The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-18 00:00:00

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ER MAJESTY'S THEATIi E.
THE GRAND _NATIONAL CONCERTS.
The LAST WEEK of the present season.
Two Farewell .Nights of Madile. ANGRI.
Mr. BALFE S Benefit on MONDAY next.
THIS EVENLNG.
The Pastoral Symphonic Beethoven.
°vertu: a to 3lassaniello, Auber.
The Grand Battle Overture, Lindpainter.
The Caliph's March, from the new Serenata, " The Sleeper
Awakened, Macfarren.
Grand Selection from Donizetti's Opera, La Figlia del Reggimento,
L. Negri.
Miss Poole, Molique, Al ban, Baumann, Barret, and Richardson.
Musical Director, Composer, and Conductor—M. lialfe.
Conductor of La Musique de Danse—Herr Labitzky.
Promenade (admitting to the Half-Circles, Gallery
and Pit Stalls)l 6
The Doors open at Half-past Seven, and the Concerts will com-
mence at Eight, and terminate about Eleven.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. E. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton.
MR. MACREADY.
THIS EVENING,
The Single Act of the Second Past of HENRY THE FOURTH.
Henry IV , Mr. Macready.
To be folowed by the JEALOUS WIFE, in which Mr. Macready
will appear.
Ater which A RADICAL CURE.
To conclude with MRS. WHITE. Peter White, Mr. H. Bedford.
•

THEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI.
Under the direction of Madame Celeste.
TILLS EVENING,
Will be performed a new aol original Drama, entitled JESSIE
GRAY. Characters by Ifessrs. Ilrghes, Boyce, 0. Smith, P. Bed-
ord, Madame Celeste, and MISS K. Fitzwilliam.
After which a new Fqrte called THE i-;CHOOL FOR TIGERS ;
or, The Shilling Hop. Captain Kitaflyer, Mr. Boyce ; Major Stiff,
Mr. Worrell; Mr. Panels, Mr. Wright; Alexander Panels, Miss
Chaplin.
To be followed by a new and original Farce, in the Vulgar
Tongue, to be called JACK IN THE GREEN; or, Hints on Eti-
quette.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. C. Keaa and Mr. Keeley.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed the First Part of HENRY IV. Fa'still', Mr.
Bartley.

After which BETSY BAKER; or, "Too Attentive by Half."
Characters by Messrs. J. Vining, Kecley, Stirs. Keeley, and Miss
Murray.
To conclude with TO PAZENTS and GUARDIANS.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame VestriS.
Solo Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed

THE IZINGDOTEb.

To be followed by
A DAY OF RECKONING.

To A PRACTICAL MAN. conclude with

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
• THIDA EVENING.
Will be performed HEARTS ARE TEIMPS.
To be followed by ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA
After which THE UNPROTECTED FEMALE.
To eonlude with ALLOW ME TO APOLOGISE.

AS'ILEY'S _ROYAL ..I.AirfIITILEATRE.
Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
Extraordinary series of attractive novelties. Second week of the
Revival of TURPIN'S RIDE to YORK.
THIS E VEN I NG,
The Grand new Spectacle of KE.NNILSi ORTH ; or the Golden Days
of the Virgin Queen. with new and costly costumes.
Together with Batty's Splendid Scenes of the Circle, introducing
the Magnificent Stud and Company of unequalled Artistes.
The whole concluding with the Equestrian Drama (for the firs
time these five years) of TURPIN'S RIDE to YORK. ,
Extensive preparations are now being made for the production •
a new and original Equestrian Comic Pantomime, written expressly
for this Theatre, by G. 11. Rodwell, Esq.
Box-office open from Eleven till Four.
Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson.

EMIL W.ATER Al LONDON BRIDGE.
Tens DAT —Morning 47 min. after 12 1 Evening 11 min. after I
To-slop-tow—Morning 32 min. after 1 1 Evening 54 Alin. after 1

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER, la
THERMOMETER, Di THE SHADE.
42—highest since noon yesterday.
29—lowest this morning and during the night.
36—this day, at noon.

Those who were so long indifferent to the suffer-
ings of the industrious classes, who regarded as the
triumph of legislation the mischievous and iniquitous
enactments that imposed undue restrictions on the
issue of bank-notes, thus rendering money scarce,
and, of course, dear, are already startled from their
propriety on discovering that the tide has already
turned, and that there is every reason to suppose that
owing to the abundant supply of gold from Cali
ferule, to which we have already alluded,
the idol which they have set up will be
overturned, and that its votaries and worshippers
will share in its prostration. The most ridiculous
suggestions, worthy of a semi-barbarous age, ignorant
of the first principles of econominal science, have
already not only been thrown out, but seriously
canvassed, and if the advice, freely tendered, should
be followed, we should behold in the middle of the
19th century a repetition of the commercial absurdity
by which the inhabitants of the Spice lelande en-
deavoured to keep up and enhance the pi ices of their
commodities, by the wilful and deliberate cis struc
tion of a great part of their produce. The
Dutch colonists then decided what quantity of nut-
megs, &c., would b sufficient for the supply of the
world on the scale suited to their own narrow views,
and the remainder of the crop was solemnly burned
in the presence of the authorities, thus neutralising the
bJuntic s of PROVIDENCE for their own short-sighted
purposes ; and their admirers and would-be imitators
of the present day would, as far as practicable, follow
their brilliant examp7e. " Protection to bullion" is
now the cry, and that by persons who would not for a
moment sanction protection to any of the natural pro-
ductions of their own country. Much has not as yet been
said in England on the subject. As silver is only a legal
tender to the extent of 405., and the change in its
value has not as yet amounted to the enormous
seignorage charged by our Government on its coinage,
which, in ordinary
times, when silver could be ob-
tained at 4s. 1] id. per ounce, amounted to more than
11 per cent., the pound troy of standard silver being
coined into 66 shillings, or the ounce into ss. 6d.,
we have not as yet experienced the natural results
of the change. It has not as yet become a pro-
fitable speculation to withdraw our silver
currency from circulation, and export it largely to
the continent. That period must, however, speedily
arrive, and then active measures will become es-

BAROME rER, 29.47.
WIND S. W.- cold breeze and fine.

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.
State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
KINGSTowN (Dumax) —Wind W.N.W., strong breeze—
partially cloudy.
PLYmouTn—Wind N.W., strong breeze—rain.
Poaxsaitoura—Wind W., strong breeze—rain.
BRIGHTON—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
HASTINGS—Wind W., stronglbreeze—partially cloudy.
SOUTHAMPTON—Wind W., strong breeze—overcast.
FoLKESTONE—Wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
BASINGSTOKE —Wind S.W., strong breeze—overcast.
READING—Wind S.W., calm —overcast.
GREENWICH—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
SWINDON—Win,I S.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
LElcirrox - Wind S.W., strong breeze—overcast.
Cammunoz—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
RUGnir—Wind E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
ParrnanonouGu —Wind S W., gent le breeze—partially cloudy.
YARMOUTH—Wind W., bard wind—cloudless.
CnEwE—Wind S.W., Iresh breeze— partially cloudy.
CONWAY—Wind W.S.NV., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
HOLYHEAD—Wind NV , hard wind—partially cloudy.
LivEnrooL—Wind ger:tle breeze—cloudless.
YORK—Wind S.W., gentle bri.eze —partially cloudy.
LAICASTRIC—ti~'ind ti. W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
WIIITItY—Wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
SHAY—Wind W., strong breeze snow.
SUNDERLAND—Wind W., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
Can.usiLE—Wind S. W., breeze—partially cloudy.
BEATTOCK—Wind N., gentle breeze—overcast.
BERWICK—Wind W. gentle breeze rain.
EDLNEt:ItUII—Wind N., gentle breeze - foggy.
Thu returns from the following places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Monday morning at nine
o'clock:—
CORK—Wind W., strong breeze—h.,:avy rain.
CARLoW—Wiud S.W., hard wiod—rain.

The mean daily reading of the barometer at the Royal
Ooservatory, Greenwich, was higheet on Sunday, Nviien it
was 30232 inches; it was also above 20 inches on the two
following days; the mean of the week was 29.934 inches.
The temperature was lowest on Tuesday, when the daily mean
was 32'8°, which is less by 6° than the average of the same
day in seven years. It rose on Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday, when the mean was about 46°, or 6* above the
average. The mean of the whole week was 40•1°. The
wind was for the most part in the south-east on the first four
days, and in the south-west for the rest of the week.

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sential.
On the continent the question as to " the pro•
priety of interfering by legislative means with the na-
tural results of the Californian discoveries" is already
seriously discussed. In Holland the gold currency—
the five and ten guilder pieces—have already been
called in, and the double standard of value has been
A more interesting, Message has never been sub.. abolished. A large sum, about 4,000,000/., has thereby
mitted to the Americas Congress by the United been released, which will naturally find its way
States' PRES/ =EDIT than the one published elsewhere is to England, the only nation in the world where gold
our impression of this evening. More important do. is the exclusive standard. The greater portion of
cuments of the like character have, doubtless, been the produce of California will eventually follow to
issued before now, but none, we are bold.-to say, the sia'e market. Our coin will become seriously
more peculiarly attractive. Besides being addressed depreciates, its relative value with the currency of
to a newly-elected Legislature, the official manifesto . other nations will ba completely changed. We con-
in; question possesses another equally striking feature, fess hat we can look upon this contingency without
in the circumstance that it may be considered as the apprehension. When gold is clisap and plentiful our
first decided intimation of the policy about to be ad-
foreign ccrr,spondents will no longer take it
ventured upon by the newly appointed chief magis- 'in exlbarge for their commodities. In place
tra4 of the great Transatlanctic Democracy. Ikis true, I of instructing their agents to forward the amount to
that immediately on his elevation to the rank of Presi- which they are entitled in gold they will receive it in
dent MILLARD Faudoaz addressed a message to the our manufactures, the prices of which will rise in
representatives of the Republic, announcing his nog, consequence, and so will every other article. The

such a change on your part, is what I should have nation as the successor of ZACHARY TAYLOR. That
least expected, and what I still 1 .13 know how to ac- Message, however, W 29 written, be it remembered,
count for. You have promised in your letter to send me
a further explanation, but a fortnight has elapsed with-
hurriedly, in the extraordinary exigency of the mo-
out my having received any. I can hardly persiaade meat, consequent on the melancholy event which de-
myself that you seriously mean what your letter asserts, prived the United States of the abilit and interit
viz.,
that you mean to throw me off because another y g y
sweetheart, who I learn from your letter with sad sur-
.conqueror of Mexico. At length the states-
prise was formerly in faeeur, has now returned to his man selected to follow in the footsteps of old Rough
allegiance. Surety, I, who have never departed from and Ready has been enabled to articulate his real
that allegiance, have the most claim to your kindness, and
I feel sure that when you come to consider the matter sentiments
the Congress newly assembled at
seriously you will allow me to resume that place in your Washington, with due time for serious and earnest
esteem which you have permitted another to usurp. You consideration. Hence it is that we regard the
say you should not be happy were ycu to keep your en- Message now published in our columns as the first
gagsment with me, but in this I must differ from you,
Veritable
and I am firmly persuaded that you would have a righteritable revelation of his views in regard to the ve-
to expect happiness from the future consciousness of cessities of the Government.
having fulfilled your duty towards me. Pray do not Comprehensive as the document before us is, un-
thinklghtly of this; reflect on the pain of mind you questionably, in its actual dimensions, MILLARD Fenn-
inflict on me, and remember that a young man seriously
deprived of the hope to which he was adhering with MORE has only been enabled to indicate briefly, and
fondness receives au injury which is beyon the sometimes incidentally, his opinions in reference to
surgeon's skill. I run not, my dear Mary Ann, the the various subjects therein passed under scrutiny—.
coward for which you take me. Ido not give you up as
hopeless, because you have expressed a sentiment differ- so numerous are the topics alluded to, and so peen-
ing from those which I have always heard from you. I liarly diversified in their character. Even a hasty
am ready at once to perform my part of our engage- glance through the Presidential Message will be suf-
ment, and will take you, whenever convenient to your- ficient to show that several of its themes are
self, and I hope a no unwilling sacrifice, to that altar
which I would not approach lightly, and on which I of more than usual interest, and some of
shall call you to plight your faith to me, and I promise them of a more than ordinary importance.
carefully to guard the happiness which will be thus in- They relate to one or other of the different
trusted to my care. I hope your last letter was candid; n deartments of the administration. In one instance,
you distinctly say that there is no other reason for your -
wishing to break off the engarment than that an old indeed, they even go beyond those widely-extended
sweetheart has returned, and now stands in my place. limits ;we mean where the PRESIDENT recommends
Answer me frankly, for if you are disguising the reason to the Congress the establishment of an agricultural
you are not dealing fairly by me. If you have any ob-
jection to my person, or any dislike to my address or bureau in the Government. Generally speaking, the
habits, you ought to inform me of it, that I might have language employed by him throughout is of a highly
the opportunity of altering what displeases you, and of satisfactory kind, gratifying as to the past and en-
becoming more agreeable to your taste. Do nct keep couraging as to to the future filling the minds of the
me in suspense, as I have been a long time without ;
hearing from you as I expected. I accept your pretty American citizens with confidence in the intentions of
purse, but I have not expended for you nearly as much his Government. At the very outset of his
as you sent me. I have therefore a balance to strike observations Mr. Funmonse intimates clean
with you, but feel no disposition to be in a hurry about y
it, as I hope cur future interview; will be lung, inti- enough his fixed and unalterable determina-
mate, and many.—l am, my dear Mary Ann, yours tion to abide in all things by the obvious
affectionately,
principles of the Constitution. Insomuch, indeed,
would this appear to be his resolve, that he announces
his intention to submit all questions of a dubious de-
scription to the judicial decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States, so that a guarantee will
be thereby afforded to the public that in no case will
the polity of the nation be marred by false precedents
or by unnecessary encroachments. In the event,
moreover, of any enactment passing through both
Houses of Congress which may seem to him to be un-
constitutional in its nature, or an infraction of the pri-
vileges of any one department, the extraordinary
powers of the veto, confided to the PRESIDENT by the
Constitution, will, it is intimated, be employed
by him for the purpose of guarding against
any injurious consequences. Having satisfied his
conscience by this bold and explicit declara-
tion, Mr. FILLMORE proceeds to the elucidation
of his ideas in regard to the various points likely to
be brought under the consideration of the Republican
Legislature. He informs the Congress that in re-
ference to the subject of Foreign Relations little is left
to be accomplished in the carrying out of the treaty,
lately ratified between Great Britain and the United
States, as to the construction-of a ship canal connec-
ting the Pacific with the Atlantic, and passing through
the American isthmus at the territory of Nicaragua.
Ile asserts, even, that that little may be said to refer
merely to the indication and construction of a free•
port at each end of. this canal, and the designation
of certain boundaries from shore to shore, within
which all belligerent operations must terminate. He
proclaims, in reference to the Slave Question, that the
laws as they now stand shall be rigorously adminis-
tered, and accompanies the declaration with remarks
of an admonitory kind, addressed to the conflicting
parties in the United States, the Abolitionists and the
Non-Abolitionists. He gives a satisfactory sketch of
the financial condition of the Republic, pointing out
a considerable reduction in the National Debt as
having taken place since the last annual report from
the Treasury department. He presents, likewise, a
rapid outline of the contemplated Tariff, by which it
is intended to raise a large portion of the revenue
needful towards the support of the Government, by
the levying of certain moderate duties upon articles
of importation—expressing, at the same time,
his preference for duties rather specific than
ad valorem. Added to the foregoing should be
mentioned one or two other intimations embodied in
this remarkable Message of the American PRESIDENT.
He suggests, for example, that a mint should be
organized and forthwith established in California.
Ha recommends a reduction of charges in the Post-
cffice department. He advises the extending of pro-
tection to American commerce in Asia. Ile
avows himself favourably disposed towards
various schemes of internal improvement, among
which may be enumerated the creation of
a pension-fund for the naval and military profes-
sions, and the construction of houses of refuge for
those who have distinguished themselves by their pa-
triotic and meritorious behaviour. Throughout the
whole document may be discovered an ever-present
solicitude to fulfil, to the best of his energies, the
vast responsibilities of his position—a solicitude
which must prove the best safeguard from error and
the most wholesome incitement towards reforms of a
constitutional character.