The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-10 00:00:00

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11,0 YA L PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Barris.
Re-engagement of the Wonderful Dancer, Mons. Espinosa.
First appearance of Mdlle. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan-
sense of La Scala, Milan ; and first time of the Delapierre
Family. These highly-talented Children will appear every
night. The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening.

THIS EVENING, TIIE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH.

Atter which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by 11.
J. Byron, called JACK THE GIANT KILLER ; or, Harle-
quin King Arthur Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
Jack, Miss Louise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack Panta-
loon, Mr. Paulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown,
Mr. A. F. Forrest.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHL
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
Holiday Attractions.— The Christmas Carol and the New
Spectacular Extravaganza, by 11. J. Byron, Esq„ the Nymph
Of the Lurlyberg ; or the Knight and the Naiades.
THIS EVENING-, THE CHRISTMAS CAROL. Messrs
J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Paul Bedford, Stuart, Billing-ton, C. J.
Smith. Romer: Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, Mrs. Chatte-
rley, Miss Laidlaw.
After which THE NYMPHS OF THE LIMLEYBERG ;
or, The Knight and the Naiades. Messrs. Toole, Bedford.
Eburne, Smith, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, C. Webb, li.
Kelly, Laidlaw.
Doors open at half-past six--Commence at seven. Box-
Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor fer bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

On Wednnesday, Jan. 18, the Theatre will be Closed, in
consequence of the Company performing: # the Royal Thea-
tricals, Windsor Castle.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. IL Chatter-
ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West-
minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen-
gers all hours of the night.
THIS Et ENING the performances will commence with
GARIBALDI'S ENGLISHMAN. Messrs. Barrett and C.
Young.
Followed by MAGIC TOYS, supported by Miss Lydia
Thompson, Clara St. Cassc, &c.
Followed by a new sketch, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY.
Miss Wyndham and Mr. 11. T. Craven.
To conclude with the new pantomime of PUNCH AND
JUDY. Introducing Miss Lydia Thompson and the Corps
de Ballet. Clown, Harlequin, Columbine, and Pantaloon, and
the wonderful Performing Dogs,
Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, is. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform -
mace commences at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.

Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season.

The Great Christmas Novelty, "Harlequin Tom Moody,'

triumphant.

THIS EVENING, the entertainments will commence at
7 o'clock with the droll drama of DOMINIQUE THE DE-
SERTER. Dominique, Mr. G. Belmore. After which, fine
and exquisite Riding Evolutions by the Star Artistes, Miss
Emily Cooke, Mr. John Henry Cooke, and other first-rate
professors. Concluding with the really successful Holiday
piece and Sporting Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN TOM
MOODY; or, Old Towler the Huntsman and the Goddess
Diana, introducing, among numerous new and splendid
effects, the Derby Day of 1860, by the Astlean Racing Stud
and clever jockeys ; also the wonderful Salamander Horse,
enveloped in a body of real fire. A Grand Day performance
of the New Comic Pantomime, and very superior novelties in
the ring, every Saturday, at Two o'clock, during the Holidays.

Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY
QUEEN.

—And a Grand Selection from Meyerbeer's new opera of
DINORAIL

Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come•
Can and Mimic), W. T. Critchileld, and E. W. Mackney.
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Several interestinz Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.

ROSA BONIIEUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE
FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of
Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATIIER.-Stm OFFICE, JAN. 10, 1860.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
43—highest since noon yesterday.
40—lowest this morning and during the night.
42—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.18.

WIND, Easterly ; light, with dull, foggy weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 2h. 54m.—Afternoon, 3h. 17m
To-moßrtow.-Morning, 3h. 40m.—Afternoon, 4h. 2m

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 10, 1860.

As we do not quite pin our faith to Mr. BRIGHT'S
sleeve, it gives us the more pleasure to refer to the
outbursts of noble sentiment, or of honest and
manly political feeling, by which genius like his
will sometimes overleap the bounds of conven-
tionalism and party, and even those marked out
by the orator himself. For instance, who will
wonder that the following sentiment was received
with loud and prolonged cheering :—" Now what
the Government, and what our politicians ought to
do is this :—They ought to try, in the first place,
to be right, and having found out what is right,
they ought to nerve themselves with the responsi-
bility of carrying out the right. And I believe
there never was a time when a Ministry would
derive more advantage from fairly and resolutely
dealing with the question and staking their exis-
tence upon carrying it through both Houses of
Parliament."

The seven thousand in the body of the hall re-
sponded heartily, long, and enthusiastically to the
general rule there laid down, and pretty plainly
showed that if the Government could but brace
itself to compliance, they would sustain the good
old political fame of Birmingham by their exertions
again, for " the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing
but the Bill." Calculating prudence will, of course,
assume a stern face, and tell us that the rule is but
mere generalisation ; that all would agree that
every Government and every man should do what
is "right," and that, in the long run, we should
all find honesty, or right, the best policy. But
begging the pardon of critics, Mr. BRIGHT'S
advice was not a mere generalisation, of which
the sole difficulty lies in reducing it
to practice ; his audience, as well as the speaker,
meant a very practical thing indeed by it. They
meant that the Whig Quack Doctors who have
taken the Constitution in hand, should cease their
old course of treating nature and faci as a nullity,
and the aristocracy, especially the Whig aristocracy,
as a reality, and deal with facts as they are. Mr.
BRIGHT and his audience well know that Lord
JOHN RUSSELL, though he may be, as Mr. Brawn
said of him, the most sincere reformer of the whole
batch, is a Reformer .with a heavy discount. Like
the brilliant Essayist just departed from us, he can-
not rid his mind of the notion that the Whigs
with the landed aristocracy, arc " the Lord',
anointed" to &rover% us; by his first Reform Id;
he did but cut 4A4:. the "skirt of their garment,"
just to show that; their life was in his hand if he
had chosen to tr :c.e it ; but he was as tender over
their real powe at heart, and in fact too, as if he
had been a Lori 3. ELDON or a Duke of NEWCASTLE.
How can Refo rulers now or ever forget Lord
Joirx's explicit declaration that it was the "inten-
tion of his Ei;l2 to give the predominance to the
Landed "iris& )c; .acy." That sentence condemns
Lord JOHN as a Constitution-monger, and he has
never had, and never can have, our unreserved con-
fidence since, What right had he, what right has

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any reformer, to hand over the supreme power to 1
this or to that section of the community ? If that
section is not, naturally, the predominant class,
what right has he to make it so by merely artificial
arrangements ?
We are amongst the most willing to acknoW-
ledge the claims of our " old nobility" and terri-
torial gentlemen ; but our new nobility have at least
equal claims on the generation which has created

them ; and our educated gentlemen whose depen-
dence is, not the acres or the titles their father left
them, but the intelligence and industry which has
made them what they are, are surely not inferior
as persons to the former. We deprecate " setting
class against class," but how can that be done more
effectively than by constructing Reform Bills in-
tended to give the predominance to one class—and
that, too, the smallest class in the land ? The land-
owners number, we are told, about 30,000 persons.
Could anything be more calculated to irritate the
seren millions of other male adults in the nation

than to learn that a youngest son of one of the thirty
thousand having got the question of Reform into his
hands, and having contrived to spread abroad an
opinion that he was a thorough Liberal, should turn
round after he had got his bill through Parliament
and tell the seven millions, " it was always my in-
tention that the Bill should place you in the power
of the 30,000." Was this right? And if not, what
security have we that the same trick will not be
repeated? Had it been avowed in 1831, the reform-
ing "millions" of Birmingham and Yorkshire would
hardly have been so enthusiastic in support of the
Whig Cabinet of the day; and it is the certainty
that the old spirit is not departed from our aristo-
cratic Reformers that renders every one lukewarm
now. Any Bill they may bring forward will
either, on the face of it, be a second bill for the
perpetuation of Whig and Tory ascendancy, or it
will be one in which that purpose will be pretty
easily detected.
There is, however, a kind of fatality accompany-

ing the possession of power. Of how many a despot
are we continually saying, how strong he might make
himself. The mass 31 mankind are in general but
too easily governed. Indulge them by anticipation
almost in what they will soon understand to be
theirs by right, and instead of stimulating the
craving for more, it disposes them to confide in the
ruler who gives rather more than they ask. A firm
hand is repressing what the community under-
stands to be crimes, and a generous one is conced-
ing powers which they know, or will speedily
know, to be their rights, is the obvious way to
secure both respect and attachment. Despots rarely
perceive this : they press the paternal theory till
the children convince them by rebellion and revolu-

tion that these would-be fathers are but selfish and
self-willed pedagogues, whom the men they would
treat as children have outstripped in intelligence.
We have ceased to wonder at this in despots ; it is
their innate, their original sin. A baptism of blood
is too often the only one which can regenerate
them.

But the same folly in the leaders of a party in a

free community may well be wondered at. Lord
JOHN RUSSELL and the Hon. BENJAMIN DISRAELI
alike know well that the path to political power in
this country is that of fair dealing with the many.
Mr. BRIGHT, indeed, painted so vividly in this
Birmingham speech the noble part Mr. DISRAELI
acted as the teacher of real liberalism to his party
—quoting also his avowal of last June, that any
measure for extending the suffrage in boroughs
must be a sincere not a delusive one—that we
almost imagine the angry scowl at Mr. BRIGHT of
the great organ for the Palmerston Cabinet was due
to this honest praise of the great Tory leader in tho
Commons. It was too plainly telling the exclu-
sives of the Whig factions, "If you do not
understand that a ' sincere' Reform Bill
is the path to power take care ; there
is a gentleman of vast influence and ability
on the other side of the house who cannot
indeed, in public, go too far ahead of his party, but
who is already himself quite ahead of them—and
who is fast teaching' them lessons, which will
make the Tories the sincere Liberals, and lave the
Whigs to become what that party is already in
America—the Tories of a better order of things."
Englishmen are not Americans. They, at least, like
an aristocracy. Let the aristocracy but trust the
people, let them, by frank and unexpected conces-
sions inParliamentary Reform, show the people that
they are willing to be an aristocracy on the basis of
the freest institutions, and the many rhey trust will
be a source to them of considerable strength. We
believe no man in England knows this better than
Mr. DISRAELI and the late Premier's son. They
cannot go too far beyond their party at a bound.
They must say the least they can for what their
party will accept; but does any observant man
doubt their real views ?
We heartily believe then, in the latter part of
the sentence we quoted from Mr. BRIGHT at the
commencement. Any Ministry which will do what
is " right" in regard to a Reform Bill, and will then
stake their existence on theirbill, will be the people's
Ministry: No" dodges" would suffice to eject them.
The people would have them. It is right that all who
contribute to the national taxation should have a
vote on the taxes they have to pay ; right that their
representation should be fairly equalled in power
by the members being reasonably apportioned to
the number of electors in each constituency; it is
right that the electors should be protected against
undue influence by the BALLOT, and that by the
same means, and by others in addition, the upright
and independent electors should be protected against
having their votes nullified by the corrupt and
venal few. These things are simply right. Pro-
posed by any Cabinet, they would impart to it the
irresistible strength of right. They would be a
moral artillery which no hostile faction could with-
stand. The Cabinet which proposed them would
be the People's Cabinet.

However briefly we are constrained to do so, we
cannot but refer to the singularly able resume of our
Social Progress during the last decade as given
elsewhere in the tantalisingly abbreviated or fore-
shortened report of the last Charge (to the local • )
jury
delivered on Friday by the learned Recorder of
Hull. A charge from the lips of Mr. WARREN is
at all times certain to evidence some earnest purpose
which the learned gentleman is bent upon
inculcating. It is invariably full of ripe
and sound deductions, arrived at by calm
and deliberate reflections, these reflections con-
scientiously enforced throughout by a variety of
striking and pertinent illustrations. The Charge
delivered on Friday, however, was far more than
this—it was aboN e all things impressively sugges-
tive. It constituted a standing point upon which
the learned Recorder paused at the close of another
decade to cast a retrospective glance back down the
vista of those ten years which have just been tra-
:inetrosetdhose ;aftewards casting an anticipative gaze
tenye rs, mysticalbeyond
and for the most part inscrutable
ed the merest verge of which we are
now adventuring.ticipations having
All these retrospections and an-
especial and solemn reference to
the Social Progress already made, and that addi-
tional Social Progress likely to be made in the im-
mediately ensuing hereafter. Pausing, as we have
said, upon that point of separation between the two