The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-14 00:00:00

THE DRAMATIC CRICKET CLUB.

Under the above title a cricket club has been established,
and among its members are enrolled several celebrated
professionals. A meeting was held last week in the saloon
of the Royal Princess's Theatie (by the kind permission of
G. Vining, Esq), which was numerously attended. The
hon. secretary (Mr. T. M. Edmonds) being called upon by
the chairman (J. L. Hatton, Esq.) laid before the meeting a
statement of what the committee had done iu making ar-
rangements for the ensuing season, and also showed that
the funds were highly satisfactory. The opening matchis
fixed for Good Friday, at Highbury, after which the mem-
bers will dine together at Air. Giovanelli's, Highbury Barn

I ILDEBRANDTEXHIBITIONINSTITUTE OFPAINTERS
1N WATER CoLotats.—Professor Kinkel last night delivered
a lecture on the pictures exhibited at the above institution.
The visitors were so numinous that the gallery could
scarcely contain them. Tlie proceeds of the evening were
given to a charity.

DAILY NEWS.—The recall of Sir Charles Darling
from the Governorship of Victoria is a step which
Mr. Cardwell was not likely to take without anxious
deliberation. It is not an act easily performed,
and, as long as only technical grounds are consi-
dered, easily justified. Mr. Cardwell has no diffi-
culty in showing that the course pursued by the Go-
vernment of Victoria since the rejection of the Ap-
propriation Bill by the Legislative Council last July
has been highly irregular. Duties have been levied
on the sole authority of the Assembly, and public
monies have been disbursed without the certificates
of the Audit Commissioners, two things much to be
regretted. Mr. Cardwell has condemned them,
and so correct and orderly a statesman was sure to
do. And whereas his censures fall on the Colonial
Government much as hailstones fall on the dome
of St. Paul's, to glance harmlessly off ; and as it is
not seemly that the Minister of our great colonial
empire should seem to speak entirely without
effect, he has taken the practical step of recalling
the Governor. He will find plenty in this country
to sustain him in this course. A Colonial Minister
who scolds a colony is always supported in the early
stages of a dispute. But only in the first. When
the time comes, as come it always does, for him to
give way, his stalwart friends fall off and leave him
alone, to find as best he may a path from a position
that has become untenable. Mr. Cardwell must
well remember the course and termination of the
transportation dispute with the Australian colonies.
It would be easy to praise the orthodox political
doctrine and the legal tone of Mr. Cardwell's de-
spatches to Governor Darling. What we look for,
however, in them, and unfortunately do not find,
is a practical statesmanlike view of the Governor's
duty in extraordinary and difficult circumstances.
Mr. Cardwell's instructions are admirably adapted
to fair weather. They may be generally summed
up in a strict injunction to obey the law. Happily
it is only the political law of the colony that has
been in question. There have been no courts-mar-
tial, no suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in
Victoria ; and if taxes have been levied without the
concurrence of the entire Legislature, they have been
collected with the sanction of the representatives of
the people. It is well to watch the least deviation
from constitutional usage with suspicion ; but after
all it must be admitted that the harm done is as
slight as can well be imagined.