•orto, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Mr. Courtnay ; ')lrec-
tor, Herr 7. Jongitrnans.. • omi, cnc,i at Seven o'clock pre•
cisely, S .nners, &e., until twelve o'clock.

THE WEA.TFIER—SUN Orricn, JULY 25.
THEIMOSIETER, IN TEIII SIIADE. _
73—highest sine,' noon yestordbm.y.
59—lowest this morning and during the
63—this clay at noon.

BA ROM rTER, 29.45.
WIND, Westerly ; very strrriz halos 111 night and this
now and then ausount ing to a hurricane.
JuLT 2G.

71--highest since noon ye9tcrday.
59—lowept this morning and during the night.
7 I—this dny at noon.
3AIIOIIILTER. 29.97—a rise of half an inch since yesterday
W.N W. ; light, with fine elonly weather.

HIGH WATER AT 1,01,1)0',1 1311.11)(4111.
nis DAT —Horn., 15 rain. aft. 2 —Even at t'. aft. 2
fo-Aortnow—Morn., 51 min. aft. 2 —Even., 6 min. hft. 3

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LONi ON, MONDAY, JULY 26, 1858.

and weary crew may find shelter and safety.
Should we be awry because men-of-war may also

lie at anchor—we who have expended so much
money on the works at Alderney, which, it seems
to be generally admitted, can scarcely be made
available for commercial purposes, and who are
loudly calling for other harbours along the coast ?
French journalists might just as well complain
of the harbour at Newhaven, which we shortly
hope to see completed, as cur English contempo-
raries of the works of Cherbourg, because either,
Although useful in peace, would likewise be bene-
ficial in war.

But we are told that Oherbourg Harbour will
enable France to maintain a Channel Fleet.
Very well. Why should it not be so ? She is
curtly just as well entitled to do so as we are.
We must not for a moment suppose that the very
natural desire t. 'n something approximating
to equality in affairs is to be regarded as
a significant hat there is an inten-
tion of invad ur shores, and reducing
Great Britain .4' - condition of a French pro-
vince. It would seem as if, in the presen'
instance, " the wish were father to tl:e thought ;"
or rather, the desire to embarrass the Government
was so great as to overcome every feeling of
patriotism. Such excitements are easily produced
when persons are sufficiently reckless not to cal-
culate the consequences. We !nay, however, ven
ture to remind the Tim's, that undue suspioloi,
and distrust have frequently produced th,
dreaded results, which could never have occurred
but for the folly of those under the influence.
for the time being, of " the green-eyed monster."
Let ua avoid this grave mistake, and by cordial
4nd friendly co-operation show that England ha,
no paltry jealousies, but can sincerely rejoice at
anything calculated to promote the interest or the
,lory of La Belle France, as adding to the powers
which slie hopes to be associated with her own in
the cause of justice and civilisation.

The middle cltsses must thank the Lords fo
he compliment impliedly paid to their virtue oi

Friday night, while they will certainly not relax
the demand that they shall not be fettered to

keep our Peers from vice. Several noble lord-,
including the Archbishop of CANTERBURY,
affirmed that the ladies in their circle are all

opposed b a widower being permitted, by law, to
marry his wife's sister and his motherless ail-

dren's aunt. Tuese ladies fear, they say, all sorts
of evil consequence% from such a permission. T 4

this they add that "it is a middle class question

and certainly the Ladies of the middle chases,
whose feminine instincts are at least as pure and
refined as those of the higher classes, not only art

not opposed to the object of Lord BURY'S
Bill, but are strongly favourable to it.
The inevitable infereuco is that the balance 01
confidence in their lords and in their owl

-iisters, lies with the ladies of the middle classes,
These cluses have no fear whatever of any abuse:
of the liberty conceded to their sisters and theii
husbands, by natures by the MoAaio 14. w, and b 3

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the Gospel. Why the ladies of noble lords tremble
so, we must I,ave their lordships to tell. We have
indeed a suspicion, after all, that the single sis•ets
..dpeerestis are not rorse than their ladyships.
who fear them ; and though we ought to suppose
that peers themselves know themselves best, w(-
yet are unwilling to imagine them in serious dan-
-4,ier from familiar association with their sisters-in-
law. In the majority of cases we are sure that
noble lords accept such an argument as a parade
argument merely. They know of ned basis of fact.
Not a peer would say that he knew of a
single lady, or married gentleman, among
his acquaintance, to whom this discreditable argu-
ment was relevant. As to ex&nding the aunt
1 from the house after the wife's death, the answer
is obvious enough. The very object of the bill is
to give her a home there, if desirable for the
children's sake ; and we altogether deny that any

tnodest single woman, merely because an artificial
law prohibited marriage when GOD and nature
do not, could feel that that law alone enabled her
to reside where otherwise she could not with pro-
priety do so. A law must have religious, moral,
or social sanction to permit of a tvoinan's availing
herself of its protection.

The Scriptural argument seems to be more and
more generally given up. The Bishops, of course,
tried bard to justify their worthle is canons—canons
which they themselveskeepnot=by Scripture, bu

we certainly need not follow them there. They
appealed to the law of MOSES, and to that wrongly
interpreted, the descendants of ADRALM and the
common sense of laymen, and sound criticism toe,
being judges. But how, and by what argument
can they defend picking and selecting particular
Jewish laws as more binding on us- than others ?
Admitting for argumeet's sake that their inter-
pretation of Leviticus or Deuteronomy is right,
we cannot for the life of us understand, since
these books are equ tlly and throughout of Divine
origin, how we are at liberty to turn some of
their precepts into Canons and Acts of Parliament
and to reject others. Wo consider none of
the laws contained in them as binding on us, be-
cause they were delivered to the Jews ; but if we
are wrong, then by all means let the Bishops
bring in a bill forthwith to establish cir-
cumcision, and let them, in their own
reverend persons, set the example of first submit-
ting to the rite. Let us not pretend to honour
Gon's Word by Feleciug only such precepts as
suit us. All Leviticus or none, we say ; since
to whomsoever GOD gave it as law He gave it to
be wholly obeyed.
lAost of the speakers, indeed, relied on other
arguments. They pretended that it was incest—

and, knowing that to be difficult ground, the
bEa: himself,thtollawo'se9evrie"eare:tftufsrtehr
noa tfe
iie
teal eels: tt.
Bishop of Oxronn
rElwatisntilo!t aLnoardtußraEn"E*iscnel
" the mind naturally revolted from such unions,"
and other Noble Lards appealed to feminine
instincts. The two lines of argument cut each
other's
sin ro
disbelieve in arti-
ficial asWtehowh°ll
OxfYord and S'. Barnabas
t sh,sa utcsh.
School are so fond of creating ; and we believe,
on the other hand, that in a case like this the
might
instincts of our race are sufficient. We
with perfect safety leave the whole question of for-
bidden degrees to the teaching of both male and
female instincts, to the teachings of social sentiments,
and to the teachings of the religious community to
which men belong. It is the natural sentiments
which practically guide the thoughts of all persons
on this subject even now. Not an individual in
a thousand knows more about the "prohibited
degrees" than he does about Chancery law, if so
much. With few exceptions, the prohibitions are
simply ludicrous, because no one needs them ; and
as to the artificial ecclesiastical exceptions, persons
will not, and cannot, fed them binding on their