The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-25 00:00:00

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
Proprietor --C. MORTON.
The public is most respectfully informed that the FINE
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 Masters :and is also
devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels
he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist-
inn Music Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and tho 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 CORIIIICRCes as usual at
Seven o'clock.
In addition to the usual entertainment, the SAUVLET
FAMILY, of Amsterdam, Eight in number, whose varied
Instrumental perfortnances 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 WEATHEII.-:—Strx OFFICE, FEE. 25.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
52—highest since noon yesterday.
.4Q—lowest this morning and during the night.
52—this day at noon.
• BAROMETER-30'35.
WIND, South-Westerly; light, and very fine weather.

Lord PALMERSTON must surely be hard up, when
he is forced to beconie his own coachman. What
—cannot even a CARDWELL be found, to take the
reins for him, and let him harangue, if harangue
he must, from his comfortable open carriage. Ex-
Premiers have not of late been openly in the van
of an attack on a rival Government. A ROEBUCK
or a MILNER GIBSON (in Lord PALMERSTON'S OWII
case last spring, Mr. CAIIDWELL) has been commonly
found to lead the charge. There is an obvious pro-
priety, a pleasant, almost a chivalrous courtesy
about this arrangement. It is a kind of refinement
which We are by no means prepared to despise, that
some one unattached, some one not likely to be a
place -holder in a new Ministry, should take the ini-
tiative in these really hostile movements. It may
be said, perhaps, that as the ex-Premier would still
be the principal speaker, he may well make his own
!notion. Not exactly so. Long may the good-
breeding distinguish us from Yankees,whiek shrinks
from direct canvassing for office. There is something
in the way of doing a thing—a something, too, in the
mere way, which distinguishes the gentleman from
the bully, the clown, and even from the undrilled
man ; and we do earnestly hope that in proportion
as our House of Commons becomes more democratic,

the thorough English gentlemen who belong to it
will put forth the whole force of their e: ample and
influence to preserve a high tone of -political as
well as of social good breeding within its walls.
We regret, therefore, to see a veteran Minister
and ex-Premier depart from the course prescribed
by modern practice. It is not for the man who
has been at the head of a Cabinet, who would like
to re-occupy such a post, and whose name is at least
on the cards, to be first in his own cause—not for him
to say so openly, "Do turn out and let me come
in." It looks, even is a public servant of threescore'
and fifteen, a little immodest. Besides it seems as
if a leader were without a single friend of note
among the independent members. Rarely is it the
case that any cause, or any motion which would
not find some vigorous supporter amongst the In-
dependents, can deserve general support. We have
peace men and war men and crotcheteers of
all sorts, amongst the small knot who
will connect themselves with no Ministry,
and it is strange when the particular
point which an ex-leader wishes to press
can find favour with none of the office-shunning
band. Even could no coachman for the night be
found ready among them to take a fare, one would
have thought a subordinate, though avowed Pal-
merstonian, small as that clique now is, would
have looked better on the box than the noble lord,
who is so obviously driving for Downing-street.
As to the pretence that he does not mean seriously
to interfere with the work of the evening, every
one knows what it is worth. If Lord PALMERSTON,
indeed, should find that the feeling of members
generally is, against his factious self-intrusion, we
believe that then he will make short work of it—
just, possibly, back out altogether. That, however,
is not his drift. He wants to perplex the Ministry.
He would like to rake up everything, little and
great, in their foreign administration, and consign
them to contempt. He would like to make a mess
of the Reform Bill announcement for Monday
night—an announcement of which the country
thinks ten times more than it does of Lord PAL-
MERSTON and his foreign policy. Lord PALMER •
ETON does not want a dissolution on a Reform
Bill, or on any question of domestic policy.
He had to quit office, at the instance of
a peace-man too, for not sustaining the coun-
try's dignity on a question of foreign policy !
—and sweet, very sweet, would it be to him to
eject Lord DERBY and Lord MALMESBURY on
the same general grounds which turned out Lords
PALMERSTON and CLARENDON. He cannot
succeed. We rather expect that he will have
found by this time that he is going against the
wishes of all but his own little set, and that he
will have toned himself down to something like

propriety by this evening.
What, indeed, can he expect ? The to quoque
of his opponents of all classes must be fatal to him.
The man who was first to caress the originator of
the present warlike appearances, while his hands
were yet red with the citizen blood of the coup
detat ; the man who, on the part of England, made
the shabby Peace of Paris ; the man who left office
while coquetting with Austria, and while our
innocent Clues Anglicani were still half mad in
the dungeons of Naples; the man who bad to
submit to dishonour from the great " nigger"
Republic; the man who, while the EMPEROR was
playing the slave-trader and grossly maltreating
Portugal, was enacting the Adonis of seventy-five
by his side in Compiegne—this is not, surely, the
man to assail his successors in affairs of foreign
policy. If he does, we only hope Mr. ROEBUCK,
or some equally independent man, will make his
ears tingle with his own servile misdeeds.

Precisely at the moment when it was most
wanted—in the very nick—appeared, as we ob-
served yesterday, the long-looked-for report of the
Commissioners appointed to inquire into the
Manning of the Royal Navy of England. This
important document has now been presented, by
command of Her MAJESTY, to the Houses of Par-
liament. The information afforded by it, in a
most succinct form, will be especially acceptable to
the members of the lower house, now that the
Commons await the revised scheme of the maritime
estimates about to be submitted to their considera-
tion by Sir JOHN PAKINGTON. A clearer
appreciation of those increased estimates—of the
advisability, nay, of the imperative necessity of
their increase—will be conveyed to the minds of
the most rigid economists in the Legislature from
a scrutiny of this most authoritative report from
the hands of the Royal Commissioners. After a
perusal of its pages, the Commons will be better pre-
pared to take at once into account the propositions
of the First Lord of the Admiralty. Nothing in
any way affecting in an important manner this
really vital question as to the Manning of the Navy
has escaped the attention of the Commissioners.
These noble and gallant, honourable and right
honourable scrutineers of the service, will be found
to have especially directed their regard, under
separate headings, to the Continuous Service
System, to the mode of Manning the Navy in
time of Peace, and to the Reserve in the Home
Ports really deemed to be requisite. The
total expense of the additions recommended
by the report is given at very little over
£loo,ooo—in all, £104,671—f0r improvements in
the peace establishment : namely—over £6,000 for
pay and pensions for gunnery—over £6,000 for
petty officers' badges—nearly £16,000 for instruc-
tion and training ships—more than £14,000 for
mess utensils, clothes, and bedding almost
£20,000 for pensions of warrant officers'
widows and something more than £42,000
for increased allowances of provisions. Be-
yond this is a much more important total
for additional Reserves in the Manning of the
QUEEN'S Service and the Merchant Service. The
distribution of these £598,821 being as follows :
£200,000 for 25,000 royal naval volunteers-20,000
in home and 5,000 in distant voyages ; £45,625 for
5,000 short-service pensions (marines) ; £132,000
for 4,000 reliefs in home ports ; and £116,525 for
2,000
as lv
additional Coastguardsmen ; making alto-
gether,e have shown, a grand total of some-
thing over £700,000—adding the increased expense
necessitated by those additional reserves to that
resulting from the proposed improvements in the
Peace Establishments. The two combined making
in fact, just—£7o3,492. The Commons, we rest
assured, will not be niggardly in responding to the
increased estimates about to be laid before them by
Sir JOHN PAKlNGTON—estimates based, among
other things, upon the well-considered suggestions
of the Royal Commissioners. Let us take as a
happy augury of the new energy about to be
thrown into the war department generally, the
knighthood conferred yesterday by the SOVEREIGN
upon the distinguished inventor of the rifle cannon,
now Sir GEORGE ARMSTRONG.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury
entertained at dinner, on Wednesday evening, at the family
mansion, Arlington-street, the Duke and Duchess d' Aumale.
The following were invited to meet their Royal Highnesses :
The Duchess of Inverness, his Excellency the Prussian
Minister and the Countess de Bemstorff, the Earl and
Countess of Hardwick° and Lady Elizabeth Yorke, the
E trl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady Constance Vil-
liers, the Earl of Ellenborough, Count Brandenburg, Vis-
count Canterbury, Lord Stanley, Lord John Manners, Lady
Cowley,... Colonel the Hon. P. W. Talbot, and Mr. Hastings
Russell, M.P., and Lady Elizabeth Russell.

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THE SUN.
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 25, 1859.