The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-21 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.'
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING. the performances will commence with
THI43 YOUNG WIDOW. Mr. H. Neville, Mr. J. Rouse,
Miss Hudspeth, and Miss Rose Howard.
Followed by the new drama, entitled ADRIENNE ; or
THE SECRET OF A LIFE. Principal characters by
ie Mrsr.
Henry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Villiers.
Mr. G. Vining, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell„ Mr. Clifford,
Mr. J. Johnstone ; Mrs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste.
After which, THE PE N OF THE PARTERRE.
Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott.
The Music by Mr. George Loder. Principal characters by Mr
H. Neville, air. John Rouse, Mr. J. Morris, Miss M. Ternan,
Miss Neville, Misslludspeth, Miss Stuart, Mikarne:ss
Douglas, Miss Annie Collinson, and Miss LyThompson.
Commence at 7.

A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Sole Proprietor and 31anae•er, Mr. Beni. Webster.
Engagement for a limited number of nights of Miss Agnes
everyand Mr. Dion Boucicault, who will appear
evening in the highly successful Drama of "The
Colleen Sawn."
THIS EVENING. THE INFLE BRIGADE, Metiers
Smith, D. Fsher, C. Selby, :gigs Woolgar, Miss Kate Kelly,
and Mrs. Billington.
After which, THE COLLEEN' BAWN. D. Boucicault, D.
Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with MUSIC HATS
CHARMS. Mr. David
Fisher.
Doors open at half-past o—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 20. ; leamily BoxeS,-.£l.
Balcony, 48. ; Front Circle Stalls, is •,
Orchestrz Stalls, ss. •
Pit Stallff, 28. • Pit, 6d. ; Amphitheatre, ;Gallery, id,
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

.AsTLEY's ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY.
Triumphant success and increasing popularity of the Grand
Spectacle of Rolm( Hoop.
Last Six Nights.

This Evening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three
Acts, by Fitzbal4 Esq., entitled ROBIN HOOD ; or. the
Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducie• n the Stud of highly-
trained Horses, Herd. of real Deer, Stag Hounds, &c, Allan-
a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs ; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit-
chard.
To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by
the celebrated Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome
and their Troupe of unequalled performers, &c., including
the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest
Wonder of the age.
Doors open at half-Fast 6, performance commence at 7.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4
Stage Manager Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.

CANTERBUEERY E HALL
ING, CONCERTS.-
VEN
A Grand Selection from the opera of
NORMA.

Norma .• .... • • .............. Miss RUSSELL.
Adalirisa •••. • • • ........ . Madame MARIA,
(Her first appearance in this country.)
After which the ETHIOPIANS, consisting- of Seventeen Per-
formers, organised expressly for this establishment, for the
Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and
Sentimental, with Nezro elineations, Anecdots, &c. Prin-
cipal Nee-ro Artistes, MDessrs. Joe Brown, G. e
W. Pell, H.
Drummond, and Charley Fox.
Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGHMANS.
Balcony, 6d.

THE NVEATHER.—SvN OFFICE, Nov. 21, 1560.
THEEMOKET'ER, IN THE SHADS.
46—highest since itoon yesterday.
35—lowest this !cording and during the night.
44—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-.-29.78; falling.
WIND—Southerly to West; light, with dull weather,
inclining to rain.
ONE O'CLOCX.—Rain has begun.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tate Di'.—Morning, 7h. 44m.—Afternoon, Bh. 19m,
To-monnow.-Morning, Bh. 54m.—Afternoon, 9h. 27m,

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THE SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 21, 1880.

Mr. BRIGHT has now been so long silent that
his reappearance upon that broad political rostrum
of England, the public platform, will be hailed, we
are quite sure, upon all sides and by all parties with
unalloyed satisfaction. Occupying as he does the
foremost place among our few great living Orators
—a place of absolute pre-eminence as the boldest
and most outspoken among the still fewer great
living Tribunes of the People—his opinions, how-
ever much we are any of us constrained at times to
differ from them, never fall upon inattentive ears ;
they always command attention (even when we dis-
sent from them utterly and entirely) as the opinions
of a keen-witted, liberal-minded, silver-tongued, and
--contradictory though the phrases may seem when
looked at—upright, downright Englishman.
With a great deal of COBBETT'S arrogance in
the enunciation of his views, Mr. BRIGHT has all
COBBETT'S racy command of our good Saxon
English vernacular in the mere manner of their
articulation. To this, however, he adds an elo-
quence entirely his own, an eloquence that
Old Gridiron never pretended to, an eloquence
that he certainly would only have made himself
ridiculous by even aiming at. But through all
those rhetorical graces for which Mr. BRIGHT'S
rare gift of oratory is remarkable, there runs at all
times a lucidity, really only comparable to that
which is the paramount and would be, but for Mr.
BRIGHT, the wholly matchless charm of both the
Written and spoken style of the author of the
"History of the Protestant Reformation." As
with COBBETT so is it with BRIGHT in regard to
this characteristic of lucidity. However much
we may and do differ at moments from the
conclusions arrived at by both one and the
other, we can never be under any misappre-
hension as to what they either of them; mean ;
nor, for that matter, can we be without an
instant and enduring admiration for the way in
which that meaning of theirs is expressed. Always
remembering, always acknowledging that, in Mr.
BRIGHT'S instance, our admiration is paid not only
as in COBBETT'S to the bold, rae,,,iy reasoner, one
gift even in these days)
who (rare call a spade
can
a spade, but above all, and in a very particular
manner, to one of those Arch-Tribunes of the
People who combines with the rarest Powers of
oratory an unflinching and conscientious devotion
at all hours, and under all circumstances, to the
f his political creed.
great principles o Mr.
BRIGHT has often before now dishonoured him-
self, dishonoured his tongue of eloquence, dis-
honoured his otherwise frank and mas-
culine reputation by imputing the paltriest and
even the basest motives to public journalists, who,
like ourselves, hare had the hardihood to give ex-
pression as ultra-Liberals to sentinnuts or opinions
in any way in apposition to his own. From that
miserablest retaliation of all, the to quoque, we have
always, throughout these differences, shrunk : not
only from an instinctive repugnance to a course in
itself sufficiently abhorrent to us, but because even
supposing that instinctive repugnance of ours could
by any possibility have been non-existent, it would
have been as entirelyridiculous to have ever directed
in retort any wretched insinuations of this kind
against Mr. BRIGHT, as we believe it must long
since have been. •
an the estimation of every mind but
Mr. BRIGHT'S, to hare directed those obsolete jibes
and
_scurrilities against the guardians and con-