The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-21 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

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THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME
VESTRIS.
I THIS EVENING, MONDAY, CCT. 21, 1839,
Will be performed the Opera of
i ARTAXERXES.
Artaxerxes, Madame Vestris; Artabanes, Mr. Borrani (his
third appearance an the English stage); Arbaces, Mr. W.
Harrison ; Mandane, Miss Austin (Pupil of Mr. T. Welsh,
her third appearance on the stage), Semira, Miss A. Taylor.
i After which,
ASK NO QUESTIONS.
Theotlore,Nlr. J. Vining; Matthias, Mr. W. Farren ; Gim-
blet, Mr. Meadows ; Cecile, Miss Lee; Madame Gimblet,
Miss A. Taylor. . .

To couclued with a Farce called
THE QUEEN'S HORSE ! OR, THE BREWER OF
PRESTON.
Mr. Thomas Tubbs, Mr. Keeley ; Mary Wakefield, Miss Lee.
To-morrow, Beaumont and Fletcher's Comedy of Rule a
Wife and Have a Wife, Leon, Mr. G. Vandenhoff (his third
appearance on the stage), with Why Don't She Marry ? and
Simp.on and Co.
On Wednesday, Artaxerxes, with Patter versus Clatter, and
Nava! Engagements.
On Thursday, The School for Scandal, with The Ringdoves.
On Friday, Artaxerxes, with The Scape Goat, and The
Two Figaros.
1 On Saturday, (the Fourth Olympic Night), You Can't
Marry Your Grandmother, Advice Gratis, One Hour, arid A
Quiet Day.

Dress Boxes, 7s; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second
Circles, 54. ; Second Price, 23. 6d. ; Pit, Ss. ; Second Price,
2e. ; Gallery, Is.
Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven o'Clock.
Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Notter,
at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets
may be had upon application.
Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller,
167, New Bond-street.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
First Night of Ainsworth's " Jack Sheppard,"
With Fifty New Scenes, a Diorama, and Embodyment of all
Cruikshank's incredible and surpassing Tableaux Vivant.
THIS EVENING, Our. `2l,
Will be acted, First Time, a Drama founded on the Popular
Work entitled
JACK SHEPPARD.
Characters by Messrs. Saville, Dale, Heslop, Laws, Smith,
Ross. Neville; Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, Miss Martin, Miss
Grant, Mts. Laws, &C.
To conclude with the Comic Drama entitled
THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM.

wail WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.MORROw.
Morning 26 minutes after I. I Evening ... 53 minutes after I.

LONDON :
MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1831.

We copy from the Carlisle Journal the sen-
tence of two men at the Cockermouth Sessions for
being concerned in what is called the Chartist con-
spiracv—a curious conspiracy, all loud blustering
vapour and no deeds. It consisted of designs an-
nounced and never executed. The Ribbon plot in
Ireland, as sworn to by Mr. ROWAN'S witness,
who had no name, with its committees and sub-
committees, general leaders, and passwords, is a
I substantial conspiracy ; but the Chartist conspiracy,
concocted by Mr. HARNEY spouting, and Mr.
FEA anus O'CONNOR running about and writing, is
of a new genus and species. But if there was a
conspiracy amongst the Chartists it was to overturn
the Constitution, and such conspirators deserve an-
other mode of trial than before the Justices at ses-
sions, and another sort of punishment than six
months' imprisonment. It seems, however, that
the offence, though called a conspiracy, was manu-
facturing pikes, which men at Birmingham do, or
rather guns, which are more deadly weapons, on a
large scale and commit no offence. We never before
heard that it was an offence at law to manufacture
a pike. If it be, we would have school-boys be
careful, for the young rogues manufacture at times
both pikes and guns. We suppose, however, the
guilt lay in the intention—for guilt there must
have been, as the men pleaded guilty—and
we should have liked that the intention
had been proved before more competent
aad less prejudiced judges—judges more responsible
to public opinion than shifting, on the bench to-
day and gone to-morrow, country squires. Sup-
posing the offence of conspiring to overturn the
Constitution by force of arms, or to resist the lawful
authorities, to have been proved against the pike
manufacturers, we cannot agree with the Carlisle
Journal, that these men were too hardly dealt with,
according to the usual practice of the law. LOVETT
and COLLINS have been sentenced to one year's
imprisonment for using a few bold and imprudent
words, and a conspirator who forges arms to carry
his conspiracy into effect, is surely a much greater
criminal than either of these two men. We can,
however, see no offence the two men at Cocker-
mouth were guilty of, beyond that of forging pikes,
which is no offence at all. If that were their crime
their punishment is much too heavy—if they were
conspirators, much too light. We are much afraid
that those who have now power in their hands, are
wresting the law to their own temporary purposes,
a course of proceeding which we are afraid they
may Yet have cause bitterly to rue.

The " Revivals" in Scotland, which have ex-
cited such commotion in the religious community
in the North, and brought such disgrace on a por-
tion of the Presbyterian Church, whin viewed in a
charitable and general point of view, can he re-
,,•arded merely as symptoms of a mental disease
w;iieb, in the form of a moral epidemic, is rapidly
spreading over the land. The young clergy of a
certahi class in the Established Church of Scotland
seem impressed with the belief that pure religion
has been banished from the country, that the people
are sunk in the lowest depths of iniquity, and that
nothing can save them from divine wrath but in-
cessant preaching and praying, and the observance
of religious rites more stringent even than those
practised in the days of the Covenanters. This
epidemic commenced with EDWA RD IRVING, who
enuTh!llll:CatCCl it to the clergyman who established
and, though partially con-
the " Rowite Heresy,"
cealed for a time, it has, in nearly the same quar-
ter, broken out with increased fury. Like him, the
Revivalists regard most of their brethren in the
Church as heretics—like him they hold meet-
ings in the dark, and, taking advantage of
the solemnity of the scene, and the impression
made on their hearers, assume to themselves with
perfect sincerity something like a power divine, and
die exclusive privilege of explaining the oracles of
truth. But this epidemic is not confined to Scot-
land. It is raging in the Church of England. It
manifested itself first at the University of Oxford—
it has 5 inile spread among the Clergy, and though
exhibiting s-ariptoms, varied by circumstances, by
climate, perhaps by the dispositions of the people,
or the genius of ,their established religion, it has all
the worst qualities of the original distemper—con-
tempt for the authority of the Church as well as
the State, exclusive pretensions to authority for
defining the only true religion, and an unquestion-
able sincerity in enforcing their tenets as the only
possible means fur the salvation of the countr.
Dr. PILSEY is certainly mad enough _as mad in
his way as the Revivalist BURNS in the north ' • but
he falls far short of one of his
who,follo iwerns,thaesmeednaibyesr,
of the Church of England,
actually proposes the " revival of monastic insti-
tutions in England. A reverend gentleman of tLe
name of `ti ACKERBA RTII has published a book on
the subject, which we have not had time or
inclination to peruse, but the following account of
it, from a sober minded and generally impartial
Weekly Contemporary, will give our reader some idea
of the plan.

The Athenaeum of Saturday makes these re-
marks on Dr. WACKERBARTH'S system of
, " Revivals
•
ikjtrdicious examination of monachism, its origin, nature,
!DA miuence upon society, would be a valuable work; but
which can scarcely be expected in an age where
enrytAng, however remotely connected with religious in-
has become the subject of controversy, and I
whOttWe great aim of theologians seems to be to deters
mine how small a portion of Christian charity is necessary in discussions between Christian sects, The author of I

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