The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-26 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BenJ. Webster.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Messrs. Bißington,
Stuart, P. Bedford, C. Marshall' C. J. Smith, Garden ; Miss
Marian Lacey, Miss K. Kelly, and Mrs. Billington.
Followed by the new burlesque, THE BABES IN THE
WOOD. Messrs. C. Marshall, Paul Bedford, C. 3. Smith,
Eburne ; Miss Woolgar and Miss K. Kelly.

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

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough
THIS EVENING, THE MAID WITH THE MILKING
FAIL,
After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses
Owanborough, 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
being. In course of rehearsal), is sung nightly at the CAN-
TERBURY HALL CONCERTS.
THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY,
consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Julieand
tte,
and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX,
NIGHT 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.--SIIN OFFICE, AUGUST 26.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
81—highest since noon yesterday.
68—lowest this morning and during the night.
75—this day at noon.
Baßomrrzit-29.78.
WIND, S.W.; light, with hazy sultry weather. There
was a heavy thunder-storm last night, the lightning was
very remarkably grand.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This DAY.—Morning, --h. —m.—Afternoon, 12h. 13m,
To-Mozatow-Morning, 12h. 44m.—Afternoon, lh. 12m

THE SUN.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1859.

Scarcely has Parliament been prorogued for the
long vacation, scarcely has grouse shooting begun,
hardly have the deerstalkers buckled on their
heather habiliments, when the more inveterate

politicians, great and small, are addressing long
speeches here and there all over the country to
their constituenfg, It was only the other evening
that we had occasion to record the oratorical saydc

ings of Mr. COBDEN,' two days running, down at
Rochdale. We have a pretty fair prospect of

having a similar display of ultra-liberal rhetoric
down at Huddersfield, in celabration of the triumph

(as it is called by his own supporters) of the
sitting member for that borough—or, as we should
rather designate it more accuratelly, in celebration
of the partial acquittal of the Mr. L EATHAM, who
was not unseated upon charges of bribery and corrup-
Yesterday we took occasion to remark
upon the clean breast Mr_ LINDSAY was
making of it at the beginning of this

tion.

week down in his particular borough among
the free and independent, the ultra-liberal and
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ultra-reforming electors of Sunderland. To-day

our attention is called—here, to the Whig banquet,
and all the after-dinner speeches, at Winchester—

there, to the Consecration banquet, and all their
after-dinner speeches, at Ashburton. It is amus-

ing to note the broad contrast presented by these
- .

two festivities when drawn thus into comparison.

Upon the one hand, the Ins are so confident in
their position, and so contemptuous when referring
to the powerlessness of the Opposition. Upon th•
other, the Outs profess so perfect a reliance upon
their speedy return to power, and such an agree-
able consciousness of the precarious plight of the
existing Government. Here, as ever, the truth
may be discovered, we may rest assured, as nearly
as possible about midway between these ex-
tremes of anticipation. And it is in this that we
are disposed to recognise the happiest augury for
that truest patriot, your true, and earnest, and

- liberal-minded, and not merely party reformer.
That happy;augury, we conceive, lies in the Balance
of Parties, now more nearly attained than ever has
• been even momentarily possible during the last
twelve or thirteen years, in fact, ever since the great
Conservative Party was inexorably, and, as we
have ever regarded it (not being partisans), most
magnanimously broken up by Sir ROBERT PEEL.
Since that date of 1845-1846, the elements
of party in the House of Commons, and
more or less, in fast, throughout the whole country,
have been returned to a chaotic confusion.
Every now and then, during thR interval which
has since intervened, there have been new and
various, but in each instance, as it has speedily
enough proved, merely temporary combinations.
Hitherto, however, up to this last general election,
the two great parties in the House of Commons
have been each of them numerically weak—weak
from their internal dissensions, from the dropping'
off here and there of little groups of restless and
independent politicians, minor sections intrinsically
insignificant, but so far formidable that they could
• upon occasions, by combining, produce either a dead
lock in legislation, or an actual, and, as it invariably
happened an abrupt change of Administrations.
Hence, in truth, has it come to pass that all these
•, twelve or thirteen years last past we have gained
not one step in advance either in Parliamenrary
Reform, in Administrative Reform, or in the more
rational economising of the national resources.

Happily, however, the hour at length struck
✓ from which was to date a new era in our Parlia- •
mentary history, in our progressive legislation, and
for that matter too, we hope, in the widest and
noblest sense, in our Constitutional Government.
The cup of the popular indignation was at
last brimmed up to overflowing. The dull,
▪ deplorable, do-nothing rule of the whip
L. -under Lord JOHN had tired the patience
mneeoroef
ththane
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country out, in the first instance, after
-five, after nearly six dreary years of it had dragged
its slow length along. The first Derbyite Ministry,
that of 1852, being little else than the merest con-
test for power, formed a hiatus in our Parliamentary
• annals' of just ten months duration. After that
episode the nation became disgusted increasingly
by the two years disastrous misrule of the
ABER DEVaI Coalition, with the drifting into war,
the evasion of reform, and the deadly bungling
of a g reat military and maritime cam-
paign. Disheartened, as well as disgusted, the
nation, t hrough its representatives, accorded to
Lord PAL. -mERsToN, by an impetus of mistaken
reliance, tin .s magnificent and enviable opportunity
of a Parlia m, entary Dictatorship. Within three
years the illrak lion was dissipated. The implicit

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