The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-29 00:00:00

J. IiACCIREGOM
1, Princo'i-terra, Llydc-p...2k, London,
Jar. 24, 1850.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. JAMES ANDERSON.
THIS EVrN LNG,
Will be presented, by her Maj,sty's Servaßts,
Shakespere's Play of
AS YOU LIKE IT. Pule, Mr. Catti 'art ; Amiens, Mr. Rafter;
Jacques, Mr. Vander_boff; Orlando, Mr. Montague ; Adezm, Mr.
Cooper ; Touchstone, Mr. W. 11, Angel ; Roselind, 3lrs. Msbett
1-3 be teliewed by a New urand llisterical, Metaphorical,
Allegor!c.,l, a•,d Pantmnltne, by the author of Bluff
King Hal 'to be caned 11ARLEQDIN and GOOD QUEEN ISF.S.9;
sr. 3IERRIE ENGLAND IN TIIE OLDEN TIME,
Private bcxes, 31. 35., 21.
}123. Cd., Yl. 2e, 11. lit. Cd., and It. 13.

, --, --- •..
Stalls, 5:3, eatt.
s. (1. s. d.
FIRST PRICY:. SECOND PR VW..
Ft ,N PS - - 4 0 110xts - - 2 0
tit - - - 2 0 Pit - - - I 0
Lower Gallery - 1 ) Lower G4llery - 0 i
I
uprer flalle:y -0 6 No 'tad-price to Upper Gallery,
Itc)x-1:311c-keeper, Mr. J. rove'''.

11.tYMAItKET.
, &Rd ftnagtr, tirotePtan-
TIIIS EVENING,
Will be presented an entircly new and orig;nal Comedy, entitled
I.EAV YEAS: ; or, The Ladies' Privi!ege. Sir Solomon r
Keeley ; Captain li user, Mr. sel y ; Mr. Diin;ale, Mr. IhrAstone
IVillfarn Walker, Mr. Charles Kean ; Mrs. Flora Flower 'ew, Mrs,
Ch3rles Kean ; Miss Sally O'Leary, MN. ; Mrs. Crisp,
Mrs. Kec.loy.

Mr. vt. Webstc

After which THE IN-“ Tit STA_TCH or, The Jewels a
The Gem Principal eh-tract. rs by Mr. l; nn, aril, 'tliss Ilona
Mrs. itlickn,iihain. and Miss K. Fit.
To con:iiile ;with MAKI: YOUR WILT
The is ander the cilrect.

!william

,fr. I. T. Archar.

THEA rut: F.:,)Y.41„ A I,ELl•iii.
•.)-:ie;- the :tireot,n <A diadsme t.;4.lest.
EVENINO
Will be per!crme.l a new Om:nestle Urn's, called TILE WILLOW
CC;DAE. O:nu:1,-n by Mersrs. 111,7,he5, Wright, I'. Itf 61-
fot, , O. Smith, NVorrell ; .Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar.
Atter which FRANK EN,:TEIN ; or, The M0,1..1 Man. franken-
tt,iii, Mr. IVright ; the WilAt is It ? Mr. P. Bedford; Zamiel, Mr. 0.
Smith ; Ott, of Itoseiliwrg, Miss Woc-Igar ; Tiddiew;ucg, miss E.
Chsplia ; Agatha, Miss Covetiy ; 2.71:01ne, Miss P. lts7ding.
To bo followed by a new, slippery sket:l4 NBUR
SPOON:i. Mr. liiglibury Ilarnes, Mr. I:etlford ; nob Twinks,
31r. Wright ; „LA) Siaith, Mr. 0. Sant!, : :4r:;. Banbury, airs. F.
Matthews; Mrs. Eighbury itames, Miss Ilrookp.

P.OTAL LYCEUM TFIEATite%
' 01 Vetnria

Ti I it; EVENINsi.
Will be performed AN APPE.A T PUBLIC.
After which THE ISLAND OF JEWELS.
To conclude with LIE WOULD BF. AN ACTOR
D.c Boxes 44.; Upper 1:441,4*. 4s
bait-price to any part of the house.
All artpiications for rrivate Boxes cent ht, ittn,le to Mr. Ancroft,
New Bond-street.

en, . .43llery, IP.

Mr. .1. M. Maddox, Sul, lep.sco Manitger.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed a new comic Opera, entitled TILE VALLEY OF
ANDORRE.

To conclude with KING .TAMIE ; or, Harlequin and Magic Fildle
harlequin, Mr. Ito!ogna ; Pantaloon, Air. Paulo; Clown, Mr. Flex-
more ; Columbine, Miss Fawcett.

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
FRENCH PLATS AND OPERA COMIQUE.
Mr. MITCHELL begs revectfully to ahnonnee that the French
Performances at the St. Jac es'* 1 hes :re will commence
'I O-M ORROW EVENING,
At Half-past Seven, i% hen will to performed
US TIGRE DE RENGALE.
After isdilch
LE MAITRE CIIAPELLE.
To conclude with a New Opera Bouffon, entitled
LE CAI D.
The Eox-orrice of the Theatre is open daily from Eleven till
Five.

A.STLF. RuYAL. Aaturtill tir..l i tt.t.
Proprietor, Mr. W. natty
A Grand Juvenile Night, eeinmeneing with the Pantomime
will take place on Thursday.
t'til, EV I N•

The performance will commerce- at Quarter to Seven, with a
new Grand Spectacle of THE KNIGHT OF THE EAGLE CREST;
or, The Touruay of Love, in which Mr. N. T. Hicks will appear.
To be followed by a brilliant display of liatty's peerless seeles of
.he Circle, supported by the accomplished artistes of the establish-
ment.

To conclude with a grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime, by Nel-
son Leo, called lIAh'LEQUIN YANKEE POODLE, mho came to
Town upon hls little Pony.

P.Ox-otileo ;pen from Eltrreii tilt Four.

MAILS FOR MADEIRA, &c —Notice was issued
yesterday at the General Post-office that mails will be
made up on Friday evening, the Ist of February next,
f)r Madeira, the Cape de Verde Islands, Sierra Leone,
and the is'and of Ascension, to be conveyed by her Ma-
jesty's stmin vessel Gladiator, appointed to sail from
Devonport on th,e morning of the 2d proximo. Letters
for Madeira ar:d the Caro de Verde blends will be liable
to a po:tage of le. lud, per half- iunce; newspapers 2d.,
which must be pre •paid. Sierra Leone and Ascension
letters per half-ounce; newspapers free. For the
Cape of Good Hope, on the evening cf the 4th, to be
forwarded by her Majesty's steam-ves,el Hermes, ap-
pointed to sail from Portsmouth on the, morning of the
.sth proximo; letters le. per huff-ounce; newspapers
free. Both must be sircially addressed by the above
vessels. The Hermes will convey dispatches for his Ex-
cellency Sir Harry Smith, G.C.13.
GENERAL ANNUITY SOCIETY.---A numerously at-
tended meeting of this society was held yesterday in the
London Tavern, Mr. Henry Povnall in the chair. The
usual annual report staNd that eleven persons had been
placed on the finds during the last year, and that seven
persons—three males and four females—were that day
to be elected from among 110 deserving applicants. The
number of annuitants reported was 33-20 females and
13 males, one of whom is 91 years of age; only one
uncle! 50. The annuities had been increased to the
maximum amount allowed by the rules cf the society,
namely, 21. ss, per month for men, and 1/. 10s. for
women. The report referred with pleasure to the large
amount of subscriptions and donations contributed during
the year; greater than it had been for the last twenty
years, and exceeding by 1291. Bs. 4d, the receipts of last
year. The total receipts were 2,571/. 2a. 9d. The
amount paid to annuitants was 7261. ss. Stock had been
purchased to the value of 5001., and after all expenses
had been paid, there remained in the bank a balance of
4.54/. 7e. It is intended hereafter to invest in the public
uads all life subscriptions and donations of 51. and up-
wards, the dividends of which shall be applicable to the
general purpoFes of the institution. It was proposed to
hold the next festival on tte 6th of March, when the
Right lion. E. H. Stanley, M.P., will preside.
LocOMOTIVB POWER.—German papers state that
Mr. Gunther, the head of the locomotive factory at
Neustcdt, near Vioera, has coved the problem relative
to the ascent of trains on inclined planes; and built an
engine ;Aid. will draw, with ease, up an incline, of
VI deg. to sr, deg., a train of the weight of 2,:00 tons.
—Mining Journal
Lose of AN EAST INDIAMAY.-131;ULOGNE, JAN,
27.—Yesterday the ship Palermo, from Canton, Cap-
tain Campbell, bound for London, was entirely wreaked
off the coast near Dane, five leagues from Boulogne.
The crew, consisting of eighteeu perm', told three
DURllirlip were 01114

army, and further ( f a constabula-y army, I f aye little
hopes in any important reduction of our military ex -
per diture. -
As regards our maritime establishment, I do consider
that, even to prevent war, there is no force so essential
as our navy, to a nation situate .l as we are, geographi-
cally, and with our trade and shipping; I will therefore
not consent to diminish its efficiency, although I am de-
cidedly of opinion that our navy may be rendered more
efficient at far less expense. I believe, however, that the
expenditure since I list had the honour of addressing
on has been greatly reduced.
Before I quit the subject of taxes and expenditure, I
must refer to local taxation. In Scotland, and especially
in Glasgow, the poor-rates are exceedingly oppressive,
and the Scotch poor-law remarkably imperfect. A
great effort ought to be made to remedy those defects.
Among other matters, the agricultural Protectionists
complain of undue local taxation, in the shape of poor-
laws, county-rate?' &c. Let us see with what justice.
The population of great Britsin, by the census c f 1841,
accounte I to 18,844,436 int abitants—that of the cities
and towns, within the strictly electoral limits, of voters
sending Members to Parliament, was 7,070,186. I have
taken some pains to estimate the population of numerous
towns which do not send Members to Parliament—of the
suburban parishes—of great cities and towns, exclude:l
from any except the county representa'ion, but with
popul..tions strictly ar ban—and of the persons employed in
the iron, coal, tin, copper, and salt mines, and also in the
fact nies without the electoral towns spread over Yorkshire,
Lancashire, Chcshise Staffordshire, La! arkshire, Ren-
frew, Ayrshire, Stirlingshire, and Angus, who are in no
way employed in agriculture, and my elt,mste rather ex—
ceeds-2,352,031 inhabitinte, which, with the above, is
equal to half the whole population of Great Britain;.

and as the urban populition aro notoriously higher
taxed, locally, than the rural inhabitants, the assertion
to have protection, on account of peculiar rural burdens,
is far worse than valuelese.

I must now conclude with one reinaik, on a mare's
nest which the Protectionists have discovered, and in
which they exult. The present American Secretary of
the Treasury is not a Benjamin Franklin; Wit bis arith-
metic has calculated t'iat the cotton grown in the United
States may be doubled, and often quadrupled, in value,
by spinning, weaving, dyeing, or printing operations;
that it is then fore the duty of Congress net to allow it
as a raw material to leave the country, but to manufac •
ture it, in order that the United States may be
enriched by all the enormous difference of value
which is now gained by England, France, Belgium,
Switzerlane, and Germany. Very flattering, I will
put a similar case. Supposing my excellent friend, Mr.
Wilson, of Dundyvan, or my generous opponent, Mr.
Dixon, were to be told, " You do wrong to sell your iron
as you de. After leaving your hands it is vastly in-
creased in value by being made into bolts, spikes, mile,
agricultural implements, anchors, chains, steam-boilers,
engines, iron steam ships, at ,vey, pots, kettles, grates,
shovels, tongs, pokers, knives, f ,rke, pickaxes, and many
thousands of ( ther articles. Now, you are not wise.
You lose all this money because you do not make all the
absve articles, and all the others Oat can be made of
iron, at your own furnaces Et Duntlyvan or Govan; you
will secere all the gains. You should not allow Mr.
Napier, nor Todd and Macgregor to have the profits of
steam-engines, hollers, and large iron steam-ships. Nor
allow iron-smiths, cutlers, or others to rob you of profits
made by the working of iron." The man who would
propound such advice to any one between the hanks of
the Forth and the estuary of the Clyde would surely be
deemed, if honest, at least insane. Yft such is Mr.
Meredith's recommendation to the people of the United
States with respect to their raw material, coat m. The
cettor-planter will, notwithstanding, continue, in con-
tempt of the American Secretary,'to send his produce to
the market, where he will sell it at the best price.
Believing all prote ;live (hale; mischievous, and con-
sidering that if we rea'ntain tranquillity at home—peace
with all the world—pursue our industry, trade and na-
vigation, without being t it to uncertain and dan-
gerous undertakings during periods of prosperity—legis-
late wisely for the common good of all, and under our
fete constitution administer the government impartially
and the laws ju, tly--I am of (pinion that we reser had,
with the hi,- ssing of heaven, a ftirer prospect btfore us
in. Great Britain, and in our commercial intercourse
with all the notions of the world.—l am at all times,
yours faithfully,