The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-05 00:00:00

ROYAL PRINCESS'S TELEATRE.--
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, TRUTH AND FICTION. Supported by
Messrs. F. Matthews,Wlddicombe, Shore, Cathcart, Garden;
Miss C. Leclercq, Miss R. Leclereq, and Miss M. Harris.
Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup-
ported by Hermann Vezin, Ryder, Meadows, &c. ; Misses
Heath, Elsworthy, and R. Leclercq.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Reproduction of "The Co!leen Bawn. " The Adelphl

"Census " every Evening..
THIS EVENING, the successful new Farce, entitled A
TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole. Mr. P. Bedford.
After which (198th time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr.
D. Boucicault, D. Wisher, 131111 m-ton, Falconer, Stephenson,
'C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss
Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley.
To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS.
Messrs. I. 1.. Toole, Eburne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss
Kate Kelly, Miss E. Thorne, and Mrs. Chatterley.
Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.

ASTT,EY'S ROYAL A MPHITHEATRE.-
T HIS EVENING, Production of the Grand Spectacle
of MAZEPPA, with new scenery, dresses, &c., supported by
Mr. James Holloway and a most powerful Company. To be
followed by SCENES In the CIRC LE—The Rocky Mountain
Wonders. Concluding with a Comic Ballet. Reduced prices.
Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.

EVERY EVENING.

Two Grand Selections from celebrated Operas. including
Verdi's new Opera, THE BAL MASQUE (first produced
in England and only to be heard at this Establishment), with
a Chorus of Forty Voices, and upon a scale unequalled at any
other Concerts.
Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Greville, Mr. Herbert, Signor
Tivoli, Mr. Bernard ; the popular Solos on the Cornet-a-
piston, by Mr. Levy (the first performer of the day); the
Brothers Conrad (in an entirely new and original entertain-
ment on the double rope, not to be seen elsewhere); con-
tinued success of Mr. Wood and his talented little Son.
The Comic Department comprises the following favourites :
—Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. Blanchard, and
numerous other artistes.
Re-appearance at these Concerts of Mrs. Lawrence.
Musical Director, Mr. JONGHMANS.

T " OXFORD,
6, OXFORD- STREET.

Mr. LEVY, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on
the Cornet-a- Piston—Grand Selections (on the most complete
scale) from Dinorah, Martha, Stradella, &c., and other vocal
and instrumental music, by Miss Russell, the Misses Stuart,
and Miss Ernst, Messrs. Charles Greville, Fornari, Kimber-
ley, Bernard, Beaumont, Bervon, Huish, Signor Tivoli, and
Mr. Henry Herbert, with full band and powerful and selected
chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans.—The following
Comic talent, Messrs. W. Randall, J. Blanchard, W. H. Wie-
land, Hollingsworth, E. Marshall, Harvey, and French, and
the Brothers Conrad in their latest and best entertainment,
every evening. Admission, Hall, sixpence; Balcony and
Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIN DAY.—Morning, 11h. 54m.—Afternoon, h. m
To-moßitow.-Morning, 12h. 20m.—Afternoon, 12h. 42m,

THE WEATHER.—Sux Ornea, JUNE 5, 1661.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
63—highest since noon yesterday.
53—lowest this morning and during the night.
60—this day at noon.

BAttomETER-30.03.
Wirtn—Westerly, but variable, with dull weather. Rain
in the night, and a thunderstorm this forenoon. Afternoon
fine.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1861.

Editors are more tolerant than bishops. A little
while ago we called attention to the fact of a Pro-
testant bishop having followed, in principle, the
example of Spain, by ruthlessly ejecting from a
parish churchyard a beautiful monument on which
was engraved a request to pray for the departed.
A religious paper published last Monday the fol-
lowing letter, the heading to which ought to have
been—

" OF YOUR CIiARITT PRAY FOR. TILE SOUL OF MR. IVRAL.

LZT, MEMBER FOR PETERBOROUGH."

" Sir,—On Tuesday evening next, June 4, the motion on
Maynooth will be brought before the house. Mr. 'Whalley,
who has nobly come forward to head the movement, will
tend almost alone. Let me invite, therefore, those of
your readers who love the cause of Protestantism to unite
in prayer that he may be graciously strengthenad, sus-
tained, and taught.

"Much grace, much wisdom will be required. May the
Lord vouchsafe to bestow it in answer to the fervent long-
ings of many of his people I

" If you will kindly give this note a place in your co-
lumns of Monday evening next, it would much oblige, sir,
yonrs very faithfully, " E. K. ELLIOTT.
" Worthing, Juno 1."
That Mr. WHALLEY much needs " Wisdom" and
" teaching ; " and that "gracious strengthening"
would be a cordial balm when the Parliamentary
" Balls of Bashan" had grieved his spirit by their
bellowings,•or tossed him on the horns of cruel
dilemmas, we do not at all doubt. Our only doubt
is whether, if Mr. WHALLEY were endued with
" Wisdom and Grace," we should not have heard of
him at all last night. The wisdom of a young man
picking up aged Mr. SPOONER'S threadbare man-
tle, and in an array which became his antique pre-
decessor, proclaiming himself the new Anti-May-
ndoth Prophet, is a subject on which we leave our
readers to decide. The impatient house seem to
have had no doubt about it. For ourselves we can-
not doubt that wisdom, in the meaning of sound
common-sense, would keep any member from boring
the House, and wasting the public time, by a motion 1
which, by no possibility, can be carried ; at least
not till the State adopts the voluntary principle, and
abolishes all grants to Religion. Mr. DIGBY SEY.
MOUR'S amendment was, therefore, the only self-
consistent motion ; though he moved it, of course,
only to exhibit the folly of Mr. WHALLEY'S, and
the " wisdom" needed by the latter seems to have gone
to Mr. SEYMOUR, for he forbore to press an amend-
ment which had served its object, and which he
knew could not be carried.

character—as it well might be ! But hardly the less
imperatively does it require removal, henceforth,
as a systematic grievance at our workhouses—a
grievance felt very bitterly indeed by many of the
unhappy occupants. We allude to the circum-
stance that those occupants of our workhouses who
are not Protestants are altogether precluded from
using their own books of devotion unless open to
the inspection of the Chaplain, of the Governor, and
of the Matron--« which," observed the same wit•
ness, upon whose evidence we have already had oc-
casion to comment, " of course rendered the permis-
sion to use those books nugatory" Another !ament-
able instance of this kind of o
the great national fficial violation of
boast, nay, for the
most part we may (thank heaven !) quite truth-
fully designate it the great national reality of
Civil and Religious Liberty ! The free exercise a
religion within the walls of an union
workhouse
ought, in vindication of that glorious principle, to
be rendered as secure,-to be rendered as possible

What " Grace" would have done for Mr.
WHALLEY can hardly be questioned—for of all the
ungracious things on earth what could be more so
than for a Churchman to come forward to deprive
Roman Catholics— eo nomine of £30,000 per annum.
Mr. SEYMOUR'S motion could be maintained on the
ground of equal dealing with all, but to say to
our Irish neighbours, because your creed is wrong
and mine right, my Church must continue to wallow
in wealth conferred on it wholly by the State, while
you are not even to pick up the little crumb of
£3o,ooo—this seems to us to savour more of the
" grace" of bigotry than of any other. If we remem-
ber rightly, JOHN BRIGHT, Quaker as he is, once
openly declared that while prepared to vote, in i
accordance with his religious belief against all

State endowments of religion, he could not vote
for singling out Roman Catholics, and depriving
them only of endowments while other churches

and as easy within as without the walls of those

mournful establishments. Nay—perfect freedom

continued to enjoy them. England will certainly
never consent to this.

of religious worship, according to the dictates of the

consciences of the inmates—ought to be rendered,
if that were in any way practicable, more easy to
those inmates, more readily within their reach, than

On looking at the telegrams from India the first
impression will be, that the policy of Sir CHARLES
TREVELYAN has triumphed, whatever must be
thought of his mode of proclaiming it. Mr. JAMES
'WILSON'S plans seem all to be falling overboard
one after another, and Sir C. TREVELYAN'S to be
adopted by Mr. LAING and the Government. The
obnoxious taxes, which the ex-Governor of Madras
declared to be impracticable, have been found to
to be so ; nor can it well be said that Sir CHARLES
made them impracticable, for the chief difficulty
has been not in Madras, but at Bombay and other
places. The Income Tax is pronounced a failure,
and is abandoned; the License Tax is also to be
a andoned; and the import duty on cotton yarn

to others outsido the union workhouse. And for

,his simple Jeason, that the unhappy pauper has

urger need for the consolations of religion than the

majority of those who are not so utterly

prostrated under the heel of misfortune. Yet as

things are at present, according to the same witness
at the same sittin g of the Committee already specified,
the general practice is not to send for a priest until
the pauper applicant is seriously ill. That asser-
tion of the witness having reference, it will be
observed from the report of the proceedings of the
Committee, to St. Pancras Union. One of the lead-
ing members of this Committee appears to be almost
incredulous as to this statement, unwilling to accept
it as undeniable in its accuracy without fur- ,

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. and twist, to which Manchester so strongly'
Lame, Ur. J. B. Bnalratone. objected, is to be reduced from 10 to 5 per cent.
THIS EVENINI4, the rerforrnanoes will commence with
The Comedy of THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Chas. Mr. LAING even goes so far as to fall in with the
Mathews, Buokstone, E. Villiers. Rogers, Ae. ; 11Irs. Wilkins,
Mrs. C. Mathews, and Miss E. Weekes. proposal to apply to the local Governments - for
Followed by THE ADVENTURES OF A LOVE
LETTER. Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews. £500,000 which is to be raised in through them; but
And THE SUN AND THE WIND.
the grand point of all, that on which Sir CHARLES
Commence at 7.
most insisted, is conceded also. The army is to be
largely reduced. It is not to exceed 200,000 men.
That is instead of more than double the European
army, and, costing as much to watch es to maintain
it, the native army will be brought down to about
half as many again as the European, and even this
proportion we may expect will be lessened. An
immediate reduction of expenditure seems to be
the consequence, for we are told that the
revenue has increased by £2,080,000, and the
expenditure decreased by 3,600,000. That is, that
India is at least by five millions and a half in a
better position than she was before. The Indian
Budget has arrived just at the time, therefore, to
improve the prospects of the new loan required for
the home demands, principally, of the Indian Go-
vernment, and of the railroads which certainly
must not now be stopped.
The disbanding of all the soldiers possible, on
which Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN so strenuously in-
sisted, is specially important now. The demand for
labour has so greatly increased, owing to the rail-
ways and other works, that the soldiers prefer the
better wages of workmen and are thankful to be
released. They will not be troublesome idlers,
but industrious labourers who know the
value of money and are ready to work for it. For
the precise meaning of the information that local
legislative councils are to be established, we must,
of course, wait. Can it be that power is really to
be more decentralised than it has been ; that the
governors of what are, in fact, large kingdoms are
to become something more like viceroys, and are to
be permitted to improve their vast territories with-
out having to consult Calcutta about every rupee
they spend—and even whether pencils and note-
paper are to be allowed to a servant !
Does the Government really contemplate fol-
lowing Mr. BRIGHT'S advice, and setting the
different Presidencies and their Governors compet-
ing for the prize of first-rate management ? We
may be sure our aristocracy will never forego the
prize of a Governor-Generalship, so long as it is
given not to merit, but to needy patricians. We
may hope, however, that the announcement will be
found to mean that the local Governments are to
have far greater powers intrusted them ; and the
Governor-General to become more and more the
Viceroy of smaller confederated Viceroyalties.

Many changes for the better are now being fast
rendered inevitable in our system of Workhouse
management. Conspicuous among these changes
for the better in the future operation of that system
is one recently brought to light by means of the
searching inquiry now going on before the Parlia-
mentary Committee appointed to investigate the
social , problem of Poor Relief in the Metropolis.
There, before that Committee, at one of its latest
sittings, the Rev. Canon MORRIS being at the time
under examination—it came out that many of the
workhouse inmates, not being Protestant, are re-
peatedly deprived of the liberty of going to attend
religious service for—what ? For a breach of the
workhouse rules The witness adding that, while
he did not mean to say, of course, that the work-
house rules should not be kept, he nevertheless
could not but think that any breach of them
ought to be punished in a proper man-
ner, and consequently (it were superfluous to
argue) in a manner totally different from the one
we have just now particularised. " What"—the
witness very reasonably asked—" would be said
of a magistrate who, instead of inflicting the usual
legal punishment for an offence, should sentence
any one to be prevented from saying his prayers
for a week or fortnight ?" Certainly, an inquiry
that puts the matter quite irresistibly to any one's
recognition by the sheer force of what is familiarly
known among logicians as the reduciio ad absur-
dum. The notion of any such discretionary power
being allowed to our petty workhouse officials, the
notion of any such odious, any such literally profane
and demoralising power of punishing in the manner
instanced, must, certainly, be allowed on all sides
to be utterly preposterous. To talk of imposing,
as a penalty, upon any wretched pauper wbo may
have broken these miserable little workhouse rules
and regulations; to talk of imposing upon him, or
upon her, as the case may be, a punishment
incapacitating the individual from worshipping
GOD according to the dictates of conscience—to
talk of anything so monstrous as this, as of a sys-
tem to be tolerated for an instant longer than is ab-
solutely necessary for its destruction, is certainly to
outrage all our nobler instincts, all our sense of
social decency, all our reverence for religion, all our
homage for our common Christianity.
There must surely come an end to this among other
abuses—as surely let us say as this Parliamentary
Committee of Inquiry is now sitting for the pur-
pose of numbering up these still existing abuses
with a view to their speedy and effectual dissipa-
tion. Another grievance of a kindred description
that came out before that Committee upon
the occasion of the same sitting from the re-
port of the proceedings at which we have
already quoted. This must here also be par-
ticularised. It is less flagrant, we admit, in its

then investigation. Hence, in answer to a
supplementary query upon this point, the wit-
ness is reported as adding—" Unquestionably
it was true that in St. Pancras Union the inmates
were not allowed to enjoy the consolations of re-
ligion while they were in a state of health." The
witness adding—" Marylebone formed an excep-
tion, for there no application to send for a priest
was necessary." What is thus the honourable ex-
ception at Marylebone, ought to be rendered hence-
forth the rule throughout our union workhouses.
And we look to the Committee now inquiring into
the whole system of Poor Relief in the Metropolis,
we look hopefully and confidently to that Com-
mittee that it shall be so rendered. The responsi-
bility will now rest in a great measure with this
Committee how far the pauper population of the
United Kingdom may participate with their more
fortunate fellow citizens in the enjoyment of that
twofold freedom nominally insured to every subject
of the British Crown—perfect liberty both Civil
and Religious !