The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-02 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

The production of Ainsworth's "Jack Sheppard," has attracted
complete overflows, and been pronounced to be the greatest
achievement ever yet attemp,ed, it will consequently be
bated every Evening.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 2,'
Will be acted, Ainsworth's celebrated Drama of
JACK SHEPPARD.

Illustrating all Cruikshanks' inimitable Tableaux Vivant.
Characters by Messrs. Saville, Dale, Ileslop, Laws, Smith,
Ress, Neville; Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, Miss Martin, Miss
Grant 'Mts. Laws, &c.

After which,
THE BREWER. OF PRESTON.
Daniel Robinson, Mr. W. Smith ; Effie, Miss Martin.
To conclude with the Comic Drama eutitlesi
CROSSING THE LINE.
Wonler Van Broom, Mr. W. Smith ; Pomona Vondertwil-
or, Miss Martin.

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legislator to onArd individnds from the conse-
quences of their osAtt ignorance or foily, and still
le&s is it Ins business, in order to accomplish that,
to inflict a privation, a restraint, or an injury on

the bulk of the community.
Before we conclude, we wish to remind the pub-
lic that the Postage Tax has been given up. It
has been recognised as a bad tax ; and if the
Govertnnont cannot go on without the sum it
yielded, some other tax must be substituted for it.
Henceforth the amount or security of the Revenue
olitained from the Post-office is not to be the prime
consideration, but the public convenience. We
hold the many discussions, therefore, in which
writers are entangling themselves, as tothe safety and
amount of the Revenue, to be wholly beside the
mark. Whatever will facilitate the collection, the
transit, and the distribution of letters, making the
public pay the expense of the various operations)
and no more, is the principle now to be kept in
view. It is the more necessary to remember this,
because at present the profits made on the passen-
gers carried by the mail coaches seem to pay a
great portion of the expense of transmitting letters,
but the proprietors of railroads will henceforth en-
gross the whole profit of conveying passengers, and
the Post-office has to pay on railroads, and will have
to pay a considerable sum for the conveyance of the
mail-bags.

If we return to Mr. BRADSHAW, it is from the
kindest motive—the wish to gratify his love of no-
toriety. We shall help him to attain his end. It
is not enough for a gentleman with his thirst for
public attention, to be known amongst his imme-
diate friends for professing a determination to insult
her MAJESTY, by never raising his hat when he
passed her ; that would avail him nothing unless he
could carry the profession into practice publicly, and
get the newspapers to waft it over the kingdom.
No person in the crowd might notice such ungallant
insolence ; the boast of having perpetrated it would
not get beyond the Carlton : but threats uttered after
dinner, echoed by an assembled body of squires and
clergy, foul insinuations applauded by a great mob
of Conservative auditors, are spread through the
empire, and stamp Mr. BRADSHAW at one blow
as a great leader amongst the insolent, arrogant,
cowardly, and disloyal Tories. He is obviously
desirous of such pre-eminence, and we do but help
him to climb the height, by saying another word or
two on his merits.

The lofty tone he assumed, and the boldness of
his bearing, made us anxious to know who and
what he is. Except BRADSHAW the regicide, and
BRADSHAW the highwayman, we have no recol-
lection of any BRADSHAW having before found a
niche in history. The name is not in Mr. BURKE'S
Peerage and Baronetage of the United Empire.
Mr. BRA I)SHA w's ancestry and his deeds are thus
recorded in the Parliamentary Pocket Companion.
—" BRADSHAW, JAMES (Canterbury), S. of the
Lady of Sir HARRY PEYTON, Bart., by her first
husband, m. Miss TREE, the celebrated actress.
A Conservative. Sat for Brackley from 1823
to 1832, and for Berwick in the Parliament of
1835." That is shortly his civil and Parliamen-
tary history ; but henceforth he will probably be
known as the Canterbury Comet, that from his
horrid hair" shakes insult, contumely, and dis-
grace over the QUEEN and her Ministers.
We were tempted into this personal investiga-
tion as much by some of Mr. BRADSHAW'S re-
marks, as by curiosity to know whence such a
meteor had suddenly arisen. With all the loftiness
that might become a HOWARD or a TALBOT, Mr.
BRADSHAW reproached the Ministers with having
elevated gentlemen to the Peerage " who had never
had a grandfather." It seems doubtful, accord-
ing to the Parliamentary Pocket Companion,
whether he ever had a father. His father
seems so obscure that Mr. BRADSHAW is de-
scribed as the son of Lady PEYTON by her first
husband. We think it an honour for a man to
ennoble himself, and make it no reproach to Mr.
BRADSHAW that he is not of noble lineage ; but
in him, whose father seems unknown, it appears
,ornewhat contemptible to assume the airs of a
PLA NTAGENET, and reproach the Peers created
by Lord MELBOURNE with not haring a grand-
father. Such vulgar insolence to respectable gen-
tlemen comports well with the equally vulgar inso-
lence with which her MAJESTY was treated, and
was properly rewarded by the loud plaudits of the
assembled lay and clerical Tories. They for-
get that their own great leader. he who
will have the making of Tory Peers, is a man
without a grandfather, whose respectable origin is
well remembered by a bon mot ascribed to
GEORGE IV. On one of the PEELS marrying a
Lady JANE Something, his MAJESTY is said to
have remarked that the PEELs still have a hankering
after the JENNIES. Mr. BRADSHAW'S great leader
owes his fortune to a spinning-jenny.
Though Mr. BRADSHAW has been a consider-
able time in Parliament, his speeches there, if ever
he made one, have left no impression on the public.
What recommended him to the Canterhu:y Tories
we know not, but to have money at his command
would be acceptable to them. How he be-
came a favourite with the clergy we are
not aware ; but as their business is to con-
sole sinners, it is just probable that regrets at
s not over-well spent youth might be A passport to
their approbation. At present the designs of the
Tories—stirring up religious strife and civil war,
threatening her MAJESTY, calumniating her name
and honour, and avowing a deadly hatred to all im-
provement, and the public welfare, make a reckless
Irian an appropriate leader.