The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-08 00:00:00

ITER MAJESTY'S THEATRE
THIS EVENING.
Piceolomini, Spezia,and A Giaglinidighieri, Belletti, RoSsi, ViakW;
THIS EVENING (Friday, Jan. 8),
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR.
Prices :—Pit Stalls, 12s 6d; boxes (to hold four persons),
pit and one pair, 21. 2s ; grand tier, 31. 3s ; two pair, 11. 55.;
three pair, 15s; gallery boxes, 103; gallery stalls, 3s 6d ;
pit, 3s 6d; gallery, 2s,

HER MAJESTY'S
QUEEN has graci
ously signified her intention of HONOURING with her
PRESENCE a SERIES of FOUR FESTIVAL P EFORM.
ANCES, intended to be presented at the period oRf the ap-
proaching Nuptials of her Royal Highness
ROYAL with his Royal Highness the Prince FREDERICK
WILLIAM of PRUSSIA.
The general arrangements are under the direction of Mr.
Mitchell, in co-operation with Mr. Lumley, and favoured by
the assistance of the following Managers of the Metropolitan

Theatres;
Mr. Smith Theatre Royal, Drury-lane.
Mr. Backstone Haymarket Theatre.
Mr Webster Adelphi Theatre.
Mr. .
Harrison and Miss Pyne Lyceum Theatre.
Mr. Robson and Mr. Emden Olympic Theatre.
Mr. Phelps Sadler's Wells Theatre.
The programme will comprise the following Entertain-
ments :

On TUESDAY, January 19,
MACBETH.
Produced under the direction of Mr. Phelps.
Macbeth, Mr. Phelps ; Lady Macbeth, Miss Helen Faucit.
With Locke's Incidental Music, under the direction of

Mr. Benedict.
And Mr. Oxenford's Farce of
TWICE KILLED.
In which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will perform.

THURSDAY, January 21.
Balfe's New Opera,
THE ROSE OF CASTILLE,
By Miss Pyne, Mr. Harrison, Mr. Weiss, and the Operatic
Company of the Lyceum Theatre ; conductor,
Mr. A. Mellon.
With a COMIC AFTERPIECE.

SATURDAY, January 23,
AN ITALIAN OPERA,
By Madlle. Piccolomini, Signor Ginglini, and the Principal
Artistes of Mr. Lumley's Theatre.
And a FESTIVAL CANTATA composed by
Mr. Howard Clover.
With a BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT.

Fourth Performance,
AN ENGLISH COIIEDY,
By Mr. Buckstone's Company of the Haymarket Theatre.
And an AFTERPIECE, in which Mr. Wright and Members
of the Adelphi Company will perform.

Admission to the pit (for -which a limited
number of tickets will be issued .. 10s. 6d.
Gallery stalls (reserved and numbered) 6s. Od.
Gallery 3s. Od.
Applications for boxes, orchestra stalls, and tickets to
be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, and at Mr. Mitchell's
Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street.
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THEA T R E-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING, will be performed THE LADIES'
BATTLE, in which Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Murray and Miss M.
Oliver will perform.
After which, the new grand pantomime, LITTLE JACK
HORNER.
Commence at 7.

TUE ATIt E ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with
SPEED THE PLOUGH. Characters by Messrs. W. Farren,
Compton, Chippendale, Mrs. Poynter, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliarn,
and Miss E. Ternan.
After which, a new comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD ; or, Harle-
quin and the Spiteful Fairy. Harlequin, Mr. A. Leclercq ;
Columbine, Miss Fanny Wright ; Pantaloon, Mr. Mackay ;
Clown, Mr. Charles Leclercq.
Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the
eveningWs. each. (No charge for booking.)
First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d
Dress Boxes SOI Dress Boxes 3 0
.. 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0
Upper Boxes
P ..
.t Gallery

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING, will be performed Shakspere's Tragedy
of KING RICHARD 11. King Richard 11., by Mr. Chas.
Kean ; Queen, by Mrs. C. Kean.
After which, a new grand comic Christmas Pantomime,
entitled HARLEQUIN WHITE CAT ; or, The Princess
Blanche Flower and her Fairy Godmothers. The Princess
Blanche (White Cat), Miss Kate Terry ; Harlequin, Mr. Cor-
mack ; Clown, Mr. Huline ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; and
Columbine, Miss C. Adams.!

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.
THIS EVENING, will be performed the second and
third acts of THE GREEN BUSHES, in which Madame
Celeste, and Mr. Wright will perform.
After which, a. Mythological Extravaganza, entitled
HARLEQUIN. OR THE LOVES OF CUPID AND
PSYCHE. Jupiter, Mr. Paul Bedford ; mars, i. Frank
Hall ; Venus, Mrs. Billin;tou ; Cupid, Miss Marie Wilton ;
Psyche, Miss Mary Keeley.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.—SoIe Lessee
and Manager, Mr. C. Dillon.
THIS EVENING, will be presented Sir E. L. Bulwer's
play of RICHELIEU. Principal characters by Messrs.
Charles Dillon, Stuart, Barrett, J. G. Shore, Poynter ;
Mesdames Charles Dillon and Woolgar.
To conclude with the Burlesque and Pantomime, LALLAH
ROOKH, and the PRINCESS, the PERI, and the TROU-
BADOUR • or, Harlequin and the Ghebers of the Desert.
Supported 'by Mesdames Charles Dillon, Buckingham White,
Eliza Webb, Maria Ternan, Esther Jacobs, and Woolgar ;
Messrs. Barrett, Calhaem, Holston, Poynter, and J. L.
Toole. Clowns, Messrs. T. Matthews and R. Stilt ;
Harlequin, Mr. J. Ricketts; Pantaloon, Mr. A. Stilt ; Sprites,
Herr Zeleski and Sons ; Columbines, Misses Malcolm and
Lees. Gorgeous Feast of Lanterns.—Fenton's Grand Trans-
formation Scene.
Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7.
A Morning Performance to-morrow (Saturday) on which oc-
casion the Children of the Westminster Grey and Green Coat
Schools will be present.
In active preparation, a new and original Comedy, by
Leigh Hunt, Esq.
3ox•office open from 11 to 5 daily.

OYAL SURREY THEATRE.
1.4) Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek.
THIS EVENING, will be performed BROKEN FAITH.
After which, QUEEN MAB ; or Harlevin Romeo and
Julliet. Clown, by the Surrey Buck ; Pantaloon, Mr. Brad-
bury.

STRAND THEATRE.—Lessee, Mr. T. Payne.
—THIS EVENING, will be performed
HARLEQUIN NOVELTY AND THE PRINCESS WHO
LOST HER HEART. Harlequin, Miss Craven ; Columbine,
Marine. Deulin ; Sprite, Herr Kirt. The Lambert Family
and the Red Man of Agar in their wonderful performance,
&c.
Commence at Seven. Stalls, 33. ; Boxes, 23. ; Pit, is.
Gallery 6d.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
i lig company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
S >lections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, ac., viz.:—Miss Russell,
Mrs. Badzey, Madlle. Marietta, Miss Bruuell, Miss Ray,
Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, and Madame Marietta ;
Harr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Renshaw, R. Grover, T. Farrant,
S. Jonec, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L.
Rime, Mr. Badgey, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Ber-
nard; Messrs. S. Collins, W. Z. Critchfield, and E. Mack-
noy. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master
Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at
Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, die., until twelve o'clock.
Mr. AUGUSTUS BRATIAM will make his first appearance on
Monday, the 25th inst.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY—Morn., 5 min. aft. B—Even., 30 min. aft. 8
To-Mounow—Morn., 5 min. aft. 9—Even., 35 min aft. 9

'ME WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, JANUARY 3,
IusaNOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
47—highest sines noon yesterday.
47—lowest this morning and during the night.
51 —this day at noon.

BABOMZTICR. 30.12.
WIND, S.W. ; light, with dull mild weather.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN. 8, 1858.

The Globe has thought proper to read ns a lec-
ture cosicerning the article we published on Mon-
day last respecting the approaching marriage of
the PRINCESS ROYAL. We mention the Globe by
name, not resorting to the despicable evasion of
speaking of "an evening contemNrary" when
making a virulent and unprovoked attack on a
journal at least its own equal in every respect,
and, indeed, that is not chiming very much for
ourselves. In every controversy in which we
have engaged, we have treated our opponents
as gentlemen. But we know how to defend our-
selves, and to repel such gross and ungentlemanly
attacks with the profound contempt which they so
eminently merit. We wrote on a subject of deep
interest to the nation, and we regarded it in a
thoroughly English and independent spirit.
We did not derive our inspiration from
German sources, or from the servants'
halls, for which the writer in the Globe is best
fitted. We tell the mean-spirited flunkey, that
every true-hearted Englishman is opposed to the

match not merely for political reasons, but more
so on account of the fair young Princess for
whose future welfare and happiness all are
anxious, and for her sisters, who may be deprived
of all dear to the female heart in consequence of
lan obstinate adherence to the objectionable

system.
We but copy a sentence from the Globe—a
very unusual occurrence, for there are not many
which we would admit into our columns—when
we say that, " with all its greatness and its
charms, Royalty is subject to some irksome penal-
ties from which ordinary persons are free." For
that very reason, the matrimonial alliances that
may be contracted by any of its members, and
which may greatly affect the future government
of the country, are subjects for legitimate comment,
and that privilege we shall continue to exercise
despite the puny efforts of the toady that seeks to
curry favour by its mean and mendacious remarks.
We use the term "mendacious" advisedly,
for the Globe has endeavoured to put a wil-
fully false construction on our statements.
After a little introductory pudding, it says,—
" The writer approaches the more domestic part
of the subject, and expresses his sympathy for the
Royal Lady, whom he describes as the victim'
of this marriage de convenance." Now the
writer must have known that he was stating
a deliberate falsehood in that respect. We
repeat what we published, and which no hon-
ourable and straightforward gentleman could
torture into anything justifying the gross
misrepresentation above referred to. One pa-
ragraph was as follows :—" We trust that the
daughter of England,' may experience every do-
mestic happiness in her new position, that it may
not be sacrificed to a mere marriage de convenance,
in which her heart has no part. So far as she is
concerned we earnestly hope that every sinister
augury may be averted. And, if we complain of
the system, it is with fervent wishes that she may
not be the first and most illustrious victim."
Let any disinterested and unprejudiced person
compare these passages, and say whether the
writer in the Globe has been guilty of a wicked
and deliberate falsehood, for which if he had any
sense of shame he would make an abject apology.
The Globe states that "it is well known that
the alliance about to take place is the result of
the warmest affection." We know no such thing,
and from the above specimen afforded of the Globe's
veracity, we are not disposed to place implicit
reliance on its assertions. It may be, for we
do not profess to be acquainted with back
stairs gossip or kitchen traditions. But we do
say that if it be the case, it is the result of a
happy accident, which could not reasonably have
been anticipated. It is well known that the
future marriage was arranged before the Princess
was ten years of age—indeed, we believe we might
say at a much earlier period. Now, young ladies
are scarcely capable of knowing their own minds
at that time of life, and the very fact that they
are directed to bestow their affections in
a particular quarter, may excite aversion rather
than love. It is said, "the course of true love
never did run smooth," and that truth, which
has passed into a proverb, has arisen from the
natural opposition between parents and children
on the all-important point, whereon Princesses
do not differ from their more humble sisters.
With regard to the other Princesses and
Princes, the Globe treats our observations as " the
result of gratuitous and malicious assumption, to
support which (it declares) not a single fact
mists." Can the writer ignore the history of
the nh Aaron, of George the Third, both
male and female ? Can he say how many
Royal Princesses were mothers before they were
wives ? How many fine young men were compelled
to sacrifice their happiness in consequence of the
imperious provisions of the Royal Marriage Act ?
These matters are but too painfully notorious, and
it would be but false delicacy to abstain from allu-
sion to a matter of such vital consequence to those
in whom the nation feels the deepest interee. We
have seen the evil in one generation, and it is
surely time that reasonable precautions should be
adopted to avert it from another.
We know the intense passion for Germanism
in Courtly circles, but that is by no means shared
by the nation. The People are disgusted with
the system, and would gladly see it abolished.
We write for the People. We address ourselves
to their feelings and sympathies, and so long as
they are gratified with our efforts—and we have
every reason to believe that such is the case—we
shall treat the comments of the Globe with the con-
tempt they merit. Ixnx may do for the servant's
halls, but they will be repudiated at the hearths and
homes of independent and high minded Britons.
The Globe makes a polished allusion to a horse-
pond. We only wish that the dastardly writer,
associated with a kindred worthy—for he would
not try it without considerable odds—would
attempt to carry his suggestion into execution !
We shall be quite prepared for the effort when-
ever he desires to make it.

It often happens in everyday life that the
rather must learn from his lad. He has given the

stripling a first-rate education, and he is not above
supplementing his own early deficiencies by his
son's acquirements. Frequently it is a matter of
pride to him. It is not surprising therefore to
find our Colonial offspring giving their parent a

little useful information now and then. We kept

them under paternal control, till, in point of prac-
tical good sense, they attained their full majority,

and of course may expect that, with all due defer-
ence, and yet with pretty well assured confidence,
they will tell us some useful things. We hope
Lord JOHN RUSSELL therefore, as standing counsel
for our "glorious constitution," will not be above
attending to the remarks of an Australian journal
on his crotchets respecting the ballot.
His favourite crotchet, as we all know, is his
fancy of trustee electors. Where he picked it up
we can't tell. It seems most like a clever inven-
tion devised to apologise for the denial of an ob-
vious right. In no discussions in Parliament prior
to the demand for the ballot did we ever read of a
nomination of trustees responsible to the unrepre-
sented for representing them aright. So far as
we can remember, the argument has always been
that the suffrage was conferred upon such or such
an electoral qualification, because its possessors
were presumed to be better qualified to vote on
national
questions than the excluded classes. We
appeal to Lord JOHN RUSSELL himself whether ho
did not in
the first Reform Bill, and in all his
all classes whose knowr
subsequent abortive
lere bills,and
positionai m t o
gitni
acilit..fil
el al
them, as he thought, to be electors ; and whether
he has not always spoken of the exclusion of the
few he thought competent, as an accidental evil
such as must attend any human arrangement.theory that
If so, then, what becomes of his
electors are trustees for the non-electors ? They
were, as a body, made electors, because they were
presumed to be more competent than the non_
electors. They were entrusted, not with the duty
of voting according to the supposed ignorance of
Lord JOHN'S non-elect, but with the duty of
voting in accordance wick their own better kuow-

ledge.
Our Australian contemporary, The Melbourne

Argus, shrewdly asks the ex-Premier, " Does a
man vote more conscientiously because he votes
openly ?—and, if he votes according to his con-
victions, how does he vote -wrongly ?" Now, we
cannot see how Lord JOHN can answer the former
question in the affirmative, since it would as-
' suredly be difficult to prove that our secret duties
are performed less conscientiously than those we
I perform before men. We know, at least, that
the Highest of all Authorities has enjoined
secresy, as a condition most favourable of all to
the single-minded performance of duty. The
registration of a vote in the polling-book is surely
a temptation in numberless cases for a man to
record it in opposition to his real opinions, and
under the influence of some fear or hope which
ought not to bias him. We may truly say that
not even Public Opinion, that is, the opinion
of the great majority, whether of electors or non-
electors, ought to decide his vote, but real
opinion. If he be in a minority of one, he ought
to vote accordingly ; and such a vote, as our con-
temporary observes, could not be a wrong one.
If, however, real opinions are to be expressed by
votes, what becomes of the trustee theory ? We
have, indeed, before pressed the same argumen t
in another form. Our demand has always been
that the first reform ought to be to make the
votes at elections as far as human law can do it
—REAL VOTES—the real, not the bought or co-
erced votes of the electors. And all human
ingenuity may be defied to devise a more simple
and effectual means to effect this than the Ballot.
And we must tell Lord JOHN respectfully, that
he and his clique have no real reason for opposing
the ballot, but that it will make the electors free
and independent of the Duke of BEDFORD class.
Our contemporary acknowledges, as we all
must do, that the right to vote must involve a
corresponding duty—just as the possession of pro-
perty, or of knowledge, must—but it is a duty of
the kind on which no mortal can be judge for,
another. Two candidates of opposite opinions
demand our vote. The opinions of one must be
in the main wrong, those of the other right. Yet
if I think the wrong opinions right, ought all the
non-electors, or all the educated gentlemen, or all
the dominant gentry in the place to induce me to
vote on the right side ? There is, perhaps, hardly
a case in which what is right for one man may
be wrong for another, more than in giving a vote at
an election. The duty is so entirely relative to the
most secret convictions of the voter, convictions
which, perhaps, he could ill defend and yet may
strongly feel, that every man who wishes an
elector simply to do his duty must be an advocate
for the Ballot.
The Argus lays more stress than any English
journalist would do on the opinion, the statements
we should say, of the Times, as reflecting the
opinions of the majority of Englishmen. We do
not wish to speak disrespectfully of our " Great
Contemporary," but having, in our long life as
journalists, so uniformly found the Times up-
holding every anti-popular view till the eleventh
hour, and having, times innumerable, found it
some fine morning turning suddenly round, with-
out a word of advertence to past errors, and
adopting views which we and other labourers on
the popular side had been long enforcing—having,
we say, been so long accustomed to our contem-
porary's never advocating the rights of the people
till they could be withheld no longer—we, and
Englishmen generally, know that it may be the
eleventh hour of the success of a popular question
and the Times be yet dead against it. The Argus
need not fear that the question is in the position
among electors which it occupies in the banter of
the Times. The Times itself does not think so.
It will write on laughing at the Ballot, till some
day it will take it into its head to laugh at its
opponents, and to wonder that anyone can be
found to dispute so simple a proposition as that
every man ought to be protected, in voting, from
the tyranny of mobs, of landlords, of bankers, of
creditors, of mortgagees, and of all who might
make use of " undue influence."
Perhaps our friends in Australia, to whom we
owe so much for setting us the right example, and
for sending us hither an advocate like their practi-
cal Mr. NionoLsoN, are hardly aware of the pro-
gress the Ballot is making amongst electors. Its
stronghold now is the pocket boroughs and the
counties. At the last division, of those present,
with the pairs, 219 voted for the Ballot, and 287
against it ; and this was the greatest number of
votes ever recorded in its favour. The Ballot
question therefore is not retrograding. If we
glance, ever so generally, at the constituencies
which returned anti-Ballot members, it is obvious
enough that the sense of the really free consti-
tuencies is decidedly in its favour. The larger
and more popular constituencies, with a popula-
tion of upwards of eleven millions, and 374,146
electors, sent 53 members in favour of the Ballot,
and only 19 against it. The agricultural counties
on the other hand, where the electors vote to their
landlords' order, containing about the same po-
pulation and the same number of electors, returned
116 members against the Ballot, and only 5 for
it ! Pretty good evidence who it is that really
fear the Ballot. It should be remembered, how-
ever, that the population, and the landlord con-
stituencies though nearly equal in respect to po-
pulation and electors, return in the former instance
but 72 members, and in the latter 136 ! Had the
popular constituencies returned an equal number
of members with those in the power of the land-
lords, the votes for the Ballot would have been
nearly doubled. One thing our Australian friends
may regard as certain—that we shall have the
Ballot, and that when it is obtained we shall be
much indebted to Australia for the aid of a prat'

much to ask that the people should receive son
benefit from the improved prospects of the o,Jun-
try. We shall witness extraordinary prosperity
for a short period, leading to another mania and
another collapse, for these are incidents inseparable
from the existing monetary code, but we may at
least expelite the auspicious part of the cycle ;
the bad one will come too soon, and occasion much
misery on its arrival. Let us try to obtain the
poor compensation that may be obtained before
the cup can be stricken from our parched lips.