The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-29 00:00:00

ON Wednesday, April 3, will be published,
THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN REVIEW,
No. %XXIII. CONTENTS.
1. Coins and Currency.—The Bank Charter,
2. Discoveries in Central America.
3. Books for Children.
4. English Cathedral Music.—State of the Choirs.
5. Louis Blanc's " Ten Years" Reign of Louis Philippe.
6. Anglo-Catholicism—The Oxford Controversy.
7. The Penny Postage and the Post-office.
8. Sir Charles Bell's Essays.—Anatomy of Expression.
9, Life and Correspondence of William Taylor, of Norwich.
10. Thierry—" Les Recits Mernvingiens."
11. The Atmospheric Railway.
Postcripts on the Currency Question and on Penny Postage.
Recent German Literature.
London : R. and J. E. Taylor, Red Lion-court, Fleet-street ; and
all Booksellers.

/PITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY LEECH AND ALFRED
CROWQUILL.
The APRIL NUMBER, Price Half-a-Crown, of
BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY,
Will contain :

THE FORTUNES OF THE SCATTERGOOD FAMILY,
By ALBERT SMITH.
With an Illustration by Leech.
Chap. Xl.—Mr. Bolt anxious to visit his country-house--The Father
and Daughter.
Chap. XII.—" The Lee Shore of Life" is produced.
Chap. XIII.—A Club of Literary and Dramatic Gents.
Chap. XlV.—The Cloisters; the Monitors and their Victims.
.1 Broad Hint ; or, the Horns of a Dilemma. By Hilary Hypbane.
The Bag of Gold, with an Illustration. By Alfred Crowquill.
The Miniature—a Madman's Story. By Paul Pindar, Gent.
Introduction of Tobacco into Europe.
The Gaol Chaplain ; or, a Dark Page from Life's Volume. Chap. 33
Solitary Confinement. Chap. 34—The English Mate and the Rus-
sian Emperor.
Noctes Nectarea.
A Legend of Revolution. By Alfred Bunn. With an Illustration by
John Leech.
Queen Elizabeth's Visit to Sandwich. By Henry Curling.
The Physiology of London Life. By J. Fisher Murray, author of
" The World of London." Chap. 12—Auctions. Chap. 13—Pic-
ture Auctions. Chap. 14—Shopping.
Meditations at a Kitchen Window. By a Hungry Poet.
The Vetturino. By Dudley Costello. Chap. I—The Chateau de Bio-
nay. Chap. 2—The Chatelain. Chap. 3—Family Misfortunes.
Chap. 4—Murder.
The Divan—" Taming of the Shrew," at the Haymarket—A Song
for the Season—Street Placards—A Theme, with Variations—A
Subaqueous Fair—An Etymological Fable.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING. MARCH 29,
Will be performed Donizettl's celebrated Opera, entitled THE
FAVORITE. Balthazar, Mr. Berrani ; Ferdinand, M. Duprez ;
Leonora, Miss Romer.

After which,
Will be repeated Albert's celebrated Ballet of THE BEAUTY
OF OREN 1. Marquis de San Lucar, M. Albert 1 Benedict, M.
Hoguet Vestris; Beatrix, Mdlle. Fleury ; Agnes, Mdlle. Clara
Webster; Julia, .1i adarne Petit Stephan; Diana, Mdlle. O'Bryan.
Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 6d. • Upper Circles of Boxes 53..
Second Price 3s. ; Pit 3s Second Price 25.; Middle Gallery
Second Price ls.; Upper Gallery Is, Second Price 6d.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE.
1 HIS EVENING, MARCH 29,
Will be repeated Shakspeare's Comedy of The TAMING OF THE
SHREW. Petrucio. Mr. Webster; Gruinio, Mr. Buckstone ;
Katharina, Mrs. Nisbett.
After the Comedy Mr John Parry will sing his New Song,entitled
." The Accomplished Young Lady and her Mamma," accompanying
himself on the Grand Pianoforte.
To conclude with JOSEPHINE.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. • Pit,is. ; Gallery, 25.; Upper
Gallery, Is. HalLprice —Boxes, 3si. • Pit 25.; Gallery, Is.; Upper
Gallery, lid. Doors opened at Half-Past Six, and the Performances
commence at Seven.
Tickets and Places to be had of Mr I. I'. Archer, at the Box-
Lidice, from Ten till Five.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 29,
Will be performed an Eng ish version of OTELLO. Otello,
Mr. Allen; Elmiro, Mr. Weiss; Roderigo, Mr. Gardner; lago,
Mr. Burdini; Dasdemona, Madame Eugenia Garcia; Emilia, Miss
E. onner.
After which. THE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE, in which
Mr. and Mrs. Keeley and Mr. Walter Lacy will perform.
To be followed ' by a New Farce, in One Act, entit'ed THE
YOUNG SCAMP • or My Grandmother's Pet. Joseph, Mrs.
16-seeley; Mildew, llr. Feeley.
To conclude with a New Grand Ballet, entitled LEOLA; or, the
May-day Bride. Patrick, Mr. Chicheley; Phelim, Mr. Gilbert ;
Rhona. Miss Charleton; Leola, Miss Bailin.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. W. SMITH.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 29.
Will be pe performed Shakspeare's Tragedy of RICHARD THE
THIRD. Duke of Glo'ster, Mr. H. Hughes; Richmond, Mr.
N. 'l'. Hicks; Lady Anne, Mrs. R. Honner.
After which, the burlesque of OTHELLO, ACCORDING TO
AC r OF PARLIAMENT, in which Mr. W. J. Hammond, Mr. A.
Wigan and Mhs L. Lyons will sustain their Original Characters.
To conclude with THE MbMOIRS OF THE DEVIL
Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box..
lattice, from Eleven to Four.

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linforms us, NICHOLAS is resolved to make up for lost
time, and crush the presumptuous Circassians by
overwhelming masses of troops. "An immense dis-
play of military force is to be made, a hundred thou-
sand men at least are to be assembled in the Cau-
casian provinces ; and some accounts go so far as .to
state that the EMPEROR will repair in person to the
seat of war to encourage the troops by his presence."
Most devoutly do we hope that this new campaign
may have as inglorious a termination as its prede-
cessors ; and should a random or well-directed shot
chance to pick off NICHOLAS himself—that celebrated
warrior, whose military prowess at reviews and on pa-
rade is so remarkable—we are by no means persuaded
that our grief for the loss of so renowned a hero would
be either deep or lasting. We should instantly think
of Poland, and that thought would enable us to re-
ceive the tidings of his death with true philosophical
resignation.

The claim preferred in the House of Commons, on
Tuesday night, by Sir GEORGE STAUNTON, in his mo-.
tion on behalf of the widow of the late Rev. Dr. MOR-
RISON, and of the Doctor's eldest son, the late-Mr. JOHN
ROBERT MORRISON, is one which ought not to be
allowed to expire under the cold official negative and
special pleading of Sir ROBERT PEEL. Neither should
a just and generous public accept the shabby discharge
from obligations to which it is bound by all the prin-
ciples of equity and humanity, that the ingenuity of a
Prime Minister has suggested. There should be no
compromise in national ethics between honesty and
revenue. Public servants, of no more than an average
elevation of character, may rely on this middle term
" expediency," as a convenient and safe retreat from the
occasional pressure of " eternal principles." The pub-
lic itself cannot afford to prejudice its reputation by
sanctioning doctrines which, in the social intercourse of
private life, individuals of loftier views and sounder
morality would reject with scorn. In short, public jus-
tice will disdain to peer through precedents and Acts of
Parliament for statutable grounds on which to repudiate
the claims of public servants upon its bounty, where it
admits those claims to be founded in truth and justice.
Sir GEORGE STAUNTON was the mover, on Tuesday,
of an address to her MAJESTY, praying that, in consi-
deration of the eminent public services rendered by the
two lamented individuals in question—the father and
the son—in China,—(by the former, in a career of six-
and-twenty years of indefatigable study and exertion ;
by the latter during a shorter but equally well sustained
and admirable discharge of the same public duties)—
and because both the one and the other had successively
fallen victims to the effect which those duties had pro-
duced on them in an exhausting climate—" Her MA-
JESTY would be graciously pleased to direct a suitable
provision to be made for the widow of the late Doctor
MORRISON, and for the other surviving members of his
family ; and to assure her MAJESTY that the House of
Commons would make good the same." In the advocacy
of a claim u hich had so properly devolved upbn one of
the most profound of living Orientalists whom Europe can
boast, Sir GEORGE STAUNTON delivered himself with
that habitual modesty which has won for him the
respect of all parties. He alone seemed to be uncon-
scious of the authority with which he must be speaking
on such a question in the House of Commons, in refer-
ence to his own long residence in a portion of the
Chinese empire, to his extraordinary proficiency in the
Chinese language, and to that peculiar knowledge of the
Chinese people and the policy of their Government, which
he had evinced, under the most trying circumstances
that could test his judgment or tax his discretion.
Now what was his testimony ? That the Rev.
Dr. MORRISON, the father, went out to China, simply as
a minister of the Gospel, with no desire for public em-
ployment ; but being, from his peculiar qualifications,
selected, by the unsolicited act of the East India Com-
pany, for their confidential service as Chinese interpreter,
he had given them, for more than a quarter of a, century,
the full benefit ofhis prodigious attainments, still pursuing
the discharge of his high spiritual mission, which had been
his original exclusive object. In this period he had ac-
complished two of the most stupendous undertakings ever
achieved (we venture to remark) by the Oriental scholar-
ship of an European. He produced his English and
Chinese Dictionary (which the Honourable Company ap-
preciated so highly as to expend 10,000/. upon its
preparation, and printing) ; and he produced a transla-
lation of the Holy Scriptures—" a labour," added Sir
GEORGE, with no less eloquence than truth, "which,
under DIVINE PROVIDENCE, would be the means of ulti-
mately spreading the blessings of Christian civilisation
throughout the whole Chinese Empire." On the cessa-
tion of the Company's exclusive privileges in China, the
Doctor's services were transferred, of course, to the Bri-
tish Government. Entitled as he would then have
been to return to his native land upon an ample
pension (his salary was 1,2001. a year) after twenty-five
years' service, he responded to the call which the press-
ing exigencies of our position in China then made upon
him. He remained ; his labours were signally success-
ful and beneficial ; but—he speedily became a sacrifice
to them. The son of this amiable, and good, and gifted
man, succeeded (as Sir Joust HOBHOUSE remarked, on
warmly and ably seconding Sir GEORGE'S motion) to the
father's mantle. At the almost incredibly early age of
fifteen, he was called (said Mr. HUGH LINDSAY) " to the
responsible situation of interpreter to the East India
Company in China ;" and discharged all its duties from
that period (in the year 1832) to his death, with the
most extraordinary ability and merit. Our excellent
Plenipotentiary, Sir HENRY POTTINGER, derived from his
counsels and his services—in addition to the indispensable
aid of his masterly acquaintance with the Chinese
tongue—so much advantage that, in acknowledgement
of Mr. MORRISON'S eminent capacity and usefulness, he
appointed him a Member of the Legislative Council of
Hong-Kong. Within a few days after this appoint-
ment, Mr. MORRISON, who had not hesitated for the
good of the public service to abandon the two years'
leave of absence in Europe, which his declining health
had compelled him to ask for, and which he had ob-
tained—perished in the prime of manhood, a sacrifice to
the zeal and the intensity of his exertions. Let it be
observed here that Sir GEORGE STAUNTON, Sir HENRY'
POTTINGER, and Mr. LINDSAY, were all personally Cogni-
sant of the talents, the spirit, and the devotion of these
distinguished civilians. But, as if to crown and confirm
their eulogy, and to prove the consistency and strength
of the spirit in which Dr. MORRISON had never ceased
to labour in the original mission he had assumed—the fact
incidentally transpired, that this truly Christian labourer
had "employed a considerable part of his salary in
founding a college at Malacca, for the education of per-
sons in the Chinese language, with a view to disseminate
the Gospel in China."
Sir ROBERT PEEL resisted the motion for an address
to the Crown, with every minute, microscopic atom of
an objection, which he could detect amidst the worthless
dust of his official depositories. With that callous and
profound egoisme, however, which makes him, to our
thinking, the most Frenchified of any English Minister of
our times, he evidently thought he was pouring balm and
consolation into the cup which he refused to commend to
the bounty of the State, by assuring the House " in the
first place, and he did it with the greatest pleasure, that
he would admit the justice of the eulogium which Sir G.
STAUNTON and Sir J. HOBHOUSE had passed on the cha-
racter and services of the late Dr. MORRISON and, his
Admit it ? He could not dispute it ! The be-
reaved widow and her five children may turn, with
honest pride, to the affecting and conclusive testimony
rendered to the faithfulness, the services, the abilities of
their lamented relatives, by such practical judges, and
personal witnesses as Sir GEORGE STAUNTON, Sir
HENRY POTTINGER, and Mr. LINDSAY ; but the "ad-
mission" of Sir ROBERT we should think they will esti-
mate at the value of the smallest Chinese coin ; a price
not very flattering to a Premier's vanity. We pass over
the extravagant encomiums with which he proceeded to
come to his buts :—" But there are certain duties imposed
on public men which they could not shrink from," &c.
&c. (the usual common-places, and trite platitudes of Sir
RORER 's didactic pieces, which we need not repeat, for
anybod3, can supply them). "In the civil service the
grant of pensions had been discontinued to widows and
female relations of public servants dying in such depart-
ments. A First Lord of the Treasury, as he was, was
constantly having the strongest claims for-pensions of
this kind urged on him in cases of the highest merit ;
and in cases of widows, &c., of clerks in public offices.
It was true that in the case of the army and navy a
power did exist of granting pensions to widows of
officers; but then, they were very limited in amount.
Public civil servants were paid large salaries, with the
view of enabling them to make provision, after their own
deaths, for their wives and children." (The Right Hon.
Baronet never thought of Dr. MORRISON'S noble dona-
tions, yearly, to the College at Malacca.) "Even of go-
vernors of colonies, the widows now get no pensions.
Then, the only fund left at the disposal of the Crown for
new pensions was 1,200/. a-year, and this was at present
appropriated." Again, "Mrs. MORRISON was the widow
of Dr. MORRISON, who died in 1834, but she was not the
mother of the Mr. MORRISON who died lately in the
performance of public duties at Canton !" We are
almost ashamed to bring such quibbling, unworthy
casuistry as this before our readers. What does it
amount to? If it mean anything, it amounts to this—
" Dr. MORRISON was, I allow, a great and good man;
au invaluable public servant. This lady is his widow.
I deeply regret that our practice does not allow us to
grant a pension to her, her husband's services having