The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-25 00:00:00

OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH

" A people that provoketh me to anger—which say,
stand by thyself, come not near me ; for I am holier
than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that
burneth all the day."—i6AIALT, chap. 65, verses 8, 5.

These words were applied to a sect among
the Jews, who, though the greatest of sin-

ners, proclaimed themselves the only " sane.

tified ones" of the earth. But the de-
scription is not confined to that " stiff-
necked and rebellious people," for a similar sect
has been the bane of almost every religious
community since the days of the prophets, and in
no country has it manifested itsel fin more unseem-

ly and repulsive forms than among the religious,
moral, and intelligent people of Scotland. At
present the sect has gained a greater ascendancy
and become more intolerable than, perhaps, at
any former period. Certain ministers in the
Kirk exhibit all its worst qualities in perfection.
They will admit no merit, no practical religion,
no knowledge of Divine truth in those who hap-
pen conscientiously to differ from them. Con-
trary to the express commands of our Saviour
they make long prayers, they shut up the
kingdom of Heaven against others; when
they fast, they disfigure their faces that
they may appear unto men to fast;
they forgive not men their trespasses,
but punish with unrelenting cruelty; when con-
tradicted, they revile and disdain to reason ; they
pervert Scripture for their own selfish purposes ;
and when their hypocrisy and unchristian spirit
are exposed to public scorn, they rage and
storm, like the thief whoswears he is an honest
man. We have been led to these reflections by
perusing what is called a reply to an article from
The Sun of Wednesday, 24th November, 1841,
on the " Observance of the Sabbath." The
writer has not thought proper to give his name,
and merely subscribes to the effusion the gene-
ral epithet " Fellow Citizen." But he cannot
conceal the fact that he belongs to the race we
have just described. The traits of character are
too strongly marked to be mistaken, and we have
no hesitation in asserting that he is one of the
Ministers of Glasgow—a Rev. Non-Intrusionist
—a Sabbath worshipper—a Pharisee. Not aware

that he belongs to this sect, he thus graphically
describes them :—" In nothing bad the Phari-
sees more completely obscured the law of God,

than in the matter of the Sabbath. The side on
which they erred was a superstitious adherence
to externals of their own invention, while they
were destitute of the devotional spirit." In order
to show the incalculable injury these modern
Pharisees are inflicting on pure Christianity, we
wrote a lecture for them two months ago, which,
from its strict adherence to truth and Scriptural
authority, has excited dire indignation. The
rage at first appears to have been such, that they
could not write or speak on the subject with com-
mon decency. At the end of fifty days, how-
ever, there was a show of returning reason,
which, even after this lapse of time, is sufficiently
disturbed. The condition of thepatient during
the paroxysm may be imagined from the follow-

ing epithets and paragraphs with which the Rev.
Gentleman adorns his production :—" The sneer
of an Editor"—" libeller." " Nobody in Scotland
would have written such nonsense, and I wonder
how, after it was written in the smoke of London,
any Scotsman was foolish enough to reprint it."
(Why then answer it?) " Miserable sophistry"
—" wolf in sheep's clothing." These denote the
blind rage of this minister of peace, who has lec-
tured his congregation no doubt on the sinfulness
of passion, and taken for his text, " Blessed are
the meek; for they shall inherit the earth." We
take for our text, " Blessed are the merciful,"
and in no instance, perhaps, was mercy more
required, for the senses of the writer appear still
bewildered. " Our Sabbath," says he, "is the
seventh day." We have been taught by our
Church, and the Kirk teaches the same, that
the Christian Sabbath is the first day of the week.
Is this clergyman a Jew in disguise ? Leaving
him, however, to settle these matters with his
fellow-citizens, we come to the main points
set forth in the previous article in The Sun

—namely, that the " chosen people " alone
were enjoined to obey thewish Sabbath;
that Moses, at the conclusion of the fourth
commandment, gave reasons why it should
be observed ; that the Jewish Sabbath is abo-
lished by the consent of all Christians ; and
that neither our Saviour nor the Apostles, in the
numerous commands which they left to Chris-
tians, ordered them to observe the first day as a
Jewish Sabbath. We made these assertions on the
best of all authorities—the Bible, but " this man,"
to use his own courteous phrase, denies the Bible.
He will not believe in Moses and the Prophets.
At the conclusion of the fourth commandment,
we said Moses added these remarkable words :
"And remember that thou vast a servant in the
land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God
brought thee out thence through a mighty hand,
and by an stretched out arm; therefore the Lord
thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath
day." This Christian minister, in reply to
the quotation, says—"the man was stating
what was not true, and be hoped to
conceal it. Every one knows that when the
commandmepts were promulgated, nothing
was added to the fourth," thus in direct terms
calling Moses a liar. In the 15th verse of the
fifth ettatiter of Deuteronomy, the precise
words are found, add hi the Vd trom.o imme-
diately following the enumeration, Moses adds,
" These words the Lord spake unto all your
assembly in the Mount, out of the midst of
the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick dark-
ness, with a great voice ; and he added
no more." This is the way " to unmask an
Editor." But it is of a piece with the whole
article. The writer sets Scripture and truth at
defiance whenever it suits his purpose. Refer-
ring to certain verses in the 24t4 chapter of the

same book he says, " the same motive is em-
ployed to enforce other commandments," while
not one of the ten is mentioned or referred to in
the whole chapter, the subject of discussion being
simply the sinfulness, of " taking the widow's
raiment to pledge." The New Testament he mis-
interprets in the same unbelieving spirit. We as-
serted that our Saviour made no allusion to the
fourth, when he enumerated at different times
the commandments, and we defied the Agnew-
ites to refute us. The writer accepts the chal-
lenge, and " stakes all on the issue." How does
he carry out the challenge ? Not by giving us
the authority of Scripture, but by a quibbling
kind of special pleading, proving incontestably
that he could not refute us. We refer the reader
to that part of the argument, and leave him to
judge for himself, simply giving one spe-
cimen. In the general command " Thou
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,"
he says there is no allusion to the eighth,
thereby inferring that a man may love his
neighbour as himself while he picks his pocket.
And how does he reply to the assertion that the
Apostles have left us no divine authority for
" observing the first day of the week 'as a
Jewish Sabbath ?" With the simple asser-
tion, " Few will venture to deny the change
was made by the Apostles." Now, we have
ventured to deny it, Tor various reasons,
adduced in the previous article. Not one of
them, except St. Paul, has even mentioned the
day, and that Apostle, as the writer knows well,
preached more frequently on the Jewish Sab-
bath than on the first day of the week. Will he
refute this, or will he deny that the most signal
event, save one, recorded in the New Testament,
when all the Apostles were assembled in one place,
and preached the Gospel to the Parthians, Medes.
and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, took place
" when the Day of Pentecost (a Jewish festival)
was fully come ?" Having thus shown how► little
" the man" knows about the Scriptures, we
will, in conclusion, briefly advert to his
ignorance of facts which are constantly taking
place in his own country. "No member
of the Church," he asserts, " says or thinks
that the ordinances of the Church should
be enforced by pains and penalties." What !
have the General Assembly inflicted no pains
and penalties in carrying into effect their ordi-
nance called the " Veto ?" Is it no penalty to
deprive seven ministers of their livings, and leave
them and their children to starve, which these
religious inquisitors would have accomplished
but for the strong arm of the law ? Is it no pe-
nalty to deprive a respectable man of Church pri-
vileges because he buries his child on a Sunday?
Is it no penalty to send a man to gaol for sel-
ling sweetmeats to children on Sunday, which
he knows was done in Edinburgh at the "ear-
nest request" of a Minister of the Gospel?
Why does he assert that the people and
not the Church cry out for this strict
observance of the Sabbath ? Is he aware

that all the members of the Town Council (ex-
cept one) expressed the strongest disapprobation
of the measure—that a numerous meeting was
held in the same city last year to denounce the
ministers of the West Church for inflicting
pains and penalties to enforce their ordi-
nances, and that the Presbytery of Arbroath
were hooted by many parishioners for abetting
the tyrannical conduct of the Minister of Barry ?
But we have done with " the man," who, though
a teacher in Israel, knoweth not these things,
and earnestly entreat the people of Scotland not
to be guided by such blind leaders. They de-
serve every praise for the decorous and orderly
manner in which they spontaneously observe
the Sabbath. Let them still continue to observe

it in their own way, and not yield to the selfish
designs of men who are moving heaven and
earth to bring them under the most galling bon-
dage that ever afflicted any nation.
The following is the article referred to :
OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH,
IN REPLY TO ♦N ARTICLE FROM " T/1E SUN" OF
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 24, 1841.
Fellow Citizens,—You have probably seen an article
advocating the running of Sabbath trains on the Edin•
burgh and Glasgow Railway, which has been reprinted
from a London newspaper, and extensively circulated in
Glasgow. On this subject, I know, you will judge for
yourselves. My opinion will not make you keep the
Sabbath, and the sneer of an, Editor will not make you
break it. You must have a reason of your own. As one
of yourselves and living among you, I beg to say a few
words in reply to this stranger, who has so confidently
prescribed his own rule of duty to you.
This adviser begins in a very suspicious tone. He
calls Scotland a " priest-ridden country." It is clear
that the libeller has never been in the North. He does
not know us. Although priests were willing to ride, the
Scottish people will not be ridden. The steed has cast
many a would-be rider before ; and an English Editor
need not try to bestride him now. The epithet, as ap-
plied to our country, is alike false and insulting. After
introducing himself in this way, the writer cunningly
labours to represent the opposition to Sabbath travelling
as the work of Church courts. You know this is not

true. You know, though this volunteer adviser is blind
to it, the standing and character and numbers of the
friends of the Sabbath in this country. Divided as we
unhappily are on other subjects, we are cordially at one
on this. Rich and poor, lay and clerical, churchmen
and dissenters, all who fear God in the land are united.
The document avers that the doctrine regarding the
Sabbath now pressed by the Church has been " adopted those few years." Nobody in Scotland would
have written such nonsense ; and I wonder how, after
it was written in the smoke of London, any Scotsman
was foolish enough to reprint it. Every one in this
country knows that the views of our fathers were more
strict than our own. " The Sabbath is to be sanctified
by a holy resting all that day." Does the Editor of
The Sun know from what book that sentence is taken ?
And does he think it has been composed "within these
few years ?" It is further said, that the Church mem-
bers hold it to be " the duty of the Legislature and the
Executive to carry their ordinances into effect by pains
and penalties." Whose ordinances ? Those of the Legis-
lature, or those of the Church? All depends on this.
Of course, every sensible man holds it to be the duty of
the Legislature and Executive to carry their own ordi-
nances into effect. The law of the land must be
enforced. But no member of the Church of Scotland
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event which had reference to them only, namely, their
deliverance from Egyptian bondage. Of course we, in
this country, have been in the habit of taking the reason
of the law as it is embodied in the law itself—" Remem-
ber the Sabbath:day, to keep it holy, for in six days
the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in
them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord
blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it." But in this
document we find it averred, that it was instituted on
another ground, and Scripture is quoted in proof of the
averment. It is said, " When Moses descended from
Mount Horeb, he called all Israel and said, Hear, 0
Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your
ears this day. The Lord our God made a covenant
with us in Horeb.' He then promulgated the Ten Com-
mandments, and at the conclusion of the fourth, added
these remarkable words—' And remember that thou west
a stranger in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy
God brought thee out thence, through a mighty hand
and by a stretched out arm; therefore the Lord thy God
commanded thee to keep the Sabbath dory'." It is evident
the writer had the Bible before him, for the words are
exactly quoted ; and why did he not refer to the chapter
and verse? The man was stating what was not true, and
hoped to conceal it. Every one knows that when the law
was " promulgated,''* nothing was added to the fourth,
nor to any of the commandments. We are therefore not a,
little surprised to learn that when Moses came down
from Mount Horeb he promulgated the Ten Command-
ments, and added a remarkable declaration to the fourth.
Let the reader turn to the fifth chapter of Deuteronomy,
and he will be able to unmask the Editor for himself.
You will there find Moses, about forty years after the
law was given, assembling the people—repeating to them
the precepts of the law, and accompanying them with
his own comments. Their deliverance from Egypt is
urged on Israel, as a special reason why they should keep
the Sabbath. The same motive is employed to enforce
other commandments. Thus, Deuteronomy xxiv, 17, 18.
" Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger,
nor of the fatherless, eor take a widow's raiment
to pledge : But thou shalt remember that thou
wast a bond-man in Egypt, and the Lord thy
God redeemed thee thence : therefore I command
thee to do this thing." Justice to the stranger and
the fatherless is enjoined on Israel by the very
same argument .which is employed to enforce the ob-
servance of the -Sabbath ; and is justice a Jewish insti-
tgliOn, and-not binding on us? The deliverance from

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bath. The side on which they erred was a superstitious
adherence to externals of their own invention, while
they were destitute of the devotional spirit. Against this
abuse the example of our Lord was constantly directed.
Not one of his actions even seems to countenance the
prosecution of common business or amusements on that
day. When be found it necessary so very often to
check the abuse of Sabbath observance, and yet never
annulled the Sabbath law, it is evidence amounting to
demonstration that he left it in force.
After the example, the teaching of Jesus is adduced
for the same purpose. l'he Commandments as given by
our Lord on different occasions are summed up--the
Sabbath is not named among them ; and therefore, it is
concluded, the Sabbath law is annulled under the New
Testament dispensation. The writer deems this a
very strong point ; and waxing heroic as he con-
templates the power of his own argument, exclaims—
"We defy the Agnewites to refute us." I accept
the challenge, and with you, my countrymen, for
judges, I am willing to stake all on the issue. The
writer introduces two cases. The first is as follows :
" To a lawyer tempting him he said, Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and all thy soul, and
all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments
hang all the Law and the Prophets.' Not a single word
about the Sabbath." To this I answer—Neither is there
a single word here about worshipping images or stealing.
It is obvious that none of the commandments are speci-
fied here. It does as much to annul the second and
eighth as the fourth. But this is mere trifling. Every
child here knows that the thing given is the sum of the
law—love to God comprehending the first four, and
love to man the last six commandments of the deca-
logue. The next case is quoted from Matthew xix-
-16-21. It is an enumeration of the duties compre-
hended under the second table of the law. In this case
there is another flourish. " Here the commandmellts
which Christ said were binding are all enumerated, but
not the slightest allusion is made to the fourth." I
answer—Neither is there the slightest allusion made to the
first, second, or third. If this passage repeals the
fourth, it repeals also the first three. The argument is
—The Fourth Commandment is not mentioned' in this
enumeration, and therefore it is not binding under the
Christian dispensation. If the argument is good, go on
with it ; thus—The Second Commandment is not men-
tioned in this enumeration, therefore it is not binding
under the Christian dispensation : that is, it is r;et sin-
ful now to worship the work of our own hands. To
any reader of his Bible the whole matter is very simple:
The enumeration is intended to include only our duty
to men. Duty to God is not spoken of at that place
at all. This is our refutation of the miserable sophistry
that has been palmed upon the public with such an air
of confidence. We defy Tie Sun to refute us.
The next subject is the change of the day ; and the
practice of the apostles is adduced, to show that if any
Sabbath is to be kept, it should be the Jewish Sabbath.
Now, passing over the expressions in the Epistles, which,
like those of our Lord, aimed at prevailing abuses of Sab-
bath observance, have been represented as forbidding it
altogether ; and passing also the abundant evidence that
the Apostles and their successors—all who have borne
the Christian name in every age and nation—set apart
the first day of the week for their assemblies and solemn
communions, Ilbeg to observe that the opponents of the
Sabbath always magnify the change far above its own
importance. Few will venture to deny that the change
was made by the Apostles ; and they had good rea-
sons for making it. But it is in its own nature a much
less important thing than it is generally accoanted. Our
Sabbath is the seventh day. The essence of the thing
is the consecration of the seventh day as it comes
round. The time when you begin to count is a circum-
stance of comparatively small import. The absolute
portion of time on which the consecration is made can-
not be of the essence of the Sabbath. If it were so,
it could not possibly be observed. Suppose we are right
—that we keep it at the exact point of time in which it
should be kept—then of necessity the inhabitants of
New Zealand are wrong, seeing their day occurs at
another point of time. The Sabbath was made for
man ; but if the portion of time had been fixed absolutely
on which the Sabbath must be kept, it would have applied
only to some men, seeing it is day in one country while
it is night in another. Most clear it is that the essence
of it lies in the seventh day proportionally. This is
fixed and universal ; but the point in time as which the
consecration is made has varied, for special reasons, in
the Jewish and Christian dispensations, and in the
nature of things must be different on different portions
of the earth's surface.

The last argument is about the infliction of punish.
ment. The substance of it is—lf you take the law from
Moses, you must punish the Sabbath-breaker with
death ; and Christ's example was always merciful.
There is a very short answer to this. It is the moral
law given to Moses in the Ten Commandments that we
hold to be binding on Christians. There are no paint
and penalties in it. The moral law was applied to Israel
in the institutes of Moses, and certain specified penalties
attached to each offence. The same moral law is applied
to us in Acts of Parliament, with certain "pacific penal-
ties attached to each offence. But we are no:
bound to
adopt the penalties prescribed by Moses, and I,•e have
not done it. We say penalties should be inflictet:. on
transgressors, not because they are in the laws c. ..f
Moses, but because they are in Acts of Parliament.
We do not punish the Sabbath-breaker with death,
because our own law doss not demand it. Neither
do we put to death an adulterer, for the same
reason. The law is given to men without any other
penalty than the displeasure of God. The rulers of every
nation are bound to apply it according to the time and
circumstances in which they live. How often must it
be told that we take from the Bible the moral law with-
out any penalty, and the Legislature of every country
takes its own way of enforcing it ?
I have only to notice now the conclusion, which con-
tains the most unjust insinuation of all. The Sun, for-
sooth, would make it " a day of joy and gladness, not
of gloom and sorrow." Verily, this is the wolf in
sheep's clothing. We wish a sabbath-law for protection
to the. poor as well as the rich. No Christian desires
to make it a day of gloom. Let men be invited to
enter tho House of God with the voice of joy and thanks-
giving. Let them be taught to count the Sabbath a de-
light ; and with that view let them be allowed to rest
from their toil. Most men see clearly that if the Railway
trains are allowed to ply on the Sabbath many other in-
roads upon its rest will necessarily and immedi-
ately follow. First one class of labourers and
mechanics and then another would be called to their com-
mon employment on 01l the days of the week. There
could be no additional remuneration ; for already there
are too many hands. You lose the rest which is needful
alike for body and soul, and get nothing in return. I ad-
dress myself to all who are employed during the week in
the service of others. Would you like to see the Sabbath
destroyed ? We seek to shield you from the tplinny of
avarice. This miserable lust of wealth would impiously
rob God of his due, and cruelly wrest from his creatures
their best birthright. Godliness is profitable unto all
11 things. We would keep his Sabbaths, because it is the
law of God ; but we know that in keeping them there is
great present reward to men.
Knowing that the Sabbath is " a delight," and fearing
lest that " day of joy and gladness " may soon be made
one of gloom to you,
I am, with affection and respect,
A FELLOW CITIZEN.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, JAN. 22 . —ln consequence of the retirement
of Mr. Williams, the election of Professor of Poetry will
take place on Thursday next, at twelve o'clock, instead
of ten o'clock, as previously announced.
who must be na-
tives of Bedfordshire
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Friday,Cs:aomFl College gb day.
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rClers:
Candidates are required to present themselves to the
President of the College on Saturday, Feb. 5, at eleven,
o'clock, with proper epistles and testimonials, together
with Latin epistles to the electors.
The Regius Professor of Hebrew has given notice of
his intention to lecture on the latter part of the Pro-
phecy of Isaiah during this term, on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays, and Saturdays, at two o'clock, commencing
on Tuesday next.
The Regius Professor of Modern History will deliver
a course of eight lectures, on the Method of Studying
Modern History, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Satur-
days, in the Clarendon, at two o'clock ; to begin on
Thursday next.
The Reader in Experimental Philosophy proposes to
deliver a lecture, in which he will exhibit some of the
principal phenomena of polarized light, on Tuesday next,
at one o'clock, at the Clarendon.
Sir T. 1). Acland, Bart., has presented the Hon. and
Rev. C. L. Courtney, of Christ Church, to the Vicarage
of Broadclist, Devon. _ _ _

The Rev. John Clawes, of Broughton Hall, and others,
have presented the Rev. T. V. Bayne, of Jesus College,
to the Perpetual Curacy of St. John's, Broughton, Lan-
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W. Webster, Esq., has presented the Rev. J. Gregson,
of Brasennose College, to the Perpetual Curacy of Upton
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Author of
" Rattlin the Reefer." " Outward Bound," " Jack Ashore," Sze.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

MR. AINSWORTH'S MISCELLANY,
ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.
On the 29th of January will be published, price Eighteenpence,
the First NuMber of
AIN S WOR T H'S MAGAZINE.
A Monthly Miscellany of
Romance. General Literature, and Art.
Edited by W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq.,
And illustrated with Designs on Steel and Woodcuts,
By GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.
Containing the Commencement of
A NEW WORK by MR. AINSWORTH, entitled
THE MISER'S DAUGHTER; a Tale of the Times of Ho-
garth ; with Two Illustrations on Steel by George Cruikshani ;
and Contributions from several of the most distinguished Writers
of the day.
We are glad to observe that Mr. Ainsworth is on the eve
of starting a Magazine of his own. There is hardly a literary
man of the day more adapted for the Editorship of a monthly
periodical ; a fact which has been abundantly preyed by the
great success with which he has conducted Bentley's Miscel-
lany.' "—Observer.
Hugh Cunningham, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square.
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GRATIS WITH THE " WEEKLY CHRONICLE" OF
SATURDAY and SUNDAY the 29th and 30th JAN.,
ASPLENDID SERIES of ENGRAV-
INGS, illustrative of the ROYAL CHRISTENING
and its attendant Ceremonies.
The Series will contain—
The Baptismal Procession The Arms of the Sovereign
The Ceremony at the Font The Arms of the Prince
The Royal Banquet The Arms of the Knights of St.
The Interior of St. George's George, both British and Fo-
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reign,

Chapel
The Interior of St. George'sHalll
And a Splendid Historical Subject, allegorically treated. The
whole forming a Magnificent Tableau of nearly 40 Subjects,
drawn and engraved by the first Artists of the day. The
same Paper also will contain the fullest prrticulars of this in-
teresting National Event.
Sold ,y all Newsmen in Town and Country.
Office, 3.37, Strand. Price Fivepence

THE ENGLISH CHARTIST CIR-
CULAR, No. LII., will be published on SATURDAY
NeXT, Jan. 2.9.
PART V., price Sixpence, now ready, contains:—
Memoirs of Lord Edward Fitzgerald—Practical Men—Ad-
dress of the Polish People to the People of England—The
Masons' Strike—Sketches of Arnold, the Traitor, and Major
Andre—Several Addresses by the Executive of the National
Charter Association—The Census and Registration—Life of
General Washington—Several Original Articles by Dr. P. M.
M‘Donell, T. R. Smith, " Pro-Chartist," and others—Poetry
—Facts for Engineers, &e.
Remember, Sixty closely-printed Columns, being Forty
Pages of well-printeti matter for Sixpence !
" Conducted with shrewdness and energy."--Spectator.
" Thousands have hailed this publication with delight."—
Weekly Dispatch.
" We recommend this work with delight."—Northern Star.
London : Cleave, Shoe-lane, Fleet-street ; Heywood, Man-
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and Country.

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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, JAN. 25,
Will be performed the Play of THE POINT OF HO-
NOUR.—Dorimel, Mr. Anderson; Bertha, Miss Ellen Fau-
cit, her first appearance at this Theatre.
After which will be produced a New Farce, entitled THE
WINDMILL.
After which will be repeated the New Christmas Pantomime,
ealed HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN-
NER; OR, JACK CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON
STONE.
Doors vs be opened at Halt past Six, and the Performance
to begin it Seven o'clock. Boxes 55., Second Price, 2?. 6d.
Pit 35., Second Price 2e. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second
Pr ce Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS.

THIS EVENING, JAN. 25,
Will be repeated the Opera of ELENA ÜBERTL—The
Character of Elena Überti by Miss Adelaide Kemble , Count
Übaldo, Mr. W. Harrison; Sigifredo. Mr. Leffler; Count
Guido, Mr. Stretton ; Boemondo, Mr. Clement White; Gual-
tiero, Mr. Wigan ; Imberga, Miss Grant.
After which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas
Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK; OR,
IARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW.
Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.;
First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.;
Second Price. 25.; Gallery, la. Tickets and places for the
Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten
till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application.
Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller,
167. New Bond-street.
To-morrow, Wives as they were, and Maids as they arc
with Guy Earl of Warwick, or Harlequin and the Dun Coy/.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE
AND MR. WILLIS JONES.
Amazing attraction. First appearance of Mrs. Norma, and
crowded Houses to witness Harlequin and the Ice Queen,
the best Pantomime of the Season.
THIS EVENING, JAN. 25,
Will be acted Haines' wonderfully successful Drama, enti-
tled ELIZABETH LAZARUS, THE JEWESS, founded
on Captain Glasscock's " Land Sharks and Sea Gulls."
After which, MRS. NORMA, with Bellini's Music.
To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled
HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK
FROST AND KING SII AM.—With gorgeous and charac-
teristic Scenrry, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint
Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun-
Ding, &c. Harlequin, M. Huline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan-
taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr.
Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe.
Private and Public Boxes can be had of Messrs. Sams, Ebers,
Mitchell, Andrews, and Seguin, during the run of this popu-
lar Pantomime.

A splendid Transparency of the Queen and Prince of Wales,
of immense magnitude w►ll be exhibited over the Colonnade
of this Theatre, on the Royal Christening Night.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON.
Splendid success of Domestic Drama, fcir which this Theatre
stands unrivalled and alone.
THIS EVENING, JAN. 25,
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-
ville ; Huntingdon, Mr. Dale ; Claud, Mr. Seaman ; Jemmy
Cottle, Mr. Gardner ; Davy, Mr. Paul; Geraldine, Miss Vin-
cent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama.
After which, THE WILD IRISH GlRL.—Shelah O'May,
Mias Vincent, 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 Romantic Aerial Comic Pan-
tomime,
entitled HARLEQUIN PETER WILKINS; OR,
THE KING OF THE AIR AND THE FLYING IN-
DIANS.—With new and extensive Scenery, Dresses, Decora-
tion% Tricks, Transformations, and Effects—A new Nautical
Panorama, to be entitled " Our Native Sea-iiirt Isle !" con-
sisting of Maritime Views along the Coast of England. Also,
a new Grand Dissolving Diorama, by Childe, the Great Illu-
sionist ' • and the Opening of the Pantomime supported by the
Comic Talent of this—the Popular Theatre of London.
Boxes, 2s.—Pit, Is.—Gallery, 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes
only, at Half-past Eight.
To-morrow. Geraldine, with The Wild Irish Girl, and Har-
equin Peter Wilkins.
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DEATH OF LADY LOUISA IMURRAY.—We
have to announce the death of the above amiable lady,
who expired at a quarter past ten o'clock on Sunday
morning, after a lengthened illness. Her Ladyship, who
was third daughter of Henry first Earl of Uxbridge, and
sister of the Marquis of Anglesey, Dowager Coun-
tess of Galloway, the Hon. Gentleman Sir Edward
Paget, &c. was born 26th March, 1777, and married,
first, the sth March, 1801,Lieutenant-General Sir James
Erskine, Bart., who died 3d March, 1825, and se-
condly the Right Hon. General Sir George Murray,
G.C.8., Master-General of the Ordnance, by whom
we believe her Ladyship leaves an only daughter. The
death of this estimable lady will place a great many
families of distinction in mourning—namely, the
Duke and Duchess of Richmond, Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Anglesey, Earl and Countess of Uxbridge,
Dowager Lady Templemore, Viscount and Viscountess
Sidney, Lord and Lady Crofton, Lady Caroline Capel,
Earl and Countess of Sandwich, Earl of Enniskillen, Sir
Edward and Lady Paget, Earl and Countess of Gallo-
way, Right Hon. George and Lady Agnes Byng, Mar-
chioness of Conyngham, Dowager Countess of Galloway,
Lord Graves, &c.
We learn that a puncheon of the finest High-
land aqua rite, containing about 120 gallons, was on
Monday put into her Majesty's duty-free warehouse, in
London-street, from a celebrated Islay distillery, and
that it was despatched on its way to London to be depo-
sited in the royal vaults in St. James's Palace, to be
used, no doubt, at the festivities consequent on the chris-
tening of the Baron of Renfrew and Lord of the Isles.
This will-enable such afoul Highland chieftains as may
be honoured by being invited to the banquet to quaff a
bumper of this pure native mountain dew to the "
health
and prosperity of a brother chief, who may yet reign
111 Charlie's stead."—Glasgow Paper of Wednesday.
GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SHIP COMPANY.
----Th'enene-works and ship building yard of this Com-
pany were frint4,. for sale by Mr. B. P. Clark, at the
offices, te a-street, on Monday, when they were
bought in for the aura of 2,7,0001 The' original cost was
45,0002—Bristol Mercury.

THE RAILWAY SUN
BEING OUT OF PRINT,
WILL BE RE-PUBLISHED THIS DAY.

TUE CHINA SUN,

AND THE

PARLIAMENTARY SUN,
ARE STILL ON SALE,
PRICE SIXPENCE EACH.
Sun Office, Jan. 25, 1842.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Mr. P. Cunningham's plan for improving the sliding scale,
or enabling the landlords to rob the community without
being detected, may be well adapted to answer the purpose,
but the nation needs justice, not chicanery, and therefore we
shall not further advert to Mr. Cunningham's plan.

THE WEATHER.—Noon, JANUARY 24.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Thermometer... 29 ) Highest 36 I Lowest 2l
Barometer 29.59.—Wind S.E.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
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