The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-30 00:00:00

ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.

The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell,llarTrug ton,
White, Stanwood, and Gormon, will have the honour of repeat-
ing their Inimitable ENTERTAINMENTS, at the above Theatre,
THIS EVENING (Saturday) and every Tuesday, Thursday, and
Saturday. Doors open at Eight o'clock, and the Entertainment com-
mences at Halt-past Eight. And, in consequence of the continued
demand for places, will repeat their DAY PERFORMANCE on
Wednesday Morning next, Feb. 3, and every Wednesday Morning
until Easter. Doors open at Two o'clock, and the performance
commences at Half-past Two. Ths Progrannne will be varied on
each occasion.
Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Amphlteatre, 25.
Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be engaged at Mitchell's
Library, 33, Bond-street ; and at the Box-office.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
\ fr. BATTY respectfully begs to acknowledge the unprecedented
success bestowed on his productions at the above Establishment,
and, in returning thanks, purposes devoting a night for the benefit
and relief of the destitute Irish and Scotch, on THURSDAY, Feb
11. The evening's receipts will be given, and the extensive re-
'sources of the Theatre will be brought into action.
Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince
Albert, Prince of Wales, and Royal Family. Grand Juvenile
Fetes, and last week of " The Demon Horse."
TIIIS EVENING
Will be performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en-
titled THE DEMON MORSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the
Charmed Bit.
Entire change of the SCENES of the CIRCLE.
To conclude with the successful Comic Equestrian Fairy Pantomime,
entitled THE FORTY TIIIEVES; or, Harlequin and Ali Baba and
the Robber's Cave. Clown, Mr. Rochez ; Harlequin, Mr. W. Har-
vey; Pantaloon, Mr. Laffarini ; Columbine, Miss Louisa Waite.
Box-office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six
and commence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W.
It roadfoot.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davldge.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed a new Drama, entitled BABY RATTLER ; or,
The Progress of a Scamp. Characters supported by the whole
stgength of the Company.
To conclude with a grand fairy Pantomime, called THE KING
OF THE CASTLE ; or, Harlequin in the Land of Dreams. Har-
lequin, Herr Dentin; Pantaloon, Herr R. Denali ; Columbine, Mdlle.
Theodore ; Clown, Kerr N. Deulin ; Punch, Herr E. Deulln.

no such practice had been adopted, and that there was
no other probable cause for this comparative prosperity,
to the operation of which it could reasonably b•
ascribed. Such a result would naturally afford the
strongest presumptive evidence of the salutary effects
and beneficial action of this peculiar custom, and that
if brought into general use throughout the kingdom
there would be similar effects. He therefore became
the strenuous advocate for the extension of the Ulster
tenant-right to all parts of Ireland, for affording the
tenant-farmer such a permanency of tenure as would
create a feeling of proprietorship in his mind, and
induce him to expend his capital on the land, to bring
it to the highest degree of cultivation, and to effect
permanent and lasting improvements, with the full
conviction that he would receive an adequate return
therefor, either in the length and certainty of his
enjoyment of its fruits, so long as it suited him to
retain the possession of his holding, or by obtaining a
fair compensation for his outlay and labour, should it
become desirable for him to change his residence. In
Parliament and out of Parliament he has laboured
incessantly for the promotion of this his favourite
project, and we are delighted to find that he has
given notice of motion for Tuesday next, so as to
obtain a full discussion of the subject.
The unjust and iniquitous penal laws by which our
Roman Catholic brethren were so long and so cruelly
oppressed, by which liberty of conscience was assailed,
and the right of every man to worship his CREATOR
in the manner which he deemed most proper curtailed
and taken away, produced much mischief. By a sort of
retributive justice they recoiled upon and injured
the properties of those by whom they were enacted
and continued. This led to the system so injurious
to the country generally—the creation of a body of
middlemen, who, having but a partial and precarious
interest in the land, and little regard for its perma-
nent improvement, were too, often guilty of the
greatest oppression towards theikcupiers, and sought
by every means in their power to extort the greatest
present gain, the highest rack-rent that could be
wrung from the hard-working and ill-used cottier. The
landlord was restricted in the choice of his tenant to
those who could alone enjoy a permanent tenure, or
become entitled to the elective franchise—to such
persons long terms were granted, and all the rights
and duties of proprietor devolved upon a class the
most likely to abuse them.

During the late war the value of land was greatly
enhanced, and these middlemen derived very large
profits ; they exacted to the utmost farthing from the
occupier, and as if they supposed that their pros-
perity would be lasting, and that the high prices of
every description of agricultural produce would con-
tinue, they expended the entire amount of their
receipts without making any provision for a rainy
day or a reverie of fortune. On the peace of 1815 a
fearful re-action took place. First, the sub-tenants
became unable to pay the rents they had assumed
during the existence of war prices, and soon after-
wards, as a natural consequence, the midlleman
himself was unable to meet his engagements with
the real owner, and he found himself, perhaps with
an expensive family, unskilled in any of the means
by which they might earn their daily bread, involved
in total ruin. He naturally struggled to the
last against this state of things, and while
he got into arrears with the head landlord
he adopted every means to extract the last shilling
from his own dependents. If improvements were
effected he made no allowance to the person whose
labour was expended thereon ; he only regarded
them as a means of obtaining a higher rent, and the
industrious and improving tenant was either driven
from his holding or compelled to undertake payments
which it was impossible for him to liquidate. Hence
careless and negligent farming. No one sought to
ameliorate the condition of his holding. If remon-
strated with, the invariable answer was, " Why
should I make improvements, when I do not know if
I shall be permitted to enjoy them ;" and " the want
of time" was the almost universal topic of complaint
in every part of Ireland. In Ulster, however, it was
different, The tenant who performed his part of the
contract was never disturbed ; he was permitted to
dispose of his " goodwill," which often sold for ten
or fifteen years' purchase of the rental. He was
encouraged to make improvements, and these improve-
ments naturally followed. Let any one who doubts
which system was most beneficial for the country
compare the condition of Ulster with the rest of Ire-
land, and his doubts will be removed; and he, too,
will become the advocate of that policy, which is
proved to be of such national advantage.

Lord PALMERSTON is in receipt of an answer from
the French Government to his last dispatch upon the
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maintenance of national honour, to allow the cor-
respondence to close. Until, however, the last docu-
ment be made public, as it soon will be, it is impos-
sible to decide whether the discussion
can, with
pro-
priety, be at once suffered to terminate. As the
matter stands at present before the public, Lord
PALMERSTON must feel proud of the part which Eng-
land has adopted, under the auspices of his adminis-
tration of the Secretaryship of Foreign Affairs. his
diplomatic adversary is sunk to the lowest point of
humiliation. NI. GulzoT is irrecoverably degraded.
He has rendered himself a political eyesore to every.
court of the civilized world. 111. GuizoT is a melan-
choly spectacle. Not many months since, no man
enjoyed a higher reputation than he did. Not only
as an historian, philosopher and a statesman, had he
acquired an enviable and European celebrity, but his
virtues were esteemed to be equal to his talents.
The fullest reliance was placed in his honour and in-
tegrity, and he was considered a choice representative
of the French nation for maintaining her intercourse
with foreign rowers. In an evil hour M. Guizo-r
consented to be the obsequious tool of a subtle and
faithless KING, the bitter effects of which he
is now beginning to feel. Henceforth M.
GUIZOT will find himself placed without
the pale of honourable men. For a time, everything
seemed to smile upon his deceitful maneeuvres.
M. GUIZOT and his colleagues embraced the conceit
that their successful legerdemain would cause them
to be caressed and admired by their own polished and
chivalrous country. To/hinter in altum, ut lapsu
graviore maul. The hour of retribution is at length
come, and how rapid is the fall of the French
Minister ! That portion of the press itself, which
comprises the accredited organs of the Go-
vernment, is shamed into silence by the gross
breach of faith which,
.it is now as . clear as
daylight, stamped the whole of M. GUIZQT
s conduct
in relation to the marriage of the INFANTA. The
tide of public opinion in France herself is rolling
back with fearful strength upon the head of the un-
scrupulous and unprincipled Minister.
We venture to say, that no Old Bailey prac-
titioner would havi had recourse to the miser-
able subterfuge to which M. Guizur descended
before our Ambassador, the Marquis of NOR •
MANBY. The French can never remain passive
till M. GUIZOT be cashiered from office. It cannot
but occur to them, that the Northern Potentates
must chuckle at the idea of receiving a strong
moral protest from M. Guizor, upon the recent in-
corporation of Cracow, whose own hands were
reeking at the time with the most flagrant breach
of morality. How devoid of weight must be every
French remonstrance emanating from the pen
of such a ccnvicted Minister! Lord ABERDEEN,
throughout: the voluminous dispatches, has been
besmeared and bespattered with foul and fulsome
praise by M. Guizor ; but, in the House of Lords
last night, the Earl of ABERDEEN said, "I hope the
House may not be called upon to give any opinion
upon the Spanish marriages." The inference is
plain--there can be but one opinion upon the sub-
ject-matter. Where public sentiment in either
nation is so strongly evinced, it is unnecessary for
Lord ABERDEEN to be more explicit. The French
are keenly sensible that their national interests have
been selfishly sacrificed to a purely dynastic feat.
The English are satisfied that, whilst they alone
sought to consult the independence of Spain, and to
observe treaties inviolate, they have preserved their I
honour immaculate.

The citizens of Salisbury have set an excellent exam-
ple to the electors of England generally, and more
especially to the electors of all Cathedral towns, A

N, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, IM7.