The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-17 00:00:00

lIEL MAJESTY'S THEATRE—The
GRAND BAL MASQUE, which will
slow M. Jullien's Nineteenth Season of Concerts (1857), will
take place on MONDAY, Nov. 30.

Applications to be made at the Box-ofttce of the Theatre.

THEATRE ROYAL, _HAYMARKET.
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
PHIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. with
a new Comedy, entitled AN UNEQUAL MITCH. Princi-
pal characters by Messrs. Bnckstone, Compton, Chippendale,
W. Farren, Miss Amy Sedgwick, Mrs. Buckingham White,
an Mrs. E. Fiizwilliam.
After which, LEND ME FITE SHILLINGS.
To be followed by THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA.
Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the
evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.)
First Price. s. a. Second price. s. d
Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0
Upper Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0
Pit 2 0 Pit 1 0
Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6
Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean.
LAST WEEK BUT TWO OF THE TEMPEST.
THIS lITENING, will be performed Siakspere's Play of
THE TEMPEST.
r Preceded by (2d time), a new farce, in one act, entitled
A CASE OF GONSCIENCE.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.
THIS EVENING, will be performed BETTY MARTIN.
After which, a new romar.tic drama, called THE LEGEND
OF THE HEADLESS MAN, and in which Mr. Benjamin
Webster and Madame Celeste will perform.
Pollowed by the original Apropos Sketch, entit:ed THE
DRAPERY QUESTION ; or, Who's for India / Messrs.
Wright, P. Bedford, C. Selby; Miss M. Wilton and Miss
Nary Keeley.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.—Lessee, Mr.
Dillon.—Under the joint management of
Miss LOUISA. PINE and Mr. W. HARRISON.
THIS EVENING, will be pe-formed Balfe's new opera,
THE ROSE OF CA STILLE. Characters by Miss Louisa
Pyne, Miss Susan Pyle, Miss Marian Prescott, Mr. Weiss,
Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. G. Honey, gr. Wallworth, and Mr.
W. Harrison. Conductor, Ms. Alfred Mellon.
To conclude with (11th time) a new Farce, entitled A
PAIR OF PIGEONS. Mr. G. Honey and Miss Cuthbert,
Private Boxes, £2 12s. 6d., £2 25., and £1 lls. 6d. ;
stalls, Gs. ; Dress Circle, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. • Pit, 25.;
Gallery, le.—The Box Office is now open daily, from 11 to
5, under the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jun.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. Robson and Emden.
THIS EVENING, will be performed A SHEEP IN
WOLF'S CLOTHING.

Followed by the new comedy, called LEADING STRINGS.
Messrs. Addison, G. Vining, H. Wigan ; Miss Marston and
Mrs. Emden (late Miss Somers).
To conclude with A CONJUGAL LESSON.
Commence at half-past Seven.

LOYAL SURREY THEATRE,
Leases's, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick.

THIS EVENING, will be performed a new and powerful
drama, entitled INDIA. IN 1857. Messrs. Shepherd, Cres-
wick, W. Smith, Vollaire, B. Potter, Widdicomb, BelmJre,
Tapping ; Miss M. Eburne, Miss Webster, Miss Chalmers,
Miss Johnstone.

After which, THE BARRISTER.
Followed by OUR TRAVIATA. The Blighted One, Mr.
Widdicomb.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
ng company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance or
Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, dre., viz. :—Miss Russell,
Mrs. Badzey, Madlle. Marietta, Mrs. Palmyra, Miss Bru-
non, and Madame Marietta; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr.
Heashaw, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jones, J. Barker,
W. Methug, Senor Antonio, E. L. Rime, and Mr. St.
Albyn; Messrs. S. Collins, W. T. Critchfield, and E. Mack-
ney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master
Willianw ; Direetor, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at
99yea o'clock precisely. Suppers, ctn., instil twelve o'clock.

HIGH WATER AT LO.NDON BRIDGE.
This DAT—Morn., 5 min. aft. 2—Even., 23 min. aft. 2
TO-MOILBOw-310rn., 38 min. aft. 2—Even., 53 min. aft. 2

THE ITRAMELER—Sox Omen, NovinusEa 17.
TIUMMOMIITIN, IN THE SAUDIS.
52—highest since noon yesterday.
47—lowest this morning and during the night.
50—this arty at nooa.
BARI:MUM 30.18.
WIND, S.E.; thick and hazy, with cold weather.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, NOT. 17, 1857.

Enraged by the failure of the scheme to ruin
the industrial classes, for the exclusive benefit of
usurers and money lenders, the Times has flung
aside all disguise, and at last exhibited its true
eolours. It has nailed the "black flag "to the
mast, and is manifestly determined to proclaim
" war to the knife," rather than its patrons should
lose a single particle of the -unfair advantages
they have obtained under false and fraudulent
pretences. We use the terms advisedly.
For it now appears that the specious
pretexts put forward on behalf of the act of
1844, were merely colourable, and had no real
foundation. It was first declared that the act
would prevent fluctuations in the value of money
—which, as Mr. COBDEN declared in his evidence
before the Committee of the House of Commons
on banks of issue in 1840 had occasioned " greater
evils, pecuniary, social, and moral, than the direct
failure of all the banks of issue since they were
first established in the country !" In fact, Sir
It. PEEL, the putative parent of the OVERSTONE
Bill, described it as a measure to prevent the oc-
currence of those periods of monetary crisis and
commercial alarm and derangement, which th©
previous measures regarding the currency had
failed to prevent ! We do not say that these
were the exact words, but they convey the pur-
port and effect of his chief argument, and that on
which the bill received the legislative sanetion, and
was permitted to become part and parcel of the
law of the land ?

Within three years, however, it was found that
the enactments had not only failed to produce the
intended effect, but that far greater perturbatiocs
had occurred than at any former period, and
"a monetary crisis and commercial alarm
and derangement" utterly unparalleled up to
that time. The rate of discount, which, but for a
short period in 1839, when it was at 6 per cent.,
had during a century and a quarter never exceeded
6, or been less than 4 per cent., had vibrated from
2 to 8 per cent., exciting at one time the wildest
speculation, and at another the most disastrous
stagnation. The position was shown to be
utterly untenable ; and the responsible author,
rather than confess the total failure of
his pet crotchet, was guilty of what used,
before the abolition of special pleading, to be
styled "a departure," or, in other words, a com-
plete shifting of his ground.
In 1847 he declared that "the main object of
the act was to secure the conversion of paper
into gold." Not one word did he utter on that
point in 1844. The convertibility of the Bank-
note was not questioned at that time, and the
subsequent statement was a palpable afterthought.
In fact he subjected himself to be tossed
on the horns of the dilemma, that there
was a direct falsehood deliberately put
forward either in 1844 or 1847. Both
speeches could not have been founded on fact.
Re Was equivocating at one time or the other.
"Mercator"—the "Mercator" of the Times—
lad Year adopted the latter view ; but it was
manifest that whenever it became convenient t)

j_TER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
JULLEEN'S CONCERTS.
MDLLE. JETTY TREFFZ.
The highly Successful INDIAN QUADRILLE, and
GENERAL HAVELOCK'S TRIUMPHAL MARCH.
The Last Night but Ten.
THIS EVENING (TUESDAY, Nov. 17), will be pro-
duced (for the sth time) the New Grand Descriptive Composi-
tion, by M. Jullien, entitled THE INDIAN QUADRILLE,
and GENERAL HAVELOCK'S TRIUMPHAL MARCH,
performed by M. Jullien's Orchestra, assisted by the drums
and fifes of the Grenadier Guards, the Coldstream Guards,
and the Scots Fusilier Guards ; and a Grand Chorus, " Rule
Britannia," and " God Save the Queen."
erces of Admission—Promenade, is ' • Upper Boxes, is. ;
' Gallery, Is. • Dress Circle, 2s. 6d.; Private Boxes, 10s.
6d. and upwards.
Prospectuses, with full particulars, may be had at the Box-
eke of the Theatre; of all the principal libraries; and at
Jullien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street.