The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-20 00:00:00

GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL.

Tills EVENING, at 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.20, CYRIL'S
SUCCESS. 0.40, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: ➢lessrs.
Marshall,Warner, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurlstone, J. Clarke;
Mesdames Henrade, C. Thorne, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Ar-
nold, and Stephens

QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE.
Manager, Mr. W. H. Liston.
Tries EVENING. A RACE FOR A DINNER. After which,
NOT GUILTY: Messrs. J. L. Toole, Lionel Rrough , H. Irving,
S. Fmerz, Miss Hodson, &c. Concluding with THE BIRTII-
PLACE OF PODGERS: Mr. Toole.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN.
Tins EVFNING, BLOW FOR BLOW: Messrs. Cowper, Ye
vine, Pa,rselle, and George Honey; Mesdames Lydia Foote, &c.
After which, LUCRETIA BORGIA, M.D.: Miss Fanny .Josephs,
and George Honey. To conclude with AUNT CHARLOTTE'S
MAIL'. Mesdames Larkin, Weathersby.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN.
THIS EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud
f5O Horses; also Onra, Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, fic

ROYALTY THEATRE.
Under the Management of Miss M. Oliver.
Tins EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss
M. Oliver. To he followed by CLAUDE DUVAL; Mr. Dewar,
&c. To conclude with FAMILY JARS.

PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE.
Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton

'l' MS EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague,
Addison, Glover. and Bancroft: Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss
C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING
HAZ AR D. And INTRIGUE.

ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET.

Tuts ErESING, at 8. THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S
MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque
Extravaganza, THE VERY GI:AND MiTCH—S

CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 3
Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and S all the year round.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS
Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at S. Is. Box-office
open from 11 to 4.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex-
cept Sundays). Admission, is.; on Mondays, 6d.; Children
under twelve, 6d.

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LONDON, SA7 URDAY; MARCH 20, 1869.

Jocularity appears to be the Order of the Day in

regard to the tone of discussion, among the principal
speakers at least, in the debate on the Irish Church
Bill in the House of Commons. Mr. BRIGHT, at any
rate, has so far followed suit in the wake of Mr. Dis-
RAELI that his speech is plentifully interspersed with

parenthetical indications of the laughter it provoked.
Again, too, Mr. BRIGHT, according to his odd wont, is
Scriptural in his facatiousness. Just as he likened his
now colleague's isolation upon the subject of Reform
—Mr. LOWE'S isolation that is—to a retirement
into a sort of a Political Cave of Adullam, he has
the questionable temerity-, now, to compare the
declaration made a year or two ago at a public
dinner, by the noble lord the member for King's
Lynn, to the mysterious handwriting upon the
palace wall at Babylon, the awful inscription which
it required the prophet of GOD to interpret at the
Feast of BELSHAZZAR. Otherwise than in this one
instance, however, the drollery in which Mr. BRIGIIT
repeatedly indulged during the course of his singu-
larly varied and effective speech of last evening was
in the best taste imaginable. And what is more—
often as he was humorous, he was far more
frequently earnest and even impassioned in his ad-
vocacy of the great measure, in the preparation of
which he himself doubtless participated more largely
than any of his colleagues, always excepting, of
course, the First Minister of the Crown, himself,
whose individual work, of course, the Bill mainly is.
Speaking of the growth of the measure under the
deliberations of the Cabinet of which he is a member,
the President of the Board of Trade remarked imme-
diately before the close of.hwrishaedndlrelsosotko
atht ethHisougrseeoaft
" I can assure the House
measure
—nsalnasdt,,,evseanidingh,e,

4,have looked at it much more than the majority
of members, because I have seen it grow from line to

line, and from clause to clause, and have watched its
growth and completion with a great and increas-
ing interest—l say when 1 look at this mea-
sure, I look at it as tending to a more true
and solid union between Ireland and Great Bri-
tain." Here it was that occurred one of the most
telling points—one, it should be said, entirely, in fact
quite obviously, unpremeditated, when he added, "I
see it giving tranquillity to our people"—
whereupon
the
there arose a laugh from Opposition, answere
by loud cheering from the Ministerialist —Mr. BRIGIIT,
pausing for an instant, and fixing a stern look upon
the occupants of the benches from which the laughter
had come, said, under bis voice, but with all the em-
phasis of severity—" When you have a better remedy,
I at least will fairly consideriit." A remark followed,
as a matter of course on the Government side of the
House, by loud cheering. Then came the two clos-