The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-28 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
The LAST Grand Classical, Dramatic, Miscellaneous CON-
CERTED MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT of the Season will take
place on MONDAY MORNING, June 30.
On this occasion will appear Mesdames Sontag, Caroline Duprez,
Alaimo, Giuliani, Ida Bertrand, Florentini, Marie Cruvelli, and
SotleCruvelli. The valuable assistance of Madame Ugalde, of the
Opera Comique, Paris, has also been secured. Signori Gardoni and
Calzolari, Mr. Sims Reeves and Signor Pardini, Signori Coletti and
Ferranti, F. Lablache, and Lablache.
Signor Sivorl (engaged expressly for thin occasion) will execute
two unpublished Pieces of Paganini•
Director of the Music and Conductor, M. Balfe.
The Concert will commence at Two o'clock precisely.
Boxes Two Guineas ;
pit Stalls, 12s. 6d.; Pit Ticket. and Gallery
Stalls, 55.; Gallery, 25. 61, to be had at the Box office of the
Theatre.

HER, MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
BY Command.
GRAND EXTRA NIGHT.
SATURDAY, July 5.
Her MAJESTY has signified her Gracious Intention to Visit her
Majesty's Theatre in State, on Saturday, July 5.

TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE
THALBERG'S New Grand Opera,

FLORINDA ; or, THE MOORS IN SPAIN.
It is respeetfully announced that on THURSDAY next, July 3, will
be produced InNritirely new Grand Opera, composed expressly for
her Majesty's Theatre, by Sigisrnund Thalberg, the Poem by Scribe,
the Italian Libretto by Giannoni, entitled

FLORINIA. ; or, THE MOORS IN SPAIN.
With new scenery by Mr. Charles Marshall ; the costumes exe-
cuted by Miss Bradley and Mr. Coombes; underths superintendence
of Madame Copere; the Mise en Scene by Mr. A. Harris.
Count Julian, Signor Lablache ; Florinda, Mdlle. Sale Cruvelll ;
Rodrigo, Signor Calzolari; Teodomiro, Mdile. Marie Cravat (her
first appearance in this country) ; Favila, Mr. Sims Reeves ; and
Munuzza, Signor Coletti.
The Subscribers are respectfully informed that this Night will be
included in the Subscription, In lieu of S aturday, July 5, on which
occasion the Performances will be by Command.
With various Entertainments in the Ballet Department, in which
Mdilen Amalia Ferraris, Madlie. Marie Taglioni, Mdlle. Caroline
Rosati, Mdlles. Rosa, Esper, Julien, Lamoureux; Allegrini, Koh-
lenberg, Aussandon, Pascales, Dantonle, Soto, &c.; MM. Charles,
Gosselin, Ehrick, and Paul Tailioni will appear.
The Opera to commence at half-past Seven o'clock. •
Application for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box-
°Mee of the Theatre.

TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
NORMA.—LA PROVA D'UN OPERA SERIA.
Madlle. SOFIE CRUVELLI.—Madame ITGALDE.
It is respectfully announced that THIS EVENING will be pro-
duced (for the last time) Milli-Ws Opera,
NORMA.

Norma, Madlle. Sode Cruvelli ; Adalgisa, Madlle. Giuliani; Pol-
hone, Signor Pardini ; Oroveso, Signor Lablache.
After which a Divertissement, in which Madlle. Amalia Ferraris
Will appear.
To be followed by Grecco's Opera Buffo,
LA PROVA D'UN OPERA SERIA.
Fiorillo, Madame Ugalde ; Fodavio, Signor Pardini ; Grilletto,
signor F. Lablache; Campanone, Signor Lablache.
To conclude with a Divertissement from the admired Ballet,
LA SYLPHIDE.
La Sylphide, Madlle. Marie Taglioni ; James, 31. Charles ; sup-
ported by Noss, Lamoureux, Esper, Julien, Allegrini, Kohlenberg,
Aus,andon, Pascailes, rantoine, Soto, &c.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, ant Tiakcts to be made at the Box-
office of the Theatre. Doors opened at Seven, the Opera to com-
mence at half-past Seven o'clock.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. E. Wooster, mole Lessee and Manager, 01 a wouipton.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir
John Falstaff, Mr. Hackett.

To conclude with the Nautical Drama of BLACK-EYED SUSAN.
Williana?Mr. Davenport; Admiral, Mr. Rogers; Captain Crosstrecp
Mr. Parsello; Gnatbrain, Mr. Buckstone ; Jacob Twig, Mr. 11. Bed-
ford ; Susan, Miss A. Vining.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL.
Under the direction of Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING.
Will be performed the Comedy of PAUL PRY. Colonel Hardy,
Mr. Emery ; Paul Pry, Mr. Wright ; Grasp, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mr.
Willis, Mr. Worrell ; Marian, Miss Ellen Chaplin.
To be followed by a new comic Opera, entitled GOOD NIGHT,
SIGNOR PANTALON. Doctor Tititofolo, Mr. i'aul Bedford ; Signor
Pantalon, Mr. Honey ; Lelio, iNits Woolgar ; Columbine, Miss Kath-
leen Fitzwilliam.

To conclude with the laughable farce of A NIGHT of HORRORS.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management 01 Mr. C. Keay and Mr. Keeley.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed a new Play, called THE DUKE'S WAGER:I
Characters by Messrs. Kean, Wigan, Wynn, Cooke, Everett; Mrs.
Winstanley, Mrs. Wigan, Miss Vivash, and Mrs. Kean.
After which a new Farce called APARTMENTS.
"Visitors to the Exhibition may be accommodated."
To conclude with a new grand spectacular Extravaganza (taken
from a Tale, by Washington Irving), entitled THE ALHAMBRA ;
or The Three Moorish Princesses. Characters by Messrs. Keeley,
Harley, A. Wigan, Wynn, Cooke, Flexmore ; Misses Murray, Daly,
Vivash, Robertson, Leclerq, Keeley, Mdllo. Auriol, and Mrs. Keeley.
Private Boxes, &c., to be had cf all the Booksellers, any of Mr.
Massingham ; of whom also places may be taken at the Box-oftlce,
Oxford-street, from Eleven till Four o'clock.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management et Madame VeStri&
Hole Lessee, Mr. Cbal-les Mathew%
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed

ONLY A CLOD.

COURT BEAUTIES.

KING CHARMING.

To bo followed by

To conclude with

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lesaee and Manager, Mr. W. Farren.
THE, EVENING,

Will be performed SECRET SERVICE.
After which a Divertissement, in whisk Madlle. Victerisio Le•
grain and the whole of the Corps de Ballet of the, Theatre Royal
Drury Lane will appear.
To be followed by DIOGENES and his LANTERN.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Under the Patronage 01 her Majesty and his Royal HightlOU
Prince Albert.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed a grand new Spectacle, entitled ELEANOIC
THE AMAZON; or, Queen of France and England.
To be followed by new Scenes of the Circle, introducing an en-
tirely new Company of English, French, Italian, and American.
Artistes.

Tio conclude with the PEREGRINATIONS of MR. BRIGGS.
In consequence of numerous applications from Persons of all Na—
tions to witness the magnificent spectacle of MAZEPPA, active pre—
parations are being made for its early production.

Boi-ottlee open from Eleven Lin roar.
Stage Manager. Mr. T. Thompson.

PUNCH'S PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. W. R. COPELAND, Liverpool.
THIS EVENING,
Will be presented a Comedy, called CAPTAIN CHARLOTTE.
Principal characters by Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Davis, Mr., J. Rogers,
Miss Romer, Miss Maskell, and Ails 3 Marshall.
To be followed by a New and Original Burleta, entitled THE
VILLAGE NIGHTINGALE. Principal characters by Mr. H. J.
Craven (his 6th appearance here), Messrs. Norton, Rogers, Attwood.
R. Romer, and Haskell ; Miss E. Romer, and Miss Eliza Nelson
(her 6th appearance here), who will sing two new ballads, composed
expressly for her by S. Nelson, Esq.
After which a new and original Comic Drama, entitled THE
POOR RELATION.
To conclude with A CHEAP EXCURSION.
The prices of admission are arranged as follow :—Orchestra stalls,
4s ; Boxes (first circle), 3s. ; (second circle), 2s. ; Pit, le.
Doors to be opened at Half-past Six, and the performances to
Oommence at Seven precisely.
A second price will be taken to the Boxes only at Half-past Nine
—first circle, 25.; second circle, Is.
Private Boxes One Guinea and a Half each.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS
Repetition of the Grand Firework Pageant and the Music which
attracted 15,900 persons on Wednesday last.
LAST WELK OF M. JULLIEN.
Every evening (Saturday excepted), Danson's Colossal Modelled
Picture of the Temple of Janus in the Eternal City.—Superb
bieuTgerie.—performing Elephants.—Promenade Concert d'Ete,
conducted by M. Jullien, and sustained by the elite of his Unrivalled
Jull'en's latest and most favourite compositions. The Exhibi-
tion Quadrille. Crystal Fountain Polka. Amazon and Tiger Galop,
c., concludhig with a mr,st brilliant display of Fireworks, by
SouthhY, including his last Grand Tableau, the Shield of Alinerva,
showing tt
e bead of Medusa, with Revolving Snakes and other Me.
ehanical effects, the first exhibition of which on Wednesday last was
hailed with spontaneous cheers from the multitudes assembled.
Doors open from Nine A.M.—Feeding the Animals at Ralf-past
Five.—Concert at Seven.—Fire works at Ten.
Admission as usual, only One Shilling.
On Monday, Jane 50th, the Ancient Order of Foresters will hold
their grand demolfration at these Gardens, R. Andrews, Esq.,
Mayor of SouthamP presiding.
g A ball In the evening.

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DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.,--‘The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
PLYMOUTH—WAnd E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
BRIGHTON--W iVaiS. E., calm—cloudless.
HASTINGS—Wind E , gentle breeze—cloudless.
SOUTHAMPTON—Wind S., strong breeze—cloudless.
FOLKESTONE—Wind E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
Tuzuntiocutt—Wind S., calm—cloudless.
Baspros.rotcß—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
GKEENWICI-I—Calm—cloutiless.
SWINDON —Wir.d S., light airs—cloudless.
Cor...citEszka.—Wind N. W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
CAmßninGE—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
YARMOUTH —Wind S. E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
The returns from the following places indicate the state of
till wind and weather on Thursday morning at nine
e'clock :
LudErtica—Wind S , gentle breeze—cloudless.
51 ULLINGAR 4,',/ in d, W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
RUGBY—Wind S. V.., gentle breeze—cloudless.
ButstlNGnam Wind S., gentle breeze—cloudless.
PETE BBORO UGll—Wind S. W., gentle breeze—partially
cloudy.
citswE_ Wind S.W., erentle breeze—partially cloudy.
LxvErtpoon—Wind calm—cloudless.
YORK—Wind W., gentle breeze—overcast.
LANCASTER—\, ind calm—cloudless.
DA GTON Win d W.S.W., gentle breeze—partially
cloudy.
SHAD— Wind W., strong breeze—principally clear.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1851.

In the House of Lords last night,
The Earl of ELLENBORDUGII postponed the motion of
which he had given nutice, on the subject of eh/TEE
PERSAUD.

HERMAJESTY' S T H E A T R E. Several Bills were forwarded a stage, and-their Lord-
SOIREES EXTRAORDINAIRE, ships adjourned.
The Week's Performances will include the talents of Madame Son- In the Commons, on the bringing up the report on the
,
tag, Madlle. Caroline Duprez, Madame Fiorentini, Madame Giuliani, Ecclesiastil Tiles Assumption Bill
Titres
ca
Madlle. Sofia Cruvelll, and Madame Ugalde ; Signori Gardoni, Cal-
zolari, Pardini, Lablache, Massol, F. Lablache, Coletti, Casanova, Mr. MILES moved the addition of a clause by which
Scapini, Lorenzo, Ferranti, and Mr. Sims Reeves; Madlles. Amalie all parties convicted is penalties under the Act should,
Ferraris, Marie Taglioni, Caroline Rosati, MM. Charles, Ulric ' upon a second offence, be liable to summary banishment
Gosselin, and Paul Tazlioni.
Tuesday, July 1 —II Prodigo. from the United Kingdom, if the Home Secretary thought
Wednesday, July 2. -For toe last time La Figlia del Reggimento, proper to issue his warrant to that effect.
and other Entertainments. The motion was opposed by Sir G. GREY, and rejected
Thursday, July B.—Thalberg's new grand Opera, Florinda, or the
Moors in Spain (being included in the Subscription in lieu of Satur- on a division, by 140 votes to 101.
day, July 5.) A clause, moved by Mr. KEOGH, providing that no-
In consequence of the preparations requisite for her Majesty's re- thi •
ng contained in this Bill was to annul or affect the
ception on the occasion of the State Visit, there will be no perform. provisions of the Bequests Act, was agreed to without a
'ance on Friday next.

On a second clause, moved by the same Hon. Member,
enacting that the Bill should not invalidate, as evidence,
any letter of ordination or other ecclesiastical document
at present receivable in courts of justice or equity, a di-
vision was taken, when their appeared—
For the clause ... 45
Against it ... 220
Majority 175
Mr. KEOGH then moved another clause, providing
" That no proceeding should be taken under the Act,
save and except by her MAJESTY'S Attorney-General for
the time being in England and Ireland, or by the Lord-
Advocatetdh Gen-
tleman, t e
he
had received assurances from Mr. HATTER that Govern-
ment would support his clause, and now they turned
round and opposed him.
Lord J. RUSSELL and Sir G. GREY denied that they
bad authorised Mr. HATTER to give any pledge to bind
the Government, and
Mr. HATTER denied that he had given any such
pledge. Ho had merely stated to the Hon. Gentleman
his own private opinion in the course of conversation
while the last division was taking place.
The clause was rejected by 232 to 71.
Mr. REYNOLDS then moved a clause exempting Roman
Catholic clergymen from the operation of the Bill as far
as regarded rites and ceremonies performed in cemete-
ries in Dublin, guaranteed in Acts of Parliament on the
subject.
After a few words from Sir R. H. Nous, the Com-
mittee divided, when their numbers were—For the clause
32; against it, 150; majority against, 118.
When this division was over, the Roman Catholic
Members left the House in a body.
Sir F. THESIGER then proceeded to propose amend-
ments which went to include all briefs received from
Home in any part of the United Kingdom, and to make
it penal to obtain or cause to be procured, or publish or
put in use any bull, brief, rescript, or letters apostical, or
any other instrument or writing for the purpose of con-
stituting archbishops or bishops of such pretended pro-
vinces, sees, or dioceses, within the United Kingdom.
In clause 2 he also proposed to add the words—" or by
action of debt, at the suit of any person in one of her
Majesty's superior courts of law, with the consent of
her Majesty's Attorney-General in England and Ire-
land, or her Majesty's Advocate in Scotland."
Lord JOHN RUSSELL opposed the amendments. He
thou ght the lirat amendment would weaken the effect ot
the Bill, and with regard to the second, he thought it was
highly objectionable to give private individuals the
power to sus tor penalties. :If the amendments were car-
ried, it would be through the ostentatious abstinence of
the Irish Members, but that result would not prevent his
proceeding with the measure, and the change it would
accomplish was not unaccordant with the principle of
the Bill as proposed by the Government.
The amendment was supported by Mr. NAPIER, and
opposed by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, and on a division
it was carried by a'majority of 35, the numbers being—
For the amendment ... ... 135
Against it ... . . ... 100
Majority ... —35
The announcement of this majority was vociferously
cheered by the Opposition.
Two following amendments, included in the first, were
affirmed without division.
The fourth amendment, on clause 2, by which all per-
sons who should procure from Rome or publish in the
United Kingdom any bull or rescript for the purpose of
constituting archbishops or bishops under the inhibited
titles, was then moved.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL dissected the terms and
effect of the amendment, declaring that they afforded only
a delusive strength to the Bill.
A second division was then called, and this amendment
carried by 165 to 109—majority 56.
Lord J. RUSSELL postponed until the third reading his
opposition to the next amendment, by which private in.
dividuals were allowed to lay informations for offences
created under the Bill.
Sir J. GRAHAM suggested that as the Bill had now
received so many alterations of importance, it would
be advisable to have it printed in its new form, and
time allowed for a deliberate consideration by Hon.
Members.
This suggestion was adopted, and Friday next ap-
pointed for the third reading.
The third reading of the Oath of Abjuration (Jew)
Bill was postponed to Thursday.
The adjourned debate on the Address to the Crown
on the subject of the reform in Chancery was then re-
sumed. Various arguments, chiefly relating to the tech-
nical form and practice of the Equity Courts, were of-
fered by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL, the MASTER of the
ROLLS, Mr. CHRISTOPHER, Mr. BETHELL, Mr. HENLEY,
and Mr. EvAsis.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM and Lord JOHN RUSSELL each
insisted on the necessity of the immediate adoption of
some measure of Chancery reform, and the motion was
agreed to.
The House adjourned at One o'clock.;—'

The greater portion of another evening has been
devoted to the Ecclesiastinal Titles Assumption Bill,
end at last it has passed through Committee, the nu-
merous amendments, or quasi amendments, being
finally disposed of. On Friday next the third read-
ing will be taken, and then so far as the House of
Commons is concerned, the monster nuisance of the
present session will be got rid of. We do not sup-
pose that any material alteration will be introduced in
the House of Lords, or that the hereditary legislators
will resort to any unnecessary procrastination with
respect to the measure, so that before the termination
of July the Bill of the year will have received the
Royal assent, there will be nothing to delay the pro.
rogation, and the do-nothing session will be brought
to a conclusion.
In future timea it will, probably, excite no or-
dinary degree of astonishment when it is gravely
announced that so much valuable time was wasted—
so many angry feelings excited about a matter of
apparently such trivial importance. There are many
pressing reforms, the necessity for which has been
universally recognized—many matters of great con-
sequence that could have been finally and satisfac-
torily arranged in a tenth part of the time that was
devoted to the consideration of the present Bill. And
what have we got in return ? Will its most ardent sup-
porter venture to assert in another year that this piece
of trumpery legislation was worth the trouble it occa-
sioned, or will its most strenuous opponent not be
prepared to admit that too much weight and im-
portance was attached to it by the Roman Catholic
retembers, when it is clearly ascertained, as it will be
by that time, that it is a mere brutum fulmen, intended
tc. remain a dead letter on the national statute-book ?
T.shere have been faults on both sides, the parties
chiefly in fault being the Members of "the Brigade,"
who adopted a system of tactics which it was impos-
sible to sanction, and which elevated the matter to a
degree of importance that might otherwise never
brave been assigned to it. In truth, as we have long
since declared, the enactment is only valuable so far
cw it may be taken as the protest of the highest au-
thority in the nation—the Parliament of the United
ingdom of Great Britain and Ireland—against the
unwarranted usurpation of temporal power by a
foreign ecclesiastic, and the gross invasion of the
national independence and the Royal prerogative by
tiles PONTIFF, and it may well be questioned, whether
an address to the SOVEREIGN from both Houses of
Parliament, with a suitable reply, would
not have been to all intents and purposes
as. efficacious. As we have already stated, however,
the conduct of the Irish Members rendered it essen-
tial that
the Government should persevere. They
could not, in
the face of such an opposition, retreat
or discontinue their exertions. It would have re-
flected indelible disgrace on every member of the
Cabinet if they
had done so under the peculiar cir-
cumstances of the case.
of
faith,,,
last night were chiefly remarkable
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worst of the transaction, and subse-
cessive Ministerial defeats, the
fox Athlone,
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had far the
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in which, we
Member for Abingdon ham.
amendments of the Right Honourable.cy been carried,
notwith-
standing party.
KEOGH, that ao proceedings
should proposition by Mr. liEo
standing the strenuous opposition of the Whig
lege
should be taken under the Act save by the Arroa-
•
NET-GENERAL for the time being in England and
Ireland, and by the LORD ADVOCATE in Scotland,
was cne to which no valid objection could be taken
by the Government. It was in accordance with the
very spirit of their entire legislation on the subject.
We are at all times, and on all points, strongly op-
posed to the machinery of the law being set in motion
by private individuals. it is an unwise and impolitic
course, that should never be sanctioned under any
circumstances, more especially in cases where the
private prosecutor could only be actuated by bigoted,
vindictive, or sordid motives. We confess that we
cannot perceive any great distinction between suing
by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL or with the assent of the

ATTORNEY-GENERAL. All must admit that the former

would be more becoming the dignity of the sub-

ject, and that a conviction would have
much greater weight and importance if obtained
at the instance of the principal law officer of the
Crown, than by some person who had obtained an un-
happy notoriety as the opponent of his Roman
Catholic fellow-subjects. Jo the first instance it
would be regarded as a just and necessary vindication
of the law, in the second an exhibition of bigotry and
intolerance, more disgraceful to the complainants
than to the defendants, and it would occasion a degree
of party feeling and excitement that would be most
dangerous to the repose and tranquillity of the country.
It is, therefore, to be regretted that the Go-
vernment thought proper to repudiate the
pledge given by the Secretary for the Trea-
sury, "that he would divide with the Member
for Athlone and would keep his men " (alas ! for the
so-called independent Members). Had not the PRE-
MIER done so at the last moment, and in violation of
the deliberate promise given by the authorized agent
of the Cabinet on such matters, be Would have been
spared the subsequent defeats which he experienced
through the organized, and, as he himself termed it,
" ostentatious" retirement of the Irish Members, and
the mortification which he must have felt at the addi-
tional evidences afforded of the weakness of his Cabi-
net. The matter, however, has terminated for the pre-
sent, and we are glad of it, for anything is better than the
repetition of the arguments and platitudes which we
have listened to usque ad nauseam, the mere remem-
brance of which, at any future period, mast disgust
those whose duty it was to hear or peruse the Par-
liamentary debates during the session of 1851.

Our Protectionist contemporaries attach a ludicrous
importance to small things. The appearance of a
single convert to their views causes them an amazing
paroxysm of joy, and they rush into a leading article
with as much enthusiasm as VINCENT CRUMMLES did
into the green-room on his benefit night, to announce
that " another shilling had come into the pit."
The heated enthusiasm of the BOWLERS and Cnow-
LEES in the cause of dear bread affords a remarkable
contrast to the quiet and stolid indifference of the
large masses of population in the manufacturing
towns. There they seem not to be aware that there
is a class of patriots in existence, who are devoting
reams of pamphlet paper and whirlwinds of after-
dinner eloquence to the restore' of bread to its former
famine price, and " all for the good of the country 1"
Enough for the operatives that they have cheap
bread and plenty of it : they are too contented at
present to bother their heads about the prospect of
the CHOWLER war or the FERRAND wool league. If
they think of these worthies at all, it is only as of
juveniles " crying for the moon," or of people whose
wits have "gone a wool-gathering."
And yet, do not let the gentlemen who have en-
listed in the cause of protection, and who have seriously
determined to restore it if they can, delude themselves
with the thought that there is the slightest indifference
to the enjoyment of cheap food on the part of the
working people of this country. They are quiet, be-
cause they look upon that as a settled question ; and
that the attempt to bolster up rent-rolls by raising the
price of their bread is as futile an effort as would be
an agitation to restore the Heptarchy, or to repeal the
Reform Bill. Let there be the slightest real prospect
of a return to protection, and it will at once be seen
that the working classes of England are anything but
indifferent to the great question of free trade in food.
Such an attempt on the part of the landlord interest
would only serve to awaken a political agitation, now
almost entirely lulled throughout England, which
must inevitably issue in a series of organic changes,
of which the landed interests can form but a very
faint conception.
It is, indeed, confessed that the freedom of British
industry is not yet placed on a sufficiently broad
popular basis. We know well enough that the
landlords have entire possession of one House of Par-
liament, and that the other is so constituted as to
secure a preponderance of power to the same interest.
Is it not a notorious fact that the Parliamentary con-
stituency is based on landlordism ? That the suffrage
in the counties is so framed that the landlords can at
any time secure a majority of the county votes ? and
that the large constituencies of London, Manchester,
Birmingham, Leeds, and Sheffield, are neutralized
and overborne by such little peddling places as Buck-
ingham, Chippenham, Harwich, Marlow, and Thet-
ford ? Is it not an anomaly of the most disgraceful
kind that Thetford,with under 4,000 inhabitants, should
possess exactly the same voting power in the House
of Commons as Manchester, with its 300,000 in-
habitants ? or that London, with its two millions and
a half of people, should have no more voting power in
Parliament than the eight insignificant boroughs of
Harwich, Honiton, Thetford, Evesham, Marlborough,
Richmond, Totnes, and Wells, with their united
population of not more than 33,000 persons ? These
are monstrosities which ought certainly to be abated
in any new Reform Bill which may be under the con-
sideration of the Government.
It has been shown by Mr. Hums, in the course of
his able scrutiny of this subject, that a majority of
the present House of Commons is actually elected
by about one-fifth of the total registered voters of
England ; and the electors of the small towns are so
completely at the mercy and under the influence of
the landed aristocracy of their neighbourhoods, that
independent political action is scarcely to be expected
of them. By this means the legitimate political in-
fluence of the most wealthy and populous districts,
thole in which the real stamina of the country re-
sides, and whose interests are the most closely iden-
tified with the extended commerce and industry of
the empire, are ingeniously deprived of their due
share of political influence, and are liable any day to
have their wishes set at nought and their best interests
disregarded.
This extremely unsatisfactory state of the Parlia-
mentary representation furnishes cause for apprehen-
sion to many minds lest the landed interest should
seize upon the opportunity which their hold of the
smaller constituencies places in their power of regain

ing a portion of the unjust " protection" which they
have lost, and of plunging the country again into the
convulsions of political strife. At present they are
satisfied to " let I dare not wait upon I
would." They may long after the flesh-
pots of Egypt ; but the DISEAELIS and
STANLEYS know the risks that would attend

such a backward course. As a conservative mea.

sure, and in order to let the real opinion of the coun-
try be represented on all questions involving the
public interests, we look upon a comprehensive mea-
sure of Parliamentary Reform as urgently needed at
the present juncture; and the Ministry will deserve

well of their country that projects and carries it into

effect in a large and liberal spirit.
As for the permanent restoral of " protection," in
any form, that notion must be regarded as a mere

chimera. It may be well enough for landlords to

hold out the prospect as a lure to farmers, and an in-

ducement to postpone the equitable adjustment of
rents, which must come. But that is a question for
the landlord and not for the Legislature to deal with.

The cultivators of the soil, like other classes, must
learn to depend upon themselves, their skill, their in-