The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-12 00:00:00

ROYAL VICTORIA 711EATRE.

IS EVENING.
Will be repeated
THECTHRICKET OF THE HEARTH. A Fairy Tale
-Di Home. John Peerybingle, Mr. E. F. Saville ; The Stranger, An.
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Fredericks; Tackleton, Mr. Searle; Caleb Plummer, Mr. Herbert;
Ism
Mary
Terry. Peerybingle, Miss Viet; Bertha, Arm Lee; Tilly SlowbOY,
After which, Professor HEMMIXOS and his SONS will give more
tmparalleled fleets of Classical Gymnasia than ever yet has been ex-
kibited, and surpassing even the celebrated Risley himself. In addi-
tion to which Professor Hemmings will introduce his Astonishing
)og Hector.
To conclude with a new gorgeous Pantomime, called TIPPITY-
'Li'ITCHET or, HARLEQUIN TIM BOBBIN and the COMICAL
'l4 ITCHES of LANCASHIRE. Harlequin. Mr. Chapin ; Coltun-
k. ne, Miss Le Vita ; the Two Clowns, Messrs. R. Blanchard and
the Two Pantaloons, Mr. Franklin and the N'Donald
the yiry King of riattominie and Prince of Plu veteran Tom
xt4loons.
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MGM WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
M,rning 53 minutes after 1 1 Evening .- 13 minutes after 2.

• character. Determined not to swerve—either tacitly
by their quiescense, or virtually by an actual with-
drawal from their party—from those principles
which so materially affect their pockets, they convene
meetings, devour dinners, and utter commonplaces
with the assiduity of men resolved to attain an object,
but at the same time resolved to do so
comfortably. Within the past week this po-
litical epidemic has been extending with more or
less violence through some six or seven counties,
arousing in one place the bile of dread, and in others
the spleen of disappointment. The most remarkable
display, however, which has recently heen made in
this respect was the meeting held at Cambridge, on
Saturday last, and attended by somewhere about six
hundred individuals. As a fitting introduction to the
business of the day, a letter from the Earl of
HARDWICK E was read by the Chairman, to
the infinite satisfaction of his auditors, tl'o
letter being summed up in that interminable
zon sequitur of the landed interest—" Should I
conceive any proposition made by the Minister in-
jurious to the agriculturist, and consequently to the
community at large, it will receive my strenuous
opposition." Assumptions or absolute asseverations
like this are nothing less than empty clap-traps
begging the question, rather than submitting it to the
tests of argument. But the quintessence of self-
sufficiency in this assemblage was condensed into an
harangue uttered by the Hon. E. T. YORKE,
M.P.—an harangue fraught with unwieldy at-
tempts at smartness and sage-mouthed declama-
tions of the strangest inanity. Among other instances
of this nature, Mr. YORKE asserts the object of the
Anti-Corn-law League to be " free trade in corn,
and monopoly for themselves." A stern, prominent,
and naked declaration, ungarnished even by a syl-
lable of sophistry—a solitary and individualised
assurance, based solely upon the opinions of the
speaker. Yet were the barrenness and dogmatism of
this aspersion greeted with acclamations, a result
which elicited still evidences of the self-opinionated
disposition and oratorical terseness of Mr. E. T.
YORKE. After stigmatising Lord JOHN RUSSELL
for having written himself into the ranks of the
League, he continues :
" Lord John Russell was called upon to form an
Administration, but failed, though he took fourteen
days to deliberate, and Sir Robert Peel and his col-
leagues—with the exception of Lord Stanley—now
ruled the destinies of the nation. He did not like to
use harsh words (considerate Mr. Yorke !), but he could
not help saying that he considered the whole affair as a
political farce!"

Such a miserable absence of all perceptive power
on the part of a Member of Parliament in addressing
his constituency has very rarely been witnessed. What
the Edinburgh Review particularises as one of
the noblest characteristics in the behaviour of the
late Earl GREY—namely, a refusal to take office,
when to do so it was necessary to "abandon a friend
or desert a principle"—what every right-thinking
man must esteem as about the noblest magnanimity
of statesmanship, is christened by the lion. E. T.
YORKE as—what ?—" a political farce !" And then,
by an unconscionable effort at jocoseness, " he trusted
that it would not be tragic in its effect !" So
much emptiness, so much assurance, such lack
of discrimination, and such lack of delicacy,
is unworthy of the advocate of a class so
numerous as the agriculturists. Nevertheless,
these rhetorical deficiencies are only commensurate
with those few and diminutive arguments by which
the agricultural monopolists endeavour to prop up a
sinking and worthless cause. Whatever logical capa-
cities may exist among its advocates are eclipsed by
an over quantity of obtuseness; still, this peculiarity
is inevitable even with the healthiest matter. Nulla
magna injuria sine mixtura dimentim. Thus, more
especially amidst the debris of a question now almost
annihilated, may be discovered instances of folly and
insufficiency as incessant as they are worthless.
With respect to the Member for Cambridgeshire, his
mind appears to be pinned down exclusively to this
narrow and pernicious principle—his deductions are
as rash as they are flimsy—and notwithstanding the
strangeness of his jolting and epigrammatic style,
he stands forward the representative of a genus.
With all earnestness of heart we can but hope for
their speedy political extinction.

We have received Madrid journals of the 4th.
The debate on the Address in the Chamber of De-
puties commenced on the 3d, when Senor SEIJAS
moved an amendment, the object of which was to
compel the Government to adopt a more constitutional
system, and take active measures for bettering the
condition of the people. The debate was adjourned,
and resumed on Monday the sth, and according to a
telegraphic dispatch received at Paris on Saturday,
the amendment was rejected by a large majority, only
32 Members having voted for it. The Gazelle con-
tains a royal ordonnance, announcing that the
QUEEN had accepted the resignation of General
MAN so, Governor-General of Arragon.
On the 3d the Three per Cents closed at 35i for
60 days.

The topic of most interest in the Paris papers is
the debate in the Chamber of Peers on the

Address. On Friday the discussion which, as
we have stated, commenced on the previous
day, was resumed. The only incident of interest
during the day was the re-appearance of
M. VILLEMAIN in the tribune. The Noble Peer de-
livered at some length his opinion on the ordonnances
respecting the University, of which he disapproved.
Baron CousxN also opposed them, and after a speech
from the Minister of Public Instruction in their de-
fence, the debate was adjourned. The chief speaker on
Saturday was Baron CHARLES DUPIN, so well known
for his useful publications on public works in Eng-
land. His speech, though opposed to some parts of
the Address, was calm and moderate. He admitted
that the situation of the country was satisfactory, the
Ministry secure and supported by a considerable ma-
jority, the country calm, and the foreign relations
established on an amicable footing; but still he ob-

jected to that paragraph in the Address which stated
that the Committee were happy to hear from his
AIAJESTY that the state of the finances was becom-
ing every day more prosperous. He then adverted
to the Budget presented by the Finance Minister
and contended that the security announced in th;
Address was not well founded, for the Minister him-
self admitted that the deficit was yearly increasing.
It resulted, he said, from the returns submitted to the
Chambers that the deficit, which in 1844 was
371,000,000 f., had risen in 1845 to 396,000,000 f.,
and in 1846 to 421,000,000 f. This, he knew, was not
alarming, but nevertheless called for a speedy re-
medy. He then referred to the financial position of
England, and observed that a Ministry so partial to
that country should also take it for a model. In 1816,
after the war, the budget of England he said,
amounted to 2,150,000,000 f. ; eight years afterwards
in 1824, it was reduced to 1,425,000,000 f.; and in
1844, it had still further decreased to 1,375,000,000 f.
The debt of England had also considerably
diminished, whilst that of France increased in
a frightful proportion. The speaker, in conclusion,
drew a parallel, entirely to the advantage of England,
of the achievements of both Governments, and de-
scribed the extension assumed of late by the power
of Great Britain in every part of the globe, extolled
the admirable expedition executedby the British arms
along the Chinese coast, showed the dominions of
England daily extending, at the same time that her
expenditure diminished, and asked the Ministry if
they could boast of similar results, even to justify
the increase of the publ,ic burdens ? The Marquis
DE BOISSEY, after the general discussion was closed,
made a speech, in which he recommended the resto-
ration of the hereditary peerage. At the hour of
post the Count DE MONTALEMBERT was speaking on
the suffering condition of the Christian population
in Syria. We find no additional intelligence in the
papers from Algiers. The Presse publishes two ad-
dresses from the Oceanie Francaise of Otaheite,
issued by M. BRUAT, so far back as January 7, 1845.
They are very conciliatory, and show that a new
system of government has been adopted. They are
as follows :

" Inhabitants of the Society Islands, the King of the
French, wishing to give an example of the respect due
to treaties, has agreed to the petition addressed to him
by Queen Pomare, and has decided that the protectorate
of France shall be henceforward established in the
archipelago of the Society Isles. In execution of orders
to this effect, the French flag, symbol of the exterior so-
vereignty which we exercise, is to continue to float
alone at all the military posts and all the defensive
points of the island. The flag of the protectorate, that
is to say the old flag of Otaheite, quartered with French
colours, shall be displayed over all the other public sots-

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