The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-18 00:00:00

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.

In order to afford Mr. Fechter some relief in his arduous
performance of Hamlet, Mr. Harris, on Tuesday night,
announced for representation Sheridan Knowles' admired
play of " The Hunchback," with a cast in all respects much
superior to that which has.•been the fashion of late. Thus
we had Mr. Ryder as Master Walter ; Mr. Hermann
Vezin, Sir Thomas Clifford ; Mr. Shore, Modus, Mr. Mea-
dows, Fathom ; Miss Heath, Julia ; and Miss Leclercq,
as Helen. It was exceedingly gratifying to see so brilliant
au audience as that on Tuesday, and the reception of the
piece was marked by the greatest warmth and geniality.
Mr. Ryder's Master Walter, as was to be expected from so
capital an actor, was a most praiseworthy performance,
and elicited very general applause. The noble sentiments
with which the part abounds were brought out with all
that judgment and discrimination which is required to
give a correct interpretation of the talented author's mean-
ing. Here and there, it is true, there was a superabund-
ance of impulse; but, as a whole, his embodiment
of the part was deserving of high commendation.
The Sir Thomas Clifford of Mr. IL Vezin was marked by
all that reality and naturalness which has so distinguished
all this gentleman's efforts. There was none of that
maudlin namby-pamby nonsense that of late has been in-
fused into the part by actors who, to suit their own pur-
poses, have brought the character down from its proper
position to a level that suits their own abilities. Sir Thomas
is no doubt a favourite part with young comedians, but, then,
how very few have the ability to develope the actions and
feeling of a gentleman placed in the position of Clifford.
That Mr.Vezin had thoughtfully studied and mastered the
part was evident from every sentence he uttered, and seldom
if ever has the termination of the third act been given with
finer effect. Mr. Shore's Modus was good, but it, would
have been better had he given us a little more of the scholar
and not so much of the simpleton. Modus, we take
it, is by no means a dolt, but a well-read, bashful
gentleman, and in succeeding representations,. if Mr.
Shore takes the hint in the friendly spirit it is intended his
next representation of the part will be very greatly im-
proved. Miss Heath's Julia was a very fine performance,
one, in fact, that few actresses of the present day can
approach, and certainly none surpass, and Miss Leclercq's
Helen, although somewhat artificial, was a very pleasing
rendering of the part. At the fall of the curtain the ap-
plause was loud and enthusiastic, and the whole of the
principals received the honour of a recall. The play has
been mounted in a very admirable manner, the dresses
being supurb, and the scenery magnificent.

LITERARY NEWS.—Messrs. Hurst and Blackett
announce the following Works in their List of Publications
in preparation :—" The Court and Society from Elizabeth
to Anne," illustrated from the papers at Kimbolton,
edited by the Duke of Manchester.—" The Life of J. M.
W. Turner, R.A.," from original Letters and Papers in
the possession of his Executors, Friends, and Fellow-Aca-
demicians, by Walter Thornbury.—" The Life and Cor-
respondence of Admiral Sir Charles Napier," from his
Private Papers, by Major-General Sir E. Napier.—" Tho
Okovango River," a Narrative of Travel and Adventure,
by Mr. .Andersson, author of "Lake Ngami."—" The Life
of the Rev. Edward Irving, with Selections from his Cor •
respondence," by Mrs. Oliphant.—" Henry IV. and Marie
de Medici," by Miss Freer.—" Memoirs of Royal Ladies,"
by Emily S. Holt.—" The Recreations of a Sportsman,"
by Lord William Lennox.—" The Secret History of the
Court of France under Louis XV.," by Dr. Challice.—
" Java; or, How to Manage a Colony," by J. .B.
Money, Esq.—" Recollections of a Fox Hunter," by
" Scrutator."—" A Saunter through the West End," by
Leigh Hunt.—" Sketches from Russia," by Lady Char-
lette Pepys.—" Wheel within Wheel," by the author of
"Alice Wentworth."—" Ice Bound," by Walter Thorn-
bury.—" Under the Spell," by the author of " Grand-
mother's Money."—" Thinking and Acting," by the
author of "Helen Lindsay," &c.
MUNIFICENT PRESENTS TO BARNSLEY.—Mrs.
Locke, widow of the late Mr. Joseph Locke, the emi-
nent engineer, has just made known to the local autho-
rities that, in consideration of 'the interest ever shown
by her lamented husband in all relating to the town
of Barnsley, and as a memorial to him, sho purposes
presenting the town with a park or recreation ground. For
that object a piece of ground known as the High Style
Field, has been purchased, and Mrs. Locke, through her.
agent, Mr. W. Wagstaff, of Great George-street, Westmin-
ster, states that she will have the place laid out in the man-
ner the town may think best, build a wall round it, and
erect a house for the keeper, the whole to be conveyed to
the local Board of Health, together with a fund tentsuffi
to insure its being kept up for the purpose for which is
intended. In addition to the above munificent Present;
Mrs. Locke has announced that she will mate a donation
of £2,000 to the Barnsley Grawniar-school, at which
institution Mr. Locke was educated. The money is to
be paid to the trustees, to be by them invested w
tah "he
e
" disreer,
Locke Fund," leaving to their
some per-
howe
tion of it might be applied towards the qualifying
terest is to be applied, suggesting,
of some of the scholars for the work of mining or colliery
king at the positibn of Barnsley as the
cvothat
engineers, as, 100
centre of a great coal district, that branch of education Would
be more advantageous than the
ordinary academical course.
Mrs. Locke has also made known to the heads of the Catholic
school in Barnsley, the foundation-stone of which was laid
by Mr. Locke, and who for years had been a liberal sub-
scriberto the old school, that she is prepared to present it
with £l,OOO in remembrance of the interest so long taken
in it by her lamented husband.
DR. LIVINGSTONE.—The ceremony of naming
the steamer City of New York, at Glasgow, on Friday, was
performed by Mrs. Livingstone, wife of Dr. Livingstone,
the celebrated African traveller. At a meeting which took
piste after the launch it was mentioned that Mrs. Living-
stone had, two hours previously, received a packet of
letters from her adventurous husband, despatched from
the embouchure of the Zambesi river. Dr. Livingstone and
hia party had returned to that point, all well, after having
accomplished an arduous and successful exploration info
the interior of Africa in that latitude. The results of that
journey had exceeded his most sanguine expectations,hi
have
grap
founded, as as these were, on previous goo
ht
been tera m knowed, he
ledge. The Victoria Falls, as
th
and about 1000 feet
had deduced to be 100 feet in heig ht , ,
in width. When he was enabled to survey the actual
scene, he ascertained that the height was 300 feet, and the
breadth about 2,000,--40esinan.

EW TI-17 ATRE-ROYAL, AD ELPHL
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, the new drama, MAGLIORE, THE
FIZE6TIDIGITAI OR. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Took,
D Fisher, &c.; Miss K. Kelly, Miss tI. Simms. Are..
To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS.
MeNsis. J.,. Toole, Eburne, Homer, C. J. Smith ; Miss
sate Kelly, Miss E. ''horse, snd mrs. Cbatterley.
Alter which, THE FOOL OF THE 14-"A.M.ILY. Mr. Paul
Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, MISS Laidlaw, and Miss Julia
Daly,

Doors open at halt past 6—Commence at 7.
____

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!
Weatminster.road.
Proprietor........C. Morton.
A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera,
IL CORSARO,

(Tills opera has never been produced In this or any other
country,
except at these Concerts), having met with that de-
cided success which charactise , the most popular works of
this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ;
together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI-
MENTO, by Donizettf, ,
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Maaarno
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, li. Drummond, and
C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonuhmans.
The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A.
B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and
the kin,thers Conrad.

John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on
view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the
Establishment.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tina DAY.—Morning, Gh. 48m.—Afternoon, 7h. 21m.
To-monnow.-Morning, 7h. 54m.—Afternoon, Bh. 50m.

„THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, AFRIL 18, 1501.
THEISM:I=IE3I, IN THE SHADE.
55—higLest since noon yesterday.
40 —lowest this morning and during the night.
52—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30.23 ; still falling.
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THE SUN.
LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1881.

CIVIL WAR IMMINENT IN
AMERICA.

The reports from America, by the Baltimore,
which left New York on the 6th, are more warlike
than anything we have yet had. When the New
York Herald states that the naval preparations of
the Government in that city have created intense
excitement, it states what it must surely know
as a fact. It could hardly also create the report
that on the sth a panic had prevailed among
Stock operators. By the last accounts we
were informed that the Government got its
loan easily taken, which agrees very well
with the statements both of its immediatelyi
commencing preparations, and of the panic on the
Exchange. The information of the " Washington
Correspondent of the .New York Herald" is pro-
bably of about the same value, so far as his know-
ledge of the Cabinet's intentions goes, as letters
of London Correspondents of country papers here
would be ; still it looks the same way, " that the
country is on the brink of a civil war." From
Charleston the language is that " a terrible
moment is evidently at hand." From Washing-
ton and New York the expression, surely half
rhetorical, is, " that within 24 hours' war will be
upon us." Activity and excitement are intense,
and everything looks warlike. The full equip-
ment of the Powhattan frigate for sea, and its
being ready to sail, accompanied by two steamers
with sealed orders, appears to be a fact also. But
the rumour that the South Carolina General had
threatened to shell Fort Sumpter, if it were not
evacuated within 24 hours, may prove to be only a
rumour. On the whole, so much of the telegrams
just arrived seem to be more than rumour as to
give rise to the gravest apprehension.

'Whatever may be insinuated to the contrary, the
Budget is unquestionably a success. Is there any
doubt about it ? Look at the state of the Funds
since Mr. GLADSTONE'S financial oration of Monday
was delivered before Parliament ! Have they
fallen? On the contrary. They at once advanced
upon the morrow of the Financial Statement.
They are still advancing. There is no sign in that
barometer of the approach of foul weather. As the
quicksilver runs up in the tube—the Consols rise
in the monetary column devoted to City intelli-
gence. Nor can it be wondered at that the effect of
this last Budget speech should have been thus favour-
able. For what, in point of fact, is the situation as
therein explained by the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer ?

Why, according to the very clear Financial
Statement of Monday, the position of the country
is simply this in regard to the new financial year
just commencing. We have a balance-sheet
vouched to us in plain black and white of so much
estirnated revenue and so much estimated expendi-
ture. The expenditure being 1:71,823,000—the
revenue £69,900,000. Consequently—deducting
that estimated amount of expenditure from that
eslimated amount of revenue—there is a clear
surplus shown at the end of the financial year of
£1,923,000. Dealing with which anticipated
balance in the nation's favour, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer does what every Chancellor of the
Exchequer would by necessity do under the like
circumstances. He proposes to ease the shoe of
taxation, precisely where, according to his own
judgment, it pinches the most tightly. He pro-
Poses to take off a penny of the Income-tax, to re-
dr.ce, that is by a penny, the Property and
Income-tax during the last three quarters of the
year—thereby diminishing the surplus
i'mAly mentioned by £830,000. So that the looked-
-I°l' surplus at the close of the year would then be
£1,923,000, but-01,073,000. This still
contsideramesurplus Mr. GLADSTONE proposes, by
another Of his resolutions in Committee of Supply,
to diminish yet further by abolishing altogether the
duty upon paper--doing this from the Ist of Oc-
tober ; thereby reducing the already diminished
surplus to a minim,
am amount but very little
over the round. sum
of £400,000 altogether.
Yet, even then, holding in hand a balance
in the nation's favour, ;
going on for half
11, million of money—after Paying up all the
year's liabilitio, after remitting a penny
upon
the
Income-tax, after dooming the already sentenced,
and last session only temporarily reprieved, Paper
duties, to die the death inexorably upon the first
day of October : yet, in the face of facts like these
—in the presence of a steady rise in the funds—
there are these sneers, and shrugs, and whispers
of tlepreciatioa heard in regard to Mr, at,ADSIOXA'