The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-04 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

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Increasing popularity and immense success of Haine's New
I Village Tragedy, " The Life of a Woman," in which the
I realization of Hogarth's celebrated " Harlot's Progress,"
i nightly elicits the approbation of crowded audiences ; roars
i of laughter at " The Wet Nurse." and universal admiration
et.' the magnificent scenery and effects in " The Venetian."
I THIS EVENING, MAY 4,
Will be acted the New Village Tragedy, entitled
THE LIFE OF A WOMAN; OR, THE CURATE'S
DAUGHTER.
After which, a New Comic Drama, called

THE WET NURSE.
To aanclude with an entirely New Romance, entitled

THE VENETIAN ; OR, THE COUNCIL OF TEN.
I The Seenery comprising some of the most splendid Views in

Venice.

The two last pieces must be withdrawn after this week, for
entirely new Tragic Play, in which Mr. Elton will perform.

THE STRAND THEATRE CLOSES IMMEDIATELY,

Mr. J. H. ANDERSON (the GREAT WIZARD of the
NORTH) begs to inform the Nobility and Gentry of the
2%!etropolis, that in consequence of a sudden arrangement hav-
ing been made for opening the Strand Theatre for its Theatrical
Season, he is prematurely eomPelled to close his SEASON of
WONDER.

Ho is fully aware, from the crowded state of the Theatre
'nightly, when his close is thus suddenly announced, that the
ihestre will be incapable of containing the number that will
visit him during the few nights he will have the pleasure of per-
forming in the Strand Theatre ; he has, at the particular requent
of a number of Fashionable Parties, consented to give THREE
Grand Fashionable MORNING PERFORMANCES, on
ZifOXIDAT 4th, WIDNISDAY 6th, and FRIDAY 'Bth May, 1840,
whoa he will display all his Peculiar and Extraordinary Won-
I \ diva of Ancient and Modern Necromancy, introducing new and
splendid Feats a la Megique.
GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCES.

Doers epee at One o'clock. Performances commence at
Two. Carriages in attendance at Four.
Boxes 35.; Pit 2s. Juveniles under 10, Half-price.
rox.ofilce open from Eleven till Four, where places can be
3 esared. Private Boxes to b• had at all the Agents in London.
EVENING ENTERTAINMENT AS USUAL.

Niel" WATER AT LONDON B7:11143E TO-M•111•W.
a1arning......31 minutes after 4 I Evening 75 minutes after 4.

be Pablication of the Evening Edition of Tn Sex oom-
nonoed at 19 init.ates after Throe.

' LONDON:
MONDAY, MAY 4, 1840.

We copy the following from the Western Atlas,
a• newspaper published at St. Louis, on the Mis-
in the belief that it will not be found un-
t:resting to our readers :
; Ctako.—A gentleman of this city, who has been detained
a week or two past by ice at the mouth of the Ohio, has
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given us some intelligence with regard to the operations
at Cairo, which may possess some interest with our readers.
it is admitted, on all hands, that the point of land at the
confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi, is one of the most
la.:curable situations in the western country for the este-
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blisiwnent of a large city, provided the ground can be se-
erred from overflow. It is open to the ocean at all seasons
• r year, and provision -atscl lumber' must always be
tte facilitY Or communication with the upper
cc.'ntrY• The, operations of the Cairo Company, within
last year or two, have been very extensive. They have
fft;,- or sixty bands employed in constructing a level, which
, it is supposed, be completed the present season, suffi-
etent tti protect the town from the floods of the Ohio. The
Cr:mpsni nave an hotel 17.5 feet in length, two stories high,
••!. Contaihi443 rooms, with galleries and piazzas on the
f 0..;! si,les of the building. The house is elegantly furnished,
ar.:; kept in the best order in every respect. It is kept by
Wade, formerly of thin city. The Company have
a block of six buildings, which are occupied as stores
A ci '..trious kinds, by the agent of the Company, the Post-
•e, the Offices of Justice, Law, Medicine, itc. Two of
stores rent for 300 dollars per annum. There are two

i '..--,-mills, one of which has been in operation about a year.
I -111, second with four saws, is nearly completed. They have
I, a panting mill, 120 feet long by 30 in width. Pine lumber
j of the best quality and in great abundance is obtained from
eilth., Tecnt.ssce. The foundry and finishing shop for building ,
tiam engines is of bEick, two storks high, and 150 feet
atluare.
A dry dock for repairing steamboats will be corn-
I i-,, ted in May next. In addition to those abovem
i'.:netl, there are from two to three hundred buildings, e4;)ins, shanties, for the workmen employed in vario'u's
bz.:mehes of bu..ir,e!s, who number at least 200. About 40
'll.lt boats and a number of steamboats were at the landing
Bad from three to six steamboats are frequently in sight'
pu,sing up or down the rivers. About six miles from the
- i Fint, the land bocomes elevated and is heavily timbered.
I? the Company succeed in protecting their i,roperty
from the Lodi of the rivers—if the brisk breezes which
1 ?,,zierally prevail at the point, arc sufficient to drive away
1 tke miasma of the lowlands awl th.! mosquitoes at the same
time, they may yet realize their fondest anticipations, and
'..,alsold a city rise into importance with a rapidity unparal-
, lcl,d in the west.

The testimony thus borne to the rapid and sub-
t stantial progress of the future Grand Cairo of the
t West, is the less questionable as it Froceeds from a
sort of rival ; and we learn from other sources that
1 the qualifying i‘ ifs " with which the concluding
paragraph is seasoned, have been already decided in
favour of the Com,pany. It is .stated that the flood
of last winter was one of the greatest on record, and
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•".it not only were the levels already complete found
•.,; be an effectual bariicr, but that the water rose and
.-Absided without making the slightest impression
:n the worlit. The embankments are carried severa
.et beyond the level of the highest flood known,
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aLd in a short time Cairo will be as secure against
the periodical inroads of the river as New Orleans

biyelf.
As for miasma and mos.quitoes, experience, we
ar told, has shown that the place, even in its pre-
; se
iint state, is far more healthy and habitable than
many of the most populous towns on the river ; and
graining and cultivation, aided by the brisk cur-
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rents of air which two such vast bodies of running
water necessarily create, bid fair to raise it at no
long time hence beyond the average of salubrity.

Cairo is situated on the alluvial delta, formed
by the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio,
and at the extreme southern point of the State of

Illinois. From New Orleans to this point the
United River is navigable at all times for vessels of
any burden, and already no less than 300 steamers
ply continually between those limits. Beyond, the
navigation is occasionally obstructed by ice, fresher
or other impediments, and there are consequently
frequent detentions at this spot, as well as tranship-
ments into lighter craft more adapted to the shal-
lower waters of the upper rivers. Nature and cir- '
cumstances seem therefore to have combined in
marking out the site of this rising city:for a great
river-port and an entrepot for the trade between the
Central and Northern Provinces of the United
States and the Gulph of Mexico.
Nor is this all : for Cairo is also the southern
terminus of the railroad running through the whole
length of Illinois. This railway again is connected
with the great canal, which has its terminus at
Chicago, on Lake Michigan ; and thus an un-
broken chain of communication will be established
from Canada to New Orleans. On these two im-
portant works, which are already far advanced, the
State of Illinois, confessedly the most thriving
State in the Union, is now wisely concentrating its
efforts ; and it is unnecessary to point out how
great will be the benefit resulting from them, when
complete, not only to the United States, but to our
own possessions in North America, which will thus
obtain access into the heart of the Continent, and
even find an outlet in the Gulph of Mexico.

We publish these facts at the request, and on

the authority of a Correspondent ; and we do so the
more readily, because we know that a portion of
the funds required by the Cairo Company, for
carrying on their works, has been raised in England,
and because it has been of late too much the fashion
to decry indiscriminately all investments made by
the capitalists of this country in aid of public
enterprises in the United States. That there
has been much improvident outlay, and over-san-
guine calculation of profits, it is impossible to dis-
pute ; and we in common with all sincere well-
wishers of our Transatlantic brethren, desire to
see the spirit of speculation reduced within more
prudent bounds. But we cannot discover the jus-
tice or the policy of therefore disparaging all Ame-
rican securities as worthless, or at best doubtful ;
and thus diverting surplus capital from channels
of useful and profitable employment. Operations
based on reasonable data, undertaken because the
want exists, and is felt, ought not to be confounded
with the schemes of sanguine speculators, over-
running the real demands of the community, and
depending for success on an imaginary future. A
port at the confluence of the two rivers was wanted,
and the present enterprise, therefore, if conducted
with reasonable prudence, cannot fail to be suc-
cessful. Indeed, the credit of the Company al-
ready stands high both in the United States
and in England ; and the opinion seems to be
fast gaining ground in America, that Cairo is
destined to be, not only a great city, but at some
future day the metropolis of the West.

We copy from the Carlisle Patriot, a Pro-Corn-
law journal, a somewhat curious statement con-
cerning the high price of cattle in 1840. We rea-
dily adopt, as perfectly correct, the assertion that
the price of cattle in Cumberland is now higher
than it has been since the spring of 1825, but we
are constrained to assert that many cf the assigned
causes for this rise of price seem to us little likely to
have the effect ascribed to them. In general, it may
be said of them, such as the conveyance of cattle by
steam from the Highlands of Scotland to London,
that their effect must have been to supply the
markets, which used to be supplied through and by
Cumberland, with cattle at a less cost, to diminish,
pro tan?o, the demand on Cumberland, and so
' lower rather than raise the price of cattle there.
We, however, are less solicitous to trace the
causes of this high price than to record the fact,
because it is a general practice in estimating the
amount which the bread tax levies on the people
to consider only the amount of wheat con-
sumed, whereas all the products of the soil ought
to be included ; and the rise in the price
of cattle is an index to the sum which that
tax levies on the consumers for other things as well
as for wheat. It is also an index to the present
gains of the breeders and fatteners of cattle, and
to the increased rents which they will be willing
accordingly to levy on the people, and pay to those
who make laws to tax our bread.

At the close of the article it is properly observed
that this high price of cattle is coincident with
great distress amongst the working classes, who
now command only a very small portion of animal
food ; and the writer is anxious to know where a
supply can be obtained when the now-stinted arti-
zans receive better wages, and population shall
again go rapidly ahead. He does not see, appa-
rently, in this statement, what a terrible blow he
gives the Pro-Corn-law theories of the Carlisle
.Journal ; for he shows, without at all meaning to
do so, that it is not merely corn, but also meat,
which the country cannot supply for our increasing
population, and that the laying land down in grass
—which the Corn-law advocates deprecate as a
terrible evil, is really reluired to provide the neces-
sary quantity of meat for our people. The writer
shows, too, by the high price and want of cattle,
that au adequate remuneration would be obtained
for turning arable land into pasture, and that the
dreaded evil of land going out of cultivation, only
means a change from one species of cultivation tc
another. We should be sorry to put our half-in-
formed suppositions into competition with the ac-
curate knowledge of a writer on the spot, but had
we not seen the reasoning of the writer, and been
aware of the facts, we should have attributed the
" thinning of the stocks of cattle" to the extended
cultivation of bread corn caused by its increasing
price, and we should unhesitatingly have ascribed
the rise in the price of cattle to the rise in the price
of wheat, which made men cultivate the latter in
preference till the customary relation of price be-
tween corn and cattle was restored. In short, we
should have traced the high price of cattle in Cum-
berland wholly to the Corn-laws, which, like a
deadly blight, enhance the price of all the products
of the land.

Some time ago a Correspondent of the Standard,
backed by the Editor of that journal, attacked Th;
Sun, for being overwilling to attribute the faults of
Dr. LA RDNER to the Church, by describing him as
.‘ the Reverend," which, in fact, he is. Now, if we
were animated by any very furious hostility to the
Church, further than regarding it as a political insti-
tution which has completely and totally failed to
answer the end proposed, and, now claiming a holi-
ness and sanctity which do not belong to it, pre-
sumptuously thrusting itself forward as a barrier to
all political improvement, we should have seized
hold with eagerness of the case of bribery at Cam-
bridge, we should' have pointed jeeringly to the
grandson of an Archbishop, and the son of a Tory
SpEaker, deprived of his seat for bribery, carried on
amongst the High Church party at Cambridge, and
under the influence and countenance of members of
that celebrated University. But we have taken no

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