The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY , OCTOBER 3, i 839.

COMPLETION of CHARLES MATHEWS' MEMOIRS.
Now ready, Vols. 111. and IV., with numerous Engravings,
being the
CONCLUDING VOLUAIES of the

MEMOIRS of CHARLES MATHEWS,
COMEDIAN,

By Mrs. 3IATHEWS.
Including his Correspondence, in which will be found Letters

from

Theodore Hook Edmund Kean W. C. Macready
Charles Young John Fawcett R. B. Peake
R. W. Elliston George Robins Charles Lamb
C. J. Mathews John Bannisterl J. Wilson Croker
Horace Smith Fanny Kemble John Emery
S. T. Coleridge John Adolphus Sir L. Skeffington
James Hogg Lord Egremont James Smith
Lord Blessing,ton Frederick Reynolds J. G. Lockhart
Sir F. Chantrey Sir T. Lawrence Edward Dubois
Dr. Kitchener g Daniel Terry James Perry
J. P. Harley Count Boruwlaski William Godwin
Leigh Hunt John Nash Ryley, Author of
Tate Wilkinson Sir David Wilkie " The Itinerant."
John Poole George Colman
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street,
Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.

THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN.

UNDER THE MANAGEMENTOF MADAME

VESTRIS.
THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, Ccr. 3, 1839,
Will be repeated Shaltspere's Comedy of
LOVE'S LABOURS LOST.

The Scenery entirety new, painted by Mr. Grieve, Mr. T.

_ .
Grieve, and Mr. W. Orieve.
Ferdinand, King of Navarre, Mr. Cooper ; Biron, Mr. An-
derson, Longaville, Mr. Fitzjames, Dumain, Mr. J. Vining,
Lords, attending on the King ; Boyet, Mr. F. Matthews,
Mercade, Mr. W. Payne, Lords, attending on the Princess of
France ; Don Adriano de Armado, (a fantastical Spaniard,)
Mr. Harley; Sir Nathaniel, (a Curate,) Mr. Meadows;
Holofernes, (a Schoolmister,) Mr. Bartley; Dull, (a Consta-
ble,) Mr. Granby; Custard, (a (Town,) Mr. Keeley]; Moth,
(Page to Armado,) Miss Lee; Forester, Mr. C. J. Smith;
Princess of France, Mrs. Nisbet ; Rosaline, Madame Vestris,
Maria, Miss E. Phillips, Katharine, Miss Charles, Ladies at-
tending on the Princess; Jaquenetta, (a Country Wench) Mrs.
Humby ; Ver, or Spring, Miss Rainforth ; Hiems, or Winter,
Mr. S. Jones. Officers and others, Attendants on the King
and Princess, Messrs. Brace, Butler, Collett, Connell, Charles,
Davis, Furness, Horton, Hodges, Hughes, Fredericks, Ker-
ridge, Williamson, Young, Gibson, Ireland, Ridgway. Mes-
dames Baden, A. Boden, Beresford, Cummins, Charlton' Col-
lett, Bailey, Emden, Goward, Jackson, A. Jackson, Lane,
Fairbrother, Gibson, Rya's, Charlton, Fenton, Kendall, E.
Kendall, A. Lee, Massall, Platt, Paris.
To conclude with, fourth time, a New Farce, in Two Acts,
called
ALIVE AND MERRY.

Mr. Samuel Perkins, Mr. W. Farrcn. Frank Saunders, Mr.
Charles Mathews. Mr. Luke Sharp, Mr. Bartley. Patrick
Day, Mr. Brougham. Waiter, Mr. W. H. Payne. Servant,
Mr. Kerridge. Miss Penelope Perkins, Mrs. Orger. Bella,
Mrs. Humby. Landlady, Mrs. Emden.
The Theatre will be Open Every Evening.
Shakspere's Comedy of Love's Labour Lost will he repeated
To-morrow, and on Monday and Wednesday in the ensuing
week.

The New Farce of Alive and Merry will be performed every
evening till further notice (the Olympic Nights excepted).
On Saturday (the First Olympic Night), Sons and Systems,
Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady, Patter versus Clatter, and
The Loan of a Lover.

The Theatre has been re-embellished by Mr. W. Bradwell,
and the following new arrangements have been made for the
ensuing season :
A separate Entrance and Corridor have been appropriated
hs the Dress Circle, in which chairs have been placed in lieu of
benches, and Ladies and Gentlemen taking Tickets for this
part of the Theatre, will have their seats reserved for the whole
of the evening.
Corresponding attention will be found to have been paid to
the comfort and accommodation of the Public in the other
Circles of Boxes, from the chan:!eliers of which the gas has
been entirely removed, and wax candles substituted.
In compliance with the suggestions of many of her patrons,
Madame VESTRIS has the honour to announce, that it is her
intention to appropriate ONE EVENING IN EACH WEEK
to the performance of those Entertainments, which for so many
years have constituted the attraction of the OLYMPIC
THEATRE.
THE FIRST OLYMPIC NIGHT
Will be on SATURDAY, October sth.
_ _

Dress Boxes, 7s; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second
Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price,
2s. ; 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. Netter,
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.

Stage Manager, Mr. Bartley ; Composer and Musical Di-
rector, Mr. H. R. Bishop, Mus Bac. ; Ballet 'Master, Mr.
Oscar Byrne ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Hughes ; Chorus Mas-
ter, Mr. Tully ; Prompter, Mr. W. S. Emden ; the Scenery
by Mr. Grieve, Mr. T. Grieve, and Mr. W. Grieve ; Mecha-
nist and Decorator, Mr. W. Bradwell ; the Machinery bp Mr.
11. Sloman; Master of the Wardrobe, Mr. Head; Mistresses
of the Wardrobe, Mrs. Stroud and Mrs. Brown.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, OCT. .3
Will be presented an entirely new and original Nautical Drama,
in Three Acts, entitled
ARMSTRONG, THE SHIPWRIGHT.
Reuben Armstrong, Mr. T. P. Cooke ; Abel Armstrong,
Mr. E. F. Saville ; Annis Mildred, Mrs. IL Vining;
Bona, Miss Martin.
After which (40th time) the successful Nautical Drama of
BEN BOATSWAIN; Or, SAILOR'S SWEETHEARTS.
Ben Bowling, Mr. T. P. Cooke.
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.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
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more easily obtained than gold. To establish it I
here would at once lower our standard to the con-
tinental level, and give to it in all times to come
the stability of nearly the whole commercial world.
A day or two ago it was announced that a mil-
lion of dollars had been brought to England.
Under our present Mint regulations they will give
no relief. We have a notion that they may en-
hance, but if they were made a legal tender
they would lessen, the difficulties of the na-
tion. Not being required here, the silver will pro-
bably go to the Continent, where more of it will be
given in exchange for gold, which will tend to keep
up the price of that commodity, and attract it still
more powerfully abroad.
In the City article of the Times yesterday, it
was stated " That the price of gold at Hamburg
is 432 per mark, which at the English Mint price
is 3/. 17s. lOid. per ounce for standard gold gives an
exchange of 13.81, and the exchange at Hamburg
on London being 13.41, it follows that gold is I.BS
per cent. dearer at Hamburg than at London."
Gold is dearer; but the price of gold is measured ex-
clusively by silver, and what is meant by this is that
more silver can be sot at Hamburg for an ounce of
gold than our Mint regulations allow to be given
for it here. It is the Mint regulations which prescribe
what in the market is a he, namely, that an ounce
of gold is worth nearly 785., when it is, in fact,
worth much more ; which make the price of gold to
be higher in Hamburg than in England, and draw
gold out of England. To abolish this lie, to allow
silver to be sold or exchanged for as much gold as it
will buy in England, to allow men to pay their debts
with it, or to do on this point as they like—in short
to make it a legal tender to any amount as well as gold,
would at once make gold, measured in silver, dearer
in England than in Hamburg, and bring it back
to the country. In addition to our other recom-
mendation relative to small notes, we call on the
public now to consider the propriety of wiping the
lying Mint regulation from the Statute-book. We
are sure that it will be an approximation to truth,
to freedom, and to a more stable condition of our
currency; and, we believe, it would be attended
with great immediate practical benefit to all classes.
In conclusion, we say—

LET SILVER BE MADE A LEGAL TENDER,
TO ANY AMOUNT.

We have read, notwithstanding our resolute
hatred of the Corn-laws, the account of the dinner
given to the Duke of BUCCLEUCH on Thursday
last, by his tenants with unfeigned pleasure. A
pavilion was erected at Branxholm, the ancient re-
sidence of his Grace's ancestors, capable of holding
1,000 persons, and to this pavilion crowded tenants
and deputations from tenants from his Grace's vast
estates. Even the fishermen of Newhaven, who
rent his Grace's fishing-grounds, sent a deputation
to grace the festival. The Chairman was, one of
the oldest of the tenantry, and he was surrounded
by the neighbours, friends, and tenants of the Duke.
It was a domestic festival of a most cheering, kindly,
and, let us add, ennobling nature. The venerable
Chairman, in proposing the Duke's health, spoke
of him as the

" Friend and patron of all public charities, and of every
institution which has for its object the benefit of tle
country. He is the leal and true friend of the poor, in
administering both to their physical and moral necessities—
( Cneers)—by furnishing them with the means of pro-
curing education, and with the blessings imparted through
the Protestant religion.—(Cheers.)"
. _ _

Gracefully did the Chairman remind the Com-
pany of bygone feuds and present harmony :
Nor is the Noble Duke and his ancestors less distin-
guished for their munificence than for their gallantry in
their country's cause ; the Old Tower of Branxholm, near
which we are now assembled, has witnessed many a day
when the members of that noble family were called upon,
and found ready to shed their blood for the cause of the
people ; but we live, my friends in happier and more peace-
ful times, for the noble resistance made by the bold Buc-
cleuch is no longer necessary, and in the beautiful words
of our minstrel bard—

Sweet Teviot I on thy silver tide
The glaring bale-fires blaze no more;
No longer steel-clad warriors ride
Along thy wild and willow'd shore:
Instead of wars between us and the other Border Chiefs,
the ancient banner of Buccleuch has given pace to the
Union Flag, which is now floating in the breeze over
Branxholm's ancient Tower, and we have the high and
distinguished honour to see now among us the descendants
of ' the bold Buccleuch,' and ' the gallant Graham,' at
the same festive board.---(Loud cheers.)"
_ _

Nor were these kind feelings met by any coldness
on the part of the Noble Guest. We quote a word
or two of his speech, as evidence of his feelings :
" When a person leaves his native country, whether for
business or for pleasure—whether to idle away his time in
amusements, or whether business calls him forth, or whe-
ther necessity drive him, or whether—a more unhappy
case—he is obliged to seek a more genial climate, for
the health of those who are near and dear to him—he must
hare a cold heart indeed, if he does not feel gratitude on
his return to his native land. For myself, I can say that
all the warm welcomes home which I have met, and all the
fervent grasps of the hand which I experienced, were not
equal to the feeling that existed in my breast
Providence has blessed me with much, and Providence
will require much at my hands. What has been entrusted
to me bas not been given that it might be wasted in idle
or frivolous amusements; nor would I be justified in wast-
ing the hard earning of the tillers of the soil, by carrying
them away and spending them in other countries."
We rejoice to see such feelings nourished between
landlords and tenants, and while the noble and the
rich continue sensible to the approbation of their
fellow-creatures, we shall never despair of obtaining
justice. But we should like to know why the Duke of
BUCCLEUCH and his fellows will so obstinately
narrow the circle of their princely enjoyments ?
Would it not be—do they not know that it would be
—equally pleasant to be invited and feasted and ho-
noured by the merchants and manufacturers? Would
it not add to their happiness to see crowds of artizans
and their comfortable wives and families following
the coach of the good Duke of BUCCLEUGH, and
blessing him for promoting the repeal of the scoun-
drel bread tax, instead of hearing, as now, curses
poured on the bread taxers in every workshop of
the country ? Can the 10,0001. or 20,0001. a
year which may be added to the Duke's super-
fluous wealth by the Corn-laws, be for one mo-
ment put in comparison with the affection,
the applause, and the respect of millions
of his fellow-creatures ? Deep-rooted, undoubtedly,
the English aristocracy have been and yet are
in the hearts of the people, and the history of man-
kind offers no instance of a race of men more besotted,
more blindly and stupidly, more selfishly and en-
viously avaricious than the landowners of England,
who, for the most paltry consideration, are tearing
themselves by the roots out of the hearts of their
countrymen. They compel men to hate them.
They are foolish beyond the power of language to
tell. Without weavers, and smiths, and printers,
and merchants, society could not prosper and could
not exist; but it could flourish—perhaps all the better
—without Dukes, Earls, and 'Squires ; and those
men, whose time is gone by, who no longer form any
useful part of the growing social system, who are
the wrecks and remnants of a military or-
ganization that passed into oblivion with
those personal feelings and feuds, the end of which
was so gracefully alluded to by the Chairman, are
now striving, by the most noxious and ruinous
legislation, to earn the hatred of society, and com-
pel it to trample them into dust, or cast them out
for ever.

At this festival, as the Chairman remarked, a
GRAHAM was present, with a BUCCLEUGH ; but
Sir JAMES could not allow his party animosities
to sleep even fot a moment. Bitterly, most bitterly,
does this every way a renegade feel his uncomfort-
able situation. We know from his own confession
that the income of the First Lord of the Admiralty
was very welcome to the 'Squire of Netherby, and
he has never ceased to rue the day he gave it up,
nor to use the most unseemly means to get it back.
With such bad tact as to excite apparently the dis-
approbation of the company, the Netherby GRA-
HAM got into the slang of the Times and
the factious quarrels of the House of Commons.
He talked of the Slitrig in which certain electors
were ducked at a late election, of fictitious
votes, and the other topics that rouse the angry
passions of the contending \Vhigs and Tories. He
supposed he might safely attack the ELLIOTTS in
the hall of the ScoTTs, while he demonstrated that
the feuds still rankle in his own breast which the
country has, at least for the moment, fcrgotten.
He is so tormented by disappointed vanity,
avarice, and ambition, that he cannot control
his feelings, and appears to us one of the most
pitiable of mortals. Poor 'Knight Of NETIIEREY

tity of coarse flour constituting the prisoners'
allowance, pease and a little barley-meal was sub-
stituted. "The great subject of discussion at
Sydney as well as here," says the Editor of a
Hobart Town journal, " is the present disastrous
scarcity. Notwithstanding all which is asserted as
to the large amount of supplies, we adhere to our
opinion that wheat will maintain its present distress-
creating price " After a rather tedious dissertation
on this subject, interesting only to colonial readers,
the writer proceds as follows :
There are four places from whence supplies may be ex-
pected. Britain, the Cape, India, and South America.
Let us see what fair ground of expectation exists for re-
lief from either. In Britain the price of kread has risen
so high, owing to the failure of the crops, that the loaf is
dearer than it has been for the last twenty years, and the
ports are thrown open to free importation of foreign grain,
which, nevertheless, owing to similar failures in all the
great grain countries, has not reduced the price to any
considerable extent, affoding only prevention against
starvation. To look to England then is out of the ques-
tion. At the Cape we know similar causes have produced
similar effects: wheat is not to be obtained. So also
Valparaiso ; and as to India, let the following extract speak
for itself

" FAILURE OF THE CROPS IN INDIA.—We regret to twat'
by letters from va!iouS parts of the country, that there is
every probability of an almost to:al failure of the crops of
every description, in consequence of the long continued
drought. Every thing till within a short time ago wore a
most promising appearance, and a very slight additional
fall of rain would have matured the production of the
season into a most abundant supply. The cultivators are
anxiously looking forward to a few days of heavy rain as
the only chance they have of a portion of the crop being
saved, but even this cannot prevent a great deal of dis-
tress among the poorer classes of the community, and a
serious defalcation in our commerce.—Bombay Courier,
Oct. 4."

Gloomy as is this view of the state and prospects
of Australia, it is not confined to the Editor of one
Journal only. The following extract from an
article in the Australian represents a state of
things equally sombre :
A %Try gloomy perspective is opening upon us with re-
screet to our colonial affairs. Several concurrent causes
have contributed to produce a depression in the colony,
comparatively greater than at any former period in its his-
tory. The prominent calamity with which we are at

present threatened, is the one most to he deplored, as well
for the distressing effects of its actual operation, as for the
•:v;ls that must follow in its train. It needs hardly be
said, that we allude to the scarcity of grain that now pre-
rails, and to its ultimate inevitable extent. This is no
hypothetical view of the case, but one sihich is indisput-
ably true.

The failure of the crops, consequent on the long conti-
nued drought with which we have been visited, is an event
which no human agency could have averted. But it was
in the power, as it was the undoubted duty of the Govern-
ment to adopt such prompt and decisive measures for ob.
taming a timely provision from without, as would materi-

ally modify the. impending evil. But instead of doing this,
they supinely look on till we are actually approaching the
verge of a crisis. We believe it may confidently be asserted
that there is not more than four months' supply of grain in
the colony—and the Government are now beginning to
provide for an importation of wheat and rice into the colony,
which cannot be accomplished in less than fuur or five, or
perhaps six months.
We have no desire to anticipate evil—but it is clear that
flour will rise to a very alarming price. This circumstance,
combined with the general depression of trade and mecha-
nical labour, will render the condition of the poorer classes
pitiable indeed.
Our fellow-countrymen about to emigrate to
these colonies had better pause before exchanging
home inconveniences for the horrors of famine in

iese " El Dorados" of swindling associations.

We have inserted elsewhere a minute of the Edu-
cation Committee of the Privy Council, which, if
we are not greatly mistaken, will be perused with
deep though different interest both by the friends and
the enemies of education. The former class of
readers will be delighted to learn, as learn they will
from this highly important document, that there is
a demand for education beyond their most san-
guine hopes, while the latter will be subjected to the
twofold torture of knowing this fact, and of seeing
the main pretence on which they propped up their
unchristian and inhuman opposition to the moral
and religious instruction of their fellow-countrymen
entirely demolished. It appears that, from the
passing of the grant for education up to the 24th
of September, there were no fewer than three hun-
dred and seven applications for pecuniary assistance
to schools, and that the number of scholars
to be educated in those schools amounted to
58,302. The only circumstance that tends to
check the satisfaction which this statement is calcu-
lated to afford to the friends of national improve-
ment, is the inadequacy of the fund to sup-
ply the demands upon it. The whole amount
of the grant is only 30,0001., while the
amount required, in order to give the assistance
already applied for, is upwards of 48,0001. The
insufficiency of the present grant will be still more
glaringly demonstrated before the time arrives for
proposing the next ; for by that time there will
have been a great increase in the number of appli-
cations. The remedy, however, is simple and
easy. Let the next grant be accommodated to
the requirements of the case. Let the supply of
money from the Exchequer be in proportion to the
demand for education from the public.

We now, invite the attention of the clamourers
against the Ministerial plan of education to the fol-
lowing regulation, adopted by the Committee of
Council :—" The right of inspection will be
required by the Committee in all cases.
Inspectors, authorised by her MAJESTY in
Council, will be appointed from time to time
to visit schools to be henceforth aided by pub-
lic money. The Inspectors will not interfere with
the religious instruction, or discipline, or ma-
nagement of the schools, it being their object to col-
lect facts and information, and to report the result
of their inspections to the Committee of Council."
If any thing can bring a blush of shame into the
faces of the factious and heartless crew, who re-
fused the inestimable blessings of education to the
children of the poor, because her MAJESTY'S Minis-
ters intended to introduce Popery, Dissent, and in-
fidelity into the schools, we should think
that the above resolution must produce that effect.
The Times is at a non-plus this morning. It is
reduced to the miserable necessity of shirking the
subject, by an attempt—a clumsy and futile attempt
—to be witty at the expence of Mr. SHIEL.
For the rules which the Committee have adopted
for their government in the distribution of the
money placed at their disposal by Parliament, we
refer the reader to the document Itself, merely re-
marking at present that they seem to us to be not
only unexceptionable, but characterized by the
soundest discretion.

Letters from Constantinople of the 12th ult,
state that to quiet the apprehensions of the Porte.
excited by Russian agents, the English, French,
and Austrian Ambassadors had jointly addressed a
note to the Ministers of the SULTAN, declaring
that they had no intention, under any pretext
whatever, of occupying any portion of the Turkish
territory, or seeking any advantage for themselves
in their endeavours to maintain the integrity of the
Ottoman empire. The three Ambassadors had
likewise informed the Porte that the idea
of settling the question by Congress had been
abandoned, owing to differences between them
and the representatives of Russia and Prussia. On
the 12th HAFIZ PACHA, the defeated Comman-
der-in-Chief of the Turkish army, arrived at Con-
stantinople. The oriental question, though occu-
pying every mind, seemed to be making ilO progress
owing to the jealousies of the Five Powers, and the
want of unanimity on the part of England and
France.