The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-14 00:00:00

The Panic in. the City.

In the City on Saturday there was a manifest
abatement of the panic, having regard to the ap-
pearance of the streets in the neighbourhood of the
Bank. Not that the excitement which began on
Thursday evening on the announcement of the
failure of Messrs. Overend, Gurney, and Co., and
prevailed in a more intense degree throughout the
whole of Friday, had altogether subsided, but at no
part of the day were any of the streets in the bank-
ing quarters-inconveniently -crowded. --bombard-
street and Bircbin-lane, in particular, where most
of the intense excitement of Friday prevailed, had
begun to assume their wonted quietude, and at no
time on Saturday was the ordinary traffic impeded
by any crowd of idlers. Shortly after mid-day,
when the evening papers were expected to make
their appearance, the newsvendors' shops in front
of the Royal Exchange were besieged, and the jour-
nals were in great request. The public curiosity was
then gratified by the appearance of the correspond-
ence which had passed between the Governor and
Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England and Earl
Russell and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, result-

ing in the suspension of the Bank Charter Act, and
with some other intelligence as to the state of pub-
lic feeling in the City during the morning. All
things concurred to show that the public anxiety
and suspense had been greatly allayed, and a mani-
fest feeling of relief appeared generally to prevail,
from a belief that the crisis had passed.

With respect to a complaint against the City
authorities for not having insisted on maintaining a
clear approach to the various banking houses and to
the Clearing-house, it should be stated, to the credit
of the Lord Mayor, that on finding the thoroughfare
so densely crowded he gave very peremptory in-
structions to the police to clear it, as far as practi-
cable, of all but persons who appeared to have legi-
timate business there, and that he himself on being
released from his duties in the justice-room was seen
in the thickest of the crowd on foot giving directions
to the police in the emergency. The result was that
the services of a number of the most experienced
men in the force were brought into requisition,
under Inspector Foulger, and in that way the traffic
was facilitated as far as practicable ; but they had
a most difficult duty to discharge, considering how
little they were able, in a crowd mostly composed of
well-dressed people, to distinguish those who were
there from sheer curiosity from those who bad legi-
timate business to transact.

(From the Economist.)
The failure of Overend, Gurney, and Co.(limited)

has given occasion to a panic more suitable to their
historical than to their recent reputation. It will
be found that when that firm was converted into
a private company we expressed ourselves
most anxiously and guardedly as to the value
of their shares. Of course, we could not say
what we then believed, and what was generally
known, that the old firm had by most .reckless
management reduced one of the most profitable
concerns in England to one of the most losing con-
cerns. We can only say what we can prove, and
though we thought this as much as we now think
it, we could not say it in print without legal con-
sequences. We expressed ourselves with guarded
caution, and under the circumstances this is all
which we could do. Now no one doubts that the
state of the Joint-Stock Discount Company is very
much like the last state of Overend and Co. un-

limited, and that there was much more excuse for
the Joint-Stock Discount Company than for this
old partnership. The former had to make a busi-
ness in opposition to extreme competition—the
latter had only to pick the best business. The plain
truth is that Overend, Gurney, unlimited, for the
sake of high interest took bad securities, and in
consequence some one must reap the due conse-
quence of that badness. As to Overend, Gurney, and
Co. (limited), as far as we can learn, in any new
business they did the best they could, but they could
hardly help bringing over old business of very ques-
tionable nature from the old firm. The worst bills
and securities they would strike out at once, but
the rest in the common and usual course of affairs
they would renew and take on. And in so doing
they must have taken on some of the worst bills in
England. The consequence is that they are stated
(as the accounts are not made up we cannot vouch
for it) to have lost most of their paid-up capital at
any rate. We have often heard it said, and we our-
selves believed, that the failure of Overend, Gurney,
and Co. (limited) (which we have thought possible
any time this three months) would not produce at all
the effect which would have been produced by the
failure of the private firm some years since. But, in
fact, the failure of Overend's could hardly in their
most reputable days have produced a greater effect.
It has been signally shown how an old name, which
all really instructed people knew to have lost its
virtue, still retains its magical potency over the mul-
titude. Lombard-street has been thronged and almost
stopped by curious wanderers in a way we never saw
it stopped before, and, on the whole, we doubt if
there ever was a collapse of credit more diffused and
more complete. It has hardly been observed how
new an element of danger limited companies intro-
duce. The moment the operations of the Stock Ex-
change depress their prices that instant a run begins.
Oyerend's, no doubt, deserve to go, but many com-
panies may go which did not deserve it, merely from
the depression of their shares. Some cause there is
generally for such depression—really sound people
never suffer so; but that cause is often painfully
exaggerated, and the warning that companies which
live by credit (as all banks:must)ishould avoid trans-
actions having even a taint of evil, so possible is it
that such taint may diffuse itself and destroy their
whole reputation.

At Birmingham some degree of uneasiness was
created on Saturday morning on the announcement
of suspension by Messrs. Pete and Betts. As to the
panic itself and much of the anxiety which prevailed
on Friday subsided when it became known that the
Bank Charter was to be suspended. Neither on
Friday nor Saturday was business at all out of the
ordinary way at any of the banks ; in one or two
instances the amounts of money flowing in to those
establishments were larger than usual.

The intelligence of the suspension of payment by
the firm of Peto, Betts, and Co. became generally
known to Bristol early on Saturday morning, and
created a profound impression, as well from the
magnitude of the failure as from the fact of Sir S.
M. Peto being one of the members for the city.
Hopes were generally expressed that the suspension
might only prove temporary, and the circular which
appeared in The Sun, giving the estimated liabilities
and assets of the firm, was received favourably.
There were, nevertheless, speculations as to the pro-
bability of Sir Morton Peto's seat for Bristol be-
coming vacant ; and in the course of the day Lord
Claude Hamilton was introduced at the Commercial-
rooms by Mr. W. M. banking firm of
of the . ° •
Baillie, Carr, Edwards, and Co.; of Bristol, a visit

to which political importance was attached by some.
Mr. Handel Cossham, the defeated candidate for
Nottingham, and one of Sir Morton Peto's com-
panions in the tour made last autumn through the
United States, also appeared and received the con-
solation of his friends on his recent unsuccessful at-
tempt to get into Parliament.
It was stated on Saturday in The Sun that a
meeting had been held at Norwich to express con-
fidence in the banking firm of Gurneys and Co., of
Norwich. The meeting, although called at an hour's
notice, was numerously attended, the Mayor (Mr.
W. P. Nichols) presiding. Mr. C.
Evans, Chancellor
of the diocese of Norwich, moved the first resolution,
which was as follows:—,,
T
citizens of Norwich, convenedthis
t by
ythme eAeltainygnr-oaft thean
hour's notice, declares publicly and unhesitatingly
ai t;:du
Bni Tokubnednek
ad caonndfide
unabatedne ei trheeliahnoneusennofin3Gurneys
t
financial security." Mr. E
civilised Evans said the name of
only
the Norwich.
world, andaaNtohre-
foGurneyl,
but was
over known,notw
h nl e
emblem of everything upright and honourable, and
the same might be said of the Birkbecks. He was
sure all present would be prepared to testify their
unbounded confidence in the firm by taking as many
of their £5 notes as they could get hold of. (Laugh-
ter and cheers.) Mr. 0. Springfield seconded the
resolution, and deprecated a pitiful panic. The re-
solution was carried unanimously. Sir S. Bignold
aaid he could not allow the meeting to terminate
without expressing his high opinion of the probity,
honour, and wealth of the house of Gurney. Sir
Samuel added that he recollected hearing some
months ago that an old lady rushed to the bank
with a deposit note, and on being asked whether she
would have bank-notes or gold, although pre-
viously under the influence of a sort of panic, she
said, apparently, very indignantly, " No, give me
Gurney's notes." The notes were given to her, she
put them in her pocket with thettmost possible con-
tent ; and the result proved that she was justified in
that contentment. Several other gentlemen addressed
the meeting, and a vote of thanks to the Mayor
concluded the proceedings.
Some consternation was felt on Friday morning
on a notice being affixed to the doors of the English
Joint-Stock Bank at Poole, Bournemouth, and
Christchurch, that the bank " had temporarily sus-
pended payment." The effect of the stoppage will
be felt more at Bournemouth than at either of the
other places, a large amount of building going on
there. Builders had been tempted by the facilities
offered to transfer their accounts from another
bank to the English Joint-Stock Company's office,
and it appears there are some large accounts there.
At Poole the bank had taken some large premises
occupied by a draper, taking them from him for the
remainder of a lease, and paid him about three times
the amount he was paying for rent. They h ave been to
a great expense, having paid over £l,OOO for fitting up
their office. The inhabitants are only 9,000 to 10,000,
and the place is not remarkable for business, with
two other banks there. Another bank at Bourne-
mouth opened twice a week until forced by the com-
petition when this bank commenced business there
to open daily.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

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THE " EXAMINER" ON THE PANIc IN THE MONEY
MAIZICEr.—Ttie stoppage, on Thursday, of the great
City discounting bank, Overend, Gurney, and Co.,
established 60 years since, aggravates enormously
the panic in the money market that was already
serious enough to cause such a house to fall. Only
list August half a million was paid for the goodwill
of its business, and it passed to a company in which
shares-w ere at such a premium as indicated the
opinion that a million and a half would not have
been too much purchase money. The depreciation
caused by a continued selling of its shares, during
the recent panic, with the knowledge of its losses
from the frauds of Pinto, Perez, and, Co., and a
(growing distrust of almost all kinds of investment,
arc said to have caused the fatal defection of de-
positors. .11re are told that tinder its later
mana,gement the form of business at the bank
was modified. Less restricted to the safe and
quick employment and return of money in the dis-
counting
of merchants' bills, it locked up so much
money in investments giving no immediate return,
that it had not enough within call to meet any great
emergency of panic. The Bank of England was
applied to and refused to intervene as a protector.
If Overend, Gurney, and Co. (Limited) had been
able to show that its investments of the money of
its customers, though not admitting quick returns,
were safe, if it had been able to show that time, not
prudence, was the one thing wanting to maintain
its solvency, we cannot believe that the Bank of
England would have refused its support. The ex-
' tinction of a great centre of commerce like the
endangered Banking Company would lead to many
serious disasters, and if there had not been some-
thing unsound in the case on which it founded its
request for help, it is not in reason that—in face of
the far-reaching calamity of such a stoppage—
means of averting it should have been refused. The
Bank of England must have had reason to know
that it was not to b 6 Averted honestly ; stoppage,
therefore, was inevitable, with ten million of lia-
bilities and assets hereafter to be; estimated. Such
a stoppage at a crisis like the present is; calamity
of which nobody yet can see the end. The iOne-
diate consequences in wide-spread loss and ruin are
most serious, but the shaking of confidence now
causes simultaneous runs upon solvent and insolvent
firms and companies, giving a shock that even the
solvent may not be able in all cases to sustain. It
is not many weeks since Barned's Bank, at Liver-
pool, which stood well in the market, and had also
been sold to a company, broke down, disclosing a
substructure of actual dishonesty. The funds had
been for some months seriously depressed, the newly
opened prospect of a European war had given real
cause for alarm, affairs of the money market seemed
to be at the worst, when this great failure occurred,
and gave for a tune a knockdown blow to the
already staggering confidence of investors. The
suspension of Overend, Gurney, and Co. was
succeeded yesterday by the " temporary sus-
pension " of the newly - established English
Joint Stock Bank, which was founded in
1864, and bought, within this year, the old
established private bank of Olding and Co. The
English Joint-stock Bank, which has thirty branches
in the country, closed its doors betimes, declining
to stand the test of the very severe run to which
seven or eight other banks were yesterday subjected.
It is of no use to dwell upon the fatal effects of that
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the man who has used proper care for safe invest-
ment of his money should stick to the position he
has once deliberately taken. Rash and speculative
investments are now in great peril, but firms and
companies of character thus far unblemished, are
entitled, in a day like the present, to a double trust.
It is every man's interest to hold on by them and
keep them from upsetting. The safest boat may be
capsized by the very people she is carrying, and
well able to carry, safe to harbour, if, in panic
among theinselves, they recklessly derange her
balance. The strong demand for discount at the
Bank of England caused the rise of its rate yester-
day from Bto 9 per cent. within the week. But
even before the aggravation of the panic it has been
a question whether yesterday's rise was not fairly
to be expected.
THE "SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE REFORM BILLS
IN COMMITTEE.—The course suggestedt measures
is Bouverie with regard to the Govertiili:rabiyillbsechonpl:4l
is undoubtedly the best, and the two
fused together in Committteoef.
time will be found
that no very great amount
that some of
borough
e necessaryß eli fortr
Redistribution
theutiodni s cunisir
Allof t.ltlheasteciosnit rroelal(!eidn,g
awayth and given to groups of
seats in
tics and to new large constituen-
tstiiiiolgulidtsbgeetnaekreaul principle, is
boroughs, to conn ,
cies. In this bill the details are everything, and the
details can be discussed in Committee. tis very
important that men o f all parties should go into
Committee with a desire to pass a Reform Bill if
possible ; and it is also very desirable that the Con-
servatives should be aware that they will ineur
most serious responsibility if they offer the bill that
kind of opposition which is not based on a definite
maintenance of adverse principles, but merely seeks to
triumph by superior obstinacy and the arts delay.
But we do not see that either danger is probable.
The general desire of the country for a settlement
of the Reform question makes it certain that the
house will share ana reflect that desire ; and the

•
Conservatives, whatever may be their 'faulti.' tbilre
a large. amount of political prudence, and wilel,take
care not to put themselves in such il,pciiii:ikgrlLsl,o
be obliged either to accept office withlntr.a chankee of
holding it on an honourable and satisfactowfooting,
ui ct w
or else to submit to having any measure
orneroin '
passed that a Liberal Ministry will sanction as thep re oh
fenits
the Conservatives
consenting t
invited th e Government.to lay
aside
all their weapons, and to concur al • bland y peace-
fully in passing a measure common to both sides,
they are asked what is neither possible nor desirable
that they should grant. There may be compromises
on many details, but the leading provisions of the
general scheme must be decided by one side being
stronger than the other. The Conservatives may
succeed in gettin,, a member or two more given to
groups of boroughs or to counties, or iu excludinr►
borough leaseholders and freeholders from voting fo'r
counties. They may probably decide whether the
seven seats allotted to Scotland shall be given to Scot-
land or kept for England. But when the question
arises whether the county franchise shall be reduced
to £l4 or to £2O, there is nothing to be done but to
divide the House, and to see which reduction finds
the stronger support. The Conservatives ought
not to offer a factious or dilatory opposition, but
their position as a party would have no meaning or
substance if, on a main question which largely •
affects the landed interest, they do not resolutely
maintain what they think to be best for the country.
When they are merely doing this, they ought not to
be exposed to the cry that they are wantonly stop-
ping Reform, and frustrating the wishes of the
country. We can ask the Opposition to behave
reasonably, but we cannot ask it, to cease to exist ;
and it would cease to have a political existence if,
on the points which touch it closely, it did net speak
and act with all the strength in its power. That
an Opposition must be conquered in debate and
division is one of the elementary facts of our Par-
liamentary system, and we do not get rid of the
difficulties it may cause at any particular time by
pretending that a fanciful millennium has begun,
and ordering that, in deference to public opinion,
lions and lambs shall lie down together for At.least
three months.

tillimExl\ciAeNxicaEn3ll3l?-which
THE " ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES" ON THE
questionoGL 0.-
isF orli tkheel
yeasteo-lerfthbe
the Emperor Napoleon has to thank the con-
summate tact of r M S
for,
eward, rather than that
of his Minister
Foreign Affairs, or even
his own wonderful ability. He had rendered
the question most difficult of solution, from the
manner in which he treated the reclamations of Mr.
Seward, at a time when he felt
over confident that
the American Government would
never
back its opinions with the requisite amount be able tosical force to insure the respect of the ruler
of
ff phy-
forty
millions Of Frenchmen. His position was
on
which it was extremely difficult to retreat, and most
in
dangerous to remain. There was no more mistak-
ing the will or the power of the American people.
They had fully determined that the French occupa-
tion of Mexico should cease ; yet he could almost,
if not quite, as well afford to withdraw at the end of
an unsuccessful war, as to lower his prestige with
the people of France, and with foreign nations,
by timely submitting to the dictation of a young
Republic, for which he had a short time before
shown something approaching contempt. Under
these circumstances, knowing full well that it was
impossible for him to stay in Mexico, if the Ameri-
can Government—supported, as it was sure to
be, by the unanimous sentiment of the whole
people— willed it otherwise, he proposed to
withdraw, if the United States would re-
cognise Maximilian, and thus give a pledge of
non-interference, with a regime which Napoleon
111. was bound to sustain. This proposition was
most positively declined. M. Drouyn de l'lluys
protested that Maximilian's throne was founded ou
the will of the people of Mexico. Mr. Seward, in
the course of several despatches, evidently written
so as to give the Emperor the greatest possible
amount of time, replied in effect :—" We cannot
see it in that fight. We can never recognise a
Mexican Empire, founded, as we believe, on for;
eign bayonets. ' But if you say truly that Maxi-
milian is supported by the well-disposed of the
Mexican people—if you say truly that the coun-
try is only disturbed by a fsnv Laudits and gue•
villas, and that the republic of Mexico is now only
a myth—it is evident that your mission in
Mexico is fulfilled. It is now time for you to
withdraw. You have no need to be deterred from
doing so from any fear that we shall intervene.
The Republicans of Mexico have given you so
much trouble that we have no fear of the result
when they come to deal with Maximilian alone.
You say that but for the fear of our intervention
your object is substantially accomplished. With,
draw, then, and count us your friends—or remain,-
and disturb the relations of amity which have
formerly subsisted between us." The arguments
of Mr. Seward were unanswerable. his language
was ascourteous as was possible without concession ;
it was as decided as Was compatible with freedom
from menace. With danger so clearly indicated ahead
and the path of peace made as easy as possible, the
Emperor wisely decided to withdraw. But the
troubles of Mexico and the cares of Mr.
Seward
were not yet ended. European
nations are not
altogether ignorant of international law, but they
have a convenient habit of forgetting i
deal-
ing with Governments so situated as not, when t
to be able
to enforce respect. Belgium vas
notat
the Republic of Mexico. But she
had war with
broken
international obligations by giving her
officious
en-
couragement for her people to aie Maximilian crushing iu
the Republic. Austria has lately
com-
menced to do likewise, under precisely similar
circumstances. Mr. Seward very properly deals
first with the most powerful delinquent. Austria
is clearly informed that the contemplated breach
of neutrality will be considered by the United
States as a hostile act against a Republic in whose
welfare the people of the United States take the
deepest interest. She is also given to understand

that the American Government cannot remain an
idle spectator of a conflict so under-handed, so un-
equal, and so utterly unprovoked. We trust that
this plain intimation to the Austrian Government
will be sufficient to induce the Raiser to revoke

his unwarrantable concession to his filibustering
relative ; and we also hope that wise little Belgium
will profit by the example of her betters. We
consider the success of Mr. Seward's diplomacy
azi.--tdy.assured. All Americans will join us in
admiratit;' of his skill and tact, as also the energy
and perseveran‘2.7 with which he has prosecuted his
good work in behai:
of an oppressed Republic, at
a time when the other duties of his high office
1
might well tax the vigour of. at 3 )9 nger_. statesman,
and the ability of the greatest of ;his compeers.

MIDDLE-CLASS EDUCATION.--A very important
step has just been taken in the county of Bedford
for the purpose of providing an institution upon a large
scale for the education of the sons of farmers and others of
the middle class. It is proposed to have a large collegiate
building erected within a short distant% of Bedford. The
institution will be established upon the lofted liability
principle, the capital being raised by shares; and in order
that there may be no difficulty or delay in raising the re-
quisite capital, several of the principal landed proprietors
and leading commercial men have given guarantees for
liberal subscriptions to the share list, and many of the far-
mers. are taking up the question in an equally liberal spirlati
The first step is a most successful one, as it was stated at
agimutereantintegedhealmdoounnStatoturdaalyartgheart
athuemsubecriptiaoentually
re,_
than
n 'stills material
quired. Among those who have promised,, ur. Whitbread,
support are the Duke of Bedford, £lo,eiee i
£2,000; Earl Cowper, £l,OOO ;
James Howard, £5OO, &e. It is contemplatedofmiddle-class educa-
tioncious management the best systesntitotiou,
adapted for 300
DOoy ; j
uMd ri . .
..
par head per annum.
boys, at a cost of from £25 to t
return juA
SAVINGS-BANKS.
may be carried out in tohis institution,
deposits in the savings-banks
issued shows that the I
b y not to the extent to which
continue to decline—p
-dr° sits increaso ; but the report of
ggin'
tfa,to
ost t for 1865 is not very likely to be
the Post-office Department Pareli°almHentary
account of the state of the Post-office
return- brings any
the number of individual depositors
of the time present. In the '
d before Christmas, and wo believe no Parliamentary
-office bankstmeoP:
ordinary
savings-banks
iBltv6si4tbe)hiwas 1,430,611 on November
(1,464,
its.sheueD
the financial year ending Novena-
lnonagyienarg to these individual depositors andto
20, 1865 ; and
friendly societies and charitable institutions keeping
tb
eher banks
i2eoBsl9 at the close of
the
accounts with the savings-banks decreased from £39,277,197
in November, 1861, to £38,444,007 in November, 1865.
The deposits of friendly societies having accounts direct
with the National Debt Commissioners also declined
from £1,981,988 to £1,915,703. Taking the securities
held by the National Debt. Commissioners at the price
of the 20th of November last, the deficiency to be made
good from the public purse, if necessary, amounted to
£3,871,136. Tho account of life annuities(not exceeding X3O
each) purchased of. the Government through the savings-
banks shows that on the sth Jan., 1853, 6,321 annuities
Were payable, amounting together to £130,601, ando a
an-
nuities for terms of years were payable,
amclun.+j toge.
titer to £OlO.

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NOTICE is hereby given, that the ANNUAL
GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders in the
EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY will be holden at
the Ofitces, 316, REGENT-STREET, London, on FRIDAY,
the 1:4 day of June, 1866, at TWELVE o'clock at noon
precisely.—By. Order of the Board,
HENRY LANE, manager.
9th Day of May, 1866, 316, Regent-street, London.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWXY.
The Special General Meetino• of this c. mpany, which now
stands Adjourned to r u SDAY the sth May, at Twelve
o'cl,)ck ar, noon, will neeessesity be held only for t.te purpoqe
of beta; FURTHER AI3.IOI.TIOTED until THURSDAY,
the 12th slay, at rr wave o'clock pre_ise y.
By order,
STEPHEN RENY, Secretary.
E,:ston Station, May '4,18,76.
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THEA.TILE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.—
Sole Lessee and Mantvr, Mr.,Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, rHE BALANCE OF COMFORT.
Mr. Bowe, Mr. Rogers. Mr. Braid, Mr. Weathersby, Ae. ;
Mesdames Cavendish. Wright, Lovell, &c.
After which. T FAVOUKITE OF FOR ruNE :Messrs.
solhern, Bnekitone, Chippendal,, Rogers, &a. ; Mesdames
Chippendale, Saville, Moore, Fitzwilliam, 1111 i, Lindley, Ste.
Coucluding with A DAUJIITER ro MARRY' Mr. W.
Farren and Miss iielen.Howard.

Commcnce at Seven.

ROYAL LYCEUM TH. BATTLE--
Under the sole Management rat Mr. Fechter
THIS EVENING, A DAY ASTER THE WEDDING.
Masers. Bergman, Fitzpatrick', lifford Airs. HOTBMAII, &c.
To conclude with Tim MASTER OF R .VENSWOOD.
Messrs. G. Jordan, HOrSMSIII, Herman V, zin. Emery, Wid-
dicomb, Fitz patricg, CliffJrd ; 3iesdamcs Ternan, Elsworthy
Leclercq.
from Eleven till Five.
Box Office open daily

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING. at 7 precisely (th time), anew Drame-
Comedy, in Four .A.ct4, entitled THE FAST' FAMILY:
Messrs J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, R Phillips, Ashley
Eburne. ; Mts. AP red Mellon (Miss Woolgar), Miss H. Simms',
Miss Furtado, Mss Smitn (lug' Bth appearance), Miss Sea-
man, Miss Godsali, and Mrs. IL Lewis.
To conclude with CRYING JENNY AND LAUGHING
JOHNNY. Messrs. J. L. Toole, W. H. Eburne ; Mrs. A.
Mellon and Miss Furtado.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining.
PHIS EVENING, A LUCKY HIT. Messrs. J. G. Shore,
H. Mellon. and Miss K. Rodgers.
After whi,;ll, at a quarter to Eight, THE STREETS OF
LO DON. Messrs. 'Vining. T. Mead, 11. Murray, shore,
; Mrs. 11. Marson, Miss E. Barnett, and Miss K.
Rodgers.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Airs. :wanborough.
THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, PER.VE TION.
After which will be produced a grand Easser Burlesque,
PARIS ; or, Vive Lernpiere : Stoyle, horne,Jame.- :
3iesdames A. Swanborough, Raynham, Simpson. Johnstone,
Ranoe, and Holt
To conclude with DEAF AS A POST : Mr. Belford.

SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE.-
Under the Management of Mr. W. H. C. Nation.
Tuns EVENING, MONTDAY, Tuesday, and Wednesday,
May 14th, sth, and lfith, Sheri .an's famous Comedyof THE
SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Messrs. Swnibourne, Belmore,
Barrett, Baraby, Brlatyre, Warner ; Misses Ada Dya., F.
Gwyne ; Mrs. l'oynter.
Concluding with 37th, 38th, and 39th nights of MON.
Misses L. Witimore, Hudspeth, F. Gwynne, Harland, Tracey ;
Messrs. Belmore and Barsby.

Commence at Seven.
Acting Manager, Mr. NYE CHART.

T" "SUN" NEWSPAPER.-
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terrace, Edgware-road, is specially appoted 4GsN t
to
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THE SITN at the
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the Country at a comparatively early hour the same tvening,
say 40 miles by 9 o'clock.

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