The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1841.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
U YDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS

THIS EVENING, NOV. 6,
Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr.
W. Harrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White, Oroveso, Mr.
Leffler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Grant ;
and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble (her third appearance
upon the English Stage).
After which will be produced, a New Farce entitled THE
WRONG MAN..—Sir Bryan Beausex, Mr. Bartley; Beech-
wood, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Simon Tack, Mr. Harley ;
Mice, Miss Cooper; Patty Smart, Mrs. Humby.
Doors to Le opened at ball-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven. Dress Boxer, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.;
First and Second Circles. ss. ; Second Price, is. 6d. ; Pit, 35.;
Second Price. is.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the
Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten
till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application.
Private Boxes to be had so!ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller,
1 i 7. New Bond-street.
On Monday, London Assurance, with Hans of Iceland.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE
AND MR. WILLIS JONES.

Wonderful Novelty ! Two Equestrian Spectacles in one Even-
ieg. " Blenheim "at Half-price, and more New Scenes in
the Circle.
THIS EVENING, NOV. 6,
Will be presented the gorgeous Equestrian Spectacle, entitled
CHARLEMAGNE ; THE STEED OF CHIVALRY !
introducing Mr. Duerow's magnificent Stud of Forty Horses,
highlly-trained Palfreys, Fairy Feuer, Equestrian Troop, and
Companies of both Theatres.
After which, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, in the
Largest Arena in the World, in which Madame Ducrow, Sig-
nor Hillier, the Great American Rider, the British Horseman,
Signor Felix Carlo, arid the First Artistes in Europe will appear.
To conclude with THE BATTLE OF BLEN HEIM ; OR,
THE HORSE OF THE DISINHERITED ' • embracing all
the Military Exploits of the Great Duke of Marlborough,
Grand Reviews, Battles, and Glorious Victories.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON.
Continued succession of Novelties, first week of another New
Domestic Drama, and second week of " Katty O'Shiel," and
" Simon Lee."
THIS EVENING, NOV. 6,
Will be performed a New Domestic Drama, called THE
WRECK OF THE HEART ; OR, THE STORY OF
AGNES PRIMROSE.—Wm. Norwynne, Mr. Dale • Henry,
' Mr. Seaman • Old Primrose, Mr. Cullen • Ralph, dr. Gard.
ner ; Agnes, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged Heroine of Do-
mestic Drama.
After which, a New Domestic Drama, entitled KATTY
O'SHIEL, the FOLLOWER of the FAMILY. O'Dwyer,
Mr. Dale ; Augustus, Mr. Seaman ; Guyton Gray, Mr.
James; and Katty O'Shiel, Miss Vincent.
To conclude with, RAFFAELLE the REPROBATE.
Boxes, 2s.—Pit, Is.— Wiles.), 6d. Half-price to the Boxes
only, at Half-past Eight.

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THE WEATHER.—NOON, NOVEMBER 6.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Thermometer.. M ) Highest 5l 1 Lowest
Barometer 30.43.—Wind &W.—Freezing Point 2.2 Deg.

MlOll WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW
M rning...... 55 minutes after 7. 1 Evening ..... 35 minutes after S.

the Publication of the Evening Edition of THE Sur; com-
menced at 10 minutes after Three.

Emperor, "after engaging, have twice retreated
before my troops; whenever put forth in battle '
their strength has been sorely pressed upon—
the said barbarians are like dogs and sheep in
their disposition." We predicted that such
would be the result of ELLIOT'S cowardly aban-
donment of the attack on Canton, so chival-
rously undertaken by the gallant General
Sir HUGH GOuGH. But the Emperor has by
this time discovered that all British diplomatists
are neither ELLIOTS nor GORDON BREMERS. Sir
H. POTTINGER and Admiral PARKER only
reached Macao on the 9th of August, and on the
21st of the same month nine ships of war,
four steamers, one surveying vessel, and
twenty-two transports, sailed from Hong with
a view of occupying the island of Amoy,
deeply embayed in the mainland, and op-
posite the rice granary of China, the
fine and fertile Island of Formosa—where it is
proposed that the expedition shall winter.
As no vessel can keep the sea in the Gulf of
Pechelee in the winter months, the expedition
will not proceed to the mouth of the Peiho
before spring next. There the Plenipotentiary
proposes to meet the Emperor in person, or other-
wise he will proceed to Pekin, to explain
matters after the British Tar fashion, to
the EMPEROR and the members of the six Im-
perial Boards. In the interim large ireinforce-
ments were expected to be sent from India and
England to the Chinese waters, including a num-
ber of war steamers. So late as the 28th of Sep-
tember two fine iron-steamers, the Ariadne
and the Medusa, left Bombay to join the
China expedition. These vessels will be
of immense service ' in towing the ships
of war into action, assisting them if dis-
abled, and carrying on war in waters not acces-
Sible to ships of the line. The war is expected to
continue for two years, and extensive prepara-
tions for hostilities for so long a period have been
made both by the Admiral and the Plenipo-
tentiary.

Commodore Sir J. GORDON BREMER returns
,o England because having been Joint-Pleni-

potentiary with ELLIOT at the time of the
attack on Canton, he concurred with that
ill-starred functionary in suspending opera-

tions, and thereby lost credit with Admiral Sir
W. PARKER. This was delicately intimated to

him at his first interview with Sir H. POTTINGER,
when he suddenly discovered that he was indis-
posed, and that the climate of Great Britain was
better suited to his constitution than that of the
" central flowery land."
From India we have abundant complaints of

the injury inflicted upon the inhabitants, in con-
sequence of the immense expense to which that
country is put by the wars carried nn in Central
Asia. One Correspondent writing from Bombay
states, that the campaign under Lord KEANE
closed in January, 1840, and that during the
fourteen months of its continuance we were only
twice in action, when our casualties altogether did
not exceed 400 men, killed, wounded, murdered,
and missing.; yet the expense wholly supplied by
the Anglo-Indian; Government amounted to the
enormous sum of nine millions sterling ! " Since

Lord KEANE quitted the command of the corn
bined armies," continues this writer, " we have
been twenty-nine times in action, or under the
fire of the enemy, and thirteen times checked
or defeated : we have had 1,600 men killed or
wounded on the field ; seventeen officers have
fallen in action; seventeen more have died of the
effects ofclimate ; four have been murdered; and a
number not much under this melancholy total of
thirty-eight deaths are now for a time lost to
the service, suffering from sickness or from their
wounds. The annual expenditure, since the
grand army quitted Cabool, of maintaining
SHAH SOOJA it on his throne amounts to 3,000,0001.
annually. The salaries of the politicals in A ff-
ghanistan and Schinde, and pay of the British
officers in the SHAH SOOJAH'S service—all of
which comes from the coffers of the East India
Company—is 120,0001. a year. We lent the
Khan of KHIVA a million sterling, as an
accommodation for slaves restored to Rus-
sia; we gave in free subsidy 300,0001., in
the course of twenty months, to KAMRAN,
Shah of Herat. India has at length become
exhausted with such repeated and fear-
ful defalcations, and yet she continues to bleed
at every pore. The Five
,per Cent. loan comes
slowly in, and the whole resources of the Trea-
sury scarce meet the current expenses of Go-
vernment. Public improvement is everywhere
put a stop to. It was but a paltry allowance to
give 80,000/. a year for the construction of
roads and bridges out of a revenue of 7,000,000/.
sterling; but even this must be withdrawn, while
throughout the last twist is given to the screw
which extorts taxes from the peasantry of India."
This is a dark picture, and though over-coloured
calculated to make a very painful impression_on
the minds of the best-informed friends of Indian
prosperity. The safest course is to carry out
vigorously the policy of the late Cabinet. Two
or three decisive movements will secure tran-
quillity on the side of Persia, and among
the Affghan tribes; while the prosecution of de-
cided measures in China will keep the Burmese
from displaying any dangerous sympathy for the
Celestials. If the new Government relax its
measures of Indian policy,, a host of enemies will
spring up both in the east and west, who
will place us in the most imminent peril.
In Persia, Herat, Candahar, Lahore, on
the one side, and in Burmah on the other,
we have hosts of concealed enemies, who
only await the slightest reverse of fortune, or
indication of weakness, to attack us. What-
ever, therefore, may be the expenses of the
Government of India, they are indispensable to
the maintenance of our Indian empire. Perse-
verance in the plans of the late Administration
can alone lead to the ultimate and lasting di-
minution of the load of taxes under which the
nhabitants of British India are now groaning.

Some few days ago the Morning Post invoked
punishment on us for advocating certain opinions
distasteful to the Post. That journal may learn
from an extract of the Anti-Bread-tax Circular,
which we insert elsewhere, that if its masters
should act on its suggestion, they will have to
punish no inconsiderable portion of the commu-
nity. " Similar views to those put forth by The
Sun are rapidly," it is said, " taking hold of the
public mind. There is an increasing distrust
spreading as to abolishing the corn mo-
nopoly by peaceful means. Suggestions
pour in on us from many parts, in favour
of all sorts of schemes for accomplishing
our object." We have ourselves received seve-
ral such suggestions, and one within the week,
which is only a revival of a similar suggestion
formerly made—to import bread ready-made
from the Channel Islands and the neighbouring
Continent. In fact, a Society is established for
the very purpose of collecting funds to evade the
law ; and, however striking may be the resem-
blance between such conduct and what the
lawyers call treason and rebellion, we are well
persuaded that they will not prosecute those who
have formed the Society. The truth is, that in
this case the law is so undisguisedly the enact-
ment of a small selfish class, neither for the pub-
lic benefit nor for the advantage of the Throne—
it is so avowedly a violation of all the principles
on which law-makers venture to ask the obedi-
ence of a people, that the most aristocratic law-
yers would shrink from prosecuting the oppressed
and plundered people for evading and resisting
such an abominable enactment. We believe,
therefore, that those who denounce the law, and
those who take measures to evade it, will be safe
from prosecution, though it be recommended by
the Post.

Although cramped by statutes, where they
impose no specific rule, the Judges follow com-
mon sense as the basis of common law. The
indictments brought before them run some-
what in this fashion, " to injury of her MAJESTY,
her crown and dignity, and the interests of the
realm ;" and it would puzzle the most acute
lawyer to show how rescuing her MAJESTY'S sub-
jects from starvation, and her realm from disorder,

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