The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-29 00:00:00

YAL ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT GARDEN.
Under the management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. Wm.
Harrison, Sole Lessees.
THIS EVENING, THE MARRIAGE OF GEORGETTE
Hies Thiriwall and Mr. A. Corti.
After which, at Eight o'clock,RUY BLAS. Miss Louisa
l'yne, Mesdames Susan Pyne. Thirlwall, Jessie M‘Lean ;
Messrs. Santley, A. St. Albyn, Patey, and W. Harrison.
Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON.
Commence at Seven o'clock.
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The Box-office open from Ten to Five daily. No charge for
booking. or fees to Box-keepers.
stazzo-Manager. Mr. Leigh Murray. Acting-"tanager, Mr.
Edward Murray.

rritEA'rRE.RO YAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backatonc.
TVIS EVENING, the neriormances will commence with
RICHARD THE THIRD. Richard, Mr. Edwin Booth ;
Elizabeth, Mrs. C. young.
Atter which, FITZSMYTHE OF FITZSMYTHE HALL.
Mr. Buckstone and Mrs. Wilkins.
To conclude with FISH OUT OF WATER. Mr. Compton
Commence a 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager--Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING, MY AUNT'S HUSBAND.
Alter which, at Eight o'clock, the new and success-
ful comedy of WOMAN ; or, Love against the World.
Characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Veen,
Bruton, Mrs. Bowers, Miss Murray, .n€l. Miss Lydia Thomp-
son.
conclude with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in
wuich Miss Lydia Thompson will danee a New Volunteer
Quick Step.
l'zices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at
7 1.30 x-office open daily from 11 till 5.

ROYP L PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
- and manager, Mr. A. Harris.
Is EvENING, JEAN ETT.E'S WEDDING. Miss M.
I] at ris and Mr. H. Widdicomb.
A tter which, a new and original comedy, In five acts, writ-
t•l n by John Brougham, entitled PLAYING WITH FIRE ;
ch al alters by Mr. John Brougham, Mr. !Oder, Mr. H. Wid-
dicombe. Mr. G. Jordan, Miss R. Lelc,ereq, Miss Angle, and
Mrs. Weston.
a conclude with a new Transatlantic Extravaganza,
FO-CA-HON-TAS. Mr. John 13tougham, Mr. A. Harris,
Ac.

EW THEATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHI.-
-L1 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Open for the Winter Seasor.
THIS EVENING, MUSIC HATE' CHARMS. Messrs.
D. b'isher, Romer, Warde, Misses K. Kelly and Laidlaw.
Alter which (263 d time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr.
D lioucicault, D. Fisher, Billington, S. Emery, Stephenson,
C. J. Smith, Earner, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss
Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. H. Lewis.
Toconclude with LOVE AND HUNGER. Messrs. Fisher,
Emery, C. J. Smith, Mrs. H. Marston, and Miss K. Kelly.
Doors onen at half-past 6—Commence at 7. '

C INTERBU RY HALL CONCERTS,
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
1. r. SAM COWELL'S New Song. "THE HOUSE THAT
JACK BUILT," on Wednesday, Oct. 30.

Also, Grand Selections from
STRADELLA, LA ritAVIATA, and DINORAH

By Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Herbert, and Signor Tivoli,
with a powerful Chorus.

Solos on the Cornet-a-piston by the renowned performer
Mr. LEVY.

The Comic department comprises Mr. Sam Cowell, Mr.
Marshall, Messrs. Harvey and French, and Miss Harriet
Coveney

Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans.
Admission—Halt, Bd. ; Stalls and Balcony, le.

-Jr HE O X F O RD,
6, OXFORD-STREET.

EVERY EVENING.

New Comic Opera, " LA CIRCASSIENNE," and Verdi's
new Grand opera, " Simon Boccaneg-ra," by the entire
Company. Balfe's new ballads by Miss Russell and Madame
E,,derssohn (composed expressly for them). Mr. Levy's
Solos on the Cornet-a-piston, and varied Comic Entertain-
ments by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. W. Randall, Harvey
and French (The Nerves), E. Marshall, and SAM CO WELL.
Hall, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. ed.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tnis DAY.—Morning, 9h. 34m.—Afternoon, 10h. 14m.
To-MORROW.-Morning, 10b. 50m.—Afternoon, 11h.:20m.

THE WEATHER.—SuN OFTICE, OCTOBER 27, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THII SHADE.
SC—highest since noon yesterday.
42—lowest this morning and during the night.
55—this day at noon.

BAnomnTER-30.15; falling.
WIND—N.-Easterly—fresh ; with fine weather, but cold.
OCT. 28.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
55—highest since noon yesterday.
44—lowest this morning and during the night.
50—this day at noon.

B•RONUTEIL-30.18.
WIND—N.-Easterly—fresh and cold; with dull weather.

LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 29, 1861.

A Scotch Laird at home is in a wonderfully dif-

ferent position from that filled by his feudal ances-

tors. The Duke of ARGYLE felt constrained to ad-

vert to it last Friday when instead of looking down
from a semi-royal head of a long Baronial table,

on long rows of retainers, he was himself the
guest—the first in his own family—of his own
tenants This was, however, no disparagement

to his ancestors for " He was not vain enough to
believe that he enjoyed more affection and attach-
ment from those among whom he lived than
other representatives of the family of ARGYLL
had done in former times. The truth was that this
was a modern form of expressing a very ancient
feeling. Scotland and this country had now long
been in a state of profound peace, and there had
eon time for the old feelings created by the old
relations which existed between a Highland chief-
tain and his tenants and retainers to take the
more modified and modern form of the relations
which now subsisted between a landlord and his
tenant."

The Duke may be a free trader now, for all
landlords have become so through the force of facts ;
still he could not quite surrender the relation of
landlord and tenant to the political economists.
It ought to be something more he still
thought than a pecuniary arrangement. " For his
own part, it was his firm belief that it was one of
the great public advantages of the country that,
while there had been a continued advance from one
generation to another, yet the ideas of to-day were
always modified and took the form of old feelings
and associations which had descended from former
times. And he believed that the feudal element,
which undoubtedly still did remain in the ordinary
relation between landlord and tenant, was one of
the great strongholds of the liberties of this coun-
try. It gave local attachment, and in the strength
of local attachment and local feeling there was and
there always had been the best security against the
-inroads of a centralising tyranny. He said this,
whether they referred to former or to present
times; for whether those were away or not, of this
he was quite certain, that the relation of landlord
and tenant was not, and could not in its own na-
ture be, one of a merely and purely pecuniary
kind."

The Duke may be right, but unfortunately for
him no artificial effort to reserve medieval rela-
tions can long resist the advancing
modern
life. Whether for good or evil,
thetile ()f
relations
loyalty to a sort of mystic authority is fast of
vanish-
ing. The good old servant, and the confiding
tenant, who half worship a paternal master or
"right divine" landlord, are becoming rarer every
e a
day; and the basis of relations between all classes
is becoming, not exactly pecuniary, but honourable.
Honourable fulfilment of the duties belonging to
each party is now the proper ground of mutual
social regard. And, it should be added, that
the honourable claims of a landlord are
every day viewed in a light less degrading
*to the tenant, and will continue to be so in pro-
portion as the tenant surpasses in intelligence,
skill, and often in capital, the feudal landlord, of by-
go no days, and makes it more and more difficult
for the landlord to be his superior in anything

but money.
117' do not see much in the Duke's reasons for
his lo rve of semi-feudalism. " Leases," he says,
" are for ,`wenty years, when they exist, and he
need Ilardly L'ell many of those whom he saw now

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