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11111 LS EVENING, will be produced Shakspeare's historical
mot KIN( HENRY V.
Frog Henry V., Mr. C. Kean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean.

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. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
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TELE CRITIC; •Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews, Mr. Compton
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international duties, and shall consider the measures 1
to be taken to avoid the return of the present com-
plications." There is no concession here on the
part of FRANCIS JOSEPH—VICTOR EMMANTJEL is
the only delinquent. He is to be placed on trial,
and duly castigated in the presence of all nations,
in order to satisfy the vindictive malevolence of
his opponents.

Austria kindly consents that the evacuation of
the R oman States may be discussed, and likewise
the question of administrative reforms, but the
details and their definitive adoption must remain
subordinate to the decision of the States directly
interested. In other words, Austria will listen to,
but not be bound by, any decision that may be
arrived at. She will take the chance of a favourable
judgment, but will totally repudiate any that does
not meet with her entire approval. There is no
reciprocity, no abandonment of any objectionable
regulation in her propositions, and therefore they
must necessarily fall to the gronnd.
In respect to the treaties into which she
has entered with minor Italian States, Aus-
tria declares that their validity cannot be ques-
tioned, but if all the Powers represented at the
Congress agree to produce their political treaties
with the Italian States, Austria will do the same.
This is pure humbug, for there never has been a
charge preferred against any other nation of
meddling with the internal affairs of the States
of Italy, save that France unfortunately occupied
Rome, in order to restore the sacerdotal regime, a
matter which Louis NAPOLEON is now believed to
sincerely regret.
Count BUOL is not contented with the proposi-
tion that the territorial arrangements, or the
treaties of 1815 shall not be touched, but he wishes
to include those entered into, in execution of those
acts. Until they are known and considered in
Congress, it is perfectly absurd to suppose
that any such engagement can be entered
into. As to a general or simultaneous disarming of
the great Powers, the demand is absolutely ridicu-
lous. It is Austria that has endangered the peace
and tranquillity of Europe, and she seeks to ride
off on a high horse, placing those who should really
be her judges on their trial. This won't do—as
she will find to her cost ere many weeks have
elapsed, should she continue as perversely obstinate
as she has hitherto shown herself to be.

It is a melancholy spectacle, the mass of useful
legislation which is now swept aside for at least
another session by reason of the perverse and fac-
tious, but egregiously baulked and utterly futile
struggle for power of the rival chiefs of the Opposi-
tion. Measures down for a second reading—mea-
sures ready for deliberation in committee—mea-
sures upon the eve of a third reading, all but
passed intolaw, within an ace of being transformed
by the magical la .Reine le veut into substantial
enactments—they are all swept aside now ruth-
lessly by retail and wholesale. Gone for another
year the hope of many a most desirable and even
urgently required sanitary improvement ! Gone
the prospect of toll bridges opened to the public, of
turnpike barriers all over the kingdom finally
abolished ! Gone the expectations recently kindled
of a multitude of most anxiously-looked-for legal
reforms—those affecting bankrupt and insolvent
debtors—those relating to the transfer and regis-
tration of landed property ! Gone some another
twelvemonth the greatest reform of all, and the one
latterly counted upon the most securely, the com-
prehensive and vast reform in the system of popular
representation. JOHN BULL is left mourning,
like MACDUFF—but little comforted by that true
Malcolm, that arch-indifferentest of all Reformers,
the noble lord the member for Tiverton.
" He has no children.—All my pretty little ones ?
Did you say all ?—Oh, hell-kite !—All?
What, all my pretty chickens and their dam
At one fell swoop ?"
It is the premature massacre of the innocents in
April—the anticipation by four months of the
general butchery, restricted in ordinary times to
the dawn of August, as a sort of preliminary
battue to prepare the way among Parliamen-
tary marksmen for the autumnal sports
of grouse shooting and deer-stalking. And for all
this waste of time the nation is indebted to the
greed of power indulged in to no purpose by the
noble lord the member for the City of London. It
is a monstrous perversion of the truth to maintain
that upon Ministers devolves in any way the re-
sponsibility of the dissolution. That responsibility
rests entirely and exclusively with the Opposition.
By the rival leaders of that factious Opposition the
end of the existing Parliament has been wilfully
precipitated. Whatever Mr. SPEAKER, in the
plenitude of his wisdom, may say about the course
recently pursued by Lord JOHN being strictly con-
stitutional and strictly Parliamentary, there can-
not be one instant's doubt of the fact that it was
literary a course all but unprecedented. The
precedent, indeed, as Lord DERBY insists, is in
reality one of Lord JOHN'S own making. But for
this Destroyer of Cabinets having some years since
been permitted to do the very same thing, he has
just been allowed to do all over again—namely, to
move an abstract resolution by way of amendment
to a bill upon the motion for the second reading,
and consequently before it could be taken in any
way into detailed consideration in committee—the
course here specified would be altogether, we
believe, without any precedent whatever. As
recently as Saturday last, according to the fashion-
able intelligence in the columns of our contem-
porary, the Morning Post, " Lord JOIIN RUSSELL
was busily engaged at the British Museum making
researches in the Library." This was exactly
midway between the division upon his resolutions
at the end of the seven nights' debate and the
sequel to that division in the twofold Ministerial
statements. What may have been those re-
searches of the noble lord in the library
of the British Museum ? Were they re-
searches for the discovery of some precedent
anterior to the one of his own creation ? If so,
they must have been researches fruitless of any
satisfactory result whateverjudging from the noble
lord's silence upon the matter in the course of his
remarks, on Monday evening, at the close of the
official declaration of the Ministerial intentions by
the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. The remarks of Lord JOHN RUSSELL
were of a very different character indeed to any-
thing so purely abstract and antiquarian. They
were remarks full of painful significance. They
revealed an ambition smarting under the wounds of
a very poignant and a very recent disappointment.
For example, Lord JOHN said plainly, in so many
words, at the outset of those remarks of his on
Monday, " I have said before, I thought it very
doubtful whether Lord DERBY ought to have occu-
pied office last year :" adding even—,, My own
ga n
tat
rthat he ought to have refused"—where-
upon, is,
eon
upon, and
no
of feeling n wonder,these
thereese
extraordinary was audible " a lau laugh.'
h.
revelations'
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uspi ro'n it:e as
by Lor'd Joux, we find him saying—
" debate Now, much taunted during the late
*vagueness with which I spoke of
any future measure
of reform. which I should be
disposed to support. Sir,,,
exclaimed the noble
lord, with an outburst at once of the most sur-
' prising candour and virtu • •
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Was va indignation, " Sir, I
gue advisedly." Is- 0t 1 t
doubt about it! No