The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-07 00:00:00

AFTER Covent-garden Opera—EVA.
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After Drury-lane Theatre EVANS' to
After Haymarket Theatre EVANS' to
Atter Adelphi Theatre EVANS' to
After Olympic Theatre EVANS' to
After Strand Theatre
After New Royalty Theatre EVANS' to
After St. James's Theatre EVANS' to
After Prince of Wales' Theatre EVANS' to ....
London Singing and Supper Club, EVANS', Covent-garden. -Vocal
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s antness going on perpetually. Now, I should like
to do what is exactly right in the matter if I
knew it. I have not voted for these bills ;
there are many other members who have not
voted for them, but would have done so
if they had not feared the power of your orga-
nisation in their boroughs; but you must bear in
mind th tt under the new Reform Bill your power
in the boroughs is very much diminished ; that at
present every man has a vote who pays upon a .£lO
rental, but under the new bill the constituency
being doubled, trebled,.and in some instances quad-
rupled, your political influence will diminish in that
proportion, and, in point of fact, will in many
places be extinguished. Therefore you cannot ex-
pect in future to force men in the House of Com-
mons to vote against their convictions in order to
take your side. This is another ground for you to
take into your consideration, and another reason
why you should try if you cannot meet your oppo-
nents in some degree, because they are not all vio-
lent and obstructive ; a great many of them are
moderate, and would agree to some measure that
you might submit. In all this I have not given you
any answer as to whether I should vote for Mr.
Abel Smith's bill or against it. I have never
voted for it, and I have always felt that there are
difficulties connected with it so great that I did
not like to take upon myself the responsibility of
supporting a measure of that kind. Bat I think
the difficulties are very much greater in London
than they are here, or in the provinces generally ;
and I think that, if London were out of the ques-
tion, Parliament would deal with the question very
much more summarily than it does, and that, in all
eaet billwo uoldf
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cumstances in London with reference to the trade
which would render the passage of such a bill
an interference with the habits of at any rate
the great mass of the people, and I think that
Parliament would not very willingly consent
to pass such a bill for the metropolis. I can only
say that the subject has given me great anxiety
many times, and that I have never expressed
a confident opinion upon it in one way or the
'other ; and, at this particular moment, al-
though there are very few questions on which, if
my opinion were asked, I could not give a very dis-
tinct answer as to what I should do in a certain
case, I prefer in regard to this question, and in the
present-state of opinion, not to give a specific re-
ply ; but I may say that I am rather fearful no
legislation upon it is possible for some time to come.
I have been very candid, and I have been giving
you advice upon the subject. You yourselves un—
derstand how much it would be to your advantage,
and to the advantage of your family, and I feel this
strongly; therefore, you must forgive me for what
I have said. It has been said because it was dic-
tated by the most clear conviction of the propriety
of what I have suggested, and by the most earnest
hope that some time or other there will arise from
among the licensed victuallers themselves men who
will help the public in some degree to abate the
evil which the universal mind—l am not speaking
of teetotallers, but of the universal public—feels to
exist in the continued opening of public-houses on
a Sunday.

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Manager, CHARLES CASTLE.

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(Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1859),
14, RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON,
ADVANCES MONEY upon personal security, Bills of Sale, Free-
hold or Leasehold Property, for one, two, or three years, repay-
able weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly discounted.
Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope.
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T HE OXFORD,
6. OXFORD-STREET, W.

During the Week will be given a GRAND SELEC-
TION from Mailart's Comic Opera, LES DRAGONS DE
VILLARS.
Principal Artistes: Misses Russell, Rivers, and Fitz-
-Henry ; Messrs. Bury, Mader, R. Greene, and De Brenner.
Pull Band and Chorus: Instrumentalists: Miss Bryant ;
Messrs. Paque, Melling, and Plum ton.
COMEDY, BURLESQUE, &c., by all the best artistes
now in London.

MACKNEY, the inimitable delineator of Negro Charac-
ter, specially and exclusively engaged here, will appear
every evening.

Conductor—Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Private boxes, 10s. 6d. ; stalls, balcony, and grand pro-
menade, Is.—THIS EVENING.

el TERBURY HALL-NEW MANAGEMENT.
NJ —Great Success under the management of W. HOLLAND,
Sole Lessee, late Proprietor of Weston's Music Hall. Great
Alterations and Improvements.—An entire new Company.—
Immense success of Oliver's Christy Minstrel troupe. Great
success of Mr. Fred. Evans (of the Royal Alhambra and Crys-
tal Palace), Miss Randall, E. Towers, Vincent, Simpson, Garrett,
and corps de ballet. Ballet, entitled BUMBLE. STUMBLE, and
TUMBLE, with new scenery and effects. Original music by
Alfred Lee. The Great Vance, Louie Austen, the Brother Felix,
French Clowns, Pat Sellers, Annie Adams, Brothers Girarde,
Leroni, Miss Fitzhenry.
A magnificent band, numbering twenty-three performers.
Musical Director. Mr. Alfred Lee, composer of " Cham-
pagne Charlie." Mr. James Ellis, assistant manager. Prices of
Admission—Balcony and Area, 6d. Stalls, ls. Doors open at
7, commence at half-past.
Special Notice.—Mr. W. HOLLAND'S Grand Inauguration
Benefit, MONDAY, Feb. 24, when all the principal artistes in
London will appear. George Leybourne, the oririnal Champagne
Charlie, is exclusively engaged for this establishment only, and
will shortly appear.

WEST 0 N'S GRAND MUSIC HALL.
Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Sweasey.
[ho Great VANCE; GEORGE LEYBOURNE, the Lion Comique ;
the Brothers DANIELS; immense success of LISKARD, the versa-
tile Musical Genius, and the astonishing HICKEN FAMILY;
Miss FITZWILLIA]fS. Every Evening. Bishop's and Hatton's
celebrated Glees, by Miss TREMAINE, Miss Brougham, R. Las-
celles, T. Godden, and Mr. P. Corti.
Full Orchestra, which will perform the popular Overtures of
the Great Masters.
The whole under the direction of Mr. P. CORR'.

The doors will open at 7. commence at 7.30. No alteration
in the prices of admission. Private boxes, 10s. 6d., to be secured
at Mitchell's Royal Library, Old Bond-street; and Sams' Library,
St. James's; also at the Box-office at the Hall from 10 until four
o'clock.

Special Notice.- Arthur Lloyd, with new songs, and the De
Alberts, in their celebrated Ballet, on Monday, Feb. 10; Miss
Smithson, Jolly Nash, Hairy and liattieKing, and Oliver's Christy
Minstrels on Taster Monday.

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A PORTRAIT MODEL of the late Eminent Tragedian,
CHARLI S KEAN, in the character of MACBETH, modelled
from Sittings given by him to the late Mr. F. B. TussAuu.
Admission, ls.; children under 10, 6d. Extra rooms, 6d.
Open from 11 in the morning till dusk, and from 7 till 10 in the
evening.

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Sole Proprietor, Mr R. R. BIAINELL.
This magnificent Terpsichorean and Musical Establishment,
having been Re-decorated in the highest style of Italian art
by Messrs. Rubardt and other eminent artists, is NOW OPEN
for the AUTUMN SEASON. Solo Euphonion. Signor Moses,.
Solo Cornet, M. Graves. Conductor, Signor Curti.
Doors open at half-past 8.
Admission, is.; Reserved Seats, 2s.

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The cry for " something to be done" fortielanilLa3 S
now arrived, says the Times, at a pass which we may hope
is prelimiaary to reasonable discussion, not to say legisla-
tion. For many years it seemed as if the agitators thought
their grievances worth more than any possible redress,
and really fostered the sores which gave them a good
quarrel and an intereaht.; position. But a change is
coming over the scene. In the order of nature a very bad
state of things has been gradually correcting itself, and if
Ireland is not yet all we could wish her, she is in a con.
di:don which better admits of the application of legisb-
tive remedies than when he.• population was nine
millions cad her food a bad sort of potato. No suggestion
could then be offered which did not imply that some
class was to be. secured and perpetuated, that existing
tenures were to be strengthened, and that the normal
peasant was to be irremovable, if such were his desire ;
but to subdivide Ireland into two million copyhold pro-
perties was a climax which even Irish agitators shrank
from. The nine millions have now fallen to less than six,
and the reduction is chiefly in those who were too small
to be dealt with by legislation, except as objects for
temporary relief. It is at least more conceivaMe now
that something might be done, and accordingly the pro-
?osals made are both more intelligible and more
-,emperately urged. At the risk of offending not
my those who agree with him on the religious
uestion, but also the poorest and most numerous
:lass of Irish tenant farmers, Mr. Bright has com-
mitted himself to a moder: to and equal endowment
If the three Irish Churches out of the existing Church
?roperty, and has stated the conditions of a scheme for the
foundation of a proprietor class, with a scale of £4O a year.
That, of course, was for illustration; but the illustration
is significant. Mr. Bright has repudiated not only con-
fiscation, but undue compulsion ; and if we could really
believe it an object of national importance to cut up Ire•
land into estates of forty or fifty acres, we should only
wish him success. The existing landowners would get
money, the existing tenants the land, and the British ex-
chequer might be as fairly charged with a part of the
expenses as with the ordinary Irish loans. But the policy
of the -scheme is the real question. Whatever is
done (continues our contemporary) ought to proceed
on the basis of ascertained facts, and for reasons
proved on good evidence. We are quite free
to admit that the opinions and even the testimony of
Irish landowners, managers, stewards, and agents, though
backed by the fullest returns, do not necessarily comprise
the whole of the case and thereby dispose of the question.
Dn the contrary, the statesman has questions to consider
)cer and above those of crops and harvests, houses and
land. Even if it could be proved, as we think not at all
.ssible, that every *Ord said by the crowd of agitators,
:ay or clerical, turns out as pure nonsense as the ravings
it Fenianism, still there is that in Ireland which we all
wish to see altered, if by any means possible that will not
re s remedy worse than the disease.

The Post has a leader on-the subject of the amount of
:ompensation given to the King of Hanover. It is not
ery surprising that several of the members of the Prus•
sietn Parliament should be found to grumble at the ratifi•
!ation of a treaty which to all appearances assigned a largo
elm of money to a deposed monarch without any counter.
-ailing tangible consideration. Prussia has acquired Han-
iver k right of conquest, and it seems to them a profligate
.vlste of money to purchase what has been already ac.
In:red. This view was, however, successfully combated by
:!ount Bismarck in a statesmanlike speech, the text of
Thiel was lately published.- It is, -as he pointed out, a
policy to act generously towards a dethroned
ern ‘, and, by making his lot as easy as possible to bear,
;his prevent hi 3 becoiring a rallying point for the dig-
:out ited. The evil consequences of a driferent policy
vere instanced in what followed the expulsion from
Frs.n :5 of the members of the Royal Family at
the time of the first Revolution, and in the in-
-,rigues of the several dethroned Italian princes at the
'resent day. The question, as the Minister urged, was
lot whether the King of Hanover should be paid. The
3overnment had an alternative between the concession of
territorial possessions and the payment of ready money,
4ad they selected the latter. The former was seriously
mooted, but was rejected for reasons which must recom•
mend themselves even to those who are not inclined to
ndorse the general policy of the Government. To the
kjections taken to the magnitude of the sum, Count Bis-
)arek justly remarked that the fruits of a seven days'
war had been bought cheaply, and that it was necessary to
meiliate those who by an act of violence became merged
e ith the Prussian people.

In Mr. Gladstone's late moral eulogy of Scott every one,
Vie opinion of the Daily News, will coincide. His esti-
inte of his rank in the literature of the world will Sill
snost every one with amazement. In Mr. Gladstone',
,iew Scott occupies the third place in imaginative liters
ire, being only inferior to Shakspere and Homer. This
praise is as ex trava;ant as Mr. Carlyle's disparagement
of the " pr: ty talc-tAliag Sir Waltor." To neention the
names of Dante, Cervantes, Milton', - the men 411 Yr.--.;
who have summed up in themselves the charactor of their
age, who have been the bright consummate flower in which
the intellect of their nation has blossomed, is to refute this
astonishing criticism. The perpetuity of an influence is
the beat proof of its force and range. Who can rank
Scott among the mighty dead who rule men's spirits frost
their urns ? Mr. Gladstone confesses and complains that
he is not now read. In Scotland itself half a dozen songs
of Burns have had and still have an influence outweighing
all the poetry and prose of Scott. The innocent, though
not very exalted, ambition of his life, to found a family
and transmit a landed estate, unlocks the secret of hie
genius, which was in strict unison with his character. He
was a worshipper of feudalism ; but feudalism surely ca:-
not supply the highest inspiration of modern genius.
Mr. Gladstone's noble eulogy of Sir Walter Scott ix so •
timely, and in its general character so true, that it would,
the Star thinks, be unfair and idle to criticise it in detail
For ourselves, we so thoroughly agree with the broad views
expressed by Mr. Gladstone, and so heartily approve of
the object he had in mind in delivering his lecture, that we
feel little inclined to -indulge in any minute criticism,
Much as he has claimed for Scott, we do not think he.
has claimed too much. When he declares, for
example, that the tragic grandeur and pathos of tilt
" Bride of Lammermoor " are not exceeded even
by the noblest tragedies of the Greek poets, he affirms an
opinion expressed in language not less emphatic by
Macaulay, and which, lofty panegyric though it be, is not,
we are convinced, hyperbolical praise, When Mr. Glad-
stone declares that nothing but the extinction of civilisa-
tion could possibly extinguish Scott, he proclaims a con-
viction the soundness of which it would be to the discredit
of civilisation itself to deny. One can, indeed, no more
imagine the literature of England's future with Scott
wholly faded out of it than we can imagine the extinction
of Shakspere ; than we can think of Italy forgetting
Dante, or Spain ceasing to read Cervantes.
Though the announcement of Mr. Adams's retirement
has not been officially confirmed, the Herald comments
upon it. If Mr. Adams is going back to America he
takes our good wishes with him. Amidst the crowd of
empty talkers, emptier thinkers, would-be statesmen, and
half-bred politicians, who seem now to be having it all
their own way in North and South, Mr. Adams will stand
i
pre-eminent facile princem, by virtue not only ofhi birth
and superior culture, but by, his advantage in
all the
qualities which make men rightfully rulers over their
fellows. Whether, on the other side of the water, they
call him Democrat or Republican, Conservative or Radi-
cal, we neither known nor care much. If he is nominated
for the Presidency, we know of no man more likely to
succeed—more worthy of the suffrages of the electors to
that high office. If the masses of America have any
common sense left in them they will prefer this quiet,
moderate, and yet resolutetsotattheesmnaengrtoo tvhoeteT orat hanttde einagogues who are appealing
suc-
cessful General who has made such an exhibition of himself
in his first public trial in the political arena. When
people of the mental calibre of Mr. G-, F. Train tell us
cy
we ofc could
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promiseU ni United
sthtaattetsh(e)fy
Aarein easpiring
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feelPresaaideinf
Mr. Adams " a walk over the course."
In his second speech atßirmincrha onWednesday, says
the Standard, Mr. Bright declabredin that in the process of
years he had forgotten almost all he had ever learned. We
are, however, inclined to believe that,h enfranchised.
h oi ts
jec
al f f rs,:nh
school
the i traditionsn
which
he andhas
ltihvee
datvealalclh
hisi g
life,of Mr.tlie
bright is submitting himself to a fresh and healthier
course of education. Already he is throwing off the
slough of mere noisy Radicalism, and abandoning the
arts of the demagogue. He looks at great questions from
the statesman's point of view, aims to deal with them in
the mode which he deems possible, rather than in that
which he considers desirable, and states his views with a
degree of calmness and moderation which leaves little
room for improvement. With all its faults of logic, his
speech on the Irish question last Tuesday exhibited a
marvellous advance upon the addresses which he delivered
in Dublin about fifteen months back. The circumstances •
of Ireland were far less stirring than now, and offered far
less scope for incendiary declamation ; but the contrast
between Mr. Bright's language on the two occasions is as
marked as it is significant. In the one case we are li ;tell-
ing to the demagogue breathing out burning words in the
ears of an excited people ; in the other the orator
is
evidently impressed with a sense of responsibility,
and
speaks with the caution of one who feels that he
is a
Cabinet Minister in posse.
Within a short time the University of Cambridge will
1a
Sir Charles Selwyn. His own
nominated
be called upon to select a reixesenutatytivies ianlretallyplaaccteivoef,
and, as was anticipated on Wednesday,
the Conservative
Mr. Cleasby,
Qm.eorn„bearsstof the university
heirrepresen representative,
0:
Bence, says the Telegraph,
.i
it:is not a day too soon for theLiberaldisgrace members of the
academic body to be up andd ,
great English Liberal University that it should be repre-
sented year after year by a series of Conservittive medio-
crities ;
_and if an eminent Liberal were brought forward,
we think too well of Cambridge to believe that he would
not stand a fair chance of election. The mere fact of a
determined contest would force the Tories to exert their
strength, and to select some man of high attainments and
repute. If we cannot have a Liberal representative for
Cambridge, let us at least have a statesman whose
name will confer some credit on a constituency in which
members are all ex officio men of learning and education.