The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-23 00:00:00

THE - SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 23, 1859,

WAREHOUSES WANTED.
A large stack required for immediate occup_tion.
The waterside preferred. Particulars addressed to J. 11. W.,
at Messrs. Bax and Sons, 143, Bishopsgate-street, will have
prompt attention.

Navy, if he began at nine or even ten o'clock ;
adding, that as the First Lord had had rather
more than three weeks to prepare it, he

might make that evening, and allow the

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English Parties and English PolitiCs.
The Religious Future of India.
Gladstone on Homer.
Prospects of Art in England.
Russian Civilization.
Sir Bulwer Lytton's Novels.
Horace Walpole.
The Currency and the Last Crisis.
Oxford Examinations.
Austrian Italy.
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statement of the Home Secretary, respecting

Church-rates, to stand over until Friday
night. No one knew better than the [veteran
Viscount that such a course would be perfectly

impracticable. The estimates could not be brought
forward without notice, when many who might
feel disposed to take part in the discussion were
absent. Nor was it likely that Sir JOHN FAKING-
TON could have been provided with the necessary
documents, the "facts and figures" recorded in
black and white, which should be submitted to the
House. What would he have said to such a sug-
gestion if made while he was holding a prominent
position in the Ministry ? We fancy that be would
not have had much hesitation in designating it as a
specious, unworthy, and factious pretext to endea-
vour to damage a Ministryby one of the most egre-
gious fallacies that could be promulgated.
But, to " make assurance doubly sure," the noble
lord has given notice of motion, on his own
account, that he intends to take the opportunity "of
making some observations, and drawing the
attention of the House to the state of affairs on the
continent of Europe, and of expressing a hope that
the 9overnment may be enabled to make some com-
munications which will tend to encourage expecta-
tions that the general peace of Europe may not be
disturbed." He also added, probably remembering
the period when he was "First Lord of the Jokery,"
that " he did not apprehend anything he might
have to say would interfere materially with the in-
ention of bringing on the Navy Estimates the same

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THIS EVENING THE ROSE OF CASTILLE. Messrs.
Weiss, Honey, St. Albyn, Bartleman, and Mr. W. Harrison.
Miss Louisa Fyne and Miss Susan Pyne.
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Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon.

'Po conclude with the new Pantomime of LITTLE RED
RI !An- HOOD; or, Harlequin and the Wolf in Granny's
Clething.

Commence at Seven,

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE
Lessee—Mr. E. T. Smith.

THIS EVENING, BARNEY THE BARON. Mr. an I
Mrs. Barney Williams.
Followed by THE LATEST FROM NEW YORK•
ro conclude with the new pantomime, ROBIN HOOD ;
or, Harlequin Friar Tuck and the Merry Men of Sherwood
Forest.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Manag,rement of Mr. Charles Kean.
rriis EVENING will be performed the play of LOUIS XI.
Louis (King of France), by Mr. C. Kean.
After which, a new grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled
THE KING OF THE CASTLE; or, Harlequin Prince
Diamond and Princess Brighteyes.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, AN UNEQUAL MATCH. Miss Amy
Sedgwiek, Mr. Buckstone, &c.
After which, a new grand Comic Pantomime, entitled
UNDINE ; or, Harlequin and the Spirit of the Waters.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer,
Re-engagement of Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING, will be produced a New Drama, by
J. Oxenford, Esq., entitled THE LAST HOPE.
To be followed by a Grand Ballet and Scene from THE
SIEGE OF TROY. Miss Rosina Wright, Miss Harriet
Dalton, Miss Jenny Lauri. Mr. John Lauri, and Corps de
Ballet.
To conclude with THE CHILD OF THE WRECK.
Madame Celeste and Mrs. Keeley.
Reduced Prices—Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s • Pit,
25.; Stalls, ss. ; Gallery, ls.
Box-office 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.
Powerful Novelty.—Crowded Houses.—Last Six Nights of
MASKS AND FACES ; Triplet, Mr. B. Webster. Trium-
phanj reception of Mr. Wright. Glorious success of the
INVISIBLE PRINCE.
THIS EVENING, the performance will commence with
MASKS AND FACES; Mr. B. Webster, C. Selby, Mr. Bil-
lington, P. Bedford, Miss Woolgar, Miss H. Sims, Mrs. Kil-
lington.

After which, WELCOME LITTLE STRANGER. Mr.
Wright.
To conclude with THE INVISIBLE PRINCE. Mr. J. L.
Toole.

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.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan are engaged. Due notice will
e given of their appearance.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough
THIS EVENING. WOOING IN JEST AND LOVING
IN EARNEST.
After which, the new Extravaganza, KENILWORTH ; or
Ye Queene. ye Earle, and ye Maydentte.
And THE BONNIE FISH WIFE.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE
Westminster-road.

Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke.
THIS EVENING, and during the week, 'the revived •.'.:•a-
matic Romance from Sir Walter Scott, entitled KENIL-
WORTH, re-produced with original effects and additional
splendour.
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. H. Hemmin,gs ; 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, 3s. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, is. ; 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 Hall, IS NOW
OPEN DAY 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 land 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-Hall, 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
Kingdom.
The MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT COMDICIICCS 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, FEB. 23.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
56—highest since noon yesterday.
40—lowest this morning and during the night.
56—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.64.
WIND, North-Westerly ; light, with fine cold weather.

There is an old fable relating to a certain dog
in a manger, who would neither eat the hay therein
himself, nor permit any other animal to partake of
it. Lord PALMERSTON seems to occupy a similar
position with respect to Reform. He will neither
bring forward a measure himself, nor, so far as lies
in his power; allow any one else to do so. An
urgent appeal had been made on Monday evening
by the First Lord of the Admiralty, to
several members who had given notice of
motions on going into Committee of Supply,
to yield their right of precedence on that occasion,
in order that he might make his statement respect-
ing the Naval Estimates. The community at large
are looking with intense anxiety for that statement.
They wish for full and authentic information
respecting " the wooden walls" which have so long
been the glory, pride, and security of our Island
Home, and prevented its sacred soil from being
polluted by the footsteps of invaders. Never,
perhaps, was a period when there was so
much justifiable curiosity: manifested, and
naturally so, inasmuch as it is the first time for a
series of years that our maritime supremacy has
been questioned. The Naval Estimates must,
therefore, take precedence of all other Government
measures, however urgent ; and the official expla •
nations given may do more to preserve the peace
of
Europe than any diplomatic communications,
framed on the most approved "red-tapist" prece-
dents.

It was not merely the statement respecting the
Naval Estimates that depended on the forbearance
of the hon. gentleman. The Government Reform
Bill was appointed to be brought forward on Mon-
day evening ; but unless the Naval Estimates were
discussed on Friday, the Reform measure should
necessarily be adjourned, and the Government
prevented from obtaining the credit to which the
promptitude and energy displayed justly entitled
it. The hon. gentleman thus appealed to exhibited
symptoms of yielding. No man would like to face
an independent constituency soon after having
delayed the explanations respecting the state of
the Navy, and of the changes to be introduced into
the representation of the people. Lord PALMER-
STON, however, interfered. He thought the Go-
vernment pressed too hard upon gentlemen who
had given notices for Friday, and that there would
be ample time to make the statement respecting the

or another, sufficient to equal in amount the aver-
age of the old rate, then the QUEEN, by Order in
Council, may declare that Church-rates are to cease
in that parish! Church-rates are to be abolished,
therefore, only by owners of property and others
subscribing enough in various modes to equal the

present rates !
The only relief, so far as we can see, therefore, is
to the "conscientious" objectors. How large that
class will become, no mortal now can guess. On
the one hand, in the country village, the rate-payers
will generally be afraid to offend by pleading" con-
science ;" on the other hand, thousands and tens of
thousands, who did not know they had a conscience
before, will suddenly discover that they possess
that useful defence. " Conscience" will become a
kind of pet little house-dog to bark at the tax-
collector, with the advantage of costing nothing to
keep it, and of not only escaping assessed taxes,
but of frightening away the tax for mother
Church. Lucky the men under Mr. WALPOLE'S
bill who keep a conscience.
But surely Mr. WALPOLE made a very perverse
use of the facts deducible from his own return—of

these the one on which he justly laid the greates
stress was, that the contributions from voluntary
sources for Church-rate objects amounted to
£262,000, the sum raised by Church-rates to one
thousand pounds less. Mr. WALPOLE inferred that
landowners would readily charge their property in
perpetuity with the latter amount ; he should
have inferred that they would willingly charge
themselves, if need were, with two sovereigns
instead of one as an annual donation, that tens of
thousands of other Churchmen, who have now no
inducement to contribute, would readily do so, and
that without all the paraphernalia of rent charges,
orders in Council, and the rest of it—without still
leaving an open sore in every parish, he might
have cast the Church of England upon that libe-
rality of her worshippers which Dissenters have
found amply sufficient from worshippers equal, in-
deed,in numbers, but unquestionably not equal in
wealth. The same inference is surely deducible from
the great fact to which he adverted, that in the first
half of this century, notless than £900,000,000 had
been voluntarily contributed for church purposes,
while the State had contributed but one million
and a half ! He might have added that nearly all
this was contributed after it was found that the
State would give no more !
The conclusion, we must re-assert, is that which
the latest facts have compelled every fair-minded
churchman to adopt, that the Church is better with-
out Church-rates than with them. She would have
more money, money heartily contributed and well
applied ; she would escape parish broils, and the
charge of being the cause of them ; she would cease
to present a repulsive aspect to Dissenters, and we
verily believe would receive, as free gifts, more
money from them than she now wrests from them
under the aspect of a heartless extortioner. It is vain
to dispute whether Church-rates be a charge on
property or not—an odd kind of charge to be sure,
one which a majority of those who hold it can any day
refuse ; practically, Church-rates are an imposition
and a nuisance, and they must be got rid of by
abolition.
Mr. WALPOLE was surely guilty of a practical,
as well as a logical inconsistency in one of his main
arguments for his plan. He endeavoured to show
that the proportion of Churchmen holding pro-
perty was very great, and that they showed great
willingness to contribute to the rate ; that
hence it was a hardship to deprive them
of the pleasure of paying a rate—of the
pleasure of being forced to pay ! Mr. WAL-
POLE would, surely, have earned XERXES' prize for
the inventor ,of a new pleasure. If the gist of Mr.
WALPOLE'S plan is to transfer the liability to
Church-rates from the occupiers to the proprietors,
and these proprietors be such willing Churchmen,
why then let them club voluntarily and raise the
money they need. We must finish our remarks
for the present ; several points demand notice when
we have seen the bill, when we must not forget Lord
JOHN RUSSELL for out-Torying the Tories in his
zeal for the Church.

evening."
Was this the result of the noble lord's 53 years'
experience of Parliamentary life ? Could he by
any possibility suppose that such a subject could be
ventilated without producing a score of eager ora-
tors who would occupy the entire evening and
probably require a further adjournment? It was
therefore a perfect farce to speak of it as not
interfering materially with the Naval Estimates.
Had the matter been so very pressing, Lord PALMER-
STON would nothave encouraged the lion. gentlemen
who had been. so urgently appealed to by Sir J.
PAKINGTON to persevere in the motions of which
they had respectively given notice.
" Inveterate, indeed, must be that love of place
which would seek, for any other purpose than the
discharge of the most imperative public duty, to
obtain office at the present moment !" This is the
opinion of the Times ; and for once we fully concur
with our contemporary. But we can neither "hope
nor believe that no party motive is mixed up
with the present demonstration." The Viscount
in the Opposition is out of ' his element.
He has served with so many different parties that
he cannot sit easily on the Opposition benches, and
therefore he makes the most convulsive struggles
to resume the more pleasing position.
The nation will not, however, be hoodwinked.
The people will clearly comprehend the causes of
this new-fledged zeal, and we believe that, accord-
ing to legal phraseology, the noble lord will " take
little or nothing by his motion."

Mr. WALPOLE'S Church-rate Bill was treated
on Monday by the House with the courtesy and
good-will to which his personal character and his
obvious motives entitle any measure proffered by
him. If he has not succeeded, the fault is in the
subject rather than in the man. He is driven by
circumstances, probably by conviction too, into a
position in which he must attempt that, most unsa-
tisfactory of all tasks, a compromise—a compromise
too with conquerors on the field of battle itself. In
front of him stood the now triumphant Church-rate
Abolition party, who had often had it all their own
way in the very house in which he offers them terms.
Behind him were the Newdegates and Russells, the
Beresford Hopes and Palmerstons, the Spooners
and Cornewall Lewises, who think that Church-
rates are the linch-pin of Church and State, and that
to withdraw them would be to upset the old coach
of the Constitution. Good Mr. WALPOLE under-
takes the thankless office of mediator, and that be-
tween two parties who have almost made up their
miads that no compromise is possible. One side
says no man ought to be compelled to pay a penny
for worship he does not attend, the other, Lord
JOHN RUSSELL being leader, insists that every man
is benefited by the Established Church, although
he repudiates its creed and liturgy, and should be
made to support it. Of this, more presently.
Mr. WALPOLE has certainly made himself master
of the history of the struggle of the last quarter of
a century. He stated its variations fairly ; and
he used it to show what the House could not be
expected to sanction. It was impossible now to
shift the burden to property which had yet paid
nothing—impossible to throw it on the general
taxation of the country—impossible, he thought, to
substitute pew rents—and, very much against the
grain, he thought to yield to " the results of a suc-
cessful agitation." But two more bases of action
seemed to be left—that indicated by Sir G.
GREY, of repealing, so far as this matter
is concerned, the mortmain laws, and inviting
the co-operation of voluntary aid, and that of giving
relief to Dissenters by direct exemption.
On these two principles Mr. WALPOLE founds
his proposals. The first six are all directed to en-
abling landholders and other holders of real pro.
perty, as we understand him, to charge their
property with a rent charge in perpetuity, towards
the objects for which church-rates are now legal;
the incumbent and churchwardens to form a cor-
poration for holding all such property as may in
this, and in other specified modes, be contributed in
lieu of church-rates. At the same time, those who

object to pay may be relieved from doing so by
signing a paper, which all collectors are to carry
in their books, by which they will declare that they
have "conscientious" objections to paying.
But how are Church-rates to be finally abolished
by this plan ? Mr. WALPOLE proposes to leave
the
old church-rate liability and law precisely as
it is,
s,Hedistinctly stated that he wanted to leave
BirminghamLeed Manchester, and other recu-
sant towns and villages, an opportunity to return
"to obedience to the law." Places where rates
have been practically abolished for years are not to
be released from their liability. In all of them
any pugnacious churchwarden or clergyman, how-
might re-open a church-
lmatrethg
know there
ever hopeless
aonfdsuwceceaslsl,
rate contest;
this profession who glory in w
eenytryconin-
sider a kind of social martyrdom for the
Church. They can set a whole town together
by the ears; and look on meekly, as if
the
human fighting cocks were very:wicked, and those
who spurred them and set them on were harmless
as doves. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY, in his
bill, very wisely, did recognise the mischief of
leaving not "place for repentance," as Mr. WAL-
POLE strangely fancies, but " place for quarrel and
strife" in such towns. Five years' refusal of a rate,
the Archbishop thought, should abolish the rate.
Mr. WALPOLE has another plan, one by which,
we may safely predict,hardly ten parishes in the ten
thousand will be freed from rates. When his cor-
poration, composed ofthe parson and churchwardens,
have received, as they think, property of one kind

The business of the Stock Exchange is nearly
brought to a stand-still. Bulls and bears are alike
unwilling to enter into any new operations, and
appear only desirous of closing their accounts with
all convenient speed. There is, in fact, a total
stagnation. The Government broker invests some
£20,000 per diem on account of savings banks, and
there are some few small bona fide purchases, but
that is all ; speculative dealings have been alto-
gether abandoned. There has been a temporary
armistice between the Taurine and Ursine forces,
and each party seems to be unwilling to strike the
first blow or re-open the contest.

For once both parties are completely puzzled.
The professions of peace ought to be satisfactory,
but unfortunately the active preparations for war
lead to very opposite conclusions. The purchases
of horses, stores, and war materiel seem to be
totally incompatible with the sense of security so
highly prized in Capel-court. Deeds, not words,"
are the guides sought for, and if the EMPEROR
would only discontinue his extravagant expenditure
and extraordinary exactions for the purpose of in-
creasing his armaments, he would no longer be
considered as " the standing menace to Europe,"
compelling every nation to' maintain its
naval and military expenditure at the very
highest point, and either to incur further debt, or
to retain its taxation at almost a war rate.

This exhausting process is rendered essential by
the position taken up by the Emperor NAPOLEON.
He it is who checks the prosperity that would
naturally attend a period of general peace and
tranquillity—who depreciates the quotations of the
public Stocks and Funds of every European nation—
prevents the men able and willing to work from
obtaining " a fair day's wages for a fair day's
labour," and prevents that fair credit so indispen-
sable to commercial transactions ! A little
more candour and openness of conduct
on the part of the French EMPEROR would smooth
away every difficulty, and enable other Sovereigns
to apply a considerable portion of their national
revenue to the development of their national re-
sources, and to relieve their overweighted tax-paying
communities of some portion of the burthens under
which they have been labouring. He will not,
however, dispel the mystery, and all his neighbours
and allies must be the sufferers for his reserve.

It is quite clear that the stagnation in the money
market, the undue caution, amounting almost to
panic, is attributable solely to the French EMPEROR.
Seldom, if ever, have the Bank returns been of a
more favourable character. Money is literally a
drug in the market. Unexceptionable bills will be
discounted at almost nominal rates, but woe to the
small dealers ; for notwithstaading the abundance
of cash they must either do without or resort to
quarters where they must pay more than would be
required by regular bankers even during the
periods of the greatest scarcity and panic
They are the chief sufferers, although of course
the consumers must also contribute to some extent
to the amount of their losses.

By the last account, which appeared in the
Gazette of Friday, it appears that the public de-
posits amounted to £7,620,255, and the private

to £14,538,898, or, in other words, nearly •
(LATEST NEWS
£21,060,000, a large proportion whereof might •
be safely used by the Bank, exclusive of its
own funds applicable to such purposes. And
yet all that is out on private securities is £16,442,466

—an amount that is still gradually decreasing,
notwithstanding the rate of discount being
almost at the minimum point. The amount
of notes in circulation is gradually reducing, now
amounting to £20,489,345, and therefore but little
exceeding the stock of bullion, which has reached
the large sum of £19,747,154 quite suffi-
cient to sustain a convertible paper currency of
£60,000,000, while the notes unemployed, or Bank
reserve, is no less than £13,049,985, being an in-
crease within a single week of £424,900. Why,
under such circumstances, there should be any
want of money for commercial operations might
puzzle the most experienced in monetary affairs.
The NAPOLEON bogie may account for the flatness
of the public funds, and the complete stagnation of
all operations, but it is the dread of losing our gold
that prevents capitalists from rendering the required
pecuniary accommodation to merchants, traders,
and manufacturers. They are biding their time
until money becomes more valuable, and mean-
while the industrial community and the best inte-
, rests of the country are suffering for what is held
in abundance, if the undue caution of the possessors
would suffer it to be distributed.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 23, 9 A.M.
It is reported that Lord Cowley goes to Vienna
on a special mission.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY.

It appears that 30,000 pairs of shoes and 30,000
greatcoats for the Sardinian army have been ordered
in France.

Intelligence from Hayti states that the ex-Em-
peror Soulouque has written to M. Mellinel, Consul
General of France at Port-au•Prince, thanking him
for having preserved him from popular insult. It
is stated that Gem Geffrard is negotiating with the
Dominicans for the fusion into one state of the two
republics.
BourtsE, Feb. 22.—The fall of Metalliques in all
the German markets has had a depressing influence
on the French funds. Threes, after having been
done at 67f. 45c., receded to 67f. 25c. Mobilier
varied from 745 f. to 740 f. ; Austrian, 522 f. 50c. to
517 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 822 f. 50c. to 820 f. ; Orleans,
1,305 f. to 1,300 f. ; and Southern, 507 f. 50c. to 505 f.
The following were the last quotations :

41 per Cents. 96 901CreditToncier.... -- .....
Do. end month 96 90 Belgian 4f . .— --
3 per Cents 67 35 Piedmonteso (5) .. 82
Do. end month 67 35 Roman ' BB 50
Bank Shares. 2900 Austrian
Credit Mobilier .. 745 Spanish Threes
Do. Account ...... 747 50 Home Debt —.

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THE SUN.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1859.