The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-06 00:00:00

THIS EVENING, Disc. 6,

Will be produced (on a scale of magnificence surpassing all former
efforts) an entirely original dippo-Dramatic Chinese Spectacle, in
Three Acts, with new and splendid scenery, costumes, and appoint-
ments, written expressly by the popular author, Mr. G. Atmait, to
introduce those wonder of wonders, Mr. William Cooke's Trained
Elephants, an .t embodying the immense resources of this Esta-
blishment, entitled THE WISE EL ENIANTS OF THE EAST;
or, The Magic Gong. In the course of this gorgeous Spectacle the
singular cunt Ins, costumes, and sceacry of this country (China)
will bo vividly portrayed, and the marvellous feats of the Elephants
(hitherto unattempted irom their apparent impossibility of achieve-
ment until witnessed) will, it is trusted, render the Drama an un-
rivalled production in this Theatre.
Followed by Mr. Wm. Cooke'a matchless scenes of the ARENA,
by unequalled artistes.
Supported by Mr. ALFRED COOKE and the Elite of European
Equestrian Talent, including Six popular Clowns.
Concluding with (Last Five Nights) JUPITER'S DECREE; Or,
The Fall of Phaeton.

Box-oaks open irom Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West.

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

TUESDAY, DEC. 6, 1853.

State of the wind and weather at each of the following
places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
TUNBRIDGE—S.E., calm—foggy.
GREENWlCH—Calm—partially cloudy.
STRooD--S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
SWINDON—E., light breeze—foggy.
CAMBRIDGE—S., gentle breeze—cloudy.
YARMOUTH—S., gentle breeze—foggy.
SHAP—S.E., calm—overcast.
The returns from the following places indicate the state
of the weather on Saturday morning at nine o'clock :
FOLKESTONE—S.E., calm —foggy.
TUNBRIDGE—E., calm—foggy.
GREENWlCH—Calm—foggy.
STROOD—S.E., gentle breeze—foggy.
SWINDON—N., "light airs—foggy.
CAMBRIDGE—S. 2 gentle breeze—cloudy.
BIRMINGHAM—S.W., calla—foggy.
YARNOUTII—S. gentle breeze—elouilless.
HO r,l" HEAD—IV., gentle breeze—frosty.
LANOAKTER— S., calm foggy.
WHITBY—S., gentle breeze—principally clear—frost.
DARLINGTON—S. S.W., gentle breeze—overcast—foggy
—frost.

UIGIi WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tots Der —Morning 46 min.after 5 I Eveling 13 min.aft.
To-Moaaow—Morning 41 min.after 6 Evening 10 min.aft. 7

THE WEATHER.-SON OFFICE, DEC. 6.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
49—highest since noon yesterday.
43—lowest this morning and during the night.
45—this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 30'08.
WIND, N.E.—Cloudy.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1853.

Elsewhere, in our impression of this evening,
will be found that remarkable Report in which
Mr. SimoN, in' his capacity as Medical Officer to
the City of London, clearly points out how cholera
may be effectually warded off from the dense
masses of our metropolitan population. How ?
it can scarcely be asked by the more reflective
observers of our social system, oven though they
have not perused one syllable of this remarkable
document. In can certainly never be advanced
as a serious interrogation by the less reflective
observers, who have only acquired a knowledge of
the means to be employed to this end through
Mr. SzmoN's persuasive arguments, convincing
facts, sagacious deductims, and singularly lucid
explanations. The nature of the preventive
measure alone requisite must surely by this time
be patent to the general comprehension. It can-
not be any longer ignored as a truth so glaringly
and conclusively demonstrated as to have long
since risen from a fact into a responsibility.
It has been asserted again, and yet again,
during the fifteen years last past, and as-
serted, moreover, pertinaciously and unremit-
tingly. It has b?en proved as plainly as the
most elementary axiom in arithmetic. It has
been proclaimed by the orator from the platform,
and from the floor of the Parliament. It has been
asserted by the essayist, by the journalist, and by
the pamphleteer. It may be described, without
exaggeration, as having originated the whole of
that notable agitation which is known familiarly
enough as the great sanitary movement. The
Character of this extraordinary and (humanly
ePeakizig) all-sufficient precaution against pesti-
lence may be defined in a single word, and that
word.—Cleanliness. Everybody has long ago been
e°llll3eto recognise the reasonableness of this
demat leda physicalt purity as a means, not only
of see •
moral
bodily comfort, but of insuring,
also' the
Everybeay7that elevation of the community.
individually. isThe to say, has recognised this—
by the
sew, excellence of the advice ten-
dered
a fewary reformer has only been
questioned by
ra,hcanv,e whenever those
men may happen
in the matter collectively. been consulted
Otherwise, the
cause alluded to has been
everywhere wel-
comed, as it were, with acclamation. Its
import-
ance has only been waived by an obdurate muni-
cipality or a perverse corporation. Its merit, intact, elsewhere than in those instances, has ap_
pealed at once to the common sense, no less than
to the humanity, of the observant and unprejii_
diced multitude. Its suggestions have been ap-
preciated on all hands as most rational—whenever,
at least, the pecuniary interests of large clusters
of persons have not been threatened by the influ-
ences of innovation. Nor could it, by possibility,
have been well different in its effect, under the
circumstances—this simple and comprehensible
scheme for the general improvement. It could
scarcely have been set aside by sane spectators
as either frivolous or exjravagaut. It merely

pointed out a mass of loathsome abominations,
with a view to enforce the necessity of their im-
mediate
removal from the midst of the closely
compacted thousands, and tens of thousands,
and hundreds of thousands, of our metro-
politan population. The movement began, if
we are pot very much mistaken, with the argu-
ments put forward in 1839 by a surgeon of
Drury-lane, in regard to the horrors, the bruta-
lity, and the immorality engendered amongst us
by the system of intramural interments. The
wheel was set in motion, in the first instance, by
the hand of this one man—a man whose display
of energy and sagacity in the treatment of this
question have long since gained for him a wide
and really enviable reputation—that great wheel
of Sanitary Reform which is at last, we trust, and
pray, and believe, rolling on fast to the goal of a
successful consummation. Between the earliest
pamphlet issued by Mr. GEORGE ALFRED WALKER
in reference to the London graveyards and the
memorable mission sent the other day to certain
pious gentlemen in Edinburgh by Lord PALMER-
STON—between that Alpha and that Omega of
the Sanitary Movement what an amount of la-
bour has been employed, what an abounding
mass of statistics has been accumulated, what a
multitude of hopes and fears have been squan-
dered upon the long-sustained and happily, even
now, not altogether fruitless effort, at its advance-
ment ! Precisely at this juncture, moreover—
precisely at this critical period, when there appears
before us the probability of a comprehensive
change for the better, there comes before us this
monthly report of Mr. &mow—a Report which
could not certainly have been issued from the
press at a period more singularly opportune—a
Report, comprising in a single comprehensive view
the whole of the stuffing evidence collected toge-
ther from time to time by the various labourers
in this noble and benevolent scheme of social
renovation. Let it be perused at this period
not lightly, but seriously and thinkingly.
For it comes to us as the precursor of a great
effort to repel the violence of what we have rea-
son to regard just now as an inevitable pestilence.
It comes to warn us against the perils of the
cholera as it were on the very eve of its more
deadly re-appearance. It declares to us in solemn
words of that dread scourge the cholera, that
" Past millions of scattered population it moves
innocuous. Through the unpolluted atmosphere
of cleanly districts it migrates silently without a
blow—that which it can kindle into poison lies
not there. To the foul, damp breath of low-lying
cities it comes like a spark to powder. Here is
contained that which it can swiftly make destruc-
tive—soaked into soil, stagnant in water, griming
the pavement, tainting the air—the slow rotten-
ness of unremoved excrement, to which the first
contact of this foreign ferment brings the occasion
of changing into new and more deathly combina-
tions." It speaks tous in words like these of thrilling
and arresting eloquence ; but while it does so, this
remarkable document from the hand of Mr.
SIMON, proves, by undeniable facts and unmistake-
able statistics, the reality, the importance, and
the magnitude of the security of which that in-
telligent public officer has here adventured upon
the detailed demonstration. Altogether, we feel
satisfied that this memorable Report, besides re-
flecting lasting honour upon the industry and
ability of the benevolent Reformer from whose
hand it has but just emanated, will tend in an
appreciable manner to forward the noble cause in
which each one amongst us must confess to be
personally interested—interested by the dictates
of an allowable selfishness as well as by the more
elevating motives. of a wide and comprehensive
philanthropy.

Notwithstanding the deplorable privations sus-
tained by the unfortunate families of the opera-
tives now on strike, the infatuated sufferers are
still displaying the most perverse and obstinate
determination. They still suffer themselves to be
bamboozled by Messrs. COWELL and Co. Enthu-
siastically applauding the platitudes and clap-traps
so liberally dispensed for their delectation, starv-
ing men still revel in visions of participation iu
profits—of earning not only sufficient to obtain
ample supplies of all the necessaries, and comforts,
and luxuries of life, but also to enable them to
keep their wives clad in silks and satins—to
provide a superior class of education for their
children, and, moreover, to set aside a due
proportion of their earnings so as to be
enabled to enjoy ease and quietness in their old
age—the otiuni cum dignitate so anxiously
looked forward to as the recompence for the cares,
anxieties, and labours of fervent youth and ma-
tured manhood. Such day-dreams have been
frequently indulged in. Poets and philosophers
have fancied the practical restoration of a golden
age, when everything on earth should be peaceful
and happy, and no care or anxiety should be per-
mitted to disturb the earthly Paradise in which
these fortunate children of toil should pass their
festive days and tranquil nights. But, unfortu-
nately, the stern realities of every-day life—the
grim exigencies of the moment—have invariably
dispelled the pleasing illusions, and brought back
the mind to more homely notions. The aerial
castles have crumbled to the earth—the would-be
soarers rudely dismounted from their hobbies, and
compelled to return to the ordinary routine, with
tempers soured and exacerbated by the bitter dis-
appointments they have sustained. The bitter, but
salutary, lesson has thus been learned that perfec-
tion is not attainable in sublunary transactions, and
that if men aspire to more than ordinary felicity,
or more than common enjoyments, they must ele-
vate themselves above the general level, and ac-
quire a higher position by superior ingenuity,
superior energy, superior skill, or pre-etninence in
some quality or qualities that confer distinction
on the industrious classes. We cannot in this
world have everything we wish for. We must
limit our wishes to what is practicable, and at
this moment a single grain of common sense is
more valuable than an almost unlimited supply
of imagination.
Will the enthusiastic admirers of Mr. G.
Cowzra, and collaboratcurs for a moment consider
seriously what it is they are demanding, and
how long trade could be maintained if the new
system were introduced ? From whence could
the enhanced supplies of silks and satins, ribs and
sirloins, wines and spirits of approved brands, be
obtained ? How would these condescend to ad-
mit into their establishments the coarse joints,
inferior vintages, or exceptionable manufactures ?
owns and prize oxen—the vine grower
*ted quantity of
The grazier should find an unlinu
South D
be enabled to call a comet from its course to
confer additional flavour on his grapes—the
distiller and brewer to alter the seasons, making
every mouth October, so that the operations might
be carried on in the most eligible manner. No-
thing less would satisfy the fastidious tastes of the
fortunate " controllers of the destinies of trade,

This may appear to be very extravagant, and
totally beside the question. Bat it is by no
means so irrelevant as it may appear at the first
view. Can any person say when the demands
are to stop—where the pressure is to terminate ?
Present concessions would only lead to new re-
quirements ; for surely Mr. G. CowELL and his
brother delegates would deem it essential to do
something to earn their stipends—to stir up new
difficulties, and find out fresh demands, so as to keep
up the ball, and lead the working folks to suppose
that the fund for the payment of delegates was not
altogether misapplied. These parties are at pre-
sent in the condition of the unskilful necro-
mancers, described in old tales, who evoked de-
mons which they were unable to control, and who
required perpetual occupation. The business of
finding work for these active spirits was one of no
ordinary difficulty, and sorely taxed the ingenuity
o_'e f the trembling magician. The would-be
M
SCOTT could not always think of an
"Eildon
formationiAEE of c Hill" ready to be cleft, a rapid stream
to be dyked,„
‘ treble-plied
se f
u l
labour
oru or p es.' '
ceased,
the or even " sand" sufficient for the
i
Whenwokthre
opportunities for useful
of destruction would
it would be speedily commence, and
impossible to calculate wheie
or when. it could be brought to a conclusion. It
wotdd indeed require no ordinary
power of vatici-
nation to predict the terriblecaonsequences.
But not only would these matters, the natural

consequences of unequivocal success, have to be
considered, but another and no less important
problem should necessarily be solved. Where would
customers be found to pay the increased prices
consequent upon the large addition to the wages ?
The law of supply and demand would remain
unaltered. The more the master manufacturer was
required to pay to his workmen, the less he would
obtain in the shape of returns. If the cost of pro-
ducing calico amounted to that of producing silks it
would speedily go out of consumption. The par-
ticipation in profits would no longer be valuable
—to have profits banished, wages should diminish,
and the rule would necessarily prevail, although
the capitalists had yielded, and the mills had
passed from individual proprietors, or even firms,
into the bands of co-operative associations, as pro-
mised by Mr. COWELL. Let the operatives—those
who are made the instruments from which the fif-
teen delegates can gain 301. per week for them-
selves—consider these points, and say whether it
is worth their while to follow up the present con-
test, the results of which, even if successful, can
only be such as we have described. Let them
once more reflect on the objects for which they
themselves and their families are enduring such
lamentable privations.