The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-28 00:00:00

IPSWICH AND BURY ST. EDMUND'S
RAILWAY COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, that the FIRST ORDINARY MEETING
of the SHAREHOLDERS of this Company will be held at the Offices
of the Company, Brook-street, IPSWICH, on FRIDAY, the 12th day
of September next, at one o'clock in the afternoon precisely, for the
general purposes of business.
And notice is hereby given, that such meeting will also be held
for the special purpose of increasing the number of Directors named
In the Act of Incouporation to the number of fifteen, and for that
purpose to elect Two Directors, and to determine the order of rota-
tion in which such increased number shall go out of office; and also
for the special purpose of authorising the Directors to apply to Par-
liament in the ensuing session for an Act or Acts of Parliament
enabling this Company to construct a Railway to Norwich, diverging
from the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway at, or near
to, Stowmarket, with or without Branches therefrom ; and
also of authorising the Directors to apply to Parliament
in the ensuing session for an Act or Acts of Parliament
enabling this Company to construct a Railway, in continua,
tion of the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway, from Bury, to
join the Northern and Eastern Railway at or near to Cambridge,
with or without branches therefrom ; and also of authorising the
Directors, on behalf of the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway
Company, to execute the necessary Parliamentary deeds for the
several purposes aforesaid, and to issue such scrip, and to adopt such
measures, and make and enter into such terms and agreements, and
take such steps in reference thereto, and in flirtherance thereof, as
they may deem necessary or expedient.
Four of the Directors will, under the Act of Parliament, go out of
office at the above meeting, but being eligible for re-election, will offer
themselves accordingly.
For the convenience of Shareholders in London, it has been deter-
mined to receive scrip to be registered at No. 53, Parliament-street,
as well as at Ipswich, if the party sending it writes across each cer-
tificate his name and address, with the application for registry and
conversion, as advertised on the 2d inst.
JOHN CHEVALLIER COBBOLD, Chairman.
By order of the Board,
JAMES F. SAUNDERS, Secretary.
Brook-street, Ipswich, 20th Aug., 1845.

WEST OF SCOTLAND INVESTMENT
COMPANY.
The Committee are ready to receive APPLICATIONS for the
office of MANAGER of this Company. As it is necessary to secure
the services of a party fully qualified to fill the responsible situation,
the salary will Ise sufficiently liberal to render the office an object of
attention. Of course all applications will be considered as strictly
confidential.
Applications, with references, either personally or In writing, may
be made to GEORGE BOWMAN LEECH,
133, St. Vincent-street, Glasgow, Interim Secretary.
Glasgow, August 21, 1845.

HE ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE for
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Accounts from Constantinople of the 7th have been
received. These accounts announce a most important
change in the Turkish Ministry. The Seraskier RIzA
PACHA, who fur five years has been all-powerful at the
Turkish Court, has been dismissed, and SULEYMAN
PACHA has been appointed Grand Vizier in his room.
This is a change with which all the friends of progres3
and civilisation must be delighted. RizA PACHA. was a
bigot ; SULEYMAN is a man of education and liberal
views. He was President of the Council of Justice, and
has recently proposed the adoption of a scheme of public
education, and the establishment of something like re-
presentative government by the convocation of delegates
from the provinces at Constantinople. The change is
attributed to the advice of Sir STRATFORD CANNING and
M. DE BOURQUENY. The following is the substance of
the note on the affairs of Lebanon, which the Porte has
presented to the ambassadors of the five Powers, as
stated in our impression of yesterday. It an-
nounces in this note that, in order, if necessary, to
enforce the execution of its orders, and to re-establish a peace
promptly, the commander of the army of Arabia, Namick
Pacha, will quit the neighbourhood of Aleppo, where he is
encamped, and advance towards the mountain with a force
sufficient to keep down the contending parties. The note
then proceeds to fix the internal government of the
Lebanon, by confiding it, as has already been stated,
to two Vekils, viz., one Druse, the other Maronite, for each
district, and a Moukotadji, who is specially charged with the
interests of the government, and is to serve as the medium be-
tween the district and the authority of the Porte. The superior
authority is represented by two Turkish functionaries, viz., the
Caimacans. By this last note it is decided that the Maronite
Veto! shall be the judge in all contestations between Maronites,
and the Druse Vekil the judge between the Druses. Differ-
ences between a Druse and a Alaronite are to be decided con-
jointly by the two Vekils, with the right of appeal to the two
Camaicaos. The Moukotadjis are exclusively charged with
the police and the general administration of affairs. 'I he Porte
has called upon the ambassadors to communicate to it the in-
structions which they are to send to the consuls of their respec-
tive nations in Syria.

We learn from the New Zurich Gazette, of the 23d
instant, that the Session of the Diet had been brought
to a close on the preceeding day.
The following is the President's Speech :
" Gentlemen,—The business of the ordinary Diet for this
year is terminated. As far as regards the Government and the
care of the ordinary affairs of the Confederation it has fulfilled
its task, and has done all that it was possible for it to do in its
position. There remains much yet to be done, for in an assem-
blage of so many independent states it is impossible to proceed
rapidly. Several questions, therefore, remain undecided, and
cause uneasiness to the public mind ; but this has been unavoid-
able from the state and circumstances of the country. Let all
friends of the country, and particularly the magistracy, occupy
themselves energetically to accomplish this duty, which will
alone give strength to the confederation."

Intelligence has been received from Madrid
st inst.

to the

At eleven o'clock that morning MANUEL GIL, a

young

cotton, and, all the year round, British emigrants,.
settlers, planters, farmers, cultivators in both hem=
spheres, north, south, east, and west, rem:strating
°-_ •s
in the
political against
wohrat
smooaiaylbeoocnadllietdionorganic
to which the Colonial
Government of the Noble Lord has reduced—or in
which, if it found, so it Will also leave them. For our
own part, readily bonceding to Lord STANLEY the
possession of great powers, of signal talents and (the
more homely but very important praise of) good inten-
tions, we are at a loss to account for the discrepancy
that is thus fatally palpable between his capacity and
bia acts ; for aptitude for business, and his ingenuity in
managing it. Jamaica protests against him as the
author of her apprehended ruin ; and cries, loud and
deep, are wafted hither from the Southern Ocean and
the Pacific in deprecation of his measures. He, himself,
seems to be at once the child and champion of incon-
sistency. He represents the true secret of West
India depression to be, the increasing deficiency of
agrastic labour, consequent on the great measure
of 1834, for Negro Emancipation. Yet his vir-
tual reprobation of, or cold assent to, the importa-
tion of free Coolie labour from Bengal into Jamaica and
other islands, has left them in a state which has already
paralyzed their trade, and threatens at no distant day to
destroy the entire property invested there in the land
and its cultivation. The same Noble Lord spoke and
wrote of. New Zealand, as if, after having stipulated for
and established certain conditions on behalf of the rights
and authority of the Home Government, he meant to
take it under his peculiar protection and patronage.
But New Zealand had twice already nearly expired
under his embraces, when, as if disgusted with his pro-
tegee, he handed her over to the persecutions of the na-
tive chiefs, and the barbarous impetuosity of JOHN HEICI.
Just before the rising of Parliament for the rt cess—
that is to say, on the Bth of this month, a Bill was
brought into the House of Commons by his Lordship's
" Man-Friday," Mr. G. W. HOPE, entitled " a Bill to
amend an Act for regulating the Sale of Waste Land,
belonging to the Crown, in the Australian Colonies, and
to make further provision for the management thereof;"
which does not solve the problem we have above al
laded to—the discrepancy between the capacity to do
and the mode of doing—so remarkable in his Lordship's
official career, but further illustrates the singular notions
which the Noble Secretary appears to entertain of the
means most available for developing and cherishing the
native resources of a valuable dependency. The reason
or exigency for the Bill is declared to be that—
" Doubts have arisen whether, under that Act, her Majesty,
or any person acting in the name and on behalf of her Majesty,
can convey or alienate any waste lands of the Crown in any
sueh colony by lease or demise, reserving an annual rent or.
payment fur the same."
And it is in the first clause declared that as to the 5
and 6 VICTORIA, C. 36--
" Nothing in the said recited Act contained shall extend or
be construed to extend to prevent her Majesty, or any such per-
son acting i the name and on he behalf of hr Maest, as aforesaid, fron m demising for a t
term of not mere thajn seyven
years, any waste lands of the Crown in any such colony, at an
annuli rent payable to her Majesty by the lessee for and in re-
spect of such lauds. Provided always, that all leases so to
he made and granted shall contain clauses of forfeiture and pro-
visoes for re-entry for non-payment of such rent, or for under-
letting or assignment of the whole or any portion of sueh lands
by such lessee without licence in that behalf first obtained from
her Majesty, or such person acting in the name and on the be-
half of her Majesty as aforesaid, and shall be offered by public
auction to the highest bidder for the same, after due notice of
such public auction given as in the said recited Act is directed,
together with a specification of the lands intended to be de-
mised, and of the duration of the proposed term. And pro-
vided also, that during the continuance of any such lease it
shall not be lawful for her Majesty, or any such person acting
as aforesaid, to sell the reversionary estate expectant upon the
determination of such lease, without the consent in writing of
the lessee or other party to whom the lease may then belong."
The limitation of these Crown leases to seven years is
very good; but surely the disabling Crown tenants to
underlet, without such licence, is at once an arbitrary
and a most impolitic restriction. Arbitrary, because
one can readily imagine how small a chance a tenant of
the Crown, who may have seen reason to oppose the
measures of the colonial authorities, will possess of pro-
curing such a licence, however advantageous a contract
he may have entered into with third parties for under-
letting his lands. Impolitic, because if it be his interest to
transter, or rather delegate, his holding, it is not less
that of the colony and the Colonial Government ;
the natural presumption being that he underlets
at an advanced rent ; and that his sub-tenant paying
more for the rent, will invest more in the cultivation or im-
provement of the property. The Crown officers cannot—
if even they be disposed to do so—exercise as much vigi-
lance and caution in imparting this beneficial character to
original Crown leases. The same spirit of interference
produced all that mischief, and that long depression of
the natural energies of Canada, which the home Go-
vernment itself has repeatedly denounced as consequent
on the absurd incumbrances of the " Clergy reserves
blocks of land whose tardy reclamation long prevented
the clearing of the lands adjacent to, or in the midst of
which they were situated. In our colonies, the primary
element of improved value in every property is the im-
provement (the clearing or the cultivation as the case
may be) of the adjoining lands.
Clause 2, which reserves to the Crown, or rather
authorises the reservation to it, of all minerals in any
such leases of waste land in Australia, is also, in our
judgment, very unwise, and behind the enlightened
spirit or English legislation generally on these points.
We all know how many years had elapsed be-
fore the Crown either discovered or dreamed
of improving any former discovery of metalliferous
districts in New South Wales. We have only to con-
trast the recent accounts received of the astonishing
success and extent to which mining operations have
been pushed by private British capitalists in the colony,
or resident British agents there, to see all the short-
sighted folly of the Crown's proposed reservation of
mineral rights. Lead, silver, copper, are now largely
added to tae coal treasures of our Australian pos.
sessions. What more legitimate or reasonable course
can be taken with the private adventurers who find and
work the veins, or smelt the ores that contain them,
than to give them every benefit which they have merited
by their industry, skill, and spirit. The Crown or the
publi-: is sufficiently enriched by the indirect advantage
derived from the realising so large an accession to the
capital and the staples of the colony. To the power
given by clause 4 to the Governor, to grant licences for
the occupation of waste lands, we do not object ; but
the terms of clause 5, inflicting penalties fur the un-
authorised possession of Crown lands, are much too
asseepiug. Great tenderness should always be extended
to the hard-earned homes upon the waste acquired by
the enterprising " squatters" of the colony, against
whom this clause is as much directed as if they were
mere vagrants or bush-rangers. We have other remarks
to submit on the remaining clauses of the Bill, but these
we reserve to a future paper.

jour.-

tiN.EY and CkiII.I7.IERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QZLE.7.77.7,1t TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 6,000 bags,
including 1,000 An.erican on speculation. Prices were stea-
dily supported. A large business was done in shares, and
they were very good.
The following is an extract from the mercantile report of
a firm connected with the foreign produce markets :
" The greatly improved state of the weather, and as a con-
sequence the brightened prospects of the country relative to
the harvest, are everywhere producing congratulations and
thankfulness. But a short time ago all was d, übt, and in
sonic quarters despondency, but the change has already
brought back confidence, and inspired a cheerful hope that
all will yet be well. Had our fears of a decidedly bad har-
vest been realised, there cannot be a doubt that
misery and ruin would have been spread from one
end of the kingdom to the other. Our trade and
commerce would have suffered an awful derangement, and
the working-classes would have become distressed in propor-
tion as they have for some time been prosperous. But can it
be wise to perpetuate laws which absolutely prevent us from
protecting ourselves when we are able to do so, against the
perplexities and casualties to which we must ever be
liable, from unfavourable seasons and defective harvests.
That the present corn-laws do this no man can deny,
and that they must ultimately be entirely abolished all rea-
sonable meu now fully believe. The last, months have done
inure to open the eyes of the public to their inexpediency,
if not their injustice, than all other labours for the last two
years ; but the patience and power of the British people
are such, that with no material change for the worse
in our present trading and manufacturing relations during
the coming winter, it is possible that they will let their voice be
so feebly heard against those laws in the next session of
Parliament, as to allow them still to disgrace the statute
book, and to be a curse to themselves. We hope it will not
be so, for past experience suffers us not to believe that the
spirit of reform in Governments will ever advance any
further than it is pressed ferwardp by the force of the
governed."
The advices by the Ashburton, from New York, reports
good weather for the crops, and an active market for cotton.
The improved state of feeling here, in reference to Ameri-
can Securities, there is reason to hope, from the tenor of our
accounts, will stimulate eventually the less honest States in
making some exertions to pay their debts.
There have been sales of money stock this morning, and
the quotations have given way a little, Consols having re-
ceded to 99% and 98%. Time bargains have been made
upon barely the previous terms-99% to 1/4. The
premium on Exchequer-bills has been 51s. to 483., and
India Bonds have been 665. to 68s. Bank Stock has been
very firm again at 212 to 212%. India Stock is rather
heavy, however, at 271. The New Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents. have been 102% ,)11, and the Three per Cents.
99%
'The Foreign Securities have been steady, but there has
been scarcely any business doing in them. Spanish Three
per Cents. have unproved a Wile, being 381 h % ; Portu-
guese Four per Cents. are 643,i ; Mexican continue fiat at
341 h ; Belgian Two• and-a-Half per Cents. are 624.
In liailway Shares there is a good deal of activity again,
and the scrips are very buoyant. The old lines have been
quiet.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 2121/
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 99rs 3/41A
3 per Cent. Consols Auns 99
/8 98%
New 314 per Cent. Annutiez 102%%
Long Annuities Expire stllJan. 1860 ll 7-161,
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jau. 5, 1860.. 11 3-16
India Stock 271
India Bonds 1,000/ CS 66
Ditto under 1.0001 66
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 114 d. 1141
1,0004

'VVIA.L6 irit.Arl'ia'

Massinger's Fatal Dowry (his chef d'oeuvre two '
to some critics, one of his greatest works accorchuB.
all) was revived here last evening, with all that atte,
to the mire en scene which has so favourably dis
guished the managemeet or Mrs. Warner and Phelps
this theatre. This play is the joint production of
singer and Nat Field, the actor—to the latter, hews
we are not disposed to award any large portion of
drama, and we think that even Mr. Gillbrd allows
much to him. That Messinger, a poor author, wog
to avail himself of the name of Field, the popular se.
and was thus led to announce him to the world as
collaborate:a, there can be no doubt. That Field sa
have given him hints as to his stage effects, &c., and t?
after the book was delivered at the theatre, and du
the course of the rehearsals he may have " gagged" 114
play in various parts, we can readily believe; but el
is such a perfect unity, not only of construction but
thought and language, about the tragedy that we
not bring ourselves to think that it was the work
more than one mind. One or two of the comedy seeo
indeed, we are disposed to assign to Field, because the
are so disgusting to good taste that we feel intuitifell
that they are interpolations; that Messinger, altholgi
he might have tolerated, could not have written thea
and it is only because Messinger could not have writ
them that we assign them to Field. These were of couta
all rigidily excised last evening, and we do not belle,
that in the Fatal Dowry, as it is acted at Sadler's We
there is one line of Field's, except, perhaps, the open
ing scene of the second act, between Beaumelle,
pert, and Florimel. The Fatal Dowry was a stock 0,1
from the time of its production to the time of the grer
rebellion, when plays and players were proscribed, sj
well as thrones and kings. For royalty there Ives;
restoration—for the drama a revolution. The works
the manly, rough, vigorous poet dramatists of till
preceding age—works which were thoroughly and is'
tensely English, and thoroughly and inteaseli
dramatic, were utterly neglected for the fielai
heroics of Dryden, or the digustiug fiith of Airs. Apio,
Behn. Poor Messinger was more vilely treat.
than any of his contemporaries. They were suffered to
rest in oblivion—he was first plundered and then abused.
Rowe, having stolen a great portion of the language and
plot of the Fatal Dowry, diluted down the
proceeds o',
his theft with a sufficient quantity of maudlin sentimen.
tality to suit the vitiated taste of his time, and produced
The Fair Penitent. Its success was complete---ea
complete that Rowe found it to his interest to represent
Messinger as an author not worth the attention of At
critic or scholar more than a century. For the "
Fast
Penitent," the most " wishy-washy" and most imag'
of dramas, kept possession of the stage, to the exclusion
of the Fatal Dowry, one of the most nervous and the
most moral. Even Dr. Johnson, sturdy old moralist ss
he has been somewhat inappropriately called (bigoted
old conventionalist better describes the cha-
racter of the man)—even Dr. Johnson penned
a heavy eulogium on the Fair Penitent. ',
length, in the year 1786, Cumberland wile-,
three papers in his periodical (the " Observer'
for the purpose of drawing a comparison between the
Fatal Dowry and the Fair Penitent ; and when Massirl'
ger and Rowe were thus placed in juxtaposition, tho
superiority of the elder writer was at once apparent.
Shortly afterwards Gifford undertook his edition of Mes-
singer ; and from that time justice has been done to
the genius of this " mighty master." This play, tb6
Fatal Dowry, was produced at Drury-lane some fey
years since, when Wallack appeared as Charalois. The
version then produced is the one followed at Sadler's
Wells. The following was the cast of last night
Rochfort, Mr. G. Bennett ; Novell, Mr. H. Mellon'
Charalois, •Mr. Henry Marston ; Young Novell, Mr*
Buckingham ; Romont, Mr. Phelps ; Beaumelle, Miss
Cooper ; Bellapert, Miss Lebatt ; Florimel, Miss
Huddart. In this version the first act and the
commencement of the second are given nearly
as they were written by Messinger. That
is a slight alteration at the conclusion of a
second act, which is also an improvement. In the seen
in which Charalois accompanies his father's funeral to
the gates of the prison, and is there stopped by his re
morseless creditors—the procession is interrupted by th
appearance of Rochfort and Beaumelle--and Br:Astor i
overcome by his admiration of Charalois' virtue, r
leases him by paying his father's debts, and at the stun
time gives him his daughter. This not only gives 9
effective concluding scene, but avoids the awkwardnes
of the marraige procession following directly upon ti
funeral one. The manner in which the guilt of Beaumell
is discovered is necessarily altered. In the original the dl
covery takes place in a manner too gross to bo tolerate
in these modern days. Charaleis having found a lett(
from young Novell to Beaumelle, appointing an assigns
time :fleets the guilty pair, and kill. lvoTwll. - -rru '
alteration is also judicious, but we could wish that tl I
adaptor had left the catastrophe, as far as it r
lates to Beaumelle, in the same state in which • /1
found it. It is a magnificent scene—is that in the o j,;
ginal, in which Charalois, calling upon old Rochfort
resume once more the functions of a judge, produ
before him his own daughter as the criminal ; beauti
too, is the repentance of Beaumelle, which invests
character with an interest which it is impossible I
feel for her as represented in the adaptation ; and v,
the father sentences her solemnly todeath, and seeing 0
sentence so unexpectedly executed by Charalois, the °
himself upon the body of his dying daughter in an at sl:4
of grief, a climax has been attained perhaps the heartrending in in the course of the drama. lir
stead of this, however, Charalois appoints P °bre
fort to meet him at the tomb of his father— ;to
brings forward his accusation, and when the old
a:4
has devoted his daughter to death shows her c ore
siff
to him and tells him judgment has been al re
to
executed. Here we have indeed the fine pass' After of paternal anguish from Rochfort, but it is n•
0;0
so natural nor so effectiv,ly delivered over the d. te°
over the dying daughter. The piece was adm ittblp
acted. Phelps never appeared to greater adv.* tetileg,
than as the rough, honest, plain-speaking, bold Re itis.nna
It is one of those characters full ut vigour, energ. 1:
'ts
power, with an occasional dash or sentiment
ot
is exactly suited to tam effective, but son istel
coarse style of Phe4ss. The scene in f1u.,41
he frightens young Novell (most amusingly repro iSef-
t
ay Mr. Buckingham) into confession, and extort to Id'.
;ins a written promise to see Beaumelle no more,% fes
rwrable. G. Bennett, as Rochfort, was seder at, Jos
ffective. His last scene was beautiful. The lug, gbri°o
ice of Mr. Marston was rather advantageous to bile
than otherwise in his delineation of Churalo is.
;,ttd evidentb stuoied the character well, and tho tong it
ndersioud his author's meaning. As awh ole
Tha-aluis was a pathetic and scholar-like perfo
clnstn
'sot he must beware of an occasional tendency to Pbe
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