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London, England, 1860-08-31 00:00:00

/11 HEA TRIF.-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnekstone.
T' HIS EVENING the performances will oommenee with
C OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Charles Mathews,
Beni [stone, Compton, Chippendale. Rogers, Mrs. Charles
Mat! sews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins.
Al iter Vich, PAUL PRY. Mr. and Mrs.:C. Mathews.
Commence at 7.

OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—
.L. 4 Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
NIS EVENING, will be performed MACBETH. Mr.
Jam lea Anderson and Miss Elsworthy.
Ai !ter which, THE FIRST NIGHT. Mr. A. Harris and
ifiss; Maria Harris.

Commence at 7.

ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL,
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster.
L set nights of the popular Adelphi Drama of Janet Pride.

' FHIS EVENING, JANET PRIDE. Messrs. B. Webster,
J. Toole, P. Bedford, Stuart, C. Selby; Miss Woolgar and
Was Laidlaw.

To conclude with THE ENCHANTED ISLE ; or Raising.
dike Wind under the most approved Principles. Messrs. J.
L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, C. Selby, Powell, Romer,
:Misses Woolgar, K. Kelly, and Emily Thorne.

Doora open at half-past s—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, 42 28. • Family Boxes, 41.
Orcliestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, ; Front Circle Stalls, $5. •
Pit ,Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d:
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
ICJ.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Was. BATTY.
Continued Success of "Mazeppa."
A Grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on
SA". CURDAY next, Sept 1, commencing at Two o'clock.
This Evening, Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of
MA ZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely new
and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments,
Introducing the largest stud of highly-trained Horses, Po-
nies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World.
To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders
of the day, including the greatest Equestrienne in the world,
Madlle. de Berg, whose wonderful Leap through the body of
a Mail Coach (a feat never before attempted by any other
female) has been nightly received with enthusiasm.
Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.
Box-offloe open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WRIT.
Director of the Arena—M. Felix Revolti.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING,
A Grand Selection from
MARTHA,
And Selections from
DINORAH, TROVATORE, MACBETH,
And numerous other Entertainments.
Balcony, is Hall. 6d.
Comic Vocalists—Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimi.), and C. Marshall.
The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised
expressly for this Establishment), for the performance of
Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with
gegro delineations, anecdotes, &c., in addition to the usual
entertainments.
The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday
Evening.

THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, AUGUST 3141860.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
68—highest since noon yesterday.
53—lowest this morning and during the night.
65—this day at noon.
BAnomrrna-29.60 ; rising.
WIND—S.-Westerly; rather fresh, with fine dry weather,
but cloudy.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 2h. Om.—Afternoon, 211. 18m.
To-moußow.-Morning, 2h. 34m.—Afternoon, 2h. 48m.

LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1860.

A Free-trader, or it may be a Tory, in disguise,
has sent us an apparently official communication in
a large envelope, bearing the following supersciip-

tion :

" NEW ARRANGEMENTS UNDER THE

COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH

FRANCE."

We opened the envelope with an avidity which
afterwards surprised us, and on our drawing out
the precious inclosure, which seemed to avoid our
grasp—what did we find on unfolding the docu-
ment? Why, a half sheet of note paper, all in
blank ! We turned it, and turned it—still nothing
official appeared ! Oh ! thought we, this won't do--
it must be a State secret affair, too important to
.be read by vulgar eyes ; it must be in cypher; the
ontents must be written in some invisible ink, only
known to political confidants like ourselves, for we
never divulged a State secret, for obvious reasons
• —that we would not be trusted again, and so lose
oonr position in the State.
Well, we tried the ordinary test of bringing out
the mystery, but all with the same result. Well
thought we, we shall now try the real extraordinary,
and so we did ; and in doing so we nearly burnt
our fingers !

"What's to be done—we're foiled again ?
The devil's in the thing—that's plain.
But, however plain it might seem to more know-
ing ones, we confess to our utter confusion and
dismay that we were not in the secret, nor even
consulted as to the contents of it.
Did our friend Mr. COBDEN send the communi-
cation of explaining what had he accomplished by
his own " rainbow thread" of Manchester negotia-
tion ? If so, he ought to have given us the begin-
niug of " the yarn"—and he might have kept the
end of it to himself for all that the country has yet
benefited by his occult labours. Perhaps the
significance of this " bit of blank," is that England
is to fill up all that the plenipotentiaries were un-
able, in their native modesty, to accomplish, and to
speak out—that would amount to a spank new
treaty all on our side, for the other was all the
other way ! Well, now, why should we be sending
our great Corn-law detective over to Paris to be
politely done by bows and smiles, in spite of his
"unadorned eloquence" of which the treaty will
never reap the benefit—when we could have kept
his high Plenipotentiaryship at home, and so have
saved our money and our character, and thus have
left the cunningest people in their own esteem,
to wallow in their sour (cheap) wines, and to dis-
9ort themselves in the exclusiveness of their own
Rags

There is such a thing as paying too dear for one's
whistle—but we have to pay for no whistle at all.
It is all pay and no play ; for people over the way
find it better and cheaper to dance to their neigh-
bours' fine fiddle-strings. The question then
arises—one of political economy, we pre-
sume—how long will people play a losing
game that the other side may put money
in their pockets, and so laugh in their sleeve at our
expense ? Sailors say in an emergency—" look
out !—there's the devil to pay, and no pitch
hot." But we have been made to pay '
with no pitch at all. Verily, the treaty
is now becoming to be understood to the peoples'
Cost, for it is all reciprocity on one side, and Mr.
GLADSTONE may take credit, for he will get no
money on either side, for his inconsiderate gene-
rosity at the nation's expense.

The enthusiastic reception accorded to KOSSUTH
on the 26th, immediately upon his wholly unlooked
for arrival upon the banks of the Lago di Como
becoming known to the inhabitants of Bellagio, is
ggestive and admirably oppor-
at once strikingly su
tune.
Elsewhere will be found, in our columns of
this evening, particulars of this reception—from
which it will he seen that the Popular movement at
Beilagio was altogether spontaneonB, was even from
first to last clearly and obviously unpremeditated.
The Hungarian Liberator arrives quite unexpectedly
upon the Lake of Como, and there at Bellagio takes
up his abode at the Hotel de la Grande Bretagne.
Intelligence of his arrival spreads like wildfire
throughout the neighbourhood. The advent is
that no doubt of a simple traveller—but that simple
traveller _Ms once been supreme Dictator of
10,000,000 aungariana. Andmay be so again t Who;

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