The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-27 00:00:00

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546,000,000
936,000,000

Land• tax which ought to have been paid 1,482,000,000
The amount actually paid

1,162,000,000

Amount of National Debt

302,000,000
Thu 3 showing, that had the land-tax been paid,
there would have been no national debt, and there
would be 302,000,000 in the National Treasury, to
say nothing. of the immense amount which has been
paid for interest upon that debt.
The lecturer disavowed all desire to break faith
with the public creditor. He left such spoliating doc-
trines to Sir James Graham, who wrote a pamphlet,
in which he recommended the application of the
sponge to the national debt. All that is requisite is
simple justice, and the payment of the debt by those
who owe it. The interest of the debt—the yearly
30,000,0001. cripples the industry or the country, and,
what is worse, monoply in all shapes has been called
in to amass -a capital to be expended in bribery. The
4,000,0001. yearly wrung from the people by the
sugar monopoly is spent in corrupting constituencies,
thus rivetting upon the people chains wrought by
their own hands.

Mr. Duncan then entered into the details of pro-
jected reforms, dilating upon the six points of Uni-
verral Suffrage, Short Parliaments, Ballot, Equal
Electoral Districts, No Property Qualification, and
Payment of Members, contending that an extension
of the suffrage, to give a real representation to the
people, was the only means of relieving existing bur-
dens, or securing future prosperity.
At the conclusion of the lecture a vote of thanks
was, upon the motion of Mr. Wade, given to Mr.
Duncan for his interesting discourse.

The following paragraph, which appeared in the Times
of Saturday, refers to the system discovered by Mr.
Hunt, of 224,Regent-street:—'`lt will be recollected that
a lad named Pearson, one of the persons who witnessed
the treasonable attempt upon the Queen's life on the
Sunday afternoon, was afflicted with so inveterate a
habit of stammering, as to be unable even to give an
alarm. He, has, we are informed., by means of a new
process of cure, obtained the power of perfect articula-
tion,.the hesitation which before rendered him s'3arcely
intelligible, even when not excited, having entirely
disappeared."
On Thursday last, an alarming fire broke out in a
mill situated near Troyes. The whole of the corn, flour, and
machinery were destroyed, and the loss is estimated at
200,0t)0 frencs.—On Monday the commune of Quincarnon
was the scene of a violent conflagration. The flames burst
forth in a building next to a smith's forge, at four in the day.
Eight houses were consumed, with a quantity of furniture, and
some cattle, and it was twelve o'clock at night before the fire
' could be got under.—On the 12th a fire burst forth at Bellings-
hausen, near Wursburg, in Germany. The dryness of the
season rendered it impossible to obtain water, and the inhabit-
ants being in the fields, forty houses were consumed before
the flames could be extinguished.
The Journal des Chemins de Fer of Saturday pub-
lishes a letter, a?dressed by Mr. Brunel to the Royal Railroad
Company from Genoa to Piedmont, and to the frontiers of
Lombardy.. In this letter Mr. Brunel summarily sta,es C•e
result of his surveys, undertaken in order to determine the best
line for the projected road. After the most minute investiga-
liens, he has acquired the conviction that the railway oilers no '
difficulties which his experience cannot easily conquer. In
'he (balance which separates Genua from the frontier towards
Milan, and which may be evaluated at 12(1 kilometres (30
French league,), 25 only run through a rough and difficult
country, and out of this number 15 at most present serious
but not insuperable obstacles. The remainder of the I:ne will
pass over the most favourable ground. Thus the passage of
the Apennines, the name of which, as Mr. Brunel remarks,
sounds so awfully to an English ear, is formidable only to an
inattentive wid unskilful observer, and all !the conditions for
the inclines and curves will be accomplished without extraor-
dinery labour.
MENDELSSOIIN.--It is reported of Handel, that
straying into a church where there was a fine organ, lie asked
permission to play the concluding voluntary ; but tits organist
finding his congregation still in their seats after Handel had
been some time playing, desired him to exchange seats for he
saw Handel was not equal to the task of playing the people out.
A few chords from the other accomplished that which Handel
was unable to do. As it was with Handel so was it with
.Mendelssohn on Sunday se'nnight at St. Peter's, Cornhill.
The concluding Doxology, sung b_y the children, was the well-
known air of " God preserve the 'Emperor," by Haydn. This
Mendelssohn took for his theme, and after playing for half an
hour, relying altogether upon the internal resources of the art,
and not upon any change of trumpets into flutes, or flutes into
oboes, still the:congregation were immovable, and the beadle
had to go round the church and announce that service was
over. It is singular that all the greatest composers were also
distinguished organ performers. Mozart and Beethoven were
each prodigious on the organ, whilst \Veber and Sphor, whu
may be said to have refined upon known materials rather than
made new creations, were each wholly ignorant of the powers
and harmonies peculiar to this king of instruments.

A letter from Chazey (Ain) states, that on the
10th, about four in the evening, so dreadful a shower of
hail came down that the persons who were in the field,.
were severely injured by it. The country, the moment
before looking beautifully from the rich' harvest, was ali
at once covered with such a quantity of hailstones, some
of them as large as a walnut, that 36 hours after, al-
though the weather was warm and dry, they could be
taken up by handfullS. The amount of destruction has
been immense. The trees and shrubs are deprived of
their leaves, and greatly injured. -The birds even could
nut escape, for many were found dead in the fields. A
great many of the inhabitants have been reduced t ) want
by the devastations of this storm.
The Berlin State Gazette publishes a notice, re-
minding the operatives of the article of the Prussian
Code, which punishes with an imprisonment of from
three days to a fortnight, every workman who shall
prefer idleness to labour on the work-bays, when his
services are required by his employer.
The Chamber of Ilesse-Darmstadt adopted, on the
lith inst., by a majority of 24 to 23, the proposition of
the Government, that the principal lines of railway in-
tended to be constructed in that country shall be exe-
cuted at the charge of the state.
FEMALE LABOUR IN MisEs.—The colliers em-
ployed in the works belonging to the Earl of Balcarres received
homy, on Saturday last, that the employment of females work-
, ing in the colliery would in future be discontinued.—Kendal
lercury.
Great complaints having been. made, within the
last few da)s, of. the difficulty of obtaining silver at the Bank of
England, or any of the private banks, it may be proper to state
that there has been, within the last two or three dap, an ex-
tensive issue of new half sovereigns, dated 1841. These are
now to be had at all the banks, and, consequewly, the necessity
for silver will be in a great measure superseded.— Observer.
PRESEN CATION Or PLATE TO. Ain. SCLATER AT
CALAIs.—The wreck of the Minerva brig on the coast of Ca-
lais, in the month of March last, will still be fresh in the recol-
lection of our readers. So also will be the generous self-devo-
tion of Mr. Sclater, Mr. Canney, and the gallant tars of her
Majt sty's steamer Widgeon, who rescued from the shrouds of
the Minerva seven of her crew. The honours which French
and English united in conferring on the patties engaged. in that
gallant affair were, on Moniay last, crowned by the municipa-
lity of Calais in a way alike honourable to those who gave and
to him who received their tribute. On that day a chaste and
elegant silver epergne, with an inscription commemorative of
the service which induced the testin.onial, and bearing the
names of all the generous boat's crew, was presented to Mr.
Sclater, in the Hotel de Ville, of Calais, by the Mayor, its the
presence of the municipal body, and if a number of French and
English residents. On the foilovving day (Tuesday), al. a few
hours' notice only, a farewell dinner was given to the gallant
officer. Between thirty and forty genii:men met at five o'clock
at Dowera's Hotel, where a splendid banquet, combining Eng-
lish liberality with French taste, was prepared for them. The
chair was filled by Captain Stodart, the vice-chairs by Captain
Griffiths and Alfred Thorne, Esq., who were supported by the
Commandant of the cavalry now in quarters at Calais, Count
de Salis:—.,Dover .Chronicle.

The Correctional Tribunal.' was engaged on Wed-
nesday with the trial of eight men, belonging to the printing-
office of Messrs. Lacramoe and Co., for an unlawful combina-
tion to enforce a rise of wages. It appeared that they held re-
guar meetings at a wine-shop, and carried their measures by
formal votes, after debates betwcel the cote gauche and the cote
droll. They were convicted chiefly on the evidence of a com-
positor, who refused to comply with their resolutions, and was
was consequently excluded by the verdict of this body from
working in any race. Three were sentenced to imprisonmen,
for a fortnight, two fur a week, two for three days, and one was
acquitted.
.As the King was lately proceeding to Fontaine-
bleau, escorted by a detachment of the Bth Dragoons, a veteran
matechal-de-logis, named Moller, happened in the raidd:tY of
the journey to lose his cross. The King, in changing horses,
perceiving by the actions of &he men that
.something had oc-
curred, inquired what was the matter, and hlellet informed
him, adding that he had received the decoration from the Em-
peror's own hand on the field of battle. "If I have any con-
solation for my loss," added he, courtier-like enough, "it is in
the thought that I was at the time in attendance on your
Majesty." The Queen listened with great interest to the old
soldier, and cn her arrival sent him another cross as a present
from herself.

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NDON NIONDA:V. EVENING JUNE 27, 1842.
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' HER MAJESTVS THEATRE. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. I ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK AND
'elY
es...l:oet six o'cl6clt on Saturday evening placards were On Wednesday evening, a .I..ectute,was delivered TOi •JOHANNOT.
I fice HALF-A-CROWN. The JULY NI..'NIBER of
posted at the-entrances to her Majesty's
,Theatre, as well to a full audience, by Jonathan Duncan, Eiqq- at, the INSW 0 RT Ii" S M L.
as those in the Opera Arcade, and also those in the Hay-. Noah's Ark A - A. Lt- ,e e... eIN \
• - CONTENTS.
market, announcing the postponement of the opera in i , Deptford, upon the subject of Parlia-
mentary Reform, in connexion with the present , WINDSOR CAST L E,
I Puritani; and the substitution of the opera Beatrice di An Historical Bomaoce,
Tenda, in its stead, The reason assigned for t•lie...change inoveme:ft for an extension of the suffrage. Ile coin-
inenced by explaining that the agitation for Reform ! By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, req.
was contained in the following notice and :-
"Itcertifieate Chapters I. and 11. . .
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. is with great pain announced that in consequence \,,,-as no novelty—that it had beau an undying priaci- ,
.V. ithe an Illustration on Steel, design. ed and etch :d by
.of the severe illness of Maclaine Persiani, as will appear le with Englishmen since the foundation of the mo-
and Seven' TONY JOHANNtor.
from the following. certificate:— . ' . Woodcuts by W. ALFRED DELAMOTTE.
"Four o'Clock, Saturday, June 15, 1842. Parliamentary Reform Association—a body Which '
narehy. ti e presented himself as Connected with the
THE MISER'S DAUGHTER,
"Madame Persiani is confined to • her bed with fever had taken up and advocated points, which had been By W. HARRISON AINSWOtITH, Esq.-
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and a sore throat, which renders it impossible for her to laid down in 1780, by an association of which the • Chapters XIV. and XV.
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sing this evening, "JAMES WARDROP, M.D., Duke of Richmond was the head. so Wit Two Illustratinis en Steel, by GEO. CRUIKSHANK.. The points, ADDRESS.
"Charles-street, St. James's-square." adopted 62 y-e'ars ago, were— 1 Mary O'Brien.: a Tale. By Lady Harriette D'Orsay.
It was advertised that Beatrice di. Tenda would be 1 Annual Parliaments • The Jewish Marriage. By Micilael. Angelo Titmarsh.
substituted for I Paritani, and that Rubini would sing 2 Universal Suffrage The Songs of Italy. No. 11. By Edward Kenealy; Esq.
the grand scena " Vivi tu," from Anna Baena. At hall- 3 Voting by Ballot That's near nhuee, aeErnse.tin.oriU:h.l.
Y.
virLa.man Blanchard. •
past six, or thereabouts, the doors of the theatre were 4 Equal Polling Districts Mary Stuart. By Miss Co:tel:o. •
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opened, and within a quarter of an hour the house- was 5 No money qualification of Members ' A Visit to the City of the Khalifs. By W. Francis Alas-
crowded, not alone in those parts devoted to the general 6 Payment of Members for their attendance. -
public, the pit and the galleries, but also in those devoted.
points—amongst apri at Sunse.t. By the Hon. Julia A ugust a Maynard.
'exclusively to the rank and fashion of the country—the The Two Noble Brothers. By Nti s Sk, hon.
boxes and stalls. The commencement•of the per-an-mance raematonigart
tbheermowferneo, noblemen
the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Effingham, the Earl of THE (IL!) FAMILY PLACE,
was fixed to take place at half-past seven, but at that I
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k e supportede Richmond,
Surrey, the Earl of Selkirk, Viscount Mountmorres, By the Hon: Mrs. NORTON.
hour there was no appearance of life oh the part of the
management beyond the filling of the orchestra and the. She thought of him—and wept. I3y Lady Harriette D'Orsay.
full illumination of the theatre. About tweuty minutes "of"bugbear
the suffrage wa.'... no "novelty;" that the
A Farewell. By Edward Kenealy, Esq.
and Lord K. innaird. All this proved that the question A Bengal Yarn. By Captain Medwin.
to eight o'clock, Signer Costa took his seat before the cry of " innovation" should not be allowed to _haunt A Papir on Puffing.
conductor's desk, and gave the signal to the orchestra to the mind even of the most timid in a question of such The Itus,ian Prince. Part IL By Lunette.
proceed. This nerved as a signal to the audience. A great importance. Indeed the struggle for freedom The Lounge inj the CEilßdeltuf.oxeß)f,
general explosion of hisses, groans, cries, calls, and ex- had been going on from the earliest periods, and had. IS'ir:tet forsethofe .Serxichni3 y n nCrdh.arles W. Brooks.
clamations or dissatsfactien burst forth from every quer- been as regularly progressing, as may be shown hy...y ',mall Blanchard.
The Myrtle. k eB
. Catherine Parr.
ter ; and the loudest masses of sound produced by the reference to our history. This would expose the The Drama. y
excellent band of this theatre were Atm:ally drowned in
the flood of tumult and violence. ' This scene of strife, sources of our degradation, would show that it arose,.
and still exists in consequence of the transmission of Hugh Cunningham, St. Martirila4lace, Trafalgar-square.
between discord and harmony, lasted all through- the , • • • ax,.
overture, the whole being bat a piece of dumb show. nereditary pov;er. Upon the subject of the land t
The overture concluded, the curtain rose on the first thelecturerdilated. at cons --.
. considerable length, and went
scene of .the opera, and discovered the chorus rangen in into an argument, supported by calculations for the.
order ready to. continence. The conductor tapped on purpose of exposing oue of the greatest frauds ever
his desk, the chorus attempted to begin, but the whole committed upon a people. By a fiction of law all, the
house rose en masse, as one man, gallery, pit, boxes, and lands in the kindom were said to be held of the
stalls, and literally hooted them off the stage. - The cry, King, upon various tenures. These tenures were, in
was for Mr. Lumley, and "Lumley," " Lumley,' many cases, very vexatious, and the aristocracy,
"Lumley," "Shame,' "Shame," " Shame," resounded therefore, in 1692, made a stipulation to pay 4s. in
from all parts of the theatre. More than ten minutes the pound as land-tax, in lieu of all feudal
had now elapsed, and the impatience of the crowd seemed
ervices due from the landed proprietors to the Crown.
almost at its height. At this period Monsieur Laurent, ..
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The rental in Queen Anne's day, when this law
the' stage-manager, offered to address the audience. He
.was received with a rear of disapprobation; but the passed, was ten millions; the land-tax, therefore, was
.
better feeling of a British public immediately resumed two , millions • but since that time the rettal has in-
its' influence, and ha had in a few moments an attentive creased enormously; but the tax paid is even less than
auditory. But, alas; he addressed them in the French when the rental was only one-seventh of what it now
language instead of the English; and, therefore, they i'.. It becomes a mere question of figures to prove
rose again with a roar, and drove him off the boards
before he had uttered three sentences. The uproar, that since 1692 the arisleecracv . have plundered the
public out of more than the while amount of the na-
which had been partially appeased on the appearance of
this gentleman, now burst forth again, and continued iti tional debt; and as that debt was incurred to support
the privileges of aristocracy, and cripple human free-
s very uncourteous fashion for a considerable period
dom, the people are entitled to say to the landed gentry,
under such circumstances—say some ten or twelve
"You owe the national debt." They may not plead
minutes. At the expiration of that time, M. Laurent re-ap- 3, •
pearecLattempting to address the audience in English. N Parliament Prescription or law, because they had a ornament of
a syllable of his matter, however, Would be listened to, and their own. If the people had been represented all
as before,. he was 'driven off the stage by the vehemence this spoliation would not have been committed. The
of the public dissatisfaction. Four several times did be calculation was as follows :
re-appear afterwards, and as many ti:nes was he corn- In 1692 the landed rental was 10,000,0001 ; land-tax,
pelted to retire. The cry was still for Mr. Lumley. This 2,000,000/.
state of things lasted until about a quarter to nine o'clock. In 1770 the landed rental, on authority of Arthur
At this period Signor Rubini, who was called for by Young, was 60,000,00,u/. .
some few of the audience, made his appearance on the In 1842 the landed rental, on authority of Sir Robert
stage, and was received with the heartiest cheering by the . Peel, was 70,000,000/.
house; but no sooner had he attempted to address those From 1692 to 1842 gives a term of 150 years, and
who accorded it to him, 4,, an ambassador, or interme- this the lecturer broke ' down into two periods: the
diate agent, than he was literally roared off the stage. first from 1692 to 1770; . the second from 1770 to
The good-natured signor, however, was not to be deter- 1842. To determine the average of land-tax due
red from his purpose; and lw, accordingly, made his from 1692 to 1770, he took the two extreme sums of
appearance once more with the view of soothing down the
excitement. On the former occasion he was alone ; and . . .
ten millions as legislatively settled in 1692, and sixty
the few words he was heard to speak acre uttered in the millions as estimated by Arthur Young in 1770.
language of his own land; on this occasion he was attended ..e
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Adding:these two sums together gives 70 millions,
by an interpreter, to translate his -address into English, and dividing that amount by two, . gives the average
But Italian or English availed not from any other Mouth annual land rental for 78 years, included between
than Mr. Lumley's, and Rubini was driven from the 1692 and 1770. This yields 35 millions. Four
stage a second. time. It was now nearly an hour and a shillings in the pound being the same as one-fifth of a
half since the disturbance had commenced, and there pound, one-fifth of 35 millions becomes the amount
was more appearance of its increase than its subsidence, of land-tax due in
.each year on the average of the
Cries of all kinds—anti other uncouth noises, &fie,' iii-taii. re whole period between 1692 and 1770. This yields
not often heard within the walls of this theatre-re- seven millions per annum, which for the 78 years be-
sounded on every side of the house ; and even the calm-
est could not foresee when the storm would end, or in comes 546 millions. ' Taking the next period, from
w:.at disastrous consequences it might issue. Ladies were 1770 to 1842, and proceeding in the same manner,
leaving their places, ia fear of what they fancied was to 601 millions, the estimate of Arthur Young, must be
follow—men gathered together groups—the fronts were gathh i
. added to the 70 milliona estimate of Sir H. Peel. This
of the boxes were oceupied with their tenants—the en- gives 130 millions, which, divided by two, gives. 65
tire audience in the pie stalls, and gallery was up stand- millions as the average landed rental for this term,
ing—a fearful scene in some degree to look .on. At ton one-fifth of which yields 13 millions' - the amount of
minutes past nine o'clock, or one hour and a half after land-tax which ought to have been levied; and this
-the commenc-•ment of the row," Mr. Lumley appeared multiplied by 72 gives the aggregate land-tax for the
before the audience, and the roar with which he was last period of 936 millions. The account, therefore,
received never was surpassed by the drunken gods of would stand :
the lowest theatre in London, on the first night of a Land-tax due from 1692 to 1770 ....
Christmas pantomime. Comparative silence at length Ditto 1770 to 1842 ..... ...
being restored, Al r. Lumley addressed the audience, and
said, amidst great interruption, ‘.'.l am asked why Ma-
dame Persiani does not sing to-night, - and ahy the
opera has been changed ? I received a letter from
her about. one o'clock to-day.—(Cries of " Why- diet
you not come sooner ?") It is asked why I .did
not announce the fact' sooner? The answer. 'is
plain—We, who are occasionally behind the scenes,
know that in numerous instances that an artist who is
ill is is often subsequently induced to sing. Madame
Pereiani herself _thought she might be able to take her
part this evening, omitting. the " Polaeca " and the
4, Cavatiaa," and I went to her to ascertain the-fact.
But it was to no purpose ; she was too ill to Siiig e--
(Great disturbance)—and as I was on the point of issuieg
the bills, I received a letter from Madame.Frezzolini,
stating that she was ill, and could not sing ; we per .
suaded her to appear, and then the bills were issued,
The real question Seems to be—Was Madame. Persiani
really ill? We know she was, because at the 'concert
at the-palace the night before, which she attended' in
obedience to her 3lajesty's command, she was unable to
proceed with the airs allotted to her, and her Majesty
would not permit her to proceed."—(Uproar.) Is it fair
or reasonable, he said, to call upon time to appear before
you end speak, and then refuse to hear my explanations?
--:(Cheers and hisses.) He then. proceeded to state,
With respect to Madame Persiani, that having done all
he could to induce her to sing, and she being unable to
do so, he could do no more. The only alternative,
therefore, left him was
.to change the opera.
He certainly might, „he admitted, be considered as
having in some sense acted wrongly, because he should
perhaps have dosed the house rather than have changed
the advertised • performances; but he had done it with
the bast :intention—that the public might not be totally
disappointed. He was i' card no more. The storm drove
him off the boards with its fury. ' The uproar re-com-
menced with his retirement, and continued for a full hull.
hour longer with unabated violence. Several attempts
were made by Costa to begin the music of the opera, but
they were roared down by the angry 'audience. The
chorus singers were cried out of voice, and ultimately
compelled to quit the stage. Even the female chin us
was not tolerated on' the scene for a single minute.
Eventually Mr. Lumley once more came forward, and
stated that, as he saw there was a determination not
to listen to the opera, he had given directions to expe-
dite the ballet ; and in addition those who wished an
admission for another night could have it: This ap-
peared to satisfy the audience, and. the ballet shortly
after commencing, peace was restored. - This dis-
turbance lasted exactly two hours. Her Majesty
had intended, it was understood, to be present at
the performance, but the account of the tumult
within the house, which had been promptly and properly
transmitted to the palace, prevented her. It is fervently
hoped we shall never' loek upon its like again in this
theatre. The King and Queen of the Belgians, the
Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchies-- ef Cambridge,
Princess Augusta and Prince George of Cambridge, the
Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, time Duke and Duches,
of Leinster, and a very numerous arid fashionable anti.
cum witnessed this disgraceful scene.. Talk of higl
breeding and gentlemanly conduct at the Italian Oper
after this !

THE WEATHER.NOON, JUNE 27.
ofAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-SiREET.
lermometer.... 63) Highest 6B j Lowest 52
ilaroineter 29.82.—,Wind S.W.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON.RRIDGE THIS DAY.
4loruing 24 minutes atter 4 Evening 4B minutes after 4._

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