The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-27 00:00:00

Commence at Seven,

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Lessee—Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING, LATEST FROM NEW YORK. Mr.
and Mrs. Barney Williams.
To conclude with the new pantomime, ROBIN HOOD
or, Harlequin Friar Tuck and the Merry Men of Sherwood
Forest.

OPAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
LS) Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspere's Tragedy of
MACBETH.

Macbeth, Mr. C. Kean ; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. C. Kean.
After which, a new grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled
T lIE KING OF THE CASTLE; or, Harlequin Prince
Diamond and Princess Brighteyes.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING will be performed THE BUSYBODY.
Messrs. Buckstone, Farren, Szo. ; Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam and
Miss Reynolds.
After which, a new grand Comic Pantomime, entitled
UNDINE ; or, Harlequin and the Spirit of the Waters.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager; Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING, will be performed THE SISTER'S
SACRIFICE. Messrs. Finely: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,
and entitled THE SIEGE OF TROY. The principal cha-
racters by Mrs. Keeley, Miss Julia St. George, I%lrs. Weston,
nibs Portman, Miss Talbot, Miss Kate Saxon, Miss E. Romer,
&c. ; Mr. Emery, Mr. Charles Young, Mr. Ellerton, Mr. J.
Rogers, Mr. Barrett, &c. ; Miss Rosins 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
Lauri ; Columbine, Miss Jenny Lauri.
Reduced Prices—Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 30. ; Pit,
2s. ; Stalls, ss. ; Gallery, ls.
Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past
6, to commence at 7 every evening.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. Benj. Webster.
First Night of a New Drama.
THIS EVENING, THE BORGIA RING : A Legend of
tonehenge. Mr. Ben. Webster, Mr. C. Selby, Mr. J. L. Toole,
Mr. P. Bedford, Miss Woolg,ar, Mrs. Billington.
To be followed by THE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS.
Mr. C. Selby, Mr. J. L. Toole, Miss Henrietta Simms.
To conclude with the grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled
MOTHER RED CAP ; or, Harlequin Johnny Gilpin's Ride
to Edmonton. Clown, Mr. Croueste ; Harlequin, Mr. Hilde-
brand ; Columb I ne, Miss Hayman ; Pantaloon, Mr. Lupin ;
Sprite, Mr. Le lan%

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, THE RULE OF THREE.
After which, the new Extravaganza, KENILWORTH ; or
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, 35...; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper

Gallery,. 6d.
THIS EVENING, and during the week, the rand 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 EocNs:
trian Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN BARON
CHAUSEN, AND HIS COMICAL CREAM COB
CRUISER. Baron Munchausen, Mr. W. Anson ; Harlequin,
Mr. H. Hemmings ; Pantalobn, Mr. Morley; Clown, Mr. A.
F. Forrest ; Columbine, Miss Julia Weston.
Stage Manager, Mr. IL 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 hall-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
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 altos ether, the exist-
-1132: Musie 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
Kingdoln.
The MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at
Seven o'clock.

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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 OFFICE, JAN. 27.

THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE.

49—highest since noon yesterday.
4g—lowest this morning and during the night.
51—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.75.

WIND, Westerly; fresh, with beautiful weather.

THE SUN.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1859.

The extraordinary rapidity observable in the
development of the most gigantic of all our great
colonies—Australia—was strikingly notified last
evening at the anniversary dinner commemorative
of its original foundation. Within the compass of
an ordinary life-time, during the lapse of just
threescore years and eleven, our magnificent
colonial possessions at our antipodes have fbecome
enhanced in importance with a speed altogether
unprecedented. Instead of comprising exclusively
a single penal settlement of comparative insig-
nificance, Australia is now peopled by one
million loyal freemen, devoted and enlight-

ened subjects of the Crown of these domi-
nions., There, according to the last published
estimates, flourishes a dependency having a yearly
revenue of more than £5,000,000, absorbing im-
ports to the annual value of £27,000,000, and sup-
plying exports to the annual value of nearly
£23,000,000. An extraordinary efflux and influx
of wealth—a really wonderful revenue for a colo-
nial possession so youthful as this dependency of
Australasia—remembering that the revenue of
the venerable mother country herself, the entire
revenue of the United Kingdom at the
date of the ll:evolution_ was, upon the average,
actually no more than £4,000,000 ! Remembering
again, that our imperial imports in 1857 amounted
to just £187,000,000--and the whole of our exports
in the same year to £122,000,000. Yet, within the
brief interval already particularized within the
compass of a single lifetime, one dependency of the
Crown of England, founded as recently as the year
1788, has so swiftly developed its varied and prolific
resources that we find it now, in 1859, with an
annual income of almost £5,000,000—importing
yearly to the value of £27,000,000, and exporting
yearly to the value of £23,000,000. One remark-
able circumstance vouched upon by a comparison
of the returns of the United Kingdom and
those of our antipodean possessiors in Aus-
tralasia, is that of the imports in
each instance being in excess of the exports. What
to a supetficial observer might in this appear to be
an adverse balance in our commercial transactions,
is one of the most reliable indications of the
healthy condition of the trade—here in the United
Kingdom, there in Australia. Together with the
growth of the commerce of that great dependency,
and with the rapid increase of its aggregate re-
venue has been the steady advance there made
in the educational interests of the dependency. The
university already established under Royal charter
at Sydney, will, in all human likelihood; obtain the
balance of a sister university, established also
under Royal charter, at Melbourne. Simultane-
ously with all which striking evidences of the mate-
rial prosperity of the colony, there have, within the
last few years, come to the old mother-country the

nobest tokens of loyalty and love such, for
example, as the splendid contribution recently
transmitted to England in behalf of the sufferers
from the late Hindoo insurrection—such, again, a
little further back, as the princely sum of £150,000,
sent to these islands as an expression of sympathy
to the sufferers from the Crimean war, from their
fraternal fellow-citizens, the colonists of Australia.
Coupling incidents like these with others of a kin-
dred character, transpiring at opposite extremities
of our vast colonial empire, such, we may add, as the
recent embodiment upon the opposite shores of the
Atlantic of the 100th Foot or Royal Canadian
Regiment—it was observed last evening by Her
MAJESTY'S Colonial Secretary as truthfully as elo-
quently—" These things make us feel that, though
oceans divide us, we have all English hearts, and
that the sceptre of Queen VICTORIA is an electric
rod, which unites in kindred sympathy the extre-
mities of our glorious empire." The words closing the
thoughtful and patriotic address delivered yesterday
by that eminent statesman will resound, we doubt
I not, across that wide waste of waters, and thrill to
the heart of many an earnest citizen in that loyal
million of Australians. " The time may come," said
the right hon. baronet, " when these new colonies
of ours will be great States and nations, when they
will find it easier to raise armies among them than
they now find it to raise a police—when, instead of
that single armed steamer for which the colony of
Victoria now so nobly pays, she will have in her
harbours forests of masts, and in her waters a navy
of her own. It may so happen in that distant day
that England may be in danger. It may so
happen that• the great Powers of Old Europe
may then rise up against the venerable
parent of many free commonwealths. If that
day should arrive, I believe that her chil-
dren will not be unmindful of the tie which binds
them to the dear mother country ; and that to her
rescue across the wide ocean, vessels will come
quick and fast, among which there will be beard
but one voice—' While Australia lasts England
shall not perish.' "
With the utterance of that thrilling hope and
belief upon his lips, the Colonial Secretary closed
his admirable speech commemorative of the foun-
dation of our colonies in Australasia.

Are we to have peace or war ? Is the tranquillity
of Europe to be disturbed, and every nation to be
compelled to sustain a heavy outlay in defraying
the expenditure essential even to the most decided
neutrality? England will not sustain Austria in
keeping fetters on Italian limbs. " Lombardo-
Venetia" is one of the talismanic words• that must
create a strong impression on any of the authorities
inVienna. The wrongs ofthe country are well known,
but the inhabitants are wealthy, the taxes produce
a large amount to a not very wealthy exchequer,
and the German sabruirs find it an agreeable
lounge, wherein they can exhibit " high arts,"
and display unbounded insolence. Were it not for
the conduct of the military the irritation at Milan,
Venice, and other towns, might 'be more' easily
appeased, and the people rendered more contented
with the Government they are compelled to submit
to.

But Austria now knows that no assistance can
be anticipated either from England or Prussia.
The universal tone of English journalism proves
the former fact—the speech of the Prince Regent
clearly indicates the latter. Although it has one
hundred and fifty thousand disciplined soldiers in
Italy, and many strong fortresses, which formi-
dable forces would be required to capture, it would
not willingly encounter either the foreign
foes or domestic insurrectionists by which
it might be assailed. It will rather
grant the indispensable reforms, and endea-
vour to conciliate the people than risk an
encounter with France and Sardinia, which must,
under even the most favourable circumstances, be
exceedingly costly, and that at a very inconvenient
time, when they are actually figuring in the
Money-market as borrowers, and are striving to
extract the paltry sum of six millions sterling from
the pockets of JOHN BULL.

There will, then, be no war on the Austrian
side ; on the contrary, it will probably offer every
reasonable concession to avert so formidable a
calamity. But the great point to be considered is
what course will be pursued by Louis NAPOLEON ?
No one can perceive the intricate and devious paths
through which he may be inclined to wander.
None can foretell the difficulties imposed by a
boisterous and turbulent army, for whom it may
be necessary to proVide active employment, lest
they might turn on their employer, and—

" Rend the hand that gave them bread."

Such might be the case with Louis NAPOLEON.
We have seen the truculent addresses of French
Colonels published in the official columns of the
Moniteur. Their tone was such that it could
scarcely be anticipated that peace could be preserved,
but still the firm, but conciliatory tone adopted by
Lord MALMESBURY, produced a fortunate change in
our diplomatic relations, and 'peace was maintained,
notwithstanding all the inauspicious omens that

" Frightened our isle from its propriety."

We believe that the result will be similar in the
present instance. There will not be an EurOpean
war, as we believe ; but trade and commerce have
been paralysed, and production has been arrested, all
because Louis NAPOLEON willed to utter a few
threatening words on a very unsuitable occasion,
and VICTOR EMMANUEL chose to follow suit, and to
sacrifice his poor little daughter, not yet sixteen years
of age, at the Bonapartist shrine. Piedmont has,
as every one knows, her own quarrels to avenge
and her own ambition to gratify. But she
cannot do it unless with powerful assistance.
She must be certain that France will take
her part, and on Tolle ' terms? For even
if triumphant, ' `Might occur that she
would gain s, and that France might take
" share" of the booty. We should desire
to setaraly perfectly free and united under a con-
stitutional government ; but that felicitous result
will not be obtained under such inauspicious
auguries as those proceeding from the Despot of
France or the Autocrat of Russia.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon
at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
in Downing-street. The Ministers present were—The Earl
of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor,
the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, Mr.
Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir Edward
Bulwer Lytton, General Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir John
Pakington, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord John

Manners.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as
the general commanding-in-chief held a levee yesterday
afternoon at the Horse Guards, at which there was a large
attendance of officers.
His Excellency the Austrian Minister and the
Countess d'Apponyt will leave the residence of the Austrian
Legation to-day, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of
Marlborough, at Blenheim.
His Excellency the Minister for the Netherlands
has returned to town from visiting Viscount and Viscountess
Combermere, at Combermere Abbey.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury and
family arrived in Arlington-strett, yesterday, from Hat-
field, for the season.
The Marquis of Lansdowne is expected at Lans-
downe House, from Eowood, on Wednesday next, for the
Parliamentary session.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon will arrive
in town early next week, from The Grove, near Watford,
for the season, 1

nig S[TN, LONDON,

LONDONC, BRIT RA ILGHTON,WAY. AND SOUTH
OAS

HALF-YE. k.RLY MEETING (THIS DAY.)
The ordinary hz .4f-yearly meeting of this company win,-;
was held this day r ‘tthe Bridge-house Hotel—Leo Schuster,
Esq., chairman of the Board of Directors, presiding.
The usual routinv business having been disposed of, and
the report, which has already appeared in The Sun, being
taken as read,
The CHAIRMAN, ii t moving the reception and adoption '
of the report, congra; tulated the meeting on the cheering
position of the wide. rtaking. The capital account was
so clearly set forth in the report that he thought he could
pass it over by merely of .)serving that although the addition
to it was large, it had bee n required to meet the expenses of
acquiring land for the era ction of the Pimlico station, and
he had the assurance of the,.engineers that the works were pro-
ceeding satisfactorily, and he entertained no doubt but that
they would be completed in Id delivered up to the company at
the stipulated time in June I text. The position of debenture
stock was very satisfactory. The next point he referred to
was the revenue. The report was very full on that head,
and if the proprietors carefully .examined it, they would be
fully satisfied with the results. We have had during the
past year to struggle with a commercial crisis, and it was
gratifying to find that they had acquired a net in-
crease of £ll,OOO, after deducting the decrease of the
previous half-year, (Hear, hear.) It was perfectly
clear that this satisfactory result could not have been ac-
complished without the greatest attention to the traffic, and
in all cases where increased accommodation, and where such
had beenoffered ,an increase of receipts had invariablyfollowed.
In the year 1851 there had been no less than seven reduc-
tions of fares ; three in 1852 ; two in 1853 ; one in 1854 ;
Sour in 1855 ; three in 1856 ; nine in 1857 ; and three in
the past year. (Hear, hear.) In not one case had there
been art increase. (Hear, hear.) We have also greatly im-
proved the carriages of the company, feeling it our duty to
do all that w,4.8 possible to give increased comfort to those
possessed of Otle as well as those possessed of much.
(Hear, hear.) \ire have, in carrying out this arrangement,
converted many of oar second class carriages into thirds—
(hear, hear)—and to the third class carriages in possession
of the company we have aanted all the latest improve-
ments. Our second class carriages have also been made
more comfortable ; we have added cushions and stuffed backs,
indeed, your directors have done everything to promote the
general comfort of all travellers availing themselves
of the London and Brighton railway. , The proprietors
would recollect that in, the year 1856 powers were obtained
by a new company to extend this company's Epsom line to
Leatherhead, and he had now the pleasure to inform the
yueeting that the directors of the Brighton Company had
eitered into an agreement for the lease of the Leatherhead
line Ijith an option to purchase at any time within three
years. The line, he believed, was in such a forward state
that it was fully believed it would be open for_trffiac the
first of next omnth. (Hear, hear.) The necessary steps
had been taken to obtain Parliamentary sanction to the
agreement, and also for a further extension of the lino to
Dorking. The plant of the company, it would no
doubt be a satisfaction to the shareholders to know,
.was in the best possible condition, so it was
not likely that any large expenditure on that would
be required for some time. (Hear, hear.) He now ap-
proached a:subject that was of importance to them all, he
meant taxes. In 1858, notwithstanding that the income
tax had been reduced, this company under the head of
taxes had paid no less a sum than L 68,000, which vv of
equal to one and a half per cent of the dividend. (Shame.)
With respect to their relations with the South Western
Company, the chairman assured the meeting that the
board of directors of the Brighton Railway Company had
never taken anything but the straight road, they knowing
full well that any other always led astray. (Hear, hear.)
They had not asked for anything that was not their
own, and they meant to insist on that right
being conceded with firmness and moderation. (Hear.)
They would do all they could to avoid a contest, and all the
directors asked for was the confidence of the proprietors.
(Hear, hear.) He did not know of any other remarks he
need address to them, so he would conclude by moving the
adoption of the report, and observing that he should feel
great pleasure in, answering whatever questions were put to
him. (Cheers.)
The motion of the chairman having been seconded, was,
after a short discussion, carried unanimously.
Resolutions directing the payment of the dividend of 31
per cent. for the half-year, and re-electing the retiring
directors, Leo Schuster, Esq., Charles Lushington, Esq.,
and John Nix, Esq., were also agreed to unanimously.
A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the pro-
ceedings. •

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