The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-20 00:00:00

11113REATRE-ROY AL, DRURY-LA NE.
Under the Management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr. W.
Harrison.
THIS EVENING, Balfe's ROSE OF CA.STILLE : Miss
Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne, Miss M. Prescott ; Mr. Fer-
dinand Glover, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. George Honey, Mr.
Bartleman, and Mr. W. Harrison.
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon.
To conclude with a Ballet Divertissement : Mdlles. Zilia
Diielielet, Pasquale, and Morlacchi.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING will be performed THE RIVALS
Messrs. Buckstone, Howe, W. Firren, and Chippendale ,
Mesdames Reynolds, B. White, E. FitZWilliAM, &C.
After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE GUADAL
QUIVER. rerea Netts.
Followed by THE BALANCE OF COMFORT.
And MY. HUSBAND'S GHOST.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer.
Great Success. The New Comedy of EXTREMES Boss
Men of the' Day. Supported by Mrs. A. Mellon (late
Woolgar), Mrs. Weston, Miss Kate Saxon, Messrs. Emery,
3. Rogers, E. Falconer, and Barrett, EVERY EVENING.
To conelude with the New Farce, entitled TOO MUCH
FOR GOOD NATURE. Messrs. Emery, J. Rogers, Mrs.
Weston, and Miss Kate Saxon.
Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office
Open from 11 to 5 daily.
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ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, NOTHING TO NUItSE ; Mr. Swan-
borough, Mrs. Selby.
Alter which THE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS ; Messrs.
C. Selby, J. Bland, and J. Clarke, &c.
Followed by THE BONNIE FISH WIFE.
And I'LL WRITE TO THE TIMES.
• Commence at 7 o'clock.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The following Company
et Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections
from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES,
GLEES, DUETS, &c., viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey,
Miss Brtmell,,Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague,
Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson; Herr F. Jonghmans,
Mr. Renshaw. S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio,
Mr. liarnard
Rime, ,
Maud Mrr. Badse.
St. Albyn.y, Senor TiMr. John G. i
Forde Mr. Cozens, Mr.
and E.
Bell,
W. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks—Harmonium,
Mr. Courtnay—Diroctor, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at
7 precisely. Suppers, &c., until 12 o'clock.
NOTICE.--dirke Proprietor begs respectfully to announce
tnat in the month of October,
A FINE ARTS GALLERY,
now in course of construction, will be thrown open in con-
nexion with the above Hall.

THE WEATHER.--Strx OFFICE, SEPT. 19.

THERMOMETER, IN Tin SHADE.
71—highest since noon yesterday.
50—lowest this morning and during the night.
62—this day at noon.

BATIOMETBR--30'10.
WIND, S.W. ; fresh, with rain.

SEPT. 20.
62—highest since noon yesterday.
57—lowest this morning and during the night.
63—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30'24.
WIND, South-Westerly ; light, with dull weather, and
some rain in the night.

THE SUN.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1858.

Last week we once more pointed out that at al

classes, it was not capital but currency that

crisis.

harvest.

The search for gold is but one class of labour

times, even when a monetary panic was destroying
the welfare and prosperity of Great Britain, and

the independence and happiness of the industrial

was wanting. We possessed substantial property

in its most eligible forms. All the necessaries,
comforts, and luxuries of life were at our command,
but unfortunately a measure and representative
was wanting ; and if the bank-note remained
always convertible on demand—which converti-

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bility, by the way, was only endangered by the I
precautions adopted to ensure it—property and
commodities of all other descriptions were rendered

practically inconvertible, because they could not
be exchanged for a fair and bona fide equivalent.

It is not fair to the manufacturer or the wholesale
or retail dealer to expect that they should all sub-
mit to alarming and ruinous sacrifices in order that

the " hard calculators" who advocate the PEEL.
OTENSTONE restrictions embodied in the Act of

1844 should be enabled to realise enormous profits

on the commodity at their disposal—the only one
that could be profitably parted with during the
" The many" should not be ruined in order

that a few should obtain the command of almost

fabulous wealth. The money-ehangers were not

the only parties to receive protection from the
sthte ; there were many other pursuits having at
least equal claims for sympathy and assistance.
The real capital of a country consists in its accu-
mulated products of labour. It is by labour alone
that raw materials are obtained, to be turned to

still greater advantage by the application of other
and possibly more skilful work. Even mother
earth dies not yield forth her fruits or cereals
spontaneously. The experienced and careful hand
of the husbandman is required to plant, prime,

graft, train, and pluck the tempting produce, or to
manure, plough, sow, reap, and garner up

one the least eligible to its votaries, and which is
not available to any of our home population.
They cannot make gold, or dig it forth from their
Native soil, but still they must find it. The case
has never been paralleled since PHAROAH ordered
that the straw should be withheld from the
Israclites, but that, nevertheless, they should pro-
duce their daily tale of bricks.

We have flocks and herds in abundance--every
description of agricultural produce stored up, and
machinery fabricated with almost miraculous skill
and ingenuity, so as to render the toil of the work-
ing classes less oppressivcr; we have public build-
ings, and private dwellings admirably adapted
for the purposes for which they are required,
and furniture suitable for all classes, , from
the Sovereign to the peasant, and works of nrt by
the most illustrious masters, and. less pretentious
ones, which, nevertheless, are well suited to advance
a nation's taste. With these we should be rich, if
there were not a single ounce of coined gold or
silver in the realm, and it is ridiculous to say that
we must undergo periodical sufferings of a. very
fearful character, merely because it suits the cur-
rency quacks to introduce restrictive regulations on
the very " life-blood of industry." :What
would be thought if the inhabitants of
a district were in want of bread, and there was
an abundant supply of corn at hand, they Should
be permitted to perish miserably, because the work-
ing gear of the corn-mill usually resorted to was
out of order, and the authorities would not permit
any other to be used. They would certainly be
termed knaves, and those who submitted to so ab-
surd a regulation would justly be regarded as fools
of the most degraded kind.
The simple fact which we last week referred to,
that the rate of interest on permanent investments
never varies more than from y to 3, or from £3 to
£3 10s. per cent., while the discount, or price, for
temporary advances vibrates between 2 and 23 Per
cent., is another clear and convincing proof that
our resources are still ample for every emergency',
and that it is currency only that is wanting. In
fact tht people are tantalised by being starved in
the midst of plenty. The cup is at their very lips,
but is withdrawn at the moment that it should be
quaffed.
We have already stated that no more favourable
Opp( ortunity can be anticipated for a modification
of our monetary system than the present time.
Confide] Ice has at length been restored. The peoplle
do not t ;are for bullion. The auri sacra fames hi Ls

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