The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-06 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

Continual overflows, signal success of the Cask Vaulter, and
increasing desire of the Public to witness Ainsworth's Tower
of London, and the best Pantomime of the Season.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 6.

Will be acted a Grand Historical Romance, founded on and

entitled
THE TOWER OF LONDON.

The Tableau Yivans, splendid Costume, and Appointments,
from the Designs of the celebrates George Crniksitanks.
After which will he repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime,
entitled

HARLEQUIN AND MY LADY LEE; OR, GOOSEY
GANDER AND THE SPELL-BOUND GOSLINGS.
In which the astonishing and incredible evolutions of the Cask
Vaulter will be given, as well as Brunning's Grand Dioramie
Synopsis of Syria ; the Pantomimic Characters by the unri-
valled Bolen* Family; Mr. Seuthby, the Original Clogn ;
Bliss Sharpe, Columbine ; and the astonishing Gymnastique,
Signior Felix Carlo, from Franeeni's, at Paris.

NEW STRAND THEATRE.
On MONDAY EVENING NEXT,
And Every Even:ftg during the Week,
lslh. JA.CORS, the Royal ntooeio
and Engli h Improvisatore, whose wonderful and extraordinary
performances last season attracted many thousands of surprised
and delighted spectators, has taken the above Theatre for a
short season ; the Entertair.ments are entirely new from these
of last year, the Tricks; Transformations, and Illusions per•
formed with a splendid and gorgeous set of apparatus made ex-
pressly fur the occasion, and the Ventriloquism greatly int.
proved by the introduction of a NEW PIECE, entitled THE
LANDI:GBD AT HOME; or, Gout versus Family Griev•
ante, in which Mr. Jacobs gives his astenishing imitations of
twelve imaginary persons.
Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pt, Is. Gd. ; Gallery, Is. Second price:
Boxes, Is. Gd. ; Pit, ls. ; Gallery, 6d.
To cummenco precisely at Half-past Seven o'Clock. Half-
price at a Quarter to Nine o'Clcck.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS SAY.
1L,tning.....53 minutes after I. I Evening 16 infanta after 2.

LONDON:
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1841.

The Earl of RiroN's motion concerning Persia,
which stood in the Lords for Monday, was post-
poned, in consequence of the death of a relative

of that Noble Lord.

Lord BaoucuAm presented a petition for an
equalization of the duties on East and West
India produce, the prayer of which he sup-
ported. The Noble Lord also presented a peti-
tion from the Finsbury Working Men's Asso-
ciation, for the Charter, and in favour of FROST.
Amither Report on the mode of proceeding in
the case of the Earl of CARDIGAN was presented.
It was confined to the persons who may occupy
the space about the Throne.

The Duke of WELLINGTON, it will be seen by

our report, was obliged to leave the House of
Peers on account of illness, but subsequent in-
quiries at his residence were answered by the
assurance that his Grace was a great deal better.
The Peers adjourned to Monday.
in the Commons a considerable number of pe-
titions were presented against the Poor-law; for
the Copyright Bill ; for more Churches ; for the
Charter, &c.
A new writ was issuedlor King's County in
the room of Mr. FITZSIMON, who has accepted
the Chiltern Hundreds.
Lord STANLEY gave notice that he will, on
Monday, put a question to Ministers on the ap-
prehension of Mr. Mact.non, a British subject,
by the authorities of New York.
Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD having given way
with his motion on the Copyright Bill, Lord
Jon RUSSELL moved the thanks of the
House to Sir ROBERT STOPFORD and the
officers and men employed in the Syrian
expedition. The motion was gracefully re-
commended by the Noble Lord, and warmly-
supported by Lord STANLEY, Lord F. EGERTON,
and Sir H. HARDINGE, wllO, referring to Acre
and Sir SYDNEY SMITH, recommended that a
monument should be built to the memory of that
Gallant Officer in St. Paul's. The vote, after.
several Members had spoken, was unanimously
agreed te.
Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD moved the second
reading of the Copyright Bill, and explained
that he had been misunderstood as stickling for
the period of sixty years ; he was not wedded to
that period, and would be ready to adopt thirty
years, according to the Bill introduced_into the
Chamber of Deputies.
Mr. MACAULAY opposed the motion in a long
and able speech, full of anecdotes and facts bear-
ing on the question. He moved that the Bill be
read a second time in six months.

Sir R. Ixous supported Mr. Sergeant TA L-
POURD'S motion, and the Learned Gentleman
having replied, the House divided, and the se-
cond reading was carried by 45 to 38.
Mr. Hawks obtained leave to bring in a Bill

to amend the laws relative to the Medical Pro-
fession, after a few remarks from Mr. WAKLEY
and Mr. WARBURTON, recommending a reform
in the College of Physicians, the College of Sur-
geons, and the Company of Apothecaries. The
Bill was immediately brought in, and read a
first time.

Lord MORPETH'S Irish Registration Bill was
brought in, and read a first time.
The House adjourned till Monday, at a Quarter
before Eight.

It was of course to be expected, after Lord
STANLEY'S remarks on Lord MORPETH'S Bill, that

all the Tory press would join in a furious attack

on it. We are not disappointed; they have done
so ; though none can surpass the Standard in
shameless misrepresentation. Lord MORPETH
quoted in his speech, from the Report of two gen-
tlemen who had been instructed to inquire into
the practice of rating to the poor in the Unions
already established in Ireland, the following sen-
tences. We quote from the report of the Morn-
ing Chronicle which the Standard admits it has
seen:—

By the operation of the 74th section of the Act, the
lower the test of value adopted in the union, the less
proportion of the rate which is to be paid by the tenantry,
and the greater that of the landlords. But, probably from
the causes already referred to, the inhabitants generally
wish the valuators to adopt a long scale of value. In this
desire the majority of the Board of Guardians in every
union we have visited concurred. The impulse towards a
low valuation is nearly universal. We made minute in-
quiries in each union with a view to ascertain what test
of value had in fact been adopted. The test of value en-
joined by the Poor Relief Act is the rent at which, one
year with another, the tenement in its actual state might
be reasonably expected to let from year to year, the pro-
bable annual average costs of the repairs, insurance, and
othes expenses, if any, necessary to maintain it in its actual
state, and all rates, taxes, and public charges, except tithe,
being paid by the tenant. In all the unions, however various
the forms of language adopted by the valuators in their
evidence, we found that the test of value which had been
infect adopted in valuing a tenement was the rent at which
a good landlord ought, in their opinion, to let it. And in
pplying this test the valuators have almost universally re-
auced their valuations below the rents even of the most
dndulgent landlords in Ireland. In nine out of the eleven
rural divisions of the union, the actual rents exceeded the
,valuation in proportions varying from 5 to 30 per cent.
So throughout the Report it is stated that the
valuation for rating to the poor was always taken
below the actual rents, and even below the rents
of the most indulgent landlords. A similar prac-
tice prevails in England, and notwithstanding
the recent Act of Parliament to assess property
to its full value, it is very generally, we believe,
assessed below that value. At any rate, to the
time when the Parochial Assessment Act was
passed, it was the general practice to rate pro-
ptrty to the poor at one-third or one-half of its
actual value. The Editor of the Standard would
not have dared to accuse the inhabitants of pious
Islington, or liberal Clerkenwell, of perjury, for
swearing that their property, measured by the
rent, was as 60/. when measured by the valuation
for rates it was only as 401. Yet the Standard
boldly accuses the Irish of perjury on account of
a simil discrepancy. Lord MORPETH gave a
list of the electors in different places, who, judg-
ing by their rents, had been placed on the re-
gistry, and who, judging by the valuation,
would have been rated below 10/., in order to
show that, by adopting the criterion of rating,
and preserving the 10/. franchise, the number of
electors would be decreased. On this difference
between the rent paid, or the actual value of the
property, and the value put on it by assessors,
in order to rate it to the popr, the Standard
makes out the following case :
Registered electors, all of whom have sworn up to a
101. qualification 2OO
Number of those whose tenure was really worth less
than 10/., but more than 51 5O I
Number of those whose tenure was worth miss THAN

FIVE POUNDS I i •
Leaving of unperjured electors, but 133 out of 200, or
about forty per cent. of perjurers.

Such are the gross and shameless misrepresen-
tations by which the cause of the Church and of
the Tories is supported. These men are no more
perjurers than the Editor of the Standard would
be a perjurer if he should swear that a certain
house in Clerkenvvell is worth 701. a year, when
it is or was rated to the poor only at 501. But
piety and Protestantism are of themselves such
estimable qualities, that no vice seems too gross
iu the professors of them to secure their predo-

Having thus exposed the calumnious misrepre-
sentation of our Contemporary, we shall proceed
to notice the not less mischievous conduct of his
leader. Lord STANLEY has introduced into the
House of Commons a Bill to establish a vexa-
tious system of registration in Ireland, allowing
of objection after objection, and appeal after
ap-
peal ; and to make this more vexatious and more
objectionable, he 14as left undefined the thing to
be objected to. What would our readers think
of the Legislature establishing Courts to try bur-
glary or forgery, and leaving the people ignorant
of what is meant by forgery or burglary ? What
would be said of it if it multiplied excisemen, and
created Excise Courts in every village, to pit
down contraband trading, and omitted to state
what is contraband trade ? But this is tantamount
to Lord STANLEY'S conduct. He makes a whole
heap of regulations about the exercise of a pri-
vilege, and leaves that privilege so vague and un-
defined, that neither Judges, barristers, nor states_
men are agreed as to what it is. If the Noble
Lord had deliberately concerted a scheme to pro-
mote vexatious litigation, and to disfranchise the
people, he could not have acted in a manner
more appropriate to attain his object.
Lord MORPETII has gone to work in a different
manner. He, too, has proposed a Bill to amend
the registration of Ireland, but he has accom-
panied the regulations with a clear and precise
franchise. Whatever opinion may be formed of
the sum at which he fixes it, no person can for a
moment deny that it is wise, philosophical, and
just to define the franchise before making regu-
lations for its exercise—to settle what the privi-
lege is before appointing Judges to decide whe-
ther it be possessed or not. On all the principles of
common sense, the course pursued by Lord
MORPETH is superior to that of Lord STANLEY,
who would punish a man for not performing a
duty without telling him What his duty is, and
without enabling him by any possibility to find
it out.

But while Lord STANLEY pursues this unjust
course, let the reader mark the excessively arro-
gant tone with which he speaks of those who have
a dwelling of the net annual value of 5/. He
sneers at such persons as constituting a body of
free and independent voters. They are not born
to riot in the spoils of others; they are not ric
landowners ; they do not swell their rent-roll
taxing other persons' bread; they are hones,
hard-working men, whose industry scarcely sui:
fices to supply their wants, because rapacious law-
makers plunder and degrade them. He may dis_
pise them ; but it is surely a more praiseworthy
occupation to cultivate the land than to make
bad laws. It may be agreeable to some man's tem-
per to make rabid speeches night after
night against masses of his fellow-creatures,
and kindle into active strife all the latent
prejudices of people having a different origin,
and professing a different religion; but such
injurious to the community as
toiriaetolar
oratory is
arsosf the humble husbandman which
feed it are beneficial. Better is it to harrow the
ground than insult the feelings of a sensitive
people. Better is it to break clods and cut turf
than to send artillery galloping through the
land to extort wealth from a population of Ca-
tholics, for an idle, worthless, Protestant priest-
hood. By such conduct has Lord STANLEY dis-
tinguished himself; and has been as great a
curse to the country as the honest cultivator ofthe
ground is a blessing to it. He may be proud of his
oratory, but it is one of the most mischievous gifts
that ever made a man an object of national
hatred. He may despise the dwellers in houses
rated to the value of 51.; but when they come to
know themselves, and appreciate properly his
and their relative worth—his title will no
longer command respect, and he will be deprived
of
the power of injuring, and of the privilege of
insulting his humble fellow-countrymen.

We were amused yesterday to find two Jour-
nals which have taken directly opposite views

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