The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-14 00:00:00

EA TR )(AL,* lir AY1%.1 ARK ET.
1....?3iee, M. J. i 3. Baekstonr.
1"..1f13 EVENING, the periormannes will coirmenee with
a n?-ov and original Comedy, entitled BLACK SHEEP.
Mr. Ruckstone, Nit. Compton, Mr. Howe, ; Mrs. Wilkins,
Mrs. Charles Young, Miss Lovell, itc.
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
nce Mat ILLER AND HIS MEN.
Comme 7.

I.?OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
od Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
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I'HIS EVENING, the comedy of MONEY. Mews. Ryder.
Hermann Veain, Shore, F, Matthews, dm ; Misses Heath and
C. Leclereq,
To concinde with SIAIIRIED AND UNMARRIED. Mr.
Ryder, Mr. Shore, Mr. Cathcart, Miss Mu,ray, and Miss
Heath.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Reproda:•tion of "The Colleen Bawn. " The Adelphi

" Census " every Eyenini.
THIS EVENING, 14th time of a new Farce, entitled A
TURKISH BATH'. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford.
After which (I79th time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr.
D. Ho,neicatlit. D. eisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson,
C. ~
• wnilh, Ramer, Howard, Ward ' • Mrs. Boucicault, Miss
Woolzar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley.
To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, Ebnrne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss
hate Kelly, Miss E. ehorne, and
_Mrs. Chatterley.

Doors open at halt past 6—Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY - HALL CONCERTS
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
EVERY EVENING,
A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera,
UN BALLO IN MASCIIERA,
(First produced in England at this Establishment),
With a Chorus of Forty Voices.
Also, Verdi's IL CORSARO, never performed at any
other Concerts.
Solos on the Cornet-a-I iston, by Mr. Levy.
The Comio Department comprises the Brothers Conrad (in
their new and inimitable entertainments), Mr. Wookand his
talented little Son, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Hot
lingsworth, and hiss Rose Howard.
Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGIIMANS.
T H E

X F 0 11 D,

6, OXFORD-STREET.
Mr. Lrirv, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on
the Cornet-a-Piston—Grand Selects -ins (on the most complete
scale) from Dinorah, Martha, Stradella, ctc., and other vocal
and Instrumental music, by Miss Russell, the Misses Stuart,
and Miss Ernst, Messrs. Charles Greville, Fornari, 'Umber-
-1,,y, Bernard, Beaumont, Bervon, Huish, Signor Tivoli, and
Mr. Henry Herbert, with full band and powerful and selected
chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonglimans.—The following
Comic talent, Messrs. W. Randall, J. Blanchard, W. H. Wie-
land, Hollingsworth, E. Marshall. Harvey, and French, and
the Brothers Conrad in their latest and best entertainment,
every evening,. Admission, Hall, sixpence ; Balcony and
Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins DAY.—Morning, 4h. 24m.—Afternoon, 4h. 41m.
To-monnow.-Morning, sh. Gal.—Afternoon, sh. 24m.

THIS WEATHER...-81711 0771 CE, MAT 14, 1861.
TIIBRIIOIiETER., IN THE SHADS.
53—highest since noon yesterday.
39—lowest this morning and during the night.
59—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.40.
iwIN-D—Weaterly—light ; with fine warm weather.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1881.

It is something lamentable, we cannot but think,
that Sir JAMES GRAHAM should evidence an
inclination to signalise the close of his political
career by throwing down the apple of discord be-
tween the Lords and Commons. The Earl of DERBY
having but very recently exclaimed at the Mansion
House Banquet, " Oh that the Ministers would but
go to the country with the electioneering cry of
Down with the Paper Duty and up with the duty
upon Tea r " Sir JAMES GRAHAM disingenuously,
we had almost said flagitiously, endeavours now to
improve upon that, by assuming the counter-cry of
the Opposition to be—" Up with the Lords and
down with the Commons !" The device is in itself
so monstrously unfair that the old Tory-Radical
Member in putting forward this notion is
constrained to say, " I do not wish to raise an in-
vidious hustings cry, but I am of opinion that "
et cetera. In other words: he does not wish to be
invidious, but—he is so nevertheless. Now, having
watched very carefully the arguments for and
against the Budget, from the very commencement
of these discussions until now, we cannot, in jus-
tice, but protest against the invidious and extrava-
gant suggestion of the right hon. baronet the mem-
ber for Carlisle, as against, a piece of arrant clap-
trap, as unfair in itself, as in its tendency, it is
calculated to prove unpatriotic and unconstitutional.
To put the matter in dispute as Sir JAMES
GRAHAM is putting it, is to do far worse than
simply to beg the question—it is to distort it. The
alternative before Parliament at the present mo-
ment, the alternative that may eventually come be-
fore the country, is nothing of Mat kind. It is
purely a matter affecting the financial policy of the
country. It is neither right nor reasonable to
regard it as a struggle between the Lords and
Commons for supremacy. It never has been such
a question. It was a shameful distortion of the
facts of last year, when it was pretended by a
little clique out of doors, headed by an exceed-
ingly small section of the House of Commons,
that the Lords were—in rejecting the Paper Duties
Abolition Bill—in any way whatever exceeding
their powers and prerogatives. Strictly speaking,
the House of Lords, in acting as they then did in
that matter, were found upon the closest scrutiny
to have been acting, in the fullest sense of the words,
quite constitutionally. If, in acting thus, they
were doing so in a manner, to say the least of it,
very unusual—their justification lay in the
circumstance that they were called upon
so to act under the exigency of very
unusual circumstances. It was observable then,
it is still clearly within the national remembrance
that—after the financial arrangements for the year
had been otherwise accepted and completed, the
calculations upon which those arrangements were
based were proved by subsequent events, were
absolutely proved beyond the reach of one moment's
contradiction, to have been altogether erroneous
The sums of money imperatively required for the
prosecution of the Chinese war turned out
to have been only partially indicated by
a lack of candour, or else by the sheerest igno-
rance of—either a shortsighted or a disingenuous
Chancellor of the Exchequer. Again—the Cabi-
net, after the bulk of the fiscal and financial ar-
rangements of the year had been entered into by
the Legislature, came down to the House of Com-
mons with an extraordinary supplementary propo-
sition for the inauguration at an enormous outlay
of a gigantic and costly system of fortifi-
cations. And—recollect, moreover— Ministers
had reserved that proposition until after the
Financial Statement had been made and ac-
cepted by the confidence or the complacency
of Parliament—they had wilfully
TeBerved this
supplementary proposition for the disbursement of
so many millions sterling upon an elaborate scheme
Of fortifications; they are known to have so re_
the back-
served it, to have so kept it quietly In

ground until the ordinary Budget of the year vac,
satisfactorily passed—they are known to have so
done, because the report of the Ccmmittee upon the

question of tlio National Fortifications had

been in their hands before Mr. GLADSTONE

bad (last year) made his first Fisancial State-

ment! The result, therefore, proved to be
what might have been confidently predicted. The

surplus our sanguine financier was counting upon
securing within the progress of the financial year,
rapidly—within the, first few weeks of that year

dwindled away, and turned into an unmistakeable

deficit. Then it wakthat the House of Lords stepped

to the rescue of Mr. GLADSTONE ;3iraSelf; then it