The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-24 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Grand Holiday Attractions—Miss Romer, Mr. Templeton, and
Mr. Balfe, in the New Opera of " The Maid of Artois," and
an entirely New Domestic Drama.

THIS EVENING, MAY 24,
Mr. Balfe's Grand Opera, entitled
THE MAID OF ARTOIS.
rioline, Miss Reiner Jules, Mr. Templeton ; The Marquis,
Mr. Balfe.
A Double Chorus and Increased Band.
To oonelude with (first time) a Domestic Drama, called
ALICE GRAY, THE SUSPECTED ONE.

New Scenery, and powerful interest.

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LONDON:
FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1839.

roor Mr. GOULBURN has been fairly cut by
t 4 .r°rY friends. The Times the Herald, the
Sa
ominous
d ,
, and even the simpering Post, observe an
announeeBdilewnicthe respecting him. He waf. originally
a flourish of trumpets. No one, it
is true, enumerated his services or his merits; but
he was
nevertheless proclaimed with a clatter of
defiance that showed a desperate resolution to
drown all inconvenient inquiries. No sooner,
"ov/ever, was his character analysed—no sooner
*lts the mask stripped from the brazen knight
who had been thus roared into the lists, than
the acclamations subsided, and from that mo-
sinient to the present we have heard nothing more
"nut Mr. GOULBURN. The truth is, that his
party , ashamed of him. Some old obligations or
07" Pledges in times of insolent exultation, bound
them, probably, to make this equivocal demon-
stration on his behalf ; but they are now
heartily sorry for it, and would retrace their ,
steps if they decently could. They have this
to4solation, however, that their cause is despe-
rate, and that GouLBURN, if he be unfit
kt the Speakership, will, at all events, make an
,44xceptionable scape-goat. One of his own
14tty called him a " kangaroo," a name by which
11'4 familiarly known in the Clubs, and which
'lB been recently revived in public by Mr. O'CoN-
hx.L. Mr. GouLBURN certainly betrays some
of the "vaulting ambition" of that animal, when he
lets up for the Chair of the House of Commons ;
44d as his own friends are the best judges of the
Ilther features of resemblance between them, we
eale him in quiet possession of the soubriquet.
lead the object of the Tory party been to select
the
individual, who on general grounds possesses
k smallest claim to the suffrages of the House of
°flunons, and on special grounds is obnoxious to
the
greatest objections, they could not have been
14:ore successful in their choice. Mr. GouLnunx
'43, in fact, but one side to his character—a sort
front with nothing within or behind. He
11 like the card figures in high, low,
Jack, and the game, which when turned
round present a blank. His Toryism consists in
leer bigotry and puny intolerance, unsupported
bn
Y any superior qualities to give them importance
even in the eyes of his own party. He is a stuffed
BPeeirnen of the faction, destitute equally of per-
-41°41 weight, intellectual energy, and of talents
Sr business.

The most remarkable part of this gentleman's
eereer was that of his Secretaryship in Ireland,
4114 the House of Commons must be aware—and
;,
;'it he not, the Irish Members will enlighten it—of
"e detestation he brought on his name, while
Administering the affairs of that country. In
proposing him for the Speakership, the
ories, in effect, declare war against Ireland.
If i
the prospect of ever again administering the
ievernment enter into their calculations, their con-
duet is nothing short of insanity. Had they done
nothing more to confirm their exclusion from power,
tlii3 bitter insult to the people of Ireland, and to
the Liberal party throughout the empire, would be
enough.
, Mr. GOULBURN, when in Ireland, was the
4
if4ol of the Orange lodges, the patron saint of that
tlatic and despotic minority which so long tram-
Pled upon the rights and liberties of their fellow-
Nintrymen. He was the last stay of the blasphemous
11.1sade against justice which filled the bench with
tit4tizans, the prisons with guiltless adversaries, and
I" streets with blood. The Government of Ire-
and in those days was a deliberate system of fraud,
!°t up under the perfidious name of " concilia-
-10n," which degenerated into a bye-word of deri-
-4°11) when Lord WELLESLEY was the nominal
head of the Executive, and all his faint tendencies
towards
the accomplishment of that most melan-
e,,h°lY mockery of justice, the " equal administra-
;%l of unequal laws," were arrested and pre-
ented by Mr. GoULB UR N. He was the
drag. upon all generous movements on the part
oi
the Viceroy to produce confidence amongst the
people ; and he effectually succeeded in strangling
:e good intentions of the Nobleman over whose
eti°fls he was appointed as a spy. To Mr.
b(ltri..BußN the people of Ireland are indebted for
4,eing deprived of the slight advantages, such
f 4 they were, which might have been con-
ed upon them by a Liberal Statesman,
,id
for turning to ashes the fruit of fair