The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-12 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.
Cruder the Manigemmt of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.
Harrison, Sole Lessees.
THIS F.VENTNG, THE SONG OF HIAWATHA,
311q9 Matilda •ron, Madame Palmieri, Mr. St. Albyn, Mr.
IL Corri, Mr. Walt .north.
Followed by italfe's SATANEILA. Mi.s Louisa Pyne,
Miss Thirlwall; Mr. Wm. Harrison, Mr. H. Corri, Mr. H.
Wharton, &c.
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven.

qv-TEA TR g-P. OY AL. HAYMARKET.
-Lessee. Mr. J. R. Racirstone.
TrTTz. FVENTNG the ner►nrmanoes will nommenee with
THE RIVALS. Sir Lu •ins O'Trigger, Mr. John Brougham;
Lydia -Languish, Miss Fanny Stirling.
After which, a new Pantomime, QUEEN LADYBIRD
AND ITER CHILDREN. The Pantomimists by the un-
rivalled Leclercqs, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright.
Commence at 7.

OY AT. PRINCESS'S THRATRE.--
taaPee and Manager. Mr. A. IFiarrls.

THIS EVENING. the performances will commence with
DON CA SA RDR BAZAN. Messrs. Fechter, Basil Potter.
F. Matthews, J. G. Shore, Miss M. Harris, Also C. Leclercq,
and Mrs. Weston.
After which, a new Christmas comical pantomime. entitled
ROBINSON CRITSOF ; or, Harlequin Friday, and the Rine
of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and
Mlle. Marie Dumilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres
will appear. Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest.

THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM.
So;e Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
TFITS EVEN iNG, a new drama, THE HOUSE ON THE
MIDGE OF NOTRNI DAME. Principal characters by
Mr. 0. Vining., Mr J. Johnstone, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Clifford,
Mr. John Rouse, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Slorris ; Miss M.Ternan,
Miss K. Saxon, Miss L. Thompson, and Madame Celeste.
After which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza,
CRYSTABELLE ; or, The Rose without a Thorn, showing
THE VIsIO V OF A ROSE. ITS FADING AT EVE,
AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR.
To conclude with a new Divertissement. Miss Lydia
Thompson, &c.

Dfrj,PHT, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Cole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. Beni Webster.
TFils EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J.
j,. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
Thorne.
Atter which. THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Bonet:Hlt, D.
Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled
BLUE BEARD Fi?o3l A NEW POINT OF HUE.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar,
K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and M. Thorne.

Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, AI.
Orchestra 1.4, tails ss. ; Balcony, 45.: Front Circle Stalls, Ss. •
Pit Stalls, 2s. ; 'Pit, Is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre. ; Gallery. 45(1:
Acting' Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

FY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
A I J
Proprietor and Manager. Mr. WM. BATTY.
Immense success of " Turpin's Ride to York."
A Grand Morning Performance will take place on Friday,
Feb. 15, commencing at two o'clock with the Pantomime.
THIS F,VENING. will be reproduced TUR PIN'S RIDE
TO YORK, AoiD THE DE ‘TH OF BLACK BESS. in
which the Brothers Edwin will appear with their celebrated
Steed Blank Bess.
To be succeeded by scenes in the Arena, supported by
talented Parisian and Bri'ish Artistes.
Concluding with Batty'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 Duebess and
the Greedy King, produced with Gorgeous Scenery; by Mr.
Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing
in the comae scenes Ratty's Prize Equestrian Harlequinade,
and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4 •
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.
Commence at 7.

CANTF,RBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!
A Grand Selection from Verdi's Opera,
IL COESARO.
consisting- of the following Morceaux:—
Preludio.
Coro Scenic ed Aria. "Tutto narca Sorridere"
Coro di Oditlische. " Oh qual perenne"
Cavatf na .....• „Vole talor dal Carcere"
Coro ed Juno
..- " Cento lezziadre Vergini"
Scena ed Aria.Terzetto Finale "Vol"Voi tacete io non"
will shortly be produced, in the oriznal key and Italian
lanc-uaTe—the first time of performance In this country—in
addition to the usual attractions.
Mr. F. JONGHMANS, Musical Director.
Also in preparation, Selections from Verdi's New Operas,
tin Ballo in Maschera." "Simon Boccane4ra ;" and Flo-
w's celebrated Opera of "Stradella."

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tale DAY.—Morning, 3h. 39m.—Afternoon, 3h. 54m,
To-moußow.-Morning, 4h. Bm.—Afternoon, 4h. 26m,

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEB. 12, 1561.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
37—highest since noon yesterday.
25 —lowesi this morning and during the night.
34—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.70.
WlND—South-Westerly ; light with fine weather.

',a •
•
• , 41.
-$l7l
,Zwook.t._ A:P•
•

_,
`!~r, a rr'

~``~~

THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 12, 18814

The ablest practical lawyer of his age, her
MAJESTY'S Attorney-General, has already grappled
in veritable earnest with the multifarious abuses
resulting from the present state of the law relating
to Bankruptcy and Insolvency. Sir RICHARD
BETHELL has, in regard to this, perhaps the most
essential, certainly the most clamorously demanded
or all the great law reforms, undertaken to accom-
plish that which we would fain have seen at last
attempted to be accomplished by Lord JOHN RUS-
SELL in regard to the reform of our whole system
of popular representation. Instead of regulating his
course by a selection obdurately made between the
horns of that intolerable dilemma, an extreme and
extravagant alternative—instead of resolving obsti-
nately either to do All, or to do Nothing, the Chief
Law Adviser of the Crown has wisely taken his
immediate course intermediately, and has thus most
effectively and effectually removed every obstacle
that lay in the way of in itant legislation with a
view to the amendment of the laws relating to
Bankruptcy and Insolvency.
How ingeniously, promptly, and judiciously all
this
.has been accomplished, may be readily un-
derstood by instituting here a merely momentary
comparison between the scope of Sir RICHARD
BETHELL'S Bill of last year and that of the revised
and restricted, but still sufficiently com-
prehensive measure introduced by him last
evening to the consideration of the House of Com-
mons, and explained in all its more essential parts
through the medium of the Attorney-General's
singularly clear and masterly exposition. It is
observable, then, in the first instance, that the
Bankruptcy Bill ineffectually introduced during
the course of last session by the same eminent, we
might say of him without fear of being deemed
invidious in regard even to the most illustrious of
his professional contemporaries, by the same pre-
eminent lawyer.—Sir R. BETHELL'S Bankruptcy
Bill of last year aspired to accomplish the complete
revision and re-arrangement of the whole body of
English law relating to Debtor and Creditor. It
aimed, in fact, in regard to that particular depart-
ment of the commercial code of this great mer-
cantile community, at a root and branch reform of
it that would result at its close, in one word, in its
total and absolute "consolidation." The adventure,
worthier though it may still be deemed of Sir
ItienanD B ETHELL'S distinguished reputation,
Pr'"ad, as we all of us very well remember, es-
tirely futile—the bill never passing, even in a
modified Form, into an enactment, because altogether
too huge, ton unwieldy, and in every way too
ambitious. Instead of attempting now to accom-
plish in this manner and forthwith a clearance
f;0 absolutely herculean, the Attorney-General
undertakes simply during
most the present session to
sw cep away the
crying grievances of all, and
thereby to prepare the way by these partial and
most judicious reforms, reforms made bit by bit
Or pleceraead,for the ultimate realisation, later on,
of his original design—namely, that of the entire
revision and complete consolidation of the whole
body of laws relating to Debtor and Creditor. As
affording instantaneous evidence of the manner in
which this most urgently-required law reform has
been simplified for the Legislature—let it.!;00 espe.