The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-23 00:00:00

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Suez and the Red Sea, it had not yet been
signed, as there was some difficulty about the
points at which the steamers were to stop."
Afterwards! upon the Marquis of CLANRICARDE
remarking, what was sufficiently obvious—but still
though sufficiently obvious, well worthy of being
pointedly alluded to—that from the answer of the
noble duke it appeared there was actually no con-
tract existing for a mail to the colony of Australia !
Another noble duke, his grace the Colonial Secre-
tary, entered upon an equally lucid and, it must be
added, an equally unsatisfactory explanation as the
one already vouchsafed by his noble colleague.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE " admitted that there
was no Australian contract signed, but the only
point that remained to be settled was whether
the steamers should touch at the Island of
Mauritius or not. Circulars had been sent
to all the colonies intereed, calling upon them to
express their views and opinlions• The whole of
the answers had not yet been receivei, and although
it was perfectly true that New Soutb-
Wales had
acted much more rapidly than any of theothers,
and proposed a magnificent subsidy of £50,000 a
year, he thought the noble marquis would agree
that the important interests of all, the colonies
should be consulted. If a new line of postal com-
munication for the benefit of only one or only a
portion of the colonies were established objections
would probably arise and some other line be pro-
posed, which would have the effect, as before, of
defeating the object, and leaving the colonies with-
out the desired accommodation." So that—thus
the matter rests, in a manner, for the time being in
abeyance. As though it were the merest trifle
imaginable ! Australia votes £so,ooo—and Eng-
land waits tranquilly for the decision of a dawdling
committee !

WuroLE's honour each came out of the ordeal
perfectly stainless and unsullied—but why there
was any necessity for an ordeal of any kind passes
to this instant our comprehension. We can't for
the life of us understand the philosophic self-mar-
tyrdom of those who having clearly before them—
well, perhaps, not quite a path of roses, but at any-
rate the QUEEN'S highway—should voluntarily go
out of the straight road before them perversely
to walk by a circumbendibus over so many
square feet of burning ploughshares ! Then
again—Mr. GLADSTONE'S mysterious expedition
to the lonian Islands in a superlatively extraordi-
nary character, as a sort of a supplementary Lord
High Commissioner—there, surely, to this hou
remains an unopened mystery of mysteries ! The
copper pot has been fairly landed—it has been
dragged up high and dry on shore—we can hear
the Beni rumbling within it—but the lid is still close
shut, sealed with the seal of the Great SoLIMAN
Perhaps we shall hear the meaning of it all even-
tually. Perhaps! Possibly—just as w e may discover,
at last, the nominis umbra of " Juxits "—or learn
whose was that inscrutable face under the " Iron
Mask "—or understand the mystical konx ompax
with which the initiated were dismissed at the close
of the Eleusynian Revelations.
Consonant with all this official and exofficial re-
ticense during the lapse of 1859—have been the
breaking down, by mere anticipation, of the eluci-
datory motions announced in reference to the
affairs of Italy, or rather, it might be said, to the
affairs of Europe—motions announced in the
Commons by Lord Euno, and in the Lords by
Viscount STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE. It is noto-
rious of course why these were abandoned. They
could hardly have been brought forward after the
announcement of the preliminaries of peace so very
prematurely agreed to by the two Emperors at
Villafranca. Their being so brought forward at
any rate might have proved untoward in imme-
diate effect and embarrassing in ulterior conse-
quences. Therefore out of the most honourable
motives on the part of the two noble lords who had
undertaken to bring Lord MALMESBURY'S diplo-
matic correspondence under discussion in Parlia-
ment those notices of motion were dropped—some
more unsolved riddles being thus left to adorn the
already sufficiently enigmatical pages of _Hansard
for 1859. Although these eagerly anticipated debates
in the Lords and Commons were thus prohibited,
by the force of circumstances, from the opportunity
of being even momentarily commenced, it is worthy
of special remembrance, at any rate in regard to
the one threatened by Lord Euno, that the
noble lord, in the very act of withdrawing his
motion, explained honestly and succinctly the
reasons which led to its original announcement.
" He proposed this," he said " to bring the question
directly under the consideration of the popular
branch of the Legislature" out of no spirit of hos-
tility towards the present Government, but from a
desire to do what he conceived was an act of simple
justice to the late Government. It was to do an act
of Justice, because it could not be denied that an
impression had gone abroad that the policy of the
late Government was not one of strict neutrality,
but one favourable to Austria and unfavourable
to France and Sardinia. That was stated in the
public journals; it was stated by the Opposition
in that house ; and there was no doubt that it had
materially influenced the division. He had since,
however, heard it stated that if the blue-book had
been published previous to the close of the debate
it would have made a difference of something like
twenty votes. He did not wish to enter into
any argument upon the point, but it was un-
questionable that such an impression had gone
abroad, and that when the blue book was at
last published, it produced a feeling that the
late Government had been maligned." Announce-
ments these, which, it is worthy of remembrance,
came from the Government side of the house, and
were loudly cheered on the side of the Opposi-

111.R.RA.REY AND THE SAVAGE
CART HORSE.

tion.

In pursuance of his independent course of pro-
ceeding, we observe that the noble lord the mem-
ber for Haddingtonshire, gave notice last evening in
the House of Commons that, on going into commit-

tee of supply on Monday week, he should move the
following resolution :—" That it would be consis-
tent neither with tha honour nor the dignity of this
country, which throughout the late negotiations
has preserved a strict and impartial neutrality be-
tween the contending pauties, and which has used
its earnest endeavours to prevent an outbreak of
hostilities, to take part in any Conference for
settling the details of a peace, the preliminaries of
which have been arranged between the Emperors
Of FRANCE and AUSTRIA." Sincerely do we hope
that this new resolution of Lord .ELCHO'S may not
add another " dropped notice of motion" to that
monstrous pile which stands cairn-like in the wil-
derness of HANSARD as the fitting memento of
this most barren Session of Parliament,

SURREY THEATRE.

of Panama. A new and a better contract was

essential. Advertisements were issued under the

authority of Government. Invitations were made
for tenders to the Admiralty—these tenders it was
announced were to be sent in by the Ist of this

present month of July. Here we are already an
proaching the end of July—and not unreasonably
the Marquis of CLANRICARDE appeals now to the
occupants of the Treasury Bench for some expla-
nation as to whether anything—and, if anything,
what—has been done with a view to the satisfacto:r.,v
organization of one or both lines of communication
between England and Australasia. To those in-
quiries of the noble lord several answers were last
evening vouchsafed—though none of them it must
be confessed were very satisfactory. The noble duke
at the head of the Board of Admiralty replied cate-
gorically in the first instance—his grace remark-
ing :—" The part the Admiralty had to perform
with regard to them was quite subordinate. As to
\
receyreceived the mail to Australia, via Panama, tenders had
been i for it by the Admiralty, and sent to
the Treasury
thequct for approval; they were now under
e s consideration
sideration of that department. As the whole
of mail contracts had been referred to a
n
Committee of the House of Commons, the Trea-
sury would defer its approval of the Panama con-
tract till the decision of the committee on the sub-
ject was known. As to the contract for conveying
the Isthmus of
the mails to Australia by way of

THIS DAY.
A thousand persons—we should imagine, at a
moderate calculation, about one thousand persons
—have witnessed this afternoon the extraordinary
exhibition announced by advertisement to take
place to-day in the arena of the Alhambri, Amphi-
theatre. The spectacle was certainly a worthy
sequel to the taming (last week) of the King of
Oude, and previously (last year) of the famous
Cruizer. After introducing the last-mentioned
animal once more to his assembled pupils,
and whistling Cruizer after him at his heels like a
pet lamb or a lapdog—Cruizer who was once the
terror of all the grooms who approached him
(at a respectful distance ! and when he wore a
muzzle lined with iron !)—Mr. Rarey illustrated
this afternoon, his admirable sy stem of horse-
taming upon an animal he had never himself seen
before, and who was described by a letter from
its owner as a fit subject for experiment
at the hands of the American horsetamer !
Under those expert and wonder-working hands—
the little creature hitherto difficult to mount, and
remarkable in many ways for its timidity, was in a
very few minutes subdued into perfect quiesence,
into perfect confidence, and affectionate submission
to the horse-tamer—running after him wherever
he called it—led about (literally) by a straw passed
through the bit, thrown down upon the litter of straw
in the centre of the arena, and then skipped over to
and fro, sat upon, and laid down upon in all
directions ! The Van Amburgh of horses lying
down himself, at last, upon the straw beside the
prostrate animal, and there tapping his cheek and
forehead with a hind hoof—of course with perfect
impunity. The conquest of the timidity, until to-
day said, to be so very remarkable, in this quadruped
being celebrated at last by a rousing rat-a-plan upon
a drum placed upon the saddle on its back. . . Then
—after a slight pause—enter the savage Cart Horse!
a gigantic animal, whose chief recommendation was
—the brutality and stubbornness of his character.
Standing beside him, Mr. Rarey—though a good
figure enough for a man, rather above than under
the ordinary height—seemed in a manner dwarfed.
The badness of the character of this huge and
powerful cart horse was not only announced from
the arena by Mr. Rarey this afternoon—
it has been repeatedly of late advertised to the
world in our own columns and in those of our prin-
cipal contemporaries. The brute has "killed one
man," we know, to begin with—and he has " seri-
ously injured" another. Yet there stood Mr.
Rarey beside him this afternoon to conquer his
brutality, .to take the wickedness of his temper out
of him, and (in the presence of a crowd of specta-
tors after he bad been with this cart-horse not quite
half an hour) to do with him at last exactly what he
pleased! Here—as in many other instances
of the kind, the American horse-tamer, being
armed only with a little strap in each skirt
pocket of his frockcoat—but possessing besides
those magical straps, perfect coolness, perfect tem-
per, admirable courage, and never-failing self-pos-
session. The preliminary screams of the cart horse
—whenever the horsetamer approached him at the
beginning of his dexterous manipulations drove
several ladies in evident alarm from the Alhambra.
Over the rest of the spectators, however, the strength,
the fury, and savageness of the animal exercised
an irresistible facination. And soon enough their
confidence in tier. Rarey's extraordinary courage
and skill was to the utmost degree justified. Strap-
ping up the near forefoot—looping up the off fore-
foot soon afterwards—rolling the beast over among
Australia hardly meets with the response that the litter after a few minutes' contention with it as
might reasonably have been expected from the Im- it knelt
R therea on it
to do battle with it for a Gongfore-knees in stubborn me
Aerial Government. Government. The Legislature ofw \Terey had
South 1V ales, some time since, voted £50,000 for time after it was down, as it lay there screaming
and snapping at him savagely ! Until—at last,
improving the postal communication with the h
t orouelly convinced of its helplessness un-
mother country. The old blundering mail contract j der his mastery—the Cart-Horse Sire fol-
with our antipodes, it will be remembered, was, :rowed in the trail already left by hundreds of
about a year ago, cancelled by a stroke of the pen, previously untamed, and apparently
Kin e th unmanageableude
,
at a time when a great master of the pen occupied horse—incluing among them gof O
the and Cru3zer. By the time our aimable friend the
post of Colonial Administrator. Sir EDWARD
Cart-Horse to-day was kicked by the toe of Mr.
LYTTON abolished at once, and for all, a contract
Rarey's boot, and made to rise from its prostrate
that had proved, from first to last, abortive in its
position—its huge limbs were literally quiver-
operation. He did so with very general concur- ing and trembling before him with mingled
rence. Australia, as we have seen, responded to fear and fatigue !
And, as the horse-ta
this act of vigour, of wisdom, of and promptitude 1)y- called to it—as Mr. Matalini might have said in his
voting £50,000 to improve the whole system memorable words of endearment, " the demmed
of postal communication. A double route it was savage lamb," obeyed the call with something very
like an evidence of affection. To-day's incident is
felt at the same time it would be the wisest to
establish upon the organisation of a new system— not the least remarkable occurrence in the career of
the Great American Horse-tamer.
here by the Isthmus of Suez, there by the Isthmus

Last evening the representation of " Louis the Eleventh"
brought to a close the highly-successful engagement of
Mr. and Mrs. Hermann Vezin at this theatre, and the per-
formance was honoured with one of the most crowded
audiences of the season. We have already had to com-
pliment Mr. Vezin on his masterly conception of the
character of the French tyrant; suffice it, therefore, to say
that last night it was all that could, be desired by the
most severe and exacting critic. At the conclusion of the
play Mr. Vezin was summoned before the curtain, and re-
ceived such a complete ovation that a stranger to our
manners might have imagined it was a final retirement
from the stage of an old and established favourite, rather
t2lan the close of the first London engagement of a
you:ig, and a short time ago unknown, actor. Such a
mark cif respect and appreciation was as honourable to the
audience as !t was deserved by the artiste.