The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-26 00:00:00

W HITSUNTIDE in the ISLE of WIGHT.
There and Back, 6s.
An EXCURSION TRAIN will leave the Waterloo Station on
SATURDAY, May 29, at Eight o'clock in the Morning, calling at
Vauxhall, Wandsworth, and Kingston Stations, and return on Tues-
day, Jane 1. Passengers can stay at Winchester, Portsmouth, or
Southampton.
Fares there and back, 4s. 6,1., 7s. 6d., 10s. 6d. ; Steam-boat Tickets
to the Island and Back, Is. Od. each.
Tickets to be had of Mr. Collins, at the Office, 63, King William-
Street, London-bridge ; Chaplin's Universal Booking-office, Regent-
circus ; Mr. Bradshaw, Toll-house, Waterloo-bridge, and 2, Tyer's-
terrace, Vauxball-street ; Wright, Tobacconist, opposite the Angel,
Islington ; Swan-with-Two-Necks, Gresham-street; Ayliffe, Hamp-
ton Wiek ; and Bond, Sun Inn, Kingston.
Tickets CANNOT be had at the Station.
IL H. COLLINS, Manager.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
GRAND EXTRA NIGHT.
Extraordinary Combination of Talent.
Mesdames Sofia Cravelli, D'Angri, and De la Grange.
Dona repit.s Oliva.
Signori Calzolari, Gardoni, F. Lablache, and Lablache.
TO-MORROW
On THURSDAY next, May 27,
Will be presented Bellini's celebrated Opera,
NORMA.
Norma, Madlle. Sofie Cravelli ; Adalgisa, Madlle. Feller ; Pollio,
Signor Gardoni ; Flavio, Signor Mercuriali ; and Oroveso, Signor
Sushi!.

After which the new Ballet Divertissement, entitled
LA FETE DES ROSLERES.
By Madlle. Carolina Rosati, Madlles. Rosa, Esper, Allegrini, Lamo-
reux; MM. Di Mattia, Gouriet, Venafra, and 3lath;eu.
To be followed by the last scene of
LUCIA DI LA3IMERMOOR.
Lula, Madame De la Grange; Alicia, Madame Grimaldi ; Edgard°.
Signor Gardoul ; Arturo, Signor Mercuriali; Bidebent, Signor Su-
; Enrico, Signor Ferlotti.
To which will be added a Divertissement, in which Dona Pepita
Oliva will appear.
With the grand Rondo and Finale from Rossinrs Opera La Cone-
rentals, by Madlle. D'Angri.
To conclude with a selection from the admired Ballet,
LA SYLPHIE.
La Sylphide, Madlle. Regina For; D ; James, M. Mathieu;
Rosa, Esper, Lamoreux, Allegrini, Sec.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Opera
Box-oflice, Colonnade, Haymarket.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.
GRAND EXTRA NIGHT.
TO-MORROW
Will be presented the first act of
NORMA.
Norma, Madame Grisi ; Adalgisa, Madlle. Bertrandi ; Clotilde,
Madlle. Coal ; Oroveso, Herr Formes ; Flavio, Signor Sold! ; Polio,
Signor Tamberlik.
To conclude with Rossini's favourite Opera,
IL BARBIERE DI SITIGLIA.
Rosini, Madame Castellan (in consequence of the in disposition of
Maffile. Angiolina Bosio) ;
Bertha, Madlle. Cotti ; Count Aimaviv
tenor Mario ; Bartolo, Signor Tagliafico; Basin;
R.gnOr Maa, •
Forello, Signor Soldi ; Figaro, Signor Ronconi.
Commence at Eight o'clock.
Composer, Director of the Music, and Conductor, Mr. Costa.
Tickets for the Boxes, Stalls, or the Pit may be had for the
Night or Season), at the Box-office of the Theatre which
from Eleven till Five o'clock ; and of the . ll.s open
principal librarians and
mnsicsellers.

BATTY'S GLAND NATIONAL HIPPO-
DROME,
Opposite the Broad Walk, Kensington-gardens,
Will OPEN for the season, on WHIT-MONDAY, May 31st, 1852,
When an ASCENT will Ise made in the Royal Hippodrome
Balloon, by a celebrated Aeronaut.
Mr. 8., in announcing his Second Season, and gratefully remem-
bering the liberal patronage bestowed upon past performances, begs
leave to state that he has spared neither pains nor expense in select-
ing the best Artists from the principal Continental and Foreign
Amphitheatres, to realise the spirit-stirring scenes and exciting con-
tests of the Curicalum, for which the Romans were so famous; and
to ensure a perfect production of the various scenes, the celebrated
Henri Francon', founder of the Parisian Hippodrome, has been en-
gaged, under whose superintendence the numerous Stud of Trained
Horses, Ponies, Stags, Ostriches, Elephants, &c., will be introduced.
Nun time to time, forming the moat complete tout ensemble of
Antique Pastimes ever witnessed in England.
A splendid Brass Band will be in attendance.
Admission—Reserved Seats, 35.; First Class, 25.; Second ditto,
Is.; Third ditto, 6d.

ROYAL. MARIONETTE THEATRE,
ADELAIDE-STREET, WEST STRAND.
TBIS EVENING, and every evening during the week,
A new Characteristic Address, by the Manager.
After which a new Piece, entitled THE HAPPY MANAGER. A
Dramatic Dificulty. In one act.
To be followed by a new and original Burlesqne, called THE
SPIRIT OF PUNCH; or, The Arcadian Brothers.
To eonclude with an entirely new version of the Grand Eastern
Speetaee of ALADDIN; or, Tha Wonderful Lamp, produced with
all the vast resources of this small establishment.
Dcers open at Half-past Seven, and commence at Eight o'clock.
A Morning Performance on Saturday next. Doors open at Half-
past Two, and commence at Three o'clock.
There will shortly be produced several New Pieces, which are now
In active rehearsal.
Private Boxes and Stalls to be had at the Box-office of the
Theatre, and of all the principal Librarians.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1852.

The Olympiad of Ensland—the great race for the
I'9
tt a natural association
;political question of
Derby—renatnate one to-daitt
of ideas, of the mist
instale:tleet Of the existingthe hour, the stabilit:
importan
Government. Before another month
.has elapsed, the
Parliament will, in all likelihood, have been dissolved.
Such at least is the moat generally receit'ed opinion,
consequent upon the estienate that by the 20th of
June the whole of the more imperative bush:
ess of
the session will have been accomplished. It behetves
the various constituencies throughout the country,
therefore, to bestir themselves betimes; and to the
Liberal electors in particular we would suggest the
propriety cf being more than ever cautious in the se-
lection of their respective candidates. There is some-
thing more required from the Reformers of England,
for example, than the adoption of the query sug-
gested by Sir JAMES GRAHAM, namely, " Is such-an-
one a supporter or an opponent of Lord
DERBY'S Cabinet ?" There is something more
than Party to be taken into account—there
ls Principle ! It would be as well, moreover,
Surely it would be as well „to inquire not merely into
the colour of the ribbons of a candidate, but also, and
in an especial manner, into the pervading hue of his
different prejudices and predilections, There is such
a thing, for instance, as the Ballot--in regard to
which it might be advisable to be a little more inqui-
sitive at the hustings. Again there are topios no less
important than Retrenchments in the National Ex-
penditure, and arrangements for a system of National
Education, and alterations in the National Currency,
and reforms, sanitary, fiscal, financial, colonial, elec-
toral, and of a variety of other descriptions upon
which it would be judicious to be prepared as with
an inexorable kind of portable catechism. Without
some precautionary efforts having this tendency to
vigilance, the holders of the franchise may be in-
terfering, unintentionally, perhaps, but only too
effectually, through mere indolence, with that great
advance movement which, during the last
quarter of a century, has been stabi-
litating the institutions and developing the
energies of the population by a wise and beneficent
succession of strictly constitutional innovations.
Among the reflections which she uld be uppermost in
the mind of every Liberal elect or, is that fruitful
theme of meditation, that his vote will aid in the
regulation for good or for evil of the complicated and
delicately organized machinery of the State—a
reflection which should incite the possessor of the
franchise to vote not according to caprice, or in obe-
dience to faction, but in rigid compliance with the
sedate and unimpassioned dictates of conscience. The
duty devolving upon the people of the United king-
dom at those momentous epochs, the general elections,
is one not to be lightly discharged, as you would toss
a halfpenny into the cap of a mountebank. It should
rather be with the cautious premeditation of a man
who has to deposit his scruple in one or other of the
scales of justice, upon the poising of which the desti-
nies of an entire race may be said to be in a great
measure dependent.
A glance at the result of the last general election,
the general election of 1847, will be suggestive, we
feel assured, of opinions calculated to prove not alto-
gether fruitless—acting, as the recollection of that
result must do with the Liberal electors of England,
as a direct and immediate incentive. It cannot be
forgotten that when the Parliament now on the eve
of dissolution first assembled, the two great parties
into which the House of Commons was (through the
lack of some more subtle and yet equally compre-
hensive distinction) divided, were almost exactly
balanced, numerically speaking, against each other.
The Liberals numbered almost 327, and the Conser-
vatives about 324. This was immediately after the
dissolution of a Parliament which had been returned
in 1841, with a sweeping majority rigidly Conserva-
tive. If such was the consequence of the appeal to
the country in 1847, when free trade, as a complete
system, was still undeniably crude, what may we
not reasonably anticipate in 1852, when free trade
haz ripened into a lasting policy, into a recog-
nised principle, the operation of which during the
last ten, but more especially during the last
four years, has proved eminently beneficial ? True
that, now-a-days, the Protectionists are in office
under the leadership of the Earl of DERBY, whereas
on the previous occasion the Free-traders held the
reins of power under the guidance of Lord Jona
RUSSELL. But then—it must be borne, moreover,
scrupulously in recollection, that though the Protece
tionists are in office they have formally abandoned
Protection ! The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
took that course long ago, acting with the sagacity
that might only be expected from a man of the people,
whom abilities as a statesman had raised him to one
of the most difficult and responsible posts of adminis-
tration. Even 11Ir. G. F. YOUNG allowed the folly of
stillinsisting, in spite of all hazards, upon the renewal
of imposts to the abolition of which the industrious
inhabitants of these islands had at length become ac-
customed. Sir FITZROY KELLY alone had the hardi-
hood to insist upon the renewal of that accursed tax
upon the food of the people which had been remitted
by the generous hand of Sir ROBERT PEEL,
in defiance of all the taunts of party, and
in obedience to the heroic and self-sacrificing
dictates of a patriotism based upon a spotless con-
science, and upon the noblest principles. The SO-
LICITOR-GENERAL wad noisy, it is t in
rue, insisting
upon the necessity of reverting to the old corn.' aW3
repealed in 1846, but Sir FITZROY KELLY has found
his vapid declamation about the rival merits of Free
Trade and Protection reduced to insignificance by
the memorable avowal made only the evening before
last, in the House of Lords, by the PRIME MINISTER of
England—the avowal that the position of the Pro-
tectionists is as hopeless as that of the Free-traders
is unassailable ! Therefore, the probability of suc-
cess to the Liberals throughout the majority of the
constituencies is enhanced by the very circumstance
of the agricultural party being in power at the mo-
ment of the Parliamentary dissolution, because that
circumstance has elicited from the leaders of the Pro-
tectionists auguries of the triumph of their antago-
nists—drawing forth the already well-known state-
ment of the First Lord of the Treasury, and extort-
ing a panegyric on the system of commercial compe-
tition in the celebrated Free-trade Budget of the
present CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER.
Everything, indeed, looks encouraging to the
Liberals and Free-traders of the United Kingdom,
now that we are standing as it were on the verge of
the electioneering revelation. Common sense answers
us that there is no mere claptrap or exaggera-
tion in
asserting that the general election
of 1852 its 1. s likely to be more momentous
in i
Character than any general election
that has taken
place during the past twenty years,
namely, gin" the general election of 1832. Not one
of the four int
though they lar:vGning general elections, important
can be regarded as comparable
been in their consequences,
with that which nnmparable in interest, or in in-
fluence,must be completed before
the arrival of the enslu.
election of 1835, that of Ing autumn. The general
837, that of 1841, and that
of 1847, potent though theY were in changing the
current of events in legislation, must yield iu impor-
tance to that appeal to the
country which midway in
the nineteenth century, will,
decide by the
voice of the people, not
s 3 much whether
free trade or protection shalt
be hence-
forth tadarephant (that question b •
tang already
resolved oven according to the showitto
of .he existing
t
a
Cabinet), bait whether the adininietrative
icy of this
country shall he one of continued progression or of
.lOD Liberalism, with Conservatism
as Retrogrese •
as to e.ll that is worth conserving, offers itself on the
one hand to the suffrages cf the population. Conser-
vatism without Liberalism, Conservatism of
everything
good, bad, or indifferent—Conservatism calling Free-
dom' "Anarchy," and Reform " Democracy in its
,'nolesale and
most dangerous attitude, that of se retail
innovation"—will on the other, possibly, attempt to
lure the electors by the promise of peace, such as
must ultiontely prove to be only the Paralysis cf

imagine to ourselves, that the more enlightened among
the possessors of the franchise can very long remain
undecided. Encouraged by the aspect of the future,
encouraged by the prosperity revealed in the past, the
Liberals must prepare themselves, at once and in
earnest, to fulfil the dictates of their consciences and
their patriotism. They must remember that the lan,
guage of encouragement has been virtually addressed
to them even by the Noble Earl at the head of the
present Government. Above all, they must remember
that the increased promise of advantage to their cause,
so far from justifying them in any diminution of
activify, tends only, and that very considerably, to
enforce thcir political duties and to enhance their
electoral responsibilities,

This day may fairly be pronounced to be par ex-
cellence the national holiday of England. It is
expressly honoured by the Chambers of the Le.
gislature as sacred to recreation. It witnesses a
copious disemboguement of the metropolis to the
breezy downs of Epsom, where every rank, class, and
,lge, is represented by an innumerable congregation
of jovous spectators, determined to " make a day of
it. liigh and low, rich and poor, Peer and peasant'
alike paj their homage to the genius loci. True it is
that, on tho
present occasion, the pleasurable antici-
pationsiin of mtudes are, to a certain extent, literally
.:.
" damped," for, even as we write, the envious firma-
ment is voiding its rheum with cutting bitterness
from the bleak north-east. But the unconquerable
enterprise and pluck of JOIN BULL is not to be
cowed by the angry Elements, and we warrant
it that road and rail will transport a host, numerous
as our old friends the " leaves in Vallambrosa," exceed-
ing the population of many a continental capital, not-
withstanding that
" The morning lowed, and heavily with rain
Brought in the day, the great, the important day,
Big with the fate of DAVIS and the Ring."
Those marvellous wights, the Sporting Prophets,
era doubtless at this hour perspiring with anxiety as
to the realization or confusion of their solemn vati-
cinations ; the minds of the layers and the takers of
eu'Lis from the Leviathan down to the costermonger in
his on e.-horse shay, are inspired with titillating soli-
citude. j.s it LITTLE HARRY or CHIEF BARON NI-
CHOLSON, 0.7 the formidable HOBBIE himself, or
some " dark" ,:nd deadly animal, whose victorious
strides are to ma.ke the circulating medium fly
in large and rapid c:irrents from the drained to
the replenished pockets ? Professing little insight
into Hippotrochical mysteries, we await the tidings of
the important result with serene et;
uanimity, proffer-
ing a gentle ardent aspiration, "May the best horse
win !"

But excellent and worthy of all support, as is the Na-
tional Sport of Horse-racing, there is one untoward cir-
cumstance to which it has given birth of late, which we
seriously and sincerely deplore. The town is swarm-
ing with betting-shops throughout its length and
breadth. It is all very well to say, "people are sup-
posed to be able to take care of their own affairs ; if
they choose to make fools of themselves, dropping
their money right and left, on this, that,
and t'other—wby, let them—si poptdus nit
decipi, decipiatur." It is, indeed, an even chance
that after the coming off of any leading event, half
of the fungous list houses will shut up shop, and the
worthy proprietors vanish with the " swag," leaving
their donkoyfied dupes blaspheming in the lurch.
But the crying evil of the matter lies in this, that a
temptation lurks in every street and alley to induce
lax-minded youngsters to gamble with the mil of
their employers. Our readers may depend on it that
many and many a sad scrape has been got into, and
many a fair prospect blighted in this very way. It
is becoming an intolerable nuisance, a foul canker in
the commonwealth, that gangs of unknown penniless
caitiffs are permitted to start up in every vacant spot,
dragging the fair system of betting through the mire,
and scattering broadcast the seeds of dishonesty
and sorrow. The abomination has arrived a

such a pass, that public indignation is at
length beginning to be awakened. The public
journals—and we would appeal especially to those of
our respected weekly contemporaries who are staunch
and honourable friends to the national sports—ought
to take the matter up, and crush those men of straw.

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How such pests of society are to be put down—for
put down they must be—it is not within our compass
now to suggest, but there is no local social evil that

cannot be counteracted, if the adequate remedy be
but resolutely applied. If the existing law be found
insufficient the defect must be supplied, and the
power of repression conferred must be carried into

stringent operation in the proper quarters._ The true
patrons of the Turf ought to bestir themselves without
delay, and purge the camp of such a scum of rascally
marauders.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
There is an article in the Constitutionnel showing
that the Government has resolved to make an experi-
ment of the free-trade principle, and that, at a mo-
ment when certain foreign journals represent it to be
entertaining ideas of war, it is earnestly engaged in
measures connected with international trade, which,
without the maintenance of peace, would be impos-
sible. The experiment now proposed is not a very
large one, but it is evidently too large to find much
favour in the eyes of the Constitutionnel, which is an
advocate of the protectionist principle with all its
pressure upon the great body of consumers. The
Constitutionnel endeavours, however, to a certain ex-
tent, to agree with the Government; it will consent
to the abolition of the prohibition principle, but only
upon the condition that protection shall be afforded
with a greater degree of certainty. The arguments
of the Constitutionnel are those of the protective
school generally.
The PRESIDENT of the Republic, dressed in the
grand costume of a Councillor of State, presided on
Monday at a meeting of that body, to discuss the
Bill on Public Instruction. He was accompanied by
the Minister of State and the Ministers of the In-
terior, Justice, Finance, and Public Instruction, and
General ESPINASSE, his orderly officer. The Coun-
cillors of States and the masters of requests alone
took part iu the deliberations ; the auditors were not
admitted to the sitting,
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Tguteest
Journalwithin du c certainher
bounds.
announces that three com-
munes of the Sologne have signed addresses to the
PRINCE PRESIDENT to thank him for what his Go-
vernment has already done, and what it proposes to
do for that part of the country.
Tne provincial journals which arrived yesterday
mention a great number of resignations of members
of councils-general, councils of arrondissement, and
municipal councils, to avoid taking the oath of alle-
giance. Amongst them are the Marquis DE BARTO-
LEMY and M. DUFAIIRE.
The Lyons journals publish the following note :
" The Prefect of the Rhone yesterday (Sunday) re-
marked, with surprise, that workmen were engaged
on the repair of the road of Charpennes. He has
given orders that, conformably to the ministerial
circulars, the works shall be suspended on Sundays
and file days."
The Patrie says:—" We are assured that it is pro-
posed to issue a decree to prevent labour on Sunday,
and to compel tradesmen to close their shops on that
day and on the days of religious files."
The journey of the PRESIDENT of the :Republic
to Channy is fixed for the month of September, at
which time the camp will be established at Cons-
piegn e.
It is said that a grand fete, which is to last three
days, is to be given in August by the City of Paris
and the National Guard. It is to commence, report
says, on the 15th of that month.
The sale of Count DE Mostetv's pictures took place
on Monday, in one of the new auction-rooms in the
Rue Drouot. A crowd of amateurs were present.
The whole, sum received was 305,885 f.
Bumiuoss commenced at the Bourse with an appear-
ance of briskness, but tho prices of public securities de-
clined towards the close. The Four-send-a-Half per
Cents. opened at 100 f.. and closed at 99f. 75c. for the
6.-id of the month; the Three per Cents. closed at 70f.
75?.•' Orleans Railway Shares, 1,187 f. 50c.; Rouen,
765 f.; Havre, 235 f.; Great Northern, 536 f. 25c; Basle,
245 f, ; Bordn:eux, 617 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg. 556 f.
25c. ; Tours and Nantes, 370 f. ; Paris and Lyons,
611 f. 25c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 25.
Great Indian Peninsula, s%s—Grand Junction of France,
4—Namur and Liege, 61/2—Orleans and Bordeaux, 151h—
Rouen and Havre, I—Sambre and Meuse, 474—Tours and
Nantes, 114—West Flanders, 3%—Western of France, M.

SPAIN.
We have received the Madrid journals of the
20th inst.
The Madrid Gazette publishes a royal decree, ap-
pointing Don PERFECTO VALDES ARGUILLES Presl-
dent of the Court of Accounts in the 1-14yAnnlib, in

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