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London, England, 1841-10-12 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE
AND MR. WILLIS JONES.
Crowded Houses. " Blenheim " a greater hit than the "Bat-
tle of Waterloo." Splendid New Scenes in the Cirele, and,
by desire, the Poney Races One Week more.
THIS EVENING. OCT. 12

Will be presented the successful Equestrian Spectacle, called
THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM ; OR, I'HE HORSE

OF THE DISINHERITED; introducing Mr. Duerow'smag-
eifieent Stad of Forty Horses, highlly-trained Palfreys, Fairy
Poneyt, Equestrian Troop, and Companies of both Theatres;
•ailraeing all the Military Exploits of the Great Duke of
Marlborough, Grand Reviews, Battles, and Glorious Victories.
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 Carle, and the First Artistes in Eut.pe will appear.
T• conclude with THE SEVEN CLERKS.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
'JNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON.
Continued success of " Susan Hopioy !" Revival of 66 The
Black Domino," and of " Madelins-!" and third week of
" The Flying Dutchman," with ( kilde's Phantasmagorical
Representation of the Spectral Ship in full sail.
THIS EVENING, OCT. 12,
The highly intateoing and pathetic Domestic Drama, called
sus'AN HUPLEY; OR THE TRIALS AND VICISSI-
TUDES OF A SERYANT GIRL. William Dean, Mr. E.
• p: SaTille ; Susan, Hopley, Miss Vincent, the acknoWledged
gorofno of Domestic Drama. ,
AN!. which, MADELIN ; or. thr WOODEN SHOE-
NIA K ER and his WIFE, and the POOI. of the D ROA NED.
I?rnMarcel: "Mr.- Gardner ; Pont de Gibaut, Mr. Paul ;
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pTiAL )Tom sHIP,.-...Vanderdecken, Mr. 1)ale ; Toby
.o)....Seanson:; . Peter Von Hummel, Mr. Gardner r Yantis ),,ucy, Mrs. Howard.
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LONDON:
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1841.

It has frequently been a theme of exultation
with the Tory Journals that the Chartists were
against the Liberals; and not unfrequently, we
believe, the Tories have bribed a mob to inter-
rupt the public meetings of the enemies of the
Corn-laws. They will come, we further believe,
to repent alike of their exulta,tiou aud their eu-

couragernent. A report of a public meet-
ing for the propagation of the Gospel, at-
tempted to be held at Norwich last Thursday,
which which we borrow from the Norwich Gazette, a
Tory Journal, will prove to the Tories that the
instructions they have given will be profitably
acted on against themselves. No SYDNEY
SMITH, lecturing on a troubled question of poli-
tical economy, was interrupted; but the Lord
Lieutenant of the County of Norfolk, surrounded
by the clergy and the elite of the diocese, and
attended by many ladies, all assembled together
for that long and much-lauded purpose of pro-
moting the propagation of the Gospel, was pre-
vented from even opening a meeting, and was
forced, with the clergy and ladies, to retreat pre-
cipitately from St. Andrew's Hall. The meeting
was broken up ; the people, who will probably be
called heathens, could not tolerate the propaga-
tion of the Gospel while they were starving;
they exclaimed against feeding slaves and pay-
ing slave-owners, while they were in want of
food; they demanded more bread and less
Bibles; more pigs and less parsons; and they
drove away dir.omfited, though probably not
ashamed, the men who, pretending to be minis-
ters of CHRIST, have leagued with the land-
owners to oppress the poor.
We deem it right to say th.. 4 the language is
probably exaggerated, in order
td paint the op-
ponents of the parsons in 'as black colours as
possible to the rest of the community:
:Making
allowance for that—believing that the words Yre:e
not so coarse as reported—enough remains to
show that the spirit which now animates the
multitude is essentially and decidedly hostile to
the clergy and the aristocracy. Will the latter,
then, while they pretend to govern the multi-
tude for their own good, dare to coerce the mul-
titude, and cut them down openly if they resist
being starved by law? We are afraid that the
Tory Government will. It is made as strong as
it can be for the purpose of sustaining our pre-
oellf atua,
sentiment recently avowed by the Lord Pr6si-
dent of the Council, seeing also that there are
two soldiers in the Cabinet, we believe that the,
Tory Government will be prompt in repressing
every expression which it dislikes, however just
may be that expression of popular indignation.
The people must be well aware that in this
country, with unwritten laws, with Magistrates
who ..belong to the class of bread-taxers, with
Judges prone to strain as well as make the
law, legality depends entirely on the arbitrary
will of Magistrates and Judges. The people
must not conclude, therefore, when they act
from the honest promptings of their own hearts,
when their woe breaks out in the just but
strong language of wrath, that the Magistrates
cannot punish them by the help of the law.
Law and justice, are totally distinct ; and they
must be prepared, though they act strictly
itliin the bounds of justice, to be visited, per-
secuted, punished, and coerced, in the name of
the law.

The men who pass laws to take a penny from
every poor man's loaf to put into their own
pockets, which at the same time put an end to
employment, and prevent poor men from having
the means of earning a loaf, are not,' the people
may well believe, such ninnies at the business of
law-making as not to surround themselves with
all the protection which law can give them.
Consequently, if any of the people propose to act
as the men at Norwich acted, they must be pre-
pared to encounter all the terrors by which law-
makers have ever sought to subdue and awe the
multitude into slavish obedience. They will,
it is to be feared, act now, as they generally act,
from mere impulse, without calculating the cost,
or organizing any means of success; and, like
their, forefathers, it is to be apprehended, by at-
tempting-td:recover their freedom, they will only
strengthen- ithe hands of their oppressors.
Their impelling motive speaks out as plainly
as their words. They are hungry. Some of them
get only five dinners between Easter and Mi-
chaelmas. They declare, from personal expe-
rience, that they are worse fed than the slaves
of the West Indies. They are flogged, as they
express it, in their belly, while the negroes are
only flogged on. their back. Their whole soul
is bent on having more food ; and more food,
we believe, they will have, or they will rush on
the armed bands of the aristocracy, and there
find a less painful death than the daily dying to
which they are now exposed.
" There is great distress (we are told by a Cor-
respondent) amongst the weavers and labourers
in this city. There are 314 persons in the work-
house, and the average weekly cost for main-
tenance, per head, is two shillings and threepence
halfpenny ! There were 2,0-21 tickets issued for
out-door cases of relief for the week ending the
2d October, amounting to 2681.85. 6d., and in the
corresponding periods of last year there were
only 1,766 cases, and *e have an awful prospect
for the winter."

Awful prospect indeed ! and the Tories have
taken all the awful responsibility of such a
condition of society on themselves, and have
assumed the tremendous and awful responsibility
of continuing at this time the starvation laws, with
as much smirking, smiling, self-complacency, as
if they were so many dancing masters, solicited
to preside at. a •bal Tare. Their modest assurance
perfectly "Is*lf-satisfied, while the heavens are
louring, and...te,,frbig black tornado is gathering
around, while the distant thunder growls, and
the streaked lightning only as yet faintly shows
the coming danger, while they obstinately keep
aloft all the gew-gaws and flying kites of aris-
tocracy, and will take no means to save the State,
is one of the most alarming signs of the times.
They are accustomed to deal with Parliament as
a little girl deals with a doll. It is the creature
of her will. It walks when she moves it, puts forth
its legs and arms, opens its eyes, answers ques-
tions, plays at school, just as its little mistress
likes, and she is not more absolute master of it
• than the Tory Ministers are, for the present, of
the Parliament. For them, as for her, the
doll, or the Parliament, is the whole world;
and, more childish than the child, they are easy
in toying with the great affairs of mankind, be-
cause they fancy that in ruling the Parliament,
Sir R. PEEL'S doll, they are ruling society.
whey are fatally mistaken ; and if the flashes at
NOrwich, and
.the louring clouds spreading in
.other directions, do . not make them quake at
their own arrogant presumption, it will go hard
for England.

A man who once gets a crotchet into his bead
is as sure to live and die with it as with his head
itself. There is Lord WESTERN, for example,
who still insists, in a supplement to his Letter
to Lord JOHN RUSSELW that " the Currency is
the grand master grievance which he wishes the
members of the Manchester Chamber of Com-
merce to rivet their attention upon." Now the
currency has really come to play a most insig-
nificant part in our affairs, for it has been re-
duced fully one-half since 1817, and the lesser
quantity carries on a vast deal more business
than the greater quantity did in 1817.

All that the law does touching the currency
is to give a monopoly of the issue of • promises to
pay within a certain district to the Bank of Eng.
land, and to fix an arbitrary price for gold,
making it the standard, so as to raise our
standard and lower our prices about four per
cent. in comparison with those countries which
use a silver standard. Both these are foolish and
mischievous acts, but no man, not currency mad,
will believe that such paltry, inefficient, com-
paratively uninfluential circumstances, can have
produced the stoppage of our trade, the ruin of
our manufactures, and the wide-spread distress
which, even according to Sir R. PEEL, has
now prevailed for a considerable time.
The defective state of the currency does not
starve the people, but the Corn-laws derange
the currency, as Mr. COBDEN forcibly- points out
in a letter to Lord WESTERN, and produce all
the evils growing out of that derangement which
Lord WESTERN asserts is owing to a gold

* Published by Ridgway.

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