The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-17 00:00:00

THE SUN,

BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JunE 14, 1850.
Notice is hereby Riven, that the Carriages proceeding to her Majes-
ty's Drawing-room on THURSDAY, the 20th of June, are to fall into
line and come down the left-hand side 01 St. James's-street, inter at
the Iron-gate nearest the Palace, set down at the Arcade, turn
round, and go out by the Iron-gate nearest Marlborough How to
wait in St. James's-square. When called, they are to pass from the
Square through Charles-street, into Regent•street and Jermyn'
street, come down St. James's-street as before, take up, and go away
through Pall-mall.
No Hackney Carriages will be admitted within the Gates.
For all Persons having the privilege of the Entree, Tickets
will be delivered at the Bcard of Green Cloth, on TVESDAY
next, from Eleven till Three o'clock : their Carriages are t
pass through Constitution Hill Gate into St. James's Park :
those belonging to the Ambassadors and Foreign Minis-
ters are to set down at the, Ambassadors' Entrance in
Marlborough-court, at the east end of St. James's Palace, and wait
there till called. Those belonging to the Cabinet Ministers and
Great Officers of State are to set down in the Middle Court,
and wait there. The Carriages of all other Persons having the
Entree are likewise to set down in the Middle Court, and wait in
Stable-yard, or St. James's-park, till called. They are then to take
up in the same order as they had set down, and pass away up St.
James's-street.
No carriage will be admitted with company a second time with
the same ticket ; to prevent which it must be produced at Constitu-
tion Hill Gate, and Stable Yard Gate also, where a corner of it will
be torn off by the snarshalmen in attendance ; and no person can be
allowed the privilege of the Entree by any other approach to the
palace than as above directed.

WESTMINSTER, Lord Steward,

ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
LA TEMPESTA.
GRAND EXTRA N.GHT
It is respectfully announced that a Grand Extra Hied will take

place

On THURSDAY next, June 20,
when will be presented for the fifth time, the highly successful new
grand Opera, by Halevy, the Poem by Scribe, founded on The Tem-
pest of Shakspere, and composed expressly for her Majesty's Theatre,
TEMPESTA.
The Incidental Dances by M. Paul Taglioni.
The Scenery by Mr. Charles Marshall.
Alfonso, Sig. Lorenzo; Prospero, Sig. Colletti ; Antonio, Sig. F.
Lablache ; Ferdinand. Sig. Baucarde ; Trinculo, Sig. Ferrari; Ste'
phano, Madlle. Parodt; Sycorax, Madlle. Ida Bertrand ; Spirit of
Air, Madame Giuliani ; Ariel, Madlle. Carlotta Grisi; Caliban, Sig.
Lablache ; Miranda, Madame Sontag.
Director of the Music and Conductor, Mr. Balfe.
With various entertainments in the Ballet Department, in which
Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi, Mdlle. Marie Taglioni, and Mdlle. Amalia
Ferraris, M. Charles, and M. Paul Taglioni will appear.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets W be made at the
Box-office of the Theatre.

F R CH PLAYS.
ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Under the express Patronage Oilier Majesty.
Mr. MITCHELL has the honour to announce that his BENEFIT
is fixed to take place en WEDNESDAY EVENING, June 19, when
will be presented the following attractive Entertainments.
The Entertainments will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock, with
An entirely new Vaudeville, entitled
JOBIN ET NANETTE.
After which will be revived,
CATHERINE; ou, La Croix d'Or.
To be followed by
UN CAPRICE.
Madame de Lery, Madlle. Nathalie.
During the Evening Madlle Charton will execute, en costume, the
grand Scene from the third act of LE DOMINO NOIR, "Je suis
sauvee enin," and the Cavatina, " Amour o tol."
To conclude with the amusing Vaudeville of
ROGER BON TEMPS.

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Mr. Mitchell respectfully begs the favour of an early application
for Boxes and ?;tails.
Royal Library, 33, Old Bond•street.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE
The nobility, patrons of the Opera, and the public are respectfully
informed that TO-MORROW EVENING, June 15, will be presented,
for the fourth time, an entirely new grand Opera by Halevy, the
Poem by Scribe, founded on " The Tempest" of Shakspeare, and com-
posed expressly for her Majesty's Theatre, entitled
LA TEMPESTA.

The Scenery by Mr. Charles Marshall ; the Incidental Dances by
M. Paul Taglioni ; the Costumes by Mr. Combes and Miss Bradley,
under the superintendence of 31me. Copere ; the Machinery by Mr.
D. Sloman; the Appointments by Mr. E. Bradwell.
Dramatis Personae—Alfonso (King of Naples), Sig. Lorenzo;
Prospero (Duke of Milan), Sig. Coletti ; Antonio (his brother, the
Usurper), Signor F. Lablache ; Ferdinand (Prince of Naples), Signor
Baucarde ; Trinculo, Signor Ferrari ; Stephano, Mdlle. Parodi ; Sy-
corax, Aidlle. Ida Bertrand; Spirit of the Air, Miss Catherine
Hayes; Ariel, 3ldlle. Carlotta Grist; Caliban, Signor Lablache ; and
Miranda, Madame Sontag.
Courtiers, Soldiers, Mariners, Elves, Sprites of the Air and of the
Deep, tc.
To conclude with a Divertissement, in which Mdlle. Amalio Fer-
raris, Mdlle. Marie Taglioni, M. Charles, and M. P. Taglioni will
appear.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box
Office of the Theatre.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.
I'O-MORROW EVENING
Will be performed (first time these three years) Rossini's Opera,
LA GAZZA LADRA.
Composer, Director of the Music, and Conductor, Mr. Costa.
The Doors will be opened at Hail-past Seven, and the performances
commence at Eight o'clock precisely.
Tickets for the Boxes, Stalls, or the Pit, may be had (for the night
ir season), at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open from Ten
ill Five.

FRENCH PLAYS.-ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
THIS EVENING
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the Performances will commence Seven o'Clock, with

LES EXTREMES SE TOUCIIENT.
After which will be presented
LES DEUX BRIGADIERS.
Ramadonr, M. Lafont.
After which M. Alfred de Musset's Proverbs,
IL FAUT QU'UNE FORTE SOIT OUVERTE OU FERMEE.
Le Comte, M. Lafoute ; La Marquise, Mdlle. Nathalie.
To conclude with a new Vaudeville, entitled
LA D ,ME DE TREFLE.
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Boxes ant Stalls may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library,
33, Old Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which
open daily from Eleven till Five o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPUITITEATRE.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
Astley's Waterloo Fete.—ln commemoration of the glorious 18th
of June, will be revived, for Six Nights only, the grand National
Spectacle of the Battle of Waterloo.
the ()rand Military Spectacle of the Affghanistan War. Brilliant
D.splay of Equestrian Wonders in the Scenes in the Arena, by the
first Artistes in Europe.
THIS EVENING,
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The Entertainments will commence at Seven o'clock, with
the immensely successful grand National Military Equestrian and
Dramatic Spectacle (in three acts) entitled
THE AFFGHANISTAN WAR ; or the Revolt of Cabul and British
Triumphs in India.
Produced with every possible care to all its original and masmiticent
effects, calling into action the unequalled resources of the estab-
lishment.
A Brass Band engaged expressly for the occasion, and a host of
Auxiliaries.
To be succeeded by an inimitable Display of Batty's Feats of
Equitation in the Circine Olympique.
To conclude with the BATTLE OF WATERLOO.
Box-office open From Eleven till Four.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. West.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JUNE 16.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
56—highest since noon yesterday.
40—lowest this morning and during the night.
58—this day, at noon.

BABOMZTER, 3007.
WIND N.—cold breeze, with fine sunshiny weather.
MONDAY, JUNE 17.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
59—highest since noon yesterday.
44—lowest this morning and during the night.
62—this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 30.13.
WLND W. S.W.— dull weather.

L _
gimo
LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1850.

A very strong impression forces itself upon our
judgments, that in yielding so abruptly and uncon-
ditionally to Lord ASHLEY and his pious associates,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL is not the dupe, but still the an-
tagonist of the Sabbatarians. That a statesman who
has so long and energetically, and until now so per-
severingly and consistently, battled against fanaticism
under all shapes, and against superstition under every
guise—that a legislator who has withstood the grasp-
ing policy of an ecclesiastical discipline which would
fain swallow up all the rights and immunities of the
Dissenters—that a reformer of this character should
now, at the eleventh hour, yield up the nation, bound
hand and foot, to the will of a miserable minority of
Pharisees is beyond the limits of the most extrava-
gant credibility. We cannot embrace the notion of
such an enormous act of turpitude. Our belief can-
not comprehend the possibility of any such flagrant
tergiversation. The whole career of the present
First Lord of the Treasury is so vividly in our recol-
lection ; we remember so clearly all his noble efforts
to advance ce the cause of civil, but also, in a peculiar
manner,
of RELIGIOUS liberty, that we cannot for an
instanotrcrseodiiatuaoanu
changeio,in him so disgraceful, so piti-
able,
, to mind.the Onlyl within the last few
sessions we call
cutehnec ecitywith o
fwhich he,
London,
as the Prime Minister ofe
as one of tne representativeae
of
England,
the
d as the
acknowledged champion
principle
of
the
aonxthewho have
been fighting now for years in bel:h lalf f
of toleration, advocated the claims
of o
Hebrew
race in the person of the Baron LIONEL DE R
TEs-
CHILD to represent that city in the House of Corn.
mons, which had been spontaneously accorded to
him by the liberality of the metropolitan
constituency. The conscience which could
swallow that camel of Jewish prerogative could
surely never strain at this gnat of opposition to the
Sabbatarians. No. We are satisfied, or at any rate
we would persuade ourselves, that the Premier is
acting in the manner he has recently indicated, not
from any dereliction of his former principles, not from
any willingness on his part to concede all things to
the rapacity of a few bigots, but from a secret re-
solve that by yielding up the question at issue
entirely to themselves he will best secure
their ultimate and permament discomfiture.
Any other conjecture than this would be
opposed to all the known and actuating motives of
political consistency. We endeavour to convince
ourselves that the Government, iaadignaut at the wil-

ful misrepresentation of their late proceedings in the
Post-office department, have at length resigned the
matter to the discretion (Heaven save the mark !) of
these religious firebrands—satisfied that a fortnight's
experiment of their project. must, by an inevitable
necessity, bring about its final and peremptory re-
jection.

A forcible remonstrance has already been addressed
to one of our morning contemporaries by one of the
prospective sufferers from the concession made by the
Government to the Sabbatarians The writer of this
communication, signing himself " A Liverpool Mer-
chant," protests in the strongest terms against a
change that must prove inevitably disastrous to as
community, while it will only rear yet more loftily
the arrogant head of hypocritical intolerance. After
insisting upon the necessity of the conformity of all
the personal practices of these Sabbatariana with their
vaunted theories of Sunday observances, the writer
observes—" When I was last in London (not many
weeks back) it was my fortune to pass by the porches
of more than one of your west-end chapels and
churches—one of them in South Audley-street—
about half-past one P.m. The number of gay equi-
pages collected round them was ao great that one
might have supposed oneself to be assisting at the
termination of a theatrical performance. Who
groomed those horses so sprucely, who turned out
those carriages so neatly t It was done of course by
hands ; and who set the hands a-going ? It may be
Lord ASHLEY may go on foot to his own place of
worship of a Sunday; but will he tell us that every
seventh day he satisfies his hunger with a sandwich cut
over night, and quenches his thirst at the water-de-
canter upon his dressing-tablet If," he continues,
" the practise of the neo-Postals' fall one jot or tittle
short of perfection, let them set their own houses in
order before meddling with the necessary business of
the country, even although an infinitesimally small
proportion of that business must be trans-
acted on the Sunday." In this require-
ment of consistency between the preaching
and the practice of the Sabbatarians there is only the
demand of common sense and rational forethought.
These unconscionable pretenders to sanctity, more-
over, who are always recognising the mote in the eye
of their neighbour, while remaining totally innocent
of the beam blurring their own vision, are perpetually
assailing their opponents with little paper pellets of
scriptural quotation, quite forgetful, it would seem,
of that famous declaration of the Apostle,—" Let
no man, therefore, judge you in meat, or in
dririk, or in respect of a holy day, or of the new
moon, or of the Sabbath days; which are a shadow of
things to come, but the body of CHRIST." In de-
fiance or forgetfulness of this most solemn and es-
plic'it injunction, some miserable bigot has had the
indOency to discuss our title to a participation in
whit he calls the great Sabbath of the future, besides
commenting upon our possible non-admission
to ' " the marriage supper of the Lamb,"
and upon the probability of our resembling

the! man who " had net on the wedding garment."
Alf this miserable indecorum of abuse is only in per-

fect keeping with that spirit of fanaticism and intoler-
ande, and hypocrisy, and superstition, which has
re4ntly fanned into a fiercer flame than ever the
religious frenzy of the Sabbatarians. It is because
wejoathe more than words can at all express the very
shadow of the semblance of cant, in regard to the
fortes or practices of Christianity, that we reso-
lutly adhere to our course of antagonism to these
petulant purveyors of personality, Nth° would run
an 7 risk of plunging the affairs of the community
into difficulty for the sake of wearing the most trans-
paient of all disguises, the mask of pretended Godli-
ness. Our sympathies must ever continue to be with
tht enormous majority of the population, who, since
thei days of HUDIBRAS downwards, have cherished a
mortal antipathy to all humbug, and especially to
thtt most disgusting humbug which shelters itself
under the awful and beautiful shadow of religion.

Curiosity will not fail to direct the attention of the
public to the report, given elsewhere in this evening's
impression, of the magnificent banquet given on
Saturday evening at the London Tavern by the Di-
rectors of the Honourable East India Company. On
that occasion, it will be observed that the festivitie
Were in honour of his Excellency General JUNG BA-
IiADOOR KOONWUR RalieJEE, the Prime Minister of
the Raja of NEPAUL, and now sojourning
in this country in the character of Nepaulese Ambas-
sador. Throughout the whole proceedings the reader
cannot fail to be ink-rested in the expression of those
sentiments of amity which marked each and all of the
speeches delivered by the different illustrious per-
sonages in at tendance. Not the least significant of
the various sentiments uttered throughout the night
was that which Lord BROUGHAM articulated in his
genial and emphatic peroration, where that Noble and
Learned Lord exclaimed—" I venture to hope and
trust for their sake (for the sake of the members
of the Nepaulese mission), for the sake of their coun-
try, and for the sake of this country—permit me
respectfully to add, for the sake of the Hon. Company
themselves—that they may be enabled to carry back
an ample assurance that there exists no disposition in
any quarter of this country, whether in the Company
or in the " India Board," as it is called in the east,
the " Board of Control," as we call it in the west—
(A. laugh)—no disposition whatever on the part either
of the Crown, or the Parliament, or the people, or the
Company, to encroach in the very least degree
upon any peaceable neighbour—(Loud cheers),—
or to spare in the very least degree any hostile neigh-
bour—(Renewed cheers)—for that is the true rule of
peace—never to break it, but never to suffer it with
impunity to be broken—(Hear, hear)—and that,
above all, they will carry back to their master the
most positive assurance from all quarters, that no in-
tention-whatever exists to diminish by one acre the
distance which separates our eastern frontier from the
western frontier of China.—(Loud cheering.)"

One of the most pregnant sources of the social and
political evils of Ireland is confessedly the Land
Question. All legislative measures for the improve-
ment of that unfortunate country must prove com-
parative failures till the relations between landlord
and tenant be fairly and permanently adjusted. The
object of the Bill for the sale of encumbered estates
was manifestly to exchange a pauper and embarrassed
for a substantial and wealthy proprietary. This
measure was no doubt a wise one, and with a few
amendments would be likely to effectuate much
good, if the Irish tenant•right were first defined and
legalised ; but again we say, until this question be
finally, settled, until, in fact, " the Ulster tenant-
right" become the law of the land, from one end of
the country to the other, all efforts at legislation will
be futile. No English capitalist will venture to in-
vest his money in the purchase of land in Ireland as
long as the rights and duties of landlord and tenant
remain capricious and tundefined.
We are glad to perceive that this vital question has
been taken up in such a spirit as must force it on the
immediate attention of the Legislature. The sturdy
Presbyterians of Ulster have joined their Roman
Catholic fellow-subjects in demanding the settlement
of the tenant's right to his improvements in the land,
" past, present, and future." A most important meet-
ing took place a few days since at Belfast, composed
of a number of Presbyterian and Roman Catholic clergy-
men, and a great number of substantial farmers from
the remotest parts of the province, at which resolutions
were passed unreservedly pledging themselves to an
union with the other Irish provinces in seeking the es-
tablishment of tenant-right, founded on the ancient
custom of Ulster, and we have no doubt they will
persevere " till it be legalised and become the estab••
lished law" through every province in Ireland.
We cannot see that the subject is surrounded with
much difficulty. The abstract right of man's " free
use, enjoyment, and disposal of all his acquisitions,"
is, according to BLACKSTONE, a right anterior to all po-
sitive institutions whatever—a right which, he says,
cannot be violated--" no, not even for the general
good of the whole community." In a state of nature,
it was "occupancy" which gave a right to the tem-
porary use of the soil, so it is agreed that occupancy
gave also the original right to the permanent property
in the substance of the earth itself, which excludes
every one else hut the owner from the use of it. These
are the principles laid down by BLACKSTONE and other
Jurists on this subject, principles which all reason-
ing minds must admit to be sound, and the equity of
which is patent to all thinking men. It is, then, quite
clear that the tenant or holder of land has the origi-
nal right which "occupancy" confers ; and that when
by bis labour and industry he make* his possession

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