The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-27 00:00:00

Acting and atage.manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE'.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR G. WIELAND.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 1.7,
Will be performed a New Drama, called THE CARPENTER OF
ROUEN in which Messrs. Hudson Kirby, Hicks, Neville, Vale,
Heslop,Johnson, Mrs. Daly, Miss ferrey, and Mrs. R. Hornier will
perform
To le followed by THE DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE.
After which, a Lilliputian Ballet, entitled « Napoleon's Gene-
rosity, in which the Brockstedt Family—three German Lilliputians,
only 29,32, and 36 inches in height—will perform.
To which will be add:A A GRAND CONCERT.
To conclude with THE DUMB MAN OF MANCHESTER.
Ttie Dumb ...an, Mr. G. Wieland.
Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kcrochner, at the Bra-
t..Mee, from Eleven to Four.

VIC THEATRE.
IMPORTANTROYAL TO ALLTORIA TEMPERANCE SOCIETIEq.
First Week of a Powerful Drama, in which the Goy) Effects of
Temperance a-eniade Manifest, and the upright Mechanic caanot
fail to receive a useful Lesson where!), his Home may be made
Cheerful, his Family Happy, and Himself a Credit to his Em.
ploye*, and an Ornament to his Native Land.
ING JUN 27
Wi I be repeated RIS
ewEVE a N DrN ama, in ThreE
eActs, entitled THE
TEMPER ANCE PLEDGE ; or, a T. ue Lesson of Life. With an
Original Epilogue in favour of the Cause, by Miss Vincent, and
supported by Messrs. Osbald ston, J. Vining, Miss Hamilton, Miss
Arden, and the entire Company.
After which, OUR LADY OF THE WILLOW.
The Astonishing Performances of Hamet Bey, the Creole Wonder.
To conclude with OF AGE TO-MORROW.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Daylight View of
LONDON in the OLDEN TIME!
Painted by Danson and Telbin.
The sensation caused by this unrivalled production is beyond all
former precedent; the artist, the amateur, the casual observer
are all struck with its extraordinary beauty and fidelity of delinea-
tion, and are unanimous in pronouncing it the moat wonderful ex-
hibition ever witnessed. To view it only as a vehicle for the terrific
display at Dust is unjust ; it should be seen in the calm stillness of
the gr,,et Evening, with its Towers and Steeples reflected in the spa-
cious Lake, to be frilly appreciated.
The Evening PROMENADE CONCERTS, on Men!ays, Tues-
days, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, conducted by Mr. Godfrey,
are upon a scale of more than usual excellence: but words fail in
,doingjustice to the awful representation of
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON.
ilts fearful characteristics are truthfully pourtrayed, but at the same
dole so beautifully blended with the Wonders of the Pyrotechnic
Art, that delight is predominant over terror; and the Thousands
who nightly crowd the Gardens bail it with acclamations, and admit
that Southby, the Unrivalled Pyrotechrist, has achieved a matchless
triumph.
The Gardens and Zoological Collection are in the most perfect
state, and combining so many and interesting features, are by far
the most attractive lounge in or near the metropolis.
eeding of the Animals at Five—Concert at Six—Conflagration at
Dusk. Admitt ince, One Shilling.

EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
ONE SHILLING Admission to THE NA: or,Eox mr-
SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of Histo-
rical Curiositie., Lend Works of Art ever known to have been formed
Ly One Person. during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a
'cost of 60.099 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in-
Attractive and interesting manner, the most importar.t part of Euro-
:N.lll history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and
LIUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR
..NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often,
Aturing the fist and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of
Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, an.i their Ladies,
:also. many thousands et the Nobility and Puhlic ; rrvi the Pro-
: rte.or has recently been able to increase, by several very flue
;pictures, &e., his previous almost incredible number an.l variety of•
:518.1i., Works of Art, and a multitude of valuable Relic and other
narlositics, In this most instructive and, as hundreds have said it
t ) be, p National Museum. Many thousand have hisoected it,
.dud THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS
nave stated that it ought to he seen by every one. The price of adasts- lion is reduced to ONE SHILLLNG.
• The NAPOT.EON MUSEUM is to be seen only at the Egyptirn
Ple.iutilly, daily from Ten till Dusk.

THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, JUITE 26.
I ItER3IO3IETER, LOWest, 48 ; Highest, 64;
.Noon, 59.
BARoburriat, '29 B.—Wrtftr, N.E.
NOTE.—Tho number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
freeziug point, and 55 temperate. In Barometets fair is
Mb will), placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

- fIIGIf WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TEES DAY.
trilatt,ine JO minutes after 10 I Evening 16 minutes anvil)
-limmerm••••••=c.

Now these are precisely the grounds on which all
parties should meet the proposal of his Lordship.
The Duke of WELLINGTON, in declaring himself op.
posed to it, remarked " that Parliament had thought
fit to entrust the Secretary of State with the power
to issue warrants for opening letters of individuals at
the Post-office. There could be no doubt of this
power ; and it ought to be proved to have been used
for an improper purpose before their Lordships
made any :.inquiry into the matter." May we ask,
with all submission to his Grace, how it could be
possible to prove the abuse of the power, if the House
of Commons refused to Mr. THOMAS DUNCOMBE a
Committee of Inquiry, and the House of Lords
denied to Lord RADNoR the production of these war-
rants ? Really this sounds like a mere quibble—a
fencing with the proposition that was before the
Lords—quite unworthy of the usual frankness and
simplicity of the Noble Duke. The Earl of
TANKERVILLE adduced two precedents, we sup-
pose in the nature of a plea of justification ;
the one, a warrant in the handwriting of the late
CHARLES JAMES Fox, directing all letters to and
from foreign ministers in Great Britain to be opened.
The other, a similar warrant, in the records of the
Home-office, respecting the letters of Lord GEORGE
GORDON. Now (as was remarked by Lord BROUGHAM
and Lord DENMAN), the circumstances of the first
American war, and the coincident armed neutrality of
the northern powers of Europe, coupled with the intes-
tine discontents of this country, composed a case of
such peculiar exigency as amply justified this re-
markable warrant from such a :Minister even as Fox .
( and Lord GEORGE GORDON having been an undoubted
madman, there could be no impropriety in subjecting
him to the same civil grievance, enormous though it
be, which is visited, every day, on any other dangerous
lunatic, for the well-being of society at large. The
Earl of HADDINGTON admitted that no Minister could
assume a more dangerous responsibility—but thought
Sir JAMES justified by the statute referred to.
But Lord CAMPBELL, in an excellent little speech
(the constitutional principles of which were so well
developed that they cause us to lament their feebler
advocacy by Lord BROUGHAM), put the who!e ques-
tion in a succinct, intelligible form. " If," said he,
"any Member of her Majssty's Government will rise
up in his place and declare that upon his
own knowledge, there was reason for the exer-
cise of this power by the Secretary of State, I will
not say a single word more about the matter I will
be satisfied." Could any suggestion be fairer—more
reasonable —less vex atisus. But the challenge was
declined by Ministers. What must we think of their
case, when they dared not accept it? Lord Camp-
DELL went on to remark, " That both the N sble
Duke and the Noble First Lord of the Admiralty
(Earl of HADDINGTON) had said—each of them—that
he knew nothing of this mattter." Now, in his
manly and admirable address at the close of
the debate, Lord DENMAN, arguing on the
constiutional objection to the power, if it existed,
and on its political inexpediency from its disuetude,
said that, as he read the clause relied on in the Act of
ANNE, he inferred that the warrant lime meant to be
one flowing from the united act of the whole Go-
vernment under which it might be issued, not from
the Secretary of State alone. Yet Sir J. GRAHAM,
whose proceedings were " not known" to the Duke
Of WELLINGTON or others of his colleagues, refused to
give any information, and said "his mouth was closed?'
Nothing could exceed the force and eloquence
with which Lord DENMAN demonstrated the shallow-
ness of the pretext of his " responsibility"
set up by Sir JAMES GRAHAM; and the utter absence
of any suflicient ground, in the facts of M. AlazziNes
case, for the exercise of this abominable power. And,
after all, if there be a case to justify the Home Secre-
tary—a case of reasonable: suspicion to be shown—
what difficulty can Sir JAMES GRAHAM have in stat-
ing it,—if not in open Parliament, yet—before a
Secret Committee of both Houses, who might re-
port simply on the issue " that there was, or
was not" such a case, without disclos-
`ng any evidence ? At present the mere wording of
the cla.use will not sustain the conduct of the Home
escpreectillc
aey —ear it is evident the words require
a warrant for each letter opened. Only one
warrant issued ; more than one letter was opened.
The public feeling demands, and will be satisfied
with, nothing less than, some responsible and trust-
worthy explanation of the motives that actuated the
Home Secretary in the course he has adopted. They
will never consent to be appeased by
the half-defying
half-indifferent tone of his own assurances on the
matter. Nor are we aware of any passages in the
public career of such a Minister that can entitle him
to anticipate success for such assurances. Sir
JastEs's own personal views of public expediency or
official morality will need ample corroboration,—at the
bar of public opinion.

We have intelligence from Lisbon, to the 20th,
announcing the temporary retirement of the Minister
of the Interior, Senhor CABRAL, on account of im-

DEATH FROM DROWNING.—THE CRY OF " WOLF !"
—A private in the 2d battalion of the Scots Fusilier Guards
(stationed at Windsor) was drowned while bathing with
several of his comrades, in the Thames, about a mile up the
river from Windsor, on Monday. The deceased, who was a
very fair swimmer, called out several times, in a joke, for his
comrades to assist him while in the water, to save him from
drowning. At last, however, the poor fellow, who, it is sup-
posed, was seized with the cramp, called out in earnest. His
cries, under the impression that he was still joking, were un-
heeded by his companions, and he was drowned.
CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.--There are at all the
stations on the Ayrshire Railway shifts or switches, placed
betwixt the two rails, for the purpose of removing the car-
riages from one rail to the other. Underthe shaft• at Lochwin.
noch station, a bird of the " wagtail" species has built a nest.
and is now sitting on five eggs. Although there is scarcely
goes
and o
iunteh as es offearlessly
an hour in the day that there is not a train passing over it,
and the wheels of the engine and carriages running within
two three
theiu
as restingi if
i t
wereplace
outof tohfe
tlhitetlreebaiorhd,
it
danger.— Western Watchman.

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