The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-06 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
ITY BY, AS. Messrs. Feebler, Basil Potter, Garden, Ray
2nond. Graham, Cathcart, and A. Harris.
After which, a new Christmas comical pantomime, entitled
ROBINSON CRUSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday, and the King
of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and
Mdlle. Marie Dnmilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres,
will appear. Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest

THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM.
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
Re-appearance of Madame Celeste and Mrs. Keeley.
THIS EVENING, the new drama, ADRIENNE ; or,
THE SECRET OF A LIFE. Principal characters by Mr.
'Henry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Villiers,
Mr. Cr. Vining., Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Clifford,
Mr. J. Johnstone ; Mrs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste.
After which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza,
CRYSTABELLE ; or, The Rose without a Thorn, showing'
THE VISION OF A ROSE, ITS FADING AT EVE,
AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR.
Followed by THE YOUNG WIDOW. Miss M. Ternan
and Mr. H. Neville.

A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. W'ahater.
THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J.
L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
Thorne.
Atter which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Roneicault, D.
Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza. entitled
BLUE BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF RUE.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar,
K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and 1.1. Thorne.
Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 6.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, .C 2 2s. ; Family xes, 11.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, is.;
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.
Leung Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY.
ik
THIS EVENING. will be reproduced TURPIN'S RIDE
THE DEATH OF BLACK BESS, in
TO YORK, AL4D
which the Brothers Edwin will appear with their celebrated
'need Black Bess.
To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by
talented Parisian and British Artistes.
Concluding with Batty's Prize Equestian Comic Panto-
mime, for Good Little Boys and Girls, by T. L. Greenwood,
entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE WONDERFUL
HORSE ; or, Percinet and Grociosa, the Ugly Duchess and
the Greedy King, produced with Gorgeous Scenery. by Mr.
Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing
in the comae scenes Batty's Prize Equestrian Harlequinade,
and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley, and Brandon Ledger.
A Grand Morning Performance will take place on Friday,
Feb. 8, commencing at two o'clock with the Pantomime.
Box-ofice open daily from 11 till 4
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.
Commence at, 7.

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS ! !
A Grand Selection from Verdi's Opera,
IL CORSARO,
consisting of the following Morceaux
:
Preludio.
Coro Scena ed Aria. "Tutto parca Sorridere"
Coro di Odalische " Oh qual perenne"
Coro
ed
Coro ed inno
Scena ed Aria " Cento leggiadre Vergini"
Terzetto Finale "Vol tacete io non"
will shortly be produced, in the orignal key and Italian
lanznage—the first time of performance in this country—in,
addition to the usual attractions.
Mr. F. JONGIIMAANS, Musical Director.
Also, in preparation, Selections from Verdi's New Operas,
"Un Ballo in Maschera," "Simon Boccanegra i" and Flo-
tow's celebrated Opera of " Stradella."

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 11h. 19m.—Afternoon, Oh. Om.
To-idointow.-Morning, 12h. 10m.—Afternoon. 12h. 36m,

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEB. 6, 1861.
THNILMOICETEN, IN 'INS SHAD'.
48—highest since noon yesterday.
45—lowest this morning and during the night.
48—this day at noon.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 6, 1881.

What was not said in the Royal Speech yester-
day must certainly be acknowledged to have been
far more remarkable than what was said in it. It
vas more than the statue of BRUTUS that was ab-
sent from the procession. Ministers who had
promised so largely in the Speech from the Throne
last year, and who had found themselves compelled
before the close of that really ignominious
session to eliminate so many of their vaunted
measures from their used-up programme—little
bills and big bills dropped, and massacred by being
lopped to death piecemeal—Ministers having only
too keen a remembrance of the evil consequences of
their setting forth thus in 1860 with a magnificent
catalogue of projected improvements, appear to
have evidenced a wholesome dread now at the com-
mencement of 1861 of making again any such
egregious exhibition of themselves, any such ex-
hibition at once of-their credulity and of their in-
capacity. Hence their whole political syllabus
for the new session may be condensed
under two heads—first of all, under the head
of certain beneficent and highly philanthropic but
vague and indistinct aspirations for the growth of
prosperity at home, and the general advance of the
interests of the human race abroad ; and, secondly,
under one comprehensive head, that, namely, under
'which the few measures which are really defined,
and announced as forthcoming from the partrurient
mountain of the Coalition Government are enume-
rated. Of the former of these two divisions of the
Speech from the Throne, relating to the future,
namely, that articulating merely the beneficent
and shadowy aspirations of those dreamers of
halcyon dreams, the Sixteen members of the Ad-
ministration, we need say nothing—for simple
hopes, yearnings, or aspirations like these, even
when they come from men high in position, like
Her MAJESTY'S Ministers, are of but little value
or account indeed, remembering how even
despotic princes, men in supreme and absolute
authority, are but as straws floating upon that
great tide of events, the heavings of which are
regulated by a force far beyond human ken and
immeasurably removed from the grasp of human
knowledge.

It were altogether idle therefore and boot-
less to pause for another instant for the pur-
l's° of weighing in the balance the value
of what is infinitessimal and imponderable—
these indefinite and indeterminate little Minis-
terial aspirations. )Rather let us now touch,
however slightly or passingly, upon what,
small thonh it is
when contrasted with the national
anticipations, 15 st any rate in some way tangible,
in some way apprecloa., and comprehensible.
Let us examine for a moment the one .11e paragraph
in the Speech from the Throne particularising thn
definite designs and intentions entertained for the
new Parliamentary Session by her MAJESTY'S Go-
vernment. It is in this one isolated passage in this
solitary sentence in the Royal Address that the
political future is in any way sketched in the most
faint and careless outline. " Measures," says this
paragraph, " will be laid before you for the con-

solidation of important parts of the criminal law ;
for the improvement of the law of bankruptcy and
insolvency ; for rendering more easy the transfer
of land; for establishing a uniform system of rating
in England and Wales; and for several other pur-
poses of public usefulness." There are " pippins
and cheese"to come, therefore, if not "cakes and ale,"
before the Parliamentary banquet shall have been
brought to its conclusion. There are law reforms
and parochial improvements, and " several other
purposes of public usefulness"—sufficiently vague
that, and sufficiently ungrammatical ! But that is
all. For the " transfer of land" measure can
hardly be laid claim to by the present Cabinet, see-
ing that it was originally introduced into the House
of Commons by Sir HUGH CAIRNS, the gifted Soli-
citor-General under Lord DERRY'S Administration.
There are law reforms, then, and parochial reforms,
and—" several other purposes of public usefulness"—
and that is all. When Ministers have said that—
they have said everything. They have, in those
few words, come to the end of their tether.
It is not simply, " 0 most lame and impotent con-
clusion !" But it is, worse still, " 0 most lame and
impotent commencement !" Not a whisper about a
Reform Bill—about a Bill either large or small for
the revision or the reorganisation of Parliament !
Not one word, not one single allusion of any kind
to the Reform Question, although it was notori-
ously and ever memorably upon that very Question
that the present Ministers were put into power—
it was upon that identical question of Reform,
as the whole country knows, as the country will
not fail to remember in the fulness of time, it was
upon that question, and upon no other, that the
Ministers now in office ejected their predecessors.
Never has the fable of the Dog in the Manger
been so meanly or more signally illustrated than it
has been by Lord JOHN in regard to the question
of Parliamentary Reform. The Resolutions—the
disgraceful and discreditable Resolutions of Lord
JOHN RUSSELL in re the Reform Bill of Mr.
DISRAELI—were denounced at the time of their
introduction by Sir HUGH CAIRNS as nothing less
paltry of their kind than a political " Dodge." The
taunt is at this moment completely and glaringly
justified, The notorious Resolutions referred to have
proved by this time to have been so entirely and
successfully a dodge, and nothing less shabby than
a dodge, that the hon. and learned gentleman, the
member for the borough of Southampton (Mr.
DIGBY SEYMOUR) can say now, and say with
perfect truth, that he and the other independent
members who were deluded into voting with him in
carrying those shameful Resolutions, find at length
that upon the question involved in those resolutions
they have been literally and deliberately "sold" by
her MAJESTY'S Government. It was what we
foresaw all along, with anguish, would be the
result of that factious movement which sacrificed
a great principle, and what might have been ren-
dered a grand and comprehensive embodiment of it,
to the meanest and paltriest party considerations.
Ministers may hug themselves with an exultant
sense that the amendment relating to Reform—
the amendment upon the 'Address in answer to
the Speech from the Throne the amendment
moved by the new member for Brighton (Mr.
WHITE), and seconded by the hon. and learned
gentleman the Member for Southampton already
mentioned—Ministers may plume themselves upon
having rejected that amendment by a majority of
129, as opposed to a minority of 46 ; but at least the
finger of scorn has been distinctly pointed at their
disgraceful trickery! And if nothing else has been
done, Mr. BRIGHT has put the matter thus plainly,
observing—" The noble lord obtained a dissolution
of Parliament, and a majority in favour of the pro-
position which he put forward and brought before
the house, and there was no division upon his bill
last year, and yet he came down to the House at
the opening of this session—in which there would
be almost nothing to do—and refused to do that for
which the Government had been placed on the
Treasury benches." There is no getting over the
petty shuffling of all this—it is upon record—
there are the big bouncing promises, and here is
the wretched little starveling non-fulfilment !
Yet cannot Ministers but allow that they have been
upon this first night of the Session, upon this very
question of Reform, that they have been met only
by the Opposition with a display of the utmost
magnanimity. What an opportunity was there
not offered last night to a great satirist in debate
like Mr. DISRAELI ! Yet, instead of squandering
sarcasms upon the head of the arch-offender and
his colleagues, what said Mr. DISRAELI upon
the subject of Reform yesterday ? " Why, said
he, " I myself am not displeased at the omission of
that subject from the speech of her most gracious
MAJESTY. I hardly know anything more calcu-
lated to impede a measure for the reform or recon-
struction of this house than to bring it forward at a
time when there is no probability of its being ac-
cepted and carried. I think that the Minister
would have incurred the gravest responsibility by
bringing forward the subject merely from an erro•
neous interpretation of a sense of honour to a party
which was not unanimous in supporting his origi-
nal proposal." And so the matter has dropped for
yet another year. And so, after all their grand
flourish of trumpets last year, Ministers begin the
session of 1861 with "bated breath and whispered
humbleness." It is without doubt exemplary. But
is it indicative of a Strong Government ?

We cannot congratulate the Tories on the
strategical skill with which they have opened the
session. They have attacked their opponents on
what, with all its defects, will certainly prove
their strongest side. If there be one thing which
more than another keeps the present Cabinet in
office, it is its foreign policy. In Law Reform the
Conservatives would certainly do as much, and as
well as the Liberals ; in Parliamentary Reform
the two parties have proved themselves not to
have any difference, which the public can diseern.
It is just the difference between the MALMESBURY
and the RUSSELL policy abroad, that makes the
country unwilling to turn out the' present
Government. It what is said often be true,
and there is, we believe, some truth in it, we sup-
pose one main reason for indifference to Parliamen•
tary Reform is the greater interest taken in the
struggles of foreign peoples to get parliaments at
all ; and if there can be no doubt of the mind of
Britain respecting the claims;of struggling peoples,
not of torturing despots, on our moral support,
then was it surely political suicide to open the Ses-
sion by displaying to the public those leanings to
hereditary despots, of which the Tories are more
than suspected.

As independent Liberals, were Italy and Hun-
gary well out of their difficulties, and Austria cut
down to her own proper Archduchy, including,
perhaps a few small adjacent territories she
might have learned to treat decently, we would
hardly give a toss of a penny for the
difference between the two leaders, PALMERSTON
and DEttn-r. Yet Lord DERBY and Mr. Disn.A.ELI
took the opportunity of the first night of the ses-
sion to show the country that they were in feeling,
least,auoutr
. at variance with it on the question of the
The Emperors of FRANCE and AUSTRIA,
therefore, bid fair to prolong the reign of Lord
PALMERsToN. When Lord DERBY points, haw_

ever to the co nduct of the Emperor of the FRENCH
he will have b ath Lord PALMERSTON and all of us
with him. W i are pleased that France and her
Ruler should see that her hostile preparations,
while her spee ch is fair, do not fail to awaken
in this couut ry appropriate sentiments. It is
undeniable that France is running a naval race
with us, and tha.t it oannot be forpurposes of defence,
as our naval preparations are, but must contemplate
possible and ultimate aggression. We cordially
adopt Lard DERB'eS language on this subject,
when he says that "'unquestionably it is a state of
doubt, and apprehe asion, and uncertainty that
places on the people of this country an amount of
taxation -which is absolutely unprecedented in
time of peace, which is perfectly intolerable,
and which is only made more intolerable
by the financial freaks of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer." With what good reason these remarks,
were made is apparent enough from those of a member
on the opposite aide of the House of Commons, Mr.
DIGBY SEYMOUR. "As to the necessity of economy
in our expenditure, he quite concurred with his
hon. friend, especiallywhen the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer told them they would require £76,400,000
this year, and eat of that £31,000,000 would be
devoted to the interest on war loans and the
naval and military expenses of the year. Sixty-
one millions exceeded by five millions all our exports
in linen, cotton, and woollen—it was more than
double the amount of the gross rental on all the
railways, and exceeded all the landed rental in the
kingdom. Further, it surpassed by many millions
the gross rental of all the factories and inhabited
houses in the country. Last year the expenditure
had exceeded the income by £10,300,000." The
country has a right to expect from the Foreign
Secretary some explanation of our relations with a
Government which is the sole cause of all this vast
expenditure.
We do not see that Lord GRANVILLE, in the
Upper House, gave any answer to these grave
questions of Lord DERBY ; any other topic seemed
to be more agreeable—nor, when we look to the
speech of the Foreign Secretary himself are we
much better off. In regard to Italy the noble
lord had of course quite plain sailing—he had
indeed a preference for two kingdoms there, though,
if we remember rightly, Lord PALMERSTON once
said that he preferred but one, still Lord JOHN had
acted, written, and spoken most decidedly on the
principle that the Italians should settle all that
themselves, no one intervening. He acknowledged
the irregularity of some of the King of SAR-
DINIA'S movements, but could easily justify :his
second despatch intended to give him the benefit
of our moral influence against the discouragement
of all the despotic courts of Europe—all this was
easy and frank work, but when it came to the
Emperor of the FRENCH, again how measured and
careful he has to be. " I will say at once," are the
words of his lordship, " in one word, that we are
not now divided upon any great question, such
as the war of 1793, or the war of 1804. On a
main principle of policy, then, we are entirely
agreed with the Emperor of the FRENCH. We are
at the same time in close alliance and intimacy
with the other great Powers of Europe, and if
there were any other question on which it should
appear to us that France was in the wrong, or was
acting in that spirit of encroachment which has
sometimes actuated a great military nation, then we
should form an alliance with them to combat her
designs."

This certainly is not assuring language.
If the hope of good understanding with France only
rests on agreement on questions of minor account
than those which were at the bottom of the last
great wars, it is obvious we are to infer that all is
not very smooth in its working. If, agalin, we are in
close alliance and intimacy with other Powers, and
a main hope of peace is that they will help us to
counterwork the EMPEROR, this is but poor
consolation for the friends of peace and of real har-
mony between the two countries. If LOUIS NAPO-
LEON'S speech means that France holds herself
ready to go to war for causes, of whose justice she
will be judge, Lord JoHN's seems to reply—We,
for our part, have agreed for help to keep you in
check, if you should think causes just which we
and our "close and intimate" allies think unjust.
Lord JoIIN'S words will keep up the French army
and navy, which, however, would have been kept
up and increased without them. Altogether we
see little chance of secure peace and moderate taxa-
tion till the great European nuisance is abated.
The feeling will certainly arise—better fight it out
and have done with it than pay year after year for
such a tremendously costly peace.

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A CITI

MERCHANT.

Yesterday Mr. Robert North, the principal in the firm
of North and Nicholl, Russia brokers, Bishopsgate-street,
was placed before Alderman Rose, at the Mansion-house,
charged with stealing 343 casks of tallow, value £8,708
ls. 6d., the property of Messrs. Hubbard.
The warrant for the apprehension of the defendant was
issued last week on the necessary sworn information, but
on the legal advisers of Mr. North becoming aware of the
fact, they gave notice that Mr. North would attend at the
Mansion-house on the day named to meet the charge. The
accusation, according to the statement of Mr. Muller, the
manager of the Messrs. Hubbard, was that he (defendant)
about six weeks ago, purchased the tallotv on the usual
terms. Payment was applied for several times, when, on
the 29th of last month, defendant gave a cheque to Muller,
of the Union Bank, for £8,708 Is. 6d., the price of the
tallow, but next day it was returned to the Messrs. Hub-
bard, through the clearing house, unpaid. The balance the
defendant had at the Union Bank on the presentation of
the cheque amounted to about £B. A remand was applied
for and granted. The defendant's bail was fixed at two
sureties for £I,OOO each.

Last evening Mr. Sims Reeves resumed his pro-
fessional:duties at her Majest'ys Theatre as Robin Hood in
Mr. Macfarren's new opera, and renewed all the triumphs
of previous performances before a densely-crowded
audienco, whose constant applause and frequent " recalls"
enthusiastically attested their aporeciation of the genius of
our celebrated English tenor.

NEW THEATRE-ROTAL ADELPHI.—Her Majesty,
the Prince Consort, the Princess Alice, and suite, honoured
the performances at this theatre with their presence last
evening.
M. Guizot has arrived at the Brunswick Hotel,
Jermyn-street, from Paris, on a visit to General and
Madame Fav6.

DEATH OF MR. GRANVILLE E. HARCOURT VER.
isPoN.—We regret to announce the premature death of Mr.
G. E. Harcourt Vernon, late M.P. for Newark, who died
on Friday night at the Marquis of Ailesbury's seat, Tot-
tenham .park, near Marlborough, from rheumatic fever.
The lamented gentleman was the eldest son of Mr. Gran-
ville Harcourt Vernon, son of the late Archbishop of York,
and Chancellorof the Province of York, and was born Nov.
23, 1816.
It is stated that Messrs. Adami and Lemmi are
now in negotiation with the Sardinian Government
regarding the South Italian Railways of which they have
the concession, and that the preliminary arrangements
have been already made.

SHOCKING CATASTROPHE AT HULL.—THREE
LIVES LOST.—On Sunday afternoon last six men, named
James Judge, (a boatman), George Bragg, Edward Down-
ing, John Hodgson, Edward Hunt, and Robert Wilson,
all engineers, embarked in a small boat from the pier at
Hull, Lnd wont down the Humber as far as Paul, at
which place they landed and got some drink, re-em-
barking for the purpose of returning to Hull about six
o'clock. On leaving Paul there was a very strong wind,
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the water to the shore, followed by Bragg and Downing.
tiltydgV4.B•°el;e' frequently told by Judge to leave it and come
ashore they did not do so, and Judge and the other two
left them in the boat. Strange to say that none of the
Parties crave information of the perilous positim!, of their
comrades' with a visw to their rescue, and a little after
seven o'clock yesterday morning the body of Hodgson was
picked up on the beach near to Marfleet, about,, three miles
from the place where the boat was left. The boat was
found on the beach.
The bodies of the other two men
have not been found.
THE CHARTER-HOUSE.—The Archbishop of York
in the room of the late Earl of Aberdeen.
was on Monday elected a governor of the Charter-house,