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

Now ready at all the Libraries, iii rals.,poet
f answer to the ghostly Bishop's indignant denial of the
S l;( UN EDTTION of B
oit, THE NEW GENERATION.- charge brought against the Dean and Chapter of
D'ISIZAELL Esq., H.P. IVestrninster, we direct our reader's particular atten-
,. Thl, ,ork, by the able author CS ' Vivian Gt,y,* will lA'
tounct replete with Intereet."—Ting. tion to the following facts, which we quote from a
• TWA book 1, full of 111., spirit, and accurate portraiture. It 1-
too cutting, too trie lo be pasted over unheeded. It must be read letter in a Morning Contemporary, and which is
by all'"—Post.
signed " A Friend to Truth :"—" Not a single
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough•street.
house in the Almonry has been taken down,
except some which were unoccupied on account
of their ruinous condition.—Nearly, if not quite
every house in the Almonry is one of ill-fame
at this moment, where scenes of the most dis-
gusting character are perpetrated at noon-day. The
Dean and Chapter, and it is said, more especially the
Bishop of GLOUCESTER, did everything in their power
to prevent this property being improved some years
ago. Within the last month the Dean and Chapter
have declared they would oppose any Bill for the
improvement of this pestilential district." The writer
of this letter adds that he engages to prove every one
of the above facts, whenever, and wherever, called
upon. A correspondent of the Patriot, and who is
also a parishioner of Westminster, writing on the same
delicate subject, expressly says :—" There is not one
word of truth in the Bishop of GLOUCESTER'S statement.
Four of the bad houses are certainly closed, but the
other twenty are fully and actively employed, as they
have been to my certain knowledge for the last forty
years. I have just returned from a personal inspec-
tion of these Ahnonry nuisances, it being eight
o'clock on Saturday evening, the 15th of June, 1844,
and I have counted twenty of them occupied in a way
that public decency prevents my further describing."
The Westminster parishioner then goes on to state,
that during the forty years in which these houses
have been in use the leases of most of them
have been renewed over and over again ;
and 'that as the application for renewal is
made every fourteen years, his Lordship and his
colleagues, or their predecessors or representatives,
could not have inspected any of the houses, in order
to settle the renewal fines, without seeing the nn-
moral purposes to which the whole are devoted. Now,
if these two statements be true, and we see no reason
to doubt their truth, seeing that the writers both
speak from their own personal knowledge of facts,
what becomes of the Bishop of GLOUCESTER'S virtuous
denial of Earl FLTZRARDINOE'S charge ? The matter
cannot possibly be suffered to rest where it is, and we
do hope that some public-spirited individual either in
the Lords or Commons, will direct attention to the
case, in order that this disgusting nuisance—per-
petrated under the very nose of the Apostolic
Dean and Chapter of Westminster, and almost, as it
would appear, with their connivance may be
promptly put an end to. It is perfectly absurd for
the Bishop of LONDON, in his zeal for the spread of
religion and morality, to advocate the building of
new churches throughout his diocese, when not less
than twenty houses—anything but clerical in their
character—are in full and active employment within
half a mile from the Bishop's own mansion in St.
James's-square, and almost within a stone's throw of
that august spot where the episcopal bench dis-
charge their senatorial functions ! To advocate the
erection of new churches in the metropolis, and yet
atahe same time to permit the continuance of not
less than twenty houses of ill-fame in Westminster,
what is this but the most sickening cant and hy-
pocrisy ! The Bishop of LONDON would be far more
usefully and religiously employed in endeavouring to
put down these intolerable nuisances, than in count-
ing the wherrys which may happen to be gliding
over the broad bosom of the Thames on Sundays

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
TO-MORROW EVENING, JUNE 25,
Will be repeated the New Opera Seria, composed by M. Cogs,
the Poetry by Leopoldo Tarantini, entitled
DON CARL()S.

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With New ene neve.
Philip 11. (King of Spain), Sig.ry Lablache ; Don Carlos (hls eon),
Siff. Mario; The Count Posa (Friend of Don Carlos), Sig. Fornasari ;
Gomez (Grandee of Spain), Sig. Giubilei ; Isabella (Wife of Philip!.
Madame Grist.
lb conclude with an entirely new Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled
Z ELIA ; ou, La Nymphe de Diane.
In which Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlle. Schafer, Mdlle. Plunkett, Madame
Copere M. St. Leon, and M. Perrot will appear.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, 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 17. He is happy to be able t 3 state
that he has secured for that occasion the invaluable assistance of the
celebrated Tenor, Signor MORI A NI.
The Performances will commence with Donisetti's favourite Opera,
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR.
The part of Edgardo by Sig. Moriani; Enrico, Sig. tornasari ;
Bidebent, Sig. Paitoni ; 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 Elssler and Mdlle. Cerito.
After which, Unecco's Opera Buffs, LA PROVA D'UN OPERA
SERIA, by Madame Grisi, Sig. Corelli, Sig. F. Lablache, 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. W. Grieve), in which Mdlies. Cerito, Scheffer,
Plunkett, MM. St. Leon and Perrot will appear.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box-
office, Opera-colonnade. Doors open at Seven ; the Opera will cm.
ineurse at Half past Seven.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKEI.
MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE
THIS EVENING., JUNE 34,
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; Hcn,y, Mr. H. Holl ; Captain
Sippett, Mr. Buckstone ; Sir George Mordent, Mr. W. Farren;
Countess of Hunsdon, Mrs. W. Clifibrd ; Lady Mary Rivers, Miss
Julia Bennett; Mrs. Grigson, Mrs. Glover; Bridget I rim, Mrs.
H umby.
After which, THE TRUMPETER'S DAUGHTER; or, Love
and the Polka. Phillipot, Mr. 'Webster ; Madelon, Madame Celeste;
who will dance the celebrated Polka.
To conclude with THE IRISH ATTORNEY. Pierce O'Hara,
DI r.. Leonard.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, 55. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, la.; Upper
U illery. Is. Half-price—Boxes, 3s. ; Pit 25.; Gallery. la. ; Upper
H
Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at alf.past Six, and the Performances
commence at Seven.
Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer, at the Bon-
n/lice, from Ten till Five.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STR k.T.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 44,
Will be repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled CROWN
DIAMONDS. Count de Campo Mayor, Mr. Weiss; Don Hen.
iiquex de Sandoval, Mr. Allen; Rebolledo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; La
Citerina, Madame Anna Thiilon; Diana, Miss Grant.
After which a new Divertissement, called The SLAVE MART.
To conclude with a New and Original Parce, in One Act, called
TAKEN BY SURPRISE. Principal Characters by Messrs. Fitz-
James, Walter Lacy, Oxberry, Miss Emma Stanley, and Mill F..
Renner.

'I HEACRE ROY AL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA.

HOUSE.
Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
In consequence of the unabated attraction of " Open resittne; or,
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 be 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.
Tb be followed by an Apropos Bagatelle, called POLKA MANIA.
Characters by Mr. E. Matthews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss
Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with a G-ant Burlesque Fairy Extravaganza, called
OPEN SESAME; or, a sight with the Forty Thie es. Hassarac,
Mr, Keeley ; Morgiana, Mrs. Keeley.
PItIOES OF ADM ESSlON.—Balconer Foxes. 45.; Upper
Boxes, 3a.; Pit, 25.. Gallery, ed. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ;
Upper Boxes, Is dd.; Pit, I. Private Boxes on the rtilcony :Der
(holding eight persons). Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the SecOnd
Tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private
Boxes-on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Glib ea.

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 majority, only recorded on Friday, can be reckoned
upon in a division on one and the same question on the
Monday following. On the 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 foreign 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•
jects 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
only course which Government have to pro-
pose for counteracting this tendency, is to re-
quire proof of the fact of the produce having been
raised, bona fide, by free labour. If we may
judge from the simplicity with which Mr. GLAn-
stone 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
none of our mercantile houses with so little scruple or
such signal success as those of Liverpool, in the late
war. 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 composed, prepared, and fabri-
cated by responsible firms, which absolutely addressed
" Circulars" to the principal commercial establish,
ments 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
course, we might anticipate that the certificates from
sugar growing states of the American Union, would
never justify Lord Joins RUSSELL'S admitted appre-
hensions of their deficiency 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 frauds still supplies our courts of law
with cases for the visitation of their penal justice.
The objection thus taken in limine to the efficacy
of 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,
it is not very easy, Sir ROBERT, 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 be ground
by unnaturally excited labour, into the thirsty
soil, watered by the sweat of his brow, or

tingfd 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—because the operation of this

Bill is to be for one. Now Mr. VERNON SMITH re.

marked with much point and force on the limited and
very erroneous views the Board of Trade had adopted,

as to the extent to which a condition of domestic sla-

very fosters and extends the practice of slavery and the
traffic in slaves. In China this state of domestic slavery

exists to an enormous extent. We all know from

how many quarters in the Ease 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
are slave countries! Lord PALMERSTON also showed
that domestic slavery was fed by the slave trade, and
instanced the Ottoman dominions as a salient example
of the fact. The Noble Viscount, indeed, in his
felicitous and off-hand manner at once exposed what
we must call the cant and the mistake of the system
now upheld by Government on this point.
in their opinion, the pro-
Then, again, he said the mere fact of opening the
,1:111;citeisolf;
frmeearklaebot tuors,ugorarwl'llicichhzs;eally
and truly the pre_
duce of free laZ;Clir, did virtually give as great encourage-
ment to the produce v. _
-4' lave labour, as if they directly
w,iil, not call it hypocrisy,
because ad-
wittedit into our market. rie ~ 4% • ,v whom
because that implied some purpose to deceire tnt”.:
it was addressed ; but he would say a more barefaced dem-
,ion—(Cheers)--one more open-sighted, clear as noon-day,
obvious to the meanest capacity, never was
propounded
to Parliament, than to pretend that they were continuing the
discouragement to slave-grown sugar when they were wlth"