The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-10 00:00:00

Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
Proprietor -.C. MORTON.
The üblic is most respectfully informed that the FrNE
ARTSGALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12
o'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec-
tion of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters • and is also
devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels
he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist-
ing Music Ilan, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently
added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether
as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them-
selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations
within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the
Kingdom.

The MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT COnliftenCes as usual al
Seven o'clock.

In addition to the usual entertainment, the SAUVLET
FAMILY, of Amsterdam, Eight In number, whose varied
instrumental performances have created so marked a sensa-
tion in the principal cities and towns of the Continent, will
perform every Evening at Nine and Eleven o'clock.

THE WEATHER.-Sux OFFICE, DEC. 10.

THERMOMETER, TN THB SHADE.

44—highest since noon yesterday.
40—lowest this morning and during the night.
41—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.33.
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THE SUN.

FRIDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1858.

The Fishmongers and the Farmers are severally
striving to elicit something in the way of political
revelations—whether from the side of the Govern-
ment or from that of the Opposition. Neither of
them, however, have gained much by their move—
one in the borough of Romsey, the other in the
City of London : both on Thursday, the 9th of
December. The young Earl of .CARNARVON has
spoken in the latter instance as a guest of the
Worshipful Company of Fishmongers. The veteran
Viscount PALMERSTON has presided in the former
instance as chairman of the Local Agricul-
tural Association. Lord CARNARVON, however,
as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies—with
a due regard to official reserve—utters scarcely
anything beyond an echo of what has already
appeared in the Bow Street police reports, in re-
ference to the purloined despatch of the lonian
Lord High Commissioner. His Lordship accom-
panying the repetitions of the now thrice told tale
—first in the office of the police magistrate, secondly
in the columns of the newspapers, thirdly at the din-
ner table of the Fishmongers—with an assurance
on his part that now that the public really did
know the history of the whole case he was satisfied
that it would recognise it to have been purely an
accident—" such an accident," he added naively,
" that would happen in the besteregulated esta-
blishments." In the Earl of CARNARVON'S inci-
dental allusion to his Excellency Sir JAMES
DOUGLAS, the Governor of the new colony of
British Columbia, we are at once rejoiced'
and interested to observe an official recog-
nition of those great services which we
as public journalists took occasion to specify
recently in the columns of The Sun—services
which, if we remember rightly, were promptly and
eloquently eulogised a month or two since in a
published despatch penned by the right hon.
baronet her MAJESTY'S Secretary of State for the

Colonies. Reiterating the authoritative encomiums
of his political chief, the Earl of CARNARVON said,
in words as emphatic, that the satisfactory state of
things in the recent settlement was attributable
in a great degree to the tact, judgment, and firm-

ness of Governor DOUGLAS. Adding, that " very
few men placed in his position would so soon have
appreciated the difficulties of the case, so readily
have accepted its responsibilities, or succeeded so
well in organising a new country." Here, again,
as in regard to the stolen lonian. despatch, Lord
CARNARVON spoke with admirable reserve in words
of excellent discretion—revealing nothing that was
not already known, and, by the more discerning at
least, thoroughly appreciated. Not, however, that,
even by implication, we would have it for a moment
supposed that we regard this kind of ministerial
repetition as in any way superfluous, or matter of
mere supererogation. On the contrary, it appears

to us that it is only applying a very acceptable

emphasis to what is so true, but yet not so gene-

rally known already as to be well deserving indeed

of being thus discreetly emphasised.

As to the after-dinner utterances indulged in
simultaneously at Romsey by the Noble Viscount,

the ex-Premier, and now LeadGr of Her MAJESTY'S

Opposition, they mounted to such diffuse and

couleur de rose compliments, scattered about on all

hands, that the general effect of all must have

been somewhat spoilt by the mere force of their

uniformity in over-sweetness. Never, for exapPle,.

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was the loyal toast of toasts given with more

courtierlike exquisiteness in the way of encomiastic