The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-04 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

TaEAT RE-RO I/ Ali, HAY MARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
On EASTER MONDAY, will be performed MUCH ADO
ABOUT NOTHING. Hero, Miss Ellen Terry; Beatrice,
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. rbrileia
her first appearance), Miss Maria Harris.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under
the Sole Management of Mr. FECTITER Original
.
On EASTER MONDAY, to commence with Shore,
an
Messrs
Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Me.
Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee.
After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New' Romantic
Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr)logue, entitled THE
DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham.
The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter,
supported by Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham, H. Widdi-
combe, W. M'lntyre, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, H.
Butler, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leolercq, Kate Terry, B.
Lavenue, and Elsworthy.
Stage-Manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. H.
Barnett.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE
Lessee and Manager, Mr Linclus.
On Easter Monday the drama of AURORA FLOYD. 3,118
Amy Sedgwick. Miss tienderson, and Mrs. Simpson ; Messrs.
R. Roxby, (3r. Me►vi►le, G•
Belmore, C. Seyton, Wallace, and
Collett.
To conclude with a new whimsical Extravaganza, entitled
BEAUTIFUL lIA.I DE E ; or The Sea Nymph and the Sallee
Rovers.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manazer. Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING (15th time) AURORA FLOYD. Miss
Avonia Jones, Miss H. Simms, Mrs. Billington ; Mr. Benj.
Webster, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Billington,
Mr. Stuart, Mr. Sefton, Mr. Romer, Mr. C. J. Smith.
After which, A VALENTINE Toole, Paul
Bedford, Miss Kate Kelly, and Miss Seaman.
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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1863.

Lord PALMERSTON, we may be sure, has done
wisely in airing his reputation during this last week
in Scotland. It is about the best use, politically, to
which lire ould have put the earlier part of the Easter
recess—the leisure time coming immediately before
Eester. The enthusiasm of the noble veteran'srecep-
tion in the far north, if it fails in any way to
strengthen the position of the Ministry as a whole,
acts at any rate as a timely reminder (a re-
minder really in the very nick of time) of the popu-
larity appertaining personally to its head, a popu-
larity that of late was becoming very much discre-
dited. After all, however, there is no gainsaying
it—there is no possibility of blinking or ignoring
the fact that, individually, among all our leading
statesmen—Lord PALMERSTON enjoys a popularity
altogether unrivalled. As the one sole basis, how-
ever, upon which to rely for the stability and main-
tenance of an Administration otherwise than in its
chieftain's reputation most unpopular, weful still be
the
-
lieve it to be quite inadequate. Power as
Cabinet is in the ability of its members, strong
though it is in the Personal Popularity
its Leader, if it still
appertaining to
course it has been
doggedly pursues the
so long and so very obstinately pursuing, we
are perfectly well satisfied that every moment it
runs the hazard of a sudden collapse. The Op-
position at any moderately tempting opportunity is
quite formidable enough to outnumber the hetero-
genous mass capable of being mustered upon a di-
vision night to the right S
hand of Mr. PEAKER,
that motley and painfully dissatisfied throng of
so-called supporters of the administration ! M
t re
ore
and more distinctly the real Liberals,
independent Reformers below the gangway,
upon the Government side of the House, have come
to reorganise—in the Willis's Rooms compact A Do,
and in those famous Resolutions which ousted Lrd
DERBY and his colleagues for the sake of clearing
the way to office for Lord PA LME RSTON and his
colleagues—Gust what Sir HUGH CAIRNS tersely
odge ! Since then, we know that
called it) A D
systematically Reform has been
coolly and de-
liberately given the go by. We know
too wellthat it is given the go by still. The fact that it
was so had became so flagrant last year that one of
the foremost Liberals in tbe House, one of the
greatest among the Practical Reformers of the Age,
Mr. COBDEN, towards the close of last session
pretty plainly threw off all further appearance even
of siding with her MAJESTY'S Government, with
this deplorably and, under the circumstances, dis-
gracefully do-nothing Adnainistration. Mr. COBDEN
being all the more powerfuly incited, thus
to fling away the mere show even of frien
ness, by a consideration—
surely a very bitter cons'
aeration to him at once as an Economist
and a Reformer—that while Ministers are doing
just nothing in the way of Reform, they are
doing, as one might say, just everything in the way
of Expenditure ! Going such lengths iuthe way of
profligate disbursements, that even the Tories
cried
out at last, in indignation, "Hold, enough!"
That
the leader of the Tories in the House of Commons
could apply to one of the most flagrant instances 1
of the wholesale extravagance sanctioned by the
Government, one of the happiest of his phraseolo-
gical taunts—namely, when he spoke last year,
as every one well remembers, about our bloated
armaments !
After Easter, however, comes the Budget and
after-Budget—'a possible Division ! Ministers
would do ifs ell betimes t arses themselves, before
the tug of war begins th ion—to right them-
selves with the House and with the Country. They
can yet do it. How ? Anyone might see it, as
the phrase is, with half au eye. They are nomie
nally —for they took cffice as such—Reformers
Let them at last justify
and Econom:sts•
their right to both designations. Let them
prove themselves btheir policy to be
both Reformers and Economists. There is yet
time for it. And if they act thus—though but the
an afterthought—they may, even now, set the
array of this formidable Tory Opposition at defiance.
If not—if they still persist in following out the
same dogged, and disappointing, and really disgrace-