The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-27 00:00:00

THE GREAT EASTERN.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY.
Arrangements for the reception of the Great
Eastern, which is expected to arrive hero from
Holyhead early next week are in active progress.
At a meeting of the Town-Council, held to-duy, the
following communication was read
"The Great Ship Company (limited), King William-
street, London, 8.C., Oct. 21.
" Sir,—A committee of the Board of this Company has
been appointed to inquire into and report upon the following
points :
" Safety, railway charges, 'general charges, and facilities
of trade'of the various ports of the United Kingdom, in order
to determine the most suitable port for the Great Eastern.
" The committee will be happy to receive any information
you can give respecting Southampton.
"I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
" J. H. YATES, Secretary.
"To the Worshipful the Mayor of Southampton."
The MAYOR (Mr. Alderman Palk) called upon Mr.
J. H. Stebbing, the President of the Chamber of
Commerce, who is also a member of the Council, to
explain the present position of affairs.
Mr. STEBBING, in response to the Mayor's call,
stated that the letter before the Council was one simi-
lar to that which he found yesterday, when at Ports-
mouth, had been sent to the Mayor of that borough,
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loading port, to and from which she would trade. At
the interview which he and Mr. Hedger, the dock-
master, had last week with the directors of the Great
Ship Company in London, a resolution was handed
to him stating that the Great Eastern was orderedto
Southampton to be refitted; in fact, he might sat,
to have tested the safety and conveniences of this
port in getting her ready for sea, and which were
known to exceed those possessed by any other
with so 'good a harbour. Acting on this resolu-
tion, the Chamber of Commerce were moving to
Southampton all the necessary moorings, and they
would be ready for the Great Eastern in a few
days, according to the plan arranged by Captain
Harrison. Before the vessel left Southampton
probably some two or three months hence, the
directors of the Great Ship Company would have
received statements in reply to their circular show-
ing the advantages of the various ports, and he had
no doubt that Southampton would contrast most
favourably with any one of them, this port uniting
a larger aggregate of advantages than any other,
and he trusted that the reception, safety, eollrir
ence, and accommodation afforded while retitteegk
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ROYAL F,NOLISIi OPERA,
COVENT- GA UDEN.
Inder the manazement of 3liss.L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison.
THIS EVENISG, DIN 011 A U. Messrs. Santley, H.
'orri, St. Albyn, and W. Harrison. Misses Pilling, Thlrl-
all, and Miss Louisa Fyne.
Conductor, Alfred Mellon.
DIVERTISSFMENT. 3ldlles. Lequine, Pasquale, Pier-
ron, and Mons. Vaudris.
Commence at 8 o'clock.

TIIE A T RE-ROYAT„ HAY MARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
TIM; EVENING the performances will commence With
fa'''. ROAD TO RUIN. Mr. C. Mathews.
And PAUL PBX. Mr. and MI s. C. Mathews.

Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
TIM EVENING, the performances will commence with
LOVE'S TELEGRAPH.
After which, PUSS ; or, Metempysychosis. Miss L. Keeley.
To be followed by a dramatic tableau in Watteau colours,
by J. It. Planche, Esq., entitled LOVE AND FORTUNE.

NTEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI.
A=4 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
Open for the Winter Season.
THIS EV ENING, a new farce, entitled A ROW ON FITE
PREMISES. Mr. David Fisher, P. Bedford, C. Selby, Miss
H. Simms, K. Kelly, Mrs. P,illington.
After which, Til E WILLOW COPSE. Luke, Mr. Ben.
Webster; Hulks, Mr. David Fisher ; Augustus, Mr. J. L.
To,le ; Staggers, Mr. Paid Bedford.
Followed by LOVE AND HUNGER. Mr. David "Fisher,
Mr. Paul Bedford, C. Selby, C. J. Smith, Miss K. Kelly, Miss
Laidlaw.
I .ours open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box-
Of ce open from 10 to 5. No char,e for securing seats,
nor far bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment arc strictly prohibited.
• Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
Ring-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West-
minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen-
gers all hours of the night.
THIS EVENING, Poole's comedy, THEY'RE BOTH TO
BLAME. Messrs. Leigh Murray, Barrett, Walter Carle ;
Mesdames Frank Matthews, Murray, Catharine Hickson.
After which the successful Ballet Farce, by John Oxen-
ford, Esq., entitled MAGIC TOYS, supportA by Miss Lydia
Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, and a numerous Corps de
Ballet.
To conclude with the New and Original Burlesque, by L.
Bwkingham, Esq., of VIRGINILTS ; or the Trials of a Fond
Pa pa.
Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, Is. The Box-office open
from ll to 5 daily. Doors open at hall-past six; perform-
ance commences at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough
THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN
EGGS.
Atter which THE GREAT RUSSIAN 'BEAR ; or, An-
other Retreat from Moscow.
Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS.
And CAUGHT BY THE EARS.
Commence at 7 o'clock

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Sole Lessee lir. William Cooke.
Brilliant reception of the New Ilistoricil Drama, by Tom
Taylor, E'sq., called GARIBALDI, sustained by a Nev Dra-
matic Company, full Stud of beautiful Horses, Characteristic
Costumes and Picturesque Scenery. Engazement for a
limited period of the Great Delavanti troupe, Gvmnasists
par excellence ; also, Little 3lenda, the most Wonderful
Juvenile Equestrian in the World. Scenes in the Circle by
Star Riders and talented Equestrians. Terminating with a
Laughable Farce.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips

CIANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
v EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of
IACBETII (now first made public in England at these Con-
tierts).
Ir And a Grand Selection from Meyerbeer's new opera of
DINORAFI.
Comic Vocalists - Messrs. Georcre Hodson (the Trish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. 31;tckney.
Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of flails have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
9154-bts of the metropolis.

THE WEATIIER.—Sus OFFICE, OCTOBER 27.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
50—highest since noon yesterday.
43 —lowest this morning and during the night.
45—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.90.
WlND—Northerly, light breeze, with showery weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 2h. 13m.—Afternoon, 2h. 33m.
To-Monitow-Morning, 2h. 53m.—Afternoon, 3h. 12m.

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THE SUN.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1859

A quarter of a century has elapsed since Lord
BROUGHAM'S last appearance in his birthplace—
the ancient and loyal, the learned and classically-
beautiful city of Edinburgh. Yesterday, he was
once more entertained there by his fellow-citizens,
and after the banquet, in the hearing of one thou-
sand persons, delivered another of those remarkable
orations by which he has of late been very signally
demonstrating the intellectual as well as physical

vigour that, after a mast lengthened and laborious
life of more than oighty-one years, may still survive
undimmed and undiminished in the heart
and brain of an octogenarian. It was
in no exaggerated or hyperbolical strain
that the noble and learned lord, casting
a retrospective glance at the outset of this
harangue down the perspective of his experiences,
avowed that he considered this invitation and this
reception as " one of the two greatest honours that
had crowned a not very short and a very varie-
gated life." Adding, by way of explanation, that

" his being chosen to represent the great county o

York was the other"—that the grandest of all the
constituencies, both by the extent of its area and
the number of its population, having, by an ever
memorable act of electoral independence, selected
HARRY BROUGHAM simply and solely as a man
of rare genius to be its representative. No wonder
ord BROUGHAM still counts, among all the many
brilliant triumphs of his long life, as second
to none other, his victorious return as
M.P. for the West Riding of Yorkshire,
for the express purpose not only of the advance-
ment; but also, and peculiarly, for the reform of
Parliament. Yet appreciating to the uttermost that
great tribute to him, in attestation of his popularity,
Lord BROUGHAM hesitates to attach to it, as a per-
sonal triumph dearly cherished to the last in his
memory, any superiority of importance when com-
pared with this his latest triumph in his native
place, his reception at the banquet spontaneously
offered to him by the citizens of Edinburgh. He
simply classes the two honours together, and
speaks of them, as we have seen, as " the two
greatest honours" that have crowned his life—

placing them side by side —giving to neither o
them precedence.

Although we have as yet but the merest epitome
or telegraphic abbreviation of the speech delivered
'yesterday by the noble and learned ex-Chancellor,
in return for the toast of his health upon its being
befittingly proposed by the Lord Provost, in the
name of the citizens of Edinburgh—we can
recognise without much difficulty, even from
this hurried synopsis, the scope of that full report
which the next post will bring more rapidly at the
'heels of the flying telegram. Deeply and pro-
foundly impressed above all things just now, as a
politician,' by the miserable disclosures recently
made of the systematic venality evidenced by so
many of the large constituencies, Lord BitorGuam
almost at the very commencement of his address
found it impossible to avoid referring "to the in-
stances of gross bribery and corruption lately dis-
. closed in England, and expressing his great gratifica-
tion that in Scotland electoral corruption did not
exist at all." Directly afterwards adding, with much
solemnity, that until this corruption was thoroughly
and effectually extirpated with a strong, steady, and
unfl:nching hand, the Constitution of this country
teenld be on its trial—as was intimated four or five
years ago very preposterously by the PRINCE CON-
SORT in reference to the contrast of our great
representative system with the Continental schemes
of Arbitrary Government. The Constitution,
even now we cannot quite regard, with
Lord BROUGHAM, as, in any way, so to
speak, really upon " its trial-"--in regard