The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-09 00:00:00

THE SUN,

I. Joseph de Islaistre.
Life and Letters of Mr. Justice Story.
111. Japan.
IT'. Traits of the Irish Peasantry— Carleton.
T. Cholera and Quarantine.
TX. Representative Reform.
VII. Mew Pardoe's Marie de Medici.
Tra. Artil,lery *ad Skips of War—Sir H. Douglas and Colonel
Cbeeney.
JCL nis Late Illectlans and Free Trade.
: Leagsnan Asia Co. Edinburgh : A and C. Black.

TIMATRE ROYAL. HAYIfARIEBT.
3i7. a. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager. Old Brampton.
Being hie Farewell Season as Lessee and Manager.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed nolciot Comedy of THE ROAD TO RUIN.
principal eharacters by Messrs. Stuart, Leigh Murray, Lambert,
A. Wigan, and Miss Ross Bennett.
After which, THE WOMAN I ADORE.
To conclude with YOUR LIFE'S IN DANGER.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Louie, M. B. Webster ; Directress, Madame Celeste.
Real Attraction.

eth amaaante of Madame Celeste since her return from America.

THIS EVENING,

WtE be cerforneed THE GREEN BUSHES. by Madame Celeste,
jinn Wco!ger, Messrs. Paul Bedford, Emery, Honey, &c.
To conclude wilt the celebrated Adelphi Drama of JACK SHEP-
PARD. J.ilaCaar.. Wild, Mr. S. Emery ; Owen Wood, Mr 0. Smith ;
Jack Sheppard, Mrs. Keeley ; Blueskin, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Thames
Darrell, Mlee Lilen Chaplin ; Winnlired, Miss Laura Honey.

AOT.IL PRLNCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management at Mr. C. Sean.
THIS EVENING,
WM be presented THE PRIMA DONNA. Principal characters
by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, and Cathcart; Miss Robertson,
and Miss Heath.
After which a new Melodrama, entitled MONT ST. MICHEL ;
or, The Fairy of the Sand', by Messrs. Wright (his 3d appear-
since here), Harley, Ryder, Graham, Cooke, Everett, and Chester ;
Misses Marshall, VI vash, and Carlotta Leclercq.
To conclude with THE SPITALFIELDS WEAVER, in which
Mr. Wright will sustain his original character.
The Box-office is open daily from 11 till 5.

ASTLEY,,I ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Under Ike Patvonage of Majesty and his ROy.ll ffightiOas
Prince Albert.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
Open rfory Evening, with the Largest Equestrian Establishment
in the World.

Most Gratifying Success !
The great sensation created by the extraordinary performances
roomy presented, surpasses all expectation. There will be an entire
change of Scenes in the Arena, embracing both Foreign and British
Artistes, and the wonde:ful Brothers Seigrist, on " La Perche," who
at, nightly hailed with thunders of applause. The Drawing-room
evolutions of the Nicoll GymnastFam - e Globe Juggler—French
jug
and
and the different acts of yic Exercises—and the beautiful
Trained Steeds--staking it in all one of the most pleasing evening's
amusement ever presented to the public.
The doors open at Halt-past Si o'clock; the Performances commence
at Seven.
Half-price at flail-past Eight.
4dMissiort—Stalls, 55.; Dress Boxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit,
2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d.
Tickets to be had at the 13oz-office crow Eleven till Four daily.

Stage Manager, Mr. Leclercq.

The plan (seldom in practice anterior to the passing
of the Reform Bill) of requiring the represented to
have an account of his stewardship from the repre-
sentative, received a valuable improvement from Mr.
JOHN MACGREGOR, one of the Members for Glasgow,
the second city in the empire. He was the first to
present himself before the non•electors, as well as
the electors, and each successive meeting has only
tended to confirm and strengthen the mutual confir
dence which has sprung up between them. He has
served them ably and faithfully, and they are grate-
ful to him for what he has done. No man in the
House of Commons is so well acquainted with every•
thing relating to the Trade and Commerce of the

country. His whole life, in and out of office,
has been devoted to this subject, and
his opinion is of great authority in and out of Par-
liament. In his speeches, in his writings, Mr.
MACGREGOR is plain, terse, and explicit—he indulges
in no verbooity—he aims at nothing beyond the ex-
pression of his thoughts, so that their meaning cannot
be mistaken—he eschews mere figures of rhetoric,
but no man more satisfactorily deals with figures of
arithmetic. His proper position would be in the Ad-
ministration ; but he has disdained the vulgar arts by
which men creep or wriggle into office. He is too
strongly attached to his principles to compromise them
by any concession to " the powers that be"—he
proudly prefers to occupy the highest position an
honest man can hold in this country, that of an
independent representative of the people. We hesitate
not to say that if Mr. MAcGaEcoß's principle of
taxation were adopted (and it is coming into opera-
tion bit-by-bit), the fiscal burthens of the people
would be lessened and equalised, while the Public
Revenue would be greatly increased. Years before
Free Trade was agitated for, Mr. MACGREGOR had
published the proofs of its paramount and inevitable
❑ecessity. When Sir ROBERT PEEL revised the
Tariff it was Mr. MACGREGOR (then one of the
Secretaries of the Board of Trade) who furnished him
with the plan and communicated the information
which he required.

Mr. MACGREGOR has just been before his
constituents and non•constituents at Glasgow.
The Council of the Parliamentary Reform
Association in that city have held a great
meeting, at which Mr. MACGREGOR attended,
•by special invitation. At that meeting (where it
was resolved that household suffrage, vote by ballot,
equal electoral districts, triennial Parliaments, and no
property qualification, were requisite to ensure a pro-
per representation of the people) Mr. MACGREGOR
stated and explained his views, in a speech of great
force and ability. He started with the admitted
truth that " Taxation without Representation is ty-
ranny," and he showed how the people are not repre-
sented—for out of about four millions of adult males
not quite one million have votes. He said, "We are
not fairly represented ; and it gives me the greatest
possible pain that we are not justly represented. We
are not properly represented in Parliament, neither
are we represented in the Government of England.
Ireland has a Lord-Lieutenant, and a Secretary of
State, who has the same salary as the Prime Minister
—5,000/, a year. Now, I don't want a Lord-Lieute-
nant for Scotland, but I want a Secretary of State
for Scotland, who should take cognizance of all the
circumstances connected with Scotland, and who should
hold office near the Crown, so that we may be pro-
perly represented in the Government. True, we have
a Lord Advocate in the Parliament House of Edin-
burgh, who spends his time there, taking his fees,
wren he ought to be watching the affairs of Scotland
in the Parliament at Westminster. I find that there
are sixty-seven burghs in England that have exactly
the same population as twice that of the Gorbals, and
these send 134 Members to Parliament, each of whom
has as much power in the House of Commons as each
of the Members for Glasgow, and I say that it is,
therefore, the more necessary that the resolution pro-
posed to you to-night should lay down, as it has done,
that no Ministry will have the confidence of this
country if they do not bring forward a great mea-
sure of Parliamentary liefirm."—Not a mise-
rable,
Peddling, deceptive, nominal, make-believe,
measure, such as Lord JOHN P.usseer. had the bold-
ness and impertinence to introduce during last
Session, but a real and substantive Reform, which
will give extended and equal representation. No
Ministry, neglecting this,
can hope for permanency :
granting it, any Ministry may reckon on popular sup-
port and gratitude.

Should the present Ministry ask to introduce a
system of taxation which will further relieve the
Agriculturists by imposing restrictions and burdens
upon the industrious and manufacturing trading
...135ses, Ir. MACGREGOR will oppoB3 it. He says,

E EDINBUR G H RE "VIE W, Porte, was the negotiation of certain necessary ar-
No. cxcvi. rangements in regard to the proposed libe-
wilhoe Published on Wednesday next, the 13th instant.
CONTENTS. ration of ABD-EL-KADEE. He appears in-
deed to have been instructed to consult with
his Majesty the SULTAN respecting the removal of
the EMIR from the French to the Turkish domi-
nions—the PRINCE PRESIDENT having resolved to set
the Arab Chieftain at liberty in a short time, accord-
ing to the terms of the promise contained in his well-
known letter to the Marquis of LONDONDERRY. We
have little doubt but that, everything considered, the
heart of ABDUL MEDJID will respond eagerly to the
humane intentions of Louis NAPOLEON in reference
to the intended release of ABD-EL-KADER. In Eng-
land it cannot very soon be forgotten how nobly the
young SULTAN sympathised, in 1847, in the dreadful
sufferings endured by Ireland in consequence of
the simultaneous appearance of Famine and Pes-
tilence. In Hungary, again, it must long be
remembered with what heroic magnanimity
the same potentate shielded Louis KGSSUTH
and his glorious compatriots, when they were hunted
to the death by the banded Emperors of AUSTRIA and
of all the RUSSIAS. A ruler who could act thus
gently towards a remote people like the inhabitants
of Ireland, and thus bravely towards a defeated and
fugitive leader like the ex-Dictator of the Hungarians,
may assuredly be supposed, without much extrava-
gance, to appreciate to the full the justice and the
generosity of the act by which Louis NAPOLEON
proposes to effect AND-EL-KADER'S tardy, but not the
less on that account acceptable, liberation.
During the ball recently given to the Chief of the
French Republic by the working classes of Mont-
pellier, it may have been observed that numerous cries
were raised by the artiz ins present of " Vive C
The PRINCE remarked these cries, according to one who
was present and witnessed the incident, but said no-
thing and took his seat upon the astrade prepared
with a chair of state for his reception. But
subsequently, on his rising to depart, and while he
was in the act of descending the steps, the same cries
were repeated. " The PRINCE stopped," says the
eye-witness, " and in a calm and firm voice said, I
hear cries of Tire l'Amnistie! The amnesty is more
in my heart than in your mouths. If you desire it,
render yourselves worthy of it by your prudence
and your patriotism.' These words," continues the
person who witnessed the occurrence, " were received
by a shout of Vise l'Empereur f and flowers
were thrown to the PRINCE as he returned to
his carriage." Conditions like those abovementioned
may not unreasonably be required by the Chief of
the French Republic as the necessary preliminary to
acts of clemency towards the ordinary class of poli-
tical offenders—but nothing of the kind ,is requisite
or even possible in reference to the peculiar act of
generosity so frequently demanded at his hands in
behalf of the heroic ABD-EL-KADER by the veteran
Marquis of LONDONDERRY. An evidence of genero-
sity, of clemency, and of magnanimity it undoubtedly
will be on the part of Prince Louis NAPOLEON, but
it will be none the less also an act of simple
justice. Supposing AND-EL-KADER to have
been liberated, instead of by the pre-
sent Ruler of France, by one of the Princes
of the House of Orleans, his release would have been
only an act of justice and a token of repentance.
Authorised by the Prince Louis NAPOLEON, the re-
lease of the EMIR will, as already intimated, be a
complex act of justice, of generosity, of clemency,
and of magnanimity. Never did a fairer or more
enviable opportunity present itself to a great poten-
tate for winning " golden opinions" from, the ma-
jority of the population. That the PRINCE PRESIDENT
is by no means willing to forego this opportunity
appears to be indicated, and the indication will be
welcome to the Marquis of LONDONDERRY, and still
more to the Emir, ABD•EL-KADER, by the recent
mission of M. BACCIOCHI to the SULTAN'S Court at
Constantinople.