The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-21 00:00:00

VICTORIA.

At this theatre an Oriental Drama, entitled
Sadac and Kalastrade, by E. Stirling, Esq., was
produced, with a splendour suitable to the subject,
and received with great applause ; after which the
Chiarini family performed their surprising feats on
the Corde Volante. To this succeeded a comic
Lilliputian Pantomimic Melange, called Mother
Goose ; and the GipsyQueen concludedt- the evening's
amusements.

LLANELLY RAILWAY.—Two locomotive en-
gines, called the Victoria and Albert, have just been landed on
Llanelly Quay, for the railway, and are intended to et;u-
lady thereon, for the conveyance of goods and passenglery r-
The
company have commenced to ship coal and culm.
All the mechanical inventions of this country
immediately find their way to the Continent ; and at length We
are beaten out of their markets by the very weapons with which.
we ourselves have furnished them. Thus the cloth-felting
machine is immediately to be transported to Venice, and all
hope of a demand for our new cloth springing up from that
quarter, is at once cut off. Leeds Times.
I3RITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE-
:SIENT OF SCIENCE.—The Glasgow committees of the " British
Association for the Advancement of Science," are making pre-
parations on an extensive scale, for rendering the ensuirg
annual meeting of that Association one of the most interesting
description.

LITERATURE.

CAPTAIN HALL'S EXTRACTS FROM A
JOURNAL, PART 2. BEA UMONT AND
FLETCHER, PARTS 5,6, 7.
Moxon, London, 1840.
We have here lying before us some more of Mr. Moxon's
elegant republications, consisting of three parts of the
dramatic works of Beaumont and Fletcher : and the
second Part, which completes the work, of Captain
Basil Hall's Journal, written on the coasts of Chili,
Peru, and Mexico, and first published about ten years
since. We read this amusing production soon after its
publication, and now, on glancing over it for the second
time, are at no loss to account for its popularity.
'rho Gallant Captain is a most agreeable gossip ; tells
an anecdote or hits off as outre character with equal
unction ; is smart and lively in style, and most sedu-
lously eschews anything like prolixity. He is also an
acute observer of all that lies on the surface of things ;
but he wants depth ; and is rather fond of giving undue
prominence to the merest trifles. In this respect, as
also in his restless, ever-vigilant curiosity, and his eager-
ness to gossip about the celebrated men in the different
countries which he visits, he reminds us of the well-
known " Corsica" Boswell, whom he still more closely
resembles in his smiling good nature, and his habit of
looking on the bright, rather than on the dark side of
things. We may sum up his merits by observing that
his various volumes of travels are the best possible
tea-table reading, for they leave a pleasant impression
on the mind, and most assuredly do not call for any
very active exertion of thought.

MAXWELL'S LIFE OF WELLINGTON,
PART TAI. Bailey, London, 1840.
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The present Part of this Life, which is by far the best
of any that have yet appeared, is devoted to details of
the Duke's campaign in Portugal about the period
when he projected the far-famed lines of Torres
Vedras. It is exceedingly carefully written ; and gives
many curious episodical particulars respecting the
Spanish guerilla chieftains, together with short biogra-
phical sketches of the two celebrated Minas, uncle and
nephew. The Part is also embellished with a full-
length portrait, engraved from an original painting by
Bradley, of the Portuguese Field Marshal, Lord
Beresford.

COL. THOMPSON-EMIGRATION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LEEDS TIMES.

DEAR SlR—The South Australian Record and
Australian Chronicle, of the 11th of April, contains an
article in reference to my letter in your paper of the
4th, which gives me an opportunity of returning to the
subject of Emigration. The following extract appears
to include the substance of what has been advanced on
the other side :

" A very large proportion of the industrious and in-
telligent operatives of this country are now either alto-
gether unemployed, or the rate of wages they receive is
barely sufficient to raise them and their families above
absolute starvation. And whatever temporary revivals
there may be in our trade and manufactures, their num-
bers ➢LUST ultimately increase. There are two facts
observable in the present state of our manufactures
which incontrovertibly demonstrate this necessity. The
first is the system which generally prevails of extensive
production with small profit ; the second is the rapidly
extending and increasingly effectual application of ma-
chinery to almost every department of operative indus-
try. As an instance of the latter fact, it may be men-
tioned that just now a new machine is in the process of
introduction into the woollen manufacture which, ac-
cording to the personal testimony of a highly intelligent
individual, who is himself about to use it, will, in the
process of time, throw a hundred thousand persons out
of work in one district alone. What, then, is to be
done with this constantly accumulating mass of unem-
ployed labour and deplorable misery ? "
" Emigration, in our opinion, offers the only adequate
remedy ; and Colonel Thompson may depend upon it,
adopting his own illustration, that if this safety-valve be
not opened, destructive explosion will, ere long, shatter
the social engine to atoms. There are the unemployed
labourers--their number, we say, must increase ; are
they to emigrate or starve ? Are they to be conducted
to new spheres of industry, to new homes of comfort,
to new regions of peace, or are they to languish in
misery and destitution, constituting the smouldering ele-
ments of anarchy and insurrection ? This is the ques-
tion. Let Colonel Thompson garble it as he please—
let him obscure it by his one-sided reference to " con-
centration," and to " half-pay ladies and gentlemen," as
he will ; this, after all, is the question, and the only
question--this is the ALTERNATIVE."
What is submitted in reply to this is, that there is
another resource besides the alternative asserted—
and that is, to allow men to enjoy their old spheres
of industry, their old homes of comfort, their old
regions of peace, by abolishing the unjust legislation
which now prevents it. No class of men have a right
to snake a country untenable, and then take credit to
themselves for offering the means of transportation to
the inhabitants. " The land we live in, and may those
who do not like it leave it ! " may be a very good toast
for the hedgehog in the fable, but not for the softer
inmates upon whoa-. the prickly abomination had chosen
to quarter himself. Suppose we say we won't leave it,
and we won't let them make it untenable either. This
is the operation the people of England have now in
hand ; end they will perform it too, in despite of any
temporary diversions made by getting a part of them to
cry out for the abuse. _ _

But there will be more than this. The working
classes are getting their eyes open to the mystery of
the Corn Laws, and they will next get them open to
the other mystery, which is that the Colonial system
in general is only a mode of supporting the oligarchy
at the expense of the community, by a process like
cutting boots into shoes. The North American colo-
nies, for example, are only a machinery for taking
away so many millions annually of the produce of
the country's industry, to give a per-tentage of it
to people in power and their friends, and throw the
remainder into the sea, by making the public buy bad
timber at the price of good. The West Indian Colo-
nies perform precisely the same operation in respect of
sugar. They arc all only so many " plants" (as the
police phrase appears to be), of thieves too big to be
hanged—national larcenies—picking of pockets by Act
of Parliament—" higher class" frauds, founded always
on the pillage of the humbler. And then the Government
of Colonies—is what no wise man would submit his
dog to if he loved him. The supporters of the Emi-
gration Gazette may think they are to be better
than the rest ; but who is to answer for them twenty
years hence ? A Colony must either be kept under
a perpetual tyranny, or it will cease to be
a colony. All honest men in colonies live like toads
under a harrow, till they can throw off " the baneful
domination of the mother country ;" and simply for this
reason, that the whole system is organized for serving
the interests, not of the honest men, but of somebody
else. And then come the murders, the throat-cuttings,
the massacres of prisoners by honourable assassins paid
out of our purses. All this is what you are invited to
go to, for yourselves or children ; and all lest the land-
lords' steam-engine should blow up at home. Once
more ; stay here if you are wise. The time cannot be
far off, when industry shall be free, and the man who
works shall be allowed to sell the fruits of his labour,
without going to the colonies for leave.

Cremain, dear Sir, yours very sincerely,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
London, 15th April, 1840.

The Earl and Countess of Rosslyn are passing
the holidays at Melton Mowbray, and are not expected at their
mansion, in Grosvenor.placo, until the close of the ensuing
week.

PERSIAN GARDENS.---TO me, there is no
luxury in Persia comparable to their gardens, and my custom
was at an early hour, on horseback, to ride throughk extensive
grounds, planted with the choicest fruit trees and other pro-
duce. These grounds are left open to the stranger, and al-
though belonging to many proprietors, their boundaries are
merely a row of trees or a gutter of water. The Persian mode
of irrigation is ingenious and complete, their soil most prodigal,
their peaches, melons, and grapes of a flavour unknown to
Europe. Then they have the olive grounds, very extensive,
and the luxury on horseback of inhaling the blossoms (which
are very evanescent) in a thicket of flowers (if I may so say)
for miles around : and it must be felt to bo understood. Ido
love to revel in the Persian gardens. What is there to be
compared to these living emblems of genuine magnificence. I
can explore the streaks of a tulip, and snuff up the fragrance
of the violet, with an indescribable pleasure which art can never
afford. I can even dissect a bramble, and discover beauties
in its repulsive branches—and no inglorious plant either, since
it was once solicited to become some sove:eign of the forest.
I had never such a conception of Eden before, where " all
things smiled." It is customary to form parties and to spend
days in the gardens, pitching a tent, &c., but this is unneces-
sary, since the night air gives no humidity. Give a " pang_
bad," or sixpence to the proprietor, you may remain in his
garden all day and choke yourself with fruit, which forms
much of the summer food of the Persians. The Prince had
other large gardens near Tabreez, his occasional resort, but
more particularly for that of his household.—Persian Reminis-
cences in the Monthly illezgazine.
OTTER HUNT EXTRAORDINARY.—Tuesdav
some fishwomen, who were employed in drawing one of the
salmon pits below the bridge at Totnes, surprised an immense
otter. A pursuit was immediately commenced. The depre-
dator, in his flight up the stream, which was shallow- from tl:o
long drought, received many blows, and on passing a boat, the
man in which struck at it with the boat-hook, the fierce crea-
ture seized the instrument with such tenacity, that it was
haul ?d out of the river and dropped into the salmon-well and
secured, but died soon after from the wounds it received. The
animal weighed nearly 60Ibs.
A ROBBER KILLED.—A few afternoons sine.
a stranger, of elegant address, and announcing himself by a
name known to be honourable, presented himself at the cha-
teau of Count de Contades, noar Orleans, and demanded hos-
pitality on account of his carriage laving broken down. Ile was
cordially received, invited to take a seat at the dinner table,
and was ultimately lodged in the best bedchamber for the night,
after displaying, during the evening, much animation of con-
versation and amiability of manners. Some time after the
Count de Contades was in bed he was surprised by the entrance
into his chamber of his distinguished guest, with a pistol in his
hand, with which lie threatened to murder the Count if he did
Out deliver up the key of his money-box. After a parley the
Count got up, and led the intruder to his secretaire, which he
opened, and displayed a drawer full of cash. Upon this the
robber transferred the pistol to his left hand, in order to leave
the right at liberty to grasp the treasure. This movement was
watched by the Count, who instantly wrested the weapon from
the weaker hand, and laid the thief dead at his feet.—Paris
paper.