The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-30 00:00:00

Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY HALL
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
Verdi's New Opera, UN BALLO IN MASCHERA,
arranged and conducted by Mr. Jong,hmans. 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
lor him, including the " Excursion to Brighton."
Admission, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, Is.
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
grandeur, and, with the FINE ARTS GALLERY and
SPACIOUS PROMENADE, forms the MOST ELEGANT
PUBLIC BUILDING in the WORLD. Considerable im-
provements have been made in the VENTILATION and
LIGHTING.

O X F 0 It B,
6, OXFORD-STREET.
This noble building being now completed, its architectural
beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of lighting
render it one of the sights of the metropolis. Op en Every
Evening. The programme is varied, and include and Selections
(by a full company of principals, powerful band, chorus)
from " Macbeth" and "Un Ballo in Maschera." both operas
by Verdi, the composer of the day—The wonderful Solos on
the Cornet-a-Piston of the renowned he 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 sup kited by Miss
Green, Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey, and Frence Nerves),
W. H. Wieland, E. Marsha Stalls, 11, and W.
one Randashillll. Admission,
Hall, sixpence ; Balcony and ing. private
Boxes. los. 6d.

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To-uormovr.-Morning, 7h. 48m.—Afternoon, Bh. 18m.

THE WEATHER...-SI7N OFFICE, JIILY 30, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADB.
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THE SUN.

LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1801.

Whatever may be the fate reserved for the Bank-
ruptcy Bill, the passing of the Appropriation of
Seats (Sudbury and St. Albans) Bill seems at any
rate to be tolerably well assured. All which is
certainly a turning of the tables with a vengeance.
For, but a very little while since, and the prospects
of the two measures may be said to have been directly
reversed. All was smooth sailing with Sir RICHARD
BETHELL'S pet law reform for the revision and
consolidation of the laws relating to bankruptcy and

insolvency :
"hope at the prow and pleasure at the helm"—

it glided on, swiftly and surely, towards that wished
for haven where bills become transformed, as it
were by the fiat of the SOVEREIGN, into perfected
enactments. Everything on the other hand seemed
to threaten the Appropriation of Seats Bill with
all but inevitable destruction. The Government
propositions were rejected one after another and
one, at least, of the four vacant seats appeared to be
thrown, so to speak, upon the floor of the house
for an indecorous " scramble" between the sup-
porters of the Government and the Opposition.
Nevertheless, in each instance the auguries, here of
success, there of failure, have turned out to be
almost entirely deceptive. Desolation was suddenly
carried to the cherished day-dream of the late At-
torney-General, the now Lord Chancellor, by the
audacious amendments adventured upon in a sort
of secret committee by the pitiless law lords, in-
cluding amongst their number a formidable cluster
of venerable ex-Chancellors. Amendments so radi-
cal and comprehensive, that the Bill sent up to the
Lords, when returned in its altered state to the
Commons for reconsideration, was literally hardly
recognisable. She amendment among all these
amendments proving in the end to be that sine qua
non of the House of Commons, that shibboleth of
the House of Lords, the new office of the Chief
Zwhe of the Court of Bankruptcy ! A proposition

now bandied to and fro between Lords and Common 3
like a costly little shuttlecock (valued at £5,000
per annum) between two perverse battledores.
Whether this same shuttlecock clause be destined
to fall to the grounder to be stuck like a crowning
feather upon the ambrosial wig of my Lord Chan-
cellor WESTWURY—who shall say ? The Lords are
obdarate, the Commons are imperative—their equa-
li,74 d obstinacy balance the
laces here ofsuccess
or failure in a state of equilibrium. So that, in
common parlance, it becomes the merest toss up
point at issue, the advocates or
who shall gain the
the antagonists of that still purely hypothetical
being, the proposed Chief Judge of the New Court
of Bankruptcy.
While affairs are thus ominously situated in
regard to the eventual fate of the Bankruptcy Bill
—how different the position of things in regard to
the Appropriation of Seats (Sudbury and St.
Albans) Bill last evening passed comfortably,
clause by clause, through the House of Lords in
committee ! It could hardly be wondered at, how-
ever, that the Tory Opposition in the Lords
should evidence no disposition whatever to
impede the progress of a measure so pecu-
liarly auspicious for the interests of Conser-
vatism. As originally proposed to the House of
Commons by her MAJESTY'S Government, the
Appropriation Bill—supposing for an instant that
it could ever have worked its way unaltered from
the Lower to the Upper House of Parliament—
would, in that event, most certainly have encoun-

tered in the Lords a reception altogether different.
For, recollect but for one moment, what was the
MirOsterial scheme, as originally submitted to the
consideration of the popular representatives.
Speaking for himself and his colleagues, the noble
earl the Lord President of the Council frankly
confess, Id that " their first proposition was
that t\ vo seats should be given to counties
and two. to boroughs, the boroughs selected
being Birl:enhcad and Chelsea and Kensington.
That schez ue," said Lord uRANVILLE, " was eno
accepted b:ir the House of Commons, and as the
Bill now stood the West Riding of Yorkshire was
to be divided into two divisions, each of which was
to have two members, Birkenhead was to have one
member, and a member was to be added to the
two now possessed by South Lancashire." In other
words, the appropriation of the four seats left