The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-03 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE.
eole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Tula EVENING, at 7, THE MAN OF TWO LIVES; Mr. C
To conclude with PUSS IN BOOTS.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Ting EVENING BLUE DEVILS: Messrs. Howo, Rogers
Buckstone, jun., Miss Fanny Wright, &c. Afier which, HOME:
Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, &c.; Mesdames Cavendish, Hill,
&c. Followed by THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH. Mr.
Sothern. Concluding with MAHE YOUR WILLS; Mr Buck
stone. Commence at 7.

PRINCESS S THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manager Mr. Vining.
THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with THE SECRET. At 8,
AFTER DARK: Mr Vining. Mr Walter Lacy, Miss Rose Le-
clercq, &c. And MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY.

THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Tills Evinirsu, at 7, A DAY'S FISHING, Mr. G. Delmore,
Mr. Stephenson, Mrs. L. Murray and Miss Lennox Grey. At l 5
to S. BLACK AND WHITE: Messrs. Fochter, A. Stirling,
R. Phillips. Stuart: Carlotta Leclereq, Miss Ate. Grey, cte,
And WHITEBAIT AT Mt I' • NIVICH : Mr Atkins.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs.Swanborough.
THifi EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel-
ford, Clarke ; Miss Button. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne,
James, Fenton; esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Bufton. To
conclude with HUE AND DYE

GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL.
THIS EVENING, at 7, A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.45, MINNIE,
or, Leonard's Love. And BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS,:
Messrs. Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurlstone, J, Clarke;
and St epesdamehens. Lydia Foote, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Fountain,

ROYALTY T lIF. ATR E.
Under the Menagelr-,nt of Mies M. Oliver.
THIS ETENING, at 7.30, !. LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss
M. Oliver. To he fOll d CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Dewar,
ac. To conclude 'with THE byBOARDING SCHOOL.

PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE.
Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton
THIS EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, 11. J. Montague,
Addison, Glover, and Ballet-oft; Mrs. Nuckingham White. Miss
C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which A WINNING
HAZARD. And INTRIGUE.

ROYAL AMPIITTIIEATIIr AM CIRCUS, lIOLPORN.
Trees EVI7NING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud
of LO Horses; also Onra, Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, cte

ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET.
Tins EVENTNG, at 9, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S
MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque
Extravannza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S

CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 3
Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round.

ROYAL ALIIAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS
Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at 8. le. Box-offici
open from 11 to 4.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Rpgent's-raik, OPEN daily (ex-
cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, Gd, CLildren
under twelTe, 6d.

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LONDON, SAI URDAY, APRIL 3, 1869.

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Opposition. Look-
ing out for a grievance, Mr. BUXTON hits upon this
particular exercise of patronage by the late First
Lord of the Treasury. The member for Surrey
discovers one of the old civil servants of
the Crown, whose merits and long services
he (Mr. BUXTON) conceives to have been altogether
overlooked. He recalls to mind at the same time the
Treasury minute, dated 30th November, 1868, stat-
ing that " promotion by merit is the established rule
in the Civil Service, and to every young man who
becomes the servant of the Crown in the Civil Ser-
vice a way is opened to independence and even
eminence." The member for Surrey is fired with
indignation when he considers that the Senior Officer
at the Mint-office has, in defiance of that Treasury
minute, been passed over by the late Premier, when
the latter assumed the responsibility of filling up the
vacant post of Deputy-Master of that Establishment,
and was passed over —very suspiciously, as Mr. BUXTON
evidently conceives—to the end that Mr. DISRAELI
might nominate to that very post of Deputy-Mister of
the Mint one of his own official Private Secretaries.
Altogether —" not to put too fine a point upon it"—
the member for Surrey had discovered a mare's nest.
And like all mare's nest discoverers he was burning
to startle everybody else by the revelation. Conse-
quently, on the motion last evening for going
into Committee of Supply, Mr. BUXTON rises in
his wrath and his indignation. Mr. DISRAELI
is arraigned, as it were, at the bar of
Public Opinion, for inasmuch as he had thought
proper to overlook the claims of Mr. ROBERT MU-
MET, and had thought proper by preference, in De-
cember last, to nominate to the Deputy-Mastership
of the Mint a " political follower" of his own, in
other words, Mr. FREMANTLE, the out-going Pre-
mier's Private Secretary.
" Mark, now, how plain a tale"—last evening,
in the hearing of the House of Commons—put down
all these insinuated censures and implied suspicions
directed by the member for Surrey against the Leader
of the Opposition. The Political Follower of Mr.
DISRAELI—turns out to be no Follower at all. Re-
ferring to the circumstance that any Minister of the
Crown, being at the same time Leader of the House
of Commons, has the perfectly reasonable pri-
vilege of appointing two private secretaries instead
of one, for the discharge of duties for which two
private secretaries are only adequate provision, the
right hon. gentleman added that, according to rule
in these instances, he had, almost as a matter of
course, resolved from the first upon selecting one of
the two without reference to politics from the office
of which he, as Minister, was the Chief, namely from
the highest of, all the offices, that of her MAJESTY'S
Treasury. " I appointed" ho said, " as one of
my private secretaries, a private friend"—
meaning by that Mr. MONTAGU CORRY— while,
he added, " with respect to the private secre-
tary who was to be selected from I did not make any
immediate appointment." He wished, in fact, as
he at once explained, that the opinion of the Trea-
sury should be consulted on the matter, and the
most competent person selected for the appoint-
ment. Remember, the one who was even-
tually chosen, namely, Mr. FRE3IANTLE, was
said to be Mr. - DISRAELI'S Political Follower.
What said the ex-Premier, last evening, upon
this point—namely, as to the selection of Mr. FRE-
MANTLE ? " Until that gentleman came into my
room as my private secretary I had not the honour
of his acquaintance." And further—" What his
political opinions were I did not then know, and do
not know now." So much for the statement or in-
sinuation, or however we may like to call it, as to
Mr. FREMANTLE being the ex-Premier's Political
Follower. So far from his being anything
of the kind—he had for six years served
as Private Secretary —to whom ? Why, the
Right Honourable Gentleman the member for Cam-
bridgeshire of all men Mr. BRAND ! The late Whig
Whip ! In addition to which circumstance, Mr. FRE-
MANTLE had held a responsible and important office
under the Governments of Earl RUSSELL and of
Viscount PALMERSTON. Very like a Political Fol-
lower of Mr. DISRAELI'S, certainly ! However, to
come to the subsequent nomination of Mr. FRE.
MANTLE to the vacant Deputy-Mastership of the
Mint when, immediately before the close of last
year, the change of Government, by reason of the
overwhelming results of the General Election, be-
came inevitable. The department in which the death
vacancy had occurred, remember, first of all, was in
anything but a satisfactory condition. Isolated in a
great measure from all the other departments of ad-
ministration, it was known to have fallen off, both in
regard to administrative skill and official energy.
"New blood," Mr. DISRAELI was told, ought in
reason to be infused into it—the appointment be-
ing filled up, if possible, ,by some really experienced
Civil Servant of the Crown taken from some great
administrative department if possible by a member of
the Treasury. "Every claire—Mr. DISRELI added
last evening---" was well weighed"—that is, before
the selection was finally made and the appointment
filled up. But—such had been the argument of the
member for Surrey—the claims of the senior
officer at the Mint had been overlooked ! Mr.
BUXTON had better have held his peace. Mr.
MUSIIET--seeing what now has come of it—might
well exclaim, " Save me from my friends !" For, the
result to him is, simply, that, by reason of Mr. BUX-
TON'S insistence upon the fact that his (Mr. MUSnET's)
claims had been overlooked, brought down upon that
unfortunate gentleman's head some good-hamoured
but fleering remarks from Mr. DISRAELI that raised the
laugh against the disappointed official. " The claims
of the gentleman whom the member for Surrey seems
to think had been very much neglected, were, I can
assure him," said the ex-Premier, " duly considered.
They were placed before me by the gentleman
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lle did full justice to his
Ile is a very respect-
able man—a man of sufficient ability to place
his claims in a very telling and efficient
manner before the Government—(a laugh)—and
they were impartially and anxiously considered."
The result being that the best man was selected
eventually for the vacant office of Deputy-Master
of the Mint, in the person of Mr. FREIIkNTLE, ex-
Private Secretary of the late Whipper-in of the
Liberal Party, and therefore, it need hardly be said,
no Political Follower of the Right Hon. Gentleman
the Member for Buckinghamshire.

THE Volunteers will not be likely to forget Easter
Monday 1809. It was bad enough to be exposed to
such a tempest of hail, rain, and wind as would in
itself have rendered the day painfully memorable.
But still worse has befallen our amateur soldiers.
They have been subjected to such pelting, pitiless