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ferenco to the measure of Reform to be granted to
HE I.TRE ROYAL DRURY-L
ANE. E.
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chutterton. Scotland, and one gentleman, in particular, was
Tins KVEN Roll ROY. Mcssrs Phelps, T. Powrle,
W. Harrison. W. M'lutyre. Barrett, C. Harcourt; Mesdames anxious to press the Chanceller of the Exchequer
E. Cross, R. U. Le Theire, Hudspeth, and E Brougham.
To conclude with, WANTED, HUSBAND 6 FOIL SIX. to bring in the Scotch but before Easter. This is
Messrs. Barrett, E. Cli.tun ; Mesd3mes Hudspeth and H.
scarcely necessary, since the Government have de-
Brougham.
finitely promised to increase the number of the
Scottish representatives, as, indeed, they are bound
in common justice and reason to do. There can
be no need, therefore, to hurry on these measures,
and we feel assured the House will sanction
no unnecessary delay in the introduction of the
supplementary measure.
The Government has quite enough to do at present
in framing the English bill, and the deliberations of
the Cabinet this afternoon are, no doubt, of an
anxious character. Unfortunately they have too
much reason to fear the opposition of interested
parties, who are eager for a return to office, of
jealous minds who cannot endure to see an
opponent carry out any great national under-
taking, and of a very large section of both
parties, both within and without Parliament,
who are secretly averse to any reform whatever.
They must feel, consequently, that it is not enough
to bring in a goonl and liberal measure to secure
success or to avert opposition. All they can do if
they wish to obtain the desired end is so to frame
their Bill that they may confidently rely on the
support of the public ; and, should they be defeated in
the house of Commons, they may be able to appeal
to the impartial judgment of the country against the
manoeuvres of partisans and the violence of dema-
gogues. The principle of household suffrage, upon
which their borough franchise is based, is undoubt-
edly sound and popular ; but to it we should like to
see added the lodger franchise. Mr. DISRAELI in
1859 was the first to introduce this suffrage, and
there can consequently be no reason why it should
be omitted from the bill of '67. The educational
franchise would be an excellent addition to any
scheme, and it will admit men who are most quali-
fied to exercise political privileges, but under the
existing system most unlikely to obtain them. The
dual vote is by common consent condemned, and
will without doubt be eliminated from the bill.
Should the Government be disposed to retain it they
will no doubt concede the point, which nobody can
pretend to be vital, to the judgment of the house.
A Reform Bill should not be a string of party
crotchets or a political confession of faith, in which
every word must be subscribed to or the whole
surrendered. It should be founded on broad, gene-
ral principles which commend themselves to the
judgment of the house and the country ; and on
minor matters and points of detail there should be a
spirit of concession and conciliation displayed on all
sides such as actuates men when they are more anxi-
ous to obtain a great and lasting good, than to win
a personal and temporary triumph.

Commence at Scven.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET,
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Bucks one,
TarS EVENING, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. Sothern,
Ruckstone, Chippendale, Rogers, Clark, Coe, Sic ; Mesdames
Moore, Chippendale, Fitzwilliam,
Atter which. TUE SERIOUS FAMILY. Messrs. Busk-
stone, 110 A e, Farren, Vincent, Ac. ; Mesdames Chippendale,
Ju, ore, llill, Sidney, Burke, Ac.
To conclude with JEN Y LIN D AT L AST.
Culninenee at Seven.

OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.-
xi) Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Yeehter.

NOTICE —The ext,nsive orepa.ratio• s hn.l. rehears Is
neCCSSaI y for the Revival of the " DUKE'S 3AOTTO," reh
der it cotimi lsory to CLOS e; the T AV E E tilt MON DA Y
NEXT, .11tareh when it will be presented with entirely
New scenery oy Mr. I'. Glievo, Dresses by sir. S. slay and
Si iss Dickenson, and Properties and Deco. ations by Mr.
.Labtiart.

lIEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII.
11 :iole Proprietor and Mana.ler, Mr. B. Webster.

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T,IIS EVENING. at 7 17th time), a New Drama. LOST
IV LONDON. Messrs. H. Neville. Ashley. J. L. Took, P.
Bedf..rd, C. J. Smith, Eburne.; Miss Neilson, Miss A. sea-
man, and 31rs Alfred BC ellon.
To conclude with the New Grand Burlesque of THE
NOUN CAIN MILT ; or, THE KNIGHT, THE LADY,
AND THE LAKK. Messrs, J. L. Took, Piul Itedtord,
Ashley, R. homer, and G. J. Smith • Mrs. Allred Mellon,
Doss Furtado. Miss Hughes, Miss Emily Pitt. &c.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
New Management.
Sole Lessee, Mr. B. Webster ; Manager, Mr. H. W igan.
THIS EVENING, LAVATER; 011, NOV A BAD
JUIYJE Messrs. 11. .1. Montague, D. Murray, and Charles
Mathews ; Mesdames II arris and M Palmer.
Alter TilE LIAR. )1 r. and Mrs. Chas. Mathews ;
Messrs. H. J. llontrzue, H. Wigan, and Mrs. atephel,a
To conclude with A ROMANTIC IDEA. Mr. and Mrs.
C. Mathews, G. Vincent, and Mss E. Farrell.
Doors open at half-past Six; commence at Seven.

ROY AL PR IN C ESS'S THEATRE.
Sok L•neee and Manwer, Mr. Geo. Vininz.

TiriA EVENING, HIS LASI' LEGS. Mr. C. Verner,
Mr. C. H. Fenton ; Mrs. Buckingham White an ..1 .11isi Went-
worth.

Followed by, at half-past 3 o'clock, THE STREETS OF
LONDON. Messrs. F. Villiers, J. U. Shore, S. Cal-
haem, li. Fon ester ; 31iss Montagu, Airs. 11. Marston, and
Miss Katherine ttodgers.

110YAL STRAND TIIEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manager, 88, Mrs Swanborough.
TILES EVENING, MARRIED DAUGII rERs. Messrs.
Thorne, Belford, and G Murray ; 9lisses Johnstone and
II ug het!.

Atter which, the Burlesque, ESMERA LDA ; or, The Sen-
sation Goat. Illes-rs. l horne Jame-, Kobson, and Tumor ;
Alesdames A. Svvanborougb, Hughes, Newton, Weathersby,
and E. Holt.
To conclude with A SUIT OF TWEEDS.
Commence at Seven.

HOLBORN THEATRE ROYAL
Sole rroprietor and Manager, Mr. z•efton Parry.

M 1 THIS EVENING, a new Farce, MI TURN NEXT. Mr.
Belmore, Miss Foote, Miss Lennox.
After which, Boucicault's drama of FLYING SCUD.
Messrs. Neville, Belmore, Blake, Garden,Vollaire ; Mesdames
F. Josephs, C. Saunders, B. Foote, Raymond.

ru HE ATRE ROYAL, ASTLEY'S.
1 Under the Sole Management of Mr. W. 11. C. NATION.
Mr. W. IL C. NATION has much pleasure in announcing that
he has obtained special leave of Mr. Benjamin Webster to
produce J. B. Bucketone's Romantic Adelphi Dram', THE
FLOWERS Or' THE FOREST.

THIS EVENING. J. B. Ruckstone's Romantic Adelphi
Drams, THE FLOW EL-CS OF THE N'OltE introducing
a novel and picturesque " Gipsy DAttcE " by the powerful
Corps de [taller, under the direction of Air. Milano. Mensrs,
Fernandez, Atkins. Stephens ; Misses Edith Stuart, Thirl-
wall, Richardson, Marion.

To conclude with the Nation-al Burlesque Opening of
HUSH-A-BYE, BABY. Mieses Caroline Parkes. .Nel
Niebett, Thir'wall, Marion; Alum's. Atkins, Stephens, and
Arthur.

We are glad to find from Lord NAAS'S reply to
Mr. MONSELL, last evening, that the Irsh constabu.
lary are to receive a prompt and well-merited re-
cognition of their services during the recent distur-
bances. Mr. MONSELL said he wished to call atten-
tion to the courage and self-reliance exhibited in
every place in Ireland where the police force came
into collision with the insurgents ; and he alluded,
more particularly, to two cases which came imme-
diately under his own notice. In the police bar-
racks at Kilmallock, in the county of Kerry, 14 con-
stables and sub-constables were attacked by 200
men, directed, he believed, by an officer who had
served in the American army. The attack lasted for
three or four hours, an attempt being made to burn
the house, in which were three women and children,
but the police gallantly maintained their resistance
till a sergeant arrived with ten men, who took the
assailants in flank. The constables in the barracks
immediately rushed out and completely defeated the
assailants, great numbers of whom were captured.
The other instance was of a similar character ; and
though in both these cases the numbers employed
were small, yet, as Mr. MONSELL pointed out, the
results arrived at were of the highest importance.
" Had the police yielded for an instant the insur-
rection would have spread throughout the coun-
try, instead of being, as he hoped it was, effectually
crushed." It must be remembered as greatly en-
hancing the merits of the constabulary that the
Irish police is naturally drawn from the people, and
that it is closely connected by all the tics of religion,
national feeling, and constant association with those
very ranks from which Fenianism draws most of
its recruits. We may easily believe that strong in-
fluences have been brought to bear on them, and
their firmness and loyalty have been their chief
merits. No one expects to find any Irishman want-
ing in spirit or in courage, but it would not
have been altogether surprising if some at least
among the constabulary had been enticed from their
allegiance by former associates. Lord NAAS stated
to the house last night that since the commence-
ment of the Fenian movement no efforts had been
spared by the emissaries of the conspiracy to seduce
the constabulary from their allegiance. The attempts
which had been made on the army had been made
on the police, but every such attempt had been at-
tended with signal failure. The constabulary, too, we
must remember consists of 11,000 men scattered
over the country in 1,600 stations, each station
being occupied by parties of men varying in num-
ber from five to thirteen, so that any attempts at
persuasion or coercion were rendered easier. The
conduct of these men is the more gratifying, as they
represent very fairly, both in religion and character,
the great mass of the Irish people. Lord .N.us ex-
tressed his intention of asking the House to pass a
special vote of £2,000 for the purpose of conferring
rewards on these men, and certain honorary dis-
tinctions would also be given to those who had
more particularly distinguished themselves. We
quite agree with Mr. lIERBEra that the man who
refused to surrender his despatches when stopped at
night by a band of armed Fenians should receive a
special reward. Irishmen are quick to appreciate
such distinctions, and surely this is a fitting oppor-
tunity for showing how heartily Englishmen can
appreciate and admire their national spirit when
worthily displayed.

The Speech of the KING, on opening the Italian
Parliament, is sure to attract a considerable share
of attention, and deservedly so, for it is one of
great merit, and the speaker seems animated by the
most determined zeal to promote the freedom of
Italy. Under the peculiar circumstances of the
time VICTOR EMMAN eEr, may well be pardoned if
he indulges in a little exaggeration, but he does
not do so to any great extent. Ile says very truly
that " there has been a time for daring resolutions
and bold enterprises," and lie followed up the
course most desirable and most likely to attain their
object. Happily for all concerned that object was
gained, and the people acquired independence and
preserved liberty. After expatiating upon this
theme for some time, the KING goes on to treat
upon a very important topic--namely, what it is
necessary for Italy now to do, seeing that she has
gained the great point of existing liberty. The
answer he gives to this all-exciting query is a very
rational one. It became her not to waste in in-
temperance and rivalry the whole of her resources,
but she should, on the contrary, concentrate her
effurts and energies, so that a " stable and wise or-
ganisation shall be made." It is of greAt consequence