The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-09 00:00:00

p itYSTAL PALA CE,—WEDNESDAY NEXT, exclusively, we repeat, by considerations of Party.
N__) JULY 13.—The Directors have the pleasure to announce Is there any, even one instant's doubt upon the
that they have entered into arrangements with Mr. Maple-
son, the Lessee of Her Majesty's Theatre, for a GRAND matter ? Examine the speeches delivered during
EXT RA OPERA CONCERT, on the above date, supported
by the Principal Artistes, Band, and Chorus of Her Majesty's this heavy debate of four nights' duration, examine
Theatre.

The First Part of this Grand Concert will consist of a re-
cital of the most interesting portions of Mons. GOUNOD'S
New Opera,

the speeches delivered by those only true patriots
and honest men (in their own estimation, that is to
say, of course) the so-called Independent Liberals.
sitting below the gangway ! Mark well—how they
spoke and how they voted ! They spoke every one
of them dead against the Government. So speak-
ing, of course—nominally—out of considerations of
principle. But voting afterwards—diametrically
the other way. Voting, as we have said, solely and
exclusively with an eye to party considerations.
Not voting upon principle—there is but one thing
to be said obviously of the courso pursued by these
immaculate gentlemen, by these only spotless,
high-minded, right thinking politicians. Liberavi
animam mean said each of them to himself after

MIREL LA. •
The Second Part of the Concert will consist of a
MISCELLANEOUS SELECTION.
Madame Harriers Wippern, Mdlle Sinico, Mdlle. Volpini,
Madame Trebelli, Mdlle. Eeboux, Madame Grossi, and Mdlle.
Titiens ; S gnor Gardoni, Signor Bettini, Signor Rossi, Mr.
Santley, Signor Gassier, Signor Junca, and Signor Giuglini.
And the Band and Chorus of Her Majesty's Theatre and the
Crystal Palace combined. Conductor, Signor Arditi.
Admisson as usual on the days of the Opera Concerts, viz.,
by admission tickets purchased before the day, 2s. ed. tech,
or by payment on the day ss. Guinea Season Tickets free.
Sine.le stalls, half-a-crown.
Admission tickets and stalls will also be ready for issue at! 0
o'clock on Monday morning, the 11th of July, at No. 2, Exeter
Hall, at the Crystal r.tlace, and at the Box-office of Her
Majesty's '1 heatre.
Admission Tickets may also be had of the following agents
on Monday and Tuesday Addison and Lucas, -,10. Regent-
Street; Austin, St. James's Hall, Piccadilly; Barker, Post-
office, Lower Norwood ; Bubb, le7, New Bond-street
Chappell, to, New Boa d-street ; Challen, Duff, and Hodgson,
20, Oxford-street ; Cock, 62, New Bond-street ; Cramer,
Wood, and Co. 201, Regent-street ; crysta. Palace Art
Union, Polytechnic, 309, Regent-street ; Downe.., stationer,
Penge ; Hammond and Co , 2 4, Regent-street ; Bopwood
and Crew, 42, New Bond-street; Keith, I'rowse, and Co., 4S,
Cheapside ; Lacon and Ol,ier, 16S, New Bond-street; Letts,
Son, and Co., 8, Royal Exchange; Marratt, 63, King William-
street ; Meal and Powell,
n 73, Cneapside ; Mills, 140, ew
Bond-at: eet ; Mitchell,
-3, Old Bond-street ; Moutrie, 55,
Baker-street ; 011ivier and Co., 19, Old Bond-street ; Sams, 1,
St. James's-street ; Warren, lii,h-street, Croydon ; Wes-
ter on, 20, St. George's- Lace, Knightsbridge ; Westerton, 12,
Newland-terrace, Kensingtnn ; and Williams and Lloyd, 29,
Moorgate-street.

pronouncing his own especial condemnation
of Ministers, and then, having so whispered
consolation to their consciences—into the lobby
after Ministers ! Hence the three hundred were
exceeded by a good broad supplementary thirteen—
the drift of the mass of arguments making up the de-
bate to the contrary notwithstanding I The debate,
in fact, having been all one way—the result of the
debate, that is to say, the upshot of the division, has
been all the other. It is an immense triumph for
Ministers, and one, moreover, upon which they have
ample reason indeed to congratulate themselves. And
what caps the climax of victory to them is this, that
it is virtually, to all intents and purposes, a twofold
victory. A victory still greater, to our thinking, in
the Lords than in the Commons. For, it would be
idle to regard the result of the division last night
in the Peers as, in any way, in the light of a triumph
for the Opposition. A majority of Nine in the
House of Lords is, in one point of view, more
of an anti-climax to the cause of the Conservatives
than a minority of Eighteen in the House of Com-
mons. Particularly, remembering that the majority
of nine in the Peers for the Opposition was in a
House (Proxies and Present) of 345—and that the
majority of eighteen in the Commons for
the Government was in a House (exclu-
sive of the Tellers) of 608 altogether. A
division, in fact, as broad and comprehensive as the
Houses of Parliament have been driven to for many
years—and therefore (so far as the Legislature itself
is concerned), upon the Kettlel matter in dispute,
final and conclusive ! Observe what is significantly
here intimated in parenthesis—final and conclusive
so far as the Legislature itself is concerned. For—
there is obviously, still, beyond the House of Comte
mons, the Country ! The representatives of the
people have been appealed to for their opinion, and
that opinion they have now pronounced unmis-
takeably. But—there still :remain—the consti-

RO AYL ITALIAN OPERA,
Covent-garden.

Last Week but Three.
3ldlle. Adelina Patti ; Signori It Faure, and Mario.
THIS EVENING (Sa,urday), July 9, will be performed,
for the 2d time this season, Donizetti's favourite opera, in
two vets, L'ELI,IR D'AM ORE. Adam, 3ldl e. Adelina
Patti ; Dulcamara, Signor Ronconi ; Eelcore, M. Faure, his
second appecrance in that character; and Nemorino, Signor
Mario, his second appearance in that character these eigh
years.

,nencies !

Scanning the whole of this great Party Debate
'rom its commencement to its conclusion, we are
constrained to pronounce it altogether, as unques-
tionably very considerably below the mark as a
display of Parliamentary oratory. But one man
alone, to our thinking, was really up to the mark,
was really up to the level of his reputation—
whether we look to his share in the debates as a
speaker, of exceptionally brilliant powers as a
humorist, or whether we scrutinise the division.
list for his name (happilly in vain !) as a man
of veritable, not of nominal bat of veri•
table independence. Su signally well has Mr.
RALPH BERNAL OSBORNE acquitted himself
both by his bold speaking and his not voting at all
that—now that we have at last fairly recovered
our gravity after the exhausting laughter caused by
his radiant, witty, delightful speech of last eveniDg
—we would here seriously proffer to him our most
earnest congratulations. The member for Liskeard
has fairly borne off the bell, he has crowned himself
with honour, he has once more, and this time very
signally, taken occasion to vindicate his indepen-
dence. His constituents have more than ever reason
to be proud of him. For he has been at once the
most effective speaker in the whole of this great party
discussion, and the most cqnsistent among all the
independent representatives in withholding his vote
from the division list. It is especially observable in
regard to the speech delivered by the hon. and
gallant member for Liskeard, that while in the
thick of an unusually angry debate, it seemed to
put every one into good humour, it was brought
to a close amid loud cheering from both sides of
the House ! Glancing for a moment at the one
night's debate in the Lords, we would say
that the Earl of CARNARVON has at least the
satisfaction of remembering those noble words with
which he closed his protest against the feeble, vacil-
lating, and abortive Foreign policy of Ministers—
the policy which has now been reprobated by the
Lords but condoned by the Commons ! Lord CAR-
NARTON,we say, has the satisfaction at It ast of having
eased his heart and his conscience by the delivery
of those noble words with which he thus closed
his eloquent peroration : " I myself claim,
when I see a weak, ancient, Christian people,
allied to us by blood and otherwise, ruthlessly tram-
pled down in despite of the laws of GOD and man,
and when I see England dragged in an unwilling
accomplice, then as an individual I claim my privi-
lege of expressing my abhorrence, and of washing
my hands of the guilt, and of shaking off from my
feet the dust of this transaction." Whoever looks
seriously at the matter in dispute, not through
consideration of party, but purely through
considerations of principle and patriotism, will
fiad stirring in his heart and in his conscience
an echo of those burning words of Lord CARNARVON,
Others disposed to view matters less seriously, even
at this juncture, when Denmark is being abandoned
to brutal subjugation under the heels of the Prus-
sian soldiery, may be disposed to follow with a
glance of wistful sympathy the member for Lis■
keard as he quitted that scene of division in the
House of Commons, as with a scornful laugh and
a disdainful shrug of the shoulders.

Amid the crowd of events that hurry on, one is
very apt to forget incidents that at first striking
become after a short time but secondary in interest
and importance, compared with matters of more
pressing and particular account. Yet there are
some events which should be rescued from the
shadows of such early oblivion, and specially singled
out as objects of notice. Among these the expulsion
of the Circassians must be considered to take a
prominent place, and it is therefore very gratifying
to notice that a public meeting was held the other
day for the purpose of considering the condition
of the Circassian exiles, and the measures suitable
to be adopted for their relief. This is a very
praiseworthy undertaking, and the best wishes of
all feeling hearts will be with those who undertake
this work of benevolence, and advocate the cause
of the oppressed and the wronged. Lord STRAD.
FO:

very successfully discharged the duties of that
IED DE REDCLIFFE was the chairman, and he
onerous undertaking. Ho truly said that though
the Circassians were far from us in a
geographical
point of view, yet that they had claims on our
support and sympathy from the
gallant manner
in which they had defended themselves in their
struggle with their enemies, His Lordship was
very wise in his declaration to avoid mixing UP
the political question of Russia end Circ,issie
with the "purely benevolent" object of their
meeting; nothing could be better designed J