The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-29 00:00:00

TH E SUN. LONDON SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 29. IF4O

HER MA 'TESTY'S VI Si T
COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

The offer of our great National Theatres was last
night honoured by the presence of her Majesty and
her Illustrious Consort ; and it is difficult to describe
in adequate terms, not merely the enthusiastic reception
they received, but the splendid magnificence of the
scene throughout, and the glowing impressions which
it left upon the mind. There arc scenes so brilliant
and imposing that, as they pass before the eye, they
only dazzle the senses, yet take a hold upon the feel-
ings, which retain their grasp for ever, through the as-
sociation of bright and happy interests, which their re-
collection
will awaken to the last.

Norr ready, i❑ 1 ♦oh Bvo. with 16 Engravings, from On-
ginal Drawings .taken on the spot, priec Ps, bound,
THE COURT AND CAMP OF

H U N J E E T SING
By the Hos. G. W. OSI3ORNE,
Alilitary Secretary to the Gavernor- General of India.
" This Volume is full of curious details, and describes the
means by which the late Runjeet Sing contrived to raise him-
self to the comwand of a powerful ; it developes his
public and private life--his character and peculiarities—his vir-
tues and his vices ; the political relatious and power of the
Sikh State—its resources—its importance as an ally to the Bri-
tish Government in India in toe event of an invasion from Rus-
sia or Persia it pourtray.7 many of the almost incredible con-
ventions and customs of the Slid' people, a nat.* of whom
little is known beyond their geographical locality—affording
more insight into the real character of the natives of a vast di-
vision of India than is to be met with in the voluminous and
cumbrous descriptions of professed travellers."—Times.

Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

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tributing the concoction
,of the petition to the Nobie
Viscount ; end the evening, wl.ich at one time looked.
a little Equally, ended in a calm adjournmen*. ln the Commons, Mr.. M. Plitw es, failed inln-
ducing the House to allow the Commissioners of Ard-
wick. Improvem-:nts to proceed with their Bill, in
opposition to:the Standing Orders, with which they had
not complied.

In answer to Mr. LEADER, who admitted that be
had postponed bringing forward the case of Mr. FRoST
and his companions at the suggestion of Counsel, Lord
RUSSELL stated that they had sailed for New South
Wales. Mr. LEADER gave notice of his intention to
have their case discussed on Tuesday week.
In answer to Mr. GOULBURN, Lord JOHN RUSSELL
stated that be believed that the intention of the
authorities in New South Wales was ilia the chil-
dren of different sects should ha instructed in the
principles of their own religion.
The Clerk of the Crown attended at the Bar, and
explained that as soon as the error in the new writ for
Perthshire was discovered, another had been sent down.
The explanation was deemed satisfactory.
The Ludlow Committee was again brought. before
the House, and some difficulties having arisen, and some
doubts as to the construction of the Act, and as to the
propriety of the course recommended by the SOLICITOR-
GENERAL, the business was postponed till Monday at
three o'clock.

The House went into a Committee on the Irish Cor-
poration Bill;tbe reserved clauses of which were agreed to
without any:considerable amendments ; two amend-
ments, moved by the Tories, having been defeated.
The Report was ordered to be received.
The Navy Estimates were further considered in a
Committee of Supply, several sums were voted, and at
One o'Clock the House adjourned.

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nurroprieties:of conduct, if. they treat :it harshly.
if they be inconsistent, unjust, .and cruel, hatred
almost as ~tropg usurps the place of love. Now,
if this powerful, natural,-and instinctive love can he
swept out of the heart by foolish and oppressive
conduct, how, in the name of all that commands
ourestecm or excites our disgust, can the Legislature,
to which the people are bound by no such strong
natural tie, preserve its power over them, when
they daily witness its inconsistent, negligent, and
capricious conduct, and have to suffer daily by
its selfishness, its oppression, or its cruelty ?
Its class legislation is already derided—its charac-
ter is pithlicly scoffed at—its laws arc denounced
—and while such is the case it goes on, day after
day, indulging only in personal squabbles or party
debates, or contentious wranglings about privi-
leges, all which only serve, like the quarrels of a
drunken married couple, to render the Legislature,
which is already odious, contemptible to the masses.
There is no hope, however, that men so imbedded
in selfishness as our landowning legislators, and so
peculiarly occupied about tccludical trifles as our
statesmen, will be roused to a due sense of the pre-
sent peculiarity of their situation, by any observa-
tions of ours, or even by the sensible remarks of
the Wolverhampton workmen. We must leave them,
therefore, to their own course, and must leave the sub-
ject, exhorting- our readers to petition, like the
opinions
of St. Martin, and to express their opons
ornly and boldly, like the men of Wolver-
hampton.

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impression lo the rancCur of
Tory prpt.§,lnd,th9i;7noraoce of the Toik faiti'on ;.the
National is also p:eAsed with it, but. doubts its sin-
cerity and the Cannier Francais and the Quotidienne,
with laughable ignorance, think it inconsistent wi.h a
a vote o' 35,000 seamen!

The rumoured treaty between England and Russia
continues to excite great interest in the political circles
of Paris. Before discussing its effects we think the
Journals would do well to inform themselves whether
this treats, has really an existence.

The France states th:lt CABRERA, instead of being
quietly in his grave, where all France suspected he was
for the last month or two, is quite convalescent.
An Envoy has' been sent from France to the Em-
peror of Monocco to prevail upon his Moorish Ma-
jesty to give himself less trouble than be is reported to
do about his ally ABDEL-KADER. LOUIS PHILIPPE'
will be particularly obliged to him if he will prevent
his subjects from supplying the Emin with cannon and
milirar) stores. A French ship of the line was statione I
off Tancrier to give effect to the polite request of the
French 'Envoy--the civic Sovereign being of opinion
that no eloquence, not even that of gold, is so irre-
sistible in Africa as that of cannon.
BOURSE.—PARIS, THURSDAY, FEU. 27.

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4 per Cents loY do .13 8 I ... It'3 SI ... loci $0
3 per Cents 1,1•2 20 . 82 40 ... 142 31 ... 82 30
Bank o. . ranee
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ilk•lgian 'lank
5 per Cents
3 per Cents 7, 80 ... 12 80 ... 72 141 ... 72 80
United States Bank Loan
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Passive 7ci ... 7% ... 7% ••• New 1;o ferret
Portuguese 3 per Cents -.,,:p.
... .23%
... t.)3.1i ... z33i
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Naal olitan
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