The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-09 00:00:00

ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster.

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THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. .Messrs.
L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss R. Belly, and Miss E.
Thorne.

After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boucicault, D.
Fleher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woo'gar, Mrs. Billington, and
are. Chatterley.
To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled
BLUE BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF HUE.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar,
K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and M. Thorne.

Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 6.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l.
Orchestra Stalls, Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, is. ;
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 64. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager-64r. Wm. Smith.

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!!
Westminster-road.
Proprietor ...... ..C. Morton.
A Grand Selection trom Verdi's new Opera,
CORSARO,

(This opera has never been produced in this or any other
country, except at these Concerts). having met with that de-
cided success which dharactise the most popular works of
this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ;
together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI-
MENTO, by Donizetti, -
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
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.

RIGA WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tau DAY.—Morning, 12h. 48m.—Afternoon, Ili. 14m.
To-uouitto-w.-Morning, 34m.—Afternoon, 112.

DIE WEATIIER.—Snx OFFICE, MARCH 8, 1881.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
53 —highest since noon yesterday.
44—lowest this morning and during the night.
57—this day at7noon.l
BAROMETER---30.03; up again—great fluctuations.
WIND--South-Westerly—rather fresh; with dull weather

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1881.

" Stole away !" Sir BALDWIN WALKER ! And
a right good start having been very considerately
given to him by the Government, the Admiral
really appears to have effectually made his escape
from the Parliamentary Inquisition.

It is an exceedingly shabby little trick this, and
as such is calculated far more seriously to damage
the Administration than the minority of four upon
the Income tax, and of five upon this threatened
Admiralty investigation. It is all of a piece, how-
ever, if we only call to mind the origin of the
Coalition. Recollect in what its rise to power ac-
tually originated. In nothing less paltry than those
shuttling and thoroughly hypocritical resolutions of
Lord JOHN RUSSELL in respect to Parliamentary
Reform, which Sir HUGH CAIRNS admirably and
most truthfully designated a rolitical dodge. That
the resolutions were a dodge, and nothing less
disgraceful than a dodge, subsequent events have
only too plainly demonstrated. The trumpery
" Little Bill" of 1860, and the " No Bill At All "
of 1861, have proved beyond the reach of any con-
tradiction that in the matter of Reform Lord JOIIN
is clearly kith and kin in his genius to another
JOHN renowned in the pages of Mr. CHARLES
DICKENS'S Oliver Twist, to wit—Mr. JOHN
DAWKINS, the Artful Dodger. It is perfectly in
keeping therefore, it tallies exactly with the gene-
ral fitness of things, that a heterogeneous cluster
of politicians who could thus condescend to dodge
their way into office by a petty, dirty, little, shabby
device like those now notorious Resolutions should
not hesitate about descending yet a step lower in
this melancholy incline from the old-fashioned
high-minded statesmanship of a past generation—
that they should evidence anew their capabilities
in what may be termed their peculiar metier,
namely, Political Bathos, by proceedings so singu-
larly mean as those which have characterised this
new Admiralty Farce of " The Flight of Sir
BALD-v.-1N ; or, The 'rub and the Telegraph."
The discussion which took place last evening in re-
gard to the escape of the ex-Naval Surveyor revealed
the trickery of her Majesty's Government in all its
nakedness. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON having intimated
to the house as one rather in search of accurate
information than intent upon flinging accusations
against the Admiralty—Sir JOHN PAKINGTON
having intimated to the House in this way
interrogatively, that he had received a communica-
tion from a correspondent of his at Devonport -to
the effect that the Port-Admiral having telegraphed
to the Admiralty, " Should he send the Himalaya
(then under steam) in pursuit of the Narcissus"'
the Admiralty replying "No, send the Avon," and
the Port-Admiral responding through the electric
, wires, " The Avon is a mere tab !"—the noble and
gallant lord the Secretary to.the Admiralty, in
explanation, indulged the House of Commons by
perusing to them these, the ipsissima verba of the
telegrams exchanged between Plymouth and the
Admiralty ! Beginning as follows : the Port Admi-
ral to the Admiralty-sth March,ll.42 a.m.—" The
Himalaya has gone out on her trial." The Ad-
miralty to Plymouth-11'52 a.m.—" Send the
Avon to the southward of the Eddystone to
to endeavour to intercept the Narcissus" [to endea-
vour, observe !—a sort of "I wish you may get it"]
—adding [so considerately this, under the circum-
stances—in words evidencing such generous fore-
thought]—" Make the officer the bearer of an order
to Sir BALIAVIN WALK-LI:IC) return to Devonport."
Plymouth to the Admiralty—.1.21 p.m.—" The
Himalaya is just enter.ng into the Sound. Shall
she also proceed in search of the Narcissus P'' The
y u
Port Admiral was here clearly putting 'his foot
into it—pas de zele
was warily the axiom of the
French diplomatist—and here Was the Port Admi-
ral only too zealous in the public service--only too
officious with his indiscreet suggestions. Was he
not a N9te the answer immediately flashed back
to him from the Admiralty ! Still, March 5-
1.38 p.m.—The Admiralty telegraphing in reply
to the Fort Admiral at Devonport about this
wrretchedly-inopportune suggestion of his in re