The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-02 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

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ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer,
Engagement of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams.
THIS EVENING, will be produced a new comic Drama,
by Edmnnd Falconer, entitled THE LEPRACHAUN ; or,
Bad Luck's Good Luck with Good Looking After. Messrs.
Bat ney Williams, Barrett, &c.
After which, THE HOUR AT SEVILLE. Mrs. Barney
Williams in ten characters.
To conclude with IRELAND AS IT WAS. Mr. and Mrs
Barney Williams.
Reduced Prices—Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit,
2s. ; Stalls, ss. ; Gallery, ls.
Box-offica 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 appearance in the new theatre of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Wigan.—Revival of DOMESTIC ECONOMY. John
Grundy, Mr. Wright. Unprecedented success of the
INVISIBLE PRINCE. Mr. J. L. Toole, Miss Woolgar.
THIS EVENING, the performance will commences with
STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. John Mildmay (h first
appearance), Mr. A. Wigan ; Mr. Potter, Mr. Charles Selby;
Hawksley, Mr. Billington ; Mrs. Mildmay, Mrs.. Billington ;
Mrs. Sternhold (her first appearance), Mrs. A. Wigan.
After which, DOMESTIC ECONOMY. John Grundy,
Mr. Wright.
To conclude with THE INVISIBLE PRINCE. Mr. J. L.
Toole, Miss Woolgar, Miss Arden, Miss Keeley, Miss Kate
K elly.
Doors open at a quarter-Past six—Commence at seven. Box
Office open from 10 to 5 --no charge for booking. No fees to
servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborongh
—THIS EVENING, WOOING DT JEST AND LOVING
IN EARNEST.
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.

Another Grand Spectacle.
THIS EVENING, and during the week, an entirely new
dramatic romance, interspersed with extraordinary hippo-
dramatic effects and striking situations, taken from the last
popular novel by H. Grant, Esq., called THE HUNDRED
CUIRASSIERS. Produced with new scenery, mechanical
arrangements, gorgeous in I characteristic costumes, elabo-
rate equestrian and spectacular Appointments, and the hand-
somest Stud of Horses in the world. Characters by Messrs.
Holloway, Phillips, Anson, Francis, Anderson, M. Howard.
Herbert ; Mesdames Dowton, Blanche, Julia Weston, Thorne,
Arc.
To be followed by SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, intro-
ducing Mr. W. Cooke, Mr. Bridges, Mr. A. Cooke, &c.
Madame Blanche, Madame Bridges, Maddlle. Fleurette, and
Emily Cooke, together with the Star Riders. and Astley's
unrivalled Troupe of equestrian Artistes.
To conclude with the great Operatic and Burlesque Eques-
trian Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN BARON MUN-
CHAUSEN, AND HIS COMICAL CREAM COB
CRUISER. Baron Munchausen, Mr. W. Anson ; Harlequin,
Mr. 11. Hemmings ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morley; Clown, Mr. A.
F. Forrest, the Grimaldi of the day ; Columbine, Miss Julia
Weston. Brilliant and unsurpassable Transformation Scene,
with dazzling effects of Colour and Fire. Gorgeous Scenery,
and every incident in bustling reality, from Regent-street to
the "New Palace for the People, at Muswell Hill."
Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, Is. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper
Gallery, 6d.'
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.--
Proprietor--C. MORTON.
The public is most respectfully informed that the FINE
ARTS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hail, IS NOW
OPEN DAT 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-
ing Music Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently
added Ante-llall, 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
Ii ingdom.
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 OFFICE, 1114RCH 2.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

s.s—highest since noon yesterday.
48—lowest this morning and during the night.
53—this day at noon.

BA nomrrEn-30.19—falling.
WIND, South-West ; light, with fine weather, but cloudy,

The withdrawal of Mr. WALPOLE and of Mr.
HENLEY from the Cabinet cannot but tend mate-
rially, under existing circumstances, to the
strengthening and popularising of Lord DERBY'S
Administration. Their joint removal constitutes in
effect the elimination of whatever was left of ultra-
Toryism in the Government. The projected
change in the borough and county franchise, more
particularly the extension of the latter to ten pound
householders, appears to have been altogether too
much for the sensitive nerves of the right honour-
able gentlemen but the other day respectively Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State
for the Home Department. Having said this, we
have said, as distinctly as words could well express
the fact, that Mr. WALPOLE and Mr. HENLEY
were impracticable as administrators. Their si-
multaneous retirement has been like the dropping
off, in the onward march of events, of chiefs alto-
gether unequal to the continuance of the advance
movement. Supposing it to have been in any wav
practicable for the Cabinet to have retained their
services, that could only have been accomplished at
the expense of retarding its progress, of repressing
its energies, of diminishing the steady and gradua-
ted development of its policy. It is a double gain,
therefore, of vigour and freedom to the Cabinet--
the withdrawal of Mr. WALPOLE and Mr. HENLEY
from the front to the back benches of the Treasury.
The explanations given to the House last even-
ing by those two right hon. ex-Ministers, while it
will say but little for their discretion or for the
soundness of their judgments, says everything for
their personal honour and political consistency.
They retire to the comparative privacy of
the back benches with the respect of friends
and foes—of their late colleagues, and of
the confronting array of the Opposition. Their
position during the last few weeks must ob-
viously have been very painful under the circum-
stances—so irksome, indeed, as to render their
withdrawal at last from the Cabinet a peculiar
relief to themselves individually. Nay, so painfully
anomalous, in truth, has been the position of
the retiring administrators, that Mr. WALPOLE
could not refer to it yesterday without being
visibly agitated by profound emotion. Insomuch
that the Parliamentary reporter interpolates in
parenthesis " (the right hop, gentleman was so much
affected at this portion of his address that he was
under the necessity of pausing for a few moments)."
He then resumed, however, amid general
acclamations, " It was for that reason that
I continued to sit upon that bench for three
weeks " &C. -in pursuance of his detailed
explanation. Very different was the tone
in which his ex-colleague, Mr. HENLEY, re-
verted to the interval during which they were
sitting together under a cloud on that front Trea-

sury bench. Remembering, with a sort of a serio-
comic shudder, the dilemma from which they had
but just at length escaped—Mr. HENLEY treated
the matter almost cheerily, certainly whimsically.

He was so glad to be once more before the
country in his true character that he was evidently
disposed (we are almost inclined to conjecture, for
the first, if not the only, time in his life) to be
facetious. His predicament latterly in office,
according to his view of it, was almost ridiculous.
He was for all the world, he says, like one walking
about continually with a mask on his face! And
being all this while, as he reminds us, not by any
means " a person who, what they call, keeps his
light under a bushel"—it is with a sigh of relief,
whew ! that poor Mr. HENLEY plucks the
mask off his honest face, and kicks away the
bushel by which his light has for once in a
way been somehow or another all but extin-
guished ! People had really begun to suppose
him open to conviction—at any rate, in some
moderate sense of the word, just something of a
Reformer. Not a bit of it ! says Mr. HENLEY—
don't think it for a moment : I am what I have always
been—true blue—one of the old school—staunchly
Tery, as they say, to the backbone. And with this
the old Tory Statesman of Waterperry resumes his
seat upon one of those pleasant back benches amidst
the good humoured laughter, and hearty cheers at
once of IVlinisteriaLs and Opposition. Sympathising
thus with each other—" rowing in the same boat,
but with different sculls "—Mr. HENLEY and Mr.
WALPOLE indulged the House, last evening, with
their contrasting and eminently characteristic
explanations. The important vacancies caused by
their retirement have been at once judiciously
filled up by the transference of the Right Hon.
SOTHERON ESTCOURT from the Presidency of the
Poor Law Board to the chieftainship of the Home
Department, and the promotion to the Presidency
of the Board of Trade of its hitherto Vice-
President under the existing regime, the Earl
of DONOUGHMORE. The vacated Vice-Presidency
is awarded to Lord LOTAINE, heretofore one
of the non-professional Lords of the Admiralty, the
latter post being reserved for Mr. F. .LYGON, the
hon. member for one of the fifteen part-doomed
boroughs, to wit, Tewkesbury. Relieved from two
heavy weights, or, as some have deemed them, dead-
weights, there is no question at all about it that
there ought to be now more " play" and " go" in the
Administration.

A Select Committee has been appointed to inquire
into the operation of certain burdens and restrictions
specially affecting merchant shipping ; and also of
Lord CAMPBELL'S Act for compensating the families
of persons killed by accident ; of the Merchant
Shipping Act of 1854 ; of the Amendment Act of
1855 ; and the Chinese Passengers Act of the same
session. It is but an act of simple justice to say
that ,the question was brought forward and dis-
cussed in the most fair and temperate manner.
There was no effort to induce the house to adopt
a retrograde policy, or to enter again on the prin-
ciple of Protection. There was not a single word
uttered in favour of the resuscitation of the old
Navigation Laws, or the revival of a system of
monopoly and restriction. Nay more, it was
not even asked that Ministers should put
the reciprocity clauses into operation. It was
stated that a very important national interest, in
which no less than £70,000,000 sterling has been
invested, and in which the community at large
takes the deepest interest, justly regarding
it as the nursery for the Royal Navy, is in a very
depressed condition, and that certain local charges
and fiscal burdens press with peculiar severity on
shipbuilders. A fair issue has thus been raised,
and we are satisfied that a just and equitable
verdict will be returned.

It is by no means surprising that the shipping
interest should be depressed. Had it been other-
wise it would have formed a rare and marked ex-
ception to the general rule. All classes have
suffered from the extraordinary caution, or
rather general distrust, that has prevailed
since the monetary crisis of 185 S. When
credit has been suspended and the industrial
energies of the country paralysed, it would be
strange, indeed, if the shipowners did not partici-
pate in the general distress. They have been better
off than others, for they have had seasons of extra-
ordinary prosperity. During the entire period of
the Russian war they were making almost cent. per
cent., and it was well known that the cost of a new
vessel was repaid to the owner within the first
year. The Indian rebellion also stimulated the
transport trade, and it is by no means surprising
that, these exceptional causes being removed, and
commerce being in a languishing position, the
shipowners should now bring their complaints be-
fore Parliament.

Any assistance that can fairly or justly be
accorded, we shall gladly see rendered, provided
always the grand principle of free and unembar-
rassed trade, of unrestricted competition, be not in
any degree interfered with. We look with admira-
tion at the system which gives employment to so
many seamen, preparing them to serve their country
zealously and efficiently in the event of any sudden
emergency. This is even more important than the
vast sum involved, although that amounts to no
less than £70,000,000.

We earnestly hope and believe that the legiti-
mate expansion of trade will bring round the
welfare and prosperity that is so much required.
There is greater competition abroad, simply
because there is a larger amount of tonnage
seeking employment. We trust that the labours
of the Select Committee will pave the way to the
removal of every reasonable ground of complaint,
and that ere the termination of the current year
the aimudance of money, and the removal of the
grim distrust that has paralysed all industry, will
restore to the shipbuilders that demand which will
ensure handsome, or at all events fair, profits.
We cannot conclude without referring to the
fiscal part of the question. The timber-duties are
decidedly
impolitic, and ought to be repealed
at the earliest possible opportunity. We
must, however, have some consideration for
the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, and re-
member the arduous task he has to accomplish in
making both ends meet during the present year.
He cannot easily afford to give up £1,200,000 a-
valent to parties en-
joying for the amount they draw
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from the distressed shipowners. Possibly, how-
ever, the matter may be arranged by time, and the
restoration of to merchant shipping,
even before the report of the committee can be ob-
tained, may prevent the necessity of immediate
legislation or any severe fiscal sacrifices.

We understand that arrangements have been
made for a:matrimonial union between the Right Hon. Lord
Panmure, K.T., G.C.8., &c., late Secretary of State for
War, and Lady Charlotte Carnegie, sister of the present
Earl of Southesk. The bride elect is just twenty ; his lord-'
ship was born in 1801, and was left a widower in. 1853.—
Court Circular.
Miss Burdett Coutts, with thoughtful kindness,
has given orders for the erection of a block of dwellings for
families in. Nova Scotia Gardens, Shoreditch, one of the
eyesores of even that neglected quarter of the metropolis.
Four storeys, with an attic storey, to be used as laundries,
&c., clubrooms, and covered in areas for the exercise of
the children of the inhabitants in wet weather, will make
1.)..t_1n imposing building 176 feet long, and nearly 50 feet
high.—Court Circular.

THE THEATRES.

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WEDNESDAY. MARCH 2, 1839.