The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-13 00:00:00

MORNING SUN.

No. 13, Great Marlborough.stre et.
NEW WORK, EDITED BY BaZ.
" THE PIC NIC PAPERS,
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Edited by CHARLES DICKENS, Esq. (BOZ).
And illustrated with numerous Plates, by GEORGE CRIn K-
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ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
UDDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVID.,GE
AND MR. WILLIS JONES.
Chasid cencentration of attraction, and no advance in the /mice.
THIS EVENING, AUGUST 13,1
Will be acted Lord Byron's Spectacle, called
THE WILD HORSE; OR, MAZEPPA, THE CHILD
OF THE DESERT.
Introducing Mr. Ducrow's Magnificent Stud of Forty Hr frses,
highly-trained Palfreys, Fairy Peneys, the Equestrians, end
Companies of both Theatres.
After which.
THE SPLENDID SCENES IN THE CIRCLE,
In the Largest Arena in the World.
In which Madame Ducrow, Signor Hillier, the Great Am eri-
can Rider, the British Horseman, Signor Feiia Carlo, and the
First Artistes in Europe will appear.
Ts conclude with the Nautical Drama of
BEN THE BOATSWAIN.
Supperted by the strength ef the Company.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON.
First week of " Mary Clifford !" increased attraction of " Wo-
man's Love !" three more nights of " Black Eyed Susan !"
and first week of " The Woed Demon
THIS EVENING, AUGUST 13,
The performances will commence with the New Domestic Drama
in Three Acts, called
MARY CLIFFORD;
TICE FOUNDLING APPRENTICE GIRL !
William Clip Son, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Bowline?, Mr. Paul ;
Eobby Benham, Mr. Gardner; Sarah, Mrs. W. West ; and
Mary Clifford, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged Heroirto of
Domestic Drama.
After which, the Nautical Drama of
BLACK EYED SUSAN.
William, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Gnatbrain, Mr. Gardner ;
Jacob Twig, Mr. Paul ; Doggrass, Mr. James; Susan, Mrs.
W. West.

To conclude with,
THE WOOD DEMON.
Harclyknufc, Mr. E. F. Saville; Willikiud, Mr. Gardner ;
Alm. W. Went.
Boxes, `2+l.—Pit, 13. Gallery, 6i.Half-price to the "loxes
only, at Half-past Eight.
To. morrow, Mary Clifford, 'Woman's Love, Auld The Wood
Demon.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
LAST WEEK BUT ONE of the GREAT WIZARD of
the NORTH'S performing in the British 3letropotts.
Last Six Nights of the HARMONIOUS YOUTHS.
It is with deep regret thst the Wizard puts forth the above
announcement, but as preparations are about to be made on
an extensive scale for the o,tening of the Adelphi Theatre for
its Theat-ical Season, the Wizard is compelled prematerely to
finish his season (A. wonderment • therefore those who wish to
see the Wizard and his mighty doings, rnti•t not rew " stand
on the order of going," but "go at once." During the con-
elo,ting twelve tiiehte the Wizar 1 will display ali his peculiar
powers, mortal and superhuman, which are without parallel in
this or any other country.
Those who wish to hrar the " Sweet melody" of the "Bell
Ringers," must remember that their Engagement finishes on
Saturday, she 14th instant.
N.B. No second announcement of " Last Week."
Boxes, 2s. 6d.; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price
at Hvilf.past Nine o'ch•ck. Boxes, Is. lid. ; Pit, Is.
Places for the Boxes may be taken from Mr. Swinburn, at
►be Box-office, between Eleven and Four.
Parties are respectfully informed, that as the Dress Circle is
nightly crowded, an early application is requisite.
N.B. Private Boxes, containing six persons, 1/. ss. Doors
open at Half-past Seven ;,the Wizard appears at Eight o'clock
precisely.

Half-price at Half-past Nine.
x,• Atter the conclusion of the Wizard's London Engage-
ment, he will appear in Brighton and Southampton.

THIS

. against two individuals of having maliciously killed a
sheep, with intent to injure the owner, and the circum-
stances of the case were of a somewhat novel kind, for
it appeared that the moment the act was committed the
prisoners gave information to .a policeman, and said that
their object in committing the act was, that they might
get transported. It would be-difficult in such a case to
suppose that they were actuated by any malice towards the
owner of the sheep, but it was his duty to tell the Grand
Jury that the law did not require any evidence of the
malicious intention, but the mere act was sufficient to
constitute the offence.

Two men killing a sheep or lamb, without any
m slice towards the owner, and not to carry away
the meat, but informing a policeman of what
they had done, in order to get transported, is
something like a novelty in the history of crimi-
nal jurisprudence. It teaches a most important
truth. The terror of transportation is, and will
be, of no avail in preventing crimes. The con-
clusion of this case is thus stated in the Brighton
Guardian :

Henry Parker and William Johnson, severally aged
twenty-nine and twenty-two, pleaded guilty to an indict-
ment charging them with unlawfully and maliciously
killing, at Rumboldswyke, a lamb, the property of
Thomas White, and were transported for ten years ;
and on sentence being passed, they made low bows to the
Court, and seemed well pleased with their fate.—[This
was the case referred to by the Learned Judge, in his
charge to the Grand Jury ; and it was understood about
the Court that the prisoners had presented a petition to
the Court praying to be transported for life.]

We should like to know more of the history
of these two young men, and what motives led
them to prefer transportation for life to a resi-
dence in that elysium of the ELLMANS, the Men-
-Imo:cps, and the fDARBvs, the purely agricultural
county of Sussex. We hope that the Brighton
Guardian, or some other local paper, will find
out all the circumstances connected with these
young men, and make them known, for the in-
struction of the world; or that some of our cor-
respondents in that part of Sussex will ex-
plain the matter to the public. As it appears at
present it is calculated to excite suspicion and
much alarm. Transportation is one of the pet
punishments of the day—for legislators have
pets as well as ladies ; it is that punishment most
relied on by squires and farmers for the protec-
tion of their stock, their sheep, and lambs, and
horses—their hedges and hop-poles, their woods
and hen-houses; and if this punishment be des-
pised, but above all if it become a temptation to
commit depredations and slaughter animals—if
the inhabitants of the rural districts go on kill-

ing sheep in order to be transported from their
father land, which has no longer any charms for
them, whatever it may have for the squires
and the parsons; if transportation, on which the
Magistrates almost exclusively rely, have lost
all its terrors, they must begin to doubt whether
they will much longer find safety for their per-
sons and property in England. Hanging men,
except for murder, has gone into disuse ; solitary
imprisonment, and the silent system, notwith-
standing the New Model Prison, which is fast
encumbering and disfiguring the fields about
Battle-bridge, are both decried as more inju-
rious than beneficial, and now we have common
imprisonment courted as a refuge from utter des-
titution, and transportation invoked, through the
commission of a heinous offence, because men
are, from some cause or other, completely dis-
gusted with their native country. This straw
may show rent-owning legislators which way
the gale of moral desolation is blowing over the
hearts and minds of the people.
The coolness, may we not call it the callous-
ness, with which the venerable Chief Justice,
with this example of punishment tempting men
to commit crime, went on ordering prisoner after
prisoner to be transported, even gratifying the
lamb-killers, except that he made the punish-

ment fall short of their desire never to return
home, is to us quite as astonishing and as shock-
ing as the conduct of the men. This is not, in-
deed, an isolated case of that callous disposition
in the Judges, which to us appears most offen-

sive. We know they perform what is called a

duty ; we know, too, that they sometimes weep
themselves, and sometimes draw tears from
others in doing it ; and yet they go on, assize
after assize, circuit after circuit, condemning
scores and hundreds of their fellow-creatures to
one cruel punishment after another, without ever
starting back with affright and horror at seeing, as
almost every reflecting man but themselves sees,
that the vast system of pain they are the instru-
ments of inflicting has lost all terror for
evil doing, and while it is a grievous of-
fence to humanity, has long ceased to
repress, if it does not greatly encourage,
crime. A pamphlet was lately published
entitled " The Crimes of the Law ;" and if this
plan of inflicting great pain, which answers not
the desired end, be not included in those crimes,
it ought to be ; and when we look at its extent
and its perpetual repetition, we may almost doubt
whether all the other crimes committed by the
community equal the crimes of the law. The
venerable Judges, however, administer the sys-
tem with great apparent self-satisfaction, making
us fancy that there may be things more extra-
ordinary than skinning eels alive, or pegging
lobsters, to which custom reconciles the perpe-
trators.

We have more than once explained that the
Deficit Ministry, as the Tories call the Whigs,
are no more to blame for the deficiency of the
revenue than Sir R. PEEL. Nevertheless the
Tory journals continue to blame the Ministry
because the revenue does not equal the expendi-
ture. Let us again, therefore, remind our readers
of the facts.

When the postage was reduced, in accordance
with the wishes of the bulk of the population,
it was distinctly stated by the Ministers that
they would call on the House of Commons to
make good any deficiency that might occur in
the revenue. Accordingly, in the following
year, 1840, they proposed an increased per
centage on taxation, which they calculated
would make good the deficiency. The Tories
neither said it would not, nor proposed any other
plan. They acquiesced in the Ministers' scheme.
Sir R. PEEL did more than acquiesce ; he ex-
pressly gave his approval to the plan, and ;Ls
1810 it was fully expected by all parties that the
increased per centage on taxati, would brin4
up the revenue to the expenditure.
And so it would, had the countr-j,-
ontinued to
be prosperous. But, instead of the new taxes
yielding upwards of 2,000,100/., they yielded, in,
fact, little or nothing.. They only checked con-
sumptt.:,,,, and the increased revenue they caused
in one branch was compensated by the falling off
in another. The result could not be known till
1841, and when it was known, the Ministers pro-
posed a plan which they supposed would apply a
remedy. The Tories, headed by Sir R. PEEL,
resisted and defeated that plan, and consequently
the Tories are as much or even more responsible
for the deficiency than the Ministers. They ap-
proved of the plan of 1840, and when that failed
they objected to another, without suggesting any
better scheme in its stead. They have now taken
on themselves the responsibility ofreatedying the
evil which their acquiescence in the first inst-
insta
prolonged, and which in the second • -ace
they refused to remedy. nce
eTheh
progresst is,o thate
th
party thought that
h;
Pti
ed.
in Prosperity I\TA '
t tru
he so much retP:d. The Tories, in ttleular,
scouted ail:
jr idea of decay, and MI their argu_
mentk during the Corn-law At bates went to ridi-
cule the fears or impugn the data of those who
warned theta that our manufactures and com-
merce had rteeived a severe check. Both par-
ties insisted till 1841, and Sir R. PEEL still in-
sists, that the progress of the country continued
as rapid as ever, or if it were checked. the
check was merely temporary, and both par-
ties, therefore, particularly Sir ROBERT
PEEL, were quite unprepared for that serious de-
falcation of the revenue which the returns of the
present year have exhibited. If the Ministers
are to be blamed for not anticipating it in
1840, the Tories are equally to blame, and much
more to blame than the Ministers, for the cons
tinuance of the deficiency,.since they would not
allow the measures to he discussed, or even ex..