The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-08 00:00:00

Stage Manager, Mr. It. Phillips

CANTERBUR HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of
MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con-
Cats).
And a Grand Se ection from Meyerbeer's new opera of
DINORAH.

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Comic Vocalists -Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. I'. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney.
Several interesting; Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute'one of the most unique and brilliant
Eights of the metropolis.
ROSA BONHEUIi'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE
FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of
Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is open from 9 am. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six-
pence.

THE WEATHER.—SVN OFFICE, DECEMBER 8.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
48—highest since noon yesterday.
45—lowest this morning and during the night.
48—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.25.
WIND, South-Easterly ; light, with fino cool weather.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 8, 1859.

Anxieties and difficulties begin to increase
rapidly about the Coalition. Apart from the Con-
gress we mean—in regard to other questions be-
yond that of Italian Independence. Though that
arch difficulty alone has signalized, in a remarkable
manner, very recently, the chief flaw in this boasted
strong Government ! The ril'-alry, namely, of the
two Premiers—the Premier defacto, and the Premier
(in his own estimation—if in no one else's) de jure—
my Lord JOHN RUSSELL and my Lord PALMERSTON.
So very much afraid are they of each other—
or at any rate, as Mr. SNAGSBY would say, " not to
put too fine a point upon it"—they are so painfully
jeaLlus of each other, these " friendly brothers,"
arcades ambo, that they cannot dream for the life
of them for one instant of trusting the ono the
other out of his immediate presence and observa-
tion. So that while the rest of the Powers of
Christendom may be represented at the diplomatic
board of green cloth in the French capital by their
respective Prime Ministers or Foreign Secre-
taries—not so England! Lord JOHN RUSSELL
and Lord PALMERSTON must sit side by side
on that delightful front Treasury Bench
in the House of Commons : they are so
cordially attached to one another—they cannot
brook separation ! This, however, in truth, for the
one simple reason that the one left behind (sup-
posing either went to the Paris Conference as Ple-
nipotentiary) would infallibly take advantage of
the other's absence to topple down, as the case
might be, his rival's actual or pretended hold upon
the Premiership. And so my Lord. COWLEY slips
into the vacant fauteuil—having as his coadjutor
and compatriot the noble Under Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, my Lord WODEHOUSE. And
having thus adroitly solved the difficulty of the Con-
gress, so far as it more immediately affected them-
selves individually, Lord JOHN and Lord PALMER-
STON are likely to have a wonderfully pleasant time
of it together in the approaching session of Par-
liament !

First of all, there are so many nice big
and little questions, of the utmost possible
urgency and delicacy, that really and truly
must be taken into account at last, that there is
no escaping from, that brook not by any chance
of the faintest probability of further postpone-
ment. There is the largest, the most urgent, the
most delicate, the most complicated, the most com-
prehensive question, the reform of all reforms,
the reform of parliament, the reform of our whole
system of popular representation. Of the impera-
tive necessity of taking this one paramount diffi-
culty at once into consideration Ministers have for
months past had pretty frequent and forcible re-
minders. Indeed, upon this point the hon. gentle-
man the member for Birmingham has assumed to
himself, as we may say, a sort of ex-official charac-