The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-24 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
TO-MORROW EVENING, JUNE 25,
Will be repeated the New Opera Serie, composed by M. Costa,
the Poetry by Leopoldo Tarantini, entitled
DON CARLOS.
With New Scenery by Mr. W, Grieve.
Philip 11. (King of Spain), Sig. lAblache ; Don Carlos (his son),
Sig. Mario: he Count Posa (Friend of Don Carlos), Sig. Fornasari;
Gomez (Grandee of Spain), Sig. Glubilei; Isabella (Wife of Philip),
Madame Grist.
To conclude with an entirely new Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled
Z ELIA ou, La Nympe iane.
In which Mdlle. Cerito; Mcille. Schefferh de,
MdllDe. Plunkett, Mad: me
Copere, IL St. Leon, and Stalls,rt will appear.
Applications for Boxes, and Tickets to be made at the Box
Office, Opera Colonnade.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
M. PERROT has the honour to Inform the Nobility, Subszribers.
his Friends, and the Public, that HIS BENEFIT will take place
on THURSDAY NEXT, June 21'. He is happy to be able t) state
that h. has secured for that occasion the invaluable assistance of the
celebrated Tenor, Signor MORIA N I.
The Pei formanees w+II commence with Donizetti's favourite Opera,
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR-
The part of Edgardo by Sig. Moriani; Enrico, Sig. kornasiri;
Zadebent, Sig. Paltoni ; Lucia, Madame Persiani.
In the course of the evening a " DIVERTISSEMENT," in which
will be introduced a variety of Dances and " Pas de Caractere," by
Mdlle. Fanny Elsaler and Mdlle. Cent°.
After which, (Inecco's Opera Bun, LA PROVA D'UN OPERA
SERIA, by Madtme Gail, Sig. Corelli, Sig. F. Liblache, and Sig.
Lablache.
To c•nclude with (second time) the entirely new Ballet, by M.
Perrot, the music by Sig. Pugni,
ZELIA, OU LA NYMPHE DE DIANE, •
(the Scenery by Mr. IV. Grieve), in which Mdlles. Cerito, Seheffer,
Plunkett, MM. St. Leon and Perrot will appear.
A 014 ications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box-
ottlw, Opera-colonnade. Doors open at Seven ; the Opera will cons.
tnenr.e at Half-past Seven.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKEI.
MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE
THIS EVENING, JUNE 24,
Will be repeated the Prize Comedy of
QUID PRO QUO; or, THE DAY OF DUPES.
With a Prologue spoken by Mr. Webster.
Earl of Hunsdon, Mr. Stuart; Lord Bellamont, Mrs. Nisbett ;
Jeremy Grigson. Mr. Strickland; Flury, Mr. H. Holl ; Captain
"ll,,pett, Mr Buckstone; Sir George Mordent, Mr W. Farren ;
Countess of Hunsdois, Mrs. W. Clifford; Lady Mary Rivers, Miss
Jul:a Bennett; Mrs. Grigson, Mrs. Glover; Bridget t rim, Mrs.
Murrby.
After which, THE TRUMPETER'S DAUGHTER; or, Love
and the Polka. Philli pot, Mr. Webster; Madelon, Madame Celeste;
who will dance the celebrated Polka.
'i 0 conclude with THE IRISH ATTORNEY. Pierce O'Hara,
Mr. Leonard.
orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, Ss. ; Gallery, •oi. ; Upper
dlery. Is. Half-price—Boxes as. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, R. ; Upper
Ganery, 6d. Doors opened at Half-past Six, and the Performances
commence at Seven.
tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer, -t the Box.
otlce... from Ten till Five.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STR k LT.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 24,
Will be repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled CROWN
DIAMONDS Count de Campo Mayor, Mr. Weiss; Don Hen.
ru;ues de Sandoval, Mr. Allen; Rebolledo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; La
C.terina, Madame Anna Thillon; Diana, Mils Grant.
APer which a new Divertiss,ment, called The SLAVE MART.
conc.ude with a New and Original once, in One Act, calted
TAKEN BY SURPRISE. Principal Characters by Messrs. Fitz-
pules, Walter Lacy, Oxberry, Miss Emma Stanley, and Miss E.
Bonner.

THtAfRE ROY AL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA-
Under the M HOUSE.
plan of Mrs. KEELEY.
In consequence of the unabated attraction of 44 Open 'esame; or, A
Night with the Forty Thieves," it will be acted a few more. Nights ;
and, in order to accommodate the Juvenile Branches of Families
now home for the Midsummer Holidays. there will be a series of
Three Juvenile Nights : viz., Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
next, when this celebrated and popular Extravaganza will be per.
formed at an early hour of the Evening.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 24,
Will he performed a New Domestic Drama, entitled THE MO-
MENTOUS QUESTION. Characters by Messrs. Diddear, F.
Vining, J. W. Collier, Miss Fortescue, and Mrs. A. Wigan.
After which, THE THREE FRA DIAVOLOS. Principal
Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Keeley, Wigan, Diddear, Miss
Woolgar and Mrs. Woollidge.
To be &Rowed by an Apropos Bagatelle; called POLKA MANIA.
Characters by Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss
Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with a (Irani Burlesque Fairy Extravaganza, called
/WEN SESAME;. or, a Night with the Forty Thie es. ilassarac,
blir. Keeley ; Morgiana, Mrs. Keeley.
PRICES OF A DMISsION.-slitalcom Roxea ls.; Upper
!loxes, 13s. ; Pit, 2s. • Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 28. ;
t!puer Boxes, Is 6d.; Pit, is. Private Boxes on the Kim; my Tier
molding eight persons). Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second
ier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private
Koxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Gui: es

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF A ass.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY-
Great Success of the Chinese Feast of Lanterns, and N w Military
and Naval Spectacle.
TG, JUNE 24
Will be repeated anHIS enEVEN tire new Military and, Naval Equestrian
Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or. The Conquests of
Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery, Dresses, Appointments. &c.,
Lo realise the recent triumphs of England's Army and Navy. Feast
sot 250 Lanterns.
First Night of a graceful and novel pageant, entitled THE ROY it L
COTILLION OF FRANCIS THE FIKST; or, The Beauties of the
Louvre. Marguerite de Valois, Mrs. Batty.
New and unequalled Scenes of the Circle—Extraordinary Feats
of Horsemanship by Monsieur Louis Tournaire, S g. Germani, Herr
Teisback, La Petit Isabelle, Mr. Newsome, &c.; with Mr. R. Smith's
highly trained Steeds.
To conclude with an Allegorical Sketch and Living Tableaux of the
Principal Events in the Career of the Emperor Napoleon Buona-
Parte—Austerlitz, St. Helena, Marengo, with Fame's Tribute to
England's Hero—the Duke of Wellington.
The doors will open nightly at six o'clocas, and the crtormances
commence at seven. Box.otbce opened daily from ten till four. The
Private boxes have been recobstructed and decorated wi, b care and
splendour.

The debate on the Sugar Duties in the House of
Commons, elicited explanatory statements from her
MAJESTY'S Ministers on the subject of the machinery
devised by them for discriminating between foreign
sugars raised by free labour, and similar produce
grown by slave labour, on importation into this
country, which were exceedingly important. These
explanations must have satisfied the hitherto most scep-
tical on the subject that the machinery in question can
no more be depended on for the certain attainment of
the ends it is created to accomplish, than the votes of
a Whig, only recorded on Friday, can be reckoned
upon in a division on one and the same question on. the
Monday following. On till clause giving "power
to her MAJESTY, by order in Council, to declare the
sugars of other countries to be admissible as not being
the produce of slave labour," the question naturally
arose as to the possibility of obtaining certificates
under these terms which could be safely re-
lied upon ? It is abundantly clear that the admis-
sion of foepi2,n sugars, at the. very reduced rate
per cwt. settled by the new plan of Government,
must have a natural tendency to defeat the great ob•
iects of our magnificent emancipation experiment in
1833, by giving a fresh stimulus to the employment
of slave labour in foreign colonies, where the con-
dition of slavery is not yet abolished. The
►nly course which Government have to pro-
pose for counteracting this tendency, is to re-
quire the fact of the produce having been
raised, bona fide, by free labour. If Ice may
judge from the simplicity with which Mr. GLAD..
4one talks of the "guarantees" that will be afforded
by these certificates, we must suppose that the Right
Hon. Gentleman never heard of those redoubtable and
notorious forgeries of ships' papers, passes, &c., used by
,omeof our mercantile houses with so little scruple or
such signal success as those.of Liverpool, in the late
svar. They were known by the dilated designation of
Simulated papers ;" are well remembered at
Lloyd's and on the Royal Exchange of London to
this day, and were compesed, prepared, and fabri-
Listed by responsible firma, which absolutely addressed
'` Circulars" to the principal commercial establish-
ment of the United Kingdom, apprising the parties
addressed of the terms on which the writers sup-
plied them, with " satisfactory" references to
those who had largely profited by employing their
•` papers."—Of course no such agency would be again
invoked in order to pass off'slave-grown for free-
labour sugars in the foreign ports of shipment. Of
!ourse, we might anticipate that the certificates from
sugar growing states of the American 'Union, would
Dever justify Lord JouN RUSSELL'S admitted appre-
hensions of their deficieney in genuineness. Of
course, on this side of the water, fraud'or collusion in
passing such defective instruments can never be rea-
sonably dreaded—whilst the detected portion of our
Custom-House fraud; still supplies our courts of law
with cases for the visitation of their penal justice.
The objection thus taken in 'limine to the efficacy
the Ministerial plan, was met by Sir ROBERT
PEEL with one of his official platitudes. The Pre-
mier considered " that the Right Hon. Gentleman had
asked what the Government would do in certain
hypothetical cases ?" How they could be other than
hypothetical ones before they had actually occurred,

is not very easy, Sir Itonuar, to understand. "If
any such cases should occur, which was highly im-
probable, there would be time enough to deal with
them next year." Let the slave cultivator he ground
by unnaturally excited labour, into the thirsty
soil, watered by the sweat of his brow, or
tinged with the blood that has followed the
infliction of the whip upon his back,—in the mean-
time, our benevolent Government will make it right
in another year ! But that deferred remedy cannot be
applied for two years—hecause the operation of this
Bill is to be for one.
marked with much pointoawnd Afol
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and
very erroneous views the Board of Trade had adopted,
as to the extent to which a condition of clomesti.? sla-
very fosters and extends the practice of slavery and the
traffic in slaves. In China this state of domestic slavery
existed to an enormous extent. We all know from
how many quarters in the East the supply of foreign
slaves in China is from time to time' re-
newed. Yet the Right Hon. President of the.
Board of Trade had no objection to admit the sugars
of China. How did this consist with the rejection
of the sugars of Brazil and Cuba ? But the sugars of
Java and Siam were also to be admitted. Both of these

were slave countries ! Lord PALMERSTON also showed

that domestic slavery was fed by the slave trade, and
instanced the Ottoman dominions as a salient example

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specting the probable issue of their Irish policy.
1 The Chairman of the Middleton dinner, fired with the
glorious ambition of equalling, if not of surpassing,
i the Rev. Mr. WILKINSON in the faculty of talking
nonsense, expressed his conscientious belief that "in
this cause of Conservatism, as well as- every other in
which they were engaged, Providence guided them.''
Here, then, we have at length a clue to the twistings,
and wrigglings, and tergiversations, of the Conserva-
tive party! We were long at a loss to account for
the unhesitating, bare-faced inconsistency of this
eccentric party ; but the Middleton Chairman has
I now kindly come forward and explained the
reasons of their conduct. Their late decisions
in the House of Commons were, it seems,
given, not at the instigation of Sir ROBERT PEEL,
but under the direct " guidance of Providence." It
was " Irovidence" who prompted them to abandon
the sacred claims of humanity, and fling the unpro-
tected factory women and children overboard ; and it
was the same " Providence" who suggested the expe-
diency of their stultifying themselves on the question,
of the sugar duties ! " Providence"—to parody the
language of the Times on a certain memorable occa-
sion—" Providence did it all !" He was the
arch-tempter! But for his direct suggestions the
Conservatives would never have dreamed of vio-
lating principle, and disgracing themselves in the
eyes of every thinking and upright man in the
community; but would have maintained at all
hazards an inflexible, high-minded consistency. In
the good old days of Toryism, it was the Devil who
used to have the credit—or rather discredit—of being
the great tempter ; but the Conservatives, among
other bright discoveries, have now found out that i
is " Providence" who is entitled to this equivoca
distinction ; and to his express interference the quick
witted MIDDLETON Chairman attributes the tergi,
versations of his party. Surely there is gross bias,
phemy as well as egregious nonsense here, and
the Society for the Suppression of Irreligion will
do well to take this gentleman's irreverent cant about
" Providence" into their attentive consideration ! At
the same dinner, Mr. Sowl.Eß, a barrister of Man.
chester, thus gave vent to the party enthusiasm which
overpowered his delicate sensibilities :—" It is a proud
satisfaction to me to find so many honest and respect-
able men as I now see before me, united in carrying
out the greatest cause on which English glory ever
dawned—the cause which has made England what
it is—the cause which has made_ you and me
at this moment free to express our sentiments
without fear, and to do that which our hearts dictate,
to plead for the common freedom of our common
country." Mercy on us, what a farrago of words is
here! Is it Conservatism that the speaker is talking
about, when he alludes to " the greatest cause on
which English glory ever dawned ?" Surely not, for
no cause can be great that is not based on principle,
and not even the most bigoted of the squad will have
the intrepid effrontery to assert that the Conserva-
tives have a single shred of principle adhering to
them. Principle, in fact, is the very thing in
which they are mostglaringly deficient—the qualifica-
tion which of all others they most strenuously repudiate,
and which they treat with the most contumelious
indifference. Talk to a Conservative about principle,
and if he be a frank, sincere man, who really speaks
as he thinks, he will laugh outright in your
face, and ask you in what benighted quar-
ter of Christendom you have received your
political education. Principle and Conservatism !
Was there ever a greater contrast than is represented
by these two terms ? Oil and vinegar have not a
more marked antipathy to each other. Night and day
are not more distinct from each other. Conservatism, let
its advocates say what they will, is neither more nor less
than a downright negation of all principle, and is
—lest defined by that jesuitical phrase—Expediency