The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-02 00:00:00

ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, _and • Night, thereby inuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE,

THE COUNCIL of the NATIONAL ANTI-
CORN-LAW' LEAGUE beg to announee that their Weekly
'Meetings in the• Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, wili he Suspended
during the Easter Recess; after which, due notice will be. given by
advertisement of their recommenceinent.

THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, or ENGLISH
• 011tRA, ROUSE.
THE LAST FOUR. NIGHTS .OF 3IR. H.-ADAMS'S ORRERY.;
This Evening,' TUESDAY,: April. 2, and daring. the Week. (Good
Friday excepted), Mr. C. lI—ADAMS will have the honour to illus-
trate his LECTURE on ASTRONOMY with the most brilliant Ce-
lestial Scenery ever exhibited, To begin at Eight and end about.Ten.'
Balcony, 4s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Is. Private _Boxes, One Guinea
and Half-a-Guinea.
Tickets, &c.; at the Box-effice, fromrTen till Four, awl at the
principal 'Libraries. '

REVIVAL of VAUXHALL-GARDENS, at the STADIUM,
CREMORNE HOUSE, CHEI:-EA, on a GRAND SCALE,
UNITING MUCH THAT BY.GONE TIMES HAD NOT
EVEN DREAM 0F...
MIL GEORGE ROBINS isinstructed by the
Proprietor to SELL by.PUBLIC COMPETITION, at
the Auction Mart in the month of May,
CREMORNE HOUSE, CHELSEA,
WITH ITS FASCINATING AND BEAUTIFULLY.ORNA,
MENTED GROUNDS,
on the bank of the River. This far.famed place of entertainment is
()fibre,' most opportunely to spirited individuals for competition.
Vauxhall.gardens having ceased to exist, the public will necessarily
require

A MORE "PERFECT VAUXHALL,
combininz advantages that were entire* overlooked at the old spot,
and avoiding the manifest imperfections, so often, and at I.st so fatally
predicted, to that of the old school.
THE MARCH OF IMPROVEMENT, _ _

progressing at a railway pace, from the new Palace towards the once
favoured abode of

-ROYAL POLYTECHNIC. INSTITUTION.
Thel-arioui ARTIFICIAL LIGHTS in Aucient and Moder*
list aro familiarly explained by Dr. Ryan, at Two O'clock daily ,
illustrated by the LAMP of the ANCIENTS, the-FIRST IMPROVE,
MINT by AM-AND, the RUDE, the DRUMMOND, the,BOCCIUS,
PROFESSOR I..9tARAY'S, the J'ELLETAN, the CAMPHINE
LIGHTS, New FRENCH -LAMP, BEALE'S LAMP, &c.,
ARMSTRONG'S HYDRO-ELECTITIC MACHINE at Three o'clock
And At Eight in the Evenings.'. NEW DISSOLVING- VIEWS,
DIVER OIVINO JWLL. ‘Sirloas NOVELTIES, which are
in preparation for the EASTER 11AIDAYS, will be Announced in a
.few days.

13ROVIDENT.LIFE OFFICE, 50, REGENT-
• .'STREET, `FEB. 35, 1444.- , • • •

BONUSES DECLARED, 529,306/. 17s. 7d;
Notice- Is hereby given, that all persons who hold
.Policies in this
Oflice, bearipg'date prior tothe y.ear 1834, may receive the present
vane of thellontises which have Wen added to their'PolicieF, upon
RPOlication at the •llcad °f ace, or to the Agents through whore the
Policies were issued. • • (IEOAGE. ISEAU3IONT, Actuary

METROPOLITAN DRAPERS'
ASSOCIATION.

A meeting of members-and friends of this ASsociationi
whose object is to abridge the hours of busineSs was held last
-night .at the Hanover-square Rooms. - B. Bond Cabbell,Esq.,
in the ,chair.

_Mr. Hrsnaxt - proposed a resolution- to 'the effect;
that the hours of labour were prolonged: to an extent in the
drapers' and other businesses in the metropolis,. which was
destructive to health, and inimical to moral and intellectual
ImProveinent. He hail there'were thOusanda of young men:
in this .nietropOliS who Were exposed to labour for fifteent
sixteen; or seventeen. and, in, some instatiCO, eighteen hours'
day.--(Shame.) Their opponents met' them with the ob-,
jection that the dripers' asiistants•were not in the worst con-;1
ditiOn, and referred theni to the milliners, directing their at-
tention to an interesting young female who -had been
occupied during tAvo and twenty hours in making a costly
robe fer a very high and illustrious petsonage ; but the illus-:
trious personage for whom the -robe- was made, would have
soonergone withont it, were she aware of the fact, than have:
been the means of imposing such toil on the young creature
with made
The Rev.' T. AOIER seConded the: reSolution.

. The lion. and 'hey. MorniGut irmates supported the
resolutiOn. Ile bore testiniony to the tendency which late
hours of 'business had-to -demoralise young men, and make
them indifferent to their religious interests.
The resolution iras put and 'carried unanimously,
Dr. SOUTHwOOD SMITH bore official testimony to:the de-
strictiveness of late hours' of labour to health and life, and
eonchuted by moving a resolution—." That an abridgement of
the hours of labour would net only prove of incalculable be-
nefit to-the assistants, hut to the employers themselves, and-
to sbeiety at large." 7 . ,
Mr. 04•E'., of Great e,43rain,street; as :einp.l6oee.
active member of the; Committee, seconded the "resolution,
which was carried unanimously. • - : •
The ItleoftEr moved the next resolution—
‘f That the• Metropolitan Drapers' Association,: having for its
object-the abridgeMent _of the hours of business, with a view
to the physical, moral, and intellectual improvement-of the
assistants, is well deserving support, and that this :meeting
pledges its hearty:co-operation and eneouragement,, by ren-
dering it every possible assistance, especially by abstaining
from the future tio making evening purchases." -
Mr. GEORGE TMOMi,so.lk: seconded the resolution, Ile re-:
joided to have the opportunity :of entering into the,humate
and Christian design which the meeting had in view. The
excessive hours-of- labour in the metropolis were deplorable.
If he in any way had been instrumental in contributing to
the advancement of his fellow.ereatures, he owed it to this
circumstance under God, that .he was not, during those years:
when his mind was most susceptible and most. inquiring,.
robbed of his evening hours. Jle . adverted to his travels in
India, and said that in all those travels, in all, the, countries
he had visited, he had not seen. any class of persons in so
absolute a state of serfdom as the drapers 'and other em-
' ployers' assistants in England.
The resolution was carried.

On the motion of Mr. REDMAYNE, seconded by Mr. TA-
VERNER, thanks were voted to the Chairman.

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sitt,—A short time ago a person was prosecuted for riding
a pony to death, and we daily see fines and imprisonment
inflicted for cruelty to animals. We sicken at the details of
-these atrocities, but fancy it is is only the sordid, the low, or
the ignorant who perpetrate them. But it is not so. Let us
see : the London papers of Saturday give an account of a
run with the Royal stag hounds, and state that the deer (Sweep)
was taken, dead beaten, at West Wycombe, a distance of up •
wards of 25 miles from'the kennel at Ascot, and was obliged
to be killed a short time afterwards. A fine horse, belonging
to Mr. Dyson, of Windsor, rode by Mr. Jenner, and another,
belonging to Mr. Slim*, of Slough; dropped dead ; a third
horse died at the Crown Inn, Marlow ; and another, making
a fourth, at Beaconsfield. Now, Sir, in what is the differ-
ence of riding horses to death for sport, or riding them to
death for gain ? Are the agonies of the poor animals less in
the one case than the other? Here is cruelty by wholesale;
but will it be noticed? I fear, Sir, that while indignation,
fines, and imprisonment are heaped on the heads of one class
of offenders, these will hear of nothing but the splendid run
they have had with the Royal stag hounds. You 'have al-
ways been the advOcate of the oppressed, can you not devote
a little time and space to this subject? • •
Greenwood, April 1, 1844. A. T.

COMMANDS IN CHIEF.—The following Commanders -
in-Chief will be relieved in the course of- the present year,-
as their periods of service will have expired :—Of the Pacific.
station, Rear-Admiral Thomas, appointed sth.of May, 1841 ;
of the West India and North American station, Vice-Admi-'
ral Sir C. Adam. K.C.8., appointed 17th -August,: 1841 ; of
the Mediterranean, Vice-Admiral Sir E. W. Q. R. Owen,
K.C.111, G.C.H., appointed 14th October, 1841; and of the
Brazils and Cape of Gocd Hope station, Rear-Admiral the
Hon. JocelYme Percy, C. 8.; appointed 17th Deceinber, 1841.
Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, K-C.B. 'of the East India sta-
tion, appointed 12th May, 1841, is already succeeded in the
command -in-chief by Rear-Admiral Sir-T.Coctirane,K.C.B.,
who was second .in .command in the East Indies; Captain
Chads, of the Cambrian, hoisting a. commodore's broad pen-
dant, as second in command to Sir T. Cochrane. The admi-
rals and captains, superintendants of the dockyards, with
the exception of Portsmouth and Malta, were appointed in
' 1841; but these officers hold their commissions for five years.
Posi'-OFFIcE, CHANGES.—It has already been men-
tioned that a considerable increase has taken place in the
number of twopenny-post letter carriers, and that a further'
increase was expected to take place in a few days. Since
then two'sub-sorters and three extra stampers of letters have
received 'appointments, and an additional number of letter-
Carriers, making•a total of one hundred in addition to the
ordinary strength of • the establishment. Two houses have
also been taken, one at the corner of ,01c1street-road, and
the other situate in the vicinity of Brunswick-square. These
tenements are ~now fitted up as sorting offices, similar to
those now employed for that purpose in different parts of the
metropolis. .The object of these changes is an increase in the
delivery of letters, and when the arrangements are concluded,
which they will be in a few-days, the public will have three
extra deliveries of twopenny-post letters daily, There is an
opinion, though nothing has yet publicly transpired, that the
deliveries will be increased to ten per diem, and that the
change will take place immediately after the fficial quarter-
day, the sth of the present month. • ' -
THE INDIA MAIL. Yesterday- morning the
monthly mail for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, Egypt, India, and
Hong-Kong was. made up at the General Post-4fffice, St.
Martin's-le-Grand, and forwarded by the Great Liverpool
steamer, rid-Southampton. There were 97 boxes, besides
smaller packages, of letters. Theoverland closed mail of the,
4th instant, via Marseilles, is detained until Saturday, the
6th instant. The following new postal arrangements came
into operation yesterday, the Ist of April :—" Letters may
be sent Unpaid, rid France, to the following countries and
places, or the postage may be paid to destination, viz., the
Austrian dominions, the free city of Cracow, Moldavia, Wal-
lachia, Turkey in Europe, together with the town of Scutari
in Asia. Letters may also be sent through France unpaid
to Southern . Poland and Southern Russia. The combined
British and foreign rate of postage to be taken on a single
letter weighing less; than a quarter of an ounce for the above;
mentioned countries, will be as follows :—To the Austrian
dominions, the free city of:Cracow, and the city of Belgrade,
ls, 'sd. ; Moldavia and Wallachia, Is. 9d. ; Turkey in Eu-
rope (Belgrade excepted) and Scutari in Asia, Is.
-Southern- Poland and Southern Russia, Is. 6d.
Letters to Greece, the Archipelago,' the lonian Islands,
the Two "Sicilies, the - Papal. States, Modena, Parma,
and Placentia, are charged is. 3d.-; British and foreign pest-.
age, or the British rate:only (5d.), may be paid. Those
letters which are directed to the German and northern States
to be ferwarded,through the office 'of Tour and Taxis, if not
posted unpaid, must in future be paid to destination. The
next mails for.Madeira' the West Indies, Mexico, Honduras,
HaVannali, Bahamas, Chagres, and New Granada, will be
mttde up this morning,' the 2d inst.; to be forwarded by the
Tay steamer, rid Southampton; British North America,
Bermuda, and the United States, ln the evening of the 3d
instant,(to-morrow), by the Acadia steamer, .via. Liverpool;
Brazils and Buenos Ayres, on•the 3d instant, by her Majesty's
brig. Express, aid Falmouth.
EXTRAORDINARY DISPATCH OF LETTERS.—One
of the largest dispatches of letters ever made from the General
.Pest-office took place yesterday morning. •The mails to
Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands,,, Guadaloupe,..Martinique,
Curaeoa, St. Croix, and Porto Rico, when made up occupied
upwards of 100. boxes. At a moderate estimate, each of these
,boxes(containa 5,000 letters, and taking tlit) number of boxes
at'loo;' the thimber of letter's antonnts to 'half-a-million.
Ti 4 were taken 'to the terminus of the South Western Rail-
war% MX' Pest-Mite vaits, which wefe Opened at the top for
the purpose bf receiving them frail the ship letter-office, on
th 4 east 'sidu .of the' portico. • ' • • •
TH'Witt.'FORGERIEs.-After the final examina-
tion of the prisoners on Saturday, Mrs;;Tho. reiwas taken into
thapreience of her sister, and Sanders was ;Subsequently in-
troduced to them in one of the waiting-reams
,ef the Man-
sloe:louse. The meeting of the sisters, was .sated to have
been very affecting. The son of Sanders and Lydia Sanders,
a lact about nineteen years of age, waspresent
.at the .melan-
chely interview,' and the father topk the opportunity of ad-
vising him to endeavour to conduct himself in such. a
manner as not to run the hazard of..saspipion..in a world
was. so ready to attribute the basest motives to men.
Sanders has declared that lie has. beensomparatively .happy
since his. -4ppiownsioe,. as be and his.Yfife..led. a life of in-
describae .
horror in -endeavouring AlCape detection.
' Barber speaks
:with greater
cmfidell-cP . Ihn..eKer. of ac-
quittal. Mrs. Sanders has expressed her deep sense of the
humane treatment she experienced at the hands of John
•
. .
" CHURCH OF -ENGLAND SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS'
INSTlTUTE.—Testerday -
evening, a numerous' meeting of the
friends of education, in aeeordance-with the principles of the
I,stabhsliatir3c4trrcly,: -was- Ipeld.,at -the 'Hall of. Commerce,
Threadneedlerst.ncet. The chair was taken by John Labon-
chore, Esa,l The objegt.s' of theJnstitution are, the promo-
lien ,of uaien 'among the Bev.exal -.Sunday-schools in and
aroun(l the i• }he supplying of-Aim:4a with such
information mpmnynrjons.-fubjects as shalt tend to the adVan-
:l4ge pfAuntlay-schetors ;general,.&c.._ :.rbe Qttionun also
refe!k§d' to the advantage :derived from the-institution, and to
the extension of education in
.general, Sevefar worts, &c.,
were read t.p.ftkr ys!lii,ell,,,resolittiorit in aeeordance n ere agreed
Bteceediiii&iturkaliPatedi
• STEPNEY I'-,Ate..--atolnlay'leTcvnllectcil- that a fair,
.was held last Eastman(' Whitsuntide at Stepney, after it had
-bemsuppreated by nhepagistracy-, as a nuisance; for 25 years.
The conduct of the.countless thousands Who' attended it was
Iverynciriferly,: ,antirthe aihsence of ciatragati formed a. striking
vOntrast to thb tuinuittions.scextes icir • yearly!! took place
;befiiittO n dermal; doe, L 71511},pressiim !i"I se.lexperiinent
having succeeded so well last vein', and the police authorities
not deeming it .idsisable the harmless
Atukksentenitsiof I t hejpeople ;skim* as, they 4ier.eproperly con-
, ducted, the' Oaiatis tolhoireptited at:Eastie.r.
--:TAE • &ATE, PA C.l MHNTS AT. :WINDSOR CASTLE.
MejiNty.-1 has WtdiA•ol' that- tlic'''Stateliptirtments at
Windsor Castle til3hl'f,be4open for thertchnisflion of the public
Atirlototthitkiii it nittf-be'oberv,ed,-,the
6.taVe TAMA haVeltiffitiiiiithlrbicieti clriticl(threett`the: year.
Orders to the above effect were issued y-Werffriltbfiluthizl
office of the Lord.Chautberlairr. •