The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-28 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

Signor MARIO most respectfully informs the Nobility, Patrons
to the Opera, his Friends, and the Public, that his BENEFIT
will take place on
THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 30,
When will he performed Donizetti's Opera Buffa, entitled,

DON GREGORIO; or, L'AJO NkILL 'IMBARAZZO.
Don Gregorio, Signor Lablache ; Count Giulio, Signor Fornasari ;
Enrica Signor Mario; Pippotto, Signor F. Lablache ; Glide, :lid
Caste.tran.
After which, the new and original D'..vertissement, by M. Pe ot,
the Music by Signor Fugni, entitled,

- LE JUGE3IENT. DE PARIS.
Introducing a new Gr +ld Pas, entitled " Le Pas des Deesses."
The principal parts IT Mad'. e. Taglioni, Madlle. Lucile Grahn,
Mdlle. Cerito, MM. Perrot and St. Leon, Mdlle. Louise Taglionl,
Dtdll s.
Casaan Demelisse, &c.
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To be followed by 13eIBM's admired Opera, compressed into One Act,

PIR AT A.

Imcigene, M2.dame Grist ; Ernesto, Signor Fornasari ; Gual-
- Signor YLario.
• With vario•as Entertainments in the BALLET department. In
which will appear Mdlles. Taglioni, L. Grahn, Cerito, L. Taglioni,
Petit Step'aan, Cassan, Denelisse ; MM. St. Leon and Perrot, &c.
AtNplirations for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the box
°Bloc, :Ipera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven, the Opera to corn-
trenee at half-past Seven o'clock.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
First Night in this Country of the celebrated Opera of LA JUIVE,
with the whole of the Music by Halevy.
In consequence of thc., very limited stay of the BRUSSELS
COMPANY, and owing to the great demand for places, the Free
List, except the poi lie, Press, must on this occasion be suspended.
JOHN PARSONS, Box Book-keeper.

:11E vrttE ROYAL. DRURY-LANE. -
T. 11E BRUSSELS OPERA COMPANY.
TO- ',ORR° EVENIrG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29,
Will br.. performed Ilalevy's Grand Opera, entitled LA JUIVE
Le Jul*, Elizar, M. Laborde ; Le Cardinal de Broguy, M. Zelger ;
Le 01)( Ad, M. Bonlo ; Ruggiero, 31. Barielle ; Rachel, Madame Julien ;
i'llUpests Euct,ysie, Mdlle. Charton.
'in FRIDAY. will be performed, Ilalevy's Comic Opera, " Les
Uousougtaires de la Reine."
Duo's open at Seven, performance to commence at half-past Seven.

T IFATLE :;()YA,t, -HA T.
TITIS EVENING

Will be perforraed Sheridan's Comedy of THE RIVALS. Sir An-
thony Absolute, Mr. Farrell ; Capt. Absolute, Mr. Holt; Acres, Mr.
Webster Lucius- O'Trigger, Mr. Hudson ; Fag, Mr. Brindal ;
Faulkiland, Mr. Stuart; David, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Malaprop,
Mrs. 01,,ver ; Lydia Languish, Miss Bennett; Lucy, Mrs. Humby.
A ite,r which, a New and Original Drama, calied BOROUGH .40-
i CS. Principal characters by Messrs. Webster, Tilbury, Buck-
at one ; Mrs. Glover, and Mrs. E. Yarnold.
T:le Band will perform the overtures, " L'Ambassadrice," and
"Edouard o Christina," the Quadrille, ." Je Veux Danser," the
"Dublin Walzer," and " Czarina Mazourk."

To conclude with the Comic Drama, entitled THE IRISH POST.
In which Messrs. Bland, Tilbury, Hudson, and Mrs. Humby, Ike.,
will appear.

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM-
-I:NDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY.

Triumphant success of another New Drama. " Above and Below"
will be performed every Evening until further notice.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed an original--. Prologue, entitled HOT
WE.XTHER. Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Willmott, A. Wigan,
F. "Mathews ; Miss Villars, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley.

Wo i e followed by a New Comic Drama, entitled ABOVE AND
tELOW. ABOVE :—M. Dorville, Mr. Diddear ; Armand, Mr. A.
IVlgan ; Sans Scld, Mr. Meadows ; Cecile, Miss Fairbrother.
BcLow:—Landre, Mr. F. Matthews; Poisson, Mr. Keeley; Leo-
nard. Mr. H. Butler ; Lolot, Miss Ellen Daly.
After which the Comic Drama, called THE DUSTMAN'S
BELLE, Characters by Messrs. Diddear, F. Vining, Meadows,
Keeley, Miss Villars, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with the new Farce, entitled LOAN OF
WIFtl. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Mathews. A. Wigan,
Mendows, Kridoch, and Ya.rnold ; Mrs. Woollidge and Miss floward.

THEAINE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed a New Drama, from the French, entitled THE
31YSTERIO1 S STRANGER. In which Madame Celeste, Messrs.
Wright, 0. Smith, Selby, Worrell, &c., will perform.
After which an entirely new and original Comic Sketch, called
ABRAHAM PARKER.. Abraham Parker, Mr. Wright.
To r;e followed by Mr. Buckstone's Comic Drama, ealed THE
3IA llt WITH THE MILKING PAIL. Diccon, Mr. Wright;
11111iy, Mrs. Fitzwilliam.

To conclude with the new and successful Farce, entitled THE
CORPORAL'S WEDDING ; or, A Kiss of the Bride. ➢lajor Griskin,
Mr. Selby; Nancy Cobb, ML-s E. Chaplin.

PRINCESS'S TITTIATRE, OXFORD-STIMET.
T-fris EVENING
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IViII be performed VagComic Drama, entitled USED UP. In
whic'l Mr. Char!ca Mathews will perform.
After which a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE SLEEP-
ING BEAL7fY IN THE WOOD. Lord Factotum, Mr. Charles
Mathews Princess Isabelle, Madame Vestris.
To corjclude with Sheridan's Drama of THE CRITIC ; or, A
Trage,dy Rehearsed. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews,
-113.0.er, Runner, Compton, Oxberry, Miss Emma Stanley, and Mrs.
Runner.

ASTLEY'C ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
Under the especial patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty the
Queen, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess
Royal. Tremendous overflows. The present productions nightly
hailed watt the most rapturous applause. Second Week of the
" l'hanom Horseman."

THIS EVENING
Will he performed the Grand Military Spectacle, called THE
INVASION; or, England's Victories of 1846. Intro-
ducing the wbole resources or the Theatrs, military Brass Banos, &c.
After which, Novel and Picture;que SCENES nt the HIPPO-
MOM E and Sports of the Cur:.teulum, by the British and Foreign
Professors. CLAyns in the. rena, Messrs. Wallet and Itochez.
The whole concluding 'Alth the successful Equestrian Drama of
the PIIA.NTOM
Box -ottice open tram eleven till Ova o'clock.—Doors open at six
and enmmence at sev-on o'clock.

- ROYAL ..'I.TRKE i" HE
Last Week o: Mr. Osbediston, Miss Vincent, and the Double Dra-
matic (14'amany of she Surrey and Victoria Theatres, and First
Appear Ante or 'Air. skeplierd.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF—MISS VINCENT.
Tills EVENING
be performed the PlAy of THE STRA.NGER. The Stranger,
Osbalsliston ; Steinfort, Mr. niggle ; Tobias, Mr. licslop ;
Brands. Mr. Johnson; Solomon, Mr. Neville ; Peter, Mr. Forman ;
Mrs. Haller, Miss Vincent.

After which, the Drama of SUSAN lIOPLEY. In which Miss
Vincent, Miss L. Pearce, Messrs. E. F. Saville, Forman, Dale, J.
Howard, Higg e, and Cripps will appear.

In the course of the Evening a CONCERT. Principal Vocalists,
Xiss Betts, Mtylame Clara Auseil, Messrs. Weiss, D. W. King,
Clement, White, &c. - - -
To conclude with THE RED ROVER. The Red Rover, Mr.
Hughes.

Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty.
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND
THURSDAY.
VIEW of NAPLES, ERUPTION of VESUVIUS, DESTRUC-
TION of HERCULANEUM and POMPEII, in the year 79. This
magnificent spectacle Is revived in an unprecedented scale of
grandeur, the picture being more than twice the size of the former,
and represents, as accurately as can possibly be done, the Great
Eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79, when the Destruction of Her-
culaneum and Pompeii took place: produced under the direction
at Mr. Denson.
A ricftly ornamented GOTHIC BRIDGE of STATUES has been
constructed, which will be brilliantly illuminated at Night.
The PROMENADE CONCERTS, conducted by Mr. Godfrey.
The Band consists of Fifty first-rate Performers, selected principally
?rem the Coldstream and her Majesty's private band.
in addition to the other attractions of the Gardens, will be exhi-
bited CALYPSO'S FAIRY GROTTO, approached by the llltunt-
natal Gothic Bridge, representing in the Interior Telemachus
relating his adventures to Calypso.
The PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS, by Mr. Southby, are on the
most complete and effective scale.
Preceding the Volcanic Dispidy, a novel exhibition will be intro-
duced, representing the Descent of Phrebus in the Chariot of the Sun.
Mons. Farinelli will descend from a Chinese Pagoda, seventy feet In
height, to the surface of the lake, where a Naiad's Car will rise to
recelye Lim, and bear him to his chrystal home.
The Glass Conservatory is splendidly ornamented with festoons
of lamps, enabling the visitors to view the matchless collection of
Carnivore by gas-light.
Feeding of the Carnivore at half-past five ; the Pelicans, &c., at
▪ Concert at half-past six ; and the Eruption at dusk.
On MONDAY, Aug. 10, will take place a GRAND NEAPOLITAN
..cARNIV-A.L and FETE VETE ; combining all the novelties of
the Season.

Admission, One Shilling.

THE WEATHER.—Sum OFFICE, Jim/. 28.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 51 ; Highest. 78 Noon, 76.

BAROMETER, 30.29. •
WIND S.W.; cloudy and

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TELLS DAY.
gorrnitz •• 42 Ednutes after 4. I Evening .. 0 IningteE! after 5.

immoderate length. Immediately afterwards the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER delivered his first
official harangue, redolent of statistics, and evidencing,
in its wholesale accumulation and accurate ar-
rangement of facts, the efficacy of a judicious
premeditation. Sir ROBERT PEEL subsequently
revealed his intentions with reference to the approach-
ing division upon finis comprehensive measure, and,
in doing so, justified the anticipations of his ad-
mirers, by plainly declaring his determination not
to embarrass the Prime Minister " by a vexatious
opposition." The nearer we approach to the settle-
ment of this great question, the more chimerical do
the arguments against the Ministerial policy
appear : the farther we advance upon the road
to a Parliamentary division, the less is
the progress of this Bill impeded by obstructiohs.
The protectionists, from the capricious character of
their antagonism, no longer have recourse to their
habitual scarecrow " the destruction of either native
or colonial industry!" They have, with considerable
ingenuity, conjured up a totally different phantom,
and one which they have foolishly expected to
scare away the followers of Lord JOHN RUS-
SELL, and to awe the commercial reformers
into submission. IThforturiately, hosiever, this same
phantom—a phantom illustrative of serfdom, and
manacles, and cruelty—has partaken somewhat of
the usual characteristics of phantoms ; it has enabled
the Legislature to walk right through it, as the
chieftain is described to have done through the ghost
in OSSIAN. Before the termination of this session it
will have " melted into thin air," and evaporated
even from the recollection of the multitude.

It is easy enough for the orator to deride with a
scornful intonation the terribiles visu forma of the
supposed famine consequent upon the disease in the
potatoes, and to enforce the necessity of affording en-
couragement to those who, to their avowed detriment
acceded to the abolition of slavery. It is very easy'
to influence the reason of a sensitive and reli-
gious people by eloquent definitions of true morality,
by vivid portraitures of the victims of a petty
tyranny, by supposititious stripes and imaginary scenes
of brutality. It is easy indeed to speak of the pro•
posed equalisation of the sugar duties in language so
opprobrious as to risk the degradation of the pathetic
to the burlesque—by representing the sugar basin
(possibly at the elbow of some unwitting Mr.
BustanE) as half filled with a little puddle
of blood. It is easy, as we have already
acknowledged, to do all this, and to terminate with a
peroration eulogistic of the joys of freedom. But,
while themselves assuming tones of such unnecessary
indignation, while it is manifest to every one else that
the suppression of slavery has about as much chance of
being realised by the rejection of slave•grown sugar
as Captain WARNER has of discharging his long
range into the moon, and thereby exploding that
celestial satellite, all the eloquence and pathos and
benevolence of the most eloquent, pathetic, and bene-
volent intellect goes for literally nothing. It is
pouring precious liquids into a cullender.
Much has already been written about this measure
of Lord Joust RUSSELL'S affording patrona„ e to the
slave trade, of rendering the hardships of those
already in captivity more intense and irksome,
and of reduplicating the number of such victims, by
inciting the slave-owning planters to import more
human cattle from the coast of Africa. If such were
really the necessary consequence of this measure, if
such even were the probable consequence of this
measure, the whole of this free and sympathising
nation would have revolted at its first proposition. The
people of England would long before this present
moment have arisen with indignation, and protested,
in a voice which .would have found an echo in the re-
cesses. of Africa .and on the shores of the Brazil,
against a proceeding so dastardly and criminal. If
there were any truth whatever in the assertions of
those who oppose this measure, as one likely to foster
and propagate the infernal system of the slave
trade, that enlightened House of Legislation, which only
a few years back inscribed upon its records a solemn
reprobation of that system, which enforced that re-
probation by a gratuity to those who might suffer
from the dismissal of their serfs—a gratuity of the
most magnificent character—and which, in addition
to all this, actually overstepped the restrictions of
international law, for the purpose of preventing the
increase of slavery among other nations—that august
House of Legislation would have spurned a measure
thus likely to annul all their glorious labour, suppos-
ing any one had been capable of concocting or of in-
troducing such a measure. Is it likely, indeed, that
for the sake of decreasing the grocer's bill by
a few pence, the people of this country
would destroy the trophy which they have
purchased with twenty millions of pounds sterling ?
Does it not stand to reason that they would rather
swallow unsweetened puddings and sugarless tea than
render any dish toothsome by the woes of entire
generations ? These protectionists examine the
sugar question under the magnifying influence
of their prejudices, and are, in consequence,
incapable of considering its relations with
themselves, the colonies, and with foreign slave-
owners. The attention of the Legislature is directed
solely upon the possible woes of the African race, but
not at all to the actual miseries of our native slaves.
Our legislators are implored to consider the advi-
sability of caring for the welfare of a few Hill Coolies,
who have as yet to be found out, persuaded
to immigrate, and then to be conveyed to
our colonial plantations. But not a syllable is
uttered in behalf of those thousands of our fellow-
countrymen (the Hill Coolies of Devonshire, as we
have already called them), who would be raised
from a deplorable state of destitution and inaction,
by finding additional customers for our manufactures,
and thus enabling them to obtain employment.
The Ministerial measure for the alteration of
the duties upon sugar would bring new customers to
our markets, the factors would require additional
hands to supply this additional demand, and these
native 11111 Coolies would obtain the requisite em-
ployment. ALEXANDER POPE, more than a century
ago, under the masquerading name of MAUTINUS
SCRIBLERUS, tether . profane problem-es_
" Whether an existent fly or a possible angel_
were of most importance in the eyes of Omnipotence?"
With greater reason, and after a different fashion, we
may put this companion problem—" Whether an ex-
istent English labourer or possible Hill Coolie had a
greater claim upon the sympathies and consideration
of our Legislature ?" The solution of that problem
will be in the division upon the sugar duties.

The coroner's inquest on the unfortunate soldier
WHITE, was resumed yesterday, and the pro-
ceedings were in the highest degree interesting, in-
volving the evidence of the medical men, as to the
cause of death, and the statements of Colonel
WHYTE and Dr. WARREN.
The statement of the soldier ELSWoETR was also
curious, illustrating in a forcible manner the quantity
of punishment in the regiment, and its

total inefficiency for the purpose for which
it is sanctioned. The witness admitted that
he had deserted twice—on one occasion, be-
cause he had been sentenced to be flogged. We do
not think a desertion under such circumstances could
excite much surprise : where is the man who, being
sentenced to death, if an opportunity for escaping
offered itself, would hesitate about availing himself
thereof? The instinct of self-preservation would
compel him to adopt such a course. The wit-
ness had been five years in the regiment, during
which period he had been flogged seven
times. He has not, however, been flogged since 1844,
and therefore the seven instances must have occurred

in about three years, or, on an average, once every
five months. Can such things be possible in this land
of liberty and freedom ? He also stated that many
men in the regiment had been tried for desertion,
and that many had deserted more frequently than he
had. We can easily credit the statement.
Few persons would willingly remain subjected
to such an iron rule, such stringent severity, as:that

to which the unfortunate soldiers of the 7th Hussars
have been exposed, with even non-commissioned
ofEcers, so jealous of their dignity as to demand
a punishment on a private for answering in a less
abject tens than appeared suited to their dignity,
and with a commander, who conceives one hundred
lashes an adequate punishment for a private who,
having only joined the regiment a few weeks
heft,' e, on being reprimanded and punished
for such an answer, inquires for his guidance in what
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