The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-06 00:00:00

HEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET 1
Lessee; Mr. J. B. 131 fekstone.
TUTS EVENING the performs' ices will commence with
HALLOWEEN. By the Leelercciuf.
THE OVERLAND ROTT Messrs. C. Mathews,
And
Blackstone, Compton, CUppendt de. Rogers, Mrs. Charles
Mathews, Miss Weekes, an,l Mrs
. Wilkins.
After which, the new co med ietta, HIS EXCELLENCY,
lii which Mr. and Mrs. C. Ma the ws will appear.
To conclude with THE KLY( PS GARDENER.
Comm( to ce at 7.

PRIN C ROYAL 11; S S'S THEATRE.—
Lessee, 1,1 ir. A. Haute.
EVMTING, will lx performed SOME TRUTHS.
And .LBS DEUX. A.ITEUGJ,ES. By the Zouaves.
With THE LO ST LETVER.
After which, ITIXE FILI.E TERRIBLE Characters by
She &num&
1/L
Followed by ANA BUSCADE AT INKERMAN,
Commence at 7.

AID ELPHI, N EW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Sole Proprietor aL '4l Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
E HARVEST HOME. Messrs. J
TH', ICVENING.
L. Tot Ile, P. Bedford, D. IBillington, Stuart, Eburne,
C. J. S with. Powell, Romer ; Miss Woolgar, Miss H. Simms,
Kiss ii.. Kelly, and Miss Lsidl, qW
Altar which, OUR PEMAI:X AMERICAN COUSIN.
Emirs. Stuart, C. Selby, BillA egton, Eburne, Miss Julia
Daly, Kelly, Laidlaw, and Mn.s Billington.
Commence :at 7.
Box-office open tom 10 till 5.
Private boxes, £2l 2s. ; Florally Boxes, £l.
OrOhe atra Stalls, 50. ; Balcony, 48. ; Front Cirale Stalls; is. •
Pit 8 tally, 25.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphit beatre, la ; Gallery, sd.
Acting Manager—Mr. NIT= Smith.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Ar.A. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W.ll. BATTY.
Immense Success of "Mateppa."
A Grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on
SATURDAY next, Aug 11, commencing, at Two o'clock.
Thi s Evening, Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of
IttAZZPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely new
and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments,
intr °diming the largest stud of highly-trained Horses, Po-
nies s, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World.
To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders
of tl is day.
oora open at half-past (5, performanoe commence at 7.
B 4 )Ic-ollioe open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—M. Felix Revolti.

C ANTERBU IS ER Y HA
:THVENI LL
NG.
C. H. GOIJNOD'S
AUST;OPERA.
F
First Time in this country.
Faust
Mephistopheles
Slobel Mrs. Anderson.
Marguerite
Conductor.......llr. Jonghmans.
And selections from
Dinorah, Trovators.
Mcbeth, and numerous other
Entertainments.
Balcony, ls, . 6d.
0 omio Vocalists—Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
and Mimic), 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
Negro delineations, anecdotes, Acc., in addition to the usual
entertainments.
T gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

CONCERTS.-

THE WEATHER,—SIIN OFFICE, AuarsT 5, 1560.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAW.
70—highest since noon yesterday.
51—lowest this morning and during the night.
65—this day at noon.
BAROMETER—`29.66.
WIND—Westerly ; light, with fine weather.

AuG. 6.
TIOILMOILETER, IN THE SHADE.
6S—highest sines soon yesterday.
59—lowest this morning and during the night.
64—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.45; a sudden fall.
; fresh, with fine weather now—bul
rain in the night and this morning.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tuts DA.Y.—Morning, 4h. 30m.—Afternoon, 4h..45m
To-moßitow.-Morning, 511. Om.—Afternoon, sh. 15m,

THE SUN.

LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1880.

To-night we are to have a battle, which we think
it every way discreditable to Ministers to have
converted into a party fight. Why cannot the
House of Commons be allowed to settle a mere item
of our tariff, like that of the Customs' duties on
paper, in accordance with the unbiassed judgment
of the majority ? What has resignation of Minis-
ters, or dissolut ion of Parliament, to do with the
right or the wrong of the relation of the French
Treaty to the duty in question ; or, with the other
point in dispute--whether a countervailing duty
on the manufactured article from a country which
prohibits export of the raw material, is a violation
of Free-trade. Able, and intelligent, and perfectly
impartial men take opposite views on both ques-
tions. Either may be wrong ; but to impose even
the right view by open or secret threats, is, we
maintain, an unfair way of treating a subject which
is, more than most, one for discussion, not
for coercion ; and one with which, except,
perhaps, in the case of actual paper makers, no
one can have either interest or prejudice.
e so resent such a mode of treatment that, if it
be made a question of confidence in the Govern-
ment, we should vote against the Ministry, to show
hat we were an English, not a Continental Repre-
entative Assembly.

We can imagine no ground on which our con-
temporaries, who attack so -vulgarly the Times, and
expose, as they think, its personal interest in re-
taining the countervailing penny duty, can charge
we with advocating its retention from interested
motives. So far as we canticipate consequences,
we must, commercially, lit gainers, if the Govern-
ment resolutions be carried to-night. It is shabby,
however, to meet arguments by personal abuse.
Put it at the worst. Suppose two or three gentle-
men connected with the Times have large interests
in paper-mills at stake ; suppose, in consequence,
they see the whole case as the long list of gentlemen
do,whose names appear in our advertising columns to-
day, and that they, naturally, express their views in
their own organ ; is this any reason why their ar-
guments should be ridiculed as interested P Let
them be as interested as opponents please, we
should like to know who can plead a cause, suppos-
ing him to have the faculty of speaking or writing,
like the person interested. It may lessen the value
of a judgment for a person to have an interest on
either side, but we never heard yet that it lessened
the value of an argument. It is not very well-
bred of our penny contemporaries, to assume that,
even if interested, the Times in its public capacity
will not pronounce a fair judgment; but let it re-
tire from the bench, and let it be dealt fairly with
as honourable counsel for its threatened interests—
answer it, then, we say, don't abuse it. Perhaps,
however, we must expect the latter from those
whose manners are learned in the penny school.

The paper makers, however, will not be denied
the right to speak for themselves, though the vul-
gar joke of wincing at the removal of protection
will be heard, when they ask for the retention of
. the penny Customs Duty which was imposed to
meet the prohibition or taxation of the export of
gs by foreign countries. It is rather singular, as
it strikes-
us, that we never, till this spring, heard
this penny talked of as a protectionist penny. It
is only since the extraordinary zeal to do the com-
plaisant to France of this year, that it was repre-
sented by any party, so far as we can remember, as
otherwise than what it is. It has always been
rightly supposed to be no duty levied be-
cause English manufacturers are inferior in
any respect to those or F
in spite of natural hindrances,
ranee, or because
they desire, to
go on manufacturing what the French could do
better, or with greater natural facilities, than we.
It has been regarded as the amount of duty which
fairly met an artificial advantage, given to French
manufacturers, by a partner, against whom no
private film in this country could compete—the

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