The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-06 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectfully informed
that this THEATRE WILL OPEN on SATURDAY, MARCH S,
When will be produced (tirst time in this country),
Verdi's new Opera,
ERNANI.
With new scenery by Mr. Marshall,
Elvira, Madame Rita Borio ; Giovanna, Mdlle. Benin! ; Puy
Gomez, Signor Fornasari ; Carlo, Signor Betel ; Ernani, Signor
ori an i
To eonclade with an entirely new Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled
EOLINE ; ou, LA DRYADE.
The Music by Signor Pugni. The Scenery by Mr. Marshall.
In which will appear
fiddle. Lucile Grahn, Mdlle. Louise Weiss, lidlle. Ferdinand,
Mdlle. Demelisse, Mdlle. Cassani, Mdlle. Moncelet, &c.
M. Toussaint, M. Gosselin, M. Bertrand, M. Perrot, &c.
In the course of the Ballet the following Dances will be introduced :
Waltze Selesienne, by the Coryphecs of the Corps de Ballet.
Pas de la Fiancee—Mdlle. Lucile Grahn and H. Toussaint,
Pas de Cling (composed by M. Gosselin)—:Mlles. Louise Weiss, Fer-
dinand, Demelisse, Cassani, and Monceilet.
31azourka Fantastique—Mdlle. Lucile Grahn and M. Perrot,
Fourth Tableau.
Grand Pas des Dryades by Mdlle. L. Grahn and the Ladies of the
Corps do Ballet.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed ROBEII I: THE DEVIL. Robert, Mr. W. liar-
risson ; Bertram, Mr. Stretton ; Raimbaut, Mr. D. W. King ;
Isabella, Miss Rainforth ; Alice, Miss Romer.
To conclude with the celebrated ballet of LA GISELLE, in which
Mdlle. Maria, Monsieur and Madame Finart, &c., will appear.
The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six
In the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and
Tlekets may be bad on application to Mr. John Parsons.

THEATRE ROYAL, lIAYMARKET.
LESSEE, SIR. B. WEBSTER.
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, entitled THE
SHERIFF OF TIIE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Stagers.
W. Farren, Strickland, Buckstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W.
Clifford, Mrs. Humby, Miss Julia Bennett, &c.
In the course of the Evening Mr. John Parry will give his De-
scriptive Scene, " Cinderella."
After which, SPEED THE PLOUGH. Sir Abel Handy, Mr. W.
Farren ; Bob Handy, Webs. Holl ; Sir Philip BlandfOrd, Mr. Stuart ;
Farmer Ashfield, Mr. er ; Miss Blandford, Miss Julia Bennett ;
Smsan Ashtield Mrs. Edwin Yarnold ; Lady Handy, Mrs. W. Clif-
ford ; Dame Ashfield, Mrs. Glover.
To conclude with YOUNG ENULAND. Major Martinet, Mr.
Strickland ; Mr. John James Pooley, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Pooley,
Mrs. Hamby ; Mrs. Smiler, Mrs. Stanley
Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Halt each.
Tickets and ['laces to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box.-oftice,
from Ten till Five o'clock.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
UNDER THE DIRECTION
OF MADAME CELESTE.
G
Will he repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled TEE
GREEN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'RennedY,
Mr. Selby ; George, Mr. Hudson : Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ;
3lu4ter Grinnidge, Mr. Wright; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford;
Geraldine, Mrs. Yate° ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Flt William ;
Madame Celeste.
After which, MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL.
To be followed by a New Dramatic Anecdote, entitled THE
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ; or, The Irisli Settler. The Duke of
Anjou, Miss Woolgar ; Captain O'Rorke, Mr. Hudson ; the Baroness
I3eattpre, M!ss Fortescue.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed Shakspeare's Tragedy of KING LEAR. Lear,
Mr. Forrest ; Edgar, Mr. Graham ; Cordelia, Mrs. Stirling.
After which, a New Ballet Divertissement, entitled LE FETE
DES PECIIEURS. Principal Characters by Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Mar-
shall, Mdlle. Teresine, and Miss Marshall.
To conclude with THE QUAKER. Lubin, Mr. Ilime ; Steady,
Mr. Leillar ; Ficely, Miss Fosbroke.
Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallaek ; Stage Director, Mr. linadsa ;
:Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell.

THEATRE LOYAL, LYCEUM.
kI.NDEIt THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed THE PRISONER OF WAR. Captain Chan-
nen, Mr. Emery ; Palimall, Mr. Keeley ; Clarina, Miss Walcott ;
Polly Falba:all, Mrs. Keeley.
To be followed by a New Farce, entitled A MODEL OF A WIFE.
Principal Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, F. Matthews, and Mea-
dows ; Miss Walcott, and Miss FairbrGther.
To conclude with VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Cha-
racters by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, Wigan, Collier, Turner,
Kinloch, Yarnold, and Keeley ; Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fair-
brother, Miss Grove, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss James, Miss Turner, and
Mrs. Keeley.

THEATRE ROYAL, I/YCEIJM.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. AND MRS. KEELEY,
And Last Night of the Season.
TO-MORROW EVENING
Will be performed MARTIN CIIIJZZLEWIT. Old Martin
Chuzzlewit, Mr. R. Youngs ; Mr. Pecsniff, Mr. Frank Matthews ;
Mrs. Sairey Gamp, Mr. Keeley ; Bailey, Mrs. Keeley.
In the course of the Evening Mrs. Keeley will speak AN
ADDRESS on the CLOSE of the SEASON.
After which, the Polka tYom the " Forty Thieves" will be danced
by Miss Fairbrother and Miss James.
Mr. Distin and his Four Sons will pl some of their most populitt
ay
Pieces.
To be followed by the New Farce of A MODEL OF A WIFE. In
wench Messrs. A. Wigan, Frank Matthews, and Meadows, Mlse
Walcott, and Miss Fairbrother will perform.
To conclude with VALENTINE AND ORSON.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated a New Drama, with New Scenery and splendid
Appointments, entitled 3IIDNIGHT ; or, the Sentinel and the Hour.
A Legend of St. Paul's. In which the entire Company will perform.
To be followed by the Ballet of THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. In
which the whole of the Ballet Company will perform.
After which, a New Farce, entitled GALVANIC RING. Cha•
ratters by Messrs. fleslop, Seaman, Corri, Miss Martin, Mrs. H.
Hughes, and Mrs, W. Daly.
To conclude with BATTLE ; SLAVERY AND SHIPWRECK ; or,
The Poor Little Child of a Tar.
Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box-
office, from Eleven to Four.

THE WEATHER.—Stai OFFICE, MARCH 5.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 23 ; Highest, 30 ; Noon, 29,

BAROMETER, 30.08.—WIND, E.
Nom—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and
" Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the
Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All
the other observations are made at noon.

111011 WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DIY.
Morning 10 minutes after 0 Evening 37 minutes after 0.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER defended
the financial measures of the Governtront.
Mr. EwART opposed the amendment, on the ground
that it was wiser to have recourse to direct than to
indirect taxation.
Mr. D. BARCLAY approved of the property-tax, but
hoped that the increasing prosperity of the country
would enable them to do without it in a few years.
Mr. HAWES considered the continuance of the in-
come-tax as a great obstacle to commercial reform,
and should, therefore, vote against it.
On a division, the amendment was negatived by a
majority of 73, the numbers being—for the amend-
ment, 23 ; against it, 96.
The House then resolved itself into. Committee.
On the first clause being put,
Mr. CURTEIS moved an amendment, the effect of
which would have been to limit the duration of the
tax to two years instead of three. The amendment
was pressed to a division, when there appeared for the
amendment, 17 ; against it, 69 ; majority against

it, 52.
A long conversation followed, during the course
of which Lord JonN RUSSELL expressed his
determination to support the amendments of
which Mr. SPOONER had given notice, on a
former day—first, to enable traders to deduct from
the profits of their trade such sum or sums of
money as would have been a fair remuneration to
persons not members of their families for services
performed by any member of their respective fami-
lies ; secondly, to enable parti.?s assessed under
schedule D to deduct poor-rates and other parochial
rates paid in respect of premises used by them
for the purposes of trade ; thirdly, to enable persons
to deduct from the profits of their trade the sums
they might have paid for insurances upon their lives ;
and, fourthly, to authorise deduction on account of
certain articles kept for the purposes of trade, though
such articles may occasionally be used for other pur-
poses; and Lord SANDON expressed his agreement
with the principles laid down by Dr. BOWRING, that
the nearer approach they made to direct taxation the
more they consulted the public good.
Sir R. PEEL, in answer to Mr. WARLEY, said that
with respect to the question as to whether the
measure would be continued beyond three
years, the time for considering it would be
when the three years had expired. It was,
however, ultimately agreed, that all the pro-
posed amendments should be considered on the
bringing up the report. The remaining clauses of
the Bill were agreed to, and the House resumed.
The Stamp Duties (Ireland) Bill was read a third
time, and passed, after a short discussion.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER announced
that the report on the Property and Income-tax Bill
would be brought up on Friday.
Certain returns relating to Irish Railways were
ordered, on the motion of Mr. BALDWIN, and
The House adjourned at Ilalf-past Nine o'Clock.

The conversation which took place in the House of
Commons on Tuesday evening, on the subject of the
constitution of that most anomalous and very unsatis-
tory body—the Board of Trade Railways Committee
—might well have been expected to determine in
more important results than any it actually led to.
Mr. GISUORNE'S objection to a resolution which,
without previous recital or declaration of any kind,
committed the House to a recognition of that Board's
functions and mode of exercising them, was very
well-timed. It was, as he observed, the first time in
which the House had been brought into any discus-
sion on the reports of that Board. He obtained from
Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET a sort of assurance that
all the reports of the Board would be on the table of
the House before Easter, but the Noble Lord pet-
tishly remarked " that he was under no obligation
to give Honourable Members an opportunity of
expressing their opinions, generally, on the constitu-
tion of the Board." Perhaps not; but the announce-
ment that this porous Board (of the profound secresy
of whose yet unpublished decisions we gave a rather
notable example in an article of Dublin intelligence,
a few days ago), that this Board will be prepared to
give in all its reports on the two or three hundred
railway projects which have been referred to them,
within the next fortnight, would be quite sufficient
to found a reasonable opinion of its real merits ; did
we know of no other grave presumptions against
them in the recent statement promulgated by Mr.
Commissioner O'BRIEN. Unless the Board at White-
hall have a Great Western tender wherein to carry
all their Schemes and plans, and a Great Western
monster-locomotive, moreover, to transport them
with the maximum of attainable velocity over the
railway of unobstructed official technicalities—we
are satisfied that the task they have im.

posed upon themselves is utterly impracti-
cable
within their own limits. It is one thing
to digest—another thing to " get through'--a vast and
overwhelming mass of business. We demur to the
redemption of the Noble Lord's promise by this Com-
mittee, as impracticable, humanly speaking; and we
have yet to learn that angels sit at this Board, to
effect that which is not possible by human means.
There was much of sound sense and reason in what
Mr. HAWES said, as to the necessity of bringing spe-

cifically under the notice and deliberate discussion o
the House the constitution of a body " which had
great powers of deciding on vast masses of property,
and, as now constituted, he did not think it stood on
a satisfactory basis." A satisfactory basis 1 No, in-
deed. How should it, under a constitution which
affirms or rejects a given scheme by the votes of the
Commissioners present at the settlement of the report ?
Thus, as Mr. HAWES showed, it might happen that the
President andVice-President of the Board of Trade, the
ex officio members of this Board, after having voted
against a scheme of railway in its progress through
the Board's hands, might yet have at least by their
vote, if not by speeches, to support in Parliament a
report in its favour, they being responsible for that
report. This is worse than a mockery ;it amounts
to a positive deception on the Legislature. " Then
the decisions are secret," added Mr. Hews, who
was certainly justified in availing himself of this fea-
ture in the theory of the Board's construction, as if it
was a practical fact, in order to give more cogency
to his argument against the imperfections of this
system of dispatching railroad Bill business. We,
who take leave, with such evidence as the public has
been scandalized by having brought under its own
eyes, to deny altogether the practical fact; who assert
that the decisions of the Board have been neither
secret before promulgated, nor unanticipated with mi-
raculous precision before recorded, even—are content
'to rest our protest against the proceedings of the
Board on the admissions of its advocates and defenders.
We complain, first, that the decisions are announced at
the Board, with closed doors; secondly, that the parties
interested have no means, on the same account, of know-
ing whether the facts and arguments in which they
have all along confidently reposed their case and ha-
zarded an outlay, more or less considerable, of their
money, have been duly stated to, and fairly considered
by the Board. In a turnpike-road, dock, or canal
Bill, the parties for and against would have ample
opportunity of being present at the whole evidence,
argument thereon, and announcement of the finding
of the Select Committee on their Bill. Why should
the same privilege be denied to the parties to a rail-
way project? What are the superior pretensions of
the Board of Trades' Deputies or Commissioners to
those of a Select Committee of gentlemen representing
various constituencies in or about the locality of the
undertaking on the merits of which the House of Com-
mons desires them to report ? There can be but one
solitary principle on which the Board of Trade Com-
mittee can have a prima facie preferable claim to confi-
dence. It may be that, a priori, it is to be assumed, they
are less likely to be interested parties in such under-
takings than country gentlemen. But it would argue
a degree of pastoral simplicity in those who can be
credulous enough to take this lofty disinterestedness
for a grave fact, after the wondrous specimens we
have had of Stock-Exchange clairvoyance, whose
faculty of preternatural perception has so often pene-
trated all the way from Bartholomew-lane, right
through countless streets and lanes, and barriers of
stone, brick, and mortar, into the penetralia of the
Railway Committee's cabinet, so as to peruse reports
in the very act, and even while awaiting the very
act, of the Commissioners subscription. Another
head of constitutional objection to the components
and organisation of this Board is—that it is the most
palpable anomaly which ever slipped down, unper-
ceived, the open throat of a dozing House
of Commons. It is a Centaur—half Parlia-
mentary, half departmental. It is partly °mewl

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