The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-19 00:00:00

After which,

The NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be
repeated, entitled

THE CASTLE OF bTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN
AND THE GIANT HELMET.

Harlequin, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ;
Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother.
To-morrow, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with The New

Pantomime.

Doors to be opened at balf-past Six—the performances to
cemnesce at Seven o'Clock.

Titkets---andllates-f;;The Boat.; to be taken of Mr. Grogan,
at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets
may oe had upon application.
Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second
Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2.5. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price.
; Galle, Is.
Private Boat, to be had aely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller
IC7. New Bond-street.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Triumphant again ! Overwhelming Success of Ainsworth's
Tower of .London. 'Nightly overflows. Upwards of 57,000
Persons have already witnessed the best Pantomime in
London.

THIS EVENING, JAN. 19,
Will be acted a Grand Historical llomance, founded on and

entitled
THE TOWER OF LONDON.

The Tableaax Vivans, splendid Costume, and Appointments,
from the Designs of the celebrated George Cr tiikshanks.
After which will be repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime,
entitled

HARLEQUIN AND MY LADY LEE; OR, GOOSEY
GANDER AND THE SPELL-BOUND GOSLINGS.
En which the unrivalled Artistes, the Boleno Family; Mr.
Nonthby, the Original Closn ; Miss Sharpe, Columbine ; and
the astonishing Gymnastique, Signior Felix Carlo, from Fran-
cent's, at Paris, will perform : concluding with Brunning's
GranDinrainic Synopsis of Syria.

=WOK WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.II,IORROW.
A.urrung......17 =imam after 0. I Evening .2 minutes after O.

The Publication of t►s F.venitg Edition of 'f HE Sox corn
moused at =flutes after Three.

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LONDON:
TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, IE4I.

The Times yesterday, with a masterly hand, in
an article transferred to our pages, drew a contrast
both as to principle and success, between the colo-
nial policy of France and of England. The for-
mer, founded on the principle of conquest or national
aggrandisement by violence, has been from the
commencement of the eighteenth century a complete
failure ; the latter, undertaken by individuals or
companies, on the principle of gaining wealth by'
acquiring a country and cultivating it, or carrying
on trade with its inhabitants, has been almost uni-
formly successful. Considering the United States
as springing from the loins of England, and in-
cluding our Indian empire, our colonial offsets corn-
prise the most astonishing dominion of knowledge
and art over ignorance and barbarism, and over the
elements of the material world that ever existed.
If in the prosecution of the great object, of obtain-
ing wealth by industry and commerce, our Indian
countrymen and our several colonists have been
sometimes obliged to have recourse to arms, and to
carry on war in a spirit of aggrandisement, that tva
subsidiary to the main object, and the " principalities
and powers we have conquered, have been taught by
our rule to share, not perish by the arts of Euro-
pean warfare." Some memorable lesions arc taught
by this contrast, and we willingly avail ourselves o
it to state the suggestions which it forces on us.
All our vast colonial empire, which now consti-
tutes such an imposing mass of greatness, is quite
distinct from the soil of England. It has nothing
to do with the landed gentry. The squires had no
hand in founding it. Its origin lies in the mercan-
tile community. It has sprung from commerce.