The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-03 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 3, 1857

STRAND THEATRE.-BOSCO will APPEAR
THIS EVENING, in his Fairy Temple of the Magi, in
his wondrous Entertainment of Natural Magic, Music, and
Ventriloquism, illustrated by gorgeous paraphernalia and
superb display of vertu. Stalls, 3s ; boxes, 2s ; pit, is ;
gallery, 6d. A Morning Performance on Saturdays, at 2.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
THIS EVENING will be performed
Shakespere's tragedy of
KING RICHARD THE SECOND.
King Richard 11., Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. C. bean.
Preceded by a new Farce, in one act, called
AN ENGLISHMAN'S HOUSE IS HIS CASTLE.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
THIS EVENING, will be performed A SHEEP
IN WOLFS CLOTHING.
After which, a new drama, called DADDY HARDICRE,
Mr. Robson, kc.
To conclude with THE WANDERING MINSTREL.
Commence at half-past Seven.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow.
mg company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
elections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses,
Glees, Duets, &c., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield,
Miss Brunell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr. J.
Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, R. ;Grover, T. Farrant, S.
Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corsi, Senor Antonio M.
de Sons, and E. L. Hime ; Masters Bennett and Corsi;
Messrs. Sam Cowell, Sam Collins, and E. Mackney.
Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.;
Erector, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre.
cisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock.

(THE WEATHER—SUN Orrica, JUNE 3.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
71—highest singe noon yesterday.
54 —lowest this morning and during the night.
67 —this day at noon.

BA.BONETER, 30.02.
WIND, S.W. to W. a rather 'fresh, with alight rain oc,
oasionally; cloudy weather,i and, annshine.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1857.

It is manifest that the leading members o
" Her MAJESTY'S Opposition" are preparing for
the inevitable struggle that must take place at the
very beginning of next session, on the all-impor-
tant question of Parliamentary Reform. Mr.
DISRAELI, at the Farmers' Ordinary at Newport
Pagnall, ventilated the topic. He astonished the
burly bucolics there assembled by his appearance
in an entirely new character. He declared that
the nation will shortly be called on to " consider
great changes In the political constitution of the
country," and promised that he will give the
ministerial measure, whatever it may be, "a can-
did and sincere consideration on its merits." Nay
more, he indicated one of the required ameliora-
tions, and professed himself a zealous advocate for
the "equalisation of electoral districts." This was
but the first step. The- train of reasoning by
which it was arrived at will naturally carry the
Right Hon. Gentleman onwards ; and although
he emphatically denied that he was prepared with
a reform-bill of his own, ready cut and dried in
his pocket, we should not by any means be
surprised if he entered the lists against Lord PAL-
MERSTON, and made a very considerable bidding
for popular support against the Premier. All
will depend on Lord PALMERSTON himself, and we
can scarcely suppose that he would be guilty of
so grave a mistake as to throw the game which is
now in his own hands, into those of his political
opponent's. This will be the case if he brings
forward a stinted or emasculated measure, which
cannot satisfy the just and reasonable expectations
of the people. If the Derbyites have the oppor-
tunity allowed to them of turning his flank, by
proposing a more comprehensive bill, he will for-
feit the proud position he now occupies. His
decisive majority will he converted into a minority,
and no second appeal to the country can succeed,
if the nation find itself deceived and disappointed.
On Monday evening the Duke of CLETELAND
followed in the path indicated by Mr. DISRAELI,
and in some points travelled beyond his leader.
He likewise is prepared to give the promised bill
" that serious attention which the subject will
deserve." His Grace too, is for the " Equali-
sation of Districts," hoping that " all anomalies
will be got rid of, and the small constituencies
of which there are so many, an which he can-
not help saying are a disgrace to the country, be
done away with, and their members given to
larger bodies of persons !" This is plain • speak-
ing, and to the purpose, but before we give full
credit, we must see in what mode it is proposed
to carry the just principle into practical opera',
tion. It must be fairly and impaztially applied,
not for the sake of any interest or interests, but
with the honest intention of meeting the case pro-
perly, and rendering equal justice to all.
But the Noble Duke goes much further. He
has touched on the extension of the suffrage, and
put forward another feeler for the purpose of
ascertaining the current of public opinion. He
said, " There are many with large money quali-
fications, and resident in counties, but who, from
various causes, are not now qualified to be on the
registers, who ought to have a vote for the county
in which they reside ;" adding, " I will not only
say that every man who has 1001. a-year, but I
would even go lower, and say that those who
have 50/. a-year, no matter from what it comes,
are fully entitled t the franchise in counties I
This would include all curates, almost every vil-
lage schoolmaster, clerks in mercantile offices,
banks, and railways, and others, and it car-
not be denied that these persons are en-
titled to the franchise, and ought to have
it I" The " others" is, however, au elastic
phrase ; it would, according to the statement
of the Duke, comprise every skilled labourer
capable of earning even a pound per week, and
amongst them almost every renter of a 10/. house, -
and the journeyman mason or carpenter, who,
with some degree of inconsistency, he hopes to
GOD will " never be brought in." And why ?
Because he thinks when' that is once done "the
landed interest, in every, count' in England, is for
ever extinguished !" Surely this is altogether
opposed to the fair play of which his Grace pro-
fesses himself to be so strenuous an advocate.
Why should not intelligent journeymen masons
and carpenters be entitled to the suffrage ? There
are no persons more interested in the enactment
of just and equitable laws, by which their exer-
tions may be made most profitable, and with
which they can obtain that great desideratum to
the working man—" A fair day's wages for a fair
day's work." Re must get rid of that " anomaly"
before he can obtain full credit for the fairness of

his views and opinions.
The Duke has also taken a slice from Lord
JOHN RUSSELL'S proposition, and given in his
adhesion to the principle that, under certain cir-
cumstances, the minorities should be represented.
This is a matter well worthy of consideration. But,
if sanctioned, it should not have a limited opera-
tion. It should apply to all minorities without
exception. There would be considerable difficulty
in bringing it into practical operation, for it could
only take effect, according to any proposition here-
tofore made, in places returning three members.
If every electoral district were so constructed as
to elect three representatives the scheme might be
ianctixied with exceedingly beneficial results.
Bucks, Hertfordshire, and others virtually act on

the principle at this time, and it may be generalised
without the slightest possible danger to the British
Constitution, or having much effect on the balance
of party power in the House of Commons.
But both the Duke of CLEVELAND and Mr.
DISRAELI have maintained an ominous silence on
that which the people require far more than either
extension of the franchise, or a new arrangement
of the constituencies, viz., full protection for the
voter from every corrupt and degrading influence

—from " bribery and intimidation," whether flip
latter proceed from landlord, employer, customer,
spiritual adviser, or even the unrepresented mob.
When that security was obtained there would be
an end to bribery and treating. Each man would
give a free and unbiassed vote, which could not
possibly entail unpleasant consequences to himself
or family. If he thought proper to take an active
public part, it would of course be competent for
him to do so. He might not require protection,
but there would be many thousands of his fellow-
voters that would do so. What is good at the
" clubs " could not be bad at the hustings. The
Ballot is the great point to which all others must
yield. Its tried and faithful advocate Mr. H. F.
BERKELEY, will speedily bring it forward, so as to
obtain the opinion of the House, and we have no
doubt that opinion will be so clearly and unequi-
vocally expressed, as to convince the First Lord
of the Treasury of the imperative necessity
yielding, in that respect, to the expression of
the popular will. We can easily conceive the
tactics that may be resorted to. It will be at-
tempted to let it remain in abeyance until the
Ministerial Reform Bill is brought forward. If
that strategy should prove successful, farewell
t) the hope of a large and comprehensive
measure. The test by which every professing
reformer will be tried, is his conduct on that
question ; and we would remind Hon. Gentlemen
of the principle, that those " who are not with
us are against us," and that unexplained absence
from the lobby at the time of division will be
considered tantamount to avowed hostility, and
will be remembered when the appeal to the
country—which cannot long be withheld, what-
ever may be the fate of the Ministerial bill—is
responded to by the different constituencies of the
United Kingdom.

Mr. HARDY'S obnoxious Bill has excited—and
no wonder—the indignation of the London beer-
sellers. An aggregate "public" meeting (in the
strictest sense of the term) was held yesterday at
the London Tavern, for the purpose of enabling
those who wished to protest against this arbitrary
interference with the social arrangements of the
working classes, to do so at once and thoroughly.
Several of the respectable persons who expressed
their opinions yesterday upon the subject under
consideration, certainly availed themselves of the
double opportunity. They did speak right out—
at once and thoroughly. One of them, a mem-
ber of a deputation that waited upon Mr. HARDY,
described that gentleman, in rather strong lan-
guage, as " one of those cool and calm persons
who never laughed, but only grinned ; who
smiled, and murdered while they smiled l" Pretty
" tall talking," this—as our American friends
say : and not very much to the purpose, seeing
that the author of the Beer Bill must have been
a veritable HERACLITUS to have had his risible
muscles in any way excited by the approach
of a Deputation. Fancy any one " laughing"
at the mere appearance of one of that
dreariest of all dreary inflictions—a Deputation.
Lord PALICIRBTON we can imagine cracking a joke
at the apparition. But we can fancy even a
Hyaena under the influence of laughing gas look-
ing grave at it. There are some emotions, the
Pc,et tells us, " too deep for tears.' And cer-
tainly in the same manner we may be permitted
to speak of a deputation, one of your regular jog-
trot, long-winded, implacable, interminable depu-
tations, as being far, very far indeed, beyond the
reach of laughter. Everything considered, there-
fore, we dont think it speaks badly for Mr. HARDY
that he should never once have laughed at the
appearance of the Anti-Beer Bill Deputation.
But theßeerßill itself? That, assuredly, is quite
another thing ! We ourselves have already taken
occasion to characterise it, as we conceive it is entitled
to be characterised. And reflection only tends to
convince us all the more securely of this accuracy
of our first impressions. The measure submitted
by Mr. HARDY to the consideration of the Legis-
lature and now passing through the regular stages
required for the transformation of a crude bill
into a ripened enactment, is one, we still feel per-
suaded, altogether uncalled for—a measure calcu-
lated to interfere in the most wanton and the
most tyrannous manner with the comforts and
amusements of many thousands among our labouring
population. Are those comforts, in some instances,
merely crimes disguised ? Are those amusements,
in certain cases, vicious in their character and gene-
rally demoralising I—The law has already supplied
the remedy through the means of retributive
punishment I Let that remedy be employed
vigorously and energetically with regard to the
villainous exceptions—before you hasten to deal
(as Mr. HARDY proposes) cruelly, harshly, and
despotically with the respectable generality of.
Beersellers. That is really and truly after all
the one simple and reasonable demand made upon
Parliament by those Beersellers themselves I It
is surely not asking too much. it would, we are
satisfied, be forthwith and overwhelmingly con-
vincing, but that it is in so many instances an ap-
peal to the common sense of men who hare appa-
rently very little indeed of that commodity. For, to
speak plainly, it is a rational plea submitted to the
judgment of men who are literally what may be
salled Fanatical Crotchet-mongers of Legislative
Philanthropy ! Men, who would " put down"
Human Nature itself after the summary fashion
of Sir PETER LAURIE Men, who would suppress
intoxication by Maine force, or if you like it
better by Mayne force—either, that is to say, by
the authority of Scotland-yard, or by that of the
pre-eminently moral " State" of America ! These
fanatical crotchet-mongers—the supporters of
Mr. HARDY'S pet Beer Bill—argue that drunken-
ness has increased so very much that it requires
to be crushed out as resolutely as possible. It
signifies nothing to them apparently that Cocker
himself is altogether against them It is a matter
to these political Toots's " of not the slightest
consequence," that ever since the beer trade was
thrown open, in 1830, Drunkenness has notori-
ously and undeniably diminished. Diminished,
observe, not increased ! And diminished so con-
siderably that while in 1831 the number of persons
charged with drunkenness in the metropolis reached
the enormous aggregate of 31,353—the sum total
of these delinquents in 1855 had diminished to
9,769 1 Less than one-third of the whole num-
ber fourteen years previously I And this, remem-
ber, notwithstanding the diminution in the price
of beer and other inebriating beverages, and in
spite of the enormous increase of the population !
Yet in this obviously " Sober" Age—an Age un-
deniably sober as compared with its immediate
predecessors—Mr. HARDY and his sympathisers
are for putting a stop to the frightful " increase"
of drunkenness ! To which end they are endeavour-
ing, (as one of the speakers said yesterday at the.
Landon Tavern meeting) "ta ruin the prospects and

confiscate the property"—not of some two or three,
but of 40,000 individuals ! THIS is the cruel
and wanton injustice we have hitherto protested
against—and against it we shall continue to pro-
test to the last and to the uttermost.

LATEST N E WS.

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.
The Emperor yesterday morning gave an au-
dience to Count Kisseleff, the Russian Ambassador,
who delivered a letter from his Sovereign, an-
nouncing the birth of the Grand Duke Sergius,
his son. Lord Cowley afterwards had an audience,
to take leave prior to his departure for Loudon ;
and the Baron de Paiva, the Portuguese Minister,
on his return from Lisbon. In the course of the
day, the Emperor received Baron de Cetto, the
Bavarian Minister in London, presented by the
Baron de Wendland, Minister of Bavaria in Paris;
as well as Dr. Kern, the Swiss Minister Plenipo-
tentiary, who is about to return to Switzerland.
"Prince Napoleon," says a Paris letter in the
Nord of Brussels, " will visit Manchester about
the end of June."

The Moniteur contains a long report from Mar-
shal Vaillant, the Minister of War, on the state of
the Arab population of Algeria. The general con-
clusion is, that the Arabs are improving in their
moral and material condition, but Marshal Vail-
lant admits that much yet remains to be done be-
fore they can be considered as completely attached
to French civilisation.

The King of Bavaria will prolong his stay in
Paris, it is said, to the 12th inst. On the sth his
Majesty will be present at a grand ball, which is to
be given at the palace of St. Cloud.
Lord Brougham was present yesterday at the
meeting of the scientific section of the Institute,
and read a paper of great research, "On Paradoxes
imputed to the Integral Calculuq."
The solemn inauguration of the Louvre, com-
pletely terminated, will take place, it is said, on
the 15th August, the fete day of the Emperor.
Their Majesties, the great diguitaries of the em-
pire, the ministers, &c., will be present at this
great solemnity, to which will be invited the artists
who by their works have assisted in th s great com-
pletion.
This evening, in all probability, will be decided
the question of the Republican candidates coming
forward at the approaching elections. Of General
Cavaignac's persistence in his resolution not to pre-
sent himself nothing new is known, but it is pretty
certain that M. Havin, the principal editor of the
Siecle, will be proposed as a candidate in the third
arrondissement of Paris. The question of taking
the oaths of allegiance is still under discussion.
BOURSE, June 2.—The following were the last
quotations

Cash. fr. e.
44 per Cents
3 per Cents 69 10
Bank Shares 4,500
Credit litobilier 1,257 50 Roman
Da Account 1,247 50 Austrian
Belgian 14 - 974 Spanish Threes
Piedmontese (5) 9l 25 Home Debt

End of Month.
—fr. —G.
69 85

RAILWAYS-FOR CABS.

Orleans 1,4621— Western ' 775 -
Nferthern -
Lyons 1,475 New Ditto -
Mediterranean 1,900 Grand Central
Geneva -
Midi

Grand Duke has now ordered the release of these
gentlemen without any petition for grace having
been sent in on their. part.

The Dresden Gazette publishes a royal decree in-
terdicting the circulation of foreign bank notes in
the kingdom of Saxony. The government is here-
after to publish certain exceptions, made in favour
of banks•affoi ding desirable guarantees before the
new Jaw comes into rigour in September nest.
The intention is that ouly such foreign banks shall
be considered safe as have offices at Leipsic and
other large towns, in which their notes can at auy
time be exchanged for money.

The Zeit of Berlin, in copying the Count de
Buol's despatch of the 20th ult. to the Austrian
charge d'atfaires at Copenhagen, states that Baron
de Manteuffel on the same day sent a similar docu-
ment to the Prussian representative in the Danish
capital.

Accounts from Vienna state that the number of
political prisoners released in consequence of the
recent amnesty amounts to about 400.

The Verona Gazette announces that, up to the
evening of the 29th ult., Marshal Radetsky was
progrozsing favourably.