The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-04 00:00:00

EVENING SUN

T LIE DIVISION ON THE ADDRESS.

After a debate of four nights the House of Commons
came to a division on the Address on Saturday morning
Jut, when the numbers stood as follow :

For the amendment
Against it
Majority against Ministers —9l
This majority is considerably larger than was anticipated
in any quarter ; but even if the members composing it
were a united party, instead of one made up of most dis-
cordant materials, it could not be looked upon as the work-
ing majority of Sir B. Peel. Counting the tellers on both
sides, and omitting the Speaker, who only gives a casting
vote in case of equality, there were present 633 Members
—a larger Home than has been assembled for many
years. The remaining Members are thus accounted for:—
there were two pairs, three seats vacant, Bradford, North
Yorkshire, and Meath (the latter in consequence of Mr.
O'Connell's return for both Meath and Cork), and three
Tories and fifteen Liberals absent without pairs. Sup-
posing the vacancies to be occupied in the same manner
as at the last election, and counting the Speaker, the
numbers will stand thus :-290 Liberals to 368 Tories,
giving the latter a majority of sevent-eight. Of the
fifteen absent Liberals one only is known to have pur-
posely abstained from voting—General Johnson, the
Member for Oldham—and that for reasons worthy of
Dogberry himself. On Saturday the Gallant (would
we could say the sapient) General thought it neces-
sary to explain these reasons. They were, in ef-
fect, that he disapproved of the Whigs in some
respects, and had no confidence whatever in the
Tories. argai he would not throw the obstruc-
tion of his vote in the way of a Tory -Ministry.
The General had not the wit to choose the lesser of two
evils, and it was to a similar instance of stolidity on his
part and that of his colleague, Mr. John Fielden, that the
Tories owed their Majority of one on the want of confi-
dence motion in the last Parliament. We wish the peo-
ple of Oldham joy of their representatives. Looking,
however, to the Tory majority, whether it be eighty or
ninety, and leaving out of question its heterogeneous
composition, we do not regard it as a subject of despon-
dency, or consider it as one which can long withstand the
force of public opinion. We have been at the pains of
analyzing the division list, and we have drawn up the
following table, which distinguishes the votes of the
borough, University, and county Members, for and
against the amendment on the Address, including the
the tellers :

360
269

Majority
For. Agst. For. Agst
Boroughs—English and Welsh 156 ... 170
Scotch
Irish _l6 ... 20
Universities—English ...... 4 4 ...
Irish
Counties—English and Welsh 138 ... 16 ......I 22
Scotch l 9
Irish 95 36

362 271

139 4
48

Tory majority 9l
From this table it appears that of the borough Mem-
bers of England, Scotland, and Ireland, a majority of
thirty-seven have declared in favour of a Liberal Minis-
try, notwithstanding the frightful extent of bribery and
corruption which prevailed in England at the last general
election, and notwithstanding the gross official partisan-
ship and horrid iniquities which foisted in for the time
Tory representatives for several of the Irish boroughs.
The Irish counties also add eleven to the Liberal ma-
jority. It is from the English and Scotch counties only,
and from the universities—those strong holds of bigotry
and intolerance—that the Tories derive a majority more
than sufficient to swamp the voice of the boroughs. The
English counties are notoriously in the hands of the Corn-
law-making landlords,' as effectually as ever the rotten
boroughs were in those of the boroughmongers ;—the
Scotch counties have been won by the wholesale creation
or fictitious votes ; and the Universities but express the
voice of persons, lay and clerical, who look forward to
be provided for in one way or other at the public ex-
pense. The struggle about to ensue is, in fact, one be-
tween town and country ; between grasping oligarchs
and monopolists on the one hand, and the rights of in-
dustry, skill, and enterprise on the other. Considering
the elements and nature of the struggle, it requires no
extraordinary foresight to know by which side the vic-
tory must ultimately be achieved ; but woe betide the
party which for the base and sordid purpose of its own
aggrandizement, at the expense of the general good,
shall drive that struggle to extremity.—Liverpool
Mercury.

THEATRICALS IN ST. PETERS

BURGH.

(From the Literary Gazette of this day.)
St. Petersbnrgh, 1-13th August, 1841.
have been here all the summer. Carter (the Lion-
liing) has been ill for upwards of two months, and has
been unable to pertain]. lam very much delighted with
this place (mach more so than
:last year) : everything
here is so orderly and elegant—the amusements, the
rides, rivers, baths, reviews, and fetes, civil, military, and
religions.

Four miles from the- city is the Kammeroy OStroff
(Stone Island) Theatre. A delightful place it is. The
French performances Only' are given here during the
summer, when all -the nobility are at their country re-
sidenc .4 near the islands. Last night the, officers of the
French man4AtWar come to take away the
Ambassador) were thew() see La Munsarde du Crime.
Mr. Bochsa and Mrs. Bishop are at Moscow. , The
cure all-celebrated Sontag is hero. She is wife of Count
Rossis, the Sardinian Ambassador.
Ole Bull has had some excellent concerts ; and-Made-
moiselle Mayer (of the Varieties Theatre, Paris), has
married Alexandre.
.Itressaut, from the Theatre' Francais, has been en-
gaged, with 6,000 roubles tittrucnt in appointments only
The deficiency of reezipts' over expenditure i5'500.,000

roubles a year. - '
On Wednesday (August 11) the Duchess' Weimar,
sister to the Emperor, visited the Grind Ththare, on'
which occasion it was illuminated, exhi!,iting-the extra-
ordinary sight of an imitation, -in jets deem.; of the
futmtains at Peterhoff, in a fairy scene with 'a' group of
'nymphs, &c. It is a sight that unlimited Wealth .mid•
control over labour could alone accomplish. 'Taney the
waterworks of Versailles, and you may realise what was
seen al: the Bolsha (great) Theatre.
'But the finest fun is the representation of a piece in
Itussia.a, at the Alexandre Theatre. It is called Kcan,
or Genics- end Fa? ; and carries out the affair of Mrs.
Co.' in a dramatic point of view, and the various real or
imaginary vagaries of that renowned performer It em-
braces a great variety of incidents. At one time Kean
is consulted by a lady, who desires to go en the stage ;
and Kean (being sober) advisci her against such acourse.
In that scene I heard about the only words I could un-
derstand, and these Were Fanny Kemble" and
Macready."

The next scene is in—Vi;up;iing - There Kean drinks
champagne in the lowest • kind :of grog-shop with a
Russian stove in it,. prevents a villain (who actually
enters in a black cloak and mask) from seducing the
landlord's daughter, and has a pitched battle with fists.
Ile then appears in his dressing-room, where Mr. Al-
derman Cox, hqh!te cornice cc pair d'Anylaerre, and his
lady enter. whilst Kean LI dressing. Mr. Cox and his
lady retire ; Mrs. C. returning, having forgotten her fan,
which cuts an important figure in the lust scene. Kean
ri:Fuses to act. With great difliculty the call-Ipoy and
the manager ;;et him on the stage to play Romeo, the
last part Of which is actually performed. Mr. Kean for-
gets his part ; the prompter conies from the side ; the
actor grows indignant,' nod sees Mrs. Cox in the private
box (erected On the stage)—produces her fan—goes into
hysterics—and quotes from other plays. 11Ii lir Cox and
his lady rise.. Persons from behind the scene rush on
and catch the.lie6 ; the curtain falls, and a little gentle-
man, a fiiend-of.Kean:s (perhaps John Hughes ?) steps
flovard, " like„Niobe, all tears," begs to know if there
he :i. doctor in the pit, makes an apology, and the curtain
falls
. _

Narateegan is the Kean ; and most admirably he acts
it. He has a fine commanding,figure, is a great favourite
—in short, is the Forrest 'of Russia.
It is said here that. the young Duke of Leuchtenberg
(the Emperor's son-in-law) is to be Viceroy of Poland.
This would be a popular appointment.
a'aglioni will be here on the Ist of October. She
commences a six-nights' engagement at Stockholm on
the 15th of September. . •
The Russian steam-frigate, built at New York, is
hourly expected.
The Russians are the finest linguists in the world.
The middle and upper classes all speak French and Ger-
man, in addition to their own language—German is the
universa4. S.

1110S'

EMIGRATION TO CANADA.—By the official
papers forwarded to England by Lord Sydenham, rela-
tive fo the present aspect of affairs in Canada, it appears
that the results of the returns regarding the arrivals of
emigrants at the port of Quebec were between May 6
and June 26, 1841, the number of 16,071, being an in-
crease of 1,505 persons more than up to the same period
in the preceding year. Four days of May alone brought
a most prolific number, as there arrived in that period
of time no less than 8,000 emigrants ; and among them
all there were scarce 30 cases of sickness for the hospi-
tal. Out of these emigrants, 460 had been assisted hy
their landlords ; 190 by the Prince George ; 15 em-
barked at London sent out by the Poor-law Commis-
sioners ; 116 had embarked at Gravesend, sent out
by Lord Portman from his estates in Dorset and Kent ;
and 59 from the House of Industry, Isle of Wight, and
the parishes of Salethurst and Readcourt. There were
alio 180 connected with the Carlton Emigration Society,
the greater part of whom were handloom weavers, as-
sisted to emigrate by the liberality of private individuals
or public bodies ; 45 persons were enabled to emigrate
by Lord Charlemont from his estates in Armagh ;
48 persons, from Limerick, were assisted by
Colonel Wyndham. Very few of these emigrants
go to the United States, but chiefly strike into
Montreal and the midland districts. The only evil that
has arisen connected with the immigration this season,
arose from the unwillingness of the lower class of
labourers to accept work at Quebec and Montreal, from
the hope of obtaining higher wages in the more distant
parts of the country. The delusive nature of this hope
will, however, bo in future checked, by publicity being
giren toLord Syden ham's report on this point. The returns
from the emigrant stations at Bytown, Toronto, and
Hatnilton, up to the 30th of June, 1841, give the return
of emigrants, via the Ridean canal, 5,660 ; by way of the
St. Lawrence, 2,750 ; presenting a total of 8,410. The
,ata&ment that a great many emigrants bad abandoned
o SEN ia,rihelprovinee, and gone to the United States, is untrue.
144 75% ibeur on the American side of the line is, along with
on scarcer than on the Canadian side, and many, on
the 41' rary, have returned from the States on the look
out fOi-better prospects. The accounts of the health
and prospects of these immense masses of people are
unusually pleasing, and in every shape satisfactory.

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