The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-10 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.

JNIDERtiWiA3AGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS.
THIS EVENING, MAY 10
Will be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled
LONDON ASSURANCE.

Sir Harcourt Courtly, Bart., Mr. W. Farren ; Max Hark-
away, Mr. Bartley ; Mr. Charles Courtly, Mr. Anderson ;
Mr. Adolphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley ; Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C.
Mathews ; Mark Meddle, Mr. Harley ; Grace Harkaway,
Madame Vestris ; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs.
Pert, Mrs. Humbv.
Atter which will be repeated, the Grand Romactie Fairy Ex-
travaganza, entitled
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.

Beauty, M;l:rne-Vestris;Thel3ealt,ll4;. W. Harrison ;
John Quill, Mr. Harley ; Dressalinda, Miss Rainforth ; Mar-
rygolda, Miss Grant ; Queen of the Roses, Miss Lee. "
To-morrow, London Assurance, with Beauty and the Beast.

Doors to to opened at half-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven o'Clock.

Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second
Circles, ss. ; Second Price, :Is. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price,
25.; Gallery, Is.
Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan,
at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets
miy De had upon application.
Private Boats to be had solely of Mr. Andre gas, bookseller,
167. New Bond-street.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE

AND MR. WILLIS JONES.
Wonderful success ! Haine's " Claude Du Val, the Ladies'
Highwayman," decided to be a greater hit than ' Jack Shep-
pard ;" thousands have already witnessed the startling situa-
tions, intense interest, and extraordinary effects. The cur-
tain falls nightly amid the cheers of crowded audiences.
THIS EVENING, MAY 10, •
Will be acted an Historical and Domestic Drama, entitled
CLAUDE DU VAL, THE LADIES' HIGHWAYMAN.
With entirely new local and beautiful Scenery, extensive Ma-
chinery, real horses and carriages, &c.
Claude Duval, Mr. J. S. Balls.
Supported by the most powerful Company in London.
After which, a New Comedietta, entitled

THE BRIDEGROOM'S HOAX; OR, A WEDDING

NIGHT DILEMMA.

Characters by Mr. J. S. Balls, Johnson, Neville, Mrs. H.
ughes, Mrs. Hicks, and Miss Martin.

To conclude with

FREDERICK THE GREAT ; OR, THE KING AND

THE DESERTER.

Frederick, Mr. Neville ; The Deserter, Mr. N. T. Hicks
With Combats, Conflagrations, &c.

IaGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW
rning 7 minutes attar 5 I Evening .25 minutes after

The Publication of the Evening Edition of Title SUN coin-

reeneed at '2O minutes after Three.

LONDON:
MONDAY, MAY 10, 1841.

We entertain a great respect for Dr. Lusn-
INGTON'S sincerity, but we believe him to be
grossly in error. For example, he repelled
the argument that free labour could compete
With slave labour, by asking, " Could the honest
manufacturer compete with the highwayman?
Could the trader who paid a just obedience to
the laws, and discharged the taxes imposed on

him, compete with the lawless smuggler?" But a
grain of reflection, which, so far as statesmanship
is concerned, is worth more than a pound of sen-
timentality, and a bushel of smart antithetical
oratory, would have convinced Dr. LUSHINGTON
that his analogy and illustration were unfounded

and unjust.
In that celebrated competition between one man
who stole the materials for his brooms, and an-
other who stole the brooms ready made, which
Dr. LUSHINGTON seems to have had in view, the
thiefof the ready-made article had a great advan-
tage over the thief of the mere materials; but
we submit that the thief who now steals the Afri-
can to carry him to Cuba, has no such advan-
tage over the descendants of those who stole the
Africans long ago, to carry them to Jamaica.
The former do not steal sugar ready made, they
only steal the materials to make it; and the
question to be decided is, whether those who
now steal the materials, or those who formerly
stole them, for making sugar, can produce that
article the cheaper. Dr. LUSIIINGTON fancies
the present race of Cuba and Brazilian thieves
can; we believe that he has not duly considered'
the matter.

Man-stealing, as Dr. LUSHINGTON properly de-
scribed it, is a gross iniquity, and the present
conduct of the Brazilians and Cubans carries with

tall the consequences of a fresh act of injustice.
No art can reconcile the unhappy slaves to their
lot, and no labour can be obtained from them
but by compulsion. Overseers armed with whips,
a prison on every estate, and all the other, not
only painful but costly contrivances to extort la-
bour, are as necessary now in Cuba and the Bra-
zils, as they were heretofore in Jamaica. We
are sure that the outrages must be brutal, and
the compulsion very costly, for we have Dr.
LUSHINGTON'S authority for asserting that the
slaves are "used up" every ten years, and at the
end of that time require to be renewed.

The price of a slave varies, but is seldom less
we believe, than 501., so that a gang of 100 will
require an outlay of a capital Of 5,0001. every
ten years. Besides the cost of their guards,
overseers, and prisons, the slaves must be fed
nearly as well as free labourers to keep them
in working condition. There is no reason to sup-
pose tL at food can be raised or procured by means
of less labour in Cuba than in Jamaica, so that
while the cost of maintaining slaves must be
nearly as great as the wages given to free la-
bour, the slave owner has to lay out a large ca-
pital, which the employer of free labour never
expends. That is one of the great advantages of
our colonies.

The injustice of man is healed by time, and
the mercy and goodness of GOD gradually ex-
tinguish the consequences of crimes. Even the
memory of injustice, and with that the desire of
revenge, is in time dried up and lost, and the
kindly relations which it disturbed are restored.
But for this salutary dispensation feuds would be
perpetual, and Europe would now be like Cuba

or Brazil, the abode of slaves working in gyves,
chained at night in a prison, and of tyrants armed
with whips, swords, and lances. Time has done
something even for our West India colonies,
comparatively recent as is the termination of
slavery, in extinguishing the remembrance of
wrongs, and in substituting the friendly relations
of masters and servants for those of tyrants and

slaves.
All the accounts from the West Indies repre-
sent the black population as working quietly
and well for wages. Compulsion, equally hateful
and costly, is at an end and the planter, instead
of having to employ a large capital in the pur-
chase of slaves, has received a large price from
this county for those he formerly owned, and
Who now work for him as cheaply, as free la-
bourers,las they or their ancestors worked as

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