The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-04 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA.
COVENT-GARDEN.
Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.
Harrison, Sole Lessees.

THIS EVENING, and during, the Week, Balfe's New
legendary Opera, BIANCA, THE BRAVO'S BRIDE
MiS4 Louisa Fyne, Miss Thirlwall ; Messrs. A. Lawrence,
J. Wharton, 11. Corri, A. St. Albyn, G. Kelly, Wallworth, T.
Distin, Lyall, and W. Harrison.
With the Grand Pantomime, BLUE BEARD ; or, Harle-
quin and Freedom In her Island Home. Clowns, Messrs. H.
Boleno, H. Payne. Hildyard, and Lilliputians. Harlequins,
Messrs. Milano and F. Payne. Pantaloons, Messrs. Barnes
and Tanner. Columbines, Mdme. Boleno and Clara Morgan.
Sprites, the Zelinski Family. Mr. W. H. Payne, Mlle.
Lamoureux, &C.
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee. Mr. J. B. Baeketone.
THIS EVENING the performances will commenee with
THE RIVALS. Sir twins O'Trigger, Mr. John Brougham;
Lydia Languish, MIAs Fanny Stirling.
After which. a new Pantomime. QUEEN LADYBIRD
ELND HER CHILDREN. The Pantomimists by the un-
rivalled Lecleroqs, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright

Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
OPENING of PARLIAMENT by her MAJESTY in
state and DAY PERFORMANCE of the Pantomime.
ROBINSON CRUSOE ; commencing at half-past 2, and
concluding. at halfast 4, TO-MORROW (TUESDAY)Posi-
tively the last.—Excursion Trains from all parts of the
country.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
RIIY BLAS. Messrs. Fechter, Basil Potter, Garden, Ray •
mond, Graham, Cathcart, and A. Rani's.
After which, a new Christmas comical pantomime, entitled
ROBINSON CRUSOE or,riarlequin Friday, and the Kim!
of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and
Mdlle. Marie Dumilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres,
will appear. Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest.

THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM.
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
irw-ge_appearance of Madame Celeste and Mrs. Keeley.
THIS EVENING, the new drama, ADRIENNE; or,
'THE SECRET OF A LIFE. Princli_pal characters by Mr.
e g nry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Villiers,
Mr. G. Vlninz, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Clifford,
Mr. J. Johnstone ; Mrs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste.
After which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza,
CRYSTABELLE ; or, The Rose without a Thorn, showing
THE VISION OF A ROSE, ITS FADING AT EVE,
AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR.
Followed by THE YOUNG WIDOW. Miss M. Ternan
and Mr. H. Neville.

JDELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Sole Proprietor and Manazer, Mr. Beni. Webster.
THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J.
L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
Thorne. •

After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. lloucimult, D.
Fisher, Billinfrton Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billing,ton, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza. entitled
BLUE BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF HUE.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford. C. J. Smith; Miss Woolgar,
K. Belly, Laidlaw, and E. Thorne.
Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-offloe open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, X 2 2s. ; Family Boxes, XL
Orchestra Stalls, Se. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Ss.;
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, Is ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY.

THIS EVENING. will be reproduced TURPIN'S RIDE
TO YORK, AND THE DEATH OF BLACK BESS, in
which the Brothers Edwin will appear with their celebrated
steed Black Bess.

To be succeeded by Scenes In the Arena, supported by
talented Parisian and British Artistes.
_ _

Concluding with Ratty's Prize Equestian Comic Panto-
mime, for Good Little Boys and Girls, by T. L. Greenwood,
entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE WONDERFUL
HORSE ; or. Percinet and Grociosa, the Ugly Duchess and
the Greedy King, produced with Gorgeous Scenery, by Mr.
Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing
In the eomie scenes Batty's Prize Equestrian Harlequinade,
and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley, and Brandon Ledger.
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A Grand Morning Performance will take place on Friday,
Feb. 8, commencing at two o'clock with the Pantomime.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4
__Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.

Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.
Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!
A Grand Selection from Verdi's Opera,

IL CORSARO,
consisting of the following Morceaux:—
Prelndio.
Coro Scena ed Aria "Tutto parca Sorridere"
Coro di Odalische. " Oh qual perenne"
Cavatina "Vola talor dal Carcere"
Coro ed inno
Soma ed Aria. " Cento lezgiadre Vergini"
Terzetto Finale " Voi tacete io non"
will shortly be produced, in the orignal key and Italian
laneuace—the first time of performance in this country—in
addition to the usual attractions.
Mr. F. JONGIIMANS, Musical Director.
Also, in preparation, Selections from Verdi's New Operas,
"Un Ballo in Maschera," "Simon Boccane,zra ;" and Flo-
tow's celebrated Opera of "Stradella."

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Thu; DAy.—Morning, Bh. 20m.—Afternoon, 9h. Gm.
To-MORROW.-Morning, 9h. 46m.—Afternoon, 10h. 34m.

THB WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEE. 3, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
44—highest since noon yesterday.
34—lowest this morning and during the night.
44—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30.40 ; falling.
WlND—South-Westerly; rather fresh, with dull weather,
and some sunshine now and then.
FEB. 4.
THERMOMETER, IN THE MADE.
45—highest since noon yesterday.
38—lowest this morning and during the night.
44—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.98; falling rapidly.
WlND—South-Westerly—rather fresh; with fine, sun-
shiny cool weather.

The legislative assemblies of France and Eng-
land cemmence their labours this year almost
simultaneously. To-day, it is the Emperor NAPO-
LEON 111. who inaugurates the session of 1861
with a Speech from the Throne, addressed to his
Senators and Deputies surrounded, while he
speaks, by his Ministers, Cardinals, Marshals,
and the other great dignitaries of his despotic
Government. To-morrow, it will be her most
gracious Majesty the Queen VICTORIA who will
have once more to preface with her Royal Speech
the annual labours of the Lords and Commons
of England in Parliament assembled—it will be the
Constitutional Sovereign of these free realms ad-
dressing the two great divisions of the Legisla-
ture, hereditary and representative, encompassed
by all the resplendent ceremonials of her regal
office, and in the presence of the responsible
guardians and administrators of her Constitu-
tional Government.

The contrast presented to view by these two
grand and imposing spectacles might not unnatu-
rally lure the more reflective into a comparison not
without its own peculiar interest, a comparison of
the two political systems, separated from each
other by the narrow gap of the ChanneL Any
dallying, however, with such merely abstract re-
flections, at a moment :ike the present, would be
hardly less culpable than it would certainly, in one
sense, be ludicrous under the circumstances. For
is it not manifest, in spite of any thing that has been
said or that can be said to the contrary, that all
Europe is at this juncture thrilling with expectancy
—upon the eve of some great political and military
outburst—upon the verge of some inscrutable abyss
of difficulties ? It is perfectly true, of course, that
the Moderator of Revolutions and the Arbitrar of
Europe, as that Sly Little Man over the water
claims to be, benignantly avails himself of every
opportunity, be it that afforded by a complimentary
jour de t'un, or this more ceremonious occasion of
the opening of the legislative session in France,
avails himself beneficently of every possible oppor-
tunity to reassure those who are more solicitous
than the generality as to any chance there is of
maintaining intact the general tranquillity of
Christendom. "Peace- (Ace„ is the gist of his
Imperial Majesty's assurances : but then, in the
very teeth of these assurances, are there not those
facts visible in a thousand directions all around
us—facts as inevitable in their logic as events
them elves ? Are not France and England at this
crisis in their own histories, and consequently also
in the annals of all Europe, armed cap a pie._
armed as th4y have neither of them been armed
since the close of the last great war ? Have they
not been now for several years competing openly
with each other in the improvement and extension

of their armaments both by sea and by land ? Has'
not France, military France, virtually thrown
down a gauntlet of defiance before maritime Eng-
land, by launching (in a time of profound " Peace")
that first steel clad line•©f--battle ship ap-
propriately designated (as typical of the
great incentive to Gallic prowess) La
(Moire—that monster of the deep, the formid-
able attributes of which have been now so rapidly
and enormously surpassed by those of its English
sequel or consequence the Warrior : that British
steel-clad man-of-war, which ought to have been
dubbed " Duty," upon the same principle which
accorded the name of" Glory" to the steel cased ship
of France ? Under the impulse of this monstrous
and unnatural competition—during an interval of
Peace, of profound Peace, remember—under the
incentive of this unnatural competition between the
war establishments of France and England, have
not the military and maritime departments of the
latter country of our own country,'cost us within
one single year (of Peace !) the ruinous expenditure
of £30,000,000? And not only thus has it been with
us in England—have we not at the same time had
occasion to enrol the Manhood of the United King-
dom in a National Guard of Riflemen, numbering
now but very little short of 200,000 men ? While,
to crown all—towards the close of our last Parlia-
mentary session—had not the House of Commons
the necessity, the imperative necessity, thrust upon
it of voting, in a year of deficit, in favour of the
graduated disbursement of many millions sterling
to be applied to the improvement and the multipli-
cation of our National Defences, of our Arsenals,
of our Fortifications generally. France all the while
maintaining in full efficiency her immense standing
army of 600,000 men, and rapidly urging on the de-
velopment of a naval force long since second only
to that of England ! England, at the same time,
recollect, suicidally regulating her financial system
by a supreme reliance, in a period of "Peaee" (of
Peace, recollect)—by a supreme reliance upen the
War Tax—namely, that detested Income Tax which
is nothing less than the shame of Mr. GLADSTONE,
as it cannot but inevitably prove, sooner or later,
the avenging source of his disgrace and downfall
as an administrator.

Italy, moreover, tremblingly alive to the urgent
need of consummating the work of her political
emancipation ! Hungary awaiting with breathless
eagerness the signal for her final rising, for the
reclamation of her independence ! Poland, too, is
she less, think you, upon the alert for
her opportunity ? And Austria with her
financial system bankrupt, and revolt threatening
in all her various provinces—is not she likewise,
quite consciously to herself, standing now upon
the brink of imminent destruction ? Are there not
200,000 of her soldiers gathered together within the
boundaries of Venetia, under the shadow of the
great fortresses of the Quadrilateral, preparing for
the defence of that her last point of resistance south
of the range of the Carpathians ? Turkey likewise,
no less conscious than Austria of the rapid advance
upon her enervated powers of the inexorable doom
of her long anticipated dissolution! Prussia yearning
meanwhile to rend from the grasp of Denmark the
coveted provinces of Schleswig and Holstein—
those Danish provinces which have so lung acted
upon the territorial greed of Prussia as the
Turkish provinces of Moldavia and Wallachia
have acted upon that of the Russian auto-
cracy. And it is now, forsooth, in the midst
of all these formidable oscillations of the Balance
of Power in Europe, it is at such a junc-
ture, at such a crisis, that we are to be lulled
into a feeling of fatuous security by the cuckoo
cry of " Peace, Peace," from the lips of the
im-moderately wily Moderator of Revolutions ! A
different prophecy of the future in Europe is
audible to Joint BULL, in the ringing of every golden
coin of all those I:,3O,UUU,UOU lavished by him, in
this secure and blissful epoch of Peace, upon his
War Establishments.

If courtesies on both sides will but give us
reduced estimates, we shall not fail to have them.
The memorial of the sixty members to Lord
PALMERSTON on the extraordinary amount of our
peace expenditure was couched in language as
bland as could well be conceived. The sixty stated
that they had long been sheep of Lord PALMER-
STON'S flock, and humbly begged him not to drive
his taxation shears quite so closely to their ribs ;
only gently hinting, that in such a state it gave
them "the cold shivers," when they had to turn
out of doors and meet their constituencies. They
had been very meek and unresisting in the House,
but they could not enjoy its shelter all the year
round. They hoped, therefore, in the present state
of foreign affairs, his lordship would leave them a
little more of their wool. The memorial was for-
warded, it seems, to their shepherd by three of the
flock, Messrs. CRAWFORD, BAINES, and BUXTON,
and very gracious is the reply received; "My
dear CRAWFORD" is assured that they are recog-
nised as the general supporters of her MAJESTY'S
Government, and rather important that they should
be, when thirteen is or was the real Government
majority. But they are also informed
that between them and Lord PALMERSTON
there is perfect unanimity of opinion; " I beg to
assure you," he says, " that I am much gratified by
the friendly spirit in which this memorial has
been drawn up ; and I entirely concur in the
opinion it conveys that a due regard to economy
should be observed in making arrangements for
the public services of the nation." And yet one
cannot help imagining that the gracious Premier,
when he had indicted this sentence, said to himself
—perhaps said it out—" Now, memorialists, I
have you on the hip !" The memorialists had
not ventured beyond generalities, and Lord PAL-
MERSTON meets them with generalities. While
the asking is confined to the vague, we may be
sure the answer will not commit itself to the
definite.

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We may easily conceive of a more definite course
memorialists
lists might have taken—we
have,hi ch
theindeed,
m lm
indicated it already. Had
\ they selected the one tax, acknowledged to be
the most incurably unjust of. all--had they de-
manded its repeal—had they also demanded
(
retrenchment down to the amount of revenue
left by the repeal, which would probably have
been a diminution by only one-half of the tax—they
would have given the public and the House some-
thing definite for consideration, and the Minister
something which he could not have avoided noticing,
even though but in the way of objection or of uncer-
tainty. We may, indeed, hope that her --MAJESTY'S
Government are themselves a little uneasy at our
expenditure, any increase of which could hardly be
met except by adding to that " flea bite," our
national debt, and feel the desirableness of having
a war tax in reserve to hold out in terrorem as a
part of our national defences. They must feel
that with customs' duties cut down to the most
profitable point, to a point from which, should they
be advanced, loss of revenue might be the result,
and with the impossibility of laying on fresh duties
on imports, their one resource in war is the Income
Tax. We can hardly suppose them, therefore, if
they have an eye to the national security and
influence, not to wish to abolish the In-
come TU. Bad in itself, its one mmit a

is that it can raise on an emergency enough
by a kind of fiscal confiscation to meet demands,
which do not admit of procrastination. The power
to add an income tax to previous taxation is as
trily a part of our national defence as is the Chan-
nel fleet itself, or our Volunteers.

It is for these sixty persons to devise their plan.
To write vague memorials to Premiers is, indeed,
easy work, but it was not merely for that that they
were chosen as representatives. Here are persons
enough to divide themselves into sub-committees,
who should take in hand the department in
which most waste is known to prevail—
should examine carefully existing documents, call
for fresh returns, and probe to the bottom
the inscrutable depths of official mismanagement.
It would be, we know, hard work—but the two
principles so successful in everything else, of divi-
sion and combination of labour, would effect much.
Private persons have no means, or scarcely any, of
coming at the truth ; but if a public man moves
with intelligence and determination, facts are soon
brought to him, he is put on the track for obtaining
others, and daylight soon begins to dawn on what
was at first a very dark, and to the nation a costly
mystery. We have before given our friends, the
Sixty, similar advice, and we repeat it with the
confidence that if they show themselves as de-
cided in action as ready at memorialising, they will
soon make way.

One committee of the kind was appointed last
year, and it is proposed to renew it this—it was to
examine into the miscellaneous expenditure. But
a committee, or several committees, are much
needed in the different branches of the vastly
heavier army and navy expenditure. It is affirmed
by those who have the best-right to be listened to,
that immense savings might be made without the
least reduction in our means of defence. But,
even in the miscellaneous expenditure, light began
to be shed on some branches of wasteful expendi-
ture by the committee, which augur well
for the result of a vigorous and compre-
hensive process of the kind applied to
all departments. We refer our readers to

some of the particulars mentioned in another
column. Passing over the larger matters, we find
Lord LLANO'VER assuring the committee that the
mere appointment of a permanent Commission of
Works—which is an entirely new political depart-
ment—would alone save thousands. Such items
were instanced as £2,404 in a year for beating
carpets and van hire ; also the extravagant cost of
office furniture, so totally different to that of the
most respectable private offices in the City.
Again, the Ambassador's house in Paris has cost
no less than £75,000 for repairs since 1825,
besides £l,OOO a year for general repairs ! With
such illustrations of wanton extravagance in the
small way, the country may conjecture what would
be the result of a businesslike overhauling of the
dockyards, the ordnance, the stores and commis-
sariat, and the entire administration of our naval
and military affairs. It may well believe that we
might save the income tax, and have the public
work better done, and the national defence, to say
the least, quite as well provided for.

RETURN OF THE COURT TO BUCKINGHAM
PALACE.—This morning her Majesty, his Royal High-
ness the Prince Consort, with the members of the Royal
family and suite, left Windsor Castle for Buckingham
Palace. The Royal party proceeded to town by special
train on the Great Western Railway. According to pre-
sent arrangement the Court will visit Osborne in March
for a week or ten days, and at the end of that month return
to Windsor Castle for the Easter holidays. The Court
will visit Scotland at a much earlier period this year than
heretofore. It is expected that her Majesty will keep her
birthday the (24th May) at Balmoral, at which time it is
said the Crown-Princess of Prussia will be visiting her
Majesty.
THE QUEEN'S LEVEES.—It is understood that the
the Queen will hold levees at St. James's Palace upon
Thursday, the 14th inst., Wednesday, the 20th inst., and
uksvn lirc,lncaday, th" l Mil or marcn next.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duohess of Cam.
bridge and the Princess Mary honoured the Adelphi
Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have
received a select circle at Kimbolton Castle during the past
week, the guests including the Earl and Countess of Cla-
rendon and Ladies Villers, the Earl of Sandwich, the
Countess Cowley and Lady Feodorowna Wellesley, the
Earl and Countess of Tankerville, Lord Frederick Paulett,
Sir Charles Russell, itc.
The Marquis of Lansdowne comes to town to-
day from Bowood.
The Marquis of Ailesbury arrived at his mansion
in Pall-mall on Saturday from Tottenham Park, near
Marlborough, Wilts.
The Marquis of Salisbury comes to town to-day
from Hatfield. Her ladyship and family will come to town
on Wednesday.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde
have arrived in town from Portamna Castle, Galway.
The Earl and Countess Grey have arrived at
their mansion on Carlton-terrace from Howick Castle,
Northumberland.
Frances Countess Waldegrave and Mr. Harcourt,
M.P., come to town to-morrow from Nuneham, where
they have been receiving a succession of visitors.
The Earl of Lincoln, eldest son of the Duke of
Newcastle, is about to form a matrimonial alliance with the
daughter of Mr. Henry Thomas Hope, of Deepdene.
Earl Granville gave an official dinner on Saturday,
at his residence in Bruton-street, to the following party :
The Lord Chancellor, Viscount Palmerston, Sir G. Corns-
wall Lewis, the Duke of Newcastle, the Duke of Somerset,
the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George Grey, Lord
Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, the
Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, the Earl of St. Germans,
Viscount Sydney, Mr. Helps, and Mr. Harrison.
Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for an
assembly this evening at Cambridge House.

The Speaker and Lady Charlotte Denison have
arrived at the House of Commons, from Ossington Hall,
Newark.

The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and
Mrs. Gladstone come to town to-day, from visiting Lord
and Lady Lyttelton, at Hagley, near Worcester.

Lady Molesworth entertained at dinner last
evening the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sir Charles
Wood, Lord and 'Lady Wodehouse, Mr. Loch, Baron
Rothschild, Lord Torrington, the Right Hon. C, P.
Villiers, &c.

Sir Edmund Head, Governor-General of Canada,
left Liverpool on Saturday by the royal mail steamship
Africa, for New York.

General Pave, aide-de-camp to the Emperor 01
the French, and Madame Faye, have arrived at the Bruns•
wick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Paris.

The address of the House of Lords, in answer to
the speech from the Throne, at the opening of the session,
will be moved by the Earl of Sefton, and seconded by Vis-
count Lismore.

The Archbishop of Armagh last week (says the
Weekly Register) passed through London, on his return to
Ireland. His grace's report both of the health and cheer-
fulness of the Holy Father is most satisfactory.
The Hon. J. H. Cameron, who is a member of
the Canadian Legislature, and a grand master of the
Orange body in British America, is at present in the north
of Ireland, and was welcomed to Belfast on Wednesday
evening at a dinner and public meeting of the "brethren"
in the Orange-hall of that town. The local journals give
lengthened reports of the proceedings.

The Paris correspondent of the Universel says
that Count de Montalembert is dangerously ill. Only his
intimate friends are allowed to see him.
According to the Journal de Geneve, the follow-
ing is the sense of the letter lately written by the Empress
of the French to the Queen of Naples :—" She would be in
her place, and envies her the part she now plays by the Side
of her husband, in the midst of her family and devoted sol-
diers. She cannot advise her to abandon her rights, forshe
also knows the sorrows and duties which royalty imposes ;
and it is on that account that, better than many others, she
understands her courage and devotion."
The speeches of Fr. Lacordaire and M. Guizot
at the French Academy, seem to have been but little
relished at Court. The Empress, who was present, ap-
plauded and wept. Prince Napoleon, who was also pre•
sent, laughed painfully and talked very loud. Charming
Plomplon.

THE BRITISH GARIBALDIAN LEGION.—On Fri..
day evening another detachment of the British Garibaldian
Legion arrived at the Victoria Docks, from Gibraltar,

where they had been 15 days subsisting upon subscriptions,
and had been sent home by the British Government. On

arriving is Loudon the wen were perfectly destitute,

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LO4DON, MONDAY, FEB. 4, 1861.