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London, England, 1860-08-25 00:00:00

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THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnekstone. •
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Charles Mathews,
Buckstone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. Charles
Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins.
After which, THE CRITIC. Mr. C. Mathews.
And JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
f OTITIS EVENING, will be performed THE LADY OF
THE LYONS. Mr. G. Melville, Miss Heath, &c.
I !After which, CRUEL TO BE KIND. A. Harris, Misses
C. and R Leclercq.
To conclude with THRICE MARRIED

Commence at 7.

A DgLPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webater.

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THIS EVENING, JANET PRIDE. Messrs. B. Webster.
J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stuart, C. Selby; Miss Woolgar and
Miss Laidlaw.
After which, THE FOOL OF THE FAMILY. Mr. Paul
Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Miss Laidlaw, and Miss Julia
Daly.

Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 45. • Front Circle Stalls, $5. •
Pit Stalls, 28.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. We. BATTY.
Immense Success of "Mazeppa."
A Grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on
SATURDAY next, Aug 25, commencing at Two o'clock.
This Evening, Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of
MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely iew
and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments,
introducing the larcmst stud of hiehly-trained Horses, Po-
nies, Buffaloes, and ?amels in the World.
To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders
of the day.
Doors open at half-past 6, performance oonunenoe at 7.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WERT.
Director of the Arena—M. Felix Rcvolti.

CIANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING,
A Grand Selection from
MARTHA,
And Selections from
DINORAH, TROVATORE, MACBETH,
And numerous other Entertainments.
Balcony, ls , Hall. 6d.
Comic Vocalists—Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), and C. Marshall.
The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised
expressly for this Establishment), for the performance of
Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with
Negro delineations, anecdotes, &c., in addition to the usual
entertainments.
The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday
Evening.

TUB WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 25, 160. g
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
63—highest since noon yesterday.
59—lowest this morning and during the night.
65—this day at noon.

Bs.nomaTEß-29.75.
WlND—South-Westerly; rather fresh, with continuous
rain.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 7h. 59m.—Afternoon, Bh. 41m
To-mormow.-Morning, 9h. 27m.—Afternoon, 10h. 12m

LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1860.

The speech of Lord PALMERSTON, in answer to
Mr. KINGLAKE, last night, showed something of
his ancient spirit, and was worthy of his position
as First Minister of the British Crown. Now that
he has shaken off the timorous councillors who
fettered his language at the commencement of the
session, we are able to gather his real opinion
respecting the transfer of Savoy, which he ex-
presses with an uncompromising fearlessness
worthy of the occasion. " The cession of Savoy to
France was a very peculiar transaction," said Lord
PALMERSTON, " and does not come within
the ordinary category of cession of territory
made by one Sovereign to another. It was
not competent for the King of SARDINIA to cede,
nor, as I hold, for France to accept that territory,
thus emancipating it from the conditions under
which it stood as part of the dominions of Sardinia.'
After referring to the position in which Savoy
stood towards Switzerland Lord PALMERSTON said
plainly that France being a much stronger power
and differently situated in many respects, it was
clear that there was much greater danger to Swit-
zerland from that Power than from Sardinia. That
the difference of situation referred to the character
of the Government as well as to the relative
strength and position of the state, is manifest from
the subsequent paragraphs. " The cession," con-
tinued the Premier, " was objectionable not only on
that account, but on account of the manner in which
it was made. All the circumstances connected with
it from first to last, the denials at one time and
avowals at another, the promises made, as reported
by the President of Switzerland in his message of
March, the promises made in January and Feb-
ruary by the French Government to the Minister
of Switzerland, that whenever the cession should
be completed Faucigny and Chablais should be
transferred to Switzerland—a promise afterwards
retracted, and apparently never intended to
be performed; all these circumstances must pro-
duce a most painful impression in the minds
of every man in regard to all the parties who
were concerned in the transaction. It had cer-
tainly produced a painful impression on the minds
of all the other States of Europe—an impression
showing that they considered that, for the future,

forethought and precaution must be the duty of
. every Power." This is language sufficiently ex-
plicit and straightforward, worthy of the lips of an
English Minister. We can only regret that our
statesmen should have suffered themselves to have
been so long deluded by the diplomatic subtleties
and professed magnanimity of other Cabinets.
Why were not Lord PALMERSTON'S perceptions
equally clear, why was not Lord J. RUSSELL'S
"study of the character of that great man" equally
correct when they suffered themselves to be en-
gaged in that Treaty of Commerce, which is already
anathematised in many of our manufacturing dis-
tricts, and condemned by the sound judgment
and deliberate reflection of the general pub-
lic ? Why was not the tone of our Govern-
ment equally fearless and outspoken when they
forced that treaty through the Legislature by
the threat that its non-acceptance would endan-
ger the French alliance. If " forethought and
precaution" had been the duties of the past as well
as the future, England would never have consented
to such an
absurd sacrifice—a sacrifice made with-
out motive and accepted without gratitude—which
will yet lose more to the Government by its un-
popularity in this country, than it will g•ain them
in the friendship of an ally whom already they
distrust. We rejoice, however, to see Lord PAL-
MERSTON assuming so dignified an attitude.
He seems of late to
have abandoned
levity which he once adopted,
the flippancy and
and to Lave rcsimed instead that honourable in-
dependence of tone and manner which no one
can more worth ily bear. Let him preserve this
attitude and thes e sentiments, no longer fettered by
the intricate theories of a crotchety colleague,
or by the pacific. platitudes of a quondam friend.
Let him be true to his own early career, and to the
sympathies of th English people—sure that the
strength of posit Lion acquired by an upright and

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