The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-31 00:00:00

Commence at 8 o'clock.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnckstone.
TiTTR ETENING the performances will commence win
THE ROAD TO RUIN. Mr. C. Mathews.
And PAUL PRY. Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews.
Commence at 7.

RpYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
'MIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. G. Melville; Ghost, Mr. Ryder ;
Ophelia, Miss Carlotta Leclereq.
After which, PUSS ; or, Metempysychosis. Miis

NFtiV THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE WILLOW COPSE. Luke, Mr.
Ben. Webster; Hulks, Mr. D. Wisher; Augustus, Mr. J. L.
Toole ; Staggers, Mr. Paul Bedford.
After which, the new farce, entitled A ROW ON i'TIE
PREMISES. Mr. David Fisher, P. Bedford, C. Selby, Miss
H. Simms, K. Kelly, Mrs. Billington.
Followed by LOVE AND HUNGER. Mr. David Fisher,
Mr. Paul Bedford, C. Selby, C. J. Smith, Miss K. Kelly, Miss
Laidlaw.
Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box-
OfEce open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor ter bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West-
minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen-
gers all hours of the night.
THIS EVENING, Poole's comedy, THEY'RE BOTH TO
BLAME. Messrs. Leigh Murray, Barrett, Walter Carle ;
Mesdames Frank Matthews, Murray, Catharine Hickson.
After which, the new Comedietta, entitled CUPID'S
LADDER. Reuben, Miss Lydia Thompson.
Followed by MAGIC TOYS, supportA by Miss Lydia
Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, and a numerous Corps dc
Ballet.
To conclude with the New and Original Burlesque, by L.
Buckingham, Esq., of VIRGINIUS ; or the Trials of a Fond
Papa.
Reduced Prices—Gallery, col ; Pit, ls. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at hall-past six; perform-
ance commences at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough
THIS EVENLNG, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN
EGGS.
After which Trim GREAT RUSSIAN BEAK; or, An-
other Retreat from Moscow.
Followed by TIIE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS.
And CAUGHT BY TIIE EARS.
Commence at 7 o'clock

ASTLEY'S ROYAL ANIPIIITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.

Sole Lessee Mr. William Cooke.
Most legitiniate and perfect success of the New Historical
Drama, by Tom Taylor, Esq., entitled GAItI BALDI, and
illustrating the principal events in the life of that celebrated
Italian General, supported by Messro. R. Phillips, Belmore,
Ennis, Raymond, Miss Kate Carson, aided by a powerful Dra-
matic Company, full stud of beautiful trained horses, appro-
priate and picturesque scenery, with great hippodramatic
effects. Enthusiastic reception of the renowned Delavanti
Family—Gymnasts par excellence—with Little Menoni, the
most wonderful Juvenile Equestrian ever known, who are re-
ceived each night with deafening plaudits—John Henry
Cooke, the unrivalled Parisian Magnet—Artistes of astound-
ing ability from the Continental Cirques Miss Emily, the
most elegant rider of the day—Full troupe of Gymnastic Pro-
fessors, facetious Clowns, and Pierrots —Magnificent Mena,re
Horses and clever Dwarf Ponies —Concluding each night with
THE MAN WITH THE CARPET BAG.

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Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips

CANTERBUR sl" HALL CONCERTS.—
EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of
MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con-
certs).

And a Grand Selection from Meyerbeer's new opera of
DINOR

Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George 'Hodson (the Trish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critehfield, and E. W. Mackney.

Several interesting* Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
eights of the metropolis.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 30.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADS.
52—highest since noon yesterday.
30 —lowest this morning and during the night.
47—this day at noon.

BA ROMETErt-29.42.
WIND, Southerly ; light, with rainy dull weather—fine
in the morning It rained all the evening, with a fresh
gale.

OCT. 31.
TIITHIMOMETF.H., IN THE SHADE.
4S—highest since noon yesterday.
45—Towest this morning and during the night.
49—this day at noon.

BARONIETER--29.36.
WIND, South-Easterly ; light, with fine cool weather,

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tilts DAY.—Morning, 4h. 49m.—Afternoon, 3h. 10m.
To-Moßßow-Mornin.7, .sh. 31m.—Afternoon, sh. 53m.

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THE SUN.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1859.

Lord DERBY at home is the topic of the day. At
home he was, locally, on Saturday, for he was
speaking where, as he observed, they had known
him from childhood—at home politically, for he was
surrounded by his old cabinet, and his old Conser-
vative friends. He was, it may be said indeed, the
guest, not only of the 600 present but of the 7,000
who had signed the memorial, to present and ac-
knowledge which was the formal object of the ban-
quet.

That was, however, comparatively, of course, but
a formal part. The feast of reason and the flow of
soul, with Englishmen, is always the after dinner
work, and we have little reason indeed to complain
of any want of the latter ; nor, were we likely to
have, when the naturally ardent leader of the Con-
servative party was the hero of the occasion. Lord
DERBY felt that he was speaking—he told their
hosts—to the commercial metropolis of the king-
dom, and where his private life was known to all
before a body of colleagues with whom he
had never had " a subject of difference or of
controversy "—a sly hit, we may suppose, at the
Palmerston-Russell-Gibson Cabinet; they met to
declare their adherence " not to Conservatism,
falsely so called, which would obstruct all useful
changes, but to true Conservatism—the best pro-
inoter of safe and gradual social improvements ;
they met when they had just achieved a great
county victory, and he exhorted them to achieve as
complete a borough victory ; lie had taken the
leadership of the great Conservative party by the
advice of the Great DUKE himself fourteen years
.ago, and he had been rewarded by seeing the steady
growth of his party.

But past politics are like spent money—they can
do us no good now—the future then. Lord
DERBY tells his friends that their time is not yet
come; theyhave,even the other party says, an actual
majority in the house—which we thoroughly be-
lieve if Conservative leanings, and not the necessi-
ties of office-grasping Liberalism, determined the
votes of the old Whigs ; he will not the third time
place his party in power by a casual succe,s, when
he must again be at the mercy of some small party
holding the balance between the two great ones.
. The difficulties of the present Government abroad—
Italy—Morocco—China—San Juan—were as great
as those with which he had taken office ; he hoped ,
they would be steady to their purpose not to en-
tangle themselves with the negotiations of the
proposed Congress—advice which would have been
given with even greater emphasis could he have
seen the letter of the Emperor of FRANCE to the
King of SARDINIA ; the late Government had,
however, strengthened Malta and Gibraltar, and
the national defences generally, and the present
one would not be exposed to any factious combina-
tion which would seek to eject them from office
without regard to the interests of the country.
His Lordship, of course, must notice Parliamen-
tary Reform. ile did not wish now to go into

particulars. He heartily wished that the present
Government might bring in a bill which the great
body of the Conservatives could accept—it was de-

tirable to settle speedily and finally a question not
raised by the country, but by Cabinets and Parlia-
ment. The late Parliament had rejected their plan
of an equal franchise for boroughs and counties—
some extension of the borough franchise must,
therefore, be introduced—but the revelations at

Gloucester and Wakefield, and the conduct of
Trades' Unions, should make any Government ex-
tremely careful in regard to what they proposed.
" GOD grant that they may have wisdom and pru-
dence enough to introduce such a measure as may
pass with the approbation of a united Parliament."
His Lordship concluded with denying unworthy
complicity with Roman Catholics, but ex-
pressing his belief that they were, as was natural,
becoming more Conservative.
Mr. DISRAELI followed with some telling re-
marks both for home and abroad. He, too, proba-

bly, glanced at the position of the two great Whig
lords in the present Cabinet, when he remarked
that he and Lord DERBY " had laboured together
in terms of confidence and trust which, probably,
were never excelled before between two public
men." But his description of the Whigs was one
they richly deserved :—" It has been our wish—he
said—to put an end to that which I may
describe as ' the monopoly of Liberalism,' which
in our opinion has exercised a very perni-
cious influence on the course of public pro-
ceedings and on the character of public men.
For more than a quarter of a century, by this
theory of a monopoly:of Liberalism, half the public
men in England have been held up as individuals
incapable and unqualified to attempt any measures
which might improve the institutions or adminis-
tration of the country; while, on the other hand,
the other half were, in order to sustain this mono-
poly, perpetually pledging themselves to changes
and alterations injudicious in almost every case,
and in many utterly impracticable, and when they
were in power they expended all their resources in
inventing evasions by which they might extricate
themselves from the fulfilment of their previous
promises. Now, I believe, and all my colleagues
believe, that that state of affairs was a principal
cause of that insincerity in public life which of
late years has so frequently been attributed
to the conduct of public men ; but I be-
lieve that that ;.s now completely terminated."
The latter part of this picture, at least, every
thorough Liberal will but too quickly recognise ; it
is a photograph of nearly every Whig administra-
tion since the Reform Bill.
After some declamation on his favourite theme—
the necessity and the advantage of party, Mr. Dts-
RAELI closed with remarks intended to be heard,
or read in another country—and they ale worthy
of him and of England. The extract is rather
long, but its national spirit and importance claim
for it a permanent place—" There are," he said,
" duties more important and, I would say, more
solemn. There are moments when a party like the
great Conservative party of a powerful and
ancient nation like England have not to oppose the
Government, but, if necessary, have even to sup-
port it; and, if they deem the requirements of the
moment demand such a course, to give strength to
their rivals, and even to support those whose suc-
cess in their political course might, under ordinary
circumstances, be to them a source of disappoint-
ment and mortification. lam not one of those who
scatter ambiguous voices in the marketplace.
That has never been my custom. I have ever
been the supporter of a peaceful policy. I have
ever believed that peace might be maintained with
a good understanding with our allies, and that we
should look on their conduct not in a suspicious or
litigious spirit, but should always give to their con-
duct and to their proceedings a fair, and even a
generous interpretation. But I should, indeed, be
blind to the signs of the times—l should, in-
deed, be insensible to the feelings that are now
universally expressed—l should be treating them
with a haughty negligence if I did not recog-
nise what is the anxiety of a great people. I
know not whether it be true or not that
designs upon the independence of our empire are
cherished by any Government or potentates in other
countries. I presume not to read State secrets, nor
is it for me in the irresponsible position in which I
and my colleagues have been placed—it is not for
us, I say, to presume to pretend that we can com-
municate to you any intelligence of which you are
not already masters ; but this I will say with re-
spect to the form of our Constitution, and especially
with respect to the House in which I have the honour
to sit, that if there be any foreign Government or
foreign potentate who, in the supposed distrac-
tions and political dissensions of our form of
Government, believes that he has found elements
on which he may calculate for pursuing with suc-
cess any scheme of aggressive or of violent ambi-
tion, then I can assure that Government and that
ruler that they mistake the character and the
genius of the English people and the English
Constitution. And if they count on our dissensions,
and on the noble rivalries of our public life as the
means for the successful prosecution of those
designs, they will count on them to their confu-
sion. They will find, if ever the time should
come when the independence of this country or the
empire of our Sovereign should indeed be menaced,
that the Sovereign of these realms rules over a
devoted people and a united Parliament."
We have not left ourselves room to notice, as we
could wish, the speeches of subordinates, though
they were not unimportant. Lord STANLEY, who
spoke very briefly, did not despair of India if we
did but deal justly with the natives; if we gave
them opportunities of entering the public service,
treated the native princes with but justice, ab-
stained from intermeddling with their customs, and
if we reduce our military expenditure and opened
up the country freely to English capital, he had no
fear for the future of India. His lordship's home
politics, as well as some other points in regard to
the meeting, we must advert to on another occasion.

ThQ French EMPEROR, has at length spoken in
the anguish of his heart. His address to the King
of SARDINIA too plainly expresses the perplexity
of his situation with respect to the Italian ques-
tion. NAPOLEON, like some other men, has made
a false move, and now endeavours to right himself
by another mo-re, but in the wrong direction.
From the first his hasty armistice on the very
verge of complete success, and his subsequent de-
lusive parley at Villafranca, have only engulphed
him in greater confusion. His first grand mistake
has entailed still greater trouble. He now feels the
encumbering weight of his position, and State
necessity, if not respect for public opinion, compels
him to speak out in the perplexity of his own
making. He has clearly outwitted himself in his
ambition to deecive others. Ile is " hoist with his
own petard "—and dreads the consequences of his
fall. In his new plan for the regeneration of Italy
he overlooks the complexity of the " situation."
Tie admits to having made a bad bargain, but
deems it necest'axy to his honour to hold to his
word, entirely forgetting that the Italian people
have an interest in the matter. But thus it ever
conies of despotism. The people go for nothing.

Still there may conic a day of reckoning, however
slow but sure, when the people will assert their
right to be heard, and vindicate humanity in the
face of death itself. The EMPEROR may yet find
that his present programme will be as inconclusive
as the previous was unfortunate.

Our republican kinsmen in the United States,
instead of " trying it on " in regard to the British
North American possessions—according to Lord
DERBY'S felicitous definition of the late Yankee
seizure of San Juan—would do infinitely better if
they looked well to themselves. They would do
well if they bore in remembrance that the symboli-
cal fasces of their own democratic confederation is
but bound together by a rope of sand—a bond of
union frozen into a precarious state of purely tem-

porary cohesion by the mere awe inspired by the
civilised energy of a dominant race. It is not
merely that there is a latent antagonism there be-
tween the Slaveholding States and the non-Slave-
holding States—an antagonism that might any
day burst into the devastating conflagration
of internecine war at the first momentary
provocation to it ; ignited thus by the veriest trifle,
moreover, as inevitably and as destructively as
when a solitary spark, or a single blow causes the
ignition and destruction of a gunpowder mill. It is
not simply here, in this " little rift in the lute " of
American Liberty, that we may any of us recog-
nise the portent of its being eventually flawed, if
not ultimately and disastrously silenced altogether.
The real danger to the United States, the true peril
to the Federal Union lies not in any political diffe-
rence of opinion among the States themselves, but
in the profound sense of wrong, of one of those
heinous and unnatural wrongs, crying to Heaven
for vengeance, a sense rankling deep in the hearts
of the whole of the numerically great and formid-
able helot population !

- - The startling intelligence recently brought to

this country from the opposite shores of the Atlantic
affords at once to England and to America a vivid
reminder of the volcano that is secretly smoulder-
ing under the apparent strength and tranquillity of
the United States Confederation. Although the
outbreak has been summarily quelled this time,
upon the next occasion the suppression of the revolt
may not be so very readily accomplished. As it is,
the fire that but just now threatened to spread with
fearful rapidity from slave state to slave state has
only been quenched by the effusion of blood
and trampled out under the bold and vigorous heel
of the Executive. Certainly the accounts received
on Friday contained no auguries of this prompt
and successful grappling with the insurrection.
They related only how the negroes had seized the
United States' Arsenal, and were sending cartloads
of muskets into Maryland and elsewhere—how
the express train was stopped—how one employe
was shot dead, and the conductor, being threat-
ened, was forced to hold back. Our advices
adding, in a few brief words only ominously
expressive of confusion and dismay—" The object
of the outbreak is unknown ; the details very
confused. All the telegraph wires leading to
Harper's Ferry are cut. Later dated despatches
say that all the railroad trains are stopped. The
insurrectionists number from 500 to 700. Several
companies of marines leave Washington this even-
ing for the scene of conflict." Happily for the
white population of the slave states generally the
strife has already been brought to a termination
almost as abrupt as its commencement. Well for
the future of these States, however, will it be if
the incident thus glaringly brought to light,
thus rapidly begun and ended, be accepted
frankly as a timely warning! Upon the
black banner of this brief revolt is legibly
inscribed, in letters of flame, the one lurid word
Careto ! England has the right to echo back
that one word Beware—we have purchased the
right to do so by the payment of twenty millions
sterling ! We have the right to breathe frankly this
advice of warning to our own kinsmen, we who
have dared, though at the cost of those £20,000,000,
to set a resolute example to the whole world upon
this very question of Slavery, by the one bold and
magnanimous act of Emancipation !

Before the next new Reform Bill can be seriously
discussed in the House of Commons, the lamentable
position of the elective franchise as it already
stands must simply, out of due regard to the na-
tional honour, be taken into consideration by the
Legislature. The disclosures recently made—in-
creasingly made ever since the last general election
—demonstrate the absolute necessity of revising the
whole distribution, or rather the whole machinery
of organisation established amongst us almost from
time immemorial for the employment of the Parlia-
mentary franchise. It can scarcely be regarded as
a matter admitting even of any alternative. It is a
question appealing to the common sense of those
endowed with only the most ordinary intelligence.
The corruption is such in the constituencies that
until we can devise some reasonable scheme for
sheltering the present mass of the possessors of
the franchise from the influence of temptations dis-
proportioned to their own capabilities of resistance
—it were clearly cruel, it might even be criminal, to
subject three or four hundred thousand more to the
same pernicious influence—wilfully and wantonly
to plunge them into the very midst of these bane-
ful and baleful temptations. It has been from our
instinctive sense of the anomalies of the present
system, and of the degrading ordeal to which so
many of the possessors of the franchise are sub-
jected upon the occasion of every general election
that has always incited us to give precedence, above
all other reforms, to that reform which we still
regard as the most essential, namely, the arch-Reform
sketched out in the succinct catalogue of the People's
Charter, the Reform which will give to the electors
of the United Kingdom the mills of the Ballot. It
is a farce any longer now to talk of the Ballot being
un-English. There is manifestly, upon the very
face of it, something far more un-English than
the Ballot can possibly be, and that is—
all this monstrous bribery, all this odious
and destestable corruption. We ask merely
the same shelter only to the honourable trades-
men voting at an election, precisely the same
shelter and protection to the vote that the "dine
gentlemen" at the West-end Clubs disdain not to
act under when they black-ball through the fashion-
able ballot-box the acquaintance whose hand they
have just been grasping under the porch. Yield
the Ballot, and there cannot--there simply cannot—
be any continuance of this parasitical venality
and perjury which is fast branding us be-
fore the world, and bringing discredit and
even disgrace upon our representative system.
Let us reverse the legend of Pandora by shutting
up all these evils in the Ballot-box—there to be
transformed into something better-than an empty
hope, into the substantial reality of Electoral
Purity. Lord BROUGHAM says—Prevent corrup-
tion by rendering participation in it Felony. Better
than this we say—Render corruption impossible
by making the elector drop his vote into the ballot-
box. In other words, it is simply saying that Cure
is, all the world over, less of an advantage than—
Prevention.

The Court is expected to remain at Windsor
Castle until the hitter end of November, when her Majesty
and the Royal Family will proceed to Osborne, and remain
there until the approach of Christmas.—Court Journal,

LATEST NEWS.

The following telegrams have been YceQived at
Mr. Reuter'a office :

PARIS, OCT. 31.

The Moniteur of this morning contains the fol-
lowing notice :—The Correspondant has received
a first warning, for an article by the Count de
Montalembert, intitled : " The Pope Pius IX and
France in 1849 and 1859."
The Illoniteur states the reasons of this arertisse-
mod, viz, that in condemning the war carried on
by France in Italy, as having caused the annihila-
tion of the temporal authority of the Pope, the
article has quite distorted the results of the war
and calumniated the policy of the Emperor. It is
also insulting to the nations allied with France, and
the comparison which the writer of the article de-
signedly and offensively makes between the names
of Machiavelli and those of Napoleon 111 and the
King of Sardinia is detrimental to that respect
which is due to the Emperor.
The And de la Religion has also received a first
warning for having published the above article of
tho Corresponclunt in its colums.

PARIS. OCT. 30.

The Illoniteur of to-day contains an article which
first gives an account of the attacks of the Mtoroc•
cans on the French territory during the months of
Angust and Sept. last. The article then proceeds
thus :

The daring and the culpable behaviour of those
tribes deserved a severe chastisement. The whole
western portion of Algeria was continually in an
agitated state. The safety of the tribes under our
rule was everywhere seriously threatened. It
became necessary to act with energy, and therefore
an expedition was decided upon."
The following telegraphic message received by
Government shows that this expedition has begun
its work with determinbtion

" General Martimprey to the General Randon,
Minister of War.--After an engagement of three
hours, the second regiment of Zouaves fixed its
victorious eagle on the Ain-Tacouralt, where the
whole expeditionary corps bivouacs. We hare no
serious losses."

A semi-official co»zmunique runs thus :—" The
statement that France has supplied Spain with re-
sources for operating against Morocco is not cor-
rect. France does not co-operate with Spain in
her operations against Morocco.'

BRUSSELS, OCT. 30.
In spite of the semi-official communique sent to
the Paris papers yesterday, letters from well-
informed persons, received here to-day, state most
positively that M. Mon has made a request for
materials of war, to which Marshal Randon, Mini-
ster of War, has given his consent.

MADRID, OCT. 29.

A circular has been addressed to-day to the dip-
lomatic corps, informing the foreign Powers that
Tangier, Tetuan, and Larrache have been declared
in a state of blockade by the Spanish Government.

TURIN, OCT. 29.

According to advices received from Sicily, the
insurrection there has not ceased. The insurgents
have withdrawn into the mountains. The brothers
Mantrichi are at the head of the movement. Rein-
forcements of troops are being continually de-
spatched by the Neapolitan Government to quell
the insurrection. Numerous arrests have taken
place at Palermo, Cattano, and. Messina.

ZURICH,. OCT. 29

To-day a conference, at which all the plenipoten
tiaries were present, took place. It is stated that
the three treaties of peace will be signed next
week. Count Karolyi arrived here last evening.

TURIN, OCT. 30

To-morrow a meeting is to take place between
the King and General Garibaldi. It is stated that
a considerable increase will be made in the budget
of the marine department.
It is asserted that M..Ratazzi will take ad interim
the portfolio of the Minister of Justice.