The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-22 00:00:00

THE SUN,

Weymouth—Messrs. Eliot and Pearce
Winchester—Messrs. Bulpett and Co. ; Messrs. Deane, Littledal •s,

and Co.
Witney—Messrs. J. W. Clinch and Co.
Wivellscombe—Messrs. W. P. and W. Hancock
Wolverhampton—Messrs. R. and W. F. Fryer ; Messrs. oake,

- -
Goodricke, and Co.
Wycombe—Messrs. Wheeler and Son.
Contributions may also be paid at the office of the Record, and at
the offices of the Institution, where lists of subscribers, forms of r -
commendMions, and every information may be obtained between the
hours of 10 and .5 daily.
• Any benevolent person who would kindly contribute a p.rtion of
land for the site of the proposed Asylum would confer a lasting be-
nefit upon the Institution.
The whole of the contributions will be advertised in this paper im-
mediately after the Festival. STEPHEN J. ALDRICH, Sec.
Society's offices, 18 A, Basinghall-street, Jun 19, 1850.

NEW WORK BY WILLIAM HOWITT.
Just ready, in one vol., with Illustrations, 10s. 6d. bound,
THE COUNTRY YEAR-BOOK;
Or,
THE FIELD, THE FOREST, AND THE FIRE-SIDE.
By WILLIAM HOWITT.
Author of " The Book of the Seasons," " Rural Life in England," &c.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.
Orders received by all Booksellers.

VALUABLE HISTORICAL WORK.
On Thursday next, in Svo., with Portraits. IFS.,
CORRESPONDENCE of • the EMPEROR
CHARLES V.,
With his AMBAS3ADORS at the COURTS of ENGLAND and

FRANCE.

From Original Letters in the Imperial Family Archives at Vienna.

Edited by the Rev. W. BRADFORD, M.A.,
Formerly Chaplain to the British Embassy at Vienna.
Richard Bentley (Publisher in ordinary to her Majesty.)

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
LA TEMPESTA.
GRAND EXTRA NIGHT
It is respectfully announced that a Grand Extra Night will take
place

On THURSDAY next, June 27,

when will be presented the highly successful new grand Opera, by
llalevy, the Poem by Scribe, founded on The Tempest of Shakapere,
and composed expressly for her Majesty's Theatre,
LA TEMPEST A.
The Incidental Dances by M. Paul Tagricraf.
The Scenery by Mr. Charles Marshall.
Alfonso, Sig. Lorenzo; Prospero, Sig. Colletti ; Antonio, Sig. F.
Lablache ; Ferdinand. Sig. Baucarde ; Triuculo, Sig. Ferrari; Ste
phano, lfadlle. Parodi , Sycorax, Madlle. Ida Bertrand flspirit of
Air, Madame Giuliani Ariel, Madlle. Carlotta Grisi ;
Lablache ; Miranda, Madame Sontag.
Director of thd Music and Conductor, Mr. Dalfe.
' • '

With various entertainments in the Ballet Department, in which
Mdile. Carlotta Grisi, Aldlle. Marie Taglioni, and Mdlle. Amelia
Ferraris, M. Charles, and M. Paul Taglioni will appear.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the
liox-otliee of the Theatre.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE
The nobility, patrons of the Opera, and the public are respectfully
informed that

THIS EVENING

Will be presented for the seventh time, as entirely new grand
Opera by Halevy, the Poem by Scribe, founded on " The Tempest"
of Shakspeare, and composed expressly for her Majesty's Theatre,
entitled

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.
Second Night of Madame Viardot.
Second Night of Le Prophete.
THIS EVENING
Wilt be performed with the following powerful east, Meyerbeer's
grand Opera,

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Bromptoi.

Will he performed SEPARATE MAINTENANCE.

To be followed by an entirely new comic Drama, entitled NONE
Mir THE BRAVE DESERVE Tim FAIR. Don Flores del Caro,
Mr. B. Webster ; I)on Pachico de Tremulo, Mr. Buckstone ; Don
Rococo de Frias, Mr. C. Selby ; Isabella, Miss Reynolds.
After which THE ENCHANTED ISLE.
. , To conclude with the successful and laughable Farce, called an
kr..A.Rniiszu SACRIFICE. Bob Ticket, Mr. Buckstone ; Susan
Sweetapple, Mrs. Fitzwilliam.
The ,«.a-office Is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer,

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
Under the Olreetion of Madame Celeste.
THIS !..:V ING,

Will be reproiuced the celebrated Drama of THE WEPT OF THE
WISH-TON-WISH. Principal characters uy Meisrs. Hughes, Cul-
lotion!, Wright, 0. Smith ; Madame Celeite, and Miss Woolgar.

After which a new Terpsicorian
Characters by Messsrs. 0. Smith, Wright, I'. Bedford ; Atadaine
Celeste, Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Fitzwilliain.
To conclude with a new cnd original Farce, in the
Vulgar 'longuc, to be 'called JACK IN TILE GIIEEN ; or, Hints on
Etiquette.

FRENCH FLAYS.-ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.

Positively the Lust Night but Two of :a. Lafunt and Mdlle.

Performances.
On MONDAY EVENING

the Performances will commence ka lialf•past Seven o'Clock, with
Au entirely new Vaudeville, entitled
jOBIN ET NANETTE.
To be followed by
UN CAPRICE.
Madame de Lery, Madlle. Nathalie.
To be succeeded by •
ROGER BONTEMPS.
After which M. Alfred de Museet's Proverbe,
IL FAUT QU'UNE TORTE SOIT OUVERTE OU FERMEE.
La Comte, M. Lafonte ; La Marquise. Mae. Nathalie.
To conclude with the amusing Vaudeville of
LA D 1)E TREFLE.

Boxes aria Stalls may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library,
33, Old Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which
is open daily from Eleven till Five o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPUITIIEATRE.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.

Astley's Waterl;o Fete.—ln commemoration of the glorious 18th
of June, will be revived, for Five Nights only, the grand National
Spectacle of the Battle of Waterloo.
The Grand Military Spectacle of the Affghanistan War. Brilliant
Display of Equestrian Wonders in the Scenes in the Arena, by the
first Artistes in Europe.
THIS EVENING,
The Entertainments will commence at Seven o'clock, with
the immensely successful grand National Military Equestrian and
Dramatic Spectacle (in three acts) entitled
THE AFFGUANISTAN WAR ; or the Revolt of Cabul and British
Triumphs in India.
„Produced with every possible care to all its original and mminiflcent
effects, calling into action the unequalled resources of the estab-
lishment.
A Brass Band engaged expressly for the occasion, and a host of
Auxiliaries.
To be succeeded by an inimitable Display of Batty's Feats of
Equitation in the CirqneOlympique.
To conclude with the BATTLE OF WATERLOO.
Box •Oflice open From Eleven till Four.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. West.

Coder the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty, his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, &c. &c.
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
OPEN every MONDAY,I TUESDIURSDAYAY. , WEDNESDAY, and
T
Last Week but One of Mons. JULLIEN.
The new Irish Quadrille, the " Hibernian," composed by M. Juhien.
The Derby Galop," composed expressly for these Gardens, is one
of the most successful of Monsieur Jullien's compositions, and in
consequence of the nightly encore, will be repeated till further
notice.
The Grand Ghorka March, performed for the first time on Monday
last before the Nepaulese Ambassador.
Prodigious Success of the entirely new-modelled Dioramic Pic-
ture representing the PASSAGE of the ALPS by Napoleon and his
Army ! the largest Picture In the World! with innumerable moving
Figures the size of life. Modelled, painted, and produced by Mr.
Danson and Son, assisted by Messes. Adams, Wilson, &c. &c. The
Picture has occupied the Messrs. Danson for many months, and it is
confidently submitted to the Public as a chef-d'muvre of art, and not
inferior to any. production of the day.
Admission. Is.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAT —Morning 7 min. after 12 Evening ,33 min. after 12
To-Momtow— Morning 55 min. after 12 Evening 20 min. after 1

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JUNE 22.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
77—highest since noon yesterday.
53—lowest this morning and during the night.
7G—this day, at noon.
BAROMETER, 20.27.
WIND S.W.—light breeze and fine sunshiny weather.

"4)l' ti7V •
C*, P,
•
/ ti C
%•••-• )701.'1'412 % i°:;".1/1-0
OWit A 7.

U t.t
LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1850.

Unhappily that miserable expedient by which the
Government have endeavoured to evade the opposi-
tion of the clergy in the scheme of carrying 'out a
general a ystcm of extramural interments—a general
system, we say, because the establishment of metrelp,
litan is only a prelude to the formation of provincial
cemeteries—appars in a fair way of proving altogether
successful. Having been connived at most shame-
fully in Committee, and allowed to pass through the
first, sucond, and third,readings without any emenda-
tion whatever, the Metropolitan Interments Bill now
atstts the Royal signature to become the law cf
tl and, a more pernicious measure never having
bean permitted to resolve itself into an enactment.
Every additional consideration of this melancholy
contrivance only convinces us the more that the
odious concessions made through it to the ecclesias-
tical establishment must prove most detrimental to the
interests of the
great cause of sanitary improve
ment; The evil consequences 'certain to kectue
froth the Opera-awl-
of the new Act cannot but

LONDON,

cast an enormous amount of odium upon the
scheme out of which has sprouted up so pre-
maturely and poisonously this Upas of Inucvation. So
soon as the multitude begin to discover the exorbitant
rates actually Isvied upon them at the behest of a
Commission entirely subservient to the caprice of the
clerical party, so soon will their indignation at that
most monstrous violation of the popular rights mani-
fest itself in an agitation such as must inevitably
prove most formidable. Of that the Cabinet may
rest assured. Honourable Gentlemen may► be as ob-
sequious and apathetic -as they please just
now, when the . project is still nothing more
than a project, but directly the theory is beginning to
be carried into veritable operation her MAJESTY'S Go-
vernment will find that the masses are not so easily to
be trifled with in reference to matters to all of us of
the most sacred import. It is quite preposterous to
expect that the population will consent unmurmur-
ingly to arrangements by which our dead bodies
are to he disposed of in a manner the best calculated
to forward the pecuniary interests of the Church
Establishment without regard to any other con-
sideration than the whim of a clerical C..;tn-
mission. Besides which, the transference to the
board of management of the unconditional right of
levying rates, those rates being at once imposed and
received (or, at any rate, a large portion of them) by
the ecclesiastical functionaries, is a change so mon-
strous and so diametrically opposed to the very first
principles of our Constitution, that the public,cannot
be expected to yield without having recourse to the
most violent protestations. _ _

Throughout the whole of the Ministerial move-
ment in regard to the plan of 'extra-
mural - interment—that movement which is
being consummated by this lamentable enact-
ment—it is distressing to observe the systematic
avoidance by the Government of anything that might
be construed into the recognition of the merits of the
chief originator of this originally beneficent project cf
innovation. From the Hon. -and. Gallant Member
for Middlesex, at any rate, Mr. GEORGE ALFRED
WALKER obtained that just meed of eulo-
glum in the" British House of Commons to
which he was conspicuously and eminently en-
titled. Great as may have been, and as un-
doubtedly have been, the exertions of other men in
the cause of sanitary reform, to Mr. WALKER is indi-
vidually owing the entire credit of having contrived,
commenced, and conducted to its present state of de-
velepment this noble and laudable agitation. He it
was who first directed public attention to the horrors
perpetrated in our metropolitan graveyards, and who
thereby instigated the advocates of improvement to
seek a general change in the way of sanitary amelio-
rations. His time, his health, his property, have equally
been dedicated by him to the furtherance of his
humane undertaking, to the exposure of those un-
seemly enormities, and to the consequent removal of
an abomination, the fruitful source of periodical pes-
tilence. Yet, of all men in England, Mr. WALKER
is the one whose services have been the most pertina-
ciously overlooked by the Government, whose re-
commendations have been the most contemned, and
whose very existence has been sedulously ig-
nored. Experience has taught us to regard
this as so surely the recompense of great public
benefactors, that the circamstance alluded to
was to us no cause whatever of astonishment. On the
contrary, it is only what we might have anticipated.
Still, while feeling no surprise at this paltry evidence
of ingratitude, we must confess that as exponents of
public opinion, and as sympathisers in the labours of
these same public benefactors (among whom Mr. G.
A. WALKER is not the least distinguished), we have
been pained at the shameful ill-treatment with which the
Originator of the whole Sanitary Movement has been
repaid fur his exertions. Not merely, moreover, has
this gentleman been destined to experience this con-
duct from her MAJESTY'S Ministerial advisers, but his
most explicit statements have been actually called in
question for their veracity. For example, those
horrid occurrences mentioned by him as having
transpired in the November of 1846 in the St. Giles's
Cemetery, St. Pancras—(Lectures on the Actual
Condition of the Metropolitan Grave-yards,
Lecture 11., pp. 4-5) have been de-
nied as so many fictions in the printed
report of the Messrs. AUSTIN and linwratisorc. For-
tunately, we observe from another printed document,
a letter addressed by Mr. ALEXANDER MARSHALL to
the inhabitants cf St. Giles's parish, respecting the
S. Giles's vault:, graveyard, and cemetery, that a
meeting is very likely to be speedily convened in
that locality, when Mr. WALL: ER himself will he
afforded an epportunity of ratifying his assertions,
and of demonstrating the shameless manner in which.
his details have been doubted,. and himself most
egregiously maligned. We await these explanations
with all possible curiosity and with the utmost con-
fidence.

In another column will be found an account of
the opening of the new docks at Sunderland, on
Thursday last.
These docks, which are excavated and built in a
space recovered from the sea, and extending over an
area of several acres, are unquestionably a great na-
tional work, and do infinite honour to the head which
planned them and the enterprising spirit which
carried the plans into operation.
In these days of peaceful advance, of moral and
scientific progress, when a noble work like the
Sunderland docks has, after infinite toil and ceaseless
anxiety, been completed, we cannot refrain from
sympathising in the hearty cheers and ecstatic feelings
which pervaded the thousands who assembled to wit-
ness their opening and share the triumph of the
occasion.

If it be the highest and first aim of a public jour-
nalist—and it is—to hold the balance even—to write
fearlessly, but impartially—to be a faithful chro-
nicler and a candid reviewer—we hope his proper
weed of honour and applause will be generously given
in this instance to Mr. GEORGE HUDSON.

With a foreseeing judgment and an indefatigable
energy he was the chief promoter, we believe, of this
stupendous undertaking. When others held aloof—
when evil omens and unkind prophecies abounded, be
brought to this work the support of an enterprising
mind and an undaunted resolution. Success at length
has so far crowned his efforts. High hopes have suc-
ceeded the surmisings of fear, and thoughout the north
of England, at least, Mr. HUDSON is regarded as an
immense benefactor to the town, the people, and the
trade of Sunderland.

His conduct generally as their representative in
Parliament had, as is well known, made him ex-
tremely popular with his constituents, b 4 the exhibi-
tion of feeling among all classei and parties on
Thursday last was a full and decisive proof that past
events have not deprived him of the affections or
shaken the confidence of his constituents.

Of the thousands who thronged the town not one
voice was raised in condemnation or censure. At the
luncheon, where from 700 to 800 of the influential
persons of the port and neighbourhood were assembled,
his health was drunk amidst " continued and uni-
versal cheering."
We admire this—we like to see honest applause in
return for honest services. Mr. HUDSON has done
well for Sunderland, and Sunderland has done well
in returning her gratitude as became her.
We, too, would join in awarding to Mr. Humors;
our tribute of commendation for the ability, zeal, and
spirit he has shown in the successful prosecution of
this great national undertaking :
"Supt Bic etian sue prrenia laudi !"

On Tuesday week the Cork Steam-ship Company
launched from their extensive shipyard at Cork a new :crew
steamer, the Pelican, one of the largest and most imposing
vessels of this description in the mercantile marine of the
United Kingdom. Her burthen is 87.0 tons; her length i 3
200 feet, and she is expected to carry nearly 700 tons of
cargo. The launch took place in the presence of a large con-
e."urse of spectators, with whom the symmetrical form and
pert',finish of this superior ship were the sulject of undi-
vided admiration.

Mr. C. P. Villiers paired against Mr. Hamilton's
motion on Irish Education with Mr. H. Bailliefiw.
In every heart there are secrets which ore never
diFclosul, and which cannot be wiested front it. - Eliza
C'ook's Journal.

OTICE Tts THE I'CIELIC.—GENER AL POST. OFFICE.
—On and from the lst of July next the following regula-
tions• will come into effect :-1. All letters posted at any
rural receiving office for places within the United Kingdom
must either be prepaid by stampS, or be sent unpaid. as
money prepayment for inland letters posted at such offices
will be abolished. 2. The postage of foreign and colonial
letters may be paid in money at all rural receiving. offices, in-
cluding those where no money prepayment has hitherto
been allowed. 3. The letter-boxes Lt the rural receiving-
hOuses will in no case be closed until within ten minutes of
the time Axed for the dispatch of the mail. • .