The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-05 00:00:00

THEATRE- ROYAL, HOLB OR.

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This Evr XING, AUNT CHARLOTTE'S MAU'. Mr. E. Price,
Mesdames Larkin, Weatherby. After which, FETTERED:
Messrs. Cowper, eville, Parselle, Drew, Brunton, W. Arthur,
Bartleman. and George Honey• Mesdames Lydia Foote, Turner,
Marlbro, Hodson, and Fanny Josephs. To conclude with LU-
CRETIA BORGIA, M.D. : M:ss Fanny Josephs, George Honey.

ROYAL AIrI'HITHEATR F. AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN.
THIS EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud
fSO Horses; also Onra, Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, (to

TII EA:ME-ROYAL. OLYMPIC.

THIS EVENING, at 7, PAPER WINGS : Messrs. H. Wigsn,
H.Ne ille, E. Atkins, H. Vaughan. H. Cooper, and Smithson:
Mesdames Furtado, Schavey. N. Harris. and z,,t. Henry.
After =,thich. TIII4 YELLOW PASSPORT. Messrs Neville,
---r,xughan, GE Vincent, &e.; Miss
Fur-
ado and Mrs Caulfield

ROYALTY THEATRE.
Under the Management of Miss M. Oliver.
TITT3 EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dew ar, Miss
M. Oliver. To be followed by CLAUDE DUVAL; Mr. Dewar,
&c. To conclude with FAMILY JARS.

PLINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE.
Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton
Tais EVENING SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, 11. J. Montague,
Addison, Clover.' and Bancroft: Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss
C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING
HAZARD. And INTRIGUE.

ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET.
TIIIS ETENING, at 8 THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S
MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque
Extravagmaza, THE VERY GRAND DIITCH—S

CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8
Wednesdays and Faturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET;,
Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. Is. Box-office
open from 11 to 4.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park. OPEN daily (ex-
cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; aon Mendays, 6d.; Children
under twelve, M.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MAR,CII 5, 1869.

The Ballot is at last coming. There can no longer
be any doubt of that. Mr. BERKELEY'S occupation
has gone. The question has passed into the bands
of the Home Secretary. The time for fooling upon
the matter has disappeared. The House of Com-
mons is at last disposed to consider the subject se-
riously. Hitherto the mere phrase Secret-Voting
was little better than a by-word and an opprobrium.
Yesterday, the expression had hardly passed
the lips of Mr. BRUCE when it was hailed
with enthusiasm. It is true that the question
has not yet been actually accepted as a Government
Question by the present Advisers of the Crown. But,
at any rate, it has been openly discussed in the House
by the first of the five Secretaries of State, who has
frankly avowed himself to be a convert to the
Ballot, and has--in moving (as be did last even-
ing) for the appointment of a Select Committee
for inquiring into the present mode of conducting
Parliamentary and Municipal Elections, with a
view cf providing further guarantees for their tran-
quillity, purity, and freedom—openly declared that
the object of the Committee would be among other
things to discover whether some System of Secret
Voting could not be devised! The announcement,
moreover, was hailed with loud and ringing cheers
from the side of the majority, meaning from the
Liberals, or Ministerialists. Again, we say—
,he Ballot is at last corning. The Prime
Minister, himself, has candidly avowed that he is
longer its antagonist.
The Home Secretary,
ao
as we have seen, has manfully acknowledged him-
self to be a convert to the system once scouted as so
possibly mean in
un-English—
regard to a methodwhateveorf ttlalkatiocgo
uvlodtes, in habi use
all the West-end Clubs
for years and years past in
'l' of the gentlemen of
:Tormented by the very pi,t,
England. The President of the Board of Trade,
t 3 far back as in 1853. sixteen years ago, voted in
favour of the Ballot, to the advocacy of which he
haseversinee then been consistently devoted. Another
notable member of the present Cabinet, the right
honourable gentleman now the First Lord of the
admiralty, a very few years after that, namely, in
1860, almost upon the morrow of his first entering
alto the House of Commons; in the course of his
Maiden Speech, not only spoke strongly, nine years
igo, in favour of the Ballot, but in the course of his
remarks gave the emphatic evidence in its behalf