The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-21 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHT,

LAST WEEK of the WIZARD of the NORTH working
his WONDERS, and LAST SIX NIGHTS of the SONS of
EXTEMPORANEOUS HARMONY—The Lancashire Bell
Ringers.
All who wish to see the Great Delusionist—or MIRACLE
OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY—must visit the
Adelphi during next week, as it will be the only opportunity
the lovers ti the marvellous will have of beholding this SON
OF DELUSION, whose extraordinary powers have caused all
to wonder from the Throne to the Peasant, from the Peasant
to the Philosopher. A wonder unparalleled. The Great
Wizard, brilds individual exertion, has filled the Adelphi
Theatre for one hundred nights, and could for three hundred
.more, but that he is compelled to make way for the Great Fred.
(not Frederick the Great), who will commence his Mephisto-
philisn orgies earlier than the Wizard expected.
Come one— Come all !"--The Wizard will be found incom-
prehenib!e as he iA invulnerable. A hunched of the best of
the London Sportsmen have tried in vain to wing him, but be
is still on the wing, and will for one week more be their Living
Target.
The Wizard hopes that .• Homo Invidnerabilis" will still be
his motto ; and he pledges himself that he will exert all his
powers to please his Matrons, and to fill his Magic Temple to
the ceiling.

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Parties are respectfully informed, that as the Dress Circle is
nightly crowded, an early application is requisite.
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open at Half-past Seven ; the Wizard appears at Eight o'clock
precisely

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1841.

The Tories having gained nothing by abusing
the " sarpliced ruffians" of Ireland, seem now
inclined to try what the can win by falling foul
of the political Dissenters" of England. The
Mornieg Post of yesterday said :
It seen's proper to notice that the first meeting of this
Conference of hypocrites and atheists was signalised by a
fierce and disorderly squabble upon the'question whether
they should or should not commence, their daily proceed-
ings by prayer. •
This is evidently a false charge. The Dissenting
ministers can gain little or nothing by hypocrisy,
and in them, whatever may be the case with the
clergy, who are tempted by large bribes to be
hypocrites, it would be a most gratuitous vice.
Some philosophers have doubted the possible
existence of an atheist—the Post is quite sure on
thepaint; and, to serve a party purpose, calls some
of the most religious and. devout ministers of
CHRIST in the kingdom atheists. These gentle-
men
have come together to serve the poor, and
save the country. Such conduct the Post can-
not eompr c!i.kend, and as ignorant people always
abuse what is strange to them, it calls the Dissent-
ing ministers hypocrites and atheists. This lan-
guage exemplifies the consideration in which the
Dissen-ters are held by the Tories, who, when
they d.. 0 not want aid at elections, cease to dis-
guise -41 e antipathy in which they hold the chosen
ministers of the people.

One part of the paragraph of the Pad, we are
told, is positively false. There was, we are in-
formed, a sujgestion made on the subject of
prayer ; some objections were made to the, Con-
ference beginning their proceedings daily with
prayer, because the prayers of one minister
might not be strictly acceptable to another, and
after -the briefest possible discussion it was quietly
settled that the members who chose should as-
etrible in a chapel to pray, before meeting at the
c
onfeTen ce. To call that brief and not improper
discus6jorx " a fierce and disorderly squabble,"

, .
is, we are assured, a gross abuse of language:
Far from any intemperance having been exhi-
bited by th'es`e Ministent, eve' can po4tively as-
sert that their conduct juts been` all that could be
wished.

Some fears were entertained; and not unnatu-
rally, that upwards of six hundred gentlemen
collected together for the first time from every
part of the empire, and of every Christian creed,
`in "a novel Conference. having -no precedents to
guide them, no well-informed Chairman, long
established, to preserve order, and every one of
those gentlemen being accustomed to speak from
the pulpit ad libitum—some fears were entertained
that these gentlemen would fall into wordy
contention, and that the Conference would
fail in its object. These fears have been most
agreeably disappointed. It was impossible, we
understand, for any body of men to behave
more temperately and orderly, and their discus-
sions, as far as we have hitherto heard, would,
for order and decorum, have done honour to
either House of Parliament, though both of
them have a fixed Chairman, and have a long line
of precedents to guide them.

The paragraph of the Post is the offspring of
ignorance and passion, and is full of untruth and
asperity. In that Journal, which continually
boasts,in a mawkish style, of its devotion to truth,
and as continually abuses the Whig-Radicals for
not beinv, animated with a similar devotion, it is
quite unpardonable.

It must be highly gratifying to the working
classes to observe, that at present the discussion
on the Corn-law has dwindled to one point,
namely, its influence on wages. There is a
secondary point, indeed, yet undecided, namely,
the quantity of land the repeal of the Corn-law
would put out of cultivation ; but that is consi-
dered by the Tories only of importance so far as
it would diminish employment for the people,
and reduce the rate of wages. Thus the benefit
of die working classes has, in fact, according to
the opponents of repeal, become the only con-
sideration for the settlement of the question.
That brings the matter to a simple issue, of
which the working people are the best judges.
We may observe, as to the land going out of
cultivation, that it never will, as long as the cus-
tomers of the agriculturists increase in numbers
and in wealth. That the repeal of the Corn-
laws would increase the number and wealth of
the town population there is not the smallest
doubt, and that increase would do more to stimu-
late and extend cultivation than all the Corn-
laws and agricultural societies that ever existed.
What would the farmers do without customers,
and what would they not gain by the rapid in-
crease of their customers?

As to wages, the tailors, carpenters, brick-
layers, shoemakers, &c., of the metropolis and of
every town of the empire, are paid weekly wages,
the rate of which seldom varies. The same fact
is true of porters, clerks, and a great variety of
other labourers. It is a plain and palpable ab-
surdity to assert that their wages have risen or
do rise with the price of wheat, which varies be-
tween 365. and 80s., while the rate of their wages
has continued for many years past very nearly
the same. When prices are low and wheat
abundant they probably get an increase of em-
ployment, but their payment does not otherwise
vary with the price of bread. What proportion
such classes form of the whole body of labourers,
including servants, &c., we cannot say, but it is
very considerable, and completely disproves the
assertion, as a general statement, that wages rise
and fall with the price of bread.
But as the question is now narrowed, we have
only to look at the condition of the working
classes for its solution. Never was that much
worse. In the manufacturing districts they are
starving or praying. to be transported, and in the
agricultural districts they commit crimes, and
deliver themselves up to the law, that they may
be sent abroad. There are seven thousand
handloom-weavers in Manchester living in cel-
lars, without a blanket to cover them, or a ves-
sel to boil their food, while wheat is between 70s.
and 80s. the quarter. In some manufacturing
districts some workmen receive 55., and in the
agricultural districts Bs. per week. The average
of wages throughout the empire is barely suffi-.
dent to obtain subsistence fora family. IT the
fate of the Corn-law is to be decided by its influ-
ence on wages, the condition of the labouring
classes at this moment pronounces against it
withering condemnation. We feel grateful to
those who have reduced the question to this nar-
row issue, and we call on the workmen through-
out the empire to decide it.

The choice of the SPEAKER is the only busi-
ness of importance which has yet occupied the
House of Commons. Whatever interest might
have attached to that question was extinguished
when it was announced that the re-election of
Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE was not to be opposed.
The whole affair from that moment became a
matter of routine, and our Contemporaries must
have been much at a loss for subjects to ex-
patiate on, when they devoted column after
column to this bygone event. In fact, the elec-
tion of the SPEAKER took place when Sir 4.
PEEL consulted his friends, and allowed his de-
termination to be announced that he should not
oppose the re-election of Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE.
We might as well waste our space in discussing
the dissolution or the election, as the re-election
of the SPEAKER.

The French Journals of Wednesday have all
been received, but the• news contained in them
was for the most part anticipated in our edi-
tion of yesterday. The Moniteur, in caution
rig the people of the south of France against
resisting the taking of the census, says—
The census must and will be taken. It is fit that par-
ties should know that there is in France no obstacle, no
embarrassment, sufficiently serious to check the execution
of the laws. The Government of July will not allow
to perish in its hands, or to be scattered at the pleasure
of faction, that strong and glorious national unity which
our fathers founded at the price of so many sacrifices,
and which for fifty years has constituted our greatness
as regards foreign countries and our internal prosperity.
In answer to the Moniteur, the following
spirited remarks appear in the leading columns
of the National:—

Who is it hoped to, entrap by this Common-place
trash ? Was it the factious who drew up the imperti-
nent circular of M. llum4nn ? Did they draw up the
deliberations of the Municipal Councils of Toulouse,
Paris, Orleans, &c.? Was it the factions who taught
the
people that a country which has a normal Budget of
1,300, and a deficit of more than 900 millions—a country
to which
is given neither glory, nor grandeur, nor
prosperity, nor liberty,. and in which' the profligate ex-
penditure of the public money is at the cost of the blood
and the sweat
0 r the brow of the people, has a right to
call for brace, and
to resist new contributions ?
Were the people inwant of factions to prove to
them that they were suffering ? Is the resistance
of the tax-payers to
in history ? If revoluteixocnessshiave not always ended in
this way, is it not always byve demands a new fact
?witYbobulinsenadnda dyra_iocltiartobrainbtnoetastoywonu,
willand
_ financial questions that
3r they,bu
accomplish your object. you i , y
think'm et
nil caet
agme that houses will
be opened to you, and that you may go over private
dwellings in spite of the law and in virtue of your own
good pleasure, and that our citizens will not remember
that our revolutions have given to themguarantees which
they are bound to defend. Because you have force in
your hands, you think you may both use and abuse it
with impunity, and you persuade yourselves that you
can thus trample upon rights at your caprice. The
French nation, so proud of its past, would sink to the
last degree of degradation, if it were to bend to your
insolence."
The Courrier Francais, in general so moderate
in its views of domestic policy, is still more vio-
lent. - We quote an extract from it, which paints
in still more glowing colours than have yet ap-
peared the violent resistance offered to the
census in the Southern Departments :
Ministers will endeavour in vain by circulars, or the
Prefects by proclamations, to put an end to the alarm
which their measures have excited. The census is only
being made in our southern provinces under the protec -
tion of bayonets. It is a true campaign of the Ministry
against the tax-payers. The army, which ought to be
employed for the defence of the country, is only employed
in promoting the extra legal rigours of the Treasury.
From Bordeaux to Marseilles, and in the thirty or forty
towns which extend from the ocean to the Mediterranean,
we see only regiments encamped on the public squares
with their cannon and muskets loaded and ready to fire.
Barricades are destroyed on one point only to be set up
in another, and the peasantry rise with the same impe-
tuosity as the workmen. It is like a conquered country
revolting ag-ainst its conquerors.
We find in La Sentinelle de ToulOn that the French

gigeti-k‘tEct. Levant, nnd,,r Ilear-Admiral De !,ri Su,se,
will consist Hof the tng ship, ;
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32 ; , 10 ;.
.; ; I A timer, of 166-lu)r,..
The Ambuscade is on the coast of Syria, and the Fleche
at Constantinople.
According to a statistical table which we have before
us, the department of the Upper Garrone has a population
of 454,725 souls ; before 1836, Toulouse had 59,000 in-
habitants; in 18:16, it had 77,000; and now, in 1841, it has
90,000. The result of this will be, that the General
Council of the Upper Garrone, in making their allotment
&the taxes, will have to charge the city with a fifth in-
stead of a seventh of the whole amount to be paid by the
department ; the. city will pay more, the commerce less.
This is the secret of the resistance of the Municipal
Council of Touloitse, the motive of the resistance of all
the Municipal Councils. It is local interest, the meanest,
the kindest, the most deplorable of all interests, which
contends against the distribution ordered by justice and
by the laws for the general interest.—Le Temps.
A Journal announces that the garrison of the capital
will be almost entirely changed after the breaking up of
the camp at Compeigne, which will be formed on the Ist
of next month.

The Spanish Journal El Hablador Patriota, says.—
" We learn that the Government of Morocco is causing
a brig of 18 guns,, and a schooner, the destination of
which is unknown, to be armed and equipped in the port
of Larache. We advise the Spanish Government to have
this armament carefully watched.—Le Constitutionnel.
BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17.

first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Prig. Price
French 5 per Cents ll6 45 ... lid 50 ... 1.6 45 ... 116 45
4 per Cents 99 70 ... 99 70 ... 99 70 ... 99 70
3 per Cent,. ex. div 77 50 ... 77 50 ... 77 40 ... 77 4)
flank of Vranc^
4...ie,an !Sank, New lOlO ...ICIO ...1..10 ...10S)
Belgian 5 per Cents. ...
New Loan IC4 ... 1.4 ... 103% ... 108%
ipanish Active £o ... 403‘ ... 1:0.4 ... I:0%
Passive 4% ... 4% ... 4% ... 4%
New Deferred
!ieapolitan lO4 N ... lit 4 45 ... 194 ?A ....04 45

Ronian ... 102% ...102% ...10259
RAILWAY SHARES.
_ _

St. Germain ____
720 ... 728 75 ... 721 ... 728 75
Versailles. LB 205 ... 207 50 ... 205 ... 207 : 0
KB ..........
Ulan

°deaf)* ..
Strasblug to Bale ........ 237 50 ... 237 50 ... 237 50 .. 237 50

CHILDREN DOING THE DUTY OF PARENTS.—One of
the remarkable things stated at the Manchester Confe-
rence, of which several instances were given, was, that
whole families.are sometimes supported by the labour of
one or two children who are fortunate enough to be kept
in employment, while their parents and brothers can find
nothing to do. There is little demand for the labour of
adults, and could not the children find work, whole fa-
milies would be starved.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.

The Stock Market looked steady to-day in the absence
of any transactions of magnitude. • The unfunded debt,
however, ranged somewhat lower on account of the con-
tinued demand for accommodation. Consols for imme-
diate transfer realized 893 to 893, and for Account, 891,
was the only quotation. Exchequer Bills felt the influ-
ence of the scarcity above alluded to, and were not done
higher than 12 to 15 prem. East India Bonds 6to 3
prem. ; Bank Stock was dull at 168 to 169; the New
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. ranged from 981 to I; and
the Three per Cent. Reduced from 894 to if.
The Foreign Market presented a slight increase of ac-
tivity, but this was attended by no rally in the general
run of quotations. The Spanish Active Bonds were
marked 19% to 1, being scarcely so good as yesterday ;
Portuguese New Five per '
Cents., being the first bargain
this week were done at 29-i • olombian Stock was at
203 to 4 ; Mexican at 25*, and Brazilian at 67 ; Aus-
trian Metalliques were at 109, and Dutch Five per
Cents. at 102, being firm prices.
Shares supported the improved appearance we have
noticed for the last two or three days. Great Western
Railway shares were 161, the New 63 to 3, the Fifths 43,
tho London and Birmingham Thirds 213, the New 213
to 223, the York and North Midland 28 to 273, and the
South Western 13 to 13i premium. Brighton Shares
were 51 to 53, Greenwich New 23, Manchester and
Leeds 14, North Midland 35, and the New 83 discount.
Gosport Shares were premium. London Joint Stock
Bank Shares were 2i-{ premium. Union of Australia, 53
premium, and National of Ireland 21 discount.
The Foreign Exchanges were firm this afternoon, and
if anything a shade higher. Bills on Paris were nego-
tiated at 25f. 623 c. to 673 c., on Amsterdam at, 12 4 to 3,
on Hamburgh at 13 9 to 3, on Antwerp at 12 33 to 3, on
Frankfort at 1493, and on Trieste at 9,48 to 50.
The private advices by the Great Western steamer,
will not be delivered till to-morrow.

FOREIGN.

The Hendrik Hudson, of New York, 1,000 tons bur-
then, a new line-of-packet ship, commanded by Captain
Morgan, arrived on Thursday in the St. Katherine-docks
from New York, with a cargo and a great number of
passengers. She was locked in after high water. This
splendid ship has attracted great and deserved attention.

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" Who runs may read."

Adviees from Paris, .of Thursday's date, state that
riots in opposition to the taking of the census continue
throughout the South of France. The Paris Journals
discuss no other topic.
The Moniteur has an article stating that resistance to
the census is useless. There is in France, says the offi-
cial Journal, no obstacle, no embarrassment, sufficiently
serious to cheek the execution of the laws.

The National asks if the resistance by tax-payers to
excessive demands be a new fact in history, and contends
for the right Of Frenchmen to resist the census.
The Constitut ionnel admits that there was no truth in
the report that Espartero had refused to renew the lease
of the ;Military Hospital at Mahon. We stated from the
first that the project for abandoning the hospital was vo-
luntary on the part of the French Government, and
adopted to prevent the establishment of a similar institu-
tion by the British Government.
From Spain the news is of the 12th instant,
Conspiracies against the Regency were reported to be
organizing at Malaga, Valencia, Seville, and Granada.
The partizans of Christina and the Pope are busy in
every part of Spain, urging the people to take up arms
against usurpation and infidelity.
Rumours of a war between Spain and Portugal were
current in Madrid. Were he not restrained by a dread
of France, Espartero would soon break down the barriers
which make two kingdoms of what Nature intended
should be one.

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