The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-01 00:00:00

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HER I.IAJESTY'S THE.
GRAND EXTRA NIGHT.
DON PASQUALE— ERNANI.
On THURSDAY next, June 3,
Will be presented Donizetti's admired Opera,
DON PASQUALE.
With the last act of
ERNANI.
Elvira, Jadlle. Sone Cruvelli ; Eraani, Signor Calz
Gomez, Signor Belletti; lago, Signor Fortini ; Carlo
Ferlotti.
To conclude with a BALLET.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made
office, Opera Colonnade, Haymarket.

olari ; Roy.
V., Signor

at the Box.

111. OYAL ITALIAN OP
COVENT GARDEN.
GRAND EXTRA 1S It
On THURSDAY next,
Will be performed INleyerbeer's Grand Opera,
LES HUGUENOTS.

ERA,

Valentina, Madame Grisi ; Margarita di Valois, Mad,
lan; Dama d'Onore, Madlle. Cotti; Urbano, Madile. Sei
cello, Herr Formes ; 11 Conte di San Bris, Signor Polonh.
de _Severs, Signor Tagliailco ; De Cosse, Signor Luigi Mei
Signor Gregorio ; the Hugenot Soldier, Signor Soldi ;
Rommi; Raul di Nangis, Signor Mario.
The Incidental Divertissement will be supported by M
lemberg and. Leblond ; M. Flume and M. nuault.

ime Castel-
Rtin ; Mar-
i ; II Conte
i; De ltetz,
eru, Signor

adlles. Ko-

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THE,
OXFORD-STREET.

LTRE,

Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES KEA

Mr. and Mrs. CHAT:Li:B KEAN respectfully inform
that their BENEFIT will take place on MONDAY, di
which occasion win be represented a new and original
five acts, by the author of " The Wife's Secret," and, fi
time, a new DRAMA, in three acts.
Places and Boxes to be taken at the Box-office; and of
3, Torrington-square.

tha public,
tne 14, on
PLAY, in
a' the first

Mr. Kean,

ATTY'S GRAND NATIONAL I
DROME,
Opposite the Broad Walk, Kensington-garc ens,
Is now OPEN for the Season
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UPPO

Mr. 8., in announcing his Second Season, and grateful]
bering the liberal patronage bestowed upon past per:or=
leave to state that ho has spared neither pains nor expenst
ing the best Artists from the principal Continental an
Amphitheatres, to realise the spirit-stirring scenes and ex.
tests of the Curiculum, for which the Romans were to fan
to ensure a perfect prcduction of the various scenes, the
Henri Franconi, founder of the Parisian Hippodrome, has
gaged, under whose superintendence the numerous Stud c
Horses, Ponies, Stags, Ostriches, Elephants, &c., will be i
from time to time, forming the most complete tout en
Antique Pastimes ever witnessed in England.
A splendid Brass Band will be in attendance.
Admission—Reserved Seats, 35.; First Class, 23.; Sec
Is.; Third ditto, Ed.
Doors open at Five, to commence at Six precisel:

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,nces, begs
in select-
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tons; and
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and ditto,

TR E. without in some sort violating the temporary confidence
reposed in them at the commencement of the session
by the people of the United Kingdom. Ample time
has been afforded them for the preparation of their
electioneering arrangements—the only reasonable re-
ward which it was possible the nation could bestow
upon statesmen who, at an emergency like the pre-
. sent, have ventured to assume the somewhat thank-
less responsibilities of the administration. They
' have long since obtained the various estimates re-
quired for the carrying on of the numerous depart-
:mute of the Government. They have acquired even
a certain amounttendency
en y
of popularity by the liberal form and
re
of their financial statement. They
free trade
nd
have been feasted by goldsmiths, by Royal Academi-1
cians, and by the chief of the metropolitan municipality.
They have found their political pathway—a pathway
that threatened to prove so peculiarly rugged and
distrustful—smoothed before them by the magnani-
mity of the multitude, and even strewn in some places
with the flowers of after-dinner compliment. It was
but right, therefore, that the Easter recess, having
passed by without any anxiety, on the part of the
Cabinet, to expedite the labours of the session, some
testimony of the existence of that feeling should be
given at least before the arrival of the holidays at
Whitsuntide. To a sense ce this we may attribute
the series of resolutions agreed to on Friday evening,
in compliance with the suggestion of the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER.
The wording of these resolutions will be found on
examination to be indicative of a really earnest desire
to hasten the labours of the session to a conclusion.
The first on the list, for example, suggested " that
whenever the House shall it for dispatch of busi-
ness at twelve o'clock on any day except Wednesday
and Saturday, if such business be disposed of not
later than three o'clock, the House will resume its
sittings at five o'clock; and if such business be dis-
posed of after three o'clock and before four o'clock,
the House will resume its sittings at six o'clock."
Nothing could, surely, be more rational than this,
and equally admirable in its tendency is the proposal
immediately following, to the effect " that when such
hilliness has not been disposed of at four o'clock, Mr.
SPEAKER (or the Chairman, in case the House shall
be in Counittee) do leave the chair, and the Houso
will resume its sittings at six o'clock, when the orders
of the day not disposed of at the morn-
ing sitting, and any motion which was
under discussion at four o'clock, shall be
set down in the order-book after the other
orders of the day." By such an arrangement
83 this it is manifest that a considerable amount of
the business still upon the papers might "be got
through" in an interval of time, comparatively
speaking, insignificant. Equally meritorious are the
two subsequent resolutions—the one •ithat whenever
the House shall be in Committee at four o'clock, the
Chairman do report progress when the House re-
sumes its sitting ;" and the other, " that all dropped
1 orders of the day he set down in the order-book, after
the orders of the day for the next day on which the
House shall sit"—thereby ensuring, as far as it is at
all practicable to ensure,
.the assiduity of those who
may be in attendance in the Lower House of the
Legislature. For these resolutions, it will be
observed, that the country is directly in-
debted to the Right Hon. the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER—the Minister who, out of the whole of
the present Cabinet, has evinced the greatest readiness
and, in many respects, the largest capacity to carry
out some at least among the wishes of the population.
It cannot but he a source of profound gratification
to observe, that in these particulars at any rate, the
only " man of the people " in the ranks of the Tory
Government has been the very one to evince, by act
as well as by word, a practical anxiety to further
the cause of the national welfare, and the very
One who, in doing this, has revealed no
inconsiderable capacity for conducting the
labours of administration. It must be remem-
bered, for example, that among all his colleagues,
Mr. DISRAELI was the first to recognise the inde-
structibility of the free-trade system, and the folly of
still insisting upon the wholesale or even retail re-
vival of monopoly. It was only the other evening
that the PRIME MINISTER was induced by the force
of circumstances, reluctantly, and even then some-
what ambiguously, to make the same acknowledg-
ment. That acknowledgment, however, had been
made long before—honestly, and, considering its im-
portance, we may add boldly—by the Right Hon.
Gentleman the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
While Sir FITZROY KELLY was still declaiming
vociferously upon the necessity of insisting upon the
restoration of the principles of protection, and while
the possibility of so doing was still in a great mea-
sure believed in by Mr. G. F. YOUNG, at one time
the recognised BOANERGES of the agriculturists, Mr.
DISRAELI had come to the conclusion that such a
ccurse would be found to be erroneous, because dia-
metrically opposed to the wishes of the general com-
munity. Thinking thus, he had the candour to avow
his convictions; and within the last fortnight we
have seen that conviction acceded to as just by no
less a personage than the Noble Earl the Leader of
her MAJESTY'S Government. Before Lord DERBY
allowed himself thus to scatter despair among the
ranks of the country party, it must not be forgotten
that the way had been prepared for the final decla-
ration of the PRIME MINISTER upon the subject by
the financial statement submitted to the House of
Commons by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER.
Of that financial statement, indeed, it could scarcely
be possible that the Liberal party throughout these
islands could very speedily lose a recollection. It
constituted a magnificent eulc;gium upon the system
founded originally as far back as 1842 by Sir
ROBERT PEEL"—the system of free trade, the system
of remitted taxation, the system sung by ELLIOT,
agitated by COBDEN, proposed and re-proposed by
VILLIERS, argued and re-argued by HusKissoN, and
suggested by ADAM SMITH, the COPERNICUS of the
political economists. There was magnanimity as
well as wislom, therefore, in the conception of Mr.
DISRAELI'S Budget, and there was courage as well as
skill in the manner of its actual announcement.
For this the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER is en-
titled to the approving voice of the multitude, whose
praise will be not the less willingly accorded to a
man of the People," whose distinguished abilities
have elevated him to one of the most difficult and
responsible offices to which he could have been
nominated by his SOVEREIGN. For the discharge of
the duties of that office he has already displayed his
capacity, while) as leader of the House of
Commons, he has revealed an aptitude for the manage-
ment of affairs, and a temper in the governance of
debate, such as could hitherto have alone been an-
ticipated from
an administrator of prolonged
experience. These facts, we repeat, it is
satisfactory to recall to the general remembrance.
For, so long as the nation is fated to behold the
Tories in the possession of the seals of office, it is
consolatory at least for the people to recognise in the
group of Cabinet Ministers one who, suddenly selected
from among themselves, has justified the tribute thus
offered to his genius by evidencing an intuitive
capability for presiding over the machinery of
government.

Nothing could possibly have been in better taste
than the speech in which Sir HARRY SMITH yester-
day thanked the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of
the borough of Portsmouth for their spontaneous
address
of congratulation. In offering him those
congratulations, honeyed over with the phrases of
panegyric, the municipality and inhabitants of Ports-
mouth were at the same moment, unconsciously it
may be, but truly, forcing upon that unluckly per-
sonage Earl GREY a cup filled to the very brim with
gall and wormwood. We suspect, moreover, that it
will not be the only draught of the like kind ad-
ministered to the ex-Colonial Secretary. The motion
of Mr. ADDERLEY it was possible to evade by the
resignation of the seals of government. But we
rather anticipate that it will prove somewhat more
difficult for the writer of the notorious dispatch,
dated " Downing-
from the exposure consequent upon the return to
Downing-street, 14th January,"
England of his Excellency the late Governor of the
aonesimpairlatrofcthhae"
Cape. There will inevitably be not
pro-
vincial evidences of sympathy accorded to
toonlyescape
wmaestrgoproosisiiy, gallant veteran who I
the course pursued by the corporation of Portsmouth,
rSeiorteri:lVAßOß:oll:l:lTnßot, biya
but there will be demonstramtioornes
tohfao
town councils emulating
home the
to welcome
and wantonly insulted by Earl Guy at 1