The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-29 00:00:00

DAV !DOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEAIRE

Extraordinary Novelty—Engagement of Mr. G. Wieland, and Three
Entirely New Pieces.
..THIS EVENING, MAY 29,

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Will be repeated a New Drama in Three Acts, entitled THE
INSTRUMENT OF TORTURE in which dessts. Saville, Hughes,
Hicks, Hennor, Vale, Lewis, and Johnson; Mrs. H. Vining, Mrs.
Hughes, and Mrs. Hicks,will perform.
After which a New Burlesque entitled GEO RGE Y BARNWELL.
Supported by Messrs. Vale, Neville, Heslop, Mrs. Da'y, and Miss
Torrey.
To conclude with a Grand Fairy Spectacle c ;Bed THE SPRITE
OF THE SNOW DRIFT. Zimmeir. the Sprite, by Mr. G.
Wieland. Superb Sceneryand Dresses. Extra.). dinary effects, and
Wonderful feats.

Paces and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.
office, from Eleven to Four.
THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
OPEN EVERY EVENING.
FIRST WEEK OF MADEMOISELLE ROSSINI, IN ADDI.
TION TO THE WIZARD'S NEW WONDERS.
The Great WIZARD OF IfIE NORTH is proud to announce
to the Nobility, Gentry, and Public, that he has, at an enormous
expense, succeeded in eovaging, for Twelve Nights only,
• • ' Madelle. ROSSINI,
The Great Lady Violinist.
She will have the honour of giving her Third Grand Vocal and
Instrumental CONCERT, THIS EVENING, the 29th Inst
and every evening dnring the Week, assisted by M. ADO LPHU.S
COLLINI, EMMA COLLI NI, VICTORIA COLLINI, and
JOSEPH COLLINL
The stage will have a most brilliant sppearanee ! To give effert
to the most novel Concert ever given in England, a GRAND
SCENE has been painted expressly for this occasion, by Mr.
IVilliam 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-
vinced he has prepared the most splendid Banquet that caa be
offered to the Public ; in short, his present arrangements will
t_ tally eclipse all his former efforts. He will, in addition to his
already unparalleled performances introduce NEW WONDERS,
among which will be an origin il Experiment, Magic Filtering, the
Enchanted Silver Fab, and the Golden Circlet, with other asto.
nishing New Mirac'rs, which will decide a question at issue. This
Entertainment will be divided into Four Parts :
Part I. The WIZARD will he an hour in his Mystic Circle.
Part 11. The ARAB BROTHERS' Classical Groupings.
-Part 111. Maddlle. ROSSINI'S GRAND CONCERT, in the
Temple of Mu,ic.
Part IV. and Conclusion, The WIZARD'S se;..onsi mystic hour.
Doors open at Half-past Six, to commence at Seven
Private Boxes £1 15s. ; Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit. 25.;
Gallery, Is. second Price at Nine o'clock. Stalls, 35.; Boves, 25.;
Fit, Is .

COMMENCEMENT OF TIIE SEASON.
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS,
GRAND WHITSUN FETES.

TO-DAY AND
Strong as have been- the-claims of- this favoured place of public
• retort at the beginning of each season, the Proprietor feels justified
in asserting, that never before did it offer a tithe of the attractions
it now presents. The Gardens have been complete'y renovated,
Statues and Fountains introduced, new and extensive Promenades
/brined, and the most lavish expenditure in every department,
will evince the Proprietor's anxiety to insure a continuance of public
Patronage.
THE NEW GRAND PICTORIAL MODEL OF
LONDON IN THE OLDEN TIME!

•Is • Painted by Vanson and Telbin,
of the most gigantic achievement ever yet produced, and for grandeur
composition, fidelity of design, and beauty of execution, it far
exceeds any previous production. It accuratel rresents ancient
London—Old St. l'atiPs—Old Bridge—Baynard's Castle, and
ail the principal Churches and Buildings of the localty, and may
with truth be designated the most wonderful production of mo-
dern times.
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THE MENAGERIE, ALWAYS UNRIVALLED.
HAS RECEIVED MANY VALUABLE ADDITIONS.
To defy aIIAM ER com_petition, the Proprietor has engaged the celebrated
ICAN DWARF TJM THUMB!
now exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall Piccadilly,
The PROMENADE CONCERTS—the splendid Band of Fifty
Performers, conducted by Mr. Godfrey—will perform a selection of
the newest and most popular music.
The far-famed 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
Alajesty and Prince Albert at Taymouth Castle.
And at Disk will take place the most astounding exhibition ever
attempted, viz., a Representation of

classes.
On this mere prudential principle, therefore7-and
without any present reference to the higher and still
more imperative requirements of moral duty and of
social sympathy—we would plead the necessity for a
most jealous and anxious watchfulness as to all cases
of imputed cruelty, misconduct, or negligence in the
EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.
officers and subordinate functionaries, from' the high-
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
est to the lowest, connected with the management of
SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of Hlsto-
the poor, under the new Act. The "Firrs
tßßeelipeofr,t,
ONE SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU-
o
rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formeda
from the Select Committee on Medical Poor
of evidence attoo t It
by One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, a
•
cost of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in- to gether with the m
structive and interesting manner, the most Important part of Euro- ached o 1
pean history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and (ordered to be printed by.the Rouse of Commons on
the 22d instant), suggests the strongest confirmation
LOUIS xrv., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR
NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often,
of the value of that vigilance we recommend. We
during the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of
Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies,
also many, thousands sf the Nobility and Public; and the Pro- must add, it illustrates the defective machinery and
pricter has recently been able to increase, by several
pictures, Sce., previous almost incredible number and Variety of n
his
eery tine u satisfactory working of a system which too evi_
htssof
- Works Art, and a multitade•of valuable Relics,' and other dently renders 'the Poor-laW Commissioners judges in
eurlositieob,
,s nathaitsiomosl
m, mostinstructive and, as hundreds have said it ought to
1. Many thousand have inspected it, cases where, if they themselves be not the inculpated
~..DITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS dCfendants, their own creatures—subordinates within
seen by every one. The price of admis-
ING. .
al is to be seen only at the "Egnuan their instant reach and control—certainly are.
:cti tau Dusk. The Select Committee report that they have mei-

'TIE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON.
Mr. • Southby (to whom in justice belongs the appellation of "Fire
King") has exhausted the resources of his art, to give effect to this
exhibitioa. Lon.lon Bridge, Old St. Paul's Cathedral, and other
Be tidings will appear devoured by the devastating element, and
present a heap of blackened ruins, in accordance with the best
delineations taken at the period, and the coup d'ccil will give a vivid
representation of a Great City destroyed by fire.
Doors of at Twelve. Admission, One Shilling.

dered the allegations comprised in a petition referred
to them of TuoMAs KING, schoolmaster, late of the
IVoodbridge union workhouse, in the county of Suf-
folk, containing a complaint against the Poor-law
Commissioners; and that they have also examined
Sir JOHN WALSII&M, one of the Assistant-Commis-
sioners, in answer to such complaint. This gentle-
man's evidence, and the petition, they report to the
House ; but without expressing any opinion upon it.
The petition of KING to the House of Commons, sets
forth that during his residence in the Woodbridge
union workhouse, he had witnessed, among other
heart-rending acts of cruelty and neglect towards
the sick and other inmates of that establishment,
these : namely—" a poor man, aged 76 years, was
cruelly bound to the bedstead, the cord passing three
times over different parts of his body, to save the
trouble of (the nurse's) sitting up with him, during
the night ; in which state he was found dead, cold,
and quite stiff on the following morning ;" that pe-
titioner was acquainted with the names of several
other persons who were found dead in their beds,
having died in the night time, and on whose bodies
no coroners' inquests were held; that petitioner
could prove the facts of two such cases; and of "other
two deaths caused by the extreme violence manifested
towards the individuals by the officers of the house,
and that as to these deaths the absence of a coroner's
inquest arose from the expediency of concealment;
that petitioner having, in accordance with a sense of
duty, repeatedly petitioned the Poor-law Commis-
sioners to institute a full and searching inquiry into
these cases, they had refused on the ground assigned, in
a certain correspondence (which tLen follows)'
between petitioner, the Assistant-Secretary to the
Board, and the clerk of the Woodbridge union). The
petitioner refused, under advice of counsel, to furnish
any previous list of witnesses to the Commissioners,
from apprehension of their being tampered with."
Our readers will probably imagine that there must
have been some gross exaggeration in such a cata-
logue of horrors as KING had thus opened to prove the
criminal misconduct of the parties in authority at the
Woodbridge union house. We are inclined to be-
lieve that of exaggeration KING has been guilty to a
great extent; but, that one half, one tithe, of such
enormities should appear by the acknowledgement
and finding of the Poor-law Commissioners—them-
selves interested parties, and, we will say, in refer-
ence to their gratuitous vindication of the unfeeling
and most negligent master and mistress of the union
house—implicated parties too;—that a fraction of
these atrocities has been committed, is a fact which
calls on Parliament itself for the sternest expres-
sion of its severe displeasure against the controlling
authority, under the jurisdiction of which—large,
inquisitorial, and well supported as it is, these
criminal delinquencies can have been committed.
They are a scandal to the national humanity,
and civilisation ; a reproach to the county
of Suffolk; and a standing testimony to the im-
becility, as well as the injustice, of that vaunted
" Poor-law Commission," whose whole career will
have been but one long drain upon the public purse,
and one protracted outrage upon public feeling—if
they venture to commit themselves to such a mode of
dealing with such offences, as they exhibit in their
letter of the 20th of February last to the clerk of the
Woodbridge union.
An abstract of this report, and of the documents
embodied in it, which we give in another part of our
paper, comprise this letter ; and to it we earnestly
direct the attention of our readers.

Madrid journals of the 20th announce the de-
parture of the Royal Family for Barcelona. None of
the Ministers except NARVAEZ accompanied their
Majesties. The municipal elections had commenced,-
but as the Liberal party said they were all a farce,
owing to the violation of an Act of the Cortes passed
last year, they declined voting, and the Government
party had it all their own way. The Barcelona
journals state that great preparations had been made
for the reception of the Royal Family, and that the
municipality intended to have a grand tournament to
celebrate the occasion.

On the Madrid Bourse, the Three per Cents. were
done at 281 for cash, and 28i 29 at 60 days, and the
Fives at 20 13-32 at 60 days.

The Journal des Debats of Sunday contains an,
article on British India, which is of so singular a
character, and so unlike the general sentiments ex-
pressed in that journal, that one almost feels inclined
to believe that it had been smuggled from the office
of the National, and inserted in the Government
paper by mistake. Some of the statements are most
inconsistent, for while the writer asserts that Russia
has formed a vast coalition of native princes against
England, and that her power in India is on the wane,
and that her fate in that quarter is sealed, almost in
the same sentence it admits that she will take posses-
sion of the fertile and vast plains of the Punjaub.
Taking this as a matter of fact, what could Russia,
with the Persians and the Khan of BOKHARA,
and all the other khans and kings on the west of
the Indus, do against her:frontier ? What impression
could Russia make on such a boundary as would
thus be formed by strong forts on the banks of the
Indus, and by countless steamers in its channel ?
Indeed the production, altogether, is like a rhapsody
drawn by some visionary at Bombay under the influ-
ence of opium. Russia, he says, is taking gigantic
steps, and there is something terrific in her march
while she does not appear to move. We are to infer,
therefore, that she is working like a mole under.
ground, and that some fine morning her armies will
spring up from the soil of Lahore, all accoutred and
in terrible array, to annihilate the unfortunate Eng-
lish. We give the following as a specimen, and leave
the reader to judge of its merits :—" The intelligence
last received from Bombay abounds in interesting
facts. There has been a movement in politics, and
some perfectly new arrangements have been accom-
plished. Until the present period Russia has failed
in all her attempts to approach India, but we now learn
at the same time that the Persian flag floats at Herat,
where YAE MOHAMMED acknowledges himself to be
the humble vassal of the SHAH ; that Khiva has sub-
mitted to pay tribute to the Khan of BOKHARA, the ally
and the Scid of Russia, the murderer—or at least
the gaoler—of Stoddart 'and of Conolly ; that all
Central Asia, from the Caspian Sea to Hindoukosk,
from Asterabad to the Indus,
Chad been consolidated
into one vast confederation, of which Russia is at the
same time the soul and the base ; that Sunnites and
Shutes have, for the first time, forgotten their secular
animosities, in order to unite in one common league
against the English ; and that Russia at length holds
in her hands the keys of Hindostan. We are only
imperfectly informed as to the means which Russia
has employed to arrive at her object, but we cannot
doubt of the results. Never truly, in our history,
did Russia make so gigantic a step towards India ;
never did she place her foot so firmly amongst
the slippery rocks and shifting sands which sepa-
parated her from her distanf prey. There is
something terrific in the march of this Power, which
arrives thus without appearing to move. And still
however little as we may be disposed to sympathise
with her, we cannot refuse her a certagin feeling of
esteem which is ever excited by the solution: of a vast
and complicated problem. What will England do in
presence of the danger which she feared the most ?
she who threatened to set the world in a blaze rather
than suffer the influence of Persia at Herat, or be-
cause an obscure adventurer presented himielf at
Caubul, under the name of Russia. Will .sheitgain
pass the Indus to throw herself into the Khyber or
Bolan passes? No; she will for a long time remain
inert, because this task is now beyond her strength.
The tide which carried her forward is on the ebb.
These events, in the meantime, will have an imme-
diate effect on the destinies of the kingdom of Lahore.
Strong in the secret assistance of Russia, and free
from all uneasiness as to his rear, DOST MOHAMMED
and his son display extraordinary activity in taking
advantage of the disorganised state of the Pun-
jaub to recover the fragments detached by Rus-
JEST SING from the ancient empire of the Aff-
ghans. Two brothers of the DOST are already on
the spot, and although prisoners on parole—one at
Peshawur, and the other at Lahore—they pos-
sess immense influence. There appears to be no
doubt that MAHOMED AKBAR KHAN, who had arrived
at Jellalabad, with 12,000 men and ten pieces of
cannon, will reconquer, without striking a blow, all
Pm,eisnhawur, as far as Attok. We may, therefore, anti-
cipate
the approaching dissolution of the empire of
the
Sikhs,
return andto its
the
tripleeempire
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of A
dismemberment.frg han;
Peshawurahore an and
the entire plain will become, probably next autumn, i

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