The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-29 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
Re-engagement of the Wonderful Danccr, Mons. Espinosa.
First appearance of Millie. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan-
sense of La Scala, Milan ; and first time of the Delapierre
Family. These highly-talented Children will appear every
night. The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening.
THIS EVENING, (Thurssday), the new drama, HOME
T dUTHS. Messrs. G. Melville, J. G. Shore, F. Matthews,
Miss C. Lec'ercq and Mrs. Charles Young.
After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by 11.
J. Byron, called JACK THE GIANT KILLER; or, Ilarle-
quin King- Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
.Jack, Miss Louise Keeley—llarlequin,-Mr. Cormack • Panta-
loon, Mr. Paulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams - Clown,
Mr. A. F. Forrest.

Morninz Performances on Monday, January 9, 16, and 23
commence at two o'clock.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. Benj. Webster.

Holiday Attractions.— The Christmas Carol and the New
Spectacular Extravaganza, by 11. J. Byron, Esq,, the Nymph
of the Lurlyberff ; or the linMit and the Naiades.
THIS EVENING, THE CHRIS rm_ts CAROL. Messrs
J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Paul Bedford, Stuart, Billim,,ton, C. J.
Smith. Romer: Miss Wooklar, Mrs. Billing-ton, Mrs. Chatte-
rley, Miss Laidlaw.
After which THE NYMPHS OF TIIE LURT.EYBERG ;
or, The Kniirlit and the Naiades. Messrs. Toole, Bedford,
Eburne, Smith, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, C. Webb, K.
Kelly, Laidlaw.
Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box-
Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

ROY AL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. The nearest The dre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West-
minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen-
gers all hours of the night.

TNT EITRNT'giT the performances will commence with
GARIBALDI'S ENGLISHMAN. Messrs. Barrett and C.
Young.

Followed by a new sketch, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY.
3llas Wyndham and Mr. H. T. Craven.
To conclude with the new pantomime of PUNCH AND
JUDY. Introducing. Hiss Lydia Thompson and the Corps
de Ballet. Clown, Harlequin, Columbine, and Pantaloon, and
the wonderful Performing Dogs.
Reduced Prices—Gallery, &i ; Pit, Is. The Box-ofEce open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at hall-past six; perform
ante commences at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE
Westminster-road.

Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season.

Great Attraction for the Holidays. The new bombastic
hippodramatic, operatic Pantomime, abounding in comicality,
called HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY; or, Old Towler the
Huntsman and the Goddess Diana, with songs by Miss
Esther Jacobs.—Gorgeous an 1 Dazzling mechanical transfor-
mation scene. Harlequin. M. lticharde ; Pantaloon, Mr. P.
Abbot, Columbine, Maddle. Mazzoni; Clown, Mr. Hilde-
brand ; a family of Sprites by the Elastic Incomprehensibles.
Scenes in the Circle by the Star Riders of the World. Three
Morning performances of the Pantomime, and Scenes in the
Circle, on Monday and Saturday, Dec. 26 and 31, and Monday
Jan. e, 1860, at Two o'clock each day.

CANTERBUR Y HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY

QUEEN.
And a Grand Se ection from Meyerbeer's new opera of
DINORAII.

Comic Vocalists —Messrs. Georcre Ralson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. 7'. Critchfield, and E. W. Hackney.
Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beauti tied. and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.
ROSA BONIIEUIt'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE
FAIR. is now added to the already magnificent Collection of
Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is opera from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEAFIIER.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 29.
THEISW,METER, IN THE SHA.DB.
50—highest since noon yesterday.
47—lowest this morning and during the night.
49—this day at noon.

BA RomETER-29.28.
WIND, South-Westerly; fresh, with dull rainy weather.
It rained heavily in the night.
Tit ItEE C LOCK.—Wind fresh and squally with con-
tinuous rain. It must be blowing a heavy gale in the
Channel.

lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins DAY.—Morning, 4h. 53m.—Afternoon, sh.
To-mmutow.-Morning, sh. 29m.—Afternoon, sh. 47m.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 29, 1859.

Talk of economy, while our annual payments
under the head of the Consolidated Fund remain to
this day altogether unrevised
It is about as absurd as it is to talk of any con-
siderable extension of the franchise without the
previous adoption of the Ballot as part of the ma-
chinery of our popular representation.
Although we have before now so very often
directed attention to this, systematic extravagance
in our national expenditure, we cannot but deem
it advisable to revert to a grievance thus monstrous
and galling in its character at whatever interval
may seem to hold out for its exposure any singu-
larly tempting opportunity. Such wo may not
unreasonably regard the present political juncture,
while we are close upon the eve of a session when
Parliamentary Reform will have to be taken reso-
lutely into consideration by the Legislature.
Reform generally must be accepted as a
problem for solution one way or another
during this fast approaching year of 1860,
in a House of Commons expressly chosen
to that very end. It must be remembered, indeed,
that every man returned to that house is avowedly
more or less of a reformer. Looking on either side
of it—whether it be towards that of the Govern-
ment or that of the Opposition—all are Reformers.
Even Mr. HENLEY and Mr. WALPOLE are refor-
mers. The introducer of the last comprehensive
Reform Bill (passed now pretty nearly thirty years
ago into an enactment) is happly there still in the
present house—is there still in his full intellectual
vigour—is there yet as one of the QUEEN'S Minis-
ters—is there, we might even say, as the second
leader of her MAJESTY'S Government. Opposite
Lord JOIN--there is Mr. DISRAELI at the head of
his united and formidable Conservative Opposition
—an Opposition, however, which, while it is in-
dubitably Conservative both in name and in
character, is still indisputably and pre-emi-
nently an Opposition of Reformers. Is
there not seated during session, there, next to Mr.
DisitaEm on that front Opposition bench one of
the most conspicuous among the young-er cham-
pions of that last Reform Bill carried through both
Houses under Lord GREY'S ever memorable Go-
vernment ? And is there not upon the same front
bench of the Tory Reforming Opposition besides
Mr. DISRAELI and Sir BULwEIt LYTTON—that
notable young leader among the more advanced
Liberals, though still numbered amongst the chies
of the Conservative phalanx, Lord STANLEY, heir to

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the Earl of DERBY, ;NI.P. for King's Lynn, ex-
Secretary of State for India ? Was not the noble
Earl himself, our late Premier, was he not (as Secre-
tary of State for the Colonies) among the most
distinguished members, and as such one of the
most eminent champions of Reform in the Earl
GREY'S Reform Governments ? Recollecting
these things—recollecting the new position the
great Conservative Party took before the House
and before the Country, when they wisely con-
sented to introduce a substantial measure
of Reform themselves, placing it for scrutiny
and consideration upon the table of the Lower
House of Parliament, we have surely reason to
feel more sanguine than ever as to the triumph of
the cause of Reform at last within the walls of
the Imperial Legislature.

But—any reform, however otherwise comprehen-
sive and well-considered, will prove but the merest
mockery, that is not accompanied by what we are
disposed to call the two prime essentials of the
Ballot and Retrenchment ! The Ballot as the very
first part of the machinery of our representative
system—accompanied by a wise and judicious
Retrenchment in the annual expenditure required
in the mechanism of our national administration.
The Consolidated Fund is, we know but too well,
debited with a collection of the public expenses
as onerous as they are miscellaneous. The sum
total of these payments for the last financial year
reached very nearly, indeed, the fearful aggregate
of £2,000,000 sterling ! To be precise it amounted
in the year ending the 31st of March, to
£1,910,655. Examining the distribution of
this grand total we find that out of it
£157,665 went for salaries, £200,395 for pensions,
£546,591 for Royal allowances and Royal estab-
lishments. The remaining £1,000,000 (with an
odd 36,001 thrown in over and above it) being set
apart for—" other payments !" As to the first class
among these different sections, the one, namely
relating to the half million and odd required
for the Royal allowances and establishments

what loyal subject is there in the
the land that would be disposed for one instant to
quarrel with the items apportioned for the uses
directly or indirectly of the Sovereign ? Not one

economist amongst us, we believe, will be disposed
to quarrel with the supplementary £18,225 for
pensions under Ist Vic., cap: 2, or with that grand
and dazzling annual sum total poured each year into
her MAJESTY'S privy purse—more than a thousand
pounds for every day in the twelvemonth—£3Bs,ooo !
Then follow—the PRINCE CONSORT, £30,000
the Duchess of KENT, £30,000; the Duchess of
CAMBRIDGE, £6,000 ; the Duchess of MECKLEN-
BURG-STRELITZ, £3,000 ; the Duke of CAMBRIDGE,
£12,000 ; the Princess MARY of CAMBRIDGE,
£3,000 ; the Prince of MECKLENBURG-STRELITZ,
£1,788; the King of the BELGIANS, £50,000; and
the Princess FREDERICK WILLIAM of PRUSSIA,
£7,578. Glancing through which gorgeous cata-
logue of resplendent means and incomes, we might
wonder how it is that Uncle LEOPOLD can have
the coolness to pocket yearly his £50,000, while
the PRINCE CONSORT himself draws actually
£20,000 less than that from the national
treasury—but that, we believe, the whole of that
£50,000 per annum (with the exception of a
yearly sum of £15,000 set apart for the keep-
ing up of the Palace of Claremont) is honour-
ably poured back by Uncle LEOPOLD into the
English Treasury!! And the Palace of Claremont
(it is also worth remembering) has been set apart too
in its turn during the last twelve years as the home
and refuge of the exiled ORLEANS family.
Linder the second class one is left still to
marvel less over, the naval and military pensions
absorbing £37,825; pensions for civil services,
£38,977; pensions for judicial services, £48,965 ;
that over such items as the hereditary pension to the
Duke (f Marlborough, £4,000 ; that to the heirs of
the Duke of Sehombery, £2,160; a moiety of the
Earl of Bath's pension, £1,200 ; the servants of
George 111., Queen Charlotte, and Queen Caroline,
£2,925 ; pensions formerly on the civil list of
GEORGE IV. and WILLIAM IV., £38,048 ; and Irish
compensations for loss of emolument, judicial pen-
sions, and pensions formerly on the civil list,
£26,2t4. A pleasant list truly one abso-
lutely exhausting our patience ! So that we
have little surprise or indignation left for
any particular item specified in the record
of the salaries : namely—the Speaker of the
House of Commons, £6,200 ; the Controller-Gene-
ral, £2,000 ; the Commissioners for Auditing the
Public Accounts, £6,300; the Lunacy Commis-
sioners, £12,487 ; stipends augmented to Scotch
clergy, £17,039; ecclesiastical establishment in
the West Indies, £20,300; civil government
of the Isle of Man, £10,158 ; the Lord-
Lieutenant of Ireland, £20,000; Maynooth
College, £26,360 ; the Queen's Irish Col-
leges, £21,000 ; and miscellaneous, £15,818.
Or even for those wonderful " other payments," in-
cluding among them payments for the diplomatic
service, £161,314 ; for judges and officers of courts
of justice, £697,056; for interest and sinking-fund
on Russian-Dutch Loan, £82,978 ; ditto on Greek
Loan, £47,400; Commissioners of Greenwich Hos-
pital, £20,000; secret service, £10,000; and com-
pensation for the loss of the duties on the coinage of
tin, £17,246. It is but small consolation besides to
find that, since the previous financial year, these
" other payments" have grown from an aggregate
sum of £OOO,lBB, to a total, as we have seen, of
£1,036,004 ! Certainly there is some need here for
a Parliamentary Bill-book of Retrenchment !

Irish laymen call meetings to sympathise with
the POPE ; English laymen call them to sympathise
with Church-rates. Lora NELSON and Mr. BANKER
HOARE bewail the rebellion of the majority of in-
telligent Churchmen, who think it high time that
Church-rates should be abolished, just as Archbishop
CULLEN and the laymen he convenes by " beat of
drum ecclesiastic" bewail the refusal of the Bolognese
to pay taxes to papal legates ; and the suppressed ,
rebellion of the Romans themselves, who would not
pay another penny if French soldiers did not make
them. We have spoken freely of the blindness
and absurdity of the Catholic clergy and laity in
regard to their folly; we have laughed at them
as behind the age; we have remonstrated
with them on the absurd light in
which they have placed their religion ; we
have warned them that so much noise about the
temporalities of the Church is not unlikely to lead
people to think that these are much more cared
about than its spiritualities ; and we must deal
equally plainly with the Church of England men
who follow the example of the Callenites.
There is not, that we can see, in point of position
and principle anything to choose between Lord
NELSON, Mr. HoAral, Mr. BERESFORD 'HOPE, and
Mr. LAN GDALE, and a few Irish gentlemen, who
' can be dragged together to proclaim that tempora-
lities are all in all fur their respective churches.
Both these sets of—fanatics, we were going to say—
enthusiasts for the earthly things of their churches,
we suppose we should say, agree in the main point
—preservation of tenzporai power for their churches.
This was the one object in which the speakers at Free-
mansons'Hall last week, agreed. On other points they
differed. But in retaining power over men's bodies
. a 3 well as over their souls, they were all as one.