The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-07 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING will be performed the Tragedy of
PIZARRO.
Vella, Mr. Tandenholf; Alonzo, Mr. Cooper; Pisarro, Mr. Warde,
Cora, MIN E. Tree; Elvira, Mrs. Sloman
After which—CHEVY CHASE.
Henry Percy. Mr. Cooper; Hermit of Warkworth, Mr. Warde;
Simon Wardlaw, Mr. Harley.
Lady Neville, Miss Forde; Lady Douglas, Mrs. Vining; Maud, Mrs.
Humby ; Alice, Miss Lee.
Stage Manager, Mr. Cooper—Acting Manager, Mr. Yates.
The Box .office is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Parsons, of
whom Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be obtained.
Boxes, 75. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.—Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Second Price, 28.
Gallery, 2s. ; Second Price, Is.—Upper Gallery, Is. ; Second Price, 6d.

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY,
OFFICES, 25, BUCKLERSBUItY.
At a MEETING held at the THATCHED HOUSE
TAVERN, St. James's-street, on SATURDAY, the sth of March,
1836,
It was resolved unanimously,
That, as there cannot be a doubt that Railways will become
general, so it is equally certain that Edinburgh and Glasgow must
be connected with London by this means of communication ; it is
therefore highly important that the most direct, horizontal, and
economical line should be adopted for such a work, and the more
so as a line of this extent can only be considered in the light of a
national undertaking.
That, the line promoted by the Great Northern Railway Com-
pany appearing to this Meeting to have been adopted on the ground
of its possessing all those requisite qualifications, it is, therefore,
eminently deserving of the support of the country at large.
Prospectuses may
WIL be obtained at the Offices, Buckle.sbury.
WILLIAM RICHARD CROGGON, Sec.

HAMBURG, FEBRUARY 24, 1836.
THIS DAY, being the FOURTH DAY of
DRAWING of the SIXTY-SEVENTH HAMBURG
GREAT LOTTERY, No. 1,126, say One Thousand One
Hundred and Twenty-siX, obtained the First drawn Prize of
Baneomarks One Thousand, and the Premium of Bancomarks
100,000 net.

TO CORRESF ONDENT S.
We are obliged to our Correspondent at Portsea, for the-American
Papers forwarded to our office. But ha will see by the date of
those received through the regular channels that those sent by
him are valueless.

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1836.

We regret to learn, that in consequence of an ex-
pected adjourned debate on the Irish Municipal Bill,
the consideration of the Newspaper and other Stamp
Duties will be postponed for a few days—perhaps till
Tuesday week, Marco 15.

By the anxiety which they show for a full attendance
of their adherents to-night in the House of Commons,
it is manifest that the Conservatives are not without
hopes of being able to strike a dangerous, if not a
deadly blow, at the Irish Corporation Bill. It is in-
cumbent therefore that every Reformer should be at his
post, in order to neutralize—as far as in him lies—the
effects of this meditated assault and battery. The
Tories have laid their plan, not without some skill ;
and may possibly think that their readiness to comply
with the recently expressed wishes of his MAJESTY
as respects the Orange Lodges, has given them some
little increase of moral power, by proving to the people
that they are by no means the stubborn bigots and ab-
solutists that they have been represented to be. But
if such be their notions, the sooner they discard them
the better, for every one knows that they are just
as inveterate foes to Reform as ever. No man trusts
them—no man sees aught in their desire to have a
Corporation Bill of their own manufacture, but an in-
genious device to thwart the Ministerial one. It is
not the defects of this last that they quarrel with, but
the excellencies. They are wroth with it, because it
bids fair to accomplish the end proposed ; and still
more, because it takes Ireland out of the hands of a
faction, and places it, where all power is best lodged,
in those of the people. Were it a tame, negative, bit-
by-hit measure, the Tories would laud it to the skies ;
but it is active for good, proceeding upon the principle
of impartial Legislation ; and, therefore, they will have
none of it. Nevertheless, much as they dislike and dread
it,they no longer presume to oppose it, as they have hither-
to opposed all Reform, on the plea that it is not needed :
quite the reverse ;- they give up the Irish Corporations
to unmitigated abhorrence, ; and in their new-born zeal
for purification, will take them altogether from the
people, and hand them over to the Crown, in antici-
pation, no doubt, of the day when they will be called
on to dispense its patronage. The Reformers, how-
ever, are awake to this ruse, and will treat it with the
contempt it deserves. They will not be hoodwinked
by any Conservative logic, that has reference to popu-
lar privileges. They see at a glance, however the
Tories may attempt to disguise the fact in a hazy cloud
of verbiage, that the question lies in a nut-shell. It is
this. Shall Ireland be legislated for on impartial prin-
ciples'of justice ? The Ministerial measure says—Yes.
The Conservative amendment—No. Pass the last, and
you destroy every vestige of popular liberty in the
sister country, and do more to further Mr.. °Torr-
. NELL'S influence, and with it, his favourite hobby of
Repeal, than he himself could do by ten years of inces-
sant agitation. But to say nothing of its despotic
tendency, the Tory Municipal scheme—at least
RS Sir ROBERT PEEL shadowed it out the
'other night—conveys a deliberate, insulting cen-
sure upon the whole Irish population, whether Pro-
testant or Catholic ; for it proceeds on the assumption
alit. they are unable to take charge of their own local
iriftsosts. It is, in fact, a " Commission de Lunatic°