The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-21 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

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

THIS EVENING the nerformanoes will oommenae with
A BORDER MARRIAGE. Miss Wyndham, Mr. Robinson,
and Mr. C. Young.
After which, A CHANGE OF SYSTEM.
Followed by a new burlesque, LUC REZIA BORGIA AT
HOME AND ALL ABROAD. Mesdames Wyndham, E.
Scott, Cecilia Ranoe, Miss Clara Morgan, and the Corps de
Ballet.
To conclude with ' No. 49."

Reduced Prices—Gallery, 63 ; Pit, is. The Box-offioe open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform
ance commences at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor, Mr. WM. BATTY.
Sole Manager, Mr. Euvrni HuGnEs.
THIS EVENING, and during the Week,
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To commence with the immensely successful Grand Military
Spectacle, entitled " Tun HISTORY OF A FLAG." New and
splendid scenery, costumes, and appointments, introducing
the stud of beautiful horses, ponies, camels, &c. &c. To be
succeeded by the Scenes in the , ircle, supported by Madles.
3ionet, Marie, and De Berg, and Messrs. 11. Williams, De-
vereux, Fernando, and the Wonder of the World, Jonathan
Jack.

Doors open at half-past 6 o'clock, performance commence
at 7.

Box-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. Wr.sT.

C ANTERBUR Y. HALL
THIS EVENING,
LLICREZIA BORGIA,
(Donizetti).

CONCERTS.-

Donna Luerezia "Miss Russell.
7..‘1ai110 Orsini Mrs. Anderson.
Gennaro Mr. Henry Herbert.
Don Altonzo Signor Tivoli.
Conductor—Mr. Jonghn3 ans.
1-7r.nnic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Ir!sh Come-
anu Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney.
,-veral interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gqll,:•ry. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
heal.;) tied. and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
eigi:is of the metropolis.
gallery is open from 5 iill ll on Sunday Evening.

Tar, WEATIIER.—SrN Orr c; APRIL 21, 1360.

THEEMOMETER, IN TIIE
50—highest since noon yesterday.
33—lowest this morning and daring the night.
47—this day at noon.

BAnomETER-29.78.
WIND, North-Westerly ; light, with fine sunshiny
weather, but very cold.
ArTruxowt.—Slight showers of passing rainy sleet.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1860.

The country will be pleased to see that Lord
JOHN RUSSELL will not lower his flag to either
disguised or open enemies. Neither Mr. WHITE-
SIDE'S threat of a prolonged hostile criticism on the
motion for the second reading, nor Mr. MASSEY'S
notice of motion to refer the bill to a select com-
mittee, have had the least effect on Lord JOHN and
his colleagues. He explained last night very fairly
the reasons why the Government had not pressed
the second reading before Easter. Indeed, they
were obvious Enough. Long debates which the Go-
vernment could not prevent on other subjects, which
they could not even have obstructed without subject-
ing themselves to suspicion, and the unwillingness of
the house, with the holidays before it, to attempt a
discussion, in which so many speakers would like
to have their share, compelled them to postpone the
full debate till after the holidays.

But the Noble Lord emphatically asserted that it
was in Do way the apathy of the Government which
had led to the postponement of the adjourned de-
bate ; on the contrary, the Government intended
to renew the debate on Monday ; and after the
second reading, having allowed a short interval—
the ordinary interval between the second reading
and the committee—to elapse, to go into committee.
His Lordship stated that there was still ample time
for the bill to be fully discussed there in all its de-
tails, and " he hoped there would be sufficient time
before the close of the session for its being fully
discussed in another place." There is a slight tinge
of apprehension in this last remark about that
" other place," at which, indeed, no one can be sur-
prised. It would seem that even Lord JOHN could
only hope for the best about the Lords. What they
would do no one can tell. They are responsible to
no one. They denounce JOHN BRIGHT for setting
class against class, and yet set themselves, se metimes,
against all classes, as represented in the House of
Commons, for 20 years together. It is impossible,
we suppose, therefore, for even the son of a Duke to
calculate what an assembly which does not answer
to the helm of reason, which is ordinarily at the
mercy of a steady breeze of prejudice, but occa-
sionally whirled about also by some shifting gales
of caprice—will do. Let us hope that Earl GREY'S
tactics notwithstanding, the caprice may be this
time, that their Lordships will condescend to let
the people's house of representatives say how the
People wish to be represented.
Mr. NINSSEY'S proposal for a select committee his
lordship treated
as it deserved. He regarded it, as
we did, as a motion designed to destroy the bill. It
was not so "straightforward," but it had the same
real. object, as a motion to go into committee that
day six months would have. In that way the mo-
tion vc•ould be treated by the Government. This is
at least straightforward on the pert of the
Go':errunent, and will raise its position in
tine eves of the public. It had doubtless a diffi-
crtit task in bringing forward its bill. It
held drixen the preceding Government by a factious
a lesndment on its Reform Bill to appeal to the
c o entry ; a bill which ought to have been taken into
inmittee and amended. A House with, nominally,
in; Itch fewer Liberal members than before, was rc-
t aimed under a Conservative Government, and the
orTs-t.t. G,,v,rrrnnt stir-410s .t!e Government
Y in Foie t of f.:cf it 11.•,rounl Bill. It

Can it really be that a Hapsburg has learned
wisdom ? We might expect a Spanish and even a
Neapolitan Bourbon to learn it next. A little time
will show the real significance and the effect of the
changes in the Government of Hungary announced
in yesterday's telegrams ; meantime it may be per-
mitted to " hope for the best." That hope would
not be founded in the least on the temper of either
the Emperor of AUSTRIA or of his Ministers,
but on the permanence of the causes
which have originated the favourable symptoms.
General BENEDEK, a Protestant, and popular in
Hungary, has been installed as her provisional
governor, apparently with powers to restore the
old constitution abolished after the patriotic but
unsuccessful rising of 1848.
Ever since the treaty of Vienna, by every device
of fraud and cunning, perfidy and perjury, the
Austrian Government has been steadfastly labour-
ing to Germanise all her affiliated States. These
States, left to themselves, not only did not dislike,
but for the most part loyally upheld the sove-
reignty of the House of HAPSBURG. They had
their animosities of race with each other, but ge-
nerally, perhaps always, if their national rights and
customs were not interfered with, fought and shed
their blood for their common Sovereign. It was,
however, the unlucky ambition of these rulers to
aspire to a fused and amalgamated empire. They
must not only reign, but reign over one people.
Government must be central:sed and administered
from Vienna. It was not enough that the reigning

HAPsBuuG should La Archduke of his hereditary
States and King of Hungary, but he must be
Emperor of one State, all parts of it governed in
precisely the same way. It must be fenced out
with the trimclippell hedges of German bureau-
cracy, from the Tyrol to Transylvania, from Gal-
licia to Croatia and Dalmatia.

It was the excessive pressure of this Germanising
centralisatior, and the perfidies and infractions of
treaties to which it led, that produced, in reality,
tha Hungarian insurrection of 1848. This at-
tempt to regain their ancient rights resulted in

the EMPEROR'S infamous treachery in employing
the savage JELLACHICPI against his own subjects,
while he denounced him to the same subjects, and this
again was followed by the Hungarians dethroning
their traitorous monarch and proclaiming a repub-

lie. The despot NICHOLAS, trembling for a brother
despot, placed Hungary again at the feet of her
tyrant ; and ever since then the system of entire
subversion of Hungary's ancient constitution,begun
by the murders at Arad, has been relentlessly pur-
sued. All that soldiers, police spies, German offi-
cials, and concordats could do has been done.
Ancient landmarks were effaced, artificial arrange-
ments were made, the country was parcelled out
anew till it hardly knew itself, and the last at-
tempt, which we have heard so much of, was the
"patent," a proposed concession to Protestants, but
really, as the Hungarians regarded it, another at-
tempt to destroy old arrangements under the guise
of liberality.
It now appears that these attempts are likely to
be given up. Bankrupt and beaten, the Germans,
who compose the governing portion of the Austrian
empire, are in no position to resist longer the de-
mand of the non-German nations for the restora-
tion of the;r natural rights, laws, administration,
and customs. Hungary:is either the strength or
the weakness of Austria. A brave and vigorous race,
the Hungarians could enable her to defy her potent
neighbour on the east and on the west. Enjoying

their liberties under a King of HUN GARY, who
might be Emperor of AUSTRIA too, neither Russia
nor France could attack successfully an empire of
which they formed a contented part. If Austria
be but wise enough to see this, she might be stronger
than she has been for half a century at least. If,
in addition, she would take a fair price for the
emancipation of Venetia, whose Italian population
' she can never conciliate ; if she would then
commence a course of conciliation towards
ee
all the races comprised in her dominions, she
omight
r,
w
become a powerful state indeed. This, however,
supposes a wisdom rarely given to Monarchs, a
sacrifice of pride to lemon and generosity which
they can rarely make. Bystander:a perceive how
easy it would be to render the Austrian States
a cordial confederation for their common • de_
fence, under the crown of the EMPEROR;
but, unfortunately, Emperors think it their glory
that their subjects should be obliged to obey
whether they will or not. They deem it a degra-
dation to govern through liberty and love—an
honour to rule by coercion and fear. Well if the
necessities of Austria convert her to a better mind.

It is certainly curious to speculate upon tha re-
sults that will probably flow from one part at least
of the varied series of modifications introduced by
Treaty and by Budget into our commercial relations
with France. The 53. 9d. duty per gallon upon wine
dropping suddenly, promises the convivial, threat-
ens the teetotallers, in England with the delights or
the terrors (accordingly as they view this alteration),
of a vinous inuidation. Beer drinking England
has at length the prospect of slakeing its thirst
henceforth upon the luxurious beverage hitherto
restricted in its consumption on this side of
the Channel to the Upper Ten Thousand.
The sluice-gates from the vats of Bordeaux are
lifted, moreover, upon the very morrow, as it were,
of the inauguration of the system of the public
wayside drinking fountains. The mantle of good
Fathr ATH EW has partially descended upn the
shoulders or Mr, GOCGII. when the whole prospect