The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-15 00:00:00

Seven ran.

UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION.—At the meeting
of the members of this institution, on Monday evening, the
subject of tents was brought forward, and a paper read
thereon by Major S. Rhodes. The lecturer commenced with
a slight sketch of the history of tents from the earliest times,
in different countries, describing their general forms and
the substances from which the coverings were made. He
then proceeded to describe the tents at present adopted in
the British army, viz., thehospital marquee, the field officers'
marquee, the circular single-poled tent, mentioning their
forms, area, weight when wet and dry, and the amount of
cubic feet of air contained in them. He then passed on to
show their defects, viz., first, that the canvas of which they
are made is not always of the best material; secondly,
.that
the canvas and ropes, not being water-proofed, admit of
alternate soaking and drying, whereby they are rotted, and
goer vurenetildaurintiong. stormy With
that by the contraction of both in wet weather, there is a
adanddlicedeoloenviel
strain on the tent pegs, by which they are pulled out of the
wgeoalulthder,
'bed his own forms of hospital,
noddfeefsecitri
;anadndth, ethretrdbytyrrthdereewdalnest
jtohhne lecturer adduced
sredienognac.redisf rout:7 0 r trtthhheeordeleapstottrtehres
field, and guard tents, illustrating by models their mode of
Tulloch, and also from that of the Sanitary commis_
construction, the ease with which they are pitched, their
rreports
rlessof tents
their as
aacptileaobecieupfao for
occupation
commodiousness, and good system of ventilation. In con-
elusion he read a few extracts from an official report on the
military
by troopsl:: sa
;
field, granted by his Majesty the King of Hanover. Major
Rhodes has supplied three full-sized trial tents to the fol-
lowing states : England, Frazee, Austria, Prussia, Russia,
Sweden, Belgium, and Hanover. He has received a gold
basedsuitability
medal from his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, in proof
of his Majesty's high approbation of the trial tents for-
warded to him.

iR°ll AS T
E it
S QUARTERLY MEETlNG.—Wol-
verhampton, Wednesday.—The usual spring quarterly
meeting of the iron and metal trades of Staffordshire
and Worcestershire was held in this town to-day, aria
there was a fair attendance in the principal firms or
their representath es of the district. Business was
represented to be slack, but the prices of the last quar-
ter, as we anticipated, were, upon the whole, well
maintained. The dullness which prevails in the chief
ship-building establishments in all parts of the country
operates prejudicially upon the most important branches
of the iron mann farture ; but still many of the
principal works in the neighbourhood are fairly employed.
The great meeting of the quarter will be held in Birnung-
ham to -morrow, and the concluding one at Dudley on Satur-
day. When these have taken place we shall be able to
ett:n
i.
speak of the absolute state of the iron trade anditsofnm
t
prospects with more confidence than at the present m
dnenacyt
A telegram is in town from Bombay four days
later than the advises at present published, stating. _
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tot:tadratairiortettlythbee
eI:LC usputotmsin:
fdouroetie is dteicusi Iced

T v.
ROYAL, JeRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under 'the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS Pr. ENING, will be produced Shakspeare's historical
play of "AING HENRY V.
14:ma Henry V., Mr. C. Kean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean.
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THEATRE-ROYAL, *HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buekstone.
THIS EVENING, will be produced a new Comedy, en
titled EVERYBODY'S FRIEND. Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Mathews.
And USED UP.
To conclude with JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON.

Commence at 7.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
MASKS AND FACES ; Triplet, Mr. B. Webster ; Quin,
Mr. P. Bedford ; Sir Charles, Mr. C. Selby ; Ernest, Mr. Bil-
hngton ; Peg Wofflington, Miss Woolg,ar ; Mabel, Miss H.
Simms.
After which, THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STILBERG.
Mr. B. Webster, Billing,ton, Ebnrne, Misses M'oolgar, Keeley,
and Arden.

To be followed by THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY. Mr,
J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Billing,ton, Misses Woolgar, Keeley'
mid K. Kelly.
,Acting manager—Mr. Win. 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 LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer,
THIS EVENING will be presented THE KING'S GAR-
DENER.
Followed by BEAU BRUMMELL. Mr. Emery.
After which, an original Petite Piece de Circonstance,
HOUSEHOLD WORDS ALL THE YEAR ROUND.
And FORTUNE'S FROLIC.
Reduced Prices—Dr Is Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit,
25.; Stalls, ss. ; Gallery, Is.
Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past
6 to commence at 7 every evening.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough
THIS EVENING, VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark,
and Miss M. Ternan.
After which, the new Extravaganza, KENILWORTH ; or
Ye Queene. ye Earle, and ye Maydenne
To be followed by I'LL WRITE TO THE TIMES.
Commence at 7o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Lessee and Manager........ Mr. William Cooke.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
a new grand Drama, entitled THE THREE MUSKE-
TEERS, in which Mr. It Phillips and the company will ap-
pear.

After whieh, the matchless and unrivalled SCENES IN
THE CIRCLE, introducing the great Star Riders and 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.
To conclude with A THUMPING LEGACY, Miss M.
Jackson.
The splendid romance of IVANHOE ; or, The Knights
Templars, Is in active preparation, and will be revived with
extraordinary magnificence.
Dress Circle, 4i. ; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, is. ; Upper
Gallery, fid.
Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, :end is.
Commence at Seven: Carriages at 11.
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 DA/ AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12
)'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 to
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
The 15Itimma.L ENTERTAINMENT COMMERCES RS 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
aerform every Evening at Nine and Eleven o'clock.

THE WEA.THER.—Sux OFFICE, APRIL 15.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
57—highest since noon yesterday.
42—lowest this morning and during the night.
48—this day at noon.
BAnomrrEn—down to 29.03, now up to 29.33.
WIND, Northerly ; fresh and cold, with sunshine and
occasional showers. It rained in torrents last night from
sunset till midnight.
:Two o'Clock—Wind shifted to N.W., blowing fresh and
squally, with showers of rain, sleet, snow, and hail. Ther-
mometer 45—bitterly ccld.

Last night a well-merited tribute of praise and
approbation was bestowed on the skilful civilians
and distinguished heroes through whose zeal and
energy the Indian empire was preserved as one of
the brightest gems in QUEEN Vicroraa's diadem.
Never Were votes of thanks more nobly earned or
more cordially bestowed than those which were
unanimously accorded to the preservers of India—
the avengers of the women and children so cruelly
massacred by the sanguinary miscreants who had
so long been the pampered favourites of the Anglo-
Indian Government.
It was a remarkable circumstance that the pleas-
ing task of bringing forward the motions devolved
upon father and son—the one Premier, and the
other in the foremost rank of the Cabinet Ministers.
We do not remember any instance of a similar cha-
racter in
the Parliamentary annals of the country.
It is true that father and son—Sir MICHAEL, and
Sir WILLIAM Slum—have gone circuit,together as
judges of assize, and that the grandson of the
former and son of the latter now worthily pre-
sides over the Rolls Court in Ireland, but never
before has it occurred that a father and son should
lead both Houses of Parliament in bringing for-
ward such
that reedy d e unanimous a question' and doing so in a manner
It
approval.
mi gn w
, deeply to be regretted that some of the
ty was
dead,
in the hearts of
their
whose names will long be enshrined
eluded the vote. IT
T
could not be in-
nenoLsox and ...AVELOCK and LAWRENCE,
—theN and the modern BAYARD
Chevalier Bans
WILLI peur et sans reproche—Sir
AM PEEL
in the service of their
, have nobly surrendered their lives
could be con country. Any honour that
seerated to their memories would be
gratefully recognised
although their bY the community at large,
" monuments
own exploits have created for them
more
durable than brass," or even
Pariah marble.
cedent andlt
was, however, contrary to pre-
precedent's " a
easily be controverted. great fact," that cannot
we
should, however, have
been well pleased if some notice could have been
placed on the records
the feelin of of both Houses, testifying
g the people towards those who had
sacrificed their lives in the public service.
Viscount CANNING is to be
a Baron of
made an Earl,
Lord ELPHINSTONE
the United
Kingdom. But why should not Sir
JOHN LAW-
RENCE receive the coronet which
he has so
nobly earned? His presence would be to even the hereditary branch. an honour
Seldom, if ever,
has any
°tie been enabled to render such • services to
his count
th rY. For thirty years he has sustained
e enervating climate
of India, and succeeded, by
extraordinary tact, i
n rendering theprovince,
danger, was regarded
as our great difficulty and
danger, a scnree
of
defence and protection.
Widely as men differ
on political affairs and
s
the conduct of individual
, there never has been
a difference of opinion res
exertions of the distinguished pecting the valuable
civi •
han. It is not
yet too late to redeem the error
JOHN LAWRENCE is 'and happily Sir
110 w ill Engiana
L 0 accept the
honours which may be tendered for his acceptance.
To Lord CLYDE, and the gallant soldiers of who,
he was the unerring leader, the sincere gratitude
f the nation was justly due, and notwithstanding
the vote of thanks last night we cannot think that the
debt has been by any means satisfactorily discharged.

It was the invincible Highlanders who, under a

general worthy of such followers—Sir HENRY
HAVELOCK, made the most extraordinary march on
record, and eventually, after gaining almost daily
victories, rescued the women and children, pent up
in the Residency of Lucknow, from their impending

As our readers have seen, neither of the great
parties have acted to our mind in the matter of
Reform. We censured, as soon as we saw them,
those points of the Government Bill which have
been objected to ever since, several of them by Con-
servatives as well as by Liberals. It was but too
plainly intended to purge the counties of Liberalism,
to propitiate the small boroughs, and to make them
more manageable. But the ten pound county fran-
chise was a great and clear gain, and it became
obvious, in the course of the debate, that that gain
might have been secured with little or no alloy in
committee; while no power on earth could have
prevented the step thus gained from enabling us to
gain several others. The worst defect was the want
of protection for the voter. But if the bill was in
great part objectionable, we felt obliged equally to
condemn the resolutions. They were appropriate
to a committee, not to a motion for a second reading.
The mode of procedure was a mere dodge of place-
seeking, or Premiership-seeking. And worst of all,
while professing to censure the chief defects of the
bill, they left its greatest defect unnoticed. Had
they added, as Mr. WYLD proposed to do, that
to be satisfactory to the people, a Reform Bill
must provide that the votes be taken by ballot,
though even then the mode of procedure
would have remained of doubtful propriety,
we could not have branded the resolutions
as a Russell• Whig dodge for the Premiership.
Strongly, therefore, as we objected to the unamended
Government bill, we objected quite as strongly to
the hollowness, the party character, and the unsa-
tisfactoriness of the resolutions. In this view,
notoriously, some of the oldest and best tried friends
of the people heartily concurred.
And what now is the result ? That we have Lord
DERBY appealing to the country to keep in, and
Lord SOHN RUSSELL, Lord PALMERSTON, and some
say Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and perhaps another one or
two, appealing to the country to put them in. Our
leading politicians do not like to leave the political
stage without having tried their hands on the prin-
cipal part. The wishes of the three who have filled
or do fill that part are, however, well known
enough, and their supporters make free use of their
names.

But what to the people are names? The nation
has now its own business [in its own hands. In
sadly few hands, we are bound to confess. Not
above one-sixth or one-seventh of its adult males
have to vote for the other five-sixths or six-sevenths.
What ought this small fraction of the men of the
nation to do ? The business of Reform Bill making
is, by the struggles of party, placed in their hands.
It is for them to say what is due to themselves and
to the non-electors. Let electors, then, make up
their minds, from what their own observation and
the protracted discussions we have had, must teach
them ; and let no wrigglings or evasions be for a
moment tolerated. Delegation on details of an un-
discussed subject is unworthy of both the electors
and the elected ; but demanding explicit promises
to vote for what all parties fully understand, is only
asking—Are you the man to do the work which
we want to have done, and which you, if you care
for the people, will wish to do for us ? While,
therefore, we would on principle allow a certain
latitude, on principle, also, we would require cordial
assent to our minimum.

FIRST—We should place the Ballot. We would
have our electors real electors ; we would vote for
no candidate who left the electors unprotected from
the frequent unpleasantnesses and perils attendant
on an honest vote. We could not believe him to
be a, politically, honest candidate. He must want
to rely for himself, or for his order, on influences
which he and they ought not to be able to use.
We would have no one able to boast, as Mr.
LABOUCIIERE did, that he left his tenants as free
to vote as himself. Good heavens ! Who is, then,
Mr. LABOUCHERE, or any other worthy Whig
landlord, that he should be able to leave his tenants
free? Ought the laws of England not to put
down such liberality as that ? Mr. LABOITCHERE
has land he wants to let, another man wants to
hire it. And, from this commercial transaction, a
Liberal landlord confesses that such a tenant-
dependence arises, which, should the next landlord
turn Tory, he may not leave his tenants free. A
professed Liberal objecting to the Ballot ought
now to be hooted from the hustings. He does not
thank Heaven that he is not as these Tories are,
and then do their deeds. He says plainly, I mean
to keep my power over you ; and we would rather
have the more honest man.
SECONDLY—We would demand something sub-
stantial for the operative. A useless demand this,
however, without the former. Better leave them
as they are than expose them to the seduction, or
the torturings of election agents. The £6 rental is
a very
good proposal. We certainly should not
Insist on more.

TIIIRDLY—In regard to a schedule A and B, it is
Plain enough what ought to be done ; not so plain
'what can be done ; thanks to the Whig workmen
of 1832, But the members for the patrons of our
Arundels and Thetfords, &c., ought to be ashamed
to persist in defending Elle ignominious honour of
nominee seats.

F"ItIFILI---There are oertain ecclesiastical ques-
Vous Which have bgen so well discussed, that no

candidate can be considered to understand religious,
as well as civil liberty, who is not prepared to vote
right. Church Rate Abolition is one of these. A
than cannot now be a hearty friend to Religious
Liberty who would not vote immediately for the
abolition of this galling impost ; and, we might add,
for Lord BURY'S Marriage Bill.

Our advice then is, to ask no candidate whether
he supports this Minister or that, this party or the
other; but whether he will vote heartily for a few
main or testing points like these. The country
should now make its own Reform Bill. It may rest
assured that, whatever Minister be in power, the
next Reform Bill will be one which will bear the
image and superscription of this election. It is in
the power of the country to stamp the people's
image on it.

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THE SUN.
FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1859.