The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-08 00:00:00

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS.
Fabien and Louis dei Franchi. By Mr. C. Kean.
To conclude with A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.

Commence at 7.

►THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckatone.
,THIS EVENING, A NABOB FOR AN HOUR.
THE CONTESTED ELECTION.
After which, OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND.
To conclude with HALLOWE'EN.
Commence at 7.

NENV THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST.

Followed by the new burlesque, THE BABES IN THE
WOOD. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, C. J. Smith,
Eburne ; Miss Woolgar and Miss K. Kelly.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box
Office open from 10 to 5 —no charc,,e for booking. No fees to
servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough
THIS EVENING, CAPTAIN CHARLOTTE. Miss M.
Wilton.

After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses
Swanborough, Oliver, and Lavine.
Followed by TILE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS.

Commence at 7 o'clock.

VERDI'S OPERA OP MACBETH. The
whole of the first Act of this Opera, now produced
for the first time in this country (the remaining three acts
being in course of rehearsal), is sung nightly at the CAN-
TERBURY HALL CONCERTS.
THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY,

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Consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette,
and Julia Deleplerre, aged, respectively, FOUR, six, and
EIGHT years.
The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some
of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios evc:
written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi-
ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu-
siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France
and Belgium.
They will perform TWICE EACH EVENING, in addi-
tion to the usual Entertainments.

THE WEATHER.--SUN Omcm, Arm) ST 7.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
71—highest since noon yesterday.
65—lowest this morning and during the night.
74—this day at noon.
BARomETE2,--29.92—falling.
WIND, South-Westerly; light, with fine weather.
Some rain in the night.

AUG. 8.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
75—highest since noon yesterday.
67—lowest this morning and during the night.
74—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.82--still falling.
WIND, South •West ; light, and very sultry.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins DAY.—Morning, 9h. sm.—Afternoon, 9h. 46m.
To-MORROW-Morning, 10h. 31m.—Afternoon, 11h. 12m.

THE SUN.

MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1859.

It may be as well to particularise, in a few words,
the chief among the various changes recommended
with a view to the better manning of the British
Navy—by the Royal Commissioners.
And before enumerating these suggested improve-
ments—improvements suggested, be it remembered,
by the highest authorities, and after the maturest
deliberation laid in a substantial report before Par-
liament—it cannot but be encouraging at once to
observe that the estimated cost of the whole of these
measures would not (according to the report)
exceed—not a very alarming sum (even to Mr.
WILLIAMS)—X6OO,OOO. For six hundred thou-
sand pounds sterling at the outside, it is calculated
that the country might realise all the advantages
suggested by the Royal Commissioners.
And those advantages ? Well, they are not very
numerous—but they are, beyond a doubt, to our
thinking very important, and very worthy of con-
sideration.

The Commissioners propose, then, in the first
instance, and speaking in round numbers, to secure
to the Royal Navy for the purpose of any sudden
emergency that might arise 50,000 additional
men, seamen, marines, volunteers, and coastguards.
men. Fifty thousand additional men just for
emergencies ! Namely, 4,000 reserved seamen—
not a very extravagant reserve of tars, this, surely ?
Together with these 4,000 reserved seamen-11,000
marines ashore ; 12,000 coastguardsmen, of course,
as their very name implies, distributed along the
coast at the different stations ; some 3,000 or 4,000
ordinary volunteers—making thus, in all, an aggre-
gate of 30,000 ! An aggregate yet farther in-
creased to the total already mentioned of 50,000
—by 20,000 Naval Volunteers to be drawn
ingeniously from the merchant seamen scattered
through our various ports a body of men
always numbering actually in those parts not less
than a clear 100,000 altogether. It is conceived—
and not very irrationally, we think, by the com-
missioners—that 20,000 out of that 100,000 might
be rendered easily enough available for the Royal
Navy, by the holding out to them of a few suffi-
ciently alluring inducements. Such inducements,
for example, as actual pay for whatever leisure
time might be consumed in practice—pensions
secured to them at fifty years of age, or, at the
latest, at fifty-five—payment at rapid intervals—
admission into the coastguard service—and, last and
not least, shelter under the palace roof of that grand
old hospital at Greenwich, of our maritime and
national In valides. It is thus that the Commission
proposes to secure for the Royal Navy for periods
of emergency, whenever they might unhappily
arise, a perpetually available addition of 30,000
men. To recapitulate them succinctly-4,000 tars
in reserve, 11,000 long-shore marines, 3,000 or 4,000
ordinary volunteers, and 20,000 naval volunteers,
procurable from the 100,000 merchant seamen at
all times to be found scattered among the ports of
Great Britain. And all this the Commission dis-
tinctly estimates might be accomplished for about
£600,000. Those £600,000, by the way, including
besides the augmentation (by 5,000 men) of the
marines, and the annual augmentation (by 1,500)
of the boys enrolled in our maritime service, and
entered on board training ships such as the Bri-
tannia! The number of boys so entered at present
being no more yearly than five hundred in all—
we should by the adoption of that one sug-
gestion alone secure no less than two thou-
sand
annually of those stripling tars, who are
for warlike purposes the hope and the glory of
England.

Hereupon we cannot possibly do better than
quote some most sagacious, most patriotic, and
admirably timed remarks, which appear in the
course of a masterly paper upon the " State of the
Navy," in the new number of the Edinburgh. The
reviewer therein observes, in reference to the sug-

gested improvements in our maritime organisation :
—" The tendency of the reforms and improvements
loudly called for, and gradually obtained, in the
telministration of the military and Puval depart-
ments is to break down those exclusive professional
barriers which have so long been the bane of the
service. The true strength of the army and navy
of Er gland is that they are identified by the
closest ties with the national feelings, the en-
terprise, the industry, and the ingenuity of the
cowatry. When the gallant forces in the Crimea
were at their dreariest hour, crushed by a foe
more powerful than the Russians, sanitary
se;,ence , civil administration, female devotedness,
an d national determination snatched them back
frc an the verge of destruction. Civil engineering,
wi tick nowhere achieves greater triumphs than in

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