The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-12 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, I ATE ENGLISH PERA-
HO USE. however, of any authority or right which we pos
Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. sessed, had the French previously, even, enacted the
Another great Achievement Successfully Triumphant I!!
To attempt to eulogise the gorgeous splendour of the New Extrava- tragi-comic burletta of their descent upon Otaheite,
ganza of " Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, or New Lamps for
Old Ones," would be a work of supererogation
,- the Manage- to question the " business of the latter," whilst we
meat, therefore, contents itself by simply stating that it wilt be
repeated every Evening! were negotiating the Pottinger Treaty, " in risking
THIS EVENINS, SEPT. 12, the peace of their neighbours," by playing off their
Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZLF—
WIT. Principal characters by Messrs. R. Younge, F. Vining, j squadrons in the waters of China, or elsewhere, ii
If,
Emery, F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, the gratification of national vanity." If, without any
Stanton, J. W. Collier, Yarnold, Sanders, and Keeley ; Miss E.
Chapin, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Woellidge, Miss trade to defray the cost of such extravagant follies
Groves, Mrs. Usher, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with an entirely Original, and much better than they will perpetrate them in those distant seas, they
New, Grand Operatic, Romantic, Melo-Dramatic, Burlesque Extra. j
vaganza, founded on the celebrated Eastern Pale, in the Arabi ,n must pay the penalty of a favourite caprice—as private
Nights' Entertainment, entitled ALADDIN AND THB WON-
DERFUL LAMP; or, New Lamps for Old Ones. With very individuals do—by standing the brunt of clispropor-
extensive New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, ice, Principal cha- tionate charges. But how far their mode of indulging
'.l3ctVVrsaiMerrlatlelieje,eleMye.sltssF.Zolalgthaerw. siirlsiur‘nveorc, A.
mgeW,
Wigan, this caprice may put in jeopardy the security of life
K Chaplin, Airs A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Mi s James, Miss Carson, andproperty with our own subjects, resident within the
Miss Hunt Miss Reede, &c., &c. p
PRICES OF ADMIS;ION.—BaIcony Poxes- 4%. Upper same regions, is a matter for our legitimate considera-
Boxes, 35.; Pit 2s.'• Gallery, fid. Second Price—Balcony BOxes, 2s. ;
Upper Boxes, f 8 61.; Pit, is. private Boxes on the It,tlc my Tier tion, and abundant justification for any precautionary
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(nhgoleonhgt peeigrsga
persons),O fl uoneeas .G.l; rniovaa t eanßdo the second
Private i measures which the depositories of British authority
Boxes on the 19t Tier (holding six persons), One Guir ea. there may think fit, in the exercise of their official
The Box- ace is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc-
tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. responsibility, to adopt. We are, therefore, fully
alive to all the dangers that may accrue from unfortu-
nate collisions between the native Chinese, and the
crews of American and French, or other European
ships. Perhaps it is to be regretted that the Pottin-
ger Treaty contained no effectual stipulations against
the admission of other flags into the stipulated Chinese
ports, except on terms less favourable than those which
we ha-1 won for ourselves ; but it is certain that such
stipulations could have been, under the circumstances,
insisted on by our Plenipotentiary ; or that, if granted
to his demands and representations, they would have
been ratified by our Government at home. The case
of American interests in China, and the manner in
which any mal-administration of them, or any dis-
sensions between subjects of the United States and
those of the Celestial Empire, might compromise the
rights and privileges, the property and security of
British subjects, living within the EMPEROR'S domi-
nions—presents additional features of difficulty, and
will demand more circumspection in the dealing with,
than even the possible objects or results of the French
squadron off the Chinese coasts. These additional
features consist in the long establishment of the United
States Factory, and the extent and variety of the
trade carried on by American speculators with the
Chinese at Canton ;—in the identity of their lan-
guage and manners with our own ; and even in the
similarity of their costume with our's, this last ele-
ment of resemblance being far from an insignificant
one in the eyes of an Asiatic people. How are they
to distinguish between the subjects of a flag with
stripes and those of a flag with crosses, in the confu-
sion and resentment of a popular melee ? And yet,
on the fact and correctness of this distinction, may be
hazarded the valuable lives of English residents and
their families in China—the security of their property
—or the inviolability of their personal liberty in those
parts where we may not have at hand a sufficient
protective force.
We are glad to find that at Canton, after the affair
of the weathercock, which we have above alluded to
(and where, probably, it may turn out that the un-
designed offence committed by the American Consul
was the adoption of a figure hostile and defying in
the eyes of a semi-barbarous and Tartar-governed
people, namely, an arrow), a very proper step was
taken by the resident foreign gentry (English, Ame-
rican, &c.) They issued a placard, strongly incul-
cating the maintenance of a good feeling to, and
a good understanding with, the natives. Of course
our accredited authorities on the spot must be the
best and most competent judges of the course to be
taken under such emergencies as have so recently
happened, and may so soon again break out. But we
may, without presumption, express a hope that it will
be a standing principle, for the future, in their admi-
nistrative and executive proceedings, sedulously to
keep up in every Government act, proclamation, order,
police regulations, Sze., &c., a clear and explicit
distinction--an exclusive identification —of English
rights, interests, and responsibilities also, as contra-
distinguished from those of every other foreign na-
tion, having established relations in the Chinese ter-
ritory. The Chinese themselves will be the first to
recognise the propriety of these distinctive arrange-
ments; and their natural .good sense, as well as their
respect for tranquillity and order, and their disci-
plined observance of them, will make them not
merely willing observers of, but active auxiliaries in,
enforcing arrangements which, whilst they will pro-
tect the peaceful foreigner, conforming to the requi-
tateve ,Ket..errnE-ertiv'esnt-
blished, will not afford the dangerous shelter of diffi-
culty and confusion in identifying offenders against
those laws, to any parties under English jurisdiction.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY.
Nightly overflows, and He-engagement of the wonders of Mr. Carter,
the American Lion King.
THIS EVENING, SEPF. 12,
Will be re-,e, ated the French Equestrian Military Spectacle of the
LION OF THE DESERT AND THE FRENCH IN MOROCCO.
Abdalla's, the Outcast Ara",, Mr. Carte-.
New Scenes of the Circle
To conclude with the new E prestrian, Military and Naval
Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or, The Conquests of
Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery, Dresses, Appointments, &c.,
to realise the recent triumphs of England's Army and Navy. Feast
of 250 Lanterns.
Acting and stage.minager, Mr. W D. Broadfoot.
Box-ottice open from Eleven till live. Lessons in thsa Art of !listing
by Mr. R. Smith.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
IMMENSE ATTRACTION.
MADAME VESTRIS AND MR. CHARLES MATHEWS,
FOR THIS WEEK ONLY.
THIS EVENING. SEPT.
Will be performed USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr C.
Mathews.
After which, a New Comic Drama, entitled GRIST TO THE
MILL. Marquis de Richeville, Mr. Charles Mathews; Francine,
Madame Vestris.
To conclude with PATTER, versus CLATTER. Captain Patter,
Mr. C. Mathews.
Places ,sud Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box-
citice, fro n Eleven to Four.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRId.
THIS EVENING, SEPT. I
Will be performed THE CA RPENTER ROUEN. Marteau,
Mr J Hudson Kirby, as originally performed by him in New Y,lrk.
After which, JACK AND THE SEAN-STALK; or, The
Lad that knew how many Beans made Fire. Jollibura, Mr John
Herbert ; Jack, Miss Vincent.
To conc'ude with the Comic Opera of NO SONG, N ' SUPPER !
Frederick, Mr. Binge.
Private t• amity Boxes, .£1 Is. Od. and £I I Is. 64.

ROYA I SURREY ZOOLOGICAL CIA RDENS.
EXTRAORDINARY AND NOVEL ATTRACTIONS.
On MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, and T.l URSDAY.
throughout the Sewon, the Gardens will open with the following
attractive Novelties

TfIE PICTURESQUE GROUNDS—FEEDING OF THE
ANIMALS—UNRIVALLED MENAGERIE.
MODELS of VENICE and I.ONDON in the OLDEN TIME,
Painted by Dansen and Telhin.
The sensation caused by this unrivalled production is beyond all
tomer pecettent ; the artist, the amateur, the casual observer
are all struck with its extraordinay beauty and fidelity of delinea-
tion, and are unanimous in pronouncing it the mod wonderful ex-
hibition ever witnessed. To view it only as a vehicle for the terrific
.display at Dusk is unjust; it should be seen in the calm stillness or
the quiet Evening, with its Towers and Steeples reflected in the spa..
Mous Lake, to be fully appreciated.
Beethoven's celebrate(' Battle Sinfonia, de.criptive o f an En-
gagement between the French and Englis iArmies.
The Evening PROMENADE CONCERTS on Mon !aye, Tues-
days, Wednesdays, and Thursdays coricucted uy Mr. Godfrey,
are up. n a scale of more than usual excellence; l.tlt words fail in
doing justice to the awful representation of
THE GREAT FIRE LuN DON.
Its fearful characteristics: are truthfully nourtrayed, but at the same
time so beautifully blended with the Wonders of the Pyrotechnic
Art, titat delight is predominant over terror; and the Thousands
who nightly crowd the Gardens hail it with acclamations, and admit
that artbby, the Unrivalled Pyrotechnist has achieved a matchless
triumph.

The .411 dens and Zoological Collection are is the most perfect
state, .utt combining so many and interesting features, are by far
the most at; ra Itive loungo in or near the Iretro,toli
Doors open at Nine—Feeding of the Animals at Half-past Four—
Concert at Half-past Five.—Conflagration at Dusk. Admittance,
One Shilling.

EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
ONE sITTLY.ING Admission to TIIR NAPOLEON MU-
SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of Histo-
rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed
by Clue Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a
east et 00,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in-
structive 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 tl•p EMPEROR
:CIPOLEON, In 1821. This unique Museum has been viqlted often,
during the las': and present year, by the Royal FamEy, the Duke of
Wellington, The Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies,
14110, many thousands of the Nobility and Public; and the Pro-
Ifrietor has recently been able to inn ease, by several very fine
pictures, &c., his previous almost incre lible number and variety of
MSS, Works of Art, and a multitude if valuable Relic', and other
curiosities, in this most .atetructive and. as hundreds have said it
ought to be, a Nations: Maseum. M.sry thousand have Inspected it,
and THIRTY PRLNCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS
have stated *hat it cugh to be seen by every one. The price of aduals-
tion is reduced to ONE SHILLING.
The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to I,e seen only at the "Egyptian
Piccalilly. daily fi om Ten till Dtak.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Our Correspondent, who writes from the Junior Unqed
Service Club, is perfectly correct.

THE WEATHER.—Strx OFFICE, SEPT. 11.
Tuk.ustolurrEE, Lowest, 47 ; Highest, 64 ; Noon, 61.
Bknosrrzu, 30.1.—Worn, N.B.
Ncrrn.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
fc-.zine: point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
u =Wally placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

On Monday last Mr. O'CONNELL made his appear-
ance in the Hall of the Repeal Association for the
first time since his escape from the undesired em-
braces of the Richmond Penitentiary. As might
have been anticipated, his reception by the thousands
who thronged the hall and all the avenues approach-
ing to it, was enthusiastic in the extreme ; and it
was full a quarter of an hour before the acclama-
tions ceased, and the great lion of the day was
allowed to address his excited audience. His speech,
though comparatively calm, was very decided in its
tone, and advocated the expediency of continuing the
Repeal agitation with renewed energy. But its
chief point may be found in the following significant
passage :—" I shall now lay before you," said Mr,
O'CONNELL, " a plan which I frequently proposed
last year ; I mean the collection of the Preservative
Society for Ireland, consisting of a body of three
hundred gentlemen sitting in Dublin. The point is
surrounded by legal difficulties, and must be ap-
proached with serious consideration. My plan is
shortly this—that three hundred gentlemen from the
various counties in Ireland should meet on a certain
day in Dublin, and that their title to meet should be
the handing in of a hundred pounds each ; they
should appoint a treasurer of their own, and have the
working of their own funds. I do not intend that
they shall initiate anything, but that they shall
control everything, and that the Repeal Association
shall be completely governed by them, and not ven-
ture on any act without their previous sanction. A
body of this kind would comprise so many of the
wealthy and influential of Ireland, that it would
be an effectual check to any rash, revolutionary
outbreak, and would be a steady drag on the wheel
of the movement. It would be of that bearing on
society and high station, that it could enter into
treaty with Government,—it could arrange its own
plans with Ministers, and stipulate terms. And here
!et me say, that I quite agree in making the experi-
ment of a federal Parliament. I want any Parlia-
ment which will protect Ireland, and I ask for no more.
I will this day week move for a Select Committee
to consider the possibility of such an assemblage
as I have just spoken of, and to prepare cases to have
laid before the most eminent lawyers of England and
Ireland." There are two points in the above passage
—to say nothing of the leading proposition contained
in it—which are well worthy of attention. The first
is, Mr. O'CONNELL'S announcement of his intention
to take no further step of moment—such, for in-
stance, as the gathering together of the three hun-
dred Repealers, with each a hundred•pound note in
his breeches pocket—without previously getting the
best legal opinions on the subject—an intention which
has no doubt been materially quickened by his very
natural dislike to pay another visit to the Rich-
mond Penitentiary. The second point is, the

speaker's evident apprehension of the progress of the
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lepeal movement, which, in case it should become
oo democratic and anarchical in its tendencies, he
proposes to check by the counteracting influence of
three hundred Repealers of birth, fortune, education,
and intelligence, who would have every possible in-
ducement to prevent the mere mob of agitators from
getting too much in the ascendant. This is the first
time, within our recollection, that Mr. O'CONNELL
has ever expressed the slightest apprehension of the
effects of popular sway in Ireland. Up to this period
he has invariably worked with the people—we here
use the term people in its most comprehensive sense—
but now, he seems to think it not impossible that in
the progress of the Repeal agitation they may be too
much carried away by wild, impracticable theories of
liberty, and consequently he proposes to raise up a
sort of moderating, if not antagonistic, authority, in
the form of a Society consisting of individuals who
from their position in the social scale cannot be
expected to have any very ardent sympathies with
the mob, but will make a point of checking them,
whenever their movements become embarrassing to
the interests of the higher and middle classes of
Irishmen. The proposition is a remarkable one, con.
sidering the quarter whence it emanates. It is just
as if a GRACCHUS should raise up an aristocratic bar-

rier against the encroachments of the democratic
principle I Mr. O'Co-NrtzLes object in making it is
clearly two-fold. First, to restrain within becoming
limits the wishes, the feelings, and the movements of
the Irish masses as the work of agitation proceeds ; and,
secondly, to enlist the sympathies of the higher
and middle classes of his countrymen in the cause of
Repeal, by convincing them that they have nothing
to fear, inasmuch as there will be a Preservative
Society, possessed of immense influence, to stand be
tween them and the mob. Now this is all very well
in theory, so long as Repeal continues to be
as distant and improbable a remedy as it con-
fessedly is at present; but were an unforeseen
conjunction of circumstances ever to favour its pro•
gress ; were it once to begin seriously to occupy
men's minds in England, in consequence of the proved
inability or disinclination of Government to deal
justly by Ireland; moreover were the vast masses of
the Irish people, instead of ardently hoping for
the advent of Repeal, to be fully impressed with the
conviction that it was close at hand—in such an excit-
ing state of things, the influence of Mr. O'ComiaLL's
aristocratic Preservative Society would be as naught ;
the mob-orators and the mob-leaders--and plenty of
both would be sure to spring up in the Association
ens else ~here—would carry all before them, by
holding out the wildest hopes and promises to
the deluded populace ; and the three hundred
members of the Preservative Society would, in the
universal frenzy of the moment, be as surely over-
whelmed, as the Girondists were by the Jacobins,
during the first stormy outbreak of the French Revo-
lution.

Accounts from Madrid, of the 3d instant, an-
nounce that Government have now no doubt of a
large majority of supporters in the new Cortes. The
result could hardly be otherwise, considering the
unconstitutional and despotic conduct of NARVAEZ
and his colleagues. The Heraldo, a Government
paper, thus boasts of the victory gained over the
Opposition :

" The resuit of the elections of the presidents and
secretaries of the bureaux in the twelve wards of the
capital, has been favourable to the Parliamentary can-
didates ; the pure Monarchists, who presented them-
selves to dispute the victory, were left in an insignificant
minority. The conduct of the Progresistas, who sacri-
ficed their private resentments, and came forward in a
few districts to join the Parliamentary electors in com-
bating the Absolutists, is entitled to our most sincere
praise, and ought to be, at the same time, a severe
lesson for those who indulge in the hope of bringing us
back to the days of the Torquemadas. No ; all the
Liberals would form an invincible phalanx, the moment
they should perceive that the institutions, conquered at
the price of their blood and fortune. were in danger.
Moreover, the show of strength made by the Absolutists
in Madrid, has only tended to cover them with a ridicule
wh;ch has fallen on the respectable persons who figured
on their lists of candidates."

The Three per Cents. were done at 27/ at sixty
days; the Five per Cents. at 19k; and the Floating
Debt at 60i at sixty days.

Though the Ministerial journals of England and
France have been publishing from day to day articles
showing, or rather pretending to show, the condi.
tions on which an arrangement has been come to with
regard to the Otaheite affair, it was impossible to
ascertain what they really were. At one time
PRITCHARD was to be " thrown overboard" alone—
at another time he was to be accompanied by
D'AUBI6NY. and BRUAT, while it turns out that the
Englishman is to be the only sufferer, neither BRUAT
nor D'AUBIGET is to be recalled. There is to be no
disavowal of their acts—the expression of simple
regret, and the offer of an indemnity to Mr.
PRITCHARD, are all that the English Government
have obtained fnr " a gross outrage, accompanied by
gross indignity." But we will allow the French
Ministerial journal to tell the tale. " What did the
Opposition journals say scarcely three days back ?"
asks the Journal des Debats, with an air of triumph.
" They said that M. GUIZOT had offered to disavow
and recal Capt. D'AUBIGNY. They added that Eng-
land, not satisfied with the sacrifice of M. D'AUBIGNY,
in addition demanded the disavowal and recal
of the Governor, M. BRUAT. In a word,
the whole polemics of the Opposition, for
nearly a month, have turned on these two hypo-
theses, which served as a pretext to a thousand de-
clamations against either the weakness and baseness
of M. Guizor, or the intolerable pride of England.
The truth is now known. Did M. GuizoT offer to
- .
D'AURIGNY is neiihe'rnr dis.a.vowed nor recalled. Did
the English Cabinet demand the disavowal and recal,
not only of M. D'AUBIGNY, but still more of M.
BRUIT ? Through whatever phases the negotiation
may have passed, one thing is certain, that the ar-
rangement is concluded, and that M. BRUIT is no
more disavowed and recalled than M. D'AUBIGNY.
M. Gurzar must, therefore, be praised for his firmness
if he refused the double sacrifice demanded from him;
and the English Cabinet must be lauded for its
loyalty and moderation, if, after a more mature
examination, perceiving that there had only been, on
our part, a want of proper forms in the employment
of a right, it withdrew part of its demands. The Op-
position was so imprudent as to lay its siege before
hand. It reckoned, at least, on the recal and destitu-
tion of M. D'AUBIGNY. All their pieces were ar-
ranged in battery to open on M. Gun(); the
day when it should be understood the sacrifice
Aas consummated. What then happens ? This
intractable England, which will have war
at any price, is satisfied with a regret
and a blame expressed by our Government. This
Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, who wants
peace at any price, has not even offered what tht
Opposition supposed he would offer. He has not
yielded. Reckoning on the wisdom of the Govern-
ment of England, he adhered to his first propositions,
and at last brought Lord ABERDEEN and Sir P. PEE/
over to them. No disavowal, no recal ! The expres-
sion of a simple regret, and the offer of an indemnity
to Mr. PRITCHARD ! Here was an occasion even for
the Opposition journals to congratulate themselves on
a result which they must have_so little expected. But,
no, had I.L. BRUAT and M. D'AUBIGNY been recalled.
Mr. PRITCHARD sent back in triumph to Otaheite,
the ultimatum of which so much has been said, and of
which the National, as late as Thursday last, detailed
the dishonourable conditions accepted by the Minis-
try, there could not be a greater lamentation over the
humiliation of France. The National is of opinion
that the hour of our downfal has struck, and bewails
our ruined greatness, and all that apparently because
M. GUIZOT did not offer the disavowal and recal of
M. D'AUBIGNY, and because England did not demand
the disavowal and recal of M. BRUIT. But we
shall not have war; we shall not even have a Minis-
terial crisis. No, we shall not have war ; two great
nations will not tear each other to pieces for a futile
subject of dispute ; two great Governments have had
the good sense to come to an understanding in place
of obstinately differing about a false point of honour;
two Cabinets which pride themselves on having for
four years maintained a good intelligence between
the countries which they govern, have declined offer-
ing to the world the odious and ridiculous spectacle
of a policy of peace, ending in a war of the most
foolish character! Let those bewail whose plans and
hopes are deranged by peace ! That war which
they thought they almost held within their grasp
escapes them, and they must now seek another

; I quarrel ! For our parts, we hope that the wisdom of
the two nations, and the two Governments, will con-
tinue to confound their sinister designs! We shall
not even have a Ministerial crisis, and that is what
afflicts the Opposition, which is only warlike because
the Ministry is pacific. The Opposition did not ex-
pect so happy and so honourable an arrangement; all
that it said for the last fortnight proves it, and the
anger it feels at being mistaken proves it still more."
Well. If this be a settlement, to use the words of
Sir ROBERT PEEL, " perfectly consistent with the
honour and the interest of both countries," all we can
il say is that his idea of honour is very different from
that of almost every other Englishman. Indeed, the
French Opposition journals admit the fact, for while
they pretend to blame M. GUIZOT for yielding one
inch, they say the conditions are dishonourable to
both countries. " They bring dishonour," says the
National, "on M. PEEL, because, after having in-
solently and publicly demanded an ample repairs..
tion, he should not have been contented with a

paltry (mesquine) reparation." The Courrier Fran-

pis reckons, that about 1,0001. will be offered to Mr.
PRITCHARD; but, at the same time, expresses a hope
that even this sum will be refused by the Chambers.
Some hope, however, still remains that the affair is

not so bad as represented by the French journals, and
we will, therefore wait, though impatiently, for some

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