The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-15 00:00:00

from tie Tory bar; which, at this moment, is
singularly devoid of Llent. But we do not think
that Mr. THESIGER will add much to the strength of
the Government. As a debater he is a failure—as a
lawyer he is not above mediocrity—and why Sir
ROBERT PEEL chose him'to be Solicitor-General, to
the exclusion of Mr. KELLY, we cannot tell. The
giant mind of Mr. KELLY is as far superior to that of
Mr. TBESIGER, as the stature of the latter is to the
former. But Cambridge was unsafe, in fact, cer-
tain to be lost, and PEEL'S majority, great as it is,
cannot bear reduction. Here lies the secret of Mr.
KELLY'S non-appointment. Mr. THESIGER is no fa-
vourite of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S. Ever since the cele-
brated Evesham Committee, in 1838, when COCK..
BURN, hereafter to be one of the greatest men at the
English bar, made the proud heart of THESIGER quail
before his talent and energy, in the presence of Sir
R. PEEL, who sat as Chairman, and unseated PETER
BORTIIWICK, THESIGER has been no favourite. And
in the House of Commons the perpetual we of the
Treasury side annoys a Premier who delights to say
Ido this, I refuse that. However, Mr. MESMER is
now Solicitor-General, with a good chance for a
Judgeship at no distant day, and talent has been re-
ected in the person of Mr. KELLY, with the promise
that he shall have the next vacancy.

Sir ROBERT PEEL, who has now been three years
in office, has met with more defeats in the House of
Commons than any Prime Minister, during the same
time, that ever preceded him. Though he has, nomi-
nally, a majority at his back, which fills up the full
complement of three figures, considered in the good old
Tory days absolutely necessary to carry on business ;
though he has all the talent of the renegade Whigs and
Radicals, and is supported by the landed interest, the
moneyed interest, and the West and East India interest;
though he has all the Bishops and clergy, and mono-
polists of every shade—he is the most helpless Minister
that ever ruled the destinies of the country. His
Ministry has been called the " strong Ministry,'
but the history of his Cabinet only con-
firms the old proverb, " That there is nothing
in a name." If we except that beautiful measure,
the income-tax, and the New Tariff Bill, we are
not aware that he has done anything for which either
Tories, or Whigs, or Radicals, can thank him.
These were his ewn measures; but how has he sue
ceded in Bills which he entrusted to his new col-
leagues, and especially to the Home Secretary, Sir
JAMES GRAHAM ? There is a fatality about every-
thing the once Radical Baronet undertakes, and this
is only the result which might be expected from the
just laws by which all human operations are
governed. During his short reign in office he has
brought forward three important Bills,which have all
miserably failed ; and what is the most disgraeeful
feature in these defeats, they were so notoriously bad
that even the " three figures" had not the courage to
support them. The amendment of the Poor-law Bill
he was obliged to shuffle off till some more
convenient period ; the Factories Education
Bill was damned by the Dissenters alone; and the
Twelve Hours' Factories Bill bids fair to meet the
same fate, from the supporters of the " strong Mi-
nistry." ASHLEY, and FERRAND, and OASTLER are
up in arms against the Government, and neither the
RICHMONDS nor the BUCKINGHAM come to their re-
lief. Another great measure has been introduced
this session, which far surpasses all the rest in im-
portance, and for that Sir ROBERT PEEL has also to
thank his new Whig-Radical allies. Lord STANLEY,
when out of office, introduced a Disfranchisement
Bill for Ireland; but the Whig Government, though
weak, was still too powerful for him, and after some
vain attempts to carry the obnoxious and most unjust
restrictions on the registrations in the sister country,
he was compelled to abandon it. The same measure
is now introduced in a new shape, and under
different auspices—under the auspices of a nobleman,
who should, above all others, have been saved from
such an odious task. Lord ELIOT went to Ireland
with the best prospects, for a Tory Secretary, of
success. He was believed to be a man of mild and
conciliatory disposition. He was regarded by his
party as too liberal ; but, nevertheless, a display or a
deception was necessary, and a deception is the result.
He has been made the instrument of Lord STANLEY
0 M/ J .4.."L0 Or is zarmws, uac_roused up an addi-
tional cry of indignation in Ireland against the
Government. Concession, said Sir JAMES GRAHAM,
had reached its utmost limits ; but to oppression there
is to be no limits. Twenty-five thousand county
electors are to be struck at once off the roll, with as
little ceremony as the old forty-shilling voters, and,
according to the showing of Lord Euor,without any-
thing like a proportionate compensation. The Bill is
exceedingly complicated, and of course is totally incom-
prehensible to the great body of the Irish people ; but
this naturally makes them look upon it with the more
suspicion, and leads them to the conviction that
while renegade Whigs are in office there is no salva-
tion for their country but in determined resistance.
Neither Sir ROBERT PEEL nor Lord ELIOT is re-
garded as the author of this obnoxious scheme. It is
traced to a different member of the Cabinet, and
that member has ever shown the most bitter hostility
to the sister country. Can any man then wonder
that a new impulse is given to the repeal cry, and
that Mr. O'CONNELL sets all the sufferings of im-
prisonment at defiance on the announcement of this
new outrage to his native land ? Sir R. PEEL solemnly
declared that the Reform Bill was not to be touched ;
yet he allows a great inroad to be made upon it in a
quarter where there was the loudest complaints of its
defects. As a necessary consequence, the whole of
Ireland is against him. We are not aware that there
is one journal, or one party, or even the section of a
party, in that country that looks upon his administra-
tion with common forbearance. Catholics and Orange-
men and Presbyterians vie with each other in
denouncing the " strong Ministry." And does it
fore better in England? Of all the daily journals
published in the metropolis, only one solitary organ
raises its feeble voice for PEEL. Never was there such
a shameful discomfiture; but it is a just retribution.
Renegades rarely succeed. Sir ROBERT PEEL tookl
as his supporters Lord STANLEY and Sir JAMES
GRAHAM, and to his sorrow he finds that he trusted to
a a broken reed.
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ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, APRIL 15,
Will be performed Shat speare's Tragedy of OTHELLO.
Othello, Mr. Freer; lago, Mr. Dale • Cassio, Mr. Osbaldiston ; Des-
demona, Miss Vincent; Emilia, Mrs.' G. Lee.
After whit h, a New Drama, called THE FELON OF NEW
YORK. Ar.halt (the Felon), Mr. Freer' Lisette, Miss Arden.m
With the Grand Fairy Ballet of ONbINE; by Mr. Frampton
and his Pupils.
To conclude with A BUMPING LEGACY.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING, APRIL 15,
If crowded, fashionable, and brilliant audiences every nig,_ht are
qmptoms of success, the Performances of the WIZARD OF THE
NORTH has made the greatest hit of all the EASTER
.NJYEL-
LIES, for the Adelphi has been crammed to the ceiling; his. mighty
wonders are of so startling a nature, that the brill ant multitudes of
deighted spectators sit, as if spellbound, gaze with wonder and
amazement at the seeming superhuman miracles of the
MODERN FAUSTUS.
If the lovers of ould Ireland," Irishmen, and Irish Music, wish
to enjoy a treat, they will spend
AN HOUR IN IRELAND
with Mr. MALONE RAYMOND, at the Adelphi, whose tales,
songs, and anecdotes of the Green Isle" have been ightly received
xith bursts of laughter ant applause. He will appear nightly, be-
tween the parts of the Wizard's performances. assisted by Mrs.
MALONE RAY NIOND and Miss LINLEY.
The GREAT WIZARD OF THE NORTH will nightly prove
that there are " more strange things in heaven and earth, than are
dreampt of in mortals' philosophy."
Boxes, 3s. Pit. Is. . Gallery, &I. Second Price Nine o'clock
Daors open at Se6vedn, the Performances commenceat at half.past.

LOVE•S POLYPHONIC ENTERTAINMENTS,
CROWN AND ANCHOR TAVERN, STRAND.
Mr. LOVE has the honour to announce that he will present
ANNUAL POLYPHONIC ENTERTAINMENTS, and
LECTURES on LIFE and CHARACTER, every MONDAY,
WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY. He will introduce much Novelty,
which has been long in preparation, with entirely New and Appr,-
priate Mutative Costumes and Appointments.
Total Change of Entertainments Every Evening.
On MONDAY, MIRTH AND MARVELS; with A WOLF IN
SHEEP'S CLOTHING ; and other Entertainments
On WEDN- DAY, LOVE'S REMINISCENCES; with MINE
K
HOST'S DILEMMAS; and other Entertainments.
On, FRIDAY, LOVE IN ALL SHAPES • with LOVE'S LA.
HOUR'S LOST ; and other Entertainments.
Particulars in Handbills. Doors open at Half-past Seven ; begin
at Eight. Admission, 15,6 d.; Reserved Seats,2s 6d.

EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
ONE SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU-
4EUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of Risto-
deal Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to hove been formed
by One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a
cost of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in.
;tractive and Interesting manner, the most important part of Euro-
pean history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and
LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR
NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often,
during the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of
Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies,
also many thousands of the Nobility and Public ; and the Pro-
prietor has recently been able to increase, by several very fine
pictures, &c., his previous almost incredible number and variety of
MSS., Works of Art, and a multitude of valuable Relics, and other
curiosities, in this most instructive and, as hundreds have said it
atuait to he, a National 21Insenm. Many thousand have inspected it,
and THIRTY PRINCIrAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PrtraiS.
have stated that it ought to be seen by every one. The price of admis-
sion is reduced to ONE SHILLING.
The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen only at the " Egyptian
Hall," Piccadilly, daily fbam Ten till Dusk.

'At the great Anti-Corn-law banquet, which took
place on Friday night at Liverpool, Mr. EWART
made some apt, ironical comments on the equivocal
conduct of Ministers as regards the question of free-
trade. "If profession is to be relied on," said the
Hon. Member, " the Premier is a free-trader, for to
borrow an expression from a candidate for the City
of London, he 1 itg (e'r free-trade in.-424-abo,t,r4ket! If

profession is to be relied on, the Right Hon. Secretary
for the Home Department is for free trade in the
abstract. If the President of the Board of Trade is
to be measured, not by the profession of his principles,
but by what he has already published, he, too,
is a free-trader in the abstract. These men only
want moral courage to carry out their prin-
ciples ; and I must say if they would only
come forward with some comprehensive measure, such
as a bold spirit like Lord CHATHAM would have pro-
duced, they would carry with them all the sympathy,
as well as support, of the present generation, and
would command the gratitude of all posterity." There
is Eometimes, as has been shrewdly observed, great
virtue in an " if," and here is a decided case in point.
".If" the Premier, "like Lord CHATHAM," would
come forward with some "comprehensive measure,"
there As no doubt, as Mr. EWART states, that he
, would be an inestimable benefactor to the existing
generation, and "command the gratitude of poste-
rity ;" but alas that "if"—that chilling, insuperable
"if "—is a terrible stumbling-block, and forbids
us to cherish the pleasing conviction. Sir
BORSHT PEEL, were his days to be lengthened
even to those of METHITSALEM, would never find it in
1 his nature to project a measure that should in the
11
slightestdegre,remind his countrymen of a CHATHAM!
tHe would never, for instance, in the cause of the
people, beard the whole poWer of the Court and the
1 aristocracy ; he would never dare to throw himself on
the masses for support. Such a stretch of magnanimity
is far beyond his reach ; he is a mere conventional
Minister—the slave of precedent and etiquette ; who,
if he move at all, must move according to estab-
lished forms and proprieties, and at the well-regulated
i pace of a trained official, who has graduated in the red-
tape sch
of England a
ool.LordCnt aATHAM, though he wielded the
destinies
period when the people Were
infinitely less powerful than at present, and the aris-
tocracy were infinitely more so, yet set the whole
body of the latter at defiance, and ruled in spite of
i them. Sit east Pull on the contrary, truckles

THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, APRIL 15.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 43 ; Highest, 60; Noon, 60.
BAROMETER, 30.2.—W1ND, S.W.

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

Mall WATER AT LONDON-MUDGE THIS DAY.
!doming ... 25 minutes after 0 I Evening ...47 minutes after A.

Atninl:,l
LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1844.

The elevation of Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK to the
Chief Barony of the Exchequer, and of Sir
Sir WILLIAM
FOLLETT to the Attorney-Generalship,
as
posi-
tively stated by The Sun on Saturdayei was
be e athv eve
now to announce that Mr. TnEstnvait. ‘sr
is
Solicitor-General, in place of Sir WILL/AM FOLLETT.
The legal appointments are now complete, and
vacancies in Parliament for Exeter and IV'
ood..
stock 'are thereby caused. The appointment
of Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK will give general satis-
faction to all parties. As a lawyer, his attainments
are groat, whilst, as a man and gentleman, he merits
every praise. Sir WILLIAM FOLLETT requires no
laudation from us ; barring his politics, he has our
highest admiration. As to Mr. THESIGER, if Mr.
KELLY might not be Solicitor-General, we know
nobody better that could have boil talta

THE SUN, LONDON, MOND AY EVENI

unconditionally to :rank ; a single frown from the
Dukes of Riciimo Ks ) and BucxiliGuAm is quite suffi-
cient to scare him corn his good resolutions ; and he
makes it a point to g trengthen his Cabinet by as many
aristocratic accesso ties as possible. Here is the great
secret of his lam( m table vacillation on the subject
of free trade. He would be a free-trader
if he dared ; but f Ine cold, stern, haughty eyes of the
aristocratic mono' x ,lists are on him, and he quails
beneath their glen, 25, and is compelled to take refuge
in vague professi ai is. "A free-trader in the ab-
stract !" Such 'is the Prime Minister of the first
commercial counti yin the world—a man who sees
the one great wa a t of the age, who has more than
once timidly and ill idirectly acknowledged it, yet who
fears to act boldly' on the convictions of his under-
standing ! Woi Ltd a CHATHAM have thus humili-
ated himself—th u i acted in defiance of his better
judgment, at flu) command of men immeasurably
his inferiors in .all the qualities of statesmanship?
We are by no in sans sanguine, when we bear in mind
the majority wh' ich the Premier has at his back ; but
we do hope shor Wy to see the day when he will not
only be a " free-I h•ader," but a Minister also, "in the
abstract"—that i s to say, supporting the interests of
the country, wit tout fee or reward, except such as
his own conscience may supply him with, on
the front seat of the Opposition benches. At
the great bang pet to which we have been
alluding, Mr. Co arsDEN archly observed—" Some of
our opponents ar e not very learned. The other day
one of the free-tr: id e newspapers in Herts, in an able
article on the Anitil-League movement, spoke of the
defection from LE to right cause of Lord DACRE,
and quoted the NVI ell-known phrase, Et tu, Brute ! '
Next day a long- letter came from his Lordship's
land-steward, dose uncing the editor for calling Lord
DACRE a brute!" Ignorance like this is by no
means confined t o the land-stewards of the mo-
nopolists, for ve.e have read, of late, not a few
Anti-League spe cliches delivered by titled and wealthy
Protectionists, laOhich abound in proofs of block-
headism quite as ,sgregious as that which we have just
quoted, and whieila would really seem to have been
delivered with n 0, other view than to exhibit in full,
luxuriant perfee4n, the amazingly long ears of the
speakers.

The time is pmbably not distant, at which, owing
to the improved istachinery adopted in the collection
and arrangement of statistical facts, we may arrive
at modes of det trmining many political problems
of extreme interest, with more celerity and certainty
than have yet 'been attained, under less perfect
facilities, for arriving at authenticated economical
data. If the sch trice and working of the New Poor-
law have effectei no other good, they have, at least,
ky degrees, orga hised a test of singular efficiency in
estimating the Relative increase, from time to time,
of the value of steal property—and of its liabilities—
in England and:Wales. And, inasmuch as, of such
liabilities, none is so extensive or so permanent as the
poor-rate itself, it is well that the fluctuations of the
amount of that charge can henceforth be measured by
an index,paripmsu with the fluctuations of this value,
of which it is the common indicator. We can

scarcely form an adequate estimate of the enormous
importance of Nubia such digested information must
prove, in future times, to those who may have under-
taken to trace the domestic history of this nation in
its social and civil progression, and of its agricultural
capital and rental mere especially. They will not be
left to the task of deducing unsatisfactory theories,
by labourious and protracted investigations, pursued
through disconnected channels of very various and
uncertain authority, into the obscure effect of a few
darkling hints or accidental allusions (such as the
modern commentators on SUETOISTUS or TACITUS are
compelled to rely upon, in guessing at some meagre
particulars connected with the Imperial revenues, for
example, or the value and taxation of land under the
Empire—such as TACITUS and SUETONIIIS them-
selves were under the necessity of resorting to in
touching upon the same topics, in their rela-
tion to the earlier ages of the Republic). The
art of printing will probably perpetuate to the
remotest posterity distinct, intelligible records from
which the future annalist may cull with the certainty
of correctness and authentication, the elementary
principles :and the statistical details of our wealth—
its illVeStuiciite :Ina its administration.
We have already hinted that the returns con-
nected with the Poor-law Amendment Act will
not be among the least valuable of the contribu-
tions to history, which the practice of our
Legislature, in ordering all such documents
to be printed, will have secured to those who are to
come after us. We have just received a "Blue
Book" that will corroborate (we think) our an-
ticipation. It is entitled " A Return, showing
the total value of property assessed to the Poor-
rates, for the year ended Lady-day, 1840 ; with
the amount of money levied for Poor-rates for
the years ending Lady-day, 1839 to 1842, on each
parish in England and Wales." This exceedingly
important paper appears to have been supplied for the
information of Parliament, on the motion of Mr. G.
PALMER. That gentleman is entitled to the thanks
of the country for having so shaped his mo-
tion, because, the " summary " or " abstract" into
which its :explicit and well-considered terms have
permitted of the results collected being reduced, pre-
sents, at one glance, on a single page, in six columns,
the substance of the whole detailed reports com-
prised in the subsequent 230 folio pages,'!lrom all the
many thousands of parishes comprehended within
England and Wales.
We have felt it our imperative duty, in many arti-
cles devoted to that subject, to direct public attention
to the fearfully deteriorated condition and prospects
of our industrial classes. It has been the endeavour
of these articles to point out the cruel, the invidious,
position in which our monetary system has placed that
vast and meritorious community —to show that
the operation of such a system has been, and must
continue to be, to exclude from their fair share of the
distributive benefit which all classes ought to derive
from the multiplication of production and its commodi-
ties, and the reduced prices of our manufactures, the
very body whose wonderful labour has mainly and
permanently achieved those national advantages,
from the benefit of which they alone continue to be ex-
cluded. The Sun has repeatedly demonstrated that among
other effects of the Currency Bill of 1819, this produc-
ing body is made to bear, annually, the burden of some
thirty millions of taxation, which, on every principle
of common sense, justice, and policy, ought to be
—and in the original contemplation of the Legisla-
ture it was clearly intended they should be—borne
by the rich or competent • csmsuniera,. Finally, we
have warned our readers not to infer, from the oc-
casional increased activity of trade in given localities,
and the consequent temporary action upon the
market for labour, that to that action any degree
of permanency might safely be anticipated ; or that
any considerable diminution of the grinding distress
now weighiag down our industrial community, could
be safely calculated upon. We grieve to add that the
"Return" fatally confirms these gloomy forebodings,
so far as the increase of poor-rates
the
pbo
Poor-rate,
rt
rkraeatntee,
aas
fol aer
criterion of their truth. The total Annual Value of
the Real Property,
assessed
andthe yvveaarlese)nd6in2g,s4oL,oooadyl-.d;aya,n nnlBe4nlo,wo-as (Englandusrateable
capital no doubt. But, on the other hand,
the total amount of money levied for Poor.
rates, for the years ending respectively on
Lady-day, in 1839, 1640, 1841, and 1842, in-
creased in the proportions indicated in the following
corresponding aggregates for these several years,
namely, 5,613,9391., 6,014,605/., 6,351,8281., and
6,552,890/. So that the increased charge for the
poor-rate of all England and Wales, in 1842, was
nearly one million upon the same charge for 1839.
This is a disgrace, that on many accounts more than
countervails the increased productiveness of the
property-tax, as will be evident to all who consider
how large a displacement of labour, and what multitudi-
nous sacrifice of minute capitals must antecede the
addition of one million per annum to the poor-rates
of England and Wales alone ;s beides the elements of
this inauspicious increase appear in the detailed re-
turns for the very manufacturing districts in which
trade is said to be most active. Can any facts more
strongly affirm the soundness of the propositions we
have advanced as to the inadequate wages of industrial
labour, and that overruling cause—the vicious prin-
ciples of our monetary system—which, whilst it exists,
will keep them still inadequate, and accelerate the
march of pauperism and misery.

Madrid journals of ths 6th and 7th instant have

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