The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-08 00:00:00

DRURY•LANE THEATRE.

Last evening" Old Drury was crowded in every
part—Pit, Boxes, and Gallery. It was not only
crowded but crammed—not certainly_ to suffoca-
tion, as the phrase is (the cold weather prevented
that), but in many parts almost to inconvenience.
The barrier of division, for example, between the
stalls and orchestra being broken down, and the
surplus visitors accommodated with chairs imme-
diately under the footlights. Pretty tolerable evi-
dence—all this—of the success of the New Year's
Pantomime ! Well—rather ! As to the com-
pleteness of the success of it, there could be
very little doubt upon that point with any
one who glanced last el ening over that sea of
f -tees clustered together so densely in the largest
Theatre in London—or who listened for a mo-
ment to the roars of laughter pealed forth by
some five thousand happy Holiday-makers. And
no wonder—looking from the audience back again
to the stage. For in "See Saw, Margery
Darr," we nave about the most merry- and
the most gorgeous of all E. L. Blanchard's
merry and gorgeous Pantomimes. The burlesque
opening, written in the author's liveliest vein, from
first to last--sparkling with fun, bristling with
puns, and rattling with smart hits in every couplet.
And how magnificently the author has been aided
throughout in his many droll and fantastic imagin-
ings—thanks to the " dash," the " fire," the
" go," in Mr. E. T. Smith's management. The

scenery, for example, painted as only William Be-
verley can paint it—especially the exquisite and
fairy-like vista of " Holiday's Home in the Green
'Bower of Mistletoe," and " The Fairy Factory of
Fancy," the crowning scene of all, where the
old witch-wife of the piece, " Necessity," effects
the magical transformation ! That same old witch-
wife, Necessity, being enacted by clever Mrs.
Selby—Mrs. Selby, as we may call her, the peren-
nial. Then for the grotesque masks, e hugeous
Comic Faces of the Burlesque Introduction—
are they not things fit to make one's Hides ache ?
Monsttous, preposterous, impossible Mugs, dancing
over the stage upon the " littlest" legs imaginable,
legs that look mere needles and pins by contrast !
All these same stupendous Masks the emanations
from the hand and brain of the " celebrated Dyk-
wynkyn." And when the Harlequinade at last
fairly begins—don't we have enough of Fun and to
spare ? What with two "Harlequins," Herr Deulin
and Signor Veroni, and two "Sprites," the Bro-
thers Elliott, and two "Columbines," Madame
I3oleno and Miss Honey, and two " Ptntaloons,"
(a most ludicrous pair of Pantaloons), Mr. Barnes
and Mr. Tanner, with cool Mr. Halford as " the
Gent.," and inimitable M. Auriol as " The Gro-
tesque," and, to crown all, two marvellous Lords of
Misrule in those wonderful piebald " Clowns"—
Messrs. Boleno and Flom-11°re! Leaving, as we
did, last night in the very midst of the boisterous

fun of the liarloquinade, we passed by a large box-
full of urchins who seemed to be fairly laughing
themselves into convulsions. It did one's heart
good to see them, and hear them; yet they were
merely a small portion of that densely-packed
crowd of merrymakers. However small as
a portion though they were, still they were a
portion large enough, loud enough, and de-
lighted enough to be a perfectly sufficient evidence
of the success of " Harlequin Holiday and the
Island of Ups and Downs," or, as the playbill has
it—(a playbill that " draws" more effectually than
the strongest plaiiter ever vended across the coun-
ter of au apothecary)—Old Drury's entirely new,
original, symbolical, hyperbolical, parabolical,
extra-physiognomical, grotesque, statuesque, pic-
turesque, Grand Comic Christmas Pant..mninie.

THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD AND THE
INCOME TAX.

(Prom the Morning A dvertiser. )

Some curious questions suggest themselves with
regard to the noble lords and stately dames filling
great offices in her Majesty's Household, which we
trust some member of Parliament who is not soli-
citous about being invited to a Queen's ball will
make bold enough to ask. We should be glad to
know whether these noble persons, following the
example of their Royal mistress, decline the dis-
agreeable burden of the income tax, or whether
they are made, like the rest of us, to stump up,
wille nilleo convenient or inconvenient.

The sums allotted for the support of the Royal
Household—" for the support of her Majesty's
Household and of the honour and dignity of the
Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland"—were settled at the commencement of
the present reign at 385,0001., of which modest
sum 131,2601. is :spent in salaries, while the re-
mainder, within a few thousand pounds, for Royal
bounty, alms and charity, special services, and the
annual pittance for the encouragement of literary
and scientific services, and native talent in general,
is devoted to tradesmen's bills—any savings which
may be effected passing to the account of the Privy
_purse. But though 131,2601. is the sum set down
for salaries, it is probable that in one way or an-
other it may arrive, by those by-paths and crooked
ways which the public eye is not permitted to scan,
at a still larger figure. Taken, however, at the
acknowledged estimate, the list of salaries stand
thus :

Lord Chamberlain's department R42,000
Lord Steward's 86,000
Master of Home's 39,500
Mistress of the Robes'

£172,5C0
It would, we are sure, be interesting to the
country to know whether lordly sinecurists, the
ladies of the bedchamber, ladies and maids of
honour, gentlemen of the wine and beer-cellars,
treasurers, sub-treasurers, comptrollers of accounts,
gentlemen of the pantry, lords in waiting, bed-
chamber women, grooms of the privy chamber,
grooms of the great chamber, gentlemen of the
privy chamber, pages of the back stairs, pages of
the presence (which no doubt means of the front
stairs), the master of the tennis-court (which has
no existence), the bargemaster and watermen (who
only exist for the four hundred pounds a year
which each draws from the nation)—we say
the country would be glad to know whether
these persons and their fellows in sinecure
psi income tax—whether to select one illustrious
instance) Prince Albert pays it upon the 5001. per
annum he draws as Ranger of Windsor Home Park,
or on the 1,120/. which he receives for doing no-
thing as Governor and Constable of Windsor
Castle ? And, as we have taken the liberty of men-
tioning the name of this august personage, we will
just enumerate the items of his income, and ask
once for all how much he pays upon the lump

Parliamentary annuity
Pay as Field-Marshal
Ditto as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards .
Ditto as Col.-in-Chief of the Rifle Brigade
Grand Ranger of Windsor Great Park, say
at a moderate calculation, for no account
is rendered
Ditto as Ranger of the Home Park
Governor and Constable of Windsor Castle

1,000

500
1,120

£41,553

MARKET NEWS. —t Tins rap)

CORN EXC RANGE.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CONN
For the week ended Jan. 8, 1856, made up from the Returns o; t, e
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wab s
per Imperial Quarter.
WHEAT. BARGEE. OATS. I BTE. BEANS. PEA.
533 hi 449 81 233 51 39s 21 41s 51 I 403 91

THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGE.
annum BARLEY. I OATS. I EIS. BEANS. PEA,
60s 21 44s ld f 24s 3d I 403 41 43s 4d 41 3d

QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST csrEe;A:

Wheat, 86,765 ; Barley, 90,524 ; Oate, 11,472; eye, 234 ;
5,054 ; Peas, 2,631 Quarters.

MEAT MARKETS.

NEWGATE AND LRADENHALL.—A moderate business
was passing to-day, at full prices. Beef, from 3s 6d to 4s
8d ; Ilutton, 3s 8,1 to 4s 8d; Veal, 4s Od to 4s 10d ; Pork,
3s 8d to 53 4d per 81bs, by the carcase.
SonniALL, Jan. 7.—Each kind of stock sold slowly, as
follows :—Beef, from 3s 8(1 to 5s Od ; Mutton, 4s 0.1 to 5s 2d;
Veal, 4s Od to 5s 0,1; Pork, 4s Od to 5s Od per 81bs, to sink
the offal.
ROMFORD, Jan. 7.—We had only a moderate dema2nd
for stock, at uui quotations. Beef, from 3s 10,1 to 5s d ;
Mutton, 4s Od to 5s 4d ; Veal, 4s Od to 58 Od; Pcrk, 4s Od
to 5s 2d per 81bs. Quarter-old store pigs, —s to —s each.

HAY MARKETS.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 2115 s to 4/ 4s ; clover do.,
3/ 10s to 51 Os; and straw, 11 4s to 1/ 939oppeerr lloaDl
A short supply.
CUMBERLAND. —Meadow hay, 2/ 15s to 41 4s ; clover
do., 3/ ICs to Si Os ; and straw, 1/ 4s to
1/
Trade steady.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 2/ 12s tc 41 4s ; clover
do., 31 10s to 5/ 58; and straw, // 4s to 11 9s per load.
Trade firm.

The Union Bank of London have dec'ared a dividend
of 6 per ce• nt and bonus of 21 per cent. for the six
months ending the 31st of December last, being at the
rate of 15 per cent. per annum on the paid up capital of
the company.
FAILIIRE.—Letters from Glasgow mention the failure
„f Me,srs. Begbie, Wiseman, and Co., general merchants
and manufacturers, with liabilities to the amount of
150,0001., of which nearly 20,0001. fall upon houses in
Manchegter.

T. lIE BROADSTONE MYSTERY.—DDREIN,Wednesday.—
It is announced that Catherine Campbell, who has been
for the last six weeks in custody of the police, has been
released, and is about going home to her friends in the
county of Meath. This woman was regarded as a most
important witness, and the fact of her being released
from all surveillance confirms the report, now all but
authoritatively stated, that investigation at Broadstone
is virtually at an end, and with no better result than
that the officials, from the highest to the lowest, are no
wiser at the end of nearly two months' search for evi-
dence than they were on the Monday after the perpetra-
tion of the murder.

SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. BROTHERTON, M.P.

Mr. Joseph Brotherton, M.P. for Salford, dit d very
suddenly yesterday morning, about five minutes to 11
o'clock, while traveling in an omnibus from his residence
at Pendleton through Salford to keep an engagement
which he had made in Manchester that morning. Mr.
Brotherton had been suffering fiotrk an affection of the
heart for some time, and had consulted Dr. Hervey, but
was in his usual apparent health up to the time he en-
tered the omnibus,and had on the previous day presided
as a magistrate at the Salford Police-court. In the
omnibus with him were his friends Sir John Potter and
Sir Elkanah Armitage, and they were in conversation
together for nearly a mile of the way from Pendleton,
during which Mr. Brotherton accepted an invitation
from Sir John Potter to spend an evening with him next
week, when a sudden change of countenance in the hon.
member attracted the attention of Sir John, marked by
a wild and vacant gaze at the top of the omnibus.
" Leek at Mr. 13r; therton," he observed, " how ill he
looks," and immediately lie tad uttered the words Mr.
Brotherton reclined gently backwards as though for sup-
port. The omnibus was passing the Crescent at this
time, and Sir John, becoming seriously alarmed for his
friend, di- sire 4 that the omnibus should at once be fe oppee.
With the assistance of several gentlemen present Mr.
Brotherton was carried into the house of Mr. Southern,
surgeon, in the Crescent, but the time bad already gone
by when any human aid could avail, and it is believed
the hon. gentleman had ceased to exist before he was
carried out of the omnibus. He died at the advanced
age of 73 years. It is difficult to mention a man in his
own neighbourhood whose death could occasion greater
regret. Though his talents were not of a high order he had
lived a life of great ti,efulness, and his extremely placid
temperament and inoffensive demeanour, combined with
honourable consistency in pablic life, bad won him
the esteem of wore friends than most active politicians

of his class have the good fortune to possess. The
statement °net, made by the hon. member in the House
of Commons that he had commenced life in a factory.
ha, generally led to a somewhat wrong impression; at
leapt be cannot be looked upon as one who commenced
his career as an unfriended factory boy. At that period
it was customary for farmers and small landowners to
send their sons to a factory, much as they now do to a
merchant's warehouse, to learn a trade and acquire busi•
ness habits ; and Mr. Brotherton was descended from a
respectable family i❑ D.,rhyshire. He afterwards made
his way as a commercial man, and became a partner in
business as a cotton spinner with Mr. Alderman Hervey
at. Manchester, but retired from the partnership about
30 years ago o❑ what might be considered for most men
i❑ his position a very moderate competence, but with
quite sufficient fur a man of his economical and quiet
habits. From a❑ early age he was a totai abstainer
from intoxicating drinks, and was a vegetarian,
having •early j oned a religious sect in Salford, called,
from the name of their founder, " Cowherdites." After

the death of the Rev. Mr. Cowherd, Mr. Brothertoti
himself occupied his pulpit for some years. As a poli-
tician he had also formed opinions early, and at the close
of the war i❑ 1815 he was connected with an influential
party in Manchester who might be cons.dered as the
connecting link between the reformer, of 1794 and thoi e
of a later day, but did not j',in the more extreme party
of Hunt. In the years 1817-19 however, during the sus-
pension of the Lla'eas Corpus Act, he was one of those
who stood forward to demand a fair trial for the poor

men who were thrown into gaol daring that period, and
after the Peterloc riot of 1819 he aided in getting up a
subscription for the sufferers. He was what was locally
called a rational Radical, and joined heartily in the
struggle far the Reform Bill. In the first Reform Bill
the town of Salford was not included as one of the in-
tended boroughs for enfranchisement, and it was
chiefly owing to Mr. BrAherton's exertions that it
was subsequently enfranchised. The people of that
borough very properly marked their sense of these
services by making him their first member, and he held
the representation until his death, giving very general
satisfaction, though some of his earlier friends thought he
latterly leaned rather more to the Whigs than was consis-
tent with his earlier professions. He protested against the
corn laws when they were first imposed in the more offen-
sive shape iu 1815, and continued to take every opportu-
nity of seeking their repeal down to the formation of the
Anti-Corn-Law League, of which he was an active mem-
ber, ever ready to go upon deputations and other business
along with Messrs. CoAen, Br gist, and others, when be
thought his assistance could be useful. He was exceed-
ingly a• tentive to his Parliamentary duties in connection
with the two boroughs of Manchester and Salford—for be
was equally ready to aid the constituents of either, to the
last, and his ready accessibility, when in London, to de-
putations and persons seeking his aid, threw upon him an
amount of labour which few other men would have
undertaken. The most likely men, perhaps, thought of
as his successors are Sir John Potter and Mr. Alderman
Langworth v, both gentlemen having strong claims upon
the gratitude of the electors.