The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-30 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

The Nobility, patrons of the Opera, and the Public are respect-
fully informed that a GRAND EXTRA NIGHT will take place
TO-MORROW EVENING, when will be presented Mozart's Opera,

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After which a Divestissement.

To conclude with ROBERTO IL DIkVOLO.
Application for Boxes, Stalls, and Ticke s to be made at the
Box-office of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained, as
usual, price 10s, 6d. each.
Doors open at Seven ; and the Opera to commence at Half-paet
Seven o'clock.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.—GERMAN OPERA.
THIS EVENING.
Will be performed Mozart's Opera,
DIE Z AIIBERFLOTE.
Performances to commence at Eight o'clock.
Private Boxes and Places may be obtained at the Box-office ; and
at Messrs. Jullien and Co.'s, 214, Regent street.

TH KATRE ROYAL, HAY MAHAR f.
Mr. B. Webster, Sele Lessee and Manager, Old Brampton.
THIS EVENIN..
Will be performed HAMLET. Armlet, Mr. C. Kean ;
]firs. C. Kean ; Gertrude, Miss Laura Addison.
After which a Classical Extravaganza, c illed THE SPHINX.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
Under the direction of Madame Celeste.
TH IS EVENING,

Will be performed THE IRISH POST. -
After which a new grand Extravaganza, entitled THE DEVIL'S
VIOLIN AND THE REVOLT OF THE FLOWERS.
To conclude with a Farce, called GOING TO THE DERBY THE
DERBY DAY. Mr. Jeremiah Twiddle, Mr. Wright; Mr. John
James Chucks, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Captain Nobble, Mr. Worrell ;
Mrs. Chucks, Mrs. Matthews ; Mrs. Twiddle, Miss Woolgar.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
ender the Management of Madame Vestris.
Sol 4 Lessee, Mr. Charles Ma he 7i 9.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed KILL 011 CURE.
After which, A WONDERFUL WOMAN.
With other En' ertainments.
Dress r.oxes, 55.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, le.
tall-price to any part of the house.
Me 1;0x-office, No. 2, Wellingtoo- street, le open to the
•fty. from Ten till Sta.

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Mr. J. M. Madanx, Sole Lessee and
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BENTE It.
To conclude with the now Domestic Opera, entitled THE BLIND
SISTER; or, the Mountain Farm.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, &c.
The following eminent artistes form the greatest amount of female
equßstrian talent ever engaged in this or any other establishment at
one time :
Md!les. Adelaide Hinnie, Valentine, Louise Touirnaire, La Jeane
Josephine ; Miss Wooltbrd, Barrand, Davidson, Avery, and La Petite
Jeanette.
In addition to the above Mr. Batty has great pleasure in asnounc-
leg that ha has engaged that peerless equestrian Marie Macarte,
whose brilliant triumphs on the Continent and in America have ac-
quired for her the appellation of the Equestrian Enchantress, and
whose first appearance will be duly announced.
THIS EVENING,
The performance will commence with a Grand Military Equestrian
Spectacle, entitled
MOOLTAN and GOOJERAT ; or, the Conquest of the Seikhs.
Tu be followed by an inimitable display of SCENES IN THE
CIRCLE. in which the first Equestrian talent of the day will appear.
To conclude with THE WHITE MAIDEN OF CALIFORNIA;
or, the Horse of the Ocean.
Box-office open from Eleven till Your
,tage Manager. Mr. W. West.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS,
IMMENSE AND UNPARALLELED SUCCESS.

ender the patronage of her ales: Gracious Majesty, ha' Majesty the
Queen Dowager. h's Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c.
Grand Hol day and National Fetes. _ _

The Public Press has unanimously pronounced the Storming of
liadajoz to be the most perfect and life-like exhibition.

The Nobilily, Gentry, and the Pablic are respectfully informed
that this favourite place of fashionable resort is open every
MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY.
Representation of the STORMING of BADAJOZ by the British

Army, under the command of the illustrious Weliington!
The distin;uiohed patronage which this establishment has for a
lengthened period enjoyed, and the triumphant success of each suc-
ceeding spectacle, has stiraulated the proAdetor to increased exer-
tions to maintain its envied celebrity. _ _ .

Messrs. Danson, by whom the present subject has been modelled,
designed, and produced, have ,!evoted many months to it, and the un-
rivalled skill which they possess, assisted by Messrs. Turner, Adams,
and other first-rate artists, have en,tbled them to produce a picture
unequalled for magnitude, accuracy, and beauty of execution.
The ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT is extensive and varied, and
has lately been enriched by several rare importations, including the
splendid presents cf his late highness Ibrahim Pasha.

The EMbellishments of the Siew and Magidllcent ORCHESTRA
are now complete.

REMINGTON'S SERIAL BRIDGE

The BAND, conducted by Mr. Godfrey, has been selected from
the most talented Artists in the profession. Among ethers of first-
rate ability will be fund—Mr. Baker, Messrs. Richare son, Collins,
j an., George and Viotti Collins, Griesbach, Hardy, Egerton, Shearon,
Wint erbot !rim, Boileau, Stevenson, and Reynolds.
The VOCAL DEPARTMENT will be sustained by a succession of
the most popular and favourite Singers. Re-engagement of Miss
Ellen Rowland and Mr. George Tedder.
The FIttEIVORKS by the Messrs. Southby, whose skill in Pyro-
techny has been too long established to need eulogising.
REFRESIIMENTS.—The frequenters of these Gardens have long
complained that Refreshments from the Confectionary-rooms only
coull b, procured. Arrangements have been effected, and a distinet
portion of the Gardens set apart, where Refreshments may be had
of the first quality, and at the usual Prices.

Doors open at Nine o'Clock.—Admission One Shilling. Children
admitted to the Reserved Seats and Shilling Gallery at Half-price.
Feeding of the Carnivore at Five. The Pelicans, &c., at Half-past
Five. Concert at Six o'Clect. Pyrotechnic Exhibition at Dusk.
JULLIEN will give a Series of GRAND CONCERTS
doting the Sea on. Due notice will be given of his first appearance

THE WEATHER.--SuN OFFTCE, MAY 30.
THEILMODIETER, Lowest, 51; Highest, 68; Noon, 74.

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and Portugal stagnating into quietude, while Italy

has been tormented with the throes of civil discord, and
agonized by the presence of foreign armies. We have
watched Turkey mustering, the whole force of the
Ottoman empire, drawing auxiliary battalions from
her most remote Pachaiics, from Egypt, from Da-
mascus, from Haleb, from Bagdad, and from Armenia,
and congregating them all near the Golden Horn of
the Bosphorus previously to marching them north-
wards through Roumelia to the Danube. We have
watched the spread of popular ambition from Mol-
davia and Wallachia to the Podolian and Tran-
sylvanian provinces. We have observed Gal-
licia, at last, startled into activity by the triumphs
of the Polish Generals. We have seen the
legions of the AUTOCRAT pressing forward
in earnest to the aid of Austria; and have recognised
on the other hand the resolute attitude assumed by
the French democrats in the defence of their own
Republican institutions, and in their sympathy for
the true liberties of contemporary nationalities.
Meanwhile Germany has passed on, comparatively
speaking, unnoticed. Occasionally fhe attention of
Englishmen has been fixed upon her for an instant
when intelligence has arrived to the effect that Baden
has risen in arms, or that the Saxons have driven their
Monarch from his capital, or that Dresden is in the
hands of a Provisional Government. Yet, now-a-days,
revolutions have become such matters-of-course that
we are almost in the same state of mind as the hero
in Mr. BOURCICAULT'S farce, who looked down the
crater of Vesuvius and declared, shrugging his
shoulders, that there was " nothing in it." We read
down the list of a Provisional Government with the
same air of ennui and come to the conclusion,
shrugging our shoulders, that there is "nothing in
it." Saving and excepting these momentary
glances at the events which have of late oc-
curred in Germany, the gaze of the majority of
our countrymen, has, of late, we are satisfied, been
turned in totally different directions. Considering,
however, that the whole of the onward movement of
the Confederation has been impeded by a variety of
recent obstructions and difficulties, we think it would
be only just in those who have in any way sympa-
thised in the commencement of that movement to
examine into those casualties which have latterly
threatened to prevent its successful termination.
The old evil has again sprung into existence. State
is being marshalled against state. Jealousies which
had been for a while nearly extinguished have been
fanned into a flame from their warm ashes. The
feeling which ruined the cause of NAPOLEON in
Spain, where each of his Marshals refused to become
subordinate to the other, thereby splitting the French
army into divisions, and allowing them to be over-
come piecemeal by the English and Spaniards under
WELLINGTON—has begun to affect the members, and
destroy the cause of the German Confederation. None
of the kingdoms or principalities will consent to
waive their claims for precedence; political, geo-
graphical, and even religious feuds are revived ; and
by this means the strength of the democratic
majority is being frittered away by an ingenious
intrigue on the part of the aristocratic minority. We
repeat—of the aristocratic minority; for we are
satisfied that the whole of the recent differences are
attributable to " the Bureaucratie, the recipients of
the public expenditure," who see in the estrange-
ment of the various principalities the one from the
other the only available means of preventing that
combination which would deprive them at once
of their provincial pay, power, and import-
ance. This is the traitorous hand which has
been furtively thrust into the delicate mechanism
of the nascent Government of United Germany, dis-
arranging all those exquisite portions which had been
fitted together with such laborious caution and such
elaborate ingenuity.
In a letter addressed, during the course of the pre-
sent May, to her MAJESTY'S Foreign Secretary by
the Honourable Baronet the Representative of Bed-
ford,* there occur one or two of those home sentences
which display more vividly than a thousand of the
subtlest arguments the right of Germany to struggle
for her unity as a nation. In answer to those who
sneer, at the present movement as akin to the chase of
an ignis fatuus, or of a mirage, or of a fata rnorgana,
Sir HARRY VERNEY simply remark. that the people
of Germany remember " that Germany was a.. —„ch
one country under CHARLES V., as France under
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are in many respects taking the lead in European
civilization, and are they alone to be deprived of
constitutional government? Spain, and Portugal,
and Sweden, and Norway, and now Denmark, have
representative constitutions (and he might have said
Greece), as well as France and Britain, and
will Germany be content without them ?" But yet
later he gives the strongest reason of all—this: "Out
of Germany, a man born between the Alps and the
Baltic is known only as a German. Why," he in-
quires, " should not all Germans have a common
fatherland at home as well as abroad 2" Why ? The
question is asked by forty millions—inhabitants of
Germany ! The answers of the reactionists are their
intrigues. Shall the movement therefore be ineffec-
tual? GOD forbid. Germany has declared itself for
unity: unity shall be to Germany I

On Monday we directod the public attention to the
vigorous exertions now making throughout the entire
country for the attainment of the social and political
reforms so urgently required by the great body of
the people. The Metropolitan Financial and Par-
liamentary Reform Association have put forward a
programme of the legislative alterations for which
they are prepared to agitate, and these alterations are
sufficiently extensive to ensure the active co-opera-
tion of every true reformer. The first point insisted
on is the extension of the elective franchise
to many of those who are now wholly unrepresented,
who are mere political cyphers, without any voice in
the enactment of the laws by which they are to be
govei ned and controlled. Such persons have indeed
but too much reason to complain of the injustice ex-
hibited towards them. They contribute largely to
the national expenditure, not only to the maintenance
and support of the public establishments, but also to
the interest of a debt contracted before they were
born, and for which they received no valuable
consideration. Their labour was mortgaged be-
fore they came into the world, and not
a single day passes, not even a meal can be taken,
that a portion of the earnings of their honest industry
is not absorbed in providing for the expenses of the
State. It has been said that there can be no "just
taxation without representation." The truth of the
assertion has never been controverted, and yet, under
the present system of indirect imposts, the humblest
labourer, the hardest worked operative is bound to
pay far more than his proportion of the public
burdens, while his claim to the elective franchise
is superciliously and contemptuously rejected. The
prices of tea, of sugar, of tobacco, of beer, and of
other humble luxuries, that have almost become
necessaries of life, are enormously increased by the
Customs and Excise duties. Forty or fifty per cent.
of his earnings are expended in the additional charges
thereby occasioned, but he is not permitted to have a
voice in the election of those by whom the national
expenditure is controlled and regulated.
A comparison of the number of registered voters
with the actual population in the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, will exhibit
this anomaly in the strongest light, will
afford the strongest illustration of the multitudes that
are thus excluded from the privileges and rights that
should belong to every free-born citizen in a free
country.
The copulation of the United Kingdom amounts
in round numbers to nearly twenty-eight millions of
persons ; of England and Wales to more than sixteen
millions ; of Scotland to nearly three millions, and
of Ireland to nearly nine millions. The number
of registered electors for that vast body
amounts to but little more than a single
million, that is to say, there is but one person
possessing a vote for the election of a popular repre-
sentative out of every twenty-eight throughout the
country, and this proportion will be still further re-
duced, if the number of those who are registered
twice or oftener in different counties, be taken into
consideration. The mere fact will, however, appear
sufficiently startling without entering into more
minute calculations, by which the disparity may be