The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-27 00:00:00

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.

Sole Lessee Mr. William Cooke.
Brilliant reception of the New -Historical Drama, by Tom
Taylor, Esq., called GARIBALDI, sustained by a New Dra-
matth Company, full Stud of beautiful Horses, Characteristic
Costumes and Picturesque Scenery. Engagement for a
limited period of the Great Delavanti troupe, Gymnasists
par excellence ; also, Little Mends, the most Wonderful
Juvenile Equestrian in the World. Scenes in the Circle by
Star Riders and talented Equestrians. Terminating with a
Laughable Farce.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips

CNTERBUR Y HALL CONCERTS.-
- EVERY EVENING.—The 3Lusic of Verdi's Opera of
MACBETH (now first wade public in England at these Con-
certs).
And a Grand Selection from Meyerbeer's new opera Of
DINORAH.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish 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.

TILE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, OCTOBER 27.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
50—highest since noon yesterday.
43 —lowest this morning and during the night.
45—this day at noon.

BAROMETEIL-29.90.
WlND—Northerly, light breeze, with showery weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 2h. 13m.—Afternoon, 2h. 33m.
To-Moßnow-Illorning, 2h. 53m.—Afternoon, 3h. 12m.

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THE SUN.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1859

A quarter of a century has elapsed since Lord
BROUGHAM'S last appearanca in his birthplace—
the ancient and loyal, the learned and classically-
beautiful city of Edinburgh. Yesterday, he was
once more entertained there by his fellow-citizens,
and after the banquet, in the hearing of one thou-
sand persons, delivered another of those remarkable
orations by which he has of late been very signally
demonstrating the intellectual as well as physical
vigour that, after a most lengthened and laborious
life of more than eighty-one years, may still survive
undimmed and undiminished in the heart
and brain of an octogenarian. It was
in no exaggerated or hyperbolical strain
that the noble and learned lord, casting
a retrospective gl.ance at the outset of this
harangue down the perspective of his experiences,
avowed that he considered this invitation and this
reception as " one of the two greatest honours that
bad crowned a not very short and a ♦ory varie-
gated life." Adding, by way of explanation, that
" his being chosen to represent the great county of
Tork was the other"—that the grandest of all the
constituencies, both by the extent of its area and
the number of its population, having, by an ever
memorable act of electoral independence, selected
HARRY BROUGHAM simply and solely as a man
of rare genius to be its representative. No wonder
ord BROUGHAM still counts, among all the many
brilliant_ triumphs of his long life, as second
to none other, his victorious return as
M.P. for the West Riding of Yorkshire,
for the express purpose not only of the advance-
ment, but also, and peculiarly, for the reform of
Parliament. Yet appreciating to the uttermost that
great tribute to him, in attestation of his popularity,
Lord BROUGHAM hesitates to attach to it, as a per-
sonal triumph dearly cherished to the last in his
memory, any superiority of importance when com-
pared with this his latest triumph in his native
place, his reception at the banquet spontaneously
offered to him by the citizens of Edinburgh. He
simply classes the two honours together, and
speaks of them, as we have seen, as " the two
greatest honours" that have crowned his life—
placing them side by side —giving to neither of
them precedence.

Although we have as yet but the merest epitome
or telegraphic abbreviation of the speech delivered
yesterday by the noble and learned ex-Chancellor,
in return for the toast of his health upon its being
befittingly proposed by the Lord Provost, in the
name of the citizens of Edinburgh—we can
recognise without much difficulty, even from
this hurried synopsis, the scope of that full report
which the next post will bring more rapidly at the
heels of the flying telegram. Deeply and pro-
foundly impressed above all things just now, as a
politician, by the miserable disclosures recently
made of the systematic venality evidenced by so
many of the large constituencies, Lord BROUGHAM
almost at the very commencement of his address
found it impossible to avoid referring "to the in-
stances of gross bribery and corruption lately dis-
closed in England, and expressing his great gratifica-
tion that in Scotland electoral corruption did not

exist at all." Directly afterwards adding, with much
solemnity, that until this corruption was thoroughly
and effectually extirpated with a strong, steady, and
unflinching hand, the Constitution of this country
would be on its trial—as was intimated four or five
years ago very preposterously by the PRINCE CYN-
SORT in reference to the contrast of our great
representative system with the Continental schemes
of Arbitrary Government. The Constitution,
even now we cannot quite regard, with
Lord BROUGHAM, as, in any way, so to
*Teak, • really upon " its trial"—in regard