The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-29 00:00:00

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY./ the Earl of DERBY, M.P. for King's Lynn, ex-
Price Half-a-Crown, Contents for JANUARY.
No. CCLXXVII. Secretary of State for India Was not the noble

OVINGDEAN GRANGE.
A Tale of the South Downs.
By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq.
mameme PART THE THIRD.
11. Before the Curtain. VIII. The Swan's March.
111. The Haunted House near I By Walter Thornbury
Hampstead. A Story i IX. Caliban. By Monks-
for the New Year. By I hood.
Dudley Costello. X. Silver Chimes and
IV. "Un Pere Prodlgue." Golden Fetters : or,
V. A German in London. How the Old Year
VI, King Year. By Frederick I Went Out and the
Enoch.
I New Year Came In.
VII. Rose's Diaries and 1 By Ouida. In Five
Correspondence. I Chapters.
London : Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.
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ROYAL

EN GLISH OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.

Under the management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison.
THIS EVENING, VICTORINE. Messrs. Sant!ey, H.
Haigh, H. CCCTi, G. Honey, Bartleman, Sze. Misses Parepa,
Thirlwall,

Condactor, Alfred Mellon.
To ionclude with the new grand pautomime, called PUSS
IN BOOTS ; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the Golden
Palms.

Doors open at hall-past 7—Commence at 8 o'clock.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee. Mr. J. B. Bucirstone.

THIS EVENING, the comedy of THE EVIL GENIUS.
Miss Reynolds.
After which, the new Haymarket Comic Christmas Panto-
mime, VALENTINE'S DAY; or, Harlequin and the Fairy
of the True Lovers' Knot. The pantomimists the unrivalled
Leclereqs.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.-
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING Planche's popular Drama of THE
CHILD OF THE WRECK. Maurice (her original chants-
ter) Madame Celeste.
After which, will be produced a new Grand Christmas Ex-
travaganza and Pantomime, KING THRUSHBELRD, the
LITTLE PET and the GREAT PASSION. Clown, Mr. H.
Marshall—Columbine, Miss Rosin°.

Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-

Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
Re-engagement of the Wonderful Dancer, Mona. Espinosa.
First appearance of Mdlle. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan-
sense of La Scala, Milan ; and first time of the Delapierre
Family. These highly-talented Children will appear every
night. The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening.
THIS EVENING, (Thurssday), the new drama, HOME
TRUTHS. Messrs. G. Melville, J. G. Shore, F. Matthews,
Miss C. Lecieroq and Mrs. Charles Young.
After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by H.
J. Byron, called JACK THE GIANT KILLER ; or, Harle-
quin King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
Jack, Miss Louise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack - Panta-
loon, Mr. Paulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown,
Mr. A. F. Forrest.

Morning Performances on Monday, January 9, 16, and 23 -
commence at two o'clock.

MW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
ole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BenJ. Webster.
Holiday Attractions.— The Christmas Carol and the New
Spectacular Extravaganza, by H. J. Byron, Esq., the Nymph
of the Lurlyber. ,c,•• or the Knight and the Naiades.
THIS EVENING, THE CHRISTMAS CAROL. Messrs
J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Paul Bedford, Stuart, Billing-ton, C. J.
Smith, Romer: Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billing-ton, Mrs. Chatte-
rley, Miss Laidlaw.

After which THE NYMPHS OF THE LURLEYBERG ;
or, The Knight and the Naiades. Messrs. Toole, Bedford,
Eburne, Smith, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, C. Webb, K.
Kelly, Laidlaw.

Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box-
Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor fer bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.

Acting Manit,,,,er—Mr. Wm. 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 performances will commence with
GARIBALDI'S ENGLISHMAN. Messrs. Barrett and C.
Young.

Followed by a new sketch, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY.
Miss Wyndham and Mr. 11. T. Craven.
To conclude with the new pantomime of PUNCH AND
JUDY. Introducing Miss Lydia Thompson and the Corps
de Ballet. Clown, Harlequin, Columbine, anCrantaloon, and
the wonderful Performing Dogs.
Reduced Prices—Gallery, od; Pit, is. The Ifox-ofEce open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform
ance commences at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.

Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season.

Great Attraction for the Holidays. The new bombastic
kippodramatic, operatic Pantomime, abounding in comicality,
called HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY; or, Old Towler the
Huntsman and the Goddess Diana, with songs by Miss
Esther .Jacobs.—Gorgeous and Dazzling mechanical transfor-
mation scene. Harlequin, M. Richarde ; Pantaloon, Mr. P.
Abbot, Columbine, Maddle. Mazzoni ; Clown, Mr. Hilde-
brand ; a family of Sprites by the Elastic Incomprehensibles.
Scenes in the Circle by the Star Riders of the World. Three
Morning performances of the Pantomime, and Scenes in the
Circle, on Monday and Saturday, Dec. 26 and 31, and Monday
Jan. e, 1860, at Two o'clock each day.

CANTERB UR Y HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY
QUEEN. _ _

—And a Grand Se action from Meyerbeer's new opera of
DINORAH.
Comte Vocalists —Weser.. George Tiolaon (the Trish Come-
dian and 3fimio), W. T. Critchfleld, and E. W. 'hackney.
Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.
ROSA BONITE UR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE
FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of
Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery Is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATHER..—STIN OFFICE, DEC. 29.
THERMOMETER, IN TILE SHADE.
50—highest since noon yesterday.
47—lowest this morning and during the night.
49—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.28.
WIND, South-Westerly; fresh, with dull rainy weather.
It rained heavily in the night.
THREE o'CLocK.—Wind fresh and squally with con-
tinuous rain. It must be blowing a heavy gale in the
Channel.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. 53m.—Afternoon, sh. 11m.
To-MORROW. -Morning, sh. 29m.—Afternoon, sb. 47m.

Talk of economy, while our annual payments
under the head of the Consolidated Fund remain to
this day altogether unrevised
It is about as absurd as it is to talk of any con-
siderable extension of the franchise without the
previous adoption of the Ballot as part of the ma-
chinery of our popular representation.
Although we have before now so very often
directed attention to this systematic extravagance
in our national expenditure, we cannot but deem
it advisable to revert to a gripvance thus monstrous
and galling in its character at whatever interval
may seem to hold out for its exposure any singu-
larly tempting opportunity. Such we may not
unreasonably regard the present political juncture,
while we are close upon the eve of a session when
Parliamentary Reform will have to be taken reso-
lutely into consideration by the Legislature.
Reform generally must be accepted as a
problem for solution one way or another
during this fast approaching year of 1860,
in a House of Commons expressly chosen
to that very end. It must be remembered, indeed,
that every man returned to that house is avowedly
more or less of a reformer. Looking on either side
of it—whether it be towards that of the Govern-
ment or that of the Opposition—all are Reformers.
Even Mr. HENLEY and Mr. WALPOLE are refor-
mers. The introducer of the last comprehensive
Reform Bill (passed now pretty nearly thirty years
ago into an enactment) is happly there still in the
present house—is there still in his full intellectual
vigour—is there yet as one of the QUEEN'S Minis-
ters—is there, we might even say, as the second
leader of her MAJEsTY's Government. Opposite
lord JOIIN--there is Mr.
DISRAELI at the head of
his united and formidable Conservative Opposition
—an Opposition, however, which, while it is in-
dubitably Conservative both in name and in
character, is still indisputably and pre-emi-
nently an Opposition of Reformers. Is
there. not seated during session, there, next to Mr,
DISRAELI on that front Opposition bench one of
the most conspicuous arnon::,- the younger cham-
pions of that last Reform Bill carried through both
Houses under Lord GREY'S ever memorable Go-
vernment? And is there not upon the same front
bench of the Tory Reforming Opposition besides
Mr. DISRAELI and Sir BULWER LYTTON—that
notahle young leader among the more advanced
Liberals, though still numbered amongst the chies
of the Conservative phalanx, Lord STANLEY, heir to ,

Earl himself, our late Premier, was he not (as Secre-
tary of State for the Colonies) among the most
distinguished members, and as such one of the
most eminent champions of Reform in the Earl
GREY'S Reform Governments ? Recollecting
these things—recollecting the new position the
great Conservative Party took before the House
and before the Country, when they wisely con-
sented to introduce a substantial measure
of Reform themselves, placing it for scrutiny
and consideration upon the table of the Lower
House of Parliament, we have surely reason to
feel more sanguine than ever as to the triumph of
the cause of Reform at last within the walls of
the Imperial Legislature.
But—any reform, however otherwise comprehen-
sive and well-considered, will prove but the merest
mockery, that is not accompanied by what we are
disposed to call the two prime essentials of the
Ballot and Retrenchment ! The Ballot as the very
first part of the machinery, of our representative
system—accompanied by a wise and judicious
Retrenchment in the annual expenditure required
in the mechanism of our national administration.
The Consolidated Fund is, we know but too well,
debited with a collection of the public expenses
as onerous as they are miscellaneous. The sum
total of these payments for the last financial year
reached very nearly, indeed, the fearful aggregate
of £2,000,000 sterling ! To be precise it amounted
in the year ending the 31st of March, to
£1,940,655. Examining the distribution of
this grand total we find that out of it
£157,665 went for salaries, 1200,395 for pensions,
£546,591 for Royal allowances and Royal estab-
lishments. The remaining £1,000,000 (with an
odd 36,001 thrown in over and above it) being set
apart for—" other payments !" As to the first class
among these different sections, the one, namely
relating to the half million and odd required
for the Royal allowances and establishments
what loyal subject is there in the
the land that would be disposed for one instant to
quarrel with the items apportioned for the uses
directly or indirectly of the Sovereign ? Not one
economist amongst us, we believe, will be disposed
to quarrel with the supplementary £18,225 for
pensions under Ist Vic., cap. 2, or with that grand
and dazzling annual sum total poured each year into
her MAJESTY'S privy purse—more than a thousand
pounds for every day in the twelvemonth—X3Bs,ooo!
Then follow—the PRINCE CONSORT, £30,000
the Duchess of KENT, £30,000; the Duchess of
CAMBRIDGE, £6,000 ; the Duchess of MECKLEN-
BURG-STRELITZ, £3,000; the Duke of CAMBRIDGE,
£12,000; the Princess MARY of CAMBRIDGE,
£3,000 ; the Prince of MECKLENBURG-STRELITZ,
£1,788 ; the King of the BELGIANS, £50,000 ; and
the Princess FREDERICK WILLIAM of PRUSSIA,
£7,578. Glancing through which gorgeous cata-
logue of resplendent means and incomes, we might
wonder how it is that Uncle LEOPOLD can have
the coolness to pocket yearly his £50,000, while
the PRINCE CONSORT himself draws actually
£20,000 less than that from the national
treasury—but that, we believe, the whole of that
£50,000 per annum (with the exception of a
yearly sum of £15,000 set apart for the keep-
ing up of the Palace of Claremont) is honour-
ably poured back by Uncle LEOPOLD into the
English Treasury ! And the Palace of Claremont
(it is also worth remembering) has been set apart too
in its turn during the last twelve years as the home
and refuge of the exiled ORLEANS family.
Under the second class one is left still to
marvel less over, the naval and military pensions
absorbing £37,825; pensions for civil services,
£38,977; pensions for judicial services, £48,965 ;
that over such items as the hereditary pension to the
Duke of Marlborough, £4,000 ; that to the heirs of
the Duke of Schoenberg, £2,160; a moiety of the
Earl of Bath's pension, £1,200 ; the servants of
George 111., Queen Charlotte, and Queen Caroline,
£2,925 ; pensions formerly en the civil list of
GEORGE IV. and WILLIAM IV., £38,048 ; and Irish
compensations for loss of emolument, judicial pen-
sions, and pensions formerly on the civil list,
£26,294. A pleasant list truly one abso-
lutely exhausting our patience ! So that we
have little surprise or indignation left for
any particular item specified in the record
of the salaries : namely—the Speaker of the
House of Commons, £6,200; the Controller-Gene-
ral, £2,000 ; the Commissioners for Auditing the
Public Accounts, £6,300; the Lunacy Commis-
sioners, £12,487 ; stipends augmented to Scotch
clergy, £17,039; ecclesiastical establishment in
the West Indies, £20,300; civil government
of the Isle of Man, £10,158 ; the Lord-
Lieutenant of Ireland, £20,000; Maynooth
College, £26,360 ; the Queen's Irish Col-
leges, £21,000 ; and miscellaneous, £15,818.
Or even for those wonderful " other payments," in-
cluding among them payments for the diplomatic
service, £161,314 ; for judges and officers of courts
of justice, £697,056; for interest and sinking-fund
on Russian-Dutch Loan, £82,978 ; ditto on Greek
Loan, £47,400; Commissioners of Greenwich Hos-
pital, £20,000; secret service, £10,000; and com-
pensation for the loss of the duties on the coinage of
tin, £17,246. It is but small consolation besides to
find that, since the previous financial year, these
"other payments" have grown from an aggregate
sum of £900,188, to a total, as we have seen, of
£1,036,004 ! Certainly there is some need here for
a Parliamentary Bill-book of Retrenchment !

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Irish laymen call meetings to sympathise with

the POPE ; English laymen call them to sympathise
with Church-rates. Lord NELSON and Mr. BANKER
HOARE bewail the rebellion of the majority of in-
telligent Churchmen, who think it high time that
Church-rates should be abolished, just as Archbishop
CULLEN and the laymen he convenes by " beat of
drum ecclesiastic" bewail the refusal of the Bolognese
to pay taxes to papal legates ; and the suppressed
rebellion of the Romans themselves, who would not
pay another penny if French soldiers did not make
them. 'We have spoken freely of the blindness
and absurdity of the Catholic clergy and laity in
regard to their folly; we have laughed at them
as behind the age; we have remonstrated
with them on the absurd light in
which they have placed their religion ; we
have warned them that so much noise about the
temporalities of the Church is not unlikely to lead
people to think that these are much more cared
about than its spiritualities ; and we must deal
ewq
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position
and principle anything to choose between Lord
NELSON, Mr. HOARE, Mr. BERESFORD HOPE, and
Mr. LANGDALE, and a few Irish gentlemen, who
can be dragged together to proclaim that tempora-
lities are all in all for their respective churches.
Both these sets of—fanatics, we Were going to say—
enthusiasts for the earthly things of their churches,
we suppose we should say, agree in the main point
—preservation of temporal power for their churches.
This was the one object in which the speakers at Free-
mansons'Hall last week, agreed. On otherpoints they
differed. But in retaining power over men's bodies
as well as over their souls, they were all as one.

DIMINUTION OF CRIME IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE.
—ln no county of England has the diminution of crime
during the past seven years been more marked than in Glou-
cestershire. Within a year or two, four prisons—Lawford's
Gate, Littledean, Gloucester City, and Tewkesbury—have
been closed for want of prisoners; and as the County
Gaol for some time past has not been more than half occu-
pied, it is understood that at the quarter sessions to be held
the first week in January an order will be given to close the
two remaining houses of correction at Northleach and
Horsley. Thus no less than six prisons will have been
closed in two years, and theses are still "lodgings to let" at
the county gaol.—Bristol rime&
GALLANT SERVICES IN SAVING LIFE.—The
barque Sunda, of Jersey, was observed by Mr. Talbot,
M.P., from his house, Moyam, on the Glamorganshiro
coast, drifting and dismantled in the Mile of the gale of
last month. Perceiving thot she must go ashore, he im-
mediately ran down to the be .3aeh to render assistance to the
crew. When he got they. e, she had grounded in the
breakers, and the captain, hiis wife, and four men had come
on shore in the quarter-boat . They seemed disinclined to
make any attempt to row back again and save the re-
mainder of the crew. It wee; supposed that they were sta.
pified by their long exposer cc to the weather and danger.
It being nearly low water, ;and every probability existing
that the ship might hi reek up, or roll over, if
left thumping on the sand Of 1 the flood, Mr. Talbot endea-
Toured to persuade the cap tain to adopt some means to
effect a junction between the, ship and the bystanders, who
unfortunately were not sea tnen, and could render little
assistance. The captain seemed disinclined to take any
steps whatever. Mr. Talh t thereupon courageously at-
tempted to reach the ship by. wading into the surf until he
was within hail, but he wags compelled to desist by the
irresistible force of the outcl rift. A gallant attempt was
then made by Mr. Willial a,s, a farmer, to approach the
ship on horseback, but he' was also frustrated by the
same cause. It was now getting dark, and the tide
was beginning to flaw, whe n. the crew on board the wreck
at last lowered their second . quarter boat, but from clumsy
management she won capsiz e d, and rolled over in the surf'.
One man regaineid the wreel c , one was drowned, and the
remainder were hot out by r. Talbot and others by link-
ing hands togethor and wadi lig into the surf. When taken
out the pool. fellows were f ound insensible, but they gra-
dually recovered censeiouse tass. The remaining man on
board was rescued by the sea a nanlike conduct of one of the
Port Talbot pilots, and th, master of the Port Talbot
steam-tug, who, under Mr... Talbot's directions got the
ship's boat well to windwar 6', and then, by watching the
boat into
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run of the sea, and having a line fast on shore to prevent
brokent
firiasatu t
the contingency of the under tow carrying the
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management
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he remaining man on. a bore. If these men had been
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ran used theydropu se d tooNiV.
of boats, no one wouldhsanv-e Ten drowned. The sea was
probably not less than five fecii ihe ght 'and on
that flat beach 150 to 200 yard 5, sin
that it was onlyranginga
fully-watched intervals that a ay approach to the caul-
be made. The man who was drowned was certainly')
no
more than four feet water, yet , his body never came ain
shore,
and probably never will. Tik ,s highly meritorious ease has
been forwarded to the Nation .al Lifeboat Institution. Mr.
Talbot has recently assisted , in conjunction with other
gentlemen, in forming a li' daoat establishment at Porth-
cawl.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 29, 1859.