The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-09 00:00:00

THIS EVENING

W;tl e erforrned the popular Drama of THE STEED OF SY.
11ACITSE; or, Damon's Flight. Damon, Mr. J. Harwood; Pythias,
Mr. J. Dale Calanthe, Mrs. M. Brooks. Assisted by the nu-
m woos Com:sany, double Stud, &c.
After which, popular SCENES of the CIRCLE, and other Ne-
ve' th-s.
Mr. BATTY has much pleasure in announcing that he has formed
arrangements with several continental artistes :—Messrs. Joseph
Paul Cone, E..,rentz Wa!IT, Ito-aline Waif'. Polaski, Amidio Neuport,
and the popular vaulters, Messrs. Henderson and T. Lee, who will
ap.>ear during the winter season, which commences on Monday,
Octo ,er 12. it r the first time, with a variety of novel productions.
Likewise in active preparation, a new Equestrian Spectacle, of un-
equaliel effccts, performing in Paris with great success, arranged
dniproluced by Mr. W. Broadfoot.
ooa-oitice open from eleven till dire o'e:ock.—Doors open at six
end ~,inmence at seven o'clock.

ROYAL VICTOICA
THIS EVENiG

Will he performed a nec;grand, :ewmdary, romantic Drama, en-
tin,' THE SPECTRE SKIFF ; or, The Phantom of the Sea. Mabel
Allert" 'Allis Vincent ; Tahitha 'Tod, Miss L. Pearce ;-Dame Plain-
body, Mts. Cooke; Luke Alterton, Mr. Archer; Diedrich Jansein,
Mr. Searle ; Peter Piainbody, Mr. Forman ; Ben Bullock, Mr. C.
J. r ird.
After whi,h, a laughable Bnr'etta, entitled CHELSEA AND
GREEN'W ; or, Past Ten o'C!ock, and a Rainy Night. Ily
M.s.rs. Forman, Searle, Hig,gte, Howard, Raymond ; Mrs. Lee, Miss
ridding, Miss L. Pearce, &c.
Ter core ode with a I.owerful and Mealy Interesting Nautical
Drama, ent;tled IIiEAKERS AHEAD ; or, A Seaman's Leg.
Luke, Mr. C. J. Bird ; Allan, lir. Florrington (first appearance in
London) ; Capt. Oakum, Mr. Archer ; Black Graham, Mr. Searle ;
Burnaby, Mr. Forman ; Amy Graham, Miss Vincent.

hIL WEATIIER.—SuN OFFICE, OCTOBER 8.
THEnno3tETER, Lowest, 49; Highest. 63 ; Noon, 57
BAROMETER, 29 58 —WIND W.S. W., showery.

!I W N'l`l ,7,1 i. AT 1.0 N ltP•1 Tli I:4 DAY.
Morning .. 26 ininutei after 4. I Evening .. 47 minutes after 4.

virtually abandoned. One successful movement may
be made for the aggrandisement of an Orleans Prince,
but what may not be the compensation required for

that solitary advantage ?
It is impossible not to perceive that there is some-
thing contrary to international law in this marriage
of the Due DE MONTPENSIER. If the proceedings were
consonant with all the regulations of that invisible
but almost omnipotent code, why should the whole
scheme have been germinated in such profound
secresy ? Why should it never have been divulged
until the very moment of its realisation had
arrived ? And why, when so emphatically
protested against by a friendly Power, should
the ceremony be hastened forward with such
discourteous and blundering precipitation? The

,ypocrisy of the whole affair is miserably shallow, it
is manifest upon the very surface. But the upholders
of the arrangement fall back, in their dilemmas, upon
what they are facetiously pleased to call the satisfac-
tion of the Spanish population at the husband selected
for the INFANTA. The popularity of the Due DE
MONTRENSIER in the Peninsula is the theme of
lengthened observation in the newspapers sub-
servient to the French Government. His tri-
umphal reception by the multitudes in the
different Spanish towns is elaborately pour-
trayed by L'Epoque. With all submission,
however, to these authoritative informants, we pre-
sume to question the existence of this popularity and
the enthusiasm of these receptions. We cannot
conceive to ourselves the possibility of any
individual being the idol of the populace in
a country where the journals are seized
whenever the advisability of his selection as a partner
for the Princess is doubted in their columns, or when
an officer like General BRETON proclaims that all
similar sceptics will be shot in case they presumed
to divulge their scepticism. Nor do we
conceive it to be customary for a royal bride
groom to enter the country of his betrothed
escorted by ten squadrons of cavalry, or for
such a kingly suitor to be conducted thither in a car-
riage followed by two pieces of artillery ! The
golden apples blooming in the garden of the Hespe-
rides were not guarded with more ugly and formid-
able sentinels.
Much, however, as we may deprecate the lust of
dignity and power which has conducted matters to
their present unfortunate position, it is obvious
that neither regrets nor recriminations can now pre-
vent this selfish and ominous marriage. The conse-
quences, therefore, are the only matters for our consi-
deration, and we tremble lest those consequences may
be more calamitous to humanity than even an imme-
diate and bloody warfare. It. is an alliance like the
present that entails such a countless succession of
miseries upon an empire; it is through such an inju-
dicious compact that generations of woe are entailed
upon a people, that years have witnessed only fresh
renewals of a struggle for nationality, that provinces
have been depopulated because of a mistaken pageant
within the precincts of a palace. It was for the pre-
vention of such calamities that the treaty of
Utrecht was signed; and it is by disregarding
the express stipulations of that treaty that so
much injury has been already effected and so
much more rendered possible. Mistrust has already
been thereby introduced between friendly Cabinets ;
the entente cordiale, which it had required so much
ingenuity to patch together, has been thereby cast
into a state of premature dilapidation ; the compli-
cated affairs of the Peninsula have been thereby
again entangled just as their internal arrangement
had become tolerably organized; and the amicable
interviews at the Chateaud'Eu have been thereby most
effectually counteracted. Time will evince the fallacy
of those reasonings which have conducted affairs to
their present lamentable confusion ; but with the
flight of that Time the Peninsula may be again
wrung with moral convulsions, and saturatel with
Spanish blood.

We on Tuesday published a document of considerable 1
importance, which has recently been issued from the
Commissariat Relief Office, Dublin Castle. It
furnishes instructions for the formation and guidance
of co ,s mittees for the relief of distress in Ireland con-
sequent upon the failure of the potato crop in this
present year, and contains many valuable and some
objectionable regulations, which should, we conceive,
be modified, or altered, to make the bodies thereby
constituted in the highest degree efficient for the
purposes for which they are called into existence.

To the lieutenant of the county is delegated the
duty of dividing every barony for which extraordima7
sessions have been convened into convenient districts
for the action of relief committees. Every such dis-
trict must consist of at least two parishes, and its
exact limits be accurately defined ; for these districts
the lieutenant is to constitute relief committees,
or to re•assenible committees that hare hitherto
administered relief funds, and to appoint a chairman
and secretary. The committees are to consist exclu-
sively of certain functionaries and public officers
thereby indicated. We think the constitution of the
bodies of a most injurious .character. Experierce
has ever shown that the affairs of any locality can be

managed in the most beneficial manner by persons
resident in, and intimately acquainted with all its
wants, and who possess the confidence and esteem of
ih‘ people in general. In a vast number of the dis-
tricts to be formed there may be found many gentle-
men possessing all the qualifications necessary for the
meritorious discharge of the duties. Such persons
are excluded from being members of, or from taking
any part whatsoever in the proceedings of the several
committees. The only persons who are to be selected
for the situation are magistrates, who are to be
deputed from each branch of petty sessions in the
barony, half barony, or lesser division, for which the
presentment sessions have been held, not exceeding
two from each bench. Every other member is ap-
pointed by reason of his holding some peculiar
situation; they consist of the following, viz. :—the
lieutenant or vice-lieutenant of the county, the
resident magistrate in the barony division for which
the session has been held, the principal clergyman of
each church (Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Pres-
byterian) officiating in each parish of the district, the
chairman of the poor-law union, the principal con-
stabulary officer in the barony, the principal coast-
guard officer (where available), the officers acting
under the Commissary-General, and the principal
officer in the barony acting under the Board of
Works. Now we do not object to any of the persons
thus indicated ; on the contrary, we think that each
and every of them, more particularly the clergymen
of the different religions, should, ex officio, be entitled
to seats at the boards; but our objection is to the
limitation to such persons, and the declaration that
they only shall be placed on the committee. The
most active and useful members of the former com-
mittees (who shall be re-assembled) will be excluded
from the future meetings thereof. Again, under the
new rule, such committees can only be constituted in
baronies where extraordinary sessions are to be as-
sembled : this appears erroneous. In many baronies,
where there are wealthy landowners, such an amount
of work may be provided as to render it unnecessary
to present for public works, and yet a relief committee
may be very useful in seeing that all the destitute
labourers are provided with work, and that food at a
moderate price is placed within their reach ; great
suffering may be endured in such neighbourhoods,
which would totally be avoided if relief committees
were in existence therein. We, therefore, submit
that the lieutenant of the county should, in every
case where he thought it advisable, be empowered to
constitute such a committee, and to appoint a field for
their labours, whether an extraordinary session for the
barony in which it is situated had been held, or con-
vened, or otherwise ; and that he should also be em-
powered to nominate such fit and proper persons resi-
dent in the several districts to co-operate with those
mentioned in the instructions, or such Tersons might,
perhaps, with still better effect be elected by the rate-
payers of the district for which they are to be ap-
pointed. Such 'an addition would have the effect of
gaining the confidence of the people to be employed,
and would secure the presence of persons who would
be intimately acquainted with the claims of those
seeking work at the hands of the corn-
mittee, and enabled
,to adjudicate properly thereon.
The remaining regulations apply chiefly to the manner
in which the proceedings of the committee are to be
carried on. Some do not require much comment.
One of the rules is, that the suggestions of individual
members are to be offered only at meetings of the

committees, so that all communications shall be made
only by the chairman or secretary.
The most important of the duties of the com-
mittee appears to be the selection of fit and proper
objects, to whom work is to be given. They are di-
rected, where public works of relief are to be exe-
cuted, to supply to the officers of the Board of
Works appointed to conduct them lists of per-
sons requiring relief by employment, made
up from registries of applicants for relief, in
the following order, and not containing a greater
number of persons than the officers of works shall
propose to employ from each relief division of the
barony, having regard to the extent of the labouring
population requiring relief in such division :-
Ist. Persons destitute of support, who have the
largest families depending on them.
2d. Persons with smaller families wholly de-
pendent on them.
3d. All other persons requiring employment on
public works, for whose support it is absolutely
necessary.
Such a list we consider to be quite essential to
enable the officers to select the persons whom it is
most desirable to employ ; but why should it be
limited in its numbers ? The qualification necessary
for a place therein is that of destitution, of a total
inability to provide sufficient support for themselves,
or those dependent on them, without the assistance to
be afforded by the public works, and it will be hard
to tell the starving labourer that the list is already
full, and that therefore there is no place or hope for
him, and thus to drive him to desperation, perhaps to
crime. Every man in absolute want should be entitled
to work, and that work should be provided in some
way or other. These lists are from time to time to
be revised by the committees, at their discretion.
The committees are not to interfere in the execu-
tion of the works, but they may draw the attention
of the Board of Works to any occurrences in relation
thereto, which, in their opinion, are deserving of con-
sideration. They are not to carry on works of relief
of the description indicated in the 9th and 10th Vic.
c. 107 ; these are to be submitted to the baronial ses-
sions, and if sanctioned, must be carried on by the
Board of Works only. Where the committees are
compelled to provide employment from funds at their
own disposal, it is to be limited to small works of
local utility ; they are not to give higher wages or
exact less labour than is given on the works carried
on under the superintendence of the Board of Works ;
the works are to be only to the extent to which pri-
vate employment is proved not to be available.
The funds at the disposal of the committees are to
consist of the balance remaining from the former
period, which closed on the 15th August last, sub-
scriptions for the present period and any other con-
tributions obtained, and the Lord-Lieutenant's dona-
tion, which may amount to one-half the amount sub-
scribed, but which will vary according to the circum-
stances and the degree of distress to be relieved.
This fund is only to be applied to the following

purposes :-
Ist. Providing supplies of Indian corn or Indian
corn-meal, or other food for sale.
2d. Affording relief by employment if necessary.
3d. Defraying the contingent expenses of the com-
mittee, including remuneration for the services of the
secretary or clerk.
The above are the chief points contained in the in-
structions. We shall probably point out some addi-
tional regulations, which we think might with advan•
tage be adopted, and which would render such com-
mittees really valuable.

Accounts from Russia state that one of the sons of
SCHAMYL, who has been for some years a prisoner at
St. Petersburg, has effected his escape. It appears that
when only eight years of age he was taken prisoner
by the Russians. The Emperor had him brilliantly
educated at the Military School, where he was consi-
dered one of the best pupils. Ile never spoke of his
father, and appeared to have forgotten his birthplace.
His comrades and professors were ignorant of his
origin, and he was known by a name different from
his own. He left the Military School last July, and
was sent as lieutenant to the regiment of Finland.
A month back he suddenly disappeared, leaving a
letter for his colonel, in which he informed him of his
birth, and declared that, though young, he bad never
forgotten his native country, ar.d that he was going
to join his father and brothers This news caused a
great sensation. The young SCILA MYI., who is eighteen
years of age, was much beloved by his fellow pupils,
who at present cannot help admiring the patience and
courage with which he endured his lot for so long a
time. Eis supposed that he had succeeded in reach-
ing Sweden. A family of rich Finland peasants have
been arrested on suspicion of having favoured his
escape.

The Jews in the Canton of Berne have been re-
lieved by the Grand Council from the restrictions
imposed upon them by the decree of 1820, which
compelled them to take out an annual license to trade
—to submit all advances made on pledges to'the
police—and which forbade them keeping their ac-
counts in the Hebrew language, or in any language
written in the Hebrew character.

Oral proceedings commenced in the criminal
courts of Berlin on the sth October. The trial of
the persons implicated in the late Polish insurrection,
is fixed for the 15th. The greater number of them
have already arrived at Berlin.
A letter from Warsaw, of Sept. 25, says—
" The Government displays an extraordinary severity
towards the inhabitants of our capital. All the clubs
and circles are closed. Passports for foreign countries
are delivered only to persons well known to the autho-
rities, and not unless they furnish a considerable amount
of caution-money. All letters are examined on their
arrival and departure, and then resealed with the police
seal. As soon as three persons are seen speaking toge •
titer in the street, the police agents disperse them. All
men wearing an imperial on the chin are noted by the
police, aed considered as revolutionary. Every anniver-
sary of the birthday of a member of the Imperial Family
has been declared a fete-day, and the Government re-
quires that on these occasions all the houses in Warsaw
shall be illuminated from dusk to midnight. Such per-
sons as do not light up their houses, or do so incom-
pletely, are to be tined and imprisoned, and looked on
as suspected. Lately, on one of those days, some bits of
wood were cut in front of a house situated at the ex-
tremity of the town. A police agent entered and asked
for the owner of the house, and, as he was absent, ar-
rested the man's wife, and had her detained in prison
for a month for having profaned the fete of a member of
the Emperor's family."

According to the Frankfort Journal, the Duke of
SAXE COBURG, in the five months from January 1 to
May 31, distributed to seven hundred of his peasantry
in Hungary, who were suffering from the deficiency
of the last year's harvest, a pound of meat and two
pounds of bread each per day, and gave employment
for all who were able to work—thus expending,
during this period, 28,000 forms in food, and 144,000
florins in labour.

Lisbon papers of the 26th ult. have been received.
The Diario announces from Braga, under the date of
September 21, that Father CASIMIR°, the Miguelite
Chief, had made his submission to the Government;
and that the insurrection having been completely
suppressed, the troops had returned to their canton-
ments.
AMP
Madrid papers of the Ist have arrived.

The Heraldo gives a long account of the cere-
monial to be observed on the occasion of the royal
marriages, which are to be solemnized on the 10th of
October, at the Atocha Church.
The editors of the Espectador, who have been pro-
secuted by the Government for their remarks on the
➢lontpensier marriage, have been tried and acquitted.

Senor ZEA BERMUDEZ, the late Minister of' FEB.
DINAND VII., and the patron of the cause of " en-
lightened despotism," is at present in Madrid, and is
one of Queen CHRISTINA'S confidential advisers.

It was reported on the Balsa that the Count of
MONTEMOLIN had landed near Almeira. ,
The Cadiz Comercio has the subjoined information
from Madrid :—" Louis PHILIPPE gives his son and
daughter-in-law board and lodging, servants, and all
they may want in the way of daily living, and more-
over, 2,000 piastres a month. The INFAN TA'S marriage
portion will be 56,000,000 reals de Veillon ; 38,000,000
in cash, and the remainder in diamonds and jewels.
At his death, Louis PuiLirrE will leave his son an
annual income of 3,000,000."

MADRID BOLSA, Our. I.—Three per Cents. 3414 money
Four per Cents., 211/2 ' • Five per Cents., 22 money; Deb
without Interest, 634 ; Coupons, 201/2.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.
Monday was the birthday of Kin glLours PHILIPPE,
who on that day completed his 73d year. The lum,

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