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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
The Public is respectfully informed, that the
PRESENT MANAGEMENT WILL TERMINATE
WITH THIS SEASON ;
The Historical Play of KING HENILY V., from the Text
Shakspeare, will 1.),• produced on Monday.
TO-MORROW EVENING, JUNK 7.
Will he performed the New Play, in Five Acts, called
RICHELIEU, OR THE CONSPIRACY,
Written by Sir E. Lytton Bulwer, Bart.
The Characters by
Ir. Elton, .ofr. Diddear, Mr. Maereadv, Mr. Warde, Mr. a-
Jerson, Mr. Vining. Mr. Roberts, Mr. Phelps, Mr. G. Ben.
nett, Mr. Howe, Miss E. Phillips, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Yar.
nold, Mr. W. 1.. Payne, 1!r. C. J. Smith, Mr. Bender.
Mr. Pat* Mr. Gough, Mr. Thorne, Mr. Brady, Mr. Bur-
net, Mr. Smith, Mr. Kirke, Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. %Val.
'lron, Mr. Ayliffe, Mr. Andrews, Mr. T. Matthews, Miss
Vandenhoff, Miss Charles, Mesdames Reed, Corder, Lee,
Valanduke, Mathews, Mew, and Morgan.

After which, -
ANHLIE ; OR, THE LOVE TEST.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Tlse New Grand Opera of " The Love Spell" has been tri-
naiphant in the extreme. The rich, flowing Melodies—
beautiful Scenery—and the acting and singing of Miss Ro•
mer, Mr. Templeton, and Mr. Balfe, meet with undivided
apprelsation of elegant and crowded audiences.
THIS EVENING, JUNE
ct am
~ ibe performed a New One A D rama, called
mg
THE MAIDS OF HONOUR.
41.154" After which the Grand Opera entitled
THE LOVE SPELL.
With all Doniaetti's Original Music of " L'Elisir d'Amore,"
Adine, Miss !Ismer ; Nemorina, Mr. Templeton ; Dulcamara,
Mr. Balfe.
Ts conclude with the successful Drama, called
ALICE GRAY, THE SUSPECTED ONE.

:ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Under her MAJESTY'S IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE.
GRAND " PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAM-
PETRES ! !!
THIS EVENING, .10vg 6.
And Monday, Tuesday, and Thursdav, Next Week,
fly a splendid Band, composed of the most *distinguished Instru-
mental Performers in the Metropolis,
Selected and conducted by Mr. Godfrey.
Commencing at Six o'clock, and terminating at Nine.
The magnifloent Day-light View of MOUNT HECLA, and
the anesinalled Menagerie, are exhibited daily.
Admission One Shilling.

LONDON:
THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1839.

The Lords did not meet yesterday. Their services
are a great deal too valuable to be obtained every day.
We should perhaps despise them were they to labour
too frequently.
The Commons were mainly employed in receiving
petitions, great numbers of which were presented for
the penny postage, and against the Ministerial plan of
education.

It was ordered on the motion of Sir ROBERT INGLIS
that Mr. BURGE should be heard against the Jamaica
Bill. We hope the Learned Agent is not paid sepa-
rately for his labours as Gounsel, otherwise it is likely
that both his clients and the country may regret that
Jamaica should have a barrister for its agent.
In reply to a badgering question or two on the part
of Sir STIATFORD CANNING, Lord PALMERSTON
stated, lout would state nothing more, than that he was
using his beat efforts, both at Paris and Buenos Ayres,
to put an end to tius French blockade of the latter
place.

The Clerks of the Peace and the Copyholds Enfran-
chisement Bills severally went through Committee.
A grant of 70,0001. out of the Crown Land Revenues
for rebuilding the stables at Windsor was agreed to.
The House was up at Half-past Eight.

We find soma difficulty in understanding the re-
cent policy of Ministers, as exhibited in their acts.
A breath of opposition from a rabid rabble of
Methodist parsons and Church of England priests
induced them at once to resign a favourite and
esteemed project of their own for improving educa-
cation. They seem to have planned it with care,
anti to have expected it would add to their
reputation. They have, however, at once
frankly, and, as we think, properly, given it up,
demonstrating that they have no obstinate attach-
to their own schemes—no invincible reptig-
eance to sacrifice their own views to the demands
of the people. At the same time, whatever the
Reformers ask, they sturdily refuse. The Liberal
Press has lately cautioned the Reformers not to
press on the Ministers. " Only give them time,"
it was said, " only trust them ; do no not tease
them ; they do not like to be urged ; they are ob-
stinate men, who will only be driven by your soli-
citations and demands more firmly to resist
yau." All this was believed by the Liberals ;
they held their peace ; they drew back ; they
urged nothing ; they confided implicitly ; and the
result is, that the Cabinet tells them it can give no
countenance to.their demands; it is obstinate in re-
sistance to them, and it yields like dough to the
touch of the parsons. Till the night before last
we found some consolation, under our disappointed
expectations, in believing that it was a firm adher-
ence to their own principles and peculiar views, which
made the Ministers resist the' wishes of their best
friends ; but we have no longer that consolation, for
they have evinced no obstinate attachment to their
own position, and retire from it with the greatest cele-
rity at the approach of a Tory foe. We can only
explain this seeming inconsistency by supposing in
them a disposition to be friendly with the Tories,
and to separate themselves from the Reformers.
Such proceedings, so contradictory, on the sunpo-
sition that they are inclined to the Radicals, make
us fear that the Tories have got a firm friend in
the very citadel of the Reformers.
Our fear is strengthened by believing that the
Cabinet had not the smallest occasion to take the
course it adopted, on Sir HESKETH FLEET
WOOD'S motion. That is a new proposition ;
that particular franchise is demanded by no class,
tainting it will allay no discontent, hut probably
augment the discontent of the unenfranchised
masses of the towns ; its bearings are wholly un-
known; the country gentlemen might well be as-
tounded at it ; the Session draws to an end ; and on
all these grounds the Cabinet might, without going,
any further, have declined now to entertain the pro-
position ; Sir HESKETU FLEETWOOD would have
withdrawn it, and there would have been, for the
present, and probably for ever, an end of the matter.
' But that did not satisfy Lord JOHN RUSSELL,
who went far beyond the safe line we have drawn ;
he discussed the principles of Reform—he was care-
ful to make it distinctly understood, whatever may
be his own individual opinions, that the Cabinet
has become Anti-Reforming, and can neither now
nor hereafter give its countenance to any such de-
partures from the Reform Bill. And .for giving
the Reformers this uncalled for hearty slap on the
face, Lord JOHN RUSSELL was zealously compli-
mented by his supporters, Mr. SLANEY and Mr
PrIILLIP HOWARD. Now, having gone out of
his way even to tell us that the Cabinet will not help
the Reformers, having gone out of his way to
extinguish hope and confidence in the Radicals, we
wish to know how the present Cabinet is to carry on
Ate Government ? We see no practical means of
euceess. The Tories will not keep them in office ;
he Radicals will not. They had the ball at their
leet, alai they have broken it to pieces. The game
was in their hands, and they have thrown up
their cards. Time was working for them ; the
possession of.the Government, properly used, was a
tower of strength ; they refused to wait, and cut
themselves off from these manifold advantages. Such
policy we do not understand. The zeal of the
country for them must be, we are afraid, ime
mediate] y cooled ;
been the enthusiasm that was rather
slumbering than kindled, but might have
fanned into a flame, will be hopelessly
smothered; and, if they have the feelings
of generous men, they will have to weep to see
daemselves deprived of the power to serve the young
Lady who has thrown herself' on them for protection.
The gentler, the happier ELIZABETH, as Mr.

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