The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-07 00:00:00

THE EXHIBITION of ALUMINIUM and I copy of our own journal under that same date, we
ALUMINIUM BRONZE. find in the two little newspapers—then stripling
29000 SPECIMENS, illustrating-the appli.
cation (Ornamental and useful) of these in- journals of no more than six or twelve years
teresting Metals, ARE NOW ON VIEW 1
each, since aged by nearly 65 years additional—
we find now in one, now in the other of them
such con temporary scraps of intelligence as
the following :—" Mr. CURRAN, the Irish
Barrister," is mentioned in The Times as
having "arrived in town," and as "residing at Lord
Moms's." A Treasury messenger, one Mr. COUR-
VOISIER, is spoken of in The Sun, in another para-
graph, as having a few evenings previously been
"stopped, about two miles on this side of Maiden-
head, by two highwaymen, who robbed him of
about three pounds in money." No such great
6' haul" for the two highwaymen I Tae messenger
from the Treasury carrying with him apparently no
very large amount of the contents of its coffers. "Mr.
PITT," The Times informs us, "is net confined with
the gout at Weimer; we saw him yesterday in the
park in perfect good health." Still having an eye to
the Day's News, " BCONAPARTZ'S Dispatches" says
The Sun, "are in possession of Admiral NELSON."
One announcement in The Times reads rather start-
lirgly us nowadays, viz., one to the
effect that " The Keepers of Several Read-
ing Rooms in Fleet Street have been fined
£5 for lending newspapers for hire." The Sun of
that date, it may be remarked, indulges in various
odd little devices among its typography—every-
thing of that kind being disdained apparently
then, by its contemporary. Between The and Sun
appears the rayed effigy of the same, having
traced within it Sol Clarior Astro. A wreathed
Harp divides IRE from LAND—a wreathed anchor
NAVAL from NEIN-63. The organ itself had been
from its foundation, was then, and continued
still for some time afterwards—the organ
of that " Heaven-born Minister " who was
seen by the writer in the morning jour-
nal walking in the park the previous
afternoon in such perfect good health. An official
advertisement in The Times, signed by the Secre-
tary of the Post Office, no other than Sir FRANCIS
FREELING, offers £240 reward :for the capture of
the Highwayman who, on the 3d of the Ju'y pre-
vious, had stopped The Post Boy, and robbed the
Mail, between Bromley and Sevenoaks. An adver-
tisement in .7 he Sun, the first advertisement in that
number of our journal for the 3d October, 1798, an
flounces that the next evening, "at half after six," for
the " first time this season," "His Majesty'sservants
will act a Tragedy called HAMLET." And glancing
down the list of the dramatis persona., we observe
that Mr. KEMBLE is to be the Hamlet, Mr. Dow-
TON the Polonius, Mrs. JORDAN the Ophelia,
and Mr. CHARLES KEMBLE the Laertes.
Time runs on, two generations pass away, No. 4,298
of The Times has expanded to No. 24,552—N0.
1,881 of The Sun having multiplied simultane-
ously to 22,107.
The journals meanwhile expand in size—The
Times, repeatedly nowadays (as in effect it did
but this very morning), becoming magnified,
by means of its double supplement and a
half sheet extra, to absolutely leviathan pro-
portions. Existing during so many years, wit-
nessing and recording the whi.le so many strange
vicissitudes,' our own journal cannot but direct
attention for a moment in passing, and this too, as it
were, with a sense cf contemporary exultation to
the manner in which that first little sprouting a
the acorn has grown and strengthened, and ex.
panded into the giant oak of the limes news

MAPPJN BROTIIERS' NEW ROOMS, `22, REGENT
STREET.
Admission by Card.

TrIE.ATRE-RO7 AL, HAY MARKET.
Lessee Mr. J. B. Buekstone.

THIS EVENING, BORROWING A HUSBAND. Pa.
mela, Miss Maria Harris.

After which, at half-past 7, STILL WATERS RUN DEEP.
Mr. and Mrs. A,freci Wigan, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Chippen-
dale, and Miss Louisa Angel.
Followed by an apropos Dramatic Sketch, introducing a
Panorama of the To❑r of the Prince of W ales in the East.
To conclude with MY HUSE AND'S GHOST.
Commerce at 7.

THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under
the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER.
TUTS EVENING, at 7, to commence with an Original
Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore,
Garden, H. Widdicomb, M:ss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee.
After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic
Prama, in Three Acts, and Pr3logne, entitled THE
DUKE'S STOTT°, by Paul Feval and John Brougham.
The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter,
supported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. Brougham,
H. ‘t iddi ombe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Da Neon ;
Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, and
Elsworthy.
Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE,
Sole ~ranee and Manager, Mr. G. Vining.
Tins EVENING, PERFECTION: Mr. B. Roxby, Mr.
Belmore, Mr. Fitzjames, Miss Murray, and Miss Oliver.
After which, at Eight, HAMLET : Hamlet, Mr. Charles
Kean; Gertrude, Mrs. Charles Kean.

NEW THI ATRE-R0 STAT., ADELPHL—.
Sol© Proprietor and Manazer:Mr: B. Webster.

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THIS EVENING, JANET PRIDE. Messrs. B. Webster,
J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, Stephenson, Stuart, Eburne,
Sefton, C. J. Smith. Romer ; Miss Arona. Jones, Miss A.
Seaman, and Mrs. Stoker.
To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY, Mr. J. L.
Toole, Miss Kate Kelly, Miss A. Seaman. and Miss Stoker.
Commence at 7.

THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,"
Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,
can be had Every Evening of
G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT,
No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park.

The Weather--Sun Office, May 7, 1863.

THERMOMETER.

Highest sines Noon yesterday. 64
Lowest during the night
This day at Noon 59
Wind—Northerly ; light, with fine weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tats DAY.—Morning, 3h. 42m.—Afternoon, 4h. sm.
To-moaßow,Morning, 4h. 26m.—Afternoon, 4h. 50m.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1863.

A copy of a daily London newspaper, the name
of which is simply world-renowned, the influence
of which is such that the journal referred to has
long since come to be recognised as among the insti-
tutions of the land—a copy of this the most dis-
tinguished and powerful of all the Organs of
Public Opinion, has this day come before us in
" so questionable a shape," that we can hardly call
it, as it nevertheless calls itself, The 7imee. The
date of it is Wednesday, October 3, 1798. The
number of the journal is No. 4,298. The price
affixed to it, in the opposite corner (the right
hand corner) of the first page, is " Sixpence." We
turn back to our own file, and, running through the
pages of the s, eond volume for that same year-
-a period removed from the present by exactly
sixty-four years, seven months, and four days—we
have now lying open before us The Sun of Wednes-
day, October 3, 1798, the number of it, 1,881, the
price of it also" Sixpence." Each of these journals
(of from sixty-four to sixty-five years ago) is not
only a single sheet, or four diminutive pages,
but each is very small indeed in its superficial
dimensions ! Both being exactly of the same size
(2 feet 2 inches by 1 foot 71 inches), both four
columns to a page, that is sixteen columns alto-
gether in each. The limes being published
then, as it is published still, in Printing-house- i
square, Blackfrisre. The Sun being published
then, as it is published still, at 112, Strand, in the
precinct of the Savoy. Our great morning contem-
porary of this present Wednesday, May 7, 1863, is
numbered as No. 24,352. We ourselves this even-
ing number for Wednesday, May 7, 1863, No.
22,167. Reverting, however, from the present
moment to a period removed from us by an interval
of nearly sixty-five wonderful and momentous
yearp, we will cursorily glance though the
contents of the two—we can hardly call them
broad-sheets, they are so small—we might rather
speak of them as doable flyleaves of very moderate
proportions. The limes of October 3, 1798 , and
The Sun of October 3, 1798. In each appears, as
the great news of the day, an account of

paper.

The necessity of finding employment for our
Lancashire operatives has long been only second in
the minds of the wise and thoughtful to the urgent
need of supplying them with the means of sub-
sistence for their families. It was felt that long
months of enforced idleness were hard to bear by
intelligent and active men accustomed to the excite-
ment and bustle of a busy commercial life. Content
and industry are, moreover, closely allied, and there
are other evils attending this compulsory inaction
besides the additional discomfort it inflicts upon the
unemployed " hands." It is not probable, scarcely
possible, that so large a standing army of idlers
should be able to maintain during a lengthened
period unbroken order and unshaken resignation.
There will always be demagogues, whose object it
is to inflame and irritate the people against the
governing powers, and their efforts, which produce
but partial and limited effects in the busy seasons
of activity and prosperity, may act like firebrands
among a large host of idle men and women,
if they are once persuaded that their misfortunes
are in any way the fault of their superiors. The
conduct of the Lancashire operatives has been on
the whole most admirable. Their dignified patience,
and the fortitude with which they have borne their
undeserved sufferings, have called forth the ap-
proval and respect of the civilised world, Even in
the late distressing riots at Staleybridge it was
found that the disturbances originated with a band
of giddy and excitable young people—not with the
regular working men and women of the district,
who complained bitterly of the discredit thus brought
upon them. But however admirable the conduct
of the people may be, it is the duty of those whose
province it is to rule them to provide for their needs
and necessities, no less moral than physical. Meny
benevolent schemes have been suggested and par-
tially developed by private exertion and kindliness.
Some hundreds have been shipped off to our colo-
nies to transport into young and thinly peopled
States the energies that could find no room in
the overcrowded arena of the old country. Others
have been removed to different parts of the country,
and set to new kinds of labour. But the school,
tha field, and the colony have not as yet disposed
of a twentieth part of the great body of unemployed
hands. The question is what is to be done for the
remainder ? They cannot be left longer in that
idleness which is intolerable to an
honest English-
man, and it will be yet some time before our mills
are all fairly at work again. A system of compre-
hensive emigration uncer Government auspices has
been thought of by some, which should transplant
into other lands the vigorous offshoots of English
industry. But ie such a wholesale deportation !vise
or necessary Are these honest and hard-working
sons and daughters of toil the ones that England
can best spare Are they not part of that steady
substratum which neutralises the efforts alike of
anarchs and despots, which enables her to smile at
the thunders of Chartist eloquence, which offers the
beat safeguard to the liberties of her Constitution.
Young, daring, adventurous spirits may do well to
carry to another land those energies and powers
which the routine of an old civilisation might
cl
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ofittetielid pence.to be
the pioneers of Eng-
They are qualified to
wrestle with nature and man on the wild outskirts
of
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oft oitsa developfortunes,ing aEn
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young
worth and English enterprise have by such means
been wafted, like tho wind borne seed, into every
latitude of the habitable
globe, and their counts;
applauds them for their courage. It is the fitting
work for youth, and energy, and hope, untram-
melled by home ties, unworn by home labour.
But it is not the work for fathers and
mothers of families, who once had no thought
nor wish but to end their days in
the oid land as their (parents did before them,