The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-24 00:00:00

Box-otlice to be Opened on Saturday, the 28th instant.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI,
Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER.
W.II OPEN forthe SEASON, under the Management of Madame
CELESTE, on SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 'IS. During the recess
the Theatre has been entirely repainted and decorated in the
rnoit costly and elegant style by Mr. T. Ireland and assistants, the
Boxes so arranged as to give a perfect view of the stage, and in every
department strict attention paid to the coment and convenience of
the public, rnd perfect ventilation throughout the Theatre. A splen-
did new ch .ndelier in glass has been introduced at considerable ex-
- pens*, executed by Mr. Phillips. Also, a new curtain, and a new
act drop designed and paint d by Mr C. Marshall. I%ew Manage.
glint, Old Favourites, and New Pieces.

LISP OF COMPANY.
Madame Ce'este Miss A ngelyne Mr. 0. Smith
Mrs. Tates Miss Maurice Mr. Wilkinson
Mrs. Fitswilliam Miss Lona&le Mr. C. Selby
Miss Woolgar Miss Fleming Mr. Cowe 1
Mrs. F. Mathews Miss Simpson Mr. Maynard
Miss Chaplin Miss Johnson Mr. Worrell
Miss E. Harding Mies Bell Mr. Cullenford
Bliss Vernon Miss Taylor Mr. Sandals
Miss Thimes Mr. Hudson Mr. Cooper
Miss Worrace Mr. Wright Mr. Lindon
Mrs. Glenny Mr. Paul Bedford Mr. Sylvester
Miss Brooks Mr. C. Dibdin Pitt Mr. Glenny
Miss Jones Mr. J. Vining Mr. Mitchenson
Miss Schmidt Mr. Lambert Mr. Fenton.
Prompter, Mr. Gallot; Principal Painter, Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the
Band, Mr. llitellon.—Box-odice will be opened on Thursday next,
from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre. and
at all the principal Libraries.

THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA:
HOUSE.
Mader the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
Another great Achievement Successfully Triumphant ! ! I
T o attempt to eulogise the gorgeous splendour of the New Extrava-
ganza of " Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, or New Lamps for
Old Ones," would be a work of supererogation ; the Manage.
meat, therefore, contents Itself by simply stating that it will be
tepezted every Erem--

TH4IIOI EVENING, SEPT. 24,
Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZLE.
WIT. Principal characters by Messrs. R. Younge, F. Vining,
Emory, F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner,
Stanton, J. W. Collier, Yarnold, Sanders, and Keeley ; Miss E.
Chaplin, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss
roves, Mrs. Usher, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with an entirely Original, and much better than
ew, Grand Operatic, Romantic, Melo-Dramatic, Burlesque Extra.
vaginae, founded an the celebrated Eastern Tale, in the Arabian
!fights' Entertainment, entitled ALAI)DIN AND THE WON.
DERFUL LAMP; or, New Lamps for Old Ones. With very
extensive New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, tec. Principal cha-
racters by Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Matthews, Turner, A. .Wigan,
J. W. Collier, and Keeley; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss
E. Chaplin, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Turner, MI is James, Miss Carson,
Miss Hunt, Miss Reede, Sic., rte.
PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes. 45.; Upper
Boxes, Ss.; Pit, 25.:; Gallery, 6d. Second Price--Balcony Boxes, 2s. ;
Upper Boise, Is. ; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier
bolding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second
11ev
(bon eatin
g eight persons), One Guinea and a.Half. Private
Boxes the Pit fler (holding six persons), One Guirea•
-The Box.ollice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direct
lion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Sig
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY.' htly overflows and Re-engagement of the wonders of Mr. Carter,
the Amerlean Lion King for this Week.
Tills EVENING, SEPT. 24,
Will be repeated the French Equestrian Military Spectacle of the
2.10 N OF THE DESERT, or. THE FRENCH I 1 MOROCCO.
Abdallals, the Outcast Arab, Mr. Carter.
New Scenes of the Circle.
To Conclude with the new Eluestrian, Military and Naval
23ectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or. The Conquests of
moy by British Arms. New Scenery, Dresses, Appointments, be.,
so realise the recent triumphs of England's Army and Navy. Feast
SIM Lanterns.
kcting and stage mans Mr. W. D. Broadfoot.
Box.gettlee open from Eleven till Five.ger Lessons in the Aft of Riding
by Mr. R. Smith.

--DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
/manse Success of the " Protector" and " The Roakof Life"—
Continued Engagement of Mr. G. Wild.
THIS EVENING, SEPT. 24,
Will be performed THE PROTECTOR,- or, THE REBEL'S
GAUNTLET. Characters by Messrs. E. F. Saville, H. Hughes,
/ticks, Mrs. H. Hughes, Mrs. R. Honner, &c.
After which, THE ROAD OF LIFE. Supported by Messrs. G.
Wild, R. Bonner, Neville, Rogers, Mrs. H. Hughes, Mrs. Hicks,
Miss Terrey, &c.
To conclude with ANGELS AND LUCIFERS, in which Mr. G.
Wild will perform his Original Character.
Places and Pnvate Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.
4411ce, from Eleven to Four.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
VENING, SEPT. 24,
Will be performed GUY MANNERING. Colonel Mannering,
Mr. Osbaldiston; Henry Bertram, Mr. Binge; Lucy Bertram, Miss Vincent; Julia Mannering, Miss Louisa Lyons; Meg Merrilies,
Mrs. W. West.
With on Ethiopian Entertainment by the celebrated AMERICAN SOUTHERN MINST RELS, introducing the most beautful of their
. Native Melodies.
After which, A DEAD SHOT. Mr. Timid, Mr. .1. Herbert ;
Louisa Lovetrick, Miss Vincent.
Ti conclude with GIOVANNI IN LONDON. Don Giovanni,
Miss Louisa Lyons ,• Leporello, Mr. J. Herbert.
Private family Boxes, Al Is. Od. and Al I Is. ad.

STRAND THEATRE'.
Will be performedTHlS EVENING, SEPT. 24,
MA RTIN CHUZZLEWI r. Young Martin
Chuislewit, Mr. Ranoe ; Old Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. Ayliffir; Jonas C.husslewit Mr. A ttwood ; Montague Tigg, Mr. Roberts;
Tom Pinch, Mr. Biddies; Mr. Pecksniff, and Mrs. Sairey Clamp,
Mr. H. Hall; Mary
TI
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Mrs. Coleman Pope.
After which, KINKS, BAGMAN. Supported by Messrs.
Wright, Paul Bedford, and Miss E. Stakley.
To conclude with an Original Burlesque, entitled THE WON-
DERFUL LAMP, in a New Light, being an Illustrated Version
of Aladdin. Abanasar, Mr. Paul Bedford; Aladdin, Mr. Wright;
Pttneess Badroulbadour, Miss E. Stanley.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
LAS' WEEK BUT TWO.
EXTRAORDINY NOVEL ATTRACTION
On MONDAY, TUARESDAANDY, WEDNESDAY, and To-I URSD& AY,
throughout the Season, the Gardens will open with the following
attractive Novelties :
THE PICTURESQUE GROUNDS—FEEDING OF THE
ANIMALS—UNRIVALLED MENAGERIE.
MODELS of VENICE and LONDON in the OLDEN TIME
Painted by Dawson and Telinn.
The settsition caused by this unrivalled prodgction is beyond all
lbtmer precedent; the artist, the amateur, the casual observer
ail struck with its extraordinay beauty and fidelity of delinea-
tion, and are unanimous in prohouncing it the moot wondernil ex-
hibition ever witnessed. To view it only as a vehicle fur the terrific
display at Dusk is unjust ; it should be seen in the calm stillness of
the quiet Evening, with its Towers and Steeples reflected in the spa.
Nous Lake, to be hilly appreciated.
Beethoven's celebrated Battle Sinfonia, descriptive of an En-
ga_gement between the French and Englis'i Armies.
Me Evening PROMENADE CONCERTS on Moneays. Tues.. days, Wednesdays, and Thursdays commend uy Mr. Godfrey,
are urn a scale of more than usual excellence; hut words fail In
doingjuatice to the awful representation of
THE OREM' FIRE Ok LONDON.
Its fearful characteristics are truthfully pourtrayeil, but at the same
time so beautifully blended with the Wonders of the Pyrotechnic
Art, Coat delight is predominant over terror; and the 'thousands
what ho nightly crowd the Gardens hail it with acclamations, and admit
t Southby, the Unrivalled Pyrotechnist has achieved a matchless
-triumph.
The Gardens and Zoological Collection are in the most perfect
etate.eud annbining so many and interesting features, are by far
Ott most attractive lounge in or near the nretronlio.
• 'Doors open at Nine—Feeding of the Animals at Half-past Four--
Concert at Half-past Five.—Conflagration at Dusk. Admittance,
One Shilling.

LAST WEEK.—TILE NAPOLEON MUSEUM.
The Manager begs respectfully to Inform the Nobility, Gentry, and
Ilse Public, that the very Extensive and Magnificent -NAPOLEON
NUSEUM will CLOSE on SATURDAY NErr, the 28th instant.
The Admlrsion is One Shilling.
Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, September 21, 1844.

THE WEATHER.—STN OFFICE, SEPT. 24.
Ttnautommß, Lowest, 48 ; Highest, 61; Noon, 60.
BAROMETER, 30.—WEND, N.E.
Notes.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
xually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDGE THIS DAY.
lbrntng ". 0 minutes after 0 I Evening ... 2G minutes after 0

SECOND EDITION:

It is long 'since we have perused a record of the
acts of any public body with feelings of indignation
much more intense than those which have been ex-
cited in us by the conduct of the Poor-law Commis-
sioners in the matter of the Master of the Bradfield
Union Workhouse. In recurring to the facts con-
nected with their treatment of the individual elected,
by vete of the board of guardians of Bradfield, to
that office, it will be unnecessary for us to charac-
terise proceedings which will tell their own tale, and
carry their own comment to the mind of every un-
prejudiced person under whose notice they may be
brought. But we should be wanting in our duty as
public journalists, were we not to denounce,
in the strongest and most emphatic manner, not
so much the arbitrary and insulting manner as the
unconstitutional principle of the conduct adopted by
the Commissioners in this affair. It is nothing to
urge in their vindication that, in the New Poor-law
Act itself, the powers complained of are clearly vested
in the Board at Somerset House. There has not been
a session of Parliament, for many years past, in the
course of which some flagrant blunder of detail, or
some anomaly at common law, or some violation of the
constitutional rights of the subject, has not been in-
corporated into the preamble or enactments of more
than one statute, which, on that account, it
has been found necessary to repeal, or " alter
and amend" by an Act, remedial or explana-
tory, in a subsequent session. From the
careless and mischievous hurry with which Bills of
all kinds are dispatched at the approach of a recess or
a dissolution—especially in the House of Commons--
poor-law legislation has certainly enjoyed no peculiar
exemption. Were this not the fact, it would be im-
possible to understand how Parliament could have
overlooked, in the existing New Poor-law the as-
sumption of a right of control over private judgment
—an unquestionable infallibility—of official opinion,
which at this time of day none but the Grand Llama
of TWEET, the Pope of ROME, or the black King of
the Ashantees claim to exercise to the extent in-
sisted upon by the Somerset House junta.
For what are the facts ? In brief, that in the month
of April last, in consequence of a vacancy occurring
in the office of union workhouse master for the Brad-
field union (Berks), the guardians proceeded to elect
a qualified person thereto, by an unanimous vote of a
board of twenty-eight ; that their appointment in
this instance was for a term of three months upon
trial ; that the Commissioners having objected to the
election, as in due course reported to them, on the
grounds that the party elected (a Mr. BRANGWIN)
was " an inexperienced man," and that " his affairs
were in an unsettled state ;" the guardians remon-
strated that he could not be justly considered as " in-
experienced," because he had been for five years an
active member of their own board, bore a high cha-
racter there, and was greatly respected by all who
knew him, and that he was not amenable to the im-
putation on account of his affairs, since he had met
his creditors in a most handsome manner, and they
were fully satisfied, under the circumstances, with his
composition of 15s. in the pound. And what ensued
on this remonstrance ? The Commissioners withdrew
their objection to BRANGWIN on the score of pecuniary
embarrassments ; but without condescending to assign
any reason for their order, directed ' the guardians to
proceed to a fresh election.
Let it not be forgotten, in estimating the character
of this freak of official impertinence, that this board
of guardians necessarily consists of elected rate-
payers interested in, and conversant with the business
of their own locality, the moral characters and busi-
ness-talents of their co-parishioners, or ratepayers,
and neigbours; that they give their services in the
administration of their strictly local trust gratui-
tously; that the Poor-law Commissioners are (to
their own singular satisfaction) fixtures in a certain
desecrated portion of Somerset House, London, re-
ceiving for the discharge of their duties, performances
of this kind included, extremely ample salaries. So
the Bradfield guardians, conceiving that it was
more than probable they were more competent
judges (being on the spot, and having
personal, and even official knowledge of the
man) than the Poor-law Commissioners could
be of the eligibility of BRANGWIN for the office
of master, adhered to their former resolution in his
favour. The " Great Council of Three," exasperated
at the contumacy of these guardians, on the 28th of
May fulminated a "bull," threatening to proceed
against BEANO WIN, and actually "incapacitate him
from holding any office under their commission there-
after, if he persisted in holding officeany longer."
BRANGWIN, like a half-penitent king of old, worn out
by the thundering invitations from the holy father,
to resign his crown into the hands of the successor
of St. PETER, resigned his appointment. The board
proceeded, as they had done in the first instance, to ad-

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
All the Opposition papers continue to animadvert on
the treaty with Morocco, which, says the Constitu-
tionnel, M. GUIZOT will have difficulty in defending,
even in the opinion of his friends. The Constitu-
tionnel and the National also comment upon the nar-
rative extracted from the Sidney Morning Herald, and
entitled "Tyranny of the French at Otaheite," which
appeared in the London papers of Thursday. On this
other occasion the French authorities at Otaheite are
proclaimed quite infallible. There is some truth in
the following observations of the Constitutionnel, on
the subject of the French occupation of Otaheite :
" What is certain is, that Otaheite—that conquest
which M. Guizot wished to make, but which he has not
dared to complete—is, become, thanks to the skilfulness
of our own statesmen, a source of embarrassment and
misfortune for us, of danger for our soldiers, and of diffi-
culty and disgrace for our officers."

, In the course of a long article on the subject of
Ireland the Journal des Debats has the following
observations on what will probably be the ultimate
result of the acquittal of O'CoaNELL:—" The acquittal
of the Irish prisoners is no. doubt a grave event,
which may produce great changes in the relative
situation of parties, but we do not believe that it has i
weakened the union between England and Ireland.
We think quite the contrary. it has been a serious
check for the Tory Ministry, but at the same time it
has a reconciliation and an approach to union between
the Irish and a great political party in England
itself." With regard to the report that a coalition
was about to take place between the Whigs and
Repealers, one of the conditions of which was the
granting a federal union, the Journal des Debats
says :—"We do not believe it—the Whigs would
take good care not to announce any such intention. 1

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