The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-25 00:00:00

ACCIDENT IN EATON- SQU.A.RE.

Warwick-street, An inquest was held last evening at St. George's
Cooper, a young unmarried female, aged I'l
death was occasioned on Saturday l.ljasltni bli
Hospital, before Mr. Langham, deputy-coroner
Westminster, on view of the body f for
published, having been
acci-
dent, the particulars residing at 114,
jaursreodf. Evidenceon- Jyc aohr, le erwy Ann
hehao
r.ssse:
wicaknd throwing her off on to
War
running away with her,
the spiked railings round Eat
she was fatally
Mr. Edward Clayton, job '
Belgrave-road, said
months, and squaro, by which
have already been
master, 40 Hugh-street,
he knew deeea sed nearly three
of
hiring a saddle-horse from him, gemerally three
and sometimes four days a-week. She was a fair
horsewoman. She rode this horse once before.
The horse was very quiet, and a particular• favourite
with several ladies. That morning deceased rode
the horse at her own special desire. He had since
given,
h an to the
watasthberohuogsphittaiol,
shealso
foundp rove da_ _
been given to understand that the lady used a spur
that day, and he was well aware that -this horse
would not stand the spur,
and therefore that must
have been the sole cause f the accident-
Other witnesses were called and corroborated the
last. witness's evidence, that the horse was very
spur.
quid, a general favourite, but would not stand the
th-aEtliwzaheMnetrhceerd,
spur on the heel of her boot.
After medical evidence as to the nature of the
injuries deceased had sustained,
The jury unhesitatingly returned
deceased died from the rupture of a verdict that
the
artery, caused by an accidental fall pulmonary
deceased eas nursee
d
from a horse.

—The guardians of the DurWhamnUis--1
A CANDIDATE FOR A
few days advertised for a offeringchaplain the extremely
liberal salary of £2O a-year. One gentleman, who did not
spurn the appointment OnUraveCwiliAthinPLAthlNe
lceYst
even upon such conditions, made his
atiplication in the following terms —" Sir,--1 beg
leave to
ndeed
very small.
boards in the union, or if he
make application for the appointment of chaplancy for the
Durham Union. The salery offered is i
You do not say if the chaPlan
has to find board and lodgeout of the salery. I enclose
copy testimonials, which I hope will be approved of. I may
state that I have had a good deal of private practice, but not
publick.—l am, sir, your most obedient servant, JOAN
SMART." It turned out that the applicant, who dated
from Edinburgh, had been footman to a clergyman, in
which post be thought he had sufficiently qualified hint-
self for the duties he proposed to undertake in the Durham
Union.
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TB:EA TR E. R 0 YAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
'HIV,' EVENING, the perrcrimances will commence with
a new Ballet, BACCHUS AND ARrADNE. Miss Fanny
Wright, the Leclercqs, Mr. Webster, &c.
After which, a new Comedy, entitled My LORD AND
MY LADY; or, It Might have been Worse. Mr. C. Mathews,
Mr. Andrews, Mr. Buckstonc, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs.
Wilkins, &c.
Followed by COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles
Mathews.
To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES.
Commence at 7.

LOYALI PRINCESS'S THEATRE::
Lessee and Manazer, Mr. A. Harris.
pins EVENING, the new comic drama, entitled
HOMESTEAD STORY, Messrs. Ryder, Shore, and Miss
Barris.
To be followed by AS YOU LIKE IT.
Mary Provost ; Jaques, Mr. Phelps.
To conclude-with THE TWO POLTS

Rosalind, Miss

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL-
Sole Proprietor and Manag-er, Mr. B. Webster.

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

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

To conclude with (9th 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
ANC) 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. Wood 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, ls.
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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.

T H E 0 X FO R D,
6, OXFORD-STREET.
This noble building being now completer], 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 Maschera.." both operas
by Verdi, the composer of the day— The wonderful Solos on
the Cornet-a-Piston of the renowned LEVY—Scotch Duets by
the Misses Stuart. and other vocal and instrumental music
of the highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The
Comic portion of the entertainment Is supported by Miss
Green, Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey, and French (the Nerves),
W. H. Wieland, E. Marshall, and W. Randap. Admission'
Hall, sixpenee ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private
Boxes, 10s. 6d.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1861.

SYDNEY SMITH'S grotesque saying about the round
men being popped into the square holes, and the
square men into the round holes, is at this moment
being more flagrantly illustrated than ever through
the medium of those eccentric chopping and changes
inLord PALMERSTON'S Government. Hands across—
chassee—balancez—down the middle and up again ;
it is the veriest maze of a country dance that we
are just now witnessing among the elderly gentle-
men making up the bulk of the Coalition. It bears
a striking resemblance either to this—or to that
dexterous display, apparently, of cross purposes
constituting the fun and frolic of the merriest dance
of all, that of Sir ROGER DE CoVERLEY. Yet the
worst of it is that the fun and frolic of these
same fantastic and sudden movements, the mem-
bers of the Cabinet keep almost entirely to
themselves. Scarcely one outsider is admitted to
any direct participation whatever in the somewhat

dubious gratification derivable in any way from this
Ministerial divertissement. Literally there is not
" one" outsider permitted to enter the inner circle of
the Government, that sanctum sanctorum of official
life, the mysterious region in which the Cabinet
assembles together. Pro& 0 procul este profani!
Even the one conspicuous personage added to the
thinned ranks of the Administration—though him-
self a man of shining parts, and one, moreover, who
carries with him a historic name to whatever de-
partment he might chance to be nominated—even
he is peremptorily denied admission within those
consecrated precincts sacred to the hallowing foot-
steps of your Cabinet Minister.
A simple matter-of-fact enumeration of the
Ministerial changes adventured upon by Lord PAL-
MERSTON, will serve to illustrate more pointedly
almost than any syllable of comment the narrow
spirit in which our veteran Premier has undertaken
to conduct the now apparently forlorn hope of re-
juvenating his grand do-nothing, laissez-aller,
laissez-faire Administration.

Everything in the way of change among our

administrato-rs at the present moment is said to be
attributable directly and exclusively to the forced
retirement of Lord HERBERT of LEA (by reason
wholly and solely of his regretted indisposition),
from the conduct of the War Department.
Long delayed, in the illusive expectation
that temporary repose or change of air and scene
might renovate the shaken constitution of the War
Secretary, the withdrawal of that eminent and
popular statesman altogether from the responsi-
bilities of power at length became, eveni n the
estimation of his reluctant colleagues, imperative
and unavoidable. Consequent upon the resigna-
tion of Lord HERBERT, came Lord JOHN'S claim at
length. of his Earldom. And so soon as that noble
lord, by intimating his willingness to be removed
from the House of Commons to the House of Lords,
had thus proposed to carry with him into the
latter House the Secretaryship of State for
Foreign Affairs— it became incumbent upon
Lord WODEHOUSE to resign his under-secretaryship
for the same department. Whereupon, as a matter
of course, Lord WODEHOUSE resigned accordingly.
It yet remains to be seen who will be nominated
the noble lord's successor in that under-secretary-
ship in the Commons House of Parliament. Other-
wise than in this instance, and the instance of the
Under-Secretaryship for War, the Ministerial
vacancies have been filled up in the manner we are
now about to indicate.

First of all, however, let it be borne in wind for
a moment that—notwithstanding Lord HERBERT'S
resignation of the War Department— there will yet
remain in the House of Lords two of the five prin-
cipal Secretaries of State. This—by reason of Lord
I°llll'El elevation to the peere.ge as Earl RUSSELL.
There will be. that new peer as Secretary of
State for
Foreign Affairs. There is already there
in the Upper Rouse, the Duke of NEWCASTLE as
Colonial Secretary. And, besides this, there is the
monopoly by the Peers of the chief of the Naval
Department in the person of another Duke, the
Duke of SOMERSET as First Lord of the Admiralty.
It wt.'s impossible, therefore, under the circumstan-
ces, .for the noble Viscount, the Premier, with all
his aristocratic predilections, to
award to yet
anot her member of the House of Peers the Secre-
tary ship of State (that of War) left vacant by Lora
HE EBERT'S resignation. That office—by reason of
Lard JOHN'S advance to the House of Peers—be.

longed by right, as one may say, to the House
of Commons. And to a member of the
House of Commons it has been given in conse-
quence. But—to an outsider ? No. And it is here
that begins that fantastic change of places which
will conduce, we may rest satisfied, to do anything
but strengthen the already ricketty fabric of the
Administration.

Sir CORNEWALL LEWIS—who is appparently
presumed to possess an Universal Genius—quits the
Home Office to become Lord HERBERT'S successor
as War Secretary. Already Sir GEORGE has shown
himself to be but an indifferent Chancellor of the
Exchequer. He has since then acquitted himself
but questionably of the heavy responsibilities de-
volving upon him in his more recent capacity as
Home Secretary. He now goes to the War Office
without the possession apparently of any one visi-
ble qualification suitable for the conduct of
that department ; and it will be with
no small solicitude that the country will
now observe, in his little regard, how little of a
CARNOT may be made out of an ex-editor of the
Edinburgh. To the vacated Home Secretaryship,
as Sir G. C. LEWIS'S successor will be restored the
very Administrator who had been compelled to
forego, upon the plea of ill-health, the toil and
anxiety inseparable from the discharge of the duties
of that department—to wit, Sir GEORGE GREY,
until now,
repairing his jaded energies in that corn-
fortable Ministerial sinecure, the Chancellorship of
the Duchy of Lancashire. To that vacated
haven of rest in the Cabinet, is removed,
the Secretary for Ireland Mr. CARDWELL.
But the successor of Mr. CARDWELL in the Irish
Secretaryship, is not to be admitted, as Mr. CARD-
WELL has been admitted in that capacity, to a
seat at the Cabinet Council Board. Sir ROBERT
PEEL being the new Secretary for Ireland, and not
as was at fist anticipated, Mr. CHICHESTER FOR-
TESCITE. It is auspicious for Sir ROBERT PEEL
that his official career begins as his illustrious
father's began before him—that is, as Irish Secretary.
But—unlike his father—the present Sir ROBERT has
a fair chance of winning popularity among the ranks
of all Liberal Irishmen, and of obtaining for himself
a soubriquet less invidious than that of "Orange
PEEL" upon the other side of Saint George's
Channel. There will still remain to be filled up
two vacated Under-secretaryships the Under-
secretaryship for War in the Lords and the Un-
der-secretaryship for Foreign Affairs in the
Commons. To the latter may we not hope that
either Mr. LAYARD or Mr. KINGLAKE may be
promoted ? As for the former, the choice there
we believe to be still matter of bewilderment to
Lord PALMERSTON.

The Etna has brought two or three rather im-

portant items of news from America. General
M'CLELLAN'S division,of whose operations we have
been daily waiting to hear, has attacked the
rebels successfully. Probably this time the re-
ported rout was a real one, as the guns, camp
equippage, and waggons were all captured. The
less of life is said to have been twenty on the side
of the victors, and sixty on the side of the van-
quished. The defeated troops will no doubt join
those of General JOHNSTON, whom General PAT-
TERSON defeated at Martinsburg, and who were
strong enough to prevent a further onward move of
'PATTERSON till he had obtained reinforcements.
We presume M'CLELLAN Will now move eastward
and northward to place JOHNSTON between himself
and PATTERSON, and thus compel him to fall back
towards Richmond.

In Missouri, where the last accounts had left a

( large Secession force victors over a smaller Union
one, the balance of skirmishing is again in favour
of the Federalists. The rebels are mustering con-
siderable strength in that quarter, and the Fede-
ralists doing all they can to prevent a combination
of the enemy's forces. A Col. SMITH seems to have
been even surrounded by the latter, but had, it is
said, routed the rebels who had surrounded him.
The Federalist Generals appear not to confine their
attacks to armed enemies. By order of General
LYON, his soldiers have put down forcibly a Seces-
sion journal in St. Louis—they seized the type, we
are informed, and prohibited the publication of the
paper ! What can brother journalists say to soldiers
who fight against paper enemies ? We suppose
we must take it as a compliment, a confession that
if the sword does not master the pen, the pen would
master the sword.

Another remarkable fact is that a privateer,
bearing the name of the Southern President—the
Jeff. Davis, has made many captures—five vessels,
it is mentioned, that she has sent to Southern ports ;
one of them a brig, the John Walsh, bound from
Cuba to England. Such details wear the appear-
ance of authentic news—it is added, moreover,
that six cutters have sailed in pursuit of the pri-
vateer ? But we in England have certainly a ques-
tion or two to ask. if the blockade be an effectual
one, how did the privateer leave any Southern
port ? And, again, worse than this—since one sly
skipper giving the blockading squadron the slip is
conceivable—how did she manage to send five
vessels for condemnation to Southern ports ? We
confess this is to us a mystery ; that is, on the sup-
position that the rebel ports are really blockaded
irom Baltimore to Houston, or the southern limits
of Texas ? Into what ports were the prizes
taken ? If some of them were small coast-
ing craft which could be beached or sent
up a creek almost anywhere, a brig of
the tonnage for a voyage to England could hardly
be so dealt with. The crew of another brig
is mentioned as having been brought home by a
C
vessel
off fromavN:wport—their ship having been cap-
tured Hatteras, in North Carolina, by a
privateer. If it were not the same as the one
before mentioned, this -would seem to show a pretty
t
active privateering by the Southerners on the
Atlantic coast. We shall now
belligerent.
whether the
North itself is not compelled to treat the Southern
privateers as belonging to
1 sa l r already.
have one privateer's crew in their
Will they venture to hang them, as an example to
traitors or freebooters? Will they venture to
hang the crew of the Jeff. Davis, if they catch
n —e&a
simply detain
them ? We cannot doubt they will
them as prisoners of war.
the
thoughts letter to a contemporary thus
near
re
sses
thoughts of many Americans on the ea
future—
" The national army will soon advance to Richmond,
Virginia, and the enemy must either retire or
fight. A great victory on either side will have im-
portant consequences to four millions of our poor
unfortunate people in bondage, which you will not
notice discussed in the newspapers, but it is never-
theless occupyi,ig the thoughts of statesmen and
reflecting people ,generally. A great victory by
the North may exasperate the South to free and
arm the in-grecs, in hopes of getting rid of the
Northern army, and trusting to circumstances to
enslave the negroes again when peace returns, in
which they will be very much mistaken. A great
victory gained by the South may and will exaspe-
rate the North, then aroused to a terrible energy, to
declare freedom to the slave wherever the Northern
army goes. God Almighty is working the slave's
release out of this contest. Not till death stalked in
every Egyptian family and the first-born were

slain did the Egyptians of old let the oppressed go

a•ee."

The wonder to us is that the North does not use
the threat of emancipation as the means of a great
victory. Congress might most righteously declare
that those who had broken the Constitution were
no longer entitled to the toleration it gave to an
institution naturally inconsistent with and hostile
to it, and that, therefore, in all the seceding States
the slaves were to be henceforth free. The Border
States could be left then to do as they pleased, or,
if they behaved well, their slaves might be re-
deemed by the Union.

Exeunt—two Church Bills—to be beard of, we
hope, no more. One Mr. ALCOCK'S Commutation
Bill, the other Mr. CROSS'S Amendment Bill, both
equally good—that is good-for-nothing. The
owners of property will certainly never accept Mr.
ALCOCR'S Bill ; the country at large will as cer-
tainly reject that of Mr. CROSS. Sir MORTON
PETO stated two facts which will insure its not
becoming law. It will increase largely the area
of Church-rate taxation. Two thousand new
churches, ;the worshippers in which now meet their
expenses in the only way honourable men can do,
would be authorised by the bill to levy a rate in the
districts assigned to them, and all the objectors
would be put to the annual trouble of sending
notice that they did not -wish to be rated. And this
nuisance in exchange for the simple and natural
plan of the worshippers putting their half-crown or
their half-sovereign into the plate once a quarter.
Taking into account the large towns, and all the
places where Church-rates have been abolished, Mr.
PETO says that 9,000,000 of the population now
exempt would be brought under liability of the
rate. Even Mr. NEWDEGATE declared that the
Voluntary principle was the only one which could
be adopted in the towns. We do not often hear
from the hon. member such good sense on Eccle-
siastical subjects as is contained in the following
remarks—" The bill of his hon. friend (Mr. CRoss)
was based on exclusion, and would operate to the
destruction of the Church of England if passed into
law. Taking the case of such a town as Birming-
ham if the bill became law, and if there was an
attempt to enforce its provisions, it would do
more to break up the growing good feeling which
existed than any measure he could conceive ; and it
would have this effect, that it would register the
majority of the population of that town, including
Dissenters, Nonconformists, those who had any per-
sonal difference with the clergy, those who merely
objected to pay, and the poor, in a category which
would be available for those who desired the sub-
version of the Chureh. They would literally have
formed in every parish of England a register for
the use of those who desired to agitate against the
Chursh, and that register would be formed at the
expense of the Church itself. He would recom-
mend the friends of the Church of England to take

that warning."
Sir G. C. LEWIS was, no doubt, desirous to get
rid of useless discussion, and to get on with real
business, but we suppose we ought to thank him
for his compliment to the Fourth Estate—he told
the eager speakers that they were really now en-
croaching on the legitimate province of the Daily
Press, for this was a subject which could be dis-
cussed by the newspapers during the whole of the
recess, in a better and abler manner than could be
done ,in desultory speeches in that House. The
House, in its usual style, indicated its assent
to this view of our functions. We ven-
ture to think, however, that the Press has
already pretty well done its part. It has be-
come now a question, not of argument, but of party.
The fault of this must lie at the door of Mr. Dls-
RAELI and the Tories. He most unwisely pro-
claimed it—Retention of Church Rates—as the
watchword of his party, and they have been so
ill-advised as to follow him in it. After having
had to yield in succession on many questions
of political, religious, and commercial liberty,
it does seem to us something almost like
infatuation for the great Conservative party
to hoist the banner of church-rates, abolished already
as they have been by so many majorities, and sure
to be abolished sooner or later with the full consent
of Kings, Lords, and Commons. It might be
very chivalrous—and a kind of Balaklava charge
was indeed made this session they rode up
to the very guns of Sir JOHN TRELAIVNY'S
majority, but how they will retreat from
their position we know not. It is quite
certain they cannot stay where they are, it
is equally certain that they can propose no measure
in which their own party will agree. Honest Mr.
HENLEY pithily remarked, " His hon. friend (Mr.
Caoss) recommended that all persons during the
recess should carefully consider the subject, and put
their views in writing, and then they would be able
to see how they differed. He agreed with his hoa.
friend that they would see how they differed, and
he thought that the speech of the hon. baronet op-
posite did not look very favourable as regarded a
compromise." The fact is, it is come to this that
no alternative is now left but for Churchmen to
put their hands in their pockets as freely es Dis-
senters do, and to abolish Church-rates for ever.

ELLISON'S SECESSION AND SLAVERY

IN AffERIC.4.*

We give a prominent place to a brief notice of
Mr. Ellison's book, because it is just what every
reader of the newspapers needs to have at his elbow
at the present moment. Quito apart from the
opinions expressed in it on Slavery, .Emancipation,
and the 'War, in most, though not quite all, of which
we entirely concur, the book has an independent
value as a vade mecum on American affairs just
now. It gives a brief but clear account of the in-
troduction of Slavery into Amerfea, and its work-
ings till the present contest ; it tarnishes exact in-
formation on the successive compromises enforced
by the slaveholders, and broken as soon as they
seemed to press inconveniently on the South. The
battle of parties, their successes and defeats, their
" platforms " and proceedings are described, and
the documents of any importance given in full. A
carefully complied history of the details of the
secession movement follows ; then a good
account of the influence of slavery in regard
tiotitsheprogress of the cotntry, agriculturally, com-
mereially, industrially, educationally, and reli-
giously.
right Ai
ns pr
discussionit,
but ovae
s emancipationhould assign the follows INo wo
Northern
this;hern
army a very different part to that which our author
would ; we think,
its train, preventing,t might
att thaek es
aemancipatiotime,ng
ri toi
insurrections, and the horrors of servile war.
An appendix gives in full all the long Ameri-
can documents which it is so troublesome to
hunt for in books and old newspapers. We are sure
our readers will find the volume a most acceptable
one in reference to all the facts bearing on the great
American Question.

Sampson, Low, and Son, Ludgate-hill.

THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE END.—The Right
Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons gave yester-
day evening his annual dinner to the following principal
officers of the house :—Sir Denis Le Marchant, Bart., Lord
C. Russell, Mr. Erskine May, C. 8., Mr. Ley, Capt. Gosset,
Mr. Waldegrave, Rev. H. Drury, Mr. Rickards, Mr. Smith„
Mr. Vardon, Mr. Frere, Mr. A. Jones, Mr. Dyson, Mr.
Gibbons, Mr. Rowland, Mr. Postlethwaite, Mr. Rose, Mr.
Pole, Mr. Gray, Mr. Hodgkin, Mr. W. Rose, Mr, Howard,
aud Cob Forester.