The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-13 00:00:00

TTIE SUN', LON DON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1842.

nutacturing districts, to represent it as an evil of
the manufacturing system. It is not exclusively
connected with manufactures. Its origin is the.
monopoly of the soil. In fact, the truck system,
or the payment of wages in goods, is more gene-
ral in the agricultural than the manufacturing
districts; and probably as great an advantage is
taken of the labourers in the one, as in the
other.
,The presumption is against the'agricul-
tural districts, for the peasantry are much worse
off than the artisans. -

There is nothing morally wrong, however, or
unjust in paying wages in goods, if both parties
agree. to that mode of payment. What is mo-
rally wrong, what is unjust, and is very injurious,
is the power possessed by the employers of
labour over the labourers. That does not belong
exclusively to the manufacturing ,system ; on
the contrary, it is now possessed by master ma-
nufacturers, because it was previously possessed
by landlords. It is derived rather from the right
of property than from any system of agricultural
or manufacturing industry, and those who would
remedy it mast take other steps than railing
against the payment of wages in goods. Our
Tory Contemporaries betray on this subject a
great deal of juvenile sensibility. Like ignorant,
well-meaning lads, they are eager to redress a
great wrong, but they know neither its origin
nor how to cure it. The best, and perhaps only,
remedy for it, is perfectly free trade, which
would cause such a demand for the service of
labourers, that they might, within certain limits,
make their own terms, better their condition,
and be gradually restored to independence.

The Dutch papers, which have arrived, con-
tain no. intelligence but the price of the funds.

DUTCH FUN 05.—.AXIITICADAM, SEPT. 9-
Itlone,. ROI.
Actual Deb , .)y, per Cent
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amen Svndic,4%, per cent 4,4% 44%
Ditto, ditto, 354 per cent 77 t 4 77%
Commercial Company, 4..., per cent '40% 41
Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1e37, 5 per cent.. 5.9% 10J
Exchange on Landes, One month l2 211,4
Two months .. 12 1."
Harnburgh, One month 35 8l 4
Two months 35 62,§
Dutch Papers, Sept. O.

SELFISHASS AND BENEVOLENCE.—Whenever you
hear a man boast of his honesty, take care of your
purse, is the advice of the most experienced men of
the world. By the same rule, those who preach up
benevolence are to be suspected of having a sinister
design to serve themselves. Who so overflowing with
-the anti-selfish doctrine as the clergy ? who so much
abound in the world's wealth as they, which is hooked
out of other people's pockets by this doctrine ? Pa-
triotism and the purest devotion to the public welfare
are boasted of by the Tories. Somehow or other
their professions are found to be compatible with the
gathering great wealth and fixing their talons on
political power. We know no surer road to a domi-
nion over the hearts and minds of dupes than always
to speak of selfishness as a carnal sin. We, therefore,
understand, and so will the public, what the Morning
Post means by trying to run down the selfish and exalt
the benevolent principle. They will be prepared to
submit to some sacrifice of their selfishness, that the
benevolence of the income taxers may be highly gra-
tified.

THE QUARRELS OF THE MlGHTY.—Something, it
appears, all men must have to quarrel about, and
while destitution makes men in the manufacturing
districts quarrel for their very existence, those who
are amply provided for quarrel about the honour of
representing the Dublin University in Parliament.
Mr. Devonshere Jackson, the present representative,
is to be a Judge, a Mr. Smith Solicitor-General for
Ireland, and he and a Mr. Hamilton, another Tory,
with their respective partisans, including the Irish
Government on one side, and its Orange supporters
on the other, have gone to loggerheads as to which
of them shall succeed Mr. Jackson. Much ink has
already flowed on this redoubted quarrel, many
tempers have been soured, and, before it is concluded,
most likely some heads may be broken. We look on
the dispute with the utmost indifference. Whether
the one servitor of the Tories or the other succeed, is
of no consequence to the public, which only prays
that the factions into which the Tories are divided
would annihilate each other, without making such a
horrid din. When the Whigs sacrificed their friends
no noise whatever was made about it.

NEW ZEALAND.—According to a Parliamentary
Paper just published, the receipts and expenditure of
this new colony between the 2d of May and the 31st
of December, 1841, amounted to 27,6011., and the
expenditure to 33,0261. Among the items in the
receipts are 3,072 t. from the Customs, and 20,7461.,
the proceeds 'f Land Sales.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

The production of a new five act play, the first ap-
pearance of Mr. and Miss Vandenhoft since their re-
turn from America, and the debut of Mr. Charles

Pitt, who, it appears, is engaged at this theatre as the
young tragedian, were attractions which drew a full
house long before the rising of the curtain. The new
play is entitled Love's Sacrifice, or the Rival Mer-
chants, and is from the pen of Mr. Lovell, the talented
author of the " Provost of Bruges.' The scene is
laid in Paris, where Matthew Aylmer (Mr. Vanden-
hoff), a rich merchant, has recently been joined by
his only daughter Margaret (Miss Vandenhoff), who
has been educated in Fingland, her father, who had
resided many years in that country, having married
an Englishwoman. Aylmer is a widower. Young,
beautiful, and accomplished, Margaret attracts crowds
of suitors ; the favoured one, however, both of herself
and her father is Eugene de Lorme (Mr. Chas. Pitt).
Eugene and his sister Herminie (Mrs. W. Lacy)
had been left orphans at an early age • their mother
had died in giving birth to Eugene, and their father,
on his return from the funeral, had been stabbed and
thrown into a river by Count du Barry, who had
been De Lorme's rival before marriage, and of whom
De Lorme had been unfoundedly jealous after. These
children had been left to the guardianship of Paul
Lafont (Mr. Cooper), a cunning worshipper of Mam-
mon, who, having been steward to the Count during
his lifetime, manages, by forged mortgages, to gain
possession of a great portion of his children's pro-
perty after his death. Aylmer, knowing Lafont's
villany, has rescued the orphans from his clutches,
and has taken Eugene into his family, supplied his
wants, and been to him a father. Herminie having
married aM. de Vermont, an old man, and having
been left a widow, with a tolerable dowry, does not
stand in need of his assistance. Among the suitors
for the hand of Margaret, is Paul Lafont himself;
and he enforces his suit, by showing that if, in-
stead of being rivals in business, they were partners,
the whole wealth of France would flow into their
coffers. Eugene is perfectly happy with Aylmer,
whom he loves and respects as his father, until Friar
Dominic (Mr. Diddear), a Franciscan monk, crosses
his path, and taunts him with his sluggishness in suf-
fering his father's death to remain unavenged, assuring
him that the murderer yet lives. Eugene beseeches
Aylmer to permit him to seek out his father's mur-
dererer to be avenged on him, and a highly-wrought
scene ensues, in which Aylmer endeavours to temper
the impetuosity of Eugene, by assuring him that Du
Barry is dead, and impressing on him the duty of
forgiveness, even if he lives, and of leaving him to
the tortures of his own conscience, of which he draws
such a harrowing picture, that the young man,
horror-struck, acknowledges that Aylmer was right,
and agrees to renounce the pursuit, and Aylmer,
to crown his happiness, consents to his mar-
riage with Margaret. This ' scene, which is
most powerfully written, was excellently given
by Mr. Vandenhoff and Mr. C. Pitt, and was
loudly applauded. Aylmer, too, it appears, has seen
the Monk,.and iecollects his face As one seen either in
a dream or at some former time, a face of ill omen,
associated with fear of some unknown danger. He has
tracked the Monk to Lafont's, which adds to his uneasi-
noss In the third act we find Eugene, and Margaret,
and Aylmer assembled together at the house of the
latter. Suddenly Paul Lafont enters and demands a
private interview with Aylmer ; after some difficulty
it is granted, when he informs Aylmer that he has
seen the Monk, who has related to him the circum-
stances attending the death of Count de Lorme,• and
the condemnation, par contumace, of Du Barry, to
death, and confiscation of his wealth, and then con-
cludes by saying that this monk informed him that
Count Du Barry is not dead, as had been sup-
posed, but that he was living in Paris and
went by the name of Matthew Aylmer. Thun-
derstruck at this discovery- of his secret by his
deadliest the, Aylmer pretenilsthat the blow was given
in self defence, that he was unarmed when De Lorme
set upon him, that he wrenched De Lorme's sword
from his grasp, and with it stabbed him. Lafont with
the cool malice of a demon listens to all, reminds
him of the sentence against him, and as the price
of his silence, demands the hand of Margaret.
Aylmer refuses to purchase his life at such a price,
but, overcome by his feelings, sinks down in agony,
and grovels at the feet of Lafont. Margaret enters
and raises her father. Eugene follows her; and
leaving her father to the care of Eugene, she retires
with Lafont to learn from him the dreadful secret.
Convinced at length of her father's guilt, she deter-
mines to accept the hand of Lafont, to save her father's
life. She sees her father, who refuses to permit her to
sacrifice herself. Lafont enters; holding out her
hand to him she says,
e‘ I am ready," and falls sense-
less at his feet. Aylmer raises his fainting child,
spurns Lafont from his presence, and sternly bids
him do his worst. Determined to save her father,
Margaret sets out alone for Lafont's house. On her
road thither she meets with Eugene, and a
most heart-rending scene ensues between the
lovers, he reproaching her with inconsistency,
for he had received a letter from her, in which, with-
outreason, she rejects his suit, she
submitting announcing
to
nyhiasreproaches rather than betray her
father's secret. At length he declares he will consult
his old and tried friend Aylmer, and be guided by his
advice, when she kneels to him and beseeches him, as
her last request, to promise not to seek Aylmer until
the morrow. Having obtained his promise, she leaves
him, and he directly afterwards receives a summons
from the Monk to meet him with his sister at Paul 1
Lafont's. The last scene takes place at Paul Lafones
house, where- the Monk and Lafont are discovered to-
gether. Margaret enters alone, prepared. as she says,
to make the sacrifice.
Eugene and Herminie, in
obedience to the summons of the Monk, also
proclaims immediately followed by Ayl-
mer,having heard of his daughter's inten-
tion, his guilt, and delivers himself
enter,ti on 0
p whoenl and y
r
to justice to save her. The Monk then steps forward
and acknowledges that he is the Count De Lorme, the
ellen: that after he had been wounded
ntdbe r h
ofo ENul
into the river, he had been
Father of r
where in secrecy, he had rejoiced to
saved by two monks, into whose convent he had
entered,hear
rof the
and
condemnation of his rival—that at
length holier thoughts arose--he remembered his
children—came to Paris to seek them—found
Eugene living with Aylmer, whom he had re-
gstung momentarily by jealousy,
t
revenge. Satisfied, however, at
length, of Aylmer's friendliness, and convinced of La-
font'shim
and
villany, he had made the latter his seeming con-
fidant to unmask him.
Avlm€r and De Lorme are
reconciled ; Margaret and Eugene are made happy
Herminie becomes the wife of St. Lo(Mr. W. Lacy),
a young Noble, who for her sake had consented to
become for awhile the clerk of Lafont, and who in that
capacity discovers his forgeries, and Lafont, declaring
he will hang himself, is given into custody of the officers
of justice. The play was completely successful, and
most deservedly so. It is ably and powerfully
written; many passages are of great poetical beauty,
and the plot is more artistically constructed than that of
any modern play. The interest is one and undivided; it
never flags, and it increases in intensity up to the last
scene, where it reaches a climax. In too many otherwise
excellent plays, the last scene is an anti-climax.
Mr. Lovell, however, has too much judgment to
commit such a solecism. There is a clever
and amusing underplot of the wooing of Her-
minie End St. Lo, which is very cleverly
made to conduce to the development of the main plot,
and which, without being a bas d mare is a pleasant
relief to the more pathetic scenes. ihe piece was
announced for repetition three times a week without
a dissentient, and at the fall of the curtain Mr. and
Miss Vandenhoff, and Mr. C. Pitt, were called for
and received with all the honours.

This veryl
elegant little house opened for the
.QU.kEN"S THEATRE.
winter season last
night, having in the recess under-
gone extensive and very decided improvements. The
whole of the house has been thoroughly cleansed and
re-decorated, and a very handsome new drop scene,
painted by Mr. James, contributes not a little to the
general improvement in
the internal appearance of
the house. The performances commenced with a
new drama in two acts, by the author of
which may almost
oS iu-,sa tnheH Sharper',le.'
Progress. We cannot enter
into the plot e entitled The Lawless of London;
the title. Suffice it that it
offrotmhe
is a clever, lively drama, founded on the ways
be guessed at
of life, and one for which we predict a long and suc-
cessful run. Mr. Parry played the part of Mr. ]key
Paris, an old Jew Fence, to admiration. Reeve as
Samna Wentworth, Esq.; Moss, as Fred. Lambert ;
handers, as,Tnin Gag, a reporter to the Viper; and
Miss Rogers, as Lucy Clare, enacted their respective
roles in a most truthful and admirable manner. Mr.
Parry was unanimously called for at the conclusion of
this
piece, and announced it for repetition every night
till further notice, Williani Thomson and Paul of
Russia concluded the entertainments. The house was
crowded with an attentive audience.

Mr. J. B. G —We regret to find that this
highly-respected
of Coniston, near Skipton,
to
is certain lose One eye, ad has been in great daner
A.amrnorstirfa.
Magistrate,
of losing both, from the dnreadful wounds he receivged
(luring the late affray with the turn-outs at Skipton. At
the time Mr. Garorth received the wounds, he was
helping Gm of the turn-outs to find his coat, and was at
the same time mildly reasoning with a knot of them on
the impropriety of their conduct. Whilst thus engaged,
and separated from the militarY and special constables,
Mr. Garforth was
savilgely attacked by a ruffian, who
first threw a stone which hit his forehead and inflicted a
deep gash, and next struck him across the face with a
Leavy. bludgeon. Mr. Garforth's face was shockingly
disfigured an Nvounded ; and though he was able, with
help, to walk(ff the field, yet he fainted before he could
reach his own home in 'a carriage. The serious injury
received by Air. G arforth is universally lamented, as he
hnd.been long distinguished for his . beneirole-nt treatment
of_the working cruses in his neighbourhood, as well us
for his activity and judgment as a Magistrate.—Lan-
caster Guardian
,

TARIFF OF THE REPUBLIC OF
TEXAS,
As fixed by the sixth Congress ; to take effect from and
after the Ist day of February, 1842, payable in gold,
silver, or Exchequer-bills. Per cent. adv.
Ale, and all other kinds of malt liquor 10 „
Allspice, per lb 5 cents.
Bagging, bale rope, and twine for pack-
ing cotton , lO per cent. adv.
Books and stationery
Bonnets, ladies
Butter, per lb.

Beef, per. 200 lbs. dols. 3 00
Bacon, per lb.
Bibles, testaments, and primary school

. _
books
Cattle and stock of all kinds
Corn and corn meal per bushel of 50 lbs 20 cents
Coffee, per lb.
Cider, in cask or bottle ..... .... 10 per cent. adv.
Chocolate, per lb. , 3 ceats.
Cigars, Spanish, per 1,000 dols. 5 00
„ American 3 00
Carriages, pleasure
Cheese, per lb.

Chairs 3O per cent. adv.
Clothing, ready made
Flour, per bbl dole. 1 00
Fruits, dried and green
Furniture, and all manufactures of wood 30 PP tt
Fire arms of every description
Farming utensils, implements of hus-
bandry, and furniture, the property
of emigrants in actual use, not ex-
cee:::ing in value dols. 500
Harness of all kinds
Hats - - - 25 ft ff
Hard-ware.and cutlery
House-frames
Iron, pig, bar, or rod
„ all manufactured articles of which
it forms a component part
Linen l5 ~ 9 t
Liquors—brandy, gin, rum, cordials, and
other liquors-Ist and 2d proof...dols. 0 50 per gal.
Whiskey, Ist and 2d proof
Lard, per lb.
Lumber
Oats, per bushel of 321bs l5 cents
Oil, sperm per gallon
Pepper, black, per lb 5 cents
Pork, per bbl dols. 3 00
Peas and beans, per bushel
Pickles
Porcelain and crockeryware
Powder and lend
15 ft ft
Rice, per lb
Salt, per bushel of 501bs.
Silks
Sugar, brown, per lb.
Sugar, loaf, and candy, per lb 3 cents
' Havannah, white
Soap, bar, per lb.
shaving and perfumed
Spices 3O per cent. adv.
Sweetmeats and conserves
Shoes and boots
' ff Of
Tobacco, manufactured 3O „ „
Tin ware
Tea l5 „ 9,
Tools and implements of trade in actual
use, the property of emigrants
Vinegar per gallon
Wheat and other grains per bushel of
'6O lbs
Ware, crockery
Wines, Burgundy, Hermitage, Cham-
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gundy, except Champagne
Champagne dols. 2 50 per doz.
Claret in cases
„ in casks
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Wearing apparel, the personal property
of emigrants ... free
All articles not otherwise enumerated 15 per cent. adv
On all goods imported in foreign bottoms, with the ex•
ception of those foreign vessels which by treaty orAct
of Congress are permitted to enter on payment of the
domestic duty—an additional duty of 5 per cent.
TONNAGE.—From and after the 19th day of May,
1842, there shall be laid on all vessels which may enter
any port of the Republic from any foreign port or place,
a tonnage duty of 60 cents per ton, on merchant vessels,
and3o cents on steamboats, according to register tonnage.
Promissory notes and Government bonds are not re-
ceived for duties on goods imported after the Ist of
February, 1842.—Hu1l Advertiser. .

free
10 cents