The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-13 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENTNG, the performances will commence with
LOVE'S TELEGRAPH.
To be followed by a dramatic tableau in Watteau colours,
by J. R. Planche, Esq., entitled LOVE AND FORTITNE.
To conclude with THE TWO POLTS.

IVEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL
-LI Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
Open for the Winter Season.
THIS EVENINssrs. G will be performed ICI ON PARLE
FRANCAIS. Me J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, and Miss
After which, THE WILLOW COPSE. Luke, Mr. Ben.
Webster ; Hulks, Mr. David Fisher; Augustus, Mr. J. L.
Toole ; Staggers, Mr. Paul Bedford.
Followed by LOVE AND HUNGER. Mr. David Fisher,
31fr. Paul Bedford, C. Selby, C. J. Smith, Miss K. Kelly, Miss
Laidlaw.
Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. e
Box-
offic open from 10 to 5. No car securing seats,
nor for bills of performance. All h
feesge tofor servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West-
minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen-
gers all hours of the night.
THIS EVENING, THE WIDOW'S WEDDING.
After w successful Ballet Farce, by John Oxen-
ord, Esq.,entitled MAGIC TOYS, supported'by Miss Lydia
Thompson, Bliss Clara St. Cease, and a numerous Corps de
Ballet.
To conclude with the New and Original Burlesque, by L.
Buckingham, Esq., of VIRGINIUS ; or the Trials of a Fond
Papa, in which Messrs. C. Young, Barrett, A. Denial, Francis;
Mesdames Frank Matthews, Clara St. Casse, Eliza Arden,
C. Ranoe, Lydia Thompson, and a numerous Corps de Ballet
will appear.
Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d; Pit, ls. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform-
ance commences at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough
THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN
EGGS.
After which THE GREAT RUSSIAN BEAR ; or, An-
other Retreat from Moscow.
And CAUGHT BY THE EARS.
Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS.
Commence at 7 o'clock

CANTERBURY -
EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of
MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con-
verts), the extraorainary Violin Performances of the cele-
brated Infant DELEPIERBE FAMILY, and the usual
'Vocal Concert.
Comic Vocalists -Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchlleld, and E. W. Mackney.
Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated
bill
and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and bril
!Lights of the metropolis.
17111 shortly be produced, a Grand Selection from Meyer-
beer 4 Dew opera of
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THE WEATHER.—SIys OFFICE, OCTOBER 13
THZEMOICETEB, IN THB SEULDB.
56_highest since noon yesterday.
53—lowest this morning and during the night.
59—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.80.
light, with dull cloudy weather.

WIND, N.E.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 2h. 25m.—Afternoon, 2h. 41m,
To-Moßßow-Morning, 2h. 57m.—Afternoon, 3h. 13m,

The Northern Reform Union has issued a stir-
ring Manifesto to the Reformers generally through-
out the United Kingdom. It is above all things a
very sensible and a very temperate document. It
manfully looks in the face of all the opposing dif-
ficulties, of all those large, and stubborn, and nume-
rous obstacles that must be removed or beaten
down before we can hope to realise any substantial
measure of Improvement in our system of popular

representation. Many, doubtless, of the more
sanguine Reformers throughout the country will
be disposed to carp at the tone and general purport

of this address as calculated to spread abroad a
feeling of discouragement. Yet reflection cannot fail
to satisfy, however reluctantly, even these that this is
really, after all, the only rational course to be pur-
sued. Can any reasonable man honestly maintain for
a single instant that he does actually believe as at
this moment to be upon the eve of a grand and
comprehensive and thoroughly effectual Reform of
the Legislature ? Does he credit for one second
of time the Ministerial, inuendos—for they are abso-
lutely nothing more—hinting that 1860 is to be
the bona fide year for the new and crowning
Reform of Parliament ? It were preposterous to

affect to argue seriously for three minutes that we

are one inch nearer the realisation of Reform, now
that we have got this grand Hocus Pocus Coalition,

than we were when we had as our rulers the
thirteen members of the DERBY Administration.
So far are we from thinking this, so
far have we been all along from allowing our-
selves to be deluded into this belief, that we
do still feel perfectly well convinced, as we were
perfectly well convinced months back, that we had
a better chance of obtaining larger reforms from
the Derbyites than ever we are likely to get from
the Palmerstonians. Lord DERBY and his col-
leagues once having made up their minds to accept
Reform as a Necessity—as they had—might have
carried any measure of Reform, however large,
through the House of Peers, any measure, how-
ever large that their elastic Bill could
have been expanded into during its passage
through Committee in the House of Commons.
Whereas now under the Whigs, or rather under
the Coalition made up of Whigs, Peelites, and
Radicals, marshalled into order by the Premiership
of a political nondescript like Viscount PALMER-
STON, we have no such security. Ratlnr we should
say we have a clear certainty before us that they
cannot—they absolutely can-not—carry through
the House of Lords any measure of Reform which
thermay contrive somehow or other by hook or by
crook to drag through the Commons House of Par-
liarnept; There is at any rate that one agreeable
certainty before the nation, now that in the inte-
rests of Reform ( ) the Derbyites have been driven
from office to be replaced by the Palmerstonians.
It was the knowledge that this would be in-
evitable, that induced Mr. ROEBUCK—as honest
and earnest, and thorough a reformer as
there is in the United Kingdom —to op-
pose with all the force of his energy the

specious, bat really factious and most mistaken

movement which led to Lord JOHN'S last successful
"dodge," for the change of Administrations. It was
the same solid and substantial reason that influenced
in a like direction one of the most keen-witted men of
business in the House of Commons, Mr. LINDSAY,
the eminent shipowner. It is idle now, however,
talking of the Past in regard to the real interests a
Reform, not merely as a Parliamentary Question,
but as one which has latterly become essentially
Ministerial. What we have to look to now
of course is the Future—we have to scan dispas.

sionately the prospect Reformers have spread out
before them now that we have the dear old Whigs
back again in power, and (what is yet more) now
that we have the Whigs formally installed in
office under the Premiership of Lord ALMERSTON.
We all know what a thoroughgoiPng Reformer
Lord PALMERSTON 19 ! We all know that the
Whigs have no vested interests to maintain intact,
and to preserve to themselves as something sacred,
in the present system of Parliamentary representa-

tion! We all know that the Great Whig Chiefs
(Lord LANSDOWNE, for instance) have no snug
pocket boroughs (like Caine, for example) requir-
ing to be swept clean away by the Reforming
besom of Destruction ! Again, we all really do
know how many times Lord JOHN RUSSELL has
tried and tried, and yet gone on and tried again—
always to no purpose —his hesitating hand as a
re-Reformer of Parliament ! The recollection of
these things certainly does not dispose us to look
forward very confidently to 1860 as the year hence-
forth to shine resplendently upon the records of
Hansard, as the year of Reform in the Popular
Representation. What then ? Why then—as the
address of the Northern Reform Union recommends,
—let us hope, in trumpet tones, that
will ring far and wide over the land—" Organise
and Agitate !" They themselves, the members of
that Union, are nobly setting an example to all other
Reformers throughout the United Kingdom. As to
what it (the Union) has done already, note what is
here said upon that point in the Address :—" The
Northern Reform Union has now been in existence
nearly two years. During that time it has held
200 public meetings, sent 85 petitions to Parlia-
ment, circulated 500,000 tracts and pamphlets, and
organised in the two counties of Durham and Nor-
thumberland a vigorous and flourishing association."
As to what the Union prop oses to do yet further
in the way of Organisation and Agitation, note
what then follows in the Address—" The work,"
says the Union, " we have marked out for ourselves,
between now and the reassembling of Parliament,
comprises the holding of upwards of 50 public
meetings, the collecting of 100 petitions in favour
of manhood suffrage and the ballot, and the circu-
lation of a million tracts and other Reform publica-
tions." And as a significant reminder of the veri-
table necessity there is for this Organised Agitation,
if we really do aspire in earnest to obtain adequate
measures of Reform, the Address calls up vividly
to the view of Reformers generally the follow-

ing timely recollections :—"The Parliament," it
reminds Reformers, " that granted the Reform Bill
did not do so because of their belief in its justice, but
because ths Birmingham and Northern Political
Unions had created such a public opinion out of
doors, as it was not prudent to oppose further.
The Parliament that repealed the Corn Laws did
not do so because of being converted to free trade
principles ; but because they saw that famine in
Ireland, and the Anti-Corn-Law League, were pro •

ducing a commotion that threatened, if not stayed,
to sweep away all exclusive privileges, and to en-
danger the stability of the State. The people will
never be enfranchised till they have, by organisa-
tion and agitation, brought a kindred influence to
bear on the Legislature." These are wholesome
reminiscences. They are seeds scattered abroad at
the right time over a soil that has been newly
turned, and that is ready for their reception. May
they strike deep root, and bear fruit a hundred-
fold !

All our readers take, no doubt, the deepest in-
terest in the subject of our national defences. They
may not all, however, suppose that a paper on
rifle practice, read by a militia captain, can be any-
thing very entertaining to them. Unless themselves
riflemen, they may think it very right that such
papers should be read, and very right that the press
should make them public property, for the use of
those whom they concern, but they will take it
for granted that the details ;of the matter do not
concern them. If any of our readers have in this
way passed over, as belonging to the profession
only, the paper which we printed on Tuesday, in
which Captain KING describes rifle training at
Hythe, we are confident that if he will read it
after dinner it will keep him from falling asleep,
and that he will be highly gratified, also, to know
that at the Hythe School of Trainiig we certainly
have the right man in the right place. We have
money enough squandered, we all know, in the
Army, and in the Navy, too; it is consolatory,
therefore, to know that it is not squandered at
Hythe. Money's worth of knowledge and practice
is, there, unquestionably given to our national de-
fenders.

Captain KING is indeed the Homer to his
Achilles, Major-General HAY ; and many an
equally meritorious, skilful, painstaking officer
there must be, who finds no Capt. KING to tell the
world of his well-done duties to his country.
We do not, therefore, disparage others, not even
Our invaluable LUCANS, CARDIGANS, and ATREYS,
by noticing the merits of an enthusiastic, patient,
and laborious instructor in the first grand qualifi-
cation for a volunteer defender of his country. We
notice at the outset that Major-General HAY ap-
pears to us to have formed precisely the right con-
ception of what Rifle Volunteers are wanted for,
and what they should be. Our readers may remem-
ber how frequently we have urged that volunteers
can never be expected to compete with regular sol-
diers in what depends upon constant drill, and on
a soldier's living in his work ; but, that there is
no reason why they should not be made as good, or
almost as good, shots as our regular troops. We
hence contended, and we speak from experience,
that an amount of interest nzay be awakened in
rifle shooting which will equal, or surpass, that
produced by any of our manly national games—
while the invaluable advantage of this game, as we
may call it, is, that it may turn, any day, to the
most holy account—to the protection of our shores
—our firesides—our wives—our children. No other
amusement can boast such reason in its sport.
Have we spoken too strongly of the amusement—
the sport of rifle practice? Hear the lecturer—
" This practice lasted from Tuesday to Saturday,
and I cannot describe to you the excitement of it.
It exceeded anything I ever saw. Hunting, or
cricket, or boating, is nothing to it ;" and in this
strain a long description proceeds. General
HAY and his pupils will have done something for
their country, if they can but induce the hundreds
of young men who want something really manly
to amuse them, that they may have it in carrying
a rifle for their country. _

Major-General HAY frankly tells his pupils from
the first what is to be their object. Not the man,
he, to sneer at volunteers—he is enthusiastic for
training them. He takes them first, however, into
his lecture room. He explains to them that they
are wanted, not to charge a regiment of Zouaves
or to face their charge—that is the work of men
whose lives are devoted to military service. No.
The volunteers are to be first-rate shots. They are
to have drill enough for skirmishing well—drill
enough to obey a commander and karass and worry
an enemy ; but their grand excellence is to be that
at a third or half of a mile's distance, and from be-
hind their own hedgerows and hills, they shall be
able to make it deadly work indeed for a Zouave or
any one else to show himself. Nothing like a fun-
damentally right conception. It is a stream of light
on the path of teacher and taught. General HAT
has this. His pupils have it. Both see that, let
what theory you please be right or wrong, while
war is waged by deadly missiles, men who can
shoot down an enemy as soon as they can fairly see
him in the dim distance, must have their value ;
their value for defence especially. General HAY'S
volunteers will never be antiquated. A General of
the next century will find men who can hide them-

e destre.y an enemy half a mile off, as use-'
aaul
ful as Fiel6oNlarshal His Royal Highness the
PRINCE CON; 101 IT will find them, when, at the head
of all who wi 11. entrust themselves to his military
skill and pro wess, he heads the defence of his coun-
try against t' ae last onslaught of despots on " Con-
stitutional G )vernment."
We :can 111 trdly conceive any tuition more in-
spiriting than , that of Major-General There
he had them- —forty-two of them—two Peers, bar-
' risters, count ry wentlemen, tradesmen—and every
one of these 10.8 so interested in what he conceived
there was v,,orth doing and might be done, that
from sun-rise to sum-set, these gentry were as en-
thusiastic as himself, for mere aiming drill—a drill
which taught them to shoot with precision, lite-
rally, before they had fred a shot ! And—let our
young lawyers' clerks, and our tradesmen, too,
note this—the General preferred men who had
never fired a shot before ! They have no bad habits
to unlearn. What a noble college this for the
Rifle Corps all over the country. No favouritism
there--the peers and the tradesmen met on equal
terms at Hythe. The best shot had the highest
honour there, whether he were a grocer's son or the
son of a nobleman. Indeed, in the hard work of
emulation all difference vanished. It was an apt
exemplification of the effect of promotion, strictly,
by merit.

31,CLINTOCK'S ARTIC DISCOVERIES.

A SKETCH-BY JAMES WYLD.

A sketch this is—as timely and welcome as it
cannot fail to prove deeply affecting when studied
—a sketch of the recent discoveries made along the
extreme northern coast of North America by the
chivalrous and daring Capt. M'Clintock, R.N., in
search of Sir J. Franklin and his long-missing ex-
pedition. It is the epitome upon one little sheet of
paper of alithatprotracted and mournful story—of all
the long series of Searching Expeditions sent forth
in quest of any traces of the famous Franklin and
Crozier Expedition. Here they are all defined—
the trails of all those noble Searching Expeditions
of Ross, Osborn, Browne, Rae, Collinson, Ander-
son, Hobson, Young, M'Clintock. The last the
most memorable, of course, becomes the one at
last successful. Mr. WYLD'S sketch has reached,
already, a second edition, in which will be found
interpolated an enthralling little miniature map or
chart, marking out distinctly the Probable Route
of the Franklin Expedition. There is one familiar
thought running along the whole of that track,
sic transit gloria niundi et niari!

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended
by Major Teesdale, and suite, is expected to arrive to-
morrow at Buckingham Palace from Scotland. his royal
highness will leave Balmoral with the Queen and the
Prince Consort to-day for Holyrood Palace. The Prince
of Wales goes to Oxford early next w.3ek to pursue his
studies at the university.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will
shortly return to his residence at St. James's Palace from
visiting Sir George Wombwell, Bart, at the gallant baro-
net's seat in Yorkshire.

Prince W. Bariatinsky and family have returned
to Grillion's Clarendon Hotel from Shanklin, Isle of Wight.

His Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio, Sardinian
Minister, is expected to arrive at the Sardinian Legation,
from Paris, to resume his diplomatic duties after a brief
leave of absence.

The Duke and Duchess of Somerset and family
arrived at his grace's official residence at the Admiralty
yesterday, from Maiden Bradley, their country seat.
The Dowager Marchioness of Lothian and Lord
Walter Kerr and the Ladies Kerr have arrived at Cla-
ridge's Hotel from Blickling Hall, Norfolk.
Lord and Lady John Russell and Misses Russell
left Abergeldie Castle on Monday, on a visit to the Earl of
Aberdeen, at Haddo House, Aberdeenshire. The noble
lord and lady and family were to leave the following day
for Edinburgh, en route for town. _ _

Lord and Lady Gardner have left town for his
lordship's fishing quarters in Scotland.
The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mrs.
Herbert have arrived in Belg,rave-square from Wilton
House, Wilts.
Sir John and Lady Pennefather have arrived at
Claridge's Hotel from Malta.
There is no truth in the report that Lord Claren-
don has accepted the Governor-Generalship of India.
THE INDIAN AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—The
Peninsular and Oriental Company's new steamship Delta,
Captain Black, left Southampton yesterday with tho out •
ward Bombay and Australian mails, 1337,000 specie for
the Mauritius, Bombay, Melbourne, and Sydney ; and 132
passengers, 108 of whom were first class.
THE CANADIAN MAILS.----.Che Montreal Ocean
Steam-ship Company's screw steamer Anglo-Saxon sailed
from the Mersey, at half-past 11 o'clock yesterday morn-
ing, for Quebec and Montreal, with the mails for the Cana-
dian provinces, 100 passengers, and a large cargo of goods.
THE UNITED STATES MAILS.—The Liverpool,
New York, and Philadelphia Steam-ship Company's screw
steamer Kangaroo sailed from the Mersey at noon yester-
day for New York, with the United States mails, 75 cabin
and 206 steerage passengers, as also a full cargo of general
merchandise. _

THE BROUGfIAM BANQUET.—It has been arranged
that the banquet given by the citizens of Edinburgh to Lord
Brougham is to tae place in the Music-Hall there on Wed-
nesday evening the 26th inst. The price of the ticket is
fixed at a guinea, and the number of persons dining is
limited to about 620, but the galleries and, other parts of the
hall will be fitted up so as to accommodate in addition seve-
ral hundred ladies and other spectators. The Lord Provost
is to preside.
DEATH OF REAR-ADMIRAL WILLIAM HOLT.—
We have to record the death of the above gallant admiral,
which occurred on Sunday last, at No. 3, Suffolk-place,
aged 69 years. The deceased officer was midshipman of
the Minerva, and served in her boats at the capture of two
gun-boats on the coast of Spain, in 1806, for which he was
gazetted. He served also in the Surveillante, and com-
manded a, rocket-boat at Copenhagen, in 1807. He was
promoted to lieutenant in November, 1810, and served as
such in the Blossom and Undaunted, participating in a
variety of services in the Mediterranean ; of the San Joseph,
at the capture of Genoa, in 1814; was senior lieutenant of
the Hussar, and severely wounded while in action, in the
boats of that ship, with a horde of pirates on the coast of
Cuba, in 1824, for which he was promoted to commander in
September of that year. He became captain in June, 1838,
and rear-admiral on the reserved half-pay 10th September,
1857.
ACCIDENT TO AN EXPRESS TRAIN NEAR CARLISLE.
—On Tuesday afternoon an accident of a serious, though
not of a fatal nature, occurred near Carlisle, on the
Lancaster and Carlisle Railway. It appears that the ex-
press train from Scotland, which is due at 12.50, started
from Carlisle for the south at one o'clock. It consisted of
eight carriages, made up of composite, first and second•
class. It is customary to put an assistant engine to heavy
trains, in order to help them up a steep incline about a mile
from the city, these engines being generally attached to
the end of the trains. °As soon, therefore, as the express
train on Tuesday started from the station the auxiliary en-
gine ran slowly out of the shed in order to get behind.
Within a short distance of the station there are two cross-
ings, one caused by the Maryport line, and the other, at
St. Nicholas, by a branch from the Newcastle Railway,
and a highway over which the Lancaster and Carlisle Rail-
way runs on a level. This latter is always looked upon as
a point of great danger, and the trains are prohibited from
crossing at a speed of more than about four miles an hour.
In order to do this the driver of the express train slack-
ened speed shortly before he reached the crossing ; but it
is said he did so before reaching the usual place. The
driver of the second engine, not being aware that the ex-
press had so suddenly shut off steam, ran his own engine
along at the usual speed, the consequence of which was
that he dashed into the end of the train. Many of the
passengers • were looking out of the windows at the time,
and the sudden shock sclut their heads against the sides of
the windows and against each other. Several of them re-
ceived bruises on the nose and other parts of the face, and
a considerable sprinkling of blood was the result. One
lady, a Miss Walker, of Maryport, received a rather severe
wound on the forehead; and the Rev. Mr. Wilson, of
Appleby, was also somewhat injured. The train was of
course immediately stopped and medical assistance obtained.
As soon as the extent of the injury was ascertained the
train was brought back to the station, but in about hal f-
an-hour started again. The whole of the passengers, with
the exception of Miss Wilson and a servant of Mr. G. 11.
Head, a director of the railway, went forward ; but the two
we have mentioned were taken to the County Hotel, where
their bruises were attended to. Singular to say the only
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AWFUL MURDER AT WREXHAM.—Wrexham, on
Monday night, witnessed a cold-blooded murder—a crime
of the similar character not having taken place for nearly
50 years, the last having been the murder of an old woman.
The brute is named Puleston Jackson, a man who, for the
last few years, has spent the best part of his time within
the prison of the county. The murdered woman is named
Thomas, but is generally known through her alias, Rache!,
and she too, like the murderer, has of late years been a fre-
quent visitor to gaol for drunken and disorderly conduct,
the last time being about throe weeks ago, upon which oeca•
Rion she gave birth to an illegitimate child. On Monday
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ley were standing close to the Town Hall, when they sud-
denly hoards screams of " Murder !" and " Police The
sound came from a narrow street
close by, and they instantly
ran to the rescue, when they discovered that the woman
was suffering from a blow from Jackson, which had been
given in the face with such force as to cut his knuckles.
n
In a few moments the woman expired. Jackson was taken
into custody on the charge, and the poor child was taken
to the workhouse.

TIIE CONVICT WORSEY.—This convict, who, it
will be recollected, was at the last assizes condemued to
death for the murder of his wife at West Brternwich, was on
Tuesday removed from the county gaol to Milbank Prison,
where he will undergo his commuted sentence of penal scr •
vitucle for life.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1859