The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-22 00:00:00

AND THE GIANT HELMET.

Harlequin, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ;
Pantaloon, Mr. Nlo.-•tli ; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother.
To-morrow, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with The New
Pantomime. _ _

Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven o'clock.
Tickets and plat es for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan
at the Box-office, from Ten till Feur, where Season Tickets
may De had upon application.
Dress Boxes, 7e. ; Second Price, 33.6 d.; First and Secenu
Circles, ,• Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price.
3e.; Gallery, ls.
Private Boxt i to be had so'ely of Mr. Andi ewe, bookseller
167. New Bond-street.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Triumphant again ! Overwhelming Success of Ainsmorth's
Tower of London. Nightly overtlsws. Upwards of 57,000
Persons have already witnessed the best Pantomime in
London.

THIS EVENING, JAN. 32,
WM be acted a Grand Historical Romance, founded on and

entitled
THE TOWER OF LONDON.
The Tableaax Vivans, splendid Costume, and Appointments,
from the Designs of the celebrated George Crinkshauks.
After which will be repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime•

entitled
HARLEQUIN AND MY LADY LEE ; OR, GOOSEY

GANDER AND THE SPELL-BOUND GOSLINGS.
In which the unrivalled Artistes, the Boleno Family; Mr.
Sotithlay, the Original Clown; Miss Sharpe, Columbine and
the astonishing Gyrcnastique, ii;ig,sior Felix Carlo, from Fran-
coni's, at Paris, will perform : concluding with Brunning's
Grand Dioramie Synopsis of Syria.

PRINCESS' THEATRE, OX FOR D-S'FREt.
LAST WEEK OF THE SEASON.
This splendisi Theatre is OPEN EVERY EVENING with
PROMENADE CONCERTS,
Under the Direction of Mr. WILLY.
THIS EVENING, JAN. 22.—PROGRAMME.
PART FIRST.
Orerture—Don Juan—Alozarte.
Quadrille—Le Carillonneur—Dufrene.
Waltz—Die Abenteurer—Lataler.
Overture—La Fiancee—Auber.
Selo en the Flageolet by Mr. Champion.
Selection from the Mountai,: Sylph—Barnett.

rata CECOND.

Overture— Tancredi—Ro,sini.
Quairille—Vendetta—Tolbecque.
Ilralso—Der Feen Welt—Labitzky.
Grand Selection from Acis and Galatea—Handel.
Promenade, Is.—Dress Circle, 2s.—Upper Boxes, 15. 6d.
Private Boxes, I!. Is. and 10s. 6d. each, may be had at the
Box-office, and of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street.
Mr. WILLY begs respectfully to announce that his BENE-
FIT will take place on MONDAY, JA S. "3, being the L AST
NIGHT of time SEASON.

TWO MORE CHILDREN BURNT TO DEATH.
—Last night two inquests were held before Mr. Payne.
the City Coroner, at St. Thomas's Hospital, on the bodies
of Charles Farrell, aged seven years, and Henry Watling,
four years and a half, who were burnt to death. It is not
long since Mr. Farrell, the father of one of the deceased
children, died in this hospital, in consequence of the effects
of injuries received on the Croydon Rillroy.

mon

HIGH WATER AT LONDON' BRIDGE TO.MORROW.
Mcrning..... minutes after 2 Evening .41 minutes after 2.

The Publication of t o Evening Edition of Tn SUN com-
menced at 20 minutes after Three.

LONDON:
FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, IE4I.

If the Tories could only chain men's tongues
and their pens by their denunciations or their
sneers, they might rule the empire to the end of
time. But though they cry out this is sedition,
that is treason, and t'other thing is flat rebellion,
nobody heeds them. They have been more suc-
cessful in chaining our bodies than in chaining our
minds, and the community is still free to think and
speak in spite of their misplaced exertions.

'1 o gain their present ends they are inventing
new crimes, and, with a draconian spirit, would
drown them in blood. From time to time we have
said something against the Repeal of the Union,
the agitation of which we regard, for any other
purpose than to frighten away the Tory harpies, as
mischievous to the community. We have said
enough to call forth a letter from Mr. O'CONNELL,
our reply to which he, prudently, we think, left
unnoticed. We are most decidedly opposed to
the repeal, and to the agitation to . obtain it ; but
we cannot, therefore, allow the Tories unanswered
to stigmatize Mr. O'CONNELL'S agitation as sedi-
tion, or denounce it as treason. The Act of
Union is a mere law, like the Corn-law, and may
be, though that is hardly possible, as bad a law ;
and no attempts peaceably to get the law repealed,
can, with the least propriety, be called either sedi-
tion or treason. Mr. O'CoNNELL has just as good
a right to agitate for the repeal of the Act of Union
as Sir R. INGLIS and his friends have to agitate
in order to blister the land with more churches and
more parsons. It is on the part of the Tories, there-
fore, a gross infringement on public liberty to class
the agitation for the repeal of a law as a crime, and
invoke a punishment on Mr. O'CoNNELL;
We grant that Mr. O'CoNNELL's proceedings
are very mortifying to the Tories, an 4 not pleasing
to many of the Whigs. We readily concede that
all the unjust and cruel Protestant landlords, and
all the odious sinecure Protestant priests of Ireland,
regard his conduct with dread and abhorrence.
We can comprehend that the waspish and bigoted
ex-Secretary for Ireland, who, then he was there,
could not persuade the Irish that insults and kicks
were kindness, and who has, ever since the Coer-

Act, been justly regarded by them
as their most insidious and determined
opponent,—we comprehend that he may be
ov.rflowing with wrath because the Irish will not
be quiet while he endeavours to tie their hands and
feet, to put a gag in their mouths, and pick their
pockets in the name of religion, while he would flog
them for grumbling at his petty tyranny,—we can
comprehend that the truculent, ex-Whig Secretary
for Ireland, who was always a thorough Tory in
his heart, and is now properly ranged with the To-
ries, should be extremely angry that Mr. O'Corr-
NELL is successful in rousing the Irish to resist
the new coercion Lord STANLEY is preparing for
,them. But with all deference to the lovers of Tory
rule by chicane and terror, we cannot believe that
to organize resistance to the mischievous schemes
of the Tories is either sedition or rebellion. We
arc not favourable to repeal ; Mr. O'CoN NELL
is ; and the determined manner in which the Tories
are now going to work to injure Ireland, justifies
him, with his views, in rousing his countrymen by
that magic word.
If, however, the agitation for repeal be sedition
and treason, what name does that conduct deserve
which provokes it ? Tomy writers and Tory states-
men continually make attacks on the Catholics of
Ireland, as if they were alien enemies and something
worse. Nothing is too calumnious for the Tory
Journals to write of the people and their priests,
and nothing is too arbitrary for Tory statesmen to
propose. They dare not send artillery against the
Catholics ;they try the safer method of crushing them
by a slow working enactment. It is easier, they have
found out, to burke liberty by pretending to protect
her, than to slay her by violence, and they are pur-
suing the former insidious course. They have
been detected ; the Irish have been roused against
them ; and they call out, therefore, sedition and re-
bellion. Their perseverance in deadly hostility to
the people of Ireland, which is the main cause of
the agitation, is far more worthy of the name of
sedition and rebellion than Mr. O'CoNNELL's agi-

tation for repeal.
Some of their organs announce that an amend-
ment will be moved to the address, should the
speech from the Throne not contain a condemnation
of the repeal agitation. We cannot believe that
any Tory of the least weight will propose any such
thing. It may possibly be done by Mr. BRADSHA W
or Colonel SIBTHORP, but the statesmen of the
Tory party have felt so long the bitterness of disap-
pointment from declaring open hostility to one-third
of the empire, that we apprehend they will neither
move nor support any such amendment. For the
same reason the Ministers will not be so impolitic
as to clothe themselves in the filthy cast-off rags of
the Tories. The speech will say nothing of repeal
agitation, and the Tories will not, we believe, sup-
port an address to the Throne, censuring Mr.
O'CONNELL'S agitation as sedition and treason.

The duty on a quarter of wheat continucs to be
265. Bd., while the average price is 60s. 6d. That
sum is a measure of the public odium which the
Corn-law calls down on the farmer. There are
the figures, and the public denounce with justice
the selfish men who in the midst of a rigorous
winter, when wheat costs GOs. 6d. apparently levy
on it a duty of 265. Bd., and so raise the price to
that extent.

Is it, however, a fact that the agriculturist is be-
nefited to the full amount of the odium heaped
on him ? Does he levy, or does he receive, a pro-
tection of 265. Bd., when the price of wheat is
60s. 6d. ? This seems to us an important question
for the agriculturists, and if they will do us the
favour to attend to us, and we have their interest
much at heart, however strongly we detest the
conduct of the grasping landlords, and the hypo-
critical priesthood, we shall endeavour to prove to
them that the law which starves the people puts a
most grievous cheat on them.
In that part of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S speech
which we ouoted the clay before yesterday, he bor-
rowed and confirmed Mr. TOOKE'S statement
that' the average duty actually paid on the
9,997,493 quarters of foreign w heat imported
and entered for home consumption since the present
Corn-law came into operation, up to the sth of
December 1839, is under ss. sd. per quarter."
That sum therefore, in fact, has been the real
amount of the protection which the Corn-law has
conferred on the farmer, through the whole series
of years between 1828 and 1839.

But every body knows that the great bulk of the
corn imported in the last year paid only a nominal
iuty. There were not less, we believe, than
1,500,000 quarters so imported ; and, if we in-
clude them, the average of the period, to 1841,
ciil be somewhere about 4s. 6d. The longer the
.aw is in existence, the whore skilfully will the ave.

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