The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-28 00:00:00

THEATRE-BO Y AL, HAYMARKET,
Lessee Mr. J. B. Buokstone.

THIS EVENING, THE WOLF AND THE LAMB.
After which, at bait-past 7, will be performed (133 d time;
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck•
gone; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern.

Followed by a new Spanish Ballet entitied LA CONTRA-
BANDISTA. Senora Perea Nene, Senor Ricardo, and the
Corps de Ballet
To conclude with THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE.

(.4 0 YAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
AA) Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer.
167th Night 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 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 tills.
commence a- 7

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr A. Harris.
T FITS EVENING, THE LOST LETTER : Messrs. Wid-
dicombe, niggle ; Miss Howard and Miss Rose Leclercq.
After which, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Fabien
and Louis de Franchi, Mr. Charles Kean; Messrs. Jordan,
Everett, R. Cathcart, Meadows, &C. ; Mesdames Fielding,
Chapman, R. Leclercq, Henderson, and N. Chapman.
To conclude with THRICE MARRIED.
Commence at 7. No half-price.

NEW THEATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI.—
sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, a new domestic drama, entitled DOT :
Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billington, Stephenson ; Miss
L. Keeley, Miss WoOlgar, Miss H. Simms, Miss K. Kelly,
and Mrs. H. Marston.
To be followed by THE OCTOROON. Messrs. Dion
Boucicault, Emery, Jamison, Billing-ton, P. Bedford, Phillips,
Stephenson, Powell, Romer; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Mar-
ston, Mims Latimer, and Miss Denvil.

Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE
ARTS GALLERY.

The miraculous STECKEL at a quarter to 11.
Grand Selections from " Lucrezia Borgia," by Miss Rua.
sell, with Band and full Chorus, conducted by 31r.
mans. _
Jongh•

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Great success of LINSWORTII, in his celebrated Stump
Speech " Or any other man " (the original), and EUGENE,
in his Burlesque Singing and Dancing, at Ten o'clock.
JOE BRO WN, the renowned American :Fri= Jig Dancer,
for a few weeks only.
Also the following Comic favourites —Mr. Randall, Mr.
Hollingsworth, Mr. J. G. Forde, and Miss Caroline Parkes
in her new entertainment.
Messrs. Morton and Stanley beg to inform visitors to Lon-
don during the Exhibition that the GALLERY of PAINT-
INGS well be Open, free. between the hours of Twelve and
Two o'clock on and after Monday.

6, OXFORD-STREET.—
THE OXFORD,
Every Evening._HENßl and PFAU on the Flying"
Trapeze (last two weeks). The unrivalled Ethiopian Come-
dians, RIMISCy and Newcomb's Minstrels, and Unsworth and
Eugene, in addition to a host of comic talent—Operatic Selec-
tions and the cantata of " MAY DAY" (by G. A. Macfarren)
and the Jolly Beggars " (by G. Linley), supported by the
entire company, including Miss Rnsse Mime. Enderssohn,
Messrs. Morley, Greene, and Albert.—Full Band and Chorus.
Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmarts.
Hail, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, ls. ; Private Boxes, 105. 6d.

S. WOODIN'S CABINET of CURIO-
• SITIES—NewIy Polished and Re-Iined—POLY-
GRAPHIC HALL, King William-street, Chasing-cross,
TO-NIGHT, and every Evening, at eight (except Saturday),
with new characters, music, songs, and dances. The scenic
illustrations and effects, entirely new, painted by and under
the direction of Mr. William Callcott. Morning Performance,
Saturday, May 31, at 3. Stalls, 3s. ; area, 28. ; amphitheatre,
Is. Box-office open from eleven to five.
Mr. Woodin as Mr. Sothern, of the Haymarket, in his
Celebrated character of "Lord Dundreary,, Morning and
Evening.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This DAY.—Morning, Ih. 45m.—Afternoon, 2h. 2m.
To-MORROW.-Morning, 2h. 22m.—Afternoon, 2h. 40m.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1862,

Editors are, after all, not infallible ! The Ballot
was carried, nay, carried twice over, municipally as
well as electorally, by a majority of more than
thirty. Oar great Anti-Ballot contemporary is
excessively indignant ; the Ballot iu the usual sate
minority in which Whigs and Tories place it, is
contemptible enough—bat the Ballot in a majority,
and of thirty, too !—no scorn can be too extravagant,
then, to bestow upon "the erasy old question."
The worst is, the madness seems very much like
that of the canine race—the "crazy old ques-
tion" seems to drive certain Whig Peers, and
Editors also, quite crazy—they cannot hear the
ballot mentioned Without foaming at the mouth,
losing self-command, attempting to utter sentences
about legitimate influence, and fleeing from it as
the sufferers from hydrophobia are said to shun
water. We cannot wonder at all this perturbation.
Protectionists of every class are always in a dread-
ful fright at the thought of free competition. Our
commercial and agricultural protectionists have
got over their panic, and now like the change ; but
those of France are still in the midst of their fever,
and shuddering at the thought of their neighbours
obtaining British iron and textile fabrics cheaper
and better than they can make them.
Jnst such, and just as unreasonable, is the terror
of the Times, and the Whig and Tory aristocracy
at the thought of the ballot. They can imagine no
other mode of manufacturing representatives than
that by which the electors are now manipulated--
and by which a bounty is bestowed on the posses-
sors of land and of money. If these wealthy men
and landowners had to enter the electoral market

in unrestricted competition with men of merit,
they think the game would be quite up with them.
Jf a good landlord had to trust to his goodness, and
a millionaire to the benefits he conferred on his
locality, they fear it would go bard with them, and
that the intelligent interloper might sometimes
outbid them. We do not wonder at it. These
political protectionists have been nursed up, like
the agriculturists by the corn laws, to rely not on
their political merits, but on their power to bribe
and coerce. It seems useless to try to comfort them;
—just as the agriculturists expected to be deluged
with Lord DERBY'S millions of quarters from the
little port of Tamboff, and exclaimed—A,
would become of them if wheat went below
fifty-six shillings per quarter ?" so the present
political proprietors of boroughs and counties
are perfectly bewildered at the thought
of asking an elector's vote, without a much
more powerful argument to use than that
of personal fitness to serve the elector in Parlia-
ment. That, now, is, of course, always the nomi-
nal one, but a far more effective one is never directly
mentioned, unless, perhaps, in places that have los

all
shame, like Wakefield and Gloucester, or in
counties in which some tenant farmers seem to
show a little impatience.

We can assure the intending candidates that they
will find the Ballot itself, notwithstanding its awful

aspect, a very improving, not injurious, thing. Ii

will only make better members of them, not turn
them out, just as the Repeal of the Corn Laws made
the farmers better agriculturists, but did not eject
them from their farms. We can have no doubt
that repeal of the present Aristocratic Candidates
Protection Laws would he followed by what would
be equivalent to a fine process of draining, marling,
cluing, manuring, straightening fences, and the
like, amongst a great number of the members.
That would be all the difference ; the members
would be improved by ha,ing
to rely on their
merits, but the class of persons returned would
remain nearly the same. We fear, however, any
attempt at consolation is as much thrown away as
would /we been on the old protectionists, Be.