The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-20 00:00:00

iEIET POLISH DISTRIBUTION on 15th MARCH,
1843.

NEXT sIUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION on Ist of NEXT
MONTH.
SELECTION for the PRUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION on
/$t JULY next.

SELECTION for the POLISH DISTRIBUTION on
Ist MARCH next.

The SELECTION for the AUSTRIAN DISTRIBU-
TION has already taken place, namely, on Ist of JUN E, THE
DISTRIBUTION TAKING PLACE ON THE FIRST
OF NEXT _MONTH.

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JHE ATM; 'ROYAL, SADLER'S WELLS.
UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF HER MAJESTY.
For the BENEFIT of Mr. W. U. BROADFOOT.
ON MONDAY NEXT, AUGUST 22, 1842,.
DUCROW'S UNEQUALLED SCENES of the CIRCLE,
and beautiful Trained Horses, with the Wonders of
Signor Hillier, Mr. Hicken, Mr. Stickney, Le Petit Ducrow,
y.(l the whole of Equestrian Corps.
After which, THE WATERMAN.—Characters by Miss
Agnes Taylor and Mr. J. W. Collier.
To be followed by the Magnificent Equestrian and Dramatic
Spectacle of 'ST. GEORGE AND THE GREEN DRA-
GON OF EGYPT.
To conclude with a New Melodramatic Afterpiece, entitled
THE DUMB NORWEGIAN AND HIS PONY OF ICE-
LAND, in which Le Petit Ducrow, the Wonder of the Age,
will give his graceful Pantomimic Delineations. .

TEIEATRE-ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE.
THIS EVENING, AUGUST 20.
Will be presented the Musical Farce of LOVE LAUGHS AT
LOCKSMITHS—Captain Beldare Mr J. Vining; Risk, Mr. Har-
ley ; Solomon Lob, Mr. Oxberry ; Lydia, Miss Stanley.
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To be followed by the New Burlesque .• allet, called G IZELLE:—
Characters by Signor Oxberrini and Madlle. Louisotta Fairbro.
tncrini.
After which, LOVE. LAW, AND PHYSlC.—Flexible, Mr. J.
Vining; Lubin Log, Mr Harley ; Andrew, Mr. Oxberry.
' To which will be added, BLUE BEARD.—BIue Beard, Mr. J.
Bland ; SAackoblack, Mr. Oxberry; Selim, Mr. Leign Smith; Fa.
time, Miss Crisp.
To conclude with the New Drama called THE BROKEN HOME.
Characters by Messrs. Oxberry, Diddear, Granby, W. H. Blisigly
Ls'une, Green, Miss Tyrrell, Miss Stanley, and Miss Faucit.
Boxes, 4s. Pit, 2.5. Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six ;
commence at Severs; Half.price, a Quarter before Niue.
Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Grogan, at the Private Box.olfice ;
and of Messrs. Andrews, Mitchell, Sams, and Bally, at their Libraries.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, AUGUST 20.
Will be presented an entirely New Fairy Opera, entitled LITTLE
RED RIDING HOOD.—The Overture, and the whole of the Mu-
sic, composed by Mrs. G. a'Becket, and executed by Miss Romer.
Mrs Serie, Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. Leffler, an increas'd Band and
Chorus, conducted by Mr. G. Stansbury.
After which, the Comic Extravaganza entitled ANGELS AND
'LLICIFERS.—Benj.unin Brimstone, Mr. G. Wild; Sally Gingham,
.Miss Terrey.
To conclurlie with the peculiarly eceentric New Drama, entitled
,LHE MEMOIRS OF THE DEVIL, supported by the entire Cotn-
er.

Places and Private 3oxes may be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the
Box Office, from Eleven till Four daily.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectffilly
Informed that

ON MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, AND THURSDAYS,
GRAND EVENING FETES will be given, in which will be em,
botned all those popular Entertainments that have given to this avail
rite place of recreation its peculiar celebrity, with additions and in.
trt Auctions, which render them more generally attractive. •
The MENAGERIE has been enriched by many valuable and im.
,or rant acquisitions in the classes of both Quadrupeds and Birds. -
Feeding. Time Five o'clock.

The (2olossa I VIE%V OF ROME has ;Jaen repainted, and in some
instances remodelled, with a Mechanical Tableau d'action repre-
senting the Procession of the Papal Troops, Guards, and 'Roman
Nobles, to the Castle of St. Angelo.
The BAND includes some of the most eminent Performers, con-
ducted by Mr. Godfrey, and the Programme of the PROMENADES
USICA LES selected from the noblest works of the great Masters.
"The ILLUMINA.TIONof ST. PETER'S, the CROSS of FIRE,
and the GIRA NOOLA or ST. ANGELO, with all the gorgeous
SpectaeleS and magnificent introductions that have called forth ac-
t:laminations of delight and admiration on each evening of their ex-
hibition, terminating with the triumph of pyrotechnic splendour,
the CASC ADE of BRILLIANT FIRE, SIX IT FEET in height.
tics Gardens are open Daily from Ten till Dusk. The Evening
kovith the Promenades Mustales, Illumination of St. Peter's,
Girandola of St. Angelo, &c., will be given on Mondays, Tuesdays,
..rsd Thursdays. Admission One Shilling.

Hit: l WATER AT LONDON BRIDGF. THIS DAY.
Morning 25 minutes after 1 f Evening ..... 53 minutes after 1.

LONDON:
SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20. 1842

Some of our Contemporaries, (we speak of the.
lines and the Post,) are endeavouring to make the
public believe that the variations in the demand for
the productions of Manchester are the necessary
consequences of what they call the fluctuations
of trade. According to them, trade fluctuates ne-
cessarily and frequently. We have certainly, in
our time, seen great vicissitudes in the condi-
tion of our community, but they have existed
in Conjunction with a number of laws regulating, or
;pretending to regulate, and certainly restricting, cir-
cumscribing, and impeding trade. What proportion
of those. vicissitudes has been caused by the laws, and
what proportion was necessarily inherent in trade, is
one of the nicest questions of political science, and is
not to be settled by the hasty and crude assertions
of our Contemporaries. It
..requires, indeed, we
are well convinced, a long and searching, analysis to
distinguish between the effects of laws and- the
effects of trade itself; and all that we can now even
attempt, in order to throw some light on this impor-
tant question, and not allow trade to bear the blame
which belongs to had laws, is to indicate some of the
principles which would seem to show that all trade,
including the trade of Manchester, must naturally
and necessarily, but for restrictive laws, be as steady
and progressive as the wants of human beings.
In all accounts which have ever fallen under our
notice of men living in an uncivilised condition, like
the
.11. ed Indians for example, they are .represented as
experiencing, as the seasons change, the extremes
of . abundance and famine. In the summer season,
when game and fish are accessible, they are toler-
ably Well fed ; in winter, they die in considerable
nunibers from actual famine. Fluctuations in the
condition .of society are natural and excessive in its
early stages.
The natural causes of such fluctuations seem not
to abate as society advances. The seasons, making
the earth teem with abundance at one part of the year,
and, locking .it up in.sterility with ice and snow at
another, are the same for the European children of the
United States as for the Red men ; but' they never ex-
perience such terrible vicissitudes as afflict the Indians.
The seasons also now vary, probably, from year to
year as much as ever they did ; and the earth
in ore summer and in one place, as last year in parts
of England,' almost mocks the husbandman's toil, and
in another summer, as at present, yields to all his
labours a rich abundance.

But while the produce of man's labour when applied
to the earth or to the sea, in catching fish, varies
much from year to year and place to place, his wants
of food, of lodging, and of clothing, are nearly constant,
or subject only to a progressive increase as population
increases. It is therefore a dispensation of Provi-
dence, which appears to pervade all time and
every stage of society, that great fluctuations in the
supplies of food should prevail from year to year, from
place, to place, and from summer to winter.- The
wants of man remaining about the same at all times,
it is a. natural and necessary consequence of this dis-
pensation, that society, unless man learn the art to
provide against the evil, should be exposed to great
fluctuations.

SoCiety, in the United States, however, seems rather
to advance steadily, than to fluctuate, and none of the
communities of Europe experience, it is believed,
the dreadful vicissitudes to which savages are ex-
posed.

A very large proprtion of our own commu-

nity, all the opulent and easy classes, know nothing
whateier of dreadful vicissitudes between famine

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and plOity, though the seasons continue to fluctuate,

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It
is.. :Pretty. well ascertained, also, that v great
as have been the vicissitudes of our commu-
nity ghee the commencement of this cen-
tury, they bear no comparison to its vicissi-
tudes former times; and great as have
been the variations of the prices of corn under the
sliding scale, they bear only a small proportion to the
variations of that price in the 12th, 13th, and 14th
centuries. Thus, as society has advanced, man has
found the mea,nsof guarding against those fluctuations
in its eunditip, :which, but for' his skill, would be
at all times the natural and necessary consequence of
one season being less fruitful than another.

What .are, these means ? They are expressed by
one word-:r-TRADtt Trade, though it must partici-
pato in the natiral fluctuations of the seasons, is the

Just published, in 6 Vols. small Bvo., price 15s. is boards.
W.XERCISES, POLITICAL and OTHERS.
By Lieutenant-Colonel T. PER RONET THOMPSON.
Consisting of matter pr..vionfly yublished with and wit hoot
the Author's name, and of some not published before.
London . F.tbrigharl Wilson. l i, Bi9hopsgate-stvect,

HAMBURG% 12Tti AUGUST, 1i343.
IS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of
AUSTRIA,
AND HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA,
Having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS-
TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDEND, by which,
though they are NO LOTTERIES, LARGE FORTUNES
may be obtained. HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURG%
are Selling
GENUINE and WARRANTED SELECTED BONDS

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