The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-28 00:00:00

THE GROWTH OF THE LOAF.

Miraculous is the growth of the loaf under the forcing sys-
tem adopted in the hot-house of the Aristocracy. The white
loaf is growing brown. The brown loaf is growing black.
The black is growing small. The whole thing is progressing
after what children call " cowtail" fashion, that is " grow-
ing downwards." And if it travels at its present rate, we
bell very soon hear the people merrily chanting in
all directions,

Our loaf is good because it is so small,
while the Aristocracy, delighted with the success of their bread
tax, will chorus their response,
Then 'twould be better, were it none at all.
Now the people ought to know exactly whence the starvation
which is impending over them comes. It comes from the
iniquitous Corn-laws. The result of the working of
the Corn-laws is, that in all years, by the exclusion of
foreign corn the people are obliged to buy bread at a high
price, the landlord's price, while, occasionally, as at the pre-
sent time, they are liable to famine. The Aristocracy,
alarmed at the storm of public indignation which is gather-
ing, while they cannot deny that in common years they tax
the poor man's appetite to pamper their own luxury, yet are
everywhere protesting that, at all events, they are guiltless of
a year of scarcity, that they cannot control the elements, and
why, then, should the people, if starved, vent their anger
upon them? We will tell them why. We will show them
that they are not guiltless. They cannot indeed control the
elements, but still, if the people are starved during the ap-
poaching winter, they only will be the guilty parties. The
weather is seldom the same in every country at once. There
may be a luxuriant harvest abroad, while there is a short
crop in England. The over abundance, therefore, of the
foreign supply would, were there no Corn-laws, always
be available to make up the deficiency at home ;
but, then, the effect of the Corn-laws extends be-
yond England into other countries. The English market
being closed agai?.st the foreign grower of corn, he ceases to
grow it beyond the supply necessary for his own country. He
turns his land to other purposes, or allows it to be uncultivated
altogether, and thus, when a year of scarcity, like the pre-
sent, arrives in England, we have no where to turn for a re-
medy and alleviation, except by going into the foreign market
at a ruinous starvation price. Let the people, then, bestir
themselves to get rid of this accursed and grinding impost
upon bread. Let us have an Anti Corn-law Association in
"a long pull, and strong pull, and a pull alto
everygeth place, and
gather" to get rid of the abomination. Remember the three
loaves exhibited at Birmingham. Remember that the six-
penny loaf at Paris is tertpence halfpenny in London, that is,
stxpence for bread and fo
Churp ronence-halfpenny for the tax to the
aristocracy. p
—Liverool icle.

ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.—An alteration in the
cast of Mr. G. Macfarren's successful Devil's Opera took
place last night, owin. to the departure of Mr. and Mrs E.
Seguin, who leave this° day for the United States, to *join
Miss Shirreff and Mr. Wilson in giving English operas to
Transatlantic audiences. Their places have been filled by
Miss P. Horton and Mr. George Lejeune—the latter a pupil
of the Royal Academy. Mr. Lejeune promises well as an
actor, but as a singer he is deficient in quality of tone, albeit
he sings with tact. He was somewhat nervous and imperfect,
and for that reason we presume omitted the opening scena.
The opera was received with deserved enthusiasm, and is
now an established favourite, for the trio for three saprani is
nightly encored, as also the plaintive ballads chastely sung by
Mr. Burnett. Miss Poole's acting of the duenna is inimitable,
and her vocalisation leaves nothing to be desired, whilst Wie-
laad's diablerie creates universal merriment. The house was
a full one.
AsTLEY'S.—Under so spirited a management as
Ducrow's, this theatre cannot fail to enjoy its fair proportion
of public favour. Last night, to a very orowded house, was
aerated, under the superintendence of Mr. West, junior, a
presented,
revival of Bonaparte's Invasion of Russia; or the
Conflagration of Moscow, which was most favourably received,
and was succeeded by a novelty of a more than usually extra-
ordinary and attractive character, called The Brute Tamer of
poinpeii ar, the Living Lions of the Jungle. This novelty,
which is evidently based upon a portion of Bulwer's " Last
Days of Pompeii," has no pretensions to much of a dramatic
kind, but is simply intended as a vehicle for the introduction
to
an English public of a fine collection of well trained ani-
mals which have recently arrived from America. Their
keeper, Mr. Van Amburgh, performs Malerius (a Roman re-
negade), who, being captured, is condemned to death by the
Emperor of Pompeii (Mr. Campbell), and for this purpose he
is thrown successively into two dens of wild beasts—the first
containing a lion, lioness, tigress, and leopard. The second—
s full-grown lion, a young lion, a tigress, and three leopards.
These, by some hidden power, he is supposed to subjugate, not
less to the manifest consternation and disappointment of the
Emperor, who eventually pardons him, than to the great joy
of the spectators of which the audience, who testify their de-
light in unequivocal applause, may be supposed to form a por-
tion. Such is the dramatic part, but to the other we fear it is
impossible on our part to do adequate justice—to be believed
and understood it must be seen. But of this they may ba per
fcctly assured, that the exhibition excites neither disgust nor
alarm, but, on the contrary, gratification—the perfect safety
of Mr. Van Amburgh, owing to the subdued ferocity of these
monarchs of the forest, affording the most satisfactory evidence
of the supremacy of mental over brute force..
ALLEDGED OUTRAGE BY AN OFFICER OF
THE GUARDS.—On Friday forenoon, a little after eleven
o'clock, a circumstance of a very extraordinary and unjustifi-
able description, on the p irt of the military, took place at the
entrance of Hyde Park, near Apsley House. At the hour
above stated, the relief, or new guard, consisting of a detach-
ment of the third battalion of Grenadier Guards, were on their
route from Portman-street barracks to St. James's Palace.
In passing through one of the entrances into Piccadilly the
progress of the soldiery was somewhat impeded by a concourse
of persons who usually follow the band. A youth of about
thirteen years af age was endeavouring to pass through the
crowd, between the band and the foremost of the detachment,
when he was obssrved by one of the offieers in command, who
prevented his intentions, not merely by ordering the lad to re-
tire, but giving him a thrust with his drawn sword ! The boy
screamed out, and ran across the road towards Constitution-
The poor little fellow soon discovered that he was
wounded on the sight side below the hip; and after walking a
short distance across the Green Park (in which direction he
had barn ssnt by his parents on an errand) he became faint
and was obliged to sit down on the grass; a person passing,
seers`g the lad crying, inquired the cause, and on being told,
advised the boy to go to St. George's Hosp'tal ; on his reach-
ing the institution, one of the assistants immediately examined
i i n in the surgery-roem. The s•gord had perforated the trousers
and shirt, and entered the fleshy part of the hip, producing a
puncture about half an inch in depth ; the surgeon dressed tie
wound. After the boy bad in some degree recovered from the
alarm which the sudden attack upon him bad produced, he
stated that his name was Daniol Semple, residing wits his
parents, No. 66, Park- street, Dorsct-square; that at the time
the officer stabbed him he am going on an errand to Clap_
ham- The officer, when ho struck him with his sword,
the grossest epithsts towards bin'. A nyrOor or",,ersons who
saw the circumstance expressed iadignation. The re-
porter was not able to obLain the officer's name.—Observer.