The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-24 00:00:00

OPERA.

SUN, LONDON, TLT ES D A Y EV ENIN , Ait C 24, 1857.

triIIEATRE ROYAL, DRUM LA.N.E.-
-0:- DURING PASSION WEEK.
GRAND VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT
Every Evenir g, Friday Excepted.
Baud of 50 Performers, including all the First Solo Players
of the day.

Conductor—Mr. ALFRED 7.IELLON.

LOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE,
THIS EVENING, will be performed
Shakespore's tragedy of
KIN( RICHARD THE SECOND.
King Ricliard IL, Mr. C. K• an ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean.
Preceded by MUSIC HATE CHARMS.

$ll OYAL LYCEUM TELEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. C. Dillon.
A VI)
THIS EVENING, HAMLET. Mr. Charles Dillon, Mr
Stuart, Mr. J. L. foole, Miss Woolgar.
Followed by the gorgeous burlesque of CONRAD AND
MEDORA. Miss Woolgar, Mr. J. L. Toole, &c.
The box-office open daily, from 11 to 5, under the super-
ntendence of Mr. Chatterton, jun.
Carriages conveying parties ti the Private Boxes to set
down at tha State entrance in Burleigh-street.

IHEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven,
A LIFE'S TRIAL. Messrs. Bnckstone, Compton, Howe,
W. Farrell, Rogers ; Mesdames Reynolds, Poynter, Fitzwil-
liam, &c.

Followed by the new Comedy, in three acts, entitled,
DOUBLE-FACED PEOPLE. Characters by Mr. Bnckstone,
Mr. Chippendale, Mr. Compton, Mr. W. Farnm' Mr. Rogers,
%Ir. Clark, Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Poynter, and Mrs. E. Fitz-
wil'iam.
And LA. FOLIE ET VAMOR.

OYAL SURREY THEATRE,
it) Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick.
THIS EVENING, a new drama, entitled FRAUD AND
ITS VICTIMS. Messrs. Creswick, Shepherd, dze.
To conclude with TWO COLLEGE FRIENDS.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
THIS EVENING, (a new farce, called THIEVES !
THIEVES ! ! Messrs. F. Robson, G. Vining, &c.
The new drama, by Tom Taylor, Esq., A SHEEP IN
WOLF'S CLOTHING.
Followed by the new farce, by Bayle Bernard, Esq.,
called A SPLENDID INVESTMENT.
And A BLIGHTED BEING. • Mr. F. Robson, &c.
Commence at half-past Seven.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
ZIL. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
THIS EVENING, Shakspere's Play of KING HENRY
THE FOURTH, with the highly successful equestrian
ilins-
trations invented and arranged by Mr. Wm. Cooke. Hot-
spur, Mr. James Holloway; Prince Henry, Mr. W. Cooke,
jun.; Falstaff, Mr. Anson.
After which, a combination of Skill, Ease, and Elegance,
and the Equestrian EXERCISES in the CIRCLE
To conclude with A MORCEAU CHOI% of an amusing
nature.

Commer.ce at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper
30xes, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from 1/., no charge for booking ;
Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, 6d.
Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager,
Ur. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooko, jun.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
elections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses,
Glees, Duets, &c., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield,
hiss Brunel], Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr. J.
Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S.
Jones, J, Barker, W. Melling, P. Corr', Senor Antonio M.
de Solla, and E. L. Rime; Masters Austin, Bennett, and
lorri; Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Mackney, and C. J. Wilkins.
Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.;
fireetor, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre.
cisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock.

HIGD. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Cum DAY—Morn. 45 min. aft. 12—Evening 6 Mid. aft. 1
^.Molfitow—Morn. 23mtn. aft. I—Evening 46 miu.aft. 1

THE
WEATHET—SuN OFFICE, MARCH 24
TIIBRIEONE7III, IN Tll SHADE.
48 —highest since noon yesterday
36 —lowest this morning and during the night.
50 —this day at noon.
Benollfrfir,B, 29•62.
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anybody, oven at this eleventh hour, knows at
all about—namely, the contour and complexion
of the Home Policy of his Administration. The
country needed not, for an instant, to be told all
over again about the Paris Conferences, about the
Russian War, about our summary reconciliation
with Persia, and our temporary tiff with Ame-
rica, and our ineffectual remonstrance with the
Court of the Two Sicilies. What the country did
want to know, however, was—what it still wants
to know at this moment is—something wonder-
fully different Something that Lord PALMER-
STON does not dilate upon—as he dilates ia)on
his Foreign Policy—in ten successive pa-
ragraphs of this his Address to the Elec-
tors of Tiverton. Something--the merest
trifle his Home Policy in point of fact ! nothing
more !—something so little worth talking about
that our vivacious Premier polishes the whole
thing off in a single sentence !
And that sentence ? Well—read it. It won't
take you long. It is short enough, in all con-
science. And, for that matter, easy enough of
comprehension. But read it. Lord PALMERSTON
has just said, "Abroad it will be our earnest
endeavour to procure peace, but peace with honour
and with safety—peace with the maintenance of
national rights—peace with security to our fellow-
countrymen in foreign lands." And he then
adds—" At home our guiding principles will be
judicious and well-regulated economy, progressive
improvement in all that concerns the welfare of
the nation, the continued diffusion of education
among the people, and such well-considered re-
forms as from time to time may be required by
changes of circumstances and by the increasing
growth of intelligence." So—the Guiding
Principles of his Government are :—Judi-
cious and Well-Regulated Economy—Progres-
sive Improvement Continued Diffusion of
Education—Well-Considered Reforms. Capital
things in their way every one of them—
but here vaguely indicated—most provokingly
and tantalisingly generalised I
The countty, we are bold to say, looked to
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Lord PALILERSTON to be a little more outspoken

than this. It is precisely because he is not more
outspoken in his Address that we regard that
Address, as we have observed, as so exceedingly
disappointing. He has spoken distinctly and
satisfactorily upon his Foreign Policy—in regard
to which he need not have uttered ono syllable.
While in reference to his Home Policy—about
which people expected him to say so much—he
has spoken most in-distinctly, and so far, there-
fore, most un-satisfactorily. So far, but no fur-
ther. For as a vague outline to be filled up ad
likitum, hereafter—when the country shall

have pronounced itself through the seven-years'
decree of the constituencies—it is most admirably
and most satisfactorily comprehensive. That is

the Saving Point in it. That is its Redeeming
Characteristic. It is almost a tabula rasa, upon
which the Nation may now write anew with the
iron stylus of this General Election. It leaves
everything open to Reformers. It commits Lord
PALMERSTON'S Government to nothing—but it
admits in every way of that Cabinet moulding its
Home Policy according to the necessities of the

time, as expressed in the general character of the
new Parliament.

It is no dereliction of principle, so to conduc
.he movements of our Constitutional Govern

merit. The greatest English Statesman of Modern
Times so conducted the State Vessel through

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many difficult and most perilous emergencies.
Not by acting slavishly, according to the
despicable dictates of more Expediency. But by
watching the turns of the tide, the necessities of
age, the novel and various requirements in the
way of modification and innovation, growing with
the growth, and strengthening wits the strength
of each successive generation. This was the glorious
and distinctive policy of Sir ROBERT PEEL--a
Statesman ever open to conviction, never ashamed
to confess himself in error, always prepared to
acknowledge Fiat justitia, runt ccelunt, as the
motto of his Government. It was the policy, lot
us repeat again, the glorious and distinctive policy
of Sir ROBERT PEEL. It is the policy more
vaguely expressed, no doubt, but still clearly
enough indicated to be perfectly comprehensible
nevertheless—the cautious, and, so far, the saga-
cious pelicy of Lord PALMERSTON. Let the coun-
try remember nat—and Act accordingly !

quibble was about to be resorted t-, created a
fever throughout the length and breadth
of the land. But some trivial concessions,
or rather pretended concessions, allayed
the excitement. The people proved their
irresistible power, but unfortunately refrained
from pushing their victory to its legitimate results.
In 1853 they were bamboozled by the "GLAD-
STONE dodge." The vain expectation of seeing an
end of the inequitable impost led them from the
scent, and the much-required revision of the tlx
was postponed sine die. At the moment
when the game was in the popular hands, it was
recklessly flung away by foolish play. These self-
constituted leaders deliberately fell into a trap that
could not have misled the most unwary, unless
to be deceived.

Again, before the last meeting of the defunct
Parliament, the people spoke out plainly and in-
telligibly. They demanded alike the withdrawal
of the special War Tax, and the equalisation of
the remainder. They were, perhaps, more in-
tent on the Litter than the former. The
paltry trickery of the former excited intense in-
dignation ; but calm reason urged the propriety
and expediency of the much-required revision of
the burden, and an unequivocal recognition of the
vast difference for fiscal purposes between perma-
nent and precarious receipts—the former certain,
so far as any worldly matter can be,—tho latter
depending on a variety of fluctuating elements
which were totally ignored from the calculatior.
But although a partial concession was made en the
first point, and 9d. out of the war 11d.
was nominally surrendered (4d. being re-
quired during the two following. years),
the spirit of COCKER was albgether disregarded
by the Financial Minister, and the objectionable
inequality was continued with all its monstrous
defects. Had professing fiscal reformers been in
earnest this could not have occurred. Tile nation
could not a second time be led astray from its
fair and moderate demands.

It only requires that similar demonstrations
should be continued to insure a complete victory.
Sir G. C. LEWIS has unequivocally proved that
ho is made of squeezable materials, and if the
people show that they are really in earnest Lord
PALMERSTON will not support him in hobbies that
may endanger tho stability of the Governm en t. The
Noble Lord knows how to bow gracefully to popular
demands, but they must be clearly and unequivo-
cally preferred. This is the golden opportunity,
which may not again occur for seven long years
a tedious apprenticeship to a system destructive
to the welfare and happiness of the people.
" The light cloud" will soon pass away, and
nothing but unavailing regrets will remain—
mourning for that which might have been, but
was not, accomplished. Once more we call upon the
several constituencies to show that they are worthy
of the trust confided to their charge—to prove that
while they are sensitively alive to the maintenance
of the national honour, they also feel acutely the
wrongs under which they have hitherto suffered,
and imperatively demand complete and speedy
redress. Let the voters not be content with vague
declamation in favour of economy and retrench-
ment, but insist on specific pledges respecting
fiscal, financial, and monetary reforms—pledges
which, if disregarded, will cover the deceivers with
well-merited reproach and obloquy.

just the thing the country will not stand. A Tory
Chief is bad enough in all conscience ; but it is
something to have a Cabinet that at least keeps
him out of mischief. A Tory Chief, Cabinet and
all, in the year Anno Dornini 1857, in the year
of the Reform Bill 25, and the year of Protection
dead and buried s—is it to be thought of ? Lord
DERBY knows better. He thinks the contest
hopeless—he has no mind to have a Tury Cabinet
if he could get it, holding office by favour of
Mr. COBDEN, " whom he never spoke to, and has
not the slightest acquaintance with." He prefeis
an Arab independence to an urban subserviency.
Better to reign in opposition than to serve in a
Government. He accordingly threatens Lord
PALMERSTON if he does not keep the Tory peace ;
but does not hint that he intends to be the Tory
chief of a Tory Cabinet, or of any Cabinet at all.
No—Mr. DISRAELI hit the bull's eye, but he
smashed his own parlour window and indented
the wall.

And what would the Right Hon. Member for
Bucks do had he it all his own way? His policy is
" honourable peace—reduced taxation—and social
improvement." The last all agree to—but of
political improvement not a word. RI Heals
would not profit by his reign. Lord PAL-
MERSTON has begun " reduction of taxation ;"
and we somewhat like a Premier out of whom
nine millions could be squeezed by popular deter-
mination, while we hardly know what Mr. DIS-
RAELI and Mr. GL ADSTONE drove at, unless it were
keeping up the intolerable sixteenpence—their rid-
dle has always puzzled us, that of taking off
taxes in order to provide against a deficit in 1860.
As to an honourable peace, we cannot quite relish
their notions on that topic. Viscount PALMERSTON
made, NAPOLEON 111. perhaps compelling him, an
"honourable peace" (?) with Western semi-bar-
barism last year; Mr. DISRAELI and Mr. COBDEN
would persuade us to make a less honourable one
with Emtern semi-barbarism this year.

fJATEST NEWS S.

The Gazette Piemontaise of yesterday announces
the recal of Count Paar, and the departure of the

whole Aus'rian Legation.

Aus Irian subjects are transferred to the protection
of the Prussian Ambassador.

A letter from Berlin in the Post Ampt Gazette of
Frankfort says :—" The settlement of the Neucha-
tel question encounters a fresh difficulty from the
circumstance of the agnates, or younger branches,
of the house of Prussia refusing to consent to a re-
nunciation of the principality. Without their con-
sent the renunciation of the King would not be
val d."

FRANCE.
_ PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
The approaching Conference on the affairs of
Neuchatel will probably take place on Wednesday.
M. de Hatzfeldt and M Walewski have bad seve-
ral interviews on the subject.
The Emperor yesterday received M. Escher, Pre-
sident of the National Council of the Swiss Confe-
der& ion.

" The importance which the French settlement
at Senegal has attained during the last few years,"
says the Moniteur de la Flotte, "induced the
Minister of the Marine, some time back, to create
a new post of superior commandant of the navy at
that place. Captain Duroch, who had been ap-
pointed to the situation, has just arrived at S'.
Louis, and been duly installed. He will, under the
authority of the governor, centralise the service of
the vessels of war on the station, direct their re-
pairs when nece3sary and organise a dock for tha*
purpose ; he will also have the direction of all
works executed in the porgy, the police of the ro id-
stead, pilotage, &c. He is to draw 'out a mon!hly
return of the vessels under his orders, and every
quarter make a regular report on the stores, &c.,
under his charge. His residence Is. to be at St.
Louis."

The following is the summary of the exposé des
motifs of the budget of 1858, read on Saturd4y in
the Legislative Body by the President to the mem-.
bers

"On the whole, the comparison of the receipts and
expenses presents a surplus of receipts of 20,128,981 f. If
we add to that sum the 5,000,000 f. set down for the first
time in the budget of expenses, and destined to reim-
berse part of the debt to the bank, we find a total sur-
plus over the expenses of something over 25,000,000 f.,
which, in our opinion, ought to be devoted to the dimi-
nution of the floating debt. No doubt it is scarcely
right to expect that in 1858 causes of unforeseen ex-
penses will not rise; the course of human things, the
life and movement of a great people, almost fatally oc
casion such expenses every year. But the severe calcu-
lation of the estimates as regards the receipts authorises
us to believe that the resources oif 1858 will suffice
to cover not only the expenses set down in the
budget, but even' such expenses as are net provi led
for therein, and at present not foreseen ; and that thus
the surplus receipts to which we have just referred
will remain appropriated to ita natural destination—the
diminution of the floating debt. Last year the report of
the committee of the Legislative Body charged to
examine the budget uf 1857 called the serious attention
of the Emperor's Government to the necessity of re-
stricting the supplementary credits, and of reducing
them to rare cases and small proportions. The decree of
the 10th November, 1856, c,rried on the proposition of
the Minister of Finance, has proved to the country that
the Emperor in his wisdom had like you foreseen this
danger, and desired to preserve the future from it."

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It may not be forgotten that, when the article of
the Moniteur on the union of the Danubian Princi-
palities was known at Bucharest, the greatest joy
was expressed and the most flattering complements
directed to the French political agent. The French
Government has not, however, been over pleased at
these manifestations, which, in point of fact, were a
censure on the Elogl'sh Government, which was
known to be opposed to the union. Baron Talley-
rand, the French Commissioner to the Principali-
tie4, has received instructions from his Government
to keep hjmself on the reserve, and not only not to
encourage any such demonstrations, but rather to
do all in h's power to check them.
BOURSE, March 23.—The following were the last
quotations ,1-7
Cash. ft. c. End of Month.
44 per Cents
3 per Cents 7O 55 70 75
New Loan —
Bank. Shares 4,200 Roman 9O
Credit Mobilier 1,446 Austrian
Belgian Fives ...... .. 1301— Spanish Threes --
Pietlmontese (5) _ 91 Home Debt