The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-21 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
Re-engagement of the Wonderful Dancer, Mons. Espinosa.
First appearance of Mdlle. Marietta Rosetta, l'rincipal Dan-
seuse of La Scala, Milan ; and the Delapierre Family.
These highly-talented Children will appear every night.
The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening.
THIS EVENING, THE CRICKET ON VIM HEARTH.
Atter which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by 11.
J. Byron, called JACK GIANT KILLER ; or, Harle-
quin King A.rfillr and te Knights ot he Round Table.
Jack, Miss Louise Keeley—h Harlequin. Mr.t Cormack Panta-
loon, Mr. x'aulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown,
Mr. A. F. Forrest.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHL
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.

Second Week of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan.
THIS EVENING, to commence with STILL WATERS
RUN DEEP. Messrs. Alfred Wigan, C. Selby, Billington,
Eburne, C. J. Smith, and Powell ; Mrs. A. Wigan, and Mrs.
Billington.
After which, by desire, the drama of ONE TOUCH OF
NATURE. Messrs. B. Webster, Billington, Eburne, C. J.
Smith ; Miss H. Simms.
Followed by DINORAH UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Miss
A. Kelly.
Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box-
Mice 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.

ROY AL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. Directress, Miss Wyndham. The nearest Theatre to
Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to
carriages and foot passengers all hours of the night.
THIS PNENING the performances will oommenoe with
MAGIC TOYS. Miss Lydia Thompson.
After which, FIRST AFFECTIONS.
Craven, G. Spencer, and Miss Wyndham.
Followed by a new burlesque called DIDO. Mr. Charles
Young, Mesdames Wyndham, Clara St. Casse, Murray, Eliza
Arden, C. Ranoe, A. Evans, and Corps de Ballet.

Messrs. 11. T.

To conclude with I WILL, IF YOU WILL.
Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, ls. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform
ante commences at 7.,

CONCERTS..

CANTERBURY HALL
THIS EVENING,
LUCREZIA BORGIA,
(Donizetti).
Donna Luerezia
Maffto Orsini Mrs. Anderson.
ennaro Mr. Henry Herbert.
Don Altonzo Signor Tivoli.
Conductor—Mr. Jonghm ans.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Horlson (the Irish Come
Ilan and Mimic), W. T. Critchtleld, and E. W. Mackney.
Several interesting 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
slights of the metropolis.
The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICM, FEB. 20, 1860.

THERMOMETER, IN THE BHADB.
42—highest since noon yesterday.
38—lowest this morniag and during the night.
43—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.72 ; rising.
WIND, North-westerly; light, with cloudy weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Txi■ DAY.—Morning, 2h. 4m.—Afternoon, 2h. 20m,
To-monitow.-Morning, 2h. 35m.—Afternoon, 2h. 51m

The argument of Ministers, in regard to the
Commercial Treaty with France, is simply and
avowedly this—For the sake of Peace with the
most formidable of our neighbours, to the end that •
we may draw closer and closer the bonds of alliance
between Imperial France and Constitutional Eng-
land, we will—with the responsibility of an enor-
mous deficit upon our shoulders—increase that de-
ficit by foregoing another £1,000,000 ! We will
negotiate a scheme of mercantile reciprocity, of so
novel a character, that the advantages shall be all
on one side ! We will facilitate the acquisition by
France of coal and iron, transferred from our own
shores to those of our neighbours, with the obvious
result, if not for the express purpose, of forwarding
the interests of the French military and maritime
services, thus fostering and encouraging to
the uttermost their simultaneous development !
We will so arrange matters with our Imperial ally,
that the tendency of this Treaty must inevitably be
to advance the French shipping interests at the
expense of our own! We will, in the name of
Free Trade, rigidly bind ourselves down for ten
years to come to the stipulations embodied in this
Royal and Imperial document! We will—as a
matter of course, and as we cannot, in fact, help
doing in any way constitutionally—reserve to
Parliament, but particularly to the House of Com-
mons, the right of accepting, or rejecting, or modi-
fying this Treaty ; intimating, however, quite
plainly to Parliament, but particularly to the
House of Commons, that that right is purely
nominal, is simply mentioned as a matter of form,
and that there cannot be two opinions, but that
it is a right that must not really be exercised under
present circumstances ! We will do all this, and a
great deal more of the like kind, to propitiate
France, and Foram sake of Peace in the Treaty, at
the very same time that we submit to the House of
Commons a WAR BUDGET of the most extraordinary
character.

If Mr. GLADSTONE'S Budget is anything, it is a
War Budget. It is a war Budget in Income. And
it is a war Budget in Expenditure. It makes up
an immense deficit (increased wantonly to the tune
of £1,000,000 as a Peace Offering to France) by
imposing a war tax indefinitely upon the popula-
tion, an income tax of tenpence in the pound—
bringing, in round numbers, £10,000,000 into the
Treasury! It squanders—of the £70,000,000 set apart

for the national disbursements within the financial
year, 1860-61—just £30,000,000 in warlike expen-
diture! Squanders, we may say advisedly, be-
cause if the Treaty be worth any thing as a Peace
Treaty—this expenditure of £30,000,000 upon our
land and sea- forces can be nothing else than a
non sequitur, a glaring and idle superfluity and
extravagance.

No wonder that the noble earl, the leader of the
Opposition, should last evening, in consideration
of so many extraordinary proposition: being sub_
iuitted to the Legislature by the Government, here
through the Treaty, there through the Bud°t'li di
s
the pressure of such extraordinary circumstances
no wonder that Lord DEunv should speak thus,
forcibly in his character as leader of the Opposition,
observing—" The question that presents itself to
Imly mind is one of the gravest doubt, independent
of questions that do not involve financial considera-
'ions. In the first place, I think it is a question
wt ether it is wise, with regard to our financial
regu,lations, N bind ourselves hand and foot
for te.to years by the stipulations of the Treaty ;
and nex :4:1 however desirable it may be to extend

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