The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-25 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMXRKET.
Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old BTOMpt,OI3.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed the Comedy of MUCH ADO ABOUTJ.
NOTHING. Don Pedro, Mr. Vandenhoff; Benedick, Mr.
Wallack ; Dogberry, Mr. Keeley ; Verges, Mr. Buckstone; Beatrice,
Mrs. Nisbett ; Hero, Miss Jane Mordaunt.
To be followed by an original Farce called THE GUARDIAN
ANGEL. Mr. Dulcimer, Mr. Keeley ; Moggy Snaggs, Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with THE BOUGH DIAMOND.
Due notice will be given of the appearanceot Mr. and Mrs. KEAN.
The Box-office is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer.

THEATER ROYAL, ADELPIII.
'Under the direedon of
T Madame Celeste.
UE% EVENING,

Will be performed THE SONS OF MARS.
To LK; followed by a new slippery sketch called MRS. Bt SBURY'S
'SPOONS. Mr. nighbury Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford; Bob Twinks,
Mr. Wright ; Job Smith, Mr. 0. Smith : Mrs. Bunbury, Mrs. F.
Matthews; Mrs. Flighbury Barnes, Miss Brooks.
After which a new Farce, entitled A BIRD OF PASSAGE. Mr.
Carry Chick, Mr. Wright; Mr. Chaunt Ginger, Mr. Paul Bedford ;
Mr. Charles Pusher, Mr. Boyce; Ernest Hopeful, Mr. Worrell; Mrs.
Waters Rummer. Mrs. Frank Matthews.
'fo conclude with the Farce of SHOCKING EVENTS.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
'Under the I".lanagemeut of Madame VeltriA.
Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed A LADY IN DIFFICULTIES.
To be followed by A WONDERFUL WOMAN.
After which a new comic drama, called A PRACTICAL MAN.
'l'o -onclude with the comic Drama, called THE GARRICK
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FE V R.
Dres4 Boxes, 59.; -Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 29. ; Gallery, Is. No
la4tl=,rl, t 6, Fvsy part of the house.
AU applications for Private Boxes must be made to Mr. Allcroft, 15,
New Bond-street.

PRINCESS'S THEATi:E.
Mr. J. M. Madc i,ole Le3,4,"9 and Manager.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed the celebrated Opera of DON GIOVANNI.
kr"r wnich, aNIGHT.
new Extravaganza, entitled THE FIRST
To conclude with ESMERALDA.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
ProrricWr, Mr. W. Batty,
V ,e.or the Pitronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Rord Hlghz2ss
Prince Albbrt,
Triumphant success of the new Equestrian Spectacle of the Prophet,
which has been nightly received with enthusiasm, and p on unced
by the public press to b.; the m)st go:geous hippo-dramatic piece
ever produced at the Amphitheatre.
Unparalleled Equestrian Feats.
THIS EVEN (NG,
Will he performed Fitzhall's grand Equestrian Spectacle, entitled
THE PROPHET, in which Mr. W. West will appear.
4, la, ,014,,wed by an inimitable display 01 SCENES IN THE
C by the flrst F. niustri,n talent of the day.
To conclude with TELL DUMB DRIVER.
11m-office open from Eleven nil Four.
I,Cage Manager, Mr. W. We-..t.

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THE WEATITEIL—StIN OFFICE, OCT. 25.
TiIERX,AIEIEIt, Lowest, 50; €3; Noon, 6
BAROMETER, 30.01.

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1.0.;11)07.3, TAURS',AY, OCTOBER 25, 1849.

The right of grura'oling is one of the most cherished
privileges of Englishmen. It is the safety-valve that
has prevented political explosions similar to those we
have so frequently witnessed amongst our continental
neighbours. The pressure of our grievances lcses
half its intensity when we are permitted to complain
of our sufferings freely and w ithout restriction. Our
sorrows and afflictions do not seem so intolerable
when we are permitted to give them free expression,
and receive the sympathies of others whcse positions
are by zo means better than our own. Thus it is that
the agriculturists derive a melancholy satisfaction in
declaring themselves to be utterly and irretrievably
ruined, and that the sun of England's glory set for
ever with the establishment of free-trade, and
the abolition of the grinding monopoly which
they have been pleased to term " protec-
tion." So long as all other classes were
taxed for their exclusive benefit they ascribed
the evils, the existence of which were then as fully
admitted as at present, to a variety of different causes.
Bad harvests, overspeculation, railway expenditure,
in turn, were declared to be the causes of the national
distress ; but now all these have been completely for-
gotten, and the want of protection is alleged to be
the source of all the misery and wretchedness which
the country has encountered since the year 1846.
The artizans and operatives of the manufacturing
districts have justly complained, because they have
been compelled to eat cheap bread, the price of which
bas not been artificially increased by heavy duties ;
merchants and tradesmen have been obliged to sus-
pend payments, because they were not permitted to
contribute large sums to keep up the price of
farming produce ; the State machinery: has
completely gene astray since the stoppage of
the wheel, that made all others contributory to the
high price of land. Such are the complaints that are
reverberated from agricultural meetings throughout
all parts of the country. Notwithstanding the rules
that prohibit political discussion at the festivities of the
various societies, no orator will be listened to with any
degree of attention who does not expatiate upon the
irretrievable ruin that has fallen upon the landed in
terest, as well upon the owners as on the occupiers of
the soil. These salutary regulations are manifestly
regarded as " more honoured in the breach than in
the observance," and if any satisfaction is to be
derived from knowing the full extent of the
mischief, then should the British farmers be tho.
roughly and completely happy.
Many noble and distinguished orators have chaunted
the bucolic grievances in different parts of the country
within the last week. At Loughborough the
Marquis of GRANBY has proclaimed how
utterly useless it is for farmers to hope for fair
remuneration for their labours. He has announced
that it is absurd to look to " increased production"
or " cheaper production" as the means of meeting the
additional competition to which they are subjected ;
they cannot succeed either by high farming or low
farming, by employing much or little labour in the
cultivation of their lands. One resource only remains,
they must adopt a system of exclusive dealing, in
order that the manufacturers may be involved in one
common ruin with themselves. If they have any
money they must expend it in foreign countries,
where a certain amount, 10 or 15 per cent. of their
payments, will be returned to the exchequer in the
shape of duties, and by means thereof the amount of
taxation that presses so heavily at present may be
reduced. Does the Noble Marquis for a moment
suppose that the British manufacturer, who
can at present successfully compete with
the foreigner in his own land, although
subject to great disadvantages in the expenses of
freight and costs of transit, and even in import duties,
will fear that competition in his own country, where
bis position is reversed and his rival is obliged to
encounter similar impediments? or does he imagine
that English farmers will pay much higher prices
for inferior articles, in order to avenge the fancied
wrongs inflicted on him by the refusal of his fellow-
subjects any longer to subsidise the landlords? For,
after all, these are the only parties who benefited by
protection while it existed, and who must now sustain
occasioned by its removal. The
the loss, if any,
British manufacturer only requires a clear stage and
no favour—he seeks no more for himself, and he will
nut readily be disposed to yield it to others. The
remedy proposed by the Noble Marquis is,
therefore, as vain as is the hope,
if
any such there be, that protection can again
be restored, and that the trading and com-
mercial classes will consent to the re-imposition of the
trammels and fetters by which they were formerly
restricted.

At Saffron Walden, Major BERESFORD took an
equally gloomy view of the position and prospects of
the country.i, " They might talk of good times
corning, raid the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman, "but
until they saw the rising of some superior star to open
to them a brighter horizon, and to show them a
plan by which the farmers would be enabled to en-
dure the load under which they had to labour, be
belie roil it was impossible to expect better day,„,,
In West Surrey, too, the Earl of EGMONT, after
E xpres:,inga hope " that thz., meetingwould remember
thechairman's injunction to abstain from touching
an politics," was the first to violate it himself by
free trade and
inveighing bitterly agains.;
rties. At Tavi.stock,
the
reelite and Cobdenite r
Mr. of Prince FLU, the chairman of
the meeting also dwelt in the most despond-
i ilg strain upon agricultural prospects. The
litter gentleman, however, offered practical sugges-
tion:, that were much more acceptable to an assem-
blage of tenant-farmers than they would have been to a
body of landlords. Ho insisted upon a general re-