The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-25 00:00:00

THE WELLINGTON, 160, PICCADILLY.
-7 Gentlemen are respectfully informed that the
SALOON DINING ROOMS are now OPEN for the Supply
of LUNCHEONS and DINNERS, from One to Nine o'clock
p.m. Set Dinner's and Dining from the carte in the most
varied form. Dllllle/5 from the joint, 2s. Whitebait is now
served daily

THOMAS PRICE, Superintendent,

HEA TR g -It Y AL, HAYMARKET
Lesmee, B. Bizokstone.

I,H-f3 EVENING. the performances will commence with
a new and original Comedy, entitled BLACK SHEEP.
tittekstone, air. Compton, Mr. Howe, ho. ; Mrs. Wilkins,
airs. Charles Young, Mies Loyal), &c.

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Aitcr which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery
and effects, and all the ortzinal music by the late Sir Henry
Disir.lp, the melodrama et TEE MILLER, AND HIS MEN,

4 ammence at 7.

A L PR INCE S S'S THEATRE.—
Legsee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, THE HUNCHBACK. Messrs. Ryder,
Hermann Vezin, Shore, Meadows, &o. ; Misses Heath and
C. Leelereq,
To coaclude with NURSEY CHICKWEED.

EIV THRATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI,
-1-1 Sole Propriator and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.

THIS EVENING, the new drama, MAGLIORE, THE
I'RESTIGITAIOR. Messrs. R. Webster, J. L. Toole,
D. Fisher, ,fie.; Miss K. Kelly, Miss IT. Simms, &c.

To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS.
Messrs. t,. Toole, Eburne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss
Aiate Kelly, Miss E. .'llorne, and Mrs. Chatterley.
After which, THE FOOL OF THE FAMILY. Mr. Paul
Redford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Miss Laldlaw, and Miss Julia
Daly,

Doors open at half past 6—Commence at T.

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!
Westminster-road.
Proprietor ........C. Morton.
A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera,
IL CORSAEO,
(This opera has never been produced in this or any other
countty, except at these Concerts), having met with that de-
cided succors which charactise i the most popular works of
this ~r-at Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ;
together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI-
MENTo, by Donizetti,
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
c. Av. Bernard. Director, Mr. P. Jonghmans.
The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A.
B. Hollingsworth, 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, Ih. 4Gm.—Afternoma, 2h. 7m.
Tu-MORROW.-Morning, 2h. 28m.—Afternoon, 2h. 54m.

THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, APRIL 25, 1561.1
THERMOXETEB, IN THE SHADE.
61—highest since noon yesterday.
42 —lowest this morning and during the night.
55—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30-08.
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THE SUN.

LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1861.

One, at least, of the numerous select committees
appointed during this session by the House of
Commons to inquire into matters of very urgent
importance yesterday issued the report of its pro-
ceedingg. That report—regarding it, as we do, as
one of singular interest to tile. community at large
—we transfer in its entirety to our columns this
evening. Formidable though its length may appear
upon a cursory glance, it will prove upon examina-
tion to be a document in every way worthy of
perusal throughout. Superficially viewed again,
the results arrived at by this committee in the shape
of anything like explicit suggestions of change to
the Legislature may bear the appearance of
being very inadequate, both in extent
and in variety, under the circumstanom Yet
upon a strictly deliberate and dispassionate
scrutiny, these suggestions will be found, we cannot
but think, as bold, and comprehensive, and nume-
rous as it would be prudent for the House of Com-
mons to entertain at one time without risking the
peril of rash and even, it might be, unconstitutional
innovations in the whole scheme of Parliamentary

procedure.
The facilitation of public business in the
popular branch of the Legislature the eco-
nottiy of public time during the ordinary sessional
sittings of the House day after day, week after
week, between February and August inclusively.
those are the two chief objects held in view by this
Select Committee during the course of its lengthened
deliberations and investigations. At the com-
mencement of their labours as a Committee the
members first of all carefully took into considera-
tion, as was obviously advisable, the successive in-
quiries and reports of their preceding Select Com-
mittees appointed at uncertain intervals within the
last thirty years to consider, like themselves,
whether, by any alterations in the forms and pro-
ceedings of the House, the despatch of public busi-
ness may be more effectually promoted. Having
thoroughly digested these reports, having carefully
taken into account the standing orders of the
House, in any way applicable, directly or indi-
rtetly, to the particular subject under consideration,
the Committee have decided altogether upon offer-
ing for the acceptance of the House of Commons
four very simple but really, we cannot but think,
most effective and comprehensive recommendations.
It will be seen, when wo have particula-
rized the wording and the tendency of these
Four suggestions proposed in the Report of the
Select Committee that supposing them to be
adopted and carried into effect by the House,
they would add one very important standing order
to those already in existence, while they would
add another Government night to each week, so
that there would be three of those Government
nights hebdomidally instead of two, as heretofore.
They would, in point of fact, we are disposed to
think, facilitate the transaction of public business
daring the ordinary sessional sittings, and yet at
the same time refrain from injudiciously re-
stricting the right of independent members to

give voice to Public Opinion, and to elicit from

even reluctant Ministers, whenever advisable,

explanations that might be otherwise evaded, dur.

ing a whole session possibly, as—inconvenient

Taking. the four recommendations of the Select
Committee in the order in which they appear, and

the report of its proceedings, we find the first one

suggesting—" That the Committees of Supply and

Ways and Means may be fixed for every day on

which the House shall meet for despatch of public
business." A proposition, that, which, on the face
of it, if but once acceded to, would necessarily and

very appreciably facilitate—would, in fact, as we
has° said, materially facilitate—the transaction of
public business in the popular branch of Parliament.
Itwould ensure this good result by the simple divice
affording tke Commons House of Parliament-
411d this without lengthening its session—fresh
°P.Pottuulties for getting through its labours in
practical legislation. The second proposition of
the Com,Thitttee runs to the effect " That on Friday,
throughemt the
session, orders of the day skull have
Preecti6nce of notices of motion, the right being
reserved to her
TAJEsTv's ministers of placing
Government order
3 on the head of the list." A
fuggebtion, that, moreover, which: without hiving
the smallest reason ivhatever for jealousy to the
House generally, could net
but be peculiarly ac-
ceptable, one cannot but feel, upon the instant, to
the responsible advisers of the s •
EltraoN. Upon
the administration, now-a-days, d„oives
the bulk
of the labours; previously- divided between
the
" Powers that be and the Opposition, Important
measures of all kinds being, as a rul,,
introduced
by the Government of the day, and as an excev.
Lion merely, brought forwal d at rare intervals by