The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-26 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE BOUGHT
to any amount, in Large or Small Lots, for which im-
mediate Cash will be paid.
Mr. PROCTOR will give 2s. in the pound more than any
person in the- kingdom. Send for him; you will be charged
nothing for attendance within 20 miles of Lonton ; he will
leave his price, leaving the sellers to do better if they can.
Apply by letter, or per,onally, at Mr. Proctor's offices, at
Mr. Rees's, 6, Ivy-lane, Newgate-street, city.

DR. LARDNER'S beautiful Models of the
Steam-Engine (including his Sectional Model of Watts'
Condensing Engine, 9 feet in length) have been purchased for
the Polytechnic Institution. Mr. Mangham's Lectures on the
Steam Eugine, practically illustrated by the above, and nume-
rous other Models worked by steam, on Mondays, Wednes-
days, and Fridays, at two o'clock. Chemical and Philosophi-
cal Lectures on the alternate days. The Cromatic Fire Cloud,
411 r. Green's Balo.n, with the Guide Apparatus and P4rachute.
Power and Jacquard Looms at work; 'Weaving beautiful pat-
terns of spun Glass and Silk (Messrs. Williams and Sowerby,
patentees) ' • Diving Bell and Diver ; Specimens of Daguerreo-
type and Electrotype ; Magnetic and Electrical Experi-
ments, &c.
Ajlnittance to the whole Is. Annual subscribers from
1/. 111 to 3/. 3s. A modified scale for scgbols.
Polytechnic Institution, 309, Regent-street.

Price 2s.

AMB'S POETICAL WORKS.
Also, price 2s.
LAMB'S ADVENTURES of ULYSSES. To which is
added, Mrs. LEICESTER'S SCHOOL.
Edward Bloaon, Dover-street.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME
VESTRIS.
LAST NIGHT BUT THREE OF THE SEASON.
THIS EVENING, MAY 26,
Will be presented Shakspere's Comedy of
TWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILL.
Duke Orsino, Mr. Cooper; Valentine, Mr. Fitzjames ;
Sir Toby Belch, Mr. Bartley ; Sir Andrew Ague-cheek, Mr.
Meadows ; Alalvolio, Mr. W. Farren ; Clown, Mr. Harley ;
Viola, Miss Ellen Tree ; Olivia, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Maria,
Mrs. Humby.
To conclude with the New Grand Comic, Romantic, Operatic,
Melodraiaa.tie, Fairy Extravaganza, in Three Parts, entitled
and founded on that popular Nursery Tale,
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD.
The Principal Characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. J. Vining,
Mr. J. Bland, Madame Vestris, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. C.
Boe.
Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second
Circles, sa. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price,
Lts.__; Gallery, ls.

boors to.fre opened at half-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven o'Clock.

Ticked and plat P.s for the Boxes to be taken at the Box-of-
fice, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had
upon application.
Private Loses to be had , -,lely of Mr. Andrews bookseller
10, New Bend-street.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Sixth Week of Haines New Village Tragedy, " The Life of a
Wornan," and still increasing desire of the Public to witneAs
its representation, znd Second Week of " Everybody's Re-
lation," which excites nars of laughter from delighted au-
diences.

THIS EVENING, MAY 2G,
Will be acted the New Village Tragedy, entitled
THE LIFE OF A WOMAN; OR, THE CURATE'S
DAUGHTER.
Realization of Hogarth's celebrated " Harlot's Progress."
After • Inch will be revived the Domestic Drama entitled
VIC ORINE, THE MAID OF PARIS.
To col:clinic with a Now Comie Drama, called
EVERYEOIRY-S RELATION.
Supported by the enti're strength of the Company.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
ERUPTION OF lIECLA !
II Ult SDAY NEXT.
The earnest and unceasing endeavours which have been made
during the winter, to increese still further the magnificence
of tins unparalleled Spectacle have been crowned with the most
comriete success, fully dernonstratea on each Evening of ICS
12:fbibition, by the unanimous and enthusiastic delight with
whio'u each potion of the got polls display was hailed as it pro-
hy the thouaand3 assernhled on those cee7:sions. In com-
eii..ani-e with tht expreised wishes of great numbers of the Vivi-
toil, it will be repeated on Thursday, .Alay -26th, commencing
siiortly heß:re dusk.
The. Panoramic M0d.,1, Al Fresco, of .7.l,Amf I-l Ada, entirely
inc.:ince:l by Mr. Darion, ori,,inal Artist, is exhibiting
dui 77from ten till drwk, with tit,: Menagerie, which i 3 now in
t t nest order, and ini4 lately received osatis i'n2ertant addi-
uens.—Fecifing Five o'clock.

AdmiLlion, One Sh:,i,ng,

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
'With every wish to promote the cause of the o.Yicers who
hare served is the Per,inEuls, "Ind with much gratitude
fur the thatik3 with which they, ac a recent meeting,
honoured the Press, we rolls' decline to insert the reso-
lutiuns forwarded, except as an Advertiser err.
We hate no means of ascertaining the uarnes and proles-
siong of the Jurymen adverted to by a " Constant
Ilea2er," who writes from Birmingham, arid besiles to
give them now would be invidious. At the trial we
-str,:,.ngly reprobated such prosecutions, but the blame
:mach: a to our law-makers, and not to Juries.

A'lEll. AT LONDON 131111',GE TO-110ZIIIOW
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LONDON:
TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1840,

This night Mr. VILLIERS, the untired cham-
pion of free trade ; the enlightened friend,not of
the poor only, but of all classes, for it is hopelessly
impossible for the opulent to live in safety while
the multitude are wretched and reckless—is to
bring forward again his motion. on the Corn-laws.
We despair of its finding as much support as it
eleserves, because the crisis of extreme misery i
past. Cokl and famine have for this season done
their work. Spring and fine Riather have come
earlier and more genially than usual ; trade begins to
feel the season's demand; hope revives ; all have lived
through the worst, and all now again turn to new
labour, and look for their subsistence rather to
their own exertions than to the Legislature. What
the people hare gone through to arrive at this
state, where hope again begins, may be known by
there petitions from agricultural labourers, com-
plaining of not having the " keep of a dog," to
which we have from time to time adverted ;
by the accounts we have published of weavers
receiving 4s. lid, per week for the main-
tenance of a family ; and the lamentable
tales we have inserted of men stealing the meal
from the hog-trough, to satisfy their own and their
- children's cravings. To strengthm all those proofs
we now publish a letter which has been handed to
we from Dr. RYAN to Mr. VILLIERS, and which
is well worthy of perusal, describing the mode of
living of the poor, to which, as a medical man, he
has been. an eye-witness. " Whole fami!ies," he
says,, " subsist week after week on meal gruel,"
and to purchase even that wretched subsistence,
abeerbs their whole income, and they have "nothing
for fuel and clothing." We have no longer to dread
that our population shall be degraded to the level
of the Chinese, or the Jumper-fed Irish ; they have
unhappily reached that point, and 'cannot well be
more degraded. They are worse fed than gentle-
men's dogs, and gather their subsistence from
the hog-trough.
The people have now gone through the pro-
cess of being starved down to the present amount
of subsistence. Fever and diseases of various
kiia, arising from insufficient food and want
cif clothing, have now done their worn, and
for a little while the people will he probably''some-
what better off than they have been. W
that;that;th e epectis will relax the zeal of all but the
most n-
lightened Anti-Corn-law advocates, jest as the Inndiean
forgets in tile morning what were the wants of the
evening before, and looks not forward to the wants
of the next. evening; and we expect, therefore, that
the House of Commons will regard the motion for
the repeal of the cursed Corn-laws with more indif-
ference even than formerly.
,
The worst consequence of the deprivations to
which the people submit with such exemplary pa-
tience, is perhaps, not the temporary suffering, but
the permanent degradation which follows. Men
hovering through the winter on the very brink
of the grave, seeing their little ones a prey
to disease, and carried off by death, find a 'We ly ave inserted elsewhere a letter from a Cor-
great improvement in their condition from the i r est rand ent on the ciensegirences resulting from the
warmth of spring, evcn if it be not accompanied, I 3.03-al . Marriage Act as regards Ireland. There is
se it generally is, a little
increase
of demand for 1..-ot -zhe least doubt that in the event of Sir A uGus-
Jahour and increase of waee, Th f
ey feel momentary TerS..l. ;E.sTE surviving the Duke of SUSSEX, he
pleasure, contentment to 'a
C:ertain degree follows ; f would succeed to the Barony of Aeklow, and to all
they make no effort to net more; and. the next win,,. the
ter, and next short harvest, w ille we know, has ever ventured to assert
ri. lits accruing from that succession. No one,
still atilt more thin th,eie as fa': a-
Act, an Act passed by
numbers by starVation, and more, if possible!, I that the Royal
degrade them below the common level lire when Ireland was a separate
of hamar 't • i the. Br itish Legislat :
aye its
_ wr, _ 0 . ,
it ;.
o 1 e URI C.7,-
We- may look, then, for that •
Leetslature ot
exacme wretched- V.ugd orn with a c
Marriage
nese of which we have given specimensand wiii'Ch ,1 'end try that country.
not the rule
we hope are yet the exceptions,
f that Act will he ad-
to become the general and the permanent e:- i Ivalidity 0 i
.
i re thinks teat theto the extent of
&don of the people of E 1 i ng.ann,. At leastil ; ipitted, by, estitutional lawyers, ,
But, h.' we understand our Correspondentyightly,
on-
y co,.
we are much afraid that the Legislature will ' c 'e • priviroe the is% (IC 0
....1.1--C —USSET withi
net help them,
.Will continue to turn aI t. metc.o f=e the n I: of SI as that cot,_
deaf honour
deaf ear to their just claims, though enforced G - ' MURRAY VS7:A “. .atf
Rs such
ea,
might have
tire cruel . •
by Tory Baronets, and
Iwill not relax o : rid teritanee to wh;*ctk such issue
Britain, had
omfararrilayg eega
Lady
beenA
ti.
fetters it has imposed on their industry nor its hold ( Great _
of their earnings, and will force them to help them- A seti'.l ed within the kingdom of
lime been no Royal Marriage Act. Is our Cor-

su ,ch be the case it will only manifest the more un-
ai how mistaken statesmen ate in their
n( )(ions respecting the forms to be observed when it
is ',intended to maintain the peace of nations. A

ne a ion i 3 as susceptible of frankness—nay, even of
th a enthusiasm of friendship as an individual ; and
it r lay be doubted whether it does not resent as
hit ily as would an individual, in a personal instance,
the. cold diplomatic phraseology which it feels bound
to nitate. In the case of Governments not so

in nc, ediately under the irresistible influence of pub-
)inion as those of Great Britain and the United
St Ats s, there is of course less danger in the affecta-
tio t 2 ctf international reserve and suspicion on the
part . ,f diplomatists, and to such these remarks are
not it, itcnded to apply quite so strongly. But it is
to ,be bz.Yrne in mind that the question of war or
pea ce l )etwcen England and America is one which
the pc( pie will always be more powerful to decide
th.: Goveroments of London and Washington.