The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-09 00:00:00

Commence at T.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
Re-enzaf,rement of the Wonderful Dancir, Mons. Espinosa.
First appearance of Mille. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan-
sense of La Scala, Milan ; and the Delapierre Family.
These hizlily-talented Children will appear every night.
The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening.
THIS EVENING, CAUGHT IN A. TRAP.

After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by IL
J. Byron, called JACK THE GIANT KILLER ; or, Harle-
quin King Artl,ur and the Knights of the Round Table.
Jack, Miss Louise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack Pants-
faula—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown,
Mr. A. F. Forrest.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL
A. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
Reproduction of THE DEAD HEART, with all its power-
ful effects. _ _

THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. B.
Webster, J. L. Toole, David Fisher, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith,
Billington, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly.
After which THE NYMPHS OF THE LURLEYBERG;
or, The Knight and the Naiades. Messrs. Toole, Bedford,
Eburne, Smith, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, C. Webb, K.
Kelly, Laidlaw.
Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box-
OMoe open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. Directress, Miss Wyndham. The nearest Theatre to
Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to
carriages and toot passengers all hours of the night.

—THIS IITENINi4 the lierformances will conim enee with
PARENTS AND GUARDIANS.

Followed by a new sketch, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY.
Miss Wyndham and Mr. H. T. Craven.
After which, a new Tragic Ballet, entitled MT NAME IS
NORVAL. Supported by C. Young, Barrett, Miss Lydia
Thompson, Clara St. Casse, &c.
And A BORDER MARRIAGE. Messrs. H. T. Craven,
Charles Young, G. Spencer, and Miss fVyndham.
Reduced Prices—Gallery, 8d ; Pit, is. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform
ance commences at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Last Two Weeks of Mr. W. Cooke's Season.
THIS EVENING, the Powerful Equestrian Drama "of
THE WOODMAN'S HORSE, in which is displayed the
wonderful training of the Cream Palfrey, "Beauty," —Ex-
traordinary Acts of Hosemanship 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 God-
dess Diana ; Diana, with Songs, Miss Jacobs ; Tom, Mr.
Herbert; Patty, Mr. G. Belmore.
Commence at 7.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips
The final Morning Performance of the Pantomime will be
on Saturday, Feb. 11, at Two o'clock.

CANTERBURY -
EVERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY

QUEEN.
And a Grand Selection from Meyerbeer's new opera of
DINORAH.

Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critellikid, and E. W. Hackney.

Several interesting, Pictures are added to the Fine Arte
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
eights of the metropolis.
ROSA BON II EU It' S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE
FA llt is now added to the already magnificent Collection of
Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATIIER.—SUN 01'1104 FEE. 9, 18G0.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
51—highest since noon yesterday.
38—lowest this morning and during the night.
40—this day at noon.

BARomETER-29.72.
WIND, North-Easterly ; fresh, with fine cold weather.
Three o'clock—Sharp fall of snow.

HIGH 'WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This DAy.—Morning, 3h. 24m.—Afternoon, 3h. 45m
To-monnow.-Morning, 2h. 39m.—Afternoon, 3h. 3m

We hear enough of factious combinations against
the Government; but it is the duty of the House of
Commons to see to it that the country is not sold
to a Triple Alliance. PALMERSTON, LOUIS NAPO-
LEON, and COBDEN, or, the Cabinet, the Emperor,
and Manchester, have been very busy together
lately, and the result of their councils demands at
least severe scrutiny. We would not prejudge any
of these parties. Each has a right to look to its
own interests, and each may easily believe, under
the . influence of its controlling motive, that in
seeking its own objects, it is seeking the welfare
of its country and of the world. There is no
need to impute consciously unworthy motives ;
but there is need to examine the policy which the
parties in alliance may suppose to be dictated by
patriotism. To Manchester, encouragement of the
cotton trade—to Lord PALMERSTON, strengthen-
ing a Whig Ministry, and keeping taxation off
the shoulders of the wealthy—to LOUIS NAPOLEON
the glory of France, when it is the glory of the
NAPOLEON dynasty may seem the essence of
patriotism, nay, even of philanthropy. But the
Whigs, the BONAPARTES, and Cotton, may
not be ;the chief good in the eyes of im-
partial persons. We hope, therefore, the Opposition
and the independent members will allow no politi-
cal bribes, no appeals ad m isereeor d lam, to bias their
judgment. We do not want to turn out the Go-
vernment—we do not want the bother of another
dissolution, but the fear of neither alternative should
interfere with the duty which the House at this
juncture will owe to its country.
We write thus because we do fear that there is
danger ahead. None will be more gratified than
ourselves to find it otherwise. If we receive from
Mr. GLADSTONE mid his colleagues a Budget which
is a Budget for the poor, and for that largo class
which is often practically the poorest, the less
Wealthy half of the middle class—we shall give it
our heartiest support ; if. on the contrary, we are
to have an Income-tax in which the infamous
schedule D is still to violate the secrecy of English
life and manners, and to fang with aristocratic
grasp the harlearned livelihood of those who toil
and spin—We warn the Triple Alliaxee that the
country-will measure its strength with Manchester,
Downing-stiaet, and the Tuileries united.

we hope Mx' GLADSTONE'S sore throat has been
one: .of those atliictions which, we are told, are
blessipws in di guise. It has at least given him
time to le am the sentiments of many to whose ad-
monition, on the 'worst proposals of his budget,
he would wis tly to listen. Those parts may,
even now, be exsoinded before he lays:his plan be-
fore Parliai Vent, and well for him if they be. That
something Prong—something needing the advocacy
of the most subtle special pleader of the day, to
nuke it look ". —is forthcoming, must be

taken as almost certain. We are a plain business
people after all. In a few hours the real business
part of Mr. GLADSTONE'S scheme will be sifted
from his load of words, and on them, not on the
clever speech, will judgment be given. 'Yet, because
Mr. GLADSTONE is hoarse, no other member of the
Cabinet, not even the President of the Board of
Trade, can be trusted to lay on the table of the
house the Cabinet's financial scheme, and
the treaty, which we are told forms a part
of it. The house would be courteous enough to
waive the discussion till the recovery of its
Finance Minister, but surely that is no reason
why honestly-conceived proposals could not be
left to tell their own tale. There would even be
some advantage to the orator in seeing what the
press of the country said, to compensate for his
losing the pleasure of first telling his own story.
How can we but fear, under these circumstances,
that his Budget and the Treaty can neither of
them be trusted on their own legs? The nation
is to be treated like children, unable to understand
a treaty or a budget, because the Government off-
spring have " the rickets."
Not to be captious, does not what is known of
the Government plan look like it ? Ist, A com-
mercial treaty is admitted on all hands to be ob-
jectionable. Protectionists themselves now under-
stand that, to fetter our revenue plans for the
future, by engagements:with a foreign country, is
unwise. Our wine duties are simply revenue duties,
for the wines subjected to them cannot be made by us.
If we lose too much revenue, we shall, however, be
precluded from reimposing the duties. 2dly, on
all our manufactured products high duties—almost
one-third of their value—may yet be levied, while
the raw materials on which in part our superiority
depends are to be put cheaply into the hands of
those who tax our manufactured articles that they
may outbid us. All the concession seems to be one-
sided—both the times of altering the duties and the
duties themselves. A treaty, if there must be one,
ought to be based on reciprocity. This is` based on
sacrificing England's revenue to enrich French wine
growers, and England's raw material to those
who lay heavy burdens on our manufactures.
3dly and worst of all the " damning
spot, " unless it be wiped out before
Friday night is, that to effect all these concessions
to France, English tradesmen, and professional
gentlemen of every class, are to be saddled with a
NINEPENNY INCOME-TAX ! ! !

If this be persisted in, we hope it will prove a
rock which will shiver the Cabinet to pieces.
We hope the House of Commons will re-
fuse to sanction the Treaty unless the deficiency
created by it can be made good in some
unexceptionable way. No fictions of Mr. GLAD-
STONE'S fertile imagination ought to carry away
the House to sanction this intolerable demand.
First—to repeal the duty on a luxury is not neces-
sary, while to abolish, the most unequal, oppressive,
inquisitive, and altogether odious, of, war taxes
in time of peace, is necessary. It has been borne
hitherto, because it was to come to an end
with the falling-in of the long annuities.
Next, if cheap luxuries from France are a necessity,
let the taxation which makes good the loss to
revenue fall on the classes who use these wines—
lay a tax—as honest JOHN BRIGHT proposes—on
property, not on incoinc. On acquired riches pro-
tected by the State, which ought to pay for their
protection, not en fugitive incomes, perishing with
the health or the life of the possessor, and which no
law can protect. And, thirdly, equalise the Legacy
and Probate _Duties. Let the nation demand this
with irresistible unanimity and energy before it
submits to Mr. GLADSTONE'S NINEPENCE. His
.trumpery Succession Duties :on real property have
brought but ' a few thousaids into the Exche
quer, while all the time personal property—
even that of the poorest tradesman's widow—

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THE SUN.
LONDON, THURSDAY, FEB. 9, 1860.