The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-04 00:00:00

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.

UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON.
Continued triumph of " Geraldine!" Immense success of
" The Wild Irish Girl !" and revival of the Grand Romance
of " Ivanhoe," with all its original splendour—Combat of
Twelve, Conflagrations, and staillicg effects.
Tais EVENING, FEB. 4,
Will be performed, a New Domestic Drama, in Three Acts,
entitled THE STORY OF GERALDINE ; OR, THE
TWIN ORPHANS OF ST. PRE—Henri, Mr. E. F. Sa
villo; Huntingdon, Mr. Dale; Claud, Mr. Seaman ; Jemmy
Cottle, Mr. Gardner ; Davy, Mr. Paul ; Geraldine, Miss Vin-
Gent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama.

After which, THE WILD IRISH GlRL.—Shelah O'May,
Miss Vincent, in which she will dance her celebrated Donny-
brook Rant, and sing several humourous chaunts, and a new
Medley Epilogue
To conclude with the Grand Romance of IVANHOE.—
Ivanhoe, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Isaac, Mr. Dale; the Black
Knight, Mr. Seaman ; Wamba, Mr. Gardner ; Rebecca,
Mrs. Lee.

Boxes, 26.—Pit, 19. Gallery, 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes
only, at Half-put Eight.
To-morrow, Geraldine, with The Wild Irish Girl, and Ivanhoe.

THE VERY LATEST
PARLIAMENTARY NEWS

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EXPRESS EDITIONS,

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n a year or two. Mr. VILLIERS referred to the

immense, the unlooked-for progress which the
question has made, and asserted that nothing
now would settle it but the repeal of all taxes on
food, a motion for which he should, he hoped
with the approbation of his friends in the House,
and of a great number of persons out of the
House, take an early opportunity of bringing
forward.

If Lord JOHN RUSSELL may congratulate him-
self on seeing the Tories come round to his opi-
nions, The Sun has a right to feel great satisfac-
tion to find first the Whigs, and then the To-
ries, after obstinately resisting for years every
motion, even to inquire into the Corn-laws,
come round to opinions which The Sun has
steadily advocated for years past. So long
ago as 1838, we felt ourselves constrained,
though with great reluctance, to differ from Lord
BROUGHAM, who then advocated a fixed duty.
Last night the Noble Lord emphatically de-
clared that only the total abolition of all duties
could serve and save the country. We record
such facts with honest exultation ; they are an
assurance to our readers that they may place
some confidence in our opinions.
We regretted to hear Earl FITZWILLIAM, who
possesses great knowledge of the manufacturing
districts, observe that he doubted whether it were
now possible to restore the country to prosperity,
decay has made such rapid strides, and distress has
got to such a height. The Noble Earl, however,
with his characteristic good sense, declared that
though their Lordships could not save the coun-
try, they ought to do all the good in their power,
and not continue legislation which had already pro-
duced such mischievous consequences. Declara-
tions like that, and propositions for merely reform-
ing the Corn-laws, if made in a bona fide spirit,
and not with any trickery—if dictated by a real
apprehension of danger to accrue from a total re-
peal, may reconcile even the most suffering of
the manufacturers and the most thoroughgoing
of the repealers to a modification of the laws
which shall promise total repeal at no distant
day. We need not repeat our own opinions, they
remain unchanged; we speak of prevailing opi-
nions, the offspring of honest but mistaken timi-

dity or ignorance. Men have been so long ac-
customed to coast along in sight of the shores
discovered and laid down by their ancestors, that
they want boldness and confidence to launch
themselves on the oceau of fate, with justice for
their compass, and public happiness the un-
known land they are in search of, though they
know not exactly where it is to be found.

In the Times of yesterday there appeared a
letter from Lord ASHLEY, announcing that Sir
ROBERT PKBlewould not give his sanction to a
Ten Hours' Bill. Sir ROBERT PEEL tacitly con-
firmed the statement last night in the House of
Commons. In The Sun on Wednesday we an-
nounced that " the retirement of the Duke of
BUCKINGHAM from the Cabinet severed the alli-
ance between the Tories and the Owenite Char-
fists," who, it will be remembered, constituted
the deputation which waited on the Duke of
BUCKINGHAM, and procured from him a recogni-
tion of the Ten Hours' Bill. Lord ASHLEY'S let-
ter, and the few words which passed in the
House of Commons last night, put an end to this
piece of delusion, now that it has served its turn
and purpose. Sir ROBERT PEEL and his friends
have deceived the working classes, but deceit is
no longer useful or practicable. One more piece
of humbug is at an end.

The question of the Budget, generally regarded
of much importance, excites but little at-
tention in, the French Journals. Nor is this
occasioned by the consideration of more import-
ant matters, unless the prosecution of the Mode,
a weekly Legitimist Paper, be so regarded. The
trial of this Journal took place before the Court
of Assizes on Monday, when MM. VOILLET DE Sr.
PIIILBERT, the editor, and EDWARD PROLTX, the
printer of that paper, were convicted of having,
on the 22d ult., published a seditious libel, tend-
ing to excite hatred and contempt against the
Government, and sentenced, the former to
two years' imprisonment and a fine of 6,000 f.,
and the latter to three months' imprisonment
arid 2,000 f. fine.

For the opinions of the Republican and Legiti-
mist Press upon this conviction we refer to our
Foreign Summary.
The Breton, of Nantes, announces the death
of General CAMBRONIE at that city, in the 71st
year of his age.

The Members of the Chamber of Deputies met yester-
day in the Bureaux, for the purpose of discussing as to
whether they would authorise the reading of three pro-
positions from MM. Ganneron, Ducos, and Golberg.
the proposition of M. Ganneron is, that the Members
of the Chamber of Deputies who are not paid public func-
tionaries at. the, time of their election shall not
be allowed to become so whilst they hold seats
in the Chamber, or for one year after .vards. The
exceptions to be the posts of Minister, Ambassador,
Under-Secretary of State, Procureur-General of the
COur les Comptes, or Cour ltoyale, Director-General,
COmmander-in-Chief of the National Guard of Paris,
Governor of Africa, Grand Chancellor of the Legion of
Honour, and. Governor of the Bank. The proposition
of M. Ducos is that all citizens who are not on those
lists from ineligibility resulting from article 383 of the
criminal code shall also be , electors. The propo-
sition of* M. Golbery is for a credit of
300,000 f. for the publication of the reports of the sit-
tings of the Chamber, under the direct control of its
bureaux. Very little opposition was made to the appli-
cation for the reading of those propositions, as regarded
those of M. Ganneron and M. Ducos ; but an animated
discussion took place in some of the bureaux on the pro-
position of M. Golbery, some of the Members contend-
ing that nothing of the kind is wanted, others that the
reports of ' the sittings are not given at sufficient
length in the Afoniteur, and that a special and official re-
port is required. The result of the discussions was that
the propositions of MM. Ganneron and Duros should
be read. This was also the case as to the proposition
of M. Golbery, in all the bureaux, except one, where it was
rejected by a majority of two.— Galignani's Messenger.

The Madrid Papers received are of the 25th.
ult. They contain no news of importance. Senor
ARGUELLES had delivered a clever speech in the
Cortes, in defence of the Ministry. The Cor-
responsal contains a letter from the Librarian of
of the Escurial, denying, in very indignant terms,
the truth of a report published by some of the
French papers, that a collection of precious
manuscripts from the Escurial had been sent as
a present from the Regent to M. GUIZOT.
The Five per Cents were done at the Madrid
Bourse, on the 25th ult., at 324 for cash, and
331 at 60 days.

Three operations were done in the Three per
Cents. at 221 22 3-16 at 60 days.

• Mr. Beckett, the Member fur Leeds, who yes-
terday seconded the Address to the Throne, in
the House of Commons, appeared in the regi-
mentals of a hussar regiment. When the bur-
gess who represents the great clothing and com-
mercial town of Leeds wears such frippery in the
House of Commons, there seems to us some rea-
son to despair of the country. If the men of
Leeds have a cornet, or even a captain of hussars,
for their representative, what can be expected
from towns less distinguished by the religious and
sober feelings of the inhabitants ?
MAURITIUS SLAVE •TRADE.—Amongst the no-
tices given last night in tl name of the Vice-
President of the Board of Trade for regulating
the trade of the colonies, one was understood to
embrace the revival or the Slave-trade (as the
"exportation 6f HiII Coolies from India has been

P
pressed in vain on the attention of
which a r
they i a-
litent,—the deficiency of the revenue,
had attempted to remedy, and the Tories would
not allow them,—and the state of the Corn-laws,
which the Tories are to takein hand, though they
regarded that, when done by the Whigs, as trea-
son against the landlords.
Lord MARCH plainly said the landlords had
now got an Administration which they could
trust, and, being like dogs, who will take, with-
out whining or complaining, a sound drubbing
from those they love, they will cheerfully accept
those alterations from the Tories, for attempting
which they flew at the throats of the Whigs. On
the only debateable topics which interest the
country, the Tories have come completely over
to the opinit ns of the Whigs, and hence there
were compliments, recommendations, and e -
pressions of confidence, but no opposition, no
amendment, and no debate.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL warned Sir ROBERT PEEL
of the serious consequences of now passing
another Corn-law which should not settle the
question, leaving the agitation to be renewed