The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-22 00:00:00

Commence at 8.

OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
AL a) GARDEN—under the Management f Miss LOUISA
PYNE and Mr, W. HARRISON, Sole Lesseoes.
THIS EVENING, THE NIGHT DANCERS. Messrs
IL Haigh, H. Corti, G. Kelly, Distin, and Lyall ; Madame
Palmieri, Miss Albertazzi, Miss Lefllzr, Miss Thirlwall, and
Miss Huddart.
And a Ballet of Action Ambuscade.
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon.
Doors open at Seven. Commence at Half-past.

,THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Baekstone.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
THE BABES IN THE WOOD.
After which, THE LION SLATER.
Aud THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leolereqa.
Commence at 7.

OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Il,Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, an adaptation of Victor Hugo's cele-
brated Play of RUY BLAS, by Edmund Falconer, Esq. 1
when Mr. Pechter, the favourite actor of Parisian renown,
will make his 23d appearance on the English stage, supported
by Messrs. W. Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond,
Morland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ; Miss Rose
ecleroq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath.
To be preceded by SUSAN SMITH.
To conclude with THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS

THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM.
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
THE YOUNG WIDOW. Mr. H. Neville, Mr. J. Rouse,
Miss Hudspeth, and Miss Rose Howard.
Followed by the new drama, entitled ADRIENNE ; or
THE SECRET OF A LIFE. Principal characters by Mr.
Henry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Villiers,
Mr. G. Vining, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell„ Mr. Clifford,
Mr. J. Johnstone ; Mrs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste.
After which, THE PE FS OF THE PARTERRE.
Fcenfc Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Calloott.
The Music by Mr. George Loder. Principal characters by Mr
H. Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. J. Morris, Miss M. Ternan,
Miss Neville, MissHudspeth, Miss Stuart, Miss Turner,'Miss
Douglas, Miss Annie Collinson, and Miss Lydia Thompson.
Commence at 7.

DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
- Bole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster.
Engagement for a limited number of nights of Mies Agnes
Robertson and Mr. Dion Boucloault, who will appear
every evening in the highly successful Drama of The
Colleen Bawn."

THIS EVENING, THE RIFLE BRIGADE. Messrs. W.
Smith, D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss V? oolgar, Miss Kate Kelly,
and Mrs. Billington.
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After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boncicault, D.
risher, Millington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Mr. David
Fisher.
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,'Xl.
Orchestra Stalls, 55. ; Balcony, ; Front Circle Stalls, :5 •
Pit Stalls, 25.; Is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ;6d..
Acting Manager—Mr, Win. Smith;

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Was. BATTY.
Triumphant success and increasing popularity of the Grand
Spectacle of Roims HOOD.
Last Six Nights.
This Evening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three
Acts, by 113. Fitzball, Esq., entitled ROBIN HOOD ; or. the
Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; Introducing the Stud of hihly-
trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag Hounds, &c, Ailan-
a-Dale, Kiss Rebecca Isaacs ; Robin Mood, 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 unegnalled performers, &c., including
the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest
Wonder of the age.

Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.
3oz-office open daily from 11 till 4
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.
EVERY EVENDTG,
A Grand Selection from the opera of
NORMA.

Norma Miss RUSSELL.
Adalgisa .................... Madame MARIA,
(Her first appearance in this country.)
After which (for this week only) the ETHIOPIANS, consist-
ing of Seventeen Performers of Vocal and Instrumental
Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro Delineations,
Anecdotes, &c. Principal Negro Artistes, Messrs. Joe
Brown, G. W. Pell, H. Drummond, and Charley F•x.
Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGHMANS.

In lieu of any of which disastrous results, have we '
not seen commerce and agriculture increasing and
improving more rapidly than even the most san-
guine advocates of the substitution of Free Trade
for Monopoly ever ventured to predict ? Remem-
bering all which, who can marvel that the President
of the Board of Trade—or let us rather call him at
once the President of the Board of Free-Trade—en-
forces that inference already insisted upon so strongly
by Mr. BRIGHT only the evening before at Wake-
field, that as in regard to the abolition of the Corn
Laws in 1846, so now in regard to the Commercial
Treaty negotiated by Mr. COBDEN in 1860 between
France and England ! Mr. GIBSON observes, in
fact, point blank to his constituents at Ashton-
under-Lyne, that he had observed a sensible remark
made by Mr. BRIGHT at Wakefield—" that it was
a strange thing that 30,000,000 of people in Eng-
land and 36,000,000 of people in France, separated
only by a narrow sea, could not just as well
have as extensive a trade with each other
as with people separated by the Atlantic !" The
reasonableness of this simple reflection tends
most materially to the enhancement of the satis-
faction with which Mr. GIBSON has watched, as
President of the Board of Trade, the slow but
steady, and at last the completely successful nego-
tion by (we had almost said his colleague) Mr.
COBDEN, of this new treaty between France and
England. May his predictions, too, in regard to
that treaty, like those of his brother Free Traders
of Rochdale and Birmingham, be even partially
fulfilled—it is our earnest aspiration.

ISpeaking next of the income tax, speaking of
it, remember, as a Cabinet Minister, Mr. GIBSON
can find nothing better to say about it, in reference
to its continuance, and to its continuance, too, at
the high rate of 10d. in the pound, in the very year
(1860) in which it was to " cease and determine," and
by the very financier who had seven years back elabo-
rately pre-arranged that it should thus in 1860
" cease and determine"—Mr. GIBSON as a Minis-
terial colleague of Mr. GLADSTONE could find
nothing better to say about this ever odious and
detestable Income-tax, than that, after all, It does
not now bear a larger proportion than in past times
to the current war expenditure ! As if that one
astounding reflection were in this matter of the
Income-tax an anodyne for all the pangs in-
flicted by it ! Nay, so perfectly satisfied is Mr.
GIBSON apparently that this thought can but prove
such an anodyne if only it could be sufficiently well
realised by the Income-tax-payers, that he goes on
in his speech of last evening to explain to these
extremely obtuse-minded people—that really he
finds, up.on a careful examination of the subject,
that we do not pay as much of the war expendi-
ture out of the Income-tax as we used to do ! ," Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S Income-tax," he says, " paid 36 per
cent. of the war expenditure," whereas now-0 !
wonderful consolation !—now, with a war expen-
diture of £30,000,000 in a year of peace !—" the
Income-tax at 10d. in the pound pays no more than
32 per cent." In other words, JOHN BULL is
solemnly assured by Mr. GIBSON in reference to
this particular torture of the Income-tax—like the
"Boot" of the Inquisition—this expanding and
contracting Boot of the Income-tax, that about a
score of years ago poor, innocent JOHN " put his
foot in" at the earnest recommendation of his Finan-
cial Physician—JOHN BULL is now gravely
assured by Mr. GIBSON that this dreadful boot of
the Income-tax don't pinch in the least, even
though at the very moment when he is so assured
it is screwed up excruciatingly to the mark of 10d.
in the £l, and when the unhappy victim is standing
under the unusual weight (upon:his mind as well as
upon his shoulders) of £30,000,000 by way of war
expenditure in a year (nominally) of European
tranquillity. Mr. GIBSON'S one only reason for
indulging in this amiable, but rather feeble conso-
lation—being the fact merely that formerly the
screw relaxed just a twist or two in the worm of
it, when JOHN was a trifle less heavily weighted in
the shape of a war expenditure ! The fact
is, in truth, becoming more and more
painfully felt and realised by the indus-
trial masses in this country, that of all the
odious taxes in this land of taxes the Income Tax
is the most intolerable and unendurable—particu-
larly when inflicted upon the country according to
the present cruel, unjust, and grinding mode of
assessment. In regard to the inequalities of which
most unequal mode of assessment Mr. GIBSON has
not one syllable to say, even in the way of an
attempt at apology or extenuation. It is a remin-
der to us of what is in truth one of the most
flagrant shortcomings of the Manchester School of
Politicians. As thick-and-thin advocates of the
obdurate continuance of the Income Tax as at pre-
sent assessed, Mr. GasoN and his friends of the
Manchester School are laying up for themselves
securely, in the hearts of very many of their
Liberal constituents, it may be a tardy, but it will
certainly also (should this insensate course of theirs
be persisted in) an inevitable and a sweeping reta-
liation.

The rumour which kept us, and perhaps our
evening contemporaries on the qui Sive yesterday
till the very moment of going to press, turns out,
as we fully expected it would, a hoax—we
wonder whether another rumour, generated from
a source which has often proved true, will also
prove a hoax. A very short time sufficed to prove
that we were not to be honoured by a visit from an
incognito Emperor following his fair Empress, and
bringing most pacific prospects, and a sudden rise in
the funds, with him. It will take much longer to
assure us of the reasons for which a French jour-
nalist is permitted to send forth from the well-
known press of DENTU a pamphlet to prove that
Louis NAPOLEON ought to be Pope as well as
Emperor of the French. Were a parallel brochure
to appear in England it would hardly attract notice
enough to sell an edition ; but, of course, they do
things differently in France; and in a country
where the purse and liberty of every writer,
printer, and publisher are at the mercy of
M. BILLAULT, everything that issues from the
press will be thought to have its significance. It
is " inspired," or " suggested," or " permitted"—
and then come the inquiries into the reasons for
the various degrees of Imperial inspiration ; all of
which suppositions and ratiocinations, ridiculous
as they would be on such occasions here; are really
Perfectly rational respecting what is published on
the other side of the water.
Possibly Louis NAPOLEON knew nothing what-
ever about the pamphlet referred to, till it was
emerging into; lwigehte.anflfuests, quite as possibly, he knew
all about it
that he did. Our readers wmeaythliinkke
to it
see
eotsht
the style
of the French pamphleteer's argument before we
add a few more remarks on it. Here are his con-
clusions, which, it will not be denied, are lucid
enough :

" Victoria of England is Quon and pope
(Reine et
Popesse).
" The King of Prussia is King and Pope.
" The Protestant Sovereigns of the Germanic Confedera-
tion exercise at the same time political and religious power.
" In Sweden, Denmark, and Norway the Kings are

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Popes.
" Alexander 11., Emperor of Russia, is Czar and Pontitt.
" Otho of Bavaria is King and Pope at Athens.
" The Sultan of the Turks is Emperor and Pope.
" And we must add that in nearly all these States, espe.