The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-22 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

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Entire Change.—Greater attrition than ever.—Engagement
of Mr. Collins. First time these Four Years of " Paul
Clifford, with the splendid Romance of " The Tower of
London ;" the most powerful attraction that can be offered.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 22.
Will be acted the Operatic Drama of
PAUL CLIFFORD.
Paul' Clifford (with all the Original Songs), Mr. Collins.
After which the Domestic Drama of
MARtfIA WILLIS, THE MAID SERVANT.
To conclude with the Grand Historical Romance, founded on

awl entitled
THE TOWER OF LONDON.

NEW STRAND THEATRE.

Increasing Popularity—Raptures of Applause—Gratified
Audiences.

OPEN EVERY EVENING DURING THE WEEK.

The celebrated Mr. JACOBS, the Royal Ventriloquist,
Modern Magician, and English Imnrovisatore, continues to
at net very large and highly respectable audiences, who nightly
testify their a:Trobation in the most marked and decided man-
ner. The Pre,s has unanimously pronounced him the best
Ventriloquist since the days of Monsieur Alexandre. Thy
Tricks surpass all the. have been introduced by the Wizards cr
Mir.:icians who have preceded him ; and the Essemporaneous
song, on subjects proposed by the audience, elicits thunders of
applause.

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Boxes, s. 6{l. ; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Gallery, Is.
Doors open at Seven O'clock; and commence at Half-past.
Second price at a Quarter to Nine o'clock—Boxes, is. 6d. ;
Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d.
Carriages to be in waiting tw nty minutes past Ten.
Mr. Seguin, 12, Ilegent-street, Pall Mall, is appointed sole
Agent for disposal of the Private Boxes.

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LONDON:
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1941.

It gives us great satisfaction to find the Times
Ins ;aken up the cause of commercial freedom,
:and lr_come a strenuous advocate for a reduction
of dutie,. S ich proceedings justify the views we
have taker:, and convince us that the time is not
far off when both parties in the House of Com-
mols must agree to remove some of the fetters
-with which our Legislature has bound the trade
et' England, and-of the world.
The Times, however, insidiouf ly tried on Saturday
to make it appear that the Whigshave neglected
" for ten years to apply their own principles,"
atikl that the merit o:• removing the fetters from
,our trade, is much more due to the Tories than
-the Whigs. We are delighted to conclude, that
the principles cf fie • e trade have made an and -
niable and irresistible progress, since the Tunes
fir ds it convenient, just as the Tories, accord_
lag to their own statement, are 'on the eve of
. achieving a great victory,
and are able to
Trample all opposing interests into the mire, to
app..-.al to the public on behalf of them as the
zealous advocates of free trade. Those principles
have become the masters of the Times and the
'Tories; -and they now therefore humble them-
selves before the irresistible power of truth.
Our Contemporary justly- points out that Mr.
Pun., before he had heartily embraced the policy
in support of which he waged a bloody war
a ),-ain.o: the principles he professed ere he was
corrupted by power, and before Toryism " checked
his benevolent and .enlightened aspirations,"
was a friend to free trade. We cheerfully con-
'cede that merit to Mr. PITT. We only re-
gret that he did not follow out his pro-
f&:sions, aad that his successors of the Tory
gthool, forgetting all his lofty words, imitated
only his pernicious practices. We admit, too,
that Mr..l-lUSKIsSoN promoted the principles of
Tree trade to a certain extent, and that he was
then in office with the Tories. He succeeded,
however, more by the, support of the Whigs in
doors and out of doors than by the support of his
own party. But whatever may have been Mr.
Perr's and Mr. HusmssoN's merits—and it does
not say much for the prpsent race of Tories that
.the Times is obliged to quote them—the present
rvce of Tories is decidedly opposed to free trade.
-We quite agree with the Times that the Minis-

tern have not worked out their own principles;

- they have not given free trade in bread;
they not put an end to the discrimi-
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planters between 2,000,0001. and 3,000,0001. an-
nually more, on the pretence that they must be
paid to make them take care of their former
slaves. The Whigs have not put an end to the
discriminating duties on timber, and they have
not—we have continually contended—they have
not done what they ought, to set trade free, and
give prosperity to the nation. So far we cordially
concur with the Times. But when our Contempo-
rary says the Whig Ministers have not followed
out their own principles, he admits that those
principles are not even professed, much less acted
on, by the Tories.
Why have the Whigs not worked out their
own principles? Because not being enthusiastic
believers in the bright faith of free trade, they
were unable to overcome the sinister opposition
of the Tories. The Tories, uniting with an abo-
minable
clique of American land jobbers, and
dealers in old ships, who care as little for the
one or the two thousand seamen they drown every
year as the bread-taxers care for the many many
thousands of human beings whom they annually
starve out of existence, defeated Lord ALTIIORP
when he proposed to alter and amend the Timber
Duties. The Tories did that. The Tories,
too, opposed every attempt which Mr. P.
TnomsoN, now Lord SYDENHAM, made to allow
corn to be ground in bond; and the only opposi-

tion which was made to Mr. LABOU
poor measure for equalizing the duties on East
and West India rum came from the Tory
benches. It is true that the Whigs have not
worked out their,own principles, but it is equally
true that to those principles the Tories are heart
and soul opposed, and would not allow Sir RO-
BERT PEEL, were he in office as their man, to
carry them into execution.

We take the appeal of the Times in behalf of

the Tories to be a certain proof that the town
population are becoming sensible of the
enormous injustice which is (lone to them under
the pretext of protecting this interest and that

interest. The Tines sees that the nefarious
game of plunder in the guise of patriotism ap-
proaches its end. The admirable Repot t and
evidence of the Import Duties' Committee have
opened the eyes of the people. They are re-
solved apparently to bestir themselves in the
matter. We believe that several Members of
Parliament have also resolved to promote that
agitation, and that they have come to a resolu-
tion to resist all loans and all fresh taxes, and to
insist on a reduction of discriminating duties.
The townspeople are now, therefore, as it were,
invited both by Whigs and Tories to make good
their demands. If they desire to have the
import duties placed on a just founda-
tion, if they desire to have our tariff amended,
if they desire to have an end put to legal pilfer-

ing, they have only now to arouse themselves, and
they must be successful. We have already ap-
pealed to London. Why should not Bristol,
Liverpool, Leeds, and Manchester take up the
same cause ? No Ministry can long resist them,
still less a Ministry which has no inclination to
resist them, but which requires to be impelled
forward by being assured'of the support of public
opinion. The Whigs will act on their own princi-
ples when they see those principles enforced
by the town population. Let the people, then,
hold public meetings, and send up numerous
petitions for the repeal of the Corn-law,

and in favour of the principles of free trade,
and they may be assured of commanding the
support of the Ministers. They require to be
emboldened by the strong expression of public
opinion, and, to give them courage, we call on
the town population to speak out.

We learn from the Manchester Times that the
Anti-Corn-law League held their annual meeting
at their rooms on Thursday. It affords us great
pleasure to perceive no trace of any dispute or
difference amongst the members on account of
the Walsall election, which was said by some of
the lukewarm friends of the League to have of-
fended several of its supporters. We rejoice also
to see no abatement of principle, no decay of
hope, but a firm, consistent, and vigorous ad-

hesion to the great principle of total and imme-
diate repeal, and strong hopes of success at no
distant day. Mr. COBDEN said—

But I tell you this—that it would be impossible to carry
our agitation on any other princ'ple than that on which we
have now. started. I recollect that, in 1834, there was an
Association established in this town. You will find a re-
pert of their first meeting in the Guardian of February 1.
Our excellent friend (Mr. Smith) was the President of
it, and Mr. Mark PLilius and Mr. Greg were among the
genfemen who attended the first meeting, but they were
whiled to be very " moderate." They were told net to
he " vi >lent," and certainly. when I look to the resolu-
tions which they l astei I cannot accuse them of dis-
regarding the adv ce. —( Laughter.) They asaociat-d
themselves for the purpose of culling some " modi-
ficatim "of tho Corn-)awe.—(Renewed laughter.) I
believe the Association lirgered on some months,
and 1 think our friend Mr. Smith was lea minus
the expense:.—(Great laughter.) They adopted a pe-
tition to the Le4islature, it appears, and I believe the
prayer cf that petition was very " moderate" too, and
me: ely asked for something less than was wanted—some-
thing less than justice—(Applause)--and therefore there
was no great interest taken in it by the great body a
merchants and manufacturers; there was no rallying
round it as there has been round yours, and hence it has
been unable to exist.—( Hear.) The proceedings of the
Manchester Chamber of Commerce, the same year, were
much of the same character. On turning t 3 the reports
of its meetings, you will find our excellent President
ma'e a vigorous effoit to effect something bettor, but he
was tcld that no ietitior. could be presented then—that
the ti :le had not arrived—(Laughter)—that Mr. Macau-
lay had said Minicers, though they might have power to
try a " moderato" measure, yet advised that the question
should n. t be " agitated," and the motion fell to the ground.
The result is the establishment of this Association for the
purpose t f effecting tie "total and immediate tepeal cf
the Cora-1 iws"—( Applause)—and I appeal tr all that
has taken place before or since as justifyirg the course we
have pursued. —( Rcnr wed spFlause.) And now, when
there is evidence we h .ve not mistaken our path, when
there is evidence, as Mr. Prentice justly said, of a moving
amot gat the dry boner, :t behoves us to be careful hoer we
depart one hetet-in eaeth front the path, for if we do rte
shall assuredly share the fate of toe Association of 1834
and fail in our object.—( Applause.) At present we are
in the fght position. I feel assured that no Ministry will
ever thuic of passing over anotl er Session without setting
themselves sigmously to work t 3 revise our present tariffs.
Hear.) There is no other cry that will avail the can-
didates at another cleetion but that of " no bread-tex."—
( fle..r, hear.) I appeal to our experience at Walsall "or a
confirmation of ih a fact.

Those sentiments were responded to by the
cheers of the meeting, and in them we find an
ample justification of our conduct. We are quite
.sure th.!..t the demand for the total and imme-
diate repeal is just, and if it be zealously sup-
P',
et t-d resistance will be speedily overcome. We
have within these few days acknowledged the
zeal and fervour with which the Puseyites pur-
sue their object, and they obtain great success.
They are sincere believers in the dogmas they
teach ; and if those who believe in the sublime
doctrines of free trade, be equally sincere, and
equally zealous, a more brilliant success, because
their doctriries will be more beneficial, will
crown 'their exertions. The free trade
advocates have taken up the question on
the principles of morality ; it is no longer
advocated as a mere benefit to the cotton manu-
facturer,
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the Chairman of the League, in commencing the
business of the meeting, said,
Since my retsrn home it has been a part of my public
du. jos to sit aq mag strate 00 the bench several times in
the police court of the adjoining borough of Salford • and
I have been really shocked at the amount of juvenile de-
di;itrnsciucesnscin which I have aitnessed, showing an amount of
the town of which I had no previous concep_
tion.—( Hear,
hear.)
.And what are we to look forward
to I would ask, in the risirg generation when we see youths
sear,Ay the height of this table whose parents not basing
the means of educating them, leave them to run about
the streets, or send them there to teg or steal the means
of their support ? (Hear, hear.) I was much
struck with a boy of this sort the other day who was
brougt:t up, and from his appearance I wasled to ask wk..
thcr his parert; yarn, present. A
decent-looking
stepped ft rward and said be was the boy's father, and I
said, " Why do you let your boy ramble about the streets
thus, and get among thieves and bad character. s (be had
been stealing from a shop), instead of putting him t)
school, cr taking care of him in some other way ?" The
man said be could not afford to put him to school. Then I
said you should take care of him yourself. " Take care
of him myself, Sir," said the man, "it is impossible; I am
obliged to work fourteen or fifteen hours a-day to get pota-
toes for my family to live on—l am a band-loom weaver,
Sir."—( Hear, hear.) And such I learn is the case with
many of these poor people ; they are obliged to work hard
during the whole day to get a bare arid scanty supply of
food for their family, are left wholly destitute of education
or moral culture, and allowed to become the companions of
the vicious and depraved.
The want of adequate wages, then, brings about
neglect of children, and neglected children in-
crease the number of criminals, and help to pro-