The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-01 00:00:00

rr EA TR c 2:. YAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr, J. B. ittumstuue.

TB JS EVEN IN C 4, the performances will CoMMAnee with
anew Ballet. BACCHUS AND ARIADNE. Miss Fanny
Wright, the Leclercqs, Mr. Webster, 4,c.
After which, a new Comedy, entitled MY LORD AND
MY LADY ; or, It Might have been Worse. Mr. C. Mathews
Mr. Andrews, Mr. Buckstone, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs.
Wilkins, &c.
Followed by COOL AS A CUCUMBER Mr. Charles
Mathews.
To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES.
Commence at 7.

RO YAL PRINCE S S'S THEATRE.--
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.

THIS EVENING, the comedy of MONEY. Mr. Ryder,
Mr. Hermann Vezin, Mr. Shore, and Miss Murray.

To be followed by the new comic drama, entitled A
HoMESTEILD STORY, Messrs. Ryder Shore, and Miss
M. Harris.

ro conclude with THE TWO POLTS. Messrs. Widdi-
combe, Cathcart, Miss R. Leclercq, &c.

"NT EW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI,
4-1 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.

Reproduction Of the great drama of "The Dead Heart."

THIS EVENING, the great Adelphi drama. THE DEAD
HEART. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, Fisher, Billing-
ton, Eburne, Smith, Romer ; Miss Woolgar and Miss Kate
Kelly.

To conclude with (15th time) THE PRETTY HORSE-
BREAKER. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford; Miss K.
Kelly, Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Thorne, Miss Laidlaw, and
Mrs. Chatterley,

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. Jonghmans. Mr. Levy on
the cornet-a-piston. Mr. Wocd 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
for 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.
H E

0 X FOR D,

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. Open Every
Evening. The programme is varied, and includes Selections
(by a full company of principals, powerful band, and chorus)
from " Macbeth" and "Un Ballo in Moochers." both operas
by Verdi, the composer of the day—The wonderful Solos on
the Cornet-a-Piston of the renowned LEVlT—Scotch Duets by
the Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music
of the highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghman Miss bs. The
Comic portion of the entertainment is supported y
Green, Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey, and French (the Nerves),
W. H. Wieland, E. Marshall. and W. Randall. Admission,
Hall, sixpenee ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private
Boxes. 10s. 6d.

NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This DAY.—Morning, Bh. 54m.—Afternoon, 9h. 30m.
To-moußow.-Morning, 10h. 9m.—Afternoon, 10h. 50m.

THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 1, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE. SEIDL
71—highest since noon yesterday.
58—lowest this morning and during the night.
72—this day at noon
:BAnommrsu-30.13.
WIND-Westerly; light, with tine weather.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1861.

The Whitebait Dinner is to the Parliamentary
session what Ampizand is to the Child's Alphabet.
It is the closing up of all with a flourish. And
yesterday was the occasion of the Whitebait
Dinner of 1861 down at Greenwich. There, at the
patriotic sign of the Trafalgar, assembled, accord-
ing to the convivial custom of our Administrators,
the members, more or less conspicuous, more or less
responsible, of her MAJESTY'S Government. If the
new Irish Secretary was not amongst the number
of those gathered around the board—it was because
the right hon. baronet was winning to himself once
more the most sweet voices of those " free and
independent" electors, his constituents, down in
that snug little borough of Tamworth ; where—
was it not O'CONNELL who said it to Sir ROBERT'S
father, the Great Baronet P—the right hon. can-
didate is proposed by his bailiff, seconded by
his butler, and returned by his valet de chambre !
Again, if the new Home Secretary was
absent from the festivities—he too was in quest
(not all in vain) of the suffrages of his supporters
down at Morpeth. Was the Earl of ELGIN and
KINCARDINE absent from the place hitherto allotted
to him there at Lord PALMERSTON'S Whitebait
Dinner, in the noble lord's Ministerial capacity
(when the Coalition Cabinet was first formed) as
Postmaster-General—here likewise was an all-
sufficient reason at once discernible in the fact that
Lord ELGIN is formally selected at last to be Lord
CANNING'S successor as Governor-General of her
MAJESTY'S Empire in Hindostan.
As the sayings and doings at the Ministerial
Whitebait Dinner down at Greenwich are
as usual entirely sub rosa—[it will be seen
by the way from an explanatory paragraph
elsewhere in regard to the origin of this
seventy-or eighty-years-old custom, how it was in-
augurated as a custom by " Old GEORGE ROSE,"
in conjunction with Sir ROBERT PRESTON, in the
time of Mr. PlTT]—as the sayings and goings at
the Whitebait dinner are strictly and absolutely
sub rosa, we are disposed rather to turn to the
absentees already mentioned in order to obtain some
inklin g of the future, now that the Parliamentary
session is drawing to its close forthwith.

At Taraworth Sir ROBERT PEEL spoke out right
frankly and manfully. Not a doubt of it, but that
official life, with the accompanying sense of its
responsibilities, will tend to moderate the tone of
the right hon. baronet when speaking next session
(we have to throw onr anticipations forward now to
February) from before the front Treasury bench in
the Home of Commons. But to anticipate that
Sir ROBERT is one of those who will lose his voice
altogether by reason of his new position and its
associated responsibilities, is to anticipate what
must bo, regarded as in itself a result utterly im-
probable—as, when viewed in respect to the parti-
cular office involved (that of the Irish Secretary-
ship), a result utterly impracticable—as, to sum
lip all in a iiingle phrase, when considered in re-
spect to the particular man here alluded to (Sir
ROBERT PEEL, the third Sir ROBERT), a re-
sult utterly ridiculous. We look forward to
consequences very different from those inseparable
from timidity and mediocrity, from the nomination
of Sir ROBERT PEEL to the post of Irish Secretary.
Discretion, we certainly do hope, the right hon.
baronet will evidence in his official capacity, but
quite certain are we that he will evidence no lack
of ability, no want of manly forbearance when deal-
ing with antagonists, and no unwillingness when it
may be requisite to evince his resolute determina-
tion in carrying out whatever resolutions he may
have conscientiously arrived at. It was very sig-
nificant, we cannot but think, of the future bearing
of Sit ROBERT PEEL as Irish Secretary,
that 'he did not shrink from going directly
to the point yesterday down at Tamworth,
when speaking or that delicate subject to all Irish.
men, the Galway Contract, and of that still more
delicate subject to them, the Papal supremacy.
" With respect to the Galway
Contract," he said,
" Lord PALMERSTON'S answer to a question in the
House of Commons on Monday evening showed
that, while his lordship considered that as a de-
partmental question, he must stand by the course
p arsued by the Postmaster-General; but as rapid
co mmunication with America was of the first
im iportance, he believed Galway to be the beet