The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-09 00:00:00

THEATRE-kOYAL, HAYMARKET
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING the performances will oonmenoe with
JULLOWE'EN.
Witt THE CONTESTED ELECTION,
After which, OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF KM,
And A. DAUGHTER TO MARRY.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swauborough
THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN
EGGS.
And TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS.
After which, TRYLSTG IT ON.
Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS.

Commence at 7 o'clock.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of
MACBETH (now first mad. public in England at these Con-
certs), the extraorainary Violin Performances of the cele-
brated Infant DELEPIERRE FAMILY, and the usual
Vocal Concert.
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 have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.

THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 9.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
70—highest since noon yesterday.
65—Lowest this morning and during the night.
68—this day at noon. _

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• BA.RomETEI-29.90.
W. ; light, with fine weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins DAT,—Morning, 12h. 4m.—Afternoon, 12h. 31m.
To-Moil.R4w-Morning, 12h. 15m.—Afternoon, lh.

The only solution—the EMPEROR says so, to al'
intents and purposes, as plainly as possible, in to-
day's Moniteur—the only solution of the Italian
Difficulty yet left is IP A.R ! So be it. Rather that—
than any Peace that is nothing better than a cruel,
hollow, irritating mockery. The seed-germ of evil
in the precipitate and bewildering agreement entered
into at Villafranca has at length budded, and flowered,
and borne fruit—that seed-germ being the reserva-
tion to Austria of Venetia! The retention of
Venetia by the House of Hapsburg—baulked the
realisation of the daydream of " Italy free from the
Alps to the Adriatic." So long as the abhorred
foreigners still held possession of Venice
and the Quadilateral, Italy could not be pro-
nounced Free from the Alps to the Adriatic.
The chains were struck off from her, it was
true, in Lombardy, by the sword of the conqueror
of Magenta and Solferino. But the accursed
manacles were still to be retained in Venetia. And
the perpetuation of the iron bond there was made
yet worse by the very condition accompanying it—
namely, the restoration of the Grand Dukes as an
essential preliminary. " The Arch Dukes," says
the Imperial announcement in the Moniteur of this
morning [and so far there is a satisfaction in the
reading of that explicit avowal]—" The Arch-
dukes will not be re-established by foreign forces.
BUT—[here come the bitter dregs at the
bottom of the honeyed cup]—BUT that por-
tion of the treaty of Villafranca not having
been carried out, Austria will find herself
freed from all engagements taken in favour of
Venetia !" Meaning the " concessions on a large
scale to Venetia" promised by Austria, but requir-
ing as a condition, sine qua non, the return of the
Archdukes. So that to put the matter plainly—
The Archdukes not being restored to their
principalities, Venetia is to be abandoned, utterly
and unconditionally to the tender mercies
of the Austrian despotism ! If we could typify
anything so disastrous, or in its way so monstrous,
as this utter abandonment of Venetia to Austria,
at the very moment when Austria is sullen and
infuriated by being herself ignominiously bereft
of Lombardy, after being defeated from the very
beginning to the very end of the late Cam-
paign—if we could symbolise any such Dread
Calamity by a straw or a drop of water,
it is surely the straw that will break the
back of the Camel (the Truce of Villafranca), it is
the last drop that will brim over the cup of Italian
Indignation. No wonder that even the Illoniteur
comes to the conclusion that such an arrangement
thus interrupted " will lead to fresh misfortunes !"
The Imperial deduction, then, is, that " War would
be the only way to resolve the difficulty. BUT,'' adds
the Moniteur again, " BUT Italy must be aware
that one Power alone in Europe :makes war for
an idea, and that is France, and France has
accomplished her mission." An Idea—lf the

abandonment of Venetia to Austria, upon the
understanding that the Archdukes could not be
restored anyhow, was the Napoleonian Idea at
Villafranca, it was certainly not a very bright one !

Happily for Italy, however—auspiciously yet for
her Future—Lombardy is really free—Sardinia is
heartened by her past triumphs in the battle-
field and the Council Chamber—Central Italy is
calm, resolute, unanimous, and prepared—and
there, at the central point in the Roman peninsula,
at head of his Italian legions, with his hand upon
his sword, stands the heroic GARIBALDI.

Mr. BRIGHT'S " last" is very much indeed in the
style of Mr. DODGSON'S harangues in that whimsical
politico-dramatic squib, called " The Contested
Election," now being performed to crowded houses,
night after night, by her MAJESTY'S servants in
the little theatre in the Haymarket. Only the
honourable member lacks altogether in his manner
. the gay, airy, sparkling vivacity and animation of
that CHARLES SURFACE of the modern stage, our
inimitable CHARLES MATHEWS. Mr. BRIGHT'S
physiqiie, we should say, would better suit him to
the heavy line of business. There is a vast deal,
however, of the imperturbable effrontery—not
"brazen," it is too gentlemanly for that, rather it
should be termed the lacquered effrontery—of
Attorney DODGSON, of Flamborough, in the text
of that great political sermon which will be found
reported at full length in another part of our im-
pression of this evening ! An election sermon—
alternately dripping with unction and flaring with
the and brimstone—delivered by Friend BRIGHT
to a congregation of some three thousand souls, as-
purpose of hearing it, down sembled for the express
in that appropriate conventicle at Huddersfield.
It really seems almost like an elaborated
joke of a flavour the most coarsely ironical,
that *wonderful " resolution " which was pm_
posed by Mr. BRIGHT last evening down
at
Huddersfield:—" That in the opinion of this
meeting the great question of Parliamentary
Reform, involving a more faithful representation
of the people, greater purity of election, a wiser
and im ore economical expenditure of public money,
and an' administration of national affairs more
consistent with national interests, demands the
immediate. zttention of the Legislature, and ought
not to be politroned beyond the first opportunity for
a satisfacte .ry settlement !" Observe—Mr. BRIGHT
actually m toyed that resolution in the presence of
Mr. E. A. LEATHAM, and in the hearing of a very
considerabi le number of the free and independent
and immat =late and unpurchaseable electors of
Hudderdiel. r/.. It is very much, indeed, like Mr.
DODGSON. It bears a wonderful resemblance, all

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this, to Flamborough. Mr. Bl!tIGICT must really

think we have very short memories, or no memo.
ries at all. Otherwise he would hardly, e should
conceive, select that particular place, that particu-
lar occasion, and that particular auditory, in
which, at which, and before which to talk thus
meally-mouthed about the sore need there is for
" greater purity of election" [0 ye gods and little
fishes !] Recommending so strenuously at the same
time " a wiser and more economical expenditure of

public money" judiciously avoiding, however,
any such advice in regard to the distribution of
private money, particularly in times of electioneer-
ing. Remembering what has so very recently been
brought to light by the sudden juxtaposition of
the flint and steel of LEATHAM and Elections--this
really is, to our mind, about the eoolest
thing well imaginable. Before Mr. BRIGHT
rose last evening to propose his amazing
resolution, another very important preliminary
resolution had been proposed and seconded, and
passed with acclamation. It ran as follows :
" That this meeting regards the election of Mr.
E. A. LEATHAM as a most valuable accession to the
ranks of the Liberal members of the House of Com-

mons ; recognises with satisfaction the accordance
of Mr. Leatham's political opinions with those of
the great majority of Ms constituents ; rejoices with
him on the successful termination of the arduous
conflict through which he has honourably and
triumphantly passed, and hereby assures him of its
confidence:and support." Why, this is just precisely
the sort of thing Mr. Ton TAYLOR puts into
the mouths of his Green Lions and his Blue Lambs
down at Flamborough. Mr. ROGERS as the tapster,
and Mr. BUCKSTONE as the butcher, have made us
familiar with them as household words. They are
precisely the sentiments expressed alternately (and
sometimes together) by fat Mr. BRAID between his
whiskers, and by that delightful little Mr.
CLARK, who enforces his sentiments by the
perk of his head, by the stiffness and tight-
ness of his stock, and by the very flourish
of his coat tails. Reading these resolutions, passed
so cordially last night by the "free and indepen-
dent," and, we will repeat, the immaculate and
unpurchaseable electors of Huddersfield, we seem
to be listening over again by the side of Mr.
COMPTON as Honeybun, first of all to the
hopes and aspirations of the Blue Lambs and
Green Lions, and then to the enlightened senti-
ments and opinions of the rival deputatations
of Flamborough.

What a pity, while they were about it last
night, down at Huddersfield, what an exceed-
ing pity—quite an oversight it was—that they
did not congratulate Mr. LEATHAM in the plural
upon his triumphal passage through the recent
contests I Perhaps they felt instinctively (the
ingenious framers of these resolutions) that pos-
sibly the least said about the latest contest (the
one in Election Committee) the better How-
ever, as (both literally and figuratively) the
singular congratulation addressed to Mr. LEATHAM
in the preliminary resolution above quoted, acts as
a gentle reminder of yet more recent occurrences,
we may be allowed to indulge ourselves and
our readers with a few agreeable apropos remi-
niscences. To which end we cannot possibly do
better than quote as follows the epitome of one of
the most sparkling episodes in the history of the late
General Election, as narrated in the pages of Black-
wood. Maga, is speaking of " some of the cases in
which bribery wasproved against theLiberals,"though
the members were allowed to retain their seats by
the incomprehensible, and incongruous, and utterly
inconsistent decision of the committees, and the

writer thus proceeds—
" First on this list, as on the former one,
comes a brother-in-law of Mr. BRIGHT
Mr. E. A. LEATHAM, brother of the ejected.
member for Wakefield, and sitting himself for
Huddersfield. Bribery here took rather a
comical form—much of it being done by giving
overprices for pigs, and by making anti•temperance
presents of barrels of beer ! The decision of the com-
mittee was as follows That it was proved to your
committee that GEORGE MOXON and JOHN CHAP-
MAN were bribed to vote for EDWARD ALDHAM
LEATHAM by JABEZ WELLS, by the payment of £lO
more than the market value of some pigs. That
JOSEPH CROSSLEY had been bribed by one EDWARD
FRITH to vote at the last election, under a promise that
part of his house would be used as a committee-room.
That GODFREY HUDSON, a publican, had been bribed
by JABEZ WELLS for a like purpose. That HENRY
PARTRIDGE had been bribed by JOHN WILSON for a
like purpose. That Jos. HoBBISON has beer bribed
for the like purpose. That AQUILA PRIEST ibT had
been bTibed with half a barrel of beer. That there
was no evidence that such acts of bribery had taken
place with the knowledge of E. A. LEATHAM,' and
therefore that he was duly elected.' After the
elections Mr. BRIGHT, in the fulness of his heart,
boasted that he would now walk into the House of
Commons with a brother-in-law on each arm. He
little thought how soon one of these relations was to
be walked out of the house in a very summary and
humiliating way ; and how the other, though
escaping ejection, must ever be ridiculous to th•
risible and offensive to the moral faculties of the
house on account of the barrels of beer and the
corrupt traffic in the unclean animal' to which he
owed his election."
About the other gentleman, the other Mr.
LEATHAM, the other brother-in-law of Mr.
BRIGHT. Well, we all know pretty well
about that ! In case any should have forgotten it
in any, the smallest, particular, thus quoth the in-
exorable Maga—

" Foremost on the list (the first list already
alluded to) is the Wakefield petition, charg-
ing Mr. BRIGHT'S brother-in-law, Mr. W. H.
LEATHAM, with having unlawfully obtained the
seat by means of bribery. Here the committee beg
the hon. gentleman to inform them whether it is the
case that £llOO have been spent in securing his
return, and make inquiries as to who were the fortu-
nate recipients of this liberal' disbursement. To
which the brother-in-law of the immaculate Mr.
BRIGHT replied that he had paid Mr. WAIN-
WRIGHT (his agent), two cheques—one for £2OO,
and the other for £500: in addition, the expenses
accounted for to the auditor were upwards of .D 100;
and he believed there were some small accounts
still unsettled.' As to how the money had gone
was a very painful branch of the inquiry ; and the
stanchest old Tory could hardly have helped com•
miserating this ' advanced Liberall in his humiliat-
ing dilemma. On the famous 10th of June
Mr. W. H. LEATHAM could not constrain him-
self to give a silent vote against the Ministry.
A Reformer so illustriously connected as he,
and specially deputed to second his brother-in-
law in his crusade against aristocratic influence
and corruption, he must tell the house why he con-
dcmed the Ministry. As a new member,' he
said, he felt the grave responsibility of the vote
he was called upon to give. But he was sent to
Parliament on one question—that of political re-
form ; and on the ground of that question he must
vote against the Government. They failed in their
measure of reform, and he believed the forty-shil-
ling freeholders would never forget the insult
put upon them,' Here,
which that measure
then, was a special champion of refoizvt-sme

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THE SUN.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1859.