The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-14 00:00:00

THE ATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
FAREWELL BENEFIT of Mr. B. WEBSTER.
THIS EVENING, Miles 14,
Will be performed THE ROUSED LION.
After which, A NOVEL EXPEDIENT.
To be followed by THE PRETTY GIBS OF STILBERG.
FAREWELL ADDRESS.
To conclude with the Farce of BOX and COX MARRIED and
SETTLED.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster. —Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 14,

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Will be performed the Drama of THE GREEN BUSHES; or, a
Hundred Years Ago. Supported by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Honey,
0. Smith, &e.; Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, and Mlss F.
Maskel].
After which, A LUCKY FRIDAY.
To conclude with (at second price) JACK SHEPPARD.
Doors open at half-past six o'clock.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean.
THIS EVENING, 3fasca 14,
Will be prodnced Shakspere's Tragedy of MACBETH (as acted
at Windsor Castle, by Royal command). Principal characters by
Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean.
To conclude with A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER.

ROYAL OLYMPIC: THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren.
THIS EVENING, Meacn 14,

Will be presented THE FARMER'S STORY. Supported by
Messrs. Compton, W. Farren, jun., Hoskins, Cooke, Shalders, Edgar,
Bender, and Clifton; Misses Anderton and 11. Gordon.

After which, TIIE LOAN OF A I OVER.
To conclude with THE SERGEANT'S WIFE.
Box-office open from Eleven till Five, under the superintendence
of Mr. E. Chstterton.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TIM DAY —Morning 39 min. after 4 I Evening 52 min.aft. 4
To-31ozRow—Morning 8 min. after 5 f Evening 24 min.aft. 5

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1853,

State of the wind and weather at each of the following
places at nine o'clock on Saturday morning. The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
LIMERICK—S.E., strong breeze---cloudless.
MULLINGAR— E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
HASTINGS—E., fresh breeze—cloudless.
SOUTHAMPTON—N., strong breeze—cloudless.
FOLKESTONE—N.E., fresh breeze—overcast.
TUNBRIDGE—N.E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
BASINGSTOKE—E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
GREENWICH—CaIm foggy.
STROOD—E., calm—foggy.
SWINDON—N., light breeze—foggy.
CAMBRIDGE—E., gentle breeze—cloudy.
YARMOUTH—E., calm—overcast.

The returns from the following places indicate the state
of the weather on Friday morning at nine o'clock :
HASTINGS—E., fresh breeze—cloudless.
So lITHAMPTON—S. E., strong breeze—overcast.
FOLKESTONE—N.E., fresh breeze—overcast.
TUNBRIDGE—S.E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
BASINGSTOKE—E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
GREENWTCH—S. E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
STRooD—S.E., gentle breeee—foggy.
SWINDON—S. W. gentle breeze—cloudy.
LEIGHTON—S. S.E., calm—partially cloudy.
CAMBRlDGE—Calm—cloudless.
YARMOUTH— S.E., gentle breeze—foggy.
HOLYHEAD—S., gentle breeze—very fine.
LANCASTER—S.W., calm— cloudless.
DARLINGTON—S., gentle breeze - cloudy.
SHAP—E., calm—partially cloudy.

THE WEATHER.—Strx OFFICE, MAacu 13.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
48—highest since noon yesterday.
34—lowest this morning and during the night.
54 this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 29.87—going down rapidly.
WIND, S.S.E. to S.W.—Light breeze, and variable,
with clouds and sunshine—very fine weather.
MARCH 14.
55—highest since noon yesterday.
41—lowest this morning and during the night.
38—this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 29.63.
WIND, ranging from S.W. to W.N.W.—Dull weather,
with rain. Rain began last night about nine, and has
continued with slight interruption.

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LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1853.

Viscount MAIDSTONE has been at it again—
The Deluge*—and a Poem too—and Dedicated
to the Electors of Westminster ! Although our
noble author does his very uttermost to bring
himself into ridicule, we are willing at all times,
in spite of his intolerable petulence, his constitu-
tional pugnacity, and his excessively irritating
self-sufficiency, to acknowledge whatever talent lie
may happen to display in the course of his very
eccentric lucubrations. Perhaps he has never dis-
played more ability than in this satirical onslaught
upon so many of his contemporaries. We say
this none the less cordially because of his exceed-
ingly courteous and refined allusions to ourselves.
If upon occasion we come in for a casual egg or
an incidental brickbat when placed in the pillory
of his satire by Lord MAIDSTONE, we feel that we
are only enduring the common lot of journalism—
paying the customary penalty of the politician—
receiving the ordinary reward of Independence !
Besides—while possessing, no doubt, a tolerable
amount of what the phrenologists call the Organ of
Self-Esteem, we are still very far indeed from labour-
ing under the erroneous idea that we constitute an
exceptional example of that delightful impossibi-
lity—Perfection. Lord MAIDSTONE may be right
enough in his conjecture that

" PECCEBUS has no connection with The Sea,"

but at any rate its Leaders have not been kept in
hand during the sixty-one years of its existence
by the timorous grasp of a PHAEroN—otherwise
it must long since have toppled down from the
literary zodiac to " bottomless perdition."
Whatever the temperament of the charioteer in
other respects, at least, we encourage ourselves in
the belief that it is neither marred by a lack of
self-knowledge, nor by a total absence of magnani-
mity. It scarcely remained for Lord MAIDSTONE
inform us that there are sometimes—" spots on
The sun." Nevertheless, it would appear that for
his own part, like some of the astronomical observers,
he himself has only the faculty of perceiving the
dark spots—the light being altogether passed by
unnoticed. Yet, notwithstanding all our self-
depreciation, we cannot help flattering ourselves
into the belief that factace as well as maculce are
Occasionally visible on the surface of the luminary.
[-Viscount MAIDSTONE must pardon whatever cox-
combry there may be in the use of that expres-
sion, in consideration of his having himself com-
menced these " allusions metaphorical."] How-
beit the recognition of a few vulgar and intem-
perate personalities,
even though some among the '
coarser of those personalities be directed against
ourselves, cannot blind us to the ability with
against tnhe
which the Noble Lord has gratified his spleen
against the Press and
e
existing Cabinet
while explaining his v
of the modern
Deluge to the electors of Westminster.
Considerable humour, it must be e
admitted even
by the most obdurate of his depreciatory, has been
displayed by Lord MAIDSTONE in his
present capa-
city as a satirist. Possibly we are the better ena-
bled to appreciate this humour, from the eir
stance of so many of the opinions expressed by
Lord MAIDSTONE being exactly coincident with
those frequently expressed already by ourselves.
For, however much disposed the noble satirist may
be to associate the views advocated by this journal
with those which he is facetiously pleased to de-
signate "Tiverton's three tails," or, in other
words, with the systematic and infatuated apolo-
gists of the existing Government, we take leave
to remind him, as it were needless to do one of our
habitual and more observant readers, that The
San cannot, in common justice, be ranked in that
particular category. Appreciating, as we have
ever done and must ever do, the distinguished ad-
ministrative ability of 'Viscount PALMERSTON, re-
cognising, as we have ever done and must
ever do, his eminent and patriotic career
as a statesman, we
that have never pandered Ito
appetite for, place which has led so many men

* "
Dedicat Th
ed toe Deluge
the Electors of Westminster." Bvo., PP.
48. Chapman and -Hall London, 1853.