The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-10 00:00:00

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE;
Westminster-road.
Last Two Weeks of Mr. W. Cooke's Season.
THIS EVENING, the Powerful Equestrian Drama of
THE WOOD3INN'S HORSE, in which is displayed the
wonderful training of the Cream Palfrey, "Beauty," —Ex-
traordinary Acts of HosemanAhip by John Henry Cooke,
Miss Emily Cooke. and the great company of talented Pro-
fessors, French Pierrots, and facetious Clowns.
To conclude with the Comic Pantomime of HARLEQUIN
TOM MOODY; or, Old Towler the Huntsman and the Go-1-
deal Diana ; Diana, with Songs, Miss Jacobs ; Tom, Mr.
Herbert; Patty, Mr. G. Belmore.
Commence at 7.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips
Thefinal Morning Performance of the Pantomime will be
on Saturday, Feb. 11, at Two o'clock.

ANTERB UR V HALL CONCERT S.-
B:VERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY
QUEEN.
And a Grand Selection from Aleyerbeer's new opera of
DINORA H. _ _

Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hoison (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Hackney.
Several interestinz 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
sights of the metropolis.
ROSA BONHEUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the TjORSE
FAIR is now added to the already ma,rnificerit Collection of
Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATHER.—Smir OFFICE, FEB. 10, 1860.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
42—highest since noon yesterday.
32—lovmat this morning and during the night.
36—this day at noon.
BinomETEn-30.08 ; a sudden rise of nearly half an inch.
WIND. Northerly ; light, with sharp frost and fine sun-
shiny weather. The thermometer was 7 degrees below
freezint: point at Islington and Holloway, and more than 10
degrees at Highgate and other high places.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. sm.—Afternoon, 4b. 27m.
To-moßnow.-Morning, 4h. 48m.—Afternoon, sh. Sm.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB.' 10, 1860.

The House of Commons, in its wisdom, has re•
fused to try the Ballot at Gloucester and Wakefield.
Why it has done so there can be no question. The
certainty that, on trial, it would recommend itself
to the whole kingdom ;—the equal certainty that
" corrupt practices at elections " would almost
vanish with its adoption ; and the third certainty
that, with the cessation of such practices, we should
have a people's House of Commons, not a house of
aristocratic nominees,—these are the unquestionable
reasons why the Ballot was refused even a trial.
We can make some allowance when it is the ques-
tion of the Ballot for the whole kingdom. There may
be a few. who really doubt its efficiency in such
a case, but there are a great many
who, knowing its efficiency, and knowing
that it would liberate all the serfs in the counties,
shrink from emancipation as the " Southerners" do
across the water—it would be too sweeping a
change of power—it would make the tenants, in-
stead of the landlords, the electors for the counties.
In the present case there is nothing of the kind—
nothing sweeping—no violent change ; the que-
tion at the two boroughs concerned is now but
one of money—a Whig and a Tory alternate—it
could do no worse under the Ballot. There is
nothing asked but a simple trial—a trial where
the party character of the House could hardly be
alterad--a trial which could have no result but one
--to show on English ground how the much
abused and much demanded Ballot would work
in two Cases. ,

The objections of the Home Secretary and the
Premier are uttexiy beneath notice. They were
indeed • I ine.evant, They would have been trite
trash directed ag-„tngt thz: ballotgenerally, but
against 11 mere, expe,:iment. they haa no weight
at
all. They dared not' meet the real
question-
-whether it is fair to I, it, the Ballot have
at/'l(
That is what we insist on ; that is what they
ignore or refuse. Two bc iughs, which all the;
anti-corruption bilk have eeoonstrably left ihthe
worst condition, are denied. -us a.,1 a subject of ea:pc_
timent.
Lord pALNER67O an,i all who voted
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with him, voted that the T 4) llot shou'ld not be tested
in England—voted that t twir platitirdes against it
should not beput to the tes tof fact. They were wise,
we own, as hardened corn tptionist:l—the facts th?y
knew would be against them; but it was the