The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-11 00:00:00

RYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under tne management .f Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS.
Fabien and Louis dei Franchij. By Mr. C. Kean.
To conclude with A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.
Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, A NABOB FOR AN HOUR.
THE CONTESTED ELECTION.
After which, OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MD-D.
To conclude with lIALLOWE'EN.
Commence at 7.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPH
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Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST.
Followed by the new burlesque, THE BABES IN THE
WOOD. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, C. J. Smith,
Eburne ; Miss Woolgar and Miss K. Kelly.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.
Mr. W. Smith's Benefit on Thursday, August 18.
Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box
Office 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, CAPTAIN CHARLOTTE. Miss M.
Wilton.

After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses
Swanborough, Oliver, and Lavine.
Followed by TILE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS.

Commence at 7 o'clocn

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,
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Consisting 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 evc
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, Au GL ST 11.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
62—highest since noon yesterday.
59—lowest this morning and during the night.
69—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.09.
WIND, South-Easterly; light, with fine weather.
Two o'CLocx.—A thick haze has come over the hori-
zon, portending a thunder storm.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 12h. 23m.—Afternoon, 12h. 52m.
To-MORROW-Morning, lh. 14m.—Afternoon, lh. 35m.

The spectacle presented to us by one Election
Committee after another is certainly anything but
satisfactory. It is peculiarly unsatisfactory as re-
gards the supporters of the powers that be—those
who but yesterday were so loud in their pharisaical
denunciation of corruption, but who have to-day
such reason to be crestfallen under the exposure of
their own evil-doings in the way of bribery. The
decision of the committee appointed to inquire into
the validity of the charges made by certain peti-
tioners against the two members returned at the
last general election down at Beverley certainly
brings to a climax the disgrace of the Accusing Party
in the House of Commons and the triumph of the
Accused. Of the two members returned for never-
ley at this general election, one was an Advanced
Liberal—the other was a supporter of Lord DERBY
and an avowed Conservative. Recollect all that
had been said about the enormous sums subscribed
at the Carlton for Electioneering Purposes !—for
distribution, of course, as every one supposed, by
" safe men," men who might be Frail in name, but
were certainly not to be frail in nature ! Recollect
it had been asserted, with a brazen particularity,
somewhere down in the direction of Carlisle—[Was
it not, by the way, asserted thus by some right hon.
baronet who, at some time or another, was in someway
or another distinguished—creditably or otherwise,
our readers may perhaps remember—as a Man of
Letters ?]—Recollect at any rate that it was
asserted by somebody somewhere that the Prime
Minister himself had subscribed a good round
lump of money—variously put by the promoters of
the canard at £lO,OOO or £ls,ooo—to swell the
gross amount gathered together at the Carlton for
the express purpose of bribery and corruption !
These accusations, moreover, were not simply
whispered in back parlours on the sly—they were
roared with stentorian emphasis from platforms in
Birmingham and elsewhere—they were flashed
along electric wires at midnight, and repeated in
leaded-out columns in newspapers printed at cock-
crow. The general election came on in the midst
of this roar of malignant imputation ! Possessors
of household suffrage, possessors of the borough
franchise, in any way, potwallopers, anybody,
everybody who dared to vote for a Derbyite at that
time of universal temptation was liable to be regarded,
was invery m any hundreds and thousands of instances
regarded, as a corrupt and venial vendor of votes,
having his pocket crammed, not actually with
blood-money, but with something in its way quite as
abhorrent to a free citizen, namely, with conscience-
money—the chinking gold or the crumpled bank-
notes having been passed covertly from palm to
palm in the midst of the guttling and guzzling in-
cident to times of corrupt electioneering !• The evil
impression (there is no doubt of it) was confirmed
in the minds of many when the returns were
summed up at the close of the general election—
when it proved that the Derbyites had really
thereby increased their strength so very consi-
derably, that from being a very powerful section
in the House of Commons they had become, be-
yond all further possibility of doubt upon the
matter the most powerful " party " in the
new Parliament ! Assurance was soon yet further
made doubly sure in the judgments of those accus-
tomed to place implicit reliance upon the assertions
of men like Mr. BRIGHT and Sir JAMES GRAHAM—
when it was eventually proved, upon the very first
division, that, with all the parties, and sections of
parties, on the then side of the Opposition, massed
together [not by any means by a factious combina-
tion, but simply, to borrow a memorable phrase,
used by Lord PALMERSTON upon a previous occa-
sion, simply by a" fortuitous concurrence of atoms")
—what was ebon black before became blacker than
Erebus now, when it was found that, even with
this extraordinary combination of parties and sec-
tions of parties, the majority gained over the iso-
lated Derbyites, in the largest house upon record,
amounte'l to no more than that extremely unlucky
number, Thirteen ! There could be no further
doubt upon the matter. It was as clear as
anything could well be, that all we had heard about
the fund provided by the Carlton was, alas ! only
too true. Bribery—gross and monstrous beyond
all precedent—had been employed here and there
during the general election, in all 'directions, by the
agents. of the outgoing Government. Of course
petitions came pouring in against this and that
return of the Conservative candidates. That again
—was only, in reason, what was to be expected.
Wait a while—wait only for just a brief interval—
until these petitions could be examined into before
the Committees of Inquiry ; and then-0 for the
exposures of Bribery ! 0 for, the revelations of
Corruption ! The monstrous, the gross, and flagi-
tious corruption indulged in systematically and
wholesale by the electioneering agents of the gone

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1859.