The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-17 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mrs. Frances Davidge, Lessee.
THIS EVENING

Will be presented the opera of CINDERELLA. Prince, Mr. W.
Harrison ; Baron Pompolini, Mr. Letter ; Alidoro, Mr. M`Mahon ;
Dandlni, Mr. H. Horncastle ; Cinderella, Miss Rainforth ; Fairy
Queen, Miss Isaacs.
ro conclude with Ahakspere's tragedy of MACBETH, with the
whole of Locke's music. Macbeth, 31r. Scott; Lady Macbeth, Mrs.,
Henry Vining.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed a grand historical drama, entitled WALTER
TYRRELL, THE SAXON AVENGER; or, The Life and Death of
Ring William If. William 11., Mr. Dale; Walter Tyrrell, Mr.
Was; Editha, Miss Vincent.
After which GEORGE BARN'WELL ; or, the City Merchant.
George Barnwell, Mr. Hicks.
To conclude with THE MYSTERIES OF THE FAIRY LADY.
Boxes, is. ; Half Price, 6(1. Pit, 6d. , Gallery, 3d.

ROYAL SURRF.Y ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Last Five Nights of M. Jullien.
First week of the Jenny Lind Quadrilles—Second week of the
Harmonic It..ck Band.
On MOND tY, July 19, M, dullien's Benefit.
The Entertainments repeated Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday.
Daylight View of Gibraltar—Splendid Menagerie—Promenade
Concert by Jullien's band of One Hundred performers, including
Messrs. Barret, Bauman, Prospere, Collinet, Richardson, Lazarus,
Croffil, Kcenig, Bcc , two of whom will perform a solo each evening ;
Conductor, M. Jullien ; Leader, Mr. Godfrey. The celebrated Rock
/farmonicon Band will also perform at intervals, conziuding with the
Siege of Gibraltar.
Feeding the Animals at Five; Jullien's Concert, Quarter-past Six ;
Fireworks, Quarter-Past Nine.—No extra charge.
Admission to the whole, One Shilling.
On WEDNESDAY next the Royal South London Floricultural
Society will hold their Grand Summer Flower Show here. Upwards
of Fifty Prizes will be awarded for Fruit and Flowers.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JULY 17.
T.IIERXOMICTEU, Lowest, 56; Highest, 79 ; Noon, 65,

BAROMETER, 30.07.
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E*11•E• ; morning, heavy showers, with thunder
and lightning: afternoon, cloudy.

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Morning.. 48 A.T LONDON-BRIDGE THIN DAY..
4. i Evening .. 6 fninnteB After S.

dom. This, at least, should be the common agree- i
ment of the householders and freeholders of the em-
pire, if they are solicitous to behold a Parliament
fruitful in measures, and improvements, and inno-
vations for the advantage of themselves and their
posterity. Exactly this kind of politician in ardour,
in enthusiasm, in consistency, in perseverance, and in
a natural and positive liking for, the The motto of his
atmosphere of
political tumult, is Mr. ROEBUCK.
Parliamentary life, moreover, has been from first to
last,'," Civil and Religious Liberty." Those, therefore,
of the Bath constituency who are not pre-poisoned
by the virus of bigotry and intolerance will not
lightly abandon the advocate who has so long and
earnestly laboured at St. Stephen's in the cause of
progress and civilization.
Satisfied as we are that the opinions of such a man
as Mr. ROEBUCK moat be listened to with respect by
his own personal electors, we are no less convinced
that his opinions will weigh considerably with those
citizens of the metropolis who are possessed of the
elective franchise, and who are at the same time
determined to give their votes to none other than the
real friends and champions of the people.
The speech in which the Honourable and Learned
Gentleman the Member for Bath reviewed the merits
of the four Liberal candidates for the representation
of London was candid, bold, and logical in its very
abruptness. If there might be supposed to be any
bias in the mind of Mr. ROEBUCK with reference to
Lord J. RUSSELL as a political leader, one would
expect it to be rather a bias averse than favourable
to that eminent statesman. So, at least, the super-
ficial observer would calculate from the frequency
with which Mr. ROEBUCK'S name has appeared in
opposition to the measures of the Prime Minister.
Differing, however, as the Member for Bath does
upon many points with the Premier, what is the
opinion expressed by him of the character of that
Noble Lord ? " A more high-minded, straightfor-
ward, and honest man than Lord J. RUSSELL I do not
know." That is surely a splendid panegyric. To how
many Prime Ministers bygone would those three adjec-
tives apply besides Lord J. RUSSELL? To how many
politicians ? To how many public characters ? And
the Premier has not only earned such eulogiums for
straightforwardness, highmindedness, and honesty by
a long, active, and enterprising career as a reforming
statesman ; he has done immeasurably more, he has
preserved undiminished that ardour for the general
good, that love of liberality, that passion for legisla-
tion, and that inflexible resolution to toil, and even to
drudge, unceasingly in public business, which are the
only true qualifications of the leader of a Government.
If the electors of London, therefore, are desirous
to be represented by a man who is capable of inhaling
the atmosphere of political tumult, and who has ac-
tually a relish for it, they can have no hesitation
whatever as to the acceptance or the rejection of Lord
JOHN RUSSELL. His political creed, moreover, is pre-
cisely the same as when he last appeared before them on
the hustings in Guildhall. He was there received with
the enthusiasm due, not so much to the fact of his
being the descendant of a patriotic race, as to that
great fact of his Parliamentary life—his ardour in
the cause of liberality. Let him and his colleagues be
received with not one jot less of enthusiasm, for the
same reason exists to•day as existed yesterday. Be-
sides, what can be expected from the opponents of
Lord JOHN RUSSELL and his brother candidates ?
What can be expected from men, the beatings of
whose hearts are for the reverse of the sublime prin-
ciples of civil and religious liberty ; of men who, in an
age of " progression," are for a moral " stoppage "
that would prove disastrous and destructive ; of men
whose animosity to such practical measures as that of
sanatory improvement damn them to everlasting fame
as THE DIRTY POLITICIANS ?

The long-expected proposition on behalf of the
Spanish Government has at length been submitted to
its duped and deluded creditors. The bantling pro-
duced after Mr. HENDERSON'S nine months' labour in
Madrid, after his interviews with Spanish Ministers
and diplomatists of various nations, as at length made
its appearance, and truly a more striking illustration
of the old fable has seldom been witnessed.
" Montes parturiunt, nascitur ridiculus mus,"

may well be applied to the project extracted with so
much difficulty from Senor SALAMANCA, and
ushered in by his extravagant protestations as to his
anxiety to restore Spanish credit, and to do all that
is befitting, or can be looked for, from Spanish
honour. Truly that honour must be of a very
evanescent character if nothing better or more tan-
gible can be looked for at the hands of the
nation. " Base is the slave that pays," said
ancient PISTOL in the olden time, and that
Shakesperian worthy appears to have been the pro-
totype of modern Ministers of Finance in Spain, the
model they aspire to imitate. Perhaps there is not
an equally unblushing refusal. Something ap••
proaching to an apology may be made to the un-
happy creditors. The Speech from the Throne may
announce the royal desire that something may be
done, which will be duly heard, applauded, and
responded to verbally in the Cortes ; but something
invariably occurs to lead to further procrastination,
and to induce the representatives, in tender consider-
ation for the financial difficulties of the Ministry, to
adjourn to a future convocation the question in
which matters of such trivial import as the national
honour and the national honesty only are at stake.
Far better for its members to intrigue for new
changes in the Ministry, to give each successive
member of the various Cabinets which are set up and
pulled down with such edifying regularity,
after an official existence of a few brief months, a
full opportunity of accumulating a large private for-
tune by the vilest system of corruption and pecula-
tion, while the honest creditors, who advanced their
fortunes on the national faith, are involved in destitu-
tion and ruin. Far better that they should prate of
" protection to their national industry," and with
wilful blindness continue those exclusions and pro-
hibitions that lead to an organized and extensive
system of smuggling, that make wealthy capitalists
invest their money in the contraband trade as readily,
and with as few scruples of conscience, as if it were
an ordinary and legitimate commercial speculation—
that converts their hardy border peasants, qualified
for much higher pursuits, into lawless and de-
moralised banditti, contemners and despisers of the
law (within whose meshes only small game are en-
tangled), and ready for any enterprise or act of any de-
gree of daring or atrocity, from the sale of a contraband
cigar to plundering and holding to ransom the way-
faring traveller, or plunging their stilettos into the
hearts of the victims who may have excited their
anger, or for whose removal a sufficient sum is
offered, than comply with the vulgar prejudice in favour
of payment of debts. By a judicious change and
alteration in their laws they would be enabled easily
to obtain funds amply sufficient for all the exigencies
and wants of the country, and the punctual discharge
of their national liabilities and obligations, were they
really anxious to redeem the national character ; but
so long as England will patiently see her subjects
swindled out of their property, and they them-
selves can be amused and satisfied with frivolous and
evasive pretexts or apologies, so long will the discredit-
able system so long resorted to, be continued and
perpetrated. We have too long been amused with
fair words—a more energetic course must be adopted.

The present offer is altogether " a mockery, a de-
lusion, and a snare." It opens witii a modest propo-
sition, that the bondholders should voluntarily give
up a certain portion of the principal money due to
them ; that they should relinquish twelve per cent. of
their claims, this sum amounting to more than
ah dto 4
8,000,0001. sterling on the full amount of the bonds,
j subjects, ,520,000/. on the 46 000 000/ sterling due to
British su
nay,b s,
is at once and irrevocably. to be sa-
crificed;far worse, it is not merely its sacrifice,
that is the chief objection.r
the It is to be handed over to
fo
the Spanish Ministry, purpose of of being sold in
handedt over to the
the market, and the
proceeds
-
Spanish Exchequer; if dolts suff ,
dupes with more money than wit, iently stolid, if
sufficiently cre
lous, can be found to invest their money in such a
.-, and
et
lot-
tery, from whence the prizes are all cted
the blanks distributed with the most Prraai
w
impartiality. This is the pivot or turning point ohyf
the whole proposition. Spain again wishes to become
a borrower, but her disgraced and dishonoured secu-
rities will not now attract the veriest idiot. The
proposed loan of 1,000,000/. on Treasury bonds is
going begging. No contractor or capitalist of any
character will meddle with instruments of so de-
graded a character. " Who can touch pitch without I
being defiled ?" It would indeed be A high And un.

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