The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-11 00:00:00

DATIIMIF:S ROYAL SURREY THEAIRif.:

'Eh e ra6it ;IlerdldE;isierifntertaivincia c ver presented—Everything
New—Suptorted by the kind Talent in the World.
THIS EVENINO, APRIL: 11.
Will be repeated an entirely New Drama, embracing all the
ktrottg effects of the celebrated work, entitled A' HITE:FRI ARS,
which the entire Compaily will perfni m.
After which ;First Weele),THE SCAPEGRACE OF PARIS, sup.
)if Owl by all the leading Favourite..., of the Edablishrnent.
To which wi I be added the Wondet ful Performance of Herr
MING LER on the Corde Efaatique, and the Carlo Family in their
Unrivalled nuta-tiqueo.
To esnctude with, a New Drama of peculiar construction, entitled
SARAN JOHNS iN; or, The Blin,i Wi•ness. '
-races :end Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.
otce, trout Eleven :o Four.

ROYAL 'VICTORIA THEATRE.
Great Novelty and new Engagements.
THIS EVENING. APRIL
'Will ce repeated a New Drama, cared LEONTINE; or
AIXTEEN YEARS AGO ! Fitzarlitigton, Mr. Osbaldiston ' • Ar.
Nlr. C. J. Bird ;his first appearance) ; Mat, Mr. Freer ; Paul,
Air 0-demo, (hit, firat appearance) ; Leix,tine, Miss Vincent.
With the Grand Fairy Ballet of °NOISE; by Mr. irampton
and his Pupil.;,
After which, a Melo-Drant3, entitled, THE BRIDGE OF
Gervase, Mr. Freer ; Darvile, Mr. Nantz ; Albett, Mr.
C. .1 Bird; Eugene. Mr. seaman; Van Glotzen, Mr. James;
Valance, Mr. Dl'e Phillip. Mr. Paul ; Madelon, Miss aker, (her
!fro appearance) ; iy.ihelia, Mrs, G. Lee.
•To conclude with THE ICE WITCH. Harold. (the Sea-
t:in) Mr. Nantz ; Magnu6 Snoro, Mr. Gardner ; Hecht, Mika
Caen ; Lila, Miss Stephens (her first appearonce); 3linna, Miss
raker ;.Freyer, Miss !Lelia, (her first appearance) ; Druda, Mrs.
t 4; Lee, Ac., Ac.

"I tIF.ATIIE ROYAL, ADELPirI,
THIS EVENING, April It, the GREAT WIZARD OF THE
ORTH will re-a,eend • his MYSTIC UHRONE, and cont.
di.;ehe,:. ht.') NEW t.CIENCES of MODERNMIRACLES, which
no.paraltel in the world. In aAidition to the .Wizard's Per-
-I,:.tru..inez.), MR. ?.1,11,0NE RAYMOND, the auccestul repre-
'tentative of 'l6sh-Charaeter,, from Cie Thcatre•Royal, Havinarket,
vkill give . original E.Atertaiinent, entitled AN HOUR IN
}ttt. NJ), asAisted by MRS, MALONE RAYMOND, MISS
LINN'S, and MR. smi
ns. Pit. 13. Gd. Gallery; CM. Second Pric.2 at Nine o'clock.
I).,orii open at S,:ven, the Performalecei coromenceat half-pa-A.

LOVE'S POLYPH,NIC ENTERTAINMENTS,
CROWN AND ANCHOR TAVERN, STRAND,
Mr.' LOVF, has the honour to announce that he will present
HIS ANNUAL POLYPHONIC ENTERrAINMENTS, arid
EEC( lIREi on LIFE and CHARACTER, every MONDAY,
:WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY. He will introduce much Novelty,
'which has been tong in preparation, with entirely New and Appr..
itriate Mutative Costumes and Appointments.
Total Change of Entertainments Every Evening.
On MONDAY, MIRTH AND MARVELS; w.th A WOLF IN
SHEEP'S CLOT/11,W ; arid 'other Entertainments •
On WEDNE DAY, LOVE'S REMINISCENCES; with MINE
HOS I'S DI LE .11 MAS ; and other Entertainments.
On FRIDAY, LOVE IN ALL SHAPE.`i; with LOVE'S LA.
BOUR'i LOST; and other Entertainments.
Particulars in Handbills. Doors open at Ilaif.past Seven; begin
1;t Eight. Admission, le. ed.; Reset ved Seats, V.s 6d.

EGYPTIAN HALL PICCADILLY
IMPORTANT NOTICE.

' ONE SHILLING AdmisOlon to TfiE NAPOLEON Mr-
SEP.M, the most magnificent and. extensive 'Collection of Histo-
rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to hove been formed
1,7 0;1,, Yetanu, duri;); 'l,OltY-five years of elaborate-reeearch, at a
'cost of 60,00 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in-
octuetive and interesting manner, the most Important part of Euro-
pean history, viz.--CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and
Lopim Sly"., to the deaths of GEORGE. 111., and the EMPEROR
in 1921. This unique Museum has been visited-often,
darlog the Lis,r andt prevnt. year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of
Wellington, the foreign Prince, Ambassadors, and their Ladlcs,
also many thoustuals of the Nobility and Public; • arid the Pro-
Vittor has recently been able to increase, by .several very fine
,m I,lare s, prviotto abvo;t Ineredible number and varloty
gsS., Works of Art, am A multitude of valuable Relics, and other
curiosities, In thl4 most lui,t;irctive and, as hundreds have said it
• ,a,;4ht to be, a National Museum. Mauy thousand have inspected
hand THIUTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUHLIC PRESS
have stated thlt it ought to be seen by every one. The price of admis-
sion is rodueed to ONE SHILLING. -
The NAPOLEON -Ai I'SEUM is to be seen only at the " Egyptian
ITall," Piccadilly, ,tails (1,111 It'n till Dusk. .

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 10.
TFERRNTOMET ER. Lowest, 42 ; Highest, 63 ; Noon, 64.
BA KO:Ma kat,. 30 4.—WIN D, W .

Nt.n.r.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
.eking point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

it 03 WAT.ER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS J.Y.
AW•haks 16 minutes after 8 Evening I minute after 9.

be depended on ; the Premier there exercises a power
which even the most Liberal Members seem to shrink
from opposing ; and if he persists—as he will no
doubt do—in upholding the claims of expediency to
those of humanity, we greatly fear that expediency
will carry the day, and humanity be flung overboard.
It is not, then, within, but without, the walls of Par-
liament that the impulse must originate which shall
carry Lord ASHLEY'S measure to a triumphant issue ;
and thaf impulse once fairly roused and set in vigorous
action, who can possibly doubt the result ? Mr.
SMITH, a surgeon, who stated that he had had " a
quarter of a centu,ry's practice at the Leeds Infir-
mary," observed that he " had been long accustomed to
see the injurious effects produced by the protracted
labour of young persons in factories," and pointedly
alluded to a late meeting of mill-owners and manufac-
turers, at which, among other resolutions, it was
moved, that "the hours of working now customary
for women and young persons in the mills are not
oppressive, nor injurious to health." We should like
to see the wealthy mill-owners and manufacturers,
who so coolly agreed to this resolution, try the experi-
ment of excessive labour on their own children ! Let
them subject these tenderly nurtured sons and daugh-
ters, who are brought up in the lap of luxury—who
have no ailments but such as are elegantand respectable
ones—whose only labours are confined to practising
on a piano, and dancing half the night in a ball-room
—who, if a slight headache affects them, can ride it
off in a carriage—or if hysterics (that besetting ma-
lady of the genteel) incommode them, can bathe them
away in some fashionable watering• place, when busi-
ness happens to be slack at the paternal mill, and the
family may decamp with propriety ; let the parents,
we say, of these fortunate young folks subject them to
the same labours to which the poor, unprotected, un-
pitied factory women and children are subjected ; let
them set them vigorously to work for twelve hours in
the day—with no elegant Grecian couch, or soft-
cushioned rose-wood chair, to take even a half• hour's
rest upon—with no fresh air to recruit their fainting
spirits, and no kind words to cheer them in the hours
of toil ;—let the millowners and manufactures who
agreed to the above resolution, subject their own flesh
and blood to this experiment ; and then, if no ill effects
result from it, if their children, after six weeks' hard
work in the factory, are as fresh, as contented, as
healthy, and as happy as they were on the day they
first entered it, we will give up our argument, confess
that we have been altogether in the wrong, and—
notwithstanding the strong evidence presented by a
hundred medical men to the contrary—agree, that
" the hours of working now customary for women and
young persons in the mills, are not oppressive to the
work-people, nor injurious to their health ;" but, on
the contrary, are productive of health, happiness, and
morality in an eminent degree, and as beneficial to the
interests of the employed as they unquestionably are
to those of their employers! In taking leave of this
difficult and painful subject—in discussing which we
have no wish to bear hard on the manufacturers, but
simply to do justice to !-troth parties—for MI) should
not humanity have a voice in the matter as well as
Mammon ?—in taking leave, for the present, of this
most momentous question, we cannot' refrain from
alluding to the wish that not a few of the master
manufacturers have expressed, that the work-people
should have the benefit of a sound and plain educa-
tion. The wish is creditable to them ; but far more
creditable would it be, were they, without confining
themselves to mere words, to make suitable provision
for enabling the operatives to obtain such an educa-
tion. But how can people who have been labouring
twelve hours in the day, in an erect posture, in an
atmosphere little short of tropical in its heat,—how
can such poor creatures, with stiffened joints, languid
frames, heavy eyes, and still heavier hearts, find time
and energy sufficient for attending to the due culture
of their minds ? In such a case—and it is one of
every-day occurrence in the factories—nothing re
mains for the toil-worn operative but to endeavour to
recruit li:s or her spirits by " tired Nature's sweet
restorer, balmy sleep"—a sleep too often, we fear,
troubled by ghastly dreams and fore-shadowings
of the future, and not uninvaded by the monotonous
sound of the factory bell, which must ring in the
ears of the emaciated operative like a prophetic death-
knell !

Perhaps the nicst remarkable event of that portion
of the present year which has yet elapsed is, that
yeeterday the price of the Three per Cent.
Consols attained to par, in other words, that
1001. cash were paid for 1001. of this description of
stock ! In every point of view this fact must be re-
garded as one of the very highest degree of interest
end importance. It marks a point in the financial,
the social, and the political history of the empire,
from which we shall be enabled to estimate, with
more precision and a better-informed judgment than
we could otherwise have hoped to bring to the sub-
ject, the development of the resources with the
expenditure of the country; and the coincident ac-
cumulation of the national capital with the in-
crease of the debt of the nation. To the
future historian of the present age, it will present a
prominent epoch in the annals of the public credit or
faith, which he may conveniently select for the close
of one eventful period in the financial and domestic
progress of Great Britain, and, assuredly, from which
he may date the commencement of another.
The last occasion upon which the Three
per Cents. were at par was in the year 1749 (just
95 years since). The amount of the Public Debt
was then 78,300,000/. The preceding year had wit-
nessed the conclusion of the " Spanish War," as it
was called, which commenced in 1739, and had in-
creased the debt to the amount just stated,
from a total of 46,955,000/. (or to the extent,
in about ten years, of 31,339,0001.) The
amount of the Public Debt, at this moment, is
in round numbers, is 752,000,000/., being an increase,
in the 9.; years which have elapsed since 1749, of
G 74,000,000/. If the fact of a given description cf
stock being at par in the money market raises a
legitimate inference that.there is capital enough afloat
to purchase up the whole of it, then we must assume
that there is capital seeking investment in Govern!
ment securities at this time to the whole amount of
the Three per Cents., viz., for England, Three per
Cent. Consolidated Annuities, Reduced ditto, Debt to
Bank of England, and South Sea Company Old and
New ditto Annuities ; S. S. Annuities and Bank,
497,329,000/. ; for Ireland, 2,818,0001.—in all, say
500,147,0001. Now, this is pretty well. It would, in
practical operation, give such a valueto the remain-
ing portion of the debt in the nature of increased
interest, as would speedily enable the Government to
reduce the dimensions of the Colossus to those of the
minute " General Thomas Thumb," the last favoured
object of Royal curiosity. The expectations of the
Herald, we presume, greatly exceed our moderate
dealing with this bagatelle of 500;147,000/. In 1749,
says our Contemporary, the Three-and-a-Half per
Cents. were at par, the public debt being no more
than 78,000,000/.
" This proved that there *ere rich men enough--and
rich enough—ln the country to purchase or to possess
7.8,000,0001. ; at present the debt is, we believe,
750,000,000/., and the Three per Cents. are again at par
—does not this prove something like a tenfold increase
in the wealth of the country ?"

That is,—carrying out his own argument to its
legitimate extent, that, with a similar price of
Three per Cents. in 1844 as in 1749, there
must be " rich men enough—and rich enough—in
this country, to purchase or to possess 72,0001000/."
On the same principle it would follow that if
in 1815, when the National Debt stood at 864,000,000/.,
—the Threes had risen to par. there would have
been " rich men enough—and rich enough—in
this country to purchase or possess," in the way of in-
vestment, even that fearful aggregate of capital stock.
But remembering that, on the aggregate of the last four
years of the war, from 1812 to 1815 inclusive, the
amount of -money raised on the country had been, in
taxes, 300,183,329/. ; in loans 187,525,806/. ; (collec-
tively,
.487,709,135/., or per annum 121,927,283/.) ;

we really take leave. to doubt the correctness of the
assumption to which our Contemporary's •theory in-
evitably leads. At the same time we quite concur
with him that to consider the total increase of the
wealth, or available capital of the kingdom to be ade-
quately measured by the test of the quantity of stock
uncancelled, concurrently with the Three per
Cents. rising to par, would be a very absurd error.
For, he adds : •
" Foreign loans, railroads, docks, shipping, great
buildiags, and machinery for merchandise and manu-
factures' ,• all these have been drains of capital assisting
to keep down the price of public" securities, but nearly
all of them additions to the wealth of the country."
We pass, however, to a startling specimen of the

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