The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-13 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM
S 0: e Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.

Last Six Nights of the Winter Season.
THIS EVENING the Butletta of T lAT RASCAL,
.JACK.
Followed by the new drama, THE HOUSE ON THE
BRIDGE OF NOTRO DAME. Principal characters by
Mr. G. Vining, Mr. J. Johnstone, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Clifford,
Mr. John Rouse, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Morris ; Miss M.Ternan
.Miss K. Saville, Miss L. Thompson, and Madame Celeste.
After which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza,
CRYSTABF.LLE ; or, The Rose without a Thorn, showinn.
ME VISION OF A ROSE, ITS FADING AT EVE,
AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR.

A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Soi, Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster.
THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J.
Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
•phorne.

After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boncie,anit, D.
Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
firs. Chatterley.

To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled
BLUE 131,1ARD lei{OM A NEW POINT OF HUE.
Messrs. .7. L. Toole, 7'. Bedford, C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar,
K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Thorne.
Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till b.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l.
Orchestra Stalls, 6s. - Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Is.;
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.

fluting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith.

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!!
Westminster-road.

PropfietOr........C. Morton.
A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera,
IL CORSARO,

(This opera has never been produced is this or any other
country, except at these Concerts), having met with that de-
cided success which charactise the most popular works of
this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ;
together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI-
MENTCP, by Donizetti,
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jongtmans.
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 BRIDGF.
THIS DlY.—Alorning, 3h. 12m.—Afternoon, 3h. 26m.
-moitatu w.-Morning, 3h. 40m.—Afternoon, 3b. 54m.

TM& WEATIIRR.—Sux OPFICE, MARCH 13, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
48—highest since noon yesterday.
35—lowest this morning and during the night.
45—this day at noon.

BARomETER-29.90 ; rising.
WlND—Northerly; with fine weather.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1881.

Committees of Inquiry—so often of late an-
nounced among the Notices of Motion—are certainly
by this time the Order of the Day. As the right
lion. gentleman, the leader of her MAJESTY'S Op-
position, took occasion to remark last evening, the
house of Commons has done quite enough during
the first month of the present session, the month
which has but just now elapsed, in the way of ap-
pointing these Select Committees of Investigation.
A systematic course of proceeding upon the part
of the House of Commons, by which it ap-
propriates to itself very many of the most
vital functions of the Executive while re-
lieving the Cabinet from much of the re-
sponsibility which must otherwise have devolved
upon the various members of her MAJESTY'S Go-
vernment. Already, according to this summary
arrangement, the national representatives, as they
were reminded last evening by Mr. DISRAELT,
have nominated, during very little more than
one calendar month, no less than six select com-
mittees of inquiry of the utmost importance, of a
character the most exceptional and extraordinary.
Delegating to one committee—a scrutiny of the
whole of the elaborately jumbled and unsatisfac-
tory scheme of our Poor Law Administration ! To
another—the consideration of the long-vexed
question as to whether or not the entire Criminal
Law might not be at length consolidated! To an-
other—the examination of the scale of our military
expenditure throughout the whole of our colonial
possessions! Another of those committees having
to investigate the machinery of our Board of Ad-
miralty, with a view to its comprehensive recon-
struction ! A fifth committee having deputed to it
the labour of a searching inquiry into the man-
ner of the assessment of the obnoxious Income-
tax, particularly in regard to Schedule D—
a conscientious and laborious reconsidera-
tion in point of fact, of the whole prin-
ciple on which the chief amount of our
taxation, an amount yielding annually from
£10,000,000 to 112,000,000, is being from year to
year realised. The sixth and last of these remark-
able committees of inquiry subjecting the entire
diplomatic service of Great Britain to a pitiless
investigation. Whether or not the appointment of
so many of these select committees of inquiry may
-be calculated to prove advantageous to the country
at large, to the Legislature, or to the Government,
may remain still a moot question, and one upon
awhich opinions may continue, for a long while to
come, diametrically opposed. Whatever the even-
tual decision arrived at upon this point, there is, at
least, no doubt at all as to the fact that the half-
dozen committees above enumerated have within
the month last past been definitively appointed
—not a jot more doubt being entertained
either as to the necessity for an inquiry of
some kind being instituted forthwith into
leach and all of the six topics submitted to the said
'committees now for most serious investigation. The
Poor Law Administration—the Criminal Law and
Its Consolidation—the Colonies and their military
expenditure—The Income Tax and its assessment—
the Admiralty and its reconstruction—the Diplo-
matic Service
and its total rehabilitation—all these
being upon the instant suggestive of some amongst he most notorious
exigencies of our time. They
are indicative in their mere titles of some among
-the great national gn •eyanees
the most clamour-
ously demanding investigation,
The Admiralty Committee was the one, it will
be remarked through the Parliamentary reports
of yesterday's sitting in the House of Coln-
none, which again occupied the
attention
for ,some considerable time of our national re-
t„,,,ntatiree. The discussion
which ensued
immediately upon Admiral DuNconne's moving
110 le upon this particular co,.
en itteo of the fifteen members selected to constitute
sites: the comments of a great
variety of
kPeakel 13 upon both sides of the House, speakers,

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