The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-31 00:00:00

6, OXFORD-STREET.

This noble building being now completed, its architectural
beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of lighting
render it one of the sights of the metropolis. Open Every
Evening. The programme is varied, and includes Select' nis
(by a full company of principals, powerful band, and chorus)
from "Macbeth" and "Un Ballo in Maschera." both operas
by Verdi. the composer of the day—The wondertul Solos on
the Cornet-a-Piston of the renowned LEVY—Scotch Duets by
the Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music
of the highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jongs.MissComic portion of the entertainment is supported by
Green, Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey, and French (the Nerves)'
W. H. Wieland, E. Marshall. and W. Randall. Admission,
Hall, sixpence ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private
Boxes, 10e. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tate DlLT.—Morning, 17h. 48m.—Afternoon, Bh. 18m.
To-monßow.-Morning, Bh. 54m.—Afternoon, 9h. 30m.

THE WEATHER.—Sus OFFICE, JULY 31, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADN.
70—highest since noon yesterday.
54—lowest this morning and during the night.
70—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.07.
WlND—South-Westerly ; rather fresh, with fine, bul
doubtful, weather.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1881.

The triumph of Liberal opinions in the City of
London is, with us, of coarse, a theme for very
earnest congratulation. It would have been almost
disgraceful had the great metropolitan constitu-
ency returned any other than a Reformer and a
Liberal to fill np the vacancy left in the represen-
tation of the City of London, by the elevation to
the Upper House (after twenty years' service in the
Lower as M.P. for The City) of a statesman like
Lord JOHN RUSSELL. The determined support given
yesterday to the Liberalcandidate, Mr. WOOD, now
now M.P. for the City of London as Lord JOHN'S
successor, saved the metropolitan constituency from
the disgrace, at least, of that " contretemps." The
successor of Earl RUSSELL in the representation of
that leading constituency is at anyrate (if we can say
nothing more of him) one who would not hesitate to
be marshalled under the banner (supposing that
banner ever to be raised anew) of the Great Whig
Statesman who has, during eight and forty years,
been labouring, more or less, earnestly in Parlia-
ment as a RE former, as a Champion of the glorious
principles of civil and religious liberty, as an up-
holder and improver, wherever practicable, of our
free and powerful Constitution. Of Mr. WOOD,
individually, the electors of the City of London
know scarcely anything. Now that he has been
chosen their member they will have to begin to
make his acquaintance. All they do know of
him as yet might be summed up almost as laco-
nically as the rival claims to the Presidency of the
French Republic, facetiously placed by Punch in
the mouths of the princely aspirants to that
honour—H.l.H. Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON and
H.R.H. the Prince DE JOINVILLE ! The former
illustrious personage, according to our London
Charivari, appealing to the French multitude thus
—Te suis le nevue de non oncle ! The latter thus
---Je suis l'oncle demon nevue! Thus precisely it
has been now, so to speak, with Mr. WOOD, the
Liberal Candidate, on his first appearance before
the metropolitan constituency. His claim was not
so much (if we may thus express it) that he was
himself—as that he was the Son of his Father. As
the Son of Alderman WOOD, the true-hearted,
open-handed, liberal-minded Alderman WOOD, who
stood forward so manfully years and years ago in
the cause of that unfortunate Queen CAROLINE—
simpIy and exclusively as the son of Alderman
WOOD, the Liberal candidate, now the chosen M.P.
for the City of London, appeared before the metro-
politan constituency. In that one perfectly
comprehensible character he was introdr.ced to it.
And as such ho has now been formally and aoiber.
preference to one of tne
ately accepted by it—in
, the most generally re pet-
mest popular and one of
ted Lord Mavors that has ever presided over our

metropolitan corporation.
As to the position into which the Lord Mayor
has been deluded by his over zealous friends there
is really but one thing to be said of it. The Lord
Mayor, in point of fact, has been regularly sold. It
would be 'unfair to say of him that in dropping the
small constituency of Andover to grasp at the
larger constituency of the City of London, I

Lord Mayor CUBITT has in any way been imitating

the coarse indicated in that old fable of Xsor's

about the Dog and the Shadow. For it has not

been the perversity of the Lord Mayor's egotism or

ambition that has carried him into this political

qu an dt ►ry—it has been rather the officious pertinacity

of tho.3e who thrust upon him their promises of

support, only in many instances to leave him in the

lurch„ when the time for the fulfilment of those
promises arrived. The result being that Mr.
CUB:1 Tr—no longer M.P. for Andover—
baulked in his endeavour to become
:11;P. for the City of London—has now no .'seat
iatever large or small in the Commons House
of Parliament. It was in answer to a very earnest
roquisition that the Lord Mayor in compliance with
tl,e wishes of his City frien3s consented to resign
the seat he had occupied for fifteen years consecu-
tive,ly- in the II
°lk's of Commons as member
for the borough of
Andover, and to allow
his n Awe to be put forward
as a claimant of
the b of the electors
ofuffrage" the metro-
polit: z n constituency. Promised
upwards of six
thou and votes before the Polling commenced,
the L ,ORD MAYOIt had the gratification yesterday
of sooing that poll close at four o'clock leaving hira