The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-07 00:00:00

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)OYAL waINCESS'S THEATRE.
Ad On EASTER MONDAY, will be performed
Shalt ospozc's tragedy of
KING RICHARD THE SECOND.
King Richard IL, Mr. C. K ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean.
Preceded. by A GAME OF ROMPS.

riIEXTRE ROYAL. HAYMARKET.
On EASTER MONDAY, to commence at 7,
LIFE'S TRIAL. Messrs. Enekstone, Compton, Howe,
Farmn, Rogers; Mesdames Reynolds, Poynter, Fitzwil-
dic.
After which, for the first time, a Classical Love Story, an-
•r the Apple-lation of APA LANTA ; or, The Three Golden
pples : in which Miss M. Oliver will appear; also Miss M.
'ilton, her first appearance here, and Miss Ellen Ternau, her
t•st appearance in London.

C:rnclnding with G R NIRHAW, BAGS UAW, AND
R ADS HAW. Mr. Backstone.

New arrangement of prices :—Stalls, Bs ; Dress Circle, 55.;
pper Boxes, 35.• Pit, 23. ; Lower Gallery, ls ; Upper Gal-
ry, 6d. Second to all but Upper Gallery.

11HEATRE ROYAL, AD ELPHL
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.
On EASTER MONDAY, will bo performed the new and
riginal domestic sketch, entitled WELCOME, LITTLE
rRANGER. Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford, 43z.c.
Followed by TETE ELVES, iu which Madame Celeste will
_lake her first appearance.
After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL, in which
,fr. Wright and Paul Bedford will appear.

CANTER-BURY HALL. Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
lig company of Vocalists aro engaged for the performance of
Selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses,
Glees, Duets, (Sze., via.: 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. Corgi, Senor Antonio M.
de Solla, and E. L. Hime ; Masters Austin, Bennett, and
Corn i • Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Mackney, and C. J. Wilkins.
pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.;
director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre-
cisely. Suppers, dtc., until twelve o'clock.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1857.

Our Constitution is remarkable for such won-

derful Elasticity, and for being balanced at the

same time in such an exquisite state of Equili-
brium, that it is something aitonishing the Shocks

it can endure with the most perfect impunity.
A General Election, as marvellous even as the one

which is just now drawing to a close, is nothing

to it—affects it not is the smallest degree preju-

dicially : rather, for that matter be it said, bene-
ficially, wholesomely, invigoratingly ! Rendering
the Representitive System, ANT:zus-like, all the

stronger, as a Guardian to the Coustitution, every

time it touches the ground—or, in other words,

every time there 13 an Appeal to the Country !

A circumstance not so very surprising, however,

when it is borne in mind how much more serious

than any General Elect'on upon record, have been
the shocks endured, without detriment to it, by the
British Constitution—shocks sustained without

any perceptible strain to its elasticity, or any ap-

preciable jar to its equilibrium. For example :
Has not England survived, before now, the Pre-
miership of ono whom the Member for Bucks

once wittily designated the " Arch Mediocrity ?'

Has not the Executive in this country

been presided over, ere this., by a personage
whom SYDNEY SMITH defined thus wisely and
humorously, saying of him, that " Everything

about him seemel to betoken careless desolation,'

insomuch that—wrote the Rabellaisian Canon of

St. Paul's—

" Evory one would suppose, from his
manner, that he was playing at chuck-farthing with
human happiness, that he would giggle away the
Great Charter, and decide by the ',method of tee-totum.
whether my Lords the Bishops should retain

their seats in the HOU3O of Lords !" Yet Viscount
MELBOURNE, acting thus, though he did, through-
out his public career, with the "eternal and

wearisome affectation of a political roue,"—was
a Prime Minister, nevertheless, who has left a
reputation stamped upon the History of his
Country as a Reformer ! He has not only left a
reputation as a Reformer, but beyond that he has
the glory of descending to Posterity, as the Politi-
tical Mentor of one of the most liberal-minded, one
of the most constitutional, one of the most en-
lightened, one of the most patriotic, and one of
the most beloved of English Sovereigns.

If the country, then, has passed well through
the Premiership of Viscount MEM:OUP-NE, it may
reasonably hope to bear, wi.hout detriment to its
interests, the Premiership of Viscount PALMERSTON.
There is reared up about each of these notabilities
the same " magnificent fabric of levity and gaiety."
Each of them has in turn seemed to affect (as PETER
PLYMLEY expressed it in regard to the former) " to
play with kingdoms as other men play with nine-
pins." Cupid, in his youth, with the generality of
wags—Viscount PALMERSTON, in his later years, has
been designated by " Bez" the greatest of all wags
—what ? why, in consideration of the aforesaid
" levity and gaiety"—the First Lord of the Jokery
Yet the country looks to Lord PALMERSTON at this
moment, confident of finding in him—a Reform-
ing Prime Minister ! The Country so relies upon
this, that it answers his appeal by returning a
Mini Aerial House of Commons, comprising a vast
majority of Reformers Reformers as well as
Palmerstonians I It will not be deceived in its
anticipations. The light-in-hand young Barnacle,
the touch-and-go young Barnacle, with his hat
rakishly cocked on one side as he sits loungingly
upon the well-padded cushions of the Treasury
Bench—is so far "up to a thing or two" that we may
be quite sure of it he won't disappoint us 1 With
such a House of Commons. He will prove himself
to be what the country counts upon his being
A REFORMER. He i 3 too clever t) let slip the
golden opportunity. He knows perfectly well
what it precisely, that is expected from him—
and he will act accordingly—especially seeing that
if he so act, the coveted tenure of office is his
assuredly for the rests of the term of his natural
existence !
A Reforming House of Commons ours—we
may be sure we shall find that we have a Re-
forming PALMERSTON !
And have we not a Reforming Parliament ?
Look at the Ministerial gains as contrasted with
the gains of the Opposition. Look at the former
gains even among the county constituencies !
Look at the extraordinary number of " Old Mem-
bers," rejected here and there all over the country
in favour of New Candidates I" Close upon o:te
Hundred and Fifty whose names will no longer
be glorified in Lod ! And out of that " Hun-
dred
and Fifty," about .Eighty of these men re-
jected because of their vote in Mr. COBDEN'S not-
able Majority ! Nobly has the country responded
to Lord PALMERSTON. It remains for Lord