The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-06 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-Aug. 5.

GUILDHALL. Susannah Quinland, who
dexeribed herself as a milliner, waspalarcgeeda
at
withhe
stealingbar beforel Mr.ns.
6Adliderman Hale, eh
Henry Fenn said,--I am a hairdresser,
on business at 4, Christopher-court, St. Martin's-le-
i liquor,Grandnineorrnainndgiook her home with
me, about four o'clock in being the worse for
the morning. She was
with me for about an hour. After she was gone I
missed three half-sovereigns and 7s. 6d. from the
I metOn Saturdaythe
table in my bedroom.
I went out to look for her,
and found her in conversation with a man in St.
Paul's Church yard. I told her I missed some
money, and she said it was still in the bedroom, and
voluntarily accompanied me back to my shop to
look for it, biat we could not find it, and I then
gave her inter custody. •
Aldermr.,n Hale—Did you take the prisoner into
your bedroom ?
Prosecutor—I did, Sir.
A'lerrnan Hale—Are you a married man ?
Prosecutor—l am, Sir.
Alderman Hale—'Where is your wife?
Prosecutor—ln the country, Sir.
Alderman Hale—l have not the slightest sym-
pz.thy for you. I only wonder how you could have
'the audacity to appear before a magistrate and
admit that you had picked up in the streets a girl of
loose character, and actually took her home to a
house which is occupied by a respectable family. I
think you are right served ; 'out at the same time
your conduct is no justifice,tion of the prisoner's
offence. I hope your wife vVill hear of it, and she
most assuredly will if the newspapers giv e publi-
city to your disgraceful conduct, as I trust they
will.

The prisoner was remanded till Saturday

ANTE RBURY H ALL,
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.

Verdi's New Opera, UN BALLO IN MASCHERA,
arranged and conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. Mr. Levy on
the cornet-a-piston. Mr. Wood and his talented little Son,
the best Negro Delineators of the day. The extraordinary
comic duet, "The Nerves," by Messrs. Harvey and French,
the most grotesque performance in London. Mrs. Lawrence
and Mr. Marshall in several New Songs written expressly
for him, including the "Excursion to Brighton."
Admission, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, ls.
RETURN of SAM COWELL to ENGLAND, who will
shortly appear at his old quarters, after an absence of five
years.
RE-DECORATION of this Magnificent HALL, executed
by Mr. William Sanderson, of Lambeth, under the direction
of Samuel Field, Esq., architect, is now completed. This
popular Place of Amusement now surpasses its former
randeur, and, with the FINE ARTS GALLERY and
SPACIOUS PROMENADE, forms the MOST ELEGANT
PUBLIC BUILDING in the WORLD. Considerable im-
provementsG have been made in the VENTILATION and
T H E

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6, OXFORD-STREET.
The architectural beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and
brilliancy of lighting of this noble building, render it one of
the sights of London. Open Every Evening. The pro-
gramme is varied, and includes Selections from "La Tra-
viat4," "Un Ballo In Maschera," &c., (by a full company of
principals, powerful band, and chorus). Solos by Miss Bryant
on the Piano Forte, and by Mr. Russell on the Trombone.
Old English Ballad, by Miss Green, Scotch Duets by the
Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music of the
highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The Comic
portion of the entertainment is supported by Messrs. M. P.
Foster (in his " Life Sketches"), Sam Collins, Harvey, and
French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall. Hall,
sixpence ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes,
109. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Taste DAT.—Morning, lh. 44m.—Afternoon,' 2h. 6m.
To-uoußow.-Tvlorning, 212. 26m.—Afternoon, 12h. 46m.

Ting WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, AUGUST 6, Is6l.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
75—highest sines noon yesterday.
55—lowest this morning and during the night.
69—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.13.
WlND—Westerly—light ; with fine weather.

LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1861.

THE SESSION.

The Parliamentary Session of 1861 has been
brought to a close this afternoon. With how
much accomplished ? Well, after all, perhaps,
about as much as anyone could reasonably have
been led to expect from the exceedingly modest
programme set before both Houses in the Speech
from the Throne at the time of our Legislators
first coming together this year in February. As
we saw then would be the case, the go-by has
been given altogether to the scheme for the reform
of our whole system of popular representation. The
only notable reform, indeed, of any kind that has
been in any way attempted has been a law reform :
and that law reform we now recognise as even at
this moment at the best but partially accomplished.
What the Attorney-General, Sir RICHARD
BETHELL, began so well, the Lord Chancellor
WESTBURY has found himself unable to complete
to his own entire satisfaction. The whole Body of
the law, it is true, relating to Bankruptcy and In-
solvency, has been revised and reconstructed.
But the Head is still wanting to preside over the
newly organised Court of Bankruptcy. No
fault this, however, either of Her MAJESTY'S
Government or Her MAJESTY'S Opposition. The
responsibility of striking out the Chief Judgeship
devolves entirely upon the Select (and Secret) Com-
mittee of the House of Lords—rests exclusively with
the " big wigs," the law lords, principally ex-Chan-
cellors! The noble and learned Lords—while in
the very act of so doing—insisting, nevertheless,
with a marvellous inconsistency, upon not reducing
the present Commissioners (as the ex-Attorney-
General, the present Lord Chancellor, proposed)
from Eight to Five, but deciding peremptorily that
there shall yet remain these Eight Commissioners !
So that the" eco aomy here is really for all the world
very much like the Irishman's blanket—a bit being
cut off one end, and tacked on the other end imme-
diately afterwards. The public must be spared the
cost of the Chief Judge forsooth—only to that it
may pay the more for the three additional Commis-
sioners ! So reason—upon the plea of economy !
the ex-Chancellors. By those " potent, grave,
and—almost by reason of their solemnity—reverend
seigniors" the House of Commons has been
thus denied the luxury of spending another
annual £5,000 by way of salary to the proposed
new Chief Judge of the Court of Bankruptcy.
Encouraged probably to this fresh evidence of shal-
low economy by a recollection of the House of Lords'
refusal last session to confirm the abolition of the
Paper Duties previously decided upon by the Rouse
of Commons—encouraged probably to this addi-
tional display of shallow economy (based upon the
" penny wise, pound foolish" principle) the law lords
decided in Select (and Secret) Committee upon
saving £5,000 every year to the country by
rejecting the project for the creation of the Chief
Judge of the New Court of Bankruptcy.
It never occurred to the noble and learned lords,
probably, that by deducting £l,OOO a-piece from
their own pensions some ironical censor might
have suggested that the new judge could still be
remunerated with not much injustice, certainly
with a due regard to the general economy in vogue
among the law lords—even supposing that their as-
toundingly improbable estimate be correct, namely,
that no more than 14 days' work out of every 365
could be found for the newly-created functionary
so remunerated! Assuredly the law lords ought to
be about the last persons to enveigh against the
extravagance of awarding £5,000 per annum for
the Chief Judge of the new Court of Bankruptcy.
And among the law lords none ought to remain so
silent
upon a subject of this kind than the venerable
ea-Chancellors. Yet it has proved quite impossible,
apparently, for the law lords, but especially for the
ex-Chancellors, to refrain from this almost unseemly
showof parsimon3,in
rejecting as extravagant tile sug-
gestion that i. 5,000 p
er mum should be set down as
the salary of the Chief •
audge, the working judge of
the rew Court of Bankruptcy, Nor has this been
in any way a party movo—seeie
that the v DI2C
of Lord CRANWORTH and. Lord BROUGHAM have
been raised quite as potentially in opposition: as
that of Lord CIIIILIIISFORD, and
together a ith
these the voices alt to of that "old man eloquent;
Lord LYNDHURST, al id that profoundest of all living
lawyers, Lord ST. 'l-IIONARDS. Exactly Flys e.x_

It is obvious, therefore, that the mutilation of the
one solitary specimen of a great Law Reform ad-
ventured upon this year by Her MAJESTY'S Go-
vernment, cannot, for an instant, be charged as a
crime against the Opposition. This muti-
lation—one, by the way, as we have
shown, of a very serious kind, consisting
in truth of nothing less serious than "decapitation"
so to speak—the Chief Judge being even in the
estimation of the Select (or Secret) Committee of
the Lords, " the head and front" of the Bill's offend-
ing—this mutilation of the Bankruptcy Bill is
notoriously attributable to the Law Lords, Whig
and Tory, Liberal and Conservative, to the Law
Lords alone, and not to any party spite or political
spleen en the side of the Opposition.
As for that little ghostly shadow of a substitute
for a measure of Parliamentary Reform of even the
most moderate and most modest dimensions, the
Appropriation of Seats (Sudbury and St. Albans)
Bill—well, certainly in that instance, the Opposi-
tion has clearly enough contrived to show at once
its strength, its pertinacity, and its adroitness, The
Tories have contrived, in fact, to work their own
wicked will in the treatment of Sir G. LEWIS'S Little
Bill, now grown out of all knowledge—yielding a
fair prospect of the lion's share of the four seats to
the Conservatives in this newly contrived method
of " appropriation." One Admiralty improvement
ought also to be borne in recollection as among
the few notable achievements of the expired session
—to wit the organisation of the new Navy Reserve,
ensuring henceforth to the Royal and National
Maritime Service the very pick of the finest sailors
taken from our British merchantmen. Several of the
Committees, at least, have been industrious during
1861—if the House itself has, in some particulars
more signally than usual, contrived to be at once idle
and talkative. The Admiralty Committee has, it is
true, effected little practical good—the inopportune
escape of Sir BALDWIN WALKER (an escape con-
nived at, if not more directly originated, by the
powers that be), auguring but ill at the
outset for the success of its labours. Not
thus has it been at any rate with one
of the Royal Commissions appointed this year
—meaning the Royal Commission entrusted with
the task of investigating the hitherto problematical
question of the Thames Embankment. If only our
Legislators and Administrators will content them-
selves with the valuable suggestions embodied in
the admirable report of that very able Commission,
we may at length, and that moreover before many
months have passed, be in a fair way of seeing a be-
ginning actually made towards the construction of
these long talked of Thames Embankment.
Apart from the Legislative sayings and doings
of 1861, the interest of the session now just brought
to a close has consisted chiefly in the sustained viva-
city of the contest " never ending, still beginning"
from February to August, between the Government
and the Opposition. Once or twice, upon very rare
occasions, occasions of great emergency, the Cabinet,
when fairly put upon its mettle, has contrived to
baulk the evil designs of its confronting antagonists.
Otherwise, in the vast majority of instances, the
stereotyped close of division after division has been
this :—" Against the Government, so many. (Loud
and prolonged cheers from the side of the Oppo-
sition.)" This particularly upon Wednesday ! And
all the while, slowly and steadily, as seat by seat
became vacant through death, through resignation
—as members have dropped off from the ranks
of the weakened and diminished supporters of
the Government—their successors have added one
by one to the formidable and increasing
aggregate of the Conservative Opposition. The
Prorogation comes at length, indeed almost as
benignantly as a reprieve to her MAJESTY'S Go-
vernment. The conclusion of the contest, that
has been carried on so vigorously, and with such
varying fortunes, all through 1861, is to "come
off," as speedily as may be, after the meeting of
Parliament again in February next. Prior
to which date Ministers will have, at
any rate, half a year during which to
prepare themselves in earnest for the perils they
will then most certainly have to encounter. Look-
ing back to their achievements during this last
session of 1861, it is impossible for us not to avow
at once quite frankly that they have given the
country but small reason indeed to hope with any-
thing like hearty solicitude for their preservation
much longer in power as the so-called Liberal but
really do-nothing Coalition.

We are well pleased to believe that, as we hinted
yesterday, we may regard the account of the
heavy losses of life, in the great American
battle, as an exaggeration. Nothing, indeed,
like a trustworthy statement has reached us or can
reach us yet ; still if the Federalist fugitives did
not go quite so far as old FALSTAFF, one can but
suspect that they made the most of the horrors they
_bad left behind, to justify, so far as it might, their
leaving them at all. The second day's accounts of
Federalist losses, accordingly, fell wonderfully
below that of the first, some even putting them down
at less than 1,000 killed and wounded. One cor-
respondent even compares the different accounts to
the mountain in labour, and the ridiculus mus. It
is, however, quite too early to speak with anything
like precision, but the unquestionably modifying
facts are that the accounts from the South speak
only of General BEAUREGARD
maintaining his
position, of a very severe battle, and
~ great
slaughter on both sides," and of one battery of light
artillery, which indeed had been left at the road-
side, being taken.
It is easier to perceive what seem to be the chief
causes both of the repulse and the rout. The Con-
federates had deliberately planned to draw the
Federal army upon a fortified position, which small
numbers might hold against an army. For this
purpose they had abandoned, as if intimidated,
slight works intended only to deceive. So, nearer
still, the Confederate batteries could not be got to
reply till they could do it with a vengeance, and
stem any advance made a4ainst them. It was, so
far, the generalship of Parthianism and ambuscades.
But in addition to this, all accounts represent the
arrival of JOHNSTONE'S men fresh and fit for action
when the Federalists were thoroughly worn out, as
the turning point of the day. Assuming the truth
of what every one says, how can we account for it ?
General JOHNSTONE was in front of General PAT-
TERSON in North Western Virginia, where the least
he should have done, with certainly an equal body of
men, would have been to hold his opponent away
from Manassas. Re had beaten him at Martinsburg,
and had followed him some way further ; and all ,

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