The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-22 00:00:00

"VrARRIAGE LAW REFORM
ASSOCIATION, instituted for the exclusive object of
promoting the passing of an Act to render lawful marriage
with a deceased •vife's sister.
Offices —No. 21, P_ ARLTAMENT-STREET, S.W., London.
JOSEPH STANSBURY, M.A., Hon. Sec.

ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.
Under the Management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W.
Harrison, Sole Lessees.
THIS EVENING, the First Act of BIANCA, THE
BRAVO'S BRIDE : Mr. W. Harrison, dm.
Followed by Auber's LE DOMINO NOIR. Miss Louisa
Pyne, Miss Thirlwall, Miss Leffler ; Messrs. H. Haigh, H.
Corti, A. St. Albyn, and Horncastle.
To conclnde with a Divertissement.
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven.

ItOYAL

1i EATR t&-ROYAL, HAYMA.RKET.
Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buokstone.

Tins EVENINO, the performances will (+lmmense with
the Comedy of THE BABES IN THE WOOD. Messrs. E.
Villiers, Buckstone, W. Farren, Mrs. Wilkins, and Miss F.
Stirling-.

Alter which, a new Pantomime, QUEEN LADYBIRD
AND HER CHILDREN. The Pantomimiats by the un-
rivalled Leclercqe, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright.

Commence at 7.

IUOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE-
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.

THIS EVENING, the Farce of A.S.S.
To be followed by DON CiESAR DE BAZAN. Don
Caesar, Mr. Fechter. Supported by Messrs. Basil Potter,
F. Matthews, J. G. Shore, Miss M. Harris, Alas C. Leclercq
and Mrs. Weston.
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 Dumilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres
will appear. Clown. Mr. A. F. Forrest.

THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.
Sois Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING- the new drama, THE HOUSE ON THE
BRIDGE OF NOTRII DAME. Principal characters by
Mr. G. Vining, Mr. J. Johnstone, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Clifford,
Mr.. John Rouse, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Morris ; Miss M.Ternan,
Idles K. Saville, Miss L. Thompson, and Madame Celeste.
Atter which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza,
CRYSTABELLE ; or, The Rose without a Thorn, showing
rug visiov OF A ROSE, ITS FADING AT EVE,
AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR.
To conclude with a new Divertissement. Miss Lydia
Thompson, &c.

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

THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J.
L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
Thorne.
After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boucicanlt, 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
SLUE 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 s—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till b.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, .£2 26.; Family Boxes, 11.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Ss.;
Pit Stalls, 21.; Pit, is. ed. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, sd.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor and Manazer, Mr. Wm. BATTY.
Immense success of " Turpin's Ride to York."

THIS EVENING. will be reproduced TURPIN'S RIDE
TO YORK, AriD THE DEATH OF BLACK BESS, in
which the Brothers Edwin will appear with their celebrated
Steed Black Bess.
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To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by
talented Parisian and British Artistes.

Concluding with Batty's Prize Equestian Comic Panto-
mime, tor Good Little Boys and Girls, by T. L. Greenwood,
entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE WONDERFUL
NORSE : 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 comic scenes Ratty's Prize Equestrian Harlequinade,
and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley.
Box-office open daily trom 11 till 4
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST._

Direct-Or 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"
Cayatina "Vola talor dal Careen"
Coro ed inno
Scena ed Aria. " Cento lezziadre Vergini"
Terzetto Finale " Voi tacete io non"
will be performed EVERY EVENING, in the original key
and Italian language—in addition to the usual attractions.
Mr. F. JONGH3IANS, Musical Director.
Also. in preparation, Selections from Verdi's New Operas,
'tin Ballo in Maschera," "Simon Boccanegra;" and Flo-
tow's celebrated Opera of "Stradella."

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This Diy.—Morning, 11h. 50m.—Afternoon, h. in.
To-mounow.-Morning, 12h. 27m.—Afternoon, 12h. 54m.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEB. 22, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE MADE.
53—highest since noon yesterday.
42—lowest this morning and during the night.
52 —this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.68.
WlND—South-Westerly—Still rather fresh, with fine
weather.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 22, 18e1

The greatest disappointment in the way of prac-
tical legislation last session was indubitably the
unlooked for collapse immediately upon the ap-
proach of autumn, of that elaborate and comprehen-
sive Bill for the revision of the whole law relating
to Bankruptcy and Insolvency—a Bill which at
the period of its introduction every one was san-
guine would have been perfected into an enactment
before the session of 1860 should have definitely
terminated. We speak of that disappointment ad-
visedly as the greatest of all the disappointments
experienced last year in the way of practical legis-
lation ; and we do this with only too vivid a remem-
brance of that other and more ambitious, because
in every way more imperial outline of a measure by
which the noble lord the member for the. City
gravely proposed to remould the whole scheme of
popular representation in Parliament. And it is
precisely because we have that particular measure
of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S dandling and coddling
only too painfully in our recollection—that we
refer thus deliberately to Sir RICHARD BETIIELL'S
Bankruptcy Bill of last session as the source of
incomparably the greatest disappointment expe-
rienced in the way of practical legislation. Lord
JOHN'S rough draft of an enactment in relation
to Parliamentary Reform was notoriously The
Little Bill, as Sir RICHARD'S in relation to Bank-
ruptcy Reform was The Great Bill of that
(for the most part) wasted session of the Legisla-
ture.

Recollecting the fate attendant upon those two
widely contrasting Government measures—mea-
sures introduced, one of them (as about the most
urgently required of all the great law reforms) by
her MAJESTY'S Attorney-General, the other (as
the long-talked of, and long-hoped for electoral
panacea for• all the ills that Parliament, or at least
the popular branch of Parliament, is heir to) by
her MAJESTY'S Foreign Secretary—recollecting the
evil fate attendant, in two very different ways cer-
tainly, but as it proved with precisely the same
result in tho end, namely, the collapse and disap-
pearance of both—the country, immediately upon
the approach of this present session, looked,
in the first instance, to see what
were the plans proposed to themselves
in regard to these two measures by the members
of her Majesty's Government. What the deter-
mination arrived at in regard to them by the
Cabinet proved to be, when the opening day of
the session arrived, the country knew virtually
from her Majesty's Speech from the Throne. It
was quite as significant in regard to Parliamen-
tary Reform, that no reference whatever was
made to it in the Speech from the Throne, as it
was in that Her Majesty there distinctly announced
a new measure of Bankruptcy and Insolvency
Reform as forthcoming. Moreover, as the event
happily proved, the new Bankruptcy Bill was
mot only forthcoming, but forthcoming immedi-
ately. And no sooner were its provisions
explained in the House of Commons by tl e
first Law adviser of the Crown, from whose
genius as a great lawyer and a great law reformer
it is the direct emanation, than in spite of the
little cantankerous afterthought of opposition arti
cnlated by the hon. and learned (and excessively
Captious) member for Sheffield, the vast majority