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

1111 EAT RE-RON HAYMARKET.I
Lesi,ce, Mr. J B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. I
After which, at half-past 7, will be performed (133 d time)
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck-
stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern.
Followed by a new Spanish Ballet entitied LA CONTRA-
BANDISTA. Senora Perea Nena, Senor Ricardo, and the
Corps de Ballet
To conclude with THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE.

()YAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer.
167th Night of the continuous run of " Peep o'Day."
THIS EVENING PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Declish.
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 hall-past 6, to commence at
Box-office open daily from 11 tlll5.
Caramel:loe a 7

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, THE LOST LETTER : Messrs. Wid-
dicombe, 'Jiggle ; 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. •,Mesd Fielding,
Chapman, R. Leclercq, Henderson&, and Chapm es
an.
To conclude with THRICE MARRIED.
Commence at 7. No half-price.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Bole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, a new domestic drama, entitled DOT :
Meyers. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billington. Stephenson ; Miss
L. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, Miss H. Simms, iliss K. Kelly,
and Mrs. H. Marston.
To be followed by THE OCTOROON. Messrs. Dion
Boncicault, Emery, Jamison, Billington, P. Bedford, Phillips,
Stephenson, Powell, Romer ; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Mar-
ston, Miss Latimer, and Miss Denvil.

Commence at 7.

CIA NTERBUR HALL AND FINE
Ah7TS GALLERY.
The miraculous STECKEL at a quarter to 11.
Grand Selections from " .I.ucrezia Borgia," by Miss Rus-
sell, with Band and full Chorns, conducted by Ms. Rus-
sell,
Great success of UNSWORTII, in his celebrated Stump
Speech " Or any other man " (the 9rigine.l), and EUGENE,
in his Burlesque Singing and Dancing-, at Ten o'clock.
JOE BROWN, the renowned American :Prize Jig Dancer,
for a f.'w Nvoiklrit only.
Also the following Comic favourites --Mr. Randall, Mr.
Hollingsworth, Mr. J. G. Forde, and Miss Caroline Parkes
in her new entertainment.
be to inform visitors to Lon-
Messrs. Morton and Stanley
don during the Exhib betweenthe GALLERY of PAINT-
INGS well be Open, free the hours of Twelve and
Two o'clock on and after Monday.

THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.-
..i. Every Evening.—lEfENßl and PFAU on the Flying
Trapeze (last two weeks). - The unrivalled Ethiopian Come-
dians, Eumsey 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 Russe , Mdme. Enderssohn,
Messrs. Morley, Greene, and Albert.—Full Band and Chorus.
Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Hall, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, le. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

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

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TAIS DA-Y*--M°llaing, lh. 45m.—Afternoon, 2h. 2m,
To-stoiatow.-Morning, 2h. 22m.—Afternoon, 2h. 40m,

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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. Our great Anti-Ballot contemporary is

contemptible enough—bat the Ballot in a majority,
and of thirty, too !—no scorn can be too extravagant,
then, to bestow upon " the erazy 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.
If 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 hard with them, end
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—" What
would beuome of thorn if wheat went
below
fifty-six shillings per quarter ?" so thepresent
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 lost
Wakefield and Gloucester, or in
all shame, like
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. It
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 Aristgeratie Candidates
Protection Laws would be followed by what would
be equivalent to a fine process of draining, marling,
cloying, 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 having 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
t would have been on I,he old protectionists. Be-

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