The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-04 00:00:00

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T. iwer Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6
Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean.

THIS EVENING, will be performed Salcspere's Tragedy
•f KING RICHARD 11. King Richard 11., by Mr. Chas.
; Q'ieen, by Mrs. C. Kean.

Preceded by a new farce, in one act, entitled A CASE
OF CONSCIENCE.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI,
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.

THIS EVENING, will be performed THE MIDDY
ASHORM. Miss Marie Wilton.
After which, a new romat.tie drama, called THE LEGEND
OF THE HEADLESS MAN, and in which Mr. Benjamin
Webster and Madame Celeste will perform.
Pollowed by the original Apropos Sketch, entit.ed THE
DRAPERY QUESTION ; or, Who's for India Y Messrs.
Wright. P. Bedford, C. Selby; Miss M. Wilton and Miss
Alary Keeley.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.—Lessee, Mr.
Dillon.—Under the joint management of
Was LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON.

THIS EVENING, will be pe formed Balfe's new opera,
THE ROSE OF STILLE. Characters by Miss Lon'sa
Pyne, Mies Susan Pyne, Miss Marian Prescott, Mr. Weiss,
Yr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. G. Honey, fir. Wallworth, and Mr.
W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon.
To conclude with the new Farce, entitled A PAIR OF
PIGEONS. Mr. G. Honey ant Miss Cuthbert.
Private Boxes, £2 12s. 6d., £2 25., and £1 11s. 6d. ;
Stalls, 6s. ; Dress Circle, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit. 25.;
Gallery, Is.—The Box Office is now open daily, from 11 to
6, under the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jan.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. Robgon and Emden.
TFIIS EVENING, will be performed a new and original
o medietta, by Sterling Coyne, Esq., called WHAT WILL
THEY SAY AT BROMPTON ? Mr. Robson, cte.
After which, LEADING STRINGS.
To conclude with the original Extravaganza, by Robert
Brough, Esq., called MASANIELLO. Messrs. Rob.
a n, Cooke, Danvers, dtc. ; Misses Swanborough, Thirlwall,
Maghee, Bromley, and Mrs. Melfont.
Commence at half-past Seven.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswink.
THIS EVENING, will be performed THE WIFE'S RE-
VENGIt.
After which, INDIA., 1857. Messrs. Shepherd, Ores-
'wick, W. Smith, Vollaire, B. Potter, Widdicomb, Belnaore,
Tapping ; Miss M. Untrue, Miss Webster, Miss Chalmers,
Miss Johnstone.
To conclude with WELLINGTON FIGGS.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow,
T 1 company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance o
tections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, dce., viz. :—Miss Russell,
Mrs. Badzey, Madlle. Marietta, Mrs. Palmy-re, Afiss Bru-
sell, and Madame Marietta; Herr F. Jonghmane, Mr.
Benshaw, R. Grover, T. Arrant, S. roles, J. Barker,
W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. [lime, and Mr. St.
A byn; Messrs. S. Collins, W. 1. Critchgeld, and E. Mack-
key. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master
11 illiams; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at
even o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock.

then anything desired by "the hard calculators"
can be procured. It is even more easy to cook a
report than an account. There is some difficulty
about facts and figures—none whatsoever respect-
ing the speculative opinions of interested and pre-
judiced persons. Sir G. C. LEWIS will bring for-
ward the subject. There is not the slightest
ground for further inquiry, He ought to be pre-
pared with some definite measure on which the
opinion of Parliament may be taken ; and if not
the all-important question ought to be taken out
of his hands by some independent Member.
The Indian difficulty is also to be shelved, if
possible. There, too, procrastination is the order
of the day. Public opinion was tested by soi-
disant semi-official organs. One contemporary
announced that the Company's Government was
to be abrogated, ; and, having probably exceeded
the appointed limits, and being duly snubbed for
the offence, the words were easily swallowed. In-
deed, it would appear that " words" were regarded
as the most dainty viands in the vicinity of
Printing-house-square. The promised Reform
Bill was subjected to a similar ordeal. It, too, is
to be brought forward in February. Delay is the
great point. Get rid of that, and all that is
wanting will be accomplished.
We are glad to find that Mr. GREER, the inde-
pendent Member for the county of Londonderry, is
about to move an amendment, on the motion for
a select committee, to the effect that they be
instructed to inquire into the operation of all the
laws affecting the currency in Great Britain and
Ireland, and report what amendments, if any,
they may consider desirable. We trust that Mr.
GREER, one of the moat promising members of the
new Parliament, may succeed in his motion. The
Act of 1844 is condemned—all that is wanting is
to know what will be its substitute.

Another curious similarity yet remains to be
noticed, in the contrast of the two Sepoy Revolts,
occurring at a distance of half a century from each
other—the minor and local mutiny in 1806, at
Vellore, and the far more terrible and disastrous
defection of 1857, infecting the whole of the vast
native army distributed over the Bengal Presi-
dency. In both instances advantages of the
most opportune kind imaginable were seized in the
very nick of time in transitu for China ! It is
simply, of course, a coincidence, but for once a
happy coincidence.
Immediately upon the arrival of the Marquis
of CORNWALLIS as Governor-General (on the 28th
of July, 1805), at Calcutta, it was manifest that
the finances of India were deplorably crippled.
Happily the emergency was dealt with then
promptly and effectually—then, when the Com-
pany's forces were upon the very eve of receiving
the shock of a certainly merely partial, but at
one moment an apparently formidable military
insurrection. The immediate requirements of
the army were supplied by detaining the treasure
destined for China. Precisely as the yet more
urgent wants of the army—need of men and not
only of specie--were provided for during the pre-
' sent yearof grace 1857, by detaining the troops des-
tined for China, the regiments then passing by the
coast of Hindostan on their way to extricate Am-
bassador BOWRING, and Admiral SEYMOUR, and
Consul PARKES from their difficulty at Canton,
the difficulty of contending with an empire con-
taining a population of 400,000,000, armed only
with two or three line-of-battle ships and half-a-
dozen frigates. Fortunately for us in each in-
stance, precisely what we most wanted was there
actually at hand. Without the necessity of any
delay whatever, there, in 1805, was the money
we most needed—there, in 1857, were the troops
which we had only to divert for a while from their
progress towards their original destination, for
the purpose of applying their ready arms to a

more imminent and pressing emergency.
Scarcely bad L)rd CORNWALLIS been a quarter of
ayear in India (with defection beginning to threaten
our Government far and wide), when death pre-
maturely closed his labours on the sth of October,
1805, at Gaseepore, in Benares, when his Excel-
lency was on his way to place himself at the head
of the army, with a view, if possible, to cut the
Gordian knot with the edge of the sword rather
than with the axe of the fasces. Death and
disease, if they have happily spared the Governor-
General and the Council at Calcutta, have mate-
rially added to our embarrassments of late in
Bengal, by striking down, one after another, in
rapid succession, a series of Commanders-iu-Chief.
Sir GEORGE BARLOW then succeeded to the supreme
command in council, on the demiseof the Governor-
Genera], the Lord CORNWALLIS—as Gen. WILSON
ultimately succeeded in due course to the supreme
command in the camp before Delhi, on the death
or secession of his various military predecessors.
Then, too, peace was signed with SCINDIA on the
22d of November, and with HOLKAR on the 24th
of November. While now-a-days—a butter
augury let us hope than the making of peace
—we have preserved peace in 1857 with both
SCINDIA and HOLKAR, in spite of the most malign
influences and the most, sinister prognostications.
Apart, however, from any mere augurics of this
kind—have we not glorious deeds 4-) celebrate 7