The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-26 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—ls it possible that our landed aristocracy can
read the distressing cases (which are continually appear-
ing in your columns) of the death of shirtmakers and
others by starvation? When we reflect that by our
corn-laws their few miserable pence, gained by the
severest exertions, are still further reduced for the main-
taining in splendour those who ought, and were in-
tended by Providence to be, their natural protectors, we
see, alas! that, instead of the rich feeding and clothing
the hungry and naked, the) poor, in all their heart-
rending poverty, compelled to contribute to those who
are running over with the good things of this life.
Continue, Sir, your exertions for the wiping away
from our country so foul a stain, and I feel convinced
that, ere long, the nation will arise in its strength, and
demand, with a voice not to bo resisted, the repeal of a
starving and unjust corn-law.
—Yours, "THEEespectully,
A READER OF
Yarmouth, April 24, 1844.

The present sea-
THE SEASON AND THE ~ROPS.
at we have had
son has hitherto been one of the
hfiene:rtgat of those crops
fir several years for promoting tnabhn
ri the farmers to
which are already sown,
prepare the land for roseaannciVech remain to be sown. In
between Liverpool nnd
all the counties of 1 I
nags Normandy and the other
Southampton, as ivel
northern provinces of France, in. Belgium, in Rhenish
Prussia, and in Germany as far as Frankfort, the
wheat crops this year are most promising. We do
remember to have seen above half-a-dozen bad fields
not
of wheat in a journey of one thousand or twelve
hundred miles. In general the plant is very thick,
the colour good, and the promise of the crop excel-
lent. The same observation applies to the (rat, the
rye, the clover, and rape crops on the Continent, and
to the grass crops in England. In the limestone
districts of Normandy and in Flanders, as well as in the
rich district of Mayence and Frankfort, the clovers are
unusually tine this year, and it is a remarkable proof of
what may be effected by rich cultivation, that the Colza,
or rape plant, was at least a yard high, and in full bloom,
in Easter week, between Mailines and Antwerp, at a time
when it was not even in bud in districts of France a
couple of degrees further south. Owing to the heavy
rains of March, and the general warmth of the first fort-
night in April, this and most othercrops were as forward
as they were ever known to be at this season all the way
from Havre to the Rhine. In this neighbourhood, and
throughout England generally, they look as well as could
be wished. The cleaning and preparing the land for
spring crops has now made great progress ; and, in this
county, which is famed above all others for its potato cul-
tivation, the planting of pot?.toes has become general.
There has never been a fin•r season for getting them
into the ground, and the showers of the last few days
will cause them to germinate rapidly, and thus save them
froM the diseases to which they are subject in dry
springs.—Lirerpool Times.
GRASS PARKS.—The grass parks belonging to the
Earl of Lauderdale, around Dunbar house, were let for
the season, at the high rate of five to !ix pounds per acre.
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BUENOS AYRES and COLOMBIAN
BONDS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,--About eighteen- months ago I addressed,
through the medium of your paper, a few lines to the
holders of the above bonds, advising them to exer-
cise that inestimable virtue of patience a little longer,
and not to dispose of their property at the prices then
quoted ; since which, the Buenos Ayres have risen 15
per cent., and the Venezuela portion of the Colom-
bian debt is at 40, paying the dividends regularly.
From undoubted information which I have recently
received, I now seriously caution the holders of these
bonds not to p irt with the remaining portion of their
Colombian at the present paltry quotation of 15 per
cent. ; for, if the Venezuelan part, consisting of )281
per cent., of the original debt be worth 40, and the
arrears of coupons 12 per cent., surely the remnants,
consisting of 50 per cent., New Granada's portion,
and 21i per cent., the Equatorian portion, with the
arrears of dividend since 1826, must be very consi-
derably under their value at 15 I The almost cer-
tainty of the arrangements being complete with these
States and the Committee of South American bond-
holders within a very short period, renders this quo-
tation of 15, one of those Stock Exchange anomalies
which so frequently occur in marking prices in that
house.
The dividends on Buenos Ayres Stock will probably
be resumed upon the termination of the war, by the sur-
render of Monte Video; the news of which event may
be expected to arrive by the next packet. The amount
of this loan is only one million stock, contracted, at
about 80 sterling per cent., by the respectable house
of Messrs. Baring and Co. in 1824; but as no dividend
has been paid since January, 1827, there is due next
July, 105 per cent. arrears of coupons, which will
probably be consolidated into a deferred stock, similar
to the Chilian ; therefore, a purchaser of Buenos Ayres
at 36 (at which price all arrears of dividends are in-
cluded), stands a fair chance of realising the present
value of Chilian, upon his investment, within the next
twelve months.-1 am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A CONSTANT READER AND SUBSCRIBER.
April 24, 1844.

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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Last appearance hit one of Carlotta Grisi.
TA-MoRROW EVENING, APRIL '27,
Will he performed (c and time this season) Bellini's Opera, entitled
NOR NI A. Norma' Madame Grisi; Adalgisa, Mdlle. Favanti ;
Ponio, Sig. Mario • Groves°, Lab ache.
Aner which tadl be preientod the new Ballet by M. Perrot, with
new kencry, Dresses, Decorationa, founded on Victor Hugo's
ccebrated work of " Notre Dame de Paris," entitled
LA ESMERLDA.
La Esmeralda, Mdlle. Car:otta Gr Aid; Fleur de Lys, Mdlle. Ade-
laide Frassi ; Phcebus de Chateaupers, M. St. Leon ; Pierre Grin-
goire, AI. Perro'.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box
Ottie,, Opera Colonnade.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Mdlle. CARIOTTA GRISI respectfully informs the Nobility.
Subscriber:, and the Public, that HER BENEFIT will take place on
TIILTRSDA Y NEXT, May 2, when will be performed (first time
this season) Mozart s Chef d'oeuvre,
IL DON .110 VANNI.
Donna Anna, Madame Grist ; Donna Elvira, Mdlle. Favanti;
Zerlina. Madame Persian;; Don Giovanni, Eig. Fornasari ; Le-
porello, Sig. Lablache ; Masetto, Sig. F Lablache; 11 Ceminan-
statore, Sig. Felice; and Don Ottavio, Sig. Mario.
With various Enterta'nmente, in which Mdlle. Carlotta Grist,
Mdlle. Frassi ; ttdle. Scherer, Bldlle. Plunket, M. St. Leon, M.
Montassu, and M. Perrot will appear.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box.
office, Opera-colonnade.
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THEATRE RuYA L. DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, APRIL 26,
• •
Will he repeated A New °rand Opera, entitled THE BRIDES
OF YENICE. Count Alberto, Mr. W Harrison; Count Orio
:mann), Mr • o rani; Nalima, Airs. Alfred Shaw_ • Gerald°, Ndl!e.
Albert.szi ; Francesca, Miss Romer.
After which will be repeated a New Ballet, entitled LADY HEN.
IllErrA; or, The statute Fair. Lyonti .1, M. Silvain; Walter,
Mr. Howsll ; Sir Tristram, Mr. O'Bryan ; Queen Anne. Miss
O'Bryan ; Lady Henri tta, Mdl.e. Lu.ile Gratin; Nancy, Miss C.
Web4ter ; Mina, Miss Carson.
uress boxes 75., Second Pries 3s. Md. ; Upper Carcles of Boxes fis..
second Price 25.; I'it 3s Second Price 'A.; Middle Gallery 25.,
Sxond Price IL; - Upper dallery Is., Second nice 61

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mit. BENJAMIN NVERSTER. LESSER
THIS EVENING, APRIL 26,
Will be performe.l Sheridan's Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR
SCANDAL. Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. W. Farmn ; Charles Surface,
Mr. C Mathews; Lady Teazle, Madame Vestris.
To b, followed by a New, Original, Occasional, and Local Extra.
raganza, founded on Fact, entitled THE DRAMA AT HOME; or,
An Evening with Puff. Principal Characters by Mr. C. Mathews,
Mr. J. bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mrs. Glover, Miss P. Horton, and
flies Lee.
To conclude with a Now Farce, entitled LOVE IN A SACK.
'tickets and I'laces to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box.
office, from Ten till Five.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STREET.
• LESUEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, APRIL 26.
Will be performed an Eng ish version of OTELLO. Otero,
Mr. Allen; Elmiro, Mr. Weiss; Roderigo, Mr. Gardner ; lago.
Mr. Buidint; D:slemona, Madame Eugenia Garcia; Emilia, Mi=e
E onner.

To which will be added, the nage of the SPITALFIELDS
WEAVER.

To conclude with a sew Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza, caked FAIR
STAR; or THE SINGING APPLE, AND THE DANCING
WATERS. The principal characters by Messrs. Wright; Paul
Bedford, Oxlv.rry, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Miss Fortescue

THEA THE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA,

HOUSE.
Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
THIS EVENING, APRIL •21;,
Will be repeated an Original Comic Drama, entit'ed THE
THREE WIVES OF MADRID. Princirat Characters by Messrs.
Keeley, Diddear, F. Matthews Emery, Wigan, Craven, Turner,
Yarn°ld, Miss Woolgar, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Miss Turner,
Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. lireley.
To he foll..wed by x New Drama, in One Act, called THE POST
OF HUN;GCB. Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Turner, Kinloch,
.1. Golfer, St .nton, Yarnold, Miss Grove, and Miss Woolgar.
TO conclude With a Grand Burle quo tairy Extravaganza, called
OPEN . '•:ESAME; or, a Night with the Forty Thieves. t ha.
racters by Miis Woolgar, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss
Turner, Mi=s Grove Mrs. Wigan, Miss James, Miss Fairbrother,
Mee,
and Keeley, Messrs. F. Mathews, Turner, lounge, Wigan,
Yarnold. and Chaplin.
P ICIN OF ADM ISSI ONT.—Balcony Foxes, 45.; Upper
Poxes, 3s. ; I'it, es.; Gallery, 6d. second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ;
Upper lioxes, Is 6d.; Pit, 'ls. Private Boxes on the Balcony I ier
(holding eight persons), Iwo Guineas Private Boxes on the Second
'her (ho ring eight pet sons), One Guinea and a-Hal& Private
Loxes on the mt. I ier (holding six persons), One Guinea.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHFFEIEATRE OF. ARTS.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY.
Tr u:nphant FuceeFs of the Grand National Spectacle.
ls EVENlNtiica AP 26,
Will be rep,atedTil the Hi,torl SpectacleßlL of the INVAS:ON OF
ENGLAND 13% WILLIANI THE CONQUEROR; or, the liatte
of H' siings. With all the effects of the Norman Conquest, Death
of I.larold,

New icenas in the Circle.
To conclulc wlth LONDONand KENSINGTON ; or, Pursuit of
a Wife.
The do-lr will open nightly at six o'clwk, and the performances
emninenco at a. yen. Box-affice opened daily from tell till four. The
pirate boxes have Leen reconstructed and decorated with care and
spit:11(1,111r.

Arting and stage.matiagcr, Mr. NV: D. Broatifoot.

DA 11)(:L*1- ROYAL. SUltflEY THEM. nE.
TtIISVENINO, APRIL
Will tie, repeated an 'entirely New Drama,embracing all the
strong effects of the celelyat,d work, eutitled WIIITEFRIARS,
in which the entire Company will perform.
fter whiels. /I ESC A PE“ RA CF. OF PARIS, sup c awl by all
the leading Favourites of the r.%tablishuaent.
To conch de wl'h a Dome,:le prznta,eutitlett 13110 KEN HOME.
*aces and Prir,ste !loxes to to had ot. Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.
o her; from Eleven • o Four. . • •

ROY A I. VICTORIA THEATRE.
Tim; EVENING, APRIL •li,
W.ll he repeated a Nen- Drama entitled THE OLD MAN'S
BRIDE i. or, the Murder. t Nortcod Vilh. Su'parted by Messr..
reer, ":-antr.; 'Dale, Seaman, C. .1: Bird, Gardner, Pc.ul, Cureno,
Janio, Nliss Ar. en, ant iii i Vincent.
• To bet*. Rowed by tliceelebrated 4` Polka Dance

Atter which, the New Popular Drama, eal'a .i.i.Z3:TINE; or
SIXTEEN- YEARS AG() ! Fitzarlibgton,. Mr. thibaldiston • Ar.
thur, Me. C. J. Bird; Mat, Mr. Freer; Paul, Mr. Corm); Leon.
tine, Miss Vincent..
'ro-cocclude with THE GALLEY SLAVES OF TOULON..

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. ' ' •
THIS EVENING, APRIL •;ti.
, .
Who-can wonder that kupdrerls cannot gain admission to the
Magic 'I enip,e of the ‘4 IZA RD OF THE NOW! II ? He has
stay: d hii mystic mind for the fourth time ever the Great Metro-
ro is ; its ',titmice is greater than whon he first appeared at the
S:rand Theatre four ye.rts ago•—:he-has now perPmced during live
years 5/0 Hightt (at a moderate calculation) before 4 o,ni 0 spec-
tators! —one and all proclaim him to be the only living professor of
S is t tic Dolnsio, s.
NVere the Magi of o!d—Pythagrrtr, Polydoras, Did., Tar:misty,
Jerome Carclan, Rosieventito, Cellini, Nes:mamas, Michael Scott,
Al'iirtus Magnus. Fri .r•Bicon, and Dr. Faustus. to look up and be-
hold true WrrNDERS OF THE WIZARD, thy would Le as
much su ptised as our grret gran. fathers would be to look on 'our
lo.00:otire of th? present fi3V.
I:he A. i Okt OfTl Faustus wal nightly appear in his Magic Circle, and
prove,.6. by ocular dernonst-ation, that he can make the " eyes the
r... 1,, r the ether so•rs."
r
%urn the Wizard's performance, which will be dividod into
t" P'',..ne. MA LONE RAY 3IOND, will give
atisted by ,r,...
R.,IN HOUR IN IRELAND,
Ati Ceninliqvuta M. RAYMOND and Miss LINLEY.
1,,i,,,,tit n__,....ry Admire arts suspended, the Press excepted.
",. tan b.. ,
- oeurod at the Agents in London.
L..,.___, ...,. —,.. .s. lc . Reserved Seats, ss.
sxeet.ced
se,ar:ist.
,iu. t-titti. I %very, cd.
(I:aNlNf,.r,:.t rievrt—th:etVor:d Price at Nine o'clock.
the open 'at xes, Is. fxl;
The REY. tat!, Iz A hu,,.
.. .1 cud appears at Eight.
3 I RICKS to be had at the Box-office ,

LOVE'S tlOLiiiiii)NY,
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MUSIC, II A LL, TnE.STnEEr.
ENTERTA IN M E:NTs EVERY WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY
Caninctieing This Everett& April '26. Total Change each Ev
I'll WEDNESDAY, LOVES MIRTH° AND MARVELS; with
in
INF; Liesacrd ether Entertainment..
On Fit ID AY, LOVE IN; ALL SILAPES; with LOVE'S LA-
LO.ST, and other Entertainrocnts.
Adini3sien, 2s. ; Reim rt•ti SeAts, 4s 6d; Private Boxes to acccan—
inMate six, I:m. Private Bo7:eStO SCCOMMOdate eight, 1/. ' • • •
Ikoret yhen at kixil.pest Sevch; begin at Eight.

EtIyPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.
IIIPOETANT NOTICE.

• ONE - &LULLING . Adtulisliou to . THE NAPOLEON •.%
SErM, the most ria..rniticent and e.xtensive Collection of 111:u-
--
rleal Curiosities and Works of Ark ever known to bare beeistbrined
r by Ouii Peisoh,. Treitty-dlve years of elaborate research, at a
cost of 60,00,gtihntas, and to completely Illustrate, in, the utost In-
structive and hitere.ti 1111; Manner, the most, Important part of Euro-
' peat' , history; 'irk •`---eIIARLES 1., • OLIVER CROMWELL, and
LOUIS.,XIV., to the deaths. cf 0E0110E: 111., and the EMPEROR
NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has-been visited.otten,
durhig the last and present year, by the Royal Family, tin' Duke of
Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies,
• also many thousands of the' Nobility and Public; and the Pro-
, prietor has rmciltly been able to increase, by several very. fine
pictures, ke-, his .prevlous alm:st incredible number gad variety of
MSS., Works. or Art,• and a innititnde of valuable Relics, and other
• enriosttles,• in this most instructive and, as himdreds •have said It
.taught to bo, rs National Museum. Many thousand have inspbcted it.
and TII I Rl' PRINC IPA L . EDITORS of the PUBLIC. PRESS
leave stated thit it ought to he seen by every one. The-price of admis-
• sion Is rsdueed to ONE SHILLING • ' . 1
25APOLEON MUSECAeis to be seen only at the "Egyptian Hall
. iceaddly, daily front Tea till Dusk.

Sin .-111,1usEum.—At the .last .gene-
rat meeting of the Society of Arts, his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, .President of the Society, was unanimously elected a
traltee of this inFlitution, in tha room. of the late Duke of
Sussex. The other trustees, pursuant.to the will of the late
Sir J.Ollll Smite, are—the Duke of Hamilton, as deputy front
the Royal Society ; the Earl of Aberdeen, as President
of
the-,Sohtety ofAntirtuaries; Rir Martin 'Archer Shee, F' esi-
tient of the Royal Academy ; fir Claudius Stephen Hunter,
as reprseentative of the Gourt of Aldermen; with Mc4:-;rs. S. Inghain, Rim •Tidi C143/L5 parry, and
ilowarcl, F.A.

Glt E.A T IV EsTE It N lt AI I, 11' AY.
(),, WEDN1.7,31,11, ihe I, t liar, 18:14, op, IL', jLwAy will Ix,
t7fIF:Pr.I,7IT.D to E.X.E'IT, lir aifillte ALTEILITIONS for the
.summr.r: Trnm-s.• t,;:11 &ewe:l:lee.
Trntar: win leal-,! Exqterat-:,
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