The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-14 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING THE LADY OFLYONS. Mr. G.
Melville, Miss Heath, &c.
After which, THRICE MARRIED.
To conclnde with a comic ballet, THE JOLLY MILLER,
3T. Espinosa, Mr. Garden, &c.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM
Soie Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.

Last Nights of the Winter Season.
Tins EVENING the Butletta of T ,IAT RASCAL
JACK.

Followed by the new drama, THE HOUSE ON THE
BRIDGE OF NOTRE DAME. Principal characters by
Mr. G. Vining, Mr. J. Johnstone, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Clifford,
Mr. John Rouse, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Morris ; Miss M.Ternan,
Miss K. Saville, Miss L. Thompson, and Madame Celeste.
Alter which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza,
CRYSTABELLE ; or, The Rose without a Thorn, showing
rnE VISION OF A ROSE, ITS FADING AT EVE,
AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR.

A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
_,771t. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BenJ. Webster.
THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J.
L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
-chorne.
Alter which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boucicault, D.
Fisher, Billing-ton, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
ars. Chatterley.

To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravananza, entitled
BLUE BEARD FitOM A NEW POINT OF HUE.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar,
K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Thorne.

Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking. •
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, Zl.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, is. ;
Pit Stalls, 2a. ; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.

Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

CANT-ERBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!!
Westminster-road.

Proprietor ..... ...C. Morton.
A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera,
IL CORSARO,

(This 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 Donizetti,
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonglimans.
The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A.
B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and
the Brothers 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.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 40m.—Afternoon, 3h. 51m.
To-movaow.-Morning, 4h. 10m.—Afternoon, 4h. 24m.

THE WEATITER.—SuN OFFICE, MARCH 14, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
49—highest since noon yesterday.
30—lowest this morning and during the night.
47—this day at noon.

BAROMETER--30.29.
WrND—Westerly—light ; with fine weather. It was
two points below freezing during the night.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1861.

Once more the present House of Commons has
shown its hostility to Reform of the Representa-
tion, let it come in what shape it may. 'Whether
presented by Whigs or by Tories—whither in a
comprehensive measure, or in a partial one--
whether to extend the suffrage, or to give freedom
to the voting, so that it be but a measure tending
towards a more accurate representation of the
people at large, it must be refused a hearing, or
kicked out on a second reading, or " the previous
question " must be carried. We all remember a
political personage, before whom a great reformer
pleaded for " Righteousness, Temperance, and
Judgment to come," and who, finding Reform, of
the kind pressed upon him, an awkward thing to
argue against, moved the " previous question "
"Go thy way this time, when I have a conve-
nient season I will send for thee." It
was impossible not to recall his celebrated
answer, when the House resolved by a
majority of 28, not fewer than 468 members being
present, that " this question should NOT be NOW
put." Of the " righteousness and temperance" of
what was proposed to it, there could be no doubt ;
of the " judgment to c)me" there might be some
difference of opinion ; but, as it seems, the Anti-
Reformers in both Houses think it time enough to
give in when the judgment has come. Let it but
come, in the form of an ungovernable Ireland, or a
Birmingham ball-ring, or a famine, and then, away
go Catholic disabilities, or rotten boroughs, or
Corn-laws. Nothing too corrupt or sacred not to
be thrown away before a judgment coins. We
have no doubt that Bishops themselves would be
pitched out of the House, as so many JONAIIS, if
the sea of popular indignation did but run high
enough.
For ourselves, as our readers are aware, we have
had no great hope of advantage to the cause of real
representation from the £lO franchise in counties.
Mr. DISRAELI asks,—is it not a notorious fact
that the constituency represented by 150 county
members in this House is infinitely more numerous
than tho constituency represented by more than
300 boroughs ? We answer, yes—and no. Yes,
if you refer to the registered electors ; no, if you
refer to the real electors. Deduct the agricultural
boroughs, which in reality send county members,
and the number of members returned by counties
and by real boroughs would be perhaps abou

equal. But turn to ,the county constituencies,
and we may confidently ask Mr. DISRAELI
whether another thing is not "notorious"
—whether it is not notorious that some
thirty or forty thousand great landlords elect
the members for the counties ? Why, only so
recently as the election for South Wilts, the liberal

candidate who withdrew never dreamed of talking
about the poor unlucky eectors; he urged the state
of feeling amongst the " large landholders," as the
Justifying reason for his withdrawal.
It is the absolute dependence of the counties on
the landlords which makes us practically indiffe-
rent to the £lO vote in counties. We think it fair
and right that the householder paying that rent in
counties should have a vote ; we are certain that
the class in
counties must be superior in social
position to the same class in towns, but we cannot
refuse to see that Mr. LOCKE KING'S measure would
not give them a vote; it would merely entrust them
with one for the landlord's use. There might be
in many cases a considerable number of independent
the bill, hut, take the
persons enfranchised by
country through, we have not the shadow of a
doubt that the dependent voters created by it would
be five to one
compared with thosewthhaotavweereshinoudied-
pendent. Our position, therefore, is
have voted for the bill, as being a measure formally
right, though piactically useless. We should vote
for any extension of the suffrage which could be

offered to the present house ; but we should at the

same time protest against its standing in the place

of the essential reform of enfranchising the vote at
the polling-booth. That is the key of Representative
Reform ; and Mr. LOCKE KING and Mr. BAINES
will gain little for the people by their bills, both of
them good in themselves, unless they protect the
voters:whom they propose to create, together with
all those who now vote at the dictation of their
superiors or their purchasers.
We are sorry to say that we cannot regard the
vote of last night as a Government defeat; not-
withstanding the speeches of two leaders in the
Government, and the general vote of the Govern-
ment on the right side, it would be foolish to affect
a belief that the Government wished the Bill to be
read a second time. No one doubts that they are
heartily glad to get rid of it for the session, though
Mr. KING is quite at liberty to propose, on the
first day he can get, that " the bill be now read a
second time." Lord.PALmERsToN is very much obliged
to the Tories for mustering in strength enough to
do the work he dared not do, but which, as the
speech of Sir G. C. LEWIS especially showed, he
really wished done. Lord JOHN had more dispo-
sition to acaept some reduction of the county fran-
chise, but even he made no effort to enforce it;
and the Church Rate division, in which the Go-
vernment made but very moderate exertions,
showed that if Government had been at all in
earnest, it could easily have commanded a sufficient
majority to read the Bill a second time, and to
send it into committee. The Tory " whip " was
vigorous and successful; the absent Liberals gave
them their majority.
It was a curious little episode of the debate, that
Lord JOHN RUSSELL went out of his way to attack
an irrelevant part of Mr. DISRAELI'S Reform Bill
—for which Mr. DISRAELI .did not fail to repay
him amply. Lord JOHN said, in the close of his
speech, that there was one sufficient reason
for rejecting his opponent's Bill—that it would en-
able a landlord in Northumberland to create "faggot
votes" in numbers in a small borough in Cornwall
so as to swamp the real constituency there. And this
was unquestionably true, although all who, like
overselves, were desirous that the Bill should go
into committee never dreamed of allowing the
clauses relating to that subject to remain as they
were. It may even be doubted whether Mr.
DISRAELI himself was fully aware of the frauds
which might be practised under them. Mr.
•DISRAELI'S Roland for the Oliver was uncommonly
•
good

" The noble lord has to-night, in a spirit of curious reve-
lation, explained to us the cause of that conduct which a
couple of years ago astonished, and I think in some de-
gree annoyed the country. We now know the reason why
the noble lord then thought it his duty to oppose the mea-
sure of the late Government. Taking out of a measure
which included several hundred details one connected with
the borough franchise, the noble lord held it up to public
odium and said, " Because faggot votes could by this machi-
nery have been created in a borough on the estate of a
nobleman in a distant county, this is the reason why I
thought it my duty to oppose the measure brought forward
by the late Government." Well, but if that were the chief
reason, why did you not mention it in the resolutions which
you then asked the house to approve ? Extraordinary re-
serve ! extreme delicacy of reticence, that, in the possession
of this secret, feeling himself justified in taking the course
which certainly astonished Parliament at the time, the
noble lord did not feel himself justified in communicating
to the house the sufficient reason for his conduct ! Why,
sir, it is too late in the day to invent these shadows to per-
plex public opinion."

Fairly, too, did the hon. member conclude with the
remark that, though not successful with his own
measure, " he was at least as proud of having been
the organ of bringing it before Parliament, as the
noble lord can be of having obtained office under
the conditions he did ; and of the political and con-
stitutional franchises which in consequence he has
been enabled to bestow on his countrymen.

Sir MORTON PETO appears to concur with Mr.
Punch in the matter of our Navy Estimates. The
old, typical, salt-water JACK, who, in the current
week's cartoon, is addressing the whole British
nation as symbolised in the form of that world•
famous Stout Gentleman in the topboots JACK,
who is there addressing JOHN so very respectfully,
cap in hand, with a scrape of his foot, and a pull
at his forelock, reminds the Stout Gentleman,
most impressively, that it ain't the fighting chaps,
but the thinking chaps, along of whom we have ever-
lastingly to haul so much shot out of the locker
Sir MORTON PETO thinks pretty much the same if
we may judge from that notice of motion he has
down on the papers of the House this evening under
the head " Admiralty :" it is the twelfth on the list
and runs in the words following—" That before
proposing No. 3 vote of the Navy Estimates, the
Secretary to the Admiralty make the following
return for the guidance of the committee : the num-
ber of departments in the Admiralty at Somerset
House and Whitehall; the number of persons em-
ployed in each department, and their designations;
the number of rooms occupied by each department ;
the number of rooms occupied for records; the
number of rooms occupied by messengers ; the num-
ber of messengers employed; and the amount of
the yearly disbursement for messengers." Having
examined which extremely suggestive notification,
the reader may be asked not inappropriately if

he recalls to mind that wonderful puzzle of a
sum familiar to the majority of schoolboys—that
amazing little calculation about the nails in a horse-
shoe, and the solitary farthing upon the first of
those nails doubled and quadrupled in rapid multipli-
cation ? That little enigmatic nut to crack, with all
the gloss of ripeness upon it, may be found origi-
nally in Mr. DAY'S delightful boy's book of " Sand-
ford and Merton." And the story when looked
back to will be found really and truly as applicable as
any apologue can well be, to the astounding redup-
lication of clerks and messengers, and all that abun-
dant small fry of subs and supernumeraries—helping
directly to double and quadruple the most ridiculous
little items imaginable up to that stupendous
total required now annuallyfoarggthreegaetxepmenaskeisngof,
our maritime department, an
as we all know, an amount over £12,000,0001
Happily the returns moved for by Sir MORTON
PETO will come in aid, to however slight a degree,
of the comprehensive investigation about to be com-
menced by Admiral DUNCOMBE'S Select Committee.
We may eventually be enabled thereby to understand
more clearly how applicable to some of the outer as
well as to some of the inner offices of the great
omnipresent department of Circumlocution is
that charming laughter-moving tag to one
of the minor scenes in GOLDSMITH'S hilarious
comedy of " She Stoops to Conquer :" " DIG GORY
(to Servant)—What be you going to do ?—Servan

—Nothing. DIGGoRY—Then I'll come and help
you." Only—when the committee, in the course
of their inquiry, and the House afterwards through
the medium of their report (aided as that report
may he by such opportune returns as those Sir
MORTON PFTO is about to move for this evening),
shall have come thoroughly to appreciate the
ludicrous and wasteful superabundance of all
these superfluous subordinates and supernu-
meraries, we do hope and trust that, how-
ever ruthlessly, there will be a clean sweep
mad through the slumbrous and Gvercrowded
chambers of the Admiralty. The time is fast
arriving when we must have cleared away at last
the chief
part of those immemorial incrustations

formed by the parasitical genus of the " TITE
BARNACLES" upon the battered hull of the good
ship Britannia. She is going into dock now for
repairs. Let those repairs, so often talked of as
necessary,' now that they are likely to be made at
all, be made as promptly as may be and as
thoroughly.

The Committee of Supply has barely begun to
make way throughthe Naval Estimates, estimates to
the tune of a little more than £12,000,000, when the
Army Estimates follow suit to a yet larger amount—
namely, to the aggregate expenditure of very nearly
twelve million and a half; otherwise—to the exact
sum as the total required for " effective
services"—Xl2,493,943. Remembering that so far
as actual facts go in Europe, as to the alternative
of War or Peace, we are still in a year of profound
tranquillity—poor Farmer BULL may whistle with
dismay while dragging out of one breeches pocket
twelve million sterling for his red-coats, and out of

the other breeches pocket twelve million sterling
for his blue-jackets—having thus certainly to pay
the piper, year after year, with a vengeance.
Nor is this by any means the worst
of it, in regard to the extent of our yearly
military expenditure. In specifying this sum of
twelve millions and a half, it will be seen that we
have spoken •f it as the total set apart as necessary
for " effective purposes :" the whole round sum of the
Navy Estimates in their entirety being more than
fourteen millions and a half, viz., £14,606,751.
Out of these fourteen millions six hundred and odd
there will be required for effective purposes the
following :

Land Forces, pay and allowances
Ditto, miscellaneous charges
Volunteer Uorpri.. 183,276
Departments of the Secretary of State for War,
and of the General Commanding-in-Chief
Manufacturing establishments, military store-
keepers, barrack masters, lodging money,
rents, &c.
Wages of artificers, labourevs, &c .. 860,447
Clothing and necessaries
Provisions, forage, fuel and light, barrack fur-
niture, bedding, &c.
Warlike stores for land and sea service 2,200,581
Fortifications 158,185
Civil buildings
Barracks' 690,159
Educational and scientific branches
making a total 0f—£12,493,943. This for effective
purposes ! The rest of the fourteen millions and odd
being dribbled away in half-pay, pensions, super-
annuation allowances, and so forth. Altogether in
the total expenditure there is a decrease upon 1861-
1862 as compared with 1860-1861 of £185,795. So
also, by a few hundred, is there observable upon the
current year as compared with its predecessor, a
diminution in the aggregate number of men which
the House will be asked to vote now in committee
of supply—the aggregate being still, however,
but very little short of £150,000, or just £146,044
altogether. These items in the accounts may be
better considered in detail when the Under Secretary
of State for the War Department has in die
course made his statement in committee of
supply upon bringing before the House the Army
Estimates in tin ir completeness. As it is, we content
ourselves here with this casual glance at the totals,
doubtful yet as to the advisability or the feasibi-
lity of any bolder measures of retrenchment under
existing circumstances.

201,833

Her Majesty visits the Adelphi this evening, it
being the third time she will have honoured this favourite
place of amusement this season.
The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and the Mar-
quis of Lorn have returned from Trentham, where they
have been staying for the last ten days with the Duchess of
Sutherland and family circle.
We learn from a return to Parliament that the
amount of duty received in the year ending Dec. 31 last for
stamps on foreign bills of exchange, under the Act. 17 and
18 Vic., cap. 83, as extended by the 23d Vic., cap. 15, where
above £4,000, was £245,601 14s. 9d.
It is confirmed that arrangements have been con-
cluded at Paris whereby the whole of the large amount of
outstanding Constantinople bills drawn on M. Mires on
account of the Turkish Loan will be provided for. Nothing
was wanting but the signature of the Turkish Minister.
This is very satisfactory intelligence.
The fears of the stockholders have been realised
by the announcement, made to-day, that the Grand Trunk
Railway Company of Canada are not able to meet the in-
terest due the 15th inst. on the stock of the Atlantic and
St. Lawrence Company, which is leased by the Grand
Trunk.
TIIE BLACK PRINCE.—This vessel, which took
the ground near Garvel Point on Sunday, on her way down
to Greenock, floated off about eleven o'clock. She was
towed into Victoria harbour, Greenock. She has not sus-
tained any injury. It is confidently expected that she will
be equipped and ready for sea within four months.—Glas-
you) Herald.
THE DISTRICT TELEGRAPH.—An analysis of the
messages sent prove that telegraphic communications of a
domestic character are steadily on the increase. When we
remember that commercial London lives out of town we can
understand that the heads of the households would have
many occasions to communicate with their homes. Thus,
a very common message is for forgotten keys, or some
"worse half," mindful of the black looks that await a hus-
band who brings home a friend to "potluck," sends word
of the coming of company. It is very common to order
places at the opera, or at theatres, by telegraph ; and doc-
tors, now and then, when taken suddenly ill, send round to
their patients to know if they will be wanted, franking the
return message.—Once a Week.
THE ROAD MURDER.—ALLEGED CONFESSION
or THE MURDERER.--We have received information from
a quarter which is entitled to respect, to the effect that the
murder at Road House has been confessed by Miss Con-
stance Kent, who, it is said, states that she drowned the
child, and afterwards cut its throat, and opened the shutters
of the house to avert suspicion from herself. The report
adds that Miss Constance Kent has shown unmistakeable
evidence of derangement, and is now in confinement—
Western Morning' News.

RECENT LIFE-BOAT SERVICES.— During the heavy
gales which have occurred within the last 10 weeks the life
boats of the National Life-boat Institution have been the
means of saving the crews of the following wrecked vessels :
—Five men from the brigantine Nugget, of Bideford ; 6 men
from the brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham ; 6 men from the
schooner Prospect, of Berwick; 4 men from a Whitburn
fishing boat; 8 men from the brig A rethusa, of Blyth ; 8
men from the schooner Dewi Wyn, of Portmadoe ; 2 men
from the flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris ; 5 men from the
schooner William. of Morecambe ; 8 men from the brig
Providence, of Shields ; 8 men from the brig Mayflower, of
Newcastle ; 4 men from the smack Gipsy, of Newry ; 4 men
from the schooner Margaret Ann, of Preston; 8 men from
the brig N9W Draper, of Whitehaven ; 5 men from the
schooner William, of Liverpool; 3 men from the lugger
Nimrod, of Castletown ; 4 men from the schooner Village
Maid, of Fleetwood ; 3 men from the sloop Thomas and
Anne, of Dundee; 19 men from the barque Guyana, of
Glasgow ; 19 men from the brig Roman Empress, of Sun-

derland ; 2 men from the brig San Spiridione, of Oalaxide;
8 men from the schooner Voador du Vouga, of Viana; 11

men from the French brig La Jeune Marie Therese; 4 men
from the schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater ; 17 men from
the ship Danube, of Belfast, making a total of 162 persons
saved from shipwreck. In addition to this number 210 lives
were saved by the institution's life boats during the past
year—giving altogether a grand total of 372 shipwrecked
persons saved through the direct instrumentality of the Life-
boat Institution from an inevitable and appalling death
during the past fourteen months. Since the beginning of
the year the institution has expended on life-boat establish-
ments and their crews nearly £3,500, and it now earnestly
appeals to the public for help to assist it to carry on its im-
portant and national work.
MASTERS AND OPERATIVES.-- Mr. Mackinnon
has again introduced a bill for establishing equitable coun-
cils of con-ciliation to settle differences between masters and
operatives. It proposes that the councils should consist of
an equal number of masters and workmen, elected annually
by their own order, in any place where persons choose to
put the act in force, besides a chairman, a person un-
connected with trade, chosen by the council. The
councils, obtaining a license from the Crown, are to
have power to hear and determine disputes between
masters and workmen submitted to them by both
parties, and their award is to be final and conclusive, and
not subject to review or challenge by any court or authority
whatsoever. But the Act is not to authorise the councils to
establish a future rate of wages ; nor is it to extend to do-
mestic servants or servants in husbandry. No lawyers are

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to be allowed to attend on any healing before the councils.

There is already an Act of George IV. in force upon this
subject, but the proceeding commences before the magi-
strates, and has the appearance of a criminal proceeding,
and it is otherwise objectionable and unsatisfactory.