The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-22 00:00:00

Actinr Manazer—Mr. Wm. Smith.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West-
minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passes-
gen; all hours of the night.
THIS EVENING, Poole's comedy, THEY'RE BOTH TO
BLA3Iitl. Messrs. Leigh Murray, Barrett, Walter Carle ;
Mesdames Frank Matthews, Murray, Catharine Hickson.
After which the successful Ballet Farce, by John Oxen-
ford, Esq., entitled MAGIC TOYS, support :d by Miss Lydia
Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, and a numerous Corps de
Ballet.
To conclude with the New and Original Burlesque, by L.
Buckingham, Esq., of VIRGINIUS ; or the Trials of a Fond
Papa.
Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, ls. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform-
ance commences at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough
THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN
EGGS.
After which TTTE GREAT RUSSIAN BEAR; or, An-
other Retreat from Moscow.
And CAUGHT BY THE EARS.
Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS.

Commence at 7 o'clock;

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of
MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con-
certs).
And a Grand Selection from Meyerbeer's new opera of
DINORAH.
Comic Vocalists -Messrs. George 'godson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. P. Critchfield, and E. W. hackney.
Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.

TILE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, OCTOBER 22.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
31--highest since noon yesterday.
3l—lowest this morning and during the night.
47—this day at noon.

BAnomETEH-29.54.
WIND, N.W.; light. with fine cold weather.

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THE SUN.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1859

It was a noble and affecting spectacle that was
witnessed yesterday in the old Abbey down at
Westminster. The funereal honours paid to the
remains of ROBERT STEPHENSON were offered
before GOD to his memory by a whole people
expressive of an admiration for his genius and
an appreciation of his worth, in which our gracious
SOVEREIGN herself took occasion most graciously
to evidence her sympathy. One regret survives,
however, even in the midst of the melancholy
satisfaction with which we look back to this strik-
ing ceremonial. It is a regret, almost an indig-
nant regret, that ISAMBARD BRUNEL also was not
buried there in Westminster Abbey, by the side of
his friend and compeer, ROBERT STEPHENSON.
Selection in their instance has the appearance of
being invidious. For it would be difficult
to award the palm of superiority to either
of those truly great and world renowned
engineers. They have both signalised their rare
capacity as men of sublime constructive ingenuity
and of almost unparalleled scientific daring by the
production of works of gigantic magnitude—works
that are likely to attest their powers to many after
generations. Conspicuous among these works the
Great Western and many other railways were to
BRUNEL what the North-Western and many other
railways were to STEPHENSON. If the latter
achieved wonders across the Menai Straits, the
former did the like by bridging over with a line of
ocean steamers the broad bosom of the Atlantic.
STEPHENSON died jest, as that grand Victoria
Tabular Bridge across the St. Lawrence was
barely completed. BRUNEL had, immediately
prior to this, breathed his last upon the very
morrow, one might say, of the successful launch
of his chef crceucres—the Great Eastern, the
grandest of all the modern products of naval
architecture. Speaking of his lamented demise in
September, we observed at the time in these
columns—and observed, we hesitate not to insist
now, without one particle of exaggeration—that
later times, looking back to the engineering
labours of our own generation, and beholding
prominent, rather we should say supreme,
among those labours the marvellous attestations
of the genius of BRUNEL and STEPHEN.
SON, may say in truth what was said of
old—" 1 here were Giants in those days ! "
Our contemporary, the limes, more recently
remarked, in its biographical comment upon the
decease of ST EPIIENSJN in October, in this present
month of October, that a sort of double throne was
occupied by the two great engineers whose loss we
have now had bitter reason to mourn simul-
taneously. The more complete and accurate our
appreciation of the high merits of each, the more
disposed must we be to regret, as we do regret, that
—not STEPHENSON alone, but that BRUNEL and
STEPHENSON were not now sepultured side by side
in 'Westminster Abbey—sharing in death the
homage they had won in equal proportions
dutinc; their lifetime front all ranks and classes
of their free-born country mug.
It is too late now to do more than lament that
BRUNEL was not interred under the pavement of
the Old Abbey last month, as his friend and rival
was interred there only yesterday.
But it is not too late for the nation to award to
the memory of both a /need of grateful admiration,
to which they do certainly appear to us to be alike
entitled. And in doing this we might pay a grace-
ful and appropriate tribute also to the memory of
their distinguished fathers—remembering that
there were two great BRUNELS, fatlibi and son;
and that there were also (father and son) two illus-
trious STEPHENSONS.

without possessing nationally any very remark-

able sculpturesque genius, or perhaps we should be
nearer the mark if we put instead of the word
genius the monosyllable taste—we are very fond
of raising memorial statues in our public places to
the fame, good or evil as the case may be, of cele-
brated persbnages—mostly warriors, statesmen,-
and sovereigns. We had in the middle of Leicester-
square, for example, until Mr. WYLD replaced it by
his noble effigy of the Great Globe, the sculptured
presentment of one of the most disreputable roues
who ever sat upon the throne of these realms. We
have just fixed upon its pedestal, at Whitehall
another statue, the statue, this time, of a Great Sol-
dier, and, in many respects, a great man, but one
who was, in life, a flagrant peculator,-and was, in
death, a self murderer. We have long ago, for no
reason that anybody can at all divine, elevated
among the clouds, upon the summit of one of our
noblest columns, the grandoise " earvelled effigy"
of that high and mighty prince (we believe, among
other titles, he was a Bishop, and, unfortunately,
he was, once upon a time, a Generalissimo) H.R.H.
the late Duke of YORK. We have these
and several other national monuments scat-
tered about our metropolis already repre-
senting, some of them, really great men, like
NELSON and WELLINGTON, a few of them good
men, but the majority really and truly men of very
ndifferent character.

England might now, we conceive, wisely and
worthily build up among these another and a
nobler monument than almost any of them, a monu-
ment not inaptly representing the genius of this
great Iron Age of Engineering. The central figure
upon this monument, the sculptured effigy of—
JAMES WATT.

The four corners occupied by statues representing—
MARK
BRUNEL.
GEORGE
STEPHENSON.

and

and

ISAMBARD
BRUNEL.
ROBERT
STEPHENSON.

Another alarmist has spoken out, and has spoken
out too very effectively. We allude to Lord
HATHERTON, who, as Lord Lieutenant of Stafford-
shire, has recently addressed himself, through the
ears of the Hansworth Volunteer Riflemen, to the
patriotic ardour of the whole community. We
give his lordship's remarks elsewhere, and crave
for them, at least, some passing attention : be-
cause, although the words of an alarmist, they
are the words spoken from the heart of one who
is, in that character, conscientiously in earnest.
Alarmists, generally, we are disposed to classify
with that brood of succulent but not proverbially
sagacious birds whose trumpet-like clangour we
read of in classic Roman story as having (if
NIEBUHR will permit us to believe it) upon one
memorable night saved the capitol. Not among
these, however, are we disposed for one instant to
reckon impertinently the noble lord-lieutenant of
Staffordshire. Lord HATHERTON is by far too sensible
a reasoner to be treated thus discourteously. His
arguments are too forcible for any one to attempt
to pooh-pooh them. They are built up for the
most part of what may be called literally home-
truths. There is no gainsaying the accuracy of
such statements, for example,'as the following
"We all feel, soldiers though we are, that our
first hopes must rest on the efficiency of our
navy. That has ever been the arm of this country,
for on no other can we rely for its safety. What is
its condition ? I believe we have at this moment a
better navy than we have had for years, but it had
fallen into a most discreditably low condition."
Yet, although so far improved in regard to the posi-
tion to which our naval defences have been restored
—we hear Lord HATHERTON averring, " I believe
that France could now put into the Channel a
larger fleet, in a shorter period of time, ti.an it
is in the power of England to do." This we ven-
ture to doubt. But the noble lord, credited or
not credited upon this" one point, must still be
heard. He says—" Considering the vast resources
of this country, the immense foreign possessions
it has to defend, our vast wealth at home, and
our great population, I say that if any disaster
were permitted to befall this country by means
of its navy, it would be /tie greatest disgrace
that ever fell on any country in the history of
the world." And he adds, " I believe there
is no effort that England is not prepared to make
—there is no pecuniary sacrifice we would not sub-
mit to—for the purpose of avoiding such a disgrace."
Now, an alarmist who speaks thus is worth listen-
: ing to. In speaking thus he is only such an
alarmist as we rejoice to remember Sir JOHN
PAKINGTON was when he presided as very few, in-
deed, have for years and years past presided over the
vital interests of the nation at the Board of Admi-
ralty. As a distinguished promoter of the rifle agita-
tion, as an approver of the volunteer movement, Lord
HATHERTON, we rejoice to notice, insists upon the
paramount importance of looking well to the effi-
ciency of the Royal Navy of England—of multiply-
ing, and strengthening, and reconstructing (at any
cost that may be deemed requisite)those wooden walls
which are our first and real defence under Provi-
dence. The Ship-of-War, indeed, is the true symbol
to be engravers upon the buckler of BRITANNIA.

The Discoverer 4the Fate of the Franklin Ex-
pedition, brave Capt. M'CLINTOCK, has recently
(as recently as the 17th inst.) penned a letter to a
correspondent of his at Spalding—which letter
may be regarded as the finishing l'envoy, or
postscript, to his official narrative of his
late successful enterprise. From this commu-
nication, given by ourselves in another part of to-
day's impression of our journal, it will be seen that
Captain M'CLINTOCK regards his own expedition,
and (from the reasons given) with manifestly good
cause, as the Final Arctic Expedition. He tells
England, as plainly as words can express, it that
nothing further of any value is anywhere at all
likely to be learnt of Sir JOHN FRANKLIN and his
heroic companions in those desolate regions of ever-
lasting winter. Alluding to the proposal of an over-
land expedition, he reminds his correspondent of the
traces of Europeans found already upon Montreal
Island by Mr. ANDERSON, and he adds, " There-
fore I do not think further records would
be found by a second expedition over the
same ground." He says, moreover, " You will
observe that my first care was to reach Montreal
Island and Point Ogle, where Anderson's search
terminated, and after re-examining these positions
to complete the search from thence to where the
lost people landed from their ships. The greater
part of this painfully interesting route was gone
over three times—twice by Licut. HoßsoN and once
by myself. The natives repeatedly told us that all
the white people had died." It were worse than
frivolous to depreciate opinions like these as a mere
ipse dixit, remembering that although it is such,
undoubtedly it is the ipso (Exit of a man no less
qualified to speak authoritatively—we had almost
said oracularly—upon the subject than Captain
M'CLINTOCK.

A marriage is on the lapis (says the Limerick
Chronicle) between a worthy resident magistrate of a neigh-
bouring county and an accomplished lady, who has been
subjected to persecution and annoyance at Rathronan and
elsewhere, the facts of which are fresh in pubic recollec-
tion.

MISS AMY SEDGWICK.—This favourite actress of
the Haymarket Theatre makes her last appearance for some
time this evening, appearing, for this occasion only, in
" Plot and Passion," and "The Day after the Wedding."

LATEST NEWS.

The following telegram 3 have been received at
Mr. Iteuter's office :

TURIN, OCT. 21.

The official Piednzontese Gazette publishes a
decree authorising the Minister of Finance to con-
tract a loan of 100 millions of francs, by means of
alienation of rentes on the public debt to that
amount. _ _

Count Rogier, Minister of Belgium, has arrived

at Turin.

MADRID, OCT. 20.

The reply of Morocco to the guarantees de-
manded by Spain not being of a satisfactory cha-
racter, war appears imminent. A Council of Mi-
nisters, presided over by the Queen, has been con-
voked.

The Spanish funds have declined to-day more

Lan 1 per cent.

ZURICH, OCT. 21.

Count Colloredo has been attacked with apo-
plexy this morning. Four physicians have been
called to his aid, but little hopes are entertained of

his recovery.