The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-27 00:00:00

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RQYAL STRAND THEATRE. iri
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanboroazh.
THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDI )W HUNT. Messrs. Bel-
pie
ford, Clarke; Miss Bnfton. THE FIELD OF THE C;
Maria
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OF GOLD : Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; Ilesda.mes lu.
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Longmore, B. Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Claire, and Hughes. To
conclude with MARRIAGE Al' ANY PRICE
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ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessees. Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. un
fins EVENING, THE WIFE'S sEC it ET. Sir Walter Ayraott,
r Creswick; Lady Evelina, Miss Panneefort, After which,
AND RATS AND WATER RATS.
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QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. lox
Manager, Mr. W. H. Liston.
THIS EVENING, at 7, THE LANCASHIRE LASS: Messrs. fOl
Irving, L. Brongh, Stephens, Wyndham, Clayton, and S. Emery ; ea
Mesdames Hodson, Montague, and Nelly Moore. And THE
STRANGER, Stranger than Ever. Mr. L. Brough, Miss Mon- St(
tague, &c.
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THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. sh
Under the Management of Miss Fanny Josephs.
Tins EVENING, at 7, BLOW FOR BLOW: Messrs. Honey, oi
Foote,wper. Haynes, Arthur, Westland, and Parselle; Mesdames
of
oWeary, Rignold. At 9.30, LUCRETIA BO hGI. A ;
Wiese Drew, G. Honey, &e.; Mesdames Minnie Sidney, Fanny vt
Joseph
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THEATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC. ti
THIS EVENING, at 7, SL A SHER & CRASHER : Messrs Atkins,
Vaughan, G. Vincent, &c. ; Miss Lennox Grey and Mrs Caulfield. tN
After which. at 7.45 THE YELLO PASSPORT : Messrs. H.
Na' ille, G. Vincent,, E. Atkins, H. Vaughan, H. Cooper, and H. 11l
Wigan; Mesdames Furtado, Lennox Grey, and Caulfield . r
ROYALTY THEATRE. •' ' 'li
Under the Management of Miss 11. Oliver.
THIS EVENING, at 7.30, ALL THAT G LITTERS IS NOT NV
r OLD. To be followed by THE RISE AND FALL OF „
'ICHARD III.; or, A New Front to an Old Dicky: Mr. Dewar,
'dr. Danvers: Miss Collinson, and Miss M. Oliver. To con. a
elude with THE eLOCKMASER:S HAT.
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PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. 1
Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton
THIS EVENING, ATOM I Messrs. Blakeley and Montague; 11
Misses Addison and A. Wilton. After which, SOCIETY : Messrs. T
J. Clarke, Hare, H. J. Montague, Blakeley, Montgomery, and '
Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White and Miss C. Addison. II
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CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 I
Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. t
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ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. C
THIS EVENING, The Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud ~
of 50 Horses; also Avolo, the Marvel of the Nineteenth Century, '
Alfred Bradbury, Mlle. Montero, M. Napoli, F. Clifton, and r
Samwell's Performing Dogs. Commence at 7.30.
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ROYAL ALI-1A.318R A PALACE. -•-. THREE BALLET A , ]
Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. ls. Boa-office
open from 11 to 4. 1
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ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-peak, OPEN daily (ex ,
cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6d.; Children 1
under twelve, 6d.
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LONDON, FRIDAY, NOV. 27, 1868.
41.
There appears to be a tendency every now and ,
.then in the political world to regard what has oc-
curred as something altogether unprecedented. It is 1
in this way that Mr. GLADSTONE, even, in his brief
and rather subdued address to the electors of the
Borough of Greenwich, -refers to the spontaneous
award to him of " a most honourable seat in Parlia-
ment" as a kindness, according to his manner of ex-
,
pressing it—" generous, unasked, and, I be-
t, ,•__ ri.- - A ,1.1 am nn rall el ea.,' Now. it is

pressing it—" generous, unasked, and, I be-
lieve, [he adds] unparalleled." Now, it is
\ not unparalleled. It has precedents both here
in England and on the other side of the
Channel. Amongst ourselves, it is still remembered
I as an event of not so many years ago, when not, as

in Mr. GLADSTONE'S instance, the Leader of the Libe-
ral party, but the leader of a small though highly im-
portant section of that party—meaning, of course,
Mr. COBDEN—was quite as spontaneously chosen by
a much larger constituency than the constituency

of Greenwich, and that, moreover, simultane-
ously with his re-election for his old constitu-
ency, the constituency of the borough of Stockport.
Mr. COBDEN had thereupon to make his selection
between the two. It was a signal and conspicuous
honour, but one that he eminently well deserved; and,
it was akin in his instance to that other notable tri-
bute to his immense popularity, the holding open by
the then Premier, Viscount PALAERs-roN, for
his (11r. COBDEN'S) acceptance or rejection (as
happened, for his rejection) of a seat
lin the recently construsted Cabinet •at the
I time when Mr. COBDEN was known to be on

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his way back from a visit to the United States.

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Again, who is there—amongst thos3 whose memory
can readily overleap the interval of twenty years
which has elapsed since the last French Revolution,

the Revolution of February—who cannot recall to
mind the memorable and historical fact that the de-

stroyei of the lied Flag, the author of the Histoire des
Girondins, the glorious Poet, Patriot, Orator, and
Statesman, ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE WaS spontane-
ou,ly and simultaneously eleetel by, and had in con-