The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-18 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE

The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are re-
tpectfully informed that there will be an extra Night (not included
in the Subscription) THIS EVENING, when will be presented
Rossini's Opera Serb, in two Acts, entitled

Semiramide, Mad. Grisi ; Arsace, Mdlle. Favanti ; Idreno,
Corelli ; Assur, Sig. Fornasari; and Oroe, Sig. Lablache (for this
occasion only).
In the course of the evening the celebrated Polka, by Mdlle. Car.
late Grisi and M. Perrot.
To conclude with the Ballet of GI SELLE.
Principal Characters.—Giselle, Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi; Bertha,
Madame Copere; Bathilda, Mdlle. Ferdinand ; Myrtha, Mdlle.
Scheirer; the Prince of Courland, M. Gosselin • Hilarion, M. Coulon;
Wilfrid, M. Gannet ; Noblemen, MM. Venafra and Bertram; and
the Duke of Silesia, B. St. Leon.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box
Ottic:, Opera Colonnade.

THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY-LANE.
• THIS EVENING, APRIL 18,
Will be performed the opera of the BOHEMIAN GIRL Count
Anaheim, Mr. Borrani; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison ; Devilshoof,
Mr. Streton ; Arline, Miss Rainforth ; Queen of the Gipsies, Mi s
Betts.
After which will be repeated a New Ballet, entitled LADY HEN.
RIETTA; or, The Statute }air. Lyonn_l, M. Silvain ; Walter,
Mr. Howell; Sir Tristram, Mr. O'Bryan ; Queen Anne. Miss
O'Bryan ; Lady Henrietta, Mdlie. Lucile Gratin; Nancy, Miss C.
Webster ; Mina, Miss Carson.
Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. &L ; Upper Circles of Boxes
Seroied Price 3s. ; Pit 3s , Second Price :N.; Middle Gallery 25.,
ttecond Price Is.; Upper Gallery lc, Second Price 6d.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
LULL BENJAMIN WEBSTER. LESSEE.
THIS EVENING, APRIL IS,
Will be performed a New Comic Drama, entitled USED U?. Sir
Charles Coldstream, Bart, Mr. Charles Mathews; Sir Adonis
Leech, Mr Tilbury; Wurzle Mr. James Bland; Mary, Miss Julia
Bennett ; Lady Clutterbuck, sirs Humby.
Alter which, a New Comic Drama, entitled. GRIST TO THE
MILL. Marquis de Richeville, Mr. Charles Mathews; Francine,
Madame Vestris.
To be followed by a New, Original, Occasional. and Local Extra-
vaganza, founded on Fact, entitled THE DRAMA AT HOME; or,
An Everting with Puff. Principal Characters by Mr. C. Matkews,
Mr. J. bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mrs. Glover, Miss P. Horton, and
bliss Lee.
'To conclude with the Extraordinary Performances of Professor
it IS LEY and his INFANT SON, surnamed " Le Petit Mercure."
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, ;Is. ; Gallery, Is.; Upper
Gallery. Is. Half-price—Boxes, i
3s. ; Pit 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper
Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at Half-past lia, and the Performances
omimer,ce at Seven
Mr. W. Farren will appear on Monday, April 22, as Sir Peter
Teazle, in the School for Scandal.
rickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box-
olice, from Ten till Five.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE. Mr. J. M. MADI)OX.
THIS EVENING, APRIL IS,
Will be rerformed THE ANGEL OF THE ATTIC, in which
,:vl,..ssrs. Walton, Walter Lacy, and Madame Eugenl! Prosper will
prfiitTn.
To be followed by a New Farce, in 0.-e Act, entitled THE
YOUNG SC A MP; or, My Grandmo•her's Pet. Joseph, bliss
Fortescuc; Mildew Mr. Morris Barnett.
T.) which will be added.GONE TO TEXAS.
To conclude with a new Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza, caked FAIR
GTAK ; or THE SINGING APPLE, AND THE DANCING
WATERS. The principal characters by Messrs. Wright, Paul
Bedford, Oxbsrry, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Miss Fortescue

TUFA PR.E ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA-
HOUSE.

Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
THIS EVENING, APRIL :8,
Will be repeated the New Comedietta, in Two ?cis, entitled
HASTY CONCL USI 0 NS. Principal Characters by Messrs. Diddear,
V. Mathews, F. Vining, Emery, Miss Fairbrother and Mrs 'Keeley.
Auer which, MY WIFE'S OUT. Principal Characters by Mr.
Keeley. Mr Wigan, Miss Chaplin, and Mrs. Keeley.
To he followed by a New Drama, in One Act, called THE POST
OF HONOUR. Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Turner, Kinloch,
J. Cuilier, Stanton, Yarnold, Miss Woolgar (from the heatre Royal,
Adelphi, her first appearance at this Theatre), and Miss Grove.
To conclude with an entirely new Grand Burle que Fairy Extra-
eagunza, called OPEN SESAME; or, The Forty Thieves. C ha-
racters by Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. Woollidge, Mi,s
Turner, Miss Grove, Mrs. Wigan, Miss James, Miss Fairbrother,
*oil Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Mathews, Turner, Younge, Wigan,
Yarnold, and Chaplin.
kItICES OF ADMISSION.—First Price—"ores, 45.; Upper
Foxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. • Gallery, 6d. Second Price —Balcony Boxes, 2s. ;
Upper Boxes, Is 6d. ; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Balcony I ier
(holding eight persons), Iwo Gnineas Private Boxes on the Second
Fier (ho ding eight persons), One Guinea and a.Half. Private
Loxes on the Pit tier (holding six. persons), One Guinea. Free Ad-
mission Tickets (for the first forty nights), One Guinea. Nightly
'Transferrable Free Tickets (for the first forty nights), Three Guinea.i.
Doors open at Half-past six. Performances begins it Seven o'Clock.
ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY.
Triumphant Success of the Grand National Spectacle.
THIS EVENING, APRIL 04,

Will be repeated the Historical Spectacle of the INVAST ON OF
fbiGL AND BY WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR,. or, the Batre
j-11,stings. With all the effects of the Norman Conquest, Death
of Harold, &c.
Monsieur Plege on the Tight Rope, New Scenes in the Circle, by
eminent French
Tand Bri ish Alt stes.
o conclude with a FavouriteFarc:.

Mr. Batty (the Proprietor) begs respectfully to acquaint the
Nobility, Gentry, arid public that, encouraged by the flattering
success during the past year, and finding the Theatre not suffi-
ciently commodious for its numerous p tt:ons, he entered into an
extensive arrangement with Messrs. Halyard and Nixon, the emi-
rtent builders of Lambeth, for the reconstructing on a magnificent
and novel principle, the whole of the interior of the Theatre,
which has been rebuilt, dress boxes enlarged, upper boxes widened,
said pit and galleries extensively improved. I. ourteen glass lustres
;ire added, and a Grecian dome ceitrog, with entirely new srenclid
.elassic decorations, and gorgeous apppointments, which, with the
bast-rate talent to be offered, he presumes cannot fait of obtaining
that support so liberally bestowed on his endeavours during the
Sad str.uson. The grand Easter national Spectacle will combine all the
r.plendid Nstorical effects of the Norilian Conquest of England,
!,,,,aduced by Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. The Cirque Olympique will in-
troduce un• quailed equestrian tale.it, and the dou de company coin-
prise talent of the highest older.
The door will open nightly at six o'clock, and the performances
efimmence at seven. Box-office opened daily from ten till four. The
private boxes have been reconstructed and decorated with care and
Adendour.
Acting and stage-manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot.

OA/ [DOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE
Establishment again takes the lead—WhitetrLrs, with its
Apleticlid effects, and the Scapegrace of Paris, are the theme of ad-
miration, ".1 he 'theatre has been more crowded than any former
caster Holidays.
THIS EVENING, APRIL 'B,
Will be repeated an entirely New Drama, embracing all the
'Ol4 effects of the celebrated work, entitled WHITEFRI ARS,
in which the entire Company will perform.
After which, THE SCAPEGRACE OF PARIS, sup ,cited by all
.the leading favourites of the Establishment.
To which will be added the Wonderful Performanc.? of Herr
LIFING.LER on the Corde Elastique, and the Carlo Family in their
Unrivalled Oymeastiques.
To conclude with; a New Drama of peculiar construction, entitled
BARAK JOH NSOJN,* or, The Blind Witness.
Places and Pnir.t,e Sexes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.
office, Irom Eleven to Four.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
THIS gy,:::NiNG, APRIL IS,
Wil be performed the Popular Play of THE STRANGER. The
Stranger, -Mr. Osbaldiston ; Mrs. Haller, Miss Vincent.
After which, the New Popular Drama, called LEONTINE; or
SIXTEEN YEARS AGO ! Fitzarlington, Mr. Osbaldiston Leon.tp;tr Mr. C. J. Bird; Mat, Mr. Freer; Paul, Mr. Corene ;
tine,
Miss Vincent.
With the Grand Fairy Ballet of ONDINE; by Mr. Frampton
and his Pi. piis,.
To conclude with A BUMPING LEGACY.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING, APRIL IS.
If crowded, fashionable, sod brilliant audiences every night, are
syniptom4 of success, a T
le Performances of the WIZARD OF HE
NORTH has made the greatest hit of all the EASTER N _WEL-
TIES, for the Adelphi has been crammed to the ceiling; his mighty
wonders are of so stattlirg a nature, that the brill ant multitudes of
delighted -pectators sit, as if spell-bound, gaze with wonder and
amazement at the seeming superhuman miracles of the
MODERN FALSTUS.
If the lovers of " ould Ireland," Irishmen, and Irish Music, wish
toirnjoy a treat, they will spend
AN HOUR IN IRELAND
with gr. 'MALONE RAYMOND, at the Adelphi, whose tales,
0,..4ig5, and anecdotes a the 0 Green Isle" have been rightly received
with bursts of laughter and applause. He will appear nightly, be-
tween the parts of the Wizard's performances. assisted by Mrs.
.RAYMOND and Miss LINLEY.
The UREA l' WIZARD OF THE NORTH will nightly prove
that there are " more strange thing. in heaven ant earth, than are
dreampt of in mortals' philostiphy.
Boxes, 3s. Pit. Is. rid. Gallery, tad. Secoi2d Price at Nine o'clock.
Mors open at Seven, the Performances commence at half-past.

EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADH,Ly.
lAI PU:ITA NT OTIC E.
ONE SIIIT.T.ING Admis?lon to TIIE NAPOLEON MU-
SEUM, tile most magnificent a:id extensive Collection of Ilisto-
r:eal Curio,7ities and Works of Art ever kiluwn to hove been formed
by Goy Pers..at, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a
cost i,r 60,000 guinea*, and to completely illustrate, In the most in-
,: ro. live and inwrestioe manner, the most Important part of Euro-
l~,;n hfsi.ny, vier 511 It I. OLI VER C ROM W E LL, and
-Lid.: x IV., to the deaths of GEOIt4;E Ili., and the EMPEROR
_NAPOLEON, in 1821, This unique Museum has been visited ufteu,
durtng the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke pf
Welliugton, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, aid their Ladies,
lie„ many thousands of the Nobility and Public; and the Pro-
prietor has recently been able to increase, by several very tine
his previous almost incredible number and variety of
Ass., Works of Art, and a multitude of vaktable Relics, and other
curiosities, In this InuAt instructive and, as hundroda have said it
latvlit to he, a National Museum. Many thousand have inapected it,
THIRTY PRINCIPAL Eurrofts of the PUBLIC PRES,.B
have stated Ora it ought to be seen by everyone. The price of admis-
sion is reduced to ONE StIIILLENG.
The NAPOLEON MI TSE UM is to be seen only at the" Egyptian
WV." Piccadilly, daily front Ten till Dusk.

TETE WEATHEIL—SIIN OFFICE, APRIL 18.
711ERMOAETE1;, Lowest, 46 ; Highest, 66 ; Noon, 59.
BAROMETER, 30.2. WIND, N.N.W.
Nom—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
f ruing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
toually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

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WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TAN DAY.
A. ^ming ... 17 minutes after 2I Evening ... 25 minutes after 2.
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in the cause which it has met to forward ; and they
will hear strong, persuasive, practical reasoning, that
goes, straight as the crow flies, to its mark, and
that defies all the jugglery of the expertest sophist
—even of Sir ROBERT PEEL himself—to con-
trovert. When a popular body is really in earnest,
it has neither leisure nor inclination to resort to
tricky, superficial, common-place expedients in order
to pack an audience ; and accordingly the League
trusts to the justice of its cause—and this only—to
obtain hearers and ensure attention. And its confi-
dence is not thrown away. Week after week the
number of its proselytes increases ; and those who
last night witnessed its proceedings, who heard the
subdued hum of heartfelt approbation given to the
clinching arguments of its speakers, and the stern,
indignant bursts of scorn that arose from the au-
dience, as from one man, when the selfish sophistries
of the Monopolists were exposed ;—those, we say,
who heard all this, must have been hopelessly
prejudiced indeed, if they did not leave Covent-
garden with the impre,sion that the Anti-Corn-law
League is as " great a fact," as the circumstance of
the Duke of RICHMOND being a Tory is a small
one. The League a " great fact !" Aye, verily is it,
and the greatest, the most triumphant of facts—a
fact destined, ere the world is two years older, to
shake the rotten fabric of Monopoly to its centre—a
fact destined to re-model the whole commercial system
of the country—a fact destined to scatter far and
wide the blessings of intelligence, happiness, and
prosperity—a fact destined to raise the moral and in-
tellectual character of the vast masses of our working
population—a fact destined to make its influence
felt at the remotest regions of the earth—a fact des-
tined to bind adverse and distant nations together in
the bonds of one common brotherhood ;—in a word, a
fact destined to supply the one great want of the age,
and leave posterity its debtor to remotest genera-
tions ! So surely as the handwriting on the wall pre-
figured the fall of Babylon, do the weekly meetings of
the Anti-Corn-law League indicate the fast approach-
ing doom of Monopoly. Vain, henceforth, is all the
opposition that may be made, whether within or with-
out the walls of Parliament, to this mighty national
movement. The strong propelling impulse is given—
the irrevocable determination is made—the fiat, which
may not be disputed, is gone forth--and the whole false
system of Protection must, ere long, come down with
a crash on the heads of those who support it. On
the exertions of no one public-spirited individual does
the League now depend for success. The days of its
comparative weakness are passed ; and were Mr.
COBDEN—which may Heaven, in its mercy, forbid !
to be removed from the stage of life to-morrow ; were
even the entire Council to be cut off by the scythe of
the old Destroyer, the League would still
exit—still be as influential a confederacy as
ever, because it has a dwelling-place in the
heart of the people—because it gives utter-
ance to the national wi_l—because, in short,
it is a living, active principle, which no Government
can grapple with, which neither horse, foot, nor ar-
tillery can put down, which defies even the Cicero-
nian persuasiveness of SIBTTIORP, and the Demos-
thenic vigour of PETER BORTHWICK. When you
can infuse grandeur and elevation into the intellect
of Sir ROBERT PEEL—Convert a BLOMFIELD into a
paragon of Apostolic disinterestedness and self-denial
—or hid a PIIILPOTTS cease to lament for the loss of
his rich rectory of Stanhope— when you can perform
impossibilities like these, then—but not till then—
will you be able to extinguish the Anti-Corn-law
League !

The debate of Monday evening last on the Miscel-
laneous Estimates, was calculated to produce a forcible
impression on the public mind of the really valuable
labours which, session after session, are undertaken
and performed by a knot of conscientious, vigilant,
and disinterested guardians of the public purse. The
truth of the old adage, that " what is every body's
business is nobody's business," is, under no circum-
stance, more instructively exemplified than in the
House of Commons' discussions on the management
of our national expenditure. The two startling facts,
that, of a total revenue from taxation and all other
sources, amounting to nearly 50,000,0001. per annum,
the interest and charge of the public debt are about some
two or three millions more than the moiety ; and that
the remaining balance only being available to the
indispensable services of the empire, its fleets and
armies, royal, judicial, and civil establishments,
pensions, half-pay, &c. &c., it therefore becomes
of paramount importance to keep down every
head of expense to a scale of the utmost
economy compatible with the efficiency and ener-
gies of the service; these facts should suffice
to imbue every Member of the House of Commons
with a deep sense of the duty of vigilant supervision,
so far as he is concerned, over every proposed outlay
of the public money. He is returned by his consti-
tuents, invested with that as among the most im-
portant trusts with which it is possible for a fellow-
subject to be clothed, by those who confide to him the
exercise of their most important privileges. It is no-
torious, however, that unless, in respect of some par-
ticular and isolated vote, especially if it involve a new
grant not previously allowed by the Legislbture, the
statements of the several functionaries charged with
the duty of bringing forward the estimates prepared
by the several departments over which they severally
preside—are made to almost empty benches. The Com-
mittee of Supply is usually graced, indeed, by the pre-
sence of the Ministerial Leader, and of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer. But how wearisome the attendance
on its sittings, in which beyond all question the most
important administrative business of Parliament is
transacted, is considered by the majority of 'Members,
may he inferred from the common occurrence of the
House being, on such occasions, counted out, not
being able to make 40 Members. Even at this period
of the session only 58 Members, on both sides, divided
on Monday night on a vote, not calculated to " bore
them" by any considerations of political principles
involved in it, and one, therefore, which probably ar-
rayed many more Members than would otherwise
have been found in their places, for it regarded
the continuation of a provision for providing
sixteen Queen's plates"—(at the public ex-
pense, though)—" to be run for at races in Ireland."
Mr. WILLI A NIS and Mr. Humn, for the people, whom
they seem to think overtaxed enough without having
to meet charges of this kind, opposed so much of a
particular vote as went to appropriate 1,5741. for this
highly judicious, conciliatory, and profoundly-
politic purpose. Colonel Sir F. TRENCH and Colonel
SIBTHORP, for the races, " rode the high horse," and,
cn a division, "won the plate" by a majority of 22.
This result is worth a remark. Sir R. PEEL'S Go-
vernment may have felt (as its advocates contend) so
keenly as to the jeopardy in which the Union between
the two kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland was
being placed by O'CONNEIXS Repeal agitation, as to
have acted conscientiously in venturing on the expe-
riment of the State prosecutions. But with what
umningled satisfaction must they now feel themselves
secure of Irish hearts, and Irish peace and thankful-
ness,
by having practised on the liberality of the
Imperial Parliament with so much success as to in-
duce it to renew the grant of the Phoenix Park and
Lord Lieutenant's plates !

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We find that without adverting to some larger
items, the amount of which would have considerably
swelled the aggregate we are about to speak of, the
very reasonable propositions, as they seem to us, of
Mr. HUME and Mr. W. WILLIAMS on Monday night,
would, had they been carried, have effected a reduc-
tion of expenditure on the then submitted estimates,
alone, of nearly 100,0001. Mr. WILLIAMS thought
the expenditure (an annual one, almost to the extent of
5,0001.)
i on the improvements of Phoenix Park, Dublin,
avez. I
proper
cannotsubjectperbe that fort curtailment
such a sum can b
altogether.urtailmenteever
So
do
year—after alt that has been laid out on
wanted this
the same locality ; and the proospaelr
demesnes,expenditure of the
woods and forests, or the r
&c., in England, as well as in Ireland, palaces,l
for stricter attention and inquiry than the really
ea
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Commons at large has yet shown itself disposed
omtoepo
to it. A vote of more than 68,0001. for the yearlyy
' salaries of the officers of the two Houses of Parlia-
ment, &c., and, in the absence of any detailed
estimate, for the Lords, Mr. HUME proposed to
reduce by 12,000/. ; and he wished altogether to
cancel another foolish item of 2,2501., for en-
grossing Parliamentary Bills. Why they should
not be written, nobody could show. No matter ;
all these proposals were rejected. The same
fate attended the remonstrance of Mr. WAR-
BURTON and others against a charge of 20,000/.1
for one year's )ourneis of QUEEN'S messengers. It
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