The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-05 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.-
THIS EVENING, Tuesday, May 5,
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLLA.
Principal characters by Signori Gassier, Zucchini (his first
appearance this season), Vialetti, Soidi, and Bettini (his first
appearance this season); Madame Corsi, and Mdlle. Trebelli
&her first appearance), who will introduce in the Lesson Scene
Rossini's on Pin Mesta."
Conductor, Signor ARDITI.
To conclude with LA FARFALLETTA, supported by
M. Alessandro Paul, M. Frani, M. Prospero Diani ; Mdlle.
Pieroni, and 3fdlle. Amalia Ferraris.
Thursday next, Subscription Night —First Night of Signor
Schira's new Opera, NICOLO DE LAPI ; or, The Siege of
Florence. New Scenery, Dresses, and Appointments.
Doors open at half-past Seven. The Opera will commence
at Eight o'clock precisely.
Prices :—Stalls, One Guinea ; Reserved Box Seats, Half-a-
Guinea ; Pit Tickets, Bs. 6d. ; Gallery Stalls, ss. and 7s. ;
Gallery, 2s. 6d. ; Private Boxes, in the Gallery Circle, to
admit three persons, 21s.
Notice. It will be necessary for those parties who intend
visiting the Reserved Rix Seats (at 10s. 6d. each), to attend
in Evening Costume.
Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets may be had at the Box-office of
the Theatre (under the Colonnade in the Haymarket,, which
is open daily, under the superintendence of Mr. Nugent, from
Ten till Six ; and at all the principal Libraries and Music-
sellers.

THEATRE-ROYAL, MAY MARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Ruckstone.
THIS EVENING, STILL WATERS RCN DEEP.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan,
Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Chippen-
dale, and Miss Louisa Angel.
After which, an apropos Dramatic Sketch, introducinc, a
Panorama of the Tour o the Prince of Wales in the East.'
To conclude with BORROWING A HUSBAND. Pamela
Miss Maria Harris. Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under
the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER.
THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with an Original
Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore,
garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee.
After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic
Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr3lofole, entitled THE
DUN.E.'S MOTTO, by rain Feval and John Brougham.
The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter,
supported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. Brougham,
H. Widdi3ombe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson ;
Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, and
Elsworthy.
Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. G. Vining.
THIS EVENING, PERFECTION: Mr. R. Roxby,
Be!more, Mr. iitZjailleS, Miss M , and Miss Oliver.
After which, at Eight. OTHF.LLO. Othello, Mr. Charles
Kean ; Emilia, Mrs. Charles Kean.

NEW THEATRE-R 0 YAL, ADELPHI.--
Sole Proprietor and 14Ianazer. Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, JANET PRIDE. Messrs. B. Webster,
J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, Stephenson, Stuart, Eburne,
Sefton, C. J. Smith, Bonier; Miss Avonia Jones, Miss A.
Seaman, and Mrs. Stoker.
To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. J. L.
Toole, Miss Kate Kelly, Miss A. Seaman. and Miss Stoker.

Commence at 7.

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The Weather---Sun Office, May 5, 1863.

THERMOMETER.
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Wind—S.-Westerly ; light, with flue but cloudy weather,

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LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1863.

Discretion is certainly the better part of valour
with her MAJESTY'S Ministers. Mr. GLADSTONE—
Iike the embodiment of COLLIN s' Ode to the Passions
—"
back recoils [though by the way the right hon.
gentleman does know why] even at the sound him-
self has made !" The proposition, coolly put forth
in the Budget, for the taxation of charities, Mr.
GLADSTONE as coolly withdraws last evening in
committee. He has a wholesome qualm upon him
as to the result of any division. Not intentionally
—under the circumstances, for as Mr. HENLEY
drily remarked immediately after the speech of the
Prime Minister, "as the noble lord had spoken of
the feeling of small associations or of loeal associa-
tions," we would just say (with Mr. HENLEY) that
we believe " they comprise the whole country—be-
cause," said the quaint old humourist, "the whole is
made up of parts." Now, looking back to this rather
long-winded discussion last evening in the House
of Commons in regard to this bungling proposition
of Mr. GLADSTONE'S for the taxation of charities,
through a heartless little clause in his Budget (a
clause now miserably withdrawn)—looking back
to the discussion of all this in the House of Com-
mons yesterday, and turning to the speech, already
alluded to, as having fallen towards the close of it
from the lips of Lord PALMERSTON, what, as
usual, do we find there ? Well, according to
what is fast becoming the all but invariable
circumstance noticeable in the speeches of Lord
PALMERSTON, we find the noble viscount's remarks
frequently interrupted with parenthetical intima-
tions of "laughter," "renewed laughter," and so
forth. Grave or gay, sad, serious, or grotesque, an
after dinner speech at the Royal Academy, an
inaugural address to a learned University, a pro-
posal of a toast to the Ladies of Scotland, an argu-
ment as to certain charities that it has been sng-
gestea by one of his colleagues should be ground
down under a new scheme of petty taxation—what-
ever the occasion, whatever the theme, so soon as
Lord PALMERSTON opens his lips (he himself all
the while now fast getting on for eighty) there is
laughter, loud laughter, renewed laughter ! As we
said yesterday—mainly, if not exclusively for the
sake of this laughter, in consideration of the vivacity
and bonhommie of Lord PALMERSTON the Ministry
(otherwise, in regard to Reform and matters of that
kind, utterly useless) is simply just tolerated. So
that actually—remembering the merriment which is
thus being continually provoked by the one popular
Minister, in the midst of his unpopular colleagues
—the Government of this great empire is now being
carri€d on "'Ton the simple principle of Grin and
Bear it !

Yesterday's sitting of the Prussian Chamber of
Deputies shows the truth of all that has been said
about the Convention. It is useless to make ex-
cuses when facts are against them, and the King of
PRUSSII and his Ministers had better come foward
boldly and declare their intention of supporting
Russia, instead of saying one thing to the Cham-
ber of Deputies, and writing the contrary
to foreign Powers. The whole conduct of Prussia
in this affair has been most underhand. At Mon-
day's sitting in the Chamber of Deputies Count von
EITLENBERG, in reply to Herr von CARLOWITZ, said
that Russian troops had passed the Prussian fron-
tier. They had been billeted, as it appeared, by
private arrangement, and no objection seemed

to have been raised by the Prussian au-
thorities. He, at least, was aware of none.
As to the disarmament of fugitive Russian troops,
such a measure was not required by law,
and no Cabinet order to that effect had been
issued. There was nothing of an extraordinary
character in the whole proceeding." When a
member of the Cabinet speaks in this manner there
is little room left for justice to hope for. It is
really lamentable that such a state of things should
occur, and the liberal-minded Prussians, both in
the Chamber and throughout the country, are
greatly to be pitied at such decadence in the credit
of their Constitution. A greater mistake was
never made than to take up the cause of Russian
tyranny, as it has been done by Herr Von BISMARK
and his friends. They are greatly injuring their Sove-
reign, they are stultifying their country's progress,
and they are disgracing themselves before the eyes
of all European nations. It is a contradiction in
terms to aver that their country possesses a free
constitution, and then aid and abet to the utmost of
their power the greatest despotism that the world
contains. The actions of the Russians to the Poles,
their whole policy towards them, is the record of as
cruel a tyranny as any that the world ever
saw, and it is rendered doubly di: graceful
by the fact that it is perpetrated in an
enlightened century and surrounded by civi-
lised nations, Prussia might just as well send an
armed force to the field against the Poles as to
adopt these covert measures, which, in the end,
prove more deleterious to the cause of the patriots.
They have on several occaaions defeated their ad-
versaries in open combat, but it is most difficult,
if not altogether impossible, to baffle the machi-
nations of conventions and subvert the efforts of
those who work in the dark. Whatever may be

Rather a ludicrous state of things, surely, when
the actual situation of affairs comes to be looked
into. All the more contemptible in its way, more-
over, when we think for a moment of the
war, still to this instant, and for a long
while past, raging in America (a war that Eng-
land may yet be dragged into), and
of the
Revolution in Poland that may eventually re-
sult in a general embroilment of the great Powers
of Europe—England amongst them.
Contrasting very strikingly, indeed, with the
careless whimsicality of the Premier and the dull
dead weight of his do-nothing colleagues—one can-
not but be constrained into seriousness, and into a
hope at least of something like earnest action
on the pert of our Statesmen—upon reading
in the initial number of the new monthly organ
of her MAJESTY'S Opposition—No. 1 of The New
Review—what may, in some respects, be regarded,
we presume, as a formal manifesto put forth in the
name of that Opposition. Tories, though we are
no', Liberals though we are to the back-bone, to
the very heart's core, Reformers, Economists,
Free Traders, we cannot but listen w.tli
a po itive sense of relief to what it is ti
this new mouthpiece of her MAJESTY'S Opposition
has to say, in manly seriousness, in the midst of the
silly frivolities of our aged Prime Minister, and
of the dull do-nothings of his colleagues in her MA-
JESTY'S Government. Turning our regard from
this do-nothing pol
icy of Ministers—turning our
attention from this incessant frivolity of tone notice-

THE EXHIBITION of ALUMINIUM and able in the midst of Wars and Revolutions in almost
ALUMINIUM BRONZE,
2,000 cation SPECIMENS,(OrnamentaI
illustratingand t_se f )
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fh
thesee a all the various speeches delivered by oar veteran
Premier both within and without the walls of Par-
teresting, Metals, ARE NOW ON VIEW
at liament—turning over the pages, on the contrary,
AIAITL.N BROTHERS' NEW ROOMS, Z 22, REGENT
STREET. of the New (Tory) Review, with an actual
Admission by Card. sense of relief we repeat, here giving. to us this
able and statesmanlike exposition of the
nature and the aim of Conservatism as now
represented by Her MAJESTY'S Opposition, we read
on, with a distinct sense of satisfaction. In another
sense than is usually attached to the familiar
words, we might say, fax est a 6 poste doter:. Look-
ing to—what is certainly on the cards—the possible
Change of Ministers, the Reviewer asks :
" Does anybody mean to say that the country
would suffer by a change which restored Sir John
Pakington and General Peel, Mr. Henley, Mr.
Walpole, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Sir Hugh Cairns, and
Lord Stanley, to the posts which they formerly oc-
cupied ? Granting [which we don't l] that Sir
Roundell Palmer is as good a man in his way as
Sir Hugh Cairns, and that Sir Cornewall Lewis
was as good a war Minister as General Peel, is there
any comparison between the Duke of Somerset and
Sir John Pakington, between Mr. Hutt and Mr.
Henley, between Sir George Grey and Mr. Wal-
pole, between Sir Charles Wood and Lord
Stanley, between Sir William Atherton and Sir
Fitzroy Kelly ?" Alluding to the rumoured
differences among the Leaders of the Opposition,
the writer remarks quite positively,—" Lord
Derby and Mr. Disraeli are perfectly united
and any faction in the Conservative ranks
which opposes the will of Lord Derby, must not
only be powerless for evil, but must, we feel certain,
consist only of such members as the party could well
spare." What is then observed in regard to that
said faction, we would here commend to the par-
ticular attention of the petty leaders of it—the re-
viewer, speaking of them, in fact, plainly enough as
follows :—" We readily admit that there is such a
faction—that it numbers about twelve members—and
that they are without exception the dullest, deafest,
and blindest of the whole party. They can make a
great noise ; fools generally can. They are made
much of by the friends of Government, and in that
there is nothing to surprise us. They are flat-
tered by it. But their influence and ability
are ridiculously magnified by those whose purpose
it suits to see in them a strong detachment, and
one able to perplex the whole party. They affect,
forsooth, the airs of the October Club which eo
vexed the last Ministry of Anne. They are like the
grasshoppers, so well described by Mr. Burke,
whose importunate chinck ' makes the field ring,
while the nobler creatures round them are contemp
tuously silent, and see them no other than they are,
the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though
loud and troublesome, insects of the hour.'"
Another excerpt from this remarkable paper
upon " The Conservative Party" in the first number
(May, 1863) of The New Review we are tempted to
give : but with this quotation from the Opposition
Manifesto we shall rest contented. It is a tribute
from the Country Gentlemen of England—a tribute
well deserved at their hands by reason of the many
long years of brilliant and arduous service in their
behalf as the foremost man amongst them all—a tri-
bute offered to and nobly merited by the Leader of
her Majesty's Opposition in the House of Commons.
" What Mr. DISRAELI," says the Reviewer,
" has shown in spite of certain petty factions
to be noticed presently, is an extraordinary
aptitude for keeping a great party together,
and inspiring it with confidence in himself.
This fact, alone, testifies to his possession of
great Parliamentary talents. His speeches attest
his eloquence; his writings his political sagacity.
The former are marked by a vein of curious gene-
ralisation, and by that art of expressing the results
of long observation and the conclusions of native
good sense in terse and striking apothegms, which
is almost peculiar to himself among the statesmen
of the day, and lends to his oratory a remarkable
and enduring influence. The latter show a study
of the English constitution in a thoroughly inde-
pendent spirit, and tending to original results. A
statesman who has thought so deeply on our history
and institutions ; who, at the same time, brings to
the transaction of ordinary business so much prac-
tical acuteness, and to the discussion of more serious
subjects so much impressive eloquence, is not to be
found every day. And whatever his faults—and
he is not without them—they are wholly unable
to detract from these great qualities, or to force
them below that point which is the standard for
the highest class of Ministers." The Tribute thus
paid to Mr. DISRAELI, in the name of the Party of
which he is, and has for so many years past been,
the Leader in the British House of Commons, will
be recognised as just by others besides those
enrolled under the banners of the Opposition.