The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-26 00:00:00

Now ready, in Bvo., with Pr-trait, 14s. bound, another period, call the attention of the House to the
E TH.MARCHIOffESS of LONDONDERRY'S
NARRATIVE OF HER VISIT subject.
TO TIIE COURTS OF VIENNA, CONSTANTINOPLE, Sir ROBERT PEEL then stated the course which he
• . ATHENS, _NAPLES, &e.
" :Att!" Londonderry describes with great spirit nuiny interesting intended to pursue with respect to the business before
t *ah ordinary travellers Lave tloaceess."—,lohn Bull.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Greet Mitrlborough-street. the House, for which we refer to the Parliamentary
report, because it is impossible, in a summary, to
state what is likely to take place. No positive fact
was stated. Everything depended on contingencies.
The strong Government has lost all its power, and
trusts to the chapter of accidents. It would appear, I
however, that the obnoxious and partial Bill, called
the Irish Registration fill, is to be pressed on the i
House on Monday. We trust every Liberal Member
will be in his place, and fight the battle on
this question to the lost. Why make Ire-
; and an exception ? Why interfere with the
registration of electors in that country, while Eng-
land and Scotland are to be left as they were by the
Reform Bill ? While Ireland calls out for a repeal of
the union, the British Parliament is doing everything
in its power to make that call more effectual.
Lord PALMERSTON put a question to Sir JAMES
GRAHAM relative to the gaming laws, but the Home
Secretary could give no satisfactory answer.
In answer to a question from Mr. B. COCHRANE,
relative' to the fate of Colonel STODDART and Captain
CONOLLY, Sir ROBERT PEEL said that on Thursday
or Friday next he would give him the latest inform,
don in possession of the Government.
Mr. VILLIERS then brought on his motion for a
repeal of the corn-laws.
Mr. FERRAND moved an amendment, which will
be found in the Parliamentary report.
This motion occupied the House for the remainder
of the evening. The debate was adjourned.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at Half-past One.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. it
• M. PERROT has the honour to inform the Nobility, Subsztil3er.,
his Friends, and the Public, that HIS BENEITI' wit! take place
TO-MORROW NIGHT, June 27. He is happy to be able t 3 state
that I.e has secured for that occa,ion the invaluable assistance of the
telex ate i Tenor, Signor NORIA Is
Tne Performances will commence with Donizetti's favourite Opera,
LUCIA DI LAMMEILMOOR.
Tic par: of Edgardo by Sig. Moriani ; Enrico, Sig. 1 °maser! ;
Si When 4•Sig. Paßoni ; Lucia, Madame Persiani.
In the course of the evening a " DIVERTUSEMENT," in which
WI Ibe irAttdured a varlet of Dances and Pas de Caractere," by
McPle. Fanny ETissler and Mille, Cerito.
After which, Gnecco's Opera Buda, LA PR.OV A D'UN OPERA
SERIA, By Mad tme Grisi, Sig. Corelli; Sig. F. Lablache, and Sig.
Lablache:.

To c•nclude with (second time) the entirely new Ballet, by M.
Perrot, music by Sig. Pugni,
Z ELIA •, ou, La Nymphe de Diane.
Mdlle. Cerito; L'Aniour, Melt e. Plunkett; Diane, Machine
Copere; Amyutas, M. St. Leon . Pan, M. Perrot.
Statues. Aniinee —Pall a, Ceres, Juno, Terpsichore, Fiore,
Fcmone, Euterpe, Clios, Joueuses tioCymbale et de Trian 71e, Mdlles.
Orem. Laura, Iluat, Cush.:ie, Mei*, Fenton, Anne lune,,
an i Maria.

Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to he made at the Box-
°Mc.;Rra-colannade. Doors open at Seven; the Opera wi!l com.
nietice at Hall-past Seven.

' r THEATRE 'ROYAL; HAY MA RHEA.
• Mli. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LES'.',EE
THIS EVENING, JUNE 4:6,
• Will be repeated the Prize Cow.cdy of -
QUID PRO QUO; or, THE DA 1' OF DUPES.
With a Prologue spoken by Mr. Webster.
-Earl of Hunsdon, Mr. Stuart; Lord Be:Lir:lout, Mrs. Nisbett';
Jareruy Grigson. Mr. Strickland; 14,n-y, Mr. H. Moll; Captain
Simett, Mr Buckstone; Sir George Mordent, Mr W. Darren;
Countess of Hunsdon, Mrs. W. Clitlind ; Lady Mary Rivers, Miss
Jula Bennet; Mrs. Grigson, Mrs. Glover; Eridget i lira, Mrs.
tiumby.
•After which, THE TRUMPETER'S DAUGHTER; or, Love
and the Polka. Phillipot, Mr. Webster; Dtzdelon, Madatue Celeste;
who will'dance the celebrated Polk

To conclude with the Conv..dy of SPRING AND AU rumN ; sr.
'the Bride of Fifty. Sir Simon Stack, Mr. Strickland; Mrs. Gene-
ral Da tmouth, Mrs. Glover.
Orcheitra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is.; ppper
iliery, 14 Half-price—Boxes Fa. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery. ;It ; Upper
Ga!!ery,, 6d. Doors opened at Half.past bill, and the Performances
coannekee at Seven.
I.ekets ' and Places to he had of Mr. 1. T. ArcEer, at the Boa-
* rice, from Ten till Five.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STark.T. •
LESSEE, Mr. .1. M. MADDOX.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MADAME ANNA THILLON
, JUN E : 16,
Wlll be repeate THI d
a S EVENING
New Comic Opera, entitled CROWN
.61 ANIQN Ds Count tie Cameo Mayor, Mr. Weiss; Don Hen.
rigs ez de Sandova', Mr.• Allen; Rebolloqo, Mr. Paul Iledfotd ;
Citerinl, Madame Anna Thillon; Diana, Mita Grant.
Ater which a new Divertir,s ment„ caned [he SLAVE MART.
And other Eutataitunents.

Mr. DUNCOMDE, who is one of the few really honest
men—the rani nantes in gurgite mita —that the pre-
sent house or Commons possesses, and whose speeches
are uniformly characterised by that straightforward-
ness, good sense, and intrepidity, which are among the
best qualities of a statesman, brought forward last
night the important question of opening letters at the
Post-office—a practice which the Home Secretary has
not thought it beneath him to sanction with his direct
approval, and which the Premier, though with the
longest and sourest face that ever man yet made, has
vainly endeavoured to justify. Not only, as appears
from Mr. DUNCOMBE'S statement, have the private
letters of Captain STOLZMAN, M. MAZZINI, and
God knows how many other persons, been
opened at the General Post-office by order of the
spotless GRAHAM, but the affair has been transacted
in the most mysterious manner possible, and with a skill
and science which convinces us that the parties engaged
are adepts in the Work, and could not fail to achieve
high distinction as burglars and crackamen, were they
ever to turn their attention that way. "Every care,"
said the Hon. Member fur Finsbury, " had been taken
to avoid suspicion ; impressions had been taken from
the seals, and from these the opened letters were re-
, sealed, and the cut was made so clean that it required
almost a microscope to discover it. There were also
double impressions made with the official stamp, so
that the date when the letters were received at the Post-
office could not be ascertained." Now wherefore all
these mean, tricky precautions, savouring so strongly ef
the genius of petty larceny, if the act were one per-
fectly defensible at law, justified by frequent prece-
dent, and in strict accordance with the ordinary
usages of the Home-office ? If it was absolutely ne-
cessary that the thing should be done, it should have
been done boldly, and not in this burglarious fashion.
" That the power of opening letters was vested in
the Secretary of State," observed Mr. DUNCOMBE,
" he admitted, but it was only to be exercised in
cases in which internal sedition or domestic trea-
son was apprehended." Now, in the instances of
Messrs. STOLZMAN and •Mazzisa, no plea of the
sort could be urged in justification; neither of these
gentlemen had ever interfered in the politics of
the country ; consequently the official violation of
their correspondence was an act of the most gratuitous
treachery and despotism. And what was the defence
set up by Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in reply to the Mem-
ber for Finsbury's charges? He was warranted, for-
sooth, in acting as he had done, on the faith of a law
almost as obsolete as that which sanctioned the use
of the torture, the burning of witches, the wager of
battle, and other such monstrosities I And was this
all that the Home Secretary had to urge in arrest of
judgment ? Oh, no ! The richest part of his de-
fence is yet to come. He denied the authority of the

'IHEArEE ROY AL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISR

HOU'SE.
Under the Managemeut of Mrs. KEELEY.
In conse;uerce of the unabated attraction of " Open .esamey or, A
Night with the Forty Thieve:," it will be actel a few more Nights ;
and, ip order to amunntalate the Juvenile Branches of Families
now home for the Mitliiimmer Holidays there will be a series of
Three. Juvenile Nights : via., Thursday, Friday, and Satuiday
next,slien this ce ebrated'and ropular Extravaganza will be per.
-termed at an early hour of the Evening.
- • . Tlll5 EVBNING;JUNE
• Will be.perfamed a New Domestic Drama, entitled THE 110-
MENTOUS QUESTION. Characters by Messrs. Diddear, F.
Vining; J. W. Collier, Aliss Fortescue, and Mrs. A. Wigan.
Abet wh'elr, THE THREE FRA IHAVOLOS. Principal
Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Keel:-y, Wigan, Diddear, Miss
Woolgar, and Mrs. Woollidgel
'to be followeil by an Apropos Bagatelle, called POLKA MANIA.
Characters by Mr. r. Matthews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley. Miss
tiVixrlgar, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with a 0-rid Burlesque Fairy Extravaganza, called
OPEN SESAME; or, a aright with the Forty Thie ea. Ila.ssarac,
Mr. Keeley; Morgiana, Mrs. Keeley.
PRICES OF AOM toN.—Balcony Poxes. 4' Upper
Boxes, 35.; Pit. 2s. - C alier y „ Cid Second Price—Balcony Ilwr,es, 25.;
timer hues, C. 1.; Pit, V. Priyata Boxes on the rt in, my Tier
(towing eight peraons), ws ciiincas. Private Boxes on the Second
Tier (ho'cling eight persons), One Guinea. and &Mali. Private
Boxes on the Pier (holding six persons), One Guir ea

House to call him to account ; and, with a face of the
most comical solemnity, insisted that he had dis-
charged his duty, and that his " conscience was pure
in the matter !" //is conscience ! Does he forget
his past political doings ? Does he forget his numer-

ous Protean changes and tergiversations from Wtra-
Pbadicalism to 117higism, from Whizism to Toryism,
ncl from Toryism to any other Las that has suited
the views of his master and the exigencies of the
moment ? Does Sir JAMES GRAHAM forget all this ?
If he i 3 conveniently oblivious of the past, the right-
thinking portion of the community are not ; and
when they read his defence, and more espe-
cially Ws allusion to his " conscience," greatly
indeed shall we be mistaken if they do - not experi-
ence a nausea aliin to that of sea-sickness. To find
the Devil quoting Scripture is bad enough ; but to
find the Home Secretary talking of his "conscience'
is, if possible, still worse. Poor Sir RoBERT PEEL !
He is really greatly to be pitied for the exhibition
he was compelled to make last night; though when
we bear in mind how often he has dragged others
through the dirt, we ought scarcely to feel regret that
he is now dragged through it himself. Never had this
consummate master of specious common-place so
little to say for himselfor his colleague, in reply to the
rushing attack of Mr. MAcAuLAT. In vain he

endeavoured to thrc;v over the case a fine coating of
sophistry. The naked facts stared through the var-
nish. " iie thought," he said, " that his Right Hon.
Friend was justified in exercising the power he had
done." Mark the safe, discreet, wily wording of this
sentence, so characteristic of the Premier's charac-

ter ! He was not positive that the Home
Secretary had acted rightly; he only "thought" he
had—a most convenient mode of defending his col-
league, which commits him to no decided opinion,
but enables him to back out of an ugly pre-
dicament, and even throw Sir JAMES GRAHAM
overboard, whenever it may suit his • views of ex-

pediency to do so. We do most earnestly hope that
the people `•ill mark their sense of the Home Secre-
tary's conduct, by holding public meetings on the
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subject in every county, city, and town, throughout
the length and breadth of the land. They may rely
on it that the evil will not stop at the point which it
has now reached. The principle that private letters
may be opened at the Post-office being once sanc-
tioned by Government, will soon engender a regular
system of official espionage, under whose inquisitorial
tyranny no man can be safe. If one individual's corre-

spondence may be violated by authority without a why
or a wherefore, why should not another's ? Dr. PHlLL-
rorxs, for instance, may indite a moving epistle to
the Ecclesiastical Commission, requesting that his
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rich and long-lamented rectory of Stanhope may be
restored to him ; the Member for Evesham, finding
politics a more honourable than Iterative profession,
may: address a letter to the Manager of the Surrey,

requesting that he may be again allowed to play
Othello for his benefit at that theatre ; and

both these strictly private and confidentia

communications may be violated by order of
the Home Secretary, and the greatest possible
shock be thereby inflicted on the delicate sensibilities

of the unsuspecting writers. The principle—whether
legal or not—of opening letters intended solely for
the perusal of those to whom they are addressed, is a
most iniquitous-tea most unjustifiable one, suited
only to the meridian of St. Petersburgh ; and, there-
fore, one can hardly wonder at finding it sanctioned
by a Conservative Government, and supported by a
majority of forty-four sycophantic Conservatives !

The subject of railroad travelling, and, in con-
nection with it, the marvellous improvements and
advances in the art of locomotion which almost
every week's experience des-elopes or improves,
are
matters of such universal interest in this country,
that the Legislature appears to be impressed with "a
salutary sense of its own responsibility in dealing
with them. They come home, in fact, to the every-
day business of every man. They concern equally
his business and his pleasure. They regard a new
power which approximates the remotest points of
these islands to the metropolis, the extremities to
the centre;—a power, whose velocity outstrips the
wind; whose strength mocks all living forces—whose