The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-30 00:00:00

Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

DRENCH PLAYS-ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Directeur, M. Talexy.—Lessee, Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Positively the last appearance but One of M. LECLERE.
THIS EVENING,
L'INVITATION A LA VALSE : Maurice, by M. Pau'
Devaux.
LES NOCES DE CLEOPATRE
and M. Leclere.
Orchestra Stalls, 7s. 6d. ; Balcony Stalls, ss. ; Pit, 2s.
Gallery, is.
Private Boxes, from Two Guineas.
Commence at 8.

Madlle. Marie Basta

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
..4-AL Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY.
New Engagement, for nine nights previous to his departure
for the Continent, of the Greatest Rope Dancer in the World,
HERR CIIRISTOFF, and the popular French Clown, MoNS.
L'EPINE. MADLLE. LEONTINE received with enthusiastic
applause. file superb Hippo-drama is a decided success.
On Monday, June 25, leso, and during the week, the En-
tertainments will commence with the Grand Historical
Spectacle in Three Acts, entitled " FAIR ROSAMOND, or
the AMAZON CRUSADERS." To be followed by an incom-
parable display of Equestrian Achievements in the Scenes of
the Arena, supported by the most talented Artistes in Europe,
including Madlle. LEONTINE. To conclude with a Popular
Farce.

Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.

C A NTERB UR Y HALL
THIS EVENING,
C. H. GOUNOD'S OPERA.
FAUST.
First Time in this Country.
Faust Mr. Henry Herbert.
Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard.
Siobel Mrs. Anderson.
Marguerite
Conductor Mr. Jonglimans.
And selections from
Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other
Entertainments.
Balcony, is Hall. 6d.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come
dian and Mimic), and W. T. Critchfield.
The AFRICAN OPERA TftOUPE, their first appparance
since 18.52, consisting of ELEVEN STAR PERFORMERS,
who will give the whole of their inimitable entertainment
every evening.
The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

CONCERTS.-

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JUNE 30, 1560.
THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE.
61—highest since noon yesterday.
52 —lowest this morning and during the night.
60—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30.27 ; a sudden rise of nearly half an inch.
WlND—North-Easterly ; light, with unsettled weather;
rain is the night and this morning; now fine, but cloudy.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIB DAY.—Morning, Ilh. 24m.—Afternoon, —h. —m.
To-moßßow.-Morning, 12h. Om.—Afternoon, 12h. 28m,

The Conservative Banquet appears to have passed
off with great good humour yesterday. It took place
in Willis's Rooms, St. James's, the scene last year
of a very different political demonstration. Then,
the assemblage had not an atom of conviviality
about it. On the contrary, it was described by these
inimical to it as almost amounting to a conspiracy.
Insomuch that one might nearly have been led to
suppose that, had there been anything at all of a
festive character within those closed doors, it must
have resembled somewhat the ghastly hobnobbing
over a bowl of blood recorded by SALLUST in regard
to CATALINE and his Accomplices, or like the
merry-making in the blind man's cellar, during
the Gordon riots, related by Boz in reference to the
' prentice followers of the thin-legged SIM TAP-
PERTIT. There was, at any rate, this justification
of the charge of a political conspiracy directed
twelvemonths back against the Liberal gathering in
Willis's Rooms, that almost immediately afterwards
the then Opposition ousted their opponents from
office and became, in the form of another Coalition,
the Government. From an examination of the pro-
ceedings of yesterday in the same locality, it would
be hard indeed to predict any similar conse-
quences. The Conservative-, so far from evincing,
like their foes, any sober, serious earnestness—
would seem to have met in the purest vein of plea-
santry. And although among the after-dinner
speakers there were numbered three of the ex-
Cabinet Ministers, and another oratorical great gun
no less formidable than the late Attorney-General
for Ireland—the speeches were made up for the

most part of gay jests directed against the winning

side, or at any rate against the side that is " in,'
and complimentary allusions to the absent leaders
of Conservatism. Lord JOHN MANNERS, although
entrusted with the toast of " The Church and
State," thought it not unbefitting even that
solemn theme to close his remarks upon it
with a scrap of Tory doggrel. General PEEL—
commenting upon the extravagant estimate
re-
cently given by our chief morning contemporary
as to the annual cost of each of England's soldiers--
argued the matter thus drolly. He said, "He had
recently seen it stated that we had only 30,000 men
in this country, and that they cost us £5OO a-piece.
That was one of those ingenious fictions which the
well-known writer of the military articles in the
Times was so apt to indulge in. There was just as
much truth in it as there would be in his offering
to give the fortunate winner of the Derby £5OO for
his saddle and bridle, provided he would throw the
horse into the bargain, and then going and saying
that saddles and bridles cost £5OO a-piece." Sir
J. P Aang oTON—referring to the Commercial Treaty
with France -
and England's unadorned Plenipoten-
tiary—mould not
resist the tempation of reiterating
the jibe cruelly
directed against the latter by
another writer in that same
contemporary of ours,
to wit, that our "amateur
negotiator had been
supremely diddled." Asto Mr. M
- • ---EREWETTIER
—he forsooth must come out as an original
distinct
jester—
• Q.C.
indulging his hearers with three
puns in
the course of his speech, on proposing
the toast of
the House of Commons. Exulting in the first place
that they had made the prime agitator of
feel the truth of the words—" All that's
bright
must fade," and secondly, that they had enabled
people to say of that gentleman, coupling his fate
with that of his newspaper—

" None has fallen so far
Since him miscalled the Morhi;2g Star"
And maintaining finally that while "these were
great triumphs for the Conservative party; they
would no doubt be able to increase them if they
would give not a blind, but a faithful, adherence to

that leader who, having twice changed defeat into
success, was entitled to the earnest, continuous, and
not quarterly gratitude of his followers." All
which is surely very innocent pleasantry. People
who can talk like this can hardly mean mis-
chief, or what SHAKSPERE calls " Miching
Malecho." With a demonstration having about it
so little malignity, neither Ministers nor
their supporters can quarrel—not even the arch-
supporter of them all, the chief butt of all these
pleasantries, the hon. member for Birmingham.
The only harangue of any importance throughout
the whole of these proceedings was the very able
one delivered by Sir JOHN PAKINGTON, the one in
which that eminent administrator paid a generous
tribute to the chiefs of his party, " their talented
and patriotic leader, Lord DERBY, and that great
and distinguished man, Mr. DISRAELI." Few, if
any, we are satisfied, will turn captiously either
from the genial jokes or the graceful compliments
imparting a momentary zest last evening to the
demonstration of the Conservative Opposition.

The great Reformer "is abroad." Should the
weather and prices continue long what they have
been, even Manchester men may think that a Re-
form Bill should have had precedence of a commer-
cial treaty under which, for the present, almost
everything has become dearer while employment
is not better. Indeed it must, in all probability,
become worse and worse, for the money spent on
food, of course, cannot be spent on that which keeps
Manchester spinning-jennies and looms in motion.
The price of meat, especially, is such as to touch
very seriously the means of the several lower strata
of the tenpenny income-tax payers, and we doubt
not, many of them, unbounded as is their faith in
the wisdom of our Manchester friends, feel painfully
squeezed themselves in the vice, in which the Go-
vernment has placed them, of heavier taxation on
one side, and higher prices on the other. They are
beginning to fancy it might have been a little
better if we had kept our revenue and left foreign
wines where they were.
But whatever income-taxpayers think of the as-
pect of things, the classes which do not pay in-
come-tax are becoming very uneasy. At Sheffield,
Nottingham, Paddington—we hear of meetings of
working men to discuss the causes of high prices,
and the possible remedies. While at Swindon we
read in a local paper of a meeting of 300 agricultural
labourers, who seem to have been drawn together by
the common calamity of having to maintain them-
selves, and that at present prices, on 9s. a week, or
ls. 6d. a day. They had assembled without any
definite purpose, and it appeared towards the close
of the meeting that these unavaricious cottagers
would actually think themselves rich enough on
12s. a week ! Pity it seems, indeed, that such
moderate desires are little likely to be gratified,
and that the poor rustics will have to starve on.
The accounts of no one of the meetings is so
touching as this. One poor man had his wife and
seven children to keep on the ls. 6d. a day—only
think of education for such poverty ! Another had
Is. 6d. to pay first for rent, and " after other things
are paid for," the money isn't enough to keep us—
a proposition it does not need a Cambridge
mathematiciantodemonstrate. AMINIDAB SMITH—
the man must have had Methodist parents—"was a
cripple, sixty-five years of age,with a wife and eight
children, one could earn the house rent, and the 9s.
had to maintain ten of them." WILLIAM SMITH
had but two children, yet he found himself getting
further back every week, and wanted to know when
he was to pay it; what then could the poor AMINI-
DAB do? CHARLES MOULDER complained that if
a man got ss. into debt, he was thought to be a big
rogue, yet after twenty years' experience he could
not help it. Years ago he got three loaves of bread
for a shilling—he then got Bs, a-week, but was

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 18E0.