The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-17 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT increase the restrictions created by the Bank
GARDEN, under the sole Management of Miss Louisa Charter Act of 1844.
Fyne and Mr. W. Harrison
There may possibly be an appeal to the country
THIS EVENING will be presented an entirely_nvL,
.and;
during the ensuing session. That will be ;he e
romantic Opera, by Mr. W. Italfe, entitled SATANELL.A.
or, THE POWER OF LOVE.
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Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon.
To conclude with the new Pantomime of LITTLE RED
RIDING HOOD; or, Harlequin and the Wolf in Granny's
Clothing.

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golden opportunity that should not be wasted or
misapplied. If neglected, or misapplied, years
must elapse before another similar chance
can arise. Another commercial crisis will
ensue, and the working classes will endure suffer-
ings worse than those that would attend an Euro-
pean war, or even an internecine contest, and all
because the "hard calculators" have considerable
Parliamentary influence, and will not relinquish
any portion of their monopoly so long as they can
possibly retain it.

IThe issue is literally one between " labour and
money." While we had paper currency there was
always liberal remuneration for toil. The man able
and willing to work was certain of obtaining a rea-
sonable support for himself and family.
But now he may starve, unless the
savings of former years have proved a
fund on which he can fall back and maintain him-
self and all dependent on him in the dark hour of
distress. All that is required is a little study,
some slight attention to that which, of all
others, ought to attract the attention of the
voter. The letters of that earnest and consistent
monetary reformer, Mr. HAMER STANSFELD,
will alone supply the necessary information.
If they were attentively considered, nothing more
would be wanting. They explain the evil, and
point out the remedy so cleverly, that be " who
runs may read." We want a really national Bank,
issuing really national paper, which every
one will be willing to accept, inasmuch as it
will be a legal tender, and receivable in payment
of taxes and every other demand. Such a sys-
tem would prevent the fluctuations in the rate
of discount, which have been more injurious
to the interests of the people than the failures of
all the Banks of Issue that have ever suspended
payment. The question of Monetary Reform is in
the hands of the people themselves, and if it is not
satisfactorily arranged during the ensuing session
they alone will be to blame, and they will be the
chief sufferers.

The Right Honourable Member for Stroud is
certainly bent upon drawing as broad a contrast as
possible between himself in that character and his
now almost forgotten alter ego, as the Honourable
Member for Cockermouth. "None but himself
could be his parallel " might be said of anybody
else but Mr. HORSMAN. With him it should rather
run—None but himself can by any possibility be his
antithesis—an antithesis in every way so startling
and remarkable. Restive in harness, he is as tame as
you please—to the driver against whom he formerly
rebelled—now that he is let loose in the paddock
of the Opposition. The ex-Secretary for Ireland
was the first to repudiate the ex-Premier so soon
as the Noble Viscount had fallen (with the triple
pathos of DARIUS) from his high state. Now—
Mr. HORSMAN is the first, and nearly the only
one, to pronounce a studied panegyric (rather "out
of place," in a double sense, under the circum-
stances) upon Lord PALMERSTON. Yet instead of
commending, either his genius as a statesman►
his sagacity as an administrator, or his capacity as
a parliamentary orator—he directs his admiring
allusions rather to the agility of the veteran Vis-
count as a dancer at Compeigne, and as a hunter across
country down in Hampshire. Mr. HORSMAN is
especially struck with the " pluck and go" of the
noble lord—a phrase of evil import, as it
happens, however, seeing that the "go " with
Lord PALMERSTON has been chiefly signalised of
late by his go out as the Leader of her MAJESTY'S
Government. However, the ex-Secretary for Ire-
land is so repentant for his unfaithfulness that he
overdoes it. " Lord PALMERSTON as Premier," said
Mr. HORSMAN (for we must accord him the advan-
tage of giving ipsissima versa), "Lord PAL3fER-
STON as Premier might have failed, but if he failed
it was because he had no colleagues as capable as
himself. If they polled the whole House of Cora-
mons through they would find no man half so popular,
and as to his age,there were more pluck and energy
about him than in the youngest member. He had
shown that during the recess ; for, while others
deprived of the sunny regions of office, which they
had occupied since the days of Earl GREY, com-
plained of the rheumatism, and enveloped themselves
in flannel and worsted nightcaps, Lord PALMERSTON
was starring it at Romsey, and dancing at Com-
piegne; and the other day they heard that he had
broken his collar-bone riding at a fence in Hamp-
shire. There was more English pluck and go' in
him than in any half-dozen of those who, having once
made him their idol, would now turn him into their
scapegoat." By a parity of reasoning, we ought to
choose for a female sovereign a DIANA of Poictiers,
or a Countess of DESMOND—
" Who lived to the age of a hundred and ten
And died by a fall from a cherry tree then;
What a frisky old girl I"

Our Lord High Chancellor ought to be invariably
a HATTON or some such perennial specimen of
grace and agility. The notion of commending the
Noble Viscount as a Premier because of his riding
at a fence, and dancing in a quadrille, and not wear-
ing either a flannel jacket or a woollen
nightcap is certainly in accordance with the face-
tious idea of Mr. DICKENS that the noble lord's
true title ought to have been First Lord of the
Yokery rather than first Lord of the Treasury. As
to the flannel derisively spoken of by Mr. HORS-
MAN—what, by the way, is that glimpse we obtain
through the historico-romantic lens of Mr.
THACKEItAY'S " Virginians" (see the very latest

number for this current month of January,

vol. ii., p. 74), that glimpse of a really great

Minister, the renowned Earl of CHATHAM, when

he was still the famous Mr. Secretary PITT, tall in

stature, with an eagle eye and beak, and a grave,

majestic presence. Observes Mr. THACKERlY—drop-
pimg his voice to a hushed whisper—".As I see that

solemn figure passing, even a hundred years off, I

protest I feel a present awe, and a desire to take

my hat off. I am not frightened 'at GEORGE 11.,
nor are my eyes dazzled by the portentous appear-
ance of his Royal Highness the Duke of CuLLo-

DEN and FONTENOY, but the Great Commoner, the
terrible Cornet of Horse ! His figure bestrides our
narrow isle of a century back like a Colossus ; and
I hush as he passes in his gouty shoes his thunder-
bolt hand wrapped in flannel." As to the night-
cap question, gravely particularised by Mr. HORS-
MAN, it reminds one of that entry in BOSWELL'S
Tour to the Hebrides, under date Wednesday, Sept.
29, where JOHNSON mercilessly roasts his biogra-
pher—" I asked him," writes BOSWELL, " if he
had ever been accustomed to wear a night-
lie said 'No.' I asked if it was
cap ?'

best not to wear one.—JoHNsoN : ' Sir, I had this

shall ever
custom by chance, and perhaps no man

know whether it is Lest to sleep with or without a

night-cap.' Soon afterwards, he was laughing at

some deficienv in the Highlands, and said, One
might as well go without shoes and stockings.'

Thinking to have a little hit at his own deficiency, I
ventured to add, 'Or without a night-cap, sir.'
But I had better have been silent ; for he

retorted directly, 'I do not see the con-

nection there . (laughing.) Nobody before
[or, ohm, for that matter—till Mr. Iloitslutsj

was ever foolish enough to ask whether it was
best to wear a night-cap or not. This comes of
being a little wrong-headed.' " Echo nowadays—
to Mr. HORSMAN and not to Mr BOSWELL—" This
comes of being a little wrong-headed." Night-cap
or no night-cap, flannel or no flannel—we are con•
tented to leave the youthful veteran dancing
(attendance upon the EMPEROR) at Compeigne, or
leaping the fence in Hampshire, while another
Premier, occasionally afflicted with the gout, like
CHATHAM, is prepared, like CHATHAM, to vindi-
cate, at all hazards and at all times what Lord
GEORGE BENTINCK finely called the chastity of
the national honour of England.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in
Downing-street. The Ministers present were—the Earl of
Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor,
the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, Mr. Se-
cretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir E. Bulwer
Lytton, General Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakington,
the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners.
It is expected that her Majesty will return to
town the latter end of this month in time to open the ses-
sion of Parliament in person, though no orders have as yet
been officially given en the subject.—Court Journal.
The Prince of Wales, it is expected, will return
to England in July. Next year, of course, we may expect
the young Prince to take an important place in all the prin-
cipal proceedings of Court and fashion. After his next
birthday the young Prince will be entitled to take his seat
in the House of Peers.—Court Journal.
The Earl of Mornington has left the Clarendon
for Draycot House, Chippenham.
The Earl of Warwick has arrived in town from
visiting her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
Lord and Lady Norreys and Mr. and Lady Caro-
line Townley are passing the season at Rome, and will not
return to town for some months.
The Right Hon. Sidney and Mrs. Herbert are
expected at their residence in Belgrave-square, in a few
days, from Wilton House.
Mr. E.stcourt, M.P., and Mrs. Estcourt have left
Farrance's Hotel for St. Leonard's-on-Sea.
A Berlin letter of the 11th says :—" Yesterday the
Prince Regent had a conversation of about three hours with
Baron do Halzfeldt, the Prussian ambassador at Paris. We
are assured that the relations of our cabinet with the French
Government are of the most satisfactory kind."
A letter from Jassy, in a Vienna journal, states that
the deputies of Moldavia were to meet on the 7th to elect
the Hospodar, and in the event of no election being made
before the 16th, the candidatelvho at twelve o'clock on that
day should have the majority should be declared Hospodar
for life of Moldavia.
A valuable piece of patronage has just fallen to
Lord Derby in the shape of the Green Riband vacant by
the death of the Earl of Haddingto'n. It would be prema-
ture to speculate on whom the Premier's choice is likely to
fall just now, but the bestowal of this Order is always
watched with great interest by the nobility of Scotland, and
the selection will doubtless fall on one of high rank, and be
calculated to strengthen the hands of the Government.—
Court Journal,
CONFIRMATION OF THE PRINCESS VICTORIA OF
Coona.--Her Majesty having expressed a wish that her
god-daughter, the Princess Victoria Gowiamma of Coorg,
should be confirmed, the ceremony took place on Monday
last at Kew Church, and was performed by the Lord Bishop
of Winchester. The Princess was accompanied by her
father, the Rajah of Coorg, the Dowager Lady Hardinge,
and her guardian Sir James Weir Hogg, Baronet; also by
Sir John and Lady Logan (under whose care her Majesty
has now placed the Princess), and a numerous circle of
friends. After the ceremony the party returned to the resi-
dence of the Princess, Church House, Kew, and partook of
luncheon.--Homeward
DEATH OF SIR JAMES PITCAIRN.—This distin-
guised military surgeon died last week, at his residence in
Haddington-road, Dublin, aged 83. Sir James served at
the Helder in 1799, and the whole of the campaign in
Egypt, in 1801. The deceased was a fellow of the Royal
College of Surgeons of England, having passed his exami-
nation June 7, 1798. He was also a fellow of the Royal
College of Surgeons in Ireland, and an Inspector-General
of the Army.
ACCIDENT TO THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF SUE-
FOLK.—The Earl of Stradbroke has met with an accident
while shooting with Sir Edward Bowater, at Sotterley,
Suffolk. The contents of Sir Edward's gun were acci-
dentally lodged in his lordship's legs ; he is going on
avourably.
AMERICAN MAIL DESPATCH.—The British and
North American Royal Mail steamer Arabia sailed from.
Liverpool for Boston on Saturday last ; besides the Ameri-
can mails, she also took out 55 passengers and a full cargo.
The steamship Kangaroo will be despatched en Wednesday
next for New York with the United States and North
American mails. Letters will be received at the Post-office,
Liverpool, up to 9 a.m., with a late fee, till 10 a.m., and
finally at the landing stage at 11 a.m. Telegraphic de-
spatches 'to the United States and British North American
Provinces can be sent through the office of the New York
Press, 10, Exchange-street East.
MAILS FOR AUSTRALIA.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company being about to de-
spatch their steam-ship Malta' to Sydney (touching :at St.
Vincent's, Cape Verd), to take up her station between Aus-
tralia and Suez, under the company's new contract with
her Majesty's overnment, the Postmaster-General intends
to avail himself of the departure of this steamer for the trans-
mission of additional mails to St. Vincent's and to Austra-
lia. The Malta is appointed to leave Southampton on the
20th inst., after the arrival of the day mail from London, and
will convey ship-letter mails for St. Vincent's and the Aus-
tralian Colonies, Tasmania, and New Zealand. All letters,
newspapers, &c., intended for transmission by this steamer
must be specially addressed "By steamer Malta." By com-
mand of the Postmaster-General, ROWLAND HILL, Secre-
tary.—General Post-office, Jan. 15.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company have an-
nounced that the mail packets, which heretofore have run
between Southampton and Gibraltar, calling at Vigo, off
Oporto, Lisbon, and Cadiz, will, commencing with the
packet of the 27th inst., terminate their outward voyages
at Lisbon. The mails to and from Gibraltar will be con-
veyed direct by the weekly Mediterranean packets, leaving
Southampton for Gibraltaron the 4th, 12th, 20th, and 27th,
and Gibraltar for Southampton about the sth, 13th, 20th,
and 27th of every month. The Cadiz mails will also be
conveyed between England and Gibraltar by these steamers.
The Peninsular line of steamers will leave Southampton for
Lisbon, calling at Vigo and off Oporto, on the 7th, 17th,
and 27th, and at Vigo, on the 17th, 27th, and 7th of every
month. By these arrangements the course of post between
London and Lisbon will be reduced from 18 to 15 days.
The Southampton portion of the Australian mail
has been delivered during the week. Great complaints are
justly made by merchants and others of the extreme irre-
gularity of transmission of newspapers, as it constantly
occurs that those marked and paid for "via Marseilles"
come home " via Southampton," and consequently do not
reach the respective persons until the intelligence con-
veyed has been made known many days previously through
otheechannels. The blame is said to rest with the colonial
Post-offices, and the irregularity complained of is more
frequent and noticeable with papers from South Australia ;
therefore, it is hoped, that the authorities at Adelaide will
secure bettor attention on the part of the Post-office subor-
dinates for the future.—Mining Journal.
We have before alluded to the great punctuality
which is a characteristic of Lord Derby's Government.
Another instance has just occurred. The Earl of Hard-
wicke had signified his intentiou of being present at the
Privy Council on Tuesday at Windsor Castle ; but the
Lord Privy Seal had run it so fine in endeavouring to make
an ordinary train from Wimpole serve his purpose on the
some morning, that he arrived at Paddington five minutes
after the time specified, and lo the train had gone. After
allowing a little grace, and a very little, Lord Derby gave
the word to start, leaving the Lord Privy Seal behind.
Lord Hardwicke's official presence not being necessary on
this occasion, he contentedly ordered his carriage round
and drove home again, not caring to emulate the vigour of
Lord Palmerston, who, in a similar instance, gave chase to
the special train on a railway engine.—Court Journal.
JUDICIAL AND LEGAL CHANGES.—Mr. Justice
Wines is about to retire from his position of one of the
judges of the Court of Common Pleas, and the present is,
in all probability, the last term in which he will take his
seat on the bench of that court. Since the establishment of
the Court of Probate and Divorce, the business has gra-
dually accumulated, until it has at length completely out-
stripped the powers of the Judge Ordinary (Sir Cresswell
Cresswell) to deal with it. It is intended at the commence •
ment of next term, to appoint a second judge of the Pro-
bate and Divorce Court, so that two courts may sit at the
same time, and this office Mr. Justice Wiles has accepted.
The judgeship of the Court of Common Pleas, which will
become vacant by the transference of Mr. Justice Willes to
the Court of Probate and Divorce, will, it is expected, be
conferred upon Mr. Kenneth Macaulay, Q.C., member for
the borough of Cambridge.

ILLNESS OF MR. SELFE.—Mr. Selfe, one of the
magistrates of the Thames police court, and chairman of the
late commission of inquiry relating to military stores and
clothing, has been confined to his room by severe illness
during the last four weeks, and it is feared that some time
will elapse before he will be able to resume his magisterial
duties. This gentleman presided in the Thames police
court for one day only after the commission of inquiry had
terminated its labours, and complained in tho course of the
day of indisposition. He has been unable to attend to any
business since. Anxious inquiries have been made relating
to the health of Mr. Selfe by persons of every rank and con-
dition. On Saturday it was announced at the Thames police
court that he was a little better.

RESIGNATION OF MR. W. BROWN, M.P.—The
Liverpool Mercury of Saturdays says :—" The public will
learn with regret that Mr. William Brown, one of the mem-
bers for the southern division of this country has intimated
his intention•to resign his seat in the House of Commons
after the dissolution of the present Parliament. Mr. Brown
announced this determination at a banquet given by the
Mayor on Thursday in celebration of the 150th anniversary
of the foundation of the Blue-coat Hospital. The honour-
able member was first elected for this division, without op-
position, in 1845, and on each recurring election since his
return has been unopposed. Both on public and on private
grounds his retirement is a matter for regret ; publicly,
because of the loss of services which have beenjalike honour-
able to himself and advantageous to the community; and
privately, because his increasing years and general state of
health render it prudent that he should avoid the arduous
duties and late hours which the efficient and conscientious
discharge of parliamentary duties necessarily involve.
PROPOSED EXTENSION OF TIIE LIVERPOOL
DOCKS--The new Diverpool Dock Board resolved, at a
special meeting on Saturday, to apply to Parliament for
powers to borrow £300,000 for the purpose of improving and
extending the Liverpool Docks. There was a lengthy dis-
cussion, and the proposition was carried by 15 to 0. The
chairmanstated, as an evidence of the satisfactory condition
of the estate, that the receipts of the Board for 1858 had
exceeded those of 1857 by £5OO, though the returns in 1857
were greater than had previously been experienced,