The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-06 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMAR-ZET.
Lome, Mr. J. Biakstone.
THIS EVENING, the pertormanoes will commenee with
A DUKE IN DIFFICULTIES. Mrs. Stirling, husa
Haydon, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr. Backstone,
Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, rcs.
After which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery
and effects, and all the orienal mush) by the late Sir Henry
Bishop, the melodrama of THE R AND HIS MEN.
.(342.mmence at;M

T HEATRE-EOYAL LYCEUM.
Bois Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
Two New Dramas.—Reappearance of Mr. John Drew, and
6th appearance of Miss Matilda Heron.
THIS EVENING, T FIE TWO GREGORIES.

After which, a new original comic drama, written by Semi.
Lover, Esq., entitled MAC CARTHY MORE ; or, Possession
Nine Points of the Law. John Drew, J. Johnston, Forrester,
J. Rouse, Medlin ; Misses Rawlings, Hudspeth, &c.
To conclude with a new drama, NEW YEAR'S EVE ; or,
The Belle of the Season. Messrs. H. Neville, Villiers, Jae.
Johnstone, J. Rouse ; Mrs. Winstanley, Miss Matilda Heron,
Miss Willard, &c.

OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lome and Manager. Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore,
Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leclercq.
Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup-
ported by Messrs. Ryder, Hermann Vezin, Graham, Shore,
Meadows, ex. ; Misses Heath, R. Leolercq, and Elsworthy.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. ADELPHI.—
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Great Attraction for the Easter Holidays.-6th appearance
this season of Mr. B. Webster and Miss Julia Daly.
THIS EVENING, a new drama (2d time) MAGLIORD,
PRESTIDIGITATOR. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole,
D. Fisher, M.; Miss K. Kelly, Miss H. Simms, &a
After which, OUR
`Gard Miss Julia Daly, Mr. Romer,
Mr. Eburne, and Mr. .
Doors open at half past 6--Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY-HAL L CONCERTS !!
, Westminster-road.
Froprietor • • • • ....C, Morton.
A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera,
IL CORSARO,

(This opera has never been produced in this or any other
country, except at these Concerts), haying met with that de-
cided success which charactise the most popular works of
this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ;
together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI-
vD:NTO, by Doniaetti,
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A.
B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and
the Brothers Conrad.
John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on
view a short time longe. za tu. Pint Arta Gallery of the
Establishment

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tina:DAT.—Morning, 11h. 56m.—Afternoon, —h. —m.
To-moaßow.-Morning, 12h. 20m.—Afternoon, 12h. 40m.

THE WEATHER.—SDN OPPICS, APRIL 6, 1861.
THZEMOICETER, TN TIER BRADS.
52--highest since noon yesterday.
37—lowest this morning and during the night.
47—this day at noon.
BanounTEß-30.20 ; rising rapidly.
WIND—South-Easterly—light; with cloudy weather.

Mr. GLADSTONE'S next Budget ! " Ay, there's
the rub." And it is one, we may say which is certain
enough to be administered by a harsh and pitiless
hand upon a back sadly overburdened, upon the back
of honest JOHN BULL, upon those sturdy shoulders
flayed long since beneath the weight of many heavy
and shifting taxes, and now actually raw under
the grinding influence of the disastrous financial
policy of her MAJESTY'S present Chancellor of the
Exchequer.
A very few days more now and we shall know
the worst through the medium of Mr. GLADSTONE'S
new Financial Statement. We shall have a grand
speech quite as a matter of course—a speech of
several hours duration—delivered with an exqui-
site voice, with the most graceful gesticu-
lation, with all the most seductive oratorical
arts that can be brought together by the consum-
mate skill of the most accomplished of living
rhetoricians. The Budget speech of 1861, like the
Budget speech of 1860, will, as reported from the
Gallery, fill as usual many closely printed columns
of the daily newspapers. It will be thickly sown
with numerals, symbolizing a great mass of
elaborate and intricate calculations. It will be
interspersed with all the customary marks of par-
liamentary applause " Hear, hear," "Cheers,"
" Loud cheers," " Cheers and laughter." Actually
"laughter"—for Mr. GLADSTONE can contrive
to be very funny, even when he is most
dreadful. If he were a dentist we may
presume he would extract a laugh from a victim
of the toothache, at the very moment, too, when
fitting on the carious " double," the grim forceps
previously concealed under his wristband. How-
ever, this might be in that wild contingency—it is
at any rate, matter of certainty with us, from a
frightful experience—in referring to which experi-
ence
one has to go no further back than the Budget
oration of last year—Mr. GLADSTONE, while slip-
ping JOHN BULL'S thumb into that old familiar
stall of the thumbscrew, while insinuating poor
JOHN'S broad foot into that boot of torture, typified
in the "Scavenger's Daughter" of the Inquisition—
Mr. GLADSTONE, we say, while doing this can
absolutely tickle his fated victim into laughter—
into ,laughing, as the wits of ANNE'S time used to
say " consumedly," as old HOMER had it cen-
turies back, "inextinguishably." How droll he
was only last spring—ce cher Monsieur GLAD-
STONE? And then as an inevitable close to
this grand annual display of his enormous I
folly as a Financier, and of his immense but
utterly useless abilities (when so applied) as a
Rhetorician,we read at the close of his rhodomontade
peroration, we are fated every year to read at the
end of his amazing Speech, " The right honourable
gentleman resumed his seat amidst loud and pro-
tracted chqering." Upon the following day every-
one is talking, also quite as a matter of course,
about GLADSTONE'S eloquent speech—finest he's
ever delivered—in magnificent voice last night (as
though he were an opera singer, instead of a
Statesman and a financier)—what sharp hits, too,
those at DIZZY—And all the while—
" 0 wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see sursels as ithers see us I"

A week afterwards and there appears across the
counter of Mr. RIDGWAY, the great pamphlet
publisher of Piccadilly, or from the esta-
blishment of some other favoured pub-
lisher and bookseller, a revised report
in the form of a thickish brochure, a revised and
authorised report corrected by Mr. GLADSTONE
khimself of his last great Budget Speech in bring-
in,g forward his new Financial Statement. And
so the ball rolls. And so—nits la Bagatelle. Now
lu an this from first to last, the public at large, the
Public both in the House of Commons and

Old' ,of the House of Commons, we cannot
but regard .
ailee_
gr as . acting very much as the
rai4.:Pe do—gregariously. egariously. They say if you can only
bellwetheri leap . over an outstretched
walk. lug stick
sheep in the in the highway—every separate
. coming afterwards, al
though the vaikr'
wethger-st_ick be withdrawn imme-
diately tCle bell-
identnica: passed, will, for certain,
leap, at th s same
into the air
over nothing.
the same two or
three feet
ithyr---anuothing. Now, it
is the hish.. ion, upon
occasion, ,to italk loudly and 41311:en' possible
ortiti.y of -Mr-
GLADsTaNi f.'s wonderful eloquence
in bringing for extraor
dinary oratorical powers
ward his
finitude' etateaTent. The bare idea of eloquence
the bare idea of oratory in a Budget Speech ix
itself just simply to one word preposterous
To be .eloquent, td' be oratorical, in the

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1881.