The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-03 00:00:00

I' HE SUN'

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lIER' MAJESTY'S THEATRE
GREAT CLASSICAL CONCERTS.

A MENDELSSOHN NIGHT.

Madlle. Jetty Treffz, Madame Ruddersdorf, Miss Arabella
Goddard, and M. Edouard Remenyi.
The highly Successful INDIAN QUADRILLE, and

GENERAL HAVELOCK'S GRAND TRIUMPHAL MARCH
JULLIEN has the honour to announce that, in conse-
quence of the great number of persons unable to obtain admis-
sion during the last performance of the " Indian Quadrille,"
be has made arrangements to postpone his departure for the
provinces, and to give a few more concerts at Her Majesty's
Theatre. The great and unprecedented success attending
the " Indian Quadrille," and the other works lately pro-
duced, has prevented M. Jullien giving those classical nights
which he was the first to introduce to the English public,
and which have always been received with such distinguished
favour by musical amateurs and the public generally.
In order to comply with the repeated requests of his nume-
rous patrons, M. Jullien has arranged for a SECOND SERIES
OF CONCERTS, which must necessarily be of very limited
duration, owing to his departure on his provincial tour
shortly before Christmas. It is his intention to give, during
their continuance, a " Haydn Night," a " Mozart Night," a
" Beethoven Night," a" Mendelssohn Night," and a "Weber
Night." On these occasions the first part of the programme
will be selected solely from the works of one of these great
masters. The second part will be varied as usual
THIS EVENING (THURSDAY, December 3), will
be produced the New Grand Descriptive Compositiou,
by M. Jullien, entitled THE INDIAN QUADRILLE,
and GENERAL HAVELOCK'S TRIUMPHAL MARCH,
performed by M. Jullien's Orchestra, assisted by the drums
and fifes of the Grenadier Guards, the Coldstream Guards,
and the Scots Fusilier Guards ; and a Grand Chorus, " Rule
Britannia," and " God Save the Queen."
M. Jullien has the satisfaction of announcing that he
has succeeded in retaining the services of that popular
vocalist, Madlle. JETTY TREFFZ. At the close of this
Second Series of Concerts, Madlle. Jetty Treffz will leave
London for Vienna, M. Jullien having been unable to
induce her to stay, even for his provincial tour. Soloists
of the highest celebrity are also engaged for each of the
Classical Nights, including the celebrated pianiste, Miss Ara-
bella Goddard, and the Hungarian artiste, M. Edouard Re-
xnenyi, solo violinist to her Majesty.
The magnificent decorations which were prepared for the
Bal Masque will remain during the continuance of these Con-
certs. The whole theatre will be ornamented with wreaths
and garlands of flowers, in gold, silver, and colours. The
decorations have been prepared by Messrs. Chabot and Co.,
who were e arged with the decorations for the grand ball at
the reception of the Emperor Napoleon 111. at Stuttgart,
and who were engaged, at a great expence, for the express
rurpose of arranging at her Majesty's Theatre a display which
will be seen for the first time in this country.
M. Juliku feels confident that he will receive, for his Second
Series of Concerts, a continuance of that distinguished pa-
tronage and support which have already been so freely ac-
corded to him.
The Concert will commence at 8 o'clock.

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Piees of Admission—Promenade, Is ; Upper Boxes, Is. ;
Gallery, Is. ; Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Private Boxes, 10s.
6d. and upwards.
Prospectuses, with full particulars, may be had at the Box.
offlee of the Theatre ; of all the principal libraries ; and at
Jullien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buekstona.

MIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with
a new Comedy, entitled AN UNEQUAL MITCH. Princi-
pal characters by Messrs. Buckstonc, Compton, Chippendale,
W. Farrell, Miss Amy Sedgviick, Mrs. Buckingham White,
an Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam.

After which, a new fares, by the author of Box and Cox,
entitled TAKE CARE OF DOWB, in which Mr. Buckstonc
will sustain an original ch trader.
C including with TIIE FISH OUT OF WATER.
Savorry, Mr. Compten.

Sam

Orohostra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of th 3
evening), Fs. each. (No charge for booking.)

First Price. s. d. Second price. s. (1.
Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 o
Upper Boxes .. 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0
Pit
Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery ... 0 6
Upper Gallery 0 fNo half-price to Upper Gallery.

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

THIS EVENING, will bo performed S'4alc;per3's Traz,dy
of KING RICHARD 11. King Richard 11., by Mr. Chas.
Kean ; Queen, by Ifr?. C. Kean.

Preceded by a now Itrc2, in one act, entitled A CASE
OF CONSCIENCE.

THEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI.
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.

THIS EVENING, will be performed THE MIDDY
ASHOR'I:. Miss Marie Wilto 3.
After which, a new roam tic drama, cared THE LEGEND
OF THE HEADLESS MAN, and in which Mr. Benj-inan
Webster and Madame Celeste will perform.

Poßowed by the original Apropes Sketch, entit.cd THE
DRAPERY QUESTION ; or, Who's for India ? Messrs.
Wright, P. Bedford, C. Selby; Miss M. Wilton and Miss
Mary Keeley.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEA.TRE.—Lessee, Mr.
Dillon.—Under the joint management of
Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON.
THIS EVENING, will be pe formed Balfe's new opera,
THE ROSE OF C.l STILLE. Characters by Miss Lou sa
Pyne, Mies Susan Pyne, Miss Marian Pres..;ott, Mr. Weiss,
Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. G. Honey, 11r. Wallworth, and Mr.
W. Harrison. Conductor, M. 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 Ils. 6d. ;
Mils, 6s. ; Dress Circle, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit. 25.;
Gallery, ls.—The 13,;x Office is now open daily, from 11 to
Er, wider the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jun.

ROY AL OLYMPIC THEATRE,
Lessees, Messrs. Rob ion and Emden.
TITIS EVENING, will be performed a new and original
er.medietta, by Sterling Coyne, Esq., called WHAT WILL
THEY SAY AT BROMPTON ? Mr. Robson, drc.
After which, LEADING STRINGS.
To conclude with the original Extravaganza, by R 'bort
R. Brongh, Esq., called MASANIELLO. Messrs. Rob-
son, Cooke, Danvers, dtc. ; Misses Swanborongh, Thirlwall,
dagbes, Bromley, and Mrs. Melfont.
COMM= CO at half-past Seven.

110YAL SURREY TELEITRE.
1.438':0 ZS, Alesini. Shepherd and Croswiek.

THIS EVENING, will bo performed TIM WIFE'S RE-
VENGE.

After which, INDIA, 1857. Mcs,srs. Shepherd, Cm-
wick, W. Smith, Vollaire, B. Potter, Widdicomb, Belmore,
Tapping • Miss M. Eburne, Miss Webster, Miss Chalmers,
Miss Johnstone.
To conclude with WELLINGTON FIGGS.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminzter-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
mg company of Vocalists aro engaged for the performance of
S ,lections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, &c., viz.:—Miss Russell,
Mrs. Badzey, Madlle. Marietta, Mrs. Palmyre, lliss Bru-
nell, and Madame Marietta ; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr.
Renshaw, It. Grover, T. Farcant, S. Tones, J. Barker,
W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Hime, and Mr. St.
Albyn; Messrs. S. Collins, W. I. CritcMeld, and E. Mack-
ney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master
Williams; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. k_7ommence at
Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock.

THE WEATHER—SUN Orincg, DECEMBER 3.
TEINEMOMETER, IN THE
67—bigheat since noon yesterday.
5l lowest this morning and during the night.
5a —this day at noon.
TIABAIVITITFB, 29.79—falling fast.
WIND, S.W. ; light, with fine weather.

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LONDON, TIT URS DAY' DEC' 3, 1857.

This day will commence one of the most
portant sessions in which the Parliament of the
United Kingdom has ever been engaged. It is
true that we are not =corned in any European
war, and that her MAJESTY will be enabled t
announce that she receives the most amicable
assurances from foreign Powers. But we Lava
bad to chcounter even more dangerous few. Our
Indian territories have been distracted with intes-

tinal commotions—
" Civil diaFen9ion, with UR vip'rotn, tnotb,
That gnaws the bowels of the C)nanon weal,"
had been in operation. Those who had partaken

atrocities. The lives—not only of the officers by
whom they had been invariably treated with kind
consideration and indulgence, but even of their
wives and children—of every European, male or
female, adult or infant, were sacrificed under cir-
cumstances of unparalleled brutality and barbarity.
The mild Hindoo seemed to have, by some
magic change, been turned into a Red Indian,
with some fearful vengeance to inflict. The ven-
detta was proclaimed against England and the
English, and fearfully was it executed at Cawn-
pore and Gwalior, and other districts, by demons
in human shape, headed by the infamous NANA
SAHIB. But, happily, the neck of the rebellion
has already been broken. "The snake is scotched,"
though nct yet "killed," and a searching and
stringent inquiry must be instituted into the
causes of the fearful revolt; and an improved system
of government must be instituted, by which the
anomalous double, or rather treble Government
may be completely abolished, and the affairs of
India conducted under a single department, where
there shall be no divided responsibility, and the
British Parliament can exercise its legitimate in-
fluence over the Anglo-Indian Empire —secure
in the welfare, prosperity, and happiness of its
faithful inhabitants, and prevent the abstraction
of one of the brightest gems from the diadem of
Queen VICTORIA.

There is another, and, if possible, more im-
portant subject that must be forthwith attended
to. The Bank Charter Act has totally failed in
its intended operation. It has falsified every
prediction respecting it, and oven the statements
made as to its objects long after its first suspen-
sion. Sir R. PEEL declared that it was intended
to prevent fluctuations in the value of money, and
panics similar to those of 1838-0. Not a word
was then spoken respecting its ensuring the con-
vertibility of the Bank-note, and for a very good
reason that was never questioned. The
credit of the Bank was good for every do-
mestic purpose. It was not that there was
a doubt of payment, or that the amount of bul-
lion in its vaults was taken into consideration,
until the publication of its weekly returns led to
the apprehension of a deficiency in the circulating
medium, in consequence of the reduction of the
bullion stored in its vaults. Notes were just as
acceptable as gold. Even in 1825, the fortunate
discovery of a box of 1/. notes averted the suspen-
sion of cash payments, and the permission to
extend the issues was equally beneficial in 1847.
Thero was, therefore, no question respecting con-
vertibility until little more than a twelvemonth ago,
when a person writing 'under the Nom de plume
of "Mercator," and who was stated, by the organ
of " the hard calculators," to be an eminent finan•
(pial authority, declared that the sole object of the
act was to ensure convertibility, or, as it was
termed, that the bank-note should always main-
tain its value—a matter, by the way, which was
never doubted.

The reason of this departure was obvious.
The alterations in the value of money bad
been more sudden and violent, and occasioned
fir greater distress and difficulty than at any
previous period. The suspension of the Chai ter,
in 1.841, proved not only its inefficiency in that
respect, bat that it was calculated to promote the
very evils it professed to remedy. A new pretext
then should be put forward, and this has also
been exposed and detected. And now the hideous
monster has been stripped of its disguise, and
stands revealed in all its deformity. The object
was not to prevent, but to create panics—not to
ensure, but to endanger convertibility—which
has been more imperilled by its meant
than at any former period. It is to
serve "the hard calculator ;" to enable him
to obtain 20 or 30 per cent. for money, at the
exper.se of the industrious classes—to confiscate the
property of those who do not quite so thoroughly
understand the working of the OTERSTONE system
of currency. This intention will, however, be
defeated. The people of Great Britain have been
awakened from . their apathy, and will in-
sist on the repeal of the obnoxious, and
we may aid, iniquitous law. The chief
danger now to be avoided is procrastination. It
will be attempted to shelve the question for a
time. But the Fabian policy can no longer pre-
vail. The artful dodge is now thoroughly un-
derstood.

We yesterday spoke of the promised Reform
Bill, and that, we ara glad to find, will at all
events be brought under the consideration of the
Legislature.

According to the last despatches received from
India, and printed at length in The Sum of Mon •
day evening, it would appear that the Organiser
of this terrible and gigantic revolt of the Sepoys
in the Bengal Presidency distinctly selected, as
the pretext. fur the outbreak, the rumoured (and,
of course, fallacious) notion that Eugland was
about to attempt the conversion of the llindoos
by main force, by terrorism, by physical constraint,
to Christianity. The conjecture that it was really
so, has been prevalent amongst us from the com-
mencement. The authentic revelation now brought
to light proves that the supposition, instinctively
arrived at, was in no way erroneous--=that in
very deed this monstrous delusion as to the pro-
selytising designs of Great Britain Was made use
of, with little less than devilish adroitness, by the
fomenters of discontent, and, in the end, of open
and bloody insurrection iu Hindostan. The con-
triver of the Bengal Mutiny, indeed, seems to
have displayed a villainous ingenuity by spreading
abroad among the native soldiery the corrobo-
rative belief that the first step towards this com-
pulsory conversion from Paganism—a measure
insidiously resolved upon, it was reported, with a
view to the preliminary destruction of caste, the
very basis of Hindoo religion—was the greasing
of the rifle cartridge ! So that, after all, it turns
out that—madness though the Bengal Mutiny is
in itself—there has been decidedly all the while
(as the more sagacious opined from the outset)
a "method in the madness " of the Bengal
Mutineer

It i 3 curious—now that we have arrived at
this definite conclusion as to the real source of the
Indian outbreak—it is sufficiently curious, to re-
mark, in regard to the " report," and the sub-
sequent " defection," a rather singular coinci-
dence, that of the extraordinary and glaring
similarity of the Sepoy mutiny of 1806, and of
the Sepoy mutiny of 1857—the revolt in the
former instance at Vellore, and in the latter in-
stance Et Futteghur !
According to the Proclamation of the Madras
Government—elated the 31 of December, 1806—
a report bad been then spread and credulously
believed among the Sepoy troops that it was [we
quote the very words of the Madras Proclamation]
" the wish of the British Government to convert
them by forcible means to Christianity." Vonce
was it, that on the 10th of July 1806, the Euro-
pean barracks at Vellore —containing at the time
wfoeurre sclouturPotd itendteecompanies of the 09th Regiment--
twu battalions of Sepoy troops
revolted from the annpany's service ;
who poured in a murderous lire through the dog

and windows, and so effected the deadly work of that
ever infamous massacre. Having destroyed those
ill-fated companies of the 69th regiment, the
mutineers then carefully butchered every one of
the European sentries, cut down all the soldiers
they found at the mainguard, and even remorse-
lessly put to death the sick they discovered in
the wards of the military hospital—besides this,
ransacking the officers' bungalows and destroying
in cold blood every person they chanced to find in
them ! Such was the horrible massacre result-
ing in 1806 from the revolt at Vellore : the spirit
of mutiny spreading afterwards from that nucleus
of defection, to Nunydroodand Bangalore. And
this outbreak—half a century ago, remember !
originated in the belief that the British Govern-
fluent were about to convert the Hindoos by main
orce to Christianity ! Then, as now, a little
trumpery notion getting abroad among the Sepoys
strangely but strongly in corroboration I Then,
not as now about greased cartridges, but—to the
effect that the Sepoy turban (that crown of the
Brahmin !) was about to be changed into some-
thing very like the then helmet of the European
Light Infantry ! Sucb, in brief, is the cu-
rious and, but for its frightful consequences in
each instance, tho ludicrous coincidence observable
on comparing the Bengal Mutiny of 1857 with
the Vellore revolt 50 years earlier. There were
the same passions at work in each instance,
the same sanguinary fanaticism, the same lament-
able and disastrous misapprehension. Ouly that
what in one instance was little more than a strictly
local outbreak has proved in the other to be the
insurrection of a whole army : necessitating in
consequence not simply the application of a rigor-
ous corrective, but the total reorganisation of our
whole scheme of Oriental government.

THE PROMISED REFORM !

Who fears to look at 'SS,
And England's new Reform ?
The man who hints—" We'd better wait"—
Is but a slave--a worm

For what is Palmerston to us
If he deceive the laud ?
He's nothing better than a Russ,
Or German, to command.

We want an honest man to rule,
And hold his promise clear;
We'll have no knave to play the fool,
Let him be Prince or Peer.

For England hates all sorts of guile
Her promise she will keep
With faith untainted—as her isle
Is guarded by the deep.

Her honour stands untarnished yet—
That honour is Ler boast ;
And though oppressive bo her debt,
She scorns to shirk the cost.

No !—England w;11 her right defend,
Repudiate no fair claim,
But will have justice in the end,
And put her foes to shame.

Then why should he who rules the roast
Insult us with a sham,
And p%mise, with an air of boast,
Reform by way of flam ?

The game is up, if false ho prove—
For people, prince, and all
Will spurn the man who bilked their loves
And kick him in his fall,

A certain gentleman, 'tis said,
Believes—but trembles too—
And Palmerston may feel afraid
At what ho dreads to do.

" Who wants Reform ?"—the Bishops cry ;
" Not we !"—so say the Lords.
And for the Commons—" All my eye !
" Reforms arc empty words.

" The people must reform themselves
" Before they look to us ;
" The thing's got up by talking elves,
" Who like to make a fuss."

But hear the people—what say they
Reform we'll have at last ;
The Ballot fust—and, well-a-day
The rest will follow fast."

As all mast pay, with life at stake,
Prepared in peace or war,
The safer conduct is to make
Men happier than they are.

Half-measures—palliatives, won't do
Nor promise-make-believe ;
Let's kave the bill, or you may rue
The day you most deceive.

We want but justice—favour none,
Respecting those in power ;
With conscience free— save God alone,
And equal laws,—no more.
We want no shufflers, great or small,
To play us thimble-rig ;
An honest Tory, after all,
Seems better than a Whig

As for your Radical, so pure—
Who scarcely knows his mind,
Till some " mistake" his fancy lure—
Then mark—how blows the wind I

Consistency—the cant of knaves—
Sounds well—while well to do :
But let a change come o'er the waves,
His conscience changes too !

There's no reform required by men
Who pocket thousands clear ;
But those who want a place —why, then,
Just hint at one next year.

And buy them up ;—if not with gold—
A title—promise—praise :
Some modest merit won't be sold,
But swerves by devious ways.
" This is no time for mending laws ;
" Hindo4an needs the rein;
" And currency that is and MU,
• " Has broken down again !

" And hasty legislation mars
" Its purpose,—does no good ;
" Besides, we're overhead in wars,
" And people cry for food,!

" You see, we hate (plain truth to tell)
" Your Charter ; point by point
" Won't do ; and laws that have worked well
" May be pat out of joint."
How long our confidence abuse—
The path of duty shirk ?
Bad people always find excuse
Like lazy ones to work.

" Let well alone ! " exclaims the Peer—
'Tis well for him, no doubt ;
But for the poor—what charm will cheer
Existence—dying out I
Can he sustain his wife, his child,
On promise, and be quiet ?
Nature revolts, and turns him wild—
Starvation runs to riot.

And heaven above, and earth below,
May pity the forlorn,
Whose only solace is to know
That "man was made to mourn I"

But hold : the Premier wants fair play ;
His is no easy task :
Let him but once more have his way,
He'll double what you ask !

So yield your birthright—meu who fought
And weathered many a storm ?
No !—husband freedom dearly bought,
And nurse it by .Reform

-ODRUM.

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