The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-26 00:00:00

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Po trth Edition, Is., post ftee. 1 4d., with Portrait, Plates,
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COMMODORE NAPIER'S LIFE AND
EXPLOIT S.
(NAPIER'S Sr•ECII AT '. ILE PORTSMOUTH ELECTION.
" On my return to England. I was appointed to the Thames,
in the Mediterranean ; and, if I could bring the inhabitants of
the Neapolitan Coast into this room, they would tell you, that
from Naples to the Paropoire, there was not a spot where I
did not leave my mark, and brought off with me upwards of
100 sail of gun-boats and merchant vessels."—See page 9.
London: Strange, Paternoster-row, and all Country Book-
sellers.

Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo.,
THE MARRYING MAN.
A NOVEL.
By the Author of " Cousin Geoffrey," &e.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
U DER the MANAGEMtNT of MADAME YESTRIS.

THIS EVENING. APRIL 26
Will be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled
LONDON ASSURANCE.
Sir Harcourt Courtly, Bart., Mr. W. Farren ; Max Hark-
away, Mr. Bartley; Mr. Charles Courtly, Mr. Anderson;
Mr. Adolphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley ; Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C.
Mitkews ; Mark Meddle, Mr. Harley ; Grace Harkaway,
Madame Vestris; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs.
Pert, Mrs. Ilumbt.
litter which will be repeated, the Grand Romantic Fairy Ex-
travaganza, entitled
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.
Beauty, Madams Vestris ; The Beast, Mr. W. Harrison ;
John Quill, Mr. Harley ; Dressalinda, Miss Rainforth ; Mar-
rygolda, Miss Grant; Queen of the Roses, Miss Lee.
To-morrow, Let.don Assur4nce, with Beauty and the Beast.

Doors to to opened at half-past Six—the performances to
commence at ;.even &Clock.
Dress Belep, 75. ; Second Price, 33. 6d.; First and Second
Circles, Ss. ; Second Price, %. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price.
2i.; Gallery Is.
Tickets and plaees for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan,
at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets
arty be had upon application.
Private Boxce, to be had solely of Mr. Andre Ks, bookseller,
't 7. New Bond-street.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
UNDER THE MANA(JEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE

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AND MR. WILLIS JONES.
Asteundinis, Novelty. The greatest attraction ever presented to
the Public, supyorted by the most powerful Company is the
Metropolis.
THIS EVENING, APRIL 26,
Will be acted a New Grand Historical Drama, entitled
WARLSHA ; OR, THE SAXON SLAVE.

Vie Characters will include the whole of the splendid Com-
pany of this Establishment, magnificent Scenery, Costume,
and Appointments, in addition to which a greater assemblage
of Females than were ever engaged on the English Stage will
form the Army of Amazons.
After which, a Cemedietta, called
THE LAUGHING PHILOSOPHER.

In which 3lr. J. S. Balls will perform the principal Character.
To conclude with

EL HYDER.
Ben Tareb, Mr. 0. Smith.
Unequalled Splendour and Effects.

"THE CHINA. SUN,"
WHICH WAS REPUBLISHED LATELY,

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With all the LA TEST NEWS.

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Parliament, and the attachment of the Times to
the democracy would immediately cease. As
long as that gentleman is kept out of Parliament
he will wish to use the Chartists as the instru-
ments of his ambition. To make them serve his
purpose the Times now advocates democracy;
but as soon as that purpose is served, the Times
will fOrget its convenient principles. The Chart-
ists, then, must keep out Mr. WALTER to keep
the Times on their side. They will have.a.
powerful friend in that Journal as long as Mr.
WALTER needs their asssistance; but let them
place him in Parliament, and the Times will
again be in all things a Tory journal.

In the progress of society, different classes of
men, who have been very useful in their time,
have been relentlessly extinguished. The ancient
copyists, for example, were quite destroyed by
the invention of printing. In America several
tribes of Indians were annihilated to make way
for the whites. In our own times and country
we have seen the hand-loom weavers reduced to
great distress by the introduction of power-loom
weaving. These facts may serve to indicate the
great and unavoidable changes which are conti-
nually taking place in soci€ty, against the evil
consequences of which a wise Government would
think it one of its first duties to guard.
Not that Government ought to check the in-
troduction of machinery into use, but it ought to
distribute its advantages as equally as possible
over all classes. Society, benefiting by the new
machinery, should provide for the individuals to
whom it might bring destitution and death.
Society, however, has done no such thing, and
has very coolly told the hand-loom weavers
and others, that they must protect themselves,
that They must turn to some other trade
and earn a living, as they best may.
That these men have paid premiums
and have devoted several years to learn the
trade, makes no difference to the Legislature.
It is inexorable, and says, were it to give them
relief it would depart from general principles,
and would interfere with the course of trade and
the wages of labour.
But the Legislature does not adhere to this
principle whenever an office which it has createl
is found of no use. Whenever some new mea-
sure of its own puts an end to useless places,
one of its first cares is to compensate the holders
of such places for their supposed losses. They
are to be protected, at the expense of society,
from all damage. Let what will happen to the
tax-payers, the emoluments of these favoured
children of the Legislature must not be dimi-
nished. The people, for whose sake alone the
places and offices are made, may starve, but the
place-holders must be fed.
The debate on the Administration of Justice
Bill on Friday evening is an illustration of this.
By that Bill it is proposed to abolish the equity
side of the Court of Exchequer, and, with the
tenderest care of those whose services will no
longer be required, the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQ UER introduced a clause to enable the
Treasury to give compensation to all those who
had held office before the 14th March, 1840,
when the Bill was first introduced. Subsequent
to that period, however, the LORD CHIEF BARON
appointed his son to the office of Master in the
Court of Exchequer, and the Tories, on Friday,
by the mouth of Sir Wm. FOLLETT, moved an
amendment to the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
QUER'S compensation clause, the object of which
was to include in it this gentleman. The words
of the amendment went to substitute " holding
office in the Court of Exchequer to the present
time," for holding office on the 14th March,lB4o.
That amendment was carried, and it was the act
of the Tories, who now claim so much purity,
who talk about saving the public money, to vote
compensation to Mr. SCARLETT for filling an
office about a twelvemonth, to which he was ap-
pointed by his father, that father being a Judge,
after it was known that the office was to be
abolished 1

All this may be very fair in the way of that
warfare which the aristocracy continually make
on the public purse ; but the hand-loom
weavers, to whom all relief was refused when
their trade was partially destroyed, will not
think it very honest in the Legislature
to vote money to its own friends and
relations, and to its own class, while it refuses
a sixpence to the hand-loom weaver. This, the
weaver will say, "is only one specimen of that
one-sided, one-eyed justice which has always been
dealt out to the labouring classes by the Legis-
lature." " Yet that Legislature," they will add,
" expects us to love and honour it as much as
those for whose especial advantage it seems to
exist, while we know it only as the instrument
which taxes and oppresses ns." Whether
the opinions of the weavers are likely to have any
influence on the Legislature we cannot say ; but
we are sure that a Legislature so acting neither
merits, nor can preserve the respect of the
people. It must not, for its own kith and kin,
grab all that it can lay its hands on.

In noticing, on Tuesday last, an article in the
Times on the subject of the Attorney-General's
"Criminal Justice Bill," as it affects the Char-
ter of Incorporation granted to the Borough of
Bolton, we made some remarks, of which the
parties opposed to the charter, complain. It is
there stated that the petition of the inhabitant
householders for the charter was " signed by an
actual and considerable majority of the rate-
payers of the Borough." It appears, however,
that there were at that time upwards of 9,000
ratepayers in the Borough, of whom, according to
the report of the Commissioners sent down by
Government to investigate the petitions, only
3,213 were found to have signed in favour of the
charter. Whereas the counter petition, as con-
tended for by the opponents of the charter, was
signed by a larger number representing a much
larger amount of property rated. It is quite
true that the ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S Bill is de-
signed to provide a legal remedy for an illegal
contract pending the trial of its validity in the
Court of Queen's Bench, where it is expected to
be quashed during the present term. There is an
error also in the statement about the comparative
cost of prosecutions, which we may notice at a
future time.
We have been informed that this charter is
strenuously resisted by those who are to be tax-
ed by it;
a petition having been presented a few
days ago to tile house of Commons, praying
exemption from
the Attorney-General's Bill,
signed by a large majority
of the whole inhabi-
tant householders and ratepayers of the Bo-
rough, each one's
address and calling be-
ing attached to his name.
required or sought
incorporation
statedrVporatio
n
that "persons promoting the of
not required
being
tthh
ee
cnoenwfi
rhino raotug
ion s hof at vhee
satisfied
they are good in law." Since the article was
written, however, a change has taken place. The
parties now evidently have a doubt, as Mr.
Ainsworth on the 23d inst. two days afterwards,
gave notice of a motion "To insert a clause for
confirmation of Bolton Charter of Incorpo-
ration," the supporters of the Charter thereby
showing that they not only seek the confirmation of
their charter, but admit their doubts of its va-
lidity. We were informed that the persons to
whom our Contemporary vouchsafed support
had discovered the charters were good in law, and
were now willing to abandon their original op-
position for private gain, in the nature of " com-
pensation." This does not apply to opposition
made to the Bolton charter, as its opponents
have sought neither compensation nor Costs.
Since writing the above the contract before re-
ferred to, and which the ATTORNEY-GENERAL
by his Bill endeavoured to legalize, was this day
brought up and quashed in the Court of Queen's
Bench.

The Madrid Journals received are of the 15th
inst. The advocates of a single Regency in
the
Capital, the Provinces, and the Chambe rs were
increasing in numbers and influence. The fol-

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