The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-11 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET
tesiee, Mr. J. B. Baokstenr.

THIS EVENING, the performances will *immense with
A DUKE TN DIFFICULTIES, Mrs. Stirling, Miss F.
Haydon, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr, Buckstone,
Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, he.
After which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery
and effects, and all the original music by the late Sir Henry
ilishop. the melodrama of THE MILLER AND HIS MEN.
Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM,
Soie Lessee and Directress, Madaae CELESTE.

Decided Success of the Two New Dramas.

THIS EVENING, LOVERS' QUARRELS.
After which, a new original comic drama, written by Saml.
Lover, Esq., entitled MAC CARTHY MORE ' • or, Possession
Nine Points of the Law. John Drew, J. Johnston, Forrester,
J. Rouse, Medlin ; Misses Rawlings, Hudspeth, &c.

To conclude with a new drama, NEW YEAR'S EVE ' • or,
The Belle of the Season. Messrs. H. Neville, Villiers, Jas.
Johnstone, J. Rouse ; Mrs. Winstanley, Miss Matilda Heron.
Miss Willard, &c.

RoyAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--
Lessee and Mana,Ter, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore,
Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leclercq.
Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup-
ported by Messrs. Ryder, Hermann Vezin, Graham, Shore,
Meadows, &c. ; Misses Heath, R. Leclercq, and Elsworthy.

NENV THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI,
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. .T.
L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
Thorne.
To be followed by the new drama, 3IAGLIORE, THE
PRESTIDIGITAI
Miss K. OR. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole,
D. Fisher, &c.; Kelly, Miss EL Simms, &c.
After which, OUR GAL. Miss Julia Daly, Mr. Romer,
Mr. Eburne, and Mr. Warde.
Doors open at half past B--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 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
C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A.
B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. IL Welland, and
the Brothers Conrad.
John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on
view a shdrt time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the
Establishment.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tara ; DAY.—Morning, 2h. 38m.—Afternoon, 2h. 56m,
To-momatow.-Morning, 3h. 10m.—Afternoon, 3h. 26m.

THE WEATHER.-Srx OFFICE, APRIL 11, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

51—highest since noon yesterday.
34—lowest this morning and during the night.
.s.s—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.45 ; falling.
WlND—Easterly—rather fresh; with fine weather.

" We were not geese"—said Lord PALMERSTON,
when the Tiverton butcher wanted to know what
he had done with the Reform Bill. The negative
assurance was quite superfluous—no one suspected
Whigs of being geese ; he might as well, therefore;
have put it in the positive form at once—" we were
foxes"—and " I, your member and Premier, was the
most wide-awake old fox of the lot ; and, seeing a
capital opportunity of doubling on my own track
of last year, and running to cover, and to earth too,
in the lucky old Act of 1832, don't suppose for a
moment, that an old Whig fox like me would not
do it." And crafty, indeed, are Whigs and Tories
in their policy, and reasonably are they of one heart
and one soul—the PALMERSTON Government refus-
ing to bring in a Reform Bill, and the ex-DERBY
Government commending them as wiser in their
generation than the real Liberals. For, what is the
plain fact under the Act of 1832 ? That act gave
the middle classes a voice, the working classes not
even that ; but it gave the aristocracy all the power.
As Mr. BYNG, the then " father of the House of
Commons," said in his day, so we may say still—
"lt is plain that we are living under an aristo-
cracy." The broad view of our representation is,
that the Reform Act enabled, doubtless, several of
the great centres of industry and population to
speak out, and thus whatever power the ultramontane
party have in the French Senate and Legislative
Assembly—the power of tongue—is given to the
middle classes, but that is all. The counties are
handed over, bound hand and foot, to the
landlords, and the numerous petty agricultural
boroughs are bestowed on the same .enlightened
patrons of popular rights ; while all boroughs
with, say from 800 to 1,000 or 2,000
electors are consigned to the territorial and the
Stock Exchange Long-purses, who take them at
market price, being greatly assisted in so doing by
the "Bribery and Corrupt Practices Prevention
Act "—an Act which is therefore to be renewed
this year.

How can we wonder then at the secret indigna-
tion, hardly veiled behind the fig-leaves of decent
speeches and votes, which pervades the whole
Whig and Tory camp, towards such marauders on
the peace of the House as Mr. Loci? KING and Mr.
BAINEX. Dare they do it, they would vote them
pests and bores ; " black sheep " as thQ masons on
strike would say, betraying the great body of their
brethren. The country indeed, will not be in the
least surprised with the result of yesterday's vote.
It was quite looked for. It was known that the
Whig whippers-in had imitated the stonemasons
and picketed the gates to the Liberal side of the
house, and had induced quite a sufficient number to
stay away to insure the Tories a victory for them-
selves and for the Government, whose members were
compelled like the Hungarians in Italy, to fight
on the side they would rather have voted against.
The Tiverton fox had not been " goose" enough to
take the oaths and his seat since his match with
Mr. ROWCLIFFE. And so the whole affair wentff o
as well as, indeed probably better, than the House
expected. Both sides will now be in excellent work-
ing order for the next election, come when it may.
Even the Tories on the hustings will look very
graciously on the " rabble" below, and with uplifted
eyes will exclaim, 6' Heaven forbid that we should
vote against intelligent and honest working men
obtaining the franchise ;—We only voted that Mr.
BAINEs's bill was untimely; we did not vote against
the Principle of working class enfranchisement ; and
gentlemen of the' working classes, if you will par-
don a pun, We took shelter in a Shoreham CAVE,
while a heavy shower from Yorkshire passed by.
We did not vote against you, but only that the
question or your enfranchisement be not now put,
[aside] as wo
always, Mean to do whenever it should
be put.

Whiggery in it, to carry a good and proper Reform
Bill, the dishonest Cabinet that slipped into office
upon this pretext above all other pretexts, now
derides the notion of attempting anything in the
way of Reform, whatever ! Not a syllable anent

Reform in the Royal Speech addressed to the Lords
and Commons at the beginning of the present ses-
sion by the SOVEREIGN. Not a scrap of a Reform
Bill prepared and red-taped, and set aside for use
at the first favourable opportunity, visible in any one
of the pigeon holes of any one of the departments
of the whole motley Coalition Government. The
Russian EMPEROR may, by a magnificent stroke
of autocratic magnanimity, emancipate 20,000,000
serfs throughout his vast dominions ; but a cluster

of statesmen pledged here in England to extend the
elective franchise to some extent, however re-

The pretext of incorrect
returns is no longer
available; they were correct enough for all practical
purposes before, , but they are
/2 their statistical
now corrected, till
no one can impuf; accuracy. The
net result as regal 'Els boroughs, turns out to be, that
the present numbe rof voters in cities and boroughs
is 442,479, that a :6 franchise would add 211,269,
making a total of 653,479. From well known

stricted, can find not a word of hope to whisper to the

6,000,000 non-electors, who nevertheless bear their

burden no less than the actual electors, bear their

portion of the awful burden of taxation now

advancing every successive year further and further

beyond the appalling sum total of £70,000,000.
All that Lord J. RUSSELL can find it in his heart
to say to those who may hereupon experience any

Causes,_ however, al 'out twenty-seven per cent. of
those who might , n ow be on the register, are not
found there, henco the probable addition to the
borough electoral et, tnstituency would not exceed
200,000. This is tho , actual addition, therefore, to

"use of disappointment in this matter of Reform, is
that he
waits for such a breeze of public opinion in
favour of it, that he waits for such a wave of public
opinion in furtherance of Reform as may eventually
carry a Reform Bill bodily over the Bar of the House

THE WELLINGTON, 160, PICCADILLY. the present constituencies, which we are told would
—Gentlemen are respectfully informed that the is
ue enough to swamp them! That is with all their
SALOON DINING ROOMS are now OPEN for the Supply
of LUNCHEONS and DINNERS, from One to Nine o'clock
boasted intelligence, with their undoubted wealth,
P.m THOMAS PRICE, Superintendent .
and the influence which must
,belong to intelligence
and wealth, the middle classes are told to believe
that an addition to the constituency of one operative
for every two middleclass men would destroy their
present supremacy ! We can only say if it would
they deserve to lose it.
Mr. BAINES must have had some courage and
nerve to deliver his long and carefully prepared
speech to an assembly which he so well knew was
almost to a man dead against him. His arguments
were as conclusive as any could well be; there was
an excitement on the subject of his Bill proved by
at least fifty meetings, and many of them very
spirited, in its favour ; there was on the other hand
the absence of such excitement as could be pro-
nounced dangerous and intimidating; and thus
curiously enough the vote of yesterday seemed to
affirm a new and third condition under which any
Reform of representation must not be granted. If
the people are in commotion bordering on revolu-
tion, it has been ruled, as in the days of Chartism,
that they must not be trusted with votes then. If
they are apathetic, or at least hold no meetings, it
is said they do not ask Reform, it must not be
given them then. But now, if the medium is the
case, if they show in all the more independent
boroughs considerable interest in the subject, but
an interest equally removed from apathy and
violence—well—hem—it must not be granted then
Well may the working classes say " If you please,
gentlemen of the House of Commons, let us know
how we must behave to get a Reform Bill which
acknowledges our rights, only tell us what you want
and we will try to please you."

The whole thing is, however, a transparent hoax
played off by the aristocracy of what Major YEL-
VERTON termed "gentle blood," and the aristocracy
of wealth, on the middle classes. As in the times
of Chartism, the aristocracy hounded on the Chartists
to serve Toryism by opposing Corn Law Repeal
and every moderately liberal proposal, so now the
same aristocracy sets the middle classes against the
working classes; it recklessly endeavours to embitter
the too natural antagonism of the buyers of labour,
add the sellers of labour, and all for what—we say
deliberately to insure yet a little longer the reign
of the two old parties who have so long tossed the
Government of the State as a football between
them. The real dread of both Whigs and Tories
is, not that working men would overpower their
masters in elections, but that they would combine
with them; and that the combination would be for
cheap government, and for the more rapid advance
of Civil and Religious Liberty. Reduction of
Taxation, a House of Commons which would not
consent to send up measures for twenty years, to be
rejected each time by the House of Lords, and
bona fide Religious Equality for all sects—
these are the real objects of aristocratic dread.
It is fear lest the honest working-men of
England would unite with their masters to obtain
such things, that pats forward Mr. CAVE to pro-
pose, that the question of enfranchising 200,000
working-men shall not be note put—that musters
all the Tories to say it shall not—and that keeps
away scores of so-called Liberals, who, if they
were present would be almost compelled to say it

must be now put.
One more Reform fight there will yet be this
session. Oa Tuesday the 23rd leave is to be
asked to bring in a bill to enable every English-
man " to do his own voting "—freed from the " in-
" fluenee"of those on whom his livelihood may de-
pend, and from the temptations of those, who would
sap his electoral virtue by bribes. Of course no
one doubts the fate of a far more vital reform, a far
more real and extensive enfranchisement than
those proposed by Mr. KING and Mr. BAINES.
It will follow them doubtless. But let the battle
be fought without discouragement. The defeats of
a righteous cause are a heavy loss to the victors,
and the vanquishtd are as ready as ever to renew
the attack. Indeed we have little doubt that Mr.
BAINES and Mr. KING fared all the worse, because
it was feared that their incomplete reforms might
add to the number of those who must vote for the
Ballot. A greater number of electors both in
boroughs and counties is little relished; but, the idea
of even the present constituencies being emanci-
pated from landlord thraldom is the most terrible of
all. Any reform rather than that of independent
voting

Lord JOHN'S challenge to the country is being
answered. The non-electors have been pronounced
indifferent as to their possession of the franchise.
The champions of Reform have been believed in-
sincere in its advocacy. The necessity for Reform
of some kind or another, of Reform, large or small,
partial or comprehensive—after being insisted upon
as most urgent by Administration after Adminis-
tration, after being formally promised year after
year in the Speech from the Throne, after being
made the plea actually for the last change of her
MAJESTY'S Government, has been cavalierly set
aside as imaginary, as illusory, by the very Coali-
tion pledged to recognise it. The people don't care
one straw for Reform !—that is the declaration now
made by the affected Reform Government. The people
being described thus, we presume, as indifferent
to the question of Parliamentary change, whether
viewed in the abstract or regarded practically—
because Bristol is not again in flames, because the
unions are not once more mustering in arms ready
to march upon the metropolis, because the whole
country, north, south, east,west, is not a second time
what it was notoriously prior to the last Reform of
Parliament—ripe for insurrection. Because of
this—the Cabinet that turned out their immediate
predecessors upon the argument that they, forsooth,
were not sufficiently advanced Reformers, and that
it required a Whig Administration, or, at any rate,
a Coalition Government with a good infusion of

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THE SUN.
LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1861.