The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-23 00:00:00

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KENILWORTH CASTLE
As it appeared on the occasioa of Good Queen Bess's Royal Iris_
For further particulars inquire of Sir Walter Scott. It is an histori-
cal fact that Good Queen Bees paid the Earl of Leicester a visit, and
"paid the piper." This, his gorgeous fete, half ruined him ; there-
(7. I se pity his fate, but must admire his wondrous generosity, for
he ever hoped for in return was—halt-a-crown. The
level Ear fore-
stalls Shakspere, by discovering " that the course of true nver
did rain smooth," for here be Meets with some twenty " competi-
tears," and to him they dopetit ours," for they prove per-
fect bears, or, more properly speaking, bores. A Lovers' Quarrel
on a grand ecale, a sort of " tiff for the million," takes place, which,
although beginning in love, ends in war, and the total destraction of
THE SPANISH ARMADA!
By Warner's Fuhninating Blow-np—Tragedy has now done his
worst, and Rich finding that even Rich must become poor if war
continues, proposes a" Peace Congress," and brings all to a close
by making them all change their elothes—
The Earl of Leicester puts on the motley garb of Harlegain, M.
Lord Berleigh that of Pantaloon, M. J. Dentin.
The 'Earl of Essex that of Clown, Mr. C. Stilt,
And Amy Robsart dons the Robe d'Amour of Colimbine, Madlle.
Thesdore.
All we have further to say for Good Queen Bess is—Vivat Regina,
off she Welcome, Old Friends, 'tis Ion; since we
m!" " Here we are " How are you?"
PRESERVE AND PICKLE WA
CE.REHOUSE, AND RAILWAY
OFFI
Cupid and Clown—Butter and Batterfiles—Hungarian Knock-'em-
T)owns, and German Toys—War to the Knife, and Terrific Explo-
'en —Railway Offices to Let—Pantaloon becomes Tenant—Shares
Di.-sconnt—Clown Cooks Accompts, and Railway King in Tribu-
lation—Change to
INTERIOR OF CATACOMBS 1
SIMPSON'S DIVAN AND TAVERN, Strand.
- most approved way of Cooking a Goose—Clown makes himself
Welcome—the Waiters at Fault—a Transformatio—Clown Puzzled
—Calf's Head for One—A Kitten Wanted—Save the Credit of the
Establishmeut—Poliee Police i—and Change to
EXETER HALL.
Meeting of the Peace Congress—How to get tiP a Rew—PrOSyliteS
Beware—Humbug the Order of the Day—Embracing at a Premium,
and Domestic Tableau of the Happy Family,
POULTERER'S AND SHOP TO LET.
Stick no Bills, in case you should Kill Sweet Will.
A DOBNRIGHT "NOBBY DANCE."
Heals Win the Prize.
SMITIIFIELI..-
Potafoes all Hot—Toss and Buy—Three real Epping Sausages, and
Bread, for One Penny—A. Mad Bull—Pork versus Tabbies —A Re-
for Enlarging Smithfield Market —Holloway's Purifying Pills--
portY Triff—Gn greatly Reduced—Warranted not tot roduce Spon-
taneous Combustioa—Puff, the Order of the Day—uach and the
City Nalaance--Go it, Bricks —and Sudden Transfot motion to
SALUBRIOU3 SPOT.
• STREET AND LO
What will be seen here is of little use to those who have no eyes.
—" Lend
w*' en y u,me your Oh, what a falling off, my countrymen,
and I, and all of us, fell dovrn."—Shakspere.
BED-ROOM IN LODGING-HOUSE,
Cenafortable Quarters—Lola, and the Gallant Son of Mars—Clown's
Mims of Warm and Convenient Arrangements—Good Night—Late
Tialtor Troublesome Customer—Mr. Walker, an intruder—
Novel Mode of Expelling same—A Stormy Night—Clown and Pan-
taloon-in Great Alarm—lncantation Extraordinary—and General
Chamber Polka.
CHARING-CROSS AND STRAND.
What's to be done ?—Buy the Lady's Newspaper.
FROST FAIR ON THE THAMES.
Ice Soup—Temperance Hetet, J. Frost.—N.B. Iced Chaffipagiee—
Qh, the Roast Beef of Old England !—Sports of the Glacearum—
" Plaisirs d'Hiver"—Clown wants some Fish, but can only
does.
get
Skate, which he finds rather tough ;it won't go down, be
FATHER THA AES' RETREAT,
1, Tiddyball'3 Alley, in the middle of the Thames, with Brass Door
and Gingerbread Knocker.
General " Meeting of the Waters"—The Alarm—Summoning of the
City Abominations—Arrival of tile Resident Director of the" Silent
Highways"—Fearful Resolve-114.arshalling of the Forces—Grand
Attack, and Tableau of Interest.
SOUTHAMPTON WATERS, WITH VESSEL
For California or anywhere else.
GRAND MOVING DIORAMA,
designed and painted entirely by lsrunning. Illustration of Her
Most Gracious Ilaje.-ty's Visit to Ireland, showing the following
-) :of interest : —Departure for Osborne —Passing Cowes and
aPproaching the NeeiThs—The Royal Yacht passing through the
Fit:et at Portsmouth—The Eddystone Lighthouse—Passing d
the
Land's End at Suneet—The Royal Squasiro a hundred more !
n by Meenlight—an
Arrival at Queen's Town. Three cheers and
Scene the Last.
THE PALUX OF PANTOMIME.
Stage Manager, Mr. James Anderson.
Acting Manager, Mr. IV. Bennett. Treasurer. Mr. W. Dunn.
Musical Director, Mr. G. 11. Rodwell.
Leader of the Band, Mr. J. W. Thirlwall.
Bsilet Mistress, Madame Louise.
Scenic Artists—Messrs. Brunning, Jones, Wilson, C. Adams, and
Assistants.
Decorative Artist, Mr. W. Blamire. Machinist, Mr. W. Adams.
Stage Director, Mr. T. Thompson. Prompter, Mr. C. Melville.
Costumiers, Mr. Palmer and Miss Biggs.
BoX-book-keeper, Mr. J. roves".

FRENCH PLAXS and OPERA COMIQUE,
ST. MES'S THEATRE.
Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce that the French
rformances at the M. James's Theatre will commence
THIS EVENING,
by the prodactien of a new Orra, in Three Acts, entitled
LE arAL D'ANDORRH.
Stephan, M. Lac; Le Joyeux, M. Chollet; Satarnin, M. Killy
Leal ; Jacques Sincere, M. Nathan ; Theresa, Madlle. Galehard ;
Seorgette, Madlie. Cotti ; Rose de Mai, Madlle. Charton.
Thae nos-office of tho Theatre is open daily from Eleven till
F

THEATRE ROYAL, lIATMARICET.
Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Bromptou.
THIS EVENING,
Will be presented am entirely new and original Comedy, entitled
TRIP YEAR ; or, The Ladies' Privilege. Sir Solomon Solas, Mr.
Keeley ; Captain Mouser, Mr. Selby ; Mr. Dimple, Mr. Buckstone ;
William 'Walker, Mr. Charles Kean ; Mrs. Flora Flower,!ew, Mrs.
Charles Kean ; Miss Sally O'Leary, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Mrs. Crisp,
Mrs. Keeley.
NINTH STATUE or, The Jewels and
After which THE
The Gem. Principal characters by Mr. Munyard, Miss P. Horton,
Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, and Miss K. Iltzwilliam.
To conclude with THE SWISS COTTAGE.
The Box-office is wider the direction of Mr. L T. Archer.

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THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPHI.
Under tke direction ns Madame Celesta.
THIS EVENING
Will be pertormed a new domestic Drama,
called THE WILLOW
COPSE. Principal characters by Messrs. llnghes, Wright, P. Bea-
ton' , 0. Smith, Worrell ; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar.
Aster which FRANKENSTEIg ; or, The Model Man. Franken-
stein, sir. Wright ; the What is It ? Mr. P. Bedford; Zamiel, M
Misr.
E.
0.
Smith; Otto of Rosenberg, Miss Woeigar. ; Tiddlewincz,
s
Chl,P111" ; Agatha, Miss Coveny . Tudine, Miss B. Harding.
URY'S
0 ba followed by a new slippery sketch called MRS. BUNB
lair. Wright°Ni l\.
' Job an
ir.nighbury Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford ; Bob Twinks,
kiSmith, Mr. 0. Smith : Mrs. Bbury,
kttbews; Mrs. liMrs. F.
ighbury Barnes, Miss Brooks..

1101 CAL LYChUM THEATtikI.
linden tho Management of Madame Vet's.
nllo Loma, Mr. Charlet Mathews.,
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed AN APPEAL--TO THE P IMMO.
Atler which THE ISLAND OF JEWELS.
To conclude with HE WOULD RE► AN ACTOR.
Dress Boxes 5-.. Upper ttote;, 4s. ; Pit, 21..; Gallery, Is.. /To
half-price to atsy part of the home.
~111 apple atolls for rrivate Boxes must be maa e to Mr. Allcroft, 15
New Bond-street. •

PRINCESS'S THEATC.E.
Mr. J. M. Maddox, S
EVENIoIe LassNa, and Manager.
THIS G,

win be performed a new Opera, entitled CHARLES THE SE-
COND.
To cOnelaile witlx. KING JAMIE ; or, Harlequin and magic Fiddle
Harlequin, Yr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Clown, Mr. Flex.
more ; columbine, 31 i3s Fawcett.

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ASTLET"3 ROYAL AMPTIIBattyTHEATRA.
- • previctor, ?Ar. W.
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• . A Grand Juvenile Night, commencing with the Pantomime
• ?Will take place on Thursday.
I tit, EITFN i bli ,
......._411". W %ZIA SerfOrmance will commence at a Quarter to Sewn, with a
- ...- • tielecolippe peetacle of THE KNIGHT OF THE EAGLE CREST;
Z,:!'r , -Thl iKof Love, in which Nir. N. T. Hicks will appear.
4,_ ' 10-tlts •, by a brilliant'illeplay of Batty's peerless scenes of
4......;‘.
t
..'"/ - - P,f,C-it-o__A) 2.tV:. ,ed by the acco:nplished artistes of the establish-
''i,'.i tient.: - -i •-•
• t•-.•., T0..-,4llSlikierth R grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime, by Nei-
oral 1,0,---*-d- 041 ARLEQUIN YANKEE. DOODLE, xho, *me to
.
top,:;ipmtnttle Pony.
' - x-office open from Eleven till Four.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1850.

Within a fortnight Parliament will have re-assem
bled, and then, besides many questions of vital im-
portance to the community at large, various matters
of a less general interest will come in rapid succession
under the consideration of the Legislature. Among
the latter we are sanguine that the great wrong done
to an officer in the military service of her Most
Gracious Majesty the Queen of ENGLAND—a de-
plorable violation of the laws of this country, and of
the abstract principles of justice to which we our-
selves have already referred—will not be overlooked.
Oar solicitude would unquestionably have been most
earnest had the evil influenced alone the fortunes of
this afflicted gentleman ; but seeing that, through him,
the status of the whole British army is assailed, our
anxiety that such an enormous error should be recti-
fied ie, if that be possible, considerably enhanced.
Hid the lamentable misprisions of justice to which
we are here making allusion affected simply and ex-
clusively the position of a single one of the sub-
jects of her Britannic MAJESTY, we could not, we
repeat, have remained indifferent to a circumstance so
glaringly fraught with disgrace to the whole body poli-
tic. The recollection of the memorable remark uttered
by one of the renowned men of antiquity-1110e se ununt
civent sereare, roam mule hostes occidere—would
have been sufficient of itself to provoke our advocacy
of the violated rights of a fellow-countryman, and
must inevitably have elicited from all quarters
of the empire words of horror and indignation.
Nevertheless, beyond the cruelty evinced toward
a solitary unit in the population of Greet
Britain, the sentence of the recent Court-
martial at Guernsey has betrayed a capacity on the
part of those tribunals to disorganize the whole ma-
chinery of the martial power of England. To pre-
vent the recurrence of such atrocious decisions, to re-
instate an officer wrongfully and ignominiously dis-
missed from the army of his SOVEREIGN, to dissipate
for ever these scarcely resistible incitements to in-
subordination—must be the aim, the desire, and the
resolution of every individual alive to the calls i f
justice and of patriotism. Hence it is that we are
induced to recur betimes to a subject already com-
mented upon in these columns at some length, and
which must, before many weeks have expired, he
formally brought under discussion in one, if not both,
of the Howes of Parliament.
One fact, which has been conspicuously demon-
strated by the late occurrence in the Channel Islands,
would, if considered alone, be ample justification for
a demand for the re-7rganization of military juris-
prudence—namely, that "in the existing state of the
law the unfortunate accused has no means of knowing
the sentence which has crushed him until it has been
ratified (by the Crown), carried into execution, and
therefore irrevocable " Surely, than this nothing
more violently opposed to the commonest principles
of justice could be contrived even under the most
Dionysian despotism. Toat a prisoner should be
deprived of all the chances of remonstrance until such
time as any remonstrance whatever is worse than
futile, is a system in direct contravention of all the
dogmas of British jurisprudence. It is to effect the
abolition of such an execrable scheme of punishment
that the energies of every true-hearted citizen in the
land should he directed. It is in the hope of aiding
in the removal of this crying evil from the military
code of Great Britain that we have written, that we
write, that we shall continue to write with such
unintermittent, unaffected, and undiminishable
earnestness. That this evil will be removed, and that,
moreover, very speedily, we are sanguine, with the
assistance of our hereditary legislators and our na-
tional representatives.
Having, in our previous observations on the case of
the unfortunate C iptain of the 16:h Regiment, al-
luded in emphatic terms of admiration to the ela-
borate " Letter," addressed in his behalf to her Most
Excellent Majesty Queen VICTORIA by Mr. WAR-
REN, we may be permitted to instance the force of his
arguments by one or two very forcible quotations
from its introduction. After intimating at the outset
the want of all validity in the proceedings about to be
submitted to the attention of the SOVEREIGN, our
author avers—
" Those proceedings, I uncle take to show were
wrong from Leginning to end: wrong in substance,
wrong in form; wrong in fact, wrong is law; wrong in
the conduct of the inquiry; wrong in th finding; r
wronz
in the sent -ace; wrong in carrying it into effect; wrong
in the recording of the proceedings; wrong in the cos—
firmation uf them Is fore being submitted for your Ma-
jesty's approval; wrong in the rejection c f an appeal
trom that confirmation; wrong, in fact, in everything,
but intention."
Nor, we are bold to sey, will one dissentient voice
be raised against the accuracy of this damning cata-
logue of blunders. Throughout the whole of the 262
pages of this enthralling and masterly pamphlet the
evidences adduced in proof of the veracity ef this
startling preliminary assertion are copious and con-
clusive. Every judgment will recognise the over-
whelming force of the whole exposure, every eye will
perceive at a glance the excessive hardship of every
step in these deplorable transactions, every heart will
revolt from the crookedness of each detail of the
proceeding?.
With these touching sentences the author pre-
ludes his generous and dignified appeal to his
SO/.13E1160 :
"An officer, an accomplished gentleman, of ancient and
honourable family, in the very flower of his age, after
having devoted thirteen years to the faithful and zealous
service of your Majesty, in almost every quarter cf
your world-wide dominions", has been ignominiously ex-
pelled from that service, branded as a liar. He stood on
trial, before his brother-officers, with as high vouchers
to character, as could have teen presented, had it un-
fortunately been rendered necessary by such a casualty
as has befallen him, by any one cf themselves. He NI ai,
moreover, the eldest son of a general officer, who lately
descended to his grave with honour, after half a century
spent in the service of three of your Majesty's prede-
cessors; leaving behind him, as his eldest son, the un-
happy gentleman to whose case I earnestly implore the
attention of your Majesty. His venerable father sleeps
calmly in the dust, from which he might start with
horror, could he know of the blight which had falle.a
Upon the ancient name inscribed upon his tomb. He
,had left that came—the unsullied honour of his house—
'd be in like manger sustained by his eon, his succour in
our Majesty's service, and the head and representative
of his family. That son is himself a father —the father
of lovely children, and one of them, a son: but the mere
sight t. f them is agony to him; for they bOtr' alas' a
now dishonoured name, and are the nnconscious AT-
spring of a ruined outcast."
having so announced to her MAJESTY the nature of
that great wrong which he, as "a free, fearless, but
loyal Englishman," beseeches her to redress, through
the plenitude of her royal authority, the
writer forcibly calls to the remembrance of the
Queen of ENGLAND two precedents of such inter-
ference on the part of the MONARCH, precedents
" recorded in glowing language by the late Lord
ERSKINE." Before, however, entering into a more
detailed examination of the occurrences out of
which the recent proceedings emanated, Mr. WARREN
scrupulously disclaims any desire to attach blame to
any individual in regard to intention. In truth,
even the principal portion of his condemnation, apart
from all charges of ill-intention, are directed indi-
vidually against her MAJESTT'S late Judge Advocate-
General, whom he very naturally regards as one
iedifier ently qualified to direct any such
proceedings, having, shortly before his retire-
ment from the bar, practised h not in the corn •
mon law courts, but in those of equity, which are
concerned with questions relating to property only,
and have to deal not with 'viva voce but:with written

In our impression of Monday we made a passing
comment on two articles in the Edinburgh and
Quarterly Reviews on the subject of the massacres at
Dolly's Brae in July last, on the occasion of an
Orange procession, and the policy of the Irish Go-
vernment in reference to it. Of the facts, sentiments,
and reasoning of the writer in the Edinburgh Review
—a periodical beyond the suspicion of any sympathy
with rebels or Ribbonmen—we will only say, they
are the echo of.our own, frequently put forwar3
through the columns of this journal since that fatal
occurrence took place, and we have only again to
recommend its perusal to all who feel anxious to be
fully and truly informed on the subject.
But with the writer in the Quarterly we have a
word or two more. And first we would take leave
to examine his fitness to discharge the duty he has
assumed, for he professes to " believe himself as im-
partial a judge in this case as it is possible
that one attached to the broad and general
principles of the British Constitution can be."
His impartiality appears to be as qualified and con-
ditional as the loyalty of Orangeism—his notions of
the broad principles of the British Constitution ap-
pear critically to coincide with those of the Orange-
men, who believe that this Constitution was especially
framed for their exclusive benefit, and who shout that
the laws are infringed, the Crown in danger, the
empire overthrown, and threaten to withdraw their
support from the Executive, if but a Jew, ts Quaker,
Dissenter, or Catholic be admitted even one step
within the pale of the Constitution.
A foreigner, or one unacquainted with the peculiar
phraseology of the political school to which this
writer evidently belongs, on reading the extract
which we have above quoted, would be somewhat
puzzled to discover the reason why an" attachment
to the broad and general principles of the British
Constitution" should awaken, in the writer's own
mind, any suspicion as to his fitness to impar-
tially examine a question affecting the interests
c.f. any class or classes of his fellow-subjects. Mut it
should be known, that Orangemen and their advo-
cates understand the " broad and general principles of
the British Constitution" to mean no more than what
is called in Ireland "Protestant Ascendancy"—that
is, the domination of a paltry faction over the great
majority of the people ; the monopoly of the loaves
and fishes, to the exclusion of all who differ from
them—and that is, all that is rational and respectable
in the land—in religious and political sentiments.
This writer, while trying to delude his readers
into a belief in his impartiality, makes an avowal
which, we think, entirely disqualifies him from any
claim to the character of a fair or candid censor in
the case. He makes an admission which clearly
shows that he is not free from those prejudices, and that
he wants that indifferency which should form the essen-
aids of a fair and impartial judge. His own words are,
"That his feelings are far, THOUGH NOT EQUALLY,
distant from the extreme of either party."
Now, we care not to which side he incline ; his
own admission destroys his claim to impartiality. He
declares that he is no Orangeman, yet he leaves no
grounds to doubt to which extreme his political and
religious notions flow, and that too with no very
moderate current. Our readers will not find it diffi-
cult to anticipate what sort of moral structure has
been raised by a writer of such confessed and avowed
predilections and prejudices. The whole article is a
tissue of unchristian sentiments, distorted facts, and
false reasoning; a melancholy instance of how im-
potent and feeble even -great talents become when
they are prostituted to the purposes of faction.
The very first paragraph, which we transcribe, de-
serves our most indignant condemnation. He says—
. " The collision of the Orangemen and Ribbonmen near
Castewellan in the county of Down on the 12th of last
July—much to be regretted for its immediate results—
has become additionally and more extensively important
from the consequences which the indiscretion, to give it
the gentlest term. of the Irish Government has entailed
on the original misfortune, and from the serious ques-
' dons of both constitutional law and policy, which titre
been by this and several other affairs of a like tendency
forced upon public attention."
We scarcely believed that in the British empire
one human being could be found so heartless as to
sully the pages of a respectable periodical by such un-
feeling sentiments. What were the " immediate re-
sults" which he slurs over with so slight a feeling of
regret as to weigh almost as nothing in the ba-
lance against an act of " indiscretion " by the
Irish Government? Will it be believed that these
results, so lightly referred to, were no less than the
wrecking and pillaging of property, the burning of
houses, and last, and most horrifying in this cata-
logue of crime, the cold-blooded murder of innocent
childhood and feeble old age ?
JOHN SWEENY, an idiot, was found on the road
with his skull battered to pieces ; PAT Kiao was
taken out of his house, stabbed and beaten to death ;
ANNE TRAYNOR, a woman seventy years of age,
was cruelly beaten, and died soon after; and three
other women, one of them badly wounded, would
have been burned in their houses were they not
recued by the police. In reference to KING'S mur-
(lee we shall give the evidence of one of the wit-

nesses :
" I was in the house when the door was brolea, and
my uncle Pat King killei : the house filled in with

Madrid journals of the 16th have arrived.
The Chamber of Deputies on the 16th rejected, by
a majority of 150 to 87, the proposition of Senor
NocEDAL, to restrict the operation of the Bill autho-
rising the Ministers to levy taxes to the month of
March only. Oct the 16th the Chamber debated en
amendment of M. Itlonorr, declaring that the Govern-
ment should be authorised to levy the taxes subject
to the condition that a tax of 10 per cent ad valorem
should be placed on wines and brandies, instead of
the octroi duties; that the expenses of the depart-
ments of war, finance, and the interior should he
lessened by 100,000,000 reals, and that 50,000,000
reals should be devoted to public works. M. MORON
was speaking when the post-office closed. It was not
doubted that his amendment would be rejected.
At the commencement of the sitting the Chamber
adopted, without discussion, the following Bill rela-
tive to railways :
" While waiting for the approbation and the sanction
of the Bill on railways, presented by the Government,
the latter may make or ratify provisional concessions,
and in addition to the advantages, franchises, and ex-
emptions accorded by former decrees, guaraut e an int( -
rest f 6 per cent., and 1 per cent. for the sinking fund
of the capitals, p'sced and to bo placed in the railways
in course of construction, or which may be to be con-
structed, on the fallowing conditions:-Ist. The enter-
prizes to which this guarant( • shall be conceded
shall be subject to the conditions which shall be
inserted in the law on railways • 2d. The Govern
went shall only give t) the undertakings the in-
terest thus guaranteed so long as thd works shall
continue, at.d the diffeience between the interest
and the produce cf the working when the latter shall be
less; 3d. The undertakings shall not have a right to the
payment of the interest guaranteed, when, by the fault
of the companies, the working shall cease; 4th. The 1
per cent. shall continue to be paid by the Government
until the
ecapbiy thtalsehsaltlabtee.,paid toff, or the repurchase of
the
A Madrid letter of the 16th states that intelligence
bad been communicated by the Portuguese Minister
to the Government, that Don MIGUEL intended to
embark from England, to place himself at the head of
his partisans in Portugal, and thereupon the Spanish
Government had sent orders to all the authorities of
the frontier and on the coast to exercise the strictest
vigilance, and if possible arrest the Portuguese Pre-
ender.