The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-13 00:00:00

TITEATRiIe,-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bactaterte.
TIT 11 EVENING, the performances will commas. with
a new and original Comedy, entitled BLACK SHEEP.
Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, &C. ; Mrs. Wilkins,
Mrs. Charles Young, Miss Lovell, &c.
After which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery
and effects, and all the original music by the late Sir Henry
Bishop, the melodrama of TIIE MILLER AND HIS MEN.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--
bosses and Manatzer, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore,
Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leelereq.
Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Pechter. Sup-
ported by Hermann Veen, Ryder, Meadows, tte. ; Misses
Heath, I:l3worthy, and R. Leelereq.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Reproduction of "The Colleen Bawn.,, The Adelphi
' Census " every Evenin,_,.
THIS EVENING, 13th time of a new Farce, entitled A
TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford.
After which (178th time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr,
U. Boncicantt, D. eisher, Billine-,ton, Falconer, Ste phenson,
'C. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward • Mrs. Boucicault, Miss
Woolgar, Mrs. Biltington, and Mrs. Chatterley.
To he followed Ly a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, Jiburne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss
Kate Kelly, Miss E. rhorne, and Mrs. Chatterley.
Doors open at halt past B—Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
E VERY EVENING,
A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera,
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA.
(First produced in England at this Establishment),
With a Chorus of Forty Voices.
Also, Verdi's IL CORSARO, never performed at any
other Concerts. Mr. Lev
Solos on the Cornet-a-piston, t, Mr, y.
The Comic Department comPrtses the Brothers Conrad (in
their new and inimitable entertainments), Mr. Wood and his
talented little Son, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Hol-
lingsworth, and Miss Rose floward.
Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGIIMANS.
E

0 XFORD,
A, OXFORD-STREET.

Mr. LE' undoubtedly the best performer of the day on
the Cornet-a- piston-:-G rand the
s (on the most complete
scale) from Dinorah, Martha, Stradella, .tc., and other vocal
and instrumental music, by Miss Russell, the Misses Stuart,
and Miss Ernst, Messrs. Charles Greville, Fornari. Kimber-
ley, Bernard, Beaumont, Bervon, Huish, Signor Tivoli, and
Mr. Henry Herbert, with full band and powerful and selected
chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans.—The following
Comic talent, Messrs. W. Randall, J. Blanchard, W. H. Wie-
land, Hollingsworth, E. Marshall, Harvey, and French, and
the Brothers Conrad in their latest and best entertainment,
every evening. Admission, Hall, sixpence ; Balcony and
stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tuts DAY.—Morning, 3h. 48m.—Afternoon, 4h. 7m.
To-monnOlV.-Morning, 4h. 24m.—Afternoon, 4h. 41m.

THE WEATHEII.--Strx OFFICE, MAY 12, 1861.
TIII7.IOIOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
50—highest since noon yesterday.
44—lowest this morning and during the night,
56 —this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29, 78.
WIND—Nor th - Easterly—with fine weather.
MAY 13.

THERMOMETER, IN THE EIHA.DII.
58—highest since noon yesterday.
44—lowest this morning and during the night.
50—this day at noon.
Baßomwrzu-30.24 ; rising.
WIND—N.-N.-Easterly—with dull, but fino, weather.

LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1881.

What will they do to-night in the House of
Commons ? Often as that question has been asked

at intervals during the present session, it has never
had a more pointed application than to the sitting
of the national representatives this evening down
at Westminster. The political situation arrived at

—just as it may chance to be viewed from the side

of the Opposition or from the side of the Govern-
` went—is either " the beginning of the end," or
the end of the beginning. February has gone by—
and March—and April. We are getting sharp
on into the middle of May. Next Wednesday fort-
night is to be the Derby Day—the national feast day
set apart for what Lord PALMERSTON has called
the Olympic Games of England, the festival chosen

for the struggle for that great prize Mr. DISRAELI

wittily dubbed the Blue Ribbon of the Turf. So far
as that arewe on in the Merry Month of May : so
that June will be here before we can well look about
us—Whitsuntide is already less than a week off
—and but a very brief interval will have elapsed
consequently before the freshness of Spring will
have given place to the glow and the glare of
Midsummer. Insomuch has the Session already
advanced that Members, at any rate, may say (if
Ministers cannot)—" Half of our heavy task is

done." Upwards of " three " months of the annual
session of "six," or thereabouts, we have PPP)"
flit by—and now that we have reached the 13th
of May, we may ask, without something like
wistful dismay, under the circumstances, "WHAT
has yet been done in the way of practical legislation,
whether good, bad, or indifferent, by Imperial Par•
liament ? Well, about the only headway bas been
made in the direction of the reform of the laws
relating to Bankruptcy. And even there

the warmth of our exultation is in a manner
chilled by the recollection that the Bankruptcy
Bill has been referred, in the Lords, to
a Select Committee. So that even in re-
spect to that, one supposed Ministerial achievement

of the session, there has come in mid-course a tan-
talising moment of interruption. As to the efforts
at legislation made out of the pale of the
Administration—the efforts made, that is to say,
by private members, with the open countenance or
covert assistance of her MAJESTY'S Government

—we all know how one after another, with the
very rarest exception only, those well intentioned
endeavours have come to grief: until the open-
days, the days especially set apart for these un-
official labours in the
,way of legislation have
come to be mentioned simply in derision the
session of 1861 being already designated ludic-
rously enough, and accurately enough for that
matter, as the Session of Abortive Wednesdays !
In the meagre ministerial banquet set before the
Lords and Commons of England in Parliament
assembled, at the commencement of this extraor-
dinary do-nothing session of the Legislature—get
before them as ceremoniniously as the blackbird-
pie before the King
in the old nursery apologue—
the Financial enterprise, the Fiscal undertakings,
in one comprehensive word the Budget was what
may be called (literally by the way) the piece de
resistance !" Such it has certainly proved to be,
and that, too, in a manner the most unex-
pected. 'When originally submitted to the
House of Commons in a speech of more
than ordinary ability and brilliancy, the Finan-
cial Statement was welcomed either with words of
praise or with respectful silence as became a scheme
and an oration worthy, certainly, each of them, by
their exceeding cleverness, of our present Chancellor
of the Exchequer, the member as Yee of the Uni-
versity of Oxford, the member soon to
foi the
southern division of Lancashire. Since then,how_
ever, since that still memorable night of Mr. GLAD..
STONE'S last great rhetorical demonstration, hardly
anything practical bas been done in the way of
either resolutely securing or appreciably advancing
his fiscal and financial arrangements. Not,
without one moment's question, but that there has
been one grand field day, or rather field
night, when a division was taken in a
more than ordinarily large house, and when the
result of that division gave a clear majority of
Seventeen to her Majesty's Government. But,
saving and excepting that one advantage, the
financial policy of the Cabinet is still, even up to
this memen4Oubiously before the Legislature, The

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