The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-09 00:00:00

Jacobins of France, and these fellows who attend the League
Meetings are great grandchildren of these bloody fellows.
They want to destroy the landlord in order to pick the
pocket of the tenant, and then send the labourer
to the devil."—(Roars of laughter.) The mildest word
supplied to them was blasphemy. But there were some of
them who wanted to put down all discussion on the subject.—
(-Hear, hear.) Twenty-eight petitions had been presented to
tie House of Commons to stop these mischievous discussions.
This reminded him of a benighted village, in which, whenever
there was a storm at night, the clergyman used to be called
sup to read a chapter out of the Bible.—(Laughter.) They
bad no intention of being put down ; they had no idea of sur-
rendering one jot of their principle.—( Great cheering.) Their
business was simply to increase, by every means in
their power, their efforts to forward the cause.
The recent movement had thrown new light upon the
Object, and had shown what were the real grounds upon which
their enemies proceeded. The Morning Post was the faithful
organ of their views ; as such it had received many votes of
thanks at their meetings.—(Hear, hear.) On the day before
Parliament met, that journal said, " The business of farmers
as to resist, to the utmost of their power, the hypothesis that
any supply from abroad is necessary." It further said that
the business of landlords was to take care of their own interests,
and that the agriculturists of England had a right to the mono-
isoly of supplying England with food ; and that the sliding-
scale was founded on that hypothesis. This, at least, was in-
telligible language.—( Hear, hear.) The same journal ridi-
culed improvements in agriculture, on the ground that their
effect was to increase the quantity and lower the price of
corn, as well as on the ground of their expense.
He had lately heard of a new plan on the part of the monopo-
lists being started for the maintenance of monopoly. That plan
was no other than a system of exclusive dealing. It was only
two days ago that this plan was suggested in the organ of the
Government, the Morning Herald. If any tradesmen ven-
tured to condemn the present system of monopoly, all support
was to be drawn from him in his business. Let the tradesmen
be an honest man—let him have a large family to bring up—
yet, if he dared to express his opinion in favour of free trade,
be was to be marked as a person undeserving of support in his
business. How could these monopolists have the face after this to
talk of the morality of the people or of their spiritual destitu-
tion ? This last attempt of the monopolists was most odious
tyranny.—(Cheers. ) The free trade party might, if they chose,
adopt the same course, but he would never recommend any man,
who was a friend to the cause, to pursue such an odious system.
Every man had a right to his opinion.—(Cheers.) He
trusted that this odious and detestable attempt at tyranny on
the part of the monopolists would only encourage the free
traders to fresh exertions.—(Cheers.) The monopolists,
amongst other foolish arguments, had made use of one which
bad caused some sensation amongst parties who were inclined
to be free traders. They said that if the corn-laws were re-
pealed, we never could meet the demands of the public cre-
ditor. He ventured to say, that out of all the fallacies which
had been started by the monopolists, there had been none
more worthless or groundless than this one. Did not they
bearrepeatedly in the House of Lords, that they could not think
of taxing the bread of the people for revenue ?—( Hear
and a laugh?) Why, how was revenue raised, but upon what
the people consumed ? And if bread were cheap, as a matter
of course they would have more money to lay out in those
articles which were taxed for the purposes of revenue. Mr.
Huskisson, in the very last speech which he made in the House
of Commons said—and his words had been prophetic—that if
the corn-laws were maintained, the only means of maintaining
public faith would be by an income-tax. How true had his
anticipations proved. To illustrate the position he had taken,
he would refer to the revenue received during three years of
scarcity and three years of cheapness. The years 1835, 1836,
and 1837, were cheap years, and the years 1838, 1839, and
1840, were years of scarcity. In the cheap years, the ave-
rage price of corn was 475. the quarter, and during the years
of scarcity it was 675. being a difference of 40 per cent. It
multi be borne in mind that during the last three years, the
population of the kingdom increased one million, and it would
be reasonable to expect that in that account considerably ex-
ciseable articles would have been consumed. The amount of
revenue colteted during the cheap years was 159,800,0001.,
and the amount during the dear years, when the population
bad increased one million, was only 159,200,000/.—(Hear,
hear.) Now in what was it that this falling off was
most perceptible? Why it was in the Customs and
Excise Departments. During the cheap years the
revenue from the Customs was 117.000,0001., while, during
the dear year, the amount received from tne stoma and Ex-
cise was, notwithstanding the increase in the population, only
116,000,000/.—(Hear, hear.) During the cheap year the
revenue received upon spirits, tea, and sugar, was 51,000,0001.,
while during the three dear years, notwithstanding-the increase
in the population, it was only 47,000,0001. Now, if the same
amount had continued to have been received there would have
been received annually 2,300,0001. Now what was the deficit
which Sir R. Peel wished to make up by his income-tax? It
was 2,344,0001., being only a difference 44,000/.—(Cheers.)
He mentioned this fact to show that the present income-
tax was merely imposed to keep up the present
corn-laws. He did not know whether this was a
great or a small fact—( Cheers)—but it seemed to
him to be a very important one. He recollected the present
Minister, when he was bringing in his tariff, in which he
proposed to reduce the duty on cattle, being warned of the
results of his so doing by one of his own supporters—a county
Member. This county Member read a letter, in which the
writer told him what a trade there would be between the
United States and England if the duty on cattle were reduced.
He showed that provision would be abundant and cheap in this
country if this reduction took place. He (Mr. Villiers) re-
membered entering the House at the time, and he was auto.
nished to hear this good information given by a county Mem-
ber, he being a Monopolist; and he was not a little surprised
at hearing him say that all these benefits would certainly befal
the country if the reduction in the duty on cattle were to take
place.—( Laughter.) Why, the Chancellor of the Exchequer
himself, only last year, said that he was free to confess that,
whenever there was a good harvest, and prices of provisions were
law that the receipts from the Excise were sure to increase.
Mr. Gladstone had said that he had no doubt that if the trade
in food were opened with other countries that the supply would
be paid for by the manufactures of this country, and that it
would consequently give a great increase to the employmeet of
the people.—(Hear, hear.) Why, Sir Robert Peel himself
bad said that he had no doubt that if they lowered the price of
provisions sufficiently, the people would hardly feel the income-
tax at all. How could they say, then, that the repeal of the
corn-laws would render the country unable to keep faith with
the public creditor. The people had never shown any disposi-
tion to cheat the public creditor.—(Loud cheer°. ) The
Duke of Richmond had asserted at a public meeting that the
advocates of free trade only wished to defraud the
public creditor. He (Mr. Villiers) was there to say
that there was not the slightest foundation for that
calumny.—(Cheers.) He said the public creditor never
would be in any danger, except from the class to which the
Duke of Richmond belonged. —( Loud cheers.) Such a
charge came with a peculiarly bad grace from the Duke of
Richmond, inasmuch as he was a Member of the Govern-
ment that proposed that there should be a duty imposed on
transfer of stock.—( Hear, hear, and cries of " Give it him.")
He wished there was more to be said in their favour.—.
( Hear, hear.) One Noble Lord at Hertford had stated that
if the corn-laws were repealed, it would tend to diminish the
enjoyments and luxuries of persons of his class. Nobody
grudged them their luxuries, only let them get them in a
proper manner. Why should the corn .laws be maintained for
their exclusive benefit. Just as well might the doctor or the
lawyer claim to have a law passed to perpetuate disease
and litigation.—( Cheers.) He would oniy wish those who
were not convinced of the soundness of the principles of free
trade, to consider the arguments of those who were the oppo-
nents of those principles. The motto of the free traders was
"no surrender."—(Cheers.) And he believed that their
efforts would succeed for their cause was not like of their op-
ponents powerless, spiritless, and selfish.—(Loud Cheers.)
Mr. Comes); next rose to address the meeting, and was re-
ceived with a burst of cheering which lasted for some minutes.
He said, that since he last had the pleasure of meeting them
there, he had had the honour of addressing many large assem-
blies of their fellow-countrymen ; but he assured them that
be looked upon that meeting with surprise and gratifieati in
on account of the enthusiasm even at present prevailing in the
metropolis. He felt very much disposed to give something
)10 an ABC of the question over again. He had been told
that on that evening they were favoured with the attendance
of many visitors who were neither very well informed nor of
scourse convinced on the subject. He would therefore first
give the young pupils a lesson in the elementary principles of
free trade, and endeavour to send them away good missionaries.
Now what was free trade? Not the pulling down of all the
-custom-houses; but by free trade they meant the abolition of
all protective duties. They did not propose to do away with
indirect taxation, and to obtain revenue by means of direct
taxation. There were a class of men who had taken
possession of the Custom-house, and had installed
their clerks therein to collect the Customs for their particular
benefit, and the free traders intended to remove them out of
taw Custom-house. He would remind his young friends, the
steclents, that monopolies existing now were analogous to the
monopolies which existed under the Tudors and the Stuarts,
when the Sovereign granted monopolies to the creatures of the
Court for the exclusive sale of sugar leather, salt, and other
articles. One by one, those monopolies were abolished, until
a 13w was passed by which it was enacted that no Sovereign
should bare the powerof granting monopolies of any sort. There
was no difference, however, in the present monopoly which
existed. It was just as much a monopoly as though Queen
Victoria had granted it to any particular person. The mono-
poly in the sale of sugar was still as great, for our sugar came
from a mere spec of the world, as compared with the South
American continent, the East Indies, China, and the Indian
Archipelago. He believed that many of his auditors that night
were of the agricultural interest. They would probably be
curious to know why the free-traders called themsela es the
Anti-Corn-law League. The reason was, they advocated the
abolition of the corn monopoly, believing it to be the foster-
parent of all other monopolies.—(Cheers.) If they
destroyed that, the rest would follow.—( Hear, hear. )
When Sir R. Peel proposed the alteration in the tariff, he
(Mr. Cobden) looked to see if the article of corn was there,
tut he could not find it, and on his asking why it was not
there, Sir R. Peel said that corn was different to everything
else in the tariff. They were told by the Earls and the Dukes
that the corn-laws regulated wages. Now, he would ask the
working people present if, when they were making a bargain
for emplment, any reference was ever made as to the price of
corn?—('Cries of " No, no.") Why the hackney-coach and
the waternien's fares were all regulated by Act of Parliament,
and yet he dare say, that when those fares were made no re-
gard was paid to the price of corn.—( Hear, hear.) He had
heard something of women stitch, stitch, stitching for three
halfpence a shirt.—( Hear.) He wished to know if the price
of corn regulated their w e
g (Cheers ) When Sir R. Peel
brought in his
.03112-lawaiwso.—Years age, he (Mr. Cobden)
moved an amenument to the effect that before passing a Corn
ißnilitrtohpoeyrtiouognhtthetowcosnesisdeir how far it was practicable to raise
to that atriendingentio the labourer. Sir R. Peel, in an-
swercould fix the rate of wages
witsah it was quite impossible that they
14ttiniethis country--it could only be
settled by competition world's market. He (Mr. C.)
went to a division ; and Sir ieeland his friends went out
at one door, while about twenty
went with him (Mr.
Cobden) out of the other, and or thirty
yet those parties who rejected
that motion, in a few minutes afterwards came back and com-
menced_p_assing a law by which they i•egulated the price of
majority of cotton
that
born. Why, how they would stare,
if
if they had
spinners were in the House of Commons to
proposed to fix the price of printed cottons, only, they were to
do so, they would be hooted from the metropolis,
In
the iron trade large fortunes had been
lost.
Some years ago iron was 15/. 10s. per ton. Now, it was
only 5/. 10s., yet no one in the House of Commons proposed
measures to protect persons engaged in this trade. To show
the fallacy of wages being regulated by the price of corn, he.
(Mr. Cobden) was paying more wages to inexperienced la-
bourers than the beat agricultural labourer got in Dorsetshire.
_(Cheers.) If they had a repeal of the corn-laws, that must
increase the demand for labour, boa? in this country and
abroad, and therefore it must benefit the labouring population.
Why, if it did nothing else, it would relievetthe country of
the burden of two millions ("paupers, who would then obtain
work. So far from throwing land out of cultivation, he ap-
pealed to the opinions of the Earl of Ducie, confessedly at the
head ofthe arable farmers of the country, and the Earl Spencer,
who was at the head of the grazing farmers of the country,
and they stated it as their belief that the repeal of the corn-
laws would call all the poor land into cultivation. It had been
said that if the cern-laws were repealed, the foreigners would
send over their corn, but they would take nothing in re-
turn. Why this, if it said anything, said that the fo-
reigners were ready to give in their produce for nothing.
Why take new the case of a tailor and a provision merchant
at Wm.. A middling Pam Lyn between thew, and be sees

the tailor every week carying home butter and cheese from the
; provision merchant's, and he goes to him and sap, " You are
importing largely from the provision merchant, and yet you
send no clothes in return. The tailor replies that at all events
he was all right.—(Laughter.) Upon this the middling in-
dividuals would go to the provision merchant, and say " You
are sending largely to that tailor, but you get no clothes in
return." And the provision merchant would answer, " No,
but I get money." The middling reciprocity man would take
another crotchet into his head and go back to the tailor and
say, " Why this is a pretty drain of bullion—you pay in gold
to the provision man, how are you to get that ? that cannot
last you know ?" So then the tailor replies, " Why, I get the
money from the grocer and the baker, and youknow my children
cannot live on gold." And so the reciprocity man leaves the house.
He wanted the farmers to understand what the motives and
objects of the Anti-Corn-law League were. He did not choose
to allow the landlords to hack their old arguments. There was
not one new argument adduced—no new " young England'
stood up with the cuckoo cry of protection ; in fact, the term
of " protection" put him in mind of that beautiful tale of the
Vicar of Wakefield, where Mr. Jenkinson talks of the cos-
mogony of the world, and, on the strength of that word, takes
in poor Moses, and eventually Dr. Primrose himself.—(Cheers
and laughter.) He did not—neither, he was sure, did
the meeting—like to deal in vituperation ; but still
they all liked to abstract amusement from sources
such as this, and their intention was to publish—he did not
know whether he could call it " elegant extracts"—divers por-
tions of the monopolist speeches as specimens of morals, man-
ners, and humanity ; and he thought that there was one gen-
tleman who had given such a specimen of his oratorical and
descriptive powers in speaking of the League, that his phy-
siognomy should be This
as the frontispiece of the work.—
( Loud laughter.) This individual bad called the League Jaco-
bins, Jonathan Wylds, and Jack Sheppards ; and that the
Anti-Corn-law League were composed of a mass of ragga-
muffins. Those were the words of Sir Charles Knightley.
Another gentlemen—a Noble Lord, too—had asked what
this agitation meant. He (Mr. Cobden) did not believe before
that there was so much titled ignorance or coroneted vul-
garity as was manifested in this " nobleman's " speech, when
he asked this question. He certainly did not expect to see
much of what might be called cogent argument come from
such a source, but still he thought that he might expect de-
cency of manner at all events.--(Hear, hear.) The League
had been accused of violence ; the League was small at first,
and then there was some excuse for their violence, because all
bodies which were powerless were generally addicted to the use
of hard words, and such was the reason for which they could
excuse the epithets now applied to them by their opponents.
(Cheers.) In this state of the agitation they had such high
prospects that he should not wonder if the League sv,,re com-
pelled not to admit any individual except they belonged to the
upper classes.—( Cheers, and laughter.) For they had—let
the meeting be aware—marquises and earls joining the League.
—( Cheers.) But their opponents proposed to counteract the
efforts of the League, by the dissemination of pro-corn-law
tracts, and having lecturers to hold forth in favour of mono-
poly. How he should like to attend the first meeting !
( Laughter.) Let his (Mr. Cobden's) audience fancy a
leature upon starvation, and then fancy how very beautiful
must be the exordium upon such a subject. The meetings
which had been held had been styled the meetings
of tenant-farmers, but they were nothing more
than assemblages of persons, who could be called nothing
else than auctioneers and valuators of land, and to whom all
changes and rise of rents would be a benefit. Such a class of
men as this were scarcely known in Scotland now. The Anti-
Corn-law party had abstained carefully from interfering with
the meetings, because they thought it unjust for any one to
interfere with the meetings of others, but still this feeling on
their part did not reach their opponents. He was now labour-
ing under a hoarseness contracted from this cause. In the town
of Birmingham there were large yellow placards from Mr. F.
O'Connor, calling upon the men of Birmingham to come for-
ward and oppose these " Mill Tyrants." He (Mr. Cobden) was
glad of the challenge, in order that he might have an opportu-
nity of testing the good sense of the men of Birmingham. At
that large meeting four-fifths were working men, yet a body
of fifty in the centre of the meeting, acting upon the signal
of a notorious individupl, who sat in the organ
loft, and acted as fugleman, disturbed the whole meeting. He
appealed to the ladies in the gallery, and asked the men present
if they would allow such venal tyranny as that to be exercised
over them there ; and in less than five minutes after his appeal
some few of the most disorderly were removed, and the rest
showed themselves (in the usual manner) quite as great cow-
ards as they xere bullies before, and were as quiet as mice in a
church.—(Laughter.) He knew that men could be found
quite ready to degrade the sacred name of liberty. Their
organs of the press—even the Morning Post—(a laugh)—were
trying to put down the Anti-Corn-law League; but let any
man come to the Theatre, and see the order, the decorum, and
the enthusiasm which pervaded the vast multitude he surveyed,
and then see what the materiel was upon which the League
rested.--(Cheers.) If a meeting were called to take the sense
of a particular town, county, or borough, he thought it was the
duty of every man to attend and state what his ideas were of
the means most likely to conduce to the general welfare. He
invited the monopolists to:come and meet him as his object was to
make converts by reasoning. On the 24th of this month, he in-
tended proceeding to Gloucester, where, and with all sincerity,
he invited the monopolists to come and meet him, and then
and there discuss the point at issue. The monopolists at-
tempted to say that the acts of the Anti-Corn-law League
were alone countenanced by the rabble of the towns ; bat was
it not fifty of the rabble of Birmingham who tried to break
up the meeting then ? All that was wanting was for the
working and industrial classes to enter into the matter heart
and soul, and then monopoly would be broken up. If the
people of London were to speak trumpet-tongued upon the sub-
ject, there was no Minister of the Crown who dared to maintain
office, if he supported the system of monopoly by which the
people of this country were crushed to the earth. Mr. Baring
had designated all those who voted against him as rabble, and
he (Mr. Cobden) was very glad to say that he should be one
of this rabble, for he should be registered very shortly in his
right as an eleotor of the City of London.—(Cheers.) The
moment that the public voice became strong and unanimous
that moment must monopoly fall to the ground.— (Cheers.)
General Evasts next rose, and apologised for speaking after
the eloquent gentlemen who had just addressed the meeting.
When two parties are opposed to each other, that party which
most continually shifts and changes its policy and tactics is most
-sure to be in error. At first, the Anti-Corn-law League were
treated with derision, but now its opponents recommended to
the agriculturists that they should, in order to compete with
foreign countries, study all the various branches of agricultural
chermstry ; and the First Lord of the Treasury had offered
the services of one of his bulls to improve the breed of cattle.—
(Laughter.) The Anti-Corn-law League had gone into the
agricultural districts, and now they heard of farmers' dinners
and the like, at which were Dukes and Earls, to counteract the
reasonings of the League amongst the tenant-farmers. He
should not much longer trespass upon the attention of the meet-
ing, for they had heard from Mr. Cobden the A B C of this
great question. With respect to the cry which had
been raised by, their opponents, that it was necessary this
country should be independent of foreign countries,
he would ask was it right that any one country should be in-
dependent of another ? He denied most distinctly that those
laws which by taxation prevented this country from trading
with foreign countries afforded the slightest benetitor protection
to the tenant or occupying farmer. If the agriculturists
claimed the right of protective duties, why were not all other
trades in the community entitled to a similar right ? Another
cant phrase was very general—the " wooden walls of Eng-
land," but all dispassionate and thinking men must see that the
source of this glory and bulwark of England lies in the com-
mercial navy of the country. Even if free trade were to be
considered simply as a matter of mere revenue they would find
that the abolition of all restrictive duties had the effect of in-
creasing the income. When the duty on coffee was redueed to one-
half the consumption was increased in three or four fold. The same
was the case with respect to wool. Again, although the French
Government increased the duties on English manufactures,
yet when the English Government reduced the export duties
the amount of duties increased from 600,000/. to nearly three
millions, or nearly five fold. In conclusion, he should say that
he hoped the great mass of the people would still adhere to the
firm determination which they had already manifested, and
the result would be ultimate reform of those laws which pressed
so heavily upon the industry and energies of the people.
After the Chairman had announced that the next night of
meeting was fixed for Thursday, the 15th inst., the assembly
separated.

COURT

CIRCULAR.

Womson, THURSDAY.—The Countess of Dunmore, Lady
in Waiting on the Queen, took her departure from the Castle
to-day.
Viscount Hawarden, Lord in Waiting on her Majesty, and
Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting, also left the C4.stle
this morning.

To-morrow the Maids of Honour, Lady Caroline Cocks, and
the Hon. Miss Frances Devereux, will, it is expected, take
their departure.
The Equerries in Waiting, Lord Charles Wellesley (Clerk
Marshal) and Colonel Wylde, remain at present at the Castle.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, attended
by the Baroness Ahlefeldt, arrived in town yesterday morn-
ing from her residence at Kew. The Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, attended by Baroness Alilefelt and Baron
Knesebeck, left town in the forenoon --on a visit to her
Majesty, the Queen Dowager, at Witley Court, Worcester-
shire. Their Royal Highnesses and suite travelled by the
London and Birmingham Railway, and took their departure
by the ten o'clock train from the Euston-square terminus.
The Ecclesiastical Commission for England sat yesterday
afternoon at the office in Whitehall-place. The Commis-
sioners present were the Bishop of London, the Bishop "of
Exeter, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Ripon, the
Bishop of Rochester, the Bishop of Salisbury, and the Dean
of Westminster.

The Health of Towns Commission sat yesterday at Gwy-
dyr House, Whitehall. The Commissioners present were
the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Lincoln, Mr. Robert Ag-
lionhy Slaney, Mr. George Graham, Sir Henry Thomas de
la Beche, Dr. Playfair, Dr. David Boswell Reid, Mr. Richard
Owen, llunterian Professor of the College of Surgeons, Capt.
William Thomas Denison, Mr. J. It. Martin, and Mr. James
Smith, of Deanston.

'The Duke of Buccleuch gave a dinner to the Cabinet Mi-
nisters on Wednesday evening, at his residence, Montagu
House, Whitehall-gardens.
Lord Granville Somerset, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan-
caster, returned to town on Wednesday afternoon, from
Windsor Castle, after attending the nomination of the Sheriff
for the county of Lancaster for the present year.
The Earl of Dalhousie had an interview with the Duke of
Wellington yesterday.
Dispatches from the Governor of Hong-Kong, and also
from the Governor of Newfoundland, were received yester-
day at the Colonial-office.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
dThe Lords present were, Lord Brougham, Lord Camp-
beall, and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall.
Lord Campbell gave judgment on " The General Steam
Navigation Company v. Tonkin," an appeal from a decision
of the Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, relative to a
collision between the steamer Menai, and the schooner
Friends. His Lordship, after stating that the Dean of the
Arches, who had attended the hearing of the case, entirely
concurred with the Lords present in their decision, gave
judgment that the Court would recommend to her Majesty,
that the judgment appealed against should be affirmed with
costs.
The Judge of the Admiralty having joined their Lordships,
an appeal from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, " Jones
v. Francis Godrich," was heard, Dr. Addams and the Queen's
Advocate appeared for the respective parties.
An appeal from Bengal was heard, " Maharaja Tej Chand
v. Sri Kauth Ghose and others." Messrs. Charles Buller,
Jackson, and Forsyth, appeared for the appellant ; Mr.
Burge, Queen's Counsel, and Mr. E. J. Lloyd, for the therespon-
(Qletnietesn,s
croeunprseesl, representatives
i‘iveisrof Suroop Chund Roy. Mr.Wigram,
• E. F. Moore,
Sir E.for the respondents,
the heirs
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RamsaNt aedsiale e Privy CouncillorCh°Be. during the proceed-
ings in this case. The Court afterwards rose, having deferred
the judgment.

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or not at the option of the sender. It must be distinctly
understood, that this regulation applies only to letters con-
veyed by packet, via Southampton. The postage on all other
letters, vu France, addressed to the lonian Islands, must be
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After which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic Christina
Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING PEPIN ; or,
VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Colum-
nine, Miss Carson; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr.
Blanchard.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS.
THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 9,
Will beperformed (first time) A Grand Descriptive FANTASIA,
selected from Roch Albert's Opera, entitled THE DESTRUC-
TION OF POMPEII.
Jverture, Fidelio—Beethoven.
Trio, for two Violoncellos and Double Bass, by Messrs. Crouch,
Hancock, and Howell —Corelli.
Selections from La Sonnambula.
New Quadrille, The Irish Echoes—Jullien.
Solo, Cornet-a-Piston, Herr Kcenig.
Solo, Flute, Mr. Richardson.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
M,t. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE.
RE-ENGAGEMENT OF MR. JOHN PARRY.
THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 9,
Will be repeated the Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES OF
WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff; Mr. Strickland; Master Slender,
Mr. C. Mathews ; Mr. Ford, Mr. Stuart ; Mr. Page, Mr. Howe;
Fenton, Mr. Caulfield; Sir Hugh Evans, Mr. Webster; Mrs. Page,
Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Ni:bett ; Mrs. Quickly, Mrs.
Glover; Anne Page, Miss Mattley.
Aber the Comedy Mr John Parry will sing his New Song, entitle'
A Ballad on Bitters."
To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR
ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachryraoso, Mr.
J. Bland; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidora,
Miss Julia Bennett.

THEAI RE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Unprecedented success of The Merry Wives of Windsor,"
which will be acted To.night, and three times a week till further
notice, thus cast :—Sir John Falstaff. Mr Strickland ; Slender, Mr.
Charles Mathews; Evans, Mr. Webster; Ford, Mr. Stuart ; Page,
Mr. Howe; Caius, Mr. J. Bland; Pistol, Mr. Brindal; Mrs. Page,
Madame Vestris; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett ; Dame Quickly, Mrs.
Glover. The Lessee respectfully informs the Patrons of this Esta-
blishment that Mr. JOHN PARRY will sing this Evening one of
his Popular Songs—" A Ballad on Bitters." The New Fairy Extra-
vaganza of " The Fair One with the Golden Locks," Every
Evening -Graceful, Miss P. Horton; Lucidora, Miss Julia Ben-
nett. The New Comic Drama of " Used Up," will be repeated
To-morrow, and three times a-week. The " Little Devil" to-
morrow Night.
I. T. ARCHER, Box-book Keeper.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
The Best Pantomime of the Season—Gorgeous Scenery.
THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 9,
Will be repeated, by permission of Charles Dickens, Esq., THE
CHRISTMAS CAROL. Principal Characters—Messrs. 0. ,
Wright, Lyon, Maynard, Forman, Miss Woolgar. Mrs. F. Mathews,
riliss Chaplin, and Miss Lee.
After which, a New Play, in Three Acts, entitled JUDITH
OF GENEVA. Principal Characters—Messrs. Lyon, Wright,
0. Smith, Miss Chaplin, and Mrs. Yates.
To conclude w;th the Grand Christmas Pantomime, called II AR.
LEQUIN BLUE BEARD; or, The Fairy of the Silver Crescent.
Produced with Enormous Splendour and Wonderful Eflects!
Columbine, Miss Bullen ; Harlequin Quicksilver, by the inimitable
Wieland; Clown, by the Grimaldi of the day, Mr. T. Matthews,
from the Theatres Royal. Covent-garden and Drury-lane; Punta.
loon. Mr. Johnstone.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 9,
Will be repeated an English version of DON PASQUALE.
Principal Characters by Madame Eugenia Garcia, Mr. Allen, Mr.
Burdini, and Paul Bedford.
After which, the Petite Drama, called THE GREEK SLAVE.
Zaida (the Greek Save), Madame Eugenie Prosper.
'To conclude with the New Musical Burlesque weetacle, entitled
THE MAGIC MIRROR. Sing-Song, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Poo.
Poo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Sloe-Leaf, Miss R. Isaacs.