The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-07 00:00:00

THE ENGLISH AND IRISH CHURCH and
UNIVERSITY ASSURANCE SOCIETY.

The Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of this
Society, held on the sth of August, 1858, having unanimously con-
firmed the resolution of the directors for uniting with this
Society the 'Engineer, Masonic, and Universal Mutual Life Assurance
Society and-the Householders and General Lifo Assurance Company
respectively, and having also approved and adopted certain recom-
mendations of the Directors for making certain alterations, repeals,
and new provisions and regulations on the Deed of Settlement
of the Society for carrying such respective unions into effect, Notice
is hereby given, that a Second Extraordinary General Meeting
of the shareholders of this Society will be held at the Office of the
Society, No. 4, Trafalgar-square, Charing-cross, London, on Thurs-
day, the 19th day of August inst., at Two o'Clock in the afternoon
precisely, to confirm the said alterations, repeals, and new provisions
and regulations; and, if the same are confirmed, then further to
receive the resignations of three of the present Directors of the
Society, and to elect as Directors six of the present Directors of the
Engineers, Masonic, and Universal Mutual Life Assurance Society,
And the Secretary and two of the present DireCtOrfl of the House-
holders and General Life Assurance Company.
NTHONY
A PECK, Secretary.
August 7,1855.

HER. MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
The Last Night.—Beduced "Prices.
THIS EVENING (SATURDAY ), August 7, will be repeated Verdi'.
Opera, LA TRIVIATA.
Violetta,Madlle. Piccolomini ; Flora Bervoix, Madame Gramaghi ;
Alfredo, Signor Giuglini ; Dotter° Grenvil, Signor Castelll ; and
Oerment Giorgio, Signor Aldighieri.
The National Anthem will follow the Opera.
After which, a Scene from Belle's Opera, LA ZINGARA, in which
Signor Ginglini will sing the celebrated Ballad, " Tu m'aml "i" Then
you'll remember me").
And Si Divertissement, in which Madlle. Boschetti will appear.
The Opera commences at 8 o'clock.
Pit stalls, 12s. 6d.; boxes : grand tier, £3 Ss.; one pair, £2 12s. 6d.;
littler, £2 23.; two pair, 21 Is.; three pair, 155.; gallery boxes, les'
ed.; pit, Ss. 6d.; gallery stalls, Ss. W.; gallery, 28.; may be had at the
Box-office at the Theatre.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.—NEW THEATRE.
The nobility, gentry, subscribers, and the public are respectfully
informed that the season win terminate this day week. There
will be no extra nights.
Last Night of MARTHA.—Last Night but Four.
THIS EVENING (SATURDAY), August 7, will be performed (for
the last time this season), Flotow's Opera,
MARTHA.
Lady Enricbetta, Madame Bosio; Nancy, 3ladlle. Didi4e ; Plum-
kett, Signor Graziani ; Lord Tristano, Signor Tagliatico ; Sceriffo
di Richmond, If. Zelger ; and Lionello, Signor Mario.
Conductor, Mr. Costa.
The Incidental Divertissement will be supported by 3fadlle.
Madlle. Delechaux, and M. Desplaees.
The Opera commences at half-past S.
Pit tickets, 100. 6d.; amphitheatre stalls, 10s. 6d., 75., and 55.;
amphitheatre, 2s. 6d. Second tier boxes, £2 125. 6d.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspere's Play of THE
MERCHANT OF VENICE : Shylock, Mr. C. Kean ; Portia, Mrs. C.
Lean. Preceded by the Farce of DYING FOR. LOVE.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. F. Robson and W. S. Emden.
THIS EVENING, LEADING STRINGS : characters by Messrs. G.
Vining and Addison, Mesdames Stirling, Wyndham, and Herbert.
After which, BOOTS AT THE SWAN : Jacob Earwig, Mr. F. Robson.
To conclude with A DOUBTFUL VICTORY : characters by Messrs.
G. Vining and W. Gordon, Mesdames Stirling and Miss Herbert.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.

THIS EVENING, AS3IODEUS; or, The Little DeviPs Share: Misf
Marie Wilton, Mrs. Leigh Murray, &c. After which, LOVE IN ALL
CORNERS: Messrs. Belford, C. Young, Mesdames Leigh Murray
and M. Tertian. To conclude with GOOD FOR NOTHING : Nan,
Miss Marie Wilton.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.
OPEN EVERY EVENIN G.—The following company of Vo-
calists are engaged !or the performance of Seleetions from all the
popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS , CHORUSES. GLEES, DUETS, kc.,
viz.:—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Miss Brunel], Miss Ray, Madame
Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson;
ljerr F. Jonghmaos, Mr. lienshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling,
Senor Antonio, E. L. Hiroo, Mr. Badzey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens,
Mr. Bell, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. Yanin, John G.
Porde, and E. W. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmo-
nium, Mr. Courtnay ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmar s. Commence at
even o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c., unt it twelve o'clock.

THE SUN.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1858.

It is on record in our national annals that Queen
ELIZABETH was singularly sparing in her royal dis-
tribution of the honours of the peerage. The fact
of her being so, indeed, is illustrated so clearly and
strikingly in the history of her long and remark-
able reign, that the vast majority of the greatest men
of that great age—the Julian age of heroism and the
Augustan age of literature for England—survive in
the popular remembrance by titles indicating their
having risen only to the dignity of knighthood. It
was so with the great English Admiral of those days
—Sir FRANCIS DRAKE. It was so, with the accom-
plished hero and the dauntless soldier, the preux
chevalier in the Court of the Virgin Queen—Sir
PHILIP SIDNEY. It was so, in like manner, with
the all-mastering genius of the poet, historian, navi-
gator, generalissimo—Sir WALTER RALEIGH. So,
likewiEe, was it with the elegant and courtly Chan-
cellor—Sir CHRISTOPHER HATTON. So even with
the sagacious administrator—Sir ROBERT CECIL. So
for a long while before his investiture with the sym-
bols of the barony of Vermin:6 wiAtil,",oe
world's philosophers—Sir FRANCIS BACON. Knight-
hood in those days was the badge of honour awarded
to valour and genius—coronets were grudgingly
granted at rare intervals to court favourites, to
Earls of EssEx and Earls of LEICESTER.
Queen VICTORIA in no way emulates the dubi-
ously royal conduct, in this way, of her great prede-
cessor, Queen ELIZABETH. Without squandering
the pomps of the peerage by wholesale, her
MAJESTY has always shown her readiness in this dis-
tinctive manner to reward those individuals who
have at any time, in any way, to a remarkable ex-
tent distinguished themselves by doing good service
to the country. At the time of her accession she dis-
tributed, among other honours, a baronetcy to one who
had rendered himself world-famous in the fields of
science, and another baronetcy to a contemporary
who had rendered himself no less world-famous in lite-
rature. Since then the honours of the peerage and the
baronetcy have been distributed bythe SOVEREIGN with
a liberal, an unfailing, and a discriminative readiness'
Insomuch has this been apparent, consistently and
perseveringly, through all this protracted period
during which her most gracious MAJESTY has
happily been seated on the throne of her ancestors
that we confidently assert that, had Queen
VICTORIA been the reigning Sovereign in
those days, instead of acting as her Royal grand-
father did in regard to such a matchless hero of the
deep as HORATIO NELSON—allowing him to die at
last merely in the fourth order of the Peerage—she
would infallibly have exhausted in his regard all the
titles of glory within her gift, and—as ARTHUR
WELLESLEY was made a Duke before Waterloo—
have created NELSON a Duke before his final victory
off Cape Trafalgar.

It will have been remarked, in further illustration
of this munificence in regard to the peerage, that the
Gazette of last night announced the addition to the
number of the Barons of England of a brave soldier
and sagacious general—and to the number of the
Baronets of England of a brilliant diplomatist and
successful administrator. The almost simultaneous
gift of a baron's coronet to the Earl of SEAFIELD,
and of another barony a short while previously
to Sir JOHN YARD 2 BULLER, were only noticeable as
judicious and perfectly comprehensible rewards for
political services, in one instance within, and in
another without, the walls of Parliament. With the
Peerage already specified, however, and the accom-
panying baronetcy it is wholly otherwise. The inci-
dents are matters not merely of town or local interest,
but of an interest, on :the] contrary, traly imperial.
Scarcely a man in the empire but will experience a
sense of unaffected pleasure on learning-that General
Sir COLIN CAMPBELL, the heroic Highlander who,
with the aid of the famous " thin red line," saved
Balaklava from the Russians, and who has more re-
cently followed up INous's defence and HAVELOCK'S
relief of Lueknow by a series of crushing defeats ad-
ministered to the villainous rebels of Bengal—has
now been raised to the peerage of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland by letters patent under
the Great Seal, and signed by the hand of the
SOVEREIGN—by the name, style, and title of Baron
CLYDE, of Clydesdale. There is only one alloy to the
otherwise unmixed satisfaction derivable from these
announcements in the Gazelle of last evening, namely,
the very general regret now felt that a baronetcy
only has been yet vouchsafed by the Crown to the
Chief Commissioner of the Punjaub, the hero who
of all has earned for himself the reputation
of having saved India the brave, resolute,
and unflinching Sir Jonx LAWRENCE, G.C.B.
Later on let us hope this inadequate recompense for
services so brilliant and remarkable may be enhanced,
and that Sir Joni,/ LAWRENCR, Bart., will yet be a
peer of the realm, as he deserves. A speedy realisa-
tion to this earnest hope Further honour to them]
both in their country's remembrance! And cordial

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