The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-17 00:00:00

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING will be presented Skakepere's Play of TET
MERCHANT OF VENICE. Preoeiled by the Farce of DYING FOE
LOVE.

ROYAL STRA_ND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress Miss Switnborongb.
TIIIB EVENING, the Comedy of 'COURT FAVOUR : supported
Messrs. Em,ry, Belfard, Poynter, Turner, 3a-ses 31. Wilton, Hughes
and Mrs. C. Melville. After which, lIUNTLNG A TURTLE:
Messrs. Belford, Burt, Turner, J. Clarke, and 3lisi; 31. Wilton. Tc
conclude with RAISING THE WIND: by Mcissrs. Belford, Turner,
J. Clarke, 31rs. C. Melville, and Miss E. Wilton.

CANTERBURY HALL, Wcstminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The following company of Vo
calists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the
popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, &v..
viz.:—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey, Miss Brune Miss DUETS,
v.
Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson
Herr P. Jonghrnans, Mr. Henahaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling
Senor Antonio, E. L. Mime, Mr. Badzer, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens
Mr. Fell, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. Juhn G. Forde
and E. W. Mack:ley. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium,
Mr. Courtuay ; Director, Herr F. Jonghtnans. Commence at sever
o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock.

Til E BATH ER—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 17.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
75—highest since noon yesterday.
o—lowest thiQ morning and during the night.
74—this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 29.80.
WIND, S•utherly ; light and fine.

THE SUN.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1858.

Complete messages have at length been trans-
mitted from Europe to America, and repeated back
with perfect accuracy. The first was from the
Directors on this side to their transatlantic coad-
jutors, which properly gave praise to the ALMIGHTY
for the great work which He has permitted to bf
accomplished. The second was from her MAJESTY
to the PRESIDENT of the United States. Another
has since been received from Mr. C. W. FIBLD, a'
Newfoundland, which was also clearly intelligible.
and easily read without delay or difficulty.
The Old and the New 'Worlds are thus at lengtl
limited. There nced no longer be untoward delays
in arranging differences between the Governments.
and the state of the crops, price of produce, rate of
interest, and amount of specie in the different Banks.
can be flashed from shore to shore across the broad
Atlantic without delay or difficulty.
The great problem has been satisfactorily solved.
and the extension of electric communication through-
out the entire civilised world will henceforth bf
merely a question of time. Sooner or later it must
be accomplished, and, looking to the extraordinary
stimulus that will thereby be given to commercial
affairs, we believe that it will he at an earlier period
than even the most sanguine has hitherto ventured
to predict.

Last week we pointed out the Effect which the
completion of these magnificent undertakings must
exercise on absconding criminals. Henceforward
there will be no rest for the wicked—no hope of
safety or shelter, or of enjoying the large booty
which may be successfully carried off, but which
must be disgorged at the arrival of the vessel bearing
the fugitive at its destination. It will be a heavy
blow and great discouragement to the incipient ROB-
SONS and REDYATHS, and all anxious of getting
money, while heedless of the means by which it may
be attained. It will do more to promote morality
than the most stringent code that ever was devised,
inasmuch as it is notorious that the certainty of
even light punishment is far more efficacious than
the chance of one far heavier. The submarine telegraph
will be a terrible monitor, more effectually cautioning
parties from departing from the paths of rectitude
than all the sermons of priests or sentences of judges.
It will also prevent gambling in produce. No man
will henceforward be able to unduly enhance the
price of any article of everyday consumption by
buying up the stock on hand. Orders can be trans-
mitted at a moment's notice. The unfair conspiracy
will be defeated, and the consequences fall on the
heads of the plotters, and not on the innocent con-
signers.

It would require much time and space to indicate

even a small portion of the advantages to be derived
from this almost miraculous mode of communication.
The science is as yet but in its infancy, but a few
years will develop it in all its magnitude, and bestow
benefits which men still living may witness, that
never entered into the wildest conception of their
ancestors.

The discredit accruing to the East India Company
from their recent selection of Mr. CHARLES MILLS is
in striking contrast with the offer of a seat at the
new Board recently made to Mr. JOHN MILL, by the
Noble Lord her MAJESTY'S Chief Commissioner for
the Affairs of Hindostan. Mr. CHARLES MILLS is a
member of the India Board as one of the Company's
representatives. Mr. JOHN MILL is not a member of
the India Board as a representative of the QUEEN'S
Government. The former has unfortunately just
barely enough leisure. The latter has still more un-
fortunately not quite enough health. And so the
millionaire takes his seat among his coadjutors or
collaborateurs, and the philosopher remains r 3
in his home retreat as a valetudi-
narian.. Bath incidetonts, we cannot
We but thicouldnk,
are very sincerely be regretted.
have better spared—not a better man, because we
don't think there is t better man amongst them for
the work now to be taken instantly in hand—but we
uld have decidedly better spared almost any other
man at the India Board (saving the President) than
Mr. JOHN Srumer:MlLL. His profound and logical in-
tellect, his comprehensive and eminently philosophic
views, his years of patient research, his perfect
familiarity with everything relating directly or indi-
rectly to the Anglo-India Government—could not
possibly have failed to throw upon the various
problems coming before the new Board for
solution the light of a vast and timely experience.
Such, however, is not to be—the failing health of
the distinguished historian, logician, and thinker
says otherwise. Lord STANLEY, at any rate, has
the credit of spontaneously proffering to Mr. Joux
MILL the acceptance of a post he could not have
filled otherwise than with remarkable credit to him-
self and extraordinary advantage to the interests of
the empire. The fact of the noble lord having so
proffered one of the coveted, though painfully respon-
sible seats at his disposal, redounds to his honour as an
administrator whose first regard is to merit apart from
interest, to pure intellect before pounds sterling.
And again, we repeat, the contrast presented by this
mere offer to the actual nomination, on the other
band, of the wealthy Mr. CHARLES MILLS to a simi-
lar position as one among the choice of the Company,
reflects the most signal discredit upon the latter,
while it is in the highest degree honourable to the
sagacity and magnanimity of the youngest, but not
by any means the least gifted or the least judicious
among the Ministerial advisers of the SOVEREIGN.

In a case at Liverpool, yesterday, the Lord Chief
Baron administered a very proper rebuke to certain
magistrates, for committing parties for felonies, when
there was no possibility of a conviction for any offence
higher than a misdemeanour. Such a course is alike
prejudicial to the community and to the prisoner. It
affixes a character of crime on the district, and mate-
rially increases the expenses of the prosecutions,
which must be liquidated by the rate-payers. If the
ebarge were preferred for the minor offence the case
would be sent to the sessions, where it would be more
speedily and cheaply disposed of. But partly to mag-
nify their own importance, and bring their names
into notoriety, " the great unpaid" are fund of " cEm-
anitting" for offences,which cannot, by any possibility,
live established. This, as we have stated, affixes a stigma
u the locality, and renders indispensable the trial of
t place atccused at the Assizes, in of at the Quarter
segstous, where it would otherwise take place.
But the hardship to the prisoner is far greater
titsan any pecuniary damages could repay. He is
1114 iitonly and unnecessarily sent for trial, possibly

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