The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1867.

AFTER Covent-garden Theatre—EVANS' to
SUP.
After Drury-lane Theatre FVANS' to SUP.
After Lyceum Theatre EVANS' to SUP,
After Adelphi Theatre EVANS' to SUP.
After Olympic theatre . EVANS' to SUP.
After Strand Theatre leVANm' to SUP.
After New ttoyalty Theatre --EVANS' to SUI'.
After St. James's Theatr- IeVANS' to SUP. "
After Prince of Wales' Theitre....EVANS' to SUP.
London Singing anal Supper Club, E VANS', Covent-garden,
Vocal Entertainment at Eight.

T H E 0 X F 0 it. D
6, OXFORD-STREET, W.,
THE MUSICAL ESTABLISHMENT OF LONDON.

LES DRAGONS DE VILLA.RS (Opera Comique), Music
by A. MaDlArt. in which Miss RUSSELL sill appear, as-
siited by Mis.,es Barrie and Fitz Henry ; Me,srs. A. St. Albyn,
Pox, Husk, Evans, and Bury, with tCxtra Band and
Chorus ; produced and conducted by .11r. F. Jonghrnans
" The strength of Mr. Morton lies In his operatic selections,
executed by a small but highly efficient band, and a well-
selected body of vo !Mists, under the direction of Mr. F.
on4hmans."—TiMes, Jan. 9,1867.

COMEDY, by Messrs. HARRY S'DNEY, MILBURN,
G. W. ROSS; and Mr. PRANK HUSSEY, of the NEW
AMERICAN MINST it ELS ; together with an Enti rely New
DlYertisacment, entitled Tim OXFORD REVELS, ar-
ranved and produced under the immediate superintendence
of Mr. W. H. Payne, THIS EVENING.

" Of the decorum that prevails throttzhont rvery section
of the Hall it is impos-lble to speak too highly."—Times,
Jan. 1867.

NOTICE'. ROBT. FRASER, Comedian and Vocalist,
will make his reappearance here on Saturday next, Jan 26,
ith his crop of comicalities and his new song, " The Boy at
Mugby."

111ADAME TUSSAIM'S EXHIBITION,
BAKER-STREET.
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.
NEW ADD! [IONS. —Life-size Models of the KINtIS and
QUEENS of N.NGLAND, from WILLIAM of NORMANDY
to QUEEN VICTORIA..
Open fro:n 11 a.m. till dusk, and from "7 till 10 p.m.
Admi. lance, Is. ; children, under ten, half-price ; extra
rooms, 6d.

ARGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND CASINO,
Windmill-street, Piccadilly.
These elegant and popular Rooms, having been entirely re-
decorated, are now OPEN EVERY EVENING for Concert
end Dancing. Conductor, Signor Luc' CURTL Manager,
U. GRENET.
Admission to Promenade, One Shilling.
Reserved Seats, Two Shillings.

WE ST ON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL,
HOLBORN.

Sole Proprietors, SWEASEY and HOLLAND.
Grand Selection from Auber's Opera of " MASA-
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above minstrels by Mr. IL Baker. Arthur Lloyd at 11, with
a new song " Borachio, Pestachio, Lablachio, Moustachio,
and the Rely Poly Eye "—Jolly Nash, Georgina Smithson,
Paddy Fannin, Patrick Sellers, and Harry and Kettle
King ; and Pio Watkini, the Japanaze Juggler. Band of
30 first-class performers, and large Chorus chosen from her
Majesty's and Covent Garden Opera Houses. Musical
Director, Mr. P. CORR'.
Prices of admission—Stalls and Balcony, ls. ; Area, 6d. ;
Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. Can be secured at the Box Office,
between the hours of 10 and 5 o'clock. Hall open every
Evening at 7 o'clock.

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AWARDED TO C. F. HANCOCK :
Great Exhibition, 1851 —Council Medal for Originality and
Taste. Paris Exhibition,lBss —Gold Modaille d'llonneur.
International Exhibition, 1862—Prize Medal, for great
Excellence of Design and Manufacture.
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Established 1840.
TREASURER —JOHN ABEL SMITH, Esq., M.P.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the TWENTY-
SIXTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Meinbers
and Friends of this Fund will be hel i at the London Tavern,
Bishopszate-st-eet, in the City of London, on WEDNES-
DAY, February 27, 1867, at Six p m. precisely.
John Abel S.nith, Esq, M.P., Treasurer, in the Chair.
By order of the Board,
Wei. TIIOS. L ENFORD, Secretary.
15, Moorgate-street, Jsinuary 24,1867.
The Annual Accounts may be inspected at the Office a
week prior to the meeting.

MANFIELD'S PATE NT PICKLES are per-
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(corner of Savoy-steps). London.

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"THE RUIN OF TUE FEW IS THE GAIN OF IRE MANY."
THE Panic of '66 and its consequent depression
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TEA COMPANY" to offer TEAS LOWER THAN EVER.
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The Governor of the Bank of
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J. P. Gassiot, Esq.
ItGeoC..MßoeovraenEElisscig.
W. Leaf, Esq.
Mr. Alderman Finnic. Rd. B. Wade, Esq.
O, T. Gabriel, Esq. Robt, Wigram, Esq.
Col. Stuart Wortley. Ity. Green, Esq.
W. I. MatiVellLEsq. Rev. Wm. Rogers.
Mr. Alderitian Begley, Itcv. F. G. Blotnfield.
Mr. Alderman Eakin W. D. Bromley, Esq., M.P.
Mr. Alderman and Sheriff John Mims, Esq.
Waterlow. Mr. Ald. Salomons, M.P.
Mr. Sheriff Lycett. John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P.
Fk. Thompson, Esq. Sir Anthy. Rothschild, Bar`.
Jas. Duke Hill, Alfred Rothschild, Esq. •
R. A. Gray, Es. Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P.
R. N. Fowler, Esq. Rt.lion. G. J. Goschen, M.P.
Mr. Alderman Cotton. R. W. Crawford, Esq., M.P.
Samuel Morley, Esq. P. Cazenove, Esq.
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various parts of the metropolis, will sit at the Mansion
House at Two o'clock daily for that purpose, and earnestly
request the benevolent public to aid them with donations
to enable them to carry out their object.
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Lord Mayor, at the Mansion House, and the following
Bankers, viz., Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co.; Messrs.
Barnett, Iloares, and Co.; Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Messrs.
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Bouverie, and Co. ; Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Sir
Samuel Scott, Bait, and Co. ; Imperial Bank ; the London
and Westminster Bank; the London Joint-Stock Bank ;
the National Provincial Bank, and all their Branches.
- JOSEPH GIBBS, Secretary.
Mansion. House, January 23, 1867. •

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TistES.—The memorial which we recently printed
upon the Search of Passengers' Luggage was yes-
terday presented to the Chancellor of the Exchequer
by an influential deputation. 11' e regret to observe
that his reply was by no means encouraging. He
did not, indeed, give a definite refusal, but he stated
that so far as he knew the opinion of the heads of
the Custchns Department it was adverse to the prayer
of the memorialists. They were by no means sure,
he said, that the Customs' receipts would not suffer ;
and he added that he could not accede to the request
" unless he were satisfied that no injury would re-
sult to the public revenue." We must say. first of
all, that we do not think this is quite the spirit in
which such a proposal should have bon met. The
Chancellor of the Excheqner is not bound by the
opinion of his subordinates, and he may be expected
to regard international questions from a somewhat
more elevated point of view than that of a Custom-
house officer. Of course, if the chief of the Custom-
house be consulted, it is his business to consider,
upon a bare calculation, whether a few pounds'
worth of goods will evade paying duty during seven
months of the year. Even upon this narrow ground
we think it a mistake to suppose that the revenue
would be injured ; but it is the duty of the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer to take other considera-
tions into account. Even if the revenue lost in the
Customs' duty, he might consider whether it would
not gain by the encouragement offered to travelling,
and, above all, he might be expected to pay some re-
gard to considerations of international policy. It may
be of more importance to encourage intercourse be-
tween this country and France at an important period
than to protect one branch of the revenue from a few
depredations. We trust, therefore, that as the mat-
ter is not yet decided, Mr. Disraeli will take counsel
of some other authorities besides those of the Custom-
house before giving his final answer. Thesignatures
to the memorial should alone obtain for it an en-
larged consideration. A great number of Peers and
an actual majority of the House of Commons will
be treated with questionable respect if their memo-
rial, on an important subject, is practically referred
to the chief of a subordinate department. Unfor-
tunately, moreover, the specific request of the me-
morial was scarcely discussed. It is perfectly true,
as Mr. Disraeli observed, that the greater part of
Mr. Watkin's arguments were directed against the
practice of search altogether, and, though we cordi-
ally agree with his representations, it is perhaps un-
fortunate that so modest a request as that of the
memorial should have been introduced by so formid-
able an argument. The case which Mr. Watkin
had to represent was extremely simple, and he had
it seems been furnished from the Treasury itself
with the only arguments necessary for his purpose.
What the memorial asked was, not that the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer should immediately pledge
himself to abandon the practice of Custom-house
examination, but only that for seven months of the
present year, for exceptional reasons, lie would sub-
stitute a general surveillance for individual and per-
sonal search. It was expressly represented that the
concession " would not materially affect the revenue
or prejudice the future practice of the Custom-
house, as it would be to meet an exceptional case."
We have our own opinion, indeed, as to the pro-
bable result of the experiment if once tried ; but the
Chancellor of the Exchequer was not asked to do
more than make an experiment, and lie was ex-
pressly assured that the experiment would not, of
itself, be treated as a precedent. This, and this
alone, was the proposal to be considered, and the
attention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer should
have been, as far as possible, confined to it. If Mr.
Disraeli was able to rely on the opinion of the Cus-
tom-house officers, Mr. Watkiii, on this modest
issue, was able to quote the Treasury with over-
whelming effect. It seems that, in an official let-
ter, the Secretary of the Treasury had confessed
that the present system necessarily occasioned
" vexation and inconvenience to passengers," and
had admitted that " nothing but imperious neces-
sity could justify its maintenance." The " vexation
and inconvenience," then, is undisputed, and it is
obvious that it will be increased a hundredfold
during the time of the exhibition. The only ques-
tion is, therefore, whether there exists any such
" imperious necessity" as must prevent us from
temporarily removing this " vexation and incon-
venience" for the sake of a great public object.
To put the question is to answer it. It is absurd
to suppose that the amount of goods which would
be smuggled in passengers' luggage during seven
months between Paris and London could be so
great as to impose upon the Government the " im-
perious necessity." The articles upon which the
Treasury seems to fear a loss are tobacco and
spirits ; but tobacco which would be worth smug-
gling is certainly not cheaper in Paris than in
this country ; and au extensive distiller of British
spirits, who was quoted by Mr. IVatkin, states
that it would be equally unprofitable to import
spirits from the French capital. But, besides this,
it seems to have been altogether forgotten that
the Government are not asked to abandon all su-
pervision whatever. They are only asked to forego
the systematic examination of personal luggage,
but they are invited to maintain, by way of pro-
tection, a " surveillance through detective or other
officers." If suspicious characters or suspicious
boxes, or packages unreasonably large or numerous
were observed in the trains, the Government
would still have the right and the opportunity to
make the same examination as at present. They
are only asked to relieve ordinary passengers, who
do not afford evident grounds for suspicion, from
the annoyance. It is the ordinary luggage of ordi-
nary passengers in which all the smuggling is to be
carried on which so alarms the Custom-house.
Now, can it really be believed, even in that de-
partment, that general travellers would be either
sufficiently dishonest or would ihiolt it Worth -their
while to smuggle such an amount of spirits or to-
bacco as could make an appreciable different in
the Custoulbouse returns ? At all events, would the
tit:lit:Milt t so great as to make an " imperious ne-
cessity?" Buch. ate Some of the considerations which
might be urged iu support of this memorial, and
we greatly regret that the deputation did not press
e7ek points as these upon the Chancellor of the:
:I..steitecitier• Instead of confronting him with an
apparefit thaud far mt sweeping change in our whole
Custom-house system. ft IN ritit however, too late
for the question to be entertained on its ital merits,
and Mr. Disraeli will still, we hope, consider whether'
a request so moderate, based on such exceptional
t,eforitithfig; blight not to be conceeded, if only out of
deference id the ihfluctiese and the number of the
memorialists. Even if, whieh we think impossible,
the luggage of those seven months' passengers should
influence disadvantageously the Budge6t, of 1868,
sts.erslers of the House of Commons, whose
names are apPa& to the memorial, would fattish
a sufficient apology for the (.:-Ovefrttsents But we
repeat that the Government should view pros
posal from other than financial grounds. We are
engaged by every motive, both of courtesy and of
pbliv, to anisti as far as possible, in rendering the
French Exhibition successful, and it is certain that
we could not assist it more effectually than by facie
litating the passage of travellers. To put our own
people out of the question, numbers of visitors will
coins td thsires from America, and their con-
venience will be most innicrinlly increased by a
modification of the present vexatious systorm Mr.
Watkin informs us that the American Minister is
pressing the French Government to relax its re-
quirements in favour of his countrymen, and there
is every reason to believe that the French are will-
ing and anxious to meet us half way. It would not
be creditable if we offered the only obstacle to a
liberal arrangement. Mr. Disraeli represents, in-
deed, that he has received no official communica-
tion ott the subject from the French Government,
although he has gisecn them a sort of indirect oppor-
tunity for doing so. We cannot but think that,
under the present circumstances, it would be in
every way more graceful if the English Govern-
ment made the first advance in the negotiation, and
all the more so if it would really involve any sacri-
fice on our part. We do not in the least believe
this would be the result, but, even if it would, let
us cheerfully submit to it for the sake of France, of
At
our American visitors, and even of ourselves.
all events, do not let us see a question of
Cus-
tom-house interna-
tional courtesy discussed as if it were a mereus-
tom-house calculation. All that Mr. Disraeli. is
now asked to do is to consent to an exceptional
course upon an exceptional occasion. Theapolicyof
a general change is quite another matter, n
d may
be discussed at a future time. i
Its not under con-
sideration now.

On the subject of British monuments in France
Viscount Hood sends to the Times the following
letter, which he has received from the Emperor of
the French. It is dated from the Tuileries, the 20th
inst. :—" Monsieur,—J'apprends avec regret par
votre lettre que lea tombeaux des officiers Anglais
tiles hla bataille de Toulouse sont deterior6s. Les
soldats qui tombent sur ls, terre 6trangere appar-
tiennent h Bette terre, et it est du deyoir do, cous
d'honorer leur m6moire. Je me charge de fairer -
parer cestotubeaux it mes frais.—ltcceYez l'assurance
de mes sentiments, NAroLEQN•"