The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-30 00:00:00

VICTORIA.

The proprietors of this theatre have enlisted the service&
of Mrs. Honey, who is engaged hire for three nights only,
previous to her departure for the Continent. Mts. Honey
sang " Gentle fury," " Pray, demons," " I've kissed arid
I've prattled," and several other airs, with great effect in
the Giovanni. After this was given that amusing little
interlude Mazourha, which was written expressly for this
lady. In the course of this piece she introduced her imi-
tations of Grisi and Rubini in the " Vivi tu" from Anne
Bolena, and Grisi's " Di placer," from the Gazza Ladra.
The likeness is certainly very striking, but the accom-
plished mimic has been much more successful in seizing
the intonation, voice, carriage, and manners of Miss Helen
Faucit. The house was crowded to the slips; and after
the performances Mrs. Honey, on being loudly called for,
came forward and bowed her acknowledgments.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(FROM THE MORNING PAPER! OF THIS DAY.)
(From the Times.)
If we had exhausted the language of censure applicab.e
to the perverse or perfidious secrecy in which Lord Lie -
merston usually mismanages the foreign affairs of the
country, fresh themes of vituperation would still suggest
suitable expressions of scorn when we arc enabled to ex-
amine the acts of the Foreign Secretary, to judge him by
the results of his policy, and to measure him by the con-
temptuous remonstr.nces of his own agents abroad. Nob,
indeed, that at this, or any other period of this stale un-
profitable Session, Lord Palmerston hes stood up to de-
clare or to vindicate in the House of Commons any one
important measure of foreign policy, Foreign policy has
(with the exception of the debate on China, which scarcely
comes within that denomination) been wholly neglected,
tabooed, though not, as Lord Palmerston may hope, wholly
forgotten.

(From the Morning Advertiser.)
We beg to call the attention of our readersto. one of

he most Important Government measures of the session.
We refer to Mr. Labouchere's Bill to inquire into and
amend, if neeessary, the powers hitherto intrusted to Rail-
road Companies. The interest of the public at large de-
mands protection, as well as the interest of shareholders.
No one can doubt the immense advantages which are
justly to be contemplated from the stupendous application
of steam power to locomotive engines upon railways. Yet
no foresighted man can doubt the minor and contingent
disadvantages which must accompany their increase.
Those disadvantages demand the serious attention of
the Legislature. A great number of turnpike-roads, involv-
ing large vested interests, and returning large profits, will,
of course, be entirely ruined by railroads. Many of them,
indeed, are at present ruined, and great distress has
been occasioned to families dependent upon shares in them.
Vast numbers of horses must of necessity be sold off, and
the demand for farming produce will, in that respect, be
seriously decreased. It is probable that the by-roade,,bes
coming unfrequented, will be broken up—the natural ("tom-
munication of the country (except upon the great lines)
must be expected to be seriously curtailed—a communica-
tion on which the march of civilisation in a great measure
depends. True, it is urged, that railway travelling
is at present reasonably cheap. But we must calcu-
late that the time will come when all competition being
destroyed, it may no longer be so. Stage-coaches and
post-horses will disappear in the lines parallel to the
railroads, and when that disappearance is complete,
it must be fairly calculated that the railway companies
will come to an understanding about raising the Gres.
This natural concert among them may, in reality, anoment
almost, if not entirely, to a prohibition against public-loco-
motion. It must be recollected that these railways, by Ore
present law, are private property; and supposing: a coin.
pany may choose to shut up their road until the public shall
consent to some exorbitant demand for increased fare, what
is to be done ? It is clear that the public will have no re-
dress but in yielding to their demands, and the poor, as
usual, will "go to the wall." These arguments are suffi-
cient to establish our main inference, that the Legislature
ought to have such a controlling power over railroads as
will protect the public from exorbitant extortion, and pre-
vent the Railvvay Companies from obtaining a dangerous
monopoly of the whole, carrying business of the country.
(From the Morning Herald. )
G,eat these has been thrown in various quarters on Mr.
Charles Phillips, fur his speech in defence of Coo voisi..!r,
subsequently to his " confession." It appears to us that the
relation of client and advocate is such as to impose upon :he
latter the duty of obtaining for the former, standing at the
bar of criminal justice, a trial according to the forms o/
British law and the principles of British justice. Now,
both the forms of British law and the principles of Britjelo
justice require that the guilt of the prisoner, if prover/L/oex
all, shall be proved by evidence in open Court,-ant'. in no
other way. Even a confession, not proved in open Court,
is, like every other extra-judicial statement, a matter that,
if it came to the knowledge of the Judge and Jury, should
not have the slightest influence in guiding their decision.
The Judge's charge must be borne out by the evidence,
or it has no legal foundation. The jury's verdict must be
founded on the evidence, else it is nor the verdict they are
sworn to deliver. Everything not proved in evidence
must be excluded from the mines of both. if then it be,
as it certainly is, the bounden duty of Judge and Jury to
dismiss from their minds all knowledge, all rumour, all
impression, all influence not derived from the evidence,
why, we ask, should the prisoner's advocate—he who has
undertaken to defend him from a charge affecting his
liberty or life, and whose duty it is to see that the prose-
cutor is put to the strict legal proof of everything whicb
is necessary to sustain the accusation—why, we say, is the
prisoner's advocate to abandon a line of defence which the
evidence in court warrants, because he has become aware
of some statement or admission by the prisoner which has
not been made evidence, and which has, therefore, no legal
existence ?

(From the Morning Post.)
The motion of Sir R. H. Inglis, which has for its ob-
ject to recal the State to a sense of one of the most im-
portant of its duties, a duty which the State at the present
moment wickedly and scandalously neglects, stands for
discussion to-night in the Commons. We hope that Con-
servative Members will muster in commanding force for
the support of a motion which, in a degree far beyond any
other that does, or can, occupy the attention of Parliament,
deserves the name of a Conservative motion. To withhold the
funds necessary to maintain the Church Establishment
upon a seal• proportioned to the increased and increasing
numbers of the population, is, in effect, to surrender the
Church to its enemies, and to proclaim that, in the opinion
of the State, the Church as a national establishment is not
worth maintaining. This is a self-evillem: proposition. A
stationary Church Establishment, with a orogressively-
increasing population—and extended dissen't, more pow-
_
erful hostility with diminished means of dei,nice—ar
convertible terms.

It isp(oFrproomse tohfe MsirernßiongborCthrfoongircilse: )tbis
even log,
which, oshould htnheerrbeo ndaya
imasatj,orhi tey, ,
sotloo
mfoorleye
doetohiearrsedt efodro
him-
self he never would d0..--namely, pay for religious War
believed to be contrary to the word of God. For ea
ogracetioi
up to the spirit of this declaration of Sir Robert ['VP
glis, John Thorogood is now in Chelmsford riot,
Should the baronet succeed, John Thorogoods will be mu!.
tiplied all over the country, gaol extension will infallibly be
the appendage of his Church Extension. It must be
so on his own prieciple. Every man who stys with
him, " For myself 1 vir never pay a sixpence:*
&c., must, in the event of tis motion being carried, either
violate his conscience, or submit to incarceration. The
Standard of last night bestows a good deal of special
pleading and jesuitical casuistry on the endeavour to set up
a moral difference between the resolution of Sir Robert
Inglis and that of John Thorogood. It urges, first, that
Sir Robert believes the Church of Rome to teach "deathly
error ;" and, that honest John does not believe the (Lurch
of England to teach deadly error. Unless ecclesiastical
vindictiveness speedily relax, we fear he will find.it deadly.
The peril of his life has already been medically attested.
And this distinction of deadly and other error is altogether
a fudge of the Standard to serve its argument.

Some -young Nimrods, anxious to produce goo**
sport in the fens, have introduced a number of young foggy
into the neighbourhood of Spalding; these mischievous vermin
have been feeding upon the; ducks, geese, and fowls of the
nail f timers in those partse one of whom, having lost sixty
geese, and about 121. wortl%of other poultry, laid wait for, and
shot a dozen foxes. The iinkritsman of a Noble Lord hearing
of this fact, went,to expos with the destroyer of the means
of cat rying on tituoble siortilind thus accosted him, 66 What
kill a fox! Where; do you expect to go to when you die?"--
twoln Mercury. f This is ijvcry venerable anecdote, being
almost as old as the " noble science"
We hear that the unfortunate Mr. Yarworth is
not expected to recover from the murderous attack made upon
him at Piff;s Elm. He has risen from his bed but twice during
la-t six weeks, and his death is,)houily expected.— Worces-
ter Herald.