The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

COLBURN'S AUTHORISED TRANSLATION.
/Now Ready at all the Booksellers,
THE NINTH VOLUME of TRIERS'
CONSULATE AND EMPIRE
Under NAPOLEON,
Comprising the period of
THE WAR IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

FRENCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE,
ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce the following ar-
rangements for the ensuing Beason of French Performances at the
St. James's Theatre, which will commence on
MONDAY EVENING NEXT, Jan. 7,
by the productioLE n of a new OpeANDORRE. ra, in Three Acts, entitled
VAL D'

Principal characters by Madlles. Charton, Gniehard ; Messieurs.
Chollet, Lac, Killy Leroy, and Nathan.
ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE OPERA.—MdIIe. Charton, Mdlle.
Dehauser (pupil of the Conservatoire, Paris), M. Chollet (of the
Theatre de !'Opera Comique, Paris, his first appeaarnce), M. Lac
(Premier Tenor of the Theatres Bruxelles and Ghent, his first ap-
pearance), M. Nathan (Premier Basse of the Opera Comique, Paris,
his erst appearance), M. Killy Leroy (pupil of the Conservatoire,
Paris, his first appearance), Mdlle. Guichard, M. Baguet,
M.
Chateaufort, M. Soyer, M. Desvaux,
_Madame Mancini, Mdlle.
Cotti, &c.
FOR THE COMEDY AND YAUDEYILLE.—M. Samson, of the
flmatre Francais, Paris (his first appearance in this country) ;
Male. Denain, M. Regnier, Mdlle. Nathalie, (artists of the Theatre
Francais, Paris) ; Mdlle. Dejazet (who has accepted a farewell en-
gagement in this country)Lafont, Ifdlle. Figeac (of the Theatre
Du Taudevire) ; Mdlle. Page (of the Theatre du Yarietes) ; Mdl'e.
Constance (of the Theatre du Gymnase) ; Madlle. Baptiste (of the
Theatre tie l'Odeon).
An Engagement is also entered into with the eminent Trage-
dienne, Mdlle. Rachel, with whose performances the season will
terminate.
Mr. Mitchell begs further to submit an outline of the general
arrangements :—The Season will commence on Monday, January
7, 1850, by the production of a New Opera, in Three Acts, entitled
"Le Yal d'Andorre," produced in Paris at the end of last year,
and since performed at the Opera Comique, Paris, more than
100 nights, and at the principal Theatres of France, with the
greatest success. The Music by If. F. Halevy; the Libretto by M.
De St. Georges. With the following distribution of the principal
characters :—Stephan (jeune chasseur des Pyrenees), M. Lac; Le
Joyeux (capitalne de milice Francaise et recruteur), If. Chollet, who
has obligingly undertaken the part for the more effective production
of the Opera ; Saturnia (garde-peche du Gave), M. Killy Leroy ;
Jacques Sincere (vieux chevrier), If. Nathan (their first appearance
in this country) ; Theresa (fermiere du Val d'Andorre),
Guichard ; Georgette (cousin. de Stephan), Mdlle. Cotti; and Rose
de Mai (servant. de Theresa), Mdlle. Charton. The second pro-
duction will be Harold's celebrated Opera, in Three Acts, " Zampa,"
in which M. Chollet will personate the character of Zampa, as
originally performed by him at the Opera Comique, Paris. Subse-
quently will be given, a new Comic Opera, in Two Acts, entitled
"Le Caid," by the popular composer, Ambroise Thomas. And also,
Amber's last new Opera of " Haydee," the eharaeter of Haydee by
Mdlle. Charton.
Other productions will be selected from the following :—Jeattnot
et Oolin, Nicol° ; Le Rol d'Yvetot, Adolphe Adam ; Le Cheval de
Bronze, Auber; Le Macon. Auber; Le Sirene, Aaber ; Lally et Qui-
nalt, Nis le ; La Perruche, Clapissoa ; Le Valet de Chambre, Ca-
' rafa ; Use Folie, Mehul ; with an occasional pertorma.ncs of some of
the most poplar operas produced last season.
According to present arrangements the representation of the Opera
Comique will be limited to the months of January, February, and
March, terminating the season before Easter.
At the re-epenisg of the Theatre, after Easter, en Monday,
April 1, M. Samson (of the Theatre Francais, Paris) will have the
honour of making his first appearance in this country, and will per-
form with Mdlle. Denain (also of the Theatre Franglais) in several of
the mast popular Comedies of the French stage; and subsequently
M. Regnier and Mdlle. Nathalie (both artistes of the Theatre Fran-
cais) will appear In several of the meet modem and successful Come-
dies recently produced in Paris.
At the end of May, Mdlle. Dejazet, whose re-appearance at the
Theatre des Varietis, after a severe and protracted indisposition, has
bee I attended with her accnstomed and unrivalled suecees, will ap-
pear in several new vaudevilles, as Le Marquis de Lauzun, Le Mou-
lin a Paroles, La Jeunesse de Lully, &e.
The performances of Comedy and Vaudeville will be supported by
If. Lafont (of the Theatre des Tarietes), Mdlle. Figs lc, Wile. Con-
stance, Mdlle. Page, Mdlle. Baptiste, If. Armand, M. Leon, and a
numerous company.
The engagement of Mdlle. Rachel will commence at the end of
June, by her appearance in M. Scribe's new play of " Adrienne
Lecouvreur," a production which has excited mere than ordinary
admiration ; Mdlle. Rachel wi'l also perform, for the first time,
in Dumas' celebrated play of " Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle ;" and
a new Petite Comedic, in One Act, entitled " Le Moineast de
Lesbie," by Armand Berthet ; and by the occasional representation,
each for one night only, .f the classical Tragedies of " Phedre,"
" Les Meraces," " Andromaqtte," and " Bajazet," the season will
terminate.
The ORCHESTRA will be composed of the same eminent pro•
fessors engaged for the opera last season, including M. Tolbeque,
M. Bourotte, M. DelotTre, M. Newsham, M. Barret, If. Baumann,
M. Pilet, M. Vaudreland, M. Remusat, If. Lazarus,' If. Nicholson,
M. Larkin, M. C. Harper, M. T. Harper, M. Campanile, M. T.
Wright, &c. Director of the music and Chef-d'Orchestra, M. Charles
Hanssens. _ _ _

Arrangements for season subscriptions may be made at Mr.
Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sams's Library,
1, St. James-street; 3lessrs. Andrews's, New Bond-street; Ebers's
and Hookham's, Old Bond-street. _ _

The Box-office of the Theatre is open daily from Eleven till
Fiys.

iIIGH WATER AT LONDON tittlD.;E.

Tim DAY orning, 51 min. after 6 I Evening, 17 min. after 7
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THE WEATHER—SUN Ozawa, JAN. 5.
rumudomErEit, Lowest., 28; Highest., 45; Noon, 36
BAROMETER, 29.49.
WIND W.—fine frosty weather.

the population. Theirs, consequently, are the labours
which should be most emphatically reprobated by the
rest of the members of the Fourth Estate, reprobated,
we mean, as a disgrace to the character of English-
men, and as; being calculated to affect in a very',' in-
jurious manner the repute of an honourable, laborious,
land responsible profession.

The recent occurrence of the death of a pauper at
Southampton, from sheer exhaustion for want of
food and exposure to the inclement weather, owing
tol being refused relief at the poor-house, although
furnished with an order from the parish surgeon to
that effect, has naturally directed public attention to
the defective organization of the staff of our Union
Workhouses, to which the deplorable death, from
starvation, of the unhappy ELIZABETH Broca is mainly
if not entirely, attributable. As the circumstances,
attending this unfortunate case are about to be inves-
tigated judicially, in consequence of a charge of
manslaughter having been brought agaainst one of the
officials, we shall not make any further allusion to
it, but shall proceed to point out the defect in work-
house organization, to which its occurrence is to be
attributed, and to indicate a plan which, if adopted,
would, we think, effectually prevent the recurrence of
such misfortunes for the future, and would at the
same time conduce materially to the comfort and
safety of the permanent inmates of the workhouse.
It appears that, according to the present system, a sick
pauper requiring admission to the workhouse has, in
the first place, to call at the residence of the parish
surgeon (situated frequently at a distance of
several miles from the workhouse), and
having obtained an order from him, to
present the same to the relieving officer, who
may or may not grant the required admission, but
without whose permission the master of the workhouse
cannot admit the pauper, even should he present the
medical certificate he has received from the parish
surgeon.

Now, considering the class of persons from
which relieving officers are generally chosen, of which
the late Mr. DROUETT may be taken as an individual
specimen, and the Mr. Bustin.' of DICKERS as a
general type, it must be evident, on a moment's
reflection, that too much power is by the present law
left to the relieving officer, who is generally the last
person in the world to exercise a sound discretion in the
use of such power. But independently of this cir-
cumstance, the whole system is 30 slovenly that the
marvel is that deaths from exposure and starva-
tion are not of more frequent occurrence. Suppose
an unfortunate person, having obtained the surgeon's
certificate, should lose it en route to the relieving
officer, admission would be refused ; the ailing and
starving applicant would have to return to the sur-
geon's house, and might, perchance, sink from ex-
haustion ere he could obtain a renewal of the certificate
and again reach the relieving-officer. In such a case the
death would be attributable not to the misconduct of
any individual, but to the working of the system; and
it behoves those who have the power to lose no time
in remedying this most faulty organization. A
remedy, which it appears to us would effectually meet
the evil, would be to appoint a resident medical
officer to every union house, whose business it should
be, in addition to giving medical attendance on the
permanent inmates, to examine all applicants for
admission to the workhouse, and on whose order the
master should be compelled to admit any person, the
medical officer being responsible for the order so
given. The necessity of a resident medical officer in
every union house is obvious. Many of these houses
contain upwards of 1,500 persons; few, we believe,
have less than 700 inmates, that is to say, each union
house contains persons equal in numbers to the
crew of a line-of-battle ship or to a regiment of
soldiers. Ought these persons (nearly double the
number of the inmates in any of our hospitals) to be
left without constant medical supervision? Our convict
depots ha►e all resident medical officers, and surely the
health of the honest poor man is of as much consequence
as that of the convicted criminal. In many instances
persons apply for admission to the workhouse who
are known to the authorities as impostors, and these
persons are, as might naturally be expected, invariably
refused assistance by the relieving officer; in nine in-
stances out of ten he is probably justified in his refusal,
but in the tenth the tale of the professional vagrant
imposter may for once be true—he may be really
ill, really starving. In such a case the medical
resident officer would at once detect the truth, and
the knowledge on the part of the applicant
for relief that he would be subjected to
a strict medical scrutiny would, in most instances,
prevent the imposter from applying for relief; and
would thus operate as a heavy blow and a great dis-
couragement to vagrancy. It is abundantly dear
that a system of organization, under which it is pos-
sible for such a case as that of ELIZARETII BIGGS to oc-
cur, is so defective as to require immediate alteration,
and we believe that the alteration we have suggested
will meet the exigencies of the case.

RICHARD CROMWELL has abdicated. The City of
the Violated Treaty, the last locality enlightened by
the presence of that not over-dazzling luminary
which shed successively its beams of paly glory upon
the housetops of Athlone, Youghal, and Kilkenny,
now sits shorn of an equal moiety of her conjugal
rights. The tears of a bereaved constituency may
probably unite to swell the waters that roll by the
ancient walls of Limerick; but to us, unimpassioned
spectators of the scene, it really appears that Mr.
Joux O'CoNNaLL has never performed a worthier
or more becoming act than the tendering his resigna-
tion of the trust reposed in him by the Parliamentary
electors of the Mistress of the Shannon. We should

ndeed be loth to believe that the pressure
of pecuniary embarrassment was so sorely
felt by the favourite son of the Liberator as, of itself,
to necessitate this disruption of the long-worn ties of
public life. We prefer to believe that the Honourable
Gentleman, not devoid of talents, and respected by all
for his amiability of character, sees, better late than
never, that the repeal delusion is irredeemably extinct;
for delusion it has truly been since the summons of
his wonderful father to a less troublous world. When
Ireland's mightiest child expired far from the land he
loved so well and long, the magic word that, uttered
by his potent voice, could summon myriads burning
with enthusiasm round regal Tara or mounded Mul-
laghmast, lost its maddening virtue. A band of
frenzied neophytes, whose talk was all of blood,
whose deeds were a farcical abortion, grasped at the
reins of an unruly team which had for many a year
proved the matchless vigour of the wary charioteer,
and all was forthwith plunged in irretrievable ruin.
Of those misguided men some are exiled felons in the
nether ends of the earth, others tearing out each
others eyes in New York. Repeal, which JOHN
O'Corizier.r. naturally looked upon as the Palladium
of his native land, wus by these dangerous fools
defiled, defaced, draggled through the mire, until
nothing was left of the idol but a shapeless and loath-
some mass of rottenness. Far better for his quiet
and his fame had he then and there foresworn
the desecrated cause, nor strove to summon
followers, by the call of a penny whistle,
around him in the halls where multitudes, with
bosoms beating high with hope, were wont to rush
at the summons of the Arch-Agitator's pealing
trumpet. All is, however, now vanished like a
dream, and wishing Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL lengthened
years of health, of competence, and of every happiness
in the honourable avocations of a professional career,
and the smooth retirement of domestic life, we bid
farewell to him as a public character without repro-
bation and without applause.
Rumour assigns already several candidates for the
vacated seat. Mr. RUSSELL (whom Heaven bless for
his magnificent contributions to the provision market)
on the Liberal interest—Mr. G. J. O'ColinELL on the
Repeal dodge—and, on Protectionist principles, Mr.
VERNIER, brother of Lord GORT, and Captain
GotIGH, the only son of the Hero of So-
braon. With regard to the result of the
impending election we feel no excruciating interest.
Emboldened by the recent untoward discomfiture of
the Liberal interest in Cork. the Protectionist faction
are now busy marshalling their forces in Ireland.
They will, of course, show considerable fight in the
second city of the south, but we trust no similar
stigma will be permitted in this instance. The me-
tropolis of Munster has suffered itself to be signally
befooled through an impolitic division in the Liberal
camp ; and although, protection apart, no more
estimable representative could have been chosen by
its electors than the popular and gallant Colonel who

ATURDAY EV_

carried off the prize, the result should be a solemn
warning to the enlightened constituencies of Ireland.
Should, however, our anticipations be falsified, and
the estrum which at present maddens the Protectionist
herd in the sister island be suffered to goad the bread-
tax retrogessionists in Limerick to rampant victory,
we shall be almost tempted to view the electoral
folly of the Garryowen boys in a venial light, if their
choice should light upon the scion of a family long
and justly honoured in their city—the son of a brave
and beloved hero, who has bled freely for his country
from the day when he struck down the Gallic
eagle on Barrossa's bloody brow, until,
after planting the triumphant British flag
upon the coasts of the Celestial Empire, he
smote to the dust the sternest chivalry of Asia upon
the death strewn banks of the Sutlej. Although the
addition of another unit to the ranks of protection
can have no perceptible effect as regards the great
and settled question of the Abrogation of the Corn-
laws, we should regret to sEe the good sense of this
important city tarnished. Of the Protectionist agi-
tators of Ireland we would say nothing personally
disrespectful—personal abuse we leave to others—but
we cannot but denounce them as political madmen.
Why will Lord GLENGALL misapply his unquestioned
sincerity and his admitted talents in the feverish pur-
suit of a phantom ? Must he not be conscious that he
is, to say the least of it, fighing against fearful odds,
that he is leading a forlorn hope ? The days of
Oligarchy are numbered. A blindedjportion of the
landlords of the empire may delude themselves into
an intoxicating notion that the great machine of
social policy can be made to recede at their behest,
but they will ere long be compelled to confess, after
toilsome expenditure of breath and ink, that they
might just as profitably apply their energies towards
attempting a repeal of the Legislative Union, a
rescinding of the Catholic Emancipation Act, a
re- enfranchisement of the Rotten Boroughs, a restora-
tion of the Ileptarchy, or a revival of Paganism, as
in striving for that most futile and inane chimera, the
Resuscitation of the Corn-laws. Common sense has
pronounced their irrevocable condemnation—common
sense forbids their blighting resurrection.

lIHE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Moniteur publishes a decree, signed by the
PRESIDENT of the Republic, dated January 1, 1850,
appointing General JEROME BONAPARTE a Marshal
of France, on account of his services in 1807, 1809,
and 1812, and in 1815 on the field of 'Waterloo, and
for that, he, at the head of his division, was one of
the last to put his sword back into his sheath when
the enemy invaded France. _

At the sitting of -the Assembly yesterday, the
Members proceeded to elect the President and the
Vice. Presidents for the ensuing quarter. The follow-
ing was the result of the ballot for President :

Number of voters 470.
M. DUPIN .. .• ... 288
M. MicnED (DE BOURGES) ... 111
M. BARROT ••• ••• • • 46
_ _ .

M. DUPIN;;; accordingly declared to be re
elected.

After the election M. DARU presented the report
of the committee on the amendment proposed by M.
DE RANCE to the original motion for a vote of credit
for the affairs of the Rio de la Plata. The report
having alluded to the success which had hitherto
always attended armed negotiations in South Ame
rice, went on to state that while the committee could
not accept the amendment of M. DE RANCE, they
yet recognised the justness of the spirit which
had suggested it. The principle of the amendment
had then their approbation, and they accepted it, but
in doing so they thought that the Executive should
be allowed to decide on the way in which an armed
negotiation should be carried out. It was in
this way the committee understood the term
action, which had been so much criticised, and he
affirmed that the conduct of the committee had been
perfectly consistent. He had in conclusion, on the
part of the committee, to move the following amend-
ment :

" The National Legislative Assembly invites the exe-
cutive power to support the negotiations which the latter
proposes to undertake by forces sufficient to ensure their
success and the safety of the French subjects in La
Plata."

M. DE RANCE then ascended the tribune, and
argued at length in support of his amendment. He
declared that he could see no middle course between
armed negotiation in the d.cided and serious sense of
the word, and abandonment of the Plate River.
M. de LAUSSAT combatted this view.

The debate will probably be adjourned. It is said
that the Government will not accept the amendment.
In the committee it was resolved by a majority of 9
to 6, that the armed force should be sufficient to
secure a solution becoming the national honour and
the gravity of the interest at stake.
Previous to the meeting of the Assembly, the
Members assembled in the bureaux to name the
Presidents and Secretaries for the month of February.
The following are the results :

PESIDENTB.

SECRETARIES.
MM.
De Riancey.
Do Tallouet.
Denjoy.
Favreau.
Dampier d'Hormoy.
Leyerrier.
Eschasseriaux.
De Brias.
De Mortemart.
Lesperut.
De Lagrange.
De Dampierre.
Fremy.
Ga•londe.
Celea.

M M.
Ist b. Lion Faucher.
2d Crousellee.
3d General Ralhidres.
4th De Laussat.
sth Baroche.
6th Molt.
7th De Flavigny.
Bth General Oudinot.
9th Buffet.
10th Le pelletierd'A ulnay
11th Odilion Barra.
12th L'AmiralCecile.
13th De Balzac.
14th Coquerel.
15th General Leflo.
In these divisions the Members of the pert-pretre
opposed the Ministry, as they had done on the law
relating to primary instructors. In the division in
the first bureau they voted for M. EstaxuEL ARAGo,
a Member of the Extreme Left, in opposition to M.
Lzos FAUCHER, while in the tenth they started M.
BEEHTER against M. LEPELLETIER D'aULEAT.
The division on the Thursday and the Ministerial
majority of 29 is the subject of comment in almost
all the papers. The Constitutionnel says—
"a That is a very small majority, after the disgraceful
and afflicting spectacle of which we were witnesses. We
should bare believed that there would have been as
many repentant Members in the Moderate party yester-
day as there were renegades on the previous day. The
majority had before its eyes the sad example of the
disorder and odious anarchy to which the national re-
presentation was subjected when a division took place in
its ranks. All the voices, all the interruptions of the
Montagnards rung in their ears the enormous fault
which they had committed in voting with them. They
saw what a terrible pledge they had nearly given to
Socialism, by the desperate efforts made by the Montag-
nerds to retain that pledge which the rectified ballot
tore from them."

The Journal des Debuts says—
" The night thus brought counsel with it; the great
party of order felt the necessity of rallying itself after
defeat. In so doing it recovered its strength, and re-
gained the game which appeared to be lostl Out of evil
comes good; we should willingly say, if we might hope
that the majority would profit by this experience. Will
not this sad incident be instructive? will it not be suffi-
cient to show once more that the majority may save all
byit divisions
its
union,dio as and q as
it
tmauy compromise and lose all by in-
ternal quarrels? A last lesson to be drawn
from these two sittings is that the mode now adopted
for taking the votes is intolerable. A process which
opens the door to such frequent errors and to such dis-
graceful scenes as we have just witnessed is definitively
condemned. It must be replaced as soon as possible by
some other; it is really a case of urgency."
The peril pretre, like their tools the Bourbons,
have learned nothing, have forgotten nothing; they
boast that they can command 110 votes, and that
those votes shall be employed to harrass and embarass
every Government which will not co-operate with
them to restore the reign of the priests and Jesuits.
The next revolution (and these persons seem bent on
rendering a new revolution inevitable) will make
short work with the priests, who have now com-
pletely thrown off the mask which they assumed in
February, 1848 • they will not succeed in deceiving
the French people twice.
The Turkish and English Ambassadors had long
conferences with the Minister of Foreign Affairs on
Thursday.
The Lyons Gazette of the 2d inst. announces the
death, by cholera, of two soldiers in the military
hospital of that city.
The Bourse was dull to-day, and public securities
declined slightly. The Five per Cents. opened at
92f. 80c., and closed at 921. 65c. ; the Tbree per
Cents., at 561. 80c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares,
800 f. ; Rouen, 5721. 50c. ; Havre, 2421. 50c. ;
Great Northern, 4561. 25c.; Avignon, 2151.; Bssle,
1131. 75c. ; Bordeaux, 408 f. 75c.; Paris and Stras-
burgh, 357 f. 50c.; Tours and Nantes, 271 f. 25c.

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