The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-02 00:00:00

LA TRXVJATA.

Vic'tette, Mdlle. Piccolomini; Alfredo, Signer Calzolari ;
Barone Daupbol, Signor Vairo; Dottore Greuvil, Signor
Baillou ; and Germont Giorgio, Signor E-ncventano.
Between the acts of the Opera, Grand Pas de Dent, by
latrine (her last appearance) and M. Vandris, accom-
panied by the Corps de Ballet.
After the Opera the National Anthem, the solo parts by
Mdlle. Piccolomini, Mdlle. Finoli, Signor Calzolari, Signor
Belletti, and Signor Beneventano, supported by the whole
strength of the Company.
To conclude with the ("Land Ballet,
LE CORSAIRT.
Medora, Madame Rosati ; Conrad, Signor Ronzani.
The Opera will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock.
Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at
the Box.otlica of the Theatre, Colonnade. Haymarket.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYHARKET.
tTader the Management of Mr. Bucketons.

TTII4 EVENING,
A COUICAL COUNTE3S.
After which
SECOND LOVE.

Followed by
THE CAPTIVES•

After which
TUE MEETS AND WRONO3 OF WOMAN.

To conzlade with

THE SPANISH SERJEANT.

ROYAL THEATRE ADELPHI.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster•
Directress, Madame Celeste.
Tlll3 EVENING,
PAUL PRY.

Followed by
OIT li GAL.

To conclude with
BORN TO GOOD LUCK.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of "Ir. CIIABLE3 KEAN.
THIS EPENING,
MUSIC HUH CHARMS.

After which,
THE WINTER'3 TALE.

STRAND THEATRE.

Manager, Mr. T. Payne.
VHS EVENING,
TERT HOUSE IN HIGI STREET,

Stipporied by Messrs. g‘uart, G. Cooke, Kinlm..h, and Basil Potter
Mrs. Wollidge, and Miss I. Adams.
Buckstone's Farce of
23, JOAN-4TREE ADELPELI.
Tomkins, Mr. Van Buren.

And the successful Tturlesque on
LA SONNA. vIBULN.

EITIno, Ml 3. T4lrlvrall ; Allegita. Mini miners; Amiaa, Mr. W.
Shalders.
Commence At half-past 7.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, .fr. Al&ed Wigan.

THIS EVENING

DELICATE GROUND.

After whica.
MEDEA.

To conclude with
A CONJUGAL LIISSON.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMP lIIT II EAT RE.

Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
TILTS EVENING,
The grand military spectacle, THE BATTLE OF THE ALMA.
Extraordinary scene of excitement. The Guards Inv tad, and b.:-
holding their comrades fighting over again the memorable Battle.
After which,
The EQUESTRISN SCENES in the CIRCLE. Mr. W. Cooke's
highly-trained and docile horses, Svc., with a variety of other enter-
tainments.

Holt-wilco open from E'even till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Equestrian Director. Mr. W. Cooke, jun.

RIGS WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY—Morn. 55 min. aft. 2—Evening 13 min. aft. 3
To-Moßnow-31orn. 30 min. aft. 3—Evening 47 min. aft. 3

THE WEATHER—Iux OPTIC!, AUGUST 2.
TH►CRMOMRTER, IN TFIR SHADE.
80 —highest since noon yesterday.
67 —lowest this morning and during the night.
81—this day at noon.
8A.8.0M eras-30.18.
WIND, Southerly.—Light, with broiling weather.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1856,

Lord PALMERSTON receives with complacent
self-satisfaction the conventional compliments be-
stowed by the Chairman at the Fishmongers'
Banquet. He seems to accept them as a right—

to think that they have been fully and completely
merited, and that they are in no degree ascribable
to the ordinary courtesy that induces every host
to speak in the most flattering terms of those who
are at the moment enjoying his hospitality. It
may seem harsh to shock the amour propre of
which the Noble Viscount possesses so abundant
a stock—to dispel the illusion so pleasing to the
" First Lord of the Jokery." Bat although to a
certain extent a painful, it becomes an imperative,
duty to tell some homely truths, so as to convince
the Noble Lord that the time for indulgence is
rapidly slipping away, and that if he hopes
to retain the important situation he now
occupies ho must do something more than
he has hitherto accomplished. A neat and
well-timed address will not always satisfy even
the most easy-going House of Commons, and the
people will certainly require not merely "sayings,"
butareasonable proportion of "doings;" and what-
ever the Premier may affect to think, the unsatis-
factory and inglorious termination of the Var, the
shortcomings of the past session, and the un-
bounded toadying of Germanism, have occasioned
very painful impressions on the public mind, which
can only be eradicated by a very different course
next session, when the opportunity for decided
action shall again arise.
Lord PALMERSTON alluded with much felicity
to the proceedings at the Banquet being so much
more agreeable than those in which he had
recently been engaged :7 the House of Commons.
He might have added that They were to all in-
tents and purposes fully as useful to the country.
The Government might take a useful hint from
the members of the liberal and wealthy guild by
whom they were regaled, and learn to provide a
better class of entertainment when they again
undertake to dispense the national hospitality to
the hereditary and representative branches of the
Legislature. The magnificent Banquet provided
by the Fishmongers' Company afforded a striking
contrast to the refreshment allowed to both
Houses at the Naval Review. The profuse libe-
rarity of the company merited the great success
"which it achieved ; while, on the other hand, the
parsimony of the Government, while it insured
" cheapness," the only point apparently aimed
at, made it almost certain that there would be a
more than proportional amount of " nastiness."
It is therefore scarcely surprising that the natural
results should have followed in each case.

The Noble Lord spoke of the task that had
fallen on the Government during the late War, as
"a perfectly easy one !" If that were indeed the,
case it is to be regretted that it was not bettet•
performed, and that such terrible disasters as
occurred in the Crimea, and which occasioned such
an awful destruction of human life, bad not been
averted. It may be said that the Noble Viscount;
could not be held responsible for the blunders„
and more than blunders, of the Abardeanites
during the first year of the War. But during:
that time he occupied an influential and impor—
tant position in the Cabinet, and might stimulate,
his colleagues to the more efficient discharge of.
their easy tasks.

Bat allowing, for the sake of argument, the
Aberdeenite failures to sink into oblivion, awl re-
garding Lord PALMERSTON as only responsible froni
the time whenhe assumed the chief seat in the Cabi• •
net, what can be said to the abortive negotiations
at Vienna, and the Precious Peace subsequently