The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-21 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

AngLPHT, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Ben). Webster.
Eliza zement for a limited number of nights of Miss Agnes
Rol>ertson and Mr. Dion Boneicault, who will appear
every evening in the highly successful Drama of "The
Colleen Bawn."

THTS EVENING, THE RIFLE BRIGADE. Messrs. W.
Smith. D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss Woolgar, Miss Kate Kelly,
and Mrs. Billington.

After whir h, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boneicanit, D.
Fisher. Bill ington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith. Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Clhat'rerley.
To conr;lade with MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Mr. David
Tighe r.
Doors open at half-past s—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 25. ; Family Boxes,' 1.
Orohr estra Stalls, ss. • Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, h. •
Pit Stalls, 24.; ; Amphitheatre, Is ;Gallery, 6d.
Acting manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

A S.,TL-EY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
.. 71.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY.
Triumphant success and increasing popularity of the Grand
Spectacle of Ronrc Hoot..
Last Six Nights.
This Evening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three
.Acts, by NI. Fitzball, Esq., entitled ROBIN HOOD ; or. the
Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducing the Stud of highly-
trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag Hounds, A.lan-
a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit-
chard.

To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by
the celebrated Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome
and their Troupe of unequalled performers, &c., including
the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest
Wonder of the age.
Doors open at half-Fast t 3, performance commence at 7.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4
Staze Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.

CA NTERB UR Y HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING,
A Grand Selection from the opera of
NORMA.

Norma Miss RUSSELL.
Adaldea .................... Madame MARIA,
(Her first appearance in this country.)
XI ter which the ETHIOPIANS, consisting of Seventeen Par-
formrcs, organised expressly for this establishment, for the
Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and
Sentimental, with Negro Delineations, Anecdotes, &c. Prin-
cipal Negro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H.
Drummond, and Charley Fox.
Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGHMANS.

Balcony, I e 'fall, ed.

THE WEATHER.-53in4 OFFICE, Nov. 21, 1860.

THERMOICETEN, IN THE SHADE.
e 46 —highest since soon yesterday.
35—lowest this morning and during the night.
41—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.78 ; falling.
WIND--Southerly to West; light, with dull weather,
inclining to rain.
ONE O'CLOCK.—Rain has begun.

WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Thin !)AY.—Morning, 7h. 44m.—Afternoon, Bh. 19m.
ru -monnow.-Morning, Bh. 54m.—Afternoon, 9h. 27m.

T E SUN.

'N'J( N, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 21, iseo.

;sl.r. BRIGHT has now been so long silent that
Ws reappearance upon that broad political rostrum
of England, the public platform, will be hailed, we
are quite sure, upon all sides and by all parties with
unalloyed satisfaction. Occupying as he does the
foremost place among our few great living Orators
—a place of absolute pre-eminence as the boldest
and most outspoken among the still fewer great
living Tribunes of the People—his opinions, how-
ever.much we are any of us constrained at times to
differ from them, never fall upon inattentive ears ;
they always command attention (even when we dis-
sent from them utterly and entirely) as the opinions
of a keen-witted, liberal-minded, silver-tongued, and
—contradictory though the phrases may seem when
looked at—upright, downright Englishman.
With a great deal of COBBETT'S arrogance in
the enunciation of his views, Mr. BRIGHT has all
COBBETT'S racy command of our good Saxon
English vernacular in the mere manner of their
articulation. To this, however, he adds an elo-
quence entirely his own, an eloquence that
Old Gridiron never pretended to, an eloquence
that he certainly would only have made himself
ridiculous by even aiming at. But through all
those rhetorical graces for which Mr. BRIGHT'S
rare gift of oratory is remarkable, there runs at all
times a lucidity, really only comparable to that
which is the paramount and would be, but for Mr.
BRIGHT, the wholly matchless charm of both the
written and spoken style of the author of the
" History of the Protestant Reformation." As
with COBBETT so is it with BRIGHT in regard to
this characteristic of lucidity. However much
we may and do differ at moments from the
eemolusions arrived at by both one and the
other, we can never be under any misappre-
hension
as to what they either of them mean ;
nor, for that matter, can we be without an
instant and enduring admiration for the way in
which that meaning of theirs is expressed. Always
remembering, always acknowledging that, in Mr.
BRIGHT'S instance, our admiration is paid not only
as in COBBBTT'S to the bold, manly reasoner, one
who (rare gift even in these days) can call a spade
a spade, but above all, and in a very particular
manner, to- one of those Arch-Tribunes of the
with the rarest powers of
People who combines
oratory an unflinching and conscientious devotion
at all hours, and under all
circumstances, to the
great principles of his political creed.
BRIGHT has often before now dishonoured him-
self, dishonoured his tongue of eloquence, dis_
honoured
his otherwise frank and mas.
imputing the paltriest and
culine reputation by
even the basest motives to public journalists, who,
like ourselves, have hhd the hardihood to give ex-
pression as ultra-Liberals to sentiments or opinions
in any way in opposition to his own. From that
miserablest retaliation of all, the lu quoque, we have
always, throughout these differences, shrunk : not
only from an instinctive repugnance to a course in
itself sufficiently abhorrent to us, but because even
supposing that instinctive repugnance of ours could
by any possibility have been non-existent, it would
have been as entirely ridiculous to have ever directed
in retort any wretched insinuations of this kind
against Mr. BRIGHT, as we believe it must long
since have been in the estimation of every mind but
Mr. BRIGHT'S, to have directed those obsolete jibes
and
_scurrilities against the guardians and con- I

servitors of that Palladium of our English Liberties,
the Press, against the responsible members of the
band of English journalists. As one of that band we
must yet continue to reserve to ourselves in Mr,
BRIGHT'S regard, as in that of every other public
man, no matter of what class or of what party, the
privilege, whenever our conscience or our judgment
so dictate, of avowing opinions wholly in
opposition to those advanced by Mr. BRIGHT
himself or by any one of Mr. BRIGHT'S
contemporaries. Our principles upon so
many important matters connected with the
national polity being in a great measure absolutely
identical with those advocated with such distin-
guished eloquence and consummate ability by Mr.
BRIGHT, it is always with the more regret for that
very reason that we ever find ourselves compelled
to differ from him--as we have differed from him
again and again before now, and as we doubtless
may have to differ from him yet not unfrequently.
Dissent from his views we certainly shall (how-
ever reluctantly) under the like contingencies, as
we hold ourselves at perfect liberty under the same
contingencies to dissent from the views of any one
in the wide world. And we must certainly con-
tinue to do so none the less frankly in Mr. BRIGHT'S
regard, because while so doing we may be liable
again, forsooth, to become the target for those
poisoned but pointless and barbless scurrilities
which he has shown himself only too ready before
now to direct (most unbecomingly and ungratefully
on his own part) against that buckler of our na-
tional liberties, the iEgis of English journalism.
The comprehensive address delivered by Mr.
BRIGHT last evening in the Corn Exchange Build-
ings, at Wakefield, will be read now far and wide
throughout England with the liveliest pleasure by
all ranks and classes of Englishmen. It is expres-
sive of views in every way worthy of the represen-
tative of the Liberal constituency of Birmingham,
and virtually of a far larger Liberal constituency
than the constituency of Birmingham. The hon.
member takes a clear, bold, bright-eyed survey of
the political situation. As a good-humoured pre-
liminary to doing so, however, what possibly could
be more thoroughly delightful than the momentary
glance he took (by the way) at a description of
public meeting entirely different from the one which
he himself was then addressing in Wakefield—
those meetings which he described as all having
the same rule, all going generically under the
name of " Agricultural Meetings ?" At those
particularly pastoral and bucolic gatherings,
Mr. BRIGHT observed, "he fouud that nearly
every speaker, after just glancing at tur-
nips or some other agricultural matter, shot
off at once into political disquisitions ; and that
if he were a Conservative, he generally praised
Lord PALMERSTON, and attacked Mr. GLADSTONE,
or so humble an individual as Mr. BRIGHT." And
then followed this deliciously humorous silhouette
of the country gentleman proper, as depicted in
the keenest outline by the Member for Birming-
ham. " The country gentlemen of the North," said
Mr. BRIGHT, " were rather an odd class of men,
and if there could be a photograph of one of those
gentlemen, showing not only his outward and
physical body, but his mental lineaments, there
could be no doubt it would represent a man with a
robust constitution, and of very confused
notions." It is the very ideal of the country gentle-
man sketched out to aT. No wonder the " laugh-
ing audience" at Wakefield roared their apprecia-
tion. Disavowing any intention whatever of fol-
lowing in the footsteps of these same ponderous
country gentlemen, Mr. BRIGHT further prefaced
his survey of the political situation by yet more
distinctly announcing his intention not to touch in
any way upon mere party politics in the remarks
that might afterwards fall from his lips. A wider
and ampler survey in truth was the one taken
yesterday by the great Tribune, who stands in
fact intermediately,between all parties—apart from
any party whatever—and therefore all the more
capable of taking a strictly impartial view of the
actual position of things around him from the
elevation of his individual independence. Having
referred to the wider and wider diffusion of a more
correct knowledge of the science of political econo-
my which has marked the interval between the
present time and the final abolition of the Corn
Laws in 1845, Mr. BRIGHT uttered an opinion in
reference to the Commercial Treaty recently con-
eluded at Paris between France and England, an
opinion that falling from his lips in word so mea-
sured and emphatic, is entitled, in this country
especially, to the most respectful consideration.
He expressed his belief, the telegram already in-
forms us, "that those who lived as many years
hence as had elapsed since the repeal of the Corn-
laws would have the same opinion of the advantage
of the step which has just been taken with regard
to France, wlich was now held as to the step
taken in 1846 in regard to the Corn-laws."
We shall see—time will show—let us only
(now that the Treaty is actually signed and
completed) wait patiently—trusting in the mean-
time that all these confident and most encourag-
ing predictions may be realised to the full—pre-
dictions falling from great masters of the science
of political economy, such as the two great apostles
of Free-trade, Mr. COBDEN, the negotiator of the
Treaty, and Mr. BRIGHT, its original suggestor
As for the rest of the important subjects touched
upon by the hon. member for Birmingham last
night down at Wakefield, we must now content
ourselves with referring to the report of Mr.
BRIGHT'S last speech, given elsewhere in our im-
pression of this evening, a speech in every parti-
cular worthy of this eminent and liberal English-
man.

GARIBALDI has withdrawn to Caprera, but the
spirit he has breathed into Southern Italy cannot
be withdrawn. It has made the want of his pre-
sence felt already, and it is to be feared the want of
it will be felt more and more. The KING and
GARIBALDI in the South were as naturally asso.
ciated in men's minds as the KING and Count
CATOUR in the North, and the departure from the
GARIBALDI policy has already begun to tell un-
favourably on the population. The KING has him-
self had audible illustration of the popular attach-
ment to the General since-the latter departed, and
in a manner which seemed hardly complimentary
to Royalty. We read also of insurrections in the
Abruzzi, which certainly cannot be against
GARIBALDI and his followers, for the moun-
taineers of that district cordially welcomed the
Liberator : we suspect that they consist chiefly of
those
who preferred the Dictator and his volun-
teers to the KING and his regular army, and who
hoped for legislation specially adapted to their
wants and Wishes.
Even the middle classes of
Naples appear to feel annoyed that the Castle of
St. Elmo, the badge of their subjection to despo-
tism, the Bastile of Naples, should be retained and
armed afresh. Moreover, as if the retention of the
Castle, whose demolition GARIBALDI had decreed,
were not enough, the National Guard were walked
out of it, and the Piedmontese regulars walked in,
by a trick, which produced the unpleasant impres-
sion that the Be Galantuomo had "done them."
But, apart from all the lesser nnpleasantnesses, it
may be reasonably doubted whether the KING and,
the Count have pursued the wisest poTley in wil

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