The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-22 00:00:00

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6, OXFORD-STREET.

The architectural beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and
brilliancy of lighting of this noble building, render it one of
the sights of London. Open Every Evening. The pro-
gramme is varied, and includes Selectl,ns from "La Tra-
viat ~" "Un Ballo in Maschera," etc., (by a full company of
principals, powerful band, and chorus). Solos by Miss Bryant
en the Piano Forte, and by Mr. Russell on the Trombone.
Old English Ballad, by Miss Green, scotch Duets by the
31!sses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music of the
highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The Comic
portion of the entertainment is supported by Messrs. M. P.
Foster (in his " Life Sketches"), Sam Collins, Harvey, and
French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall. Hall,
sixpence ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes,
10s. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY. Morning, 3h. sm.—Afternoon, 3h. 24m
To-motutow.-Morning, 3h. 38m.—Afternoon, 3h. 54m,

THE WEATHER.—SVN OFFICE, AUGUST 22, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
67 —highest since noon yesterday.
52 —lowest this morning and during the night.
66 —this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.30.
WlND—Westerly—light, with fine weather.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1881.

The satirists and the caricaturists have often
made great fun of that fruitful theme of ridicule
familiarly known amongst those humourists of pen
and pencil as—Family Jars. But beyond them all,
as a perpetual provocative to merriment, is assuredly
that Family J. A. R. of England—JOHN ARTHUR
ROEBUCK, M.P. for Sheffield. We don't know
what we should ever do without him. Whenever,
politically, the time is beginning to hang heavily—
he is always at hand to rouse the country from its
lethargy and dullness. Scarcely has Parliament
been prorogued when the good Watch7Dog
Tear'em (as Mr. ROEBUCK long ago dubbed himself)
is " at it" once more, tugging at his chain, bouncing
cut of his kennel, and barking vociferously. The
capitol of ancient Rome was saved by Geese. Why
should England disdain to be warned from danger
by Tear'em ? Not that the member for Sheffield is
what you would call, according to the vulgar accep-
tation of the phrase—an Alarmist. Only—the hon.
gentleman can contrive to see as far into a mill-
stone as most people ! And—there—through that
millstone now hanging about the neck of JOIIN
PULL in the shape of an annual expenditure of more
than £7o,ooo,ooo—does not that very incarnation
of beware behold, as clearly as if he were
looking through glass instead of granite, the
inevitable peril fast coming towards us ? Verb.
sap., says the proverb. And so, that single fact of
our expenditure is quite enough in its way for Mr.
ROEBUCK. He can deduce everything from it. It
is his magic crystal through which he beholds the
future of England. Given those £70,000,000, and
the member for Sheffield, if he cared to do it,
might publish a prophetic almanack that would
eclipse ZADKIEL'S yearly masterpiece. Yet, after
all, extravagant though the exaggerated phrases of
Mr. ROEBUCK unquestionably are in them-
selves, whenever he sets himself to work
in earnest to descant upon our impending troubles
—there is a wonderful deal of truth in what he says
at bottom, even in spite of the extravagance of the
way in which he says it. His intensity of manner
at these times reads, it must be allowed, very much
like joking. Yet, accepting it even in that light,
we don't know where we could look for a more apt
illustration of the accuracy of the old adage about
many a true word being spoken in jest. Nothing
could well be happier in its way than M r.ROEBUCK'S
remark yesterday when addressing his constituents
at Sheffield, to the effect that—e. The dragon's
teeth had been sown ; and tho Volunteers had
started up !" For literally it is by reason of the
bitter suspicions scattered amongst us by the
French EMPEROR'S Government, that Englandhas
m ithin less than two years found herself suddenly
endowed with a National Guard of from 100,000 to
200,000 skilled and disciplined Riflemen.

People talk about the cordiality of the Anglo-
French Alliance. They babble about the present
Sovereign of France having maintained peace
with this country ever since he gained su-
preme power over our neighbours. They
point to the reciprocation of hospitalities between
VICTORIA and NAPOLEON, now at Windsor Castle,
now at the Tuileries. They din into our ears that
his Imperial Majesty is bent upon copying our
institutions—that, in point of fact, his one aim
and ambition is to assimilate the character of his
great military despotism with that of our free con-
“itutional Government. Lord BROUGISAM talked
the other day, in the loftiest language of hyperbole,
about the perfect liberty of discussion enjoyed
by the French Chambers under his (Lord
BRoucusx's) " excellent Friend and Forereign,
the present Emperor NAPOLEON." Mr. COBDEN
not only talked the other day, but talks always,
about the incalculable benefits secured, not only to
' l'lince but to England as well, by the amazing
enlightenment of the mind of this paragon of an
Imperial neighbour. Mr. BRIGHT—who, by the
way, about a rear ago, was personally iptroduced
by M COLD-EN
the
and
EMPEROR in the
place of the Tuileries, who has therefore en,'
Dyed the opportunity
failin e'directly under thetla;
inour of this crowned MACHIAVELLI I.q'
C.T.pltiating upon the pacific wisdom
flower tiri.'s
that arbitrar of the destinies of Christendom
jf S7C 7,3 re to French
E3IPLEOF., must tPCI -Orr egc of Bottom in
4, Midsummer NigLitiDeam eau " roar
you like ani-suckir.g Ore' Nay--could we but
/take at tketp...,ffe
tit at things AS Mr.

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