The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-24 00:00:00

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MANG' [TESTER, OCT. 23,
The market continues to advance in consequence of
the heavy purchases and excitement in the cotton-market
at Liverpool, but sellers are unable to do business. The
cotton movement ie looked upon with distrust, and
buyers will not operate.

NOTTINGLIAAI, Oa. 23.
The lace trade is very quiet, but, as the rHuill busy
Peron iscorning on, we hope soon to be able to report
increa,ing
activity. There is a fair amount of business
ding for the United States, and the home demand is
about an average one.

In hosiery there is a good trade doiug,
many.brauchEs
being extremely active. The demanl for America is
go,,d, and our home trade is tolerably brisk. Ibe OPE—
ntive4 are well employed, at good wage,. The prices
Of the racy material are lei's firro.

PA.BY CASTLE.—Anializmt tho latest arrirs.l3 Ra'r%y
Cast ;e, toe meat of the Duke of Cleveland in the county
of Durham, aid aid Ducats,. (D (s_
)
and miss Rugsell, Mr. and Lady Catharine. Wbyte
Melvil.e, General Sir R. and Lady
Ciargest Mrs. L.
Fox, the Dean of Durham, Mr. H. Milbank, Lord and
Lady 41vatiley,
Mr. and Lady Augusta 11/filbank
have left the CaAile f.r Italy, goiugP first on a visit to
Lord Brougham in the souta of France.

THEATRE ROYAL, D: (WRY-LANE.

Lessee, Mr. M. T. Smith.
THIS EVEN ENG
TEE LADY OF LIONS.

Followed by
PAS DE EASCE
mnelude with
THE ADVENT URER.

ROYAL IRI/9.0 TEI-ATEF.

Under the MArtagarner tot At. CHARLES KLAN
THIS' E TEN 'NG,
A MIDSUMMER NIGEIT'S DREAM.

To couch do with

PIZAJ tli.O.

THEATRE ROYAL , HAYMARKET.
iirder tka 2.anagernel t of Mr. PIICIPODO.

riil
WILD 01T3.
Followa 1 by
The Spanish Dancers.
After which,
TIIE LITTLE TREASURE.

To conzlude with
THE GALICIAN FETE.

LYCEUM TIIEATRE ROYAL,

Lessee, Mr. Charles Mori.

THIS EVENING,
BELPIIEGOR.

Belphogor, Mr. Chas. Dillon ; Madeline. Mrs: Chas. Dillon.
Followed by (the Bth time)
TIIE KING'S MUSKETEERS.

D'Artagnon, Mr. Chas. Dillon ; Constance, Miss Wool:Tar.

To conclude with

The B ILLET from the Burlesque of the " Winter's Tale."

ROYAL THEATRE ADELPIII
Propnetor and Manager, Jr. B. Webster.

Directress, Madame
THIS EVENING.
IRELAND AS IT IS.
Followed by
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
To conclude with
LUCIFER MITCHES; OR, THE YANKEE -1

STRAND TfIEATRIA.
Manager, Mr. T. Payne.
THIS EVENING,
THE OLD COMMODORE.
After which,
OUT ON TIIE LOOSE.
Followed by an original Burlesque, entlecd
BELPHEGOR.
Mesdames Cuthbert, Woollidge, and E. Jacobs; Messrs. H. J.
Turner, Herbert, Clarke, &c.
To conclude with
The Ballet of POLICHIOELLE.
Messrs. W. A. Barnes ant Mithenson.
Commence at 7.
Stalls, 3s.—Boxes, 2s.—Pit, is.—Gallery, 6d.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and M'anager, Mr. Alfred Wigan
THIS EVENING,
RETRIBUTION.

To conclude with
THE FIRST NIGHT.

AIITLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
THIS EVENING,
171st Night!) Sbakspere's Tragedy of RICHARD THE THIRD
with Equestrian Illustrations by Mr. W. Cooke's Stud of trained
Horses. Richard, Mr. James Holloway.
After which,
The SCENES in the CIRCLE.
To conclude with a Pot Pourri of Amusing Entertainments.
Commence at Seven. Pox-office open frlm Eleven till Four. Stage
lisnager, . West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, Jun.

lIGIO.I WATER AT LONDON BRTDGE.

Tas DAT—Morn. 12 min. aft 11—Evening 43 min. aft. 11
T-1-Ifort Row—Morn. 0 min. aft. o—Evening 5 min. aft.l2

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 24.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
61—highest /MUM noon yesterday.
55—lowest this morning and during the night.
57 —this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 30.53—the highest this season.
WIND, N.—Light, with fine weather, but hazy.

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TITE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, oc ro BER 24, 1856,

check the effervescence of his animal spirits. A
strange sail, a waterspout, a storm, breakers
ahead, a lee shore, fire, springing a leak, over-
bearing tyranny, offer to him almost the exclu-
sive sources of new and stirring sensations. From
one-half at least of the human family he is
entirely shut out. No representative of the fair
bex greets his eye for many tedious months,
and notwithstanding his songs about the treachery
of the sex, he finds the elements to which he
likens womankind but a sorry substitute. The
result of all this is a simplicity of character and
an ignorance of the world which marks him out
as a prey for the designing. Once in port he is
a freeman ; the load that perhaps unwittingly
oppressed him falls off, and, " brisk as bottled
beer," he effervesces the moment he touches the
shore. The world lies before him like a fairy
dream. The men ho meets with are all hearty
good fellows, and the women the best of the lot,
with a superlative or two over. JACK is free, and
has plenty of shot in his locker, and invests
everything with the colours of the rainbow.
The lubber aboard that cheated him of his
grog has been unable to extinguish his be-
lief in the goodness of human nature. If ho
has made him revengeful—he takes his revenge
by trusting everybody.

Of course this state of beatification comes to an
end. With an aching head and swimming eyes
JACK awakes to a craving host and empty pockets.
The illusion is gone—the men are all rogues, and
the women—what they are. JACK becomes pro-
foundly moral, and has both time and opportunity
prelections. He has no home, and
to dispense his
has been robbed of the means for providing a
substitute. There is nothing for him but painful
endurance until he can manage to get another
ship. He gets one, and returns from a new
voyage not so wise as he went—his. sufferings
ashore all forgotten. This description of course
does not apply to all. Neither must it be in-
ferred that JACK is " a born natural," and would
not take care of the greater portion of his money
if he could. The number of thoughtful sailors,
who provide as well as they can for to-morrow,
has greatly increased ; and there can be little
doubt, if a helping hand were lent out to him, the
generic JACK would not waste his all on a "spree."
He is a sort of grown child—the creature, in a
large measure, of circumstances—not a whit more
immoral than landsmen, but with good intentions
he finds sudden self-responsibility and alluring
licence his rocks ahead. Find him a place of
security for his cash, lend him help against temp-
tation, and if he still indulges in a spree the
consequences will be vastly less grave and injurious
than at present.

Not only is poor JACK in need of such aid, but
we submit he has a right to look for it. At all
events it is the duty of us landsmen, and especi-
ally such as more immediately profit by his skill
and daring, to afford it. Not an individual in
the three kingdoms ever overrated what we owe
to our brave sailors. If the poor fellows indulge
once in a time in a licence we cannot approve,
and present themselves a few days after return
from a profitable cruise in rags, and without
A shot in their locker—let it be remembered
they secure us the inestimable boon of liberty, and
preserve us from national ruin. We are under a
two-fold obligation to them—as our benefactors and
As our fellow-countrymen. Of all obligations these
should not be the last to be discharged. Enter-
taining these views, we are glad to find that some
portion of the debt has been discharged, or is in
course of being discharged in the North—at
rynemouth, from whence sprang the crew of the
Victory, and our Navy has had its choicest and
i:kost plentiful supply. The Duke of NORTHIIM-
ZERLAND, it will be seen—himself a sailor, and
proud of it—has there built a Sailors' Home, at a
cost of 9,000/., and the inhabitants have contri-
buted 3,000/. towards its endowment. The in-
stitution is to embrace a savings bank, a money
order office, a shipping office, a modal lodging-
house for 150 sailors, with hospital, school, and
every convenience it should possess. Once fairly
in operation, it will be seen poor JACK is worth
looking after, and not lost to self-respect. With
the opportunity to bank his money, ,to indulge
the natural affection for his relatives ho so. largely
possesses, and armed to a large extent against
syrens and harpies, JACK ashore will show him-
self a better man ; and if such Homes be multi-
plied as they ought a great advance in the charac-
ter of our national defenders, and the carriers of
our commerce, may confidently be looked for.
rho crew of the 'Victory, in the main, were
religious men, and JACK improved will be found,
we make bold to say, more terrible to his enemies
And more serviceable and ornamental to his
friends.