The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-28 00:00:00

Stage Manager, lir:R. Phillips.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
• Proprietor --C. MORTON.
The public is most respectfully informed that the FINE
ARTS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW
OPEN DAT AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12
o'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive con.e-
tion of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters and is also
devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels
he may confidently, assert that, viewed altogether, the exist-
ing Music Hall, the New Pine Arts Gallery, and the recently
added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether
as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them-
selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations
within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the
Kingdom.

The MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at
Seven o'clock.

In addition to the usual entertainment, the SAUVLET
FAMILY, -of Amsterdam, Eight in number, whose varied
instrumental performances have created so marked a sensa-
tion in the principal cities and towns of the Continent, will
pertbrm every Evening at Nine an I Eleven o'clock.

THE WEATHER. -SUN OFFICE, DEC. 28.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

54—highest since noon yesterday.
44—lowest this morning and during th© night.
47—this day at noon.

BAROMETER—`29,77,
Wnqn, North-Westerly'; fresh, with fine winter weather,

Almost in a fit of desperation the other day he
of Kidderminster made his appeal to the employers
of labour. Hitherto their electoral supremacy has
been unquestioned—are they content quietly to sur-
render it ? "Do the manufacturers and other chief
employers, of such towns as Manchester, Liverpool,
and Birmingham, desire household suffrage and the
Ballot ? if they do not speak out now, they will
deserve Universal Safrage and the Ballot, little as
they are likely to suffer from such inflictions in our
days." Now, we like this. It is speaking out at
last. Masters are fairly warned that, if they do
not get up public meetings, and "put down" this
odious outcry for an extended suffrage, coupled
with a provision to make it a real extension, they
may find themselves outvoted by their own men ;
just as the landlords, if the voting were free, might
be outvoted by their own tenants. Now, we should
much like to see employers of labour get up meet-
ings to resist extension of the suffrage and the Ballot.
Why should they not? Is the hon. member for
Kidderminster and his leading counsel never to have
one meeting, no not one borough or county meeting,
to resist the threatened innovations ? Is it safe to
rely on the House of Commons alone, unsupported
by the voice of the people ? However much the
present or any succeeding House may be averse to
conceding an extended and free suffrage, it doubt-
less must do it, if the public meetings and petitions
are all on one side, and are numerous and earnest too.
We do hope that a public Anti-Ballot-and-House-
hold-suffrage meeting will be called in every
borough at least of the kingdom, and well pleased
shall we be if county meetings be convened also.
Not content with appealing to masters against
permitting votes to be conferred on their men,
Kidderminster appeals to the men, too, against the
Ballot. Having described a model master's-man,—
an old servant, his children too in the
same yard or factory, his cottage adjoining,
his very bread depending on the master--
we are told that he is " not the cowardly fellow
who is supposed to be silent' for three years, and
then to speak through the Ballot-box."' He lives in
the light of day, not on a camera obscura." We
thank the Times for teaching us that word. The
camera obscnra is beyond all question the most
perfect device for securing faithful representations
that was ever yet devised by the wit of man ; and
we have not the shadow of a doubt that the camera
obscura of the Ballot-box would give us such a
perfect representation of the opinions of electors as
we have never seen before. It would render the
House of Commons a photograph of the consti-
tuencies. True, all their less pleasing features
would be there as well as their best. We have no
Utopian fancy that a real representation of im-
perfect men, of any class, would make a perfect
Legislature; but we do affirm that it would bo at
least what it purposed fa be--a representation of
the majority of the electors, and not of those who
may have the power to command their votes.

We are told, moreover, that such men, the supe-
rior trusty sort of men just referred to, do not
want the Ballot ! They are as independent as
tradesmen and professional men. Suppose they
were so, it would be a poor independence, no class

--'
I ALLEGED MURDER IN LIVERPOOL. Thomas
Owen, William Owen, and Daniel Johnson, were brought
before the magistrates at the Liverpool Police-court yester-
day (Monday), charged with having caused the death of a
man named Toole.. From the evidence of a carter named
Knowles it appeared that he, in company with the de-
ceased, James Toole, went to the house of Johnson, who
sells beer, &c., in Eaton-street, on Friday night, and there
met the three prisoners. They had some drink together,
in the course of which 'William Owen made use of some
abusive language to the deceased, who became irritated,
and walked out of the house. The prisoners remained some
time drinking, but eventually went away, with the excep-
tion of Johnson, who kept the house. Shortly after the
departure of the two Owens, Toole came in and asked for
some beer, which after he had drunk he walked out, when
he was met by the Owens. Johnson and Knowles tken
came up, when the latter was knocked down by Johnson,
and Toole was struck a severe blow over the head with an
iron bar, and otherwise severely injured by repeated kicks
and blows. Knowles managed to escape without any fur-
ther injury, but the deceased, in endeavouring to crawl
home, received such fearful ill-usage from the prisoners
that he died shortly after. Mr. Mansfield remanded the
priSonerA, in order to allot of a post mortem examination, 1

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