The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-09 00:00:00

ROYAL OPERA, DEURY.LANE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed Donizettrs Grand Opera, galled LUCIA DI
LAMMERMOOR. Characters by Madame Gassier, Signer Gassier,
and Signor Annan&
To conclude with a Grand FRENCH BALLET, supported by
Mdhe. Palmyra, Mdlle. Paolo, M. Friant, &c.
Prices of admission :—To the two galleries. 6d.; second circle of
boxes and pit, is.; dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; stets, 48. ; private boxes
tlice
to
admit two persons, 10s. 6d.; four persons, one guinea. Box-o
open from 10 to 6 daily.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Under the management of Mr. Bucksteno.
THIS EVENDIG,
Will be performed BERTA; or, The Gnome of ilartzberg.

After which, ONLY A HALFPENNY.
To conclude with the new Extravaganza, called THE NEW
WAYMARILET SPRING MEETING, 1855.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. CiliaLis Kx.llr.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY.
To ccnclude with KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Qi,een Ka-
tharine, Mra. C. Kean ; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,

Will be presented JANET PRIDE. Characters by Messrs. B.
Webster, C. Selby, Garden, Keeley, and Paul Bedford; Madame
Celeste and Miss M. Keeley.
After which, BETTY MARTLN.
To conclude with I'LL TELL YOUR WU'E.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.
THIS EVRYING,

Will ba performed THE WELSH GIRL. Characters by Messrs.
Emery, Leslie, Danvers, and Miss Teran.
To be followed by STILL WATERS Rig DEEP. Characters
by Messrs. A. Wigan, Emery, G. Vining, Danvers, Miss Maskell,
and Mrs. Mellort.
To conclude with THE WANDERING MINSTREL.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke.

Transcendant result of the Whitsuntide Spectacle of Chivalry !

THIS EVENING, and Every EveninT,
The new Grand and Gorgeous Chivalric Spectacle by J. H. SToc-
QUELL% Esq., called, ENGLAND and FRANCE in the DAYS of
CHIVALRY, or. the Brothers in Arms, with the magnificent Touruey
in the Field of the Cloth of Gold, &c.

it,er which, the novel ACES in the ARENA, and other entertain
ments.

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Box-office open from Eleven till Your. Stage Manager, Mr. W
West Acting Manazer, Mr. W. H. Cooke. Equestrian Director,
Mr. W. Cooke, inn.

HIGH WATLII AT LONDON VAT-Dail

T4ll DAY —Morning 18 Lain.afiar 9 1 Rvenirg49rnin. aft. 9
I 0 law. Morning 13 znin.aftoi 10 j Evening 52 min. a1...10

TAB WEATHER.—Err Onus, June 9
Taznuommis. IN THE SRADE.
67—highest since noon yesterday.
51 —lowest this morning and during the night.
66—this day, at noon.

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BAROMETER, 30.12.
WIND, S.S.W.—Light breeze, with heavy clouds. A
shower of hail in the forenoon.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1855.

After a very protracted and animated discus-
sion the debate on the several amendments to
Mr.DisBAELf s motion has been brought to a very
strange and inconclusive termination. There has
been no trial of strength—no division. The first
part of the amendment of Mr. LOWE was nega-
tived without a division, the second withdrawn,
that of Sir WILLIAM HEATHCOTB was likewise
withdrawn, and Sir FRANCIS BARING'S adopted,
if not unanimously, at least without any trial of
strength that would serve as a test of the opinions
of Right Honourable and Honourable•Gentlemen
when appealing to their respective constituents.
Many have been condemned out of their own
mouths. They have delivered opinions which are
so utterly at variance with those of the
people that we believe they will never
again be suffered' to misrepresent the views
of any body of independent electors. We can
scarcely believe that the educated gentlemen of
Oxford will be prepared to endorse the peculiar
views of Mr. GLADSTONZ and his colleague Sir W.
IiLLTHCOTE.

The " Peace-at-any-Price" party were, per-
haps, the most vociferous. We believe that
almost every one of the Oxford and Manchester
school spoke—that the division lists could scarcely
have furnished an additional name for public cen-
sure. Of the Peelites, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and
Messrs. GLADSTONE, HERBERT, and CARDWELL
gave full expression to their new views, and
attempted to justify the apparent inconsistency of

opposing a matter which, while in office, they ad-
vocated with all their power--attempted, we
say, for the effort completely failed, and few
could listen with psitience to the fine-drawn
distinction of the Right Hon. Baronet the Member
for Carlisle, who confessed that the seceding ,
Ministers " were parties to the arrangement that
a proposition should be made to the Russian Go-
vernment with reference to the diminution of
the preponderance of Russia in the Black Sea,
which should require the limitation of the Rus-
sian naval force in the Black Sea, but that they
had not insisted upon that limitation as an ulti-
matum or sine qua non!" This quibbling and
casuistical defence materially aggravated the ori-
ginal charge. In what other form was it put but
as an ultimatum, ? The British Government sub-
mitted four points for the acceptance of Russia.
It refused to treat on any other terms. They were
distinctly put forward as the only basis on which
negotiations could even be commenced. With
gross duplicity and insincerity Russia accepted the
Points, one of which she had at the very moment
resolved to repudiate when the concealment of
her real intentions was no longer practicable.
Our own Government would be exposed to a
charge of equal insincerity if they had not insisted
as a sine qua non on every one of the Points so
decidedly and categorically put forward. The
nation has been sufficiently disgusted with what
Las already been brought to light respecting
" secret diplomacy." The feeling will be by
no means improved by the so-called explanations
of Sir JAMES GRAHAM and his Peelite colleagues.
Of the Manchester School, Messrs. MILNER,
GIBSON, COBDEN, and BRIGHT occupied the time
of the House at considerable length, and Sergeant
SIIEE nearly succeeded in obtaining the honoars
of itca count-out," during the most important
debate of the Session. We suspect, however, that
the Peelite and Manchester men would have had
a scanty following if a division had bean in-
sisted on. A vast majority of the advanced
Liberals and thoraugli-going Free Traders would
rather have arrayed themselves with honest JOHN
MACGREGOR, and demanded the destruction of
Sebastopol, and an ample pecuniary indemnity for
all the expenses of the War, as indispensable con-
ditions of any peace that could be accepted by the
nation. The truckling course pursued, however,
prevented the possibility of separating the wheat