The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-26 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

jkl-) ELPHT, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Sole froprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. W6bster.
He-aprpee..ance o Mr. and Mrs. A. Wigan—Third week of
the populaef American Actress, Miss Julia Daly.
TB IS EVENING (eicTenth time), ITS AN ILL WIND
THAT BLOWS NOBODY GOOD. Messrs. Alfred Wigan,
J. L, Toole, Stuart, Billington, C. J. Smith, Ward, Mrs. A.
Wigan, and Miss 11. Simms..
After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN.
Messrs. Stuart, C. Selby, Billington, Eburne, Miss Julia
Daly, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with GRIMSHAW, BAGSHAW, AND
BRADSHAW. _ _

Box-office open from 10 till 5.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, 35.;
Pit Stalls, 2s. ; Pit, ls. Bd. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d,
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

FRENCH PLAYS—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Director, M. TALEXY.
Mdlle. DIIVERGER.— M. BRINDEAU.
Lundi et Mardi, 28 et 29 Mai, pour l'Ouverture, PAR
DROIT DE CONQUETE M. -Bandeau jouera George
Bernard.
Premiere representation de LES ETOILES DE PARIS
(Prologue et Ouverture compose specialement pour le Theatre
St. James, par MM. Charles Poter et Lambert Dennery)
1' Administt ateur, M. Roland ; St. Phar, M. Briet ; le Genie,
Mdlle. Marie Bi sta.
°vire :1. LES ETOILES DE PARIS-2. LE CHEVEU
BLANC-3. PAR DROITIDE CONQUETE.
Chef d'Orchestre, M. Cadaux ; Directeur de la Sane, M.
Lambert Dennery.
Prices of Admission—Orchestra Stalls, 7s. 6d. ; Balcony
Stalls, ss. ; Pit, 28. ; Gallery, Is.
Les bureaux ouvrirout a 7i heures : on commencera a, 8
inures.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor, Mr. WM. BATTY.
Thirty-seventh Night of the GREAT MILITARY SPEC-
TACLE. In compliance with numerous inquiries at the Box
Office, the Management has arranged to give Four Grand
Mid-day Performances during the Whitsun Holidays, viz.—
on Whit-Monday, May 28th, Tuesday, 29th, Thursday, 31st,
and Saturday, June 2d. The Entertainments will consist of
a Recherche Display of Equestrian Performances and a
Light pleasing Dramatic Piece ; commencing each day at
Two o'Clock.

THIS EVENING,
The Grand Hippo-Drama, " Tnz HISTORY or At FLAG."
Wondrous Scenes in the Cirque, supported by
World.
he most
talented Equestrian and Gymnastic Artistes in the
Concluding with a Laughable Farce.
The magnificent Chandeliers manufactured by Messrs. De-
tries and Sons, Houndsditch.
Doo: s open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.

CONCERTS.-

CANTERBURY HALL
THIS EVENING.
C. H. GOITNOD'S OPERA,
FAUST;
rirst Time in this country.
Faust Mr. Henry Herbert.
Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard.
Siobel Mrs. Anderson.
Marguerite
Conductor Mr. Jonghmans.
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. Critchfleld.
The AFRICAN OPERA T itOUPE, their first appearance
since 1852, 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.

THE WEATHER.-Strx OFFICE, MAY 26, 1660,

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADS.
64—highest since noon yesterday.
54—lowest this morning and during the night.
63—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.43 ; falling fast.
WIND—South-Westerly; fresh, with rainy weather and
bits of sunshine. It began to rain yesterday afternoon, and
has continued occasionally in showers for the night.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, sh. 27m.—Afternoon, sb.
To-moHnow.-Morning, Gh. 22m.—Afternoon, 6h. 52m,

A, PI4 ;AC), ,01 au, m 44.,
• .4
ti
fr" \
,
,
- bßotv.

THE SUN.

LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1880,

Whether we are to have more readily French
paper, or French rags, or both, or neither—these
are among the most urgent matters just now for
our consideration. They are questions mooted
anxiously, both within and without the walls of
the House of Commons. They are probabilities or
possibilities affecting, almost equally, though in a
totally dissimilar manner, the home producer and
the home consumer of the manufactured article—

rags being the raw material of the paper maker or
paper manufacturer, and paper being rags trans-
formed into the same, after passing through the
magical process of the mill or manufactory.

It stands to reason, as we have shown before
now, over and over again in these columns, that if
there is no longer to be a differential duty main-
tained upon the importation of French paper, there
ought certainly to be no restriction put, any longer
upon the exportation for England of French rags.
The principles of Free Trade demand that the pro-
posed removal of the supplementary ld. per lb. im-
port duty on French paper when transmitted to this
country, should, as a matter of course, as a matter of
the simplest right and of the commonest justice,
occur simultaneously with the removal of the re-
strictions hitherto maintained upon the exportation
from Franco of the chief raw material of paper,
there or elsewhere, namely, rags—the rags of the
36,000,000 of the French population. Instead,
however, of recognizing this obvious right—we
know what is really the dirty little bit of sharp
practice, in this matter, upon which the chivalrous
Imperial Government of France has recently ad-
ventured ! In answer to the representations that
were at once made to that Government directly
this glaring anomaly in the Commercial Treaty
had been recognised—we were led by the councils
of our august ally to believe that the monstrous
anomaly, that was thus reasonably complained of,
was forthwith to he swept away, and utterly
dissipated. And in this pleasant illusion the
House of Commons at once frankly consented to
the proposed remission of the old differential duty
on French paper—relying implicitly upon the
honest reciprocation of this manly confidence by
the Imperial French Government. How this
confidence was disgracefully shown to have been
totally misplaced the reader will yet have in vivid
recollection. When the Commons of England had
finally settled the question as to its entertaining
the notion of this remission of the I.d. per lb.
import duty upon French paper brought over into
England, it was explained that the export duty
upon French rags was only to be diminished, and
not by any means to be removed. This, in plain
English, was the dirty little bit of sharp practice
decided upon in the midst of these illusory commer-
cial negotiations between France and England—
decided upon and. acted upon with brazen effrontery
by the chivalrous Government of Prance. It was
enough of itself. we maintain, to invalidate the
whole of this vautnted treaty. It was a complete
justification in itself of everything we ourselves
remarked in deprowiation of this Free-trade Bubble
at the period whon it was first blown out of the
great soap-dish of the Budget, and went soaring
away, party•colols.red, and glittering high into the