The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-26 00:00:00

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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING will be presented
JANE SHORE.
Hastings, Mr Vandenhoff; Dumont, Mr. Warde; Gloster, Mr. G.
Bennett. Jane Shore, Miss E. Tree; Alicia, Miss Clifton.
After which (first time), a New Grand Chivalric Entertainment, called
KING ARTHUR and the KNIGHTS of the ROUND TABLE
In which Mr. Ducrow's magnificent Stud of Horses will be introduced.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
THIS EVENING will be presented
GEORGE BARNWELL.
George Barnwell, Mr. Cooper. Millwood, Mrs. Faucit.
After which will be produced a New Grand Comic Pantomime, called
HARLEQUIN AND QUEEN MAB; OR, THE THREE GLASS
DISTAFFS.
Harlequin, Mr. Ellar ; Pantaloon, Mr. F. Sutton ; Clown, Mr. T.
Matthews; Whirligig, Mr. W. H. Payne. Columbine, Miss C. Reekie.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1834.

(with what unconscious innocence his Grace's name
takes precedence of his nominal leader's), Sir ROBERT
PEEL, Lord LYNDHURST, or Lord ABERDEEN,
would suffer Messrs. HERRIES and GOULBURN, or
Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL, or Lord ELLEN-
BOROUGH, to obstruct or bias the determination of
THEIR policy ?" What words to write ! What a
question from such a quarter I Is it imaginable ?
No I most excellent Gentleman. Not a man, in all
Britain, but will answer no. It was never suspected.
How delightfully this lets the cat out of the bag.
The Government, then, is centred in four.persons
only ; and the names of the others have only been
employed for a convenient filling up of blanks. The
country is not to look to them as representing the offi-
cial stations for which they have been gazetted ; their
persons are only to be regarded as embodying forth a
great Government fiction ; they are nobodies, and the
Sovereign has been made the puppet in a solemn
farce for shadowing out a falsehood ; the audiences
and hand-kissing, and such-like matters of pomp, were
all a mockery. What a maintenance of the KING'S

prerogative !
The Duke, Sir ROBERT, Lord Keeper COPLEY,
and Lord ABERDEEN "awa" are solely the King's Go-
vernment, and we have the authority of their own
official organ for the fact. If this be the determina-
tion of their policy, what, pray, becomes of the Con-
stitution ? Is the assumption of Government by a
quadrified cabal in strict consonance with Constitu-
tional law ? If it be, away with the offices which re-
quire but men of straw to fulfil their no-duties ; the
appointment is a mummery and a cheat, nay, more, a
robbery of the public purse, which the KING must
not be allowed to countenance by any regal miming.
But let us in our turn become the querist. Is it
imaginable that the Duke of WELLINGTON would
suffer Sir ROBERT PEEL, Lord LYNDHURST, or
Lord ABERDEEN, to bias the determination of ins
policy ? We ask the people, and if their practical
negation does not shortly run from one end of the island
to the other, the Duke may safely consider himself to
be what Mr. WARD called him—indeed " a wonderful
man !

The Duke, with his tripartite fiction—PEEL,
LYNDHURST, and ABERDEEN—is the Government;
such is the horse, and such the harness. This is the
man (the motto need no longer be dressed in plurali-
ties), and one of his first measures is to declare by his
Blackfriars trumpeter, that the holders of high state
offices will not be suffered to obstruct or bias the de-
termination of his policy. This is the man whom the
Tories would move heaven and earth to fix in absolute
power I The cowards—why do they not honestly
speak out, and propose at once a DUKE-DICTATOR-
SHIP as a fitting substitute for our present constitution ?
Then we should know their real object.

We wonder how Mr. HERRIES, Mr. GOULBURN,
Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL, and EDWARD Baron
ELLENBOROUGH relish the compliment which has
just been passed upon them?

The Government that proposes to carry forward the
Reform Bill upon Tory principles, will have to look
for its opponents beyond the ranks of the liberals.
In the address of the Marquis of CHANDOS to the
Buckinghamshire folks, equally remarkable for its bold-
ness and soundness of judgment, his Lordship is pleased
to declare that " true to the principles he has ever advo-
cated and from which no public or private motive can
makehim swerve," therefore, &c.,it is morally impossible
that the Tories can conduct the affairs of this reformed na-
tion without an abandonment of their principles. It may
be a partial abandonment; no matter—they must swerve,
be it in much or in little. Here then we get two
classes of tories, distinct in their shades of difference ;
behold the elements of a squabble ! Give them but
time enough, and we shall have a parody of the far-
famed Kilkenny cats. No motive, public or private,
shall ever make us swerve from our principles, say one
party—and a very profouid determination it is. Many
motives, public and private, will induce us to swerve
from them, say the other—and very prudent, if not so
consistent is the counter-resolution. Nothing but
some extraordinary n-ianceuvre by the " Extraordinary
Man" can extricate him and his harness from the diffi-
culties which threaten to embarrass them. We shall
see if we but wait a •while.

The Paris papers of Tuesday have all been received.
They are almost wholly taken up with reports from
Bayonne of the state of the war in the North. The
only matters worth notice in them are given in our
extracts.

FRENCH FUNDS.—Papa, Dile. 23.
Five per Cents., 106 f. 50c. 45c.
Four per Cents., 92f. 70c.
Three per Cents., 76f. 65c. 70c. 75e.
National Loan, 106 f. 35c.
Treasury Bonds, March, 3►%. .
Bank Actions, 1,797 f. s''c.
Rente de Naples, 93f. tOc. 20c.
Roman Five per Cents., 95 94%%.
Rente d'Espagne. Five per Cents.. 41 415{, 40%.
Rente cl'Erpagne. Three per Cents., 27% % 27.
Rovai Spanish Loan, 44 43% 44,
Rente Perpet. d'F.spagne. Fi►e per Cents., 425{ %.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 97%.

RXCUANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f-325,c. • money, —f. —c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 17,g;c.; money, —f. --c.
—Cours Authentique.

We have received German, Dutch, and Brussels
papers, but they contain no news worth giving. There
is a great dearth of political speculation in all the
Continental journals.

DUTCH FUNDS—As:mm.lot, DBC. 23.
Actual Debt, 2,4 per Cent. 534; to 544
Amort Syndic, 4% per cent.
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. 754 to 7544
Loan (IRV) 5 per cent.
Ditto (1e32 and i 111.3) 5 per cent.
Exchange en London, One month l2 12
wo months
—Dutch Papers. Dec. 24.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS—Beaus, Dec. 19.
St. Schuld. Sch. 4 per cent. ION 99%
Prussian English Loan, MO. 4 per cent 9l 95%
FOREIGN EXCHANGES
On Amsterdam, 250 florins, 2 months 14114 141
Hamburg 300 francs, 2 months 152
London it 3 months 6 25%
Leipsic 6 days
Frankfort 2 months 103% 103
Petersburgh...loo rubles, 3 weeks 3O 1-12
—Prussian State Gazette, Dec. 211.

'We have received intelligence from Lisbon of the
13th inst. The Portuguese Government has paid up
the whole of the arrears due to the soldiers who assisted
the usurper MIGUEL, and most of the
British troops in the service of the QUEEN have been
sineniettxspho
eltlring
home." There was to have been a prorogation of
the Chambers on the 16th inst. till the 2d of January,
when they were to meet again for the discharge of
business. Portugal is now in a very tranquil and
prosperous state.

BIRTH.--On the 24th, at Arthingworth, Norh-
amptonshire, the Honourable Mrs. Charles Heneager, of a
son.
DIED—On the 17th inst., at the Hermitage, near
Fd Cheshire, Charles Baldwin, Esq., formerly Lieu-
tenant-Colonel of the King's County Militia.
A spirited chase took place on the 12th instant, at
Heekington, by the constable of that place and seven men
charged to assist, to take two poachers named Medlar and
Burgess. One being in bed when they went to the house,
made his escape out of the window with nothing on but his
shirt, and showed real game, taking hedges and ditches, roads
and 000 fields, without shoe or stocking, and closely
0
pursued §f/ve4 pariolgo Air tbp Whitle 4ay ; night
coming on, and the bppters running by ILO4, not by scent,
lost him, were compelled to give The other, Burgess,
took shelter In a ;MI() at creclington uoder largp broivirig
tub; one of the pursuers suspected that to be the OW; and
got upon it, and held him down whilst the oherj cam. --
secured him.--Boston Herald. up and