The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-24 00:00:00

Commence at Seven,

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Lessee—Mr. E. T. Smith.
TUTS EVENING, LA FEST FROM NEW YORK. Mr.
and Mrs. Bai ney
T llarl concluequin de with the new pantomime, ROBIN
f' S HOOD ;
or, Friar Tuck and the Merry Men oherwood
Forest.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspere's Tragedy of
HAMLET. _

Hamlet, Mr. C. Kean—Gertrude, Mrs. C. Kean.
After which, a new grand Christmas Pantomime, en,Ved
TIW KING OF' THE CASTLE; or, Harlequin Prince
Diamond and Princess Brighteyes.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING will be presented THE LOVE CH .A SE.
Messrs. Chippendale. W. Farren, Rogers, Clark; Miss Amy
Bedgwick and Mrs. N. Fitzwilliam.
After which, a new grand Comic
iris of
entitled
"DINE; or, Harlequin and the Spirit of the ers.
Commente at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer,
THIS EVENING, will be performed THE SISTER'S
SACRIFICE. Messrs. Emery, Barret, and Rogers. Madame
Celeste, Mrs. Keeley, and Miss Julia St. George.
After which, will be produced the new Burlesque, written
expressly for the Lyceum Company by Robert B. Brough, I
and entitled THE SIEGE OF TROY. The principal cha-
racters by Mrs. Keeley, Miss Julia St. George, Mrs. Weston,
amiss Portman, Miss Talbot, Miss Kate Saxon, Miss E. Romer,
&c. ; Mr. Emery, Mr. Charles Young, Mr. Ellerton, Mr. J.
Rog,ers, Mr. Barrett, lec. ; Miss Rosina Wright, Miss M.
Charles, Miss Harriet Dalton, &c.
To conclude with the new Comic Pantomime, replete with
new tricks and mechanical devices, entitled HARLEQUIN
TOY HORSE ; or, The Cremorne Fete. Clown, Mr Charles
Lauri ; Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry
Laur t ; Columbine, Miss Jenny Lauri.
Reduced Prices—Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, Is. ; Pit,
2s. • Stalls, ss. ; Gallery, ls. ast
n at half-
open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors opep
6, to commence at 7 every evening.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
First Night of a New Drama.
THIS EVENING, THE BORGIA RING: A Legend of
Stonehenge. Mr. Ben. Webster, Mr. C. Selby, Mt. J. L. Toole,
Mr. P. Bedford, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington.
To be followed by THE LAST OF THE PIGTAELS.
Mr. C. Selby, Mr. J. L. Toole, Miss Henrietta Simms.
To conclude with the grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled
?MTh ER RED CAI' ; or, Harlequin Johnny Gilpin's Ride
to Edmonton. Clown, Mr. Croueste ; Harlequin, Mr. Hilde-
brand ; Columbine, Miss Hayman ; Pantaloon, Mr. Lupin o ;
Sprite, Mr. Le Barr.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.
THIS EVENING. THE RULE OF THREE.
After which, the new Extravaganza, KENILWORTH; Od
Ye Queene. ye Earle, and ye Maydenne.
And THE LITTLE SAVAGE.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Westminster-road.

Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke.
Crowded Houses Nightly.
Great and glorious Success of the gorgeously-appinted Pan-
tomime.—The celebrated continental equestrians, Mr. A.
Brydges and Madame Brydges, every Evening.
Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit. 2s, ; Gallery, is. ; Upper
Gallery, ed.
THIS EVENING, and during the week, the grand Spec-
tacle of THE GIPSY GIRL OF MADRID ; or, The Edict
of Spain.
After which, the inimitable SCENES IN THE CIRCLE,
introducing Mr. Wm. Cooke's beautiful and highly-trained
palfries and ponies, and the Starßiders of Europe.
To conclude with the great Operatic and Burlesque Equcs-
t Han Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN BARON MUN-
C'HAUSEN, AND HIS COMICAL CREAM COB
CarISER. Baron Munchausen, Mr. W. Anson ; Harlequin,
Mr. H. Hemmings ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morley; Clown, Mr. A.
F. Forrest; Columbine, Miss Julia Weston.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips.
The last grand Morning Performance of the matchless Pan-
tomime on Saturday next, January 29, at Two o'clock.
Carriages for the day 'performance at half-past four, and
night representation at half-past eleven,

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
Proprietor —C. MORTON.
The public is most respectfully informed that the FINE 1
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 "fasters and is also
devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels
he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist-
ing Music 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 OFFICZ, JAN. 23.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

55—highest since noon yesterday.
45—lowest this morning and during the night.
47—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.38, a fall of nearly an inch since yes-
terday.
WIND, South-Westerly; fresh and stormy, with rain.
It blew a gale since yesterday afternoon.

JAN. 24.
44—highest since noon yesterday.
39—lowest this morning and during the night.
46—this day at noon.
BAnosurEn—Down to 29.24, now up to 29.74.
WIND, Westerly; light, with fine weather.

THE SUN.

MONDAY. JANUARY 24, 1859.

A National Gallery worthy of England is one of
the requisites among all our proposed Metropolitan
Improvements. There are more reasons for this
one improvement than for almost anv other that
could be particularised. It is desirable, of course,
that the toll-bridges across the Thames should as
speedily as possible be opened freely to the traffic of
the metropolis—that Southwark-bridge, Waterloo-
bridge, Hungerford-bridge, and Battersea-bridge
should be as unobstructed as London, Blackfriars,
and Westminster. It is desirable again that Hol-
born should be cleared of Middle-row and the
Strand of that abominable block of tenements
wedged in between St. Mary-le-strand, and St.
Clement Danes, and constituting the south
side of Holywell-street. There is something
clearly to be said in favour of a river street
being opened between the Thames and St. Paul's
Cathedral. The advisability of turning to some
satisfactory account the site of the Old Fleet Prison
and the site of the Old Cattle Market and Smith-
field might also be very easily demonstrated.
There is a good and valid reason to be given for
each of these long-looked-for metropolitan
improvements. But for the construction of a new
National Gallery not one reason alone can be
adduced, but a variety of reasons, any one of which
is of itself sufficient. In the first place this par-
ticular improvement would necessitate the removal of
one of the most glaring disfigurements of the capital.
In the next place it would enable us at last to turn
to our advantage the most superb site of all in the
British metropolis—according to Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S memorable phrase, indeed the finest site in
Europe—the accuracy of which phrase, however,
we are disposed to question, remembering the Paris
Place de la Concorde. Again, the projected struc-
ture, that of a National Gallery worthy of contain
lug the art treasures of England, would afford
us the opportunity of having that build-
ing at last solely and exclusively what
its title intimates that it should be. The
Royal Academy would no longer occupy one.
half of it. The National Gallery would be the
National Gallery, and not simply, as it has been
hitherto--just exactly Half of the National Gal-
lery. The Royal Academy would be constrained
at length—as they ought to have been long since—
to find a home elsewhere. THEN would come what
we above all hope to witness, the concentration of

the new building devoted to nothing else but
a National Gallery of all the manifold
collections of paintings belonging to the com-
munity, and hitherto scattered about the metro-
polis. The Dulwich Gallery, of course, would
remain the Dulwich Gallery, preciseiy as Sir JOHN
SOANE'S museum in Lincoln's-inn-fields would re-
tain its store of pictures intact, including among
them some of the most famous masterpieces of our
greatest English painter, WILLIAM HOGARTH.
But, at any rate, the removal of the Academy from
Trafalgar-square, and the consequent increase of
space in the new National Gallery—even supposing
(what we do not seriously for one moment
anticipate) that the existing site of the old edifice
will not be in any way expanded—must enable us
at last to bring together in the same edifice, or in
immediately contiguous structures, the collection
known already as the National Gallery Collection,
the TURNER Collection, the VERNON Collection,
and the SHEEPSHANKS Collection. For the time
being a casual house has been found for these
magnificent works of art under the roof-tree
of Marlborough House. But Marlborough House is
the destined residence of the Heir-apparent to the
Crown. It is expected that his Royal Highness
the Prince of WALES will return from his unworthy
sojourn in the Eternal City about midsummer. It is
certain that the ensuing month of November marks
the epoch of his coming of age, that being the
eighteenth anniversary of his birth, by which
time courtly etiquette requires that a Prince of
Wales should have a separate establishment.
Marlborough House, then, must very speedily be
vacated, The national property in the shape of
rare, and some of them priceless pictures,
must be removed betimes. Whither ? An incre-
dible rumour says to a building now being hastily
constructed at a cast of £4,000, at the back of the
Museum at South Kensington. We cannot will-
ingly believe the accuracy of this assertion, given
though it is explicitly in the Daily News, in the
shape of a communication from a correspondent. It
is inconceivable, after the positive decision arrived
at last year by the House of Commons—a de-
cision distinctly adverse to the removal of
the national collection of pictures to Kensington-
gore. Immediately after the preliminary labours
of the approaching session—as soon as possible, in
fact, after the meeting of the Legislature on the 3d
proximo, we trust that Lord ELCHO will elicit
from the noble lord the Chief Commissioner of
Parks and Palaces some clear understanding as to
the intentions of Government in regard to the
particular building referred to as now in rapid
course of construction—in regard to the future
destination of the art treasures at present in Marl-
borough-house—above all, in regard to the most im-
portant question of all, namely, when we may hope
to possess upon its present site a National Gallery
worthy of its designation.

Mr. BRIGHT has not been enabled to make up
his mind respecting the abolition of the monopoly
in money. He does not even comprehend what a
large number of his constituents complain of, or
what they wish to be done. He, therefore, does
not feel competent to teach Parliament or the
country on the abstruse question to which his
attention has been drawn. We readily admit the
heavy demands on the time and attention of the hon.
gentleman, involved by the preparation of the elabo-
rate bill for Parliamentary Reform which he is about
to bring forward, and the provisions whereof he
has already clearly and explicitly explained, and
could scarcely anticipate that he would take charge
of another measure of even greater magnitude.
But Mr. BRIGHT represents an influential and im-
portant constituency, which has ever evinced the
deepest interest on the all-important question of
monetary reform. The people of Birmingham have
protested more strongly than almost any others
against the iniquitous and impolitic money
laws, which cripple industry, and lead to greater
losses in. times of general peace and tranquillity
than would be occasioned by an expensive war.

The Honourable Gentleman is not a Parliamen-
tary mrciee! He has fairly earned his political
spurs, and ought to be thoroughly acquainted with
all the leading questions, however abstruse or
difficult. JOHN BRIGHT is " a representative man,"
one who is well qualified to direct public opinion,
and to become an instructor of the community at
large. It proves beyond the possibility of doubt
the terrible apathy and indifference that prevails,
when he can avow that he does not comprehend
what is complained of. What would he have
thought of the person who, aspiring to a seat in
Parliament, albeit with far less pretensions and
abilities than those which he unquestionably pos-
sesses, would have declared that he did " not com-
prehend what was complained of," with respect to
a far less grinding monopoly—the tax on cereals—
or that he would be prepared, when the question
came before the House of Commons, to give it all
the consideration in his power? Would he not have
denounced the apathetic individual with all the
indignant eloquence with which he is so remark-
ably gifted, and expatiated on the impropriety,
to use the mildest phrase, of his daring to become
a candidate for a seat in the Legislature until he
had become acquainted with the great constitu-
tional questions that must attract its attention ?
When such a man as JOHN BRIGHT professes
ignorance, what can we expect from the multitude,
whose interests are so greatly involved that their
welfare and happiness, or indigence and misery
depend on the accurate solution of the problem ?
It was not by Parliamentary inquiries conducted
before carefully-selected committees, whose reports
might have been considered as foregone conclu-
sions, that the battle of the corn laws was gained,
or " The League" achieved its memorable triumphs.
No, it was by indomitable determination and inde-
fatigable energy the people were instructed.
The want of equity and justice in the law
which taxed the industrious classes—those who
gained their daily bread by their daily labour—was
lucidly explained. No plea of ignorance was put
forward—no want of comprehension of what was
complained of. There was an oppressive law giving
a monopoly to a certain favoured class, and the
general demand was that it should be uncondition-
ally repealed, as every enactment must be which is
not consistent with the feelings of a free people. If
a like course be adopted with respect to the money
question, a similar result will inevitably follow.
The memorialists who forwarded the address to
Mr. BRIGHT are not "hard calculators," but clear-
headed men, who fully understand the magnitude
of the grievance under which they are suffering,
and the nature of the remedy required to produce
a perfect cure. They complain of the mo-
nopoly in money, and " desire to repeal
the Act of Parliament that permits it." This
is plain and straightforward. There is no shirking
the point. There were a variety of suggestions
put forward with respect to the corn laws. We
heard of " sliding scales" and other elaborate
systems that were to work wonders, but what
proved really beneficial to all was the total abro-
gation of the mischievous law, and the establish-
ment of free trade, or unrestricted competition in
bread stuffs.

At present every pressure is far more than doubled
by the stringent regulations of the Act 0f1844. If gold

is withdrawn from the country an equal amount of I
Bank notes must be kept out of circulation. Dis-
tress is thus occasioned—" the life-blood of indus-
try" stagnates--manufacturers are obliged to sell
their goods at a heavy loss—traders to dispose of their
stocks at less than cost price—the working classes
are deprived of employment, and " the money hawk
is enabled to extract the hard-earned savings of in-
dustry." An adequate issue of really national notes
of small and convenient denominations would avert
the danger and prevent the periodical panics that
occasion such enormous losses, misery, and annoy-
ance to all but those who are properly termed the
" hard calculators."

A Privy Council will be held at Buckingham
Palace, on the 2d of February, at which the Ministers will
formally submit the royal speech for the sanction of the

Sovereign.—Court Journal.

THE MINISTERS.—Lord Salisbury left London
on Friday evening for his seat, Hatfield, Herts. The Right
Hon. B. Disraeli returned to town on Saturday from a
visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle. The Earl of
Derby, the Earl of Malmesbury, Lord Stanley, Sir Edward
Lytton, Lord John Manners, Mr. Secretary Walpole, Sir
John Pakington, Mr. Henley, and other Ministers remain
in London.

The Duke of Rutland, who has been at Stanton
Woodhouse, his shooting-box in Derbyshire, returned to
Belvoir Castle on Friday last.

The Marquis of Lansdowne is shortly expected
at Lansdowne House, from Bowood, for the season.
The Earl and Countess Desart have arrived at
the St. George's Hotel.
The Earl Granville arrived at his residence in
Bruton-street, on Saturday, from Rome and Paris, prepa-
ratory to the opening of Parliament.
The Earl and Countess of Craven and family will
return to town on the Bth of next month, from Ashdown
Park, for the season.
The Earl and Countess of Shelburne have left
Bowood on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of
Ailesbury, at Savernake Lodge, Wilts.
Viscount Palmerston will give a grand Parlia-
mentary dinner, on Wednesday, the 2d of the ensuing
month, at Cambridge House, to which upwards of 40 of his
lordship's political friends, members of the House of Com-
mons, are invited.

Lord Hunting&ld has arrived at the St. George's
Hotel.

Lord and Lady Nigel Kennedy have left their
residence in Grosvenor-square, for Brighton, for a few
weeks.

Lord West has left town to join the family circle
at Buckhurst Park, Sussex.

The Hon. Charles Murray, her Britannic Ma
jesty's Ambassador in Persia, has passed through Paris on
his way to London.
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Gage have left Firle
Court, Sussex, the seat of Viscount Gage, on a visit to Sir
Charles Knightley, at Fawsley Park, Northamptonshire.
Sir Richard Bulkeley has left the St. George's
Hotel.

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We are glad to learn that Mr. Charles Greville

is recovering from a severe attack of gout.
Mrs. Lane Fox has left the St. George's Hotel on
a visit to the Earl and Countess Delawarr, at their seat,
Buckhurst Park, Sussex.

Mrs. Campbell Wyndham has left the St. George's
Hotel.
Mr. Stephenson, the engineer, has just arrived at

Marseilles from Alexandria in the Euxine.

We understand that a marriage is arranged be-
tween Lady Henrietta Pelham Clinton, third daughter of
the late, and sister of the present, Duke of Newcastle, and
Capt. E. C. T. d'Eyncourt, R.N., second son of the Right
Hon. Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt.

THE EARL. OF RIPON.—We are sorry to learn
that the Earl of Ripon continues veryunwell. By accounts
received from Putney yesterday afternoon, there was no
perceptible improvement in the condition of the noble in-
valid. Dr. Stone, Dr. Williams, and other eminent medical
gentlemen, are in constant attendance on his lordship.

The Lord Chancellor has conferred upon, Sir
Walter Riddell, Bart., the lucrative office of Judge of the
County Courts of North Staffordshire.

2 The Earl of Derby has declined to receive the
deputation appointed by the town council to wait upon his
lordship to represent to him the claims which Doncaster
possesses to a direct representation in Parliament.
Mendelssohn's " St. Paul" will be again per-
formed by the Sacred Harmonic Society on Friday next,
Jan. 28.
BILLS FOR RAILWAYS AND PUBLIC IMPROVE-
MENTS.—On Saturday the following bills were disposed of
on the standing orders of the Houses of Lords and Com-
mons : (Before Mr. Frere.) Cork Harbour Reclamation—
standing orders complied with. Isle of Wight Railways—
standing orders complied with.
GEOLOGISTS' ASSOCIATION.—The number of
members is now one hundred and twenty. Mr. Hyde
Clarke has been invited to become Vice-President of the
Association, and has undertaken to deliver an address at
St. Martin's Hall, on Tuesday evening, the Bth of February,
at seven o'clock, on the organisation of a Geological Survey
by the members of the association.
THE DIRECT PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY.—Since
the Vice-Chancellor's decision in favour of the South-
Western Railway Company, establishing their right to book
London passengers at the Portsmouth terminus of the South
Coast line, which the latter contested, the dispute between
the two companies has been amicably arranged, and the
trains will run over the direct line and through to Ports-
mouth, without interruption, on and after this day (Monday).
THE GRANDSON OF LORD BYRON'S "MARY."
—There have last week been rejoicings in the villages of
Edwalton, Colwick, Annesley, &c., Notts, to celebrate the
coming of age of Mr. John Chaworth Musters, the grand-
son of Lord Byron's " Mary." An address was presented
to Mr. Chaworth, speaking of "Annesley Park (one of the
family seats, and where the noble poet passed so much of
his boyhood) as having its deep poetical associations, and
awakening emotions of no ordinary kind, the name of Mary
Chaworth being destined to remain for ever on the annals of
our country.—Derbyshire Courier.
We have to announce the retirement from the
public service of Mr. Charles H. Chicheley Plowden. Mr.
Plowden has served in the Board of Control for upwards of
40 years, having been appointed by the late Mr. Canning in
1818. After holding several prominent positions there, Mr.
Plowden ultimately succeeded to the assistant-secretaryship,
which he held until it was abolished. On the changes,
which took place under the new India Act, he was trans-
ferred to the secretaryship of the Marine and Transport
Department at the India-office. Mr. Mason, who was for-
merly superintendent of the Marine Department to the
East India Company, succeeds Mr. Plowden.
THE GALE OF YESTERDAY.—Yesterday (Sunday)
morning, from an early hour, a terrific gale of wind, blow-
ing from W.S.W., and accompanied by heavy showers of
rain, broke over the metropolis and suburbs, and continued
with but little intermission up to nearly 4 o'clock in the
afternoon, doing considerable damage to property in various
parts, but the southern districts seem to have the most
severely suffered. Several trees in the neighbourhood of
Clapham, Norwood, Dulwich, Herne-hill, and vicinity,
were uprooted, while several greenhouses were injured, and
in some instances valuable exotic and other plants were
destroyed. Chimneys, water pipes, copings of houses,
flower-pots, &c., were blown from their places, and several
persons are reported to have been injured by being struck
by falling slates, flower-pots, &c. Near the Elephant and
Castle, Newington, as a boy was passing along he was sud-
denly, by the force of the gale, thrown into the road under
the horses of an omnibus, but fortunately the vehicle did
not pass over him, although he was so injured by the
horses' hoofs that he was obliged to be conveyed home.

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