The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-17 00:00:00

ER i'dAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Maine ALBONI.

THIS Evening, Saturday; May 17 will ba per:brined Ras.
'Mini's Opera

IL BARBIERE DE SIVIGLA.
Rosina, Marne. Alboni ; 11 Conte, Signor Caizolari ; Bartok),
signor Zucconi ; and Figaro, Signor Belletti.

In the Lesson Scene Madame Alboni will introduce Hum.
mel's variations.

To conclude with the new Ballet Divertissement,
LES QUATRE SAISONS;
by Mdmes. Belion, Boschetti, Lizereux, Pierron, Katrine,
and M. Vandris. Pas de Deux, Mdlle. Boschetti and M.
Vandris ; Pas, Mdlle. Katrine, accompanied by Mdlle. Pierron
and coryphees; Pas, Mdlle. Lizereux and Corps de Ballet;
Pas de Bacchante, Mdlle. A. Bellon; Pas de Deux, Mdlle.
Bellon and M. Vandris; Finale, Mdlles. Bellon, Boschetti,
Lizereux, Katrine, and M. Vandris, and Corps de Ballet.
Applications for boxes and stalls to be made at the Box-
office of the Theatre, Colonnade, Haymarket.—The Opera
will commence at 8 o'clock.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Lessee, lir. N. T. Smith.
ENGLISH OPERA.
THIS EVENING will be produced
CINDERELLA.

To cou lade with
YINKEC HOUSEKEEPER.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
the Management of Mr. Backatone.
TIM EVENING,
THE EVIL GENIUS.
Followed by
EL GAMBUSINO; or, The Mexican Goldseeker.

After which,
GRISISHAW, BAGSHA.W, AND BRADSHAW.

To conclude with
TOM THUMB.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET,
Under the 31snagentent of Mr. enemas KEAN.
TfIN EVENING,
THE VICTOR VANQUISHED.

• After which,
THE WINTER'S TALE.
Principal characters by Ifr. and Mrs. C. mean.

ROYAL TIIEKTRE ADELPIII.
Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster.
Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING.
LIKE AND UNLIKE.
Messrs. B. Webster, Wright, P. Re leord. C gelby, Garden
Madame Celeste, M 133 Wyndham.

After Which,
URGENT' PRIVATE AFFAIRS.
To conclude with
31Y PRECIOUS BETSY.

ROYAL OLY‘iPtC THEATRE.
Lessee and 3lana7er. Mr. Alfred Wigan.

TUN EVENING
RETRIBU lON.

To conclude with
STA.Y AT HOME.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Croswiok.
THIS EVENING.
JACK SHEPPARD.
Followed by

YOUR LIFE'S IN DAN ,ER.

To conclude with
BETSY BAKER.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL. ANIPHITHF.ATRE.

Lessee and Siana-zer, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
TIIIS EVENING,

4th time, a New and Original Romantic Equestrian Speetacip
written exaressly for this Amphitheatre, called, THE 'MUSE OF
THE CAVERN, or the )f punted Brigarvis of the Abruzzi, in which
Mr. William Cooke's Stud of Horses, trained by him, will develope
various novel and surprising situ :dons and e:T:3,!ts.

After which,
A new series of SCENES in the CIRCLE, concludin; with a
TABLEAU EQUESTRE.
Box-office open frirn E,evcn ti! Foir. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Equestrian Director. Mr. N. Cooke, jun.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tsis DAY—Morn. 15 min. aft. 12—Evening 33 min. aft. 12
T I-MORROW—Morn. 51 min. aft.l2 —Evening 9 min. aft.

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MAY 17.
THERMOIIETEB, IN THE SEIADE.
62 —highest since noon yesterday.
51 -lowest this morning and during the night.
61—this day at noon.

BAuomitTEß, 29.73.
WIND, S.W.—Light, with clouds and sunshine
HALF PAST Two.—Heavy shower of hall.

17,
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1111

LONDON, S YTURDAY, MAX 17, 1858.

On-Monday the New Loan of 5,000,0001. is te,
be concluded, and the same evening the Chancellor
of the Exchequer will make his financial statement
for the current year in the House of Commons.
We have already explained the artful manner in
which the so-called guardians of the national purlt
have been excluded from the possibility of offering
any objections to the amount or circumstances of
the transaction until it has been accomplished.
Now they will be prevented from demanding an 3
modification or alteration of any existing impost,
or of refusing their assent to any new tax whicl
Sir G. C. LEWIS may deem it expedient to pro-
pose, on the plea that it was too late to do so,
that due provision must be made for the publi,
service, and that public faith was pledged to thf
capitalists, with whom a bargain was concluded
on that very morning.
So far as the great question at issue—the in•
dependence of the House of Commons—is con-
cerned, it signifies but little whether the contrac•
be good or bad. The Right Hon. B tronet may
bring forward an unexceptionable scheme, al-
though from his antecedents we can scarcely in
dulge in so pleasing an anticipation. But he
striving to create a very dangerous precedent, and
one that should be resisted to the uttermost, by
every independent member, Who desires the
maintenance of the rights and privileges.of thf
important body to which he belongs. If a reso-
lution confirming the loan be carried, Parliamen
will be bound by every pledge that has or may b.
given in reference to future loans, however
pressing the exigencies of the Exchequer. N.
new loan can be contracted, nor can two milliom
of Exchequer Bonds or Bills be issued under any
circumstances. These are unquestionably impro-
vident arrangements, and we cannot see how the
present Minister can fairly or justly bind any suc-
cessor in office, or even another Parliament, in
the event of a dissolution and an appeal to the

counts y.
There is but one mode in which the House
can vindicate its own honour, and retain the pri-
vilege of acting in financial matters as circum-
stances may demand, and that is by refusing the
contract so improperly made. It is only in that, way that they can afford relief to the overburdened
taxpayers, or provide- the necessary funds for
the maintenance of the national credit in the
event of any fresh complications arising ; or, what
can scarcely be regarded as very improbable, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer being mistaken in
his calculations. The -loan cannot
as concluded until sanctioned bbe considered
y a resolution of
the House of Commons, and therefore there can bf
Do objection to refusing that assent, or at all event,
ostponing it until the discussion on the Budget
has terminated.

It may be said that it is the ordinary cours.
for Financial Ministers to conclude their arrange
ments with capitalists before submitting t:eni t(
the consideration of Parliament. But hitherto
the whole time between the announcement and
the conclusion of a loan has not run out during
recess, without any opportunity being afforded tt
Honourable Gentlemen of questioning the Minis-
ter, or of protesting against his plan. That i
one of the objections to the present proceeding.
The preliminary pledges—so injudiciously and
improperly given that there shall be no further
loan, no funding of Exchequer Bills, and no sal(
of savings bank stock, unless necessary for sav-
ings bank purposes, are, however, the main points.
By these a Minister usurps functions to which ht
by no means entitled, and which, by tying ui

tho bands of Parliament for a certain time, may

prove very injurious to the best interests of the
country, and operate very unfairly against a
successor, in case of a change in the Cabinet.
There are many financial questions that must
be subjected to stringent discussion during the
present Session. The unequal and oppressive
operation of the Income Tax requires notice, which
it will doubtless receive ! While every exertion
was necessary to provide the funds requisite for
the vigorous and energetic maintenance of the
War these grievances might be submitted to,
although not without exciting bitter feelings.
But now that Peace has been prematurely patched
up—that neither the national honour nor the
national interests are involved in the result—it
will be impossible to induce the sufferers to sub-
mit patiently to the gross and palpable injustice.
Two years is a long time to endure a grievance,
and it must be remembered that the equal assess-
ment of all kinds of income, whether temporary
or permanent, precarious or certain, will be con-
tinued until April, 1858. Even the Long An-
nuities, which terminate in 1860, will be charged
ls. 4d. in the pound, or some 2 per cent. on the
capitalised value—while the Three per Cents.
will only pay 45., or 1-sth per cent. on the
saleable value.

There are also the enhanced duties on tea,
coffee, and sugar, malt, and spirits, which must be
taken into consideration. All these are evidences
of a retrograde policy, totally opposed to the Fre-
e principles, now universally acknowledged.
There are many grave objections to all except that
on spirits, which need only be restricted by the
necessity of preventing a contraband trade. But
there is reason to believe that the enormous
increase of the tax, both in Scotland and
Ireland, has given a stimulus to that demo-
ralising traffic ; and, indeed, it is already found
that the proceeds are less than has been obtained
under a comparatively moderate tariff. There
are, therefore, six important fiscal subjects, the
consideration whereof cannot be postponed or
evaded—in addition to the all-important question
of the currency, and the continuation of the
Bank Charter Act. The usurpation of the
Chancellor of the Eichequer is, therefore, the
more to be deprecated when it attempts to get
rid of such important topics by a side wind.

There must be no disturbance in the Parks
to-morrow. The Sabbatarians are sufficiently
unscrupulous, but they must not be allowed to
gain any accession of strength from the proceed-
ings. Ws would the more particularly insist on
this because there is a maudlin sensibility in some
quarters to the most trivial breach of the law by
the people, and no sensibility at all to the wrongs
of the people, however execrable, which occa-
sion each outbreaks. A few lordlings, as rich as
empty-headed, shall interfere with the health and
comfort of myriads, who, GOD knows, have little
enough of either, and escape with a charitable
" well, they thought they were right ;" while the
poor wretch, whom their interference exasperated
to a breach of law, shall be held worse than a
log. A dog is deemed entitled to eat his bone in
peace, and those who interfere with him are
counted worthy of all the bites they get.
rho dog's exceptional exercise of his teeth is more
than tolerated, because of the provocation. But
a forty-parson power scarcely suffices to describe
the atrocious presumption, as it is deemed, of the
poor man who bites (break; the peace) in defence
of his lame ! Opinion, in polite circles, is hardly
so manly, or so just, as is desirable. Why, you
actually hear more of the riotous proceedings last
year in the Park than of the atrocious interference
with the people's bone which occasioned them !
The existence of this feeling induces us to express
a hope that as many of the upper and middle
classes as sympathise with the people will bring
their wives and children to the Parks, in order to
the encouragement of the sober and orderly, and
the discouragement of the disorderly characters
always to be met with in a London crowd, assem-
bled for whatever cause. At the same time let
there be no crouching; the people are being robbed
by Archbishops, Lords, M.P.'s, and a band of
unprincipled Pharisees, clerical and lay, of their
bone. It cannot be expected that they should
be " mealy mouthed" under the circumstances.
Religious hypocrisy probably never in
•nodern times attained a more rampant
position in thi country than at present. In
former times it used to display its graces
once a week to the heathen multitude and
content itself therewith, and the power and op-
portunity to be censorious. Now it has its gala
lays beside, and to " earthen vessels" pouring
,ut torrents of h— fire from the pulpit adds
Dictators in Lawn who frighten Prime Ministers,
tnd audaciously announce the intention of Exeter
Uall to put the people down ; together with
wosy legislators, Scotch and English, whose chief
luty it is to make by act of Parliament the people's
lay of rest a day of misery. The very organisations
shich at one time gave efficiency to the teaching
if several of our religious bodies are now being
liverted—at all events are employed most success-
ully in tyrannising over the consciences of the
ielpless masses. A knot of presumptuous men in
London, remarkable for no great talent, or learn-
ing, or piety, and who have never been guilty of
.elf-sacrifice in their lives, having entertained un-
sarranted notions of Sabbath observance, deter-
mine to enforce, their views on others. A district
secretary or superintendent is written to, who
gives intimation of what is wanted at head-
quarters, and on the Sunday following the people
ire told it is their bounden duty to sign the
petition at the door against the desecra-
tion, or for the better observance, of the
LORD'S Day. The people sign, knowing
nothing, of the wrongs of the London poor, and
in the House of Commons old women are found
in more than sufficient abundance to believe these
petitions to be the petitions of the people of the
provinces, and not of the intriguers in white
neckcloths watching their presentation in the
gallery. Strange to add, a petition for liberty
of conscience abroad, especially in. Papal States,
will be quite as readily siguod, and. that without
a soul discerning, or appearing to discover, the
incongruity. The more thoroughly the machinery
of Exeter Hall is examined, and the easy prin-
ciples of those who direct it are taken into account,
the more decided, we are quite sure, will the
public become that Exeter Hall is becoming a
1. rave nuisance ; and that it is unwise to furnish
Individuals who so tyrannise over their fellow-
e'ulltrYusert at home with the means to lord it
over weak
snorant natives abroad. Exeter Hall
boasts of its
raissions and charitable institutions ;
but it is rs markable that these institutions are
the bases of i is politicalpower, and we trust that
this will no,i be forgotten by those worldlings—
their name is legion_who are called upon an-
nually to le ad their mite to the LORD ! To re-
turn to the) aleetingor meetings to-morrow we must
express a h, epe that the day will be fine, and that
the dernenst ,ration will be as good-humoured as
possible, and !that no bigot or policeman will break
what, we fee I assured, the people will be desirous
o , the peace. Apropos, we would
suggest the p
,ropriety of other members of the
Established C 'hurch than the Archbishop of Cu-
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