The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-13 00:00:00

To commence at 7.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.—
..inle eroi,rt.tor and Idana,mr. Mt. k, W eonLer.
THIS EVENING, THE IRISH TIGER. Mess s. C. IL
Stephenson and Eburne ; Mies K. Kelly.
Aft,r which, at 8, GER obLDINE. Miss Bateman, Sup-
ported by Me-srs. Bateman his :2nd appearance), Jordan.
Swinbetirne, Billington, R. Phillips, Ashley, Stuart, Stephen-
son, Mourne; Miss Denvil and Mrs. Lewis, &c.
To conclude with THE STEEPLECHASE; or, In the
Pigskin. Mesbrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford ; Miss K. Kelly

law of blockade is distinctly defined, and any
offence against it comes under the head of
smuggling, and cannot by any pretext be regarded
as piracy. " The President of the United States,"
said Lord DERBY with quiet satire, " has vast
' powers, but he has not the power of changing the
international law of the world." Lord DERBY
pressed Lord RUSSELL for an answer to his
question respecting the maaner in which this
remarkable proclamation was received by her
Majesty's Ministers, but failed to elicit a satisfac-
tory reply. Lord RUSSELL'S answer was confused
and evasive, besides being so indistinctly given as
to be scarcely audible ; but he was understood to
say that the question was a difficult one, but that
Mr. ADAMS had assured him all would be right.
Perhaps the English public may not be inclined to
put quite so much faith in Mr. ADAMS ; at any rate
they would be glad to see a little more vigour and
decision in our foreign policy. This we fear is not
likely to be the case while Lord RUSSELL holds the
seals ; and we are glad that Lord DERBY seems in-
clined to keep a close watch over his vacillating

course.

The Union Chargeability Bill has been one of the
vexed questions of the present session, and it is so
far satisfactory that it has passed the second reading
in the House of Lords. Even there, however, it
had to encounter opposition, although of not near
so formidable a character as that it met with in the
Commons. Lord GRANVILLE, in moving the
second reading, aptly put forward the chief points of
the case, and met some of the many objections to
the measure. The noble lord said that the course
of legislation had been tending in this direction for
a long time, and the principle of the bill, which
tended to equalise the rating and to shorten the
term that gives a legal settlement, had been adopted
in theory ever since the passing of the new Poor
Law Act. Lord GRANVILLE very properly stated
that when people spoke of the necessity of making
inquiries, they seemed to forget that for more than
thirty years they had been inquiring into the matter.
As for the proposal to send the bill to a Select Com-
mittee, there is no doubt that the noble lord very
successfully disposed of that motion by stating that
Select Committees were generally resorted to when
they had an intricate bill before them. This mea-
sure, on the contrary, contains very few clauses, and
is by no means intricate in detail. Some interest
was imparted to the proceedings of this dull debate
by Lord BROUGHAM seconding the motion. The
noble and learned lord said that he felt concerned
in the fate of this measure, because the Government
to which he belonged, in 1833 and 1834, were
" unanimously in favour of such a measure." They
were then unable to effect their object, but Lord
BROUGHAM, when proposing a bill in 1834, ex-
pressed a hope that " before thirty years had passed
away the principle upon which the present measure
was founded would be assented to by Parliament."
It must have been a great satisfaction to the noble
and learned lord, after the lapse of a generation, to
find his prophecies realised and his wishes fulfilled
in this respect. Few are so fortunate or favoured
as to survive to witness such a consummation.
The Duke of RUTLAND conducted his opposition in
a more moderate manner than that which charac-