The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-09 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. 1
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING. TT RASCAL JACK. Messrs. J.
Rouse, J. Neville, C. Wanrer ; Mesdames B. Aleyne, C.
Thompson.
To conclude with T EIE GREAT CITY. Messrs. C.Virarner,
F. Morton, J. Fitzjames, F. Villiers, J. C. Cowrer, W.
Wlntyre, J. ROUBe, J. Irving, J. B. Johnstone; Mesdames
M. Robertson, R. U. Le Thiere, C. Thompson.
Commence at Seven.

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THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET,
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone.
THIS 'EVENING, PETER SMINK.
Folowed by. THE COQUETTE. Messrs. Howe, Comp-
ton, Gordon, Vincent, Weathersby, Coe, &c. ; Mesdames
Sedgw ck. Matthews, Lewin, ,to.
Atter which, WHO W ANTS A GUINEA. Messrs. Buck-
stone, Bowe, Chippendale, Rogers, Compton, Clark, Kendal,
Braid, Gordon, White, &c.; Mesdames Burke, Mathews,
Law •, R:o

that wore expected, from having settled the point
of the " Cumulative Vote, on Friday; it was the last
thing of much consequence that stopped the way of
piogress, and that being no longer in the way there
was no cause to fear stoppage. The Ministry have
had a hard struggle in many parts of this discussion,
and even in committee it has not been all smooth
sailing. The redistribution scheme has not been
so tiresome as was the franchise part of the bill,
but still it has been vexatious in its carrying out,
and those really desirous of coming to a settlement
must rejoice that the general features of the scheme
are now decided upon. Mr. DISRAELI strove in vain,
it is true, to bring first-rate members to his way
of thinking, but notwithstanding this was par-
tially effected, and that of a significant character.
An early day will no doubt be fixed upon for
sending up the bill to the House of Lords, a con-
summation earnestly to be desired. it is indeed
high time for the Upper House to have the oppor-
tunity of considering the measure ; and even those
most unfavourable to that assembly must admit that
their patience has been sorely tried by the long
course of delay which has ensued, and no doubt as
soon as the bill is before them there will be mani-
fest signs of impatience, and innumerable hints
given of the shortness of time left, and the necessity
for closing the Session, and so on.
Mr. GLADSTONE has kept to what he said at
Easter to the letter, but he has not fulfilled his pro-
mise in the spirit, for he has lost no opportunity ol
insinuating evil things against the measure, and of
declaring that there are many drawbacks to its
merits. Last night he made another onslaught,
but to little purpose. The House and the
country also for that matter have had enough, and
more than enough, of talking about Reform, and
they anxiously desire that actions should take the
place of words, and practice succeed to profession.
Mr. GLADSTONE'S idea is that any measure of Par-
liamentary Reform should be complete, and one
part as good as another ; but who is to de-
cide the point, and how long should we
have to wait for the desirable end being
obtained ? The right hon. gentleman made
an attempt to increase the representation of South
Lancashire, but so little favour did it find with the
Committee that it was negatived without a division.
We think that Mr. GLADSTONE made a great mis-
take in the tone in which he addressed the House
last night ; it partook too much of the fighting
spirit of the early days of the Session, instead
of the calm, deliberative character applicable
to the present state of things. With a skill
worthy of a better cause he turned the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer's arguments against
himself, by declaring here was an opportunity
afforded for carrying out his own principle of giving
additional representation to counties. Mr.
DISRAELI showed, in answer to this, that he had
already sufficiently considered the claims of Lan-
cashire, as it had received eight of the forty-five
seats to be dealt with. At any rate we should
think that Mr. GLADSTONE must have found out
that his attempts are quite ineffectual to disturb the
serenity of the Committee, and that it is idle to
talk of adjourning the matter to another year.
Colonel GILPIN'S amendment gave rise to more
discussion, and it was finally rejected by a majority
of twenty-nine, which result was hailed by loud
cheers from the Ministerial benches. The object
of this clause was to change the plan of striking
the four places out of Schedule B, and to deprive of
one member the four Parliamentary boroughs next
above the line of ten thousand inhabitants. The
Chancellor of the Exchequer explained that this
proposal would not answer at all, and that it would
disturb the settlement of that part of the question
connected with the amendments of Mr. LAING and
Sergeant GASELEE. Mr. GLADSTONE made a
strenuous effort to support the scheme, and Colonel
GILPIN also exhibited more zeal than discretion in
his reply ; but fate was against them, and this may
well be looked upon as the last struggle of any
consequence in the management of the Bill.
Very little change will have been made
in the scheme of redistribution proposed
by Mr. DISRAELI after the Whitsuntide
holidays ; and it is just as well that it should be so,
for few if any of the changes submitted to the com-
mittee that have been withdrawn, negatived, or de-
feated, entertained any elements of a more promis-
ing nature, or appeared of a mare perfect character,
Some excitement was created in the debate on the
subject of Colonel GmriN's amendment, from the
circumstance of the members of the threatened bo-
roughs doing battle for their respective constituents.
➢lr. DENMAN put forward the claims of Tiverton to
double representation on the score of its having so
long returned Lord PALMERSTON ; but that was a
curious sort of argument, because any one might
reasonably suppose that it was an honour to have
so distinguished a statesman as its representative.
Altogether yesterday's work was well accomplished,
and the Committee may turn to fresh fields and
pastures now in the consideration of the schedules
with renewed hope and energy, and with every
prospect of success.
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As for the proposal for making a reduction of
charges during the French Exhibition, the Go-
vernment were wise not to entertain it. The plea-
sure-seekers of Paris and London can alike afford to
pay the regular charge, which is not exorbitant
There is one reform, however, which is loudly called
for, and the grievance presses very heavily in some
quarters. We allude to the triple charge made on
a letter that is overweight. The sender pays the
usual amount, and his letter is perhaps but
a fraction over the half ounce. The receiver
has thereupon to pay double the usual
charge, so that the Post Office makes a clear profit
out of the transaction, and is therefore interested in
proving a letter overweighted. This is a manifest
imposition on the public, for which there is no ex-
cuse, and it is only surprising it should have been
so long tolerated. In the case of a poor family re-
ceiving an anxiously-expected letter from a relative
in one of the colonies, the money required for the
doulbe charge may be actually not forthcoming, and
the letter may be lost. Two shillings are not
always at hand and to spare, and why they
should be demanded, in addition to the one
already paid on the letter may well be asked. It
is hard enough for an ordinary letter to be thus
paid for three times over, when the scale, perhaps,
has only trembled in the balance, but when the
overcharge amounts to sixpences and shillings, it
becomes more annoying. The Chancellor of the
Exchequer, if he is inclined to do a popular action,
should see that this charge is remitted, and only
the deficit demanded upon delivery of the letter.
We all know that the Post-office can very well
afford to be honest, and its administrators had
better follow the old advice, and be just before they
are generous in enriching the Treasury at the
expense of those who can often very ill afford it. '

Our communications with foreign nations and
with our own colonies and dependencies are already
so extensive and important, and are so steadily on
the increase, that the question of the rate of postage
is ono of some consequence. English letters are
constantly en route over the whole area of the
habitable globe. Every sea and channel is bearing
its mails, every railway lino is used as a postal
highway. They are passing at the same moment
over deserts and mountains, among the wildest soli-
tudes of nature; they are arriving at the lonely
islands of the great oceans, where few besides
Englishmen and savages aro to be found. Nearer
home, in our own cities and towns and provinces,
letters are as much a part of the daily routine of
existence as the daylight itself. It cannot, there-
fore, be said that anything concerning the manage-
ment of the Post-office is of limited and partial in-
terest. Neither can the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer afford to despise its contributions to the
Treasury. Every quarter the Post-office occupies
a prominent place in the tables, and always
on the sunny aide of the balance-sheet. Its in-
crease more than keeps pace with the anticipations
of the most sanguine financiers. And this is not
surprising if we consider that every year our com-
munications with abroad are increasing, and that
education is also making progress. Every emigrant,
every traveller, every sailor, naturally wishes to let
those at home know what he is doing and seeing
while the vast commercial transactions always going
on naturally require a corresponding amount of
letter writing. Under these circumstances we are
not surprised that a question should have been put 1
to the Chancellor of the Exchequer last evening
with reference to the desirability of extending
the system of cheap postage to all foreign and
friendly governments. Mr. DISRAELI'S answer was
in some respects satisfactory. Within the past few
weeks, he said, the Government had signed a postal
convention with the United States, under which,
after the Ist of January next, the postage between
the two countries will be reduced from one shilling
to sixpence the half ounce letter. This will be a
great boon to many of our poorer emigrants and
their families, and an advantage in every respect,
as our postal, communications with the States is of

immense extent and importance. Nego'ia- by Mr. Philip H. Howard, of Corby Castle, near
tions with Peru, Chili, and other St•ites, Carlisle, and formerly member of Parliament. The
are going on with the object of re-
articles in question are the "grace cup" of St. Thomas
h Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury. This is not
ducing the postage stamp, though without
a chalice, but a drinking cup used at grace. It is
much success. War and commotions have SO re- named in the will of Sir Edward Howard, who left
tarded the progress and development of -0 t,,) South it to Katherine of Aragon ; but as that Queen died
American Republic that they have had lit:cle chance before him, it remained in the family, and came
of adopting the principles of political economy. into the possession of the then head of the
The postage between this country and Denmark, family, the Earl of Arundel, who had married
Sweden-, and Holland has, as Mr. DISRAELI re-
Anne Sacre, and lived at Greystoke Castle, Cum-
berland. This article must be looked to with pecu-
minded the House, been greatly reduced during the liar interest
i ar by archaeologists and historians, and
last few years, and he also stated that most of the indeed by the visitors generally. The other will be
proposals for such reduction emanated from this considered of peculiar importance by the Catholic
country, while no re ,s ,nably fair offer was ever world. It is the celebrated rosary of Mary Queen
refused by us. He promised that the subject of Scots, sent to Melville, her secretary, on the
should not be lost sight of, and we hone that scaffold to the E irl of Arundel, "as the last token
of affection to a family who had suffered so much
members on both sides will take care to keep him
for her." In Melville, s Memoirs will be found
to his word. some interesting particulars to those who may be

desirous to know more about this valuable relic.
The Earl was the son of Thomas fourth Duke of
Norfolk, who was executed, and the dukedom was
not revived till a subsequent period. Visitors and
the public generally will no doubt fully
appreciate the artistic taste and liberality of
Mr. Howard which has prompted that gentleman
to allow the public access to such a rich addition to
the wonders of the Exhibition, of articles so valu-
able to that family, in reference to which the great
poet alluded in the celebrated lines—.
"Naught can ennoble fools, or slaves, or cowards—
No, not all the noble blood of all the Ilowards."
Not the least interesting article connected with
the Exhibition is the " Tourniquet Compteur," or
mechanism which, with unerring certainty, controls
the exact number who pass through the turnstile.
It was manufactured by M. Detouche of the Rue
St. Martin, to whom France is indebted for the most
wonderful specimens of clockwork ever known.
The tourniquet on this system, it appears, was first
manufactured expressly for the Universal Exhibi-
tion of Paris of 1855, and, having undergone inspec-
tion by a scientific commission, it has been since
adopted at all exhibitions and public establishments
where it is necessary to check the number of per-
sons who pass through it. Although so accurate
the mechanism is very simple, and such is the cele-
brity of this universal machine that it is in use
throughout Franco, in Spain, in Russia, Italy, and
elsewhere. It might be very advantageously
adopted for similar use in England. One great
advantage is that extraction of the money received
is impossible.

THE NAVAL REVIETV.

The first detachment of seamen of the Royal

Naval Reserve, for service in the fleet to be reviewed

by the Queen on 17th inst., arrived at Portsmouth
Dockyard yesterday from Scotland, and comprised
thirty-six fine-looking fellows from Dundee,
for the Duncan screw line-of-battle ship, Captain

George Hancock, the Coastguard service ship at
Queen's Ferry, but now temporarily carrying the
broad pendant of Commodore J. Tarleton, C. 8., in

the review squadron.
The twin screw armour-plated gunvessel Vixen,
4, 754 tons, 160-horse power, from Devonport, and
the hydraulic propelled armour-plated gunvessel
Waterwitch, probably the ugliest craft sent afloat
since the time of the Ark, 777 tons, 167 horse power,
Commander Sharpe, from the Thames, • joined the
fleet on Sunday evening. The Daphne, 4, screw
sloop, 1,081 tons, 300-horse power, Commander
George L. Sullivan, also joined the fleet at the same
time from Devonport. Yesterday morning the
turret ship Wivern 4, 1,899 tons, 350 horse power,
Captain Hugh T. Burgoyne, V.C., arrived from
Devonport, and added her formidable armament of
12-ton rifled guns to the sum total of the " teeth"
of the fleet. Several gunboats also joined yester-
day. At high water the armoured iron frigates
Warrior, 32, 6,019 tons, 1,250 horse power, Cap-
tain John Corbett, and the Valiant, 24, 4,063
tons, 800 horse power, Commander Charles 11.
Stirling, pro tent., went out of Portsmouth har-
bour and joined the fleet at Spithead, both saluting
the flag of the C,mma,nder-in-Chief and Port
Admiral flying on board the Victory on clearing
the harbour channel. On nearing the Spit buoy
some accident appeared to have occurred in the
make sail
the
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ship.
been
engine-room of the Valiant, her screw suddenly ceas-
ing its revolutions, and the ship's company at the
swarming
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her seamen covered her with all plain sail in a magi-
cally short space of time, and by its aid she ran down
through the fleet, and dropped anchor in a western

-WEYMOUTH, Monday.

berth in the neighbourhood of the Sutlej and Daun
less. The Black Prince weighed her anchor yester
day morning at Spithead, and dropped into a new
position in the fleet a little further to westward, the
Warrior, on going out of the harbour, taking up the
Black Prince's old berth. The Warrior Will repeat
this manoeuvre, after the Review, at Queenstown.
The Mersey, unarmoured frigate, Capt. 11. S.
Ifillyar, C. 8., will join • the fleet from Portsmouth
harbour on NVeduesday (to-morrow) morning, by
which time the greater part of her crew, men on
leave from the Resistance, will have joined, The
, C. 8.,
will also have joined the fleet by that
time.
Some time
turret ship Royal Sovereign, Capt. C. P. Coles
during to-morrow all the ships at Spithead will weigh
anchor and steam out clear of the Nab Light ship to
the S.E., and when there perform a certain evolution
as a kind of rehearsal of one portion of the proceed-
ings on Review day. There will not very probably
be much of public interest ou Wednesday. There
will, of course, be no firing, and the evolutions out-
side will be confined to that wonderful signal, No.
019, in obeying which the fleet will steam out to sea
in two lines, and on reaching a certain portion the
starboard line will turn starboard and the port line
to port, and in this promenade order re-enter the
anchorage. It will be, if carried out in this order,
simply " a march up the hill and down again," but
it will nevertheless be attended with this advantage,
—it will enable each ship, on her return to Spithead,
to anchor in her allotted position in either the star -
board or port divisions, in readiness to receive the
Queen and the Sultan on the morning of the Re-
view. We understand that a third ship, in addition
to the Ripon and Syria, has been hired of the Pe-
ninsular and Oriental Company by the Admiralty
for the day of the review. The Admiralty
have appointed the screw troopship Serapis,
Capt. Soady, to receive all those fortunate enough
to receive invitations from Whitehall. The sister
vessel to the Serapis, the Malabar, Capt. Rich, will
be placed at the service of the India Board, &c. The
Malabar is coaling in Portsmouth harbour in readi-
diness for the Review, after being docked, and
havingher bottom coated with preservative and anti-
fouling compositions.
One portion of the programme
that has been decided upon for Review day is an
attack by a flotilla of gunboats upon forts Monek-
ton, Blockhouse, and Southsea, representing an at-
tempt to force the entrance of Portsmouth harbour.
Letters by the last Cape mail from H.M.S. Princess
Royal, received by our Portsmouth correspondent,
dated Simon's Bay, May 27, state that she arrived
there on the 25th, just before midnight, after hav-
ing experienced very bad weather, and springing her
main yard off the Cape. She was expected to sail
thence for Spithead on the 7th June, and can there-
fore hardly be expected to arrive borne in time to
take her part in the Review.
The Scylla, 21, screw corvette, Captain R. W.
Courtenay, who had also put in at the Cape on her
way home from China, had sailed again for England,
and, as she called in at St. Helena on the 9th June,
she may possibly arrive in time to take her assigned
place in the line of the unarmoured squadron at the
Review. The Portsmouth and Ryde Steampacket
Company have advertised one of their steamers for
the Review at one guinea per head, but the South-
ampton and Cowes Steampacket Company have ad-
vertised three of their vessels at 10s. per head. The
Alexandra saloon steamer, well known on the
Thames, has also been put on for Spithead and the
Review, and other companies are following suit with
their vessels, so that altogether an unusually large
amount of accommodation afloat will bo available
for the general public.

The Channel squadron of ironclads, under com-
mand of Sir P. Warden, sailed from Portland for
Spithead at 5 p.m, to-day,