The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-09 00:00:00

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THEATItE. ItOY AL, BAYMARKET.
Lessee. Mr. J. B. Be %Lstone.
THIS EVENING (98th time)OUß. AMERICAN COUSIN.
Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern ; Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck-
stone.
Altcr which, a Household l'ictux , under Two Lights,
rattled THE WIFE'S PORTRA.II•e'. Mr. Howe, Mr, W.
Farren, Mrs C. Young, Acc.
To conclude with FAMILY JARS-
Commenoe a Y.

gions toleration he speakge as a farce—a machinery
not for spreading Christianity, but for giving him
political power ; he surpasses all our TUDOR Kings
and the POPE himself, making himself equal with
JESUS CHRIST, who, with GOD the Father, and this
crazy Man's own Son, constitute one Lord over
all ! And no missionary is safe among them who
will not propagate these blasphemies.
The immediate cause of Mr. ROBERT'S own flight
tells its own tale. We are to bear in mind that he
is, afterall, more of a favourite at the Taeping Court
than any other man could possibly be, a not very
strong-minded, but undoubtedly sincere, zealous,
and worthy missionary. Yet even into his house a
brother of one of the " Coolie Kings" rushes one
day, seizes his pet servant boy, kills him with a
large sword, and then jumps on his head with
fiendish rage. He immediately after endeavours to
provoke Mr. ROBERTS to some act which should
serve as an excuse for murdering him also, throwing
the dregs of some tea into his face, shaking him,
and insulting him in every way. Mr. ROBERTS
was prudently quiet, and at the earliest opportu-
nity sought safety on board the Renard steamer,
w hence he dates his letter. After this we cannot
need more evidence. The open acts of the mur-
derous bands associated as TeEriNGs we know full
well. We have now in addition evidence from the
very heart of the movement, and of the most re-
liable kind. Nothing remains, (therefore, so far as
we can see, but to drive them off by force of arms
from all our treaty cities.

o OPAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manac,rer. Edmune, Falconer.
'T II IS EVENING, 126th time of the Mew and original Drama
entitled, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. es,srs
Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby,eLner Edmund } al-
: Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston.
Alter which, a new and original Burlesque Extravaganza,
entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ; or, The Fairies of
the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrcck. Principal charac-
ters by Mr Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and
Miss Lydia Thompson.
Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half -past 6, to commence at
n Box-office open daily from 11 tills.

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

THIS EVENING, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH
Mr. -Ryder, Mr. H. Widdicomb, Mr. Meadows, Mesdames
Fie:dinz, Carlotta Leclercq, &c.
To eonetude with the new Mystic Drama, in lour parts,
entitled TIHE ANGEL OF MIDNIGHT. Mr. Ryder, Mr.
Potter, Mr. Jordan, Mr. Widdicomb, &c. ; Miss Marriott,
Mss Fielding, &c.

NEW THEATRE-R0 TAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster.

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 Boucicault, Messrs. Emery, J. L. Toole, Billington,
Stuart, Eburne, Sefton, Powell. C. J. Smith ; Mrs. Billington,
Mrs. Harland, Mrs. H. Lewis, Miss Laidlaw.
o conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs.
J. L. Toole, Emery, Billing-ton, Misses K. Kelly, K. Bland,
Laidlaw, and Mrs. H. Marston.
Commence at 7.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
...7x Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.

Wonderful Performance of Mr. Bell's trained Elephants.
'IBIS EVENING, the Grand Eastern Spectacle of THE
RAJAH OE NA GPORE, Introducing two colossal Asiatic
Elephants, pronounced by all to be the cleverest animals
ever exhibited.
To be followed by brilliant and daring feats by the un-
rivalled Troupe of Equestrians.
Concluding with a lau...hable Farce.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle.

The cheering prospect of the Easter Holidays
will, perhaps, tend to expedite very pleasantly the
passing of the various resolutions of the Budget, as
announced by the right hon. the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. The noble Premier last evening inti-
mated quite plainly to the House the nature of the
alternative now put before it. .1f those resolutions
be passed on Thursday and reported on Friday—
then, in that ease—immediately after they had been
passed, he (Lord PALMERSTON) would move on
Friday that the House adjourn until Monday, the
28th instant. But if, on the contrary, matters could
not be carried on thus glibly, in regard to the pass-
ing and reporting of the different Budget Resolu-
tions now requiring to be passed and reported before
Easter—then, in that case—the House would per-
force have to sit again on Monday next, and by
such an arrangement the holidays would be un-
happily, but unavoidably, so much shortened. Our
representatives now know perfectly well,-therefore,
what it is precisely that they are expected to do
within the next forty-eight or seventy-two hours
—especially what it is they can easily do
to-morrow and the day afterwards—so as in the
first place to avoid that unnecessary sitting threat-
ened in a certain contingency for Monday next, and
in the next to secure to themselves the earliest
adjournment offered to them.
Now we take it altogether undeniable that the
task before the house in reference to the new
Budget is as simple as could be, That Budget—
however much it may be carped at by an Opposi-
sion that even while carping at it refrains altogether
from adventuring upon the faintest " show''
of pulling it to pieces—must infallibly be allowed
to have already won its way through the house as
hardly any Budget has ever been known to win its
way there before. It affords no pretext in fact for
anything like actual opposition. It is a Budget
that upon the whole is accepted at once
upon all hands—and no wonder—as in the
highest degree satisfactory. If it fails to
rival the Budget of last year by sweeping away
any grinding impost, and so far relieving the
shoulders of the people of a modicum at least of the
weary weight of taxation, it at any rate is free
from the odious distinction of imposing some
burden in another shape, and differently placed
upon the back of sturdy old JOHN BULL, that
SINBAD among the Nations. Indeed, it was not
in reason to be looked for, that the very year after

AND FINE

C NNTERBU HALL
A.RTS GALLERY.
The renowned ROCKY MOUNTAIN WONDERS, at ten
o'clock, for a few evenings only.
Grand Selections from " La Sonnambula" and "Dinorah,"
by Mdme. Negri, Signor Tivoli, and Mr. Raynor, with Band
and lull Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jong,hmana.
The Conic Department by Mr. Hollinv,sworth, Mr. J. G.
Forde, Mr. W. Randall, Messrs. Hildebrandt and Ormond,
and Miss Caroline Parkes.
The miraculous STECKEL, from the Cirque Napoleon,
Paris, will make his first appearance on Monday, the 14th of
April.

Admission—Hall, ed. ; Stalls and Balcony, Is.

ril HE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.-
.1. HENRI and PFAU on the Flying Trapeze

EVERY EVENING.

The musical entertainment as usual, including Robert
Burns' celebrated " JOLLY BEGGARS," with music composed
exp! essly for this establishment by Mr. George Linley.

Operatic Selections by Miss Russell, Mdme. Negri, Mdme.
Maria, and, Aldme. Endersaohn. Full Band and Chorus.—
Mus.cal Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.

Comic—Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey and French (the
Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall.
hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, Ss. ; Private Boxes, 108. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DA.T.—Morning, Bh. 57m.—Afternoon, 9h. 38m,
TO-MOR ROW. -Morning, 10h. 16m.—Afternoon, 10h. 66m,

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1862.

Colonel SYKES well deserves the usual courteous
epithet "gallant," for he has fought to the last for
hils proteges, the Taepings, even after their most
natural defender has entirely given them up. At

first there did eeem a little reason to believe that

the memorable financial twelvemonth, when Eng-

these men were a great improvement on the Tartar-
governed Chinese. This seems to have been due to
the semi-religious charaoter of the first movement.
Their leaders received some Christian notions from

land was relieved of direct taxation to the tune of
£1,100,000, and of indirect taxation to the tune of
£1,300,000, the former through the dropped penn y
of the Income Tax, the latter through the total

an American missionary ; they knew that these
came from the civilised West, and hence, contrary
to the common sentiment amongst Chinese, the one
which influenced them in dealing with Eufopeans
was a kind of deference to our priority in religious
knowledge. All this, however, has long vanished.
The leaders early set up for incarnations, or near
relations of the Supreme Being, and, in the literal
sense, for brothers of JESUS CHRIST. The sweets

abolition of the Paper Duties—it was not in reason,
we say, to be expected that the very year following
shoula witness the remission of further imposts
as a rapid sequel to that yielding up at once in
a single Budget of a round sum amounting
annually to £2,400,000. Yet:even here it must be
recollected that Mr. GLADSTONE, if he has shrunk
from rashly diminishing by further concessions of
this character any one among his ordinary sources

of power have had their usual effect, and no of revenue, has at least secured to his new Budget
missionary is now safe among them who does not the remarkable merit of getting rid at last, for
acknowledge, as the second article of his creed, once and for all, of that perpetual theme of lamenta-
that the " Heavenly Ruler," HANG Sow CEUEN, is tion—the Duty upon Hops. Here the change,
worthy of divine honour. All accounts concur that introduced, however, by our financier into his
their course is now marked by devastation, pillage, fiscal arrangement for 1862-63, has been one adven-
and bloodshed. The peaceful inhabitants quit the tured upon with admirable caution, and with the
the largest cities in millions as they approach, and most discreet and judicious exercise of adroitness—
fire and sword spare nothing.
The Imperialists, the change adventured upon by Mr. GLADSTONE in
are, on their side, little or no better. Under pre- regard to the Hop Duties being one for their wise
tence that a city has yielded ia the marauders, if and well-considered commutation. Seeing how
they obtain possession, they in turn plunder, burn, this has been managed, it may be objected by
and destroy what is left, till the site of a vast city merely superficial observers of Mr. GLADSTONE'S
is discoverable only by blackened walls L'lnd rub-
Financial Policy that after all it amounts to a mere
bish. We have long persisted in ab,qolute shifting of burdens. The objection at the first
neutrality betweer the Imperialists and their blush appears specious enough. But after a
opponents, but to permit the latter to attack moment's scrutiny it just vanishes into thin air. A
the former in the treaty cities, where we carry mere shifting of burdens As if that were no boon,
on our commerce, would be sheer fatuity. Non- forsooth, to one who, like JOHN BULL, MUST
intervention is a very safe doctrine here in the (there is no escape for him) " fardels
West; but to insist upon it in favour of hosts of bear, to grunt and sweat under an uneasy load"—
murderous robbers, who yet pretend to be divinely of a National Debt amounting to between
commissioned rulers or deliv,erers of the country, £800,000,000 and £900,000,000 in all! A luckless
Would be applying a principle intelligible only to wight who is constrained annually, somehow or
civilised men, to hordes of ruthless barbarians. another, to liquidate his enormous liabilities in in-
But neither Colonel SYKES nor any one else terest upon that debt, and in current expenses, to
Ought now to have the least doubt of the real the yearly extent of £70,000,000 sterling ! Why
character of the Chinese rebellion. If there be the simple fact of the burden of the Hop Duties
man in China who knows all about it, it must being shifted from one shoulder to the other, receiv-
e Mr. ROBERTS, the American missionary, whose ing a new name and a new application in the shift-
convert
the "Heavenly King" was, who has just ing—that simple fact of itself comes in its way at
been re iel;
inng among them for fifteen months, and last as an inexpressible relief. For years and years
Who has
a favourite at
last fled to our protection, having seen past the Hop Duties have been galling and fretting
servant lad butchered without provoca- an important section of the:community almost be-
tion ore his
eyes, and being also in fear of his own yond further endurance. One Chancellor of the
life. A tract from Mr. ROBERTS first turned this Exchequer after another had been wearied
DOW notorious eaa
°Ws attention to Christianity. with applications for the removal of this
He afterwards came
, ROBERTS for instruction. tormenting grievance. One after another
ROBERTS lost sight of him for years till he heard they had declined to deal with the matter. Mr.
of Lira at the head of this movement, breaking idols GLADSTONE has at last dealt with it. And who
to pieces, and enforcing
obedience to the Ten Com- shall say that he has not dealt with it judiciously ?
rnandrrents, proclaiming at the
same time his own If the only good result had been the getting rid of
inspiration; and now ROBEnTs has been residing a clamour about a grievance that we had almost
a long time with him hoping to . get a little light become sick to death of hearing about, the Chan-
and reason into his head. What s his verdict,
after cellor of the Exchequer would, as the grandiose
Buell ample means of knowledge, and still confess_
is
phrase
, • have deserved well of his country. But,
"to be a crazy
ing to, personally, kind treatment by HANG so
W in his mode of dealing with the hop duties, in this
I believe him," he says,ingenious method be has now hit upon with a view
man ; entirely unfit to rule—without any organised to their harmless and effectual commutation—the
Government—nor is he, with his Coolie Kings, good
he ht..s secured to us is not alone of this purely
capable of organizing a Government of equal negative character. He has contrived a means not
benefit to the people with even the old Imperial only for Putting an end to the wearisome clamour
Government." He further describes him as in- raised v
e-erY spring in his own antechambers, and
Solent in his temper, and causing any man or echoed more or
less loudly and continuously every
be session in the Commons
Woman who has at all offended him to House of Parliament—but
this he has
murdered at once without judge or jury; He beyond Swept away the nuisance, with-
represents him as opposed to commerce, and having out while so doing militating against the inte-
actuali rests of the Exchequer, ghat he takes from
Y murdered his own people for no other
hand he gives back into the
crime than that of trading in the city. relie one, other. Before

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