The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-21 00:00:00

Asmzrs ROYAL AMPHITREATRK7

Under the Patronage Royzl Highness
Prince Albert.
• Froprietor and Manager, Mr. w. Patty.
The most successful and popular Theatre in London.
THIS EVENINC,
Will be produced, a grand Spectacle, Nicitten expressly for the Am-
phitheatre, by E. Fitzball, Esq., entitled PETER TAR GREAT,
in Which Mr. Ryder, from the Princess's, will appear.
In c,onsequence of the immense applau,e nightly bestowed upon
the performances of the Brothers Siegrist, on La Perch, Mr. Batty
h as re-engaged them for a limited number of nights. They will ap-
pear every evening in their most daring feats, which astonish all
who see them. They are the great,: A wonders of the world.
After which a group of Elephants in the Circle, trained to run as
Horses, tbeit• Eastern trainers will go through their feats of agility
on the bare backs of the animes, and various pleasing acts of Eques-
trian exercise.will be represented by the first artists of the day, both
Foteign and English.
To conclude with a Laughable farce.
Tickets to be had at the Box-office from Eleven till Four daily.
Stage Manager, .Mr. Leclercq.

• ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL 'GARDENS.
. • • Open for the Season,
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
-' Third Week of the Vocal Entertainments.
The Proprietor has the gratification to announce that the Madri-
gal and Glee Party were received with immense applause, and will
continue their performance till farther notice.
GRAND VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT.
PRINCIPAL Vocal:tars—Miss Messent, Miss Clara Henderson, _Mr.
Young, Mr. alanvers, and Mr. Leffler. Conducted by Mr. J. L.
Hatton, who will preside at the Pianoforte. • '
PRINCIPAL INSTRUMENTAL SOLOIST,—Messrs. J. Richardson
(Flute), Wuille (Clarionet), Lazarus (Clarionet), Viotti Collins
( viorn), Ciotti (Trombone), Colin:Let (Flageolet), Sidney Pratten
(Flute), and Conductor of the Orchestra, Mr. C. Godfrey.
Itxhibitioa of Danson's Colossal Daylight View of MOUNT
ETNA and the CAVES of VULCAN and the CYCLOPS—Splendid
and interesting Menagerie—Promenade Concert by Godfrey's nn.
rivalled Military Band—Various Amusing Novelties—Concluding at
Dusk with a Grand Pyrotechrtc Exhiiiiiion by Messrs. Southby,
representing the Interior of the Mountain (the Pridemoroum of the
Ancients), with the Caverns end Forges of Vv'can and 1,111 Cyclops,
the, whole teamiaating with the Eruption of Mount Etna and a
Grand Tableau on the Lake of Thetia, and the Nereiais receiving the
Armour of Achilles.
The Menagerie now consists or several hundred specimens, some
the.finest or their species in England, in.:lading three fine elephants,'
two giraffes, four ostriches, two camels. Pons. leopards, &c., and
he co:ossal tortoise (the largest ever exhibited), upwards of 200
years old.
Doors open from Nine A.M. Feeding the Animals at Five. Con-
cert at a Quarter-past Six. ,Fireworks at Half-past Nine.
ADMISSION, ONE SHILLING.
On Wednesday next, August 25, the Boys of the Royal Hospital
School, Greenwich, accompanied-by their Juvenile Band, wi'l visit
these Gardens.

MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tan 15AT —Morning 48 min. after .5 I Evening 11 min. after 6
To-Sloaaow—Morittng 35 rain. alter 6 I Evening 0 min. atter 7

THE WEATHER.--Sure OFFICE, AUGUST 21.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
62-. highest since noon 5 esterday.
67—towest this morning and during the night.
GS—this day, at noon.

automarsa, 80.24.
WIND N• N.E.—cloudy, with occasional sunshine.

, DAILY WEATII.ER. TABIA:E.
State of' the Windcl a.nd Weather at each of the following
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yesterday morning.—The stations
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gentlegel„i breeze—overcast.
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TIINBIUDGE-,Wind NAV. breeze—overcast.
overcast.
GREENWICH—wind N.',
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sTßoon--Wind N,W., gentle breeebzr-e--eeze
SDOSt —Wind N., light ain_ovj rain.
ConeggsTics—Wind S.W., strong
CAMBRIDGIC,--W ind N. gentle breeze—rain.
zretrvercast.
Tsamotrat—Wind N.E., strong breeze—cloudy,
The returns from the following places indicate the state of
the • wind and weather on Thursday morning at nine
o'clock :—, _
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Minumsaa--Wind N., calm---partially cloudy.
Poona—Wind N.W„ gentle breeze—cloudless.
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LASCASTER—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.

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LONDON. SATURDAY, ,AUGUST 21, 1852.

CRUIASITANK in England, not less than PIiILLIPON
"I EnIace—PHILLIPON immortalized in the realms
of fun by le Poire, as well as by a multiplicity of
other pictorial squibs in the Charivari—has "driven
hou'e" many a pointed and penetrant shaft of Satire
with the long bow of Caricature. Whenever there
has .been for some time past any enormous abuse
apparent, our Comic Genius of the Pencil has done
his uttermost to destroy it, by holding it up to general
derision. Drunkenness has in many instances re- '
ceived at his h'ands a deathblow by those famous
44 cuts" of the " Bottle" which were afterwards en-
forced by others of yet more terrible severity, referring
by a sequel to the miseries befalling the Drunkard's
Through the aid of those remarkable en-
Children.
of 'WILLIAM HOGARTII by ro-
. GEORGE CRUIKSUANK associated his repu-
tationvwith th_e_gnleotryuoworthy, in their salutary Spug-
ducing pictures
n• to tli.! "Industrious and
of constituting a companion series with
itnhbis manner, while Father
sug-
gestiveness, -
the renowned
Idle Apprentice.
aye be regarded as a pbilluthro-
plat:e rieillat*
MAT'HEW must 81/L' di w,,11 of his country"--th,
pist who has " de3erve
conceive, should be awarded
same.meed of prvise, -w -e
~
unon,sx. Temperance
is cordially to Father Ul
has Been Preached by both ;11,44e eminent sccial hene-
;cl 'it once the admira-
tion in a vv!zy the COnen...r4--
b,
bis
earnest sod
tion of the cocnmunity'—!ho on':' - , drawings no
persuasive!.,zpostulation.s; thR, other uy:;ranter, as
less earnest: or persuasive in tiwir
showing the evil consequences of bah'tuill intoxi-
cation. .h

Forinasmuch as GEORGE CRUIKSIIANS has thus
employed his very extraordinary gifts ag a
humorous artist for the diffusion of the
noblest principles of morality among the po-
pulation foricasmuch rs he hz% availed him-
self of every opportunity to move the hearts

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and to elevate the sentiments of the masses, at
the very time he has been eliciting their laughter by
his quaint and fantastiO, delineations—GEOßGE
CRUIKSHANK has assumed a place in public estima-
tion very considerably raised above that occupied by
the most successful 'of his predecessors. PHILLIPON,
it is true, has shaken vice in high places by that odd
little scratchy crayon of his which, in the rear
sketch already alluded to, did as much as anything
else—more than the Spanish marriages, or than the
TASTE corruptions, or than the PRASLIN attrocities—
to undermine the -whole fabric of the ORLEANS
dynasty. But CRUIKSHANR has effected infinitely
nobler achievements—he has hunted out the Vice in
low places—he has pierced the heart of a more ter-
rible dragon than that slain by the canonized
preux Chevalier ST. GEORGE of England.
This dragon, having its den in the Lon-
don Rookeries—the good Sir GEORGE of our
time hes assailed, not with a lance in rest, but with
the keen and Lilliputian point of an etching needle.
More than once he has brought down some Giant abo-
mination or other, by one of his formidable little
pebbles of sarcasm—the current of his inexhaustible
drollery being the Terebynthine stream from which
they have been collected. For all these reasons,
people have come long since to regard CRUIKSHANK
as facile princeps among the race of cartcaturiste.
GILRAY, with all his capacity, was first of all a
partizan, and afterwards a time-server. PmeeteoN
—before mentioned—has (together with his colleague
DAUMIER) almost entirely restricted his abilities to
display the rascality of that cunning vagabond Mon-
sieur ROBERT MACAIRE and his stupid old dull-
headed double—the good-natured and gullible Mon-
sieur BERTRAND. H. 8., again, has always appeared
to us delightful simply because of the " un-
mistakeableness " of his portraits, and not for
any loftier merit, in his series of political
" Sketches." CEAM, on the other hand, is good for
nothing—beyond the delineation of the maddest
frolics of the Carnival, the limning of the pretty
little debardeurs, the piquant grisettes, and the
bizarre pierrots of a masquerade I And so on with
the rest of contemporary caricaturists—GAveater,
with his pictures, of London Life (as much like
London Life, by the way, as Life in the Moon, or in
the Flying Island)—Cstownueee, with his pictures
of London follies (as like as two pins)—
and THACKERAY, with hie sly humour, and
his abominable drawing, both in regard to
the anatomy and the tailoring. But with Came-
SHANK—comes the difference. The caricaturist, in
his instance, has ripened into the satirist and into a
satirist, moreover, whose assaults are impossible to be
very long survived.
Again, he has brought his pencil to bear upon one
of the now crying abominations. The Betting-office
System has fairly fallen into the clutches of CRUIR-
SHANK. his attack upon this terrible rage for gam-
bling comes before the public in the shape of a little
pamphlet of scarcely more than two dozen pages under
the title of a " Betting Book"*—but a betting
book, be it observed, " with cuts," and smart,
slashing cuts they are too, by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.
The satirist falls foul of the whole system of those
nefarious places of petty gambling, the Betting-
offices, from the very first " with a vengeance." The
interior of one of these patent little shops for swind-
ling is drawn by CRUIKSHANIC on the title•page—
with the men at the counter as foxes, and those.
looking at the slips of paper on the wall as geese!'
There they are—the former " knowing cards"—the
latter green as a group of malachites—tradesmen and
mechanics, clerks and flunkies. There is the potboy
going to what he carries, and the baker's boy as" soft"
as the dough he deals in when it is done nearly as
brown himself. There they are "taken off" ac-
curately enough by anything but a camera obscura—
and reduced to within the size of an octavo wood-cut,
as if by the shorter arm of a comic pentagraph. Of
them, of the " offices" they frequent, and of the
keepers of those same compact emporiums for pocket-
picking, what says CRUIKSHANK? He quotes
for our delight one of the merriest of old
JOE MILLER's anecdotes—that about the countryman
looking into the money-scrivener's. " Seeing
nothing," says he, " in the window or the shop, but a
man seated at a high stool at a desk, he popped his
head in at the door, and asked, ' Pray, what do 'e
please to sell here ?' Upon which the man answered
' Blockheads.' Deed,' cried the countrymen,
wby then you must have a moighty foine trade, as
you a' only got one left Now, if the same ques-
tion," continues CRUIKSHANK, " were put to one of
these Betting-office keepers, the same answer might
be appropriately given ; for they do sell' blockheads.'
Yes, here, unlike most other shops they sell—their
customers." The joke is a good one as a joke, but a
very sad one in the truthfulness of its application.
Every day yields some lamentable illustration of this
—in incidents showing that the virus of the new
gambling mania, engendered by those atrccious
betting-offices, has circulated already very widely
through the social system of the metropolis,
This very morning one of the letters of the alphabet
complains in a pathetic communication to a morning
Contemporary, that on the previous evening it had
observed a betting-office in the Kennington-road
thronged by greenhorns, going to dabble in " debts
of honour," and that amongst the crowd several
women obteined admittance ! At the 7th page
of hie onslaught, GEORGE CRUIKSHANK says—
" A greengrocer lad was overheard, just before the
last Derby day,' telling another boy how his father
had been a going it for a whole week, a drinking
and a betting ;' and after speaking very learnedly
about the horses,' concluded by saying, cif that 'ere
horse loses, my father 's a dead man.' Now as we
have not heard of the suicide of any sporting green-
grocer, since the Derby day, we may conclude that
that horse did not lose, and that this youth
is still blest with a paternal parent, to
trel.n him up in the drinking and betting
path which lies before him." Various other
illustrations of a like kind might be extracted from
this remarkable pamphlet, but to the publication
itself we would seriously commend the attention of
the community. It will there be seen how the writer,
by sketching out a little bit of the " Map of Lon-
don," has shown that in the immediate neighbour-
hood of one corner of Leicester-square there are at
this moment nestling together, within pistol-shot of
each other, twelve betting-offices and twenty-
one gin
seen, moreover, hoe
bar and
twenty-one palaces
ftwelve
drunkenness. sho p s fletr
will
lobbe-
rife the evil complained of is
elsewhere in this gambling, prosperous, unfor-
tunate capital-2,8,711'1d'
wingbreat need there is for the
interference ot the law
towards
fell
Upon closing the pamphlet
of the Betting-offices. Tehalf of the unlucky dupes
s HAN , the with a grateful sense
ques-
tion that occurs to` us is—Cannot thel Vagrant Act be
brought into effect against these eves as Rogues
and _
Vagabonds ?

rcoonettiesic.lon.sisttoinfagr ofas
• y into the fatal affray at Six -mile
The inquiry -mile
jury were concerned, the farce
r oaufgt ehrt tao al)
Bridge has
with. A more extraordi-
nary have been
at length,
been
b
ftobuermteae
jnorditayyso,fthedispensed
brought in Lord Join'
and deliberate murder.
nary verdict has not been
ursestEur:Lie_dtbseinncle,irthstatLworhdic,,hf
the Treasury—guilty of wilfuldead
present instance the parties inculpated
and are now in-
carceratedletter, in Ennis gaol,
awaiting their trial at the
ensuing assizes. It cannot for a moment, however,
be supposed that they will be permitted to remain in
prison till next February, when unexcep
tionable bail
can be offered for their appearance. An application
was made to the Coroner by the Learned Gentleman
who appeared for the military, but rejected. A judge
of one of the superior courts will, therefore, have to
decide the point, and there cannot be mtsoh doubt as
to the decision.

This verdict of the majority was in direct typos'.
tion to the charge of tie Corone,!, who sppars,
to have discharged his duty - fairly aLd
ipartially. A protest by •, r.ninority,
who r,,fascd to succumb to popular r rejndics, or t;
disrFgard the solemn ofAhs they had taken, was aho ,
handed in. These gentlemen stated t hat they would
unanimously have agreed to a verdict o f manslaughter
by certain soldiers
persons had not been idea_.tified, but they fully atnuitted the
magistrate, Mr-

" The Betting-Book." By Geor Cruilishank.
With Cuts. Bvo., pp. 32. London: -W. and F. G.
ca.b, 5, Bishopsgate•street Without.

"I" 4

LONDON,

DELMEGE, of having either fired himself o: given
orders to fire. Twelve persons, however, solemnly
sworn on the Holy Evangelists " a true verdict to
give according to the evidence," took a different view
of the case, ard after full deliberation branded the
military prisoners as cold-blooded assassins, who
had calmly and advisedly, without any adequate
provocation, stained their hands with the blood of
their fellow-citizens. Such a decision proves too
much, and, the temporary inconvenience of a few days'
incarceration being put out of the Question, must
prove beneficial rather than injurious to the soldiers.
The jurymen who yielded to popular clamour, or to
other external influences even less justifiable, must
be the chief sufferers, so far as character is con-
cerned.

The plea of ignorance could not, at all
events, be set up in extenuation of their
conduct. Not only had they the assistance of
able counsel on either side. But the Coroner—him-
self a Roman Catholic, and one strongly identified
with the popular caul —explained the law of the
case clearly, distinctly, and impartially, so that any
man of ordinary capacity could not unwittingly have
fallen into error. After pointing out the distinction
between murder and manslaughter—after showing
the degree of provocation that would be necessary to
reduce the offence to either justifiable homicide cr
manslaughter, he continued—" You must remember
that her MAJESTY'S troops were engaged in their
lawful calling—they had persons under their charge
whom they were bound to protect, and it was the
height of madness to attack the party so protected,
or to attempt to rescue voters guarded by an armed
force, no matter under what circumstances they were
brought there. The evidence and ':tails of the affair
at the critical period are so contrad.ctory that I shall
leave it in your hands to believe whichever you conceive
most entitled to credit. However, gentlemen, there
is one point clear—that an attack was made upon the
escort; that they were assailed with stones; that the
corporal was knocked down and severely cut ; that
two soldiers were violently attacked ; that the reins
and bridles were cut, and an attempt made to cut the
traces with knives. If you believe that all those put
together placed the soldiers in real peril, you will
justify that act, and bring in a verdict of justifiable
homicide. But, gentlemen, it is not because all these
things were done, that unless you believe that their
lives were in real peril, and that they felt them to be
so, that soldiers under the command of a brave and
experienced officer, and also in charge of a magistrate,
who should be supposed to be close to that officer in
the moment of danger, should fire loaded guns
amongst their fellow-creatures without the orders of
that magistrate given through their officers ; the
moment they did so they acted in the capacity of
citizens defending themselves from real or imaginary
danger ; and it is for you to justify their acts if you
consider there was real necessity for firing—if the
danger was such as to appal any ordinarily brave
man. But if you believe that there was no such
necessity, or that they fired from a wanton spirit and
from a recklessness of Luman life, without sufficient
provocation, or malice prepense, then your duty mill
be to find them guilty of manslaughter?'
The issue was thus placed upon a just and fair
foundation—the only question that could arise was
submitted to the jury. But twelve of the number
disregarded the facts, and although the Coroner de-
clured that " the circumstances of the case, and the
pKVocation received, whatever it was, put murder
out of the question," and also " that the provocation
was admitted," they yet brought in the verdict,
which, as we have stated, must prove more injurious
to themselves than to the parties whom they endea-
voured to inculpate.
It is indeed deeply to be regretted that sectarian or
party feeling should be so plainly manifested by per-
sons concerned in the administration of justice, in any
capacity, however subordinate, that a body of men oc-
cupying respectable positions in society should evince
such gross and indefensible carelessness of the sacred
obligation which they had taken. The whole trans-
action, indeed, exhibits the Irish character in any-
thing but a favourable light. First, we find a num-
ber of electors—styled, by a pleasant fiction, " free
and independent"—forcibly carried off from their
homes, and illegally confined in Limerick—confined,
too, at the Temperance Rooms, where the passions of
the habitues should be kept under some kind of con-

trol. They were rescued, in ord:r that they might
be enabled to exercise their lega, privilege, and a
brutal attack was made on the party. The milit
escort was assailed with savage fury, stones and
other formidable missiles were flung at the party.
Several were seriously injured ; and it is scarcely
too much to say, that the lives of all were
greatly endangered before a single shot was
fired. The soldiers would have been more
than men if they could have submitted to the outrage
without adopting the most effective measures to pro-
tect themselves. Any unprejudiced and dispassionate
man must have made allowance for the aggravated
provocation. ahe majority of the jury, however,
thought otherwise. It is by no means impossible
that in returning the verdict of wilful murder they
were in some degree influenced by their terrors, and
the dread of incurring the animosity of the illegal
confederacies flourishing in the
.district. Whatever
may have been their motives, or reasonable their ap-
prehensions, they have done much to fling discredit
on the administration of justice, and to diminish the
confidence that hal hitherto ben entertained in the
security afforded by " Trial by Jury," which we
have been accustomed to consider the great Palladium
of national liberty.