The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-22 00:00:00

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.

Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
THIS EVENING,

(69th Night !) Shakspere's Tragedy of RICHARD THE THIRD,
with Equestrian Illustrations by Mr. W. Cooke's stud of trained
horses. Richard, Mr. James Holloway.
After which,
The SCENE% in the CIRCLE.
To conclude with a Pot Pourri of Amusing Entertainments.

Commence at Seven. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage
Manager, Mr, W . West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke. inn.

RIGA WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS Dior—Morn. 24, min. aft. 8 —Evening 12 min. aft. 9
T,I-ritOßEOw—lforn. 56 min. aft. 9—Evening 36 Tam, an, 10

THE WEATHER—SurN OFFICE, OCTOBER 22.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAM
63—highest sines noon yesterday.
i 0 —lowest this morning and during the night.
62 —this day at noon.
BAROMETEB, 30.44.
WIND—S. to S.S.E.—Light, with very fine weather.

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lANDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1856,

It is now many years since Sir ROBERT PEEL
announced that " the battle of the Constitution
was to be fought at the registries." The slave-
owners of the Southern States of America appear
to have profited by the aphorism. Their efforts
at Kansas have been mainly directed to
the falsification of the lists of voters, and, by the
most unconstitutional and illegal proceedings, to
return quasi representatives, totally opposed to
the wishes and feelings of the legitimate voters.
And yet the miscreants who took part in such
atrocious proceedings, who had the audacity to rob,
maltreat, and too frequently murder, those who
dared to resist the enrolment of their fictitious
suffrages, or to exercise their own irresistible
rights, were pleased to style themselves the
friends of law and order !

A letter addressed by Mr. THOMAS GLADSTONE,
of Stockwell Lodge, Surrey, to a morning contem-
porary, which we have extracted into another
part of this day's impression, so clearly and graphi-
cally details the nature of the proceedings that
have taken place, that wa cannot hesitate to repose
implicit credence in the narrative. Mr. GLAD-
STONE has not sheltered himself under any dis-
guise. He has boldly hnd manfully come for-
ward, giving name and address, so that any
person desiring to test his respectability and
credibility may have ample opportunities for so
doing. It requires a. high degree of moral courage
for any gentleman to submit to the slanderous
imputations that may be hurled against his devoted
head by the planters and their unscrupulous ad-
herents. Yet Mr. GLADSTONE has not shrunk
from the responsibility. In the cause of truth
and justice he has voluntarily exposed himself to
all the personal annoyance and inconvenience
that may result from the publication of his testi-
mony, and the unflinching exposure of the nefa-
rious transactions in which the " border ruffians"
were implicated. This is a great test of veracity,
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Code, in which are found enactments such as never
had been paralleled in any country pretending to
civilisation—must remove every doubt from the
minds of the most sceptical.

What, then, do we hear from this trustworthy
witness respecting the mode in which the so-called