The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-14 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—May 13.
CEIURCEI RATES ABOLITION BILL.
In Question put, " That clause one stand part
Tito Committee divided—Ayes, 227 ;
ocfomtmheitteßeill.
Noes, 153.

AYES-227.

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Adair, 11. Ewa-t, W. Ogilvy, Sir J.
Adcatil, 11. Ewart, J. Osborne, R.
Agar-Ellis, lion. L. G. Ewing, Crum Paget, C.
Agnew, Sir A. Fagan, W. Paget, Lord C.
Alcock, T. Fenw.ck, IL Paxton, Sir J
Anderson, Sir J. Finlay, A. Pease, Henry
Atherton, W. Fitzgerald, J. Pechell, Sir G.
Ayrton, A. Foley, J. 11. Perry, Sir E.
Bagshaw, Robert Forster, Charles Philipi, R.
Bailey, C. Foster, W. 0. Pigott, F.
Baines, Rt. lion. M. Fortescue, Hon. F. Pilkington, J.
Bail, E Fortescne, C. S. Power, N.
Baring, T. Fox. W. J. Price, W. •
Barnard, Thomas Freestun, Colonel Pryse, E.
Bass, M. Garnett, William Pugh, D.
Baxter, W. Gifford, Earl of Ramsalen, Sir J.
Beale, S. Glyn, 0. Rawiinson, Sir 11.
Beaumont; W. Glyn, G. Raynliam, Viscount
Berkeley, F. Goderich, Viscount Re bow, J.
Bethel], Sir R. Greene, John Ricardo, 0.
Biddulph, Col. R. M. Greer, Samuel Ridley, George
Biggs, John Grenfell, C. P. Roupoll, W.
Black, Adana Grenfell, Charles W. Russell. 11.
B ake, J. Greville, Colonel F. Russ 11, A.
Bland, L. H. Gurney, Samuel Sal sbury, Enoch
Bmnam-Carte, 3.P. Hadfield, George Schneider, Henry
Bouverie, Hon.r E. F. Hall, Sir Benjamin Scholefield, W.
Bouverie, lion. P. Hamilton, Capt. Scrope, G.
Brand, lion. H. Hanbury, Robert Sheridan, R.
Bright, John Hanmer, Sir John Sheridan, H. B.
Briscoe, John Hardcastle, Joseph Slaney, R.
Brocklehurst, J. Harris, J. D. Smith, J. A.
Bruce, ti. A. Hatchet!, Jahn Smith, J. B.
Bury, Viscount Headiam. T. Smith, Si.
Butler, C. S. Heneage, Geo. F. Smith, A.
Buxton, C. Hodgson, R. Smith, Sir V.
Byng, G. H. C. foreman, K. Somerville, Sir W.
Cain', J. Hodson, G. Stanley, Lord
Calcott, M. Hutt, W. Stanley, W.
Campbell, R. Ingham, R. Stapleton, John
Cavendish, W. Ingram, H. Stephenson, Robert
Cheetham, John Jackson, W. Stuart, Lord J.
Clay, Jame 4 Jervoise, Sir J. Stuart, Colonel
Clifford, C. C. Kershaw, J. Sullivan, Michael
Clifford, Lt.-Col. IL M. King, Locke Talbot, C.
Give, George Kinglake, A. Tancred, 11,
Codrington, Gen. Kinglake, J. Taylor, S.
Collier, it. P. Kinnaird, A. Thompson, General
ConinghaM, W. Kirk, W. Thornely, T.
Cowper, W. F. Knatchbull-linguessen Tit% W.
Cowan, C. Labouchere,Rt.tion.H Tollemacho, F.
Cox, W. Langton, 11. G. Tomline, G.
Craufurd, E. H. J. Laslett, W. Truman, C.
Crossley, F. Lindsay, W. Turner, J. A.
Cubitt, W 1 oaks, John Tynte, Col. K.
Dalglish, R. Locke, J. Villiers, C.
Dasnwood, Sir G. Dice, T. Vivian, H. 11.
Davey, it. Macarthy, Alex. Vivian, J. C.
Davie. Sir H. R. F. wean," Western, S.
Dent, John Mackinnon, W. Westhead, Joshua
De Vere, S. E. Mackinnon, W. Whatman, J.
Devereux, J. Mauves, C. Whitbread, S.
Dill wyn, L. L. Marsh, NI. White, James Divert, E. Marshall, William Williams, W.
Duke, Sir J. Martin, C. Willyams, E.
Dunbar, Sir W. Martin, P. Wilson, J.
Duncan, Viscount Martin, J. Wingfield, R.
Dundea, F.
Massey, W. Winnington, Sir T.
Dunlop, A. Mellor, John Wood, Sir C.
Dutton, Hon. R. IL Mills, T. Wood, W.
Egerton, Edw. C M offat, G. Woods, Henry
Ellice, E. Morris, D. Wyld, James
Ellice, E. Napier, Sir C. Young, A.
Elton, Sir A. li. Nicoll, D.
Ennis, John ' Norris, J. T. TELLERS.
Esmonde, J. North, F. Trelawny, Sir J.
Evans, T. W. O'Donoghoe, The Gilpin, C.

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Adams, W. H. Forester, Col. Miller, Stearns
Adderley, C. B. Forster, Sir Geo. Montgomery, Sir 0,
Akroyd, E. Gallwey, Sr W . Mowbray, J. K.
Archdaill, Capt. M. Gard, It. NS" Lord
Baring, H. Gladstone,W. Neeld, John
Bernard, T. Goddard, A. Newdegate, C.
Bernard, W. *reenwood, John N,.:wport, Viscount
Barrow, W. Gray, Captain Nisbet, R. P.
Bathurst, A. A. Grogan, Edward Neel, G.
Beach, W. Gurney, ./ • H. North, Col. J.
Bennet, Capt. P. Hamilton, Lord Claud Ossulston, Lord
Bentinck, G. Hamilton, G. A. Packs, C.
Blackburn, Peter Harcourt, G. G. Palmer, R.
Boldero, Col. H. G. Hardy, G. Peel, Gen.
Booth, Sir Bt. Gore Hayes, Sir F.. Pennant, Col. E.
Bottleld, B. Heathcoate, Sir W. Pevensey, Viscount
Bovill, W. Henley, J. Philipps, J.
a ramley.Moore, J. Herbert, S Proby, G.
Bramston, T. W Ilod,:son William Puller, Christopher
Bridges, Sirs, Horeby, 'W. Richardson, J.
Browne, Lord John Horsfali, T. Robertson, P.
Bruce, Major Hotham, Lord Rushout, Capt. G.
Bruen, H. Hume, W. Russell, Lord J.
Buller, SirJ. Hunt, G. W. Sclater, George
Buller, J. W. Inglis, John Seymer, H.
Cairns. 11. Johnstone, Sir J. Shirley, E.
Cartwright, 11. Jolliffe, Sir IV. Smallett, A.
Cavendish, G. C. Kell', Sir F. Somerset, Colonel
Cecil, Lord .It. Kendall, N. Spooner, R.
C harlesworth, J. C . D King, J. Stanhope, J.
Child, Smith Knatchbull, W. Taylor, Colonel
Cla, k, J. Knight, F. Tempest, Lord A. V.
Clive, R. " Knightley, 8. Tolleinache J.
Close, M. Langton, IV. G. Trefusio, C.
Cddrington, Sir W.C. Lefroy, Anthony Vansittart, G.
Cole, H. A. Lennox, Lord H. G. Vansittart, W.
Coliins, T. Lewis, Sir O. C. Waddington, 11.
Cross, It. A. Liddell, H. G. Walcott, Admiral.
Deedes, William Lisburne, Earl Walpole. S.
Disraeli, B. Lockhart, A. E. Warren, S.
Du Cane, C. Lopes, Sir BE: Welby, W.
Dancombe, A. Lovaine, Lord Whiteside. J.
Da Pre, C. Lowther, Col. H. C. Whitmore. 11.
Egerton, Sir Y. Lowther. Capt. Williams, Colonel
Egerton, W. 14 teirtney, George Wlitson, A.
Valley, Viscount Macaulay, Kenneth Wondd, B.
Einlyn, Viscount Mackie, J. Wyndham, General
Estcourt, T. 3tainwaring, T. Wynne, J. A.
Farquhar, Sir M. Malins, Richard Wynn?, IV.
Fellowes, E. Manners, Lord J. TELLEI9.
Ferguson, Sir Robert Miles, W. Hope, Alexander
Forde, Colonel ' =Ler, Taverner Lygon, Hon. F.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell, late of the 30:h Regi-
ment, arrived in Clonmel on Tuesday moreing, and is
new second in command of the 2d battalion, 20;b Regi-
ment, in that town. This battalion is rapiely augment-
ing its nu nt e
Yesterday the troops belonging to the R -lel En-
gineers were again engaged in some experiments for the
purpose of still further teeing the strength of the port-
cuLie chain barrier which has been recently invented by
Captain S. Westmacott, R.E. The experiments, which
were tinder the direction of Celorrel H. Sendharn, com-
manding the R sal Engineers, come off at Fort Am-
herst, near the Belvidere Battery, where one of the
portcullis barriers had been again erected. Since the
last exptriventa were undertaken some improvements
have been eff cted by Captain Westmaeott in the in
volution, with the view of giving increased strength to
the eeain barrier, as it was foued on the occasion of the
former experiments that the portculds was destroyed in
ri part where it was een,i:tered the stratn would be leaet
fel. This defect in the invention having been remedied
it wes yester lay proper ed to• try what ,ifeet a eel,
would have in deetroyieg the barrier. g'i'll tk s view
; n ordinary 8-inch she] , filled with about, 3:b. we-ie' t
of gunpowder, was suspended from one of the rings of
the portcullis let down front a groove in the briclew rk
of the archwey at Fort Amherst In order to give in-
creased explosive force to the -hell, aid also to prever t
any mischief miming from the piece's flying abeut, the
portcullis was securely covered by re double row of
03 the shell being exploded its effect on the
chain barrier was most complete, a portion of the bar-
rier, about five feeteequare, being torn away, and ihe
rupporte of the portmllie much damaged. It thus ae-
p«ers that although Captain Weetinacole's inveution is
!IMO: t valuable one, and of sufficient yielding force to
defy destruction by means of the ordin:ry charges of
gunpowder, yet when a comparatively swell quantity
is exploded in a shell the portculds may be easily de-
stroyed. The expe iments were witnessed with much
interest V Colonel F. A. Yorke, the A -skting-Adju-
tant-Geeeral of the Royal Engineers and a large
number of Engineer officers. A report of the experi-
merge, together with a drawing ; f the chain barrier alter
its deAractio", taktn by Li .ut, G Phillips, It E , will
be forwarded to the authorit es at the We •'fi 10.
H. M.S. Marlborough, 131, Capt. Lord F. H. Kerr,
flagahle for Vice-Admiral Arthur Fansha cc, C. 8.. ap-
pointed successor to Admiral Lord Lyons, G.C.B
Corrirneed-r-ie-Chief of the Mediterranean fleet, made
her first trip outside Portsmouth harbour yesterday since
being commissioned. Admiral Sir G. Seymour, K.C.8.,
the Commanderon-Colef, Flag-Captain S,yrnour, C. 8.,
Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, Capt. the lieu. G. Fowler
Hastings, C. 8., Superintendent of the steam fleet in re-
serve at Portsmouth, Commander Hone, of Ii M.S.
Dasher, Mr. Andrew Murray, Superinterriieg Eogineer
at Portsmouth Dockyard, and other officers, were on
home]. The Fire Queen steam-yacht, Mr. W. F. Paul
Master, R.N,, cm-mending, went out to attend on the
Admiral, and the Pigmy steam vessel went out to bring
in the pert aed dockyard staff and the friends of the
office-s invite] to join in the cruise. A. vast concourse
of spectators lined the piers and Walls of either shore to
see the great ship under way. Se is in admirable order,
and, indeed, was so before her crew were turned over to
her. She has been thoroughly painted inside and out.
She is the most powerful battery at present afloat. Her
formidable dimensions can only be estimated by a reca-
pitulation cf them in fizarei, as given at her launching,
when, it will be remembered, she hung on the ways some
hours :—Length between the perpendiculars, 245 ft. 6M.;
length of keel for tonnage, 206 ft, 4in. ; extreme breadth,
6111. 2/ n. ; breadth for tounage, 601 t. 43 n. ; breadth
moulded, 59fc. ; depth in hold, 251 e. 10in. ; bor-
der, 400 tons ; bore-power (by Maudelay). 800 tons.
Thos the Marlborough three-decksr ot 1855 if d ruble
(whin 180) the tonnage of the Victory sailing three•
dtieke- of 1765, which ship is now doing duty as
flagship in the harbour the Marlborough has jaet left.
01 getting well out of the harbour chaneel the
Marlborough saluted the Port Admiral as customary,
aid after making Spithead stood out to the east,
all round by the Isle of Wight, to test her speed cud
try a new kind of screw, the invention of the Me.sers.
Aauthley. Tnis is so constructed, we are informed,
test in ewe of accident, one Of either of the blades can
to detached from the b and the blades C:111 be ad-
justed to a fine or coarse pitch at option. On leaving
4pitheao the ship proceeded to the Nab Light, and
hence steamed away to abrease of Ventnor, recut ned to
he Nab, and then made a second course over the same

groun,l, returning to Spithead and tnoormg between 5
in (I 6 o'clock. The engines worked wt.ll an i satisfac-
torily. She did not try her speed at the measured mile,
he testing of her machinery being the chief object of
yesterday's cruise.
The Aifred, 50-gun sailing-frigate, was !alien down
Portsmouth harbour yesterday morning and put into
the bum to have iron plates fixed on her sides (after
the idea of Sir Charles Napier) preparatory to being
m ,ored cif the Excel,ent to test the Napierian theory.
To effect this the GLttoll Ate= 14 guia battery (pine of

This truly magnificent theatre is announced to open,
completed, te-morrow evening, and artists, architects,
builders, and performers unite in repeating the wondrous
tale, and showing bow it can be done, how it is intended
to be done, and how it certainly will be done. It is in
vain that the uninitiated spectator appeals to the evi-
dence of his senses or talks of moral impossibilities. In
vain he points to armies of workmen and forests of
ac tffold-poles, to colour untouched, to thie part unpapered
and that part unpainted, to raw walls here and wood-
work wanting there, and symptoms ef opening on Satur-
day wanting everywhere. He is quietly told to judge
of the future by the past, to look on the time in whieb
all the real work has been done, and compare it with the
ample space allowed for what yet remains to be done.
When we last noticed this fine bnilding it was a mere
shell of Brickwork, and we could only judge of its pro-
portions and magnificence by the pines which were in-
tended to be carried out. New, in spite of the thousand
apparent evidences to the contrary, it is finished ; for,
though beyond a doubt scene of the workmen will be
actively engaged preparing the stage properties up to
within halt an hour of the time of opening to the public,
the theatre in all its important parts is nevertheless c im-
plete, and as far as regards the audience portion of the
building it could, if necessary, have been opened even
yesterday evening. Our readers will be able to judge
how nearly it is completed when we inform them that
very little can be said about the interior, for the exqui-
site decorations in white and gold are quite fiiiiebsd,
and the boxes are enveloped in a penitential sh et of
brown holland from fluor to ceiling. Any of our readers
who have lately passed outside the building will be sui-
prieed at our assertion that it is nearly finished. We
• assure them, however, that the evidences of incom-
pleteness outside are nothing when compared with the
interior, for if we rare to judge by the laws which ordi-
narily govern things, and which assert that a certain
amount of work requires a certain amount of time, we
should undoubtedly arrive at the convic'ion that it
woald require a week at least to get the chips and
shavings out of the building, to say nothing of any other
labour.
It has often been said that behind" the scenes cf a
theatre is a little world in itself. At Covent-garden,
however, it is rather a large world, and, what is worse,
a world turned upside down—a chaotic and unfinished
world, in which nothing but confusion is at first appa-
rent. Entering from Hart-street, the visitor passes
through a short, dimly-lighted pas-age, and up a few
stone stairs, and emerges at once upon a sloping floor,
which at a glance at the lights, ropes, pulleys, sky
pieces, and huge gas-fittings, and ponderous machinery
above and around him tells him at once is the stage.
Titan the aspect which this and the whole house seen
from it present, it would be difficult to imaeine
a, ytbing more strange, rich, and confused. The
scene docks are crammed with ties, drone, and flats,
seine turned outward, showing the gaudy colours
and heavy streaks of paint which at night will
light up into a solemn cathedral scene, while others,
leaning neglected with their faces to the wall,
dimly shadow forth their purpose, and only show by
their wood•work where turrets and pinnacles arise, or
where a practicable door opens to give narrow escapes
to oppres,3ed cantatrices and desperate litroines. In one
corner the men are building up, with all its intricacies
of diapasons and fugues, a large organ, big enough f a
church, and much bigger than very many have got ;
while nearer to the footlights a group of skilful carpen-
ters are busy cutting cut in thin wood the "massive"
Gothic railings a hich divide the orthodi x and heterodox
chorus in the last scene of the " In the
centre of the stage is a huge eight of moveable stairs
leading down nowhere, and giving access to nothing,
and which the visitor is puzzled to account for till he
sees stone balustrades, apparently as solid as those of
Waterloo•bridge, being painted for it, when, lo I a light
breaks in upon him, and he recollects the " practicable
steps 0.P.," which also figure in Meyerbeer's great
lyric crams. In the background is a raw brick all,
over which, amid mysterious showing, a drop-scene is
lowered half-way, leaving, as Mr. R ,bias would say,
"a princely domain, with ancient feudal castle and ex-
tensive lake," suspended in mid air. Men rush out of
unseen places, dragging colossal scenes of towns and
minsters after them, and which they prsceed to join and
fit together; while others nail up bright skies at d steady
buttresses of towers, or modulate the glare and flare of
gas to suit the tone required for a setting eura
Serne are employed in setting chambers up, while
others haul in great scenes from liar-street or long
rollers swathed with countiesi yards of rough canvass,
which when the prop-;r moment arrives will unfurl before
a delighted audience rich with the. blaz i of bowers and
feuciel hel's Many are bury above wandering aroued
a labyrinth uf ropes and pulleys, while from the traps
and slips which scan' the stage in a!1 direction', and
from which the etrang •st of r oise,i are coestao ily aecenea
tug, the visitor knows that even a busier scene is going
on beneath him, and that the very planks on which 1.
walks are, so to speak, mine-i nod sapped, arid that et
any moo eat a reckless etrpenter below may make hi-n
principal in such a scone of mysterious di,appearance as
an Adel
phi WifilenCe never thrilled to. The thoughts ef
an involuntary coup de theatre of Oil kind mak,,, tLc
careful seek another and a safer spot, where no growing
c :oversatien, carried on apparently with his heels, warns
him that he is in a dangerous neghbouthool, and fr •ne
which Ike sudden upheaving of a " valley by moonlight"
might at any moment transport him to the flies above.
At the footlights he runs neither of the dangers we hate
hinted at, an from here, of course, the best view of the
house" is to be gained, it is a point of view much
affected by visitors. Even here, however, the scene is
almost one of equal confusion and variety, and painting,
pap. ring, and gilding are going on ate-onc:, while ee
t! e e parts which are finished it is difficult to judge, fur
their delicate enrichments are covered with drapery,
and the visitor can only see them by glimpses and small
pieces here and there. He wever, even forming an
opinion from what is dime and thee shown, it is easy to
see that, as in solidity and architectural prop etiene, so
in design and internal embellishments, Lae new Covent•
garden Opera-house will have no theatre in the world tl
equal
Seen only by daylight, and portrayed merely in words,
it is difficult to realise the simple magnificence of the
proscenium. Its proportions are so lofty and striking
that an amount of massive gilding and ornament which
would overload an ordinary theatre is borne upon its
crown and side columns with a lightness that becomes it
well. This portion of the work by sup rintended by
Monti. The sides are for-med of richly carved and
twisted columns of gilt scrollwork. Over the centre is a
raised medallion portrait of her Majesty, with allegori•
cal figures of the Arts and Music, supporting a crown
above all. On either side, extending the whole length
of the proscenium, are two fine bas reliefs—one a Orpheus and the Greeks representing the Triumph of
Music, and the other elevating Oesian into a living per-
sonage, and depicting his poetic sway among the ancient
Britons. The ceiling is quite finished. It is circular,
and slightly dome-shaped cencave ; the whole has a
diameter of 65 feet at its springing, and ie &carat( d
after a design by Messrs. Jacksan and Son. The ground
is of a pale azure. It is formed into 12 compartments
by broad ornamental bands of sold, which radiate from
a centre 12 feet in diameter, forming the circular venti-
lator. These radiating bands pass to a broad circular
belt of trellised work in gold. Beyond this belt or
"cove" there is a cornice of 'enrich° I gold mould•
ing, and in the space between it and the cove en-
riched hoses are placed at equal dietaeces. The
compartmen's of the ceiling are divided by moulding,
having the appearance of golden cords, which are looped
up from the trellised belts. Golden bosses mark the
point at which the cords are loopeo, and from each of
them will be seventh:el by golden cords smaller chande-
liers, which will hang around the large central 900.
There is no attempt et allegorical composltions in paint-
ing on the ceiling, the whole effect b-inn; sought to be
produced by a simple and almo-ii geometric arrangerr e t
of gold upon en azure surface. The quiet simplicity and
pleasant effect of this ceiling will contrast most favour-
ably with the daubing ef colour or rococo ornament
which in too many cases disfigures the ceiling of our
English theatres. It is just what a ceiling should be,.
light, simple, and elegant, and not crushing and over
loaded with blight-coloured and glowing decorations.
The dome part is supported by four elliptical arches,
which are ornamented with deep guilloche bands en-
twined with wreaths of ivy. In the centre of this ceil—
ing will hang the great chandelier, in itself a structure
of lushes and cut-glass quite in keeping with the de-
sign and lac:imam of Uteliouse it adorns. It is pintas

OCTOBER.
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Worcester Autumn
Liverpool Autumn

Triad Racing Fixtura for 1858.
JUNZ
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