The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-06 00:00:00

riIIiEATRE-R0 V AL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee Mr. J B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, JOHN JONES.
• Alter which, at half-past 7, will be performed (115th time)
OUlt AMERIc VA COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck-
' stone ; Lord Eundreary, Mr. Sothern.
• Followed by the Spanish Ballet entitled THE STAR OF
• ANDALUSIA. Senora Perea Ana, Senor Ricardo, and the
Corps de Ballet.
To lonclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST.
Commence a 7

I()YAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
.. sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer.
148th Night of the continuous run of " Peep o'Day."
THIS EVENING,!PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourrteen Deelish.
Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville,
and Edmund Falconer 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 at half-past 6, to commence at
'. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5.

OPAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE
Lessee, Mr A. Harris.

THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE TREASURE Messrs.
.1, G. Shore, B. Potter, R. Cathcart, Miss Elsworthy, Mrs.
Weston, and Miss Marta Harris.
After wh'ch, at half-past Eight, BUY BL AS : Ruy Bias,
Mr. Fechter ; Messrs. Basil Potter, J. G. Shore, Meadows,
R. Cathcart, &c. ; Mrs. Weston, Miss H. Leciercq, and Miss
C. Leclerc 1.
To cneude with THE LOST LETTER : Messrs. Widdi-
corabe, Hkgie ; Miss Howard and Miss Rose Leciercq.

NEW TIT PATRE-ROYAL, YAL, ADF,LPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster.

THIS EVENING the new domestic drama, entitled DOT':
Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billing-ton, Stephenson ; Miss
L. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, Miss H. Simms, Miss K. Kelly,
and Mrs. 11. Marston.

After which, THE PHANTOM. Ruthven, Mr. Dion
Boncicault ; Messrs. Emery, Toole, Billington, P. Bedford,
Miss Simms, Miss K. Kelly, &o.

Commence at 7.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
THIS EVENING, the new farce of THE LADY OF T fiE
MILL.
Followed by the grand spectacle of A LICE WINGOLD ;
the Pearl of London City. Characters by Miss Julia Sea-
man, Mr. F. Huntley, Mr. C, Mortimer. &c.
(oncludinir with brilliant and novel scenes in the Circle by
British and Foreign Artists.
Commence at 7 o'clock.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle.

C 11`,ITERBURY HALL AND FINE
Airrs GALLERY.

The miraculous STECKEL at a quarter to 11

The renowned -RUSISEY and NE WC6318 MINSTRIILS
at Nine o'clock.

Grand Selections from " La Sonnambula," by Miss Rus-
sell, with Land and tull Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jongh-
mans.

UNSWOR I'll, in his celebrated Stump Speech " Or any
other man," and EUGENE, the great Burlesque Singer and
Dancer, at Ten o'clock. _

The best Comic talent in London.

Messrs, Morton and Stanley beg to inform visitors to Lon-
don during the Exhioition that the GALLERY of PAINT-
INGS well be Open, free between the hours of Twelve and
Two o'clock on and after Monday.

/THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.-
The architectural beauty, ele,ance of decoration, and
brilliancy of lighting of this noble building render it one of
the sights of London. A Musical and Miscellaneousenter-
tainment every evening.—Rumsey and Newcomb's Minstrels
In their "Olio of Ethiopian Oddities."—Burns' celebrated
•'Jolly Beggars," with characterf•tic Music c ,mposed ex-
pressly for tie establishment by George Linley.—Grand
Selections from "Un Bello in Moschera," "II Trovatore."
"Norma," "Simon Bwaneg,,ra," &c. &c.: principal vocalists
—Miss Russell, ildme. Enderssohn, Messrs. Morley, Greene,
and Albert. Full Band and Chorus.—Musical Director, Mr.
F. Jonghmans.—A host of comic talent, Including Harvey
and French (the Nerves), and W Randall.—HENßl and
PFAU, whose Double Feats on the Flying Trapeze are un-
surpassed for daring, skill, and grace.
Ii ail, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, 15. ; Private Boxes, 105. 6d.
shortly will be produced, G. A. Macfarren's "May Day,"
and (.f'or the first time in England) Donizetti's "Don
sebastieL•

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THE SUN.

LONDON, WESDAY, MAY 6, 1862.

So for the year the education battle—we ought
to call it the manngers' money battle—is over.
In the most condescending language, General
WALPOLE accepted the terms of capitulation of-
fered by General LowE. The Government marckes
out with the honours of war, the Tories carry off
tie best part of its spoils. The ce,r.ntry has to
thank an unscrupulous Opposition for depriving
it of one of the most honest amendments ever
offered to it in any department of Aiministration.
Were the same principle to be applied to the
Admiralty and its Dockyards; the saving would
be one of millions to the country, combined with
increased security. We need hardly say that the

one thing in which Mr. WALPOLE has thwarted the
design of the Government is—the principle of
paying for results. Mat was tkc cardinal point
of the Government proposals. Payment, whether
the work were done or not—payment, whether

the children could read, write, and cypher or not

—payment, come what will, so that all teachers,
managers, and pupil teachers, as they grew up,
should vote for the Tories—this wag the single-
minded object of the Opposition.
They have been but too successful. We do
not deny that some good will result from the
diluted alterations. The decentralisation of the
payments is itself an advantage, and a consider-
able one. The payment of part of the grant or
examination is also some advantage, but it is so
much neutralised by giving up the classification by
age, that it will be of next to no service this year'
and but of little use for many years to come. The
least we can say' is that there is the germ of a
and that if it be cherished
better system introduced,
and cultivated, it may bring forth fruit in fifteen
years. Meanwhile, should the Tories by the help
of Roman Catholic ingratitude, get into office, we
know that they will rather repress than cherish
the good still left in the new Code, while as long as
its authors keep their seats, they must be more
patriotio than most Governments to stir up again
a nest of hornets. We are probably surrendered,
therefore, for a series of years to a large annual
waste of money under the guise of encouraging
education. The fact being that money is to be paid
rather for getting the children to the school than
for teaching them when there.
The worst part of the whole business, however,
is that the greater part of the schools in the coun-
try, including decidedly those which most need
assistance, get none whatever. Nothing can exceed
in capriciousness the bestowment of the grants !
It isregulated, indeed, rather by the wealth than by
the poverty of the district. While 10,000 schools
are assisted, 15,019-1/1
ost of them needing assist-
ance much more—get nothing whatever. The
sensible resolution proposed by Mr. WALTER did
go a considerable way toward:. meeting this greatest
blot on the Privy Council system. It
__ proposed to
create a kind of free trade in the grant. Those who

1. produce the result regv.ircd, produce it how

they would, were to rLepive the capitation grant.
Certificated teachers and pupil teachers were not to
bo an pi/sable condition. If the children
cauld do thy: three things required, pay was to be
awarded to them. We are sorry to record that,
for what appolrs to 113 to bo very insufficient reason,
the House rejcctec, by a small majority, this
very reasonable resolutiOn. The protective system
is retained intact.

It ;strikes us that Mr. WALTER has yet scope for
carrying out the spirit of his resolution in a way
which might do the country every-way much ser-
'me, As he stated, a great part of these 15,000

unbeneficed schools need help more than those which
get it, What will he and Mr. LOWE say to pro-
posing that they all should be offered the terms of the
original Revised Code of the Government, we mean of
the single condition of payment for all pupils that
will bear the examination proposed, when classified
according to age. Throw overboard, in the case of
the 15,000, all limitations, restrictions, and inter-
meddling—offer them the pay for the required
results, get them how they may. If they got but
a few pounds a year, to many of them this little aid
would be of the greatest value. The public would,
so far, gain a real education of the most needy.
And, what would be as desirable as anything, the
beneficed schools would be stimulated by the com-
petition of those they are now so ready to despise.
The trial would solve many of the problems over
which there is now so much dispute ; the Great
Certificated could not complain that there
was any poaching on their manor, for the system
would only be applied to schools, at which their
more dignified services would never be required ;
while the Government would have again some
trial, though not of the most advantageous one, for
the scheme which interest and faction have contrived
too successfully to defeat.

It is insinuated, we observe, that the mere fact
of barely one quarter of the Lambeth constituency
having been polled on Saturday, indicates the in-
eradicable apathy of the great mass of the registered
electors in availing themselves of the privilege ac-
cruing to each by right of his £lO tenancy. Rather
we should venture,however, not so much to insinuate)
as roundly to assert that the circumstance of no
more than six thousand out of the twenty-four thou-
sand registered electors of Lambeth having voted
for all three of the candidates put together, betrays
their indifference, not to the possession and
exercise of the elective franchise, but to the very
feeble choice that was in any way discoverable
among those same three candidates ! For, in homely
phrase, those three candidates were really and truly,
and quite undeniably, much of a muchness. Their
political principles were, in point of fact, all but
identical. They were all three of them Liberals.
They were all three of them Reformers. They were
all three—as indeed but well becomes anyone who
aspired to succeed to the representation of that
particular metropolitan borough—so strongly in
favour of economy, and as soon as might be in any
way rendered practicable, after a conscientious at-
tention to the exigencies of the country, for a gradual
but comprehensive, and in the end very consider-
able reduction in the aggregate amount of our an-

nual expenditure.
Each of the three candidates, by the way, it ought
at the same time to be borne particularly in
remembrance had a distinctive claim of his own,
of one kind or another—such as it was—upon the
consideration of the Lambeth constituency. Taking
their names in the order in which from first to last
they stood upon the polling-books—there was, to
begin with, the triumphantly successful candidate
(triumphantly we mean, so far as concerns the
ignominious defeat of his two antagonists), there
was Mr. DOULTON. Now Mr. DOULTON, besides
being a shrewd, hard-headed man of business, had
the very obvious advantage of being thoroughly
well known in the borough; with the local interests
of which his own individual interests are largely
an dintiraately connected. Like many another trader
nGW enrolled among the members of the British
House of Commons—such as Mr. Bess, whose very
name has a positive relish for us all in the mere
utterance of it, as associated with the brewing
interests, as identified indeed with what Mr. GLAD.
STONE gratefully calls that "incomparable beve-
rage" pale or bitter ale—Mr. DOULTON stands be-
fore the world as head of a firm high among the
rankis of our raornhant princes, and conspicuously
placed among our leading manufacturers. Mr.
DOULTON, briffly be it said, besides being a
thorough-going Liberal, Reformer and Economist,
was perfectly well known to the Lambeth consti-
tuency, was a large employer there in the
borough, was one amongst its wealthiest
traders, and therefore—having besides that a
wholly undamaged and untarnished reputation—
was the very candidate, in most respects, in whom a
Lambeth constituency might confide. And how
they have cocfided in him—those, at least, who
voted at all for anyone on Saturday—we all now
know perfectly. Mr. DOULTON having polled (so
far as the returns have yet been corrected) 5,124
votes. Whereas his two opponents topther
could muster but very little over the first
thousand ! And yet each of those rival candidates,
as we have already vaguely intimated, had in
turn his peculiar claims upon the attention of the
Lambeth constituency. There was the forensic gen-
tleman, who stood next upon the list on Saturday,
though a very long way down indeed below Mr.
DOULTON, so far as numbers serve to indicate a
candidates' position upon the polling-book. Whereas
Mr. DOULTON, as we have seen, numbers up at the
close of the day's polling, as many as 5,124 votes in
all—this second candidate, a very long way down
we premise again apologetically, could count up in

his favour no more than 754 supporters altogether!

And yet the aspirant for the suffrages of the Lam-
beth constituency who was thus cavalierly treated
by the great mass of the 24,000 registered electors,
was no other than the well-known Old Bailey Barris%
ter, Mr. W. CAMPBELL SLEIGH, a practitioner, who

has during the last few years been rising into so very

large a practice of a particular kind ; one who has
in a remarkable degree what Jack calls " the gift
of the gab"—and who although still robed merely
in his stuff gown, as a counsel called to the bar and
not Within it, is fast acquiring for himself among

the several constituencies that have already rejected
him (the Latnbeth constituency being the last to
have that honour), a sort of cx officio right to the

title Of--SOLICITOR-GENERAL

Now, of course, neither Mr. DOITLTON, the
Euceessful candidate on
Saturday, nor yet
again that other candidate not already men-
tioned here by name neither Mr. DOULTON
nor yet Mr. WILD INsoN could venture in

any way to compete with Mr. W. C. SLEIGH as a
platform orator—Mr. SLEIGH being admirably well

prepared by his forensic practice for any amount of

rhetorical display that he may ever have the oppor-
tunity for—first of all upon the hustings, and as he

yet hopes, no doubt, eventually within the walls

of Parliament. Yet, in spite of Mr. SLEIGH'S won-
derful witcheries of speech, Mr. DOULTON, silenced

additionally though he was with an inopportune

cold towards the close of last week, distanced his

formidable competitor,thepractised legal practitioner
and already we should presume also the practised
canvasser of parochial and metropolitan constituen-
cies—and di,tanced him, too, not by a few odd hun-
dreds, but by a vod swinging net majority of 4,370

ovtes A. lucierous non Bequitur enough, remember-
ing that lIPQn the nomination day Mr. SLEIGFI bad
obtained the show of hands—corning off with flying
colours, at that preliminary stageof the proceedings!,
as the favourite of the Lambeth non-electors I
Finally, there was the last candidate of the three,
the one who tailed off on Saturday with no more

Poll closed at four
than just ,347 votes when the

o'clock in the afternoon ! Yet Mr. WILKINsoN,
who tilts came unmistakably hindmost in the race,
his supporters being more than doubled by those