The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-13 00:00:00

YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Manalrement at' Mr. Charles Kean
THIS EVENING will bepresented Shakspeare's I- orical
:play of KING HENRY V.
King Henry V., Mr. C. Kean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean.

11HEATRE-ROYAL, ' HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING will be performed the new and original
-Comedy, entitled THE WORLD AND THE STAGE. The
characters by Messrs. Compton, Buckstone, Howe, W. Far-
Zen, Rogers; Miss Amy Sedgwick, &c.
After which, a new Classical Extravaganza, entitled
ELECTRA IN A NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT. Messrs
Compton, Braid, Clark, Mrs. Wilkins, Misses Fanny Wright,
Eliza Weekes, and Louisa Loclercq.
And 'TWAS I.

Commence at 7.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.

TFila EVI4. y the performances will commence with
ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. i. L. Toole, Chas.
Selby, Billing:ton ; Misses Keeley, Arden, and Laidlaw, and
Mrs. Killington.

After which, TILE DEVIL ON TWO STICKS. Mr. J.
L. Toole, I'. Bedford, Misses Woolgar, Keeley, Arden, and
Kate Kelly.

MASKS AND FACES; Triplet, Mr. B. Webster ; Quin
Sir. P. Bedford ; Sir Charles, Mr. C Selby ; Ernest, '4r.
Bil-
Hn~ton; Peg Woffiington, Miss Woolgar ; Mabel, Miss H.
Simms.

Acting 3Tanaver—Mr. Wm. Smith.

Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box
Office open from 10 to 5 - -no charge for booking. No fees to
servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough
THIS EVENING will be produced a new Comedietta, by
J. M. Morton, Esq., entitled WHICH OF THE TWO ?
supported by the company.
After which, THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE.
To conclude with VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark.
Commence at 7o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.

Lessee and Manager lir. William Cooke.
Continued Success of INANHOE.—Overflowing Houses
Nightly.

THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
a new grand spectacle, founded on Sir Walter Scott's popular
work, entitled IVANHOE; or, The Lists of Ashby, intro-
ducing among the vast resources of this great Hippodramatic
Temple,Tournaments, Processions, Banners, Combats, Tilts,
Victories, and Achievemer is in extraordinary magnificence.
Ivanhoe, Mr. R. Phillips ; Isaac of York, Mr. Jas. Holloway;
Richard of England, Mr. Herbert ; Robin Hood, Mr. Wm.
Cooke, jun.; Rebecca, Miss Bathurst ; Lady Rowena, Miss
Dowton.
After which, the matchless and unrivalled SCENES IN
THE CIRCLE, introducing Mr. John Henry Cooke, the
greatest equestrian in . the world : together with Miss
Emily Cooke, Mad.ime Blanche, Madame Bridges, Madlle.
Fleurette, and Madame Francisco, being the greatest amount
of female equestrian talent ever seen in one right in any
theatre. Grotesques—Messrs. Hemming and Th,rne...

To conclude with the Farce of RAISING THE WIND.
:Dress Circle, 4s. ; 80xe5,35...; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper

Gallery, 6d
Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, &JAI le.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips

OANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS
GALLERY. Westminster-road.—Open at Seven.

EVERY EVENING during the week will appear
THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY,

consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette,
and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and
EIGHT years.

The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some
of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ever
written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi-
ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu-
siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France
and Belgium.

They will perform EVERY EVENING, at NINE and
ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments.

THE WEATHER.—SITS OFFICE, MAY 13.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
60—highest since noon yesterday.
56—lowest this morning and during the night.
62—this day at noon.

BAROMETER--29.17.
WIND, South-easterly; rather fresh, with very fine
weather.

THE SUN.

FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1859.

Within three weeks from the present time
Parliament will have reassembled. Already the
" returns " for the new House of Commons have
been completed, with the exception of less than a
quarter of a hundred. The division which led to
the dissolution of its predecessor was one, it will
be remembered, in a House of 626 members—
counting the four Tellers and the Speaker. So that,
comparing the 626 new members already returned
with the 626 then assembled together, we
may understand perfectly well already how
far the appeal to the country by her
MAJESTY'S Ministers has really been responded
to by the constituencies. Taking the estimate of
the gains and losses upon either side, given by the
chief organ of the Opposition—the Times—we
find it distinctly stated this morning that the clear
balance struck between the opposing " parties" out
of the 626 returns already delivered in, yields
(according to the Times) an advantage of exactly
twenty seats altogether, won in towns and counties
to the side of the Conservatives! The sum total
of the Liberal gains being stated at 20, and the
sum total of the Liberal losses being given at 40
—there is, consequently, as we have said a clear
advantage of 20 won to the side of the Govern-
ment. Those 20 count upon a division,
of course, at double—namely, FORTY. And the
clear majority against Ministers in the last House
of 626 was one of thirty-nine—and those thirty-
nine, it must also be borne in mind, were secured
as a clear majority only by the most exceptional
and notoriously temporary combination (as the
playbills express it) "for one night only," and that
too "by particular desire "—of all the conflicting
sections of parties making up the aggregate of that
most heterogeneous opposition ! All this, we repeat,
is simply notorious. Everyone knows the facts
here particularised perfectly well—they are facts
patent to the whole mass of the popula-
tion. We merely now recapitulate them,
because the 626 members brought together
in the old House showed an advantage on
the side of the Opposition of just exactly one less
in the way of a clear majority, than the clear ma-
jority now gained in the returns actually made of
members re-elected to the new House to the num-
ber also, as it .happens, of 626 altogether. Yes-
terday, so to speak, the Opposition contrived, just
for once in a way, by a merely passing combination
brought about by Lore JOHN'S specious Resolutions
—yesterday the Opposition, we repeat, contrived
thus, by a desperate etTort, to obtain a clear
majority of 39 (in a house of 626 members)
against the Government. Tc-day, so to speak, as
the result of the consequent appeal to the country,
the Government has contrived to turn the tables
effectually—and that not upon one division, but
upon all divisions—not temporarily, but perma-
nently—against their opponents. To-day, in other
words, to borrow from the Times, the numerals put
forward this very morning by our contemporary as
the organ of the Opposition—to-day there is mani-
fest, a clear majority of 40 (in a house of 626
members) against the Opposition ! So considered
—not through the showing of the Morning Herald
but of the Times itself, of all papers in the
world—the result is rather of an anticlimax,
after all the bouncing of the more bumptious
partisans of the Opposition. It is a result,
of course, ingenuously attributed, according to the
manner of partisans, to nothing less flagrant than
the grossest bribery and corruption ! It is so °b-
y-I(ms, to be sure, upon the face of it—that all West
Kent, for example, could be thus bribed, that all
South Lancashire could be thus corrupted by the
agency of
some übiquitous FRAIL, through the
magic influence of some nameless electioneering
Gentleman in Black, with an unfathomable bag of
gold and a diabolical pair of green spectacles. The
trick is so easily managed. It is only a shuffle of
the cards that is requirea—a rattle of the
loaded dice, dice loaded with thpeporteciaonuds
metal—with a hocus-pocus! hey ! rest
the thing is done, or if you like it better, the
Country is done, to a nicety, in a twinkling. such

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