The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-14 00:00:00

OF BRITANNIA,

The Music composed and selected by Mr. H. R. Bishop.
Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 33. 6d.; First and Second
Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price,
2s. ; Gallery, Is.
Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven o'Clock.
Tickets and plat ss for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Notter,
at the Box-office. from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets
may be had upon application.
Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller,
167, New Bond-street.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Positively the Last Night of the Grand Pantomime.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 14.
Will be acted the Legendary Drama, called
THE LAPIDARY OF LEYDEN.
Supported by the entire strength of the Company.
After which, a Clmedietta, frcm the French, entitled
FAMILY JARS MENDED.
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Penbomme, Alt'. Smith ; Chapinet, Mr. Saville ; Madame
Bonbernme, Mr!. Daly ; Theresia, Miss Martin.
To which will be added, the Performances of Michael Boai.
the Chin Melodist, and his Wife, the Swiss Vocalist.
To conclude with the ;rand Pantomime, called
THE QUEEN BEE; or, HARLEQUIN AND GOODY
TWO SHOES.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW,
Morning.... 19 minutes after 0 I Evening 52 minutes after 0.

LONDON:
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1840.

Many petitions were last night presented in the
House of Lords for Church Extension, and against
further grants to Maynooth. If there be a lull amongst
the Chartists, the politico-religious party is extremely
active. Their organization is complete. A parson in
every parish, and the whole body of the parsons forming
a united corporation, being stimulated to exertion by
the most permanent of all passions, the love of gold, and
possessing, in the respect shown to their office, a lever
for moving the bulk of the population, seems to us so
formidable an engine, as to require the utmost suspi-
cion and jealousy on the part of our lay rulers. It is
not a kingdom within a kingdom, but a spiritual king-
dom claiming to be superior to the sovereignty of her
MAJESTY and the two Houses of Parliament, and
which may at any time be brought, as in fact it is brought
in Scotland, into conflict with the civil power. It is
now ranged in England partly on the side of authority ;
how soon it may do battle against it nobody can tell.
In Ireland the spiritual authority is nearly all in all ;
it and the lay authority now move harmoniously toge-
ther ; but Mr. O'CONNELL'S threat of 500,000 fighting
men to guard her MAJESTY, points out a contingency
where the spiritual authority of Ireland would be ar-
rayed against the civil power. May not occasions arise—
or rather have we not recently seen them—when the
spiritual combination in England will be ready to op-
pose the Sovereign power ?
The Bishop of EXETER gave notice, that on Monday
he would put a question to Viscount MELBOURNE re-
specting a letter sent in last July to him by a Rev.
Mr. IRVINE of Leicester, describing the growth of So-
cialism. The Bishop is in high feather. Never be-
fore was he so great and so glorious. When he was
trampling down the poor meek Mr. HEAD of Honiton,
he was not dilated into half such enormous magnitude as
now when he is fighting against Socialism, and bringing
the Ministers to book every night for their ignorance of
the immense dangers caused by Mr. OWEN, and their
negligence in not suppressing every heterodox opinion.
A censorship of the press seems a light restriction to
that censorship of opinion, enforced by severe penal
laws, which the Bishop of EXETER would make the
House of Lords the means of establishing. The
Ministers, however, by giving way to his fierce in-
tolerance, have, in so car as they are concerned, ac-
knowledged its justice, and he will make them rue their
submission. The Bishop promises to worry them
through the whole Session.
The Prisons Act Amendment Bill, intended to
enable the Visiting Magistrates, in concurrence with the
SECRETARY of STATE, to relax the regulations cf the
Prisons Acts, was read a second time.
The Marquis of WESTMINSTER moved for a Com-
mittee to inquire into the two different subject' of sup-
plying the metropolis with water, and the dangers re-
sulting from railroads.

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