The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-11 00:00:00

OYAL ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.
Under the Management ol4Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.
Harrison, Sole Lessees.
'ruts EVENING, LE DOMINO NOIR. Miss Louisa
Pyne, Miss Thirlwall, Miss Leffler ; Messrs. Henry Haigh,
11. Corti, A. St. Albyn, and Horneastle.
Followed by Mendelssohn's Operetta, THE SON AND
ST RANGER. Misses Thirlwall and Leffler ; Messrs. St.
Albyn, H. Corti, Lyall, and Horneastle.
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at &

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstone.
TTIIS EVENING, the performances will comma
THE SUN AND TUE WIND. The Leclercqs, &c.
After which, a new and original comedy, A DUKE IN
PIFFICULTIES. Mrs. Stirling, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr.
Ouckstone, &c.
And MY WIFE'S DAUGHTER.
Commence at 7.1

with

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--,
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, the Farce of SUSAN SMITH.
To be followed by DON CIESAR DE BAZAN. Don
Cmsar, Mr. Fechter. Supported by Messrs. Basil Potter,
Y. Matthews, J. G. Shore, Miss M. Harris, Miss C. Leclercq
and Mrs. Weston.
To conclude with a comic ballet, THE JOLLY MILLER.
1,1. Espinosa, Mr. Garden, &c.

THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM.
So:e Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
Last Six Nights of the Winter Season.
THIS EVENING the Butletta of TLi AT 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.
Atter which, the Lyceum Christmas Comics 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.

A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
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.
Thorne.
After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boucicault, D.
Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes R.obertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
?Ars. Chatterley.
To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled
lILUE BEARD FROM A NEW POI IT OF HUE.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar,
E. Kelly, Laidlaw, and E. Thorne.
Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking*.
Private boxes, £2 25. ; Boxes, £l.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Is.;
Pit Stalls, 24.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, ed.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wzn. Smith:

CANTERBURY-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 4 the most popular werks of
this meat Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ;
together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI-
M ENT 0, by Donizetti,
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A.
B. Ilollingsworth, 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, 2h. 10m.—Afternoon, 2h. 27m.
To-MORROW.-Morning, 2h. 40m.—Afternoon, 2h. 54m.

THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, MARCH 10, 1861,
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
57—highest since soon yesterday.
48—lowest this morning and during the night.
55 —this day atrnoon.!

BAROMETER-29.98.
WlND—South-Westerly—light ; with very fine weather
Afternoon fresh and squally, with rain from W,N.W.
MARCH 11.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADY.
58—highest since noon yesterday.
38—lowest this morning and during the night.
45—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.38 ; a fall of nearly an inch since yes-
terday.
WlND—West-North-Westerly—fresh ; blowing a gale,
with sudden squalls. There must be a storm in the Chan-
nel, and along the south-western and north-western coasts

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TII E SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 11, 186:

Mr. LINDSAY'S motions upon the Navy—down
upon the notice paper for to-night—mean, if they
mean anything, "Wait ! Diminish the Supplies !
Interrupt all the efforts now being made with a
view to the immediate reconstruction of the Royal
Navy of England ! And—when we have done all
that—let us allow a few more years to elapse,
while we are spending several millions sterling
additional in making a new series of
costly and inconclusive experiments !" Mean-
while, the other maritime " powers that be"—
especially in Europe particularly France—
building with the utmost skill and despatch en-
tirely fresh fleets, iron-built, steel-cased, and screws
in all but the expenditure they involve ! Anything
more suicidal, anything more irrational, anything
more preposterous than the course suggested, to be
adopted now,;by the hon. member for Sunderland is
absolutely, in respect to our navy, not to be ima-
gined.

The importanye of the decision arrived at
by the House of Commons in regard to Mr. LIND-
SAY'S resolutions is so supreme that we must really
give the very words in which they are expressed
upon the Parliamentary papers for this evening.
It will be there found as the nineteenth paragraph
in the long catalogue of the Notices of Motion for
Monday the eleventh of March—" Mr. LINDSAY
on going into committee of supply on navy
estimates, to move, as an amendment, the fol-
lowing resolutions: —l. That it is inexpe-
dient to sanction any further expenditure
for the construction or conversion of wooden
line-of-battle ships. 2. That it is inexpedient to
incur, during the present year, the expenditure re-
quisite for the completion of the line-of-battle ships
110 w on the stocks ; and that, during the present
year, it is not expedient to commence the construc-
tion of any wooden vessels which carry guns on
more than one deck. 3. That it is inexpedient,
without further experience, to sanction the expen-
diture of' any money for the purpose of adapting her
MAJESTr.S dockyards for the construction of-iron
vessels." Now, if these three resolutions mean
anything they mean exactly what we have said.
When Mr. LINDSAY objects to the further construe.
tion of wooden line-of-battle ships—the objection,
viewed by itself, particularly in the light of recent
experiments, proving the inferiority of teak built
ships generally, of even the most admirable heart-
of-olik men-of-war that can be turned out of the
yard of any shipbuilder in the United Kingdom,
when Lompared with iron-made, steel-cased vessels
like La Gloire, or still better, like the two glorious
war ships already launched in British waters—so
vie-wed, we say, exclusively in regard
to itself, in the light of those facts, and
apart from every other consideration, the
objection is in some respects reasonable enough, is
at any rate perfectly comprehensible. But when
it is found that, in the third of these damaging reso-
lutions of Mr. LINDSAY, that hon. gentlemen goes
crt to declare it to be " inexpedient 'without further
experience, to sanction the expenditure of any
woney for the purpose f
0 adapting her MAJESTY'S
pockyards for ale construction of IRON vessels
into the bargain, the
proposition becomes
simply ridiculous, In fact .
nothmr, could
unpatriotic than° the
be more flagrantly
serious suggestion to the British House
of
of Commons that no more money should be supplied
" without further experience" having been obtained
—in other words, until more years shall have been
pasumed and more 4411 iitvve been

wasted in making a series of additional, and, for

the most part, wholly superfluous experiments.
The alternative that the country has to decide
about sooner or later, now at once or at some in-
definite time in the hereafter, is in two words
the alternative between Wood and Iron. And
already the preference has been pronounced far and
wide, here and upon the Continent—the experi-
ments having all gone to demonstrate the now
notorious fact of the superiority of iron
over wood for shipbuilding purposes. France
is already taking advantage very wisely of
the result of these lengthened and costly experi-
ments. A little while longer and the French navy
will be an iron-built, steel-clad floating force, setting
at defiance all the old wooden fleets now in exist-
ence. And while France is thus straining every
nerve to accomplish this grand labour of construc-
tion, England (according to Mr. LINDSAY)—Eng-
land, forsooth, among all the powers in the world,

is to wait idly, so far as ship-building is concerned,
is to construct neither wooden ships of war nor iron
ships of war, until yet more time and money shal
have been consumed in testing the relative advan-
tages of wood and iron ; or, to use his own gene-
ralised phrase, until in the matter of wood and
iron for shipbuilding we shall have gained a
little more experience.
Earlier among the notices of motion for to night
than the three resolutions above particularised—
there appears, as the seventeenth paragraph, another
and briefer notice, in connection with the name of
Mr. LINDSAY, who, it is there intimated, will call
attention to the expenditure upon the navy, imme-
diately upon the House going into Committee of
Supply on Navy Estimates. Now, even in our
character as ECONOMISTS, we must, at once, depre-
cate, in the very strongest terms, the notion
of applying our economy, at the out-
set (of all the departments of the public ser-
vice !) by preference to the maritime department.
Begrudging expenditure there to begin with, would
assuredly be the most egregious mistake into which
the House of Commons could possibly blunder.
Cut down our naval estimates, as Mr. LINDSAY
hints at,—stop all the vitally important efforts in
the way of iron and wooden shipbuilding now
going on in our dockyards, as he also suggests—
allowing France all the while to persevere without a
rival in the course upon which she has already
wisely adventured—and you may imagine the con-
sequences!

" Hang the Ballot !—Why pester us with it this
year—Didn't Lord PALMERSTON promise, or as
good as promise, us, a Reform nap for a twelve-
month—too bad—too bad—BERKELEY is a bore—a
good fellow too—but thosewho back him won't let