The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-30 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

Crowded audiences are nightly assembled to witness the new
Drama, " The Wreck of the Royal George," preceded by
Brunning's magnificent Diorama ; the cheers from delighted
spectators warrant its announcement for every evening.
THIS EVENING, OCT. 30,
Will be acted the New Nautical Drama, entitled
THE WRECK OF THE ROYAL GEORGE;
OR, THE SEAMAN'S CHEST.
Preceded by a Grand Pictorial and Scenic Induction, repre-
senting a Cruise rourd the Coast, and depicting the awful ca-
lamity, with the sinking of the Ves3el, &.
To conclude with
BOZ'S OLIVER TWIST.
Realizing all Cruikshanks' inimitable Tableaux Vivans.

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Under her Majesty's Immediate Patronage.
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from Ten till Dusk.
The Menagerie, which is unequalled in the number, variety,
and beauty of the specimens it contains, occupies several spa-
cious and elegant buildings comfortably heated, and arranged
with the nearest possible assimilation to the natural haNts of
the animals. The most important additions recently received
are the rare and beautiful black Leopard, le Mignon Elephant,
a pair of the scarce Curassows; called Cushew Birds, the Sacred
Ibis, the Bush Cow (the only specimen in Europe), a pair of
Cossowaries, the Monster Boa (the largest ever seen in confine-
ment), &c.
The splendid collection of Careivora are fed at Four o'Clock,
at which dine the lerociullS attributes and amazing muscular
owers of these forest monarchs are displayed to the utmost ad-
YS II Admission One Shilling

LONDON:
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1840.

A Correspondent, who subscribes himself " A
Young Englishman and a Chartist," takes us very
severely to task for having spoken of the English,
in our notice of Mr. O'CONNELL'S letter, " as

more sheepish and humble than the Irish." Our

Correspondent is mistaken in attributing those re-
marks to any other than an Englishman, and one
who was born in the very heart of England, and
bred up in the most pofound veneration for his
country. But he has outlived his teachers, and the
memory of their instruction has been obliterated by

the impressions on his own senses. He cannot
close his mind to observation, and the opinions
censured by our Correspondent, are the result of a
pretty long acquaintance with the south of England.
Whatever may be the characteristics of the as-
piring and youthful inhabitants of our towns, of
whom no doubt our Correspondent is one, the
general characteristic, we regret to say, of the in-
habitants of the rural districts of England is as we
have described it. The unfortunate Irish have had

he dominion of England, in addition to the domi-

nion of their priests, and the dominion of their heart-
less aristocracy, to struggle against; and though they
have not always struggled wisely, they have latterly
struggled against their oppressors manfully and unit-
edly. Can we say as much of the English ? Are they
not at this moment the most priest and the most
lawyer-ridden of any people of Europe ? Did not,
to quote one illustration, the inhabitants of the
tropolis lately reject a gentleman whose turn it was
to occupy the Civic Chair merely because a news-
paper, of which he is a part owner, had written
something displeasing to the priest party ? Has
not the dominion of the lawyer tribe been a re-
proach to England since the days of OLIVER
CROMWELL, who essayed in vain to overcome it ?
And arc not common sense and common right, by
common concurrence, even now, continually sacri-
ficed to their uncouth jargon and lying fictions,
which the public have not the spirit to resist ? On
the contrary, they and the priests, are extending
their dominion every day, and because the people
are not wise enough to lighten it in time, a revolu-
tion will by and bye be forced on the country to break
in pieces their heavy yoke. At present the domi-
nion of these men, most patiently submitted to, ex-
tends over every portion of domestic life ; it is not
in the order of nature, and either that or society
must he ultimately destroyed.

Again, what words better than -those we have
used, express the disposition in the mass of the
people to follow the lead of the landowners, and
submit with reverence to their insulting, unrighteous
decrees ? They ordain, in the shape of a bread tax,
plunder and starvation ; to put, as they suppose, a
little money in their own pockets, they cut off trade
and cut off the people ; and this most unrighteous
and most ruinous law is sheepishly and humbly sub-
mitted to, as if those who decreed it were the im-
mediate servants of the ALMIGHTY, appointed to
rule over the people, or even the ALMIGHTY him-
self. Doubly chained and enthralled by both a
spiritual and secular power, the Irish have been
kept unfortunately in profound ignorance ; but the
English have had the liberty of instructing them-
selves. They possess knowledge, or they pretend
they possess it, and yet they humbly and sheep-
ishly follow—we respectfully, but firmly repeat—
maxims and men quite unworthy of honour, re-
spect, or obedience. Our correspondent is in error
in supposing in us any prejudice from having been
born in another land, or any anti-national motives
for our remarks. We know that none such can
exist, and, therefore, though at the risk of offend-
ing even others than " Young Englishmen and
Chartists," we venture to reiterate them.

On the same principle, apparently, that the Times
has of late attacked the Admiralty, the principle of
blind ignorance, it yesterday defended Lord HILL

for his conduct in relation to Lord. CARDIGAN.

On Wednesday it stated that Lord HILL " was
convinced that the complaints which have arisen
against the Earl of CARDIGAN are only too well

founded." On Friday it said it had read the sen-
tence on Captain REYNOLDS with a feeling of
pain. It spoke of that sentence as " justice without
mercy ;" it described Lord CARDIGAN "as de-
serving a severer punishment than Captain REY-
NOLDS." "It would he idle," it said, "to hope
that harmony can be restored to the mess-room of
the Eleventh Hussars, or satisfaction given to the
public mind, if the same hand which has visited
with all the terrors of military discipline, should
persist in screening from investigation the acts of
the Noble Lieutenant-Colonel." Well, the Noble
Lieutenant-Colonel has been screened by Lord
HILL, who has positively refused all in-
vestigation into his past conduct, promising—
which he had no occasion to do, for that
is his duty—future investigation into regular
official and authenticated complaints. The only
punishment administered to Lord CARDI-
GAN, instead of a severer punishment than
that of Captain REYNOLDS, is a reproof, which he
and his friends look on as no reproof at all ; the
sentence of justice without mercy which gave pain
to the Times, has been voluntarily confirmed by
Lord HILL ; and yesterday the Times declared
that the Memorandum " washed Lord HILL clean
of the declamatory charges brought against him by
the Radical newspapers." It does not, however,
dear him of the charges urged by the Times, and
the words we have quoted from that journal of
Wednesday and Friday accuse Lord HILL of being
unmerciful, partial, and unjust.

The Admiralty have, at least of late, most dili-
gently done their duty, and have sent to the Medi-
terranean as fine a fleet as ever left the shores of
England.. Compared to our Ships (luring last war,
when every fifth man was a foreigner, and every
third man almost a land-lubber, with little or no
practice in gunnery, our fleet at present is well
manned, though not so numerously supplied with
seamen as we think it ought to be, and the sea-
men arc well practised in the use of guns. They
arc now displaying their skill in Syria most success-
fully. For these exertions the Admiralty has been
brutally attacked by the Times, and Lord HILL,
for screening Lord CARDIGAN, is now protected
by that Jeurnal against the charges of the Radical
newspapers. Such virtuous and patriotic consis-
tency must recommend our Contemporary to the
public as a worthy adviser and cafe political guide.
It even went so far yesterday as to praise
the
Memorandum, as " marked throughout by unex-
ceptionable calmness, temper, and feeling," and
" as using the language of distinct, grave, and
stern reproof." Our judgment, more infirm, we
presume, than that of our Contemporary, cannot
adopt his conclusion. A more undignified piece of
twaddle than the Memorandum of Lord HILL
I never fell under our notice, unless it was some one
L of the speeches of Mrs. NICRLZBY, when she talks

' of "birds singing putting her in mind of roast pork
and apple sauce, because she had once dined on
roast pork and apple sauce, and a little bird sung,
that was not a little bird, but a large parrot, and the
roast pmk was not roast pork, but a goose stuffed
with sage and onions." It is, however, quite
worthy of Lord HILL'S conduct through the whole
CARDIGAN affair. By his proceedings he has
made himself responsible for the conduct of the
Earl of CARDIGAN and the Court-martial, and for
everything they have done and said, for he has con-
firmed and approved them all. Whatever, therefore,
there has been un-officerlike or ungentlemanly in
the conduct of the former, or harsh amd unjust in the
conduct o the latter, all the blame of that must fall
on Lord HILL. If, as the Times properly says, Lord
CARDIGAN ought to retire from the army, nothing
but a spirit of partizanship keeps it from saying, as
we do, that Lord HILL ought to retire from the
Horse Guards.

jlu the early part of the month of September, w•e
callcd attention to the Report of the New Zealand
Committee. We then felt our ourselves obliged to

object to the WA K EFIELD system of colonization.
and to defend against its advocates, the individual
colonization of New Zealand, which has already
taken place to a considerable extent, and which
they, for their own purposes, have cried down as
full of criminality. We now beg leave to call atten-
tion to an article extracted from the Spectator, de-
scribing the present condition of the colony of South
Australia, established on the WAKEFIELD prin-
deaebrst, in which, by the bye,
that the Governor has
pc e d Btyb
et
colony
t it
he seems very much to have imitated the home autho-
rities under which it was placed, and put a stop to that
influx of labourers on which its presumed prosperity

was to depend. That was the bait held out to
capitalists, and though caught, they will get nothing
mum, apparently, than the hook.
On September the 7th and 9th, we pointed out
from the Fourth II eport of the Colonization Commis-
sioners, that the WAKEFIELD plan of setting down
complete an old society in the wilderness, had been
t tended with many of the charges of such a society

,shout its conveniences. In the South Austra-

Tian Reand, of September 26, we find some addi-
tional facts bearing on this point, which arc worthy
of notice. It quotes from the South Australian,
of April 21, a statement that flour was then selling
at from 601. to 701. a ton, while it was from 361.
to 401. at Sydney, and in Hobart-town from 381.
to 421. The 411). loaf was selling for 3s. 6d. or
four times the price in England.
From the Southern Australian, of March 19,

it quotes an account of two men being executed,
but for what offence it does not say. They are
desetibcd as hardened villains, who had escaped

from punishment in the other colonies, and their
punishment collected a considerable crowd. The
other prisoners against whom sentence of death
was passed were reprieved, and their sentence
commuted to perpetual banishment. The same
journal is quoted as the authority for stating that
" chain gangs of criminals arc to be employed in
the public works," and that an act of incendiarism
had destroyed a haystack. Mr. WAKEFIELD
may undoubted!) boast of having transplanted an
old society into anew country, one which carries
with it most of the crimes of the mother country
without its conveniences. (MI t.%

In the Southern Australian, of Ma'reh 26, as
quoted in the Record, it is stated that robberies
have become frequent recently. With this state of
internal society, robberies frequent, incendiarism
beginning, murder perpetrated,. food scarce, and a
Government loaded and loading the colony with
debt, is it not a farce to say that the WAKE-
FIELD system is successful ? Immense resources
indeed have been tempted into the concern by flat-
tering representations. More capital has been
employed in establishing the colony than sufficed
to establish all the North American provinces, and
the result is little better than dearth, demoraliza-

tion, and distress.. "To all these disadvantages we
see no set-off but a continual demand, on the pars:
of those who have gone thither, for more hands and
more labour. They want more companions
their misery, and more toil to be extracted from half.
famished contending competitors for employment.
It must not be supposed that the extravagance
of Colonel GAwLER is some accidental thing. A
Governor entrusted with his power, and uncon-
trolled by the governed on the spot, will be sure to
he guilty, according to his taste, of some such ex-
travagance, and will follow his own caprice. No
one of the Governors has yet given satisfaction.
Captain HINDMARSU, as well as Colonel GAW-
LER, got the colony into trouble. It is the neces-
sary osystem, that the colony
must
independent
of the people-
c haver i sc (l a u
Governorence o f
Such a colony, even if founded and conducted on
tlejo int-sto
aektm
principle,hoe would have, in a Board
of t
Directors
as well as in its confidant in
the colony, such a Governor ; and whenever his

interest or caprice led him to do wrong, he would
do it. Colonel WAKEFIELD has not yet been
proved, but we anticipate for him no more noble
career than has distinguished Captain HIND.
bIARSII and Colonel GAWLER.
In estimating the success of the colony, it is cus-

tomary to compare it with our older colonies, when
navigation was imperfect, and when the hard-
ships which colonists had to struggle with were
much greater than at present, and, from sheer
ignorance, could not be provided against. The
only modern . colony with which it can be justly
a s f abortiontoin
the
ea tfi rSwanst
suffered River,
to ruin
where
comparedprivate
is b
cupidity
the settlement. It ought to be compared with
what
what has been effected by individuals, missionaries,
taNt v
and others in New Zealand. Here we see
private enterprise without any great resources, un-
aided by companies of London capitalists, -
acquir-
ing large tracks of land, establishing stores, and
providing our whalers with refreshments, till re-
spectable towns, without any fostering care, have
arisen. Looking at the results of private enter-
prise, at the immense resources which have been
directed towards South Australia, and at ;,,,, pre-
sent condition of dearth, debt, and crime, we cannot
consider that the WAOFIELD principle has any ad-
vantage over those iadividual exertions, those irre-
gularhave called whichforth 8,
squattings,much
indignation from Mr WAKEFIELD and his friends.
einent of failure, for The acknowledgement such we
we have quoted from
consider the article the Spec-
latv and the Colonial Gazelle, comes, we think,
rather late. The fact was as palpable at the beginning
of September, when
the Fourth Report of the Com-
missioners was published, as at the end of October.
A. late confession, however, is better than none ;
and, however much it may wound the pride and
self-love of individuals, we hail with satisfaction
the article we have copied, as a reluctant tribute
to truth. —me.

Paris
but 'flow:sins:l sh
Wednesday
ittne d all
of
beenf the
Cabinet.no t contain
Not thet
owever, entertained received, llittheetirne(wloes
11/0
he
expected official list of ofo f Wednesday,"
slightest doubt
formation of a SOULT-Guizo.T Ministry, which,
as our readers will see, by referring to the Spirit of
Reconciliation Cabinet." This is
the French Journals in another
has already
part of The Sun,
appel-
lation of the obtained the

beginning well.
Among the rumours in circulation in Paris on
Wednesday, none created a greater stir in the di-