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London, England, 1841-09-08 00:00:00

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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
U iDER the'MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS.
THIS EVENING, SEPT. 3,
Will be performed the New Comedy, LONDON ASSUR-
ANCE.—Sir Harcourt Courtly, Mr. W. Farren -, Max Hark;
away, Mr. Bartley; Mr. Charles Courtly, Mr. Walter Lacy
Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mr. Adolphus Spanker, Mr
Oxberry ; Mark Meddle, Mr. Harley; Grace Harkaway'
Madame Vestris ' • Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs.
Pert, Mrs. Humbv.
' Atter which, the New Fairy Extravaganza, BEAUTY AND
THE BEAST.—Beauty, Madame Vestris : The Beast, Mr.
W. Harrison; John Quill, Mr. Harley ; Dressalinda, Miss Rain-
forth; Marygolda, Miss Grant; Queen of the Roses, Miss Lee.
Doors to to opened at half-past Six—the performances to
sommence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.;
First and Second uircles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.;
Second Price. 25.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the
Boxes to be taken o Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten
till Four, where Season Tickets nay be had upon application.
Private 801 t.% to be had solely of Mr. Andress, bookseller,
1-.7. New Bond-street.
To-morrow, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with The Critic.

to concede to Sir R. PEEL, they will not concede
to him the right, without forcing him to a division,
to postpone all inquiry into the effects of the
starvation laws, and all relief till next February.
Indeed, we may say that we are sure they will
not. There are some honest and bold hearts who
—not questioning thoseprerogatives of a Parlia-
ment, the wires which move the royal puppet
which Tories and Whigs alike work to their own
advantage, but making some direct motion--will
bring the House of Commons to a decision on the
question, in substance, whether the patience and
the obedience of the shivering, half-fed, and half-
clothed people, shall be put—while their suffer-
ings are unrelieved and uncared for—to the test
of the winter. If it be the first plan of Sir R.
PEEL'S Government to prorogue the Parliament,
and throw the people on their own resources,
while that Parliament, by its laws, cuts up their
resources by the root, we must hold him and his
colleagues up to the indignation of the living
generation, and the execration of posterity, as
the provokers of disobedience, disturbance, and
rebellion. If the power of the Executive Go-
vernment is to be employed in upholding such
laws—laws infiniteiy worse than no laws at all—
the very existence of such a coercive Govern-
ment will be itself anarchy, and wild anarchy
will be the result of its acts. The Tories will, no
doubt, wish to shuffle off the business, and pro-
rogue Parliament, that they may enjoy office
and salary undisturbed by the complaints of the
wretches whom they so inhumanly doom to star-
vation ; but we doubt if they will dare to hazard
the peace of the empire.

LOYAL SURREY THEATRE.

UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE

AND MR. WILLIS JONES.

Glorious and continued successoi"kazeppa." Upwards of
70,000 persoas have already witnessed the Grand Equestrian
Fetes at this elegant Establishment.
THIS EVENING, SEPT. 8.

Will be acted Lord Byron's Spectacle, called MAZEPPA ;
OR, fHE WILD HORSE OF THE DESERT; introducing
Ducrow's Magnificent Stud of Forty Horses, highlly-trained
Palfrey a, Fairy Peneys, Equestrian Troop, and Companies of
both Theatres.
After which, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, in the
Largest Arena in the World, in which Madame Ducrow, Sig-
nor Hillier, the Great American Rider, the British Horseman,
Signor Felix Carlo, arid the First Artistes in Europe will appear.
To conclude with, TURPIN'S RIDE TO YORK, intro-
ducing Mr. Ducrow's Hanoverian Black Charger, and the
entire Stud.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
M. mule 5) minutes after 5 1 Evening..... 23 minutes after f.

Prorogue now ! Why, it rains—it's unplea-
santly cold : the weather has a November feel,
and the harvest is not yet gathered in. Fields
of corn are yet unharvested, and even uncut in
the south, while in the north they are not yet
ripe. The supply which can be obtained from
abroad, if we ransack the whole world, will not,
as the Herald has informed the public, exceed
two millions of quarters of wheat. Week after
week the aspect of public affairs changes with
the weather. The fate of the people, and with
that the fate of the Government, hangs on a few
days' sunshine or rain. Making sport as it were
of knowledge, science, and all human discretion,
and reducing civilized society to the condition of
the savage, who from ignorance cannot provide
for to-morrow, Tory legislation has brought so-
ciety and the Government to a sorry dependence
on contingencies, against which human prudence,
if not interfered with by brutal legislative rapa-
city and legislative ignorance, can and would
provide. The QUEEN is dependent on Sir R.
PEEL; Sir R. PEEL is dependent on the consti-
tuencies; the constituencies are dependent on
the weather; and the weather, in spite of con-
stituencies, PEEL, and the QUEEN, positively for-
bids the prorogation of Parliament till it has
taken some steps to abate the sufferings of the
people. Parliament does not possess the power,
indeed, to undo the mischief it has done. It
cannot wipe out the effects of its own deeds. It
cannot raise crops on the sudden, though it has,
with fiendish malignity, forbidden them to be
raised. What it can do is to show sympathy
with the people, and abolish its restrictions on
'raising food, which will immediately encourage
persons to prepare for next year; and imme-
diately stimulate the capitalists to give employ-
ment to more labourers here, and enable them
to buy food, while it will point to the employ-
ment of as much land to the cultivation of that
species of food which will next year be the earli-
est ripe. It may be the wish and intention of
the new Prime Minister to prorogue Parliament
till after Christmas. We beg to tell him most
plainly, but most respectfully, that he must not,
without first doing something for commerce and
the people, unless he desires to provoke a wide-
spread sedition. If it come, on his head be the
guilt, and on his neck part of the punishment.

The following paragraph was carefully copied
into the Post yesterday morning :
THE FACTORY SYSTE3I.—It must be apparent to every
one residing in a manufacturing district, that. the indis-
criminate mixing of the sexes in our factories is a most
prolific source of demoralization and pauperism. In
almost every case of application of illegitimate children
that has come before the Magistrates here or at Hud-
dersfield the mother had been working in a factory, and
in order to that application it was necessary that she
should have received relief from the parish, thereby
making herself a pauper. It is high time that some
legislative "nactment was in force to put a check to this
growing and debasing evil.—Leeds Intilligencer.
Though the palpable explanation of the-circum-
stance of all illegitimate children being born of
mothers who work in factories, is probably to be
found in the fact that the majority of women
who work at all work in them, the factory
owners and those who consider the manufactu-
ring system, though perhaps not carried on ex-
actly to their theory on the present plan, as an
essential step in the progress of society, will ne-
vertheless see in this paragraph a specimen of
those systematic attacks on the factory system
which the allies of the landlords are now making.
The paragraph is not more rational than if we
were to say of any agricultural district—Almost
every case of application on account of illegiti-
' mate children that comes before the magistrates
•
of -- hundred, the mother has been working
in the fields, or has been a farmer's servant, and
therefore agriculture must be a prolific source of
' demoralization. If we were able to prove that in
proportion to population the illegitimate births,
and mothers seeking relief, are greater than
in the factory districts, we might well exclaim
it is high time that some Legislative enactment
was put in force to check this growing and de-
basing evil. But that would be as foolish a
mode of meeting the complaint as the complaint
is a foolish mode of retorting on the factory
owners. We shall not have recourse to such a
mode. We call the attention of factory owners•
to it in order to show them that all kinds of
ed to snake them and
means are now employ
their system odious io the public.
On Saturday the Times contained a long article,
being an account of the life of Wm. DODD, a
factory cripple, which was obviously intended
to nurture and prejudice against factories and
against the factory system. It is absurd, we are
well aware: to meet the demands of the manu-
factutag
capitalists for a free trade in corn by
pointing to the cruelties which may be practised
possibly in his establishment. It is no excuse
for the rent owners, that the factory owners are
unjust. Let them first pull the beans out of
their own eye, then they may possibly see
clearly to pluck the mote out of the eye
of the factory owner. At the same time
it is palpable that such statements will make an
impression on the community; and the factory
owner, if they wish their cause to prosper, must
be prepared to meet and repel them. If they
cannot repel them, at least they should be pre-
pared to show that the factory system has many
compensations for those cases of individua
cruelty. It sometimes cripples a youth, as what
employment does not ? It nourishes many thou-
sands or millions. The case of DODD, quoted by
the Times, might be easily paralleled in the agri-
cultural districts. Scores and even hundreds of
persons may be found there whose limbs have
been bent and crippled by exposure to the wea-
ther, by sleeping on the damp earth, or by rheu-
matism, caught by exposure to the atmosphere
in all seasons, and at all hours.

But the factory owners must do more than
that; they must show that their system is a ne-
cessity; that it is full of blessings, teeming with
freedom, improvements, and inventions ; and
that it only requires a little subsidiary care to
become as ornamental as it is useful. They have
unfortunately neglected the embellishments of
which it is susceptible. They must adorn their
workmen's houses to relieve them from the cha-
racter of stables or barracks.

A great deal is effected by appearances, and
the dingy look of our manufacturing towns,—
the rows of small unadorned houses, though
they may abound in comfort, give to sentimental
travellers a very unfavourable impression of our
manufacturing towns, and lead them readily to
believe that they are the abodes of all' that is

physically and morally abominable. and pesti-
lential. If the factory owners wish to have fitir
play, they must exert themselves to place their
system in its proper light before the public.
If they cannot effect that, and sentimental
horror continues to afford a pretext to the hu-
mane and charitable, but perhaps unthinking
portion of the community to support the unjust
Corn-laws, they are likely to suffer under them
for some time longer. This class affords a power-
ful support to the landlords, and to that nume-
rous class of labourers who see in the capi-
talists, as they invent and employ machi-
nery—without reflecting to how many per-
sons the new machinery gives employment—only
avaricious men, who, utterly regardless of the
labourers, deprive them of employment to en-
rich themselves. There is, on this account, no
inconsiderable degree of hatred between the capi-
talists and the labourers of the manufacturing
towns. It has been carefully nourished by poli-
tical demagogues, we admit, but as long as it
exists, and long as the sentimentalists can
discover nothing in these towns but barracks and
chimnies, they are not likely to obtain from the
Legislature that justice which is due to every
clads and every man in the community. They
constitute a comparatively new portion of
our society, and are regarded with repug-
nance by the older portions. They have
no adverse interest, but they have a differ-
ent appearance, which enables those who wish
to plunder alio to decry them and generate an
opinion that in resisting the repeal of the Corn-
laws they confer a favour on the labourer, and
only oppose the greedy desire for riches of the
factory owners. The subject is worthy, we think,
of their attention and we may, perhaps, recur
to it.

Some persons seem inclined to regard SIR
ROBERT PEEL'S Cabinet as composed of Liberal
in equal proportion with Orange or Starvation
politicians. Those persons, however, reckon Sir
JAMES GRAHAM, Lord STANLEY, and the Earl
of RIPON, amongst the Liberals, while the fact
is, that all these, being apostates and renegades,
will show their Tory zeal to be more Tory than
the Ultra-Tories themselves. Add to these the
Duke of BUCKINGHAM and Sir EDWARD
KNATCHBULL and the Cabinet appears
to us as unfavourable to all the princi-
ples of personal and commercial liberty as
could be framed. To give it a full measure of
Orangeism Colonel PERCIVAL is now a Lord of
the Treasury, and nothing is wanting but Lord
RODEN in the Household to make it as complete
an Orange Ministry as the PEEL Ministry of
1834-1835. We shall soon learn, however, as the
new writs will be moved for this day, by the ad-
dresses to the electors of Tamworth, Lancashire,
and Dorchester, what are the principles to be
espoused in common by Lord STANLEY, Sir Ro-
BERT PEEL and Sir E. KNATCHBULL. We look for
no details, but the principles on which this mix-
ture of Reformers and anti-Reformers have
agreed we shall expect to see. It has long been
the opinion of all sensible men that nothing is
to be got from any Ministry but by dragging it
from them, and therefore, whatever may be Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S opinions, the Reformers, to have
reform, must drag it from the clutches of the
Tories.

The Paris Journals of Sunday have all reached
us. The Journal des Debats devotes an article
to the accession of the Tories to office, in
which it states that Sir ROBERT PEEL is not only
the leader but the master of his party—that
in the Cabinet his will is as absolute as his majo-
rity in the House of Commons. Has the Debuts
read the significant speech of the Duke of
RICHMOND ? That champion of monopoly
boasts in the House of Lords that the agricultu-
rists have fastened a halter round the neck of
the Cabinet, and if it prove restive, the men
who gave it an existence will strangle it. The
old Tories are not the men to follow in the wake
of the leader, who, of all others, most deceived
them. The most interesting part of the article
in the Debats is the following sketch of the late
distinguished Premier:—
" The favour with which the Queen honours Lord
Melbourne gives offence to nobody, for it is well known
that political ambition does not disturb his mind. Gifted
with the most inoffensive character in Great Britain,
Lord Melbounie is generally liked by both parties, and
this will be still more the case when he shall be no longer
Minister. He is now sixty-three years of age, and the
native good nature of his mind is imprinted on his
face. The Queen has a strong affection for Lord Mel-
bourne, and his position at Court will not give umbrage
to any person. He will now have all the enjoy-
ments of the Court, without the responsibility of Govern-
ment; not, indeed, that he bore any considerable share
of it, for the Cabinet of Lord Melbourne might with
more propriety have been called that of Lord John Rus-
sell, who was its presiding genius. As to Lord Mel-
bourne, he had always an air of astonishment when
asked a question as Prime Minister in the House of
Lords, and invariably replied, I really don't know, but
I will inquire.' His last speech on the Address was
very characteristic. Everybody, except Lord Melbourne
knew beforehand that a motion of censnre was intended
in both Houses ; but Lord Melbourne rose, and in the
most serious manner in the world, confessed that the mo-
tion had come on him like a thunder-clap."
We stated some days ago that the French brig
La Victorieuse had been detained by the Spa-
nish authorities at Mahon. The Commerce in
alluding to it has the following remarks :
" The insult put upon our flag has created agreat sensa-
tion, the consequences of which it is impossible to fore-
see. France must act with energy. Negotiations are
useless. By fair or harsh means we must get back La
Victorieuse. Spain, perhaps, will not give in, and as
England has, for a long time, looked about for a pretext
to take possession of the Balearic islands, she, by her in-
terference, will, no doubt, aggravate the question, and
thus the matter may become a very serious one for
France."

In this way French journals write about sub-
jects of which they know nothing. Now, the fact
is, that La Victorieuse was not detained by the
Spanish authorities, nor was the shadow of an
insult offered to the French flag at Mahon or
elsewhere.

The Toulon Sentinelle de la Marine of the 2d
inst. contains the following :
" By a telegraphic despatch, which will shortly be
followed by another, explanatory of the same, six vessels,
names as follow, under the orders of Rear-Admiral Cary,
are to sail for Brest within a fortnight :
" Jena (Admiral's ship), Suffrein, Jupiter, Marengo,
Triton, and Scipion."
A letter from Barcelona, in the Sud de Marseilts, and
dated the 28th ult., says
" All the French men-of-war have received orders to
put out to sea, without any knowledge of their destina-
tion. The Commanders, are to open their despatches
only when they are at sea."
The reported determination of the United
States Government to increase the tariff on
foreign goods twenty per cent., has called forth
a remonstrance on the part of the French Envoy
at Washington, of which the following is the
conclusion :

" The Secretary of the Treasury, in his report of the
2d of June, proposed to Congress a duty of 20 per cent.
ad valorem upon all the articles mentioned in the 4th
section of the compromise of the 2d March, 1833.
" The 26th of August, 1810, the United States
concluded with Portugal a treaty, the third article
of which leaves no doubt that the advantages
granted to French wines by the United States, will
cease in the month of February next. This state of
things, so unfavourable to French trade, would
be so much aggravated by the adoption of the plan pro-
posed by the Secretary of the Treasury, that it would
become impossible for the French Government to with-
stand at once the complaints of its shipowners against
the treaty of navigation of 1822 ; of its wine merchants
against the consequences of the treaty with Portugal ;
and of its manufacturers against the duties imposed upon
their productions.
" The French Government would, I repeat with the
most sineerc regret, find itself under the absolute ne-
cessity of annulling the Convention of 1822, and alsa
the reduction of 50 per cent. on the cotton (called bag
staple), the produce of the United States, since the exe-
cution of the treaty of July, 1831.
" Whatever may be the price which France attaches to
the maintenance of a good understanding with the
United States, the French Government must withdraw
the concessions made in return for advantages in the
Union markets ; so soon as those advantages are not
only effaced by the projected changes in American legis-
lation, but also replaced by measures prejudicial to the
interests of French productions imported to the United
States."

The following extracts from the French Jour-
nals of Sunday include all the miscellaneous news
they publish of any general interest :
The projected expedition of the Porte against Tunis
attracts attention and inspires uneasiness. The France
having asserted that Lord Palmerston had delivered to
Mr.lwer. a sharp note protesting against any inter-
vention of the French Government in a dispute between
the Sultan and. his vassal, the Bey of Tunic, and de-
claring that if France took any part in the affair England
would espouse the Sultan's cause, the Courrier Francais
remarks, that. it was quite true that a serious ruisunder-

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