The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-25 00:00:00

STRAND THEATRE.

This compact little " Theatre des Gaietes" was opened last
night, in spite of the prohibition of our courtly arbiter dc-
gantiarum, the Lord Chamberlain, and contrary to the dictum
of thos,e stern custodes morum, the Middlesex Magistrates.
Dux fceviina facti. That very clever vocalist and actress,
Mrs. Waylett, who is now at the head of the establishment,
has concerted a plan by which scenic performances may be
given here without let or hindrance. No money is taken for
admission ; but on purchasing at. certain places, which
are indicated, a box or pit ticket to the Victoria Theatre,
you are presented with an order for the Strand Theatre,
(gratis). The public were not tardy in availing themselves of
this stratagem last night. The house was extremely well
filled, and the audience were mightily pleased with the enter-
tainments, which were of a light, pleasant, mirth-inspiring
quality, and were, moreover, supported with no small degree
of ability. Mrs. Waylett has, indeed, collected an excellent
company. To say nothing of her own acknowledged
talent, we have Williams, who is an able representative of
crabbed old men ; Mitchell, an extremely knowing fellow, in
broad low comedy ; Oxberry, exceedingly amusing in simple-
tons ; and Forester, who as a light, genteel comedian, is ra-
t,idly rising in public favour. These, with sundry adjuncts of
less importance, are perfectly capable of giving full effect to
the slight bustling pieces with which the fair manager means
to resale the public. Four very pleasant trifles were last night
represented. The last of them, a burletta in two acts, entitled
Figaro in London, is new. The writer has transplanted the
intrigue-loving Figaro from Seville to London, and with the
aid of " light points, antitheses, and puns," has concocted a
lively half-hour's entertainment. In the course of the burletta
several allusions, some of them neat enough, others rather
clumsy, were made to the recent changes in the Administra-
tion. They were received with mixed applause and hisses.
Mrs. Waylett was throughout the evening most graciously re-
ceived, and every point that seemed to bear encouragingly upon
her novel situation was loudly cheered.

EXECUTION OF THE CHESTER MURDERERS.
(THIS DAY.)

This morning, at nine o'clock, the extreme sentence of the
law was carried into effect upon James Garside, aged 34, and
Joseph Moseley, aged 40, who were convicted at the late as-
size for the county and city of Chester on the 3d of August
last, of the wilful murder of Mr. Ashton. The singular facts
connected with the extension of the forfeited lives of those
horrid miscreants has so long been before the public in a va-
riety of forms, that it is only necessary to state that the cause
originated in a dispute between the Sheriffs of two jurisdic-
tions, as to who should carry the sentence into effect, and which
;del. hereafter become a matter of lewd disassion. When
Gitcskle was informed on Sunday that all his hopes were futile,
he sans; into a sullen state of despondency, but he appeared to
regard to the ags.vice of his spiritual visitors, and de-
pay little
termined to
think as little as possible of a future state—indeed,
we were infin,:ned by the principal tipstaff, that for a time he
seamed „treme., y callous. Yesterday the wretched men were
attended by the.'
,Chaplain, Mr. Baker,. and other pious
gentlemen,. when th.'y were urged to confess their guilt,
which was the only atonement they could make for
having broken the awes. Upon this point, although
at times an ill feeling apirese'ed to exist between there, they
were both cautiously silent Last night, at 12 o'clock, the
culprits were removed from the King's Bench prison to Horse-
monger-lane gaol, in the custody ee" Mr. Hester, the Tipstaff
of the Court of King's Bench, hie- Ward, the Marshal's
Tipstaff, Mr. Colwell, the senior Turra.-ey, and other officers,
some of whom remained in the prison all right. Upon being
placed in his last cell Garside wept, anti assumed a more
serious air than he had ever manifested. '.At art early hour
this morning the unhappy men were visited by the Rev. Mr.
Mann, the Chaplain of the county gaol, and Messes. Walfourd
and Harrison, the Chaplains of the King's Bench prison.
As the hour of death approached Garside declared that the
confessional statement he had made, implicating the two
Moseley's in the principal part of the foul transaction wee
false, and thus showed that the verdict of the Jury was
correct. Moseley to the last declared that he was in-
nocent, but yet he seemed to speak with a mental reservation.
At a quarter to nine the tipstaffs and sheriff of Surrey pro-
ceeded to the chapel yard, where the men were disencumber eel
of their irons, and had their arms and wrists pinioned in
the usual way. They were then taken through the avenues to,-
the foot of the lodge in front of the prison, which they as-
cended with a firm step. Immediately they got upon the plat-
form, Calcroft, the Newgate executioner. adjusted both the
ropes, and with surprising celerity withdrew the bolt in the
I space of three minutes. The malefactors never spoke after
they appeared in public, excepting to the constable who appre-
hended Them, with whom they snook hands. Notwithstand-
ing the coldness of the morning, the crowd began to collect cei
early as six o'clock. After the bodies were suspended the
*lntel time they were cut down, in orde: to be interred in the
precincts of the prison.

PUBLIC FEELING.—REFUSAL TO DRINK TUB
lIF.ALTH OF THE KING AND QUEEN.—Last evening the Bakers'
Company dined at their Hall, in Harp-lane, Tower-street.
300 persons sat down to dinner. After the cloth VMS cleared,
Non Nobis Domine was sung by the professional gentlemen,
Pynt, Medhurst, and Tyrell, at the conclusion of which Mr.
Larkin:, the Chairman, proposed the health of the King.
The proposition was received with the most tremendous hissing-
and hooting. Mr Larkins endeavoured to enforce the toast,
but ho was met by cries of " No, no," and groans from three-
fourth‘ of the assembly. The chairman in vain tried to restore
order, Ind after a scene of great uproar the toast was with
drawn amidst loud applause. The Queen was then given
from the chair, but the meeting received the proposition in the
same Manner, and they were almost unanimous in rejecting it.
The professional gentlemen then commenced the national an-
thent of " God save the King," but the company refused to
listen to it, with marks of the most decided disapprobation at
its being commenced, after the feeling they had evinced. Ti.:.
singers were compelled to desist, and "le Britannia" w..s
substituted, which was well received. Mr. Peacock, the Com-
mon Councilman, soon afterwards proposed the health of tbu
chairman, who returned thanks in a neat speech, and the con-
viviality of the company then remained undisturbed till a late
hour.--Morning Advertiser.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It is now a matter of public notoriety that the great
offices of State are to continue in abeyance until the
return of Sir R. Peel. The Clerks, who have been
thus unexpectedly elevated to the seats of their former
masters, act under the direction of " His Highness,"
who issues his orders to the various departments as if
it had been the legitimate province of the Premier to
exercise hims?.,if all the functions of Government.
Heretofore the division of power among the chief
officers of state was regarded as a most important se-
curity to the public. The Cabinet is a little republic
where one Minister is a check on another ; and the
Ministers being necessarily men of different stations,
professions, and pursuits, their combination in any
design injurious to the liberty of the country is
proportionately difficult, and they ate less likely
to be subservient to the caprice of an injudicious
master, or to the dictation of a too powerful sub-
ject. In Austria and Russia, the Cabinet vir-
tually consists of a single individual. " His
Highness the Dictator " is enamoured of the
fame of the Potemkins and Metternichs, and seems
determined to introduce the practice into Great
• Britain, Never was a Minister so eager to clutch
in his single grasp all the power of :the State. He
had hardly received the seals from the King when
he hurried to take possession ,of the Home-office ;
and in a few hours after he had prepared his Trea-
sury minutes, though the patent of the Lords Com-
missioners of the late Government was still in exist-
ence, and of course his authority could not be recog-
nised. His next attack was on the Admiralty ; but
he was equally foiled there by the existing patent of
the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty ; and lie
was so deeply mortified at this unexpected defeat
of his plans, that he is said to have consulted. his
friend Sir James Scarlett, on the possibility of de-
vising some summary mode of removing such
inconvenient obstructions. " His Highness suf-
fered another check at the Post-office. He
had proceeded with very unbecoming expedition
to appropriate the patronage of that department ; but
the Marquis of Convngham answered with becoming
spirit that he was reaily, and had offered, to resign,
but as long as he remained Postmaster-General, and
responsible for the Post-office appointments, none of
them should be made except by himself. 'We could
recount other traits of " his Highness" of a similar
nature, but these are a sufficient foretaste of what we
may expect from " his Highness the Dictator." They
show the man, and they will not be lost on the people
of England.—Morning Chronicle.
The John Bull of yesterday has discovered a mare's-
nest, of which it intended to make a great matter :
Lord Brougham is represented as guilty of great inde-
corum, in returning the Great Seal through Sir Her-
bert Taylor. It is hard upon poor John Bull that
its friends should permit their Sunday organ to fall
into so silly an error. It ought to have been better in-
formed on the subject. Its friends should have told
it that the manner of delivering up the Great Seal
was strictly* in accordance with the arrangement pre-
viously determined upon by his Majesty. In such a
matter as this, it is manifest that the Chancellor would
not wish to refuse compliance with his Majesty's de-
sire.—Morning Chronicle.
It is the fate—the, perhaps, unavoidable fate—of
all persons high in office to be surrounded by a little
clique or coterie, who, having constant access to them,
poison their ear by representations .wholly destitute of
foundation, or with facts so discoloured and distorted
as to be more mischievous than direct falsehoods. That
the Duke of Wellington has already been, more than
once, the victim of this species of delusion, no one who
looks back to the causes which led to his Grace's re-
tirement from office can for a moment doubt. The
Duke himself was uninformed of the real state of pub-
lic opinion, while those about him used every means of
deceiving both themselves and him. No man can
fall into a greater mistake, but a statesman especially,
than to consider the little circle in which he moves as
a fair epitome of the real world. However private
individuals may suffer themselves to be thus imposed
upon, in a statesman it is an unpardonable fault and a
ruinous error. His eye and ear should be every
where, with a mind able to discriminate and turn to
useful account the truths thus acquired. Though it is
as yet early to pronounce upon the policy which may
guide the Duke of Wellington on his present return
to office, it can never be too early to warn him from
the quicksands on which his fame and existence as a
King's Minister have already been shipwrecked. There
are those who imagine that they already see in the
names of some of those by whom his Grace has hi-
therto been associated since his return to office, some
symptoms of their constituting the sort of clique to
which we have alluded. We trust that such antici-
pators are wrong. There can, however, be no harm in
apprising the Duke of Wellington how much more
wrong he will be should such suspicions turn out
in the end to be true ; a knowledge which, if ever it
do occur, will come too late to be of any use. Above
all we would warn the Duke of Wellington agaiiist
assuming that, because the country in general views
with even more than indifference the downfal of his
political opponents, they are therefore prepared to
adopt as the principles of his Grace's future govern-
ment the errors of his past Administration. This
would, indeed, be the most fatal delusion which the
coterie in question, if there be such a one, could inflict
upon the Duke or upon themselves. The truth, we
believe, is that the bulk of the right-judging part of
the community is sick of ultraism in both its
extremes—the schemes of the destructives on the one
hand, or the abuses upheld by the non-reforming To-
ries on the other. What the country wishes to see is
a wholesome, moderate reform of all abuses in Church
and State. They wish to see an Administration in
which the abominable theories of the Multhusians and
Doctrinaires will find no place, but who, looking stea-
dily to our national interests both at home and abroad,
will not be drawn aside from promoting them, either
by noisy clamour or interested zeal. Upon the trite
maxim, that " when things come to the worst they
mend," never was a wider field of national improve-
merit open to any Statesman than that which now pre-
sents itself to the Duke of Wellington. May he avail
himself of it, and thus add another trophy to his high
imperishable fame—another link to the chain of grati-
tude which must ever bind his country to him. But
this enviable addition to his Grace's character can only
be obtained by his as assiduously repudiating his own
past errors as those of his opponents.—Morn. Herald.
" Measures not men," is now the motto of the
Times. We say men and measures, and it is to ex-
pose the fallacy of this specious motto that we intend
to call the attention of our readers to the measures

which have originated from the late Administration.
England undoubtedly requires both men and measures.
It requires measures, and men who will carry them into
execution in the spirit in which they are framed. For
instance, we have lately obtained the emancipation of
the slaves : we have lately placed the whole of our
Indian colonies under a liberal and enlightened policy.
Will any one be mad enough to say that the diffi-
culties which must arise in carrying these great mea-
sures into effect will be met in the same spirit of libe-
rality by the Duke of Wellington as by Lord Mel
bourne ? Can the Duke and his party, who have
opposed both the principle and the details of these im-
portant and comprehensive measures, meet with energy
the difficulties which of necessity must arise in their
practical application? Will he endeavoar to overcome
these difficulties in the same spirit as those who framed
the measures, and with whom they originated.,? Ought
this first and most extensive application of the princi-
ples of civil and religious liberty to our colonies to be
entrusted to Tories, or ought it not rather to,be under
the care and guidance of a Government of men who
have all their lives advocated such principles? For
such reasons we say men are required. No political
declaration of the Duke of Wellington, however ap-
parently liberal, can have any weight with the coun-
try. No man in his senses can believe that ttlerewill
be more than a semblance of liberality in the achnuus-
tration of any Reform which he or his colleagues may
propose. Again, are not men required to work out
the facts collected by the various commissions which
have been recently appointed ? Will the Duke
of Wellington, the friend of all the Members
of the Holy Alliance—the friend of the Bourbons
—the friend of Metternich and the Austrian pc-

licy—the friend of Migueland the friend of
Don Carlos ? will he meet the Commissioners
appointed by the French Government to inquire
into the commercial relations of England and France,
with the liberality and enlightened views which
we know are entertained by the Members of the late
Government ? Will the Tory Chancellor, Mr. Goul-
burn, who is every day figuring in the Court Circu-
lar, meet the recommendations of Mr. Poulett Thom-
son as Lord Alt horp would have done ? Shall we,
under Mr. Herries, find the French Government in-
clined to continue in the good work of removing prohi-,
batons? Will they have confidence in his justice and
liberality ? We say they will not, cannot—and thus
the good feeling between the two countries, which has
been so much increased during the last few years will
be arrested at a time when the fairest prospects are
before us. Will a Tory Ministry second the efforts
of the Commissioners appointed to examine into
the abuses of Corporations ? Will they dare to
' lessen borough and corrupt influence ? Will they
dare to risk the loss of a vote by such liberal measures ?
No—it is impossible. Their friends must be protected.
What will become of the Commission of Inquiry into
the state of the Irish Church ? Will the old and stale
Tory trick of expediency be again resorted to ? Will
the people of England trust Church Reform, and par-
ticularly Irish Church Reform, to the friends of the
Hierarchy ? Will they be satisfied that the statements
which may be made to them are accurate and unin-
fluenced by party feelings ? It is impossible, and as
absurd as imposssible, to suppose that the principles
of religious liberty, lately so predominant, can be ut-
terly eradicated from the minds of the constituency of
the country. Thank God, the days of bigotry are
passed. .Nothing can drive this country again into the
trammels of the priesthood ? The country demands an
extensive Church Reform, and it will have it ; and