The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-02 00:00:00

TH
kTRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.--Under
tt e Management of Miss Louisa Pync and Mr. W.
Harr' . " n.
TI fIS EVENING, Balfe's ROSE OF CASTILLE : Miss
Lon' 4sa l 'yne, Miss Susan I'yne, Miss M. Prescott ; Mr. Fer-
dint rld glover, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. Bartleman, and Mr.
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon.
T D lonclude with a new Ballet Divertissement, LA FLEUR.
D', 10 (JR : Mesdlles. L. Michelet, Morlacchi, and Pasquale.

1p YVAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE,
xl.) Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
Ti N.. CS EVENING will be presented Shakspere's Play of
KING JOHN.
'King John, Mr. C. Kean—Constance, Mrs. C. Kean.
P receded by a new Farce, in one act, entitled
T HIRTY-THREE NEXT BIRTHDAY.

IIEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
ETENING will be performed SHE STOOPS
TO • CONQUER. Mr. Buckstone and Miss Reynolds.
A gew Spanish Ballet, THE INFLUENCE OF GRACE,
in wb ich Peres Nena will appear.
wit .h WHITEBAIT AT GREENWICH. John Small, by
Sir NI ."m. Don, Bart.
A d A DAUGHTER TO MARRY.
Commence at 7.

p► OYAL STRAND THEATRE
„LT L •Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.
T HIS EVENING, THE LITTLE SAVAGE.
fter which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE.
FOOING IN JEST AND LOVING IN EARNEST ;
His Swanborough.
A and THE BONNIE FISH WIFE.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Sole Lessee Mr. William Cooke.
By Special Desire, for Five Nights longer.
THIS EVENING, and during the week, will be resented
Shakspere's Tragedy of KING RICHARD THE THIRD ;
or, The Death of White Surrey, reproduced with all its origi-
nal splendid effects. The Duke of Gloater, Mr. Holloway ;
Richmond, Mr. H. Phillips.
Followed by SCENES IN THE ARENA, and a variety
of inimitable feats of Equitation by those talented artistes,
Madame Blanche, Miss Emily Cooke, Madame Fleurette, Mr.
W. Cooke, Mr. Runnels, Mr. W. Cooke, jun., &c.
On Saturday next will be produced, for the first time, a new
grand Spectacle, with most peculiar effects, entitled LIFE
IN THE EAST ; or, The Sepoy Revolt, embracing the entire
strength of this vast Hippodramatic Temple.
No fees to box-keepers. The art of riding taught.
Commence at seven.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips.

IANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road,—
Proprietor—C. MORTON.
T'he public is most respectfully informed that the FrxE
Al tors GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW
01 '3N DAT AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12
o'cl i ick p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec-
tion: ,of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters and is also
devi t ted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels
he n t, ay confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist-
ing Ai usie Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently
adde d Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether
as r ards the architectural beauty of the structures them-
selvi is, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations
with in, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the
Kin zdo.m.
Ti ie MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at
S m o'clock.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICZ, Duc. 2.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

.54—highest since noon yesterday.
54—lowest this morning and during the night.
04—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.75.
Witt!), South-Westerly ; light, with rain and dell weather.

THE SUN.

THURSDAY. DECEMBER 2, 1858.

COUNT DE MONTALEiVIBERT

PARDONED.

The following telegram was received at Mr,
Reuter's office, Dec. 2 :

PARIS, THURSDAY, DEC. 2.

The Moniteur of this morning announces that on
account of the anniversary of 2d December the
Emperor has granted a full pardon to Count de
Moatalembert.

The MONTALEMBERT mistake has been rectified,
that is to say, so far as was practicable. But a
sting remains behind which can never be eradi-
cated. It brings a very untoward transaction, "one
that has reflected the utmost discredit on all parties
engaged in the persecution of the brilliant orator
and statesman, to a very lame and impotent conclu-
sion. Count de Montalembert has been pardoned
It is stated to be on account of the 2d of Decem-
ber (!) that the act of grace and clemency has
been granted. But such a pretext would not
have been put forward in the Palace of
Truth. It might more correctly have been
ascribed to the indignant remonstrances of British
journals of all shades and varieties of political
opinion, as well as to a well-founded desire to
avoid a repetition of the burning eloquence of M.
BERRYER, and the logical arguments of M.
DUFACRE.

These accomplished advocates should again
have been heard on the appeal ; and al-
though every exertion was made to keep them
within the bounds which the tribunal de-
sired to prescribe, and to prevent the circu-
lation of their conclusive argumonts, they could
neither be restrained, nor could their opinions be
prevented from being circulated to some extent,
and that would have been a great inconvenience, if
not something worse. A repetition of this annoy-
ance was to be avoided, even at the expense of
-lieving one of the most illustrious subjects of
c. empire from the penalties which he was
posed to have incurred, for speaking with honest
high-minded enthusiasm of British institu-
,, and with undisguised contempt of the undue
nee of the servile flatterers of the ante-chamber,
I sinister spies of the back stairs.
arcely believe that Louis NAPOLEON,
been left to himself or even made
ighly acquainted with the state of

rs, would have sanctioned the prosecution.
—is eyes have, however, been opened, albeit
at the eleventh hour, and although he
cannot altogether clew himself from the mire
through which he has been dragged by underlings,
he has made the best attempt possible to
purify himself. He . must, however, remember
that it is impo3ssible "to touch pitch without being
defiled." If M. DE MONTALEMBERT was to be
forthwith pardoned, why was he exposed to the
trouble, expense, and inconvenience of such a trial ?
The telegram is silent as to what has been deter-
mined vrith:respect to M. DLINOIL, the publisher,
who had not even read the manuscript until after
it appeared in print. It would, however, be so
perfectly ridiculous to pardon the principal and
punish the accessory, that we may assume almost
as a:certainty that M. DUINoIL has also received an
amnesty.

It may well be doubted whether it was wise or
politic to place the day of the coup d'etat so promi-
nently before the people, or to recall the remi-
niscences of broken vows and violated faith on the
one side, and stubborn resistance and unsparing
bloodshed on the other. No matter how fortunate
might have been the results of that dark day--
notwithstanding that it transformed a simple
President into an Emperor, and gave to France
an amount of liberty, so powerfully illustrated
by the trial and conviction of M. DE MONTALEM-
BERT, and the total extinction of the freedom of
journalism, it was scarcely prudent to bring it
so prominently before the people, or to remind
them of the time when comparative liberty was
exchanged for serfdom, and a constitutional, for
4 despotic Government.

The 2nd of December was not a day which could

be regarded as one to be distinguished with a white
mark. There was a sanguinary stain arising from
the blood of French citizens profusely shed
by the hands of the military which
can never be eradicated, and which will
leave a page in the national istory which
every well-wisher of the EMPEROR would desire
to see expunged from the national annals.
If the pardon of the illustrious convict be intended
as the indication of a resolution to pursue adifferent
course, it will be very acceptable, but the single
act will not be sufficient, it must be followed by a
steady course of liberal Government, and if that

be the case, we, and we believe all our contem-
poraries of every shade and variety of political opi-
nion will be willing to accord the impartial praise
which may be fairly merited.

Editors may certainly do what they will with their
own, and therefore no man may quarrel with an
editor who sees fit to exclude facts and arguments
which oppose his own views, but which he knows
not how to answer. We indeed prefer for ourselves
the opposite course. The more clever a communica-
tion in opposition to our own opinions—the better the
arguments—the weightier the facts—the more re-
spectable the writer—so much the more gladly do
we give it space in our columns. Of course, we can-
not waste our space on inferior or ill-bred writers,
but the measure of the writer's good sense, ability,
and knowledge, not his hostility or otherwise to
our opinions, is the measure of our readiness to hear
him. Each editor must, however, judge for him-
self, and it is not for us therefore to censure the
Times for refusing such a series of important facts,
furnished by a public man of such standing as the
Hon. HENRY BERKELEY, as those to which we gave
a place yesterday, because our contemporary de-
clined to insert them. To be sure, they completely
refute the statement made in that journal a few
days ago, in an elaborate article on "The American
Elective System," in which it was asserted that we,
here, are ignorant of the real object of the Ballot in
America—" that the Ballot is an expedient adopted
not to ensure secret but rapid voting ;" and it is
added, "that it is the coarse sieve the constituency
must periodically be run through, not its shield
during the process, but English speakers on the
subject always represent the sieve as a screen."
Mr. BERKELEY'S letter conclusively shows that
such is not the opinion of public men
in the United States themselves. Rapid voting is
an incidental and great advantage of the Ballot,
but the secresy and the independence it secures is
proved to have been the reason of its universal
adoption in the Free States.
We commented but a short time back on one of
the most important of the letters from America, that
from Mr. Anderson, and need not now, therefore,
advert to the statements of many others which cor-
roborate his statements. The public should, how-
ever, be aware that it must not look to our great
contemporary for effective replies to its mistate-
ments of facts respecting the Ballot. On that
subject at least it exercises a conservative censor-
ship over letters addressed to it, even at times when
news is not over plentiful, and when the writers
are men followed by two hundred members of the
British Nouse of Commons, provided these letters
are in support of the Ballot, and that these facts
and arguments are not easy to disprove. Or, to
use its own figures just referred to, the
Times is a "sieve" in which all communications
" are shaken," and which those too conclusive in
favour of the Ballot will not pass, and consequently
the Times' sieve becomes an efficient "screen" to its
arguments against the Ballot. Very judicious, we
are sure. Its delicate, tender arguments do need
careful protection against rough transatlantic facts
which would hardly leave them even their clever
and plausible phraseology. Nothing like a cribrum
ezpuryatorium to guard political orthodoxy.
It is interesting, certainly, to see this fear of
facts regarding the Ballot, in our contemporary.
We have noticed it in respect to its intelligence
from Australia and New Zealand also. They have
often stared all of us who have to read Australian
papers and correspondence, in the face, yet we never
find them in the quotations of our contemporary
from the papers of these colonies. When the
standing order is, leave out facts recommendatory
of the Ballot, but if abuse of it, in the obscurest
colonial newspaper. tcan be found, use the scissors
at once. When such is the order, we may be sure
the facts are of more weight than any other argu-
ments. If counsel should wish the jury to listen
to his eloquence only, and to be indifferent to the
evidence, we should all question what the verdict
would be if the facts were suffered to come out.
We gather a favourable omen from this suppres-
sion of facts on the Ballot. It shows that they will
not suit the purpose of those who, for what reason
we know not, are inveterately opposed to it. 'When
facts arc dreadede—sinc they will make themselves
known in time--the inference is that when they are
known they will carry the day.

Our contemporary is, we fancy, in great fear of
Mr. DIsRAELI. He is not a red-tape man, and
however horrible red tape may be at the Horse
Guards, at Weedon, or in Government offices, it is
excellent, of course, in politics. The mischief in the
present case is that the course the Chancellor of the
Exchequer will take on the Reform Bill cannot be
predicted as one might predict what an old Major
or Colonel would do. There is great fear, it seems
lest the hon. gentleman may seriously contemplate
raising a basis for Conservatism as broad as the
peasantry and operatives of the country. Nr.
DIsRAELI has shown in his works a strong faith in
the power of the aristocracy to get and keep the

good will of the peasantry. Give the counties
members in proportion to population, they would
then outvote the towns. But the county population

is perfectly manageable by the landed interest

therefore, taking population as the basis of repre-
sentation (though it implies universal suffrage) it

would be the safest thing for Toryism.

The worst is, according to our contemporary, that
the Whigs could never sanction such a scheme,

That there would be a row, an upset perhaps, and

perhaps a dissolution. In the meantime, in the
midst of all the hubbub, Tories would be coolly and

complacently pointing to their great advances upon
anything offered by the Whigs ; while the Whigs

must patriotically fold their togas around them, and

stand with old Roman dignity to witness the ruin

of the Constitution, and to see insulting Tories in-
stalled in office for a yet longer reign. The prudence

of Lord DERBY is however the hope of our eontem-

porary. He will not hazard such a rash and dan-
gerous game ; whatever his Chancellor of the Ex-

chequer may dream of. Well, of one thing we

may be pretty sure that Lord DERBY and Mr.

DISRAELI understand each other pretty well, and
the Editor of the Times is not likely to be offered a
seat in the Cabinet.

Observing the invidious comments of one of our
morning contemporaries with regard to the ap-
pointment of the Rev. HENRY GOODWIN, to the
Deanery of Ely, we are bound to state that the
nomination of that gentleman has afforded, we
believe, very general satisfaction. No man has
acquired higher University honours than Air.
G
He has been an earnest, devoted
oopsvis.
parochial mini ter, an able preacher, free from

extreme views on Church questions, and we
understand his promotion is extremely popular
in the University of Cambridge.

Lord Dv,itßY deserves credit for the appointment ;
and when we have to add that, in the first instance,
it was offered to Dr. PHILLPOTT, and afterwards
to Professor SELWYN, but refused by both on pri-
vate grounds, we have no hesitation in express-
ing our opinion that the country is indebted to
Lord DERBY for the discrimination and anxiety he
has displayed in making suitable appointments in
the Church.

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