The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-21 00:00:00

Tuts EvEsisu,

Wtll be prattled Lord Byron's. gorgeous Spectacle of MAZEPPA
end the WILD HORSE. Mazeppa, Mr. N. T. Hicks.
To be succeeded by the Equestrian Ladies' Fele, the Scenes of the
Circle bein; performed and conducted exclusively by the highly ta-
lented Female Artists of the Establishment.
'ro conclude with the popular Melodrama, entitled WARDOCK
RENNELSON.

Box-office open From Eleven till Four
gtage Manager. Mr. W. West.

HIGH WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE.
This DAT Morning SG min. after I 1 Evening 8 rain. after 2
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THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 21.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
64—highest since noon yesterday.
52—lowest this morning and during the night.
62—this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 29.69.
WIND S.S.W.—moderate breeze and fine; heavy rain during
the night.

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ne.ting and despicable enthusiasm. Occasionally, it
is true, amongst ourselves some miserable creature,
carried away by his imitative insanity, surpasses even
the mobs of New York and Washington by the folly
of his self-abasing adulation, as where some wretched
wight the other day in Liverpool, mimicking the
homage paid of old to the Loan in Palestine, followed
the Swedish Nightingale through the multitude to touch
the hem of her garment. Altogether, however, the
madness of this popular sycophancy to persons in any
way distinguished is rendered the most conspicuous
and appreciable by that aggregation of toadyism
which can be scen nowhere so glaringly as in a con-
course of American citizens. There the pandering to
the mere lust of popularity runs rampant, until those
who, like ourselves, are looking on with dispassionate
inquisitiveness, are shamed into some moderation of
our own ardour. &), likewise, is it inevitably in
regard to the cultivation of an appetite for horror,
such, for example, as finds its highest enjoyment in
feasting on all particulars relating to the last mo-
ments of any very horribly murderer in the condemned
cell and on the scaffold. Of this we have had in the
last scenes of the career of Professor WED,TER a most
disgusting and ghastly illustration. The public
curiosity, after being excited to the utmost possible de-
gree by the protracted nature of the trial and of the
subsequent deliberations in regard to the sentence,
was gratified in a horrid manner by the minuteness
of the details, collected, printed, and published in
reference to this atrocious assassin. Scarcely a
quiver of the muscles passed across his countenance
but it was recorded. Not a groan broke from his
lips in darkness and apparent solitude but it was
noted down with historical exactness. The utter-
ances of wisdom which fell like precious stones from
the mouth of the great and the good Dr. JOHNSON
were not more scrupulously committed to paper by
the obsequious BOSWELL, than the hypo-
critical phrases and stilted platitudes which
formed the staple of the conversation of this most
atrocious miscreant. By regarding these melancholy
spectacles as they transpire upon the arena of public
events in the United States, it is impossible but that
wholesome deductions must be drawn from them by
the impartial spectator. It is in this spirit that we
have referred to them in the present instance. It is
in this spirit that we shall direct attention to their re-
currence at every available opportunity.

The many trite and familiar sayings which bewail
the miseries of royalty and console the humble and
lowly, by the assurance
.that " uneasy lies the head
that wears a crown," receive a frequent and very
emphatic contradiction when we contemplate the
every-day life of Queen VICTORIA. In the accounts,
for example, of the pure and simple but apparently
not unjoyful festivities of Balmoral, we find some-
thing more than idle gossip to amuse the curious, we
discover abundant matter for thoughtful congratula-
tion. The most democratic of us all, who would re-
solutely refuse to bow the head to a throned
tyrant, even if invested with the genius or
girt about with the glory of a NAPOLEON, may
take a loyal pleasure in the domestic happiness
of a SOVEREIGN who has so admirably and so practi-
cally testified her acquaintance with a ttuth which
all rulers hitherto have found to be the most difficult
of lessons—namely, that the king is made for the
people, not the people for the king. So, while
other sovereignties, from the venerable dynasty of
Austria to the recent monarchy of the Barricades,

have become the sport of fortune, forgetful of the
truth aforesaid, Queen VICTORIA has found, with
every succeeding year, her throne more secure and
her popularity more enthusiastic ; and now, when
the vicissitudinous career of Louts PHILIPPE has been
ended by a death of exile, while the heir of the
ancient BOURBONS is still a hopeless wanderer, while
NICHOLAS and FERDINAND, holding their crowns
with " the red right hand,!: rise the objects of
worldwide indignation and abhorrence, VICTORIA
saunters amid the wild beauties of Balmoral, not only
untramelled by the etiquette of state, but free
from all the cares and alarms which so often rack

the brain that wears a crown. The example is worth
consideration in these days of renovated constitutions.
It is applicable to all Governments, whether repub-
lican or royalist. No matter by what name the
supreme power be denominated, whether Emperor,
King, or President, that power springing from the
people must be wielded for and through the people
41ane. Arbitrary power may be invested with a
temporary splendour, but it bears within itself the
elements of decay, whereas a liberal constitution,
such as that which we enjoy, and a Sovereign who,
iks Queen VicroxlA, "refine meis ne gouverne pas,"
and finds her happiness in so maintaining the balance
of power, remains undisturbed by the storms of fac

tion or the tempests of revolutionary excitement.
Throned in the affections of her people, she can find
leisure amidst all the cares of ber supreme dignity to
participate in those domestic enjoyments which it has
been one of the principal objects of her reign to secure
to the meanest among the numbers of our population.
She feels the tranquillity of her virtuous Court
guaranteed by the recollection of that con-
stitutional policy which for more than twelve
years has characterised the acts of her government.
Bearing this remembrance in mind, it is not possible
to look with indifference at the royal seclusion in
the gardens of Balmoral, where the descendant of
the House of Brunswick is sojourning, not only un-
molested but beloved, encompassed by that loyal at-
tachment which Scotland formerly bestowed alone
upon the STUARTS. An instructive moral may be
drawn from the position of Queen VICTORIA, when
contrasted with that of the KING at Potsdam, or the
EMPEROR at Schcenbruno, with that of the PRESI-
DENT at Paris, or the AUTOCRAT at St. Petersburgh.

Mr. George Alfred Walker, the champion of the
,xtraniur.l interments fight, is now rusticating in Lincoln-
shire.

Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., has just returned
from Berne, after winding up his affairs in Switzerland, con-
sequent on resigning his appointment as principal Secretary
of the British Legation to the Swiss Confederation. Lady
Peel, accompanied by Capt. William Peel, R.N., and Miss
Peel left Jersey a few days ago for a tour in France.
F
The Rev. D. A. Weir has been elected Professor of
Oriental Languages in the University of Glasgow, in the
place of the late Dr. Gray.
ATHENS, SEPT. B.—An event of melancholy in-
terest to the English community of this place has occurred
during the week. Lord William Clinton, who has only been
here a short time, attached to the British mission, having
imprudently started on a tour in the interior during the very
great heats, returned here on Monday last dangerously ill.
In 48 hours he was a corpse, notwithstanding every attention
paid to him; but it was evident from the first that he could
not recover, the fever having been raging within him for
several days, and without the means of obtaining any medical
assistance. He was followed to the grave by the diplomatic
body and the English mission and the English residents
here. His Lordship was the fourth son of the Duke of New-
castle, and was born on the 13th of January, 1515.
POOLE AND Ma. GORDON.—Mr. Gordon's address
to the " independent electors" of Poole, on retiring from the
approaching contest, has gratified them considerably front the
character which he gives to the town. He says it is" agree-
able ," and he adds. " Although not without hope of success
had I persisted— a Itbpe exalted by your flattering and un-
bought applause—the principles of a free-trader will not
permit me on this occasion to proceed further in soliciting
your votes. The cause for which I have already sacrificed a
great deal on various occasions is too good a one to be placed
in the smallest jeopardy by the undue indulgence of personal
7.lB6b.irtnlicossn.outntdlhaheyouploealoswnth,:elv.ive.mapreweui.ns the day, Free-trader or Pro-
tectioList, will kaso M. sy, the African squadron, and the
Puis-office."
made an at-
tempt to ascend in his balloon from the Tivoli-gardens at
Rouen. The filling of the balloon commenced at about
eleven o'clock. and at about one tie aeronaut, thinking it
.accompanied by a Mr.
sufficiently inflated, entered the ca
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Preisser, a scientific gentleman of ther
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nishment, he found that it would notP
was thrown out, but still without effect.
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was deliberating in his mind as to the
the balloon still more, a sudden gust of wind drovf it eallomngg
the tops of tl e trees which surround the place of ascent,
dragging the car violently along the ground. A number of
persons laid. hold of the ropes, and at length succeeded in
stopping its course, but not before all the scientific instru-
ments belonging to M. Preisseerrmhinaadtibueuentobromkuenk.e
fuTrhtheeaero-
naut still expressed his
tempts to ascend, but the authorities interfered and prevented
him. funoonedleatlaitlavthireggbaesenecsacaupseedd
safety-valve having been damaged.
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strikingoxoann-i against a tree, and the other by the in

WESTMORELAND AND CUMBERLAND AGRICUL-
TURAL SOCIETY.—CARLISLE, SEPT. 19.—The annual exhi-
bition of stock took place yesterday. After the ploughing
matches and other exhibitions, the members of the society
dined together at the Crown and Sceptre. On the ground
and at the dinner we observed Lord Carlisle, the Bishop of
Carlisle, Sir James Graham, M.P., Colonel Lowther, M.P.,
the Dean of Carlisle, Mr. P. H. Howard, the Hon. Mr. Gage,
Mr. Marshall, M.P., Captain Graham, the High Sheriff of the
county, the Rev. Canons Gipps, l'ercy, Goodenough, he.
Lord Carlisle occupied the chair. His Lordship and Sir J.
Graham addressed the meeting at great length, but abstained
from all political remarks.

AN EXTRAORDINAUY OTTEL—An otter of unu-
sual dimensions, weighing twenty-five and a half pounds,
was shot on Wednesday, under the Stoke Railway Bridge,
near Brampford Speke, by Mr. Elliott, and may now be seen
at Mr. Truscott's, bird and animal preserver, North Street,
Exeter.—. Western Times.