The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-03 00:00:00

THE WELLINGTON, 160, PICCADILLY.
1.• —Gentlemen are respectfully informed that the
SALOON DINING ROO3IS are now OPEN for the Supply
of LUNCHEONS and DINNERS, from One to Nine o'clock
p.m. Set Dinners and Dining from the carte in the most
• varied form. Dinners from the joint, 2s. Whitebait is now
served daily

THOMAS PRICE, Superintendent.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backatone.

THIS EVENING, the pertorniances will oommenee with
a new and original Comedy, entitled BLACK SHEEP.
Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, &e. ; Mrs. Wilkins,
Mrs. Charles Young, Bids Lovell, &c.

After which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery
and effects, and all the original music by the late Sir Henry
Bishop, the melodrama of THE MILLER AND HIS MEN.
Commence at 7.

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

ENV THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Reproduction of " The Colleen
_Baron. " The Adelphi

"Census

" every Evening.

THIS EVENING, sth time of a new Farce, entitled A
TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford.

After which (170th time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Isie•
D. Boucicault, D. fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephens9.ll.
C. J. Smith, Homer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. 13ouelcault, 31lee
Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chattcrley
•
• CENSUS.
To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE . Miss
Messrs. J. Toole, Eburne, Homer, C. J. Seen '
Kate Kelly, Miss E. Thorne, and Mrs. Chatterley._
Doors open at half past 6—Commence at

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!
Westminster-road.
Proprietor .-•• • • ..c. Morton.
A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera,
IL CORSARO,
never (This opera has
been produced in this or any other
- thesbe Concerts), having met with that
country, except except at
tided success which eharactise the most popular werks of
this great Master' will be performed EVERY EVENING ;
tevether with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI-
XENTO, by Donizett
prinotpa ,
Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
c liern • ard 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 longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the
Establishment.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This DAY.—Morning, Bh. 44m.—Afternoon, 9h. 28m.
To-31oBatow.-Morning, 9h. 56m.—Afternoon, 10h. 28m.

TEE WEATHER.--Styx OFFICE, MAY 3, 1661,
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE,
GL—highest since noon yesterday.
47—lowest this morning and during the night.
52—this day at noon.

BA.uomETER-30.03.
WIND—W.-N.-W., inclining to North light and
variable ; with cloudy weather. Rain in the morning.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1861.

A most ungallant victory has Lord PALMER-
- STON just gained. Gentlemen first, was the vote
of his majority of eighteen (Query, seventeen ?) last
night. All England over, tea is the Lady's offer ;
all England over, the newspaper her unsocial
antagonist, while she pours the tea for an absorbed
reader who thinks more of Mr. GLADSTONE'S or of
Mr. DISRAELI'S speech than of hers. Had females
votes at elections, as Austria has just ordained in
that more chivalious land, we may well doubt
whether even the charms of Mr. GLADSTONE'S
eloquence or the pleasantry of a septuagenarian
Cupid dare have ventured on setting paper against
tea. The ladies would have been against him at
the next election—we were going to say, such is
the force of habit—to a man. However, the ladies
must console themselves with the prospect of
getting their next three-volume novel a penny,
possibly one penny threefarthings, cheaper. If the
mistress takes any of the penny serials for the benefit
of the kitchen or servants'-hall, she will not, of
course, expect to get a farthing off them. We are
afraid our consolation is at least a poor one, and
that her reply would still be, if Mr. GLADSTONE
would have taken the ladies' advice, they would
have preferred cheaper tea to cheaper paper in
which to wrap it ; and as to his newspapers, they
don't want the unsocial things.

We suppose, however, the house, in its wisdom,
has now settled the question. There is a majority
—a majority of seventeen in a house office hundred
and seventy-five members—that is at least enough.
True, Mr. DISRAELI intimated that it was hardly a
majority, not being yet out of its teens, but he
doubtless remembers well the effect of majorities
not out of their teens on the fate of a Government.
In the present case it is of no use to deny that the
majority was the result of a great party struggle ;
and though the hon. member for Bucks 'wished for
delay till Monday " to reflect on what had taken
place," we hardly expect that the battle will be then
formally renewed. We were told, indeed, at the
Mansion House, that the Conservatives were
admirably drilled, and therefore it is possible
that they may listen to the muster call
again on Monday ; but we rather anticipate
that the general feeling will be that the battle has
been once fairly fought on the ground and with the
weapons chosen by themselves, and that it would
hardly be honourable to renew it, and to fight, in
appearance at least, factiously for what had once
been settled. Of course, Mr. DISRAELI is entitled
to fight on the repeal of the paper duty as well as
on the retention of the tea duties ; but be will come
to it with the disadvantages that both he and Lord
DERBY have admitted, that the surplus is not to be
questioned, that room therefore is left for the re-
peal of the paper duty, and that not to vote its re-
peal will therefore be to give the Chancellor of the
Exchequer more money than he asks or wants.
As to the Lords, we must suppose from the very
explicit language of Lord DERBY, at the Mansion
House, that they do not intend to renew the
fight this year with the Commons; that what the
Commons send up they will pass; and we suppose
the majority being only in its teens will make no
difference. It may be worth while to quote again
the words of his lordship. After expressing his
°Pinion that the Government, if in a minority, would
not venture to appeal to the country with so unpo-
pular eery as
duty on tea "Down with duty on paper—up with
n---a remark, by the by, which showed
how much he regarded
as a party division—he re
the decision of last night
remarked, "I have said this
is a question for the House of Commons to consider,
and I say emphatically for the Roue
of Commons,
because no one can be more ready than
say, that to the House of Commons myself to
bele,
!ics exclu-
sively imposition of taxes and the regulation of the
taxation of the country ; and that when a surplus
had been established to the satisfaction of the
house, and they have formed the judgment with
respect to the best mode of dealing with that sur-
plus, they need not apprehend what some persons
pretend to apprehend—any collision upon such a
judgment between the two houses of Parliament."
Again, having justified the Lords' course last
year as an exceptional one, he added "There being
a surplus, it is for the House of Commons to decide
how that surplus should be applied, and if there
should be any persons who imagine that upon such
a subject there can be any collision between the
two Houses of Parliament, they know little the
spirit which actuates the House of Lords, or the
moderation which is prescribed by the Constitu-
tion) and which I am sure will be exercised by that
branch of the Legislature. The Houst of Lords