The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-23 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lekiee. Mr.. 7. Ruckstone.
There will be NO PERFORMANCE this Eveninsz, in con-
sequence of the Company being required at Windsor Castle,
by command of her Majesty.
Commence at 7.

THEATRE.-

ROYAL PRINCESS'S
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
TUFA EVENING. the pertormances will commence with
A WONDERFUL WOMAN. Mr. A. Harri 3, Shore, Frank
Matthews, and Miss C. Leclercq.
After which, a new farce, in one act, entitled NITR.SF.Y
CHICKWEED. Messrs. Widdicomb, Meadows, 11. Saker ;
Miss L. Keeley and Mrs. Weston.
To be followed by THE MASTER PASSION. Messrs.
Ryder, G. Melville, Graham, R. Cathcart, Garden ; Miss C.
Lee ercq and Mrs. Charles Young.

IVEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
.L Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. Benj. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs
B. Webster. J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Paul Bedford. Stuart,
Billington, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Moteland ; Miss Woolp,:ar,
and Miss K. Kelly.
Followed by the successful piece of extravagance, called
DINO RAH 'UNDER DIFF IC IULT LES. Messrs..l. L. Toole,
P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, and Miss K. Kelly.
Doors open at h►lf-Past six—Commence at seven. Box-
Moe open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor tor bills of performane,e. All fees to servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.—SoIe Lessee
and Directress, Madame Celeste.—The Public is re-
speztfully informed this Theatre will OPEN for the Winter
Season on MONDAY, Nov. 28, with a new and original
Drama Fantastique, written by a popular author, entitled
PARIS AND PLEASURE ; or, Home and Happiness. Full
particulars will be duly announced.

ROYAL .ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico,
factWminster, the Park being open to carriages and o passen-
gers all hours of the night.
THIS EVENING, a new Comedy, LONDON PRIDE ; or,
Living for Appearances. Messrs. R. Robins, Barrett,
Charles Young ; Mesdames Frank Matthews, Murray, and
Nelly Moore.
• After which (7th time) a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled
THE SWAN AND EDGAR. Messrs. Barrett, Francis,
Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, and the Corps
de Ballet.
To conclude with A DEAD SHOT.

Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, ls. The Box-off:3e open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform
ante commences at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.

Sole Lessee Mr. William Cooke.
Continued successful career of the new Drama, by Tom
Taylor, Esq., called GARIBALDI ; illustrating the principal
events in the Life of the Great Italian General. Supported
by a Powerful Company, including the fallowing popular
favourites:—Mr. R. Phillips, Ennis Belmore, Raymond, Miss
Kate Carson, &c. - Great Dramatic Tableux—Full Stud of
Trained Horses—Scenes in the Circle by the Star Equestrians
of Europe, John Henry Cooke, Marille. Marguerite„ Miss
Rosins., and the world's wonder, Little Menotti, also, the
Extraordinary Performing Elephant—Clowns, I. Croueste,
Rowella, French Pierrots, Gymnasts and Acroblts innumer-
able, concluding with the exceedingly laughable Comio Ballet
called LOVE'S VAGARIES. •
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips

CANTERB UR V HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EV ENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of
MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con-
certs).

And a Grand Seection from Meyerbeer's new opera of
DINORAII.
Comic Vocalists -Messrs. Georre Unison (the Trish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. F. Critchfleld, and E. W. Mackney.
Several interestinr,r, 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
sights of the metropolis.
ROSA RON HEIM'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE
FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of
Paintings in the Canterbury llall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is ope.i from 9 a in. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six-

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, NOVEMBER. 23,
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
52—highest since noon yesterday.
45 —lowest this morning and during the night.
51—thisi day at noon.

BAUOMETER-30.07.
Win), Yorth.-Easterly; light, with foggy weather.
Heavy fog again this morning and during the night.

HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tilts DAY.—Morning, 12h. 25m.—Afternoon, 12b. 49m
To-mouttow.-Morning, .Ih. 13m.—Afternoon, lh. 35m,

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THE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23, 1859.

There are too ingenious modes of nominally ad-
vanfAn g o. political cause in this country,th at are about
equally futile and equally constitutional. There is
the method of petitioning Parliament—by which so
very large a quantity of paper is annually added to
the national waste-paper-13asket. There is the
method of reasoning with a Minister of State per-
sonally and officially by means of a deputation.
Bat one appreciable advantage results, so far as we
have ever been able to perceive, from either of these
singular habitudes. The deputation and the peti-
tion each serves its turn so far well that it helps to
ventilate the subject-matter subscribed to by the
one and spoken to by the other. The petition
and the deputation are alike gentle reminders.
They are among the customary Remembrancers, the
former of the Legislature, th• latter of the Admi-
nistration. They serve the purpose of hammers to
hit the right nail on the head more or less vigor-
ously. And the deputation has the twofold advan-
tage over the petition that whereas the petition may
be altogether Lurked somewhat after this fashion—
the hon. member who has undertaken to present it,
mumbling some confused explanatory words quite
inarticulately from one of the back benches, shuf-
fling down the gangway and up to the table, laying
the scribbled scroll before the clerks, and leaving it
there without any more ado, to be tossed at their
leisure under the table by way of adding to the littered
sweepings of the Commons ! While this is literally
the general history of the ignoble fate of a petition
—a deputation is among the number of our poli-
tical institutions not restricted to the period during
which Parliament is actually sitting. And it is
above all worthy of notice as the means by which at
any season any subject whatever may be brought
directly under the individual notice of any one of
our chief administrators. So fir, indeed, but, we
fear, not much further, it possesses a number of
obvious and conspicuous advantages. Never-
theless, in spite of these, the_ usual end of a
deputation to a Minister is hardly less ridicu.
loui in its way than the end of a petition to
the Legislature. Generally the upshot of all is that
the noble lord or the right hon. gentleman, as the
case may be, having responded to th,,, spokesman
of the group in attendance, this response being in-
variably couched in words as enigmatical as a
Delphic utterance, is thanked for the courtesy with
which the arguments of the deputation have been
listened to. And so the said deputation takes its de-
parture from the Minister's presence about as wise,
all things considered, as at the moment of its arrival,
an 1 with the cause it affects to have at heart so
fervently—proportionately advanced.

exception to the
Yesterday afforded a happy
seal rua of these deputations. This was a
deputation received at his town house by the
First Lord of the Treasury in reference to the
present state of the laws relating to bank-
ruptcy and insolvency—a deputation, com-
prising within it no less than fifteen conspicuous
members of Vie House of Commons, accompanied
by delegates or representatives from (among other
places) Leeds, Liverpool, Leicester, Bristol, Hull,
Birminharn, Coventry, Worcester, Bradford,
Edinburgh, the West Itiding, Huddersfield,
and Southatnytm-. Lord PALMERSTON could not