The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-11 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

The Nobility, Gentry, Subscrilwrs, and the Public, are respectfully
infrrmed that
ON MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, AND THURsDAY,,
(RAND EVENING FETES will be given, in which will be em-
bodied all those popular Entertablevients that have given to this favou-
rite place of recreation its peculiar celebrity, with additions and in-
troductions, which render them more generally attractive.
The MENAGERIE has been enriched by many valuable and im-
portant acquisitions in the classes of both Quadrupeds and Birds.
Fceding Time Five o'clock.
The Colossal VIEW OF ROME has been repainted, and in some
Instances remodelled, with a Mechanical Table. 'u d'action, repre-
senting the Proce,sion of the Papal Troops, Guards, and Roman
Nobles, to the Castle of St. Angelo.
The By D includes some of the meat enrnent Performers,
tutted by by Mr. Godfrey, anti the Programme of the PROMENADES
MUSICALES selecterlf rom the noblest works of the great Masters.
The ILLUMINATIONof ST. PETER'S, the CROSS of FIRE,
and the GIRANDOLA or Wl'. ANGELO, wi• h all the gorgeous
Spectacles and magnificent introdactions that have called forth ac.
clammatiens of delight and admiration on each evening of their ex.
hthition, terminating with the triumph of pyrotechnic splendour,
the CASC -k DE of lIRILLI ANT FIRE, SIX I Y FEET in height.
The Gardens are open Daily from Ten till Dusk. The Evening
Fetes, with the Promenades Mus,cales, Illumination of It. Peter's,
Grirandola of St. Angelo, &c., will be given on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays. • Admission One Shilling.

All Advegtisements of a Disgusting Charileter,
or Xmmoral Tendency, are excluded from
the Columns of "The Sun."

cree to put an end to the infliction of death. So with
the slave trade and slavery ; both existed under the po-
sitive sanction of the law, and the latter was expressly
supported by the power of the State. The planters
could not have maintained the slaves in obedience with-
out the assistance of the fleets and armies of the mother
country. While it was, therefore, an imperative duty
on the people of England not to countenance
those enormities, it also followed, as a matter
of course, that when they withdrew their sanction and
support, the-evils of the slave-trade and of slavery, so far
as British subjects are concerned, whatever else might
come in their place, would also cease. But evils not
caused by the laws may not cease when laws are passed
to put an end to them ; and the best meant law may in-
flict, like the Climbing-boy Act, starvation on those it
was meant to serve.

Admitting that gross evils are connected with the
management of collieries, we cannot believe that the
gentlemen who meet at Westminster, the spawn of gross
corruption, the representatives of class interests, the
advocates of monopoly, the persons who wantonly and
wickedly keep bread from the suffering and starving
people are ever likely, by any measures, to remedy the
evils which the colliers suffei. The condemnation
of women to the drudgery of the coal mines, the
employment of children at most unsuitable ages,
and during a far greater number of hours than
children ought to be employed, are only a part
and symptom of the general degradation to which
the working classes have been doomed by a poli-
tical system, calculated and intended to keep them in a
low and degraded condition.
There is abundant evidence that the colliers do not
wish their wives and children to work in the pits. Their
poverty, and not their will, consents. They submit, like
the feeders on nettles and carrion, to the hard necessity
which the law imposes on them. The true way, there-
fore, to put an end to th.., system which Lord ASHLEY
deplores, is to abolish the laws which diminish the wages
of labour, and tend to deprive the labourer of the senti-
ments of independence and self-respect. Let gentlemen
who are, in truth, very ignorant of his thoughts, pursuits,
and habits, cease to meddle with him, cease to infringe
on his liberty, cease to plunder him by various legislative
devices, and he will soon learn .to respect himself, and
learn, still mere than at present, to love and respect his
wife and children. Lord ASHLEY'S Bill will only
add other links to the thrall's chains, and reduce hun-
dreds of persons to the sad condition of claiming relief;
like the climbing boys, We assert fur ourselves as
strong a wish to benefit the colliers, wk-ther men,
women, or boys, and to benefit the bulk of our toiling
fellow countrymen, as any journal in the empire, and
yet we have opposed and still oppose Lord ASHLEY'S
meddling legislation. It is the offspring of spurious
humanity, seeking public applause, rattler than of an
intelligent desire to confer benefit on the people. Let
the Legislature first be just, and then humane.

MR. GLADSTONE'S SKILL AT CONVERSION. —The
Right Hon.•Vice-President of the Board of Trade is a
great master of -words. No juggler ever handled his
instruments more dexterously. He has been conspicuous
both as a religious writer and as apolitical orator, and dis-
covered a conscience for the State after he bad lost his ;
own. In Parliament we have heard him deal with prin-
ciples as if they were his own coin, which he ought to
put out to the most profitable usance. He has no
notion, hon ever, of following them out, except as they
serve his purposes, but Others profit by his lessons, who
think it discreditable to follow his example. There are
thousands who will apply his political principles to the
trade in corn as well as cattle, and insist that if it is good
to have the latter cheap, it is still better to have
the former both free and cheap. There are hun-
dreds, too, who will follow out his religious prin-
ciples, and, they must rely on authority and tra-
dition, and not on reason—must, above all things, obey
the Church, they will, as a natural consequence obey the
Church of Rome, in preference to the mongrel Church
which has no higher authority than the base passions of
Henry the Eighth. We are not surprised, knowing Mr.
Gladstone's eloquence, to find some of his first converts
in his own family. The Birmingham Advertiser informs
us thdt the SISTER TO THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE
BOARD OF TRADE WAS, ON TUESDAY-WEEK, confirmed
a member of the CATHOLIC CHURCH*, in the chapel of
the Nunnery near Birmingham. When will the Right
Honourable Gentleman make_ his own peace with that
Church? When he has, like his sister, no purpose of
worldly ambition to answer, by professing a nominal
Protestantism.

THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY.—A new work
is about to make its appearance, which will excite no
less attention in the political and fashionable, than in the
literary circles. It is a narrative of recent travels and
voyages through Germany, Austria, on the DannLe,
into Turkey, Greece, the lonian Islands, Italy, Spain,
and Portugal, by the Marquis of Londonderry, G.C.B.
The reputation the Noble Writer enjoys in the different
Courts of Europe, as a distinguished diplomatist and
general officer, could not fail to produce for him a very
flattering reception wherever he appeared. We have
heard that the volumes will contain the substance of va-
rious conversations the writer held at Vienna with
Prince Metternich ; also many curious anecdotes of this
and other illustrious characters with whom his Lordship
associated. The Emperor of Austria, Prince Esterhazy,
and the brilliant circle of the Austrian capital, the young
Sultan of Turkey and his principal Ministers, the King
of Greece, and the chief officers of his Government,
&c. &c.

FOREIGNERS PAYING INCOME-TAX.--Suppose that a
foreigner residing abroad has not, on the whole, an in-
come of 1501. a-year, but what he has is in the English
Funds, is he to be exempted from the tax ? and, if so,
before what Commissioners must:he prove his claim to
the exemption ? If he is:not to be exempted, the spirit of
the law to leave small incomes nittouehLd will be violated.
In truth, to tax foreigners at all, -is as gross a breach of
faith as any of the repudiating -states of America have
been guilty of. It is a repudiation of 21. 18s. 4d. p,r
cent. of the debt justly due to the foreigner. Just think,
reader, of mighty England forfeiting her character tbr a
few thousand pounds ! Better repudiate the whole.

EMIGRATION TO THE CAPE OF

GOOD HOPE.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

For our personal satisfaction we were requested, some
days since, to visit the emigrant ship. Guardian, for
Algoa Bay, Cope of Good Hope. It being a private
enterprise, mid a new line of emigration rendered almost
necessary through the disappointment experienced by
many perst:us who unfortunately lately have selected the
United States (whence 6,000 have emigrated into
Canada), we felt it our duty to inspect the arrangements
made lin- the comforts of the passengers before making
any statement. Th,, Guardian is ; a new vessel of
500 tons, ! with. average heightsTbetween- the deeks, and
her accommodations are excellent. Nothing' according to
the dietary table, appears to have been denied the passen-
gers actually necessary for the voyage ; the bread it may
be said is good, as it was approved tr even by those who
know what ship-bread saculd be better than ourselv. s ;
and the beds provided were included in the moderate
passage-money of 121. The passengers, 55 in number,
seemed to be beyond the usual run of emigrants. all pay-
ing their passage-money except a few, who availed them-
selves of Mr. Christophers' promissory note, which was
alluded to in The Sun last week. The Guardian has
sailed, being only one day later than she was advertised
for. We think tnis a very wholesome kind of emigra-
tion, being of persons with money in their pockets, unde-
prived of the freedom of their will, which poverty quickly
den:es to us ; selecting in this case a colony matured
in all its institutions, rich in the elements of
prosperity, and backward only in Government manage-
ment. As, however, emigrants are generally persons of
spirit, we expect a little infusion of modern political
principles will make the Cape colony second to none in
prosperity ; education is, perhaps, carried higher there
than in other colonies, as it is ; but the stir of life, poli-
tical life, and of public improvement, has been glim-
mering in the socket. Emigration will do more for the
C. pe than the world dreams of ; it is a colony indubi-
tably of the greatest national importance, affording most
of the advantages of other colonies, not so many draw-
hacks, and being, by such good ships as have been
already provided, within ten weeks' sail of England. We
would advise all interested, however; to judge for them-
selves, by inspecting the vessels which may be hereafter
selected, and comparing them with emigrant ships in
general, as the best test. Fortunately, these are now
usually of a better class than they used to be, thanks to
the Government agents here and at the outports, though
the cheapness of the rates makes caution still desirable, if
not absolutely necessary.

DIVISION ON MR. WALLAUE'S

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