The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-04 00:00:00

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.

Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, ASMODECS ; or, The Little Devil's Share :
Marie Wilton, Mrs. Leigh Murray, &c. After which, LOVE IN ALL
CORNERS: Messrs. Belford, C. Young, 'Mesdames Leigh Murray
and M. Ternan. To conclude with GOOD FOR NOTHING : Nan,
Miss Marie Wilton.

The session which has just been brought to a con-
clusion will long be remembered amongst public
men. It will be regarded as an annus mirabilis by
the Tapirs and Tadpoles, and all the red-tapist class.
PALMERSTON had " won in a canter" at the election
of 1857, and his opponents were "nowhere" It was
another edition of the Eclipse expIoit—PALMERSTON
first, the rest distanced. The country had enthusi-
astically responded to his appeal, and perhaps no
Minister, since the abolition of rotten boroughs, was
ever placed at the head of a stronger, more compact
or more easily managed majority.
But there are sage apophthegms that apply to
parties who are supposed to be enabled " to kick the
world before them." The Noble Premier's head was
apparently turned, astd he thought he could easily
fling aside many steps of the political ladder, by
means whereof be had risen to his high estate. lie
became petulant and contumelious. As single
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votes were supposed to be of little importance, he
According to our latest Transatlantic intelligence bought that he could afford to insult those who
the gold fever in regard to the newly-discovered gave independent support, without submitting to be
diggings along the auriferous banks of Frazer's shackled to his chariot wheel, or to join the ranks
River, appears to bespreatling rapidly on both sides of the recognised waiters on Providence. He thus dis-
of the great North American continent. Advices gusted the third party in the llouse, a party far
from Toronto tell the same tale, already familiarised more numerous and influential than the mere
to us by the journals of San Francisco. The more Whigs. It required no extraordinary powers of
adventurous members of the Canadian population are vaticination to predict the result. 'When be repudi-
afoot already for the golden soil of British ated the character of an English Minister, for which
Columbia—the glittering seaboard confronting the alone he was supported, notwithstanding his Tory
Island of Vancouver. Parties of diggers are forming , predilections—when he became the toady of the
and others prepare to follow in their faotsteps, I French Cabinet, permitting the insulting despatch
tracked along the stupendous waste marking their of Count INraahwsat to remain unanswered, and the
course overland from the Atlantic to the Pacific, truculent addresses of the French Colonels, demand-
throughout the whole gigantic width of our vast North ing to be led against the den of assassins, duly
American possessions. The territories there have, I paraded in the columns of the Moniteur, to continue
from time immemorial, had the repute of being impe- unnoticed, the glory departed from his House, his
netrable to all save the daring and practised fur hunters quondam prestige was for ever annihilated.
in the service of the great monopolist company. He, however, remained blind to the signs of the
Nevertheless the greed of the precious metals has times, could not understand the changes that were
ao heartened the idlers of Canada to the audacious palpable to all unprejudiced observers, both in and
enterprise, that they talk nothing, if they think any- out of the House, and pursued recklessly the tangled
thing, of the bold project upon which we now learn path on which he bad entered. The result naturally
they have actually adventured. The primeva followed: 1-Ie was left in a minotity, and, according
formats, the unmeasured prairies, the tangled under" to Ministerial etiquette, was bound to resign. Ile
grrewth, the miles upon miles of barren wilderness, might, however, have saved himself by a straight-
'unknown water-courses, lakes, and tarns, and rivers forward and honourable course. had he caned
and rivuletsmay obstruct their progress in unlooked a meeting of the Liberal party, and invited their cen-
far multiplicity—what matters it ? Theme beyond currence in the course which he intended pursuing
hem are the grounds of the new El Dorado—virgin he might still have remained in office. But he chose
us yet to the pick and spade, with mysteries of wealth 1 to sulk, fling up his office, thinking lie could make
unsifted by the labours of the brawny arms, rock- ; the malcontents bow at his footstool. To his as
ing the miraculous cradle of the embryo millionaire! I tonishment Lord DERBY accepted office at the re
And so, in spite of wild beasts, and wilder forests, of ; quest of his SOVEREIGN.
white men from the Red River Settlement jealous of i There were, however, many points on which
intruders, and leagued with the red Indian aboriginese !it was supposed the new Premier might be
of the soil upon a more than tacit understanding tripped up. The India Bill was the first. Lord
that the territories lying between Hudson's Bay and , 1;.--
_LLENEOROUGII introduced a very decided improve-
the frontiers of the United States, between the bor- merit on Bill No. 1 ; but its provisions were of corn-
ders of Canada argot the giant range of the Rocky paratively little, importance : India was to be made
111ountains, are theirs, and no others'—the Canadian the cockpit in which the battle between the contend-
diggers are sallying from Toronto, bent upon ing parties was to be decided. But even then the.
pushing their way at all hazards and in defiance of veteran Viscount had reckoned without his boa
every obstacle to the scene of the general rendezvous. He had neither secured the co-operation of " little
Thither from other quarters, the free lances of the Jonas," nor of the real true-hearted Liberals. The
world, men who might but for the marvellous infla- former held aloof until he could make his bargain
ence of the probable dust-sifftings, and the possible —the latter until they saw what would be tendered
nuggets have remained irreclaimable neer-do-weels for their acceptance, and whether good measures
or professional Chevaliers d'lndustrie, are flocking i
former was easily patched up—arrangements fiver
with the
would be brought forward. The d
in ship loads, in boat loads, in tramping companies, I
helter-skelter, any how and every how—Governor
entered into respecting every place, not only in the
!
intended Cabinet, but even in the subordinate
DOUGLAS to the contrary, nevertheless, notwith-
ranks. Palinerstonians, Rus.-sellites, and Peelites
standing ! Nomadic adventurers though they are— ;
wild, uncivilised, lawless, owning no arbiter ! made hard bargains. The charge was preferred, and
but !Judge Lynch, and no punishments milder ,
; Mr. CARDWELL was appointed to lead the onslaught,
than , the crack of the revolver or the thud of : but it was by no means supposed to be a
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the bowie-knife—these men , are in very truth the "forlorn hope." An overwhelming majority was
pioneers of civilisation. Precisely, indeed, anticipated, but truth and justice prevailed, and the
ter, as the founders of ancient Rome were the sove- for that mat-
brilliant orations of the Solicitor-General of Bug-
I
reigns of the then known world—fathers howbeit oft he ;land, the Attorney-General of Ireland, Lord STAN-
;
i LEY, Mr. DISRAELI, and others, won the good opinion
ultimate rulers of the human race. So it has been
i of the country, and the motion was eventually -with-
from time immemorial. So it is being accomplished
—the first rough work in the labour of transplant- drawn just at the moment when a despatch from Sir
ing and diffusing civilisation good
aild government— ; JAMES OCTRAM proved beyond the possibility of
in Australia, in California and now (last but not least i a doubt the errors into which its mover and sup-
remarkable instance) in British Columbia. porters had suffered themselves to be betrayed.
I
There cannot be a doubt of it now, that Mr.
After that all was couleur de rose. Ministers
ROEBUCK was perfectly correct in his first instanta- received—with some few and rare excep-
neous suggestion—as he so, often:is in these abrupt flow, fair play—all that they ever asked
emergencies—as be is so frequently and explicitly, for or required. The Government of India Bill was
thanks to a sagacity almost amounting toan instinct. preceded by resolutions, according to the constitu-
Yes—Mr. 110EDUCK was surely right when he tional principle. And although there was an ap-
insisted upon the necessity of strengthening the parent loss of time at first, it was amply compen-
arms of the authorities, out yonder, in British sated for by the subsequent despatch. Indeed the pre-
Columbia, by providing them betimes • with an ade-
. cedent has been so felicitous that we should not
quate force either of military or constabulary. regret to see the Reform Bill and other leading men-
The military force at :our command may be too sures inaugurated in a similar manner.
precious nowadays to be so applied, because of the The_Budget was a great success. Sir G. C. LEWIS
chuckled
wars in Asia, there with the stubborn Chinese, there
. of the financial
at the darnnosa lutreditas he had bequeathed
with the mutinous Bengalese. In which case the to his successor. There was no deficiency at the end
alternative is simple enough—that of the consta
bulary. But some armed force regularly organised in
broke the heaarxts owf
of Income-tax y
year, pimply because a large amount
therecocneti
rviebdu t
oi
rni e
swuhnidcehr
schedule
d war
some
D. But there would b
some way, having some badge of their office and
some systematic discipline—assuredly, if we are in
lowing year, for ails' e a serious deficit in the fol-
earnest about the new colony, ought in reason to be
despatched forthwith to Frazer's River. Particularly must provide. tch the new Financial Minister
It was almost a sufficient com ensation to the has this this become more than ever desirable now
that it is becoming by every mail from the West ! Reviewer to think that belied P escaped the difficulty,
more and more distinctly obvious that Governor and was not called on to
propose a breach of faith by
DOUGLAS, doubtless an honest and resolute servant
maintaining the Income-tax+ " ,
however, Mr. D
at ts
of the Hudson's Bay Company, but a very his astonishment i original rate. To
ISRAELI passed
indifferent and inexperienced administrator in the triumphantly through the ordeal, and gave
new
mame and on behalf of the Imperial Government, has
was su
strength to the Ministry on what it
already acted in a way that, to say the least of it, was would be their weakest point. pposed
clearly injudicious. It is yet to this moment uncer- Nor was it only in finance that this great triumph
tain whether his ill-judged proclamation, subjecting was achieved. Lord STANLEY fully verified the
among their proud anticipations of his noble father, and proved
all foreign vessels to seizure (including
number, of course, vessels belonging to natives of I himself a worthy scion of the House of DERBY. He
the United States), if found presuming to enter upon i exhibited a practical skill and ability on ev,
the forbidden waters mentioned in this daring and that ensured not merely the approbation,ery but o
thinte
defiant pronunciamento—:nay not embroil us once admiration of the House, and
aga greatly conduced to
in ana et, y snore seriously with the Government at i th, !Ilppy solution of tb,,, grtat Distern pa(;blens.
Washington. A diplomatic complication which might i The. ti-,:r., lii:!, so eereestly suppoeted IT the vete-
(
possibly lead to serious consequence; coming so soon • ran Lord LYNDHURST, by Lord STANLEY, Sir ;Iona;
after the literally vexed
question of the Right of ' PAKINGTON, Sir F. KELLY, _Air. DISRSELI and of
Search, a very delicata question with cur re p u ican was disposed of, and Baron ROTHS , her,,
has voted
bl h
cousins across the water, and one
which was but iu the place from which he was so uufairly excluded
yesterday - brought to a happy issue by an ex- for nearly a dozen years. The Property Qualifica-
quisitelyjuakim blvadirig cl firmnes4 vritii tact on tion has alqo been abolighed,444 a zcagmablo obpnce

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The following company of Vo-
calists are engaged for the performance of Seleetions from all the
popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES. DUETS, &c.,
via.; Ddias Russell, Mrs. Badsey, Miss Brunel], Miss Ray, Madame
Itartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Antler;on
lien P. Jonglimans, Mr. Renshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling,
Senor Antonio, E. L. Him°, Mr. Eadzey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens,
Mr. E'en, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Alhyn. Mr. Yanin, Jolla G.
and B. W. Hackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmer
111-, Mr. Courtney ; Director, Herr P. Jonghmai s. Commence at
ticren o'clock precisely. Suppers, &0., until twelve o'clock.

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 18.58.

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