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

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terestin metals, ARE NOW ON VIEW .1
'lament—turning over the pages, on the contrary,
' of the New (Tory) Review, with an actual
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 ah haste doceri. 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
Roundel! 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 iu 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 so
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
giv3 : 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 1
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 linable
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.

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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.-
THIS EVENING, Tuesday, May 5,
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA.
Principal characters by Signori Gassier, Zucchini (his first
appearance this season), V.aletti, Soldi, and Bettini (his first
appearance this season); Madame Corsi, and 3ldlle. Trebelli
(her first apnearance), who wilt introduce in the Lesson Scene
Itossini's "Non Piu 3lesta."
Conductor, Signor ARDITL
To conclude with LA FARFALLETrA, supported by
M. Alessandro Paul, M. Frari, M. Prospero Diani ; Mdlle.
Pieroni, and Mdlle. Amalia Ferraris.
Thursday next, Subscription Night. —First Night of Signor
Schira's new Opera, NICOLO DE LAP! ; or, The Siege of
Florence. New Scenery, D: esses, and Appointments.
Doors open at half-put 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 otal!s, ss. and 7s. ;
GOlery, 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 Bux Seats (at Its. 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 Ilaymar et', which
is open daily, under the superintendence of Mr. Nugent, from
Ten till Six ; and at all the principal Libraries and 3 us c-
sellers.

T EAT R E-RO AL, HAY MARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnckstone.
THIS EVENING, STILL WATERS RUN DEEP.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Chippen-
dale, and Miss Louisa Angel.
After which, an apropos Dramatic Sketch, introducing a
Panorama of the Tour of 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. PECHTER.

THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with an Orizinal
Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK, Messrs. Shore,
Garden, H. Widdicomb, M!ss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee.
After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic
Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr)'acme, entitled THE
DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham.
The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter,
sunported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. Brougham,
H. iddimbe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson ;
Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, and
Elsworthy.

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
PRUSSIA and his Ministers had bitzer come foward
bcldly 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
EtiLENBERG, 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 bad 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 BISMARN
and his friends. They aregreatly 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
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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 occasions defeated their ad-
versaries in open combat, but it is moat difficult,
if not altogether impossible, to b&ffie the machi-
nationa of conventions and subvert the efforts of
those who work in the dark, Whatever may be