The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-31 00:00:00

THEAT RE-R 0 Y AL, HAY MARKET.I
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bucks-tone.
THIS EVENING, THE WOLF AN D THE LAMB.
After which, at half-past 7, will be performed (137th tirne)
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck-
stone ; Lord DundrearSpanishy, Mr. Sothern.
Followed b a new LA CONTRA-
BANDISTA.y Senora Perea NBalletena, Sentitledenor Ricardo, and the
Corps de Ballet.
To conclude with THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE.

I{OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
.11-t; Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer.
110th Nt of the continuous run of "Peep O'Day."
THIS EVENING, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish.
Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville,
and Edmund Falcone! Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara
Weston, and Miss M. Hudson.
After which, a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet
interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and
Miss Lydia Thomson.
To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T
HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and
Miss Lydia Thompson:-
Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
_Prices as usual. Doors open athalf -past 8, to commence at
Box-offie.e open daily from 11 tills.
Commence a 7

0-VAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr A. Harris.
1„, )14 s EcTOING, THE RENDEZVOUS. Messrs. niggle,
mieadows, and Miss Maria Harris.
—After which, at h: quarter to 8, THE WIFE'S SECRET.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean ; Messrs. Everett, J. F. Cathcart,
&c. ; Miss Chapman and Miss N. Chapman.
To conclude with 11110 CE MARRIED.
Commence ai 7. No half-price.

".NEW THEATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and 2i;anager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, a new domestic drama, entitled DOT :
Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Blltington, Stephenson ; Miss
L. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, Miss H. Simms, Miss R.
Kelly,
and Mrs. H. Marston.
To be followed by THE OCTOROON. Messrs. Dion
Boucicault, Emery, Jamison, Billington, P. Bedford, Phillips,
Stephenson, Powell, Romer; Sirs. Billington, Mrs. H. Mar-
ston, Miss Latimer, and Miss De
en
at vil.
Commenc 7.

AND FINE

NTERBURY HALL
ARTS GALLERY.
The miraculous STECKEL at a quarter to 11.
Rug.
Grand Selections from " Lucrezia Borgia," by es
sell, with Band and full Chorus, conducted by
Mr. Jongh-
mans.
Great success of UNSWORTII, in his celebrated Stump
Speecitany other man " (the original), and EUGENE,
in his Burlesque Singing and Dancing, at Ten o'clock.
JOE BROWN, the renowned Araerican Prize Jig Dancer,
for it few N'veeks only.
lowing Comic favourites —Mr. Randall, Mr.
Also the fol
Hollingsworth, Mr. J. G. Forde, and Miss Caroline Parkes
in her new entertsinraent.
be to inform visitors to Lon-
Messrs. Morton and Stanley
don during the Exhibition that the GALLERY of PAINT-
INGS well be Open, tree, between the hours of Twelve and
Two o'clock on and after Monday.

O X F 0 R D,
T E
OXFORD STREET.
Positively the Last Night of
HENRI and PFAU,
THIS EVENING (SATURDAY).

Ha% 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, la. ; Private Boxea, 10a. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 31m.—Afternoon, 3h. 48m.
To-MORROW.-Morning, 4h. sm.—Afternoon, 4h. 22m.

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*LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1862.

It is of little use beating about the bush—
the truth is Mr. GLADSTONE has extravagant col-
leagues for whose expenditure he must provide,
though he does not like it. This, and nothing else,
is the solution of all the quibbles and enigmas, and
of all the financial errors, if errors they were,
placed before the House of Lords last night. Of
course, Mr. GLADSTONE cannot say so; of course
no member of either House of Parliament can say
so—it would not be Parliamentry—but of course the
country knows it quite as well as if it could be said
openly. Even ex-Tory Chancellors of the Ex-
chequer like to say a telling thing sometimes, whose
truth they could vouch for, while its consistency
they could not easily defend. Mr. DISRAELI'S
" bloated armaments" he well knows squares
awkwardly with Sir JOHN PAKINGTON'S naval
doings, yet we are quite sure he inwardly glories
in having given the word to the country. And
Mr. GLADSTONE'S promise at Manchester to do
without the Income•tax if the country would enable
him to out down the " present exceptional expendi-
ture" to sixty five millions, he also is well-pleased
to have uttered. Indeed Mr. DISRAELI and Mr.
GLADSTONE bold, no one can doubt, nearly identi-
cal views on the national expenditure. Each
of them in his appropriate office would like reduced
estimates ; each has colleagues who, for political
reasons, want a large expenditure, but each
shrinks from the unpopularity of laying new taxes
or increasing old ones. The one in office would
rather run the Exchequer balances close, and call
for reduced expenditure ; while the other, looking
forward to office, would first like his predecessor to
have left him large balances to play with, and
next, seeing the tide turning in favour of economy,
he is anxious to pledge his colleagues to a course
which shall make him the most popular of recent
Chancellors of the Exchequer. If, says Mr. DIS-
RAELI, the Income-tax is to go, why should not the
Right Hon. BENJAMIN DISRAELI and Lord
DERBY have the credit of getting rid of it ?
The sharp and bitter though clever attacks of
Lord CARNARVON, and his defence by Lord DERBY,
are all to be interpreted by this key. The wealtby
city SoLox had probably none whatever of this
political feeling. Lord OVERSTONE, like most
millionaires, is a very timid man. He is familiar
with balances and private deposits, and instinc-
tively asks for the
nation a balance as large in 1
its vast business as he expects his
proportion to
bank customers to keep in relation to theirs. But,
with Lord OVERSTONE'S leave, the case is Wholly
different. A nation's credit does not depend on its iI
balance,
but on the certainty that it always can I
and always will honour its bills. Low Exchequer
balances mean that the money they save is being
turned over in trade by the people, augmenting
indeed our customs and excise revenue. There is
not happily the slightest doubt that if the expea.
allure of the country exceeded the revenue to Way
atttount, any year, Parliament would take the
most prompt measures to make good the difference.
While this confidence remains, it is surely better
that the people should have their own money in
their pockets, than that it should be lying idle, or
be a source of profit to a wealthy corporation only.
But Mr. GLADSTONE has another reason which,
little as Lord DERBY likes it, is a thoroughly
sound one—that the Chancellor of the Exchequer's
only security IS his proverty. Such is the voracity
of the departmentg--of the army and navy espe-
of the House of Commons
cially—such the tendency
to profuse measures, involving, like the Education
and Fortification schemes, undefined expenditure,
that unless the Government cashier is able to adopt
the answer of the Vatican, and to reply with a non
possumus, there would be no end to the demands
made
upon him. If he wishes to soare the nation,
ha must take care to have as little as possible to
spare. If he allows a surplus, there are too many
who will take care that it shall not be a surplus
long.

The charge against Mr. GLADSTONE is the old
one, that he has met the heavy demands of his col-
leagues as exceptional demands—that he has, there-
fore, relied in part upon exceptional sources; and
that he has pursued what his clever opponents term
policy by using windfalls and balances
a" spend thrift
which could be spared; and that with all this he

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