The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-14 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The reinforcements of cavalry and infantry
which have been selected to proceed to Kurrachee
and Bombay, will embark at Gravesend this day,
on board the Bloomer, 890 tons, Capt. C. F. Smith.
The troops for Bombay consist of 12 men of the
14th Light Dragoons, from Maidstone ; 32 men of
the Bth Hussars, and 32 men of the 17th Lancers,
from Canterbury ; 32 men of the 56th Regiment,
from Colchester; 20 men of the 71st Highlanders
(Light Infantry), from Stirling; 16 men of the 89th
Regiment, and 14 men of the 95th Regiment, from
Fermoy ; and 15 men of the 57th Regiment from
Cork. ,The following are the draughts for Kurra-
chee :-32 men of the 7th (Princess Roy-al's) Dra-
goon Guards, 1 man of the 70th Regiment, and 16
men of the 98th Regiment, from Canterbury; 18
men of the 81st Regiment and 20 men of the 94th
Regiment, from 'Chatham ; 28 men of the 27th
Enniskillens and 12 men of the 87th Royal Irish
Fusileers, from Buttevant.

Assistant-Surgeon Kirwan, 13th (Prince Albert's)
Light Infantry, sailed on Sunday last in the Mar-
seilles, for Calcutta, in medical charge of 409 men
and 13 officers, draughts for regiments in Bengal.
The following officers at Chatham garrison have
embarked for India for the purpose of joining the
service companies of their respective regiments as
instructors of musketry to the officers and men of
their corps, each of them having undergone a course
of rifle instruction at Hythe to qualify them for
their important duties, viz. :—Capt. W. J. Ander-
son, 32d Light Infantry; Lieut. T. Lloyd, 35th
Regiment ; Ensign I'. P. Butler, 24th Regiment ;
and. Ensign C. Finnerly, 75th Regiment.
The whole of the Queen's British regiments now
serving in India having been armed with the
Enfield rifle, the following officers have left Chat-
ham garrison and embarked for Calcutta and Ma-
dras, for the purpose of acting as instructors of
musketry to the officers and men of their respective
regiments, viz. :—CP.,ptain W. J. Anderson, 32nd
Light Infantry ; Lieutenant T. Lloyd, 35th Regi-
ment ; Ensign F. P. Butler, 24th egiment; and
Ensign C. Fiurerty, 75th Regiment.
Yesterday morning the examination of candidates
for admission into the Royal Military College took
place at Tjurlington House, Piccadilly, under the
direciiou of the Council of Military Education.
The examination will extend over the week.
We have to record the death of William Hay-
ward, Esq., retired deputy commissary -general of
her Majesty's forces, which occurred at Kensington
on the 7th instant, at the age of 83. This gallant
officer had received the war medal with sever
clasps, for Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle,
Nive, Orthes, and Toulouse. He was appointed
deputy commissary-general on the 20th of Jan.,
1837.

A rather interesting proceeding took place at the
Cavalry Depot at Maidstone on Friday, by the
presentation of a medal and gratuity to Michael
Doogan, a private in the 12th Royal Lancers, for
twenty-two years' good conduct as a soldier.
Doogan entered the army at a very early age, and
went to India as a private in the 15th Hussars. He
afterwards volunteered to the 12th Lancers, in
which regimont he has continued ever since. He
served a good many years in India, and was also

At the Brompton County Court, yes terday, in the
case of Boreham v. Perry, an action was brought to
recover a reward offered by a young lady for the
restoration of a valuable pet dog.
The plaintiff stated that Miss Perry's dog fol-
lowed his wife home, and he kept it three weeks
before he could find the owner. Upon the dog
being taken to 10, Victoria-grove, the young lady
said she was sure the dog had been stolen, as it had
only been used to the companionship of well-dressed
ladies and gentlemen, and she was certain it would
not have voluntarily followed such a person as the
witness's wife. If it cost her £5O she would not pay
witness the reward she had offered.
Mr. Smythe, solicitor, of Denbigh-street, said the
plaintiff had also sued Sir E. Hutchinson, Bart.,
for the same reward, and Sir Edward had felt it a
public duty to defend the action. It was a notorious
fact that a lady could not keep a dog three months
in London without its being lost or stolen, and the
more liberal ladies were in their rewards the more
often were they victimised.• If a dog were utterly
valueless the London dog stealers would send ladies
notice that unless they offered a good reward an ear
would be sent per post, and if that did not do, the
head would follow in a basket. In the present case
the young lady's dog had been frequently picked
up, and was never found without a reward being
offered, and the plaintiff kept his client's dog three
weeks in expectation of an increased reward being
offered—a common trick of the " fancy." He was
in a position to prove that the plaintiff kept the dog
back corruptly, and Miss Perry had in a spirited
manner stood up as the champion of the ladies who
like herself were continually losing their favourites,
and had allowed herself tt be sued in a county court
rather than submit to be victimised by this man.
A witness named Haslett said he met Boreham
at Sir E. Hutchinson's house, where the young
lady was on a visit, and Boreham asked him if
there were any chance of his getting anything for
the dog. Witness told the man he was employed to
find the dog, and had left a bill about it at nearly all
the police stations in London. Boreham said he
had kept the dog to get a higher reward, and if he
had been such a fool as to inform the police he had
got the dog, the bobbies would have collared it and
have got the reward for themselves. (Laughter.)
Witness asked if he had ever brought the dog out
of doors, and he replied, " Not likely." He then
told Boreham that if he had let the dog have its
liberty it would have found its way home or some
one would have told him the owner of it, as it had
been picked up so many times, and the police knew
the dog well ; that he would not stand in Bore-
ham's place for £2O. Boreham said he would send
Sir E. Hutchinson a summons, as a gentleman like
him would sooner pay anything than figure in a
county court.
The judge was of opinion that the plaintiff had
kept the dog with a corrupt motive to obtain an
increased reward. If the plaintiff had been taken
before a police magistrate be would have been
punished for his conduct, and could now be, if the
defendant chose.
Verdict for defendant.

Sir E. Hutchinson then handed the reward
offered (X 1 10s.) to the High Bailiff for the poor-
box.

THE FIRST THEATRE IN MOSCOW.

Peter the Great, when, in the midst of so many
other reforms, he undertook the re-organisation of
the Russian stage, looked naturally abroad for the
means of effecting the change. A Hungarian actor
happened to be at Moscow. Peter sent him to
Dantzic to engage a -German troop, who arrived, to
the number of nine, th©, following year. Twelve
children, the sons of priests, merchants, and citizens
(that is to say, traders not belonging to a guild)
joined them in the capacity of pupils. Kunst, the
director, also taught shipbuilding ; but whether he
was an actor who had turned shipbuilder, or a ship-
builder who had turned actor, does not appear.
Probably Peter, unwilling to spend money on the
ornamental alone, had told his Hungarian to find
him a man who understood both arts.e However
that may have been, Kunst appears to have been
thoroughly successful in each. His performances in
the Soukhareff tower were honoured by the presence
of Peter himself, and several officers and nobles
allowed their children to join his troop. A wooden
theatre was now commenced in the Kitai Gorod
(Chinese town), in the middle of the " Krasuoi

Ploschad," or fled Square, just outside the Krem-
lin. While the building was being erected the per-
formances took place in the residence of Lefort, of
Finland (all the ship-building interest appears to
have been engaged just then on behalf of the stage).
Lefort is known to have been an able man. A writer,
who was well acquainted with him, says that ho
was " of a good understanding," and adds, that he
was " very personable, engaging, and entertaining
—a true Swiss for probity and bravery, but chiefly
for drinking." The performances at the wooden
theatre must have finished early, for it is mentioned
as an extraordinary fact that, on the night of re-
presentation the gates of the city were kept open
until 9 o'clock. It used, also, to be publicly an-
nounced Ihat no money would be taken at the doors,
" so as to encourage a taste for the drama." Kunst,
when not building ships, used to construct plays.
After the battle of Pultava he had to write a pieco
on the subject, and to introduce the Swedish gem-
rals under fictitious names. Of this task he appears
to have acquitted himself very successfully. The
piece was played during Peter's triumphat entry
into Moscow, and was much applauded. At this
time the nobles formed the chief part of the audi-
ence, and had their places assigned to them accord-
ing to their rank. The entry was free The
female parts were played by men.— N a atio 1
Magazine.

The cabs from Mr. Mayhew's, of Great Ormond-
yard, provided for public use with patent caoutchoue wheels,
furnished by Mr. Davis, of Lyon's-inn, Strand, are built is
a neat and unpretending style. The emblem is a sign of
peace, a dove carrying a sprig of myrtle ; motto, " ten e-
vere." These caoutchCue wheels hive rra le Mr. Mayhew's
cabs not only the best public vehicles on the road, but su-
perior in comfort to any private carriage. We say to all
omnibus and cab proprietors, insure patronage by deserving
it; therefore "Go thou and do likewise."--Aforiting Post.
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or head disease passes away. It is prudent, in every case,
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into delusive or censurable securit3-.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mr. Charles wean.
THIS EVENING, LIVING TOO FAST.
And MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Mr. and Mrs. C.
Kean.
Followed by a new Farce, in one act, entitled
THIRTY-THREE NEXT BIRTHDAY.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING will be performed a new Comedy,
THE TIDE OF TIME. Messrs. Buckstone, Chippendale,
arc. ; Mesdames Reynolds and Poynter.
A new Spanish Ballet, THE INFLUENCE OF GRACE,
In which Perea Nena will appear.
With WHITEBAIT AT GREENWICH. John Small, by
Sir Wxn. Don, Bart.
And A DAUGHTER TO MARRY.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborongh.
THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE SAVAGE.
After which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE.
WOOING EN JEST AND LOVING IN EARNEST :
Miss Swanborough.
And THE BONNIE FISH WIFE.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.

Sole Lessee Mr. William Cooke.

THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
the successful gorgeous Spectacle of THE REVOLT IN
THE EAST; or, The Fugitives and their Faithful Steed:
concluding with a Grand National and Allegorical Tableaux.
After which SCENES IN THE ARENA, introducing Mr.
W. Cooke, and his beautiful horses, Mr. Runnels, Madam•
Blanche, Miss Emily Cooke, Madame Fleurette, and the first
male and female equestrians in the world.
Dress Circle, 3s. ; Boxes, 25.; Pit, is, ; Galleries, 6cl.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
Proprietor —C. MORTON.
The public is most respectfully informed that the FINE
ARTS GALLERY, 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- Musie Hall, 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 commences as usual at
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.-SUN OFFICE, DEC. 14.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

51—highest since noon yesterday.
42—lowest this morning and during the night.
42—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.20—a sudden rise.

WIND, Northerly; light, with dull cold weather.

THE SUN.

TUESDAY. DECEMBER 14, 1858.

We often hear of the contrast between Lord
DERBY and his justly popular son—are we to have
another contrast between the Whig Lord Chief
Justice and his son ? On Tuesday we had the
veteran judge at Fishmonger-hall warning the
Tories not to be too radical ; if they dared to be so,
the Whigs were ready enough to act the Conser-
vative, and to prevent the good old Constitution
receiving an irreparable shock. On the following
Thursday, however, we had the son of the noble
lord, at Taunton, proving to a crowded audience
there, that the Ballot was the one reform of all
reforms, which Whigs and all professsed
reformers ought to be ready to concede. We
shall, however, till we receive advice to the
contrary, prefer to understand that the noble and
Learned Judge himself is a friend to the Ballot.
It may be that, like Sir ARTHUR HALLAM ELTON,
he deems it a Conservative measure, or it may be
that he agrees with Lord MACAULAY and Mr.
GROTE, or it may be, that being an aged judge,
and presumably filled with a strong sense of jus-
tice, he approves from his best moral judgment of
rotecting the right of every elector to an un-
biassed vote.

Whatever be Lord CAMPBELL'S own opinion that
of his son is now before the world, and it is no more
than justice to the Hon. W. F. CAMPBELL to say that
on a subject so repeatedly pronounced " worn thread-
bare," he hasmade a really interesting speech. Our
readers will, we are sure, if they commence its
perusal, not turn from it till they have concluded
it; not at least if they are, as we all should be now,
interested in the Reform question. Mr. CAMPBELL
reviews the political bearings of the subject in a
very impartial manner, and recalls opinions of
great statesmen which probably have been for-
gotten by most, on both sides, and shows very
fairly their present relevance or the contrary.
After all that has been written most will find some
instruction from his remarks, and we may hope
that few will be able altogether to resist
his beautiful peroration on behalf of the
independence of the voter—" The indepen-
dence of judges had long been a com-
mon theme of pride and exultation. Since 1688
no court had dared to attempt the coercion of our
representatives in Parliament. It was, therefore,
an anomaly, as well as a misfortune, that the elector,
by whom the whole machinery of government is
called into existence, should be oppressed in his
performance of the duty the Reform Act had
assigned to him. They knew, for well-authenti-
cated figures had explained to them, that a very
large proportion of electors in the country lived in
houses between the values of £lO and £l5.
Such men, however honest in their characters,
however sound in their political opinions,
were cut off from the various excitements
of which wealth and ease were indispensable condi-
tions. It must occasionally happen that rent and
loeal rates pressed with too much severity upon
them. Unhappy speculation might embarrass
them. Debt might choose them for its victims.
And these evils undoubtedly received a cruel aggra-
vation if at the very moment the elector would
seem to be enabled to dismiss them from his
memory—when he was called upon to do his duty
to the public, to assert the tenets which he held,
and which perhaps his forfathers had left to him—
he found himself compelled, as he advanced towards
the hustings, to balance the reproach of sacrificing
his convictions, and the fear of ruining his home."
Freedom of election, as established by the Ballot,
would still leave them a national establishment as
they had at present. The voter's free use of his
own judgment would in no way affect the retention

of an hereditary chamber or an unpaid magistracy.
" It was not from the fragments of a throne or
plunder of a church that the supporteri of the
Ballot desired to raise another temple to the free-
dom which imparts a dignity and charm to every
homestead of the island we belong to."
In 1833, when Mr. GROTE first submitted his
motion for the Ballot, Sir ROBERT PEEL frankly
objected that the Ballot would emancipate the
voter from the influence of property, that it would
give perfect vigour to the principles of the then
new Reform Bill ; his argument was, indeed, that
the Ballot would do the very thing it was wished
to do. Most opponents now abandon this ground,
and plead all kinds of moral excuses for not con-
ceding it ; but the truth undoubtedly is, as Mr.
BRIGHT said at Manchester, that the real reason
for opposition to the Ballot is, that the argu-
ments in its favour are too well understood. Sir
ROBERT had the manliness not to deny that he
understood them.

To Lord MACAULAY, in 1839, it was replied that
the Reform Bill was then but a recent settlement,
and that it was not needful to try the ultimate
measure before they had tried all other means of
suppressing bribery and intimidation. In vain he
argued then that intimidation could be met by no
laws, and we all know how thoroughly his argu-
ments have been verified by the results. There is
now no pretext for relying on our not having
minor schemes—all have failed, notoriously failed,
and there is no known remedy left but that which
we have uniformly demanded. We need, not,
however, extend our remarks, but heartily com-
mend again Mr. CAMPBELL'S speech to the atten-
tion of our readers, and the Hon. W. F. CAMP-
BELL to any constituency needing a thorough Re-
former as its representative.

Ribandism, so long the curse of Ireland, is again
becoming rampant in the Sister Kingdom. Lord
EGLINTON'S proclamation proved beyond the pos-
sibility of doubt that convincing information has
been obtained to show that secret and illegal
societies were again flourishing, and that it was
essential to the peace and tranquillity of the
country to nip the incipient treason in the bud,
and thus prevent the loss of many valuable lives,
and the demoralisation of every district into which
the atrocious system obtained a footing.
The attempted assassination of the Rev.
Mr. NIXON - the cold-blooded and deliberate
murder of Mr. ELY— proved that agrarian
outrages were again becoming rife, and that the
apostles of evil were again active in their infamous
vocation.

But there was something of even a more serious
character than simple murder or arson on the tapis.
It was not merely to shoot an obnoxious agent, or
a landlord who had the audacity to expect pay-

ment of the rent to which he was entitled. It was
not to burn the stacks of a tenant who had taken
land over the head of a member of the society, or
even to administer a gentle castigation as a mild
reminiscence of subscriptions in arrear to the
society. There were even higher aspirations—
nothing less than an invasion from the United
States, and the addition of Ireland to a position
amongst the luminaries in the star-spangled
banner.

These visions, indulged in by a few grocers'
assistants and others of an inferior class, seem to
be very ridiculous, but they :are very dangerous ;
not, of course, as to the final result, but as to the
intermediate mischief—the loss of many valuable
lives and the destruction of property. When
these illegal societies were in the ascen-
dant some five-and-thirty years since, no person
could trust even those who had appa-
rently rendered faithful services for a series of
years. The gates were opened, the watch-dogs
poisoned, and the assassins guided by men who, but
for the terrible conspiracy in which they were en-
gaged, would have shed the last drop of their
blood in defence of the parties by whom they were
paid and fed. The fatal condemnation of the dread
tribunal—the Irish Vehmgericht—paralysed every
energy, and rendered even the most highly trusted
domestics participators in the intended crime.
" Prevention is better than punishment," and it
is greatly to the credit of Lord EGLINTON'S Govern-
ment that they decided on eradicating the deadly
seed before it had arrived at maturity.
The rewards offered for the apprehension and
conviction, not only of parties engaged in adminis-
tering illegal oaths, but of being members of the
unconstitutional society, will occasion a wide-
spread panic throughout their ranks. Every one
who knows that there is a price set upon his head
—that any of those present can obtain £5O or £lOO
by delivering him up to justice—must feel decidedly
uncomfortable while considering whether every
man of his numerous associates can be re-
garded as trustworthy. Had similar steps been
taken on former occasions the riband con-
federacy would never have grown to such
gigantic proportions, nor would the results have
been by any means so formidable. But former
Governments waited until the seed had taken root,
and the fruit had arrived at maturity. The gallows
and the convict hulks were readily available for
those who had graduated in crime, but there was
no obstacle or impediment placed in their way—no
warning administered to inculcate the necessity of
caution, or to convince them that the moment they
accepted the obligation they were at the
mercy of the very lowest of their compa-
nions, possibly of one who would sell his
nearest and dearest relative for less than
one-half of what has been offered; or even worse
—of a treacherous spy, bent on betraying all into
whose society he has been admitted, and seeking
only to obtain the largest amount of blood money
practicable.
We believe that in offering timely rewards Lord
EGLINTON has rendered most important service to
the nation. lie has prevented the growth of the
mischief, and saved many lives and a large amount
of property from destructiol. Perhaps the parties
who should feel most grateful are those who were
becoming entrapped in the meshes of the net. At
present they are comparatively clear, and a
few light examples may be deemed sufficient to
arrest the further spread of the mischief—to abate
the social nuisance. But when innocent blood has
been shed, when many have been implicated in the
highest crimes known to the law, justice will de-
mand a sterner retribution, and the expiation will
be much more terrible. Ireland has for some time
past been comparatively tranquil ; let its trust that
the misguided individuals who seek to disturb her
peace may be warned in time, and abandon the
evil courses on which they had so incautiously arid
recklessly entered.

DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS.—WC believe that
the following appointments in the diplomatic service will
be soon officially announced :—Lord Napier, at present
Minister at Washington, to succeed Lord Abercromby as
Minister at the Hague ; Lord Lyons, at present Minister at
Florence, to succeed Lord Napier as Minister at Washing-
ton the Hon. P. C. Sea rlett, now Minister at Rio Janeiro,
to be Minister at Florence ; the Hon. F. R. Forbes, from
Dresden, to be Minister at Rio ; Mr. L. Augustus Paget,
Secretary of Legation at Berlin, to be Minister at Dresden.
The state of the Dowager Empress of Russia is
most alarming. The members of the Imperial family have
all been summoned to St. Petersburg, according to a tae-
graphic despatch.

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