The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-18 00:00:00

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE. Mr. J. M. MADDOX.

THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 18,
Will be produced a New Drama, entitled THE PREDICTION,
in which Mesgr,. W. Lacy, Oxberry, Mrs. Brougham, Miss E.
Stanley, and Mrs. Lacy will perform.
To ne followed by the New Drama, called DON CIESA R DE
MAZAN Don Cmar, Mr. Wallack ; Charles Us• Secont , Mr.
Walt,on ; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling; Countess di Rotondo, Mrs.
Fo.broke.

To conclude with a New Grand Orientil Ballet, called THE
ENCHANTED BELL. Azolin (an Hindoo Peasant), M. Roussett ;
Palmira (the Sultan's Daughter), Mille. Caroline Roussett; Naire
(her Friend), Mdlle Teresine; Ding Duo; (the Genii of the Bell),
Mies Marshall.
Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden.
Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell.
Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit 2a.; Gallery, h. Half-price at
Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 2s. td. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, ad.
Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a.Half ,• Prose,.
slum Boxes, Two guineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half..
rest Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. _
B The ox-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham.
Private Boxes and Free Adailulons for the Season to be had at the
Theatre.

THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA..
HOUSE.
Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER IS,
Will be performed a New Farce,called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO
MARRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, Turner,
and Stoker, Miss Arden. Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. woolliJge.
After which, a New Farce, called A TRIP TO KISSINGEN
Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Kin och, Stanton, Collier, Yarnold,
Turner, Stoker, and Ke !ley, Mrs. Wigan and Mrs. Keeley.
In the course of the Evening A DIVERTISSEMENT, in which
Mdlles. Louise and Adele, of her Majesty's Theatre, will make their
appearance.
After which, a New Comedietta, entitled WATCH AND
WARD. The characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Kinloch, and A.
Wigan; Miss Fairbrotber, and Mrs. A. Wigan.
To conclude with THE bEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASSIONS
With entirely New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses. Sze. Principal
Charm ere by Mr. Dlddear, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mr. Gouriet, Mr.
Craven, and Mr. Keeley ; Miss Fairbrotber, Mrs. Woolli tire, Mrs
A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Mi,s James, Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and
Mrs. Keeley.
PRICES OF ADIIISSION.—BaIcouy Boxes, 45.; Upper
Boxes, Be.; Pit, Ys. ; Gallery, ed. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2.. ;
Upper Boxes, le. fid.; P,t, Is. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier
(holding eight persons). Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second
ner (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-llalL Private
Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guinea.
The Box-office is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc-
ti 'n of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre.

STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee. Mr. ROBERTS.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER IS,
Will be produced Douglas Jerrold's NELL GWYNNE. Ne'l
Gwynne, Mrs. Walter Lacy; Orange Moll, Mr. H. Hall.
After which, THE KNIGHT AND THE SPRITE.
To conclude with THE NEW FOOTMAN. Bobby Breakwindow,
Mr. Attwood.

ROYAL OLYMrIC THEATRE.
Under the Direction of Miss DAVENPORT.
[HIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 18,
Will be repeated ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo, Mr.
Kirby; Juliet, Miss Davenport.
To conclude with DON CiEiAR DE BAZAN.

Great attraction every Evening—Squire Batty's Hounds meet This

Evening, at
ASTLVY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. RATTY.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 14.
►ill be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX
HUNT; or, The Race- Hori e and Life's Course of Man and Steed;
introducing unequalled National Fetes. Real Fnx-chase on the Stage
and in the Circle by living Foe and real Pack of Hounds, purchased
by Mr. Batty of Mr Tattersall, to realise this novel production.
Epsom Races and other Sporting Features.
New Scenes of the t'ircle, and unequalled Feats of Horsemanship.
To conclude with a Favourite Atterpicce.
Acting and stage.m snager, Mr. W. D. Broadibot.
Box-otlice open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding
M Mr. R. Smith daily,

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER IQ,
Will be produced a New llrama, entitled THE SEALED SEN.
TENCE, supported by Aiessrs. Hughes, N. T. Hicks, Vale, Johnson,
Morrison, Mrs. K Honner, Mrs. Lewis, &c.
Alter which, the Ltipino Family will perform various feats of
gymnastic and classical prcupings
To Ninclude with the New Drama, entitled DON C/EIAR DE
BAZAN, supported by the entire Company.
Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at- the Box.
Dike, from Eleven to Four.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER IS,
Will be produced THE STRANGE INTRUDER, in which
Messrs. Seaman, Higgie, Herbert, and Miss Vincent will perform.
_After which, A HUSIJANO AT SIGHT. Lonisberg, Mr.
niggle; Baroness, Mrs. W. West.
To conclude with THE WANDERING JEW, in which Messrs.
eaman, Dale. Higgie, and the Misses Harcourt will appear.
Private Family Boxes, £1 is.Od. and .£1 Ils. 114.

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, Nov. 18.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 48 ; Highest, 57 ; Noon, 51.
BAROMETER, 30.38.—Wum, W. S.W.
Nara.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
ugnally placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning ... 58 minutes after 7 1 Evening ... 37 minutes after 8,

latterly it has been reduced more than half; the
number of communicants is not so g eat, the rich
making a point of attending. the service in some
neighbouring country church, and the poor either re-
maining at home, or going to Dissenting places of
worship." We do not wonder at this gradual
estrangement of the Helston flock from their pastor,
for the latter's proceedings—however sanctioned by
antiquated authority—have been not only intolerant,
but absurd to the last degree. What, for instance
could be more bigoted than his refusal to bury the
corpse of a young man, merely because he had been
baptised by a Dissenting minister ? Was it gen erous—
was it in accordance with Christian charity—thus to
stigmatise a poor handful of dust and ashes, and push the
Church's displeasure beyond the grave ? Was no respect
—no forbearance due to the awful presence of Death
which might well subdue the odium theologicurn in
the breast of the most inveterate bigot ? Again, what
could be more unjust than Mr. BLUNT'S refusal to
" marry persons unless they could prove satisfactorily
that they had been baptised." The office of baptism
is one usually administered in infancy; and the re-
gister might since have been lost —mislaid—torn—
burned—a thousand untoward accidents might have
occurred to prevent its forthcoming, without the
slightest blame being imputable to the party called on
produce it; and yet, forsooth, they are not to be
married until they can give satisfactory proof
of the performance of a ceremony administered in
early childhood, and every witness to which may
have been long since dead ! We can imagine nothing
calculated to do the Church more serious injury, than
vexatious and bigoted conduct like this on the part
of one of its ministers. And what does the Bishop
of EXETER say to these charges against Mr. BLUNT ?
Does he deal with them in a liberal, common-sense
spirit ? Far otherwise. His judgment, on the whole,
is decidedly favourable to the Rev. Gentleman; and
he expressly adds, towards the close of it, " in every
instance in which any of: my clergy shall express a
determination to follow strictly the requirements of
the Church, he shall have myfull support, though Ido
not deem it necessary to give a general order for re-
viving these usages and the observance of those
rubrics which have fallen into desuetude." In other
words, though the Bishop will not issue imperative
orders on the subject, yet he will support
to the utmost of his power every clergyman who, in
the fury of mistaken zeal, shall insist on reviving, to
the annoyance of his parishioners, all the obsolete,
useless, arbitrary, and vexatious usages of the Church,
which the good sense and improved spirit of that
Church have allowed to fall into desuetude! When
our Episcopal dignitaries—whose example is of course
infectious among their clergy thus act, who can be
be surprised at the rapid spread of Dissent throughout
the length and breadth of the country ?

If public taxation be considered a grievance, local
tyranny may well be pronounced a curse. And if
anything could add to the heart-burning of petty-
robbery over which one has no legitimate control, it is
the barefaced impertinence with which JACKS in
office contrive to shield themselves under the provi-
sions of the law. It has been our lot, on too many
occasions, to show up the mirror of public delinquents
till they have actually become ashamed of their own
misdoings, and have sought refuge in following the
example of those whom the world delighted to honour.
So far our admonitions have been of service ; but
there, are people so perverse that no hint or warning
can touch their sensibility. They are quite beyond
the reach of good intentions. And yet all their overt
acts are for the public good. What their private
motives may be, is of course best known to themselves.
But what would a bystander say, if he were
asked a simple question such as this—" Would
you prefer paying one hundred pounds, or one hundred
and FORTY, for doing klittle bit of job ? Possibly he
might stare for a moment in utter wonderment, and
inquire if the job were "dirty" or "clean." Now
this is a poser that would startle authorities as heroic
as BAGUE himself, notwithstanding the purity of his
motives. And yet such has been the mode, and such
will continue to be the mode, 'of doing the business of
all the parishes now under_the-infliction of the West-
minster Court of Sewers, if we may judge by their
past transactions for a long period of unaccountable
years.

Our columns, to-day, present another strange com-
mentary on the practices of that anomalous body de-
nominated the Court of Sewers—a Court, to which the
Augean stables of antiquity were but a sorry parallel.
No ! if your moderns have improved in nothing else,
they have certainly outdone the ancients in the
questionable arts of legerdemain, by proving that
what is good for one is good for another also, when he
can obtain the benefit.
Such has been the practice in the Court of
Sewers for many a long period—a Court w hose doings
are pencilled forth in such shadowy modesty as if ap-
prehensive that some of the water-rats had taken
charge of the books !
And yet this is the Court that levies such excessive
rates on the populous parishes of Westminster !
Under what sanction ? The irresponsible assumption
of self-dictation.

Look at the Holborn division, and see how we

•
and how cheaply they manage matters. What costs
twenty shillings in Holborn is but badly done in
Westminster at forty shillings And wherefore ?
Because Mr., or Professor DONALDSON, thinks it un-
becoming or derogatory to pay a man the price
he has agreed or contracted for doing the work! No!
the contractor must be paid for his blunders or mis-
takes ! And who is this _ Mr. DONALDSON ?-a
secondary person, suggesting hints for the benefit of
his ignorant friends ?—Not so; but the learned and
controlling functionary of the Court !

But there is yet hope for the poor, when we see in
the proceedings of Friday such men as Mr. BARRY
BALDWIN, the excellent Member for Totness, Mr.
LESLIE, and the Hon. Mr. BYNG, stepping forward so
manfully and challenging the other worthy Com-
missioners to say if right was wrong, or the contrary ?
And, as might have been apprehended from people
who had been brought up in the muddy vale of
sewers, the echo was " All right !"
Who are these people that compose the Court of
Sewers ? Are they gentlemen wholly, or tradesmen,
or contractors, or jobbers, or the patrons of jobbers ?
for if they be none of these, and assuredly they ought
not to be some of such designations—nor can we ho-
nestly suppose such to be possible—yet how is it
that they do sanction such apparently nefa-
rious jobs ? Why should they pay PETER forty
shillings for what the Holborn division can
get PAUL—aye, and sometimes even PETER him-
self, to do for twenty shillings ? Is there any charm
in the locality to warrant such a wide measure of jus-
tice ? And, if there be not some unexplained cause,
how can honourable Commissioners stand forth before
people as honourable as themselves, and say by their
votes that the parishes under their care should pay
twice as much as those who are unhappily excluded
from their protection ?

We wonder if Sir JAMES GRAHAM has ever heard
of a Court of Sewers in Westminster above public
control ? If he has not, we think he will do well, in
his new Drainage Bill, to include the majority of that
dirty Court in the preamble, for it will be the best job
he has ever yet done for the people of Westminster.
In the meantime, we warn all the parishes of West-
minster to look out for the next Sewers-rate, and
ask the Commissioners how they intend to spend the
money—if by public or private contract, and for
whose benefit

The recent meeting of the members of the Man-
chester Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures, held
in their rooms in that wonderful town, to consider of
a memorial to be presented to her MAJESTY'S Govern-
ment, praying for a repeal of the present import duty
on cotton wool, addressed its labours to the removal
of certainly one among the least defensible errors of
our commercial legislation. The collection of this
duty on the raw material of our largest staple manu-
facture has already worked infinite injury to the com-
merce of this country, and effected an immense ad-
vance for that of the United States, by at once excit-
ing and rewarding their competition in the markets of
Europe, Asia, and Africa, with ourselves, in the
coarser fabrics that have hitherto so largely employed
our manufacturing industry. This duty, it appears
from the statements (at the meeting in question) of
the Chairman (Mr. BAcr.Es), amounts, on cotton wool,
to eleven per cent., and when manufactured into
g.ans grow the oods,to about five per cent. on their value. The Ame •
producing plant at their own doors ;
whereas, with ua, it
m
must' always (as the Manchester
speakers remarked) be art exotic. The Americana,

therefore, have no such important charge for freight
to encounter as our manufacturers have, and, stimu-
lated by their ardent desire to compete with us as ma-
nufacturers for the consumption of the world, they
are actually empowered, and qualified so to do, by
the suicidal impolicy of our own Government in re-
taining this most obnoxious duty. Our friends on the
other side of the water are not to be reproached with
" mealy-mouthedness" in asking of others any object,
the concession of which they deem calculated to pro-
mote their own interests. But JONATHAN, himself,
in his happiest moments of keen-sighted sa-
gacity, would scarcely have ventured to (Ilk for so
much as we have doggedly persisted in forcing upon
his acceptance, by maintaining the tax on cotton
wool. ' et us see what the growth of the trade, itself,
has been in a course of years, throughout the far
greater proportion of which the question of this duty
was comparatively insignificant, inasmuch as no such
competition, among the subjects of the United States,
had then been established, as now exists. The Chair-
man aptly illustrated this growth by a single ex-
ample :

" Perhaps he would not be out of order in calling at-
tention to the port of Liverpool, which is one of the
largest seaports for the importation of cotton in the
world. In the year 1780, when the cotton trade was in
its infancy, the Custom-house revenue in that port,
arising from cotton, was under 1,000/, but by the indus-
try of the trade the revenue was now not less than
4,000,0001. sterling per annum."

It may be enough to leave this point thus exempli-
fied, without going further into the general statistics
of the cotton trade of the United Kingdom, and the
duties raised upon the imported raw material—mat-
ters to be found set out in ample detail in Mr. Poe-
TERIB admirable tables. But it is of moment to learn,
on the authority of practical men, what are the pre-
sent state and the prospects of this branch of com-
merce in our principal foreign markets; what the
cause of that state and prospects ; and how far these
are to be identified with the continued imposition of
this duty on cotton wool? The Chairman apprised
the meeting that he had busily employed himself in
soliciting information and opinions on these points
from various quarters. One firm, very large con-
sumers of cotton, had addressed him in the following
terms :

"The goods we manufacture are mostly similar in
fabric; to those made by the Americans, and intended
for shipment to the same markets, such as Brazil, Mexico,
South America, and latterly China. They consist of
heavy plain domestics, stout grey drillings, also dyed and
bleached, grey and blue striped drillings, &c., all of which
are made from coarse yarn. The duty upon cotton
wool, such as we use, amounts to eleven per cent. ; and,
after being made into goods, to five per cent. upon their
value. The English manufacturer is driven out of the
market by sheer necessity, to relinquish the field to the
Americans. Such is the fact. Wo have discontinued
entirely the making of plain heavy domestics for ship-
ping. The goods we have described are consumed to a
large extent in all the northern parts of China ' • and you
may find them quoted in letters of commercial advice as
American domestics, drillings, &c. Why not English
domestics, drillings, &c. ? for no earthly reason but our
own impolitic laws. Remove all unjust and suicidal
burdens from commerce, and we should not fear com-
petition."

Another correspondent, in noticing the rapid
strides of the American manufacturing producers,
their energy in pushing their markets, and the indis-
pensable condition to the future prosperity of our own
cotton trade of abolishing the duty memorialised
against, had written thus :
" The cotton manufacturers of the United States are
extending themselves in every direction. The same
spirit of enterprise that completed the work at Lowell,
some twenty years ago, has found its way to the south
and the west. In the vicinity of St. Louis, there is a
manufactory in process of erection ; also one in the
neighbourhood of Talahassee, Florida. In Arkansas, one
of an extensive scale has been established ; and at
Natchez, a cotton and wool factory is now in operation.
In South Carolina, several manufactories have been for
some time in the full tide of successful experiment. The
New England manufacturers are unusually active, and
will be through the season.
The value of the cotton manufactures in the United
States, and capital invested, show an increase of nearly
40 per cent. for the past four years. During the last
three v`zars, our exports to China have increased in value
t"..om 713,775 dollars to 2,000,000 dollars ; and while the
amount of cotton goods imported into the Brazils from
Great Britain has fallen off one-third since 1840, those of
the United States have been gradually increasing.
• • • . . . The consumption of cotton
throughout the United States, during the present year,
will not be short of 450,000 bales ; and if the English
exporter is to meet the American manufacturer on equal
terms in foreign markets, it is essential that the present
duty be taken off raw cotton ; and the longer such mea-
sure be delayed,the more established will be the American
export trade, and the more difficult all present and subs°.
quent competition."

Now, these are very serious averments. In wha

light do they compel us to regard the Premier's pro-
fessions of respect for the principles of free trade ?
What are we to consider of his halting, vacillating
vindication of its principles ; of his repeal—here—
of one or two minor offences against political economy
and statesmanship; and of his keeping up—there—
twice as many and as mischievous barbarisms, in the
shape of fiscal legislation, that outrage the good sense
of the nation, and are a century behind the enlighten-
ment of the public mind ? It seems to us a miserable
species of financial economy, which, for the sake
of retaining an inconsiderable element of the general
public revenue, persists in jeopardising the prosperity
of a manufacture which subsists so vast an amoun
of that industrial community who actually pay
three-fourths of the whole indirect taxation of the
empire ! Until we read the " Memorial of the
Manchester Chamber of Manufactures and Com-
merce," which we gave on Saturday, we were
not aware in how cruel a degree the tax on cotton
wool has a tendency to aggravate their privations
who have already been so cruelly sacrificed to the
destructive operation of the Premier's ill-concocted
currency machinery. But Sir ROBERT was bound,
by the ties of a sort of family relation, to inform him-
self upon all matters bearing on the revenue con-
tributed by cotton ; and if he has been informed of
the fatal mischief this duty, in particular, is effecting
for one all-important branch of our manufacturing
trade, and has knowingly continued it :in his scheme
of revenue, we must say that he has shown as
little feeling for the sufferers from high-priced raw
cotton as he has manifested for the victims of low-
priced gold.

We have accounts from Madrid, of the 9th inst.
The Tiempo states that the Government were to
bring forward immediately a Bill for the payment of
the Clergy and the settlement of Church property.
It was feared that their intention was to supend the
sale and restore the property to the Church. No-
thing is more likely, and now is the time to do it,
when the Cortes are so obsequious.

On the 9th, the Three per Cents. closed at 27k
cash, and 27} at 60 days. There was a good deal
done in the Five per Cents., which improved I, closing
at 201 at 60 days.

The Irish repeal question forms a topic for discus-
sion in many of the Paris papers of Saturday. Several
causes have contributed to this, among others, a letter
on the subject in the Constitutionnel, written by M.
DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE, and the publication of
a sixth edition of M. GUSTAVE DE BEAUMONT'S
work on Ireland, with a preface on the state of Ire-
land in 1844. Both these gentlemen are Mem-
bers of the French Chamber of Deputies, and
have paid much attention to the question. The
last letter of Mr. O'CoNNELL, renewing the cry
for repeal, forms also another peg whereon to
hang a disquisition on Ireland. The follow-
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tention of all repealers :—" It is a grand question,"
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government, deprived of an upper order of society
favourably inclined towards her, and wanting almost
altogether the middle classes, is now in a position to
govern herself. She might do so during the lifetime
of O'CoNNELL, whose moral power, recognised by
all, creates a dictatorship in the very bosom of liberty.
But after him what would be the fate of the country ?
Bear in mind that the kind of independence which
to put in practice; it is that which gives a country
the right of making its own
laws, at the same time
that it is left in subjection to another empire.
It is
far more difficult for a people to govern themselves
altogether, when absolute masters of their own
actions, than to remain in a mixed state of semi-
sovereignty, at the same time independent and
subject, having need, in exercising their powers,
to watch unceasingly not to go beyond the
bounds assigned them, because close to their
right there always rests another right. These

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