The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-08 00:00:00

FRENCH PLAYS—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Directeur, M. Talexy.—Lessee, Mr. F. B. Chatterton.

" LA TENTATION."
Positively the last three performances of the new comedy,
LA ;TENTATION, THIS EVENING (Friday), Saturday,
and Monday.
Mdlle. DI.WERGER.— M. BUINDEAU.
Orchestra Stalls, 7s. 6d. ; Balcony Stalls, ss. ; Pit, 2s. ;
Gallery, is,

Private Boxes, from Two Guineas.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—
Proprietor, Mr. WM. BATTY.

THIS EVENING,
The Grand Hippo-Drama, " Tin HISTORY or A FLAG."
Wondrous Scenes in the Cirque, supported by the most
talented Equestrian and Gymnastic Artistes in the World.
Concluding with a Laughable Farce.
The magnificent Chan.ieliers manufactured by Messrs. De-
fries and Sons, Houndsditch.
Doo: s open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.
Boa-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. ITEsT.
Director of the Arena—M. Felix Revolti.

CANTERBURY HALL
THIS EVENING.
C. H. GOUNOD'S OPERA,
FAUST.
First Time in this Country.
Faust Mr. Henry Herbert.
Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard.
Siebel Mrs. Anderson.
Marguerite
Conductor Mr. Jonghmans.
And selections from
Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other
Entertainments.
Balcony, is, Hall. 6d.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come
than and Mimic), and W. T. Critchfleld.
The AFRICAN OPERA T!tOITPE, their first appearance
Since 1852, consisting of ELEVEN STAR PERFORMERS,
who will give the whole of their inimitable entertainment
every evening.
The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

CONCERTS.-

THE ITEATHEIL-StiN JUNE 8, 1860.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1860.

We have all of us probably in our domestic
matters known the case of a decent servant's fancy-
ing that he could better himself, trying then
fortune for a year or two, and afterwards but too
glad to return, if permitted, to the old master—in
the case of a female servant, frequently, to stay
till she had to nurse her master and mistress in
their old age. Whether this result were antici-
pated or not, no prudent master would try to re-
tain a servant who thought he could advantageously
shift for himself. We would strongly advise Mr.
DISRAELI to adopt this rule of common prudence.
If the BBNTINCKS, and CECILS and WHITESIDES
think they are the men to lead the House of Com-
mons, • to beard the: Speaker, to delay business
with endless twaddle, and all in contempt of their
leader's policy, let them try it awhile. Nothing
bnt the dear school of experience will do for a cer-
tain class of persons whom we forbear to designate
more precisely—it might not please them. We are
quite sure, however, that the trial of a session or
two, as Jonathan phrases it, "on their own
hook," would soon teach them the necessity
of begging their old leader to resume his post.
We regret, therefore, that Mr. DISRAELI should
ullow himself to be, as he apparently is, dragged
along by the Tory zealots and the more mindless
but timid ones who follow them. His policy an-
nounced on the bringing in of the Reform Bill was
the only one consistent-with the honour, and, we
believe, even with- the interests of the Opposition.
'Their honour certainly demanded that after having
themselves brought in a Reform Bill—one so near
to the present one that we, and other Liberals,
thought it ought to have been allowed to go into
committee by our own party—they should not
factiously obstruct a bill like the present one.
Their own bill differed from this on two
points chiefly, in regard to both of which,
as was acknowledged by Lord DERBY, the
country was against them ; and which they had
avowed their readiness, if they continued in office,
to concede. We do not see how a great party
making any claims to public confidence could with
decency take any other course than that proposed
by their leader. The general sentiment, every one
will remember, when the. bill was first produced was,
that it was so very like its predecessor, and admitted,
by the addition oI " fancy franchises," of being
made so much more E::^ it, as to preclude all Tory
opposition. fir. DienELl, therefore, in ac-
cordance with this general feeling, announced Ms
intention not to make anv amendment on these-
cond reading ; he even thought, that he might not
attempt any thing serious in committee, but that
he. should throw on its authors the responsibility
of the whole measure. Had his counsel been
followed, his party and the house would have been
spared the degradation of the first six nights ite-
ration of ',common place arguments, and the last
two nights equally useless and obstructive talk.
Hardly, however, had their far-seeing leader an-
limmeed a policy for his party, but one rudely denies
the right of the front benches to bind those behind
them ; and another, era 5• too glad of an opportunity
of pouring forth his Irish oratory, announced that
almost half a hundred spealrers must have their
say, oil a motion, indeed, but one on which no divi-
sion was to be-taken. Not business
but talk, was
the word of command from these subalterns who
.had discarded their chief ; and such talk
'
tebviously, for the mere purpose of obstructine.bu,i

Now it is quite surplusage of party
, loyalty
can consent to say the best for all this, as Mr.
131,4,:Aff1" did last night. He well knows that Iris
followers are damaging ; he should let
them do so. Thry will but too soon rind that h
was right; while, by consenting to give them his

ittss.

countenance, he but prolongs the reign of misrule
with the hazard of sharing in the discredit it

brings on all concerned. His first impressions
were right, not only for the honour, but for the
future prospects of his party. Can they be so

blind as to imagine that opposition to Reform—

come how and when it will—after five announce-
ments from the Throne—after both the great parties

in the House had brought in Reform Bills—and
after they had ascertained so much common ground
for both sides—can they really imagine that the
country will ascribe their conduct to any but the un-
worthiest motives ? It will be said, it is said, that
they were willing enough last year to accept
reform for the sake of keeping in office, but
that this was the only reason ; that they hated
reform while professing to support it, and
that now they have not a sufficient sense of
decency even to preserve:appearances. Again, Mr.
DISRAELI, and we believe Lord DERBY too, clearly
see that to keep the Reform Question unsettled is
to keep a useful card in the hands of their adver-
saries. Once get rid of this subject, in a way which
must last some time at least, and Tories, as in 1832,
accepting the result, would only have to trim their
sails to the change, such as it might he, and devote
themselves to strengthening their position by the
requisite tactics.
If the Tories, and those who are thoroughly with
them in heart, the old Whigs, who only nominally
belong to the Liberals, should succeed in getting
the bill withdrawn for the session, it will be by a
proceeding which will sink their public character
for a long time to come. The QUEEN, the members
of successive ministers, and the House have all
become pledged to reform our representation. A
bill is brought in so very moderate, that
it were hopeless to expect one making less change
in the representation, the real fear being that it
makes so little as to endanger something more
being soon attempted. The leader of the Opposi-
tion sees all this, and wisely bows to necessity ;
and yet, against their own Ministry and against
their own leader respectively, Anti-Reform Whigs
and hot Tories continue to defeat this bill. But
the worst is, they dare not do it like Englishmen.
They accept the principles of the bill without a
division, because they dare not vote against them,
but they interpose a mud bank of useless speechifying
to delay its progress. The time comes when they
are called on to go into committee, and when they
might face boldly its principal clauses—but still
they skulk from the stand-up fight, and talk
again, without stint, on going into committee. We
do not recollect anything more shabby in Parlia-
mentary history. Dunces are now at a premium in
debates, since they can talk if they can do
nothing else—and that is all that is wanted. There
is no real motion to be considered—no business to
be done ; the only thing wanted is to wear away
the time. Privates of all sorts are trotted out to do
their part—speakers whose speeches it is useless to
report because no one would read them ;—it is, in
fact, the battle between Duncedom and Reform.
Now, how long is this to go on ? We trust
Lord PALMERSTON'S coming out so ably last night
is an intimation that he does not mean to be beaten.
Both he and Lord J. RUSSELL spoke admirably to
the main point, and we do not think they can afford
to yield. In a straightforward conflict with the Op-
position, under the only general qualified to lead it,
they might have been vanquished even without
loss of reputation ; but to be run down by a crowd
who have just run away with theio own leader,
will be a disgrace not easily to be retrieved.

Was it not SIDNEY SMITH who wickedly 'main-
tained that it required a surgical operation to get
a joke into the heat of a Scotchman ? And might
we not, with a far greater show of reason, insist
that it requires nothing less than some such opera-
tion to force a real and obvious metropolitan im-
provement upon the acceptance of a Chief Commis-
sioner of Public Works t There is that little
opening into St. James's Park at the corner of
Spring Gardens ! How long have we been hop-
ing and hoping that it might be widened from
a wretched little flagged footpath between two
walls, into a broad carriage way leading from
the Mall into Trafalgar-square ? How often in
these columns have we not argued in favour of
opening at this point a noble entrance into St.
James's Park ? It was here, indeed, that it was
proposed at one time to build up again the
Marble-arch at the time of its removal from the
the central point fronting the facade of Bucking-
ham Palace. The vicinity of the Edgware-road,
however, was deemed a site in every way more
suitable ! It stands there now—that useless but
beautiful Folly of the " First gentleman in
Europe"—cheek by jowl with a little historic
slab announcing to her MAJESTY'S lieges—" Here
stood Tyburn Gate." Nob and Snob, arm in arm,
were nothing to such a contrast as that. It is
as the carriage of a peeress in her own right,
with a lozenge on the panels, and JEAMES and
CHAWLES on the footboard with their Drawing
Room nosegays, their heads powdered with an
extra shake of the flour dredger, and their silken
calves in a state of more than usually glossy
protuberance—it is for all the world like some
such superlatively Corinthian " turn-out "by
the side of a costermonger's tray upon wheels—
that Marble Arch standing by the side of the grim
memorial tablet commemorative of the spot once
hallowed by the caudine-forks passed under (vainly
for reprieve !) by every doomed hero bound for
Tyburn gallows ! However us:designedly it has
sprung into existence—it is a contrast that
preaches perpetually and unceasingly (mid-
way between Mayfair and Tyburnia) to the
old text of Tanitas Vanitatuin. Other than for
which, there is no earthly use whatever (not even
that appertaining to an appropriate ornament) in
any way at all discoverable in that Carrara Folly of
our Fourth GEORGE—serving only as it does to
mark the contiguity
of " stony-hearted Oxford-
street," and the dilapidated Edgware-road. it
is only exasperating, in fact, to think, now when it
is too late to remedy the matter, that the one op-
portunity was wantonly lost—that -the only appro-
priate site was absurdly rejected, by availing our-
selves of which betimes we might have really
turned that Marble Arch to some advantage. Even
now that site may, for a comparative trifle, be turned
yet to some good account—meaning the point we
have here already indicated—namely, the corner of
Spring Gardens !
When—after the demise of the late Earl FITZ-
TIARDINGE—OId Berkeley House was razed to the
ground, and the fragments of it were carted away
for what it was worth, as so much rubbish ; when
the Board of Health (determined at last upon vacat-
ins their temporaey and insalubrious retreat in
Gwyder House upon the banks of the 'Thames)
bought the plot of ground once occupied by
Berkeley House, and there set about raising for
themseiv®s a permanent reeicle,nce—the work of
reconstruction was wisely commenced a foot or two
further back, so that the little paved path way
leading into St. James's-park was secure at least
of being so far widerie.l. But it now turns cut
that there, on the opposite side of that still nar-
row pathway, stands a tenement that is Crown
property---a house now let, it is true, but with no
more than eleven Tears of the old leise yet to run.