The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-22 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.

Proprietor, Mr• B• Webster. —Directress, Madame relesta.
THIS EVENING, APUEL 22,

Will be performed A DESPERATE GAME.
After which, ND FACE 3; or, Before and Behind ti's
Curtain—by NICS6III. It Webster, L. Murray, Honey, P. Bedford, and
0. Smith ; Mesdames Celeste, Woolgar, &c,
To be followed by BETSY BAKER—by Mr. and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with L'EPINO THE DUMB BOY, AND PUG, HIS
MONKEY.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren.
THIS EVENING, APRIL 22,

wm be performed THE COUNTRY SQUIRE. Characters by
Messrs, Faxren, H. Farren, Morgan, and Clifton ; Mesdames A.
Phillips, H. Gordon: Adams, and E. 'Turner. '
After which, UNcLE CRO,TQUET. UneltiCrofclikt, Mr. 'Parrett
To conclude with TFIE,IaGYING DUTCHMAN. supported by
Mea rs. H. Marston, and F. Robson; MesdameaX: Phil/I,i and .11
Gordon.

ASTLEY'S BAYAL ASIPIIITRiATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.

Brilliant career of the New Spectacle. The extraordinary and
novel Feats of the horses,-
;the, Passage of the i3uraing Wood, the
Leap through Fire, and ;he terrific spring of Amakosa's Steed from
the fearful Heights of the Umtata, continue to be nightly received-
with increased astonishment and enthusiastic approbation. The
training of the Horses for these astounding Feats has occupied
Mr. W. Cooke's unremitting attention for Months past.
Tins EVENING, Aram 22;
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And during the week, the Performances will commence with the
highly successful and magnificent spectacle of AMAKOSA.; or,
Scenes of Kafir .Varfare; with all its new, beautiful. scenic, inte,
resting, dramatic, ani astonishing Equestrian effects.
To be followed by a most novel and brilliant Routine of Gymnas-
and Equestrian Achievement.; in the scenes of the ARENA, sup-
ported by the most eminent British and Continental Artistes of the
day.

To conclude with a Popular FARCE.
So:-odlee open daily from Eleven to Four. stage Manager. Mr.
W. West.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tim DAT —Morning 44 min. after 12 I Evening 7 min.aft. 1
To-Ifoaßow--Morning 28 mm. after 1 Evening 47 min.aft. 1

THE WEATHER.—Smi OFFICE, APRIL 22.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
55—highest since noon yesterday.
45—lowest this morning and during the night.
52 this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 29'46.
WIND, S.S.E.—Fresh breeze, and dirty, rainy weather.

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clearly,' distinctly, and unequivocally on the point,
and who are not likely to abandon their former
views without a sufficient cause. We cannot con-
ceive how Mr. Hum; Mr. COBDEN, or Mr. BRIGHT
could now support the system which they have so
frequently, so eloquently, and so truthfully de-
nouncek or that the contemplated cessation of the
chief element in the direct taxation of the country
would prove anirecommendation in their sight. We
have, then, not only the Derbyites and the Liberals
unequiVocally opposed to the plan, but we may
assume that *he great bodY of the Irish Members
will also resist the injustice, which as the system
is abolit to be extended to Ireland with all its
defects they may now do with a better grace than,
heretofore. Here, then, we find at least two-
thirds of the House against Ministers, while
their own supporters, at best a miserable mino-
rity, are divided. Lord ABERDEEN has fol-
lowers. He promised an equitable adjustment
of the impost. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, is not
without influence—he held out similar hopei.
Mr. GLADSTONE, though unable to number a dozen
followers, has succeeded so far as to be permitted
to biirlg forward his plan ; but the dissentients
who barely sanctioned its introduction, will not
combat a r outrance on its behalf, or relinquish
their hopes of place . and emoluments to gratify
the crotchets of Mr. GLADSTONE.

(
Yesterday Lord MALMESBURY extorted from his
antagonists something like an apology—a sort of
shuffling and indirect amende honorable—for the
'l3arty feeling with which his foreign policy had
been Molina ana
_obstructed by-certain of "_her
MAJEsry's Ministers when in Opposition. Per-_
,haps, among all , the important members of the
DERBY Government, the Foreign
_Secretary was
the one who experienced, during his tenure of
office, he least amount_ of honest and manly con-
sideration. Everything he did was depreciated,
and many of his proceedings were distorted by
really : flagrant misrepresentation. We said as
much at the time, the Noble Earl was in power,
and no* that he has fallen from it with his col-
leagues, we reiterate_ our assertion. Fair play

impelled us to adopt the course in spite of every
imaginable sneer implying charges of tergiversa-
tion. It was altogether too monstrous to witness,
without giving utterance to one word' expressive

.of disdain, the eitiavakant partisanship revealed
towards their opponents by the future Members

and supporters (d l'outrance) of the Coalition,
throughout s the whole period of the DERBY-
DISRAELI Administration. For ourselves, we were
naturally, and, as it were, instinctively inimical to
almost every one of the principal views entertained
by that Administration. It was impossible not
to recognise at once, that there could be no, bonds'

•
of sympathy between the majority of the opinions
entertained by ourselves and by the Tory advisers of
the SOVEREIGN. Whereas they were Tories—we

were Liberals. We were Free Traders--they

were advocates of Protection. We were for an
extension of the franchise—they were against any
enlargement, of the area of representation. Our
predilections were (speaking in a general and com-
prehensive sense) for Reform—theirs were, on the
other hand, , based upon the quieta non .movere
principle, they were for letting what they called
" well " alone ; or, in other terms, were for an
exaggerated species of ultra-Conservatism. Bur
—they were hurried unexpectedly into office.
By the gratification of the momentary pique of
their antagonists_ they were suddenly invested—at
a period when they least expected it—with the
solemn and supreme responsibilities of Govern-
ment. They perceived at a glance the be-
wildering diffidulty of their position, and
resolvpd bravely enough on the instant to
make one vigorous effort to release them-
selves from the pains and perils of that state of
embarrassment. They appealed to the country,
and the electors, of course, placed them, in a
minority. "Of course," we say, because the vast
bulk of the community was in favour of Free
Trade, of Financial Retrenchment, of an exten-
sion of the Elective Franchise, and (generally) of
Reform. Whereas—to reiterate for the sake of
lucidity—Lord DERBY and his colleagues were
notoriously against Financial Retrenchment,
against an extension of the Elective Franchise,
and (generally) against Reform. They were, in
fact, Tories and Protectionists. There was the
dilemma. Well, and now let us ask what was the
mode adopted by the DERBY-DISRAELI Cabinet to

extricate themselves from this maze of difficul-

ties ? It was simple and, more than that,
we think it was honest. They determined,

without eating their own words, or directly
abjuring their own principles, to concede to the
obvious necessity of the times, and to the mani-
fest want of the population. They accepted as
un fait accompli the system of Free Trade, estab-
lished by their former leader, the illustrious real-

iser of the dreams of ADAM SMITH and WILLIAM
HIISBISSON. They bowed to the no longer dubit-
able stability of the new system under the modu-
lated title of unrestricted competition. Ina word,
they broke from the torpor of Toryism, and came
forth-as we were the first to call them-Tory
Reformers.

During the whole period of the Whigs' last con-

,nuance in power as a Government, scarcely any-

thing whatever was accoMplished in the way of
real legislative improvement. The RUSSELL
Cabinet, indeed, was notoriously spoken of through-
out tlAe countryas the Do-Nothing Administration.
Its leaders were nominally Reformers—but they
only talked of Reform—Reform itself they gave
the go-by, coolly enough, by a series of Parliamen-

tary procrastinations. Immediately after the
general election of 1852, when the Derbyites
boldly came before the people as Tory Reformers,
they gave ample assurance of the sincerity of their
political conversion. Insomuch that upon several
points they effected more beneficial changes in four
or five months than had been accomplished during
the five or six preceding years by a so-called
Liberal Government. They undertook—in itself
a herculean labour—the Reform of Chancery.
They prepared to abolish that rotteu old• portion
of the State fabric, the Ecclesiastical Courts--

hitherto allowed. to remain untouched, although
polluting and cumbering the land with their cor-
ruption and dilapidation. These were among a
variety of comprehensive innovations upon which
the Derby-Disraeli-ites, or, in other words, the
Tory Reformers, gallantly adventured..
Nevertheless, scarcely any movement could be
made by the members of the late Ministry, but it
immediately became subject to the abuse or ridi-
cule of the future Coalition—the then hetero-
geneous Opposition. • Considering the nature and
tendency of the innovations attempted by Lord
DERBY and his Ministerial colleagues, this was
manifestly, on the very face of it, unfair. it was
unfair, and not only unfair, but absurd and pre-
posterous, to obstruct new and enlarged measure's.
of Reform, simply' because those measures ema-
nated from the Tory Reformers, from the mem-
bers of the Earl of DERBY'S Governmept. JGt
was about as silly a reason for the course pursued
in this =Ater, both in the Lords and Commons,
-as well as by the majority of the Fourth Estate,
as.it would have been for our forefathers to re-
ject the benefits accruing to the nation from the
Commonwealth, simply because of the redness of
the nose of Ouv.zit CRoMwELL. It was against
the folly and indecorum of these proceedings that
we protested, again and again, in terms of honest
and impartial indignation.
It testimony were required to prove that this
indignation was not altogether uncalled for, it
would most certainly be discoverable in the con-
duct displayed towards the ex-Foreign Secretary
by the more infatuated upholders of the late Op-

idno3sibtiii°tll; Nothing
vasinsta thlypart of: Lord
uo
olVmeldA Lt zso
be lut Rv
the
could
most
odious abomination that could have been perpe-
t ated under the circumstances. Partisanship in
this way descended so low as to quibble about the
style of his diplomatic communications. States-
men dwindled down into hypercritics. Journalists
collapsed into Pedants—very captious, very casuis-
tical, and. very splenetic. And yet the Earl of
MA.LmEssuny contrived, while at the head of the
maintain amicable relit--
Foreign Department, to
tions between our own and all the other Courts of
,Christendom; and while effecting thus much in one
-or two cases under circumstances of some diffi-
culty, opened up to the commercial enterprize 'of

Great Britain, through the hitherto blockaded
channel of the Silver River, the -virgin wealth of
the great goruth American Continent. That alone
would be suiticient to cover with glory the record
of his brief 17at not inoperative Administration.
Yesterday, therefore, it was with something
like remorse Mat both Earl GRANVILLE and the
Marquis of CLANRICARDE endeavoured, though
in vain, to &Air themselves from the charge of
having obstruct%ed Lord MALMRSBURY'S foreign
policy by an unseemly and uncalled-for opposi-
tion. However bootless otherwise in its results,
the discussion last night in the House of Peers
must have solacorl the Noble Earl the late
Foreign Secretary for many byegone and bitter
vituperations. It must have appeared, moreover,
to the servile eulogists of the Coalition Cabinet in
the light, or rather darkness, of a retribution.

Nothing could well be more satisfactory than
the decision arrived at in regard to the re-organi-
sation of the Customs by her MAJESTY'S Govern-
ment. The nature of that decision was revealed
to the country last evening in the House of Com-
mons during the course of Mr. WiLsoN's masterly
explanation. It will now be perceived how much
advantage has been derived from the Report
of the Commissioners of Customs transmitted
to the Treasury, and from the Minutes of
the Select Committee laid upon the table of
the Lower House of Parliament. In consequence
of the earnest recommendations offered by the
Committee and the Commissioners, the Earl of
ABERDEEN and his colleagues have resolved upon,
forthwith submitting to the Legislature a measure
for the better constitution thenceforth of the'
whole of the Customs department. The raagni-
tnde and multiplicity of the evils visible in that
department have long clamoured for- some
such resolute interference. The time seems
to have at length arrived. At least it is
promised to , the country at the earliest oppor-
tunity. , A guarantee that this promise will
speedily be redeemed is discoverable in the reso-
lution announced to the House of Commons
yesterday, by the Hon. Gentleman the Member
for, Westbury—the resolution formed by Ministers
that no vacancies occurring in the Board of Cus-
toms shall be filled up until after the projected plan
has been submitted toy the consideration and,
scrutiny. of Parliament. This is well as aguarantee
—as a distinct pledge of activity—as a positive or
reliable assurance that the question will not be per-
mitted to die out of the Ministerial remembrance.
For, vacancies like these 'cannot be multiplied., with
impunity in so large and complicated a depart-
ment of the public service. A term must ne-
cessarily, therefore, before ..long be put to this, at
present, unavoidable postponement. '
Ultimately, kthe Customs 'and Warehouses Acts
are to ,be codified into one solitary and comprehen-
sive statute. That truly will be 'a wonderful-
simplification. Two or three score of fiscal statutes
condensed into one ! An epic in a nutshell.
With changes like these in the way of codifying
the laws of England—now the criminal, now
the Commercial, now the Ecclesiastical—we may
begin at last to have some glimmering of ,hope
thht ours may ultimately vie in compactness with
the Code of NAPOLEON or the Pandects of Jus-
TLNIAIt. For this gleam of good promise in the
future the country has reason to be grateful to
her M.AJESTY'S Government.

COURT CIRCULAR.

It is understood that the Levee to be held on Wed-
nesday,: the 27th instant, will be the last this season.

Hei:Majesty will hold several Drawing-rooms during
the month of June.

• Her Royal Highness the. Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Higness Prince Albert, attended.by Lieu-
tenant-Colonel F. H. Seymour, visited the National
Gallery yesterday morning. In the afternoon his Royal
Highness, attended byLieutenant-Colonel F. H. Seymour,
went to, the Zoological Society in Hanover-square.
Sir Henry Holland was presented at the levee on
Wednesday by the Earl of Aberdeen, upon being created
a baronet.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accompa-
nied by her Serene Highness the Princess of Hohenlohe,
and attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir
George Couper dined with the Duke and Duchess
D'Aumale, at ()dean's House, Twickenham, on Wednes-
day evening.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accom-
panied by her Serene Highness the Princess Adelaide of
Hohenlohe, honoured the Royal Italian Opera with her
presence last evening. Her Royal Highness was
attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George
Couper.

A deputation from Salisbury and Warminster, on the
subject of the completion of the Wilts and Somerset
Railway, as regards the line between Salisbury and
Warminster, had an interview with the Right Honour-
able E. Cardwell, on Wednesday, at the Board of Trade.
The deputation consisted of the Right Hon. S. Herbert,
Mr. Sotherton, M.P., Mr. Wyndham, M.P., Mr. C. B.
Wall, M.P., Mr. C. H. B. A'Court, M.P., Mr. D.
Seymour, M.P., the Mayor of Salisbury ; the Rev. A.
Fane, Vicar of Warminster ; the Rev. Bladney,
Major-General Buckley, Mr. J. Ravenhill (Warminster),
Mr. R. Hetley (Salisbury), Mr. J. H. Jacob, Mr. N.
V. Squares Mr. J. Pothecary; and Mr. "G. Smith.
The residents of Belfast and Galway Queen's Colleges
had an interview yesterday with the Earl of Aberdeen,
at his official residence in Downing-street.
A deputation of the watermen acting as pilots on the
Thames, had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Card-
well, on Wednesday, at the Board of Trade. The depu-
tation was introduced by Mr. Rolt and Mr. Chambers,
and consisted of Mr. Shoebridge (chairman), Mr. Muson,
Messrs. Watkins, Todhunter, Hone, Blain, Langman.
Parkinson, Wood, Randall, Forrest, Hinton, Carter,
Andrews, and Rodway.
Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office yester-
day, from the governor of Ceylon, from the g.overnor of
Hong. Kong, the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Islands, and the governor of Malta.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.-(THIS DAY.

MAIDSTONE.

The committee appointed to enquire into the petition
against the return of G. Dod, Esq., sat this morning, at
twelve o'clock, for the first time. Mr. Hutt in the
chair.

Mr. Sergeant Kinglake and Mr. E. Jones appeared
on behalf •f the petitioner, and Mr. Bodkin and Mr.
Clarke for the sitting member.
Mr. Sergeant Kinglake proceeded to open the case
for the petitioner, who, he stated, alleged undoubted
bribery and treating. The sitting member however,
Mr. Dod, having satisfied himself that there had been
without doubt an amount of corrupt treating sufficient
to void his election, had wisely determined not to perse-
vere in any opposition to the petition. He would there-
fore resign his seat. This was not the result of any ar-
rangement or compromise between the parties.
The usual resolution was then passed declaring Mr.
Dod not duly elected, and the election to be a void
election.