The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-08 00:00:00

MOTHER SHIPTON ;

or, Harlequin Knight of Love, and the Enchanted Whistle.
Harlequin and Columbine (5, la Watteau), Madame Celeste
and Miss Wyndham ; Clown, Mr. Garden ; Pantaloon, Mr.
\foreland ; Scaramouch, Mr. Le Barr. Characters is the bur-
lesque by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. J. Bland, Mr. R. Romer,
Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham, Miss Mary Keeley, Miss
Kate Kelly, Miss Arden, drc.

Ft 0 YAL OLYMPIC THEATRE
Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
THIS EVENING, DELICATE GROUND.
G. Vining and Leslie; Mrs. Stirling.
A new Fairy Extravaganza, by J. R. Planche, Esq., called
YOUNG AND HANDSOME. Messrs. F. Robson, Rogers,
Leslie, G. Cooke, Danvers. Misses Swanborough, Thirlwall,
St. Caase, Castleton, Bromley, Maskell, and Mrs. Melfort.
After which, CRINOLINE.
Commence at half-past Seven.

Messrs,

ISTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
THIS EVENING, Shakspeare's Tragedy of RICHARD
THE THIRD, with Mr. W. Cooke's Equestrian Illustrations.
Richard, Mr. James Holloway.
After which, the Inimitable SCENES in the CIRCLE,
by first rate Equestrian Artistes.
To conclude with a new grand equestrian comic pantomime,
replete with fun, frolic, risibility, and extravagance, called
P *.UL PRY ON HORSEBACK; or, Harlequin and the
Magic Horseshoe.

Doors open at half-past six ; commence at seven o'clock.
ox-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr,
West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun.
A Morning Performance every Saturday, at Two o'clock.

C:INTERBITRY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
elections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses,
Glees, Duets, &c., viz.: —Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield,
Miss Brunell, and Miss Summers ; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F.
fonghmarP, R. Grover, T. Raino. T. Farrant, S. Jones, J.
Barker, W. Melling, and P. Corrie ; Masters Austin, Ben-
aett, and Corri.; Mr. Sam Cowell and E. Mackney. Piano-
forte, J. llarroway, R. A. ; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun. ;
iirector, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre
z'sely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. In addition to
the usual Vocal Entertainment, the celebrated SPANISH
vIINSTRELS will appear in costume at Nine and Eleven
o'clock Every Eveni eg, and sing some of their favourite selec-
tions.

Jima WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
rata DAT—Morn. 0 min. aft. o—Evening 6 min. aft. 12
11.2.-.4o}titOw—Mom. 33 min. aft.l2—Evening 7 min. aft. 1

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, JANUARY 8.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
37 --nighest sines noon yesterday.
37 -lowest this morning and during the night..
40 —this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 30.36—falling.
WTND, S.S.E. to S.—Light, with muggy weather, enow
and sleet.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1857

Never was there, perhaps, such another speech
delivered by a legislator, and a diplomatist, and
the recognised member of an administration, as
that which will be found given at full length in
another part of our impression of this evening—
the extraordinary oration, in the course of which
Sir ROBERT PEEL "astonished the natives" down at
Adderley Park, on Monday, with a comic account
of his late Russian Experiences. Dropping the "per-
haps," we may safe:y say—Never was there such a
Speech! The Indiscreetest The least Judicious! The
most Extravagant! Let it be remembered tbat wh©n
Sir ROBERT PEEL speaks in public, he necessarily
speaks not merely as the Master of Drayton
Manor—not merely as the representative of the
borough of Tamworth in Parliament —he speaks
still more (so far as the mass of the community
are concerned) as the heir to the name, the fame,
and the fortunes of the greatest of all the great
English Statesmen of the last political generation.
Individually, moreover, whenever tha present Sir
R. PEEL speaks now in public, he speaks—through
the Press—as a member, as a subordinate mem-
ber, no doubt, but still as a member, of the exist-
ing Administration. Besides which, when the
subject of his remarks happens to be something
connected with the recent diplomatic mission to
the Court of the Ruz,sian AUTOCRAT—as it really
happened to be on Monday evening—the public
of course remembers at once, it cannot, in fact,
fail to remember, that the speaker actually took
part in that mission as an attaché in the suite of
Earl GRANVILLE, her Britannic MAJESTY'S Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
Recollecting all which, what can be thought of
an Oration upon " Moscow," such as that de-
livered on Monday last, at Adderley Park, by Sir
ROBERT PEEL, as Lord of Drayton Manor. as ex-
attache, as M.P. for Tamworth, as a junior Lord
of the Admiralty, and, in the last-mentioned capa-
city by inference, as a Member of the PAL-
MERSTON Government An oration provoca-
tive of as much laughter almost as a regu-
lar ADELPHI SCREAMER ! A Speech that Mr.
KEELEY might have fathered ! A " Fast"
Speech—literally, a Speech that might have
fallen from the lips of that hypothetical personage
described by Boz in his new tale of Little Dorrit,
as the gay Young BARNACLE, the light-in•hand
Young BARNACLE, the touch-and-go Young BAR

NACLE. Such a "Lecture upon Russia" as it was,
to be sure ! Fancy a rising politician, an embryo
statesman, a would-be diplomatist making an
audience fit to die a-laughing, with an account of
the extraordinary mission, in the name and on be-
half of her MAJESTY, to the last great Muscovite
Coronation—the Coronation of ALEXLNDER 11., as
the irresponsible ruler of 60 millions of the human
race ! Fancy his saying of the brother of the
newly-annointed SOVEREIGN—the Grand Duke
CONSTANTINE—that his affability is—" all soft

sawder, you know !" And of a Russian officer
considerably less august in position than the
Grand Duke--one General SOUROCHOKOFF—as
having " robbed" him, or "fleeced" him, or
" done" him, by exacting 1001. for the hire of

each of the four horses supplied for driving his
travelling carriage ! Fancy his describing the
Governor of Nishni as that " brick of a Governor"
—observing of him, " I never saw such a brick

as the Governor was"--and adding,

"I never

saw a man with such a capacity for drinking
as this brick of a Governor r Imagine
for a moment, the store of wisdom condensed into

of which
an Oration, the most interesting part

was that in which Sir ROBERT described the

beauty and splendour of the Russian Regalia,

remarking with the zest of a Colonel BLOOD, and

an almost audible smack of the lips—" I have

travelled a good deal, and seen many fine sights,
but I never saw anything like the splendid jewels
belonging to the sovereign mid people of that Court
and country. They are something beyond belief.
The crown exhibits a ruby such as was never seen
before ; the sceptre has the largest emerald in the
world ; the ball of state has an enormous sapphire ;
the Empress's beautiful crown of pearls contains
the largest pearl I ever saw ; and the effect produced
by this congregation of brilliants is somethingquite
magnificent." Consider the exquisite propriety
of the allusions made by Sir R. PEEL a little
further on in this astonishing harangue, to Mon-
sieur le Comte DE MORNY, the uterine brother (as
he is said to be) and Envoy Extraordinary of his
Imperial Majesty NAPOLEON lll.—our Ally ! Sir
ROBERT describing the Comte DE MORNY as " a
spick and span man of coisiderable aplomb, and
one of the greatest speculators in the world, spe-
culating in everything, buying a lot of pictures to
sell again and make a profit of," and so forth !
Never was there such indiscretion, such impropriety,
such free-and-easy, provokingly good-natured, and
monstrously ill-advised impertinence ! About
the only good hit in the whole flippant Lecture
being the dry addition to the remark, " I arrived
within gunshot of that great fortress which Sir
CHARLES NAPIER did not take"—when some of
the audience hissed in the midst of the cheers and
laughter—" Some gentlemen express dissent from
what I state, but I believe it is strictly and literally
true"—at which, of course, there was more laugh-
ter. A wonderful speech it was altogether, as
any one may see by reading it, a speech the
principal characteristic of which was—to employ
the peculiar diction evidently familiar to Sir
ROBERT PEEL himself—decidedly " Cheek !" The
indiscreetest speech—the most injudicious—the
most preposterous !

" Let Glasgow flourish." The good old town
frilly merits the prosperity which its shrewd and
olear-headed inhabitants have insured for them-
selves and the locality in which they reside. No
suitable improvement is neglected. The revenue
raised by the Corporation is, and has been, judi-
ciously applied, and the fruits thereof are enjoyed
by the residents, and may be witnessed by any

casual visitor.
But Glasgow is in debt. The Corporation pro
perty was not obtained without cost. The in-
terest on the present debt amounts,
in round terms, to 11,0001. per annum, ;
there are also annuities payable to the
shareholders in the Glasgow and Gorbals Water
Companies, and interest to certain creditors of
the former, amounting to 31,0001. a year, and a
further sum of 700,0001. is about to be borrowed
for the purpose of establishing new water works,
which will render the supply of that all-important
article equal, if not superior, to that in any part
of the United Kingdom. These several liabilities
will in 1860 form a dead weight, amounting to
70,000/. a year, to be paid out of the Corporation
property. This property is ample for the pur-
pose ; indeed there is a large margin, which
places the value of the security beyond question ;
And there is, in addition, the authority of levying
unlimited rates on the inhabitants for purposes
sanctioned by the Legislature. There is, there-
fore, no difficulty in obtaining the requisite funds
for any improvement that may be required.
But the ratepayers are thinking men. They
witnessed an experiment tried on a small scale
many years ago in Guernsey, which was com-
pletely successful, and they see n• reason why it
may not be repeated. in Glasgow with a similar
result. The necessity for further borrowing
would thus be averted. The magnificent works
constucted without the outlay of a single shilling,
and the existing debt eventually liquidated, so
that the 70,0001. a-year would eventually be
secured for the benefit of the city, in place of
being appropriated for annuitants and creditors.
They do not desire to have such a millstone about
their necks ; and seeing from the example of
Guernsey (repeated in Canada with a like result),
they have resolved to avoid it if possible.
A memorial has therefore been prepared for
presentation to the Corporation, pointing Out the
great desideratum which may be accomplished, and
earnestly recommending that immediate measures
may be taken for issuing " Corporation money,"
which, by general agreement of the ratepayers,
shall be received in every transaction, and which

the Corporation are bound to accept for every
payment to which it is entitled. The notes thus
brought in are to be publicly cancelled, and thus
a certain proportion will every year be withdrawn
from circulation ; so that eventually none will
remain, and the rates may be greatly reduced or
altogether abolished, or, " if continued, like the
rent of the Guernsey market, applied to promote
other social and sanitary improvements !"

We earnestly hope that the Legislature may
sanction the project, so as to enable Glasgow to
produce many substantial and valuable improve-
ments by the creation of " cheap representative
money." But why should the experiment be
limited to Glasgow ? Why should it not be ex-
tended to the United Kingdom ? The accumu-
lated and realised property of the British Empire,
together with the "unlimited rates which Parlia-
ment is authorised to levy," is surely sufficient to
satisfy any creditor, and the notes, being receiv-
able in payment of every description of taxa-
tion, could never lose their bona fide value,
and would answer every purpose of domestic

or internal trade. It is, in fact, neither more nor
less than the plan we have so repeatedly proposed
for the establishment of a really National Bank,
issuing national notes of small and convenient de-
nominations ; those paid in to be forthwith can-
gelled, and the amount of the issue to be regulated
by Parliament during the Session, with a discre-
tionary power at other times to the department of
increasing the amount under pressing circum-
stances—the particulars whereof should be laid
before both Houses within one week after
their meeting. By this plan there would
be provided not only a convenient and
beneficialsupply of "cheap representative money,"
suited to all the requirements of the home trade,
but considerable sums now required for payment
of interest would be saved. The taxation might
thus be reduced, ors if continued at the same rate,
the proceeds that would otherwise be lost to the
nation would for,,n a sinking fund for the gradual
reduction and eventual extinction of the public
debt. Important as this would lie, we look on it
as even inferior in importance to the supply of a
circulating medium adequate to the wants and
exigencies of the working population, and thus
obtaining that which has ever been truly charac-
terised as " the very life-blood of industry."

DEATH Or LORD MILFORD.—We regret to announce
the death of the above nobleman, which took place at
his seat, Picton Castle, in Pembrokeshire, on the 3d of
January, after a short but severe illness.
Their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Prince Edward
of L.iningen, arrived in London, yesterday morning,
from Frogm ore.
The Duke of Devonshire continues, at Kemp Town, 1
n favourable health, and gives almost daily dinner

parties.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury are enter-
taining a large party at Hatfield House.
The Government paid, in the year ended March last,
the sum of 16,340& to emigration agents.