The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-27 00:00:00

NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.-'
C. F. HANCOCK, Jeweller and Silversmith to the
Queen, 39, Bruton-street, Bond-street,GE "to be worn having been selected
by the Committee to make the "BAD by
the Members of the "National Rifle
be
beg,s
respectfully to inform them that it may be procured at his
Establishment, in SILVER, price 7s. ed., and in GOLD
ENAMELLED, price Three Guineas.

tivi4EATltg-P.O YAL, IIAYMARKET.
Letilf.'e. Mr. J. 13. Baokstmr..
TRTS EVENING, the performances will commence with
THE NATTIEST DAY OF MY LIFE.
After which THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Chas.
Mathews, Buckstone, E. Villiers, Rogers, Jrc.; Mrs. Wilkins,
Mrs. C. Mathews, and Miss E. Weekes.
:LAN APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC by Mr. C. Mathews.
And THE GALICIAN FETE.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE...—
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, A.S.S. Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Cathcart,
Miss R. Leclercq, Sze
Followed by WERNER. Mr. Phelps, Mr. Ryder, Mr.
E. Phelps, Miss Atkinson, Miss R. Lecleroq,
After which, a new comic drama, called A HOMESTEAD
STORY, Messrs. Ryder, Shore, and Miss M. Harris.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.—
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Reproduction of "The Colleen Hawn." The Adelphl
"Census" every Eveninz..
THIS EVENING, the successful new Farce, entitled A
TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole. Mr. P. Bedford.
Alter which (217th time), THE COLLEEN HAWN. Mr.
D. Boucicault, 1). slither, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson,
C. J. Smith, Homer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucieault, Miss
Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley.
To be fJ. L. owed
T by a new apropos Sketch, TE CENSUS.
Messrs. oole, Ebnrne, H
Homer, C. J. Smith ; MISS
Kate Kelly, Miss E. !Thorne, and Mrs. Chatterley.
Doors open at half past 6—Commence at T.

fIAYT
ERBURY -HALL CONCERTS
NJ AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
EVERY EVENING,
Two Grand Selections from celebrated Operas. including
Verdi's new Opera. THE BAL MASQUE (first produced
a Chorus of Forty
in England at this Establishment), with
Voices, and upon a scale unequalled at any other Concerts.
Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, M
rr. G
Solosreville, Mr. HCornet-erbera-Ot, Sigston,no
Tivoli, Mr. Bernard ; popula on the r
by Mr. Levy (the first performer of the day); the Brothers
Conrad (in an entirely original entertainment on the double
r ope, not to be seen elsewhere); continued success of Mr.
Wood and his talented little Son.
The Comic Department comprises the following favourites:
—Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth ; the NERVES, by
Messrs. Harvey and French ; and Mrs. Lawrence.
Musical Director, Mr. JONGHMANS.

T 1' E 0 X F 0R D,
6, OXFORD-STREET.
This noble building being now completed, its architecturtinalg
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beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of ligh
render it one of the sights of the metropolis. Open ETerY
Evening. The programme is varied, and includes Selections
(by a full company of principals, powerful band, and chorus)
from " Macbeth" and " Un Ballo in Maschera." both operas
by Verdi, the composer of the day—The wonderful Solos on
the Cornet-a-Piston of the renowne andych Duets by
the Misses Stuart, and other vocal instrumental music
of the highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The
Comic portion of the entertainment is supported by Miss
Green, Messrs. Sam Marshall,ey, and French (the Nerves),
W. H. Wieland, E. and W. Randall. Admission,
Hall, sixpentre ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private
Boxes, 10s. Bd.

lIIGTI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
T }us DAN .—Morning, sh. sm,—Afternoon, sh. 26m.
To-ittoußow.-Morning, sh. 46m.—Afternoon, :6h. Gm.

TUE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE., JUNE 27, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAME,
71—highest since noon yesterday.:
52—lowest this morning and during the night.
71—this day at noon.
BAROVETEIL-29.75.
Wixn—Northerly ; light, with some rain, and fine
weather now and then.

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THE SUN.

LW DON, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 186

Mr. COBDEN, though a man of the strongest
common sense, must yet be practically regarded as
a special pleader. And this arises from the very
opposite reason, morally, to that which we assign
for special pleading—the strength of his convic-
tions. Neither his oppoiants nor his supporters
have ever doubted the sincerity of every sentence
he has uttered; but they have also never doubted
that, :while with the most unswerving and
unexaggerated truthfulness he describes things as
he sees them, he sees them but in one direction. Free-
trade is in the foreground of his prospect, and the
softened tints of universal peace extend to his
horizon. All the facts belonging to the first he
lives and moves amongst. Some of them he has
created. Few of them do not owe some part of
their completeness and finish to his exertions. He
is quite at home there ; and if we must act, in
regard to them, on faith, to no living man would
Englishmen rather commit themselves than to
RICHARD COBDEN.

He himself, however, well knows that in regard
to the other topic—Peace—they could not so con-
fidingly surrender themselves to his guidance.
Peaceful intentions on the part of other countries ;
the prospect of peace between other nations and
between them and us ; the policy, diplomatic and
defensive, best calculated to preserve peace—on
such subjects as these we cannot so safely rely on
the great free trader. He loOks at them all with a
free-trader's eye. He knows, as we all know, that
trade is a most efficient bond of peace, and, unable
to divert his vision to any other near prospect, the
more distant one is, to him, always of the same
character. He denies the existence of the clouds,
and the threatening signs of atmospheric electricity,
because he has no time to look at them. He can be
in France ; can live in the midst of 600,000
armed men ; men who are longing for a battle
somewhere, anywhere ; can hear the noise of the
dockyards building a fleet, absurdly large in pro-
portion to the national marine of the country, and
he perceives nothing more than he would in 600,000
policemen, and in the echo of mercantile ship-
building. He was in France negotiating a treaty
of commerce;—nations trading reciprocally can no
more afford to quarrel than private manufacturers
and their customers ; therefore, all must be right.
Bayonets and iron-plated frigates mean nothing
but defence—indeed they may be only so many bits
of display—guards of honour, simply indicating the
rank of La Belle France among the nations. They
have no more to do with blood, least of all with
attack on the peaceful, than the Guards which turn
out in honour of our Queen on State occasions.
But Mr. COBDEN must be as patient with us, as
he used to be with Chartists and farmers, if we
look around us a little more than he does. We
cordially congratulate him on his popularity in the
borough he represents ; we read with pleasure of
the vast number who assembled to hear him ; we
sympathise with the crowd, whom he with diffi-
culty prevented from taking the place of the horses
which drew his carriage ; but we still imagine that
a resolution which should have been a logical
sequel to his speech would have met with doubtful
acceptance from the four thousand who squeezed
themselves into the room. That they can confide
in him as their representative, that they approved
his commercial policy, that he deserved the thanks
of the country for his treaty—all this would be
voted for by, perhaps, all parties and all persons
in the manufacturing town of Rochdale. But, sup-
pose it had been put to the thousands before him
as a resolution _a That this meeting believes that
in building so large a Chet and maintaining an
army twice as great as her frontier defence re-
quires, France has neN er contemplated anything
hostile to this country”—would not a large number
of hands have declined to sanction it; and unless from
unwillingness to disturb unanimity on a festive
ce:.:asion, would not a considerable number in Mr.
's own borough have been held
COBDEN up against it.
To be sure, Rochdale seems not to have in it
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ranch of the martial spirit, or of the pro patria mori
E' spirit. It declined to establish a volunteer rifle corps,
,-0,. Rua received clue praise for it from Mr, COBDEN,
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