The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-21 00:00:00

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swatibormgh
THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN
EGGS.
After which THE GREAT RUSSIAN BEAR; or, An-
other Retreat from Moscow.
And CAUGHT BY TIIE EARS.
Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS. . .

Commence at 7 o'clock,

CANTERBURY
HALL CONCERTS.—
CEVERY EVENING.—The )tusic of Verdi's Opera 01
MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con-
certs). _ _ _

Ina few days will be produced a Selection from Meyer-
beer's new opera of DINOIZAH.
Comic Vocalists - Messrs. (leorze ITo lson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Hackney.
Several interestinz Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 21.
THEIMONETEB, IN THE SHAM
61—highest since noon yesterday.
40—lowest this morning and during the night.
43—this day at noon.

BArtomETErt-29.32.
Wurn, Northerly; light. with very cold weather. The
coldest night for six months.

HIGIi WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins Diy.—Morning, 9h. 7m.—Afternoon, 9h. 51m,
To-Moßuow-Morning, 10h. 33m.—Afternoon, 11h. 10m,

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THE SUN.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1859

Already we have had several distinct celebrations
of one of the most memorable events of 1859—the
virtual completion of the grandest of all modern
achievements in naval architecture. The Great
Eastern, however, is worthy, indeed, of this reite-
rated jubilation. It is worthy of it as one of the most
signal products of our engineering genius and com-
mercial enterprise. Wednesday, howbeit, at length
it may be observed, witnessed the gratifying inci-
dent of its crowning inauguration. For uron that
evening, at the Roy al Hotel, Holyhead, the directors
of the Great Ship Company were entertained at a
grand banquet, in company with a numerous gather-
ing of distinguished public characters, by the
London and North-Western Railway Company,
termed by one of the speakers, the greatest
railway company in the world. Conspicuous among
those who participated in these festivities, it will be
seen through the interesting report of the proceed-
ings published in another part of our impression of
this evening, were the late First Lord of the Ad-
miralty and the present Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer. Between the speeches delivered by those
two prominent members of the House of Commons
—one, a man of rare genius, the other, a man of
remarkable common sense, energy, and general in-
telligence—there is, of course, observable a very
marked difference indeed. But the kind of differ-
ence is not, perhaps, altogether precisely what the
majority might have anticipated. Mr. GLADSTONE,
in returning thanks for his own "health,"
not contented 'with giving a dry toast,
must needs give one, if we may venture upon
the vulgarism, very thickly and over abundantly
bultered. He it is who tells his hosts that their's
is " the first railway company in the world." He
speaks of the Chairman (the Marquis of CIIANDOS)
to his face, as " an honour to the order to which he
belongs." He has a word of panegyric to be pro-
nounced over the recently devoured banquet itself,
declaring it ecstatically to have been "so admi-
rably served !" He has, almost we were going to
say the indelicacy, but we will call it instead of
that the effrontery, to tell the audience he is
addressing that it is " incomparable com-
pany 1" Altogether piling the Pelion upon
the Ossa of flattery, and making the Olympus of
ordinary compliment quite a wart by comparison !
Besides which, there comes blown to us in the
rather empty -wind-bag of Mr. GLADSTONE'S
after-dinner oration on Wednesday, a distorted
fragment of a ridiculously applied extract from
Dr. JOHNSON, and one admirably selected quota-
tion, qUite the gem of the speech, from POPE'S
" Windsor Forest." As to the former—that is,
the Johnsonian " elegant extract"—quoth Mr.
GLADSTONE, "Dr. JOHNSON, I says"—so
that the right hon. gentleman is actually not
quite certain about the right authorship of a
remark that must surely, to the ordinary run of
English students, be familiar as household words—a
remark which the Chancellor of the Exchequer thus
goes on to murder in cold blood for the purpose of a
preposterous misapplication —" Dr. JOHNSON I
think says that whatever induces a man to live
more in the future and less in the present exalts
him in the sale of creation." If Mr. GLADSTONE
will but take down from his bookshelves the
volume ofiOIINSON'S worksontaining the Doctor's
account of his " Tour to the Hebrides," he will find

the original passage in its integrity and en-
tirety--one of thz; most exquisitely beautiful
rhe4°rical passages in the English language : we