The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-19 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
THE WRECK ASHORE : Messrs. Billington, P. Bedford,
Stuart,W. Smith, Eburne, MissWoolgar, and Mrs. Billington.
After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT.
Marie, Miss Rebecca Isaacs ; assisted by Messrs. P. Bedford,
Garden, Moreland, Mrs. Chatterley.
Followed by the new burlesque, THE BABES IN THE
WOOD. Messrs. C. Marshall, Paul Bedford, C. J. Smith,
Eleurne ; Miss Wool,gar and Miss K. Kelly.

Acting Manager-31r. Wm. Smith.
Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box
Moe open from 10 to 5 —no charge for booking. No fees to
servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE,
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough
THIS EVENING, THE MAID WITH THE MILKING
PAIL,
After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses
13wanborongh, Oliver, and Lavine.
Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS.
Commence at 7 o'clock•

VERDI'S OPERA. OF MACBETH. The
whole of the first Act of this Opera, now produced
for the first time in this country (the remaining three acts
seing_in course of rehearsal), is sung nightly at the CAN-
TERBURY HALL CONCERTS.
THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY,
mugging of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette,
and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and
EIGHT years.
The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some
of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios eva
written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi-
ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu-
siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France
and Belgium.
They will perform TWICE EACH EVENING, in addi-
tion to the usual Entertainments.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, At GUST 10.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
70—highest since noon yesterday.
64—lowest this morning and during the night.
75—this day at noon.
BARomwrza-30.21—rising.
WIND, South-Westerly; light, with fine summer weather,

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. 57m.—Afternoon, sh. 14m,
To-lefolutow-Morning, sh. 31m.—Afternoon, sh. 48m,

THE SUN.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1859.

Whatever Mr. COBDEN talks about, he talks
about in terms the most positive. We have to do
no more than read or listen. We are to have no

appeal against his assertions, whatever those asser-
tions may chance to be. We have nothing else to
do but to accept them with a credence, instant,
absolute, and implicit. Mr. COBDEN has said it.
It is enough. According to the mood in which he
speaks—we have merely to " believe and tremble,"
or to believe and rejoice. Autos eipen—t:pse dixit

—that is the gilding of the pill : and we have no
other course to follow in regard to this bolus—be
it sweet, or be it bitter—than just to swallow it.
Now, so long as Mr. COBDEN argues " with" us,
we confess that his dogmatic tone is perhaps a little
more than barely endurable. It is a weakness,
doubtless, which we are here frankly acknowledg-
ing—and a weakness by the avowal of which we
offer our quota to the sum of human weakness. The
irritating influence of Mr. COBDEN'S dogmatism,

we admit, passes us by, at these times, not only
without causing even the most momentary annoy•

ance, but, we will yet further admit, with a plea.

curable consciousness of the exquisite irritation

will in all probability cause to our antagonists.
An admission, this, that would doubtless have been
acceptable to a La BRUYERE or to a ROCHEFOU-
CAULD. So it is, however, in honest truthfulness ;
and, conscious of the fact, we are not slow to con-
fess it. Hence, when the member for Roch-
dale dogmatises about the Ballot, for ex-
ample, we are fain not for one instant to say
him, Nay ! Granting his premises—knowing
them to be in such an instance sound at heart—

we read him or listen to him at such moments with
a peculiar degree of complacency. When he tells
the opponents of the Ballot that, in spite of all

their opposition to its coming, it will come never-
theless, we are aware that he is telling the plain
home truth, with no mistake at all about it. The
telling of those kind of truths may be exceedingly,
(doubtless is wonderfully) vexatious to those who
fail to recognise it as a truth. So—recognising it
ourselves, however, we listen like the wedding
guest, and the mariner hath his will.
But the one great peculiarity of Mr. COBDEN'S
dogmatism is, that it is universal—that it is abso-
lutely encyclopwdiac. It relates, not by any means,
to the question of free trade in corn, to the question
of vote ballot, or to the question of the distribution
of the electoral franchise. It embraces every
imaginable topie. It is, without exception, the
most comprehensive dogmatism that ever man had,
as an offensive (sometimes a particularly offensive)
weapon, to deal lightly or heavily about him among
his fellows according to his own free will and plea-
sure. Mr. COBDEN is never dogmatic by halves.
His one watchword in this is Thorough. He " goes
in" at any and every question " full tilt"—be it
as yielding as a feather bed or as impregnable as
a wall of adamant. And it is precisely, because of
this one great dominant characteristic, because of
this universal and all-comprehending dogmatism
that a speech from Mr. COBDEN (ranging, as his
speeches almost invariably do, over a great variety
of subjects), presents a spectacle quite as interesting
in its way as an exhibition of what they call
Ground and Lofty Tumbling.

Without the customary tights and spangles,
but with the inevitable chair and little bit of
carpet, Mr. COBDEN, the ground and lofty tumbler
°f modern oratory, has been showing off recently

upon two successive occasions at Rochdale at the
particular desire of that (his own) constituency. And
with the worthy and worshipful the local mayor,
seated in the •
Chau', and with all kinds of things
in rapid sequence dragged
tapes, upo the Carpet, or, as
the French_say, upon th and with two or
three or four thousand spectators, "looking on and
encouraging of the same"—it
hardly be deemed
way surprising that theean
in auy display has proved in
a great measure worth looking at. RA o SAMEE
with five and six knives twittering and flickering
in the air—occasionally taking eccentric excursions
down the performer's throat, and coming up again
to revolve over him in dangerous proximity to his
ead and fingers—was really nothing to it. The
pe ‘g-top twirling on the tip of the long flexible cane
tht globe balanced on the soles of the inverted !cot:
the! posturings, the summersaults, were in no CCM-
pa rable degree as surprising as the exhibition of
in tellectnal agility with which Mr. COBDEN'S
Dogmatism careered among the diverse topics taken
1-12 hand yesterday, and the day before, down at
.tochdale. Election Petitions—the Ballot—Non-

I ntervention—the State of Italy—National Defences

-Foreign Invasion—the French and English Navies
-- -the Refusal of a Seat in the Cabinet—the Extol-
pion of the Franchise—the Remodelling of the
Elevtoral Districts—the Duration of Parliament—

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