The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-18 00:00:00

ACA.LISTA.

For particulars, see bills.
A limited number of Boxes in the Half-circle Tier have been
specially reserved for the public, and may be had on applica-
tion at the Box-office, at the Theatre Colonnade, Haymarket.
Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each.

THEA TR E-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
OPEN EVERY EVENING.
GREAT EQUESTRIAN AMERICAN and CONTINENTAL
COMPANY, under the direction of Miss Ella.
Prices—Pit and Promenade, ; Boxes, 2s. 6d., 25., and ls.
6d. ; Galleries, 6d, Doors open at half-past 7. Commence

at 8.
First Equestrian Artistes iu the World : —Madame Schap-
lain, Madame Neusome, La Petite Wells, Signora Delavanti,
and Miss Ella; Miss E. J.Wells, Mdlles. Flora, Fabia, and
and Marie, Misses Neusome. Moffatt, Delavanti, Potter, Jen-
nines ; the Manchester Boy, Masters J. Wells, A Wells, E.
Moffatt, Henrico and Carlo Delavanti, Sig. Felix Delavanti,
Mons. Becq, Mons. Ferdinand, Mons. Eugene, Mr. Tom
Swann, Mr. B. Fuller, Mr. W. Fuller, and the great Shaks-
perian Clown, Wallett, will appear each evening in a series of
Performances, original and unapproachable. Director—Mr.
Stokes. Acting Manager—Mr. E. Stirling.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
THIS EVENING will be performed
Shakespere's tragedy of
KING RICHARD THE SECOND.
King Richard 11., Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean.
Preceded by a new Farce, in one act, called
AN ENGLISHMAN'S HOUSE IS HIS CASTLE.

THEATRE ROYAL, HA.YMARKET.
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
NEW ARRANGEMENT OF PRICES OF ADMISSION.
THIS EVENING (May 18) to commence at Seven o'clock,
with THE EVIL GENIUS. Toni 1-tipstone, Mr. Buckstono.
After which, the successful Classical Love Story, un-
der the Apple-lation of A I'ALNNTA ; or, The Three Golden
Apples : in which Miss M. Oliver will appear; also Miss M.
Wilton, and Miss Ellen Ternan.
To conclude with BOX AND COX.
In future the prices will be :
Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the
evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.)
First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d.
Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0
Upper Boxes ........ ...,... 3 0 Upper Boxes
Pit 2 0 Pit, 1 0
Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6
Upper Gallery 0 ti No half-price to Upper Gallery.

THEATRE ROYAL, AD EL PHI
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.

THIS EVENING, will be performed a new and original
drama, entitled JOSEPH CHAVIGNY ; or, Under the
Thumb, Ben. Webster, Paul Bedford, Madame Celeste, &c.
Followed by a new Farce, called FEARFUL TRAGEDY
IN THE SEVEN DIALS.
To conclude with the new and original domestic sketch,
entitled WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER. Mr. Wright,
Mr. Paul Bedford, &c.

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Lessees,Y L S
Messrs.o it,
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TIIIS EVENING will be performed HAMLET. Mr.
Crcswick, &c.
After which, THE THREE WONDERS OF PEKIN.
To conclude with 102 ; or, The Veteran and his Progeny.
Mr. Widdicomb, &c.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
THIS EVENING will he performed a new drama,
called DADD Y HARD ACRE. Mr. Robson, &e.
To conclude with YOUNG AND HANDSOME. Messrs
Robson, G. Murray, &c.
Commence at half-past Seven.

TRA AND T HEAT RE. —Manager, Mr. T.
:77 Pavne.—THlS EVENING will be performed
THE MIDNIGHT HOUR. Messrs. J. Neville, G. Lee, W.
Suter, Howard, Wilstone, and Miss Cuthbert.
After which, ROLFE'S 0 )SS (PING CONCERT.
Followed by OVER THE WAY. Mr. Kinlocb, Mrs.
Woollidge, and Miss Craven.

Commence at Seven. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls.
Gallery, 6(1.

A.STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE
AND OPERA HOUSE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
Mr. WILLIAM COOKE begs to announce that sn Monday
(THIS EVENING), May 18, will be produced, for the first
time at this theatre, Verdi's far-famed Oper-L of IL TROVA-
TORE ; or, 'file Gipsy's Vengeance. The whole of the
Recitatives and Music as performed at the Italian Opera,
with Grand Equestrian Illustrations, New Scenery, Costumes,
and Appointments.
The following celebrated Artistes aro engaged :
Miss Rebecca Isaacs, Mr. Augustus Brabam,
Miss Marian Edwards, Mr. Brookhouse Bowler,
Miss M. Somers, Mr. Francis Kirby,
and Mr. J. A. Leffler, and
Miss Fanny Iluddart. Borrani.
Composer and Director— -Ilerr Meyer Lutz.
Manager and Director of the Opera—Mr. Augustus Braham.
To conclude with Peerless and Classic SCENES in the
CIRCLE, by the First Artistes in the World.
CommeLce at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper
Boxes, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from 215., no charge for booking;
Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, 6d.
Notice- - Durini the Opera Season Half-price will take place
at 9 o'clock.

B ,x•otticc open from Eleven till .Four.. Stage Manager,
Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun.

CANTERBURY HALL. West►ninster-road.--
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
Selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses,
Glees, Duets, &c., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield,
Miss Brunell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr. J.
Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Tarrant, S.
Janes, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corgi. Senor Antonio M.
de Solla, and E. L. Hime ; Masters Bennett and Corti ;
Mersrs. Sam Cowell, Sam Collins, and E. Mack-lacy.
Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.;
director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pro•
cisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock.

iIWI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

T 415 DAI —Morn. 36 min. aft. 8 —Evening 14 min. aft 9
‘24-11nunow—Morn. 47 min. aft. 9 —Evening 20 min. aft.lo

THE WEATHER—SUN Orme, MAY 17.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
74 —highest since noon yesterday.
.53 -lowest this morning and daring the night.
69 -this day at noon.

BAROMETER. 30.15.
WaiNP, variable, N.W. to W; light, with fine summer
weather.

MAT 18.
73 -highest since noon yesterday.
52 --lowest this morning and dnr!ng the night.
71 - this day at noon.

RARCM IXII, 30.0 G.
WIND, S.W. Light, with warm summer weather.

5
C.,,!

and• Sarawak—would exercise au excellent moral
influence over the minds of those who are still

secretly disaffected in Borneo : confirming the ad-
vantages already gained by the prompt vengeance
wreaked upon the insurgents by the daring and

energetic Rajah, Sir JAMES BROOKE. Apart from
which incidental good result, there is the obvious

gain to our cause upon a wider and a much
grander field inevitably accruing from the de-
spatch of the skilled veterans under Sir JAMES
OITTRAM to the seat of war in China—whither
there are already hastening more remote troops,

together with gunboats and floating batteries, be-
sides a due supply of ordnance and ammunition,
all to further the warlike designs of England,
under the guidance of the matchless valour, and
the incomparable wisdom of the pre-eminently Dis-
creet Hero of that snug little Gully at Chillian-
-1
wallah ! For bluntly we must say it outright at

once—Whatever may be the indignation provoked
in the mind of my Lord PANMIIRE by so doing—

We SHALL continue to comment as we have

hitherto done, at our own free will and pleasure,

upon the merits and demerits, the capacity or the
incapacity, the temerity or timidity, the indis-

putable experience or the notorious inexperience
of any soldier (no matter, to us, who
the individual may be) nominated here
or there, in this war or in that, in the
Crimea or at Canton, to the responsible post of
Commander in•Ciiief. This is in truth not merely
among the prerogatives, but among the most im-
perative and bounden duties of Journalism. ThoSe
privileges we shall avail ourselves of wherever or
whenever we may deem it advisable. Those so-

lemn duties we shall, to the best of our ability, en-
deavour to fulfil, no matter upon what occasion, or
under what peculiarity of circumstance?. No
matter how unpalatable it may be to a tetch ad-

xict.

ministrator like Lord PANMURE, or how unplea•
sant to a preux chevalier like General ASHBURN
HAM. Thousands of lives are dependent upon
these appointments. Millions of money—the
honour of the Crown the glory and
the prestige of the Country. Of all
appointments, in fact, these are the very ones
which ought to be canvassed the most boldly, and
with the utmost possible promptitude. It was
against the wish of the people, in the late Russian
War, that the supreme command of our soldiers in
the Crimea was entrusted successively to Lord
RAGLAN, to General SIMrsoN, and to General
CODRINGTON. And look at the consequence of
that violation of the instinct of the nation ! A
whole army disappeared from the surface of the
earth, not so much before the shot and shell, the
swords and bayonets of the foe, as under the
deadening influence of the most deplorable mis-
management. Not only this—but a contest that
might have been successfully brought to an end
in as many weeks, was spread out over eighteen
months, and at length only brought to
a "most lame and impotent conclusion,"
after having inflicted a frightful loss upon
the Allies of not less than 100,000 lives,
and of 100,000,0001. And, with this appalling
experience fresh in our memory, we are to be told
that it is impertinent, that it is indiscreet, that
it is we don't know what all, to question for one
instant the propriety of this man, or that man, or
the other, being nominated to the awful responsi-
bility of Commander-in-Chef. In the presence of
that awful responsibility we care not one straw,
not the value of a doit, not a single snap of the
fingers for all the little fribbliug courtesies in re-
gard to which my Lord PANMURE really appears
to be more chary, more exquisitely sensitive, and
more supremely solicitous than in reference to the
fate of a campaign, a war, or an army ! If
General ASI4BURNHAM, or General Anybody re-
mained, notoriously and undeniably, with the
troops under his command, during a sanguinary
and momentous struggle, like that of the famous
conflict at Chillia,nwallah—if he and his

men remained at such a crisis, upon such a
battlefield, poked away in some corner where they
could not possibly have been of the smallest
use in the world—surely it is, we repeat, not
merely the privilege, but the absolute duty of
journalism to point a stern index-tioger at this
brand upon a public reputation! Particularly
at the time when this General Inybody—let us
say, for example, this General ASHBURNHA3i—is
sent out to a new war, to a great war, at the op-
posite extremity of the globe, tot in a subordi-
nate capacity, but in the supreme capacity as Com-
mander-in-Chief ! However—tie appointment
is made, it is persisted in. We must
try and make the best of it. But while
we endeavour to do this—we cannot in rea-
son (with facts like these before us) be ex-
pected to remain altogether dumb. We must
speak, and speak, moreover, plainly and directly
to the purpose. Regretting very much, indeed,
if, by mischance, it happens to be contrary to the
whimsies of my Lord PANMURE—but speaking,
nevertheless ! Again, therefore, repeating our
protest against the folly of an appointment like
that. recently awarded to Gen. ASHIUUNHAM, we
do most earnestly hope that the evil of such a
blunder may in some measure at least be promptly
mitigated by the transference from the late seat
of war in Persia to the new seat of war in
China, of energetic and competent Commanders
like Sir JAMES OUTRAM, and of veteran soldiers
iko the heroes cf Khooshab an Mohammerah.

There is, once more, a strong feeling in favour
of an equalisation of the poor-rates—at all events
in the metropolitan districts. Some eight or
ten years since Mr. G. L. HUTCHINSON laboured
indefatigably and efficiently to produce an equal
rating throughout the kingdom. He several times
petitioned both Houses of Parliament with a view
to the total abolition of the law of settlement, and
of making all owners of property contribute fairly
to the support of their destitute brethren. The
agitation then commenced proved fruitless. The
extent of the existing evil was fully recognised,
but that was all, for no adequate remedial mea-
sure received the legislative sanction. The seed
is, however, springing up, and we have no doubt
it will produce its fruit in due season, and that
some at least of the glaring anomalies of the pre-
sent maladministration may ere long be removed.

We should gladly hail the equalisation of the
rate, even in the metropolis, as a vast boon, not
merely in the poorer parishes—who pay three or
four times as much in proportion to their means
as their more wealthy brethren—but also to the
working classes generally, whose comforts are
materially impaired by the provisions of the law,
and who are prevented from carrying their only
capital—labour—to the best market. We find
that the resident in Bethnal-green pays more than
five times the amount of the aristocratic inhabi-
tant of St. George's, Hanover-square, and that Ber-
mondsey has still greater cause of compaint. While
the classes who constitute the chief claimants on the
rates are just as much, or even more, required
in the wealthy district. But they are driven to
seek shelter to places where they do not obtain
employment, and in the dark hour of difficulty
and distress become burdensome to those who
have not profited by their exertions while avail-
able.

We need scarcely say that servants out of
place, or pact their labour, come mote frequsLtly

than perhaps any other on the tender mercies of
the Union Workouses ; but although they may
have spent the best years of their lives in the
wealthy parish, they 'are unhesitatingly driven
back to die in, or become permanent paupers in,
the humble ones, where they may chance to have
a legal settlement. Is this fair ?—is it just or
reasonable ? A monstrous wrong is inflicted
under the sanction of the law, and it falls on
those who are the least able to bear it ; for, as
we have already observed, "it is the poorest
ratepayers who pay by far the highest rates in
the Metropolis." Nor is this all. The same
inequitable and injudicious principle prevents
the carrying out of sanitary improvements,
by providing suitable accommodation for the
working classes. The great desideratum of
erecting proper dwellings for those earn-
ing their daily bread by their daily labour

is materially impeded by the unwillingness of

parties to give sites for such purposes, as they
may thereby be creating new burdens that will
subsequently press severely on themselves and
the other owners of house property in the dis-
When a rookery is pulled down, and a
superior class of dwellings erected in its place, the
mass of poverty by which it was previously occu-
pied is not annihilated, but merely transferred to
another district, to press on a different set of
ratepayers, who had previously contributed far
more than their fair proportion to the relief of
national destitution. Hence the overcrowding of
lanes and alleys—the horrible swarming of adults
of different sexes, not always members of the same
families, in one small room.
Another glaring evil is the distanco at which
operatives, or labourers, are compelled to dwell
from the places of employment. The simple fact
that a man has to walk some two or three miles
before the commencment of the legitimate labours
of the day, and as many more at their termination,
must necessarily affect his efficiency. Ile too fre-
quently goes to work in a state of fatigue, and is
unable to perform all that his employer might
otherwise fairly require. This, however, is not
his fault, but that of the system against which so
many well-founded complaints have been pre-
ferred. This grievance is still more intolerable
in the rural districts than in the metropolis, al-
though even here it is of sufficient magnitude to
demand the adoption of a prompt and effective
remedy. Throughout the entire country there
are many " close parishes," as they are termed,
where the labourer can obtain no rest, but is
driven into the more open places in the vicinity,
where cheap lodgings or cottages can be obtained.
It is scarcely necessary to adduce any arguments
to prove the palpable want of equity of these
arrangements. In the metropolis the evil arises
from a different cause, but they are scarcely less
perceptible. Landlords cannot combine and con-
federate together to exclude the poor, but the high
value of building sites operates just as effectually.
There is a natural desire to beautify or improve
the district, to produce a better class of houses
and purer air, but surely the parties who reap the
benefit should be prepared to pay the cost, and
not to transfer it to others who suffer in another
way for their advantage. But " they kill two
birds with one stone," according to the popular
apophthegm. They get rid of an eyesore, and at
the same time diminish their own charges ?
Should a system that renders such things practic-
able be still tolerated in a Christian land ?
What is the condition of the unfortunate
pamper, who is driven from parish to parish,
from the place where he has resided, while a
creator and producer:of national wealth, where his
acquaintances and connexions are still to be
found ? He may be made the Subject of litigation,
driven like a shuttlecock from place with far more
money expended in tla e legal arguments, than would
render him independent for life, There is no
thought for his feelings or happiness. He must
go according to the directions given and chant
the dolorous ditty of Punch—
" But right, boys, or wrong,
Young or old, sick or strong,
I'm only a casual, pass me along."

We trust that the agitation now arising may
excite the legislative attention, and that means
may be taken to obliterate that which has so long
been a stain and disgrace to the National Statute-
book.

THE CHRISTENING OF THE INFANT PRINCESS.—We
understand that tb.e christening of the infant Princess
will take place in the middle of the next Month, the
sponsors being their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of
Kent, the Princess Royal, and Prince Frederick William
of Prussia. The Princess will receive the names of Bea-
trice Mary Victoria Feodore.

The Duke and Duchess of Somerset have arrived in
town for the season. His grace has taken for the season
a house in Chester-square, late the residence of the
Marchioness Dowager of Ely.

The Earl of Fife has taken Mr. Gladstone's mansion
on Carlton-house-terrace for the remainder of the present
season. This residence was lately purchased by Mr.
Gladstone from the Duke of Norfolk.

The Countess of Elgin arrived in town a few days
since, from the Continent, Her ladyship is staying on
a visit with the Couetzss-Dowager Grey, at her resi-
dence in Eaton-square.

The Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor have arrived
at their resiknce in Grosvenor-square, from Calverley
Park, Cheshire, for the season.
The 2arl and Countess of Bective have arrived at
Thomas' Hotcl, Berkeley-square, for the season.
Viscount and Viscountess Dungahnon have arrived in
Grafton-street, from Brynkinalt, for the season.

Lord and Lady Bateman have arrived in town, from
his lordship's seat in Hertfordshire, for the season.
Lord and Lady Aberdour arrived in town a few days
since, from Scotland, fur the season.
The Bishop of Durham and the Hon. Mrs. Longley
have arrived at their residence in Bolton-row from Auck-
land Castle, Durham.
The Piedmont= Gazettc announces that the Italians
residing at Mexico have sent the sum of 2,479 francs to
committee for the subscription' to the guns of Anse-
sandria.

PARLIAMENTARY BILLS.—Mr. Massey's Burial Acts
Amendment Bill, and Mr. Fagan's Minister's Money
(Ireland) Bill, were issued on Saturday.
PARLIAMENTARY BILLS —Mr. Magas's Grand Juries
(Ireland) Act 1856, Amendment Bill ; Mr. Whiteside's
Court of Chancery (Ireland) Bill ; Mr. Dill wyn's Aggra-
vated Assaults Bill ; Mr. Locke King's Property Qua-
lification Bill ; the Marquis of Blandfurd's Ecclesiastical
Corporations Bill have been issued.
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.—There were issued on Sa-
turday returns relative to the valuations in Ireland ; a
return on the consumption of spirits in the United
Kingdom ; accounts of the culture of hops.
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.—There were issued, on
Friday, a return on the subject of superannnations in the
public service ; report on the negotiation for the redemp-
tion of the Sound dues ; treaty for the redemption of the
Sound dues ; annual report of the National Vaccine
Board ; correspondence relative to the Leitrim electi,in ;
returns connected with the quantities of spirits distilled
in England, Scotland, and Ireland ; return of the ex-
pense of reviews at Spithead and Aldershot.
THE CONDEMNED CONVICT BIVE.—On Saturday
morning George Bave, convicted of the murder of the
corporal of M*rines, at Woolwich, was removed from
the gaol of Newgate in a cab to the London-bridge
railway station, in the custody of two turnkeys. The
wretched man was securely handcuffed to one of the
turnkeys. He maintained the same stolid indifference
as on his trial and sentence. Having partaken of some
refreshment he was placed in the train arid taken to
Maidstone, and formally handed over to the sheriff of
Kent for execution, which will be carried into effect on
Tuesday, the 26th instant.

In the case of Thomas Mansell, condemned to death
at the Maidstone Assizes, the Attorney-General has
issued a new fiat, to have the ay.') raised at the trial
argued before the Exchequer Chamber. It will be re-
membered that the Court of Queen's Bench decided
in favour of the conviction, and against the points raised
by the prisoner's counsel. Sir J. Bethell, however, is
not satisfied with this decision • and in a catie.of so much
delicacy—involving human life—has decided upon ob-
taining the judgment of the higher tribunal. In the
case of a deci,ion by one of the superior Courts of Weq-
ininstcr, the Court cf. Error is composed of the judges
of the other two cours of law. In this case, therefore,,
tue question will be decided by the judges of the Ex-
chequer and of the Common Pleas. In the meantime
the sentence is respited to the 221 of Juno.