The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-16 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS
THIS EVENING, DEC. 16,

Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollis, Mr.
W. Harrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White, Oroveso, Mr.
Leffler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Grant ;
and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble.
After which, CHARLES THE TWELFTH.—CharIes
the Twelfth, Mr. W. Farren ; Adam Brock, Mr. Bartley ;
Eudiga, Madame Vestris.

Door; to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.;
First and Second Circle:. ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.;
Second Price. 21.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the
Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten
till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application.
Private Boxes to be bad so!ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller,
In 7. New Bond-street.

The contest at Oxford is of importance as a
sign of the times. Men's opinions in religion are
no more settled than in politics. The Puseyite
scheme has sprung, like Chartism, from an in-
stinctive conviction that the present system does
not answer its intended purpose. Protestantism has
given birth to Dissent, and has not secured mo-
rality; the Catholic Church in unity is here at
an end, and the people are not faithful to their
pastors, so the Puseyites dig down to some old
foundations in order to rebuild the Catholic
Church in unity. Our political system has,
in like manner, given birth to much distress;

To-morrow, the New Comedy, entitled Court and City, with
United Service, and Wooden Leg.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE

AND MR. WILLIS JONES.
Brilliant success of Shakspere's Tragedies, powerfully cast—
Mr. GI sham, Mr. Phelps, Mr. Hughes, and the whole ta-
lent of the Company.
THIS EVENING, DEC. 16,
Will be acted Shakspere'; Tragedy of JULIUS CiESAR.—
Marcus Brutus, Mr. Graham ; Cams Cassius, Mr. Phelps ;
Marc Anthon, Zit H. Hughes ; Portia, Mrs. H. Vining.
To conclude with the successful French Drama of rivetting
situations and intense interest, THE TWO LOCKSMITHS,
OR POVERTY AND CRlME.—Characters by Messrs.
Hughes, Hicks, Smth, Neville, Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, &c.

has failed in it;object, so far as the working.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON.
Concentration of talent for this Night only.—Mr. Osbaldiston
and Mr. E. F. Saville in " William Tell," and Miss Vin-
cent in " Nature and Art."
THIS EVENING, DEC. 16,
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE MASONS,
Will be acted WILLIAM TELL.— William Tell, Mr. Os-
baldiston ; Michael, Mr. E. F. Saville ; . Gesler, Mr. Dale ;
Brawn, Mr. Gardner • Albert, Mrs. Howard; Emma, Mrs. Lee.
After which, NATURE AND ART.—Gabbleteu, Mr.
Gardner; Eliza Proscenia Ardent, Miss Vincent.

classes are concerned, of securing their property
and promoting their prosperity, and like the Pu-
seyites, they go down to old foundations, in order
to reconstruct society. Puseyism in the Church,
Chartism in the State, are both symptoms of the
same disease—namely, a felt and general convic-
tion that the present system is inefficacious and
untenable.
ft is quite clear from the mass of Dissent, and
the growth of infidelity in the country, that the
Church no longer supplies, if ever it did supply,
that resting place for man's faith, and that guide
to man's hope, which the mind requires, and ever
seeks till it is obtained. It is equally clear from
the mass of political discontent, and the perpe-
tual fault-finding in detail of most of our laws
and institutions, even by Tory writers, that our
political system no longer commands the confi-
dence of the nation, or gives the people that
sense of security which is essential to po-
litical repose and peaceful industry. Which-
ever way the election at Oxford may be de-
cided, and whichever party may momentarily
triumph in the State, this great discrepancy be-
tween the public mind and the Church, and the
pnblic mind and the State, will not be removed
nor lessened. Till they be adjusted, however—.
which we will be bold to say will require much
time, and will not he accomplished by the Tory
method of bringing the public mind into ac-
cordance with Church formulas, and diverg-
ing, warped, and shattered institutions, but by
rectifying them in accordance with the progress
of knowledge—till the Church and the State are
made to answer the great objects of supplying a
resting place for faith, and giving a sense of se-
curity, the agitation in Church and State, whether
it assume the form of Puseyism and Chartism,
or any other forms, will not come to an end.
Those Tory Journals, such as the Morning
Post and the Times, which support Puseyism
in the Church, seem to us somewhat in-
consistent in reprobating Chartism in the
State. Both are the offspring of the same
principle, and both are equally disturbers
of established institutions. It is of no use for Mr.
PALMER and the Post to protest that the Tracta-
rians are only going back to the strict letter of

To conclude- with

The TWO LONDON LOCKSMITHS; or, the BANKER,
the THIEF, and the WlLL.—George Davis, Mr. E. F. Sa-
ville ; Murray, Mr. Dale; Burl, Mr. Seaman , Torn Lively,
Mr. Gardner ; Barny Cly, Mr. Paul ; Emily, Mrs. Lee.
To-morrow, The Locksmiths, with The Wonder, and Black
Eyed Susan.

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LONDON:
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1841.

In another part of our Paper will be found an
abridged report of the proceedings at Leeds of
the Conference of the manufacturers of the West
Riding of Yorkshire, which supplies additional
evidence of the distress of the people, and of the
decay of manufactures. We must, however,
own that we are not disposed to dwell much on
such circumstances as reasons for repealing the
Corn-laws, independently of the facts, that many
circumstances may make particular branches of
traffic decay besides an extravagant price for
bread, such as changes in fashion, which have
heretofore annihilated the buckle manufacture ;
and that the bulk of the labouring classes in
the majority of cases have generally been on the
verge of destitution, we begin to be very much
afraid, from the conduct of the landowners, as in
Berwickshire, and from the doctrines put forth
by their organs, such as that the half of our towns
might be destroyed, that they wish to check the
growth of manufactures, and keep down the
democracy, and that consequently every instance
of decay and distress is a proof of the efficacy of
their system, and rather an encouragement to
continue, than an inducement to abandon it. This
is a hard suspicion, which we do not embody in
this serious statement without due consideration,
nor without beint, prepared to state some reasons
f'or our belief. At the same time, as the. Govern-
ment of the country is now completely in the
hands of the landowners, it bodes, if at all well-
founded, the most dismal futurity for the manu-
facturers, for the democracy, and for the whole
society.

the Rubric and the old ways of the primitive
Church, for they disturb the present order of
things in the Church, which has settled down to
a foundation very different from the Rubric and
the primitive Church. They are the authors of
schism, though they assert for themselves that
they are true members of the Catholic Church.
Their Church is avowedly not the Protestant
Church of England; they assert it is not the Papal
Church of Rome, but a Catholic or Universal
Church, buried under the pompous Church of
England and the meagre tabernacles of Dis-
sent, which they have exclusively found in
digging down to the foundations. In truth,
then, the Catholic Church of the Pusey-
ites is a Church of their own discovery
and creation, such as other people say never be-
fore existed, and which is as little likely to answer
the purposes of the Church as the Papal usurpa-
tion and its Anglican offspring. As yet its uni-
versality embraces only some hundred or two of
crotchetty, fidgetty, ambitious priests; and till
they obtain for it the assent of the majority of
the clergy and laity, however much they may
be delighted with their own faith, they must
suffer under the charge and the penalties of
being schismatics.

Like the Puseyites, the Chartists protest that
they are only going back to the strict letter of
the Constitution and the old ways of their Saxon
ancestors. They are, nevertheless, held to be
disturbers, even by the Post. And the same
Journal which protects the Puseyite schismatics
as great religious teachers, would hang the Char-
tists for seeking to restore our ancient political
system.

We quoted yesterday a clear and decisive proof
from the Berwick Advertiser of a determination
to keep manufactures out of that county. For
months past the Tory press has poured forth
diatribes against the manufacturing
system.
Landlords and aristocrats who never felt for the
cause of the people or of liberty till they could
attack through them the wealthy millowners
of whom the landed aristocracy are notoriously
envious—have eagerly pressed forward to expose
the evils of the factory system. The gross im-
morality and vice of our manufacting towns have
been favourite topics of declamation, both for the
landlords in Parliament and the clergy in the
pulpit, and both have sounded the praises of
rural life as replete with virtue. It is quite im.
possible, from the nature of the human mind, that
the landlords, and clergy who influence the land-
lords, should entertain such opinions without en-
deavouring to give effect to them by actions, and
prevent to the utmost of their power the increase
of those manufactures which they declare to be
pregnant with vice and misery.

The Chartists, like the Puseyites, assert for
themselves, that they have discovered the true

political system, but being as yet in a minority
their leaders are treated, like Messrs. NEWMAN

and PUSEY, as ambitious adventurers, intent on
gratifying their own personal ambition, not on
making the people free and happy. When
Chartism becomes the creed of the majority, it
will be our political system, but till then the
Chartists, like the Puseyites, will suffer under
the charge of being political disturbers.
That Puseyism will heal the disorders in the
Church, and Chartism rectify the disorders in
the State, is no faith of ours. Neither Dr.
PUSEY nor Mr. F. O'Corioß appears to us to
be the religious or political LUTHER whose
advent is now expected by many persons. That
we need reformers both in Church and State is
undoubtedly true, but they must proceed on
the great principle of BACON and LOCKE, that
the material world, to which we refer every
thought as a test of truth, always corrects, and
must ultimately model the mind after itself, not
on the principle that the mind can be modelled
by some cunning political contrivance,Wohricbhy
the
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imperfect knowledge
Puseyites anci
tesinay extract from the Fathers.

The same train of argument applies to the de-
mocracy. The Tory and landlord Journals in-
variably treat the bulk of the people with su-
preme contempt. They are incorrigible scoun-
drels; " canaille," "the swinish multitude ;"
not worthy to be trusted with their own affairs;
a " rabble democracy." For them sharp and
stringent laws are made, which never reach the
aristocracy. The New Poor-law was enacted, as
Tinles, Standard, and Herald will testify, on
purpose to beat down their wages, and degrade
their condition. They are first turned out to
starve, and then imprisoned as vagrants. The
whole stream of the policy and legislation of the
landlords, runs to drown the democracy who con-
stitute the working classes. To attain this end they
have plunged the country in war, and have never
hesitated to decree the most unjust enactments.
Of late years the democracy has made great
progress, and when the Reform Act was passed,
it gave the aristocracy a fright which has never
been forgotten nor forgiven. Now, the aristo-
cracy exult in their power to punish the demo-
cracy for their presumption ; and every tale of

The practice so generally adopted by the pre-
sent Government of making fresh batches of Tory
Magistrates to swamp those appointed by the
Whigs, has naturally excited great dissatisfac-
tion in many Boroughs. Several Corpora-
tions have protested against it, and others
have convened meetings of the inhabitants for
the purpose of devising some plan to abate the
evils arising out of the appointment of political
Justices. A large meeting (to which we adverted
yesterday) was held at Devonport last week on
the subject, and as it is one of great importance
at the present moment, we have given
as full a report of the proceedings as space
would admit. The plan of Mr. LITTLE for ap-
pointing
Stipendiary Magistrates we fear will
not succeed. The expense is one objection—an-

HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of distress, every in-ifilice of decay, is music to
AUSTRIA, their ears. •
His MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA,
His MAJESTY the KING of PRUSSIA, In former cases of national distress, some at-
having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIF- tempts were made to relieve it. Loans were
TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though
granted or Exchequer bills issued, and at least
they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain-
'ng LARGE FORTUNES, inquiries were immediately instituted ; but
HEINE BROTHERS. at HAMBURGH and at on the present occasion all relief has been denied,
LUB,
Are now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS fdi• the said DIS- all inquiry postponed, and the decay and suffer-
fltlßUrioNs. . ings of the manufacturing classes have been
Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions
,asay rel.eive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO-
rather mocked at than otherwise by the journals
SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to of the landlords. They have been told the em-
HEINE BROTHERS. pire could do without them, which is tantamount
The NEXT AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION contains DI-
VIDENDS of to saying "Go and perish." The evidence of
R 25,000 £6OO £llO £7O their distress has been denied. Proofs of un-
-5,009
240000 190 5000 60 timely deaths have been disregarded. The meet.. 1
1,500
1,000 150 ao Sterling. ing of Parliament hasleen unnecessarily put off
800 120 as long as possible. Everything which could
HEINE BROTHERS havinc, remitted during a short time
tend to succour the distressed artisans and give
25,0001., 18,0001., 9,0001, 5,0001., 3,600/., &c. &c. &c., to
London ; 3,600/., 800/., and 7001., to Edinburgh ; 3,6001. to hope to the master- manufacturers, has been dc-
Dubin ; 3,6001. to Beverley; 3,600/. to Halifax ( Yorkshire); c
',erred, in order to consolidate the power of the
1,200/. to Portleaven Harbour ; 900/., 700/. and 600/. to Li-
verpool ; 900/. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne • 900/. to Hull ; Tory aristocracy.
9001. and 600/. to Manchester ; 700/. to East Retford (Not- Finally they are preparing to transport the
tinghamshire); 600/. to Bideford ; 600/. to Cork ; 6001. to
Bradford ; they shall feel glad to remit many Dividends of People, whom they cannot subdue, and will not
the next Distribution to England, Ireland, and Scotland.. allow to live in the land of their fathers. They
Direct for Prospectus and Particulars, eithout delay, either
t• HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, mean, it has been pithily said, "to commute into
or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. transportation for life, the sentence of death
which their restrictive legislation has passed on
the operative classes." In these and similar cir-
cumstances we see conclusive evidence of the
determination of the aristocracy to retain their
own superiority at all hazards. As that is in-
compatible with the growth of the democracy,
and the increase of manufactures, it seems useless
or even absurd to press on the aristocracy the
evidence of the distress of the democracy, and
the decay of manufactures, as reasons for altering
their conduct.

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