The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-26 00:00:00

Tis LEGAL TITLE ASSURANCE their native country ! Let them remember
COMPANY,
how the Second WILLIAM fell a victim to his
(Provisionally fte.;:s,er(pl. January 17, 1849.)
2,00,,0nri„ in 80,000 Shares, of 251. each.
capital, inordinate pa.=sioa for sport ! And let them beware
kredminAry Deptsit, 2s. 6d. per Share
Pro4pe^t.sea an'i Aril information may be obtained at the Tempo- lest they may find themselves destroyed by some
Lary Offices of the Company, Ma, Cannomrow, Westminster, on al- Parliamentary Sir WALTER TYRRELL ! Unless they
plicatioa 1.., _

a. F. HOWE. Hon. Sec.. pro tem

be absolutely blinded by their avarice as specu-
lators, by their greed of emolument, by
their lust for an exorbitant per. tentage in
profit, they will yield before their barbarous
and extortionate proceedings have driven the country
to desperation ; they will, in particular, shrink from
the ridicule attached to those who emulate the fabu-
lous dog dropping the substance to snatch the shadow.
To them we are satisfied that Vancouver's Island
will prove nothing more than a shadow, a
shadow reflected to their avaricious eyes in
the waters of Nootka Sound. Even now, in
this early stage of the proceeding, when the ink
is scarcely yet dry upon the document which
consigns Quadra to their dominion, the effect is be-
ginning to manifest itself in a detestation of their
barbarous system, which must inevitably tend at
last to undermine the whole superstructure of their
sway in North America.
A more unfortunate time for the negotiation
of such a transference could not by any possibility
have been selected. Now, when emigration has be-
come a necessity,:the idea of barbarising yet more of
our colonial territories becomes more than ever re-
pulsive. Now, when the golden discoveries in
California have opened a fresh field for
commerce on the western coasts of the
New World; and now, when intelligent men
are beginning to argue for the formation of a
trunk railway connecting the Atlantic and the
Pacific—the notion of handing over Vancouver's
Island (the only available port belonging to England
on that side of the Eastern Ocean) to the Hudson's
Bay Company, becomes a project altogether insuf-
ferable. Nor are these the only prominent reasons
why any honest Government directing the affairs of
England should pause before juggling away for so
many years such a possession. The fact upon which
we have more than once enlarged before this, the fact
upon which we shall not cease to enlarge so long
as the geological and geographical advantages
of Vancouver's Island remain in jeopardy, the fact
that the soil of that island abounds in
coal, with the additional fact that that coal is literally
lying on the surface, and not so far buried in the
earth as to require labour for its acquisition, are suffi-
cient reasons for a disinclination, on the part of Eng-
land, to resign her hold upon Vancouver's
Island, simply for the personal satisfaction
of a solitary member of the Cabinet.
As a coaling station Vancouver's Island
is universally admitted to be invaluable ; and yet it
is this Vancouver's Island that has been shuffled over
into the clutches of a company of fur-traders ! It is
this island which has been thus rashly lost to us at
the very period when the dawning commerce on the
Pacific and the advance of steam navigation, both in
regard to merchandise and war, rendered the retention
of such a coaling station in such a quarter of
the globe more than ever inestimable ! " The
Position of Vancouver's Island is such that there is
little reason to doubt its wealth and consequence will
place it high in the scale of England's offspring."
That is the opinion, simply but emphatically pro-
nounced, upon the importance of Quadra by the
projector of the North American Railway, in a new
and more practical argument in favour of his gigantic
project, an argument contained in a pamphlet,* still
more worthy of consideration than the one previously
addressed by him to the author of the " Clockmaker."
No sane man, glancing at a chart of the world, will
gainsay the truth of that declaration. Since the
periods of its being visited by Coox, by MEARS,
and by VANCOUVER, the estimate formed of the value
of the island, and of its contiguity to the North-
American Continent, has progressively advanced.
Surely, it is the height of impudence, not to say the
most flagrant of all the evidences of jobbery, for a
Cabinet to make away with this large and
important spot of ground at the very epoch
when the appreciation of its value has attained
its extreme altitude ! Lord LINCOLN should feel a
profound confidence in the sympathy, not of one or
two, but of a whole nation, in those bold and laudable
exertions which wer
frustrated.

In a neat v4lume Bvo., bound, price 10s. 6d.
SCENES WtiERE THE TEMPTER HAS
TRIUMPHED.

By the Author of " The 4laol Chaplain."
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

lIEB, MAJESTY'S TilE-ATItE.
Signor PUZZI'S Benefit.
On THURSDAY EVENING.,
Will be performed Donizetti's celebrated Opera,
DON PASQUALE.
After which a grand Pas de la Couroune, by 3ldlle. M. Taglion!
and M. Dor.
To be followed by the Last Act of the celebrated Opera,
IL GIURAMENTO,
n which 3ldlle. Parodi and Signor lloriani will appear.
To conclude with the Divertissement
LA PRIMA BALLERINA.
The principal parts by Mdlles. Petit Stephan, Marra, Thomaasini,
Julien, Aussundon, Lamoreux, and M. Paul Taglioni.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the
Box-oflice of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained as
Usual, price 103. 6d. each.
Doors open at Seven ; and the Opera to commence at Half-past
Seven o'clock.
ST.

JAMES'S THE A T RE.
FRENCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE.
Last Night but One.
TO-MORROW EVENLNG,
winces will commence at Half-past seven o'clock with
LA DOUBLE ECEIELLE
To conclude with
LE COMTE ORY.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
THIS EVENING,
Will be presented Donizetti's admired Opera, entitled
LIICREZIA BORGIA.
Alter the Opera a new grant Pas de la Couronne by Mdlle. Marie
Taglioni and M. Dor,

To conclude with
LA PRIMA BALLERINA.

Application for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the
Box-office of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained, as
usual, price 10s, 6d. each.

• All. 1:0 Y i., HA. Y MAlttitlx.
M. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton.
EVENINt,

Will be performed a new and original tragic Play, in Five Acts,
entitled STRATHMORE. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Kean,
Howe, Stuart, Rogers; Mrs.
VaudenhotT, Buckstone,C. Kean,
Mrs. Fitzwilliam, and Miss Reynolds.
To conclude with the Comedy of WILD OATS. Rover, Mr.
James Wadack; Harry Thunder, Mr. H. Yandenhoff; Lady Ama-
ranth. Miss P. Horton.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL
Under the direction of Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed THE KNIGHT OF ARVA.
After which a new grand Extravaganza, entitled THE DEVIL'S
VIOLIN AND THE REVOLT OF THE FLOWERS.
To be followed by a novelty in the shape of A MOST UNWAR-
RANTABLE INTRUSION, which will be committed by Mr. Wright
o the annoyance of Mr. Paul Bedford.
To conclude with JOHN JONES.

sOYA.L YcI.UM THEAT 6.
Under the Management of Madame Vends.
Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mahe s.
THIS EVENINO
Will be performed THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OP CHRISTE.N-
DOM.
To be followed by A WONDERFUL WOMAN.
To conclude with AMATEURS AND ACTORS.
Dress 4,,tae:, as.; Upper Luxe., 4s. ; Ylt, As. ; Gallery, Is. No
tall-price to any part of the house.
Toe New Boa-office, No. 2, Wellingtor.street, is open to the
public -wry from Ten till Six.

AbILEY ROYAL AMPLIITHEATR.E.
Proprietor, Sir. W. Batty.
Iltder the Patronage of her M ijesty the Queen, his Royal Highness
Prince a.lbert. &c.
The following eminent artistes form the greatest amount of female
equestrian talent ever engaged in this or any other establishment at
one time : •
nines. Adelaide Hinnie, Valentine, Louise Touirnaire, La Jeane
Josephine ; Miss Woollord, Hamad, Davidson, Avery, and La Petite
Jeanette.
In addition to the above Mr. Batty has great pleasure in a:nounc-
ing that he has engage I 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.
THIS EVENING,
The performance will-commence with a Grand Military Equestrian
Spectacle, entitled
MOOLTAN and GOOJEitAT ; or, the Conquest of the Sellths.
To be eJtlowed by an ;nimitanle display or SCE:qt.-, IN THE
CIRCLE. In which Marie Macarte will appear, supported by the first
Equestrian talent of the ,lay.
To conclude with a favourite Melodrama, entitled THE CROCK
OF COLD ; or, The Murder at the Hall.
r,os.-otuet irom Eleven till Four.
Manner, Mr W. West.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Engagement of M. JULLIEN.
First Week of the Army and Caledonian Quadrilles.
IMMENSE AND UNPARALLELED SUCCESS.
Under the patronage of her Mos; Gracious Majesty, her Majesty the
Queen Dowager, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c.
The Public Press has unanimously pronounced the Storming of
Badajoz to be the most perfect and life-like exhibition.
The Nobility, Gentry, and the Pablic are respectfully informed
that this favourite place of fashionable resort is open every
MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY.
Danson's gigantic modelled Panorama of the TOWN AND
FORT OF BADAJOZ, pronounced by the voice of public
opinion to be the most perfect and life-like exhibition ever
presented—Splendid Menagerie—Junien's unrivalled Band—Vo-
cal and Instrumental Concert—Several Favourite Songs and
Ballads by Miss Ellen Rowland and Mr. George Tedder—
Solos by Kamig, Richardson (Flute)—Violin and Violoncello by
Viotti and George Collins, varied alternately—and other at-
traction., concluding with a vivid representation of the Storming of
Badajoz, pourtraying the advance of the British army—bombard-
ment and attack—gallant defence—rush to the breach by real troops
—and final tableaux in honour of the " Hero of a hundred fights."
Doors open at Nine o'Clock, A.m. ' • feeding of the animals at Five ;
Pelicans and White Bears half-past Five ; Concert at Six ; storming
of Badajoz, at Dusk.—Admission One Shilling.
REFRESHMENTS.—The frequenters of these Gardens have long
complained that Refreshments from the Confectionary-rooms only
could to procured. Arrangements have been effected, and a distinet
portion of the Gardens set apart, where Refreshments may be had
ot the first quality, and at the usual Prices.

T tr../ WEATHER.—Scrs OFFICE, JUNE 26.
TaIIn3IOIIETER, Lowest, 56 iligheSt) 65; NOOn, 7
BARONETEEt, 30.05.

If an army of soldiers, or a number of individuals of
any kind, were placed in circumstances that it became
necessary continually to remove a quantity of pon-
derous material up an inclined plane or a steep accli-
vity, it must be obvious that the mode in which the
individual burden was placed must have a material
influence upon the muscular powers and physical en-
/
durance of those by whom it had to be sustained.
For instance, if each man's share of the burden was
of the weight of seven pounds, and the weight was
attached to his ankles or part of the lower extremities,
the weakest would become actually crippled by the.
pressure and exhaustion of strength, whilst even the
strongest would find it a great impediment to loco-
motion, and if able to go forward at all thus leg-logged,
to quicken their pace from a walk to a run would be
utterly impracticable. But let the same weight, or
even one considerably greater, be placed in a knap-
sack or other convenient and condensed form, and
borne between their shoulders, and it forms no
serious impediment to progress.

WIND W.—light brocze and fine sunshiny weather.

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Every man in this country is placed under cir-
cumstances that he has continually to carry a burden,
if not is pounds weight, in pounds money, being
the share apportioned to him to contribute by taxa-
tion to the national revenue, and the weight is placed
in that most inconvenient and oppressive mode by
which it cripples and exhausts the feeble, checking
the rapid progress of the strongest. Hence the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his annual expositio❑
on Friday night, is quite content, and his auditors
seem tolerably well satiAfied to find, that the burden
is not so great as entirely to arrest the progress of
those who carry it; that another year has rolled
round, and still the charge-bearers move on, however
difficultly or however slowly, but as to increasing the
speed into a quick march, far less to run, he never
dreams of such a thing, whilst the idea of flying
would, of course, be quite chimerical.

When the labours of the Liverpool Financial Re-
form Association, and the attention of thoughtful
and inquiring minds upon the subject have been
carried to a sufficient extent; when a Minister of
Finance shall be found capable of comprehending the
question in all its bearings, one who could see that
powers of production almost infinite, when unre.
stricted and under some modifications, are necessarily
limited and finite, under others, it will perhaps be
found, that the inconvenience of our present burthen
arises not from its ponderous and insupportable
weight, but from the mode in which it is imposed—
that the nation is in the situation of the army carry-
ing their knapsacks strapped about their LeLls, instead
or being borne upon their shoulders.
arer.tvwezte'socuanrcesbe,
and from
Fromt w o sources,wealth
from which
I already produced—
eapital, t
hwealth in the
course of production—Labour.
lewhov have
advocated direct taxation instead of indirect
think, usually erred in considering the former as' the
only proper fund from which to derive revenue ; but
we take a different view of the subject, and though
considering a system of direct taxation as superior to
indirect taxation as the knapsack on the back is to
the knapsack about the heels, yet deem it proper
that the whole weight of taxation should not be thrown
upon the real or accumulated property of the country,
and that labour should take a fair proportion of the
burden, because the functions of a Government are not
exclusively for the protection of the property of
the rich, but the protection of person—
the liberties and lives of all ; indeed, friendly
as we are known to be to free trade, w e
believe there are many functions which have hitherto
been performed by individuals or companies which
could be more effectually and more economically
performed by the State for the well-being of

the entire population. Perhaps if it were proposed for
the first time, that a Government should commence
the business of commcn carriers, and convey our
newspapers and letters from one town to another, or
take up one province of banking, the transfer of money

* " The Employment of the People and Capital of
Great Britain in our own Colonies, at the same time
assisting Emigration, Colonization, and Penal Arrange-
ments, by undertaking the Construction of a great Na-
tional Railway between the Atlantic and Pacific, from
Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, to Frazer's River, New
Caledonia." By Major Robert Carmichael Smyth.
With two maps, Svo., pp. 76. Metchim: London, 1641 k