The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, i 842.

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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 14,
Will be performed, Otway's Tragedy of VENICE PRE-
SERVED.—PriuIi, Mr. Elton ; Jaffier, Mr. And. rson ;
Pierre, Mr. Phelps; Renault, Mr. G. Bennett ; Belvidera,
Miss Helen Faucitt.

After which, the Popular farce, entitled THE WIND-
MILL.—The Marquis de Roueville, Mr. Morris Barnett ;
Sampson Low, Mr. Keeley; Marian, Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with the Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime,
ca'led HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN-
NER ; OR, JACK CADE,,THE LORD OF LONDON
STONE. •

Doors tt be opened at Hal past Six, and the Performance
to begin } t Seven o'clock. Boxes :Is., Second Price, 2e. 6d.
Pit as., Second Price 2s. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second
Price Is. Upper Gallery la., Second Price 6d.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
UNDER the AI ANAGEMENT of MADAME YESTRIS.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 14,
Will be performed, Sliakspere's Comedy (with Music) of The
MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR.—Sir John Falstaff, Mr.
Bartley ; Master Slender, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Ford, Mr.
Cooper; Kenton, Mr. W. Harrison; Mrs. Ford, Nisbett;
Hrs. Page, Madame Vestris; Ann Page, Miss Raiaforth; Mrs.
Quickly, Mrs. Glover.

After which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas
Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK ; OR.
9ARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW.
Doors to le opened at hall-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, is. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.;
First and Secono Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.;
Second Price 2_.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the
Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten
ill! Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application.
Private Boxes to be had soiely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller,
167, New Bond-street.

To-Morrow, Elena Überti, with the Pantomime.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Extensive novelty. Another New Drama and " Norma," in
conjunction with the grand Pantomime and " Elizabeth La-
_ If

, a combination of attraction defying competition.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 14
Will be acted an entirely New Drama, called RABY
RUINS; or, the MOTHER'S STATUE; wick new Sce-
nery and the entire Company.
After which, MRS. NORL%IA, with Bellini's Music —Nor-
ma, Signor Nevilli ; Agelgisa, Signor Waltoni ; Pollio, Sig-
nora Martini.

zarus,

After which, the Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled
HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK
FROST AND KING THAW —With gorgeous and charac-
teristic Scenery, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint
Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun-
ning, &c. flailequin' M. Holine ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan-
taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr.
Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe.
To conclude with Haines' new and successful Drama, enti-
tled ELIZABETH LAZARUS, THE JEWESS, founded
on Captain Glasscock's " Land Sharks and Sea Gullt"
Private and Public Boxes can be had of Messrs. Sams, Ebers,
Mitchell, Andrews, and Seguin, during the run of this popu-
lar Pantomime.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON.
Another new Domestic Drama, combining intense interest and
such :powerfully electric situations and effects as have never
been attempted in Dramas of this description.
• THIS EVENING, FEB. 14
Will be performed, a New Domestic Drama, in Three Acts,
entitled MARY WHITE ; or, the MURDER at the OLD
TA BBARD.—Savage Sam, Mr. E. F. Saville; Baynard, Mr.
Dale; Giles, Mr. Gardner ; Mary White, Miss Vincent, the
acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Tragedy.
After which, THE WILD IRISH GlRL.—Shelah O'May,
Miss Vincint, in which she will dsnce her celebrated Donny-
brook Rant, and sing several humourous chaunts, and a new
Medley Epilogue
To conclude with the Grand Romance of THE LADY OF
THE LAKE.—Roderick Dhu, Mr. Date; Fitzjames, Mr. E.
F. Saville ; Malcalm, Mr. Seaman ; Blanch of Devon, Miss
Collett.

Boxes, 2s.—Pit, ls.— Gallery, 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes
only, at Flalf-past Eight.

THE VERY LATEST
PARLIAMENTARY NEWS

WILL BE GIVEN AS USUAL IN

THE SECOND, THIRD,

AND

EXPRESS EDITIONS,

OF THE

It is a great point gained to have the old law
condemned by Sir ROBERT PEEL, and to have a
ground in that condemnation for asserting that
his resolutions will be as noxious as the old law.
At present his sliding-scale is his quack medi-
cine, and nothing more, and it is the duty of the
people to prevent it becoming more. They
must turn legislators, and refuse, in advance►
their sanction and their obedience to the new
and scandalous enactment suggested by Sir
ROBERT PEEL. To sanction that now, after the
experience of fourteen years, and after so much
suffering, would be a proof that we are more
ignorant or more wicked than the ignorant or
wicked authors of the law of 1828.

The way in which Sir ROBERT PEEL'S plan
for continuing the Corn-laws will rouse the
country is apparent .by what has already take❑
place at Leeds and other places. " Never,"
says the Leeds Mercury, " since the temporary
defeat of the Reform Bill, have we known so
strong a feeling of disgust and indignation ex-
cited in Yorkshire and Lancashire, and among
the trading classes generally, as has burst forth
on the announcement of the Government juggle.
In Leeds, Manchester, Bradford, and Hudders-
field, the expressions of disappointment, grief,
anger, and almost desperation, were loud and
strong. Even the Tories were aghast at the
measure. Great numbers of respectable indi-
viduals, under the influence of their feelings,
spoke of resorting to organic changes which
before they had not contemplated." Under the
influence of these feelings a public meeting was
immediately held at Leeds, of which we insert
an account from the Mercury.
Though there was some opposition, we are
glad to see that the Anti-Bread-tax party
was completely triumphant. Sir It. PEEL'S
refusal to grant a Ten Hours Bill must have
weaned from him some of his supporters. His
Corn-law scheme must have opened the eyes of
all the working classes. They must now be sen-
sible that he either cannot or will not alter the laws
for their advantage. He will neither allow them
to have more food nor cheaper food. To suppose
that he will grant the Charter, after refusing the
Ten Hours Bill and maintaining the Corn-law,
is a gross delusion. The working classes,
then, to save themselves from'starving—and they
cannot suppose that they will be less able to
obtain the Charter with full bellies than with
empty bellies—must now unite cordially and zea-
lously with the Anti-bread-taxers, to procure a
repeal of the Corn-laws.

. . , .
. .
The working classes cannot have failedttto 'no-
tice that all the leading speakers at the Confer-
ence expressed themselves decidedly favourable
to an extension of the suffrage, and are ready to
co-operate with the working classes in -attaining
that act of justice. Let them, therefore, now, as
practical men, assist the Repealers, and they will
have the proud satisfaction of compelling Sir
ROBERT PEEL and the Tories to do their bidding.
Surely it will be as honourable to them to have
the present Prime Minister and the Duke of
WELLINGTON pasiing a Bill totally to repeal
the Bread-tax, as 'to have such a Bill passed by
Mr. FEARGUS O'CONNOR and Mr. LOVETT. A
cordial co-operation on their part with the
Anti-Bread-tax party, in this crisis of the tui-
tion's fate, will bring the Duke of WELLINGTON
and the House of Lords, and will bring Sir
ROBERT PEEL and the House of Commons, on
their knees to the Hall of the Anti-Bread-
taxers, to know what is the pleasure of the
nation. That would be a glorious triumph for
the democracy, and that triumph the Chartists
may now achieve. They may humble the aris-
tocracy for ever by cordially uniting with the
members of the League to demand a total and
immediate repeal of the. Corn-laws.

A notice has been published, that the Post-
office is to extend, the time fbr postingletters
until a quarter past six o'clock. All letters posted
after a quarter before six niust bear an extra
penny stamp above the postage stamp. This is
only a very small step towards granting the ac-
commodation whiCh the public have a right to
expect. Mr. HILL'S scheme has been, we think,
unfairly tried, though it has succeeded beyond
expectation. When it was brought into use our
commerce was labouring under great difficulties,
and business knew none of the elasticity it felt in
the previous years. It was brought into use also
without adopting those facilities for receiving,
soriting, and distributing letters by mechani-
cal helps, making the public contribute to the
work, which are necessary, in consequence
of the increased number. Because these auxi-
liaries were not supplied, the system is much
moire costly than it ought to be, and the public
do not receive so much accommodation as they
ought. If it were possible to get up a rival post-.
offiae—if we could only bring the principle 'of
competition to bear on the establishment=scores
of improvements would be made in a week, and it
would soon attain that perfection we behold in
individual undertakings ofalniost equal magnitude.

Among the absurd regulations affecting the newspaper
Press of France, is one which prevents the smallest in •
crease in their size without an increase of the stamp-
duty. As the increase of stamp-duty would more than
swal?ow up the profits of an increased circulation, the
new:spapers are not enlarged, and the consequet_ce
is that they are totally unsuited to the wants
of the community. Thus, no matter how impor-
tant the debates may be in the Chambers, they can afford
only{ to give a mere outline of them, nor is that done
without sacrificing nearly- every other item of intelli-
gence- No Paris, journals will bear a moment's compari-
son as a vehicle of interesting miscellaneous intelligence
with. a London daily paper. Each paper there addresses a
secti on of the public. One devotes its columns to reports of
law and police investigations and trials ; another at-
tends to thoatrical affairs ; a third is the oracle of the
Chambers; w fourth condescends to notice nothing which
is not talked of in fashionable circles ; in a fifth the
Fcuilleton, or literary department, is the chief feature; and
so on of upwards of a score of daily, and five score
weekly papers. We grant that the leading depart-
ment in most of the French daily papers is generally con-
ducted with great ability. Hence the weight attached
to their opinions, which are the more formidable as they
report no facts to contradict them. If they ridi-
cule a Parliamentary orator the reader . cannot
divest himself of the impression by turning to the
report of a speech, of which the Journal only con-
tains a. meagre outline. For some time past the
leading. Opposition French Journals have complained
much of this evil, and it is, therefore, with pleasure that
we find some of the Government prints beginning to
dwell upon it. The Presse, in particular, recommends
that n.p extra duty be charged on Journals for enlarging

to touch the law." He has restored the fainting
hearts of.the Whigs, who now knOw him to be
less than their equal in- a -matter of paramount
importance. "So far from being a settlement of
the question, his measure more unsettles it than
ever." Such a testimony, borne by a Journal
which has latterly been extremely flattering to
Sir ROBERT PEEL, teaches us to believe that
Sir ROBERT PEEL will not be able to make his
resolutions into law.

His own testimony has proved that the law he
proposes to alter has been a failure. He admits,
by.the alteration, that it has given landlords an
unjust protection. He adopted all the arguments
which the opponents of the law have urged
against the gambling and speculation to which
the averages have given rise ; he stigmatised the
law on that point as heartily as its opponent. At
the same time headmitted that he could not tell
what would be a remunerating price, and he fixed
a duty on the people's bread by guess. It is
agreeable to his fancy to have wheat sold at
about 565. per quarter, and, therefore, he
limits the supply of food. In assuming,
not proving, the basis of his system, he
supplies the community with unanswerable
arguments for denouncing it. "No better
reason," says the Peelite Spectator, " was
offered to sustain the monstrous intervention of
an Act of Parliament to diminish the natural
supply of man's food, than the old saw, 'depend-
ing on foreign countries." While Sir ROBERT
PEEL condemns the old law, and proposes to
repeal it by his resolutions, those resolutions,
be it remembered, are not law, and may be
opposed and resisted to the utmost of our
power.

their size, ands for placing the French Press on the
same footing as the English. In fact, a complete re-
form of the laws affircting French Journalism has become
indispensable.

From Madrid the Papers are of the 3d inst. ; but the
intelligence, with the .exception of some paragraphs in
our Summary, are of no political interest. The Fives on
the Bourse were at 32 for cash.
A Toulon letter says that the Prince de Joinville will have the
Uranie frigate, besides the Belle Poule, under his command during
his voyage round the world.

The Palinure brig of war arrived at Toulon en the sth inst. from
Tunis, which she left on the 29th ult. She has brought the French
Consul• General to the Regency of Tunis, and IYI. Pichon, who has
been visiting all the ports of the. Regencies of Tripoli and Tunis, on
a secret mission from the French Government. The Palinure was
soon to leave Toulon again for Tunis. A letter from Sfax, in the
Regency of Tunis, 14th ult., and published by the Portafoglics, of
Malta, states that Sidi-Mustapha Schep-i.Tircar, General-in-Chic!
of the lorces o! the Bey, had arrived at Sfax, for the purpose of
raising recruits. He had acted with great rigour, and in order to
extort money, allowed the wealthy families to substitute slaves as
recruits, 0., payment of enormous sums for this permission.—Galig.
noni's Messenger.

Several journals make this morning objections to the project of
law for the construction of the great lines of railways. We shall
not answer till these objections are more completely stated ; we con.
tent ourselves for the present with observing that the objections hi-
therto made to this project are almost all at variance, and thus re-
ciprocally refute each other.—Moniteur, Feb. 10.
The Moniteur of this morning has no official part. It quotes
from the Messager a lung article on the culture ofailk in the French
colonies, which the French Government wished to introduce from a
consideration of the necessity of finding some emplo3 raent suited to
the free negroes, who form, as it were, a new population springing
up without means of procuring a livelihood.
Yesterday Marshal Soult paid his first visit to the Palace at one
o'clock in the afternoon. The Maishal was received successively
by the King, the Queen, Madame Adelaide, and the Duke and
Duchess of Orleans.—Constitutionnel.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

- - - - -
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FEB. Ll.—Prices of Ame-
rican descriptions took a start at an id. to id per lb. during
Saturday and Monday last, and a considerable • business was
transacted at that advance. On Tuesday, however, the excite-
ment ceased, and the market has been quiet since ; and as hol-
ders have supplied the demand freely, prices have gradually
receded to the quotations of this week, which we now adopt. All
other descriptions have been stationary in price throughout the
week. The public sale of Sea Islands to-day went off very
heavily indeed; the few sold were on much the same terms as
last sale. There have been taken on speculatien 2,600 Ame-
rican and 300 ,urat; and for exportation 800 American awl
50 Surat. The prices declai ed by the Committee of Brokers,
for fine cottons;are—Bowed aid. ; Mobile, sid. ; Orleans, 50.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET. FEB. 11.—The transactions
at the stock Exchange this day have been to a limited ex-
tent. The business comprises—Eastern Counties, 81; De.'
bentures, I U ; Grand Junction, Half Shares, 92i ; London
and Birmingham, 1721 • Midland Counties, 82 ; Quarter
Shares, 20i; North Midland Thirds, 14.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 11.—We have no
1
improvement to notice in our Market to- day. Our sales are—
Bristol and Exeter, 37; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 51 ex
dividend ; and Manchester anti Salford Bank, 91. 18s. 9d.
There are numerous arrivals to-nay from all quarters, but the
only one of a later date is the packet-ship Columbus, from New
York. The news brought by it will be found in another part
of this paper.
The English and Foreign Securities opened, without any
alteration from the closing prices of yesterday. Consols ate
89i for Money, and 891 891 for the Account; Three per Cents.
Reduced, t9i 891 ; Exchequer Bills, 23 25 prem.
Spanish Active Stock, 2411; Portuguese Fives, 32i ; ditto
Threes, 191;
.Mexican Bonds, 32i. Very little business doing.
The only alteration to notice in the English Securities since
the opening, is a further improvement in Exchequer Bills, they
are now quoted at 26 prem.
The following are the only quotations in the Foreign Mar-
ket : Colombian Bonds, 22; Mexican, 32*; Portuguese
Three per Cents., 19*; Spanish Active Stork, 241 ; Dutch
Two. and-a-half per Cents., 51i ; Ditto, Fives, 101 i.
There has been equally as little business transacted in the
Share Market. Bristol and Exeter are 37; Great Western
85,* - London and Brighton, 351 ; North Midland, New, 34'
South Eastern and Dover, 26.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
B ink Stock
3 per Cent Red. B9l Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons B9i Ditto Old Annuities ..
3i per Cent Red.. 99i Ditto New Annuities...
New 3i per Cent
New 5 per Cent.
Long Annuities -.oexpire Ditto Small 26 pm
Jan. 1860.......... 12 11-16 Bank Stock for Acct 1681
Oct 1859. 12 9-16 India Stock for Acct
Jan. 1860. 121 IConsols for Acct B9l
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 pzi rent.... ,Portuguese' 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 pet cent — 'Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian 80nd5.... .. . ... 65* 'Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres 6 per cem t Russian, 5 per cent....,,
Chilian, 6 per cent... Ditto, Meta11ic..........,
Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent 2+
Ditto, 18`24............... 211 Ditto, Deferred.... . 1.21
Danish, 3 per cent French, 5 per cent. —l.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 33i French, 3 per cent.. —e
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1637 Dutch, 21 per cent. , .5
Peruvian,lB2s, fper cL Ditto, 5 per cent. .. .10
SHARES.
Bristol .nd Exeter (70 paid) ..... . 36i
Eastern Counties Railway (23 Faid) ..., Bl
Great Western Railway ( 65 paid) Bs*
London and Brighton (50 paid)
. North Midland Railway (100)k 7O
Ditto New Shares (40 paid)... 34.
• South Eastern and Dover (48 paid) - 26

Loss or THE JORN LEE, OF GLASGOW.---We regret to
learn, from a letter addressed to Viscount Canning, the
Linder-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, to the Chairman at
Lloyd's, that this vessel was wrecked at the rocks of
Lavadouras, off the mouth of the Douro, on the 14th of
January. No papers or charts had been found, and
nothing heard of the crew along the coast within three
leagues of Oporto. This communication was made by
the British Consul at Oporto.
PRESBYTERIAN MARRIAGES.—We have received a
report of a meeting held at Armagh on Thursday re-
lative to the Marriage question. Dr. Henry was called
to the
,chair, and, several resolutions were passed, but it
is needless to give them, as the subject has been taken
up by the Government, and a Bill will be passed without
delay to legalise all such marriages as that which has
given rise to so much anxiety among the Presbyterian
community in Ireland.

S Uki MAR V OF ':-,: iIN S

AND
ttbitr en;l te it.

" Who runs may read."

FOUZIGIU

The New York papers of the 19th ult. report the occurrence of a
serious riot at Cincinnati on the 12th, in which the Miami Bank,
and Bate's and Longee's banking offiees were totally destroyed. The
riot was occasioned by the refusal of the Miami bank to redeem its
notes, by which the working classes were plundered of their earn-
ings. The mob seized in the vault of the Miami 224,000 dollars,
of which only 1,261 dollars were in specie. When the rioters had
destroyed the banks, and defeated a handful of military, without
either loss of life or limb on either side, they dispersed to their
respective homes, a crowd of nearly 4,000 persons looking on with
the utmost indifference,

Marsh,l Soult made his first appearance at the Tuileries on
Thursday since his illness. He was most graciously received, suc.
cessively by the King, Queen, Madame Adelaide, and the Duke and
Duchess of Orleans.

The Archbishop of Paris has just published his pastoral letter for
Lent. In addition to the customary permission to use eggs, butter,
and milk, this letter grants a general dispensation of the maigre
for the Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday of each week, up
to the Thursday in Passion Week inclusively. This dispen.
sation is limited to one meal (the dinner) on week days, but ex.
tends to two meals on Sundays. The Archbishop recommends
to all the faithful who avail themselves of this dispensation to place
double alms in the hands of the Cure of their parish, one of which
is to be given to the poor, and the other to go towards the purchase
of the monastery of the Carmelites, Rue de Vaugirard.
In the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, M. Ganneron's motion
on electoral reform was introduced. The subject was likely to oc.
cupy several days.

The Palinure brig of war arrived at Toulon on the sth inst. from
Tunis, which she left on the 29th ult. She has brought the French
Consul. General to the Regency of Tunis, and M. Pichon, who his
been visiting all the parts of the Regencies of Tripoli and Tunis on
a secret mission from the French Government.

The Chief Judge of Barcelonea had made a report to the Go-
vernment, from which it appears that the tribunals of Catalonia,
during the year 1841, judged 3,861 criminal cases, amongst which
were 160 assassinations followed by death, 404 burglaries, 3QB riots
in which wounds were inflicted, 49 cases of arson, 11 cases of per.
jury, 14 of suborning witnesses, 24 abuses of authority, 8 forge-
ries, 315 cases of smuggling, 2of poisoning, 1 adultery, 1 bigamy,
12. popular riots, 1 rape, 2 duels.
_ _

The Madrid El Correo Nacionul of the 3d inst. states, that the
Town Council of San Lucar de Barameda had addressed a petition
to the Government praying a modification of the prohibitive system,
in order to prevent the total ruin of the provision trade. The
Municipal Council express a hope that, this measure being adopted,
Great Britain would reduce the duties on Spanish wines, and thus
facilitate their sale in.the only market which is open to them.
We find the following in a letter from Cairo, received with the
Overland Mail;—" lam convinced you would be much disap.
pointed with Egypt (excepting of course, the:antiquities). It is
treason, I believe, in England or elsewhere, to hold Mehemet Ali
cheap; but lam sure that his people are the most wretched in
the world. I have seen nothing in the slave States so miserable,
no system so cruel, as that practised in this country. His service
is so unpopular, that he has formed companies of soldiers of men
who have put out their right eyes to avoid conscription. As for
the improvements introduced by Europeans in other departments,
you look in vain for it. The great desideratum in this country is
to irrigate, and the Polytechnic Schools and, Savans have not ap-
plied the commonest pump, even in the Pacha's own gardens, to
obtain water.