The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-22 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTH.

SUNDAY.-It is officially announced that her Majesty
and Prince Albert will leave Osborne House for Windsor
to-morrow, at two o'clock. Preparations are accord-
ingly made for the accommodation of the royal
party, by the naval and military authorities and the
South-Western Railway Company, at Gosport, her
Majesty having no intention of returning by way of
Southampton, notwithstanding the very many ru-
mours to that effect. It is expected that the Duke
of Wellington will arrive early to-morrow morning
to receive her Majesty and Prince Consort at the
Royal Clarence-yard. A guard of honour of the
59th, 76th, and 37th Regiments, with the band and
Queen's colour of the latter, will be drawn up at the
Clarence-yard, and the Royal Marines will form the
guard of honour at the Gosport terminus. No
soldier will line the road from the Royal Clarence-
yard to the terminus, her Majesty having been made
acquainted with the drenched condition of the sol-
di, ri who were placed along the road on Monday
last, exposed to the awful severity of the elements on
that eventful day, for so many hours.
THE LATE AWFUL CATASTROPHE ON
THE KING'S BASTION.

We are gratified in being able to state, that it is
her Majesty's intention to grant an annuity to the
widow of the unfortunate artilleryman, Walker ; and
the chief engineer of this garrison is directed by her
Majesty to make every inquiry into the circumstances
of the widow prior to the settlement of the sum, which
is stated at 301. per annum. We much fear the poor
widow will not enjoy the royal bounty, for the shock
she received, on the news being suddenly conveyed to
her, we think will prove fatal. She has not been
sensible since the dreadful accident. We are also in-
formed his Majesty the King of the French, on hear-
ing of the accident, was much shocked, and stated
his intention also to provide for the widow.
SOUTHSEA CASTLE.

This famed fortress is undergoing conversion to a
military prison. That portion of the 59th Regiment
which has been quartered in this castle for some time
was removed on Friday to other quarters, in order
that the alterations may be proceeded with forthwith.

As her Majesty and Prince Albert were taking
their accustomed early walk, about nine o'clock in the
morning, which they had extended upwards of a mile
beyond the boundaries of the royal domain, they were
caught in a heavy shower of rain, at a rather shelterless
part of the hill commanding a view of the sea. Her
Majesty and the Princo hastened their steps homeward,
when the old postman of East Cowes and Whippingham,
who had just been performing his morning rounds in
the adjoining villages, observed that a lady and gentle-
man were rather disagreeably exposed to the storm, and
running after them as fast as he could, he tendered his
old gingham umbrella, which was graciously accepted,
and he was invited to follow their footsteps to Osborne
House. Little did the poor postman imagine at that
time that it was to his Royal Mistress he had thus the
honour of affording such seasonable shelter •• but, on his
arrival at the portico, he was agreeably awakened to the
fact, by having tendered to him her Majesty's thanks
and a five pound note, together with his old umbrella.
SIR WILLIAM FOLLETT.—We are gratified to be
enabled, oa the information of agentleman who returned
to this country from Naples on Saturday lesqt,toinndofurnocme
the great benefit the Attorney-General has derive
his tour in Italy. Dr. Bright has been in company with
the Hon. and Learned Gentleman as his medical adviser,
aid so satisfactory is Sir William's health, that the pro-
fessional duties of Dr. Bright are now dispensed with,
and that gentleman is on his way to this country. It is
dcetnsd necessary for the entire restoration of Sir Wil-
liam's health that he should remain some months longer
in the genial clianite of the south.

" The Conservatives of Ireland (says the Orange
organ) deplore the aberrations of the Minister in
whom they pat their trust ; but they know that that
Minister is not the principal of their party confedera-
tion, nor the embodyment of their party connexion
and power; and they know that if he neither will
return to his duty of his own accord, nor be controlled
by his friends and supporters into measures more
accordant with his original professions, he may—nay,
he must, fall—fall by his own hands, and by them
alone ; and that his loss will not be missed by a party
too wise to weaken itself by disunion, by disruption,
by amalgamation with any of the discordant rival
elements which surround it. No. The Conserva-
tives will check—will control—will dismiss, if need
be—Sir Robert Peel; but they will not break up
their own party—they will not exclude their own
principles from power and office, far the sake of help-
ing Mr. O'Connell to help the Whigs into place.
They will stand by the Legislative union to the
death, but they will form no federal union 'between
Whigs and Repealers."
The Freeman's Journal, the morning repeal organ,
thus concludes an article on the subject :—" As to
Mr. O'Connell's declaration respecting this national
federalism, we know not what anticipated movements,
or what just and wise expectation of conciliating par-
ties, who would not themselves make the first propo-
sition, may have drawn it forth before the federalists
themselves have make any public move. We know,
however, that the Irish people justly confide in him,
and that he would not unnecessarily distract the
power of this people by directing their attention at
this moment to a department of this international con-
troversy that it behoves England to look after rather
than Ireland. If there did not remain a portion of
our own people to be conciliated and won into our
ranks, by giving them ample assurance that repeal
does not mean separation, O'Connell's motto would
still be, Let Ireland make sure of the repeal, Eng-
land will be forward enough to look after the federa-
tive connexion.'"

Mr. Duffy, the editor of the Nation, has addressed
a letter to Mr. O'Connell, condemning as dangerous
and inexpedient any junction of the Repeal Associa-
tion with the federal movement.

The following is the letter :
" TO DANIEL O'CONNELL, M.P.
" My dear Sir ---Asyou state in your late important
letter to the Association that you are at present
balancing the respective merits of repeal and fede-
ralism, I anxious to throw a few thoughts on the
subject loosely before you. If .1 were still a member
of the Association, I would do so there ; as lam not.
I prefer the familiar medium of a letter to the less
kindly and respectful one of a newspaper article. I
learned, during the three happy months • I spent in
Richinond, how considerate you can be of adverse
opinions—how courteously you treat, and, and how
candidly you weigh them—a circumstance which I
would be equally nnwilling to forget or abuse.
"You are aware that I am not prejudiced against
federalism. Last year there was an unjust and un-
reasoning clamour against it among repealers of great
enthusiasm and small capacity. They cailed it names,
made jokes about it, and did everything but try to
understand it. At. the risk of abuse and misrepre-
sentation, I, and those working with me in the
Nation, stood in the way of this prejudice, claiming
the federalists as allies, and demanding soft words
and fair treatment for them. We insisted that men
of trained intellects, and great personal respectability,
who had formed their opinions deliberately, were en-
titled to have them treated with respect. We asked
and obtained for them a recognition of that principle,
without which co-operation is impossible—' the right
of differing.' It is clear, then, that prejudice is out of
the question.

" IJLLE I L 1.11111,04 I ,lattlilal
,QQ4" repealor.
go any further in that direction. The federalists
are useful allies, but most unsafe leaders. As we are
going the same road, it is good to march cordially
along with them; but those who go farthest are
clearly entitled to go foremost. We ought not to
change or confound our places.
" You see I assume, and I think it is capable of
easy demonstration, that whether federalism be a
better thing than repeal, or a worse thing, it is at all
events a totally different thing.
" I think it essentially a worse thing.
"In the first place, the Imperial Representation,'
on which it is based is calculated to pertuate our moral
and intellectual subjection to England. It will teach
the aristocracy still to turn their eyes to London as
the scene of their ambition. It will continue to train
them in English manners, feelings, and prejudices;
and to establish permanently a centre of action apart
from their native country. By the same process it
will plant deeper the physical evil of absenteeism. It
will compel our Lords and Commons to reside out of
the country, and continue the drain upon our re-
sources, on which you found so strong an argument
for repeal. In this respect I think it a worse cure
for absenteeism than Dr. Maunsell's teetotum Par-
liament:
"In the second place it becomes necessary to can-
vass the use of this imperial representation. Cuibono?
We are asked to give up a part of the powers and
prerogatives of our domestic legislation to secure an
influence in the Parliament of the empire, and we
ought to be shown very distinctly the benefits that
will flow from it. How will an Irish minority then
be able to influence a House where it is powerless
now ? A strong and substantial claim for domestic
legislation arises out of the difference with which our
interests are treated by the English majority—what
guarantee is there, or can there be, that it will be
different hereafter ? This is a subject which I respect-
fully think claims your earnest attention.
" In the third place, federalism, as it is interpreted
by some of the soundest men of that party, demands
local Parliaments for the three divisions of the em-
pire, and an imperial one in common. Now, if this
principle be insisted upon, federalism is an imprac-
ticability, for it implies a re-organisation of the Bri-
tish Constitution. Apart from any other objection to
it, it raises a new and tremendous difficulty which
does not exist against repeal. We want to restore an
institution of which we have been robbed ; the
federalists, who insist upon pushing their principle
as far as it will go, want a reconstruction of the em-
pire upon a new basis. If lam not deceived in be-
lieving this to be the object of the party, are we not
wooing shipwreck, if we embark in the same boat
with them ?

" Moreover, some of the federalists do not con-
template a House of Lords for Ireland. They would
give us a legislative council, consisting of one
chamber. Here we have a second innovation, and, of
course, a second difficulty. They ask a thing foreign
to the British Constitution, and a thing which, for
that very reason (however good it may be intrin-
sically), would undoubtedly be refused. But is it
good ? It would leave us a demi-Parliament, about.
as useful relatively to an entire one as half a pair of
scissors to the whole; and it would exile the chief
landed proprietors in the country—viz., the Peerage.
Very bigoted and heartless that Peerage may be; but
while it possesses the soil of the country, our business
is to keep it under home influences. The section of
the federalists who would have no Peers in our do-
mestic legislature, while they would have them in
the Imperial Parliament, contrive to make absenteeism
a duty .
" Federalism appears to attract you chiefly because
it seems to provide a better security
ect our srorne g b
the connexion with England ; and I amfteenaloinzti repeals for
surprised
at at this when I recollor Iryel t
but onge party in
subject. But you (and) t a
keen and selfish enough to
secure her own interets,
England is the other; and she is
this transaction ;
whatever form the alliance may take. You are the
arbitrator, not for both countries, but for Ireland.
The gentlemen on the other side will take care of the
stability of the bargain.
, andeos
t.
"Federalism has undoubtedly the advantage of re-
peal in one point : it is less hated—ignorance and
prejudice havegi
tahrndoctiotbi
nlaois:avarcarl
atii\tvN.: h
calmness
aanlamt.ian-
nreecisps. ebaui lopeorodsnya_irbt are, not
trained They
more likely to become reconciled to it
ecyerl ot
aot
ikon regard
are
than to repeal. But it would
a worse condition, for electing
this purpose, if the
national party adopted it to a man. The Lords used
to think it an excellent logical
reason for rejecting

Bills, that they were countenanced by Vonnell;
and I fear party prejudice at home 'wonlclt at fede- ,
ralism in the same was. To be 'rnisunderetlsotterinste
misrepresented, is the tax upon greatness; tgt4tkcV•dSbtaja7
you are a millionaire, you cannot complain of being -
taxed in proportion.
" But it has this advantage, it has on the other
hand the pervading and incurable evil of aiming in the
wrong direction.- Its prevailing idea is England, as
that of repeal is Ireland. The two principles m;ght
be represented by lines 'running parallel, but tending
to opposite directions. Which you will choose, upon
mature deliberation, I have little doubt. .
" Forgive me if I take a step further, and question
the policy of embracing federalism. This is beside
my original purpose ; but as no sovereign prince of
the world of public opinion was ever more tolerant of
counsel, I do not fear that you may dismiss my sug-
gestions without some consideration. At all events,
since I have .been a p.etto .martyr; I have some kind
of claim to be a real contesiOr.
" lam fully convinced, then, that if federalism were
desirable, it would be retarded, net advanced, by the
national party falling back upsin it. With all
respect for the federalists, it must be sail that they
are haunted by a petty and ridiculous fear of agita-
tion. • Perhaps they have not the vigour for it—
perhaps their habits disincline them to publicity—but,
at all events, they have always kept carefully a day's
march behind the peoplee If you had commenced by
asking federalism three years ago, the majority of •
these men would be -speculating at this hour upon
'justice to Ireland,' and the restoration of the Whigs.
This may not be true Of indiViduals, but it is true of
the party; and I prophecy that, if you ever, by any
chance, fall back upon their ground, you will find it
deserted. Federalism is the shadow of repeal—it re- •
cedes and advances with it, and you cannot get nearer
to it or farther from it. •
" Again, they are a juste milieu party, between re-
pealers and anti•repealers—the precise convenience
which the Ministry and the people may require to
open a negotiation.--e Sir Robert Peel could offer to
Mr. Caulfield or Mr. 'Porter What he dare not offer to
Daniel O'Connell-e-for the English aristocracy will
never forgiVe you yoni Ariumphs. l'Wehild it not be
well to leave this bridge wheie it stands ?
" I learn from the'Whig journals, and from the
report' in all men's mouths, that the* federalists are
about to make asdecided MOvement, embracing men
that we had no hope of twelve months ago. This is
well—it strengthens you tenfold in overthrowing the
present system ; but it leaves the policy of a junction
with them where it got it. .That must stand or fall
upon other grounds.
" I do not gather from your letter that if you
settled down into a preference for federalism, you con-
template proposing the adoption of that principle by •
the Association. I earnestly hope you do not. Either
the adoption or rejection of it would be an evil—the
rejection of it as a breach of discipline towards you,
the leader of the movement ; the adoption of it, upon
many serious grounds.
" 1. The overwhelming majority of the members—
clergymen and laymen joined as repeaters ; it would
be all but impossible to collect their suffrages on the
propOsed change, and no chance meeting at the Con-
ciliation-hall would be entitled to alter the fundamen-
tal principle upon which the body was organised and
supported.
r 2. The Committee of the Association is, I take
it, no more entitled to abrogate its constitution, than
the Irish Parliament was to abolish its functions. The
great constituency outside is, in both cases, the body
in whom alone the power resides.
"3. Any such general change would weaken the
moral weight-of the Association. In an individual a
deliberate preference of a new opinion to an old one
may argue courage, candour, . and magnanimity; in
a nation it is generally a sign of weakness; and in
our case, surrounded by enemies at home and abroad,
it is sure to receive the worst interpretation.
" Finally, need I say that I regard the federalists,
as I have always done, with respect, and that I quar-
rel with their opinions no more than is necessarily ims
plied,in preferring better ones.
Forgive me for occupying you so long, but the um-
portahce of the subject will excuse a worse offence.—
Believe me, my dear Sir, very faithfully VOWS,
" CHARLES GAVAN bUFFY.
" Rathmines, Oct. 18, 1844."
UNIVERSITY FOR ALL SECTS.
Two or three weekt. since a rumour prevailed in
the Tory circles, that Sir Robert Peel has it in con-
templation to proposb a large grant for the establish-
ment,of a new university 'for the education Of Roman •
Catholics and Dissenters, as well as members of the
Established Church ; and that, independently of this
new lay college, the annual grant, for the education
of the Roman Catholic clergy, in Maynooth, is to
be in4reased. •
The Statesman, an ultra-Tory journal in the-interest
of the High Church party, thus refers to the sub-
ject rumour has been far some time gaining
ground, that a sum of 100,0001. Will be asked for and
(as a matter of course) gtatited ir. next zession of Par-
liament for the erection of a great university in Ire-
land,
.in which cheap education will be afforded in a
system of secular instruction, in which also profes-
sors of all denominations (Roman Catholics and Erni-
tariana) will be eligible, and where degrees of all
kinds will be conferred."
THE NEW DEAN.
The Queen's letter has,heen received, ratifying the
appointment of the Reverend Dr. Collins to the
vacant. deanery of The Government have
not yet had the courage to -mstuTyr--Tureu---u-vm putt,, -
by promoting a clergyman -friendly to the national
system of education. •: s
OPPOSITION TO THE POOR-LAW COM-
MISSIONERS.•
At the meeting of the Limerick Board of Guardians,
on 'Wednesday, William Monsell, Esq., chairman, the
Earl of Clare and Augustus Stafford O'Brien, Esq., at-
tended to complete the-arrangements assigned to them,
and to wind up the business of the late board.
There was no communication-from the commis-
sioners. . •
Letters were read from - the • unions of Dunman-
way, Listowel, Kinsa!e, and Edenderry, approving of
the course adopted by the Limerick board, and a let-
ter from Rathkeale union, stating that that board had
resigned to a man.
Mr. A. S. O'BRIEN said they would prove them-
selves unworthy of the confidence the board had re-
posed in them, if they exceeded the limits of the
specific business assigned them, and the absence of
every member of that board except themselves was
sufficient proof that the step taken on the last day met
with the approbation of all.
Lord CLARE concurred in all that fell from Mr. .•
O'Brien.
The officers of the house were then all called up,
and received their final orders for the regulation-of
the house till further arrangements should be made
for governing the institution. A month's provisions
were ordered. Number of paupers in the house, 991.
It will be seen from the following letter of Mr.
Smith O'Brien; M.P., that the Newcastle board are
determined to follow in the wake of Limerick
" Cahermoyle, Oct. 17, 1844. •
" My dear Monsell,—l think it right that you
should be apprised that the Newcastle board of guar-
dians have deferred their resignation, not from any
indisposition to support the Limerick board in their
laudable resistance to the encroachments made by the
poor-law commissioners upon the functions of poor-
law guardians, but because we were anxious that
such resignation should be adopted in full delibera-
tion, and with the unanimous concurrence of the
whole hoard. All the guardians present at our meet-
ing, held on Tuesday, have signified their intention
of resigning in case the commissioners do not rescind
so much of the 41st article of their late general order
as relates to the control of boards of guardians over
their clerks. I sincerely trust that the example of
the Limerick board will he universally followed
throughout the kingdom.
•" Believe me yours very sincerely,
"WILLIAM S; O'BRIEN.
" To Wm. Monsell, Esq."
The guardians of the Ennis poor-law union have
passed a resolution cordially agreeing with the Li-
merick guardians in their opposition to the claim of
the commissioners to have control over the clerk of
the board.
This has now become a very serious quarrel, and,
no 'doubt, will lead to some discussion in the next ses-
sion of Parliament.
all
S.
uThHeEt PARLIAMENTARY ItiAreAilnEcrNeTasAinßgYtheßirEmGtalreortit!
directions. The following are thelates.,r 4
Tories,
BOROUGH OF DROGHEDA.---Libert.
none.
COUNTY OF GALWAY.—At Clifden, eight Liberals
.
were admitted---,no Tor
COUNTY JERRY.--Liberals, erals, 4, Tories, 2. Ma-
e:ra: synit y r
for i b L
BOROUGH OF LER.—Liberals, 9 ; Tories, 1.
A. j
COUNTY OF KILKENNY.—The following have been
• tered et the present October sessions :—At Pill-
town, Liberals, 32 ; Tories, o.—Thomastown, Liberals,
99 ; Tories, 0. Total Liberals registered, 131.
MUNSTER PROVINCIAL DINNER TO MR. O'COX.
NELL.—The. Limerick Reporter states that all the ar-
rangements for the dinner to Mr. O'Connell in that
cibet3o,:binkayiejeeEthelirnEeg_nociFtsphlTeeiteNod.lN
friends
ofl3
missionshTehldereonwthilel
evening of Monday next in Rosemary-street Church,
Belfast, for the purpose of adopting an address to her
Majesty on behalf of - the.' persecuted Christians of
Otaheite.—Banner nf Ulster.

G AME AND GAME LAWS.—The lovers of " surplus"
game must, by the public feeling which is now setting in
have discovered that their system cannot (as it ought not)
much longer continue. We trust the injurious, nay dis-
gusting, preserving system and its pet attendant laws,
will shortly receive a blow not to be recovered from. It
is a matter of satisfaction to perceivethat the press, both
metropolitan and provincial, has commenced attacking
the iniquitous game preserving and game laws.

MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL.
Now ready, at all the Libraries, In I Tele., post I'M..
Y OUNG LOV E.
By MRS. TROLLOPS.
Authoress of " The Vicar of Vrrexhill," " The Widow Barnaby," &c.
Henry Celburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, OCTOBER. t 2,
Will be performed Auber's celebrated Opera THE SYREN.
Marco Tempesta, Mr. W. Harrison; Scipio, Mr. D. W. King;
Zerlina (the Syren), Miss Rainforth.
After which, the Grand Ballet, entitled THE CORSAlR.zonrsd, M. Albert; Julien, M. Desplaces; SanguoM. Montessu;
Me*lora, Miss Clara Webster Une Vivandiere, Mdlle. Auguste,
Deltas ; Guinare, Mille. Adele Dumilatre.
The Box-ottice is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six
in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places,
and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER.
THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 22,
Will be repeated Var!brugb's Comedy of THE CONFEDERACY.

Adapted to the present Period. -------
The Principal Characters by Messrs. Strickland, W. Farren,
Buckstone, and C. Mathews, Madame Vestris, Miss P. Horton,
Mrs. E. Yarnold, Miss Tulia Bennett, Mrs. Stanley, and Mrs.
Glover.

After which. will be produced a New Comic Drama, founded on
Den Caaar de Bazan, entitled A MATCH FOR A KING.
Charles the Second, Mr. Stuart; Don Sebastian della Rosa, Mr C.
Mathews; Nlariquita, Miss Julia Bennett. _

To oonclude with a New Farce, by Bir.—Buckstone, entitled THE
ri I sBLE RIG. John Ginger, Mr. Buckstone , Sam Shindy,
Mr. Strickland; Mrs. Ginger, Mrs. W. Clifford.
Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the Even-
ing), ss. each. First Price—Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, t2s. ;
Upper Gallery, Is. Second Price at Nine o'Clock—B ixes, 3s ;
2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Geller y, ed. Doors opened at Half past
Six, Per formance commence at even.
Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each.
Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer, at the Box-olliee,
from fen till Five o'Clock.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 22,
_ _ _

Will be performed an eni irely New Drama, entitled CESAR DE
BAZAN ; or, Love And Honour. Charles the Second, Mr. Howe;
Cwsar ee B izan, Mr. Webst r • Maratina, Madame Celeste.
After which, a New Eccentric Mythological Burlesque, cal.ed
TELE %I ACHUS ; er, The Island of Calypso. Telemachus, Miss
Woolgar ; Calypso, dr. Wright; Mentor, Mr. P. Bedford; Dinah,
Mr. Cowell.
To be followed by a New Comic Operetta, called the FOX
AND THE GOOSE. Principal Characters by Messrs. Hudson,
Paul Bedford, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam.
Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, 'Jr Pitt ; Leader of the
Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box—odice open from Eleven till Four. Private
Boxes to be had at the Theatre. and at all the principal Libraries.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 22.
Will be perform d THE SIREN. Principal Characters by Messrs.
Walton, G. Horn, Jun., Leffler, Allen,and Mdlle. Nau.
DTo conclude with the New rama, called DON C/ESAR DR
BAZ AN. Don Caesar, Mr. Wallack ; Charles the second, Mr.
Walton ; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling; Countess di Rotondo, Mrs.
Fo.broke.

- Stage Manager Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden.
Machinist. Mr. Edmund BradwelL

Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4& ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. Half-price at
Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 25. 6d. ; Boxes, 21. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d.
Private Boxes, l'wo Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce-
nium Boxes, Two Guineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half-
prst Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock.
The Box-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham.
Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the
Theatre.

THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM. LATE ENGLISH OPERA.

HOUSE _ --
Under the Management of Mrs, KEELEY.
First Week of the New Grand Tale of Enchantment.

THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 22,
Will be repeated THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASS .ONS
W.th entirely New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal
Chars Aers by Mr. Diddear, Mr. .1. W. Collier, Mr. Gouriet, Mr.
Craven, and Mr. Keeley ; Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Weolli tge, Mr.
A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Mr s James, Miss Arden, Miss-Grove, Miss
Fort scue, and Mrs. Keeley.
To cone ude with a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHU ZZ LE.
WI r. Principal characters by Messrs. R. Younge, Craven, ranery,
F. elathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, stantosi,
J. W. Collier, YarnoMi and Keeley; Miss Portescue, Mrs. A.
Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Groves, Mrs. Usher, Mies Turner, and
Mrs. Keth-y.
PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes, 4g.; tippet
Boxes, 3e.; Pit, 2s:; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2.. ;
Upper Boxes, is. 6d.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier
(lidding eight persons), Tao Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second
i'tsr (bolding eight persons), One Guinea and a-HalL Private
Uoxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One (lulrea'
The Box- dtice is open from Ten to Four o'clock, under the direc-
tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre.

ASTI. PY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY;
Open every evening with its unequalled rotation Lf Equestrian and
Dramatic Entertainments
THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 22,
and during the week at Seven o'Clock,
The Splendid Spectacle from the Poem of the illustrious Sir Walter
Scott, entitled LOCHINVAR ; or, The Bridal of Netherby, and
Steed of the Brave.
Entire change of the Scenes of the Circle, and n' vet feats of Horse-
Manahip, by thee x tensive corps of French and Br tish riders.
l'o conclude with THE BLOOD-RED KNIGHT; or, The War-
riors of Palestine.
Acting and stage.rn-mager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot.
Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding
by Mr. R. Smith daily.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 22,
Will be performed a New Drama, enti led DON CESAR DE
B A ZAN. supported by the entire Company.
To conclu' e with a New Military Drama, entitled THE EVE OF
BATTLE. Sup, orted by the whole Ctmpany, with New Scenery
and Splendid Appointments.
PLcei and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.
Vince, from Eleven to Four.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 22,
Will be performed DON CESAR DE BAZAN. Principal Cha
ratters I,y Messrs. I sba!diston, Dale, Herbert, and Miss Vincent.
After which THE MANIAC'S CAVE. Octavian, Air. Graham
FlAantlie, Mrs. W. West.
To conclude with THAT RASCAL JACK.
Private Family Boxes, XI Is. Od. and XI Ils.

THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, OCT. 21.
ToarastosorrEn, Lowest, 44; Highest, 54; Noon, 45
BAROMETER, 29.62.—Wnin, S.E. _

Ivor.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
u.vally placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning ... 4 minutes after 11 1 Evening ... 34 minutes after 11

Ineornintir 24111;

LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1844.

At a late meeting of the Bucks magistrates, at
which the demoralizing Game-laws were made the
subject of discussion, Sir H. VERNEY boldly stated a,
a fact which could not be gainsayed—and to which
no one present ventured to offer the slightest contra-
diction—that one-fourth of the Buckinghamshire
crops was annually destroyed by game ; and that o,
five hundred and thirty individuals committed to the
county gaol, one hundred and sixty-nine were for
offences against the Game-laws ! The worthy
Baronet concluded by proposing that Government
should be memorialised on the subject, but the pro.
posal was rejected by a large majority. This
is no more than we should have anticipated, for
it is astonishing with what tenacity the aristo
cracy—and more especially the squirearchy—
of England, cling to those injurious laws, which are
among the last remains of the oppressive feudal
system. In their partial eyes they are everythiny
that is just and beneficent in legislation, happily
adapted to the tastes of the age in general, and t,
their own special interests in particular; consequently
whoever offends against them must be the mos,
egregious and inexcusable of criminals. We really
believe there is no offence—not even arson or murder
—of which our provincial magistrates entertain s&
great a horror, or which they punish with such re
morseless severity, as an offence against the Game-
laws. A poacher is, in their estimation, s.
miracle of depravity—a species of vermb,
which deserves to be exterminated without mercy. 11
they could have their own will in Parliament,
they would make the laws against him more strip.
gent than ever, and banish him for life to one of our
penal settlements, there to meditate in anguish and
solitude, on the atrocity of the crime he had perpe-
trated in snaring one of the 'Squire's superfluous
hares, or making free with one of the hundreds of
pheasants to be found in his well-stocked preserves
Of course the majority of our readers are well aware
of the causes of the antipathy which our rural magis-
tracy entertain towards poaching. Most of them are
themselves keen sportsmen—preservers of game with
the utmost strictness ; consequently their sense of
justice is wondrously sharpened by their sense of
self-interest. Generally speaking, we do not accuse
them of undue severity in the administration of
the laws entrusted to them ; they are consi-
derate, tolerant—we wish we could add that
they are remarkable for sagacity—and by no
means indisposed to visit with lenity such offenders
as they may be called on to punish ; but let an un-
happy poacher once be brought before them, and
away goes all their toleration—all their forbearance—
all their lenity ; the frown deepens on their brow,
and Justice pits on her most inexorable expression of
countenance,_to mark her sense of the atrocious act
committed by the criminal on whom she is called to
adjudicate. This undue severity is deeply to be la-
mented, for it is productive of the most in-
jurious consequences by tending to widen the
breach—already quite wide enough—between the
labouring classes and their superiors; but still more
to be lamented is the existence of the Game-laws in
their present tyrannical form. With all their harsh-
ness they fail of putting a stop to the offence of
poaching—and they would fail to do so, were they
ten times as stringent as they are—while they compel
the humbler orders to regard those who support
th
as legal despots and oppressors of the most petty and,
vexatious character. It must ever be a difficult--
almost, indeed, an impossible—task to' convince the
destitute labourer who may not be furnished with
means enough to provide himself and his family with
the day's meal, and who, moreover, from scarcity of
work, may have more time on his hands than he

knows how to employ ;—it must always, we say, be
a difficult task to convince such a man, who -is, not
unfrequently, among the most ignorant of the corn-

inunity, that in taking a hare or a pheasant, or a

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