The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-15 00:00:00

THE LATE MR. SHERIDAN KNOWLES.

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The late Mr. James Sheridan Knowles, whose death,
on a voyage from Hull to Cronstadt, as above narrated,
we regret to record, wag born at Cork, in 1784. His
father, a lecturer and teacher of elocution, when his son
James was about eight years old, removed to London, whero
the latter soon began to manifest both dramatic inclination
and dramatic ability. At the age of twelve ho wrote a
drama for a company of juvenile performers, and soon after-
wards an opera. While still a boy ho was introduced.to_
the late William Hazlitt, of whose criticism and acivil'
frequently availed himself in the composition of his ear
he ;te3r-
plays. After residing about 14 years in London
app
but
to Dublin, and in that city he made hislirta
this but
ante as an actor. In this character he as
vr
foran Ysome time
successful, and, after one or two failures,
relinquished all ambition in this direction'
w to reside at
lication of a small volume of p
- "n" iboceution and grammar.
:After the pub-
Belfast, where he gave lessons late
cea about this time, was
He still continued, however, tor
play, " Caius Gracchus," for the stage, and a
ready performed the principal
Mr. Macrea
don in 1823, where
played with great success ;Pular° dilbeing reproduced in Lon-
kis life Mr. Knowles wrote a long
the next twenty years o‘fvhich_
such as " The Hunchback"
character, brought the author into general notice. During
series of plays, some °i.e.._
are still deservedly popular. In
and " The Love kis
of
visit
atoppAearmeerdicaag.ainlnonltBh4e, baoparednanionanol
a paidso
short
s him by
£2OO per annum
i1n833 1836 h 0 forho
conferred upon
, i Subsequently he was appointed Curator
the late Sir
Robert 1 ee .
tare's House at Stratford-on-Avon. During
Shakespe the
f his life he entirely have •
latter years °
his
stage, and turned . attention to theology, occasionally,
behove, officiating as a Baptist minister. Mr.-
we Knowles
published one or two stories, by which he did not achiovo
much reputation, while, as a dram t* t a 1 8 , he was perhaps the
most popular writer of his time,

OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
". ti GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA
FYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees.—THIS
EVENING and TO-MORROW, LITRLINE , Messrs. II
Wharton, H. CorrL G. Kelley, and Mr. W. garrison ; Miss.
Leffler, Miss Albertazzi, and Miss Louisa Pyne.—Conductor,
Mr. Alfred Mellon. OVERTURE to ZAMPA after the
Opera. DIVERTISSEMENT. Doors Open at SeTerl. Com-
mence at Half-past.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
the new comedy, DOES HE LOVE ME ? Messrs. Howe,
Chippendale. E. Villiers, and Buckstone ; Miss Amy Sedg-
wiok. Mao Florence Hayden, and Mrs. Wilkins.
Followed by a new comedy, entitled ROMANCE AND
REALITY. Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, Rogers, W. Farren,
end John Brougham; Maas Florence Hayden; Mrs. Wilkins,
and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam.
And THE SUN AND THE WIND.
Commence at 7.

By the Leclenge,

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
Brilliant and decided success of the celebrated Comedienne,
Miss Gougenheim, from the principal Theatres of America.
THIS EVENING, and during the Week, the performances
will commence with THE MIDDY ASHORE Harry
Halcyon, Miss Lydia Thompson.
After which, a comedy_, written by Dion Boueicault, Esq.,
entitled THE IRISH HEIRESS. The new Scenery painted
y Mr. William Callcott. Principal characters by Mr. George
Vining,
Mr. Henry Neville (his 7th appearance in London),
Mr. John Rouse, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Lyon, Mr. EL Butler, Miss
Kate Saville, Miss Hatton, and Miss Gougenheim (her 7th
appearance in England).
To conclude with the romantic drama of THE ABBE
VA IIDREITIL, in which the celebrated Dancers, the Misses
Marie and Annie Collinson, will make their 7th appearance
in London. The Abbe Vaudreuil, Madame Celeste.

A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL,
rm. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
Great Suoeess of the new Drama, by Dion Bonredeault, Esq.,
• The Colleen Bawn."—Miss Agnes Robertson every even-
ing.

THIS EVENING, THE RIFLE CORPS. Messrs. W.
Smith, D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss Woolgar, Miss Kate Kelly,
and Mrs. Billing,ton.

After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Bourcicanit, D.
Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Wbolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with MUSIC MATH CHARMS. Mr. David
Fisher.

Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 20. ; Family Boxes, £l.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, is •
Pit Stalls, 28.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6.d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

AsThEy'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY.
Immense success of Pitzball's new Spectacle of ROBIN
noon, pronounced by the Press and the Public the most
beautiful and interesting Hippo-Drama ever produced at this
Theatre.
This Evening, the entertainments will commence with the
new Spectacle, in Three Acts, entitled ROBIN HOOD ; or,
the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; Allan-a-Dale, Miss Rebecca
Isaacs ; Robin Hood, Mr. John Pritchard.
To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders
of the day, including Mdlle. de Berg and Mr. James Cooke.
Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.
Bost-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.

CANTERBURY" HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING,
A Grand Selection from the opera of
NO RMA.

Norma ...................... Miss RUSSELL.
Adalgisa .................... Madame MARIA,
(Her first appearance in this country.)
After which the ETHIOPIANS, consisting of Seventeen Per-
formers, organised expressly for this establishment, for the
Performance o' Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and
Sentimental, with Negro Delineations, Anecdotes, &e. Prin-
cipal Negro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. IV. Pell, H.
Drummond, and Charley Fox.
Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGHMANS.
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Balcony, 18, —Hall. dd.

i'JHB WEATHER,---SUN OFFIC-E, OCT. 14, MO,

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAM

53--this day at noon.
43—lowest this morning and during the night.
51--hizhest since noon yesterday.
BAROMETER—DOwn to 29.57 ; now 29.66.
WlND—North .Westerly, but variable and light; some
slight rain.

OCT. 15.
THERMOMETER, IN THE MIAMI.
53—this day at noon.
40—lowest this morning and during the night.
53—highest since noon yesterday.
BARomETER.-29.75 ; still rising in the midst of rain.
WIND--South-,Westerly; fresh and squally with con•
tinuous rain.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, lh. 42m.—Afternoon, 2h. 4m.
To-moßaow.-Morning, 2h. 25m.—Afternoon, 2h. 47m.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 15, 1860.

His Majesty NAPOLEON HI. must feel his conse-
quence a little hurt. He does not like meetings of
Sovereigns at which he is not to be present. He
even stretched etiquette to force himself on the
King of PRUSSIA and the German Sovereigns when
the former came rather near his borders. This time
they have taken care to keep far enough off, and he
must post through some score of petty German
Kingdoms, if he would get to the meeting at War-
saw. He did, indeed, make a kind of bid for an
invitation, but he has got none ; and he has simply
to stair at home; though, that he will mind only
his own business, is what no one can expect.
He has ;to put up with the rulers of three great
Powers meeting formally, and with one of them
carrying, too, in his pocket the proxy
of England's Government, but he has no one to
take his. In fact, he well knows that they all meet,
not to plot against France, but to put an end to
Franco plotting everlastingly against Europe. He
bad undoubtedly prepared some nice little schemes
in his mind in regard to creating " influence" in
Germany; and, in all probability, a little " rectifica-
tion
of boundary" business was to be done at the
same time ; but the game has taken the alarm too
soon. Y'ruasia amil the German petty states prefer
anything .to his playing among them the part
which he in playing
in Italy. Austria, with too
good reason, is afraid of his schemes and his plot-
ting among her nationalities. All, therefore, con-
spire to tell him
that he must be quiet.
Is it because he
138-filed in Germany that he
now takes a, stronger position in Italy ? He is
doubling and trebling his frees e there; anticipating
by occupations of the towns in the northern part of
the PO.PE'S patrimony the approach of the Sardi-
nians to the south, and actually
asking the Sardi-
nians to withdraw from Viterbo an,
u• the other
places which they had occupied in the nott,a
altogether taking full military possession and
:)f the
whole of what is called, so absurdly, S.
PETER':;
patrimony. Of course What he
aims at no one can certainly tell, but it can

while they ;are also bounded landward by heights,

which give great advantage in firing at ships. Our
business is, therefore, to be able to bring a suitable
and adequate force to resist a landing wherever it

might occur.

Sir HOWARD dwells a little on the training of
volunteers to work artillery at our principal sea-

ports. He had himself, in 1795, arranged for the

manning of sixty guns in battery at Tynemouth by

500 volunteer youths, who soon became expert in

hardly be doubted that Sardinia is his real
object. The more able he is to give trouble in
Italy and to mar its unity, by showing himself
powerful on a coast whence no one could well under-
take to d.rive him, the more he will be in a position
to make bis own terms for surrendering to Italy

the working of guns which would otherwise have
been useless for the want of artillerymen. For
meeting a descent on our coasts he would rely on
Our army of all kinds, and on railroads. In this
respect he would set steam against steam. If steam
has bridged
the Channel in any important sense, it
has also enabled us to concentrate our troops
at any Point, at a short warning, in a man-
ner unknown before. With good arrangements
steam on land may
y
neutralise almost all the
advantages to an eaem
of steam at sea. Nor
must we foiget that it will enable our fleet to
an enemy to go anywhere,
wfbilnlodwa,nads well as
tide notwithstanding. The steam-bridge
he observes, terminate where large
find the water too
smhuipsst, holf)lAyeavrer'alid trathiports
A RAJ:STRONG gun and other rifled
shallow, and the
cannon of long range will do much in compelling
the protecting ships to keep a respectful distance
from the shore.

her own capital, and allowing the King of Italy to

become really so, leaving Sardinia to become a

French island. All that he could easily manage
if the rest of Europe assists. Another cession, and
another assent by universal suffrage to the supe-
riority lof political slavery over political liberty,
could bt as easily obtained. in Sardinia as in Savoy,
perhaps snore so. It is, how ever, time that some one

put ri vvto' on. these fraudulent aggrandisementg,

and it is to be hoped he will find it so if he makes
another step to wards making " the Mediterranean

Sea a Fleich lake."

We suppose France is among the great Powers
Which refuse to aekuowledge a blockade of Gaeta—

a ste p which CerMAY VICTOR EMMANUEL could

The remarks on the details of handling the
triops brought down to oppose a landing will be

ECIFE AND SAN FRANCISCO,
PERNAMBUCO, RAILWAYR COMPANY (Limited). Lum. hardly have contemplated any more than WIL-
III. wished to blockade the port of Lon-
Notice is hereby given, that an EXTRAORDINARY GE-
NERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of this don when he wanted lA.MES 11. to quit
COMPANY will be held at the London Tavern, Bishops,gate-
street, on Monday the 22d day of October next, at Two this country. We are told by the Patrie
o'clock p.m. (to which day and place it is intended that the
Ordinary Half-yearly General Meeting stands adjourned), for that the King of SARDINIA is to enter
the purpose of considering and assenting to, or dissenting
from, the provisions of a Bill for which it is intended to Naples on the 17th. We hope the statement may
apply to Parliament in tae ensuing session, for power to re-
gulate and increase the Capital of the Company, and also to prove true, since it will settle the chief point beyond
alter and modify the Articles of Association of the Company.
Dated this Bth day of October, 1860.
KING
epossibility of French intervention, and the
WH . . BELLAMY, Secretary.
will very willingly take on himself, when in
possession by universal suffrage, the responsibility
which the BONIFACE of the jonstitutionnel throws
upon him. It is also but too plain that GARIBALDI
and his republican friends will never agree to
an administration among themselves which can hold
office for a week. The King is much wanted,
and we hope, therefore, that he will not delay to
act. He has already overstepped diplomatic rules,
and acted on realities instead of troubling himself
with technicalities. He must complete what he
has done by giving FRANCIS 11. the last kick out
of Gaeta, and all will then be so far right. French
and Austrians must afterwards either be bought or
fought out of Italy at the proper time.

hi our last notice of Sir HOWARD DOU‘LAWS
pamphlet on the " Defence of England," we merely
adverted to his views of the urgency of the subject
from the immense naval and military preparations
of France, and the avowed regard of their naval
augmentations to the possibility of a war with Eng-
lanel. Our author, in connection with the necessity
of xnaintaining our preponderance at sea, points
out the disadvantages under which we now lie, in
all respects, in regard to manning our navy. We
hav e abandoned, not only impressment, but also the
great pecuniary inducement of prize-money for the
capt are of enemy's goods in neutral ships ; and we
have retained the justly unpopular practice of cor-
pora l punishment, the abolition of which, except as
the r exult of solemn procedure by court martial,
Sir HOWARD deems essential. Our pay is also low
compared with that of the United States—£3l2x.
and 9s. are the pay in the respective countries
of at Ile seamen unskilled in gunnery ; and £4 and
£2 1 4s. 3d. per month, of well trained gunners. We
have , of course, no, alternative now, but to make the
servi .ce, both by its conditions and its pay, attractive
to good sailors. Englishmen will not tolerate the
slavery of conscription, which Frenchmen and con-
tinei itals submit to, and we must pay the price of
Tiber ty.

One remark of our author we quote for the
enca uragement of all whom it may concern both
on ti us and the other side of the Channel ; for we
are c onfident it would ever be so again, and not on
boar( 1 ship only, but throughout the whole country.
Sir I IOWARD, now in his 84th year, thus writes of
the 1 ..ligland of the last wars :
" Nlo one who has not lived, as the author has, through
the st ormy times of the great war, from 1792 to 1815, will
be abl e to conceive how noble was the patriotism, and how
indors citable the spirit, of the British people throughout
that g reat struggle. There was then, as there will ever be,
party spirit and some internal discontent ; but, in the main,
no we vering or despondency appeared throughout all the
vicissitudes of the war. The rebellion in Ireland, the failure
of sox cm of our foreign expeditions, the rupture of many
coaliti ons which we formed with continental powers, the
military dominion of NAPOLEON over the greater part of
Enrol m, which left us to fight him single-handed through
Spain., did not make England quail. Even in the mutiny
of the navy, in 1797, the seamen were not traitors to their
country; and Admiral DUNCAN fought the battle of Cam-
perda. wn with ships' crews deeply tainted with the mutinous
spirit which discontent had produced. Ships provided by
the U-overnment, including some of the larger vessels of
the Roast India Company, were actually fitted out and
manned by volunteer seamen, in order to reduce by force
those ships from which the mutineers had expelled their
officers. Even the crews of the fleet at Spithead, when the
mutiny was at its height, declared that if the French fleet
should put to sea they would fight it as loyal subjects of
their king and country."

However, foreigners know now, somewhat better
than they did only a year ago, what would be
the spirit of the whole English people, landsmen or
seamen, were any one to attempt an invasion of our
island home.

That spirit, however, must not be relaxed. We
follow our author, therefore, to his remarks on what
should be done in case of an attempt at a landing ;
not forgetting, as he does not, that a landing of
even the Roman Legions, under CASAR himself,
was not effected without much difficulty and
dangler, though resisted only by naked Britons ;
and remembering, too, what he states as a maxim
among military men, that when once a body of
troops have made a lodgment on the shore it is not
easy to dislodge them. We must suppose then,
from some cause, our Channel Fleet unable to inter-
fere with the disembarkation ; what can then be
done to prevent an enemy's landing The iron
steam Ram of Admiral SARTORIUS, he thinks,
might safely run at and run down the large trans-
ports at pleasure, sinking 1,500 or 2,000 troops at
a blow—and, we presume, the enemy could not
even fire at the Ram, while engaged in this opera-
tion, without endangering his own transports.
However, we must come to the shore. Near forts,
of course, the enemy would not attempt to land, and
it would be a useless expense to •do more than
fortify our arsenals ; the landing must be on some
open beach. Each kind of beach has its disadvan-
tages for him, and its corresponding advantages for
the defenders. If the slope of the beach be gentle,
it would be free from currents ; but the boats would
lave a very long way to row under our
fire, and the ships, whose fire should
cover the landing, must lie at a great
distance. This would of course enable the de-
fenders to place their guns near the beach on a
level nearly with the sea, and the assailants would
approach under a horizontal fire, and have to land
amidst showers of grape. If the beach were steep,
and the covering ships could approach nearer, yet
on such beaches the currents are al ways strong and
tend much to disarrange the order of the landing