The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-23 00:00:00

Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!
Westminster-road.
Proprietor......,.C. Morton.
A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera,
IL CORSARO,
(This opera has never been produced in this or any other
country, except at these Concerts), having met with that de-
cided success which charactise 4 the most popular works of
this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ;
together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL' REGGI-
MENTO, by Donizetti,
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
1. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonuhmans.
The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A.
R. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and
the Brothers Conrad.
John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on
view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the
Establishment

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DA-Y.—Morning, 12h. 10m.—Afternoon, 12h. 34m.
To-moitßow.-Morning, 12h. 58m.—Afternoon, lh. 20m.

THE WEATHER.—Styx OFFICE, Arum 23, 1861.
THIEHOMITBR, IN THB IMM:oz.
53—highest since noon yesterday.
45—lowest this morning and during the night.
51—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.88 ; falling.
WlND—Easterly—light; with dull weather, inclining to
change. Slight rain.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 188:

The Conservative Opposition appears to have
hardly yet made up its mind as to the course it may
eventually pursue in regard to the Budget which
has now been submitted to the House of Com-
mons by Mr. GLADSTONE, as the responsible
Financier in Lord PALMERSTON'S Government.
Yesterday the intimation put forward in the
chief daily organ of conservatism, was to the
effect that an amendment would probably be.
moved, in the interests of his party, by the hon.
gentleman the member for Huntingdon. The
evening comes on, however, and, with it, the
motion that the House go into Committee of
Ways and Means. Mr. THOMAS BARING duly
rises, as had been anticipated, to open the dis-
cussion upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer's
Financial Statement, but after addressing the
House for some considerable time, adversely to
the Budget, resumes his seat without any
hint at all of a forthcoming amendment !
Several hours arc afterwards consumed by other
representatives—speaking for the most part alter-
nately for and against the fiscal and financial
scheme of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. How
far party feeling inspires the debaters may be
recognised, as the phrase is, with half an eye. No
sooner has the Tory member for Huntingdon re-
sumed his seat after going dead against the Budget
—it must be confeised, by the way, as dead against
it, as even that great Liberal Free-Trade organ of
finance The Economist—when the ultra• Radical
member for the 'fashionable town of Brighton
springs to his feet, eagerly, for the purpose of giving
not simply a partial or moderate support, but an
unqualified approval to the Budget. Altogether,
eight spoke " against" and seven " for" the Finan-
cial Propositions of Mr. GLADSTONE. The two
inaugurators of the discussion we have already
particularised. The seven supporters of Mr. BAR-
ING'S argument—the six participators in Mr.
WHITE'S admiration yet remain to be briefly
enumerated. Following the line of argu-
ment already pursued by the Honourable
Gentleman the Member for Huntingdon, the
noble lord the member for Huntingdonshire took
exception to the Budget as a whole, principally
because—as the liberal free trade financial Economist
had already done in the course of its terrible
analysis of Mr. GLADSTONE'S calculations on Satur-
day—he deemed the surplus of nearly two millions,
the surplus of £1,923,000, an illusory surplus, a
wholely imaginary surplus, a sort of charming
• mirage conjured up in the perspective by the com-
bined agency of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's
vivid imagination and his sanguine temperament.
Pressing forward steadily in the same direc-
tion, as earnestly each of them in search of an
amendment as CcELEBS could ever have been in
search of a wife, or as Dr. SYNTAX
in search of the Picturesque, came later on in the
evening, at intervals the Conservative members for
North Warwickshire, for Stirlingshire, for Inver-
ness-shire, for Chippenham, for Mallow, for West
Norfolk, and to crown the list with the ablest
speaker upon finance among them all, the hon.
baronet the member for the borough of Stamford,
SirSTAFFORD NORTHCOTE. As strenuously in favour
of the Budget thus opposed by eight members upon
the side of the OppositiOn, were the seven Liberals,
above and below the gangway on the Mini-
sterial side of the House, these seven wise men

who were last night bent upon supporting through

thick and thin the financial policy of Lord PAL-

MERSTON'S Government. Treading thus rapidly

upon the heels of one another after the lead made

in yesterday's discussion by the Radical member for
Brighton, came in due sequence the Liberal members

for Montrose, for East Sussex, for Dumfries, for Edin

burgh, and rule Norwich. The ex-Under-Secretary
for Foreign Affairs in Lord DERBY'S . Govern-

mut, the hon. gentleman, or as political grati•
tude (if there be such a thing !) ought certainly
to have rendered him, before the late Cabinet

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resigned office, the Right Hon. Gentleman the
member for Horsham, moving what was reluc-
tantly consented to, at last, by the leader of the
Rouse and the Chancellor of the Ex-
elaeciner the adjournment of the de-
bate until Thursday evening ! And so the
matter rests for the time being, vaguely,
dubiously eaon
gh under the circumstances. Not a
glimmering ye or an
been determinedy specific Amendment having
upon by the Opposition. Is it,
OM it be P that the opposition stands in that hesitat-
ing
mater satoiri positin
st sketched out in a singletike by the

" IV illing to Wound and get afraid
eerelis the fact, at
Whatever the reason
may be fttf-h----- to etrike,"
any rate. quite visibly before the
Parliament. It is a circumstance
Ministers uf
lilt county e
ncourage-
and before
rent to Her MAJESTY'S
SO far,
at least, as matters have yet gone, mr. n
~,LAtbsTm,,,.
has cause only to hope for the acceptance oihie
Financial Propositions one after another in a
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succession. Ins speech is kill remembered, as it

was recogaisei at the time, as a masterpiece. It

WAS a speech fall of ingenuity—and bukerficially