The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-08 00:00:00

Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 vols. post Svo.,
E DIARY OF A NUN.
" Friendship is con,Ttant in all other things,
Save in the office aad affairs of love."

SHAKSPEIRE.
" A tale of' real pass on, ar:sa out of the events of real
pleasingly and skilfully blenlrd with the actual details of
a lengthened residence in Italy—the whole forming a very
graceful, interesting, and touching- story."—New Monthly.
Henry Co!burn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN.
lINDEII THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME
VESTRIS.
THIS EVENING, JA N. 8,
(BY SPECIAL DESIRE.)
Will be performed
nig BEGGAR'S OPERA.
Captain Masheath, Mr. W. Harrison ; Peachuru, Mr. W.
arren ; Mr. Bartley; Filch, Mr. Harley ; Mrs.
Peachtim, Mrs C. Janw ; Pelly Peaehmu, Miss Rainforth;
Lucy Lockit, Madame Yueris.
After which, a Canis Burletta, celled
PATTER vLasus CLATTER
Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews.
Tu conclude witli the New Grand Comic 0-_iistmasi Panto-

mime, entiiled
HARLEQUIN AND THE NIERRIE DEVIL OF ED-
MONTON; OR, TIIE GREAT BED OF WARE.
Wi en•irely Nen- Scenery. Machinery, DreE,a, and De-

cOrations.
Har.equn, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ;
Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; Merric Devil, Mr. Gibson ; and Co-
urnbine, Miss Fairbrother.
Dress Boxes, 7s; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second
Circle,,. 5.. ; Second Price, :Is. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price,
s.; Gallery, Is.
Doors to be oi.iened at half-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven o'Clock.
Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Notter,
at the Bon-office, from Ten till Four, wh re Season Tickets
may be had upon application.
Private Boxes to be had solely oaf Mr, Andrews. bookseller,
167, New Bond-stieit.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Ti! (rand Comic Pantomime, universally allowed to be the
best in London. is attracting the most brilliant overflows
over witnessed, hundreds are nightly disappointed of obtain-
ing admission. The splendour of the Scenery and appoint-
ments surpass every other production.
TIIIS EVENING, JAN. 8,
Will be repe:sred, an entirely new Legendary Drama, called
THE LAPIDARY OF LEYDEN.

Aftr which, the New Romantic Drama, Galled
MICHAEL EARLE, THE MANIAC LOVER.

Ci:aracters by Messrs. Saville, H. Hughes, Neville, John-
sen, aid Smith ; Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, and Miss Martin.
To cone!ude with the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called
THE QUEEN BEE, OR HARLEQUIN AND GOODY
TWO SHOES.
The silenglid Scenery by Mr. Brunning—The magnificent
Diorama by Mr. P. Phillips.
CAtmlnne, Miss Sharpe; Harlequin, Clown, Pantaloon, and
Sprite, by the Bolero Family.
Messrs. cams of St. James's-street ; Andrews, Ebers, and
:vlitchell, Boni-street; and Seguin of Regent-street, Book-
s,dlerF, are appointed to let Private and Public Boxes during
the run of the Pantomime.

H-WATE:it Al' LONDON BRIDGE TO.,IORRO VV.
wog 50 minutes attcr •4 Evening...... ,7 minutes after 5.

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LONDON :
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, i&4O.

We called attention some time ago to the fact
that the Duke of RUTLAND was the person to
move in the Grantham Union to reduce the food
'1 of the paupers to the level of the food of the inde-
pendent labourer, who had been compelled to sub-
stitute barley for wheaten bread. That fact found
general currency, and provoked general comment.
Mr. OASTLER, the Tory, and correspondent of the
Times, held up the conduct of the Duke to repro-
bation, and pointed to it as one of the circumstances
which made the people dislike and hate the Aris-
tocracy. To lessen the odium, probably, which that
circumstance brought on his Grace, he has, we learn
from the Times, " given the munificent sum of 100
guineas, to the fund now being raised for the relief
of the distressed working classes of Leicestershire."
But by now reminding the public of the former
act, we shall, we hope, prevent that justly deserved
odium being lessened by his Grace's present gift.
His Grace, who gives 100 guineas to re-
lieve the distressed working classes of Leicester-
shire, is a great landowner and a great supporter of
the Corn-laws. What is the exact amount of his
rent-roll, and what is the exact sum the Corn-laws
put in his pocket by taking it out of the pockets of
the Leiustershirc distressed working men, we can-

not saj ; but if we should estimate it at twenty times
ICO gui:lcas, or 2,000 guineas per year, we shall

certainly not he above the mark. The munificent
1 gift of 100 guineas is paragraphed, talked of, and
;stiffed off, so as to blind and delude the poor work-
-1 in who will btu taught to say, " Oh, what
a area; benefactor to us is the Duke of RUTLAND.
) [IOW can we petition to diminish the revenue of so
great and good a gentleman." His Grace then
gives to the Leicestershire working men, with
much ostentation, the twentieth part of that sum
which he takes from them by the Cern-laws;
atid with this pitiful poiticn of their own
•toduce he and his like expect to bribe them into
acq,:iesconce under the most grievous spoliation
that n vras practised by one class of society on
L:s
1 another. How the Leicestershire working classes
and their triend::, may receive the " munificent gift"
we know not ; but self-respect requires that they
send it back to his Grace, and request him
I to be just before he pretends to be generous.

What is easily won is easily lost ; and so some

auclen: barons or moch:rn highwaymen, who be-
) stow,d Ore whole fruits of their rapine on vassals
depeno.ents, or scattered it with a free hand
among rile poor and among menials, were reckoned
; aihungst the most generous of men. Our land-
owners, however, are much more prudent than their

forefathers, and expect to obtain the reputation of
generosity by giving up less than the twentieth part
I of tho sum which they, by the law, take from the
':)eopie. Their ingenuity as well as their prudence
'3r surpasses that of their ancestors The latter
their lives on the cast, and plundered strong
tyy the strong hand. Their ingenious descen-

dants i7ertortn the same operation without encoun-
-
the sin,llest danger ; and no low pettifogging
attorneys could enrich themselves with greater

1 safety.
We will take this opporamity of saying that we
have been reproached with nut having made out
Our charge against the Legislature of practising
1 theft by means of the Corn-laws. We took, how-
{ evcr, the recorded admissions of the Cori:-law ad-
-1 Irecates, that the landowners would lose much of
their present income, or would be ruined were it
not.for the Corn-laws. The Corn-laws, therefore,
zivs or grant, or secure to them the income they
irtceive. But all wealth is the produce of labour ;
./xid the Corn-laws can only give them their pre-
.; se.at income by taking it from some other persons.
' The Corn-laws therefore do steal, or surreptitiously
take away property from the rest of the people, to
i give it to the landowners. We think the demon-
; stration is complete.
,) There can be no pretence for saying that the
Corn-laws C add to the whole sum of national wealth,
and that the landlords only receive the addition. If
1 they did so add to the national wealth, the land-
i lords would have no right to the addition, for they
do not cultivate the soil. They are merely the
1 ieceivcrs of rent. The Corn-laws, however, are
s restriction on industry, they prevent the mills in
1 Niar,,,,ester.and other places from manufacturing