The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-22 00:00:00

THE' s eN, LONDON, MONDAY

Our dates from Amoy reach to September 23.
Longcloths bad fallen 10 to 15 cents; for whites, in
consequence of forced sales. Grays were better sup-
ported.
Cotton yarn !ad also fallen 3 dollars 'o 4 dollars
per piece, quotatiiitta being, for No. 18 to 26, 29
dollars to 29 dollar Alheents. Stock cf raw cotton
continued large.
The trade from the Straits with this place is much
on the increase, both by native and foreign traders.

TIIE ELEVENTH VOLUME OF

LIVES OF THE QUEENS
OF ENGLAND

BY AGNES STRICKLAND.
IS NOW READY AT ALL THE BOOKSELLERS.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

NAVIGATION' LAWS.
Now ready,
THE HISTORY and ANATOMY of the NA.
VIGATION LAWS. In One Volume Bvo. Price 7s. 6d.

By JOHN LEWIS RICARDO, Esq., M.P.
London : Charles Gilpin, 5, Bishussate-street Without,

TIIE ROMANCE OF ORIENTAL HISTORY.
On Saturday next, in 3 vols , post Svo.,
QA.VINDROOG; or, The Queen of the Jungle;
I, 3 an Historical Romance of Southern-India.
By Captain RAFTER, late of the 03th Regiment.
" .. • • • •• • —juggling Bends— • •
That palter with us in a double sense,
That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope." MACBETH.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

lATAGIIORN and CO. beg to announce that
V their Firms in England, India, &c., will CEASE on the 24th
December next, the Peninsular and Oriental Company having super-
seded their Overland Parcel business. Mr. Waghorn makes this an-
nouncement to the Publ:e with the deepest regret, after having opened
the Overland Route, and after twenty years' service for their ad-
vantage.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
rn(ler the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee.
THIS EVENING

Will be produced a new and original Comedy, called FAMILY
PRIDE. Mr. Chapman, Mr. Tilbury ; Doctor Dodge, Mr. Farrell ;
Arthur Courtnay, Mr. Henry Farren ; Captain Shangenah, Mr. Hud-
son; Blandish, Mr. Brindal ; Mrs. Willoughby Courtnay, Mrs. W.
CliffOrd ; Sophia Chapman, Mrs. Nisbett; Letitia Bradley, Miss
Reynolds; Grace, Mrs. Humby.
After which, an entirely new Comic Drama, called THE ROUSED
LION. Characters by Messrs. Webster, Howe, Wigan, 11. Vanden-
hoff ; Mrs. Keeley, Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Seymour, and Mrs. Stanley.

To conclude with a new and original Farce, called IVllO'B MY
HUSBAND ? Doctor Mnll,llr. Tilbury ; Daniel Tootles, Mr. Keeley;
sirs. Smith Thompson, Mrs, W. Clifford ; Sophonisba Mull, Mrs. L.
g. Buckingham ; Sally Starch, Mrs. flumby.
Stage Manager, Mr. Fanen; Acting Manager, Mr. F. 'Welnter.
J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper.
Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Oallery, Is.

Doors opan'at Six, l'erformancel; commence at seven.

TREATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
Under the direction of Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING

Will be presented a new and original Drama, called GABRIELL]

or, the Bequeathed Heart. Fitzgerald O'Carrol, Mr. Boyce ; Major
Dunmore, Mr. Worrell; Marques di Mincio, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Bal-
thazar Valdarno, Mr. 0. Smith ; Bob Bit, Mr. Wright ; Gabrielli,
Madame Celeste ; Signora D'Ossuna, Miss Brot,ks.
After which, a New Farce, entitled THIS HOUSE TO BE SOLD
:the property of the late William Shakspeare), Inquire Within. Cha-
racters by Messrs. Wright, Cullenford, Worrell, 0. Smith, Paul Bcd
ford, Mrs. Laws, &c., &c.

To bo followed by 'the original farce, called HOW TO SETTLE
CCOUNTS WITH YOUR LAUNDRESS. Whittington Widgetts,
Alr. Wright; Jack Brown, Mr. Manyard ; Squibb, Mr. Redmond
ityan ; Mary White, Miss Woolgar ; Mdllo. Cherry Bounce, Misa
Emma Harding.
To conclude with the Farce of SHOCKING EVENTS. In which
Mr. Lambert, Mr. Worrell, Mr. Munyard, Miss Harding, and Miss
Chaplin will perform.
Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is.

Priers open at Half-p-ast Six, Performance to commence at SeTem,

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Vestria.
Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed PATTER versus CLATTER.
To be folowed by the Comic Drama, entitled THE PRIDE OF
Tli 1: kET. Principal characters by Messrs. Buckstone, Leigh
Murray, (;railby-, and farselle ; Miss H. Gilbert, Mrs. C. Jones, and
Mad:une Vustris.

Cou Dcama, cAlled A 1:01"(11: DIAMOND

To voilollitio with a .Itomaur, Beal Life, billed BOX and COX:
Principal chAra I,•r, by Mr. llarky, Mr. Ilto•kstene, and Mrs. Ma,.

I laerior ts.,n ,ntirely re-designed by Mr. /V'

rpyor
to any part of th,

hi., 25, ; 4;allory, N.

Thi Now 110x-oWee, Nu. 2, Welling,toii-street, is opoi to the
i'ubiic every day, from Tell to six.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Engagement of Mr. MACRE:AM- and MISS CUSHMAN,
THIS EVENING

Will be performed a nen, :Historical Play, entitled num.. VAN
ARTEVELDE. Characters by Messrs. Macready, Ryder, rainier,
Cooper, J. Vining, Convay, Neville ; Miss E. Montague, ant Miss
Susan Cushman.

After which .Shakspeare's Comedy of KATHERINE AND PE-
Trtuumo. Petruchlo, Mr. Cooper; Katherine, Miss Emmeline
Montagne.
Dress Circle, 55.: Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE,

Lessee, Mrs. F. llayilge, Davidge-terrace,Keusington-roa,

Surrey.
Last Week of the Opera Company.
MR. W. HARRISON'S BENEFIT.
Tnrs EVENING, the performances will commence with the
:elebrated Opera of _ .

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITBEATItE,
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. William Batty.
Mr. Batty's performing Elephants.
Tills EVENING
The Grand S4eetaele of THE CAMP OF SILESIA.
Entirely new Scents in the Arena, by the talented Artistes of
the Establishment, in the carious modes of equestration.
To conclude with the Ballet called LOVE and FOLLY.

Box-office open from 11 till 5
Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. West.

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Parliament a matter in which the whole character
of the empire is implicated is brought under its
consideration. Shall England advance or retrograde
in the cause of civil and religious freedom ? The
question is already put, It must be decided imme-
diately, emphatically, constitutionally, and for ever.

There is an anecdote of ELLISTON and GEORGE
IV., told by one who so loved a joke that he could
suck the marrow out of the driest bone of a
reminiscence—CHAßLEs LAMB to wit—which anec-
dote tallies ridiculously well with the present
dilemma of her MAJESTY'S Most Faithful
Commons. According to the essayist, the
comedian devised a trick for the gratification of the
PRINCE REGENT. The place was Brighton ; the
scene was the Pavilion ; the occasion was a banquet ;
the hour was twilight. In the midst of the festi-
vities the dining-hall was suddenly darkened, and a
sentence as terrible as that which appalled the
revellers of BELSHAZZAR, appeared upon the wall
in gigantic letters of the colour of blood. It was
this : —'6 EARTHQUAKE ! BRIGHTON ! !--SWALLOW
UP ALIVE !! !" The trick is being revived at West-
minster. Scarcely has the new Parliament assem-
bled when a sentence as pleasant in its signification
is displayed before the eyes of its astonished Members.
A prophecy is pronounced; an alternative is enun-
ciated; the Parliament is threatened, and through the
Parliament the empire. Christianity will be jeo-
pardised by the admission of Jews to the House of
Commons. The Legislature must either confirm
the supposed disabilities of the Israelites, or the
predominance of Christianity in the nation
will be forfeited. Let Parliament but declare
a Hebrew to be qualified to become a Legis-
lator, and our Cathedrals will in time be as
irreparably in ruins as the temple of the Ephesians,
and as desolate as the Halls of Balclutha. That is
the prophecy, the alternative, and the threat pro-
nounced against the national representatives, in anti-
cipation of the decision upon the important case of
Baron LIONEL DE ROTHSCHILD. The prophecy,
however, comes only from the oracles:of Exeter Hall :
the alternative, from the darkened judgment of
bigotry : the threat, from the delirious ravings of
fanaticism. Examine the alarm for a moment, and
it proves to be as much of a trick as the optical
illusion of ELLISTON in the Pavilion. Mere clerical
blue-fire—an ethical transparency—the hocus-pocus-
ing, of so many ecclesiastical pantomimists.
There cannot, • indeed, be a reasonable doubt—
a doubt worthy of one instant's consideration
—as to the course which will be pursued in this mat-
ter by the House of Commons. The representatives
of the people will recoil from that abyss of retrogres-
sion into which the constitution will be plunged in
the event of any concessions on their part to the
clamours of religious intolerance. Declare the Jew
disqualified by his religion from occupying a seat in
Parliament, and you declare him incapable of exer-
cising the elective franchise : deprive him of
the franchise, and you must disentitle him to
every kind of civil or social immunity. Reduce him
to this condition, and open persecution cannot be far
oft. From one degree to another tine descent is irre-
sistible. The complaint will not long I,e---" You -pat
upon my .Jewish and caned me Dog We •r,
we to adventure upon this retrograde policy in re-
ference to the children of ABRAHAM, we should, like
GRATIANO, conceive it to be an act of munificence
to supply them with halters gratis ! The Parliament
of England will, however, under the Ad-
ministration of a RUSSELL, remain staunch to
the genial spirit of the Constitution, and
loyal to the cause of that moral and political tolera-
tion, which is enumerating fresh advocates even
among the principalities of Italy. If the Jews have
been redeemed from their state of degradation under
the walls of the Vatican, shall a crusade of bigotry
be permitted to pursue them under the shadows of
Westminster Abbey ? If the Jews have found not
merely countenance but consolation within the cir.
cumference of Papal Rome, shall they encounter
only ignominy and abasement in Great Britain ?
Upon these great questions, the Members newly
elected by the population will decide forthwith. May
they evince, in the manner of their decision, a due
sense of their own responsibility, and a proper con-
viction of the justice and humanity of their con-
stituents !

The Bank Charter Act of 1844 has been virtually
abrogated, and it is now admitted, on every side, that
important changes in the monetary laws of the coun-
try are absolutely essential. A great variety of opi-
nion, however, exists as to the nature and extent of
the alterations that should be effected, some contend-
ing that nothing should be tolerated as a circulating
Qedium but gold coin, or paper convertible on de•
mand, into gold at a fixed price ; while others insist
that such a system is radically wrong, and wholly
inconsistent with the permanent welfare and prospe-
rity of the nation ; and that any attempt to main-
tain a gold currency must necessarily occasion pe-
riodical crises, repeated fluctuations in prices, and prove
deeply injurious to our trade and commerce, and
still more so to the labouring classes, who are depen-
dent for their daily subsistence on their daily la-
bour, and to whom anything which interposes
obstacles to employment, or operates as a check upon
production, must have the most fatal results. These
constitute the two great parties—the bullionists and
the anti-bullionists—between whom the battle is to
be fought. There are innumerable sub-divisions,
however, on either side. Some of the former class

desire that the directors of the Bank of England
should be afforded the widest and most unlimited
' discretion, that the only regulation should be that
their notes should at all times be exchangeable for gold
at the rate of 31. 7s. 10 1. per ounce, and that so
long as their obligations are thus discharged, there
should not be the slightest interference with the
manner in which they may think proper to carry on
their business, or the amount of paper they may
deem it desirable to send, into circulation ; while
others object to such extraordinary powers being con-
ceded to an irresponsible body, and suggest various
checks by which the Bank may be controlled, and a
self acting system introduced that will prevent the
bullion leaving the country, either by regulating the
issue according to the amount of specie in its coffers,
(a- by making the minimum rate of interest depend
thereon.
The ground-work of Sir R. PEEL'S late Act,
which permitted an issue of 14,000,000 sterling, on
securities, and required that for every note circu-
lated beyond that fixed limit, an amount in gold
sufficient to redeem it should be retained in the Bank
cellars in the issue department, was one of these
kinds of restriction, while that of the regulation of
the present Ministry, as set forth in the letter of the
Premier and the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
was of the other eight per cent. being fixed
as the lowest rate at which the Bank should
make advances on any description of security. The
bullionists, therefore, are divided into the non-restric-
tionists and the restrictionists, the latter being again
divided into those who would regulate by the re-
striction of the issues, and those who would do so
by the rate of interest that should be demanded on
loans. All are objectionable, although the doctrines
of the restrictionists are still more injurious to the
country than those of the other party.
The anti-bullionists, in like manner, are divided
nto parties, who advocate the issue of notes based
ion a variety of different securities, to guard
the public against the possibility of loss, and
who would establish different descriptions of
checks as to the amount that should be
sent into circulation. All, however, are actuated by
a cordial desire to upset as well the Act of 1819 as
that of 1844, to introduce a free trade in gold as in
any other description of commodity, and to provide
a currency sufficient for the wants and exigencies of
the country ; to give employment to every one able
and willing to work, and to develope all our indus-
trial resources. We hail every one holding these prin-
ciples (however much we may differ in details) as a
eollaborateur, and shall gladly co-operate with him
in the contest that is inevitable.

Many admirable publications have lately issued
from the pens of anti-bullionists, which depict in the
strongest and most forcible manner the evils that have
been inflicted on the country by the present system,
and which must convince any disinterested and un-
prejudiced person of the impolicy of the monetary
laws. We have just received a pamphlet from the
pen of CHARLES ENDERBY, Esq., F.R.S., entitled
" Our Money Laws—the Cause of the National
Distress" which is deserving of the most attentive

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