The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-05 00:00:00

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.

UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF Mr. BUTLER.
During the recess the Theatre has been re-painted and re-
decorated, and every attention paid to the comfort of the au-

dience.

THIS EVENING, OCT. F
Will be acted, a Burletta from the French, entitled
NIAISON A VENDRE.

Wrsac Mr. St. John Horton ; Madame Dorval, Mrs. 111.
Cumming;
A Drama, in Three Acts. will succeed, :entitled
STOP HIM WHO CAN!

Vapid (a Dramatic Author), Mr.:Balls ; Marianne, Mrs. H.
Beverley.
The whole to conclude with a New Burletta, named
RAILROAD STATION.

Mr. Sampson Jones, Mr. Samuel Roxby ; Mrs. W. Smith,
Mrs. Garrick.

Dregs Boxes, 4s. ; Olympian Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s.
Half-price—Dress Circle, 2s. ; Olympian Boxes, Is. 6d ;
Pit, J.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

The combined attraction of Mr. Kenney's New Tragedy, en
titled " The Sicilima Vespers," and Ainsworth's Original
" Jack Sheppard," nightly fills this Theatre to an overflow,
and audiences literally crammed to the ceiling loudly demand
the repetition of these popular pieces.
THIS EVENING, OCT. 5,
Will be acted a New Tragedy, entitled
THE SICILIAN VESPERS.

Commerce and manufactures have attained in
England an unexampled prosperity. Our agricul-
ture is not much behind, though it by no means
surpasses the agriculture of Belgium, Holland,
Germany, and France, in the same manner as our
commerce and manufactures surpass their com-
merce and manufactures. In arts, particularly the
mechanic arts, England has also outstripped
the other nations. In poetry, eloquence,
and philosophy she is not behind. Every
branch of society which is little regulated,
or not at all regulated, by the Legislature, sue.
ceeds and flourishes, but the Government, as a
whole, does not succeed. Masses of people,
though most industrious and most skilful, are
steeped in poverty and discontent. They are not
satisfied with the Government. No country in
Europe has had so much Church as England. Far
greater reductions and reforms in the tem-
poralities of the clergy have been made in almost
all the countries of Europe than in England, and
yet our people are said by the priesthood to be
irreligious, and to be lamentably in want of spiritual
instruction. The Church and the Government,
then, are failures; while those parts of society which
have most escaped their control, are prosperous
and flourishing.
Under such circumstances there_ has arisen a
great outcry against all those who seek beyond the
Church and the Government the means of pro-
moting the happiness of society. That is, the two
great schemes which time has demonstrated to be
failures, are to be religiously preserved in all their
vigour, and even those parts of society which have
prospered are to be sacrificed to preserve them
from reform. Hence much of the outcry against
Socialism, Chartism, Repealisin, and every other
Ism, except Church of Englandism and Con-
stitutionalism. This is not wise. Discussion
can do no harm ; but we never shall make
any useful progress if every new thought, every
new system, every announced discovery is to be
cried down, because it does not accord with
the conventionalities and routine thoughts of those
The Post has undertaken to defend the proposal who believe there is no safety for mankind but in
of the Quayterig Review, to raze the half of our maintaining unreformed the Government and the
towns- That writer is described as looking " with Church. Any opinions opposed to their practically
Abliorrenge—a most just abhorrence, we think it is refuted theories, are in their eyes worthy of perse-
-upon the licentiousness of thought, of speech, cution. This is a great present misfortune, and
and of conduct, which is so conspicuous in our likely to cause much mischief hereafter.
and
if he, like them, had a commis-
therefore he would, like the " Even admitting for a moment," says the Spectator
prophets of old, as
great towns ;"on Saturday, "that the knowledge of any opinion can
be dangerous, still there remains the consideration that
sion for the purpose, raze the half of our towns, if any man be
renderetidan erous b entertaining. an opi-
" is desirous," says the Post, "of seeing the nion, the danger is douolgeci by every encouragement
people
live in more simplicity, and sincerity, and o'v'en him
ll_hinto retain that opinion secretly, and profess an-
t so prevalent is the silly prejudice against
lie wants dutifulness ;'' he does some classes of opinion, and the weak deference to this
odly fear."
not
(g speculari ve ;'' he wants " fidelity
tpretedliee, that you scarcely meet with one man out of
like melt to he
one
wtn)llils not his esoteric and exoteric creeds—the
and obedience." He describes the improvement of
e professed in Company, the other to be society as an ‘, eating cancer and a withering con-
fessed to his boson, friends, or: acted upon without
avowal. In bwuesineasr
se' plu),l!fillicedanadmpiribvael4te•i'ldinerer
. -
curse," and therefore lie purposes to stop it by de-
edligbi
yon
and
m science,
engrain and unmanly insincerity. It is at once the main
Populating our towns. What he, and what all the this
priests and their abettors mean by their anathemas I obstacle to the advancement of knowledge, and impedi-
ment to political, moral, and religious amelioration."
against towns is, that the town population will no j
The Spectator uses those words in writing about
longer hearken to them, and will not bow down
before the priesthood. That is the sum and sub-the election for LORD
MAYOR, We must ap-
stance of the char-e
which can be
our towns, and the abuse which P brought against in the same manner. Suppose that Mr.
the inhabitants ofpl HARMER, them
I instead of dissenting from the opinions
is heaped on them by :he Post and the Quarter% lof the Dispatch.; had avowed them as his own, what
evieto, as a justification of the atrocious proposal I
makes the arrogance and PALEY'
FR
would have been his offence ; but that, speculative]
t, e have adverted to, oeiy
AN.KLIN, zth(l, JEFFERON, iir

Supported by Messrs. Elton, Saville, Hughes, Neville, Hes-
:op, and Johnson, Miss Grant, and Mrs. Vining.
. . .

To conclude with
JACK SHEPPARD.
Realizing all Cruikshanks' inimitable Tableaux Vivans.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

..„
OPEN DAILY, from Ten till Dusk, with the Unequalled
Menagerie in their commodious and elegant habitations. The
recent additions in Jude a rare species of Leopard entirely
black, Le Mignon Elephant, the smallest ever imported, the
31onstur Boa, the Bush Cow, The Wombat, &c.,
Admission One Shilling. Feeding Hour of the Carnivora
and Pelicans Four o'Clock.

Mr. Warren should send his model to the City Police Commis-

sinners. It is left for him in the office.
We have no doubt that the property, about which Mr. Walker
inquires, belongs to the Skinners' Company.

HIGH WATER AT LONrION BRIDGE TO-MORROW
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Ihe Publication of the Evening Edition of THE SUN com-

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LONDON:
MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1840.

The Tories have let out their intention of

making the contest for the Mayoralty the test of
opposing all the four Reform Members for
tiv2 City at the next election, and their
few voters yet unpolled have received notices
to that effect. We are happy, however,
to learn, that nearly 2,000 of the Livery
who opposed HORSLEY PALMER at the last
election have not yet polled for LORD -MAYOR.
This timely notice will enable them to defeat the
deep designs of their crafty opponents.