The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-28 00:00:00

E VENIN G SUN

TIME FOR A FORWARD MOVEMENT OF THE
LIBERALS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—Allow me to follow up the expediency
of arranging a general forward movement of the
Liberals on the basis of the .Freedom of Trade,
by insisting on two or three points strongly tend-
ing to recommend such an operation.
First, That the Liberal party at large have no
prospect of success bit by setting up some great
and stirring object, which shall aim directly at
the sources of the hostile power by which they
are oppressed. The time is gone by when a Tory
Niniitry could be ousted upon a point of eti-
quette. It must be a question of justice or no
justice,—freedom or no freedom. It must be a
question competent to rally one portion of the
nation against the other, and give the honest
men the victory. The game of the opponents is
to make the war keep the war; in plainer terms,
to rob in order to bribe. Like those that drain
a hog, we must gu to the spring which is at the
bottom.

Secondly, That supposing them to have ever
such good and sound ground to fight upon, there
is no use in their attempting any struggle, unless
they can strew up their souls to the determina-
tion to bid highly to the " Slave Class" for their
assistance. That the slave class will not move
without, may not be wise, but it is in " human
'nature." Such young politicians as they, cannot
be expected to act the part of old diplomatists.
All the good in the world might be ready to
drop into their mouths, and they not open them
unless they were to be paid for it. Do the Li-
berals want help or not ? If they do, they must
give the popular battalion some object for march-
ing which it can understand, without asking whe-
ther there are fifty reasons why it should march
without. Not one. of them but knows indivi-
dually and personally, that he was beaten at the
• mock Election because he had not the Working
Classes and the Ballot. And yet these men
higgle about what they shall bid. -
Lastly, to the populars. If they were old
diplomatists, as they are not, they would simply
ask themselves the question, whether they
should be butter' for the breaking down of the
Trade and Food monopolies or they should not.
It is true, attempts have been made by the
engines of the monopolists to persuade them
they would not; just as attempts have been
made to set them against the Ballot, in the full
knowledge that where the people had a penny-
weight of influence through the open voting, the
monopolists had'a hundred; which may now be
reckoned among gone-by.. mummeries. - But if
they should determine that they would be better,
the question instantly becomes independent of how
much gratitude, how much good faith,or how much
virtue of any kind, they are to find in the middle
classes. Put the case that all these were absent
in the highest possible degree;—that the middle
classes were curious in displaying themselves in
every discreditable light. Still it would be the
part of a child and not of a man, to take pet and
quarrel with the cake that could be had, on pre-
tence of being afraid of being deceived in the
expectation of some other. The part of wise
men would be to take what can be got, whether
the middle classes cheat or not; and to take as
much in the way of gratitude or justice from the
middle classes, as Heaven shall send besides. In
fact this terror of being cheated by the middle
classes, may be set down as one of the sugges-
tions of the enemy. Its object is to hinder us
from taking what we may secure, whether the
middle classes prove to be gentlemen or not.
Permit me to take the opportunity of assuring
the working clas3es, that nobody has a worse
opinion of dependence upon other men's grati-
tude or virtue than myself: As a proof' of it,
they may some of them remember, that after the
sort of movement towards them which appeared
to proceed from Manchester, I took the earliest
opportunity, at Huddersfield, of saying, "Blessed
are they that expect nothine-, for they shall not
be disappointed!" and beggt7d, of all things, not
to be considered as'among the chargeable For any
disanpointment which ensue. But I did
my best to irrpres at the same time, that this
was no reasin :or not walking in at an open
door, or for refushiLr to take the good the gods
provide us in, one clircc:ion, for fear of failure
in some other.
And now, to revert to the general subject,—Look
at the position of the is pitted
Minister. He
the support of a string of the most obvious,
glaring, insulting fallacies by which one ma,
ever • attempted to take another's money in
this dubious world ;—falsehoods which come
home to every man's bread-basket and
storesroom, and break in upon every little
trader's hoarded notions of prudence and
integrity. How is he to get out Of the
scrape ? Either he knew what he undertook to
support, or he did not. If be knew, then why is
he to be tolerated longer than any other man
who has attempted a public injury and failed 7
If he did not, then what claim has a man so far
behind the knowledge of his age and time, to set
lip for a ruler in a popular Government, though
-under any imaginable quantity of apologies for
his insulated ignorance? The Minister has had one
five months' delay already, on the ground that he
had not come to the knowledge of whether rob-
bing a man hurt him or not. Surely he will not
have another, however when beaten he may
declare himself to have gotten light during his
period of incubation. There never was a better
board ;if only the old Mar-ails could be pre-
vented from having more than a reasonable
linger in the game.—Yours very sincerely,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
Blackheath, Dec. 27, 1841.

UT II A ATP TO N.—The Hon. Admiral and
-Mrs. Bouverie and suite arrived on Monday at the Dol-
phin Hotel, in this town, from visiting at Colonel Buck-
ley's and Mr. Compton's, in the New Forest. In the
afternoon the Gallant Admiral and party went on board
his yacht, and proceeded to Portsmouth, there to resume
his command in the Dock-yard.
Lord and Lady Palmerston are still at Broad-
lands, where Lord and Lady Ashley, Lord and Lady
Lansdow,pe, Admiral Bowles, Colonel and Lady Cathe-
rine BuCkley, Mrs. L. Fox, the Hon. Sydney Herbert,
J. ord Duncannon, and others from the neighbourhood,
are expected.--Southampton Gazette.
Upon taking the amount of the twelve months,
it appears that the depth of rain for the whole year 1840,
at Aberdeen, was 24.627 inches ; Empingham, 18.58 ;
Epping; 20.767 ; Falmouth, 31,511 ; Gosport, 25,525
Greenwich, 18.24; and at the city of York, 24.72 inches;
,making the mean annual fall 23.424 inches, or 9,813
,hog.sheatig per acre, which in weight is nearly two thou-
sand three hundred and sixty six tons.—Moore's Alma-

destruction of the last edifice some fears have been en-
tertained by the lovers of equestrian feats and gorgeous
spectacles, that its power of reproductiveness had pe-
rished with the fabric ; but, thanks to the enterprise
and ability of Mr. Batty, those fears turn out to be
altogether groundless. Already the necessary measures
are in progress for the erection of a new building on the
same spot where the admirers of Billy Button and the
disciples of Geoffrey Gambado were wont to assemble for
so many years to learn the way
" To win the world with noble horsemanship."
To fill ap the dreary interval from its commencement to
its completion, Mr. Batty, with creditable zeal and in-
genuity, has converted the area and appurtenances of
the National Baths in the Westminster-road into a tem-
porary, but at the same time capacious and elegant
theatre, wherein the same exhibitions which made Ast-
ley popular and Ducrow famous are successfully re-
enacted. The adaptation of these premises to the pur-
pose has been successful ; nor is it unclassical, for
baths made a part of the ancient gymnasia, and were
frequented more for pleasure than for health. There is a
spacious gallery here, which last night contained upwards
of 1,200 gods, the celestials, by this superior accommo-
dation, having a decided majority. The boxes are nu-
merous and comfortable, and have a commanding view
of the riding circle ; the pit possesses almost equal ad •
vantages. Altogether it is really an agreeable structure,
being well ventilated and tastefully decorated, and, as
one of the clowns very properly observed to the riding-
master, like a punch-bowl, because it looks best when full.
The performances last night were multifarious. First,
there was the phenomenon rider, the volant Mr. T. Lee,
who while riding one or more fiery steeds, made " ex-
traordinary and wonderful leaps," as the play-bill says,
round the arena, and whose sinewy and symmetrical
form, and untiring activity, drew forth the admiration of
the audience. Next came " Herr Ludovic's celebrated
extravaganza of Jim Crow and his Granny," in which
the old trick of carrying " two faces under one hat" is
ludicrously exemplified. Mr. W. Walker followed with
" his wonderful feats on the flying rope and his celebrated
tourbiltions," in which he proved himself to be anything
but a walker. Ile was speedily displaced by "M. Leo-
nard, the great French rider, on two fleet steeds," who
was miraculously adventurous. A group of ponies was
then introduced, and delighted the spectators with a va-
riety of amusing and sagacious tricks; they fought, they
leaped over poles, and through hoops, they sat down and
stood up at command, they wore cocked hats and cloaks,
lace caps and mantles, and supped with the clowns
on oaten pies, sitting at the table with all proper
decorum ; they fetched and carried, they played at
leap-frog, they marched, they danced, they walked on
their hind legs, they bowed, and they went down on th.ir
knees, for here that was an accomplishment, and not a
detriment to any nag. A company of vaulters, each
having two legs fewer than their fellow-performers, next
performed some daring leaps and threw somersets ad
infinitum, backwards or forwards in rapid succession.
After all this; a little pathetic exhibition was made by
Miss C. O'Donnell, in the character of Agnes de Ito-
salvi, or the •Betrothed One. A series of gymnastic and
equestrian exhibitions, with anew piece called The Wan-
derers of Thonur and of the Sifans, wound up the enter-
tainments of the evening, which were interspersed with
the witticisms and waggeries of two very clever clowns,
one of whom is a good punster, and the other a supple
posture-master, and a capital musician on—the penny-
trumpet.