The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-27 00:00:00

HER MAJES 1 Y'S THEATR.E.

RE-ENGAGEMWT OF SIGNOR MOiIIANI.
It ii respectfully annotinet. that in consequence of the great sue.
cess which attended his former Engagemen's, a Renewed Engage.
ment for Four Nights more has been effected with Moriani,
THIS EVENING JULY '27,
Will be performed ,by desire) Donizetti's Opera,
LUCREZIA BORGIA.
. . .

Lucrezia Borgia, Madame Grisi ; Orsini,hidllc. Favanti ; Alphonso,
Signor Lablache ; Gubetti, Signor Paltoni ; Astollo, Sig. A. Giubilei;
and Gennaro, Signor Moriani.

Between the 'Acts, a Livertissenlent, in which will be introduced
the admired Pas de Deux from " Les Howls," by Mdlle. Cerito and
1%1. St. Leon.
To conclude with the new Ballet Divertissement, by M. Perrot,
entitled

LA PAYSANNE GRANDE DAME.
'Ph° Principal Characters by Mdlle. Fanny Elssler, M. Perrot. and
M. St. Loon.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to to made at the Box
Office, Opera Colonnade.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Mdlle. CERITO respectfully informs the Nobility, Patron; to
th c Opera, her Friends, and the Public, that HER BENEFIT
will take place

ON THURSDAY NEXT, AUG. 1,
When will be performed Rossini's Opera of IL BARBIERE DI
SIVIGLIA. Characters by Madame Grist, Madame Bellini, Signor
Mario, Signor Lablache, signor F. Lablache, and Signor Fornasari.
To be followed by ON DI NE. (Aldine, Mdlle Cerito
After which, LA PAYS kNNE GRANDE DAME, in which
Mdlle. Fanny Ulster will appear.
To be followed by the Last 2.ct of Donizetti's Opera, LUCIA DI
LAMMERMOOR. Lucia, Madame Pers!ani; and Edgardo, Signor
Moriani.
lu the course of the Evening, the admired ivertissement, by M.
Perrot, entitled UN BA L SOUS LOUIS XIV.
which will he introduced a variety of Dances and Pas de Carac-
tsrc-. Mille. Fanny Elmer will appear as a Cavalier of the Court of
Louis XIV., and will dance with Mdlle. Cerito the admired " Minuet
de la Cour and Gavotte ;"
Toconclude with the celebrated Ball Scene of ALMA. Alma,
1%1 d I4e Cerito.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET
MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE
THIS EVENING, JULY 27,
Will be repeated the Prize Comedy of
QUID PRO QUO; or, THE DAY OF DUPES.
With a Prologue spoken by Mr. Webster.
Earl of Huniclon, Mr. Stuart; Lord Bellamont, Mrs. Nisbett ;
Jeremy Grigson. Mr. Strickland; Mir- y, Mr. H. Holl ; Captain
Sippett, Mr. Buckstone; Sir George Mordent, Mr. W. Farren ;
Countess of Ilunsdon, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lsdy Mary Rivers, Miss
Julia Bennett; Mrs. Grigson, Mrs. Glover; Bridget I rim, Mrs.
Humby.
lu the courbc of the Es cuing, Mr. John Parry will sing " Fayre
Rosamonde."
To be followed by a New Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir
Charles Coldstream, Bart., Mr. Charles Mathews; Sir Adonis
Leech, Mr. Tilbury; Wurzle, Mr. James Bland; Mary, Miss Julia
Bennett; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs. Iliunby.
To which will be added the new Farce, entitled THE MIL.
LINER'S HOLIDAY. Sir Simon Sparkes, Mr. Buckstone; Mr.
Fennywig, Mr. Strickland ; Fanny Thompson, Miss Julia Bennett ;
Miss Puns, Mrs. Humby.
Orchestra Stalls, 55.; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, tls. ; Gallery, •N.; Upprr
Gallery, Is. Half.price—Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, Cs.; Gallery, Is.; Upper
Gallery, (id. Doors opened at Hall.past Six, and the Performances
commence at Seven.
Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer, At the Box-
INffice, from Ten till Five.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STRfr k.T.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, JULY 27,
Will Ike performed LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Lucy, Miss
Austin ; Edgar, Mr. Allen.
After which, a Monologue, called A NlGlif OF SUSPENSE,
by Mrs. Stirling.
To conclude with a New and Original Burlesque, entitled THE
WONDERFUL LAMP, being an Illustrated Version of Aladdin.
Abanazar, Mr. Paid Bedfc:rd ; Aladdin, Mr. Wright ; Princess
Badroulbadour, Miss E. Stinky.

THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA.
HOUSE.
Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
The Adva- tures of Martin Chuzzlewit" having, on each repre.
sentation, been received with every possible mark of public appro-
bation by the most fashionable and crowded audiences, and having
been pronounced by the unanimous voice of the publie press to be
one of the most interesting Dramas ever produced from the works
of its celebrated Author, a repetition of its performance will take
place every evening till further natice.
THIS EVENING, JULY 27,
Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZLE.
INIT. Principal characters by Messrs. R. Younge, F. Vining,
Emery, F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner,
Stanton' J. W. Collier, Yarnold, Sanders, and Keeley; Miss For_
fescue, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. A. NVigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss
Grove, Mrs. Usher, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley.
To be followed 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 New Domestic Drama, entitled THE MO-
MENTOUS QUESTION. Characters by Messrs. Diddear, F.
Vining, J. W. Collier, Miss Fortescue, and Mrs. A. Wigan.
PRICES OF A DMlt;SlON.—Balcony Coxes. 4..; Upper
Boxes, 35.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ;
Upper Boxes, Is 6d.; Pit, P. Private Boxes on the It ilcony Tier
(holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second
Tier (ho:ding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private
Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guir ea.
The Box-oftice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc-
tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
and Manaer Mr. BATTY.
Great Success ofPro thperietor Chinese. Feast g 0 ,1
Lanterns, and New Military
and Naval Spectacle.
THIS EVENING, JULY 27,
Will be repeated an entire new Military and Naval Equestrian
Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or, The Conquests of
Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery, Dresses, Appointments, fa.,
to realise the recent triumphs of England's Army and Navy. Feast
Of 250 Lanterns.

New and unequalled Scenes of the Circle—Extraordinary Feats
of Horsemanship by Monsieur Louis Tournaire, ST. Germani,
La Petit Isabelle, Mr. Newsome, &c., with Mr. R. Smith's highly
trained Steeds.

After which, the old English pageant of THE SUMMER'S
HORN or 1686; or, the White Wreath and Flitch of Bacon.
To conclude with THE GREAT STEEPLECHASE; or, Eng.
Jand's Harvest Horne.
Acting and stage.tn wager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, JULY :27.
The Grand Opera and sp!endid Spectacle have attracted thegreates

overflow eveirmembCred, increasing nightly.
Second Week of the Opera Season, commencing with Bellini's
Sublime composition, LA SON NA MBULA. Powerful Operatic
Company—Miss Romer, Miss Betts, Miss Pearson, Mr. D. W. King,
31r. Leffler, Mr. B. L. lime, Mr. S. Cowell, and Mr. G. Stansbury,
conductor. Increased Band and efficient Chorus from the Theatres
Royal
To conclude with an entirely new Aquatic Spectacle, introducing
Three Scenes of Real Water, entitled THE MOUNTAIN CATA-
RACT; or, The Enchanter's Spell.
Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box..
office, from Eleven to Four.

The calendar of the now pending assizes for the
county of Suffolk presents some features of appalling
atrocity, to which, however, we shall allude as briefly
as the importance of the circumstances may seem to
justify. It is never without serious misgivings as to
the consequences of dwelling, too emphatically or fre-
quently, on great crimes, that we advert, as matter
of duty, to those occasional outbreaks of wickedness
and audacity, which, from their simultaneous and ex-
tensive manifestation—among many districts—on the
part of many classes of people—sometimes impress us
with the probability of moral as well as of physical conta-
gion —Of this class of offences incendiarism, or arson,
is, perhaps, one . of the most remarkable and most
hideous types. Considered in its relations to, and
bearing upon the good order, the peace and security
of, property and life, and of organised society itself;
there is, perhaps, no delinquency of more aggravated
enormity. The pressure of external evils, the inten-
sity of domestic suffering from privation, poverty, and
disease, the want of employment, or the perhaps
still more intolerable position of labouring hard for
wages inadequate to the satisfaction of even the most
sordid condition of human existence ; these are cir-
cumstances which may he alleged in explanation—
hut they cannot be pleaded in excuse—of the guilt of
the incendiary. The recklessness of his particular
malice, or of his general resentment, lights up the
blazing pile which is to immolate alike his friend and
his foe ; the property of the meritorious and indus-
trious innocent, as well as the well-filled granaries
and stabling of the wealthier, but harder masters,
whom he may choose whether on reasonable
grounds or out of mere caprice, from overt acts
on their side, or consciousness on his, of guilty
intentions towards them,—to consider his " ene-
mies." If his be well-founded, his
visitation of it is at once excessive and illegal. If it
be not, his act is one in the highest degree of moral
turpitude and civil guiltiness. In either case his
vengeance is dastardly, secret, and perilous to the
community. In both the suicidal folly of the design
is worthy of the fiendish malignity of the execution.
The hand that lights the match cannot, if it would,
extinguish the combustible mass which has once
been fatally ignited. The breath that has been
vigorous enough to kindle the incipient spark
into a devouring flame, is powerless as infancy
to arrest the overwhelming progress of con-
flagration. The arm which has launched the de-
struction cannot, however remorse of conscience or
feeling may prompt its better energies, stay its
march. Thus, to the wantonness of one bad impulse
the little all of the small occupier, and the garnered,
harvest and costly stock of the wealthiest farmer, may
be alike sacrificed in a moment, by the stealthy cri-
minal whose facile command over the implements of
instant combustion and ruin cannot control, retard,
or avert the terrible catastrophe which his infamous
deed has precipitated.
But how comes it that in a country like this,—
where, generally speaking, the sacredness of private
property seems to be rather a native instinct in the
people than a mere prejudice of education or an accident
of our social institutions ; how comes it that so syste-
matic a violation of all the laws, divine and human,
which protect the proprietary rights of labour
and the wealth acquired by it, should be found to
pervade extensive areas of the kingdom, and the dense
agricultural population settled upon them ? Alas !
we feel that the cause of such a state of things is so near
the surface that the fact itself implies an inexcusable de-
reliction of their duty, who, aware of its existence and
its growth, have not made a timely use of their influence
and control to extirpate it, or at least to neutralise its
manifestations. For what is the startling spectacle
which the summary of the Ipswich calendar presents
us, so far as regards this iniquity of incendiarism ?
Of 55 prisoners for trial, 30 are indicted for the
crimes of incendiarism and sending threatening let-
ters. Two of these 30 are females—and married
women (!), respectively of the ages of 32 and 22.
These two prisoners can read and write well. Eight
others, aged respectively 12, 14, 18, 21, 22, 28,
32, and 53, can read and write imperfectly ;
other four, whose ages are 11, 12, 12, and 16, can
read but not write ; while fifteen, whose ages
range thus, 11, 11, 13, 15, 16, 16, 17, 17,
20, 21, 22, 28, 31, 33, and 40, can neither read nor
write at all. So that just one-half of the number
indicted for arson, 15 out of 30, cannot write or read;
4 can only read, not write ; 8 can write and read im-
perfectly ; 2, well. Of this mass of prisoners, 15 are
aged 18 and upwards ; and 14 (just about one-half
again, of the whole number) are of ages rising from
11 to 17! Fourteen children, the NESTOR among
whom is not more than 17, charged with the awful
crime of incendiarism ! Fifteen out of 30 prisoners, on
similar dreadful charges, wholly without education !
Why, what could the parochial and district clergy
have been about ? Where, in this statement,
is there any evidence of those incessant, all-im-
portant, and spontaneously administered efforts,
as enlightening and instructing, informing and
guiding the minds of their flocks, especially those of
the rising generation, which the Bishop of LONDON,
with so much unction, and his Right Rev. Brother of
EXETER, with so much vehemence, insist upon as the
undoubted and indefeasible merit of the beneficed and
the working clergy of the Established Church ?
Haply the districts where these offences have been
perpetrated are so unfortunate as to be without any
adequate array of clerical teachers ? 'We should
hardly think so. At least they are not without an
ample contingent of magisterial parsons : for (on the
authority of the Morning Chronicle, which has
supplied us with these details) it would appear that,
of the whole thirty prisoners, no less than twenty-
four were committed by clergymen in the
Commission ; and, as if to make this fact
still more significant, of the fifteen who
could read and write, twelve were sent
to prison by reverend pastors, whose time would
have been better employed in teaching the ignorant
peasant youth of their neighbourhood the first elements
of education, and the first elements of their duty to-
wards God and man, than in the more secular avo-
cation of hearing charges against them and their
fathers. But there may be zealous partisans of the
established clergy, who will suppose that the theatre
of such offences must have been some remote and
savage country district, shut out by mountains or
bad roads, or dangerous waters, from the ordinary
advantages and communications, which tend so
much to the instruction and improvement of
the poorer classes in more favoured localities.
But the theatre is, in fact, the broad expanse of
Suffolk with part of Essex : two model counties of
Conservative politics, agriculture, and attachment to
our ancient " institutions in Church and State." Had
the outrages been perpetrated in Bungay or Chelmsford
or Colchester, how loud and fierce would have been
the anathemas directed against sectarian criminality
and radical disorganisation,—Wesleyan indifference
to the moral welfare of its congregations, and Unita-
rian laxity in the inculcation of all moral or religious
principles ! Truly, the Ipswich calendar, with its
useful commentary, distinguishing the partially in-
structed from the utterly ignorant, hears a grave and
memorable record against the ministration and use-
fulness of the established clergy in that part of the
kingdom. It will not be readily forgotten.

There are some great public questions, the social
interests involved in which command the sympathies
of the most bigoted partisans, of all shades of politi-
cal opinions, in this party-stricken country. We
cannot imagine any homage to moral principles—any
recognition of their inherent, original influence upon
our common nature—more impressive or consolatory.

We have intelligence from Madrid to the 19th,
from which it appears that the Opposition have given
up all thoughts of contesting the elections. It is
said, and generally believed, that they will not come
forward at all, and leave NARVAEZ and his party to
manage affairs in their own way. The Gazette
publishes a decree for a levy of 50,000 men, which
commences thus :—" Peace happily reigns throughout
the whole country. In the Maestrezzo alone there
remains the seeds of a rebellion without object. But
we must not deceive ourselves ; the partisans of a
Prince, and of a system, repudiated by the nation,
do not desist from their mad and criminal enterprise.
Those who have been conquered at Alicant and at
(2arthagena, still meditate the overthrow of the throne
of your MAJESTY." It is said that orders had been
forwarded to the Captain-General of Saragossa to raise
the state of siege ; and to the Governor of Valencia
to arrest and bring to trial the officer who shot the
Carlist prisoners at Caspe, on the Bth. Are we, then,
to infer from this, that the monster who committed