The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-23 00:00:00

Tins EVENINO, Sr.EF 22,

An ;1 during the week, will be presented (the llth tlme) the New
Classical Burlesque, entitled JUPITER'S DECREE, AND THE
FALL OF PB.ETON; or, MIME FIERY L'OURiERS OF THE SUN,
with its magnificent Tableau*, military evolutions, and grand ballet.

To be followed by Mr. W. Cooke's Scenes in the CIRCLE, in
<fflhich 'that matchless wonder, Miss Emily Cooke, will appear on
11er rapid Courser and Marvelloup Flight throu,h 16 Balloons.
Concluding with (84th time) THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO.

Box-oftke open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W
west.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

LAST WEEK OF THE SEASON.
THIS EVENING, SEPT. 22,
The Brilliant Routine of Entertainments on this occasion will
include the Panorama of CHUSAN, Splendid MENAGERIE. First
Exhibition of the rare Baboon, "kiamadryas," Promenading capa-
risoned Elephants.
EXHIBITION of the MARINE AQUARIUM, a Collection of
Sea and Fresh Water Fish in large Glass Tanks.
Vocal and Instrumental CONCERT. Two favourite Songs by
Miss Poole, the popular English Vocalist.
The whole concluding with THE " FEAST OF LANTERNS,"
brilliant FIREWORKS, and EXPLOSION of CHINESE WAR
JUNKS.

Concert at Six. Fireworks at Nine. Admission, 15.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tats Dar —Morning 7 min. after 5 Evening 23 min.aft. 5
To•Moaaow —Morning 41:rnin. after 5 Evening 53 min.aft. 5

THE WEATHER.—Son Ormoz, SEPT. 22.
THERMONETEB, IN THE SHADE.
67—highest since noon yesterday.
57—lowest this morning and during the night.
62—this day at noon.

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BANoMETEN, 29.84.
WIND, S.W. Light breeze, and cloudy weather. Rain
in the night.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1853.

Lord BYRON'S prediction is being wonderfully
fulfilled nowadays when Freedom's banner, torn,
but flying—
" Streams like a thunder-cloud against the wind"—
that political tornado in which, here and there,
something better than a Ministerial straw indi-
cates the point of the compass from which the
hurricane has emanated. Every one feels more
or less sensitively, like JOHN JARNDYCE, that just
now the wind is decidedly in the Past. Let us
hope before long our rulers will prove that, if
they cannot with HAMLET, when the wind is in
the east, " Know a hawk from a hand-saw," they
can recognise at least the difference between an
honourable war and a disgraceful pacification.
Occurrences are intimating more and more
clearly every day the real tendency of these pro-
tracted negotiations. Occurrences not in one
quarter alone, but in all directions indiscrimi-
nately. Everything assures the impartial spec-
tator of these events-of-the-hour, that confusion
has alone resulted from the miserable attempt at
compromise adventured upon by the Vienna Con-
ference. It is obvious that the warlike passions
of Turkey have been only the more effectually
aroused by the recent effort of the Four Powers
to bring about her immediate degradation. Mean-
while it becomes apparent that doubts and differ-
ences are springing up in the bosom of the Con-
ference itself—so that we are simultaneously re-

ceiving rumours of the withdrawal of Austria
from the thankless labours of mediation, and of
the SULTAN being called upon by his subjects,
either to declare war against Russia or to abdi-
cate his throne—the Feast of Bairam being allowed
him as the limit of his choice in the alternative.
Nearer home we have heard the Leader of the
Commons animating the enthusiasm of the burghers
of Greenock by the utterance of fervently patriotic
sentiments, while we have seen the Prime Minis-
ter still holding long private interviews in Lon-
don with his Excellency the Russian Ambassador.
The opinions entertained upon the important
question at issue by the Emperor NAPOLEON 111.,
are well known by this time to the majority :
besides which, it is remembered that the
foreign administration in the councils of that
able and energetic Prince is a statesman no less
eminent, no less energetic, no less experienced
than M. DROUYN DE L'HUYS. With regard to
the Sultan, ABD-UL-MEDJID, it cannot be over-
looked that his Royal arduor is sympathised with
by the manly policy of REDSCHID PACHA, the
most enlightened statesman in Turkish dominions.
While, in reference to her Britannic MAJESTY, it
must continue matter for earnest gratulation
among Englishmen that the Court at Balmoral is
opportunely attended at this juncture by Vis-
count PALNIERSTON. Grievous blunders there have
been hitherto in the conduct of this great Eas-
tern Question, but those blunders may still,
by adroitness and promptitude, in some measure
be rectified. The ignominy resulting from them
rimy never be altogether effaced. The pusillanimity
of our conduct towards the Sublime Porte, cannot
very speedily be forgotten. The baseness of our
subserviency to the AUTOCRAT must long remain
a blot upon the national escutcheon. But the
odium accruing to us from all this may still, even
flow' at the eleventh hour, be diminished. For,
hapily, the post of Premier, unlike that of Earl
14-arshal, is not •
hereditary. And has not Turkey
still vigour in her institutions , and enthusiasm in
a NAPOLEON ?
her population ? And is
not France still ruled by
And may not the destinies of
England be still influenced by the genius, and the
energy, and the patriotism of a E.,
LAIERSTON

other two ex-Ministers,
Within a week of each
a Solicitor-
ve
a Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
General at this time last year, ha,
been adom_
ing agricultural dinners with their eloquence. Bothcount
of them orators of high mark, and both
Members. One a Knight of the Shire for East sul
folk,'and the other for Buckinghamshire, the meet
ings'of whose respective Agricultural Associations
they honoured, and deemed themselves honoured,
by attending. At this dull season, when all domestic
news of interest seems to have fled to the grouse
and the partridges, some " coming out " was
almost hoped for from two such practised speakers,
and two such Farmers' Friends. The occasion
seemed opportune. Borough Members had just
been rehearsing their public deeds to their con-
stituents and glorying in them ; and here were
two prominent Agricultural Members comfortably-
ensconced at the upper end of the chief table of an
Agricultural dinner, yet not a whisper of allu-
sion to the past Parliamentary conflicts was
heard from the lips of either chief. These
'were meetings not to rehearse the merits
of Members of Parliament, but to reward the
merits of farmers and of the rustic swains and
damsels. Politics are by rule forbidden. And
know,
there have been times (there must, we
l': • ,be exceptions to 1. Il•
es a ) ish any rule) when
*political fervour would
(led ,effervesce, yet when "least
said, soonest men,t, then the rule becomes
very convenient. Sol
the more genial assure leluncharitable discourse ;
bored with some nine ois
r ten
nhat if we had been
squabbles and battles, we too months of political
a rule which debarred us from coileuld gladly obey
threadbare topics. vfeaxisome and
In East Suffolk a Noble speaker, the Earl of
STRADBROOKE, did not, according to the Times
deserve a prize for historical exactness. inhis state'

ments respecting Currency, Brillion, and Corn ;
according to himself he did. We must decline
the umpireship. The Earl, however, by his re-
mark that emigration was arrived at a pitch
which needed to be checked, and by proposing
as the means, "improving the habitations of the
poor, and erecting them in the vicinity of those
places where their labour was required," suggested
to oitturinds whether another set of prizes might
not be proposed by Agricultural Associations.
Some 'of these institutions have already work-
men's prizes for the best-kept cottages and
gardens. What will the Associations say to
landlords' prizes for the best-built cottages and
largest gardens 7 It would be, in fact, a prize for
promoting morality in the relations between the
sexes amongst their workmen, and the cleanliness
which would save much sickness, widowhood, and
pauperism. Landlords' prizes for the best farm-
ing premises, the most improving leases, the great-
est freedom from game, and for political non-
interference with their tenants, might be included
in the list ; and perhaps the landlords fortunate
enough to win the subscription medal would come
to the dinners with a pride not inferior to that
with which Mr. DISRAELI'S prizeman would walk
into church with his green coat and Association
buttons.

Sir FITZROY K-Frrax regards the causes of the
present prosperity, which he holds to be emigra-
tion and gold, as but temporary (differing herein
from Mr. DupRE, Mr. DISRAELI 'S colleague for
Bucks), and therefore wisely exhorts farmers to
rely upon their own energy and the mechanical
skill of the RANSOMS and GARRETTS. Lucky
would it have been for Sir FITZROY had such ad-
vice been his only advice. Some grey heads
and shining foreheads were doubtless present
which felt rather hot under constrained
silence as they remembered certain old Protec-
tionist harangues, not much more than a
year ago, and who would have shaken hands after
dinner much more heartily with the barrister, had
he but been one of the immortal fifty-three.
However, byegones must now be byegones, and
Sir FITZROY KELLY, they will think, may still use-
fully watch the case for the East Suffolk farmers.
The great majority present happily well under-
stood that the Legislature, in future, can neither
injure them nor help them, except by emancipat-
ing, to the utmost, that commerce upon the ex-
tent of which the consuming power of the farmers
customers depends. Farmers will soon under-
stand that even an India Bill deeply concerns
them. Abundance of raw cotton from India, and
plentiful Indian demands on Manchester looms,
mean good customers for flour and meat in Man-
chester cottages, and good prices for farmers.
Agriculture and commerce now most certainly
" row in the same boat," and even Suffolk far-
mers will soon fully understand this.
At the Bucks meeting Mr. DISREALI tasked his
genius to the effort, vain according to PALEY, of
refuting a sneer. Some graceless journals have
satirised, lampooned, and sneered at the 50s. and
30s. prizes for bringing up large families without
parish relief. The subject is doubtless a most
tempting one for banter, and though Mr. DISRAELI
did his best in defence of the " humble rewards
which gratify the humble," we can hardly say
that he has quite reconciled us to the particular
. .

prize at which the profane of the press and the
towns will laugh. Prizes for skill are old enough,
and no doubt stimulating. We have witnessed
ploughing matches, hedging and ditching matches
even, prizes for the best corn stack, arc., and felt
a deep interest in such reasonable rustic contests.
They are obviously calculated to improve the
quality of rural work, but there is plainly some-
thing different, jesting aside, in a prize to the '
labourer blessed with a fruitful vine, and nume-
rous olive branches, whose vineyard and oliveyard
have cost the parish nothing. Suppose the man's
merit is pure love of independence. To us, re-
warding a man for maintaining his independence
to the uttermost, is very like rewarding a woman
for maintaining the point of female honour.
Hence, it is almost an avowal that so severe are
the temptations of the agricultural labourer "to
sacrifice his independence, that it has become
an artificial virtue of the highest order. Per-
i haps it was so befOre the New Poor Law ;
since then (and most of these. Associations
began subsequently to that law) the most strenu-
ous, and often severe measures have been
•

;aken to make receiving relief as unpleasant and

annoying as possible. Hence the labourer is al-
most coerced into subsisting with his numerous
little family, without aid, on the miserable wages
hitherto paid him ; and if the coercion has done
its work, a shilling or two a year by the time it
mounts up to a sovereign or two, is no doubt
grateful enough at the moment of reception ; al-
though fear of the workhouse may have had much
more to do with his self-denial than love of inde-
pendence. He is rewarded, in fact, for having
been as afraid as he ought of Poor-Law Terrors.
Such pauper benefits as the rules of the Associa-
tion allow, i. e., poor-law medicine and attend-
ance at the cost of the parish surgeon, the 40s.
prize man has not probably had sufficient inde-
pendence to eschew. It should, moreo':er, be
inquired, how the man has trained his children ?
Has he been compelled, in order to escape the
dreaded workhouse, to deprive them of their day-
school, and to send them to farmers' work when
the alphabet and play were the only things
compatible with their bodily and mental health ?
Have his girls, and perhaps his wife, had to do field
work, which ought to be reserved for the stronger
sex ? And are his family under-sized, of not very
robust constitutions, and noted for rustic want of
intelligence ?

Many are the questions, which, in all soberness,
should be answered before the looking-on public
can quite relish these anti-pauperism prizes. The
labourers themselves, too, must always have a
feeling that the prize givers gained the prize many
times over in diminished poor-rates.
As to the green coats, and Association buttons,
with which the Association clothes the " aged
and industrious labourers" whom it delights to
honour, and in which it expects them to present
themselves "at Church," Mr. DISRAELI and his
friends must forgive us if we smile. Turning
the green to blue, the coat a riband, and the
Church to a Court, the Honourable Member's
imagination fancies the aged rustic at Church, as
pleasantly conscious of his distinction as a Knight
of the Garter at Court ! We could have wished
for a more secular place to discuss the workman's
pride in than the Church ; but passing that by, we
fancy there are hut ew rural villages now where
the man in green would not be conscious of ex-
citing a smile amongst his own class (the most im-
portant to him), and where the one-coloured coat
would not be regarded, as a coat of many colours
once was, as a sign of favouritism rather than
of merit, and where it would not be worn chiefly
for fear of offending the givers, and with feelings
ardedd itt
of awkwardness rather than of pride. While we
think the particular prizes adverted to not very
c
habat m
le tor. Agricultural labourers, we should
near future " DISRAELI sees " looming in the
the time when the plough is to
follow the the
and the farm labourer to
become a being of an
rewards now offered beneathrder whhios
notice.would deem the

Th:—..-Morning Post says
MATRIMONIAL ALLIANCE.
to take place be-
ter eldest daugh.
De Ros, eldest son of Lord De
—A matrimonial alliance i
tween the Lady Elizabeth Garerr:rd
ter of the Earl of Wilton, and
6apitaoisn the Hon. Dudley
her Majesty the Queen. The rearriaan e d Equerry to
orated at Heaton-Hall, the seat of thevill be tale-
near Manchester, on the 12th of October.wir lton family,
The Marquis of Lothian, who has just attained his
majority, is on the eve of leaving England en an e
tended tour of two years in Asia, intending to visit allx
the provinces of British India.
PROGRESS OF THE STEAM-SHIP GREAT 13RITAIN.
Mesrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co.'s magnificent steamer,
the Great Britain, arrived at St. Vincent on the 24th
of August, and sailed thence again at two o'clock in the
afternoon of the 27th. She has thus made the passage
to St. Vincent in twelve days and about eighteen hours,
her departure from this port being on the afternoon of
the 11h of August. All the passengers were well, and
spending the time most pleasantly under the genial
auspices of Captain Mathews and his officers, St. Vin-
cent is as nearly as possible halfway to the Cape of Good
Hope, and it is anticipated that the Great Britain will,
with favourable or even moderate weather complete the
passage to Melbourne in fifty days. On her' last voyage
it may be remembered, she made the distn,nce from
the Cape to Melbourne in' twenty-four days.—.6iverpool
'l Imes.

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MONEY MARKET

♦ND
CITY INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The cotton market at Liverpool yesterday closed
heavily. All descriptions, except solid Orleans,
being lower. The sales amounted to 6,000 bales
(of which, 1,500 were for export), comprising 220
Pernams and Maranhams, at 60. to Bd. ; 100
Bahia,-at 61d. to 6/d. ; 300 Egyptian, at 6d. to
11d. ; and 300 Surat, at 2-id. to 4d. per lb. Rail-
way Shares receded fully 2 per cent.
In the produce markets this week there have
i been moderate purchases. Sugar has been at about
! the former range, but coffee has gone lower, and
for cocoa the demand has not improved. Tea has
been in request, owing to the advices from China,
and the difficulty of purchasing by means of barter.
Rice has been in demand at a further rise, and rum
has been wanted. For tallow there has been a
large speculative inquiry, and at a further decided
improvement in the quotations. Manilla hemp
has been sold at a decline of 3/. per ton. Jute has
been firm. Cotton has been dull, at barely pre-
vious rates.

There are no later ship arrivals this morning
with news of any interest, and attention is wholly
absorbed by the Continental political intelligence.
Business is greatly interfered with, and every de-
partment begins now to feel the injurious eftects
of the existing suspense.
There has been a good deal of business trans-
acted in English Stocks and the depression owing
principally to speculative sales, has continued.
Consols have been 90i, and since 94* for Trans-
fer, 90 and subsequently 94 to for account.
At present there is more buoyancy owing to the
loans which will be made by the Bank, and even
the telegraph, stating that the Conference is united
in urging upon Turkey the acceptance of the
Vienna Note gives a little, encouragement. The
enormous amount of the sales for time should be
estimated by those who seek to arrive at an expla-
nation of the actual present position of the market,
for although the money sales are large, they are
exceeded ten-fold probably by the operations for
Account. Exchequer Bills have been ss. to 10s.
discount, and India Bonds 3s. discount to par.
East India Stock has been dealt in at 250.

In the Foreign Market there have been a few
sales at lower rates, but securities representing the
debt of countries out of Europe ought not to be so
much affected, as others. Sardinian Stock hasbeen
marked 92. Austrian 5 per Cents. have been
quoted 87, and Dutch 2i per Cents. have been
down to 63k to for money, though done at 63f
for Account. Spanish New Deferred Bonds have
realised 22-4 to and Portuguese 4 per Cents.
43 to f . Mexican Stock has been at 24i to
241, and Peruvian at 72i and 73k. Brazillian Old
Five per Cents. have been done at mai and 101.
The fall in English Railway Shares, previously
so great, has made further progress, and the Bears
for the time rule pre-eminent. Caledonian have
dropped 1/. to 21. ; Great Western, 15s. to 1/. ;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 10s. to 15s. ; Midland,
ss. ; North British, ss. to 10s. ; York and Ber-
wick, 1/. to 2/. ; and others in proportion. The
French lines keep up more firmly, comparatively,
than the rest, but Northern are cheaper. Stras-
bourg are in demand at high prices, owing to the
new shares to be allotted to existing holders.
At this moment all the English lines rule firmer
on account of the measure announced at the Bank.

The Gold Mine shares have been a little weaker,
but can scarcely be called lower.

The Australian Bank Shares are merely nominal,
no transactions being reported, but in the Bank of
Asia there is a decline. The Land Companies are
about the same.