The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-25 00:00:00

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ILDRED VERNON.!
A TALE OF PARISIAN LIFE,
By HAMILTON MURRAY.

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No. IV. CHINESE LEGENDS. By G. H. Sealy.
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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
Manager, Mr. BUNN.
GENERAL REDUCTION OF PRICES.

The repeated representations that have been made to the manage-
ment respecting a reduction of prices, in order to meet the exigencies
of the times, h Lye led to its present adoption. In complying with so
general an expression of public feeling, it is only necessary to state
that precisely the same character of performance will be given, sup-
ported by the same artistes, and aided by all the gorgeous parapher-
nalia of the establishment, presenting a series of attractions on a
scale of admission suitable to all classes, without any precedent in so
splendid a Theatre.

SCALE OF ADMISSION.
Dress Circle in the Grand Tier Six Shillings.
First Circle
Upper Boxes. • • •• •• Four Shillings.
Pit ••• • • • •• • ••• • • • ••• • • Half-a-Crown.
Lower Gallery One Shilling and Sixpence.
Upper Gallery ........ ...... One Shilling.
Private Boxes, One and Two Guineas; Stalls, Seven Shillings.
Half-price at Nine o'clock.
Dress Circle, 3s. ; First Circle, 2s. 61. ; upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit
Is. 6d.; Lower Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery. 61.
Mdlle. Plunkett's Benefit,
• TIIIS EVENING,
The Entertainments will commence with a Grand Opera, entitled
HAYDEE I or, the Secret.
Loredano, Mr. Sims Reeves ; Malgenio, Mr. Whitworth ; An Irea
Donato, Mr. Herberte: klayitee, Miss Lucombe.
After which, the First Act of
THE PERI.

In which M,lllcs. Plan:tett, Celeste Stephan, Monc,elet, Cashnie,
Annie Payne, M. Petipa, &e., will appear.
To be followed by the Last Scene of
THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR.

Lucy Ashton, line,
Reeves. - -

Niss.en ; Edgar Ravenve-ood, Mr. Sims

To conclude with a Grand Ballet, entitled
LE 818 MASQUE:
Doors open at Half-past Six, performance to commence at Seven.
The Box-office is open from Ten till Five, n Hier the direction of
Mr. john Parsons.

THMATXF. itOTAL, HAYMARKET:
Mr. B. Webster, Sale Lessee ar:d Manager, Oil Brompion.
The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, daring
he recess, undergone very extensive repairs and alterations and the
whole re-decorated.

THIS EVENINTI.
Will be performed the Comedy of TWELFTH NIGHT. Viola,
Mrs. Charles Kean.
After which, TilE RANSOM. Pauline, Mrs. Charles Kean.
To conclude with HIS LAST LEGS. O'Callaghan, Mr. Pludson.

THEATRE. ROYAL, ADELPHI.
"ode: the dirceuon o; Madame t :eieete.
During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorateJ, the
o-iginal ,Acsigris by Dijby Wyttt, EM , executed by Mr. Sang. A
new Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sy:-
tsm of Ventilation, Lee., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs
added to the Seats, and Stalls rendered more comfortable.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed ST. MARY'S EVE. A Story of • the Solway.
Tom Baggs, Mr. Wright; Madeline, Madame Celeste.
To be followed by THE ENCHANTED ISLE. Alonzo, Mr. Paul
Bedrord ; Prospero, Mr. 0. Smith ; Ariel, Madame Celeste.
- After which a new Farce called SLASHER AND CRASHER.
Mr. Slather, Mr. Wright ; 31r. Crasher, Mr. Paul Bedford.
To couclade with THE DANCE OF THE SHIRT.

ROYAL LYCEUM TLIEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Vestria.
Sole Lessee, Mr. Chztrles Mathews.
YU'S EVENING,

Will be performed THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Cha-
racters by Messrs. Granby, F. Matthews, C. Mathews,.Cooper, Bel-
Ingham, Meadows, Selby, Hall, Binge, tionner, F. Coolce, Charles,
MI s Marshall, Madame Vestrs, Mrs. Yates, Miss K. Fitawilliam,
and Mrs. Maenamara.

To sonclude with a comic Drama, entitled ANYTHING FOR A
CHANGE. Characters by Messrs. Harley, C. Mathews, Homier;
Miss K. Fitzwilliam, and Miss Marshall.

Dress Boxes, 55.; Upper Boxes, 45.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. Ye
half-price to any part of the house.
tf.e. iiew Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the
public every play, from Ten till Six.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager.
During the Recess this Theatre has been re-decorated and embel-
.lshed in a superb and costly manner by Mr. Hurwitz. A new Chan-
delier has been fitted, and the best arrangements have been made for
the due Ventilation of the Theatre, and the comfort and convealence
of Ike audience.

bad been subsequently estranged, departed this
If ife—their son, the Hon. G. A. F. LAMB, dying
a fterwards on the 27th of November, 1836. In
I 828, on the 22d of July, his father, the first Lord
DirELnounNE, breathed his last breath ; and, conse-
quently in that same year the subject of our present

. observations, took his seat for the first time in the
-Upper House of Parliament. There it was that he
.00cupied a prominent post during the Grey Adminis-
ation, holding the seals of the Home Secretaryship
:Fr. Dm 1830, until the brief interval between the July and
tl e November of 1834, during which interval he exer-
cised the authority of the first Minister of the Crown.
On the conclusion of the equally brief Adminis-

t ration of Sir ROBERT PEEL, Viscount MELBOURNE
was again entrusted with the responsibilities attached
to the formation of a Government. And, unlike the
preceding Prime Ministers of the nineteenth cen-
ury, he continued to act as First Lord of the Trea-
tsury for a period of nearly seven years, from
.the
.April of 1835 to the September of 1841.
Bearing in recollection the whole of the Minis-
terial career of Lord MELBOURNE, both in the reign
f his late MAJESTY and in that of our present most
C Zracious SOVEREIGN, we are satisfied that his memory
v rill be preserved in history, and will be honoured by
,osterity chiefly from his having instilled into the
.eart of his young QUERN a respect for
I he constitutional rights of her subjects, a
sense of the responsibilities associated with her august
ank, and a genuine yearning for the happiness of
I .he great people over whom she had been called by
GOD and Destiny to preside. We say this with a per-
feet remembrance, end a full appreciation, of the prin-
t ipal measures of reform passed while Lord MEL-
SOURNE was Premier of England. We bear in mind the
i improvement effected in the Irish corporations, the step
made towards the introduction of an effective poor
law into the sister country, the Irish Compensation
Tithe Act, the adoption of the admirable system of
penny postage, and 'the union of the two
Canadas. And yet, remembering these excel
Ir mt - titles possessed by the late nobleman for
elebrity as a fleformer, we are satisfied that his

n ame will be inscribed on the pages of history, prin-
t: /pally, if not entirely, as that of the statesman who
i ❑strutted Queen V/CTORIA in the mysteries of

government. For thk his memory ;ill he long
(:cherished, when the remembrance of his blithe and
c onvivi4l disposition has been forgotten, when hi 3
it fifty sayings have lost their lustre, when the laxity
clhii domestic life has been hidden in obliiion, and
when none are left to tell of the once
handsome statesman who lounged for seven
y ears on the Treasury benches of the House of
'Peers, warding off the vituperations of his most

..Urious antagonists by his own unconquerable
amenity, and shielding himself with the negligent
feivacity of his replies from the odium that must

otherwise have fallen heavily and crushingly, in co;
seqaenee of his Ministerial procrastination.

-We must again urge upon the proprietors of ra

way stock the expediency, if not the imperative
necessity, of mutual co-operation, for the purpose or
protecting their property from the persevering and
systematic attacks made thereon. s-cme immediate
and decisive measures must be adopted, if they are
not disposed to yield themselves up an easy prey to
eheir assailants, to fall contented victims. The vic-
tory is within their power if they will only
struggle to attain it. Their assailants are
faerce and implacable, ready to take advan
gage of every circumstance that may arise,
to distort facts, and to turn to their own advantage
matters that should have led to very opposite results.
They will combine together for offensive purposes.
Why should not these who are endeavouring to pre-
rerve themselves and families from ruin act in a
similar manner ? They have ample power, if that
power were only concentrated and made available.
'The capital in which they are interested amounts to
more than 160,000,0001. sterling; the annual income
t hat will be derived therefrom may be estimated to pro-
duce at the very lowest calculation 10,000,000/. per an-
mum (it amounted to 8,366,0001. for the year ending
June, 30, 1847). Surely with such.gigantic resources
at their disposal, they should not relinquish the con-
test without a determined struggle. As we have
already impressed upon them, any isolated efforts
will prove utterly useless, but energetic and combined
action must command success.
"Pas est al, hoste doceri." An instructive
and valuable lesson may be learned from the pro-
ceedings of their opponents. How unceasing
have been their exertions. What weapon of at-
tack has been permitted to rust in its scabbard ?
The distress and suffering encountered by all classes
during the recent period of monetary derangement
has been unhesitatingly ascribed to the sums ex.
pended in the construction of the several railways.
The money (it is said) has been abstracted from other
branches of business. Commerce and manufacture
have pined from the amount so withdrawn—
and these most unwarranted imputations have
served as pretexts to call upon the Legislature to im-
pose new and most stringent restrictions upon their
undertakings, to interfere most unjustifiably with the
management of the works constructed with their own
capital, the fruits of their own enterprise. How
vigorous and unflinching have been the onslaughts
made from this quarter and on this subject, although
it was notorious that the money only changed hands,
that no portion thereof was sent out of the kingdom,
that greater activity was induced in every department
of trade by the expenditure, and that beneficial
employment was thereby provided for a quarter of a
million of persons, who were enabled to support
themselves and families in comfort and independence
in place of being burdens upon the national resources,
and dragging out a miserable existence in the various
workhouses.
Again, while one party was declaiming upon the
exorbitant profits, and calling upon the Legislature
to impose enormous taxes upon the companies,
another, with equal audacity, was declaring
that no real profit was derived that divi-
dends were provided out of capital, and that
when the capital accounts were closed, there would
not be sufficient to pay the working expenses, and
the several guarantees and liabilities in which the
companies were involved. 'vVe had publications
professing to show the " fallacy of railway invest-
ment," the necessity of at once and for ever aban-
doning so unprofitable a concern. Statements were
published of the accounts of the principal com•
panies in the Weekly Share List, a journal sanctioned
by the committee of the Stock Exchange, and
brought out under the superintendence of the secre-
tary of the railway department of the Stock Ex-
change. It is scarcely necessary to show how error
neous were the calculations and unwarranted the con-
clusions thus brought forward. The authentic docu-
ments that subsequently appeared so completely refuted
the assertions put forward, and exhibited results so
totally at variance with those submitted in the Share
List, that it would be a work of supererogation to
bring forward another syllable in reference thereto.
The only possible justification was that the several
boards of directors possessed information not within
the reach of the compilers of those statements, and
credit was
directors,
gravely sought for, on the ground that the
publications had elicited the authentic accounts from
the
but which would not otherwise have
thoroughly frightene
thatc the shareholders were
been given
2redit forsooth! After depre-
ciating railway pro pert
eper.cent. on an average,
thes compelled them
and bringing those whose necessities
interval.to the verge
claim
they have
door
from
to dispose of their shares in
of ruin, they claim credit for the
rendered. As well might a doctor es
a patient whom he had reduced to deinatashe'rss:ritittbhhye
person
cutting for an imaginary bullet, when
sufferer that he had at length discovered
never had been wounded ; or a
who
impeached the solvency of a bank, and
thus occasioned a run upon its resources,
claim the thanks of the partners, for having afforded
an opportunity of proving the soundness and stability
of their position, although at a heavy and most un-
necessary expenditure. The mischievous character of
the publication, however, became so apparent that the
committee (influenced by the bold remonstrance of
Mr. HUDSON) forbade a continuance of those state-
ments in their official journal. It: might:have been
supposed that sufficient evil had been thereby effected
—that no further effort would be made in that direc-
tion. But no. We are threatened with a repetition
of the nuisance in a new form, and it is announced
that the "dissection of railway accounts," hither to