The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-30 00:00:00

DISSENTERS' CHAPELS BILL.

A meeting was held yesterday in the great room of Exeter
Hall, of members of the Established Church, the Presby-
terian Church of Ireland, the Free Church of Scotland, and
several denominations of Protestant Dissenters, for the pur-
pose of devising measures to prevent the passing of the Dis -
senters' Chapels Bill, introduced into Parliament, in March
last, by the Lord Chancellor, and now, having passed the
House of Lords, awaiting its second reading in the House of
Commons.
There was a moderately full attendance in the body of the
room, and upon the platform we observed the following
gentlemen :
Hon. Fox Maule, M.P., in the chair ; Colonel Verner,
II.P. ' • J. Boyd, Esq., M.P. ; J. Rashleigh, Esq., M.P. ; Sir
W. R. Farquhar, Bart. ; Sir G. IL Rose, Bart. ' • Admiral
Hawker, Hon. Captain Maude, Captain Vernon Harcourt, -
Henry Pownall, Esq. ; Henry Blanchard, Esq. ; John Wilks,
Esq. ; T. Farmer, Esq. ; A. Gillespie, Esq. ; Rev. Dr. Dealtry,
rector of Clapham ; Rev. D. Wilson, vicar of Islington ;
Rev. Edw. Auriol, Rev. E. Bickersteth, Rev. E. Holland,
Rev. Dr. Holloway, Rev. Alex. Irvine, Rev. R. Monne, Rev.
H. Cole, Rev. P. Hall, Rev. R. Davies, Rev. R. W. Dibdin,
Rev. D. Ruell, Rev. T. Redwar, Rev. J. C. Miller, Rev. M.
Preston, Rev. A. Thelwall, Rev. H. Beamish, Rev. Jos.
Pratt, Rev. R. Brandram, Rev. J. P. Smith, of the Estab-
lished Church : Rev. J. Blackburn, Rev. R. Ainslie, Rev.
J. Sherman, Rev. J. Burnet, Rev. J. Robinson, Rev. J. T.
Hunt, Rev. George Evans, Rev. J. Woodwark, Rev. Dr.
Jenkyn, Independents : Rev. Dr. Bunting, Rev. C. Prest,
Rev. Jacob Stanley, Rev. J. Crowther, Rev. W. M. Bunting,
Wesleyan Methodists : Rev. Dr. Cooke, of Belfast ; Rev. Dr.
Stewart, moderator of the General Assembly of Ulster.
The Earl of Mountcashel was to have taken the chair on
the occasion, but a few minutes after eleven o'clock,
Mr. WILES read letters from Lord Ashley, M.P., Sir R. H.
Inglis, M.P., the Rev. Hugh Stowell, of Manchester, the Rev.
Mr. Burgess, of Chelsea, the Rev. Mr. Champneys, of White-
chapel, and others, apologising for -their unavoidable absence
from the meeting, but expressing their entire concurrence in
its objects.
The Rev. Mr. BLACKBURN read the report of the Commit-
tee, detailing the origin of the Bill, the progress it had thus ,
far made, and the views of the Committee as to the necessity
of opposing its passing into a law.
Mr. Fox MAULE then proceeded to address the meeting.
He trusted that in discussing the important question upon
which they had assembled, it was unnecessary for him to ap-
peal to them to enter upon that discussion calmly, and in the
order of business.—(Hear, hear.) It appeared to him that
the Bill had been brought before the public, to say the least
of it, in a surreptititius manner ; and he could not help admi-
ring, while he at the same time deprecated, the shrewdness
and cleverness of its author, who, in so small a space as two
little pages and three short sections, had contrived to embody
so extensive a mischief.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) The
title of the Bill was, " An Act for the Regulation of Suits re-
lating to Meeting-houses and ether Property held for Religious
Purposes by persons dissenting from the United Church of
England and Ireland." Now, looking at that title, one
would suppose that it was a Bill in which the great body of
Dissenters of the empire were deeply concerned. But when
he came to ask himself the question, what body of Dissenters
asked for or petitioned for this Bill—whether the Wesleyans
thought it necessary for their well-being; whether the Inde-
pendents, Presbyterians, or Baptists, thought it requisite for the
well-being, or for the maintenance and security of their esta-
blishments, endowments, or foundations, he found that not
one individual of these bodies had ever dreamt of petition-
ing for it ; but, on the contrary, the moment they had be-
come acquainted with its provisions, they one and all
simultaneously and loudly exclaimed against it.—(Cheers.)
Then he thought the Church of England might have thought
it in some way necessary.—(A laugh.) But when he looked
at the debate in the House of Lords, Ise saw the Bishops of
London and Exeter leading the opposition raised against it,
in a manner which did credit to their known character and
abilities, and their zeal for the interests of that Church of
which they were such distinguished members.—(Cheers.)
Then, he asked, what body of Dissenters applied for this Bill.
—(Hear, hear.) And he found one small section for whose
benefit alone the whole equanimity, if he might so say, of
the religious trusts of this country, were to be put in peril
and subverted.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) He was very glad
to find, out of the Commission appointed to inquire into the
charitable trusts of this country (and there was great ne-
cessity for such a Commission), that discoveries had been
made of mal-appropriation of the funds and endowments of
charitable trusts, and that the law had been enabled to set
these mal-appropriations right. He was rejoiced to find this,
because in all cases wherever the testator left funds to be
applied to particular purposes, whether secular or religious
(if in consonance with the principles of law and the consti-
tution), they ought to be strictly followed out.—(Cheers.) Now,
it had been found that certain individuals, for a long time,
had been in the enjoyment of property to which they
had no right or title, and a spirited person had
brought the matter to an issue by submitting the question to
the tests of the Courts of law, and subsequently to the
highest tribunal in the realm—he alluded to the case of Lady
Hewley's charity. Upon the decision of that question im-
portant results bad depended; for it was proved thereby that
those who held property illegally could, in the ordinary
course of law, be compelled to give it up.—(Hear, hear.)
What was the consequence of this decision ? One would
naturally expect in this country, and in every country in
which order existed, that to the equity of the law as well as
to the majesty of the law, all were bound to submit.—(Hear,
hear.) Here, however, they had the Lord Chancellor of
England proposing the doctrine—not that the subject must
bend to the law, but that the law is bound to submit to the
subject.—(Cheers.) Now he (Mr. Fox Maule) must for
one, protest against such doctrine as this.—(Hear, hear.)
The other day, on a festive occasion, they might
have observed the Prime Minister and the Lord
Chancellor coquetting together, as to which had been
the greater law reformer. But if this was a specimen of
their law reform, he would say, " May we be delivered
from such law reformers as the Lord Chancellor."—
(Cheers and laughter.) But it was said that the object of
the Bill was to prevent litigation. Now, his opinion was
that this would not be the effect of the Bill, even if there

were no other objection ; so far from preventing litigation,
although it might solder up some inconvenient suits for the
time being, it would eventually unsettle every Dissenting
trust throughout the kingdom—(Cheers)—and in the course
of a very few years occasion more litigation than any mea-
sure which had ever come within his knowledge.—(Hear,
hear.) There was another point of objection to which he
wished to direct attention—viz., that the Bill went to apply
the principle of prescriptive tenure to property devised or left
in the hands of trustees for religious purposes. That was, as
he believed, a decided alteration of the existing law.—
(Cheers.) But although, on consideration, he did not see
why property devised for religious purposes might not have
the same description of tenure applied to it, by right of
prescription, as property devised for civil purposes, lie could
not admit that any law, so interfering with religious pro-
perty, should be retrospective in its operation.—(Cheers.)
In Scotland there was a prescriptive right for property
held for forty years, without dispute or question; but it
would be most unjust if, in the case of a party who had
until within a short period of the expiration of the forty
years' limit, chosen, or been compelled by circumstances,
to forego his right of questioning the title of the posses-
sor, should, whew-in a position to proceed to recover his
property, be told, " You cannot recover, for a Bill has
been passed, enacting that twenty-five years shall give
A prescriptive right, and the parties who have wrongfully
held the property during that time shall be confirmed in their
title for the future." Would such an act of injustice be tole-
rated? And yet that was no more than this Bill proposed
to do in respect to the property with which it would in-
terfere.—(Cheers.) The third clause of the measure foreclosed
the rights of the parties at present claiming, and was there-
fore retrospective; and:although in the marginal note to the
clause it appeared that pending suits were to be exempted
in the clause itself, that exemption did not exist, it having
been expunged (as he understood) at the third reading of
the Bill in the House of Lords. If it were proposed to apply
the principle of this measure to common and every day cases
the people would generally condemn it.—(Cheers.) Take
the case of a piece of ground left in trust for the purposes of
public recreation and amusement, but that, in the course of
time, the trustees inclosed the land as their own private
property, and alienated it altogether from the objects for
which it was devised. Would the people tolerate for a mo-
ment a Bill giving to those trustees a legal title to the pro-
perty they had thus become fraudulently possessed of?—
(Cheers.) Yet the cases were exactly parallel. He would call,
therefore, upon those who did not look upon the question in
a religious point of view, to look at in the moral point of
view, and they must necessarily join in opposing thepro-
position. Now, with regard to the retrospective operation of
the Bill. There were perhaps no cases in England or in
Scotland in which the retrospective operation would arise ;
then he must look to Ireland for instances of its effects ; and
in Ireland he found two cases, one of them a very special
case, and in reference to which more particularly he was
inclined to believe this third clause had been introduced.—
(Hear, hear.) That case, which involved property to the
amount of 24,000/. a-year, and was almost equal, therefore, in
importance to the celebrated Lady Hewley's charity case,
had been made the subject of litigation, had passed through
all its hearings, the Lord Chancellor's opinion had been
given upon it, and the property now only awaited the final
and formal judgment to be transferred to the possession of
the parties to whom it justly and rightfully belonged,
and appropriated once more to the purposes for which
it had been originally bequeathed, instead of to purposes
abhorrent to the feelings and intentions of the founders.
.—.(Hear, hear.) He could not but feel surprised and
alarmed at the unseemly haste with which the Bill had
been forced through the House of Lords, and he knew that
it was considered by the promoters of the measure that it
was necessary to legislate with haste on the question.—
(Hear, hear.) But there had been another decision which
one would have thought demanded at least equal haste—he
alluded to the decision in the case of the ueen against
Mellis, by which mixed Presbyterian marriages in Ireland,
a practice which had existed for 200 years, had been declared
illegal. Surely, if ever a case called for legislation, and re-
trospective legislation, that was one, yet nothing had been
done, so much haste had been shown there.—(Hear, hear.)
He contended that it was absolutely unjust, at a time when
the Irish Presbyterians were labouring under this grievance,
that they should be attacked in this way upon the subject of
their trust charities, and that by this Bill the property should
be taken from their hands at the moment they are about to
regain possession of it, and enjoy its fruits. The Bill was
altogether founded in injustice, and they had a right to de-
mand that it should not receive the concurrence of the Legis-
lature.—(Hear, hear.)
Resolutions were then proposed and carried condemnatory
of the Bill, and pledging the meeting to merge all minor dif-
ferences, and to unite in protesting before the Parliament and
the country against the passing of a measure so dishonour-
able to the Legislature, and so pregnant with danger to the
cause of religious truth ; and that a petition, founded on the
resolutions, be prepared, and being signed by the Chairman
on behalf of the meeting, be presented to the House of Com-
mons by Sir Thomas Wilde.
The meeting was addressed by several of the Reverend

Gentlemen on the platform, in support of the,re3elutions•-.
more than one of whom commented in stro ertiA
the unnatural union of Roman Catholics a ociniiiaw in
support of the Bill, which could only be lo up§n• es a:
sinister attempt on the part of the Roman C trolicslovet-' •
turn the Protestant Church, and create one c pcin scia*ble
for Church property.
A collection having been made to defray th ape safl in-;
curred, and thanks having been voted to the Chairpanittiir-
meeting separated. \*.
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LITERATURE.

THE NEW CURRENCY BILL. A Letter to the
Premier, in reply to his Speech on the Bank Charter
Act (May 7, 1844). By "An Enquirer after Truth."
London: Clarke, Pall-maR East, 1844.
We really believe that this is the best of all the
Currency pamphlets which have been published since
the introduction into Parliament of the Bill of 1819.
It is a temperate, plain-speaking, closely-reasoned
investigation of_the premises assigned, this month, by=
the Premier himself, as those upon which he founda
his new propositions for "regulating" (God help us !)
our existing monetary system—for reserving to the
Bank of England its charter, on certain conditions—
and for carrying out, in all their extent and to their
fullest action, the hitherto but half-developed tyranny
and mischief of that measure, which twenty-five years
ago gave the first shock to our commercial supremacy.
It does not seem possible to us that any honest man
can arise from the perusal of this little tract withont
being thoroughly convinced of the absolute mistakes,the
portentous blundering, of Sir Robert Peel in the very
rudiments of the scheme which he has concocted for
maintaining a gold standard of value. But we will
not bespeak opinions, still less do we desire—if our
own impressions be errors or prejudices—to innocu-
late others with them. At the same time we will freely
admit that if the reasoning arrayed against Sir
Robert's " assumptions" by the Enquirer after
Truth" do not amount to demonstrations of the utter
fallacy of those assumptions, we are incapable of dis-
tinguishing between logical deduction and mere un-
proved hypothesis. The author, after admitting that
Sir Robert Peel, in his speech of the 7th ;nstant, did
not over-rate the vast importance of the question then
submitted to Parliament, asks this pertinent ques-
tion :
" Why should you restrict to a fortnight only the time
you permit to be bestowed on a measure affecting inte-
rests of such extent and magnitude? What time is that
for enabling the Members even of the House of COiniisons
to form a competent judgment of so complex and difficult
a question as the currency, with its beatings on the
various classes and interests liable to be compromised-by
their decision ? If every transaction of business, every
domestic arrangement, every contract subsisting or here-
after to be made, every person in the kingdom from the
Prince to the peasant—the most aged to the child unborn
—will be affected by the decision to which the House may
come on this great question—how happens it that you, Sir,
should restrict to so brief a term the period allowed for
studying your propositions, tracing their probable effects
through their multitudinous ramifications, and consulting
those numerous classes of persons, those almost innumer-
able individuals, whose weal or woe depends on the votes
which will be given in Parliament ? Ample notice and
the fullest information to the people should have been
allowed to precede the discussion, and all who apprehend
injury should have been invited to state their doubts and
fears in petitions, memorials,_ or remonstrances. I think
I may say, with perfect truth, there never was a measure
of such universal and intense interest, hitherto so little ,
understood, urged on with such indecent haste, and so
little regard to the sentiments of those who may be the
sufferers."
He then reflects on the tyrannous inconsistency of
allowing men no right of private judgment on a ques-
tion like this—of the management of their own mone-
tary affairs—on which every individual naturally
deems himself the best judge, so far as it regards his
own business. He adds—
" Your motive may have been only the desire to avoid
that avalanche of pamphlets which usually descends when
any sudden or extraordinary announcement startles the
public ear. You are justly afraid of those' who in our
day write (as you say) interminable pamphlets on the
currency, but never allow us to guess at their meaning.'
In this view of the case I have no right to complain."
In dealing with Sir Robert's preliminary definition
of value, the " Enquirer" quotes the Premier's idea of
" the meaning of a pound," on which we have re-
marked in another part of our paper. The expression
of that idea the author correctly quotes from the re-
port of the debate on the 7th inst., in which Sir Robert
concluded that—
" The standard of silver up to 1716, was fixed about
1567 ; but in 1717, the value of the guinea was deter-
mined to be 21s. ; and for a certain period, both gold
and silver constituted the standard of value. But in the
year 1774 it was enacted that no legal contract should
be discharged in silver for any sum of more than 251."
Our author remarks that the phrase "subsequent
debasements of the currency" conveys a false im-
pression, when these debasements are said by Sir Ro-
bert to have made a change in the value of the pound
sterling. But this passage we have incorporated else-
where. Let us add to it this important pendant, re-
specting our gold coin :
" With respect to our gold coin, which began to be
minted in the 41 Henry 111. (1257), its proportions were
23 carats 3i grains fine geld to half a grain alloy, till
1 James I. (1604), when 22 carats was the standard
with 2 carats alloy; at which standard it remains to this
day. Thus, according to history and fact, the earlier
Kings of England were, in the mintage of their coins,
more remarkable for preserving the purity of the stand-
ard, than for debasing it."
He infers that Sir Robert meant to speak of the
diminution of weight, whereby great alteration had
been made, not in the name, but in the intrinsic value,
of the pound between the reign of the Conqueror and
of Elizabeth. But he shows that the admitted fluc-
tuations of the coined pound of silver, in the same
interval, from the number of 20s. to 625. (through
other alterations of 20s. 3d., 225. 6d., 255., 305., 375.,
&c.), did not square with Sir Robert's " doctrine con-
cerning the pound"—that " quantity of the precious
metals of certain weight and certain fineness ;" that
" certain definite quantity of gold—of the precious
metals." " Did you by these expressions mean us to
understand that it should consist, at all times, of the
same definite quantity of gold or silver—an invariable,
as well as a definite, quantity ? If so, your histo-
rical examples contravene your assertion. .
You must mean, only, that the measure of value
should be, at that time when it Is the measure of
value, whenever that may be, of a certain weight and
certain fineness."
" You next observe, in your brief sketch of our pound
sterling, that it was not until a late period of the reign
of Elizabeth that silver, being then the standard of va-
lue, received that determinate weight, which it retained
without variation, with constant refusals to alter it, till
1716: By these words I understand that the pound
sterling, from a late period of the reign of Elizabeth, re-
mained unchanged in value till the year 1716., But here
I must again take leave to doubt the accuracy of your
statement. Do you not omit to take into account, when
you make this assertion, the difference in the value of
silver which was occasioned by the discovery of Ame-
rica?"
How that proportion came to vary from 10 to 1 to
15 to 1, we have shown in an article which appears
in another column. Recurring to the year 1600,
our author says,
" At the period in question it was esteemed as 11 to
1, and was so represented in our coins : when, there-
fore, we desire to compare the value of silver coias for-
merly, with the value of silver coins now, we must take
this relation into account. Or if we choose to disembar-
rass the question of all calculations of this kind, we may
at once compare the weight of our gold pound now, with
the weight of that which we had at any former period,
and the difference between the two will, show us the
value of the silver pound as well as of the gold pound.
You will find in Harris (Essay upon Money and Coins,
Part 11., p. 2), that the proportion of fine silver to fine
gold in the coinage of 1601, to which you allude, was as
.10'905 to 1, and in Ruding, that while the proportion
was as above exhibited (or, as he expresses it, 1 to
10 56-59), the gold pound, called the sovereign, worth
205., was coined of the weight of 171 grains. Now, if
otir present sovereign contains 123 grains,. and that of
-Eiji: in 1601- contained 171 grains, it follows that her
pound sterling was worth 275. 9d. of our present coin.
Admitting, therefore, that the silver coin of Eliz. was the
measure of value, and the legal tender of that day, it is
evident that as the value of 20s. was equal so the sove-
reign of 171 grains, the value of the silver pound of that
period was also of the value of 275. 9d.of our present
coin. For more than thirty-nine years before this
change was made, that is, from the 4th of. Eliz. to her
43d year (1558 to 1601), the pound of silver was coined
into 605., and the gold sovereign, worth 205., was of the
weight of 174 grains; both pounds, therefore, were then
worth 28s. 3d. of our present coin."
So much for the "certain definite quantity of the
precious metals"---of certain weight and 'fineness—of
our " pound" sterling. This exposure of Sir Ro-
bert's grossly uninstructed brief—upon which he has
ventured to move the Commons of England to adopt
his mischievous, rash, and ill-considered experiments
on the currency, ought surely "to put ban out of
court," at the tribunal.-of public opinion, in any case
where the interests of domestic industry and com-
merce are concerned.
The " Enquirer" then gives Sir Robert that severe
castigation touching his " erroneous assumptions
about the antiquity and uniformity. of the measure
of value," which we have quoted elsewhere. From
the same point we shall take our second and con-
cluding notice of this remarkable pamphlet.

• 111
MR. DISRAELI'S " CONINGSBY. -We are re-
quested to state that a new edition of this work will be
ready for publication with the Magazines to-morrow,
May 31, and those who have been hitherto disappointed
in procuring it, may obtain it of any bookseller.
TILE AUTHOR OF " STORIES OF WATERLOO?'

Besides the poet Barry Cornwall, Horace Smith, Laman
Blanchard, Titmarsh, Peter Priggins, and Mrs. Trol.
lope, we understand that Colburn's New Monthly Maga-
zine for June will number among its contributors the
popular author of " Stories of Waterloo," W. IL Max-
well, Esq., whose paper is entitled "Memoirs of a Gen-
tleman on Half-pay," a subject which will doubtless re-
ceive effective illustration frora the pen of this %nuke
writer.

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THIS EVENING MAY 90,
When will be performed Rossini's Opera of IL BARBIERE DI
SIYIGLIA, by Madame Grist, Signor Mario, Signor Lablache,
Sgnor F. Lablache, and Signor Fornasari.
After abmch will be produced, a New Divertissement, composed
Mdlle. Cerito, e 'titled la VI VANDIERE, introducing La
gedd'wa Polka, by Mdlle. Cerito and M St. Leon.
Ice be followed by the last scene of Rossini's Opera LA CENE.
RENT OLA. IA Cenerenf ola, Mdlle. Favanti.
To conclude with the Grand Ballet entitled ALMA (omitting the
kirerl'ableaul, in which hldlles. Cerito and Frassi, and Mons. M.
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MK. BEN lAM it./ W R LESSEE.
THIS Ft ENING, MAY 30,
IFNI be performed THE LITTLE DEVIL. Nicolo Angell,
Viaceno d'Estella. Mr. Charles Mathews ; Gil Bablo, Mr. Strick-
land ; Ma:43 Theresa of ',pain Miss E. Yarnold ; Clotilds, Miss
Julia Bennet:.
Alter which, 1 New Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir
Charles Coldstreaw. Bart., Mr. Charles Mathews; Adonis
Bence, Mr Tilbury Wurzle, Mr. James Bland; Mary, Miss Julia
Bennete ; Lady CI utterbuck Mrs. Hamby.
To he followed I, the ext•-qordinary Performances of Professor
gISLEY and his TWO INFANT SONS.
To conclude with THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN
LOCKS.
Ors:bear* Stalls, ss. ; Axes, ss. ; Pit, as.; Gallery, 25.; Upper
gallery, Is. Half-price -Boxes, 3.5. ; PI. 95.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper
Oallery, 6d. Doors openei at Half-past Six, and the Performances
..rnnme•sce at Seven.
Tickets and Place% to be bad of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Boa-
estfice, from Ten till Five
•

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
I.I',NF.E. Mr. J. M. AIAfIIIOX
FOR THE BENEFIT OF M,SS SABILLA NOVELLO.
THIS EVENING, M AY !",0
v,11.1 he perterrnfvi th Last Act of LA SONN A MBULA.
Miss Sabina Novello ; Liza, Miss E. Honner ; Elvin), Mr.
Allen.
At which. the Second Act of DON VASQUALE.
Tob. followed by A GRAND CON( EXT.
To Web will be aided a BA LLE I' DIVERTISSEMENT.
'To con clurte th a New Fare, called BOUNCE or. The
Ojibtewav wi
Characters byc Messrs. Oxberry, Fit.rjarnes ;
Granby, Walter I..Acy, and Miss Brooks.

THEATRE Roy Al:, j.YCELIMHOU , LATE ENGLISH OPERA.
SE.
Under the Management of Mrs. KF.ELEY.
" Open Fes/sine; or, a Night with the Forty Thieves." continues to
be nightly received with pethet enthusiasm by crowded and
fashionable audiences
THIS EVENING, MAY 30.
Will be repeated a New and Comic Drama. cal ed TWO HEADS
'ETTER THAN ONE. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining,
11:6ddear, Keeley, and Emery, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. A. Wigan, and Mn.
Aeoley.
'Lb which will be added a New Comedietta, entitled THE WHITE
i•EATHER. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Collier.
,cr,rven, Yamold, Miss Woolgar, and Miss FairbrotherPOLK A MANI A
Te be followed by in prupoi Bagatelle. called
Lisstarters y Mr. F. Mathews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss
Weolgar, and Mrs Kerley.
To conclude with e G•no I Burle.que Fairy Extravaganza, called
opErr SESAME; or. A Sight with the Forty Thieves. Hassarac,
Mr. Keeley; Morziana, Mrs. Keeley.
PRICES OF A OMlS:4oN.—ldalcnny Poxes, 45.; Upper
Boxes, Be;. Pit. 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Priee—Balcony Boxes, Es. ;
:Upper Boxes. le 6d. ; Pit, 1,. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier
abrading eight persons). lwn Guineas Private Boxes on the Second
'frier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Halt Private
glazes on the Pit 'tier (holding six persons), One Guinea.
_ „

ASTLEY'S ROYA I AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Fropvie:eir and Manager. Mr. BATTY.
Splendid Whitaun Holiday Fe'es.
11t114 ttVENING. MAY 30,
Will ise repeated an entire new Militar y and Naval Equestrian
Spectaele, entitled THE CHINESE WAR ; or, The Conquests of
Amoy by Bntish Arms. New Scenery, Dresses, Appointments, 4c.,
to realise the recent triumphs of England's A the and Navy.
Entire Change in Ole Scenes of Circle.
_Brilliant Cavalcade—Feats of Horsemanship—The celebrated Polka
Danceby Mdlle. Cushnie and Signor Milano.
Toe nelude with a Laughable Farce.
,The doors will open nichtly at six o'clock, and the performances
oink mance at seven. Box-office opened daily from ten till four. The
incitree boxes have been reconstructed and decorated with care and
sour.
Acting and stage-minager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot.

• • DATIDOWS ROYAL SURREY THEATRE
Extraordinary Novelty—Engagement of Mr. G. Wieland, and Three
Entirely New Pieces.
THIS EVENING, MAY SI,
Will be repeated a New Drama in Three Acts, entitled THE
INSTRUMENT OF TORTURE in which Amis. Saville, Hughes,
Hicks, Honnor, Vale, Lewis, and Johnson ; Mrs. H. Vining, rs.
_Hughes, and Mrs Hicks, will perform.
After which a New Burlesque entitled GEORGEY BARN WELL.
i-fsipperted by Messrs. Vale, Neville, Heslop, Mrs. Daly, and Miss
ey.
-.*forrr
*To conclude with a Grand Fairy Spectacle celled THE SPRITE
OW THE SNOW DRIFT. Zimmeir, the Sprite, by Mr. G.
veneland. Superb Scenery and Dresses. Extraordinary effects, and
Wosaderful feats.
',laces and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box-
tittle* from Eleven to Four.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL
OPEN EVERY EVENING.
TIRST WEEK OF MADEMOISELLE ROSSINI, IN ADDL
TIOM TO THE WIZARD'S NEW WONDERS.
The Great WIZARD OF IHE NORTH is proud to announce
'to the Nobility; Gentry, and Public, that he has, at an enormous
secponse, succeeded in enctaging, for Twelve Nights only,
Madelle. ROSSINI,

The Great Lady Violinist
,She will have the honour of giving her Fourth Grand Vocal and
instrumental CONCERT, THIS EVENING, the 50th Inst.,
and every evening daring the Week, assisted by M. A DOLPHUS
COLLINI, EMMA COLLI NI, VICTORIA COLLINI, and
JOSEPH COLLINL
The 'cage will have a most brilliant appearance ! To give effect
to the most novel Concert ever given- in England, a GRAND
!WENN has been painted expressly for this occasion, by Mr.
William Beverley, AN ALLEGORY IN HONOUR OF HAN.
DEL, representing THE TEMPLE OF MUSIC !
The Great WIZARD OF THE NORTH is quite aware that
the Public expects something now at this season; he Is happy to
.say he will not deviate from "a good old rule ;" for he is con-
• slimed he has prepared the most splendid Banquet that can be
,offisred to the Public ; In short, his present arrangements will
:tdtally eclipse all his former eftbrts. He will, in addition to his
ialready unparalleled performances introduce NEW WONDERS,
:among which will be an original Experiment, Magic Filtering, the
011achanted Silver Fish, and the Golden Circlet, with other asto-
Itiching New Miracles, which will decide a question at issue. This
Nutertalnnient will bedivided into Four Parts :
Part I. The WIZARD will be an hour In his Mystic Circle.
Part 11. The ARAB BROTHERS' Classical Groupings.
Part 111. Maddlle. ROSSINI'S GRAND CONCERT, in the
Temple of Music.
Part IV. and Conclusion, The WIZARD'S second mystic hour.
Doors open at Half-past Six, to commence at Seven.
PrivaWrßoxes 41 15s. ; Orchestra Stalls, 55. ; Boxes, 4s. • Pit. its.;
Gallery, L. Second Price at Nine o'clock. Stalls, 35.; oves, Is.;
11.11, la

...
COMMENCEMENT OF THE SEASON.
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS,
• GRAND WHITSUN FETES.
THIS DAY.
Serooll as have been the claims of this favoured place of public
resort &. the beginning of each season, the Proprietor feels justified
Ls now
ii.,:n.e.e.S.thtaat never Tue
Gardens
did it offer a tithe of the attractions
newve been
and e completely renovated,
ilta. t u es.. !AO_
.1, o y.netairansneitntarroddeuneedh, aextensivempietelyPromenades
Tl;trilstirain.e•rbe i
Proprietor's
expenditure in every department,
Yatronage., anxiety to insure a continuance of public
h'S NEW GRAND
• , LONDON IN PICTORIAL MODEL OF
achieves a
THE OLDEN TIME !
Is tio saost gigsmtic tnevson and Telbin
or conaposition, Adelity of desig, ernydet produced. and for grandeur
oxecsda any previous production. h beauty of execution, it far
Dandos--.old St. Paul's—Old London accurate? represents ancient
all the pnnolpal Churches and Buildings of aynard's Castle, and
with truth be designated the most wondeite locality, and may
&am times. 1 production of ma.
THE MENAGERIE! ALWAYS UNRIVALLED
HAS RECEIVED MANY VALUABE ,
To dot, all
co the Proprietor has ADDITIONS.
AMERICAN DWARF TJM ern
rdßthe celebrated
emir,exhibftlng_at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. I
no PHODIENADE CoNCERTS—the splendid Band of
'ondueted by Mr. Godfrey—will perform a selection Fifty
Iltarfern ors. c of
the newest and most popular music.
The ,far-fattiad HIGHLAND DANCERS AND PIPERS are
also engaged, and will go through two acts of their National Dances.
which procured for them the distinguished approbation of her
Majesty and Prince Albert at Taymouth Castle
And at Dusk will take place the most astounding exhibition ever
:Attempted. vie,
,a Representation of
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON.
„Mr. Soutisby po whom in justice belongs the appellationffec ot
to f " Fire
liking") has ezhausted the resources of his art, to give e
oximbition. :.ossion Bridge, Old St. Paul's Cathedral, and other
Ruildinp will Appear devoured by the devastating element, and
present a heap 0 blackened ruins, in accordance with the best
,criginearions taxes? At the period, and the coup d'reil will give a vivid
presentation of a (treat City destroyed by fire.
Doors °ors et Twelve. Admission. One Shilling.

EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
OU SHILLING ' Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU-
SEUM: the most magnifteent and extensive Collection of Histo-
ric& Curiosities and Works of Art over known to have been formed
AT Onto Person, during Twenty-flue years of elaborate research, at a
suet er 6,1.000 guinea*, and to completely Illustrate, in the most In-
set:owl,. ud interesting manner, the most Important part of Euro-
lateen hist:o, `v, viz.--crla.nLEs 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and
ZASXVIB Ms deaths of GEORGE 111., anti the EMPEROR
NAPOLEOI,T, hi • MS, This unique Museum has been visited often,
!Loan* the last su NI present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of
Wellington, F, 'reign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladles,
*also many thoustu,'s of the Nobility and Public ; and the Pro-
prietor has recently abbe to inorease, by several very tins
pictures, See., his previoul
almost incredible number and variety of
MSS., Works of Art, .1,1. multitude of valuable Relics, and other
curiosities, in this mosit OstSCuotive and, as hundreds have said it
ought to be, a National ilitteieran• Many thousand have inspected it,
I:DITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS
and THIRTY l'R INC r.TAL
liave stated that it ough be, seCL: by every one. The price of &dints •
ion is reduced to ONE BIiatLLING,
The NAPOLEON N USEU3I ato be seen only at the "Egyptian
.11811," Piccadilly, daily i tonl Ten till Dusk.

THE WEATHER.-Surr OFFICE, MAY 30.

THERmobreTzn, Lowest, 38; Highest, 57; Noon, 55.
BAROMETER, 30.05.—WDTD, N.E.

Nara.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.