The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-15 00:00:00

TIIE SUN, LONEOJNI, MONDAY
_EVEN ING, JUNE 15, 1857

HER MAJES T Y' S THE ATR E. effect, th4t the women of England should raise a the course, entered on by M. C. C. A few more
TO-MORROW EVENING.
IL DON GIOVANNI. fund for the purpose of presenting suitable testi- such champions of their sex, and the good be-
ginning will afforda certain augury of future and,
TO MORROW EVENING (Tuesday) will be repeated, with .
nulls, to the chivalrous defenders of -their'.
the following: nnp-eeedented cast, Moza, t's chef-d'ceuvre, IL Lu°
complete success.
DON GIOVANNI :- Z.srlina, Mdlle. Piecolomini ; Donna
•-• t and Donna Elvira, Mille. Ortolani,

rights and privileges in both Houses, of Parlizi-
ment, or rather to those who have so energetically
and indefatigably exposed the wrongs to which
they are subjected, and demanded, in their name
complete redrcs3 for the future. Our fair and
excellent correspondent was not only willing to

Anna, Mdlle. Spezia ;
Don Giovanni, Sig. Beneventano ; Leporello, Sig. Belletti ;
Masetto, Sig. Corsi ; D Commandatore, Sig. Vialetti; and
Don Ottavio, Sig. Ginglini. Conductor—Sig. Bonetti.
The Minuet in the Ball Scene will be danced by Mdlles.
Pasquali, Karliski, Morlacchi, Marie, and Corps de Ballet.
From respect to the grand work of the immortal composer
the following artistes of the establishment have consented to
lend their assistance to increase the effect of the majestic
finale of the first act, including the chorus, Viva la Liberta :
—MM. Reichardt, C. Braham, Rottardi, Mercuriali, Kiuni,
De Soros, and Baillou ; Mesdamss Poma, Berti, Baillon,
Fazio, and Ramos.
After which will be produced an entirely New Billet, in
Two Tableaux, composed expressly for her Majesty's Theatre
by M. Massot, entitled

Ask half the House of Commons and you will
be told that PROTECTION was buried for ever in
1852, and Free Frade firmly seated on its throne.
It may have been so to the vulgar view. Pro-
tection, of course, meant merely duties levied in
favour of English produce,- and exemptions of all
kind for E4glish, compared with Foreign trade.
It meant only this, of course, in the mouths of Free-
Trade-Hall orators; and when Lord DERBY went
out in 1852, they threw up their cap 4, and
shouted loud and long—" Great is Free Trade,
the Goddess of Manchester." The Goddess to be
sure has turned out somewhat capricious in
her dealings with the city of her worshippers ;
she gave them corn cheap enough at first ; she
encouraged them to spin and weave with ever-
increasing energy ; but their spinning and weaving
soon raised the price of the raw material ; stimu-
lated by the great cotton spinning city, the
LEGREE 3 flogged out of their uncle Toms, we were
going to say, in Irish, more bags of cotton than
they could grow, and the price advanced, till it
would pay to fetch it from India and other quar-
ters. Meantime the manufactured cotton could
not be advanced in proportion, the price of
wheat also rose, and the faithful of Manchester
began to waver in their worship of their goddtss ;
they even invoked the aid of Government to grow
them cotton in India. Free Trade could not be
trusted to supply them with taw material, nor to
open the paths of commerce to the Indian cotton
districts ; and from the lips of Free-trade wor-
shippers the cry was again heard—" Oh, Govern-
ment, hear us !"

inaugurate the admirable project by sending
a personal subscription of 10/. towards its
object, but also by using her best exertions
t,) obt tin subscriptions among her lady friends,
who feel justly indignant at the cruel and unjust
laws that have hitherto prevailed, and the puerile
and inadequate attempt that has been made for
their reform. Under such auspices, and with
the co-operation of females of all classes in society;
for, alas where is thare a class in whiCh unfor-
tunate wives cannot be discovered?—there can be
no doubt that the result would be worthy of the
purpose for which it is designed; and that it
would greatly conduce towards obtaining the equal
and impartial justice for the gentle sex, to which
they are so eminently entitled.
Tt is nut only the ill-treated and unhappy that
would assist. Even those whose lots have been un-
clouded by affliction, who enjoy the unbounded
felicity of possessing truly worthy and blameless
husbands, must commiserate the misery of their
less fortunate sisters—must desire to see their
wretched conditions ameliorated, and that there
should be that full and equal justice to all, with-
out distinction of sex, that perfect reciprocity,
without which there can be no equality or mutual
confidence. Woman was made, not merely to be
the slave or the upper servant of man, but his
helpmate and choicest blessing, one to participate
in his griefs, to soothe his sorrows, to elevate his
thoughts, and stimulate to, and encourage him in
the -straight and narrow path of self-sacrificing
exertion. She is ready to aid and assist in every
good. work, to submit patiently to trials
and privations, that test the fortitude of
the sterner sex. Pl-tee her in her proper
position, let her feel and know that she is to take
her part in " the battle of life," and no asperities
will deter her. The most rugged path will be
cheerfully traversed, and every obstacle will be
surmounted or smoothed down ! Away with the
ridiculous assertion that the sanctity of the do-
mestic hearth—the permanence of that felicity—.
the greatest known in this world—could be for a
moment endangered by making woman what she
ought to be, the partner, not the dependent, ou
her husband.

For our part we never could limit our notion
of Free-trade to cotton and corn. With us ii has
always meant the spontaneous energy of men for
ail creative projects. We have looked rather at
limiting the functions of Government, and pre-
venting its intermeddling with everything which
wanted to be done, merely to save the indolence
of individuals on the one hand, and to enlarge
the sphere of bureaucracy and jobbing on the
other. Let Government protect life and property
from domestic or external fraud and violence; and
let individuals and combinations of individuals
supply their own wants by their own exertions.
That is Free Trade.
If Manchester wants Indian cotton, let Man-
chester grow and clean cotton there, and provide
the means to convey it to the coast. Indigo growers
have managed to take English capital to India,
and to make handsome fortunes by getting the
article fit for the home market ; what hinders
Manchester from cleating a new race of cotton
growers, or rather of cotton cleaners and car-
riers ? One individual, we are informed, has
already made a splendid thing of it, not by
growing cotton himself, but by buying it
up undressed, husks and all, from the natives;
dressing and cleaning it at a mill of his own erec-
tion, and getting it to the coast as best he could.
The natives will readily grow the cotton if they can
readily sell it, but they have not the capital, nor
the machinery to fit it for the Manchester market.
Manchester has really nothing to do but to send
out persons qualified to make full use of the
powers of Whitney's Gin, and the natives will
furnish them with more undressed raw cotton than
they could use.
But railways are wanted—well, the Govern--
mut of India is doing its beat to create them.
One thing it cannot do ; it cannot burrow
through the Ohauts between Bombay and the vast
cotton district beyond, in less than two or three
years. But, we ask, how can it well be recon-
ciled with Free-trade principles, that Government
should guarantee a railway company against loss ?
The only answer, and it is a very imperfect one,
is, that Government wants the road for general
purposes, and thinks a guarantee the cheapest
way of constructing it ; further, that the Indian
Government is a pure despotism, and can hardly
be rendered fully amenable to the laws of Free-

No right-minded man can hesitate for a
moment. He will think of the revered mo-
her who first taught him to bend his infant
knee to the DEITY, to list in broken accents the
praises of THE MOST HIGR, and to put forward his
bumble petitions for protection and comfort in
his daily trial. He will remember the gentle
sisters who soothed his sorrows, and took his part
when all looked dark, and his boyhood's hope was
sbaded. Above and beyond a►l, he will reflect on
the gentle girl who taught him that he possessed a
heart, and that all the world contained was
as nothing compared to her love, and
whose plighted faith was regarded as the
I gilt of his existence. Nor can he forget
the daughters, who are destined to fill the most
important parts in the social drama—to become
the future wives and mothers of England. We
pity, we can scarcely refrain from despising, him
who has no such recollections to fall back on, and
influence him in his course. He must be either
truly unfortunate, or very unworthy; if, when
properly appealed to, he cannot find something to
enlist him in tha good cause.

The wrongs of females are, unfortunately,
patent and notorious. They relate to their
persons, their properties, their ch,Hren ! If

one is injured in the tenderest point, even to
an extent that would render it impossible to con-
done the offence, or again take back the criminal
to her bosom, she may be allowed to separate,
but not to obtain another chance of happiness.
" It is not good for man to be alone !" But it

trade.
If, however, we quit Manchester and purely
commercial matters, the principle of Free-trade—
spontaneous energy, as distinguished from reliance
on governmental, or other extraneous help or pro-
tection—is distrusted by large numbers of persons
who, nevertheless, think themselves quite en-
lightened enough. on such matters. Take the
Medical profession ; look at the bills now before
Parliament ; first, Lord ELcno's struggles hard
with Mr. HEADLAM'S, not on the general obj,:cts
to be obtained ; both agree in them, but whether
antiquated corporations shall remain masters of
the medical examinations, and hold the keys of
the gates to the profession, or whether a new and
efficient Board shall be entrusted with the weighty
charge. To that extent Freedom and Privilege
are iu conflict as the battle is now waged. But,
secondly, both Lord ELCHO and Mr. HEADLAX
are unaware of the Free Trade principle as ap-
plied to medicine. Free Trade and examinations
are, we confess, quite consistent ; but the exami-
nations ought to be optional. If of value, their
worth would be known ; the public would resort
to those who enjoyed the different grades of dip-
lonia, if worthy.of preference, and quackery would
find its level by its own incompetency. The
Free Trade principle would be, therefore, to estab-
lish examinations, and to leave the public to find
out what they were wort`t. The University of
Oxford, by its proposed examinations for middle-
class schools, is setting an admirable example of
what we mean. Make the examinations thorough,
and they would be highly valued.
We need hardly say how the opposite principle
to Free Trade impregnates and poisons our whole
political system. At this day, five and twen►y
years after the Reform Bill, the House of Com-
mons, at the bidding of the " Tory Chief of a
Radical Cabinet"—Blass us what Radicals !
refuses to abolish the property qualification for
Members of Parliament Protection for native
landlords is still demanded. The lords of the
clodhoppers cannot rely on their own intelligence

is a thousani times worse for woman to remain

solitary—

" Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,
'Tis woman's whole existence."

He has a thousand matters to distract attention
to enable him to bear his misery, but there is no
alleviation to her misfortune. She pines in hope-
less misery, without the prospect of better times
and yet, while every facility is to be afforded to
the injured husband, all redress is denied to the
injured wife 1 Is this fair ? Is it manly or
straightforward ? What right-minded man can
lay his hand on his heart and conscientiously re-
.4pond in the affirmative to these interrogatories ?
And yet it is a portion of the stunted measure
now before the Legislature, that, with but few
and rare exceptions, so monstrous in their very con-
ception as to practically render the rule universal,
woman shall obtain no redress, while, by a refine-
ment of insult, we find Right Reverend Prelates
and others endeavouring to prevent the guilty
party, i.e., the woman--for to teem, if innocent,
they do not afford relief—contracting another
and a happier marriage. To the Man they allow
zlie w dent possible latitude, but give nothing to
the woman, whether innocent or guilty. She is
still, by a refinement of Mezentian cruelty,
chained to the dry and sapless corpse, and, as
Lord BROUGHAM explained, left " not altogether
free, nor altogether fettered." Part of her chain
was removed, but some heirs were left clanking
round therags to which they were pleased to reduce
her. She was not to marry again. She was reduced
to the horrible alternative of prostitution or want
—of sinning or starving, of the streets or the work-
house 1" And this is the boasted refinement of
England in the latter part of the 19th century—
the chivalrous treatment which the fair sex is to
receive from the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in
the year 1857 1
As to her property, she is, if possible, more an

airly treated. Her separate existence is, in the

large majority of cases, merged in that of her hus-
band. The provision which the anxious solicitude
of a loving father laid by for her security from
want, may be squandered by the prodigality of a
worthless husband, or seiz on by his creditors !

and energy to keep the upper hand in the House

of Commons ; they must still have a protective
law, and Free Traders are found voting by the
score for political protection of landlordism !
As to the other professions it is very much the
same. In the law it is, perhaps, most excuseable;
yet it fails of its avowedobject. In the army, the
Horse Guards compass the protection of wealth and

Even though it should be tied up by pre-nuptial
settlement?, and freed from the debts, control,
and interference of the husband, the moment it is
reduced into possession it can be seized, whe-

Cher in the shape of money or goods,
unless every article purchased be vested
in Trustees. And even the earnings of the
wife, what she has obtained by her own labour
may be taken away to be spent in dissipation,
While hers elf and children are enduring the most
bitter privations !

' aristocracy against merit in the rank., by regu-
lations and a policy we need not particularise—
it is needless to mention with what results. The
Crimean winter is too fresh in all our memories.
In the Church all is of course protection thrice
protected. There, most truly, the race is not to
the swift nor the battle to the strong. Voluta-

Again, even the innocent wife is deprived of
her children. The guilty husband can take them
away, so that she is deptived of the only possible
comfort in her miserable lot. The whole
aw of husband and wife needs revision. Let the
women of England exert themselves, and justice
wid be done. It only wants a struggle, and ad
that can be asked for will he achieved. It will
be seen that "a Lady of Title " has followed in

taryism is the word of most hateful omen. Creeds,
oaths, subscriptions, formulaq, universities, pa-
tronage, privileges, and penalties, protect up to

the neck the Ecclesiastical System of England. To

hen Ecclesiastics talk, one wuuld suppose that the

salvation of the Church depeuded ou iti sevenfold

protections, and the salvation of the nation on the

Church. Laymen, however, are begiuniug to

doubt both. Our STANLEYS bodily tell us that

our sops will be. Voluntaries; and our own eyes

and our census 'tell us tbitt- 4ithout'olie 'penny-
worth of protection, the Voluntaries—the Free-
traders in religion—have half the sanctuaries and
half the worshippers of the country.

DOUGLAS— JRRROLD'S FUNERAL.
This afternoon the mortal remains of the late
Douglas Jerrold, Esq., were consigned to their
last resting place in Norwood Cemetery.
The funeral cortege arrived shortly after 2 o'clock.
It consisted simply of a hearse and three or four
mourning coaches containing the re:wives and
friends of the deceased.

On the b..dy being taken from the hearse it was
met by a very l..rge assemblage of literary friends
of the deceas-d, and by th m ac.zoinpanied to the
beaut.ful chap 1 attached to the ceme ety.
The serviim appouved by ihe for the
burial of the dead hiving ben ,ead, the ho iy was
conveyed f. om the chapel to the grave, into which
it was 1 .wei e.l in the presence of a very 1 roe con-
course of sorrow:ng friends.
The fo lowing genial tribute to p,or Jerrold is
taken flow the Sunday Times of yesterday :
Aimmg-t those rarg,-brained and sioewa -shouldered
men, who have endeavour d hone fly and hopefully to
help the world onwaru, the familiar form teat I •hall
never more encounter at the corner of the kerb, or by
chance-medley brush coats with in an omnibus —the
stauuch-hearted, keen-witted D .uglas Jerrold—will ever
hold.a prominent ilAce. Many au eye that never identi-
fied the figure with that of the most epigrammatic
talker and writer of his age, must have no-
ticed occasionally amidst the throng, hurrying
between TainFle-bar a..d Waterloo-bridge, a pas-
senger of short stature, with a sharp thin face, pale and
thought-worn, wriose light blue eyes glanced keenly
aside as he walked along, with a quick eager step, dis-
couraging interruption, and whose long whitish hair fell
over the collar of his truck coat, which revealed the cus-
tomary eye-gift-is dangling from his neck. When that
figure met my gaze it wad not as the fao,ous dramatist,
essayist, and journalist, that merely regarded hun ;
nor as the brilliant wit whose sparkling repartee-,, bitter
as some of them were, yet served as wholesome tonics to
the social system. To toy mind, he was ever the in, ar
nation of hope for any literary aTirant who was seeking,
however hernial, to follow the devious track of the eatue
professi,in. 'nifty years ago, when a young ardent
writer of 26, Jerrold was still, though comparatively
unknown, and certainly unappreciated, pouring forth
his treasury of thoughts • before a public that scarcely
rec ,gn ised amongst them the currency of the true merit
of genius. Ae a hack-dramatist, knocking off novelties
fur te C burg, he rate of One a fortnig;it—as, even
then, a jourualist, pioneering the path of progress, and
teaching the people that the true source of power was
the awakening of their own self-respect—as song-writer,
pantomime-concuetur, and advertisement-erubelsher, for
to all there phases of minor authorcraft did Its potent
pen reauily lend itself in these early days, the Jerroldian
image ever seemed to me the encouraging embodiment
of the worth of patience and perseverance, and Whose
oracular response to the inquiry of the literary student,
would be, "Learn to labour and to wait." Toe world
will corns at last to know its benefactors, and in the
meantime let it roll round till tby time coweth.
Also from the Sunday Times we extract the three
following del.ghtful witticisms—thoroughly Jer-
ruldiau

‘• He asked me one day in the green-room of the Hay-
market, what could be Juhu Oxeuford's =Give in trans
lacing Tartuffe,' when there already existed au English
version or the play (meaning 'Toe Hypocrite') with
which the English pu die were very well satisfied. I
told him I supposed the piece had been 'done to
order.'

" • Ye4,' he said, 'that must be it; and I bays no
doubt but that will be dune to a good many orders.'
"S ying numbc..r two was uttered in the same green-
room in my nearibg.
"A specimen of the genus 'swell' entered the room,
and introduced himself to Jerrold. His ellMie for that
nb.erty was mutual acquaintance with an actress more
reinarsabie for her beauty and tahnts than tor—wel ,
than tor other recommendations.
" Tne aw 11 said, • I belive you know a very particu-
lar friend of gime, Mrs. —l'

*" I have net witri an actress of that name,' Jerrold
replied. ' But ebe cannot be the very particular blend
you allude

" PArdun we, it is the same person.'
" Pardon we, the lady I speak ut is not very par.
titular,'

" One more specimen and I have done. Jerroli was
an ex,:essively nervous man, and os the first repro muta-
tion of any of his pieces suttered iudescribable torments.
A brother drawatist—reinarkable for his s ccessful spe-
cimens of fair adap,ation or imitation' from the Frei,ch
—on one such occasion sought to rslly the trembling
scribe, by stating that be biloself never felt any nervou—
nese on the first production of his own pieces. Oa,
my boy,' sat-I Douglas, but then you are always so
sure of success. Your pieces have all been tried be-
fore.' -

ARRIVAL OF THE ARCHDUKE MAXI
MILIAA 01? A IiTRIA.

• POttrSSIOUTH, JUNE 14.
The Archduke Maximilian of Austria arrived at spit-
head this worming, in the Austrian padd e-sloop Em-
press &izabeth. The Cumberland, 70, ft-ig ship Rear-
Admiral Wallis, saluted the Austrian flag as toe ship
came up to Spitbead. His Ex,:elleucy toe Count Ap-
poryi, the Austrian ambassador, woo bad la,-en at this
part for the last three 'lays, with Counts Karolyi and
Chotek, went out in the Sprightly, steamer, Master-
Commanding George All ui, to greet his Imperial High-
ness ; as also Lord Cnail,s Fitzroy, equerry to her Ma-
jesty. • Tue neutena,a-governor, Maj ,r-General Breton,
and Hear-Admiral Martin, on toe part of the Cowman-
der-ih-Chiet, Admiral Sir G. Seymour, who is indisposed;
went out in the Fire Queen. steamer, Master-Command-
ing Paul. At two o'clock this afiernoon the Boipress
Elizabeth came into harbour with the Austrian national
and imperial flags flying at her mast-beads, which were
saluted by the garrison and by the Victory, flag-ship,
with 21 guns each. The Archduke disembarked at Cla-
rence-yard, and proceeded by a special train, which was
waiting, to Windsor at three p.m. As the Austrian
ship cams into harbour, iu charge of the government
pilot sent out to bring her in, the Victory's crew man-
ned yards. The Empress Elizabeth remains in harbour,
coaling.