The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-21 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

B UTE SHIRE.
Mr. Stuart Wortley has issued an address to the
electors of the county of B ate, expressing his de-
sire to keep this constituency as a resource in the
event of his being unsuccessful for the West. Riding
of Yorkshire. The county of Bute consists of the
islands of Bute and Arran. The Marquis of Bute
(Mr. Wortley's relative) is the largest proprietor
in the former island, and the Duke of Hamilton is
almost the exclusive proprietor of the latter.
There is little doubt that the seat will be kept for
him.

DUMFRIES BURGHS,
Captain Walker, of Crawfordtou, has issued an
address announcing himself as a candidate in oppo-
sition to Mr. Ewart. His address is rather indefi-
nite, but he is understood to be a Liberal.

THE OPERA-COLONNADE HOTEL (late
Feuillade's), Charles-street, Haymarket, IS NOW
OPEN.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the 3lanagement of Mr. Charles Kean.
On EAS rER MONDAY will be produced Shakspeare's
historical play of KING HENRY V.
King Henry V., Mr. C. Kean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
On EASTER MONDAY THE SERIOUS FAMILY.
Messrs. B. Webster, &c.
After which, THE DEEM ON TWO STICKS. Mr. J.
L. Toole, P. Bedford, Misses Woolgar, Keeley, Arden, and
Kate Kelly.
Followed by THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STILBERG.
Mr. B. Webster,
Blllington, Eburne, Misses Woolgar, Keeley,
and Arden.

Acting stanarrer—Mr. Wm. Smith.
Doors open at a
to 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 Swanborongh
On Easter Monday will be produced a new Comedietta, by
J. M. Morton, Esq., supported by the company.
After which, THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE.
To conclude with VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark,
and Miaa X Ternan.

Commence at 7o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,

Westinster-d.
Extraordinary Attraction for Passion Week.
THIS EVENING, the performances will consist of novel
and unequalled Equestrian Entertainments.
__First Appearance of Mr. Henry Cooke, from the Cirque
Napoleon in Paris, with the astonnding Quadrupedical Won-
ders, consisting of Pantomimic Degs and Monkeys, as ex-
hibited before the Emperor and Empress of France.
After which, the matchless and unrivalled SCENES IN
THE CIRCLE, introducing the great Star Riders and Miss
Emily Cooke, Madame Blanche, Madame Bridges, Madlle.
Eleurette, and Madame Francisco, being the greatest amount
of female equestrian talent ever seen in one night in any
theatre. Grotesques—Messrs. Hemming and Thorne.
3lr. W- Cooke's stupendous Elephant Ajax, with all his,
highly trained stud of beautiful Horses.
Jan addition to this galaxy of attraction the renowned rider
hn Henry Cooke, the greatest equestrian the world ever
produced, Will appear.
Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke.
The splendid romance of IVANHOE ; cr, The Knights
emplars, is in active preparation, and will be produced on
Easter Monday wtth extraordinary magnificence.
Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes,:is.; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, is. ; Upper

Gallery, 6d.
Private Boxes, £l4s, £2 2s, aAd ls.
Commence at Seven : Carriages at 11.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
Proprietor—C. MORTON.
The pnblic Is most respectfully informed that the FTNE
ARTS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW
`-',,PI4N DAT AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12
1,;„°1.P.1n. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec-
Zt— Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters -and is also
Levoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels
maY confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist-
An v, Music Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently
added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether
a%ga
erds the architectural beauty of the structures them
or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations
King
Within, be found to be wholly without parallel in the
dom.
The MusteAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at
Seven o'clock.
_ln addition to the usual entertainment, the SAUVLET
TTILLY, of Amsterdam .Eight in number, whose varied
oitlrpmental performances have created so marked a sense-
)erfol,„„s n the Principal cities and towns of the Continent, will
every Evening at Nine and Eleven o'clock.

THE WEATHER.—S•JN OFFICE, APRIL 21.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
52—highest since noon yesterday.
44.—lowest this morning and during the night.
53—this day at noon.

WIC D 113,taomETExt--29.5.9.
telly ; moderate, with fine weather.

The Opposition journals, headed by the Times,
com
lain. bitterly of
of " the griev "
this the inconvenience—nay, more,
mace —occasioned by a dissolution at
particular period. The citizens of London will
suffer in no ordina,
of the season for degree from the postponement
a considerable
'l3 many weeks, and also because
portion of 1,
otherwise have found its
Le money, which would
will be diverted into Way into their pockets,
beneficial to
other channels by no means
trade or
commerce. But who is
responsible for this untoward event ? It Cannot
by any possibility "be placed to the account
of Lord li)Ennv." It was unquestionably the act
of Lord J(3/IN RUSSELL, who by uniting a motley
that of obtaining a proportion of the loaves
and fishes, and of the crumbs of patronage which
fall from the Ministerial table, succeeded in
carry.
add, unprecedented
in the factious and, we may
motion, which left Lord DERBY and his colleagues
no alternative, consistently with his
auty to his
try.
QUEEN and country, save an appeal to the count
The question of peace or war was trembling in
the balance. The only chance of maintaining the
tranquillity of Europe depended on Lord DERBY'S
continuance in office. And the inconvenience of a
dissolution, great as it may be, was unquestionably
leas than that of a fierce contest, into Which
England, sooner or later, would inevitably be
involved, and which would entail a war
income tax of sixteenpence in the pound, new
loans, and every Possible device for increasing
the ways and means of the Exchequer, no matter
what might be the effect on the industrial eommu
pity of the Country.

Aid yet Lord Joux
RUSSELL,sioned so much pecuniaryl
who has occa-
to the citizens of the
metropolis, comes forward with
munblushing effron-
tery as a candidate for their
He, the declared and uncompromio:it,:weet voices."
g opponent of
the Ballot, asks " a renewal of confidence and
the Chairman of the Ballot Society," who will
hid
this present month, and after the dissolution
W
announced, called on the electors to " reject eNeas
candidate who is opposed to, or hesitates on, the
Ballot," has requested his name to be placed on Lord
JOHN'S committee. We are happy to say that the
Executive Committee of that important and in-
fluential society have repudiated an act so incon-
sistent and suicidal, and unanimously adopted a
resolution declaring that "the letter of tit.BER-
KELEY to Mr. INGRA3I TRAVERS, the Chairman
of the four Liberal candidates for the City, was

notwiitten with their knowledge or concurrence."
It was due to themselves to take this decisive,
although painful step. We cannot, therefore,
understand how any real friend of the great
principle can vote for the noble scion of the House
of Bedford, who has rendered himself chiefly
remarkable for his talent in upsetting
every ad-
ministration, whether friends or foes, who did not
concede to himself the prominent place in its ranks,
which he so earnestly coveted. In 1835 he ejected
Lord GREY from office, and shortly after achieved
a similar distinction with respect to Sir R. PEEL,
having during his term of office never even
attempted to give practical effect to the resolution,
by means whereof he obtained a leading position
in the Cabinet!

We need scarcely allude to the summary dismissal
of Lord PALMERSTON in 1851, or the counter hit
administered by the veteran Viscount so shortly
afterwards. He assisted in the defeat of Lord
DERBY'S Government in 1852, and subsequently
taught Lord ABERDEEN a painful lesson as to the
impolicy of having so dangerous a coadjutor.
Being unable to form a Cabinet of his own, he
assisted in the celebrated China resolution that led
to the last dissolution, and afterwards in ejecting
his quondam colleague, and of course, his repeated
opponent, from office. Now he has played a similar
trick against Lord DERBY, or at least attempted to
do so. It is therefore difficult to say whether he is
most formidable to friends or foes, although we should
certainly say that the former have the greatest
reason to dread his machinations. Well has he
merited the title of " the small JOHNNY who upset
the coach ;" and, 'coming forward as the decided
opponent of THE BALLOT, we can scarcely imagine
that he will be the chosen representative of the
British metropolis.

The great demonstration which took place yes
terday at the London Tavern, and which pledged
itself to bring forward Lord STANLEY, shows how
great are the prospects of success of that talented
young nobleman. It was rather too much approaching
to dictation for any committee or clique, however
select, to presume to choose all the candidates, and
to think that they can pitchfork any one that they
think proper into the representation. The really
independent electors must revolt against the
indignity which would virtually disfranchise them,
rendering their suffrage perfectly valueless. They
have now an opportunity of asserting two great
principles, which will be achieved by the election
of the most promising and rising statesman of the
age, who combines the advantages of matured
wisdom with the zeal, energy, and activity of
youth.

Although the present appeal to the country is
not avowedly one based upon the question of Re-
form—although Ministers are in no way pledged
to bring forward another Bill for the modification,
more or less, of the existing system of the popular
representation—although the national solicitude is
just now in a great measure diverted from the
internal affairs of the country to its foreign rela-
tions, particularly in reference to the imminent
alternative of War and Peace upon the European
Continent—another and a bolder scheme of Par-
liamentary Reform will, beyond all manner of
doubt, follow hard upon the close of the ensuing
general election; and that scheme will occupy
almost upon the morrow of its assembly the serious
consideration of the New Parliament.

There cannot be any reasonable doubt whatever
upon this point. Or, if there really does remain
the ghost of a doubt in regard to the possibility of
a further indefinite delay of Reform, when the
Lords and Commons shall have again assembled
down at Westminster—it is one arising only out
of the frightful conjecture of such a conflict be-
tween the Great Powers of Europe as would not
only set aside many an English day-dream of
political and representative improvement, but tend
directly to drive back, if not absolutely to endanger
the vital interests of European civilization.
Apart from that awful possibility of a great
European War—the cause of Reform in this
country is assured. It is so for a simple reason
enough—the one plain reason that we are every
one of us Reformers. Twenty-eight years ago, at
the time of the last grand struggle for Reform,
there was arrayed againstits champions anmnerous,
a formidable, a highly disciplined, and resolutely
determined Opposition. Nowadays there is no
such opposition anywhere at all discoverable.
Neither in the house nor out of the house are there
anywhere discoverable what might be accurately
termed anti-Reformers. Finality has not only long
since been abandoned by the Whig statesman
whose bungling adhesion to it caused its tempo-
rary association with his name as an opprobious
soubriquet—it has been foregone entirely and per-
manently by the oldest and the most fanatical of
the Tories themselves. It is not a question nowa-
days as to who is a Reformer and who is not a
Reformer ? But—as to how far we are all of us
Reformers. We are each and all of us upon the
same identical road—and going along that road in
the same identical direction. ' The only difference
being that some are more advanced—some are
less advanced. Some have not got an inch
beyond the milestone marked with the
£2O county franchise. Some have got to the uni-
form £lO franchise for counties and boroughs.
Some have reached for the latter as far as the £6
franchise. A great many have pressed onwards—
more hurrying after them now in the same direc-
tion—as far as the finger-post emblazoned with the
name of The Ballot. We are no longer hesitating
—any of us—as to whether we shall have Reform
at all : we are simply not yet sufficiently agreed as
to how much Reform shall be introduced in that
re-organisation of the Parliamentary system which
is admitted on all hands to be sooner or later inevi-
table.

Guaranteed Peace in Europe—and we must have
Reform in England. Supposing, therefore, as we
are all of course bent upon supposing up to the last
moment left for hoping against
.hope—supposing
the existing peril of war to be dissipated by the
beneficent will of Divine Providence—the first
Political problem that will require to be solved by
'he new Parliament will be obviously and inevi-
tably the difficult problem of the reform reauired
in its Own internal organisation.
History is said to be a series of repetitions. It
has
is t sufficiently well proved itself to be so—to ren-
der matter of interest to revive at this moment a
few Pertinent recollections in regard to the course
taken by events twenty-eight years agb upon the
occasion of the last similar appeal to the country
prior to the last comprehensive reform of the Im-
perial Legislature.

Already we have very recently taken occasion 1
through these columns to remind the country that
the Ministerial Reform Bill of 1831, like the
Ministerial Reform Bill of 1859, was defeated in
the House of Commons by a small majority in a
very full attendance of members before the mea-
sure could be taken into the consideration of the
House in Committee. Thereupon in each instance
the Ministers of the Crown, acting in accordance
with constitutional usage, advised the Sovereign to
dissolve Parliament. The prorogation (with a
view to the dissolution. of Parliament immediately
, afterwards) took place in 1831. as in 1859—in

April. Whereas the new Parliament about to be
elected is expected to assemble on the 30th May—
the new Parliament in 1831 did not assemble until
the 21st of June. Then it was—upon that veritable
occasion—that King WILLIAM -the Fourth, in his
Speech from the Throne, said—" I have availed
myself of the earliest opportunity of resorting to
your advice and assistance after the dissolution of
the late Parliament"—adding—" Having had re-
course to that measure for the purpose of ascertain-
ing the sense of my people on the expediency of a re•
formin the representation, I have now to recommend
that important question to your earnest and most
attentive consideration." That maturely prepared
Reform Bill was, then, three days afterwards—
namely, on the 24th of June, 1831, introduced and
laid upon the table of the House of Commons by
Lord JOHN RUSSELL. The second reading of the
bill was carried within a month afterwards—
namely, on the 6th of July, 1831—by a majority of
136 in a House of 598. A discussion of almost un-
paralleled length having followed, the third read-
ing was eventually carried on the 22d of March,
1832, by a majority of 116 in a House of 594.
Having thus passed through the stormy ordeal of
the House of Commons, the bill was at length, on
the 26th of March, 1832, laid upon the table of the
House of Lords. It was there read a second time
on the 13th of April, 1832, being carried through
that stage by a majority of nine in a House of 359.
It passed the third reading in the Lords on the 4th
of June, 1832, by the large majority of 84 in a small
House of 128: ultimately receiving the Royal
Assent three days afterwards—i.e., on the 7th of
June, 1832. It consequently took exactly a
whole year minus one single fortnight
after' the new Parliament assembled, on
the 21st of June, 1831, expressly for the
purpose of passing a Reform Bill, before that
Reform Bill could actually be embodied (by the 7th
of June, 1832) in a substantial act of Parliament.
An entire twelvemonth being thus consumed in the
passing of the enactment—although the measure
was already virtually " cut and dried," although
the enthusiasm in its behalf all over the country
was carried all but to the pitch of insurrection,
although the cause then battled for was simplified
before the commencement of that last year's struggle
in the rallying cry of " The Bill, the whole Bill,
and nothing but the Bill." Not a whisper then
besides, of a probable European war !
Recollecting, indeed, what the political situation
was then, and what the political situation is now—
we cannot but feel persuaded that the country will
have cause to thank Lord JOHN RUSSELL and his
factious supporters, for at least one more year's
most unnecessary delay of Reform—which Reform,
but for Lord JOHN and the motley supporters of
his most ingenious but most disingenuous Resoles
tions, might have passed triumphantly through the
Lords and Commons during this ensuing Mid-
summer.

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