The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-18 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

'rriumpliant again ! Overwhelming Success of Ains:vorth's
Tower of London. Nightly overflows. Upwards of 57,00 U
Persons have a!rvady witnessed the best Pantomime in
London.

THIS EVENING, JAN. 18,

Will be acted a Grand Historical Romance, founded on and

entitled
THE TOWER OF LONDON.

Tho Tableaax Vivans, splendid Costume, and Appointments,
from the Designs of the celebrated George Criiiksbanks.
A tier w hick will be repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime,
entitled

HARLEQUIN AND MY LADY LEE; OR, GOOSEY
GANDER. AND THE SPELL-BOUND GOSLINGS.
In which the unrivalled Artistes, the Boleno Family; Mr.
Southby, the Original Cloxn; Miss Sharpe, Columbine : and
the astonishing Gymnastique, Signior Felix Carlo, from Fran-
coni's, at Paris, will perform : concluding with Brunning's
Gaud Dioramic Synopsis of Syria.

MOH- WATER AT I.ONIAW BRIDGE THIS AY.
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LONDON:
MONDAY, JANUARY 18. IF4I.

There is to be a great meeting of the people this
week at Leeds. For what purpose ? ask the vast
multitude of the nation. And who dare answer
tile question honestly ? Not the Tories ; for they
are, and always have been, afraid of meetings of
the people. And what answer do the Whigs give ?
—passive resistance merely ; for if they had lent
a willing hand to work out the good fruits of the
Reform Bill, there would not Now be any
necessity for a meeting of the people in the
chief town of the greatest county of this king-
dom. But so it is. The Reform Bill was said
to he ine.int for the benefit of the many ; it has
turned to the advantage of the few, as the long list
of GEtEYLINGS can well testify; and now the
people begin, too late, to find out that they were
mistaken. This feeling has been bandied about,
and re-echoed from town to city, front
county to shire, until at last the stream
of public indignation has burst the bounds
of Whig and Tory decorum, and now fairly
challenges the mock lawgivers to meet the repre-
sentatives (2f the people at Leeds. We say the
representatives of the people emphatically, for they
cannot be called such w ho succumb to Whig or Tory
domination, as the weathercock may shift or turn,
And what will be the topics mooted at this mee'cing
of Indescriptibles ?—for such will be the term applied
to it by both Tory and Whig. The answ. er is--
the general good of the people at larr..4e, and not
the especial gain of the few in particuLar." If the
pressure of the taxes—that is the law s—fell on a I
alike, there would be no fair occasiou:for grumbling ;
but when people who can see and -.feel like their
better neighbours, look on and observe the vast
disproportion of good and evil meted out to
them—that is, taxation without -voice or volition
in its enforcement—is it not natural that the
spirit which GOD has implanted in their hearts—
" Do unto man as man would do, unto you"
should rebel at the monstrous misvnlication of the
common dictates of humanity ? If men in high
places do wrong, is not that a te,mptation to those
who look up to them for advice road exarny,de to do
likewise ? What right has one Irian over 'his fellow-
men to do that which lie would not -suffer in his
own person ? Would he rob his neigh hour of half
his loaf, and say that the circutrist2tices of his posi-
tion justified such robbery ? And. yet : so it is. The
Corn-law is a greater curse thain .ie plagues of
Egypt—for there the oppressor scow rged all alike ;
but our modern calamity is a ended plague,
which falls only on those wh
misfor-
tune to be pc r, thereby fully have the
'illco
ustratina the truth
of the Gospel--" From him
who is poor, take
away that which he has got."
And to complain again st such iniquity were

vain unless it be done with the voice of thunder.
By thunder we do not mean such thunder as
brought rebellion to common sense at Acre ; bu.
the mysterious thunder that wakens the sleeping,
conscience of the landowner and the aristocrat, and
the thousand other scheming vermin who fatten on
the vitals of the people, and keep their superior
in a dreamy delusion for the time being.
But can such things last ? Has iniquity
ever prospered in the long run ? If it did,
there would soon be an end of the world. Men
might as well or better die of starvation in
company with their oppressors, than work out
their lives for the benefit of those who ask all

and give nothing.
And such, if we mistake not, is the feeling of
those who are to assemble at Leeds—be they
'Whigs, Tories, or Chartists. Being men, they
all deserve our sympathies, for true philanthropy
does not condescend to deal in creeds of politics or
religion ; the sunshine and the rain of heaven visit
all alike, and why should not the presentiment of
man take a higher and a wider scope in the
administration of his humble sphere ?
One thing is quite clear, if there were not deep-
rooted grievances festering in the minds of the
people, such a meeting as that expected at Leeds
would not and could not take place. Hitherto the
aristocracy have had all their own way, and things
went on apparently smoothly until one portion
began (that is of the aristocracy) to think that
the other had too much of the good things—
the people in the mean time, as in all times past,
were never thought of; but wken rebellion mani-
fested itself among the law-makers, it was high
time for the people to think. Now, thinking fot
those who were not intended to think, is a trouble-
some dilemma ; and so it was thought safer, by
those of the refractory aristocracy, who wanted to
turn the masses to account, to take the thinking
part of the question into their own hands, and, by
professedly stemming the tide of corruption, to
turn all things to their own account. And so it
has been with the Reform Bill. Lord GREY and
all his followers, with few exceptions, turned its
stream of popular benefit to their own selfish account,
and, behold, the result I The people, who achieved
everything for the professed good of all, obtained
nothing but the satisfaction that their leaders were
provided for, and that the multitude would be happy
in good time.

Now this mockery has at last fairly worked itself
out, and people have been asking, and are now
asking, what is meant br Reform, for they cannot
understand what HAS been meant by the Bill—
"the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill." If
they go to the Whigs, the answer is,
—" We are in place :" If they turn to the Tories
the answer is, perhaps, not so satisfactory to both
parties—" We are turned out of place !" And if
they go a step beyond, and enter the mysterious
regions of conscience, they will be told to believe
and pay—for that is the doctrine of those whose
pleasure it is to will it so for the support of their
vessel of State, which has hitherto sailed along with
" Church at the prow, and Corn-laws at the helm."
Aye 1 these Corn-laws cut with as double-edged a
sword as the abhorrent exactions of the Church ;
and, both evils compounded for, they go hand in
hand in the work of iniquity. How can the propa-
gators of such damnable doctrines reconcile it
to their own conscience, that one man should
labour and starve, while the other should laugh
and eat ? Such doctrines may answer very
well in fancy, but they never will act. And how
could they be supposed to act, while men felt as
men ? You must not hold the language of slaves
to freemen, any more than you would change the
present Siberian winter to the sultry climes of Africa.

Some thirty years ago a-violent and just outcry
was raised against the Commander-in-Chief of the
day—the Duke of YORK, for certain malversations
in his department, which are still fresh in the re-
collection of men of mature years. These malver-
sations were mixed up with the intrigues of a
worthless but clever woman, and as they were
considered of a dangerous tendency, a Parlia-
mentary inquiry was instituted, which led to the
retirement of the illustrious Duke. His conduct, no
doubt, was bad, and deserved such a retribution, but
was it half so injurious to the public service, or so
dangerous to the security of the army, as the sys-
tem which now prevails at the Horse Guards, un-
der a Reformed and Liberal Government ? It was
a simple and amusing episode compared with the
disclosures which have been produced by the con-
duct of the Earl of CARDIGAN, the partiality of
Lord HILL, and the complaints which have
poured into the Horse Guards from almost every
Officer of the 11 th Hussars. At first no redress
was to be obtained. The commanding officer
was justified in every one of his acts, however
tyrannical ; the inferior officers were reprimanded
and humbled ; acts of insult were repeated without
redress ; and though the general voice of the coun-
try was loud in denouncing a system of tyranny un-
heard of in these times, Lord HILL and Lord
FITZROY SOMERSET still persevered in protecting
the Noble Lord who had caused all the disturb-
ance. As the Session of Parliament approaches,
however, a change appears to have taken place. The
orders ofloid CARDIGANhaVebeen countermanded,
reproofs have been addressed to him, and a num-
ber of the individuals on whom he had trampled
have obtained leave of absence, some for six months,
some for two years, and others have received pro-
mises (if -we arc to credit a new Journal, apparently
well infrAmed on these subjects) that they shall
never li,e required again to serve under the same
commanding officer. Can anything be more subver-
siveof military discipline than the wholesystem which
has been pursued for the last twelve months ?
W bile almost every officer in the 11th; Hussars
',vas insulted in a manner that no private gentleman
would submit to, and remained submissive solely
from military instinct, the Horse Guards did not
afford him the slightest protection, but on the con-
trary, favoured the very individual whom every man
in the United Kingdom believed to be the
cause of all the mischief. The delinquency
of the Duke of YORK was a trifle compared
with this, and if the House of Commons do
not take up the question in a way that shall
put an end to this aristocratical and tyrannical
system, the people, and also the army, will look
for new representatives. It is said Lord HILL is
to retire, and possibly also Lord FITZROY
SOMERSET may find it expedient for the time
to adopt the same course, but will the country be
satisfied with these temporary expedients ? The
system at the Horse Guards is subversive of disci-
pline and justice, and if the House
RaofdcCioamilefrm
Commons do
not take take steps to produce a
it may spring up from parties who will not carry it
through with so much security to the throne or the
peace of society. In another part of the paper will
be found some extracts from a Journal i
(the Alli-
gator) which throws some new light on the history
of Capt. J. REYNOLDS, the Earl of CARDIGAN,
and the Horse Guards.

By the brig Harebell, Captain CHIJDLEIGIT;
which arrived at Falmouth on Thursday afternoon,
from Buenos Ayres, advices have been received
confirming the news brought by the French tele-
graph from Brest of the restoration of peace be-
tween France and the Argentine Republic. The
Harebell left Buenos Ayres on the 10th of No-
vember, eight days after the French Admiral had