The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-29 00:00:00

Commence s- 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager---Mr. Edmund F alconer.
HIS EVENING, MY AUNT'S HUSBAND.
Alter which, at Eight o'cloc against the World.
the new and success-
f
ul comedy of WOMAN ; or, Love
t,hsracters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin,
Bruton, Mrs. Bowers, Miss Murray, end Miss Lydia Thomp-
son.
conclude with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in
wnich Miss Lydia Thompson will dance a New Volunteer
Quick Step.
t`Tices as usual. Doors open at half-past 8, to commence at
Bok-office open daily from 11 till 5.

I,DOYAI, PRINCESS'S THEATRE...-.
0,) Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Hurls.
'I ti IS EVENING, JEA'NETTE'S WEDDING. Miss M.
Harris and Mr. H. Widdicomb.
Ater which, a new and original comedy, In five acts, writ-
ten by John Brougham, entitled PLAYING WITH FIRE ;
eh craoters by Mr. John Brougham, Mr. Ityder, Mr. H. Wid-
dicombe, Mr. G. Jordan, Miss R. Lelclercq, Miss Angle, and
Mrs. Weston.

To conclude with a new Traneatlantio 10-xtravanza,
PO-CA-HON-TAS. Mr. John Brougham, Mr• A• Harris,
ac.

EW THEATRE-R0 SCAL, ADELPHI.-
.11 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.

Open for the Winter Season.
THIS EVENING, MUSIC RATH CHARMS. Messrs.
D. Wisher, Romer, Warde, Misses K. Kelly and Laidlaw.
After which (263 d time), T:11 E COLLEEN HAWN. Mr.
1) .3micicault, D. Fisher, Billington, S. Emery, Stephenson,
C. ,1. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Bouoicault, Miss
Wuoigar, Mrs. Billing-,ton, and Mrs. H. Lewis.
'loconclude with LOVE AND HUNGER. Messrs. Fisher,
Emery, C. J. Smith, Mrs. H. Marston, and Miss K. Kelly.
Doors onen at half-past 6—Commence at 7.

C ANTERBU RY HALL CONCERTS,
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
r. SAM COWELL'S New Song' "THE HOUSE THAT
JACK BUILT," on Wednesday, Oct. 30.

Also, Grand Selections from
STRADELLA, LA rICAVIATA, and DINORAH
By Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Herbert, and Signor Tivoli,
with a powerful Chorus.
Solos on the Cornet-a-piston by the renowned performer
Mr. LEVY.
The Comic department comprises Mr. Sam Cowell, Mr.
Marshall, Messrs. Harvey and French, and Miss Harriet
Coveney.
Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans.
Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, is.

THE 0 X F ORD,
6, OXFORD-STREET.

EVERY EVENING.

New Comio Opera, " LA CIRCASSIENNE," and Verdi's
new Grand opera, " Simon Boocanegra," by the entire
Company. Balfe's new ballads by Miss Russell and Madame
E derssohn (composed expressly for them). Mr. I.,evy's
Solos on the Cornet-a-piston, and varied Comic Entertain-
ments by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. W. Randall, Harvey
and French (The Nerves), E. Morahan, and SAM COWELL.
Hall, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. ed.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS Day.—Morning, 9h. 34m.—Afternoon, 10h. 14m.
To-molutow.-Morning, 10h. 50m.—Afternoon, 11h. 20m.

THE WEATHER.—Sux ONCE, OcroßE 27, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
66—highest since noon yesterday.
42—lowest this morning and during the night.
55 —this day at noon.

Banozwrzu-30.15 ; falling.
WIND—N.-Easterly—fresh ; with fine weather, but cold.
Orr. 28.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
65—highest since noon yesterday.
44—lowest this morning and during the night.
50—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30.18.
WIND—N.-Easterly—fresh and cold; with dull weather,

LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 29, 186

A Scotch Laird at home is in a wonderfully d

ferent position from that filled by his feudal ances•
tors. The Duke of ARGYLE felt constrained to ad•

vert to it last Friday when instead of looking down

from a semi-royal head of a long Baronial table,
on long rows of retainers, he was himself the
guest—the first in his own family—of his own

tenants This was, however, no disparagemen

in g.

to his ancestors for " He was not vain enough to
believe that he enjoyed more affection and attach-
ment from those among whom he lived than
other representatives of the family of ARGYLL
had done in former times. The truth was that this
was a modern form of expressing a very ancient
feeling. Scotland and this country had now long
been in a state of profound peace, and there had
•ea time for the old feelings created by the old
relations which existed between a Highland chief-
tain and his tenants and retainers to take the
more modified and modern form of the relations
which now subsisted between a landlord and his

tenant."
The Duke may be a free trader now, for all
landlords have become so through the force of facts ;
still he could not quite surrender the relation of
landlord and tenant to the political economists.
It ought to be something more he still
thought than a pecuniary arrangement. " For his
own part, it was his firm belief that it was one of
the great public advantages of the country that,
while there had been a continued advance from one
generation to another, yet the ideas of to-day were
always modified and took the form of old feelings
and associations which had descended from former
times. And he believed that the feudal element,
which undoubtedly still did remain in the ordinary
relation between landlord and tenant, was one of
the great strongholds of the liberties of this coun-
try. It gave local attachment, and in the strength
of local attachment and local feeling there was and
there always had been the best security against the
inroads of a centralising tyranny. He said this,
whether they referred to former or to present
times ; for whether those were away or not, of this
be was quite certain, that the relation of landlord
and tenant was not, and could not in its own na-
ture be, one of a merely and purely pecuniary
kind."

The Duke
may
resist
be right, but unfortunately for
him no artificiarest th
l effort to preserve medieval rela-
tions can long e advancing tide of modern
life. Whether for good
or
evil, the relations of
loyalty' to a sort of mystic
servant,
is fast vanish-
The good old and the confiding
bp master or a
becoming
tenant, who half worship "it
rarergl every
" right divine" landlord, are
day; and the basis of relations between all
classes
is becoming, not exactly pecuniary, but honourable.
Honourable fulfilment of the duties belonging to
each party is now the proper ground of
mutual
social regard. And, it should be added, that \
the honourable claims of a landlord are
every day viewed in a light less degrading
to the tenant, and will continue to be so in pro-
portion as the tenant surpasses in intelligence,
skill, and often in capital, the feudal landlord, of by-
gone days, and makes it more and more difficult
for the landlord to he his superior in anything

but money.
We do not see much in the Duke's reasons for
his love of semi-feudalism. " Leases," he says,
" are for twenty years, when they exist, and he
14"4 hardly tell many of those whom he saw now

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