The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-31 00:00:00

CAUTION TO SODA - WATER

DRINKERS.

us Majesty the RING of PRUSSIA,
having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED
DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PREMIUMS, which
(though they are NO LOTTERIES), offer many possi-
bilities of obtaitlin&
LARGE FORTUNES,
HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH,
are NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBU•
TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase may receive, PREVI-
OUS to giving any order, the PROSPECTUS and PAR•
TICULARS, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a
line to

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR—The public cannot be too much put On their
guard against drinking from the fountain the stuff
sold as Soda-water. The fact is, Sir, that tho liquid
thus vended is nothing more nor less than vitriol,
chalk, and water, mixed together. , By means of
an air-pump attached to the engine, an explosion is
caused on unscrewing the bottle, similar to that caused
on uncorking a soda-water bottle; and thus the public
are not only deceived, but poisoned into the bargain.
The insertion of this letter in your paper will no
doubt be the means of at once putting an end to the
sale of this deleterious mixture.—l am, Sir,

HEINE BROTHERS at HANIBURGH.
P.S. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains Portions
from NINE POUNDS TEN SHILLINGS and upwards,
to TEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED POUNDS.
A RISE IN THE PRICE of the SHARES for the
NEXT DISTRIBUTION will very soon take place, there
being only few of them on hand, and.nearly all cleared off.

Your most obedient Servant,
A PRACTICAL CHEMIST.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
TO-NIGHT (SATURDAY'.
Wlll be presented an entirely new and original Nautical Drama
of intense interest and embracing effects of the most startling
description, entitled
BEN BOATSWAIN; Or, SAILOR'S SWEETHEARTS.

PORTSMOUTH ELECTION.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
RETURN OF THE CHANCELLOR OF THE
EXCHEQUER.
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY —This being the day ap
pointed for the nomination of Candidates to fill the
vacancy caused in the representation of this Borough,
by the acceptance of the Chancellorship of the
Exchequer by Mr. Baring, the hustings were
erected in the usual place, Great George's-square,
Portsea. At twelve o'clock the Mayor, Jackson,
Esq., and the other authorities, attended at the Sessions
House, Portsmouth, and after going through the
necessary forms, proceeded to the hustings. Although
the morning was extremely wet, the area in front of the
temporary building was crowded to excess, and on the
platform, in addition to the Right Honourable Candi-
date, was Sir G. Staunton, M.P. for Portsmouth, and
several influential electors. Owing to there being no
other candidate in the field to oppose Mr. Baring, the
excitement was not so great as it otherwise would have
been, and some disappointment was felt by those of the
nhasitants who glory in the bustle of a contest.
After the usual formalities, the-Glmatillor of the Ex-
chequer was proposed as a fit and proper person to re-
present the borough in Parliament, and there being no
opposition, he was of course unanimously elected.
Mr. BARING, in a short speech, returned thanks to
the electors, and the meeting separated.

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Ben Bowling, Mr. T. P. Cooke.
After which the popular Drama of
MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE.
Harry. Haulyard, Mr. T. P. Cooffe.
To conclude with the Old English Drama of
THE LADYE OF LAMBYTHE.
Eva, Mrs. Vining. Katherine, Miss Grant.
Lucie, Miss Martin.
Walter More, Mr. E. F. Saville. Wilbert, Mr. Dale,
John the Jester, Mr. Smith.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Under her MAJESTY'S IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE.
ON MONDAY, TUESDAY, and THURSDAY,
SarL. 2d, 3d, and sth
GRAND PROMENA DES M
TRES,USICALES ET CHAM-
PB
By the unrivalled Band of this Establishment,
Conducted by Mr. Godfrey.
Exhibition of the Wonderfully-intense and beautiful new Light
KONIAPHOSTIC,
Under the superintendence of Mr. H. Carter.
And the ERUPTION of ,MOUNT HECLA.
Admission One Shilling.
Feeding Hour Five o'Clock—Concert at Six.
In compliance with the incessant requests to secure places
for viewing the Eruption a number of reserved seats have
been erected, which may be engaged by previous application at
the Walworth entrance.

LORD LONDONDERRY AND HIS

SETN, LONDON. SATURDAY, Atfat 31; 1830.

RUSSELL has not been very popular iii his ad-
ministration of the Home Office, and his circulars
on the subject of arming gained him no favour with
any party. Like a number of men of undoubted
talents, the Noble Lord does not show off very
well, and his successor does. His sterling habits of
business may make a defect of manners of
little importance in the Colonial Office, while the
popular bearing of the Noble Marquis may be of
great advantage in the Home Department. He
has been eminently successful in conciliating
discontent in Ireland, he may perhaps be
as successful in performing the same good work in
England, where it is now as much needed as ever
it was in Ireland. If the object of the change be,
as we hope it is, to popularise the Home Depart-
ment—to evince somewhat more of sympathy,
which we have no doubt Lord JOHN RUSSELL
felt, though he might not to be apt to express it—
with the privations, the sufferings, and the injuries
of the people, we shall regard it as a great
improvement. One of the first duties of the

Government now is to conciliate the bulk of
the people, and reconcile them to the Con-
stitution, while the Parliament sets zealously to
work, legally to put an end to those bad and even
wicked laws which must and will otherwise be il-
legally and violently overturned. In this world
appearances are potent realities ; and a Home-
Secretary, popular in his address, free of access,
opening his ears to the representation of the peo-
ple, though really powerless to improve their con
dition, may make them bear it with patience.
The Marquis of NORMANBY brings to such a
task a well-earned reputation, and-if-it be intended,
as we trust it is, to try and win back to the Consti-
tution the strayed inclinations of the people, knowing
that an attempt to govern them by terror must be
equally futile and profitless—if it have been re-
solved, as it ought to be, to pardon those who have
been merely misled, and have not only committed no
moral wrong, but have thought they were exercising
a great virtue—and if Lord NORMANBY have been
placed in the Home-office as the most appropriate
man to carry this beneficent policy into effect, the
change will indeed be a wonderful improvement.
Without some change in policy, however, no
change of persons will be of advantage. The more
conciliatory demeanour towards the masses which
is undoubtedly required, must be accomplished
by the abolition of the Corn, and other
almost equally noxious laws, which fetter in-
dustry, and establish robbery as the rule of
the land; and it must be accompanied by a de-
terminati,m on the part of the Government, no
more to allow the Squires, and the Magistrates,
and the Priests, to pester, and plague, and harrass
the people in England, than they have allowed the
Orr ngemen to trample on the Catholics of Ireland.
Her MAJESTY is the Queen of all her subjects
and is as much or more bound to protect the lower
than the middle and upper classes. If her Minis-
ters have now come to a determination to use her
power for the protection of those who are unrepre-
sented, they may calm the popular discontent,
and put an end to the demand for universal
suffrage by convincing the people that justice can
and shall be done them under the Constitution as it
exists. We earnestly hope that such may be the
object of the change, which will then add much
both to the strength and the popularity of the
Ministry.

Some Licensed Victuallers have been served
with summonses to appear at Bow-street, we believe
to-day, on a charge of having kept their houses
open after 12 on Saturday night last. The infor-
mation is laid under the 42d clause of the New
Police Act, which enacts that " they shall not
open their houses on Sundays, Christmas days, and
Good Fridays, before the hour of one o'clock
in the afternoon." How this can be con-
strued to mean that the framers of the

Act contemplated such an important change
from the old practice we cannot possibly imagine.
Neither the spirit nor the letter of the Act war-
rants such a conclusion. The intention of the Le-
gislature evidently was to put an end to the dis-
gusting scenes which arose from opening gin shops
and low public houses at the usual hour on
Sunday mornings. Had they intended any
such alteration as some interpreters of the Act
infer, is it not reasonable to suppose that they
would have stated, in explicit terms, that the
houses shall be closed at twelve on Saturday nights?
No such words, however, as will bear this interpre-
tation, occur, and we cannot see how any Magistrate
can convict under this clause. Should a conviction
take place, the publicans should agree together to
take at once the opinion of the ATTORNEY-GENE-
RAL, or of some high legal authority.

Her MAJESTY has caused to be laid before
Parliament a copy of the note presented by the
Ambassadors of the Five Great Powers to the
Porte, on the 29th ult., inviting the SULTAN to
suspend any settlement of the Oriental question
without their concurrence, together with copies of
communications between the British Government
and MEHEMET ALL, in 1838, on the same sub-
ject. As the note of the Five Powers has appeared
in every daily and weekly political journal in
Europe, the mere mention of its authorized publi-
cation by one of these Powers is all that is here ne-
cessary to be observed concerning it. With respect
to the communications with MEHEMET ALI ne
shall endeavour to give the substance of them in
the order in which they appear, in as condensed a
space as possible.
The first is a note from Lord PALMERSTON to
Colonel CAMPBELL, the British Consul-General
at Alexandria, dated the 6th of February 1838,
referring to the increase of MEHEMET ALI'S
army in Syria, and advising the Consul to apprise
him of the evil consequences which would result to

imself were he to attack any part of the SUL
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