The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-19 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.

UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS.
THIS EVENING, SEPT. 19,

Will be produced aNew Play, in Ave Acts, written by James

Sheridan li.n4irles, Esq.. entitled
',III,: BRIDE OF MESSINA.

John di Proc;4a, Fernando, 'Mr. Anderson;
Guiscardo, Mr. Cooper; Isoline, Miss Ellen Tree.
To conclude with ar Original Comic, Romantic, Operatic.
Melodramatic, Fairy Extravaganza, in Three Parts, entitled
end founded on that popular Nursery Tale,
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD.
The Principal Characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. J. Vining,
Mr. J. Bland, Madame Vestris, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. C.
Jones, &c. &c.

Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 33. 6d.; First and Second
Circles. : Second price, as. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price,
2s. ; Gallery, Is.
Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to
/commence at Seven o'Clock.

Tickets and pia( 93 for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan,
at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets
may be, had upon application.
Priv ate Boxes to be had so!ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller,
167, N ew Bond-street.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Another New Drama, Revival of " The Law of the Land," and
Ninth Week of Haines' " Jane of the Hatchet." Upwards
of 100,000 persons have already witnessed the grand Tableaux
d'action and military evolutions of the hundred Female War-.
riors.

THIS EVENING, SEPT. 19.
Will be acted a New French Drama, entitled
THE ITALIAN HUSBAND.
dater which the Grand Historical Spectacle, of unequalled
splendour, entitled
JANE OF THE HATCHET.
Supported by the entire strength of the Company,
and One Hundred Female Warriors.
To conclude with
THE LAW OF THE LAND.
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Principal Characters by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Neville,
Smith, and Buckingham, Miss Martin, Miss Grant, and Mrs,

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
_EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY, and THURSDAY.
GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET
CHAMPET RES,
By Godfrey's unrivalled Band.
Programme of the Concert for Sept. 21, 22, and 24.
FIRST PART.
Overtures—Midsummer Night's Dream, Mendessoim. Qua—
drille—Le Danois, Musard. Pot Pourri on Russian National
Airs, with S(;01, Labitzky. Waltz—Die Bergeister, Strauss.
Introduction, Child of the Air, Barnet. New Austrian March,
lanzenbrechen, Haslinger. Overture—Waverley, Berlioz.

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SECOND .
BEETHOVEN'S GRANDPART BATTLE SINFONIA,
By the augmented Band, with instruments of novel construe- •
tion, and 340 rounds of artillery and musketry, giving the
moat vivid realization of the events of the Battle of Vittoria.
Che fai que con quest° Ricci. Pot Pourri sur des
_ dotkfs Fra.Diavolo, Auber. iValtz—Souvenirs de la Pa-
lais do St. Petersburg, Labitzky. Quadrillweas.bmnr-s-1-4""--1
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'Plc vast Panorama al Fresco of Iceland and its Volcanoes, by
Danson—Breaking up of the Ice—Melting of the Snows—
Release lad Departure of the Discovery Ship.
Carter's astonishing " Koniaphostic," or "Lime Light.
Eruption of Mount Hecla, with increased magnificence.
IDAIISSION ONE SHILLING.
Fee.fing Hour of the Carnivora, Five o'Clock.
Concert at Five. Eruption at Eight.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
" Veritas" should send his ingenious commentary on a some_
R; hat remarkable passage is last week's Spectator to that
j ournal.

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itself on the rest of the people. Such another
griping, beggarly class, in fact, is not to be found
in the whole community, and the Treasury will ,
grossly neglect its duty to the public if it grant the
prayer of the hop-growers.
Let the public mark, too, the impudence of the
landowners. The poor deluded little farmers, who
have a hard task to make both ends meet, though
they practise the greatest industry and utmost fru-
galiiy, are much to be pitied. They have never
had time to study the bearings of taxation. They
know they are distressed, and they seek relief
wherever it can be found. We can scarcely
blame them for their enforced ignorance. But the
landlords, the MICKELTHWAITS, the HODGES,
and the rest of them, must be acquainted with
the operation of taxes, and must know that their
rents have been paid out of the money levied
by their tenants on the consumers of hops,
in the shape of duty. They must know
too, that they are asking forbearance from the
Treasury, that the tenants may this year also pay
their rents. They must too, be aware, that next
year the duty of this year will have to be added to
the duty of last year, and that there is less chance
of the land-renting dupes being enabled to pay it
then than now ; and they must be aware, we are
afraid—for under similar circumstances, the same
thing has happened before—that postponing the
payment due, and contracting a loan from Govern-
ment, will lead to wide-spread and certain insolvency
amongst the small farmers. There is always pro-
perty, however, enough on the farm to pay the
landowner's rent, and he generally finds some other
dupes ready to take the land, relying on obtaining
those prices promised by a so-called protecting law,
which they never receive. Race after race, gene-
ration after generation of farmers, particularly in
the hop districts, have been ruined by this very pro-
cess, and those who now encourage them to memo-
ralize the Treasury for relief, in order to pay their
rents out of money so borrowed, are preparing the
way for the insolvency of another generation of hop-
growers. 'Whether that be so or not, the unusual
distress amongst the farmers which is made the
ground for the begging petition, is a voucher against
the Corn-laws. We have shown in detail that
they have enhanced the distress of the hop-grower
by enhancing his rent and the expense of cultivating
hops.

The Times of yesterday published exclusively
a long account of a meeting of the South Leices-
tershire Conservative Association, at Leicester, on
Wednesday. That gentlemen should dine together,
drink toasts, and make speeches, is quite English,
and we rejoice to see a good old custom kept up.
At the same time we can see nothing in the
speeches of Messrs. HALFORD and PACKE,
Lord G. MANNERS and Mr. FARNHAM, worthy
of the least notice, much more of filling a page in
the Times. These gentlemen with much commend-
able modesty, rarely open their mouths in the
House of Commons, and if they did the Times
would wisely refrain from reporting their speeches.
We were, therefore, for some time at a loss to know
what could make gentlemen, whom the Times treats
as bores in the House of Commons, so extremely
eloquent at Leicester. We were struck, indeed,
by seeing amongst the company Mr. WALTER,
late Member of Parliament for Berkshire ; but a
light shone on us when we found at the end of the
proceedings, and immediately after Mr. FREWEN
had given " the Conservative Society of the Borough
of Leicester," that Mr. 'WALTER'S health was
drunk, and that, in concluding his speech, he drank
prosperity to the Tories of Leicester. Mr. WAL-
Tmt, we presume, would be glad to represent it in
Parliament.

person called out, that the Conservatives meant, at
1 the next election, to send six Conservatives to
.Par-
liament, meaning to turn out the two Radical
Members for the Borough of Leicester, and replace
them by two Conservatives. We presume, then, that
Mr. WALTER looks forward to be one of these
Conservative Members. Berkshire is inaccessible ;
frorn the Borough of Southwark he has been
driven ; and so he coquets with Leicester. The pro-
'prietor of a rival journal points the way, and where
Mr. EASTHOPE has succeeded it can scarcely be
possible, Mr. WALTER probably thinks, that he
should fail.

Such a project accounts for the long report—ac-
r.:ounts for the flattering attention paid at Leicester
to the 'Members for the county, who are silent in
the House of Commons, and whose speeches there
are burked, and accounts for the exclusive posses-
sion by the Times of the valuable historical docu-
ment. Mr. 'WALTER will, however, hardly suc-
ceed at Leicester. The upright and honest elec-
tors there have a mortal aversion to trimmers of all
kinds ; they are thorough anti-Churchmen, sticklers
for THOROGOOD, advocates for further and exten-
sive reforms, and they will never di3zrace themselves
by selecting the rejected of the Borough, and the
would-be-but-could-not of Berkshire, to represent
them in Parliament. We are only prevented from
concluding positively that Mr. WALTER means to
offer himself for Leicester by a thorough conviction,
which he seems to share, that the attempt is
hopeless.

The new mode of divine worship, and the sys-
tem of civil as well as religious ceremonies adopted
by the Chartists of Glasgow, form the most re-
markable features of all the political movements of
the present time. It appears that the Chartists in
that city have taken the lease of a Church, and
there regularly perform Church service, preach,
pray, baptise, marry, and administer the sacrament,
without clergymen. According to a report made
by a Committee of the body, they have never
found themselves in want of preachers, " who
have declared to them the counsel of GOD,
not in the fashionable rhetoric of the day,
but in the simplicity of the Gospel." From all
accounts, they appear to be men of a religious turn
of mind—well acquainted with the Scriptures, and
fully determined not to yield submission to the pre-
sent arbitrary conduct of the Kirk. They, in fact,
say to the clergy, " We can do without you ; you
can show us no divine authority for the position
you have assumed in society ; and, with the Bible
in our hands, from which we have sufficient
warrant for our proceedings, we will our-
selves perform all the religious rites prescribed
by it." The Scotch clergy, who, accord-
ing to the Bishop of EXETER, are no clergy, will
find it difficult to gainsay this argument ; and as it
is
tri I i notes wat all improbable
illb eadoptedhythat these new religious doe-
England as well as Scotla
t ihnei , Chartistso ar
es
tao
sbaoyd y i
thatn
the English Prelates, with all their vaunted rights,
acquired by Apostolical Catholic succession, will
find themselves treated with as little ceremony
as the successors of JOHN K, OX. It is im-
possible to foresee what revolutions this new
system of administering religious rites may produce,
but two things are certain, it will form a bond of
union ten-fold stronger than the Charter, and the
clergy both of the Church of England and of Scot-
land will find that their grasping and tyrannical
conduct have produced the result. When we see
such a meeting as that which was held at &Tin.
burgh but the other day, on Sah'i,ath Funerals, and
a religious society like this formed under the very
nose of the Church, for doing away with ail clergy,
we may be assured that there is something rotten in