The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-20 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION

BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONE
ELECTION.
A PUBLIC MEETING of the ELECTORS of this
BOROUGH win be held at the Yorkshire Stingo Tavern, New-
road, THIS DAY, THURSDAY, the 20th inst., at Two o'Cloek
precisely, when COMMODORE SIR CHARLES NAPIER
will address the Electors as a Candidate for the Representation
of this Borough on the Reform interest at the next Election.
RAIKES CURRIE, Esq., M.P. in the Chair.
May 20,1841.

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Ii'HEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
U DER the MANAGEMENT
EVEN of
MAY 2 MADAME VESTRIS.
THIS G. 0,
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. COOPER.
Will h..' performed Sheridan's Comedy of
THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL.
Sir Peter Teazle, Mi. W. Farren ; S,r Oliver Surface, Mr.
Bartley ; Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr. Harley ; Joseph Sur-
face, Mr. Cooper ; Charles Surface, Mr. Charles Mathews ;
Crabtree, Mr. Meadows; Moses, Mr. Keeley ; Lady Teazle,
Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Candour, Mrs. Nisbett; Maria, Miss
Cooper.
Atter which will be repeated, the Grand Romantic Fairy Ex-
travaganza, entitled
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.
Beauty, Aladarne Vestris: The Beast, Mr. W. Harrison;'
John Quill, Mr. Harley ; Dressalinda, Miss Rainforth ; Mar-
rygolda, Miss Grant; Queen of the Roses, Miss Lee.
To-merrew, The School for Scandal, with Beauty and the
Beast.
doors to• le opened at half-put Six—the performances to
commence at Seven o'Clock.
Dress Boxes, is. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second
Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price.
2'.; Gallery is.
Tickets 'and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan
at the Bo=-ofEce, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets
ee had upon application.
Private Boat,. to be had so7ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller,
167. New Bond-street.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE

AND MR. WILLIS TONES.

Tiiumphant Career of " Claude Du 'Val, the Ladies' High-
wayman," no drama since the production of " Jack Shep-
Pard lias made so decided a hit. Revival of ' Rafael the
Libertine, awl first appearance of Mr. J. S. Balls in the cha-
racter of Rafael.,
THIS. EVENING, MAY 20,
Will be acted a Grand Romantic Drama, entitled

LOVE, HATRED, AND REVENGE; OR, THE CON-
QUEST OF TARANTIE.
Characters. by Messrs. H. Hughes, Hicks, Haines, Hislop,
Buckingham, Mrs. H. Hughes, &c.
After which, an Historical and Domestic Drama, entitled
CLAUDE DU VAL, THE LADIES' HIGHWAYMAN.
With entirely new local and beautiful Scenery, extensive Ma-
chinery, real horses and carriages, &c.
Claude Duval, Mr. J. S. Balls.
Supported by the most povrerfal Company in London.
To conclude with
RAFAEL THE LIBERTINE.
Rafael, Mr. J. S. Balls ; Pedro, Mr. W. Smith ; Maria,
is IV Vining; Inisella, Miss Martin.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON.
Mitts Vincent as the Heroine of Domestic Drama, and the
New Legendary Romance of " Rockwood!" with a New
Pit, a New Gallery, and New Splendid Decorations !
THIS EVENING, MAY 20. AND TO-MORROW,

A New Domestic Drama, Three Acts, entitled
SIMON LEE; OR, THE MURDER OF FIVE-FIELDS'

COPSE.
Simon Lee, Mr. E. F. Saville ; and Grace Hatherleigh,
31iss Vincent.

After which, the Romance of
ROOKWOOD ; OR, THE LEGEND OF THE OLD

LIME TREE.

Dick Turpin by Miss Vincent, with the Flash Songs of
" Hurrah for the Game of High Toby !" " Nix my Dolly,
Pals, Fake away !" and " My Bonny Black Bess."
To conclude with a New Drama, called
THE BOOK OF FATE.

Krantz Tidlitz, Mr. Gardner; Gabello, Mr. Howard; Rosa,
Mrs. Howard.
Boxes, 22.—Pit, Is.— Gallery, 6d. Half-price at Half-past
Eight.

ROME ! NOVEL AND EXTRAORDINARY EXHI-
BITION AT THE
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
OPEN DAILY—The New PICTORIAL MODEL, of AN-
CIENT and MODERN ROME! exemplifying on a scale of
enormous magnitude never before attempted, the former glories
and present aspect of the once-proud" Mistress of the World;"
and comprising amongst its most striking features the ancient
Bridge and Castle of St. Angelo, the Vatican and Pontifical Pa-
lace, the Toridinona Theati e, the Ospitale di S. Spirito, and the
vast and marvellous Basilica of St. Peter's: This magnificent re-
presentation has been entirely* constructed from the designs,
and under the superintendence of Air. Damon, assisted by nu-
merous eminent artists. The delineation is so strictly accurate,
and the proportions so stupendous, as to offer a perfect realisa-
tion of those wonders of architecture which still render the
" eternal city" the racist interesting spot on the face of the
globe. h will be exhibited Daily from Ten till Dusk, together
with the splendid ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTION, which
ineudes several recently-acquired rarities, and specimens of
unequalled size and beauty.
Admission, One Shilling.—Feeding hour, Five o'Clock.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
1f0rning„....47 minutes at-tar 0. I Evening ,1 minutes after I

LONDON:
THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1841.

It will scarely escape the notice of the readers
of the debates, that Sir R. PEEL on Tuesday
evening, deprecated the introduction of details
of the misery of our people, "to influence the
reason, and judgment of the Commons by har-
rowing up their feelings." The Right Hon.
Baronet alluded especially to the misery brouglit
under the notice of the House by Mr. VILLIzRs,
and Mr. THOMAS DuNcomun, of which this is a
specimen :
The Hon. Member also read gatements from Oldham,
Nottingham, Leicester, and other places, of the existence'
ofaimilar distress at those places, one of which stated
that a cow having died and been buried, the owner a day
and a half afterwards was besought by a number of
women to allow them to have the carcass for their fami-
yielding to their importunity,
lies ; and that upon his
they disinterred the carcass, and divided it among them,
and afterwards declared that it was the only meat they
hid tasted for many years.
Sir R. PEEL takes precisely the same view as
• the Tory Journals; they do not like to hear of
the sufferings caused by the execrable policy of
the Tories; they will not allow the lower classes
to influence the choice of the Representatives;
they deny and oppose every extension of the
suffrage,, and they would fain prevent the advo-
cates of the people from mentioning their misery
in Parliament. The Tories know that they can
only succeed by stifling the public voice, and,
therefore, in the Press and in Parliament they
are prone to deride the useful facts which are
stated by such men as Mr. T. Of/NCO:UBE gild ,
Xr. VILLIERS.
We know from past tires that Sir ROBERT
PEEL has no objection whatever to influence the
reason and judgment of the House of Commons
by harrowing-up their feelings,when that suits his
,own purpose. in the memorable debates on the
Coercion Bill he did not disdain to harrow up the
feelings of the House of Commons, and
evoke a
coercive and malignant spirit against Ireland by
nareating, in a most dramatic manner, the details
.of &murder which had been committed some
years before. Even on Tuesday night he quoted
the evidence of Mr. ELLIOT, the Member for
Roxburgh; on the great misery of the people of
India, to-intineneeTti 1!
Commons in. fivour feelings of the House..
_of conthmjig the bounty on
the prodtiction of .
sugar the Eat Indies.
In the same speech, whiCh the Right Ho-

nourable Baronet obi ected to the_ statements

of Mr. VILLIERS and. Mr. DUNCOMBE, in order
to enlist the feelings of the House in favour of
the suffering Hindoos, to provide for whom he
continues to tax the English women who dig up
a rotten carcase to sustain life, he quoted the
following remarks :
I recollect in the debate respecting the Hill Coolies,
the speech of the Hon. Member for Roxburgh, who had
personal experience of the condition of the labouring
classes, and I refresh the Bon. Gentleman's memory,
for the purpose of calming his alarm as to the extreme
danger of diverting the resources of India. The Hon.
Gentleman said he was appointed to inquire into the
condition of the agricultural labourers of Bengal. He
found that they were paid about ls. 6d. per week, or
2id. per day, that they " subsist on rice, and when rice
fails they starve." He says, " I have seen the people
by hundreds and thousands hurry towards the point at
which relief was distributed by the Governor of Bengal."
And then he gives a picture of Itrror which exceeds
anything that the most romantic Imagination ever pic-
tured. I know of nothing more striking than that state-
ment.—(Hear.)

It is not therefore that the Right Honourable
Baronet has any repugnance to details which
harrow up the feelings ; he only objects
to them when they apply to the people
of England, whom he persists in oppressing
in behoof of the negroes. Those details convict
him of injustice ; they brand him as an ignorant
law-maker; and therefore he would, if he could,
shut them out from the consideration of Parlia-
ment. He was eloquent about balancing the ad-
vantages of different courses of policy, but so
mistaken, or so one-sided, that he excluded from
his view the sufferings of the people of England,
and thought only of the probable or possible de-
struction of the capital of a few planters.
Yet this man aims at being the Prime
Minister, and at governing the millions here, for
whom he shows so much disregard, while he is
so tender of the African. Such conduct may be
statesmanship—but will it recommend itself to the
people of England ? We hope that in the con-
test which is now begun they will always re-
member that the Tory leader quoted the suffer-
ings of the Hindoos as a reason why the people
of England should be plundered; but he ob-
jected to other Members quoting the sufferings
of the people of England as a reason why they
should he relieved.

The ingratitude of the Tories is prodigious.
Out of deference to them and their system, and
in opposition to the Liberals, the Ministers have
postponed, to the eleventh hour, a reform of our
commercial code, including the Corn-laws.
Now that they have, as we have before said, re-
luctantly and unwillingly proposed it, because
the revenue was falling off, the Tories vehe-
mently abuse them for not having done it before.
" They resisted Mr. VILLIERS' motion," says one,
"when corn was nearly 80s. per quarter, and now
when it is down to 605., and the dearth
is over, they propose to alter the Corn-laws."
" They opposed Mr. EWART'S plan to lower the
sugar duties," says another, "when sugar was at
605., and now when it is down to 375., and the
supply plentiful, they recommend a change
in the sugar duties." So the ungrateful Tories
abuse the Whigs, for deferring to their wishes
and their policy as long as possible. Let the
Ministers take a lesson from that, and in future
do what is right, and what their own friends
wish them, not what will please the ungrateful
Tories.

But if the Ministers had done what the Tories
now reproach them for not having done, loud
would have been the denunciations of the Tories.
to have taken advantage of a momentary high
price of corn to denounce the Corn-law, and
ally themselves with the repealers, would have
been stigmatized as a great crime. "Wait," it
would have been said, " till calmer times—till
the passions are abated ; do not make a law on
the momentary hunger of the people. Next
year the crops may be abundant, both corn and
sugar will be cheap, and if it is necessary to
alter the law, do it then, when reason, rather
than famine, shall dictate your enactment—do it
when corn and sugar are cheap." Reproaches like
these, but tenfold more bitter, would have been
hurled against the Ministers. At present the
objectors, wise men as they are, forget that the
consequences of successive short crops of corn
and sugar have first revealed to Ministers, un-
willing to believe, the injury Corn-laws and Sugar
Duties are inflicting on the country, and the un-
-;rateful Tories really reprove them for not having
acted last year on a knowledge which was not
then in existence. The Tories are sagacious phi-
losophers after the event, and wonderful poli-
ticians when they have to talk or write; but
nevertheless they are always, and in this case as
in others, like the bandy-legged drummer, in the
rear of society.

The modest request of the landlords, as ex-
pressed in a petitl.on agreed to at Colchester on
Saturday last, and signed " WESTERN," in behalf
of the meeting, is, that Parliament should de-
termine to put down agitation on the subject of
the Corn-laws, and the agriculturists will then
undertake, " by an additional application of
skill and capital, to raise a sufficient supply on
an average of seasons for the wants of our in_
creasing population." In the meantime, how-
ever, till the skill of the agriculturist—a plant of
very slow growth—and till his capital, increases,
which the landlords take care shall also come to
pass very slowly, if at all, the population may
hunger and starve. They have for the last three
years been, year after year, slowly starved down
to the supply produced by the skill and capital
of the agriculturists, and Lord WESTERN and
his co-mates modestly request that they shoulri
continue patiently to submit to this p 1.,.
jcess.
that if the skill and capital of the
Princ::.ple of agricultu-
ristspopu-
cannot overtake the
lation, population may be ept from going
a-head of the skill and capital of the
'agri-
culturists. In order, too, that population may
not run too fast, Lord WESTERN .1.40ru. and his
friends, howeve ~ stupid and wasteful they may
;
be, modes, hint to the Parliament that it
` 1y
should put down further agitation, and compel
the, people—at the point of the bayonet, forsooth,
or the gallant yeoman's sword--to submit pa-
tiently to starvation. One iniquity necessarily
grows from another, and it is as natural that
Lord
theWESTERN people
o übn h
si sfri t
iie nds sllo ul dd-welsai r t o
compelas
it to the co r
nis that a highway robber should be driven to
murder the victim he has plundered to destroy
all the evidence of his theft.
The reader will be
slow to believe that this modest demand has been
made, but here are the words of the advertise-
ment of a Colchester meeting on Saturday, as
given in the Essex Herald:
That your petititioners are confident
Honourable House will determine to
ut d that ifur your
own fther
agitation by the same unequivocal denPionst
has resulted from former debates upon n which
subject, the agriculturists of this kingdom will nuortant
tional application of skill and capita], be enabl'ed yo addi-
a sufficient supply on ast average of seasons f traise
ar e wants
of our increasing popalation.
We never had a doubt that the agiicult urists
can raise sufficient, on an average of seasons, if
s,
the law be rigidly maintained, to supply
Lie
wants of our increasing population, but at what
rate will it increase ? People must have food,
and if they submit to a law which limits the
supply, however wretched may be the skill,
and deficient may be the capital of the agri-
culturist, to what he can produce, they can-
not increase beyond that. But the mode
in which the law limiting the supply of
foocL operates, is to starve down the people
to the supply, not to braise the supply of
food to the level of the natural increase of popu-
lation. Unappalled by the terrible calamities
which pervade society, unawed and unaffected
by the shocking scenes of destitution which are
met with.in every part of the empire, law-makers
like Lord WESTERN exult at having made the
"skill and capital of the agriculturist supply the
.Population whom they have starved down nearly
to the level of what our soil can supply. To
obtain a clear view of the immense mischief
which their sordid legislation causes, we must
always remember that the tendency of popula-

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