The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-22 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC.

THIS EVENING. at 7, SL A SHER & CRASHER: Messrs Atkins,
Vaughan. G. Vincent, ctc.; Miss Lennox Grey and Mrs Caulfield.
After which, at 7.45, THE YELLOW PASSPORT : Messrs. H.
Ne- ills, G. Vincent, E. Atkins, H. Vaughan, H. Cooper, and H.
Wigan; Mesdames Furtado, Lennox Grey, and Caulfield

ROYALTY TIIENTRE.
Under the Management of Miss M. Oliver.
Tars EVENING, at 7.:10, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss
M. Oliver. To be followed by THE RISE AND FALL OF
ITCH ARD III.; or, A New Front to an Old Dicky: Mr. Dewar
Ur. Danvers; Miss Collinson, and Miss M. Oliver. To con-
elide. with THE CLOCKMAKER'S HAT.

PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE.
Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton;
Tins EVENING, TAME CATS: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague,
Blakeley, Montgomery, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White,
Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, WHO
SPEAKS FIRST Messrs. Montague and Blakeley ; Miss C.
Addison.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek.
fins EVENING, HAMLET, Mr. Creswiek; Ophelia, Miss G.
Pauncefort After which, THE STRANGER. The Stranger,
Mr. Henry Marston.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 22, 1868.

Several Ministers spoke yesterday, but there were
no confidences. The Prime Minister spoke at Green-
wich. The President of the Board of Trade spoke
at Birmingham. The First Lord of the Admiralty
at Pontefract. The Chancellor of the Exchequer at
the University of London. It was the same with
other members of the Cabinet. Each of those hold-
ing office, and having seats which by the reception of
office they had ipso facto vacated, each of those ap-
peared before his constitutents, claimed re-election,
and was, as a matter of course, re-elected. Each spoke
graciously, frankly, and to the point. There was no
studied reticence. There was no careful evasion of
any theme that could be mentioned. The Irish Church
was commented upon, and so also was administra-
tive economy, and so also legal improvements, and
the possible revision and emendation of the last great
Reform of Parliament, and military reorganization,
and the modification of the existing system of poor-
law relief, cum cxteris paribus among the great
and vital questions of the hour. All these
things were touched upon. They were each in turn
openly discussed. But upon not one of them, upon
not even the Irish Church Question—the question
of all others more immediately pressing upon the
attention of the nation, of the Legislature, and of
the Government, as having first of all to be dealt
with—was there anything whatever, as we have just
now said, in the nature of a confidence. Aud it
would simply have been out of place had it been
otherwise. The hustings at Greenwich, honourable
platform though it is, for any member of the I-louse
of Commons, for any Minister of State to speak from,
was hardly the tribune from the elevation of which
Mr. GLADSTONE, as Prime Minister of England,
could have been expected by any rational man to
foreshadow what is now being meditated by him and his
colleagues in the way of disestablishing and afterwards
of disendowing the Irish Church as a State establish-
ment. The half academical, half political gathering
together yesterday under the roof-tree of tho London
University, -was scarcely the entourage from the
midst of which Mr. LowE could be reasonably ex-
pected to give the public a foretaste of his notions as
to the con4uB; Budget (his first Budget) as to what