The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-04 00:00:00

THEATRE BOYAL, FIATMAREZT.
Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old nrompten.
THIS EVENING,
Will b 3 performed a new Drama, entitled THE WRITING ON
THE WALL. Augustus Trotter, Esq, Mr. Wright ; Tobias, Mr. 0.
Smith; Richard Oliver, Mr. Emery ; Bob Smashers, Mr. P. Bedford;
Lady Elton, Mrs. L. Murray; Margrette, Miss E. Chaplin; Carletta
Srnithimi, Miss Woolgar.
After which GOOD NIGHT SIGNOR PA—NTALON.
To conclude 'with DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO
CAMB IRWELL?

have already cried " wolf," however, too frequently.
Nobody believes them. For bankrupts they have the
most unpitiable look of prosperity. Their burly
frame no one can conceive to be stricken as they
say—with paralysis. Their rubicund visage and
plump, not to say robustuous, dimensions, by no
means corroborate their tale of weakness and ex-
haustion. They are not expiring as they fancy—
they are only (in one sense) social, and :(in: another
sense) very un-social hypocondriacs. They fancy
themselves dying of inanition, when they are more
likely to breathe their lest from absolute plethora.
At least the one extreme is more reasonable than the
other—and the country at large is pretty well tired
out by this time with the exaggerated complaints of
the agriculturists.

ASTLTLY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal IlighneaS
Prince Albert.
proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
The mast successful and popular Theatre in London.
Last Week of Peter the Great.
Mr. Batty intends commencing an Equestrian Season, having
engaged numerous talented artists for the occasion.
THIS EVENING,
win to produced, a grand Spectacle, written expressly for the Am-
phitheatre, by E. Fitzball, Esq., entitled PETER TPIE GREAT,
in which Mr. Ryder, from the Princess's, will appear.
In consequence of the immense applause nightly bestowed upon
the performances of the Brothers Siegrist, on La Perch, Mr. Batty
has re-engaged them for a limited number el nights. They will ap-
pear every evening in their most daring feats, wb;ch astonish all
who see them. They are the great_ t wonders o the world.
With various pleasing acts of Equestrian exercise represented by
the first artists of the day, both Foreign and English.
Mr. Batty has engaged Mr. Stokes, with bis talented troupe of
American Equestrians, who will appear during the week.
To conclude with a Laughable farce.
Tickets to be had at the Box-office irom Eleven till Fora daily.
Stage Manager, Mr. Leclercq.

Another consideration demonstrates tolerably well
that the lamentations heard during the last week or fort-
night from the neighbourhood of Mark-lane have been
somewhat precipitate—and that consideration i 3
simply that the crops are very far even now from
wholly cut and housed. Such being the case, it is
obviously impossible for the farmers to declare with
any degree of precision that their losses are
so and so—meaning enormous. Their tale is not
told well. They should have waited. They should
have first cut the grain, and then carried it, and then
carted it, and possibly then thrashed it, and even
winnowed it—before they ventured to tell the world
the precise extent of its deterioration. Howbeit,
their complaints have already been successful.
During the last month there has been a total advvoe
from the lowest point of fully from ss. to 6s. pr
quarter. Although the weather since this rise Lids
considerably improved, a still further advance is
talked of, and welfear not without probability. For
August the imperial average of wheat was 41s. 2d.
rr quarter. Ueaven knows what it will be in
Member !

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Open for the Season,
Monday, Taesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Fourth 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 further notice.
GRAND VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT.
PRINCTPAL VOCALISTS—Miss Messent, Miss Clara Henderson, Mr.
Young, Mr. Manvers, and Mr. Leffler. Conducted by fir. J. L.
Hatton, who wilt preside at the Pianctorte.
PSINCIPAL INSTIICIIENTAL SOLOISTS—Messrs. . Richardson
(Flute), Wuille ((_flarionet), Lazarus (Clarlonet), Viotti Collins
( Violin). Ciotti (Trombone), Collinet (Flageolet), Sidney Pratten
(Flute), and Conductor of the Orchestra, i)ir. C. Godfrey.
Exhibition of C'anon's Colossal Daylight View of MOUNT
ETNA and the CAVES of VULCAN and the CYCLOPS—Splendid
end interesting Menagerie —Promenade Concert by Godfrey's un-
rivalled Military Band—Vinious Amusing Novelties—Concluding at
Dusk with a Grand P 3 rotechaic Exhibition by Messrs. Southby,
representing the Interior of the Mountain (the Pandemonium of the
A ndents), with the Caverns and Forges on Vulcan and bls Cyclops,
the whole terminating with the Eruption of Mount Etna and a
Grand Tableau on the Lake of Thetis, atd the Nerelads receiv:ng the
Armour of Achilles.
The menagerie now consists of several hundred specimens, some
the finest of their species in England, 'winding three fine elephants,
two giraffes, four ostriches, two camels, 1 oat. leopards, fee., and
the colossal 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-pant Six. Fireworks at Half-past Nine.
ADMISSION, ONE SIILLLINU.

Sep'

A journalist has a great deal of labour for which
his readers give him no credit. The heaps of letters
he has to read—the crowds of newspapers he must
wade through—the variety of subjects he must choose
between—the quantities of authorities he must con-
sult,—these form an aggregate the reverse of pleasant,
as we can vouch for. Among them the most weary-
ing is that inflicted on U 3 at the arrival of every
steamer from the United States, when we have to get
through files
of sofa journals (soft in contents as
well as texture), in the dreary hope, from columns
of personalities and verbiage, of picking a corn-
moia-senso idea of the actual transactions of
which these journals profess to be the his-
torians. There are some honourable exceptions,
we admit. The news portion of the New York Cou-
rier and Enquirer is plain, clear, and matter of fact.
We may say the same of the New York Journal of
Commerce, of some of the Philadelphia newspapers,
azd of the Boston Alley. But, for the most part,
there is more sound than sense in the American news-
papers, and we only wonder that, in a country where
time seems to be such an object, that the inhabitants
bolt their dinner in five and their breakfast in three
minutes, some journalist has not conceived and car-
ried out the idea of digesting public intelligence into
a brief space—packing into a single column what
his contemporaries diffuse over many pages
of mammoth size. Perhaps, however, the peculiar
idiosyncracy of Brother Jonathan renders it neces-
sere', if not pleasant, to realize, in the perusal of his
journals, the popular pursuit embodied in the well-
known saying of " seeking a needle in a bundle of
hay." There may be great gratification, albeit we
know it not here, in searching for intelligence thrcugh
great columns and pages of s small type—
the very waste-lands of printed matter—
and making much of the minute nondes-
cript, when found. We can fancy what an "Eureka"
exulting arises in the mind of an American, when,
after half a day's newspaper reading, he actually
finds an item of plain intelligence ! No doubt, all
the papers there, have such items—but they are so
cornered up between crowds of words and heaps of
The harvest of 185
is l en_
ikely to prove, in many personalities, that to find them is a matter of great
e
parts of the United Kingdom, not so satisfactory as difficulty. The American newspaper hest known
was at one period anticipated. The reason of this has in Eeglend is the .I‘iew York Herald, which has a
circulation as large as its character is small. Tt
became already sufficiently apparent. It will be
p
remembered that before the commencement of August professes to give, in its "Edition for Europe," a
the crops bore every appearance (according to Intel-
full digest of the week's intelligence. According :y,
ligenca received from various quarters) of being in we have an immense number of taking heeds,
quantity more plentiful and in quality more excellent displayed in all varieties of type such as
" The Senate Special Committee on Galphinism,"
than had been known for several years—the grain at
that period rapidly approaching a state of maturity. —" More black mail transactions coming to light,"—
, Great turn-out of the party,"—" Spi-
Unfortunately, as events have turned out, it appears
"Whig and Democratic wire-pulling in the free-
now to have been approaching maturity a great deal soil cam I),
—'
too fast under the circumstances. Everything Intl-
ritualists Convention,"—" The Administrative and
cated at the time that fine weather had settled in for the Peddling Politicians,"—" The Fourrierite Pha-
lanx,"—" The Fishery Troubles," and so on. Of all
the autumnal season. Farmers began to congre.tnlate
these catch titles none is intelligible except the last.
themselves for once that "things were going to take a
turn," as the homely phrase is, and at precisely The opening one puts JOHNSON'S Dictionary at de-
fiance.
What is GALPHANIS3I ? It must have some
the moment when their anticipations were
meaning, or it would not be used. Why not print a
brightest they were doomed to the severest discp-
elossary, as has been suggested for Mr. CARLYLE's
pointment. There settled down upon the harvest -
glance
fields, in quick succession, a throng of the most un- Anglo-Germanized publications ? We fairly give
nn " Galphiniem."
:On us
st
lucky elemental influences—influences which, in too -I-
many cases, have proved to be of the most detrimental As a specimen of Yankee repocrotinnvge,ntl
at an account (in the New York Herald of August
and pernicious character, First of all, the ripening
14) of " The National Free Soil
of the wheat-crop, as already indicated, was "too
Pitts-
rapid "—in several instances almost beyond prece- burg." It was held to select candidatesv, for. the offices
filled
of President and Vice-President of tee United States.
dent. The result of this evil obviously was that the
The reporter says it was an immense "mass-meeting,"
ears were filled but indifferently where the ripeness
was premature. Then came black blight in some few consisting of two thousand persons—as many as
directions, but still in no case, we believe, sufficient to about a third of Covent-garden Theatre, at one of the
have materially deteriorated the quality, or con- League meetings of 1844. This is American inamen-
siderably diminished the quantity, adds--
of the whole sity I The reporter, determined to be smart,
cereal produce of the United Kingdom. Where- "There were white spirits, black spirits, blue snirits,
upon, however, came down upon the corn-
red spirits, and grey spirits, including a numb". et
fields the ti'crst misfortune that had yet ladies. There were representatives of nil the isms
befallen them this year—the heaviest calamity that and schisms under the sun. FRED. DOUGLASS OCCU.
at so late a period of the summercould have been anti- pied a prominent place in the meeting, beside Lewes
cipated—the entire alteration in the weather. Sun- TAPPIN of New Yosk."—Tnie is Mr. Doneeass, an
shine disappeare,l with the closing days of July, and escaped slave, who lectured in England a few years
with August came rain of the heaviest and wind of ago; Mr. TAPPIN is a well-known abolitionist. The
the highest description. The wheat,besides being Convention was opened with prayer, and (the reporter
beaten about until the stalks were breken and the says) while this was going on, " a placard was borne
flow of sap thereby interrupted, had to some extent into the meeting with the following inscription :
the ripe grains shaken out and therefore lost he. 'No compromise with SI aveholders or Dough Faces,'
yond redemption. to all which, i
Added a tense. —this incident produced great cheering."—We re-
quence of the heavy moisture accompanied with a main ignorant whether they cheered for the hit at the
very sultry atmosphere, .
sprouting commenced in the "Dough Faces" (who can they be ?) or at the inter-
ears..
ears before the crops could be cut, and in this ruptten to the prayer, which may have been too
manner the excellence of the quality, which " lengthy" for the occasion.
it was still hoped would in. some measure Then
followed the appointment of committees,
• n in the quan- nine-tenths of the
persons chosen having the American
compensate for the diminution
counties quall6eationof
tity, was withheld in the southern two Christian names, or rather
account of one Chr" •
from much of the corn as well as barley. The
there were
Christian name and one initial. Thus
ere gisis
Ee W. WOODMAN, JOSEPH
here given is gloomy enough, it must be admitted,. R. HoLLT, CH
Public .T., ARLES O. SNODG lime, JOHN 11.
bait it is gloomy only because coming to the p
11.OLLINS, DAVID M. II
after so many brilliant and confident expectations.
a long host of other e • °unix, JOSEPH Al. PUSEY, and
The actual crops will be indifferent when compared
some business followed,imminent" patriots. This done,
and "the members, before
with those which were in June, and until the last
leaving the hall
I called on
week in July, anticipated. But, viewed apart from
them, but he begged to be 'RED. DOUGLASS to address
the hopes thus cherished by the more sanguine in
made a long speech this anent,
. excused, as he had already
regard to the harvest of 1852, we still believe that en, and did not think
it advisable further to tax his organs of the il
y w I be found in the majority of instances above The reader of, and be1t,,,,,,: speech. on We
the aver occasion:' 2?, " UNCLE
age—both in respect to the excellence of the " wilt find it difficult to
Tunis °Al"' realize the iee grain and its abundance.
of a black man being able to make a speech
0_
of a
It musr de- i
tbe borne in recollection, moreover, in con- lied on b tt the '
flexion with the fore • dining to do so when ca .5' e represent,.
goingstatements, that the deterio-
ration. spoken of, in e tives of all the isms and schisms under the sno.„
consequence of the stormy weather
of August, fortunately, However FRED. DOUGLASS would not speak. Thus
y, does not appear to have extendedproceedings.
very far northwards, closed the first day's
• Our good fellow-countrymenl2, was quite a field day
the agriculturists see, nevertheless—of course—be-
Aug. .
The second day, Au
ginning to grumble very d Reports were read, rules framed, speeches male.
au di They declare dinous effusion from
themselves even now to be fairly • Among the latter wrg a longitu
disheartened. They
don't see what are to be the results of th. 'lel k a certain GERRETT SMITH, in which he spoke of the
blight, the premature ripening, the beatinge out of United States as "a superlatively guilty nation"—
the grain by the wind,. and the sprouting • in the ear .
partly because it legalised slavery, and partly because
produced by the rainy weather. Everything is evi- it was not yet "on the Jerry level." What this is
dently, according to them, going
to " rack and it seems, for
we do not know, but the listeners did,
ruin"—the rack rents ultimately, of course, into
the
the reporter adds, " The cheering was loud and pros
bargain. Never were, say they, such calamities in longed at the close of this speech, and it was evident
pre •
store for any class as those manifestly Paring to that Mr. SMITH and his sentiments were highly
descend in " one fell swoop" upon the unlucky heads popular with the majority of the audience. He has
of the agriculturists. The poor frozen out a fine commanding person, and deep, sono-
gardeners, familier to family parties looking roue voice ;he wore a blue coat, with
at the snow fall from the most comfortable i brass buttons—just the same as FRED. DOUGLASQ."
side of the parlour-windows about the time of ITo him responded JOSHUA R. GIDDINGS, who, says
Christmas, were nothing to our brother-citioene the i the reporter "removed to a great extent the imprec-
sion
agriculturists. The last-mentioned are evidently ',made by the.previ • ous speaker." Unfortunately
looking (throughout the whole of their lachrymose the reporter has not mentioned the colour of his coat,
lamentations) to their " k • d friends" the Protec- These two
yinspeeches occupied the day sitting.
tionists, in the New House of
Commons. Like PAUL In the evening session a resolution was moved by
BEDFORD in The Will r, dat Mr. TAPFIN, " That, ' • is -
ow ,opse, they are prepare G at, as American slavery a sin to
any emergency to "slope after the brown" of a OD, and a crime
against man, it is in the highest
moderate fixed duty, say of ~, sense invalid, illegal
seven, or even " the nu.'" i •-• f illegal, not law, either divine or human .1
colously small amount" of five• . and L., therefore, utterly .
shillings. In all of void and of no force before'
this, they prove themselves at least GOD and man ;" but
to be gee Verner' We are wholly unable to say,
fted with very comprehensive i • ' from repeated perusal of the
Ellegmations. They , proceedings, whether,

man WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tuts DIY —Alorninff 5 init. after 5 Eva:ling 21 mfr. after 5
To-Mosaevr—Mernin; 37 alter 5 j Evening 52 min. alter 5

THE WEA.TEIEI.—SuIt Wailer, SEPT. 4
THERMOMETER, Dr THE SHADE.

62 ,—flighaqt siaca nt;:a yesterday.
53 Cais raerning and during the night.
70—this day, at noon. _

BAItCrITT...I:I, 30 '2.
WIND E.S.E.— light breeze and fine sunshiny weather:

WEATHER. TABLE.
State of the Wind and Weather at e3,ch of the following
places at .Line o'clock yesterday morning.--`!he 2tatim
rn arranged in order of latitude.
POOLIC—Viind N E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
tII:7ITSGS—Wind E. gentle breeze—cloudless.
sounuarrozg—Wit:d 6., gentle brecz —cloudless.
Fourc:Frroruic—Wind E., light breeze—cloudless.
GREENV" ICEl—Wind E., gentle breeze— cloudless.
sTß,ooD—Wind N.E., calm—cloudless.
Swot-Don—Calm— clou,lless.
c3,,,/r,srsit—'w hid S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
cAlannxDQß—Wind S , calm—cloudless.
The returns from the following Places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Thurslay morning at nine
o'clock :--
memaiingal—Wind S.W hard wind—overcast.
p.aat.r;--Wind N. E Senile b
Litiontorf—Wind '
caliim—partially cloudy.
breeze—cloudless.
LANcesTEß—Wind s
roViAß'nurnTG—TotndlySin.iciirl4. m7partially cloudy.
gentle breeze—principally clear.
SNAP—Wind S. e 7.‘V., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
rartrrocx_w, e breeze—partially cloudy.
Ind 6., gentle breeze—overcast.

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