The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-14 00:00:00

IaER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
TO-MORROW, May 15 (a Subscription Night given
in lieu .of Tuesday, August 19), will be performed Rossini's
Opera,

be tied up, in consequence of the gratuitous pro-
mises of Sir G. C. LEWIS, and his contumelious
treatment of those who ought to resent such

conduct.

The accuracy of the views which we put for-
ward on Friday last, immediately after the publica-
tion of the notice, have thus been established. It is
manifest that no relief will be afforded during the
present year to the over-burdened taxpayers of the
United Kingdom. The savings, that might be
applied to so many useful purposes, will also be
appropriated ; and 2,000,000/. of Exchequer Bonds
or Bills, will be charged on the current revenue, in
addition to any further imposts which the Right
Hon. Baronet may think proper to propose, and
which the House must agree to if they wish to
maintain faith with the public creditor. The
Precious Treaty has terminated the War, but the
war taxes will still be maintained, although the
illusion that the national honour or interests will
be promoted thereby, have been completely dis-
pelled.

The question now remains—Will the House of
Commons submit to this very cavalier treatment ?
There was a time when it would be resented, but
we confess that we have but little confidence in
its independence on any great constitutional point.
Hon. Gentlemen may occasionally "run amuck"
on trifling matters ; but minorities on such points,
although they would formerly have occasioned a
change of Ministry, are now disregarded. They aro
tolerated for the purpose of throwing dust in the
eyes of the several constituencies, as a pretext for
the independence that has been relinquished on
topics of greater magnitude and importance. It
is, however, right that the feeling of the country
should be clearly understood—that the waiters on
Providence should have the opportunity of " see-
ing themselves as others see them." If they sub-
mit to the red-tape fetters by which they are
bound, they may do so with their eyes open, and
the certainty that very stringent explanations will
be required by those whose interests and consti-
tutional rights and privileges they have so greatly
betrayed.

Elsewhere in our impression of this evening
will be found another "slashing" letter from,Mr.
MORRIS MOORE—modulated, this time, to a tone
of sarcasm from one of invective and vituperation.
Any one who, from coming recently to the contro-
versy, might be tempted to ask " Who Mr. Mon-
RIS MOORE is ?" may be readily enough answered.
Mr. MOORE is a connoisseur of paintings, possess-
ing, in London at least, a very considerable and
extended reputation. He is the owner, besides,
of a picture which is reputed to be the most pre-
cious, and in every way the most remarkable,
Raphael in Eugland—" Apollo and Marsyas."
Besides this, it is observable that Mr. MooRE was
about the most important witness examined before
Lord Escuo's Select Committee in 1853—the
Committee appointed by the House of Com-
mons to inquire into the management of
the National Gallery—or, rather, as it ought
by right to be called, its notorious and glaring
mismanagement. Add to all which our thoroughly
out-spoken correspondent assumes a separate kind
of semi-official position among art-critics in his self-
elected capacity as Censor of those Twins of the
[lour, here, there, and everywhere—Jobbery and
Germanism. Mr. MORRIS MOORE has no faith at
all in the competency of Sir CHARLES EASTLAKE
as the Director of the National Collection. He
has the greatest scorn imaginable for the incom-
petency of Mr. RALPH WORNUNI, as that Director's
coadjutor. H 4 cherishes a sort of an ineatinguish:
able derision for the utter lack at once of taste,
tact, and judgment by which the travelling agent
of the Gallery, Herr OTTO MUNDLER, is especially
and undeniably distinguished. Above all, and
as having direct reference to his later communi-
cations to the world at large through ourselves,
Mr. MooRE is the Arraigner before the bar of
public opinion (upon matters of art and, let us
add too, of etiquette likewise) of the Honourable
Gentleman the biographer of " CHARLES the
FIFTH," and the Knight Representative of Staf-
fordshire. Eh, voila tout ! Enow of rea-
sons, moreover—these—we conjecture, for our
correspondent's last earnest and elaborate
communication. The three columns and upwards
of acidulated comment, bearing more or less
severely upon the names of EASTLAKE, WORNUNI,
MUNDLER, and STIRLING. A pleasant and Appetising
treat for those observers who have latterly hungered
for some more bold and explicit phrases of repre-
hension than are usually audible upon the Siamese
Vampires of the day already alluded to—viz.,
Jobbery and Germanism.
Perhaps the most telling hit in all this " fast
and furious " onslaught—is that particularly ob-
servable where our correspondent writes—" In
the debate on the National Gallery, Mr. Stirling
starts up as the advocate of his, unfairly, used
This demand for an equivalent was a ski's-
fully-designed scheme to exhibit an appearance MUNDLER, whom he had heard mentioned by se-
of making a sacrifice, when he was really promot-
veral artists in Paris, two or three years before
ins the objects of the irresponsible head of the (remarkable credential !)" exclaims Mr. MOORE
Cabinet. The affectation of reluctance to give up in parenthesis, "as a person remarkable—for
so much valuable time had the desired effacb, and his knowledge—of Art ? No—for his honesty and
i
Hon. Gentlemen, who are generally as anxious integrity !" "Are we English then," asks Mr.
MORRIS MOORE, in a very natural outburst of in-
for an extension of their leisure hours as a
parcel
dismation and amazement, "Are we English,
of schoolboys, fell into the trap so cunningly laid
for their reception. They grasped at the addi-
then, such rogues that we must hire German
tional holiday, without considering that by their honesty and integiity to look after us lest we
own act they were precluding themselves from purloin our own money ?" This—we take it—is
something quite delicious in its way ; particularly
any opportunity of questioning the Chancellor of
treading as the query does so hard upon the galled
the Exchequer as to his financial policy until
after the loan had been concluded, when they
kibes of that abominable DO about the spurious
PAULO VERONESE! Again we say what we said might be informed that it " WAS too
make any alteration in the Ministerial in so many words on the 18th ultimo—" Mr.
to
Bc/lerne. MOORE is decidedly, undeniably, distinctly,
only announced on Friday afternoon. glaringly in the right." He has home truths to
The amount and conditions of the loan
were tell and he tells these home truths with uncom-
We believe that wo are justified in stating that _ pi:omising explicitness. Opposed successively to
only public journal that com-
The Sun Was the SirCHARLES EASTLAKE, to Herr OTTO MUNDLER,mented thereon previous toe recess. The in- and to Mr. WILLIAM STIRLING, he lays about
t
vitation to Competing capitalist.
s—a. mere humbug, him with astonishing energy and astounding inde-
for a virtual monopoly has been established in pendence. Insomuch thetas we mark his successive
that line of business—was for the following Tues-
disappearance from the scene, contending man-
day, and the loan is to be contracted for on Men- fully with one combatant afteranother, it is to us
day, the 19th inst., not only before the operkion of for all the world like one of the latest glimpses of
the Budget, but without allowing any oPportanity the crowned and uncrowned Thanes of Scotland ;
for Parliamentary questions. Thus has the inter- whore we read (with the old stage directions) in
ference of the House of Commons been averted, Shakspere
and nothing now remains for the representatives "Macbeth. . . . Before my body
of the People but a mere veto—a power that is I throw ray warlike shield ; lay on, Macduff ;A.
And damn td bo he that first cries, Hold, enough,.
eldom exorcised, and which must inevitably pro-
(Er2uut, fighting. Alurums.''
duce very injurious results to the country. Only—ve
IrY -unlike his momentary prototype—
From what fell from Sir G. CORNEWALL LEWIS Mr. MORRIS 1100 RE continues to the last signally
yesterday, it appear's that the Loan now proposed triumphant r And •
1t h t
so— Shim lone y slump an —is calculated to oover the entire of the estimated bearing them •down before
him one after another
serviceof theyear with the exception 0f2,000,000/., at his pen's point, esseuns • l syr , . successive y— r.
and that for raising that additional sum he pro- MooRE and
Mu'
CHARLES EA ,
STLAKE Mr. MOORE
poses to take powers to issue Exchequer Bonds and Herr Mu roux; Mr. MOORE and Mr. STIR-
Or Exchequer Bills, as the condition of the Money LlNG—fighting! : with alarunis.
Market at the precise' period may admit. But
this will not be required until the last quarter of
the present year, or within the first three months
of 1857. The vote will, however, be taken, and
selon les regles, everything left to the discretion
of Government, so far as the House of Commons
is concerned, although " the capitalists"
ie hays
a Pledge that there is to be no funding of Ex-
chequer Bills, and no sale of Savings
Bank Stocks
unless necessary for Savings Bank
purposes. The
hands of any future.Finiincial Minister •
will thus

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in the Sabbatarian camp
Great is th , rejoicing
over the signor I triumph they have just achieved.
The " intolera ace of Popery-abroad " topic, and
the Earl of Si Lii-FTESBURY'S alarming communica-
' Um respecting • •the insidious spread of German
rationalism amoni; whilorn "evangelical" pulpits,
are for the raotuel it alike forgotten.
It is not to
be wondered at. While revelling in so great a
triumph of intole-rat, 'ee of their own, how should
they be expecte' to.- remember to find fault with