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

Commencd at 8 o'clock.

TiIEATRE-ROYAL, HAY MARXET.
Lessee, Mr. J. I. Backstone.
Tun; ETF,NING the performances swill commence with
AN UNEQUAL MATCH Miss Amy Sedgick.
After which, a new Fare.-, entitled THE RIFLE, AND
HOW TO USE IT. Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Rogers,
Mrs. B. White, Air+. Wilkins, and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam.
And JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON.
Commence at 7.

AYMARKET THEATRE ROYAL. -
.1_ For the Benefit of MISS AMY SEDGWICK,
SATURDAY, October 22, 1859, and her Last Appearance ;
oh occasion wi be produce , by the kind permission
of Messn whicrs. Robson and Emden,
PLOT AND PASSION.
Madame de Fontanges, Miss Amy Sedgwick (for this night
Only).
To be followed by THE DAY AFTER TILE WEDDING.
Lady Elizabeth Fteelove, Miss Amy Sedgwick.
To conclude with THE RIFLE AND HOW TO USE IT
in which Mr. Buckstone will perform.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Uarris.
TR'S EVP.YrNI4, the performances will commence with
LOVE'S TELEGR'APIL
To be followed by a dramatic tableau in Watteau colours,
by J. R. Planche, Esq., entitled LOVE AND FORTUNE.
To conclude with THE ✓TWO POLTS.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manazer, Mr. Benj. Webster.
Open for the Winter Season.
THIS EVENING will be performed ICI ON PARLE
FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, and Miss
Kelly.
After which, THE WILLOW COPSE. Luke, Mr. Ben.
Webster ; Hulks, Mr. David Fisher ; Augustus, Mr. J. L.
Toole; Staggers, Mr. Paul Bedford.
Followed by LOVE AND HUNGER. Mr. David Fisher,
Mr. Paul Bedford, C. Selby, C. J. Smith, Miss K. Kelly, Miss
Laidlaw.
Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Bots
Office open open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing, sea,
nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment arc strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith

ROYAL sT. JAIES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West-
minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen-
gers all hours of the night.
THIS EVENING, Poole's comedy, THEY'RE BOTH TO
BLAME. Messrs. Leigh Murray, Barrett, Walter Carle ;
Mesdames Erank Matthews, Murray, Catharine Hickson.
After which the successful Ballet Farce, by John Oxen-
ford, Esq., entitled MAGIC TOYS, support 2d by Miss Lydia
Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, and a numerous Corps de
Ballet.
To conclude with the New and Original Burlesque, by L.
Buckingham, Esq., of VIRGINIUS ; or the Trials of a Fond
Papa.
Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, is. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform-
ance commences at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanboroitzh
TATS EVENING, TILE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN
EGGS.
After which THE GREAT RUSSIAN BEAR; or, An-
other Retreat from Moscow.
And CAUGHT BY TTIE EARS.
Followed by TitE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS.
Commence at 7 o'olook.

(14NTERTIUR Y HALL CONCERTS.—
v EVERY EVENING.—The Nagle of Verdi's Opera of
MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con-
certs).
In a few days will be produced a Selection froth Meyer-
beer's new opera of DINORAH.
Comic Vocalists -Messrs. fleorrre Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. I'. Critelli'ela, and E. W. Vackney.
Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of -galls have be 'n re-decorated and
boantitied. and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.

THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFPICM, OCTOBER 21.
THEINIONETER, IN THE SHIM
61—highest since noon yesterday.
40—lowest this morning and during the night.
43—this day at noon.

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

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This DAY.—Morning, 9h. 7m.—Afternoon, 9h. 51m.
To-lIoRRO w•Mornhn, 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 ur on that
evening, at the Royal 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, its 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 diffia-

ence is not, perhaps, altogether precisely what the
majority might have anticipated. Mr. GLADSTONE,
in returning thanks for his cr,vn "health,"

not contented with giving a dry toast,
must needs give one, if we may venture upon
the vulgarism, very thickly and over abundantly
buttered. 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 CHANDOS)
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 Altogethcr 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 cn 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 Johnsouian " elegant extract"—quoth Mr.
GLADSTONE, "Dr. JOHNSON, I thilZ7Z, 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
prepo.,terous misapplication—" Dr. JOHNSON 1
think says that whatever induces a man to lire
more in the future and less in the present exalts
him in the sale of creation." If Mr. GLADSTONE
will but take down fro:n his bookshelves the
volume ofJoHNsoN's works, containing 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
rhetorical passages in the English language : we