The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-16 00:00:00

Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips

CIANTERBUR Y HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera o:
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 Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. I`. Critchfield, and E. W. Hackney.
Several interestinz 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
eights of the metropolis.

RoSA BON HELTR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE
FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of
Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is open from 9 am. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six-
pence.

THEIWEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, NOVEMBER 1.5.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
45 —highest since noon yesterday.
:39 —lowest this morning and during the night.
46—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.26.
Wr,,m, North-Easterly; light, with fair weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAT.—Morning, sh. 25m.—Afternoon, sh. 52m.
To-MORROW-Morning, 6h. 21m.—Afternoon, 6h. 12m.

THE SUN.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1869.

Mr. lIENRY BERKELEY has been making another
of his broadly humorous speeches to his old con-
stituents. Whenever the hon. gentleman rises to
deliver a harangue, whether it be in the House
or out of the House it matters nothing, we are cer-
tain there will be a great deal of laughter. As
certain of it as though the occasion were a thea-
tricil dinner, and the orator Mr. BUCKSTONE. The
senior member for Bristol can hardly open his
lips, but his expectant auditors are immediately
upon the broad grin. The reporter who has to
record his sentences in flying hieroglyphics has to
jots "down pretty frequently with his quivering
pencil the symbols expressive of laughter, loud
laughter, roars of laughter, and so forth ad libitum.
There is no end of his " good things ;" they drop
out in sprinkles, in showers, in cataracts, like the
towers and sweetmeats out of the inexhaustible
hat of the great M. HOUDIN, Magician and Am-
bassador Ihe quaint sayings of 'Mr. HENRY
BERKELEY, too, are about the oddest as
well as about the most abundant his
anecdotes if not always the most apt
are certainly the most comical and the most frequent
anywhere to be gathered from the rhetorical dis•
plays of a member of Parliament. Listening to
him is about the next best thing to witnessing one
of those extra-extravagant farces known generically
as Adelphi Screamers. It is an illustration visible
and audible of MILTON'S couplet—

" Sport, that wrinkled care derides,
And laughter, holding both his sides."
The speeches delivered by the member for Bristol
during the last few years in the House of Com-
mons alone, if collected together, and published
separately, would make a very respectable lest
800k—particularly if supplemented to these Parlia-
mentary " Broad Grins" there were printed also, in
the form of facetious Addenda, the speeches de-
livered elsewhere by the hon. gentleman upon the
same theme upon the hustings, upon chance plat-
forms, and upon the occasion of all sorts of after-
dinner displays of his political drollery outside the
walls of the Legislature.

Precisely of this last-mentioned kind was the speech
last Monday delivered by Mr. BERKELEY upon one
of those admirable annual gatherings of the societies
formed for the perpetuation of the fair fame of that
good citizen of Bristol, EDWARD CoLsToNt, the
large-hearted, open-handed philanthropist ! That
same COLSTONE whose oharitable Blue-coat School
• down there in that old western sea-port gave educa-
tion, among many thousands of obscure' scholars,
very nearly now one hundred years ago, to that
" marvellous bey who perished in his pride," poor,
erring, bright - eyed, wonder - working THOMAS
CHA'TTERTON. Rather an unpropitious occasion
that, one.would think, for a comic speech upon
party politics ! Not so, however, by any means to
Mr. HENRY BERKELEY. It was said of the late
incorrigible punster, GILBERT A'BECKETT, Author,
among other literary burlesques, of the Comic
Histories of Rome and England and of the Comic
. Blackstone's C:,mment:zrice, that he could have

written a funny article at a moment's notice upon
anything in the wide world from a chimney-piece
to a Gothic cathedral, from SHAKSPERE to
the musical glasses, from pitch-and-toss to man-
slaughter. Mr. BERKELEY has about an equal
facility in stringing together droll sentences by the
hour in return for any toast you may please to men-
tion upon any occasion that ray possibly arise out

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