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London, England, 1845-03-15 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTI s THEATRE.
LAST NIGHT BEFORE EASTER.
The Nobility, 'Subscribers, awl the Public are respectfully
Informed ihat

THIS EVENING
Will be repeated (third time in tins country),
Verdi's new Opera,
ANI.
In Four Parts-Ist., The Bandit; 2d., The Guest; 3d., The
Pardon ; iiii., The Mask.
With new scenery by Mr. Marshall.
Eivira, Madame Rita. Borio ; Uriovanna, Mdlle. Bellin ; Roy
Gomez, Signor Fornasari Don Carlos, Signor Botelii ; Eruani,
Signor Morlani.
To conclude with an entirely new Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled
EoLINE ; ou, L.A DRYADE.
The Music by Signor l'ugni. The Scenery by Mr. Marshall.
t>rinelpal Charact;ls—Eoline (betrothed to Count Edgard), Mddle.
Gratin ; Rubezahl (le Gnome), M. Perrot ; Count Edgard,
B. Toussaint ; Pr:nce of Silesia (brother of Eoline), M. Gosselin.
In the cmrse of the Ballet the iiillowing Dances will be Introduced
:
scaltze Seleshame, 7iy the Coryphees of the Corps de Ballet.
Pas he la Fance:!—Mdlle. Lucile Gratin and M. Toussaint,
Pas de (lug (competed bY M. Gosselin)—Mdlles. Louise Weiss, Fer-
dinand, Demelisse, Cassini, and Moncelet.
Mazoiirka D'Extae—Mdlle. Lucile Gr • tin and M. Perrot,
Fourth Tablaao.
grand Pas des Dvades b e \ldlle. L. Gratin and the Ladies of the
Corps de Valle'.
Ippiications for lloN.es, Stalls, anti. Tickets to be made at the Box-
"ltze, Opera Colonnade,
Doors open at Seven ; the Opera to commence at Half-past Seven
o'clock.

'THEATRE ROYAL, DECRY LANE.
roil THE BENEFIT OF MDLLE. MARIA,
Her Last Appearance this Season.
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated Dalie's Grand Opera, TILE DAUGHTER OF
ST. MARK. I.isignar.o, Mr. Burditti ; Adolphe de Cottrcy, Mr.
D. W. hhtg ; Catarina Cornaro, Miss Rainforth.
After a Grand Divertissement of LA. BAYADERE. Cha-
racters by Monsieur 11. Vestris; Monsieur and Madam() Finart, and
Mdlle. Maria.
To cow:elude with the Last Act of I.A. GISELLE, in which Mahe.
2d arta. Nimnaeur and Ma tame Vinart. ate., Will appear.
The 5,5 up.-5i anny, from 'Gen 5n The 'Morning until 531:.
In the Evening, whcre Privdte and FAiinly Boxes, Stalls, flares, and
Tickets may be had ou ato,,lieAtioli to .11r. John Parsons.

THEATRE 11.0YAL, HAYMARKET.
LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER.
THIS EVENING
Will be repelled a New and Original Comedy, entitled THE
SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs.
W. Farrell, Strickland, Buckstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W.
Clifford, Mrs. Humhy, Miss Julia Bennett, &c.
In the course of the Evening Mr. John Parry will give his De-
Scriptive Scene, " Cinderella."
After which, SPEED THE PLOUGH. Sir Abel Handy, Mr. W.
Farren ; Rob Handy, Mr. H. Hon ; Sir Philip Blandford, Mr. Stuart ;
Farmer Ashfield, Mr. Webster; Miss Blandford, Miss Julia Bennett ;
Susan Ashneld. Mrs. Edwin Yarnold ; Lady Handy, Mrs. W. Clif-
ford ; Dame Ashtleld, Mrs. Glover.
To conclude with TEDDY THE TILER. Thady Mullowny, Mr.
Collins.
Private Boxes, Twa Guineas and One Guinea an
a-Hlt each. ,
Tickets arid Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the 13a°x-of/Ice
from Ten till Five o'clock

THEATKE ROYAL,
I.AsT NIGHT OF THE SEASON.
UNDER 'rim DittECT OF A
lON OF MADAME CELESTFt.
THIS EVING,
Will he repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE
GREEN BL SUES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy,
Mr. Selby ; George, Mr. Hudson : Wild Mnrtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ;
Muster Grinnidge, Mr. Wright; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford;
Geraldine, Mrs. Yates ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ;
Madame Celeste.
After which, MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL.
To conclude with NORMA. Pollio, 31iss Woolgar ; Norma, Mr.
Paul Redford ; Adaigisa, Mr. Wright ; oruveso, Miss. Reynolds.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
33EE, MR. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING
Will he pertbrmod Shakspeare's Play of AS YOU LIKE IT. Duke,
2ifr. Archer; Jacques, Mr. Graham ; Amiens, Mr. Allen ; Rosalind,
:tits, Cushman ; Audrey, Miss Emma Stanley.
After which, TILE QUAKER. Lubin, Mr. Hime ; Steady, Mr.
Leen r ; Cicely, Miss Foshroke.
To conclude with a New Ballet Divertissement, entitled LE FETE
DES PECHEURS. Principal Characters by Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Mar-
shall, Mdlle. Teresine, and Mis 3 Marshall.
stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack ; Stage Director, Mr. Emden ;
Maclainlst, Mr. Edmund Bradwell.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The communication of IL E. has been received, but we hare
not space for it. It is left for him at the Office.

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Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the
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should bring forward a motion for payers for the pur-
pose of giving the New Zealand Company an opportunity
of substantiating the charges which they had brought
against Lord STANLEY and the Colonial Department.
A short discussion followed, in the course of which
Mr. AGLIONBY and Mr. MANGLES expressed their readi-
ness to substantiate every charge they had made ; and
the latter Hon. Gentleman designated the Colonial De-
partment as a plague and a nuisance.
Sir R. PEEL had no wish to force on a discussion on
the general question, but his Noble Friend, at the
head of the Colonial Department, having been accused
of bad faith, was desirous that the House should not
separate for the recess until he had an opportunity of
vindicating himself.
Mr. HimlE and Lord J. RUSSELL suggested that the
charge against the Colonial Government should be
taken on a Government night, and the charge against
Lord STANLEY personally shotild be taken separately on
a motion night ; and on
Mr. G. W. HOPE repeating his expectation of being
able to bring on the matter on Tuesday, the conversa-
tion dropped.
Various questions were then asked; after which the
House went into Committee on the Sugar Duties Bill.
Mr. HAwEs moved " that provision be made in the
Bill for the drawback of the amount of the duty re-
duced, on such duty-paid sugar as now remains in the
QUEEN'S warehouse."
After some discussion, Sir ROBERT PEEL stated
that there would be, he thought, no objection to allow
" upon sugar in bond a drawback equivalent to the actual
loss sustained.
With this announcement Mr. HAwES expressed him-
self satisfied and withdrew his motion.
Several other amendments were subsequently pro-
posed, all of which were lost ; and the Bill eventually
passed through Committee.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at Half-past One o'Clock.

We have received a copy of the "Address of the
Equitable Debtor and Creditor Association to the
Members of the Trading and Mercantile Interests,"

the object of which appears to be to induce the great
community of the latter to join the "tyrant inaloity"
of the former in a very determined crusade against
those worst of modern infidels, the men who run in
debt. To say the truth, at the outset, we hare not
often perused a document less marked by evidences of
a Christian spirit of charity for the unfortunate, or of
common equity in considering the relations between
those who have fallen, and those who maintain their
places, in our social system. Indeed we do not remem-
ber to have once stumbled, in passing through sixteen
well-filled octavo pages in which the " Address" is
composed, on the words "charity" and "misfortune.
After announcing that the addressers, "being men in
trade," have an " entire and practical knowledge of
the evils under which they now labour in conducting
their business"—which may be supposed likely
enough—" and of the legislative remedies those evils
require"—a fact much more problematical, they
observe, that " for thirty years last past successive
Acts of Parliament have passed hostile to the
interests of the creditor." They omit to notice the
converse of this allegation—that for centuries before
the statute-book had been loaded with "Acts of Par-
liament" hostile to the interests of the debtor. There
are other omissions of essential facts, tending towards
conclusions very different from those which the " Ad-
dress" endeavours to establish, which we can readily ac-
count for. The party or parties who have framed this
document appear to have been so completely preoccu-
pied by sensitiveness to the supposed peril of their
own immediate interests under the present state of
the law, that they could entertain no considerations
which did not lean, like the trees for many miles in
the vicinity of Liverpool, all in one- direction. For
the same reason, too, they rest their whole case on
premises which have reference to the wrongs of
tradesmen exclusively, not to those of the commercial
classes, who are included merely in the superscription
of the "Address." This is a species of egotism
which we have often noticed in the constituency of
the addressers. The course of Government on great
national questions—the policy of the measures it may
have adopted in vindication of the national honour—
the ultimate results of so vast a disturbing action as
that of the Reform Bill—these are always put in the
same category with a proposition for repealing the
small receipt stamp duty, or the duty on rice. " The"
question with every tradesman, and the only one he
ever dreams of in connexion with any measure of the
kind, is—" Will it make good for trade?" An
Emperor dies, and there is a court mourning here,
and there are sanguinary tumults, with fearful
violence, elsewhere. The court mourning goes down
to the credit of the event; the consideration for the
mass of human misery which accompanies it appears
nowhere on his books. A man like RoMILLY, or
BUXTON, passes out of existence : there is no court
mourning, but a voice of lamentation from the friend-
less, the indigent, and oppressed. His death, however,
does not " make good for trade," and on that account
is " not" a matter of congratulation with the thrifty
London trader. Eight hundred thousand of our
fellow-creatures, negro slaves in our West Indian
colonies, are, by a magnificent act of retributive
justice and British magnamity, set free in a single
day. Eight hundred thousand human beings spring,
at a bound, from the lowest depths of social degra-
dation to the status and relations of freemen—a
noble spectacle, worthy of a festival holiday in its
honour to be celebrated by all the races of civilised
mankind in all time to come. In London it was
difficult to show that this mighty manumission
" would make good for trade ;" and on that account
no entries are to be found in its day-book or in its
ledger to record this proceeding as matter for con-
gratulation.

It is really pleasant to contemplate the emotions of
resentment with which the Address adverts to the
statutes that have ameliorated the severity of the old
penal law against debtors. " This hostility consiste
in the furnishing of increased facilities to the debtor
to get rid of what is mildly and tenderly termed his
difficulties.'" Of course these could not possibly be
the result of " his misfortunes." These latter-day
evils of mitigation are attributed, among other causes,
to the Insolvent Debtors' Court, the abolition of
arrest on mesne process, and Lord Buotionam's late
Act " until, at length, the creditor is left without any
power" ! !—(there are no writs, no judgments, no ex-
ecutions, no costs, no imprisonments, now, then ?)
" and lays (lies) entirely at the mercy of his debtor."
That is, we suppose, the debtor can proceed against
his creditor for giving him credit, and only abstains
from so doing as an act of mercy ! " Formerly the
debtor was at the mercy of his creditor." Now, there's
the rub. Why should the Legislature have ever
taken away from the creditor the useful and delicious
powers of ingeniously tormenting ? Alas, for the
good old times when a creditor was armed,
like a cat, with strong legal talons and
unescapable eyes, anal paws and mouth, to frighten,
toss, worry, agitate, wound, mutilate, and destroy his
victim, for his wholesome sustenance, as well as fur
his pleasure and amusement! In 1845 we could not
have anticipated that one hand would be raised again,
as it is here, stealthily, in favour of the arrest on mesne
process, and that we should hear a Jeremiad over
the days that are gone of swarming prisons, with
broken-hearted unfortunates herded up together with
fraudulent and felonious swindlers, knaves, and cheats.
Why, we know that in the eighteen months subse-
quent to the peace of December, 1825, produced by
one of the many convulsions which Sir ROBERT
PEen's Currency Bill of 1819 has already occasioned,
and, alas ! is still destined to generate; no less than
101,000 writs for debt were issued from the Courts
in England alone. Is it to this wise and humane
and politic state of things that this " Equitable" As-
sociation would desire to force the country back ?
\V know that in the year ending sth of January,
1830, to the several prisons of London alone, 7114
persons had been committed for debt, of %%limn 1547
on that day were still confined. Is this the standard
number of hecatombs which the Association's pro-
pensity to victimize would still demand? The As-
sociation seems to rely for a confirmation of its amiable
views on a very foolish speech attributed to Mr.
Commissioner EvANs, who, if ever he pronounced it,
was guilty of a strange excess of judicial indecorum
so to express himself of the very Act of Parliament,
the provisions of which he was sitting expressly to
administer. The spirit in which the address is con-
ceived may be further inferred from this passage :
" The workhouse has been rendered as repulsive as
possible, to induce persons to support themselves by
their own industry and conduct; but the Insolvent
Courts have been rendered as attractive as possible to
people in difficulties ;" and then comes the ugly argu-

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