The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-10 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. bressrs. I. L. Toole, Chas.
Selby, Billingtoo ; Misses Keeley, Arden, and Laidlaw, and
Mrs. Billington.
After which, THE DEVIL ON TWO STICKS. Mr. J.
L. Toole, P. Bedford, Misses Woolgar, Keeley, Arden, and
Kate Kelly.

To conclude with THE SERTOUS FAMILY. Messrs,
B. Webster, Billington, Toole ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Sims.
Acting manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

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 Swanborough
THIS EVENING will be produced a new Comedietta. by
J. M. Morton, Esq., entitled WHICH OF THE TWO ?
supported by the company.
After which, THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE.
To conclude with VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark.

Commence at 7o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.

Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke.

Continued Success of INANyloE.—Overflowing Houses

Nightly.

THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
a new grand spectacle, founded on Sir Walter Scott's popular
work, entitled IVANHOE; or, The Lists of Ashby, intro-
ducing- among the vast resources of this great Hippodramatic
Temple,Tournaments, Processions, Banners, Combats, Tilts,
Victories, and Achievements in extraordinary magnificence.
Ivanhoe, Mr. R. Phillips ; Isaac of York, Mr. Jas. Holloway;
Richard of England, Mr. Herbert ; Robin Hood, Mr. Wm.
Cooke, jun. ; Rebecca, Miss Bathurst; Lady Rowena, Miss
Dowton.
After which, the matchless and unrivalled SCENES IN
THE CIRCLE, introducing Mr. John Henry Cooke, the
greatest equestrian in the world : together with Miss
Emily Cooke, Madame Blanche, Madame Bridges, Madlle.
Fleurette, and Madame Francisco, being the greatest amount
of female equestrian talent ever seen in one night in any
theatre. Grotesques—Messrs. Hemming and Thorne.
k To conclude with the Farce of RAISING THE WIND.

:Dregs Circle, 4s. ; 80xe5,..215._; Pit, ?s, ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper

Gallery, 6d.
Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, asid £1 Is.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips

CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS
GALLERY. Westminster-road.—Open at Seven.

EVERY EVENING during the week will appear
THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY,

consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., .Tnles, Jnliette,
and Julia Delepierre, 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 ever
written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi-
ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu-
Mastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France
and Belgium.

They will perform EVERY EVENING, at NINE and
ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MAY 10.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
64—highest since noon yesterday.
48—lowest this morning and during the night.
63—this day at noon.
BAROMETER. -30.29.
WIND, South-easterly; light, with fine weather.

THE SUN.

TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1859.

Our Detective Police are certainly beginning to
want the assistance of Monsieur C. AUGUSTE
DI:PIN, the astute Parisian friend of EDGAR ALLAN
POE, the American Poet and Romancist. Neither
the " Mystery of MARIE ROGET," nor the mist of
doubt surrounding the " Murders in the Rue
Morgue " can be said to eclipse in interest the im-
penetrable and inscrutable horror enveloping the
tragedies of the Carpet Bag at Waterloo Bridge,
and of that other Carpet Bag on the sands at Mar-
gate, with the dead body of the man to whom it
had belonged lying upon the beach seven miles off
near the foot of Augusta-stairs, at Ramsgate. From
the first there were manifest, in the former of these
two atrocious incidents, the evidences of a diabo-
lical assassination having been perpetrated. At
the last there is beginning to grow out of the first
supposition, in reference to the latter, that the
cause of death was an ecceistric kind of suicide—a
conviction that a thousand significant details point
here again to murder, brutal and fiendish murder,
as the real cause of the catastrophe. The corre-
spondent of the chief of our morning contempora-
ries—an anonymous writer, signing his communi-
cation with the initials C. D.—who has recently
scrutinised anew the whole of the evidence laid be-
fore the Coroner's jury at Ramsgate when the
dead body of the poor German traveller was earliest
discovered there under the cliffs—has shown with
extraordinary sagacity how utterly preposterous
it is to dream that the cause of death there was the
act of deliberate self-destruction. The peculiarity
of the wound in the breast, immediately under the
left nipple, being upwards and the bleeding from
it inwards, showing that the blow must have been
administered when the body was in a recumbent
position ! The orifice of the wound being enlarged
by the movement to and fro of the knife
struck through the heart—when the very gash
through the heart shows that death must
have been absolutely instantaneous ! The
considerable amount of property known to have
been in his possession directly before death, having
altogether disappeared—money, watch, signet ring
—nay, the very instrument of death, with which, as
we have already remarked, he must have been killed
instantaneously ! Casual circumstances again, in
regard to the condition of the few articles of his
apparel found scattered along the shore near Mar-
gate, in the vicinity of his empty carpet bag, and
near Ramsgate, in the vicinity of his naked corpse
—such peeilliar circumstances, for example, as that
showing that the tops of his boots (according to the
evidence of a cobbler examined before the coroner's
jury) had been cut off with the skill of a practised
shoemaker ! Together with that other additional
evidence which went to prove that, upon the beach
near Margate (on the morning of the discovery of
the poor -wretch's body near Ramsgate), a portion,
not the Whole, but a portion of one of his shirts,
was seen there covered with blood—that it after-
wards, on a second examination, was found to have
been made away with—that there were tokens on
that spot of a fire having been kindled—that there
was a partially burnt inciter match
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ymg there, and
imprinted upon the sands the mark of the footsteps
of a man and woman ! All these and other
sinister and suggestive
hardly less appearances
carefully enumerated by C. D. in the columns of
the Times, point, we do seriously believe, in this in-
stance clearly, distinctly, unmistakeably to the
murder that unfortunate foreigner, and a murder,

too, it must be repeated, of the most brutal and
fiendish character. The evidences of murder found
months before inside that other carpet bag on one
of the abutments of Waterloo-bridge, we all remem-
ber with a shudder to have been, as we have said
from the first, glaringly apparent. Yet to this
day in neither instance has there been traced by
one inch the faintest clue to the perpetrators
of these hideous assassinations. Our Detectives are
all of them at fault. Mr. BUCKET is evidently a
creature wholly born of CHARLES DICKENS'S vivid
imagination. There is not anywhere to be found in
the whole police corps the most shadowy semblance
of the original of that character. The Detectives
of England are manifestly but a small improvement
upon the old Bow-street Runners, who were so
effectually baffled by the undiscovered destroyer of
ELIZA GRIMWOOD. The murderers of that mysteri-
ous somebody whose boiled bones were lowered in a
bundle over the parapet of Waterloo Bridge by an
old woman with grey hair, a mole on her face, and
the strength apparently of a coal heaver—go to
this day scot free and wholly undetected. The
murderers (evidently) of that other victim under
the shadows of the cliffs to the east of Ramsgate
are equally undiscovered and unsuspected. There
is a manifest delusion we cannot but think from
all this—a glaringly manifest delusion in
the popular mind as to the extraordinary
skill of our English Detectives. Their reputed
sagacity is again and again, we repeat, entirely at
fault. Added to which unwelcome consideration
comes the growing thought, that SIIAKSPERE spoke
in error when he declared that—" Murder, though it
have no tongue, will speak with most miraculous
organ !" Or, if it does always so speak, it is some-
times in a language yet unlearnt by our Detectives.
Conclusive testimony of which has surely been
afforded of late somewhat frightfully in that mur-
der at London, and in that other murder at Rams-
gate !
" Murder ?
Murder most foul, as in the best it is :
But this most foul, strange, and unnatural."
landet, act i., scene v.]

A testimonial of no ordinary character has fol-
lowed Sir ARTHUR HALLAM ELTON, Bart., and
late M.P. for the City of Bath, in his retirement
from the representation of that fickle and petulant
constituency. It is a testimonial of more value
than gold or silver—being, in fact, a spontaneous
and cordial Address, signed by one hundred and
eighty of the leading Liberal and Conservative
Gentry and Tradesmen of Bath, signed 22d of
April, 1859, and among other things declaring on
the part of the subscribers—" We hesitate not to
record our deliberate opinion, that during a period of
great State difficulty, when the contest of parties has
more than usually influenced the judgment of the
representatives of the people, you have discharged
your duty to the Parliament and. your constituency
with honour, integrity, and. solicitude for the pub-
lic interests; and although you have deemed it your
duty to retire from the representation of this city
in Parliament, we are yet anxious to express our
appreciation of that truthfulness and independence
of character which have uniformly marked your
conduct in the House of Commons." The address,
while expressing at the commencement of it un-
feigned regret that Sir ARTHUiI, ELTON'S political
connection with the City of Bath should have been
so suddenly terminated, intimates, before its close,
a confident hope that a fitting opportunity may be
afforded, " at no distant period," by availing himself
of which the hon. baronet might be again enabled
to take his place in the council of the nation. The
reasonableness of that hope we instantly recognise
—with it we fully concur—in it we cordially sym-
pathise. It is by no means improbable, indeed,
that Sir ARTHUR ELTON may eventually experience
from the electors of Bath an evidence of repentance
as timely and as welcome as that once upon a time
afforded to Lord (then Mr.) MACAULAY by the
electors of the capital of Scotland—Mr. MACAULAY
having been rejected by Edinburgh in the July of
1847, and returned again as M.P. for Auld Iteekie
exactly five years afterwards, when in the July of
1852 he was returned again as M.P. for the city
of Edinburgh without attending the election, or
even issuing an address to the constituency !
In responding to the very gratifying communica-
tion addressed to him by 180 of the Bath electors—
both gentry and tradesmen, both Liberals and
Conservatives Sir ARTHUR ELTON remarks as
frankly as judiciously—" With reference to the
difficulties impeding of late years the progress of
legislation, and the action of Government at home
and abroad, to which allusion is made in your
address, it is common to attribute them to the un•
ruly caprice of the various sections into which the
House of Commons has been divided." Adding,
" I hold, however, that the blame attaches not to
political parties, but to those who on either side of
the house profess to lead them. There was no want
of intellectual vigour or earnestness in the last Par-
liament. Why were not those valuable qualities
turned to better account ? Whose was the fault ?
I answer without hesitation that the fault lay with
our foremost public men, and not with the bulk of
the Liberal party." "If, instead of labouring for
party objects," continues Sir ARTHUR, "any
one of our present statesmen had boldly
thrown himself on the manly sense and
honest instincts of the House of Commons, I
believe he would have commanded an amount of
support most influential in determining the conduct
of Government, whether Whig or Tory, to the
great advantage, not merely of England, but of the
civilised world. Immediately following upon which
retrospective observations, there follows the earnest
avowal of the writer's conviction that there now
devolves both upon the Ministry and upon the
Parliament which will be shortly assembled a
weighty responsibility. So obviously solemn and
inevitable is the responsibility, that it is scarcely
credible for an instant that any one of those despi-
cable party designs recently heard of can be seri•
ously entertained in the presence of a great Euro-
pean war, by the most factious, by the least pa-
triotic, by the most selfishly ambitious statesmen
upon the side of the Opposition. A mere vulgar
scramble for power, with all its patronage
and perquisites, at the moment the oppos-
ing hosts of Austria and France are meeting
in deadly conflict upon the soil of Sardinia, would,
to say the very least of it, be but a discreditable
spectacle in the presence of Christendom. What
the new Parliament has to decide now is not the
advantage of this or that party, but the strength
and integrity of the position occupied by the Go-
vernment of England in the midst of the clashing
interests of the Courts and Cabinets of Europe.

His Royal Highness the Prince of 'Wales is ex-
pected to arrive at Buckingham Palace early in the en-
suing week from Gibraltar and Italy. The Osborne, which
left Portsmouth on Sunday, has gone to Gibraltar ex-
pressly to convey the heir-apparent to England,
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
his been suffering from the effects of a violent cold, which
prevented her Royal Highness attending the confirmation
of the Princess Alice at Windsor, and also the Queen's
Drawing-room on Saturday. Oa Sunday her Majesty and
the Prince Consort visited the Duchess at her residence at
Kew.

Accounts front the German Bourses state that
many of the Italian capitalists and speculators who were
active sellers of Austrian securities before the commence-
ment of the war have since come into the market as buyers.
Probably in most cases, however, the change of operatiune,
has been merely for tht realization of proflto,

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