The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-17 00:00:00

Commence at 7 o'clock.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of
MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con-
certs).
In a few days will bo produced a Selection from Meyer-
beer's new opera of DINORAIT.
Comic Vocalists -Messrs. George Hodson (the Trish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. 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
sights of the metropolis.

THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, OCTOBER 16.
TIIMILMONCETER, IN THE:SHADE.
61—highest since noon yesterday.
59 —lowest this morning and during the night.
63—this day at noon.

BAROMETEII.-29.52.
WIND, South-Westerly; rather fresh, with dull rainy
weather. Afternoon fine.

OCT. 17.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
65—highest since noon yesterday.
57—lowest this morning and during the night.
62—this day at noon.

BauomnrEn,-29.52.
WIND, North-Westerly; light, with dull weather; rain
in the night and this morning.

HIGH WATER AT •LONDON BRIDGE.
TEN DAY.—Morning, 4h. 43m.—Afternoon, 4h. srn.
To-Moßmow-Morning, oh. 27m.—Afternoon, sh. 52m.

Little Dorrit's readers—numbered by hundreds
of thousands—will remember the incident of
ARTHUR GLENN-131'S visit to that room in the Cir-
cumlocution office, where the two Clerks, we beg
their pardon, the two official gentlemen, are loung-
ing away their time, talking in a listless drawl
about something or other relating to " dawgs ;" one
of these two important civil servants of the Crown
leisurely polishing the barrel of a fowling-piece, the
while, upon a silk pocket-hankerchief. " Finance,"
that is to say somebody signing himself "Finance,"
has just now taken up the pleasant inquiries sug-
gested by that incident. He follows in ARTHUR
CLENNAM'S footsteps, and opens a few more doors in
the Circumlocution office for the purpose of whole-
some ventilation ! And, like ARTHUR CLENNAM,
" Finance," with a profound significance in the act,
leaves the door, in each instance (when he goes out
again), standing wide open. "Shut that door !" cries
one of the two clerks in Little Dorrit—at this mo-
ment we don't precisely recollect whether it was the
gentleman polishing the gun-barrel, or his companion
spreading marmalade with a paper-knife. At
any rate, one or other bawls indignantly after
ARTHUR—" Shut that door !" The novelist, by 'an
exquisite instinct of the judicious, refrains from
letting us know whether GLENNAM did return to
shut it or not. We prefer to believe that he did
not—but that there it is standing wide open to this
day, enabling those who list to look in when they
please and see how matters are managed in the
circumlocution office, and how the public time is
there consumed.

How many other official gentlemen in other
apartments of the great Circumlocution office will
feel disposed to bawl, "Shut that door" after the
retreating footsteps of " Finance," who has just
looked in upon them like CLENNAM, and, like CLEN-
NAM, left the door wide open, for the purpose, we
presume, of course, as already intimated, of more
perfect "ventilation." The injunction, indeed,
seems to come forth this time in a sort of a choral
shout from four different directions simultaneously
—from the Foreign Office, from the Treasury Office,
from the Board of Trade Office, and from the office
of the Registrar of Merchant Seamen. Any one
who wants a good lorgnette to enable him,
no matter at what distance, to see clearly
in through those open doorways, may find
it supplied opportunely to hand by " Finance"
himself in another part of our impression of
this evening, in a double-barrelled communi-
cation to one of o 1r contemporaries. Any ono may
thus be enabled to see for himself at a glance, how
it is a good many other official gentlemen,
the evil servants of the Crown, that is of
Circumlocution, wile away their time, polish
their fowling pieces on bandanas, or spread
their marmalade with official ivory paper-
cutters. The spectacle is really worth looking
at for a few minutes. It is—as the Americans
might say—" cautionary !" All at the small
charge (upon the nation) annually (in salaries) of
very nearly (" Finance" tells us) £3,500,000 !
Yonder, in one very big room in the Circumlocution
office, inscribed with the cabilistic word " Treasury"
—to the yearly tune of £54,000 ! Yonder, in that
other bigger room, the one walled round with pigeon
holes and ankle deep in a litter of red tape (the sa-
cred precincts being here inscribed "Foreign-office")
It a cost every twelvemonth of £76,000 ! And so
"11--Etis we look to the right and to the left alter- j

nately, at the suggestion of that dreadful, inquisi-
torial, "Finance !" Each department is a very.
polypus in its way : with ravening arms—more
numerous than those of Briareus—stretched forth
at all points, hungering, thirsting, all-devouring!
The feelers of these consuming polypi of the State
are many-named—secretaries, assistant secretaries,
auditors of civil list, auditors of accounts,
principal clerks for colonial businesss, for revenue
business, for financial business, for legal and
criminal business, first-class clerks (many), second-
class clerks (more), third-class clerks, and actually
in a vague unnumbered way, " other clerks," ac-
countants, and assistant-accountants—always " as-
sistants," observe, to do everything! Totfjours
perdrix et vine la bagatelle ! It is like the "gag"
of DIGGORY in " She Stoops to Conquer":--

44 Dig. What be you going to do
Serv. Nothing.
Dig. Then I'll help you !"

At the Circumlocution-office they have plenty
of DIGGORIES. And besides the " first-chop "
officials—the upper-crust of the departments—they
have, of course, a " second-chop " class of almost
equal abun danc e—office-keepers,housekeepers,door-
keepers, lamplighters, coal-porters, messengers,
and what - not, lower arms of the State
polypi less aspiring in their reach,
stretched forth as it were horizontally, yet in
their way, too, hungering, thirsting, devouring,
ravening ! The polypus, by the way, is conveniently
suggestive of the hydra—and the hydra of the
punishment inflicted upon it by the mythical
HERCULES ! And the Great Evil-Destroyer again,
does he not yet more opportunely bring us round
once more to our amiable friend " Finance," who is
fain to exclaim at last, " All that one can do"—
(beholding " such gigantic financial profligacy")—
" All that one can do is to live and hope that some
day a HERCULES will be born who will have the
power of turning the full tide of the public resent-
ment right through this heap of waste and extra-
vagance !" The suggestion, merely regarded as a
possibility, is refreshing to contemplate. Let us
cherish it, if only as a day-dream. And let us cling
still to that halcyon hope, that timely ventilations,
like these just vouchsafed by " Finance," may lead
in the end to a clearing away of the profligate ex-
penditure thus " ventilated" a clearance bold,
complete, though rough !

The devotion of Lord DUDLEY STUART to the
cause of Poland has very recently been most touch-
ingly commemorated. It has been commemorated
by the Poles themselves. And this at the instance
of the most venerable and illustrious among all the
hiefs of that heroic race now living—the Prince
ADAM CZARTORYSKI. A voluntary subscription
raised among the Polish Exiles and the Polish
population having furnished the means of realising
(in answer to Prince ADAM'S Appeal to his fellow-
countrymen) this exquisite project of a grateful
and affectionate testimonial—here is the testimonial
itseif in the form of a most beautiful medal of
commemoration. A medal pourtraying in front
the faithful effigy in profile of the departed noble-
man—here simply but eloquently designated in the
truthful inscription, " DUDLEY C. STUART, Causal
Polonim Indefessus Vindex, Exulum Polonorum
Amicus et Fautor." If ever man deserved those
enviable and honourable titles, this man did—for
during three and twenty years he was in very deed,
in the knowledge not only of England and of
Poland, but of all Christendom, The indefatigable
champion of the cause of Poland, The Friend and
Advocate of the Exiled Poles. Throughout the
principal part of his chivalrous life his sympathy
was with that cause, his aspirations were for
the restoration of the rights of that people ; but from
the close of the last struggle of the Polish multitude
for the revival of their national independence in
1831, down to the day of his premature demise in
1854, at Stockholm, " every energy of his soul," as
Prince ADAM has said very recently, " was given
to it, and he remained faithful to it to the last
breath of his admirablellife." How dear his memory
is to the hearts of the Polish people, but especially
of the Polish exiles, they have now forcefully indi-
cated through this appropriate commemoration.
A description will be found in another part of
our impression of this evening, a detailed and
deeply-interesting description of the presentation
to the husband and son of the late Countess of
HARROWBY, sister of Lord DUDLEY COUTTS STUART
—of this gold medal, offered by Poland (1859) as a
token of gratitude. The ceremony of this presen-
tation to the Earl of HARROWBY and his lordship's
son and heir, the Viscount SANDON, took place, as
will be observed, on Monday last, in that part of
the hall of the noble earl's country seat (Sandon
Hall) known as " The Polish Vestibule." The
sentiments with which this gold medal was
proffered to the surviving relations of Lord
DUDLEY to be held by them and their descend-
ants as an heirloom, were variously expressed with
great eloquence by that beautiful memento itself,
by the admirable words addressed to Lord Hut-
ROWBY at the moment of its presentation by Major
SZULCZEWSKI, and by the dignified and pathetic let-
ters transmitted to the noble lord at the same time
by the Count Z.IMOYSICI, and by that general's illus-
trious and venerable kinsman, the Prince ADAM
CZARTORYSKI. The significance of the great
" cause " itself is epitomised exquisitely in the
beautiful map traced upon the reverse of the com-
memorative medal—a map of the kingdom of
Poland as it was, as it may yet be again, a glorious
dominion stretching across Europe from the Baltic
to the Euxine, watered by the Vistula and the
Dniester, walled by the Carpathians—Poland as it
was in 1586, when Riga became a Polish Port
under STEPHEN BATORY, at it was as far back as
965, when, under MIECZZSLAS 1., that fair and
fruitful land was first converted to Christianity.

In the extract which we give from the Sydney
Morning Hera ld,the editor concludes with a very just
remark or two. The Ballot Society seems to have
sent him a number of queries respecting the work-
ing of the Ballot in New South Wales; and, natu-
rally enough, to have asked whether the moral ob-
jections so pertinaciously alleged here, were found
to exist in the colony. The remarks of the Editor
are interesting, as illustrating the state of the
colony, but in the last paragraph he lays his finger
on the real objection felt by the opponents of the
Ballot in England, which coincides with that which
we, and all interested in honest elections here, have
always pointed out as the true one—that it would
really place the power in the hands of the electors.
The moral objections do not, he says, weigh a fea-
ther in the colonies. But in the colonies they quite
comprehend the true difficulty in the mother coun-
try—" to reconcile the governing classes to a total
surreader of their political power." The moral
objections strike colonists as " frivolous, at least of
comparatively little force." He might have com-
pleted the old formula, and have said, " frivolous
and vexatious."

To us, we confess they are exceedingly vexa-
tious. It is not Lord JoiiN RUSSELL and
others being " againmt" the Ballot that annoys
us. All Englishmen are prepared to respect their
political antagonists, and to like them none
the worse for being so. It is the hypocrisy of
our opponents which disgusts us. Why can they
not manfully say at once—" We don't like to part

with our power." That we know, as the editor at
our Antipodes does, to be the truth; it vexes one,
therefore, out of all patience to be asked to meet from
time to time sham arguments, which, if we refute
them, and they have been refuted a hundred times,
do nothing towards gaining our object. Let LORD
JOHN RUSSELL say boldly, "the rule of the landed
aristocracy through their hold on their serfs in the
counties and in the agricultural boroughs, and of
the monied aristocracy through their power in
our Gloucesters and AVakefields—this rule of the
landed and monied. aristocracy is for the good of
the country—release the electors from the land-
lard's and monied man's power, and he would go
wrong—let him vote as he pleases, and his votes
would not please me." Let his Lordship meet us
in this way, and we should know how to deal with
him. But, he probably fears that the electors
would know how to deal with him also. Into this
subject, however, we cannot just now enter. We
only demand that if our Anti-Ballot Governors
want to preserve their power over our votes, they
should say so openly ; that they should not play
the hypocrite by putting forward morality, when
they care for nothing but pow?r.

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THE SUN.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 185..