The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-16 00:00:00

TAE SUN,

NOTICE.
ItZ R. WRIGHT'S CENTURY OF
CARICATURES.

VIE SECOND EDITION ON MIDNESDIT.

A STERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
on and after the 17th instant Second-class Passengers will
liot no booked to :itationg Letsc een London and Ely, nor Horses con-
veyed BrcK.N.bourne, Bishops Storttin-d, Wendeu, Cheatertord, or
::.eminartet, I,y ths 11 30 .A.M:Down Train.

The 10 Ait.-Down Train will continue to run as heretofore, taking
First and Second-class Passenzers, Private Carriages, and Horses.
;V.1,. Horses for .Newmarket will be booked 'Through by the 10
A.m. Down Train, but will not be forwarded from Chesterford until
the arrival of the 11 30 Train.

By order,
R. MOSELEY, General Manager.

London, October 13, 1943.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN
Manager, Mr. BUNN.

THIS EVENING,
The Entertaintnents will commence with a Grand Opera, eatitled

THE BOIiEIIIAN GIRL.

Count Areheim, Mr. Borrani ; Florestein, Mr. S. Cowell; Thad-
detls, Mr. W. Harrison ; Devi!shoof, Mr. U. Corti ; Arline, Miss
Romer"; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Messent.
To conektde with a fl.rand Ballet-Pantomime, entitled
THE AMAZONS.
Joifs, Mdlle. Louise ; isida, 31dlle. Plunkett ; Don Ethnr, M.
?alga; Don Oscar, Mr. W. H. Payne; supported by Mdlles. Celeste
Stephan, Moneeet, Arnal, Annie Payne, Therese Cushnie, Horne,
Sophie, Annie Cushaie, Le Vete, Lowe, and Fenton; Messrs. Paul
and ,Titleu.
Mr. B CLINT, by an arrangement made with the Directors of the
Royal Italian Opera, is enabled to avail himself of the vast resources of
that celebrated Establishment, the Entertainments will be supported
by a wise ea scOne raver yet given on the English stage. With the
view of representing the Performances submitted I. pablic patronage
an equally efficient manner, ho submits the names of the priselpal
Artistes with whom he has entered lino engagements :
FOR GRAND OPERA.

SONIAXI AND CoNimAhrt.—Mdlle. Nissen (principal singer from
the Imperial Theatres of Italy and St. Petersburgh), Miss Romer,
Miss Ifassang, Miss Wallace (sister of the composer, her first appear-
anee4, Miss Nelson (her first appearance on any stage), Miss Messent,
and Madapae Stoltz (the renowned singer from the Grand Opera at
Paris). _ _ _

EA952111 ►xD BASLITONEB.-11r. Porrani, Mr. Whitworth, )fr. PAIN
dini, Mr. fl.. Cord (principal buffo from the Theatre Royal, Dabl.n),
Mr. S. Jones, and 3lr. H. Phillips.

Tristotta.—Mr. W. Harrison, kr. Herberte (his first appearance ofl
the London stage), Mx. Barker, and Mr. Sims Reeves.

The Orelsestra has been entirely re-arranged, and selected from
the first talent, on a greatly increased scale. Musical. Director,
Signor Schira.
'llse 'Thorne c: ill be augmented. to an unusual extent, and will com-
prise the best voices in the country. Chorus Master, Mr. Land.
FOR GRAND BALLET AND SPECTACLE.
Mel/les. Plunkett and Sophie Fume (both from the Grand Opera
Nation, Paris), Mdlle. Celeste Stephan, Mdlle. /fencelet, Mdlle.
GABlot, and Mdlle. Antal (all from the principal Theatres of Paris),
Millie. Louise, and Maywood (principal danscuse from the San
Caries. Naples) ; M. Pctipa and M. Desplaces (both from the Theatre
desla Nation, Paris), M. Jules (from the Grand Opera La Scala, at
MILL/0,4M. Paul, alr. W. 11. Payne, Mr. T. Matthews, Mr. Cormaek
(from the Theatre loyal, Liverpool, his first appearance), M. Mani-
lier (his first appearance these eight years), and the most teisowned
Dancer now on eie Continent, M. Durand ; with a more numerous
awl of body of Corps de Ballet, Fignrantm and Promcueuses,
than has over yet been engaged in an English Theatre.
Amongst other novelties of the season, will be produced a new
grand Ballet by M. Barren (expressly composed for Mollie. Plunkett.)
The celebsaSed O; era of " Ilaydee' (the last production ofWescrs.
Seriire anti Auber, and ailapted to the English stage by Mr. Lavenu),
will ho tnstantly producal.
A grand Opera, in Vireo acts, composed expressly for this Theatre
by Mr. W. Y. Wallace.
" The 1124 Wulpurgis Night" (tho Poem by Goethe, and the Mu-
sic by Ms Me Dr. Mendelssohn), will be given in a dramatic form
by MI the immense resources of the Theatre.

c4abrated _Musical Work (dramatised for the first timo by J. P.
Ptlnehl) la in preparation, and will be produced as speedily as the
magnitude of the subject will permit.
A new grand Opqa, entitled "KenilwOrth," by Signor Schira ; and
a vand semi-sarat Opera, composed expressly by Mr. W. Balfe.
An entirely new Ballet Will be produced for the debut of Mdllo.
Maywood.
_Numerous treaties are pending, and amongst others, an answer is
daily expected from the celebrated Herr Pischek.

Principal Beene-painters—Messrs. Grieve and Telbin.

Property Maker—Mr. Blamire.
1.13.11 et Masters—MM. Barrea and Nazilien
Under Ballet Master Mr. B. Barnett.

St*go Lirector—Mr. G. Ellis.
ZNTRANCES A.ND PRICES OF ADMISSION.

Grand 11-Atranec,,, Bow-street.—Grand Tier Boxes, 31. 33. ; First
Trer Boxes, 21. 2s. and 1/. 11s. Gd. ; Pit Boxes, 21. 23. ; Stabs, los.
Gd; ; Sing'. Admissions to a Private Box ou the First Tier, is.

11,,,,,ytraet Entrance.--Pit, 34. 6d,

Piazza F.ntiance.—Public Boxes, ss. ; Gallery Amphitheatre,
2s. CAI.; Gallery, Is. 6d.
lialGFa•ice to take place, as nsual, st Nine.—To the PuLlie Boxes,
3s. ; Pa, i`s.; Amphitheatre Gallery, Is. 6d. ; Gallery, ls.
Doors open at ilalf-past Six, performance to commen,:e at Syron.

The 13Ox-office is open front Ten till Five, wider the direction of
Mr. John

ROYAL, ILAYMARICET.
Mr. B. Vrebaer, Solo ,I.esEe.e and Mana,ger, Oki Itrompton,

The pubic is respectfully lal4rined that this Theatre Las, during
the reoeswindergcnie 'very extensive repairs and alterations, and the
sstole re-decorated.

'Will he pertrincl. ,!thalkspealr's Tragedy of ROMEO and JULIET.
Nifrce reeahis, Mr. Caul:lod ; Paris, Mr. H. Vandenhetf ; Capulet,
Mr. James Bland ; Romeo, M. Creswick ; Mercutio, Mr. H. 1101 l ;
"y bait, Mr. - Ilor:e , Benvolio, mr. Braid ; Friar Lawrence, Mr.
JitOgera ; reks, Mr. K,eolcv.;. Nurse, Mrs. plover; Juliet, Mise Laura
Addiaon.
To cenelTide with THE PAS DE FASCINATION. Michael
Brows*, Mr. Keeley; Katherina Kloper, Mrs. Keeley.

THEA'lrtg. ROYAL, ADELPIII.
Tlnder the direction ol Madame Celesta.

Ntritr the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorates, the
°rites; de4los by Digby Wyatt, Mit executed by Mr. Sang. A
Rew Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sys-
tem of "%Nati:stun, &c., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs
added to the Seats, and Stalls rendered more comfortable.

_
THIS EVENING
11111 be pertordied ICING O'.N`EIL ; or, The Irish Brigade.
After which, THE DANCING BARBER.
Te be tollewed by HIS LAST LEGS.
To eoseinde with JOHN JONES.

lI.OfAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Vestria.
Sots Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed a comic Drama, entitled ANYTHING FOR
A CHANGE. Characters b 7 Messrs. Harley, C. Mathews, Ilonner;
Bliss S. Fltxnilli3m, and Miss -Marshall.

After which, COURT BEAUTIES.
'leo:include with TIIE CRITIC.
l.resa Boxes, 55.; Upper Bozos, 45.; Pit, 23. ; Gallery, Is. No
Do. 13 rr t, any part of the house.
The New Ron-oftice, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the
every day, from Ten till Six.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager.

Hnrlng the Recess this Theatre has been re-decorated and embel-
lished In a superb and costly manner by Mr. Ilurwitz. A new Chan-
defier has teen fitted, and the best arrangements hare been made for
the due Ventilation ci the Theatrs, and the comfort and courealence
of the audience.

THIS EVENING,
Wlll be performed a new Romantic Opera, entitled LEOLINE.
Coant Adclmar, 31r. Charles Brahain ; Leoline, Misa Rafter.
Alter which, LADIES BEWARE.
To conclude with the Ballet of LA ROSIEIIE.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
No communication oan be attended to unless autheati-
cated by the name and address of the writer.
Reiected communication/cannot be returned.

THE VEATHER.—Sux OFEICE, OCTOBER 15.
TUENMOSIBTIM, Lowest, 42; Highest, 50; Noon, 50.

BAROMZTER, 29.98.

Wim) N.; continuous rain.
OCTOBER 16.

rtfr.II2,IOIETZB, Lowest, 43; Highest. 49 ; Noon, 51.
BAROMETER, 29.78.—W1ND N.; rain.

HIGH WATER AT LOISDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
7:4:)rning ~ 2 rain. after 4 f Evening 23 min. after 4

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" LONDON, MONDAY, OCrOBER 16, Is4s.

Often as we have had occasion to complain of that
IRDSOdisvpling of all the various descriptions of cant
e--,ille oadtaboutthe sanctification of the Sabbath—we
have neeer done so with more profound indignation
thin upon this sixteenth day of October. Our indig-
ration, as may be at once conjectured, is attributable,
of course, to the brutal and most un-Christian
behavtour of the directors and the secretary of the
S'kettisia-Central Railway, when, on Sunday, the Bth
instant, they refused to allow her Grace the Duchess
of Ster.neneexn to travel a few miles along the line,
for the purpose of reaching Castle Howard in time to
receive the farewell of her dying father, the late Earl
of CA3LISLE. Those who do not happen to have al-
reedy perused the particulars of this miserable incident
will certainly for the moment imagine that we are
making either some peeposterous blunder or some in-
decorous misrepresentation :A sentence althost will be
sufficient to prove the accuracy of our allusion. Upon
the morning already mentioned, the Mistress of the
Robes arrived at the railway station at Perth, having
hastened thither from Montrose immediately her
Grace received the melancholy intelligence of the
fatal-illness of the Earl of CARLISLE. Almost at the
moment when the Duchess of SUTHERLAND reached
the Perth station the mail train for the south was
preparing for its departure ; but, to her Grace's
amanment, she was refused admission into one of
the .iages, heeing informed that it was contrary to
the re*ulations of the directors to env/ any travelling
on a Sabbath I A remonstrance ryas at once dispatched
to the secretary, representing the calamitous cause of
the jeurne,/, atickthe mail train was even delayed for
an interreal to enable matters to be arranged satisfac-
torily. At length a final and peremptory answer was
received from the secretary. It was this—" No ; the
rules of the company cannot be departed from." Im-
meC.iately afterwards the encline started, dragging
after it the mail-bats and a number of empty car-
riages, and leaving the Duchess of SIITREALAND
upon the platherze, weeping. The only alternative
-ea.; to post onwards as rapidly as possible. A steamer
wteshired—the streets of Edinburgh were reached—
and; by the time tee mournful party from Dunrobin
Castle eerived at Castle Howard, in Yorkshire, the Earl
of CALL 9.1.13 had breathed his last, and a (laughter
hall been heartlessly :deprived of a most solemn and
tender consolation. Now we ask if this is not an
lffeettlg, tesiimony of the inhumanity resulting from
every despicable and yet a very monstrous humbug?
e ask any mean whose nerves have ever felt one
e Ye thrill of nafural sensibility if such a system of
I. 14;.
rg4k moralety ie not subversive of all the nobler
skititt,gnts implanted in the bosom of man by his
-Cie.teeou? We ask if this pharizaisal sobriety is to be

allowed to flourish with impunity ? We ask plainly
and bluntly at once if the persons who thus dare to
parody the sublime precepts of Religion are to be
permitted to outrage all public decency without punish-
ment ? Is the Legislature blind or deaf ? Are our
representatives dullards ? Is there not one man among
the 658 who will demand the interposition of the Ex-
ecutive ? We reiterate our demands from the ear-
nestness of our solicitude to witness the abolition of a
custom which is at all times insufferable, but which,
in such cases as that of her Grace the Duchess of
SUTHERLAND, amounts to an infamous and un-
endurable cruelty. It must be remembered that we
are not uttering a few fluent worth of indignation
upon a matter which has for a moment filled our
heart with a mingled sense of pain and irritation. We
are speaking of a grievance against which we have rea-
soned again and again with all the energy of an asto-
nishment confirmed and heightened by conviction. We
are reprobating a system which is unhappily by no means
restricted to the management of the Scottish Central
Railway, but one which unfortunately extends along
a number of different ramifications. We appeal,
moreover, to the Government for its interposition,
not merely on the score of public decency, and out
of motives of a purely humane character, but because
we do regard such local prohibitions against travelling
on a Sunday as derogatory to the influence and in-
sulting to the principles of the sublime and elevated
philosophy of Christianity. In such dilemmas,
for example, as the one which occurred at the
Perth station on Sunday, the Bth of October,
in consequence of this silly and frivolous prohibition
—the effect would :most assuredly be that to the
lowly and ignorant the institution of a day of rest
like Sunday would be rather a curse than a blessing.
The multitude would be disposed to recoil from a
creed so repulsive in its operations, so stern and in-
exorable in its sobriety, so wretchedly degenerated
from an instinct to a punctilio, from a dogma to a
form, from a holy and elevating faith, to a mean and
debasing ceremony. Let us crush this reptile hy-
pocrisy—this hypocrisy which is the most loath-
some of all, the hypocrisy of religion I Away
with it. "Its offence is rank —it smells to
heaven !" When indulged in to excess, it excites a
' daring wretch like the murderer TawEer. to poison
his lernan in order that his character, forsooth, may
shine in unsullied purity in the estimation of his
neighbours. MOLIER s has pilloried the race,
dramatically, in the person of TARTUFFE. DICKENS
has crucified the same assumption of morality, again,
in the most elaborately defined and the most exqui-
sitely delineated of all the fictitious beings created by
his genius as a novelist. The hypocrisy of a TAWELL
is—thanks be to GOD !—but seldom witnessed. The
hypocrisy described by the dramatist and the ro-
mance-writer is of a domestic kind, which renders it,
comparatively speaking, harmless. But the hypocrisy
of the enemies of Sunday trading and Sunday travel-
ling is becoming at last so wholly intolerable, that it
is the bounden duty of the Legislature to take the
grievance into its consideration. Something must be
done forthwith, or the religious feeling of Scotland
will appear in the eyes of the world as little better
than a miserable farce and most melancholy affectation

The Financial Reform Association continues its
useful labours. In the report just published, a copy
of which appeared in The Sun of Saturday, one of
the chief difficulties in the way of an efficient reform
is clearly indicated. It states " that at present it is
hardly possible to discover the actual expense of any
branch of the Government, for almost every one is
paid in three different ways—namely, out of the
Consolidated Fund, by annual Parliamentary grants,
and by fees." It was by the contusion thus occa-
sioned that many of the abuses that have descended
to us from the good old times of Tory government,
were originated and nurtured. Gullible as Jonx
131.71.1. proverbially was, he would scarcely have re-
strained his indignation at finding subordinate, and
comparatively useless officers, receiving emoluments
for some trifling services (often performed entirely by
deputy) equivalent to those enjoyed by the most
meritorious and hardest worked servants of the
Crown. The system of payment partly by fees was
accordingly acted on, in order to disguise the extent
of the grievance, to prevent the discovery of the
amount annually extracted from the public purse, '
and which was too frequently bestowed as the wages
of corruption, the reward of political dishonesty and
turpitude. By dividing the amount thus squandered
under different heads a certain degree of mystery
was produced. When the payment of a salary ap-
peared as a charge on the Consolidated Fund, it was
erroneously supposed that there was an end of the
transaction, at least so far as the particular office was
concerned ; and, although it might appear that the
office might be dispensed with, and a reduction
easily effected, it seemed a matter of compara-
tively little importance, the people grumbled and
paid, and matters went on in the most satisfactory
manner for the hordes of locusts that infested the
public offices, and fattened at the expense of the
nation.

On further investigation, however, it might have
been discovered that the charge on the Consolidated
Fund exhibited but a very imperfect view of the real
facts of the case. The same parties again figured in
the annual estimates, and immense sums were voted
almost sub sikntio, to swell the emoluments
of these who were erroneously supposed to have
been more than sufficiently remunerated for their
labours by the amounts charged upon the Consoli-
dated Fund. But there were no Joseph Humes
in these days to catechise the Minister and insist
upon full and explicit information before the item
was submitted to the House. The representatives of
the people thought it a piece of ♦ulgar impertinence
to inquire too closely into the expenditure sanctioned
by the Government, and perhaps the feeling might
possibly have lurked in the mind of even the most
strenuous and uncompromising member of the
Opposition that the time might perhaps arrire
when he too would participate in the good things
that were distributed so freely among the Minis-
terialists. By a sort of general assent the subject was
tabooed as one that should not be mentioned
to ears polite, and thus "jobs" were perpetrated,
which, if fully exposed, would have aroused a storm
of popular indignation from the Land's End to John.
o'- Groats.

This, however, was by no means the worst part of
the affair. The sums that appeared under these
heads at least consisted of definite amounts which
might have been ascertained if any person chose to
eater upon the ir,quiry. Anything that could be
effected in this manner fell incredibly short of the
amount of plunder obtained in the shape of fees. The
public offices became literally sinks of iniquity. No
business of any description could be transacted with-
out an extravagant system of bribery to the already
over-paid officials. Every officer, from the porter
at the gate to the head clerk, received a
gratuity, as civility money, fees for expe-
dition, or others of a similar character.
If the applicant expected to obtain his object,
crowds of harpies awaited him at every stage of his
progress, whom he was compelled to satisfy, and, in
return, be of course made the public, whenever prac-
ticable, recoup him in the amount thus disbursed.
The law officers were perhaps the worst of all, but
every department of the State was infested by classes
of sinecurists, whose constant and unceasing cry,4
like that of the horse leech, was Give, give, give,
which was maintained without intermission. Of late
years much has been done to abate this nuisance.
Fees have been abolished in many departments, and
fixed salaries substituted for the fluctuating and vary-
ing emoluments derived therefrom. These salaries,
however, are, generally speaking, much higher than
should be paid, or than would hare been at all tole-
rated, had they not been in some degree regulated
by the amounts received for similar services under
the old system. It should also be borne in mind
that they were settled before the Act of 1819
was passed, when a guinea readily sold for
Bs. or 9s. premium, and when every description of
cprnmodity sold at a much higher rate than that for
which similar articles could now be obtained—
when, in fact, war prices were universal. Under
these circumstances much larger incnmeslwere ne-
cessary to maintain persons in a respectable station in
society than would now be required fur that purpose.
But, although money has been made artificially dear
by the Acts of 1819 and 1844 ; though one pound
would now go further, and procure greater comforts
and luxuries than thirty shillings some forty years
ago, there has been but little reduction upon salaries

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