The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-10 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 10, 1857.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Two Extra Performances only, at Reduced
Prices, on Friday, September 18, and Saturday, September
19. with Piceolonini, Spezia, Ortolaui, Giuglini, Violetti,
Rossi, Beneventano, and Belletti, when will be presented
LA TRAVIATA and IL DON GIOVANNI.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
ran EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. with
Shakespeare's Comedy of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
Beatrice, Mrs. Catherine Sinclair (her 4th appearance in this
country) ; Benedick (4th time), Mr. Howe ; Dogberry, Mr.
Compton ; Hero, Miss M. Oliver.
After which, the new and successful Comedy, entitled
VICTIMS, in which Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. William
Farren, Miss Reynolds, Miss Emma King, (Sze., will appear.
To conclude with THE GLEANERS.
Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the
evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.)
First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d
Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0
Upper Boxes ... 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0
Pit 2 0 Pit. 1 0
owor Gallary 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6
Upper GatOcy:s, 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery.

THEATRE ROYAL, A DEL PHI.
JL Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.

THIS EVENING, will be performed the new Comic
piece, called URGENT PRIVATE AFFAIRS.
After which, Douglas Jerrold's drama of BLACK-EYED
SUSAN. William, Mr. T. P. Cooke.
Followed by MY PRECIOUS BETSEY. Mr. Wright,
P. Bedford, Mary Keeley, &c.

STRAND THEATRE.—Lessee, Mr. T. Payne.
—THIS EVENING will be performed
THE MARRIED BACHELOR. Mr. J. Kinloch, Mr. J.
Howard, Mr. G. Bolton, Miss E. O'Brien, and Miss M. A.
Victor.

Followed by THE WATERMAN. Tom Tug, Miss Harriet
Gordon.

After which, the highly-successful and original burlesque,
written by Leicester Buckingham, entitled LA TRAVIATA;
or, THE LADY CAMELEON. Miss Craven, Miss Victor,
Mr. F. Charles, Mr. G. Bolton, Mr. J. Howard, and Mr. J.
Clarke.
To conclude with DON'T LEND YOUR UMBRELLA.
Commence at Seven. Stalls. 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls.;
Gallery, 6d. ; Private Boxes, 1/. Is.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. F. Robson and Emden.
THIS EVENING, will be performed the new drama of
THE LIGHTHOUSE.
After which, the comedietta, entitled A SUBTERFUGE
Mrs. Stirling, Mr. G. Vining, and Mr. G. Murray.
To conclude with the original Extravaganza, by Robert
B. Brough, Esq., called MASANIELLO. Messrs. Rob-
son, Cooke, Danvers, &c. ; Misses Swanborongh, Thirlwall,
Hughes, Bromley, and Mrs. Melfont.
Commence at half-past Seven.

OYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Crsswick.
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THIS EVENING, CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS will appear.
After which, will be performed THE SURPRISE, in
which Messrs. W. Smith, T. Robertson, Butler, and Miss E.
Webster, will appear.
With other attractive novelties.

ALSTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
Under the patronage of Her Majesty and His Royal Highness

Prince Albert.
Complete and unexampled Success of the Grand 0. rental
Spectacle of EL RYDER. Mr. Win. Cooke announces with
great satisfaction another Triumph. The intensely interest-
ing and thrilling Equestrian aad Dramatic situations with
which this splendid Hippodrama abounds have been nightly
received with increased delight and enthusiasm.

THIS EVENING, and during the week, the entertainments
will commence with the Grand Equestrian and Oriental Spec-
tacle, in 2 Acts, entitled EL HYDER ; or, THE CHIEF OF
THE GHAUT MOUNTAINS. El Hyder, Mr. James Hol-
loway. Introducing Mr. W. Cooke's magnificently Trained
Horses.

After which an unapproachably brilliant series of Mr.
William Cooke's inimitable SCENES IN TIIE ARENA, sup-
ported by the popular and talented Artistes of the establish•
ment, including Madlle. Mililos.
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To conclude with TEK ELI, with Equestrian effects.
Commet.ce at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper
Boxes, 3s. • Private Boxes, from 21s. no charge for booking;
Pit, 2s. ; ; Upper Gallery, 61. Ililf-price at
half-past Eight.

Box-once open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager,
)(r. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun.

fIANTERBITRY HALL, Westminster-road.—
J OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
biz company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
Sflections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CHORUSES, GLEES ,ID IJETS, &c., via.; Mrs. Palmyre, Miss
E. Scott, Miss Brunell, Mrs. Le Jenne, Miss Leslie, and
Madame Marietta ; Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Far-
rant, S. roam J, Barker, W. Melling, P. Corti, Senor An-
tonio, E. L. lime, and Mr. St. Albyn ; Master Corti; Messrs
Sam. Collins, and E, Mackney, Pianoforte, Mr Cecil
Hicks; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F.
Jonghmans Commence at Seven o'clock prelisely. Sup-
pers, &c., until twelve o'clock,—Signor PICCO will perform,
at hat-past Eight and half-past Ten, every Evening.

TUTS DAY —Morn., 39 min. aft. 5 —Even., 3 m:n aft. 6
To-Moßitow- -Morn., 23 min. aft. 6 —Even., 57 min. aft. 6

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How hard is it to persuade ourselves that we
of these British Isles, are not a people distinct
guished among the nations of the Earth for good
sound common sense. Whether the natives of
the Green Isle ought to be included in the self-
complacent estimate some may doubt ; the natives
themselves, however, share none of these doubts ;
and the &,#),'' en a oh must confess that, notwith-
standing Irish Bull., Irishmen are generally more
than a match for Joux BULL in repartee, and
well understands how to get on the blind side of
him when shillings and pence are concerned. As
to our countrymen North of the Tweed, it were
to insult them to place them on a level with us of
the south, in logic and theology. The native
Britons beyond the Severn we cannot say much for;
they know how to get rid of toll-gatas ; and with
a due apportionment of Parish Churches, they are
yet at the cost of worshipping, almost universally,
in conventicles most economically built, and
ministers most economically maintained. The Eng-
lishman proper, if, however, he cannot chop logic
like the Scotchman, or answer you with respect-
ful comicalness like the Irishman, yet imagines
that in native mother wit, and the faculty that
patiently looks on all sides of a case, he is inferior
•to none. Of late, too, his faculties haVe been
very much burnished up by something like edu-
cation. The casual Dame school has been followed
by the Sunday school, and the Sunday school by
Lancasterian schools, and National schools, and
British schools, till the popular mind ought to be
not only naturally vigorous, but to show some
good resu ROf its training. And we are dis-
posed to think that on the whole it does do this.
regard
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It has been well observed that strikes of later
years have been
quite different,
in garcl e
b toe, Niien
lence of conduct, from what they used
if an Arab population is to found in all large
towns, and if in the country, the Squire and his
gamekeeper have trained up the lazy rogues of
any parish, by the temptations of poaching, yet
the great body of the working men of both town
and country, appear to be a class of which their
country may well be proud.
There seems, however, to be some mysterious
faculty in many men among us of all classes, men
sometimes of high ability and education, a faculty
seemingly made on purpose for the impostor. A
certain inclination to believe the new and the
marvellous, and especially a propensity to accept
the dicta of some new professor or prophet in
departments of knowledge of which the disciple
does not possess even the elements. How com-
mon this is in the science and practice of medi-

cine, let the magnates of Guy's, St. Thomas', and
the other hospitals tell us. Pills and draughts
of all sorts of the most potent cure-all virtues,
border, it is true, by an indistinguishable line
upon orthodox practice ; yet these and metallic
tractors, brandy and salt, cold water within and
without, and last, but not least, homoeopathy,
with its doses of the ten hundred millionth of a
grain in pinhead globules, have all appealed to
this readiness of belief where the evidence, if it
existed, were quite beyond the comprehension of
the believer. A clever quack finds an " organ "
of credulity waiting to be excited by his dexter-
ous or his bold appeals.
That all this is but too common in the yet more
serious province of theology, every generation of
man is a witness. No country, and no age, no
tribes of men, civilised or savage, have escaped
the influence of the sincere enthusiast, the half
mad fanatic, or the conscious impostor. Ever
since the existence of truo prophets, so far as we
know, there have been magicians and false pro-
phets also, and the latter have often, at least for
a time, been by far the most successful. Not
only has our race bowed to the authority of
craftily and gradually accumulated priestly power,
such as we witness at the present day in the
grand imposture of the Papacy, to which even
educated men and women yet do homage, al-
though the evidence of ambitious imposture is
patent throughout all history ; but even the
rudest impostor, almost as soon as he enters on
the scene, finds disciples but too ready to marvel
and believe. JOANNA SOUTH.COTE, Mad THOM,
and last in this line, JOE SMITH himself, all ob-
tained an immediate hearing for their ab-
surd and profane stories, and obtained it
among the plain, well disposed, and, on the
whole, common-sense people of England.
Our race is liable to this moral epidemic,
just as it is liable to typhus, or the cholera, and
the rise of an imposter and his followers, the
number who suffer from the contagion which be-
gins with him, seem as little amenable to the cal-
culations and treatment of moral science as the
former to those of medical science.

Who would have thought a few years back of a
meeting in a public room in London, a grand
"conference" of the disciples and dupes of the
American impostor JOE SMITH ? That the word
impostor, not enthusiast or fanatic is the appro-
priate epithet for this very shrewd and energetic,
and thoroughly worldly-minded prophet, there
' cannot be a moment's doubt. He began with
deliberate and wilful lies. He pretended to find
and to translate engraved plates of metal, which
most certainly he had never found, unless he had
hidden them himself, for he never could produce
them ; and certainly never translated, for of the
slightest tincture of lingual knowledge he was
wholly guiltless. Such pretended copies of the
original as he did submit to Professor ANTHON,
were manifestly the very clumsiest attempts of a
thorough ignoramus to devise a new character.
But, however illiterate, SMITH had brains enough,
as the event proved, to make a first rate religious
impostor. He easily persuaded others as un-
learned as himself, but as welt furnished with the
phrenological development of credulity as he with
that of roguery, to believe his divine mission; and
in no great length of time thousands followed him
into the West, a city and temple were built or
building, a hierachy instituted in which, of
course, the arch-impostor was chief, and a theo-
cracy established, in which he, SMITH, was the
viceregent of GOD, and absolute monarch under
the Most High.
We need not attempt to rehearse the story of
their expulsion from Nanvoo and the death of
the prophet in a riot ; a circumstance, which like
all martyrdoms, only strengthenel the new com-
munity in their faith ; of their final settlement at
the Salt Lake, and their abnormal relations to the
American Government. The fact with which we
have most concern is, that they sent their mis-
sionaries to recruit in this land of religion—a
and where every parish has, at least, its church,
and its chapels in abundance besides. Yet here,
n England, JOE SMITH'S missionaries have been,
we understand, more successful than in the United
States themselves. Certain it is that we meet
with them everywhere ; and that, from the coun-
try districts more especially, they have induced
men and whole families, by hundreds and thou-
sands, to emigrate to their 1 and of promise at
Utah. All our schools, and all our Established
and Dissenting clergy have not raised the minds
of thousands above the credulous ignorance
which could swallow wholesale the most tran-
sparent imposture ever perhaps offered to human
minds.

At the meeting on Sunday delegates from many
counties of England were reported to be present,
and some account of their speeches is given in our
report. It seems evident that, altogether, a con-
siderable number of people must be living in Eng-
land under the teaching and influence of the
"Rders" and " Presidents ;" and amongst those
r►ho are earning but ten or eleven shillings a
week, " the tithes" are, in general, faithfully con-
tributed to " the cause"—which cause seems to
mean the cause of the Latter-Day Saints' emigra-
tion from this doomed land to the Transatlantic
" Zion." From America the tidings in the news-
papers have been, that that Anti-Christ, Presi-
dent BUCHANAN, is determined to break up tile
confederacy, or at least to bring it into subordi-
nation to the laws of civilised communities. The
Elders here did not advert to this discouraging
fact, but boldly advocated emigration to "Zion."
On another subject, which has attracted so much
attention here and in America—Polygamy—they
appear also to have preserved silence. It would
hardly do to proclaim to English women that, on
arriving at Utah, a revelation from BRIGHAM
YOUNG might assign them as tonth or twelfth
wives to the harem of some licentiGus friend of
the inspired High Priest.

England has suffered sufficiently from her Game
laws. Every cultivator of the soil has had his
grievance to narrate, has detailed the loss and
annoyance thereby occasioned, and the tempta-
tion to the younger hands on his farm, to his sons
as well as to his servants. But we know nothing
in this country of the full extent to which the
practice may be carried. Persons residing in
the vicinity of Deer Forests in Scotland, who
have seen whole districts depopulated, and the
hardy inhabitants expatriated, may form smile
slight conception of the system in operation in
the country comprised within the Charter of the
Hudson's Bay Company, but even their notions
will fall far short of the reality,
The Company have, by virtue of their charter,
possessed
ona which themselves of several millions of acres of
releupdreedss.ed. Anly
hacethytethmeptwaht ictoeloninaisnatiisonjiesalroiugsolryo rigorously
do not tolerate settlers. Lands
that might be converted into smiling homesteads
—that might support thousands of contented and
happy families—must remain barren and uncul-
tivated, for the sake of the wild ,
animals whose
skins may suffice to pay a 10 per cent. dividend
to a trading corporation, whose thoughts are ex,
elusively directed to the X. s. D. phase of the
question. They have established a monopoly of
the worst desoription—a monopoly highly preju_