The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, gATUR:DAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1859.

astonished at, my O' wn. moderation." If the finan-
cial matters off *..'e island at the absolute disposal of
the despot at Cephalonia in 1822 were utterly in-
significant and con-temptible as compared with the
Indian spoils within reach of the plundering hands
of CuvE, there is also to be borne in mind that the
Resident then holding supreme authority was as
good in heart as he was great in genius, that his
hand was ever as unsullied in holding the balance
of justice as it was terrible when wielding the
I sword of battle. But the fact was there, neverthe-
ct—the opportunity was clearly there for both
crueltZ and peculation.
Latteri7 our policy in reference to the lonian
Islands has been running into the very opposite
extreme of And over-indulgence. Sir JOHN
YOUNG was instructed to conciliate as much as
possible, and his efforts dt, conciliation have been
rewarded, as we haw e,een, by the most flagrant
and :the most insolent insubordination. To put
an end satisfactorily to a series of difficulties
that have only been growing more and more
complicated during the Jest forty-four years, re-
quires obviously for its accomplishment the exercise
of no ordinary abilities. Insignificant though the
lonian Islands are in themselves as a state, the Sep-
tinsular republic is so associated directly or in-
directly with the Greek interests and the Turkish
interests, with the Russian interests, with the
interests of the eastern part of Europe generally,
that it assumes to itself a certain inferential and
relative importance. It is because of his recog-
nition of this importance that Mr. GLADSTONE
has entered upon his remarkable mission—
first as Extraordinary, and more recently as
Ofdinary, Lord High Commissioner. The:comple-
tion (..f the design sketched out in that mission has
it is true, been somewhat retarded and increased
somewhat in delicacy and difficulty in several re-
spects by the in :toward publication of the GUERN-
SEY Despatches. But eventually—there is scarcely
a moment's doubt of it~--Mr. GLADSTONE will
succeed in the enterprise upon which he has with
such manifest self-abnegagon thus chivalrously and
magnanimously adventured, It is expected, indeed,
that the spring will not long' have advanced when
the Lord High Commissioner will have re-
turned to give an explanation 4 his pro-
ceedings to Parliament. Until Ids return
of course a respectful reticence will be shown
in regard to the lonian Question, both within and
without the walls of the Legislature. When the
Right Hon. Gentleman has returned to his glace
in the House of Commons will be time enough for
the elucidation of a hitherto obscure difficulty—a
difficulty that there is now every reasonable expec-
tation will, by that time, have resolved itself into
one of the most signal triumphs, won in the teeth
of every imaginable obstacle by the accomplished
Statesman now guiding the delicate and complex
machinery of the Colonial Department.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
d'Aumale are staying on a visit with Frances Countess
Waldegrave and Mr. Harconrt, M.P., at Nuneham Park,
where a distinguished circle of guests are assembled. The
party will separate on Wednesday next.

His Excellency M. Isturitz has returned to the
Spanish Legation, from visiting Viscount and Viscountess
Palmerston, at Broadlands, Hants.

The Duke of Rutland, who is entertaining a
select circle at Belvoir Castle, is expected in town on Wed
nesday next.
The Marquis de Croisie has left the Brunswick
Hotel, Jennyn-street, for Paris.
The Earl and Countess Cawdor will arrive in
own on the 7th proximo, from their scat in Wales, for the
season.

Count Alexander Mensdorff Pouilly, formerly
the Austrian ambassador at the Court of St. Petersburg,
will, it is positively stated, be sent as military governor to
Milan.

The Marquis of Hastings, who accompanied his
Hoyal Highness the Prince of Wales to Munich, has ar-
rived at Vienna from Prague, and intends proceeding in a
few days to Corfu.

A correspondent at St. Petersburg states that
the Government, "in order to prevent any embarrassment
to the financial state of the country," is on the point of in-
terdicting the creation of any new joint-stock companies for
some time to come.

APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Names of gentleman
who passed their examination in the science and practice of
medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday,
Jan. 27, 1859 :—James Buckley, Manchester, and William
James, Harris.

A SIGN OF WAR.—On Tuesday a large quantity
of saltpetre was sold by a firm in London to the Sardinian
Government. On Thursday a still larger supply was pur-
chased here for the French Government, to be delivered in
Piedmont.

THE HON. Mn. SUMNER.—An American paper
sayS :—" Charles Sumner, we much fear, will never stir the
senate of the nation again with his eloquence. It is stated
that Paris physicians, who have been consulted in his case,
agree in the opinion that he will never recover from the
effect of the injuries from which he has been suffering for
the last two years."

STATIONERY FOR PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS.—In
the year ended the 31st of March, the stationery for public
departments amounted to as much as £349,630.

The Red Sea Telegraph Company have notified
that on the 14th of February the Treasury will pay the
guaranteed interest of 4-1 per cent. upon the paid up portion
of the capital of that undertaking for the six months ending
January the 31st.

The report of the Peel River Company, pre-
paratory to their meeting on the 11th of February, states
the sales of live stock for the half-year at £1,137, the land
sales at £344, and the receipts from licenses at £3OO. A
purchase has been effected of 34,043 sheep, 47 cattle, 30
horses, and stores for £32,297.
THE RED SEA ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The
screw steamers Imperatrice and Imperatore left the Mersey
yesterday (Friday) morning for Madeira, Cape of Good
Hope, and Suez. These vessels carry out a portion of the
electric cable which is to be laid down in the Red Sea,
and which was manufactured at Birkenhead by Messrs.

CIJRIOTJS EFFECTS OF A THUNDERSTORM.—It
is now rather more than two years since that a foreign
family went to reside at Bideford. One of the young
ladies was then bedridden, and continued so up to about a
month since. - At that period the neighbourhood was
visited by a terrific thunderstorm, and the effect of it upon
the patient was that she was suddenly restored.— WeBtern
Times.

Mr. Brunel has left Cairo on a trip to the upper
country, and Lord Dufferin has also sailed from Alexandria
for the latitudes of Southern Egypt and Nubia. Mr. Brunel
on his return to Cairo will probably visit Suez in accord-
ance with a request made to him by the Viceroy, who is
desirous of having his opinion as to putting into execution
the long-talked of project of transferring the port of Suez
to the Bay of Ataka, some ten miles south of the present
landingplace.
THE FATAL AFFRAY IN THE HAMPSTEAD-ROAD.
—Yesterday, an inquest was held at the Primo of Wales'
Feathers, Hampstead-road, respecting the death of John
Henry Burrows, which occurred in .the manner described
in our report of the examination of John Plews, at the
Marylebone Police Court, on Thursday. The coroner hav-
ing staled it was desirable that Mr. Flews should be pre-
sent, the summoning officer was despatched for him, and
on-his return stated that he was unable to find him. The
inquiry was then adjourned till Thursday next.
BILLS FOR RAILWAYS AND PUBLIC IMPROVE-
MENTS.—Yesterday the examiners, Messrs. Smith and
Frere, declared that the standing orders of both Houses of
Parliament had been complied with in respect to the fol-
lowing bills.—Before Mr. Smith :—Fishguard Harbour
Improvement—Travellers' and Marine Insurance and Ac-
cidental Death Insurance Companies—Bury St. Edmunds
Gas—Droitwich Roads—Hinckley and Melbourne Roads—
Shepton Mallen Waterworks—Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire Railway (Station at Manchester)—Hertford,
Luton, and Dunstable Railway—Poole and Bournerqouth
Waterworks.—Before Mr. Frere :—Tottenham and Ed-
monton Gas—Tralee and Killarney Railway—Cork Butter
Market—People's Provident Assurance Society—Falmouth
Docks and Harbour—Leeds and Huntslet Road—Liverpool
New Exchange Buildinzs—Liverpool Sanitary Amend-
ment Act—lsle of Wight Ferry—North Western Railway
of Ireland—Londonderry Bridge.
REPRESENTATION OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY.—It
is rumoured that should a vacancy occur in the representa-
tion of the University the Right Hon. T. H. Sotheron
Estcourt, now M.P. for North -Wilts, and President of the
Poor Law Board, will be solicited to become a candidate.
The hon. gentleman was a " gentleman commoner" of Oriel
College, and graduated in 1823, taking a first class in
" Literis Htuinanioribus," in company with Lord Ashley,
the Very 11ev. the Dean of of Peterborough, Dr. Pusey, and
other eminent personages. Mr. Sotheron Estcourt is the
son of the late Mr. Thomas Giinston Bucknall Escourt,
who succeeded Mr. Richard Heber as M.P. for the Univer-
sity in 1826. Mr. Estcourt sat as the colleague of the late
Sir Robert Peel until the latter vacated his seat by the
acceptance of the office of one of his Majesty's Principal
Secretaries of State. Mr. Estcourt from that period up to
1841 retained the seat in company with Sir Robert Harry
Inglis, being succeeded by the right hon. gentleman whose
mission to the -lonian Isles will, it is expected, cause a
vacancy.—./Ambuty Guardian,

IVYLD'S NEW MAPS.

The Islands of Japan. By iames Wyld.
Pntilish May of Representation. By James Wyld.
Our distinguished geographer has here given
two really remarkable evidences of his enterprise.
Immediately before the re-assembling of Parlia-
ment hp iM$ igracd tWO roapi that will be more
welcome to the legislators of both Houses, and to
the country at large, than any perhaps that he
could very well have published. A blue-book of a
deeply interesting and eminently historical character
will, of course, speedily follow the re-assembling
of the Lords and Commons—a blue-book recounting
succintly the diplomatic triumphs of the Earl (soon
doubtless to be Marquess) of Elgin in China and in
Japan. With many of even the long-sealed
mysteries of the Celestial Empire we have been
made acquainted from time to time through the
medium chiefly of the Jesuit missionaries. Of the
hidden wonders of Japan we have, however,
scarcely an inkling. Our information as to the
marvels of Japan has yet to begin, as the story
books say, with the beginning. The key-note will
be struck by the blue-book to which we have now
alluded by anticipation. Before one morsel, how-
ever, of this information is given to the country—
here is Mr. Wyld instantly at hand with his
magical map of the Japanese Islands. With that
admirable map spread out before us, we wait with
increased eagerness for the coming blue-book,
certain of seeing our way more clearly through it,
thanks to the prompt and timely labours of our
great geographer. As prompt, as timely have been
the labours applied by him to the other map, inns:
trative of the distribution of representation in
England and Wales. It serves to throu- a flood of
light, in the very nick of time, upon the'eontrasting
problems of enfranchisement and disfranChisement.

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.

EXETER HALL.

The Sacred Harmonic Society gave Mendelssalm's ora-
torio of "St. Paul" at this Halllast night. The merits of this
oratorio are alreadyfamiliar to the musical public, thanks to
the exertions of this society and its competitori. It is not
likely to become as popular as the "Elijah" of the same
composer, not being its equal in dramatic effect; but there
is no doubt that its merits, as a composition, are very great,
and will always be fully estimated by those who appreciate
a high order of classical music. Mrs. Sunderland, Miss
Dolby, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Signor Belletti, were the
principal performers. Miss Sunderland has a fine voice,
and sang carefully. Miss Dolby's abilities, as an oratorio
singer, are well known. She displayed them to full
advantage last evening, especially in the beauti-
ful air for the contralto, But the Lord is mindful of
his own ; " a worthy companion to the '"Oh 1 rest
in the Lord," of "Elijah." Mr. Sims Reeves sang the
tenor part with his accustomed success. The long and
difficult recitative, "Men, brethren, and fathers," demands
a singer of unusual ability. In the air of "Be thou faith-
ful unto death," he elicited a burst of applause from the
audience—the only occasion on which the strict rules of
the society were infringed. Signor Belletti's correct and
careful singing was displayed to full advantage in the bass
part. He especially distinguished himself in the recitative
and aria, "Oh wherefore do ye these things" and "Know
ye not?" The choruses were given with precision and
effect. The orchestra, under Mr. Costa, left nothing to be
desired. The hall was crowded in every part. " Elijah"
will be given by the same society on Thursday next, which
will be the fiftieth anniversary of the composer's birth.

NR. S. C. HALL AT WILLIS'S ROOMS.

The ranks of those literary men who have made a per-
sonal and faCe-to-face acquaintance with the pubic last
night received an addition in the person of Mr. S. C. Hall,
who, at Willis's Rooms, delivered a lecture on " The Au-
thors of the Age." It would be unfair to judge Mr. Hall
by the standard of Carlyle, Thackeray, and Dickens, his
predecessors as literary lecturers ; he possesses none of their
advantages. He is best known to the public as the editor
of various annuals and periodical publications ; and his
single original work was performed in conjunction with his
wife, a lady whose varied talents, and the freshness and ac-
curacy of whose descriptions of Irish life, naturally induced
the reading world to regard her as the better-half not only
of the conjugal state, but of the joint publication. But that
an intimate acquaintance with the literary world of 35 years
standing has given Mr. Hall a certainprestige was evidenced
by the appearance "of Willis's Rooms last evening, thronged
as they were with an audience numbering very many lite-
rary and artistic celebrities, who received their veteran
collaborateur with great warmth. The lecture itself is a
semi-gossiping, semi-critical account of various departed
authors and authoresses, of more or less renown, with
whom Mr. Hall had the advantage of personal acquaint-
ance. Amongst the " great lights" treated of last night
were Scott, Rogers,
,Crabbe, . the two Moitgomerys,
Moore, Lamb, Lockhart, Barton, Sydney Smith, Words-
worth, &c. The character' of Moore was forcibly drawn:
he was one with whom Mr. Hall seems really to have
been on intimate terms, whose writings he eulogised,
and whose private character he defended with an
honest zeal and warmth which did him the highest credit.
Many passages of the lecture were received with great ap-
plause, and if the desire to look upon a celebrity be an at-
traction, surely the next best thing to looking upon the
great originals themselves will be to gaze at and listen to
one who has been the friend of all the great men and women
of the epoch. •

LATEST NEWS.

THE APPROACHING IMPE-

RIAL MARRIAGE.

TURIN, JAN. 28.

This day the members of the Municipal Council
of the City of Turin, and forty Communal Coun-
cillors had the honour to present to her Royal
Highness the Princess Clotilde a rich work of art
in silver, beautifully wrought.

The Mayor of the city addressed Prince Napoleon
in a speech remarkable for its patriotic sentiments;
and his Imperial Highness, in reply, declared that
he would do all in his power to promote the happiness
of the daughter of the King, the worthy inheritress
of the virtues of an illustrious and heroic family ;
and requested the Mayor to assure his fellow-
citizens, in his name, how sincerely he prayed for
the happiness and future prosperity of Sardinia.