The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-26 00:00:00

THEATRE-R 0 YAL, HAYMARKE T, of the world, as that of the heroic defenders
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buotstone.
of Christendom—it becomes a simple question with
THIS EVENING (86th time)OUß AMERICAN COUSIN.
Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern ; Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck- the natives of Western Europe as to the vindication,
stone.
After which, a Household Picture, under Two Lihts, in this bloodless manner, of the first principles of
ntitled THE WIFE'S PORTRAIT. Mr. Howe, Mr. W.
Farren, Mrs. C. Young, &C.humanity. That is the solemn and affecting lessen
To conclude with FAMI
that Lord DUDLEY STUART, with simple but un-
faltering earnestness, endeavoured to inculcate
during so many years from his place in the Cora-
' mons House of Parliament. The like persuasive
and affecting words are again being articulated in
the Upper House of the Legislature by a young
nobleman whom we are now fain to look
upon henceforth in the light of Lord DUD-
LEY STUART'S successor in the generous task
of championing the cause of the Poles in the
English Legislature—meaning, as already observed,
the Earl of CARNARVON. Lord CARNARVON'S
simple purpose yesterday was, as he himself avowed
immediately upon rising, to call their lordships' at-
tention to the present state of things in Poland, with
a view to elicit from the noble earl, her MAJESTY'S
Foreign Secretary, some satisfactory reason that the
facts, there and then alluded to, had not escaped the
attention of her MAJESTY'S Government. Lord
RUSSELL'S reply thereupon was, all things consi-
dered, about as much and as little, as much in one
sense and as little in another, as could reasonably
have been anticipated under the circumstances. The
veteran statesman began by gracefully compliment-
ing his young brother earl—what though the latter
confronted him on the Opposition benches—upon the
tone and manner in which he (Lord CARNARVON)
had recalled the subject of Poland to the attention
of their lordships, and through their lordships, to
that of her MAJESTY'S Government. Earl RUSSELL
thereupon ventured upon the utterance of what can
hardly be looked upon seriously in any other light
than that of a platitude. He intimated, in fact,
that Poland had always enjoyed the sympathy of
England. Adding, with truth, that in illustration
of this sympathy, the Government of England had
often before now remonstrated, and occasionally
with great earnestness, with the Muscovite councils
at St. Petersburg. Yet—after saying all this—with
the remembrance of recent events at Warsaw and
elsewhere in Russian-Poland, still glaring upon him,
Earl RUSSELL, while remarking, as plainly as words
could express anything, that England had ab-
stained latterly, and must still abstain persistently,
from renewing any remonstrances of this
character, because the concessions promised
by Russia to the Poles, through the memo-
rable circular of Prince GORTSCHAKOPE were
suspended, or postponed, or evaded, in consequence
of recent manifestations ! Why, in plain words,
this is just simply putting the cause for the effect
—the effect for the cause. It is an illogical mode
of reasoning. It is the sincerity of the Rus-
sian Government in promising those-concessions that
remains just now matter of doubt. The autocracy
betrays its insincerity—so far as events there can in
any way be comprehended in western Europe—the
Russian autocracy betrays its insincerity in regard
to those very concessions which it has promised
through the circular of Prince GORTSCUAROFF !
And how does it betray it? Through the cruel-
ties it has perpetrated at Warsaw on the pretext of
the very popular demonstrations complained of--
demonstrations actually subsequent to the earliest
betrayal, of the insincerity of which these same
demonstrations are now pretended to be the justifi-
cation. After the Earl of CARNARVON had offered
to the House of Peers a few words in reply to the
noble lord the Foreign Secretary, the subject
yesterday, it will be observed, quietly dropped.
Very earnestly, however, do we hope that it may
be revived, before the session is much older, by
the Earl of CARNARVON in the Lords, or by the
I. Hon. Member for Bridgewater in the Commons
—if only in the hope that something may yet
be done towards the close, or, at least, the mi-
tigation of the present lamentable situation of
affairs in Russian Poland, by the timely and
energetic interposition, once more, of our Eng
lish diplomacy, between the Poles and their Per

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coner : Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston.
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Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrcck. Principal charac-
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'Miss Lydia Thompson.

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ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
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THIS EVENING, CASH V. CUPID. Mr. Widdicomb,
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To conclude with THE GARIBALDIANS.

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THIS EVENING, A PRIVATE ENQUIRY. Mr. J. L.
Toole, Mr. Billington, Mr. Sefton, Miss Kate Kelly, and
Miss K. Bland.
Followed by THE LIFE OF AN ACTRESS. Mr. and
Mrs. Dion Boue!cault, Messrs. Emery, J. L. Toole, Billington,
Stuart, Eburne, Sefton, Powell. C. J. Smith ; Mrs. Billington,
Mrs. Harland, Mrs. H. Lewis, Miss Laidlaw.
To conclude with THE PRETTY FIORSEBREAKER.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford ; Misses Woolgar, K. Kelly,
Laidlaw, Mrs. H. Marston.

secu tors.

At last we have the commencement of the long
promised Education Debate, when we shall see its
end no mortal can tell. Though there may be im-
portant exceptions to its being a party debate, yet
it seems impossible to avoid its becoming so. The
Parliamentary leading opponents of the Revised
Jode, in both Houses, are Conservatives, the lead-
ing defenders of it are Government men ; indeed, it
could not well be otherwise. The outcry through-
out the country is raised by a class enjoying Go-
vernment bounties, which they fear are in danger.
It is not in Tory nature not to sympathise with

such a cry—it looked at first almost like the wail

of a vested interest. It was certainly protection in
jeopardy; how could Conservatives help surrender-
ing their sympathy to those who asked it on the
ground that they should lose Government bounties
which they had already enjoyed for many years P
Again to whom should those who wanted Government
to alter such a measure go, but to those who, with all
their financial patriotism, have a party commission
to inflict all the damage they can on the measures
of those in office. Could Who expected that a strong
political opposition should refuse to put in front a
a volunteer body forty thousand strong, who only
wanted to compel the Government to yield? We
hardly blame the Conservatives. They are but
true to their instincts, and to the political demands
of their position.
Their first attack, however, let the division be
what it may, does not prove much for the strength
of their case. They have surrendered on the two
main points of paying for results, and decentrali-
zation. Mr. WALPOLE acknowledged that
these were the cardinal principles of the Go-
vernment measure, that he approved them ;
that assimilating the proposed Code, as
much as possible to a bill, ho should consider
it as having passed its second reading, and that
going into committee on his resolutions would be
equivalent to going into committee on a bill. Mr.
WALPOLE, however, is singularly infelicitous in
one respect in this comparison and arrangement.
He accepts the Government principles, but instead
of proposing to carry them out in committee,neat e e
ebrings forward merely a string of g
reso-
lutions, proposing no substantive amendments of his
own. Now as nothing is easier than to find an
objection to anything, as the real difficulty almost
always lies in finding the positive measuro to be
proposed, Mr. WALPOLE has done in reality
nothing. It was certain beforehand that cases of
hardship might be supposed under each proposal
of detail which any Government could make. It
is the condition of any uniform rule for any num-
ber of human beings ; the question always is, whe-
ther injustice will be done, or whether any other
plan can be selected which will have such a pre-
dominance of advantage over disadvantage.
Injustice, there can really be none in this case.
The State is a donor. It may, at least, do what it
wilt with its gifts. The time is too short to
Plead prescription, and the fact that the old
sy. %tem
has been uniformly represented as a tenta-
trtvaeteand _
donation
tunental one, completely deprives the
of any title to a vested interest on the
part of the douses, On the other pretext, that of
failing to attain their
after
objects, we must own that,
after all that has bee objects,
id, we think the Govern-
went plans seem more
eIY than any we have 1