The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-25 00:00:00

DEDUCTION WHATEVER.

Direct for the few Bonds which are still on sale, WITHOUT
DELAY, to

HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH.

Bonds are on sale NOW at £l3. Against the end of this
Month the price will ris-a to El-1, and the Sale will close in the
first days of November.

Those who remit £l5 BEFORE the 28th instant, will re-
ceive an order for £2 upon our London Bankers, together with
the Bond.

To those ordering too late for being attended to, their re-
mittances will be returned by first post.
HEINE BROTHERS.
HANIBURGH, October 4, 1842.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
THIS EVENING, OCT. 25,
Will be repeated the English Version of Rossini's Grand
Opera of SEMIRAMIDE.—The Character •f Semiramide
by Miss Adelaide Kuril,le; Arsace, Mrs. Alfred Shaw (from
the principal Theatres in Italy ; Assur, Mr, Giubilei ; Oroe,
Mr. Leffler ; Idreno, Mr. Travers; Shade of Ninus, Mr. J.
Bland. •

After which, the New Farce, called COUSIN LAMBKIN.
Squire Mulberry, Mr. Bartley ; Captain Bantam, Mr. Walter
Lacy; Doctor Lionel Lambkin, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Bantam,
Miss Cooper ; Rose Maynard, Miss Lee ; Dainty, Mrs. Humby.
To conclude with the Farce of THE OMNIBUS.
Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com-
mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 3d. ;
First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s;
Second Price 2s. ; Gallery ls.
Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit-
low, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season
Tickets may be had.
Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ' • of Messrs. An-
drews. 167, New Bond-street; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street ;
and of Mr. Sams, Pall M.ll.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING, OCT. 2.5,
Will be presented THE MISER'S DAUGHTER, which
has been for some time in preparation, and will be produced
with New Scenery, Dresses, and Novel Effects, combining all
the resources of the Theatre. The Piece dramatised from the
popular Work of the same name, by Mr. Edward Stirling, byper-
mission of the Author, W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq., who, in
conjunction with George Cruiksbank, Earl., will personally
superintend the numerous Tableaux, &c., as illustrated in
1* Ainsworth's Magazine."

After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE.
Th e Imp, Mr. Wieland ; Fleur-des-Champs, Mdme. Proche
" The Frightful, Spiteful, Old Bachelor," Mrs.
H. P. Grattan.

To conclude with NORMA. Pollio, Mrs. H. P. Grattan ;
orma, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright.
Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past
xis, commence at seven o'clock.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 25,
V. ill be acted a New Drama, entitled ESTELLE DUMAS,
supported by the entire Company.
After which, the Nautical Drama of POOR JACK; or,
THE WIFE OF A SAILOR. Poor Jack, Mr. T. P. Cooke,
whose performance attracts nightly overflows, Eleanor Mrs.
A. Vining.
To conclude with Mr. Albert Smith's new Drama, called
BLANCHE HERIOT, which has met with most decided
!uccegs. Neville Audely, Mr. H. Hughes ; Hugh Laneret,
Mr. N. T. Hicks; Herrick Evenden, Mr. J. Webster; Blanche
Iferiot, Mrs. R. Honner.

Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at
the Box••office, from eleven to four.

TO COIIRESPONDENTS.

T:to followinz is what Blackstone says on the subject of
traversing :—" But it is not customary, nor agreeable
to the general course of proceedings (unless by con-
sent of parties, or where the defendant is actually in
gaol), to try persons indicted of smaller misdemeanors
at the same Court in which they have pleaded not
guilty or traversed in the indictment. But they usually
give security to the Court to appear at the next
as.mizes or sessions, and then and there to try the
traverse, giving notice to the prosecutor of the same."
From which we infer that no favour or affection has
been shown to Mr. O'Connor or others by allowing
them to traverse till the next session or assize. It is
a matter of usage. and therefore of right.

Avid WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
,:qin? :2 minutes after 5 I Evening £4 minutes after 5.

dregs of o,ose Ao 1-ave no 1301. a:-year to go
thronh the baressing process of establ;s-sing
their exemption in two places. Such a nrss of
trouble and annoyance to gather a sum no equal
to the Malt tax or the Sugar duties, of the vexa-
tious collection of which nobody ever hears, was
never before inflicted on any people. Happily
for the public this will fall on the electors, and
if they tolerate it, they will have no persons to
blame but themselves.

The hardship of persons being called on in the
middle of October to make a second return, after
they have been obliged to make one in Se-
tember, is so well put by the Post, whose ob-
servations we have transferred to our columns,
that it would be superfluous to add a word on
the subject. We will only say that, like the
Globe, we can confirm the statement of the Post,
and affirm that the strained interpretation of the
clause we have pointed out will reach a number
of persons who have not till now dreamed that
they would ever be su►,►jected to such a pro-
digious annoyance.

The Marquis oT LONDONDERRY, following up
the war he waged so perseveringly, albeit equally
unsuccessfully, against the Mines and Collieries
Bill, has published a letter to Lord ASHLEY,
M.P., in which he renews his attacks. The
Noble Marquis has reproduced most of the de-
bates on the subject in the House of Lords, and
has garnished them with sundry observations
and documents, the latter of which have not
before been brought under the notice of the
public. Whatever may be thought of the lan-
guage used by the Noble Marquis, all impartial
men will admit that he makes out a strong case
against the Commissioners, Sub-Commis-
sioners, and the bulk of the persons anxious
to pass the Bill, from Lord ASHLEY down to
the lowest sub of the Commission. Haste, in-
temperance, and exaggeration are visible in all
their sayings and doings, combined with no small
degree of ignorance. For the first time in their
lives, most of the gentlemen became acquainted
with the interior of a mine or a colliery, arid the
horror they experienced in consequence of their
ignorance they communicated to the public.
The deed, however, is now done, the law has
been passed, and there has been an insurrection
amongst the colliers, which will not be the last.
Lord ASHLEY'S Bill has applied the match to
the long-smouldering discontent of that burly,
sincere, but not very enlightened class of men.
Lord LONDONDERRY, towards the conclusion
of his pamphlet, gives the following summary of
the whole proceedings:—
My Lord, I have again and again said this subject
has been handled with great indecency, from first to
last. It was born in caprice, and not in consequence
of the necessity of the case; it was carried on in a
manner that would not stand an hour in a Court or
Justice, inasmuch as the evidence was that of the
plaintiffs, the defendant being out of court, and not
out by choice, but out by force, by cunning, by con-
trivance. It was concocted, as its own pages record,
on testimony to be taken with reservation, the wit-
nesses not being trustworthy in many cases; it was
based in its principles, and carried out by men whose
fitness for the office they were charged with is more
than doubtful. Taking, then, all these things to-
gether, I cannot resist saying that it is to me a sub-
ject of extreme sorrow and disgust, that so serious a
matter should have been thus unfairly dealt with; so
precipitately carried on, with such reprehensible—
indeed I may say such disgraceful blunders—blunders,
the number and quality of which astonish every
person in the slightest degree acquainted with these
proceedings.
It is not very often that we have the honour
to agree with a Tory Lord Lieutenant, who did
us the honour to quote some of our argu-
ments in the House of Lords, and our coin-
cidence on this occasion goes far to establish
the truth of our conjoint opinion. Whatever
motives may be imputed to the Noble Marquis,
we know that ours are free from every taint.

We have heard with much satisfaction that
the Liberals have taken it into consideration,
how they can best publicly express their ad-
miration of the noble conduct of Miss MAR-
TINEAU. Labouring under sickness, and not
being in affluence, this spirited lady, who has
by her writings done so much to enlighten her
countrymen, declined to receive one of those
pensions which other literary characters seek as
an honourable reward. She has acted well up
to the Liberal principles she has professed, and
has redeemed them from the reproach and
scandal brought on them by others, who have
made them but a handle to their own advance-
ment. We have published her excellent letter,
the sentiments of which will be so generally read
and applauded, that any recommendation from
us is entirely superfluous. That this lady has set
the almost unprecedented example of refusing
to touch the public money when it was offered
her, should excite deep gratitude in the
whole body of the tax payers. It will
make many others ashamed of being less con-
sistent, and less nobly independent, and will dry
up many a source of profligate expenditure.
We trust, therefore, that suitable means will be
' devised to express, in the most honourable and
feeling manner, the public approbation of Miss
MARTINEAU'S conduct; and that the whole world,
and all posterity, may be taught that public
virtue amongst a virtuous people will assuredly
meet its appropriate reward. We will suggest
nothing further than to say that Miss MARTI..
NEAU, who has evidently consulted only her own
upright heart, and not had the public approba-
tion in the distant prospect, ought not to expe-
rience the slightest pecuniary difficulty by her
patriotic self-denial.

With good taste, and with much public spirit,
the )‘S-ational Association yesterday evening
gave a :ea party and festival at their Hall, in
honour of Mr. 'I. DUNCO3IBE, the Member for
Finsbury, ti;e firm friend of the liberties of the
people. Between three and four hundred per-
sons, including ~many ladies, were present, and
the Chair was occupied by Colonel THOMPSON.
After some spirited t.'nd just eulogies pronounced
by the Chairman an Dr. EPPS on Mr. DUN-
COMBE, that gentleman expressed his gratitude
for the kindness shown NMI in an able and elo-
quent speech. He proved .in his own person, as
we hope will yet be proved .in the case of Miss
MawriNEAtr, that public virtue is rewarded by
public honour, and that when public men have
complained of the caprice and \asesertiou of the
people, they have themselves, first of all, de-
serted the public cause. Mr. DuivcomnE made
a point of denouncing, as it deserves, the rabid
partisan oration of Lord ABINGER whit; ' he de-
livered from ele judgment-seat, and whico is so
little like what a charge to a Grand Jury
being both - le-
ought to be. Lord ABSNGER,
gislator and a Judge, must, or, at leas.,
ought to have known, Mr. DUNCOMBZ

observed, that the people were plunwed into the
deepest distress, and as a Judge he falsely repre-
sented their condition in order to conceal his er-
rors and his faults as a lawmaker. His charge
mi2,•ht be very acceptable, Mr. DUNCOMBE ob-
served, to the recreant Sir JAMES GRAHAM, but
it is a perversion of the functions of the Judge,
which offends all upright men, and tends to bring
the administration of the law into contempt. If
it have been correctly reported, of which there is
no doubt, it is impossible, Mr. DUNCO3IBE said,
that the House of Commons should be assembled
many days without having that charge seriously
and solemnly brought under its notice. If no
other Member undertake the task Mr. DUN-
COMDE pledged himself to do it, and the an-
nouncement, as well as every censure he applied
to. the Judge, was followed by general and coffin-
sDlau.NsticeoNefilsece, and he irs.n Tlisl-villl make good
from Mr.
As long as the electors of Finsbgt.ioroyakiis
elepPhichui tlien.
the House of Commons, the people will not want
one honest and faithful servant,' and we consider
the flattering reception he met with as a sure
of his success in his undertaking. He
supported by publicendb o •
augurywili
bbe supported
We must conclude by
opinion.
saying; that the festival
was conducted to the te ivetetro
man in a manner equally satisfactoryyt
met
taunt
eoCnchoaauiii..-
pan y and the gentleman they
We shall give a faithful and full report of the
n edition.
whole proceeding in our afterno

Though there is wccasionally s strong feeling
of disappointment displayed ttt agricultural

reeetings Oroaghout t1.7.e country, in reCerenee to
the conduct of Sir R. PEEL and the results of
last session, the great majority of the discon-
tented submit to their fate with a degree of re-
signation and self-denial which would do honour
to a stoic. Even those who are inclined to rebel,
and who believed with the Duke of RICHMOND,
that they could dethrone their own idol if he
failed to cherish and protect them, now tremble
at the very idea. They are fairly saddled with
the Income-tax for three years, and to a cer-
tainty also with the Tariff and Corn-law Bills for
the same period, for no Ministry, however much
addicted to Toryism and monopoly, would, it'
they could, without a fair trial, venture to re-
peal measures of such a general and important
character. The farmers' friends, too, have
the fear of two possi'ile, or rather certain con-
sequences before their eyes, a division in their
own camp, and a coalition between the Liberals
and the free-trade Conservatives. An Opposition
consisting of nearly three hundred Members is
rather a formidable body acting against a divided
enemy, and as Sir R. PEEL repeatedly declared,
' that if his supporters rejected his measures they
must also reject him, it requires no powers of di-
vination to foresee what, in such an emergency,
would be his line of conduct. It would therefore
be vain to appeal to the friend of the Church,
Lord STANLEY, or to the Duke of RICHMOND,
the friend of the fa/piers, or to any other party
who would revert t the obsolete and exploded
system of protecting certain classes at the ex-
pense of all the rest. A small infusion of Con-
servatism into the Liberal scale would soon turn
the balance, and then they would find a Conserva-
tive Government and something less. Vast de-
fects still remain in our commercial system.
We cannot afford to lose the trade with Brazil,
amounting, in manufactures from this country,
to six millions sterling, in order to keep up a
monopoly in favour of West India proprietors, to
whom the people of thi, country, poor as well as
rich, have paid twenty millions sterling, an
ample release from all obligations. We have
affairs to settle with the Americans. The new
Corn-law as regards them is a dead letter; and
if we wish to cultivate friendship with our best
customers, and induce them to modify their
tariff, we must abolish the sliding scale, and put
meat, cattle, corn, and cotton all on the same
footing. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S principles on free
trade would lead him, even hampered as lie is,
to go a long way to conciliate the vast and in-
creasing population in the New World, and
when he shall have on his right hand Lord
JOHN RUSSELL and Mr. ROEBUCK, and on his left
Mr. BARING and Mr. CHAS. BULLER, with Lord
STANLEY, and the " remnant of a broken fac-
tion "in front, he will be inclined, as well as
compelled, to go mue:t further. The German
Union is another obstacle in the way, and as he
professes himself a disciple of that clear-headed
and skillful commercial reformer, the late Mr.
HUSKISSON, he must make some concessions, to
counteract the plans of that powerful confede-
racy. As regards France, much cannot be done.
The prejudices of the people and the bigotry of
the press, as well as the selfish propensities of
the influential men in the Chambers, will, for
some time at least, prevent any extensive com-
mercial intercourse with that country. But some-
thing, however, may be effected ; not by treaties
which are easily broken, as we know from
experience, and much more easily evaded,
but by reducing extravagant duties, by
consulting the interests of our own people,
without reference to those of other countries,
and by a general system of liberal policy, which
in time will dispel the ignorance even of the
most bigoted monopolists of France. It is need-
less to recount the other countries with which
we have commercial relations unsettled, for,
with the exception of the United States and
Brazil, they are of DO importance as compared
with the vast field which is opening for us in
the East. It is to that quarter we must look.
China and India, and the numerous islands in
the Asiatic seas, could furnish employment for
all the hands and mills in Lancashire and the
West Riding of York, and it will be the fault of
our rulers if we do not profit by an opportunity
which may never again recur. The old
Tories are, therefore, in what our Ameri-
can friends call a " dead fix," and must
either stand stock still, or move in the line
chalked out for them by Sir ROBERT PEEL.
More tariffs are yet to come, and though it is
generally considered ungenerous to trample on
the fallen, yet we cannot pity men ,who looked
only to their own interests, robbed the poor
and protected the rich, and were at last driven
to the necessity of choosing a leader who repro-
bates their selfish doctrines, and sets them at
defiance.

We extract an article on the "Restoration of

the Manufacture of Watches to Great Britain,"
which appeared in the Standard of Saturday, and
is copied into the Times and Chronicle of this
morning. W e presume our last-named Contem-
porary does not mean by copying it to adopt the
false principles of political economy and often
refuted libels upon the Manchester manufac-
turers which it contains. Without meaning
to say one word against the business por-
tion of this article, of which we are inclined

to think favourably, or the respectability
of the gentlemen whose names are mentioned
as connected with the undertaking, which is
undoubted, we must protest against the grounds
that are assigned for the loss both of our manu-
facture of watches and our manufacture of
cottons. The latter is not lost, but has been
yearly increasing, innmuch as machinery has
enabled it to be so lowered in price as to place it
within the compass of all whom our restric-
tive laws will permit to receive it; and

'le former Las been only lost, not from

the causes assigned, but simply because
machinery has not hitherto been employed in
the Manufactory of watches, and hand-labour
could be had cheaper in Switzerland thaA in
England. Nov that machinery is likely, on a
large scale, to be applied to the different pro-
cesse of watchmaking, the trade will doubtless
grow up in the same way as the cotton-trade did,
under similar circumstances; and if those restric-
tive laws on the importation of the chief thing
ibreigners have to give us in exchange be abo-
lished, there is little doubt 't* the cotton, the
silk, the cloth, and the watchmallig trades will
grow up in spite of FERRAND'S Devil's-dust, or
the ,Standard's hypothetical demolition of all our
manufacturing towns. ." We congratulate our
Morning and Evening Contemporaries on the
hgroepaet adtheireeotnovetil.isiisoncloipuonntrtyh
bisysub m
confidence they express of the restoration of one
jaecchti ntoe rhye,
sainnd.
cere, so as to prevent any further libels and inu -
endos upon the communities and individuals
con-
n ected with it in this country.

l'he course adopted by the Marylebone Vestry
on Oaturday in reference to the erection of a
monument to the Scotch Reformers, appears
very :s...ngular, and can be accounted fcr only by
suppoE:ing that members did not know for what
questic la they were voting. The motion of Mr.
JosEPH, too, for re committing the Report was,
to say the lease of it, very ill-timed. Had he
moved thiV the Report be adopted, the question
would ha,r,. been settled, whereas it must be
brought fon yard at some future, perhaps dis-
tant, meeting, thereby giving the opponents of
the measure ,Tew opportunities of throwing
obstacles in th. way. A liberal Vestry should
have allowed ino. doubts to exist as to their
motives for delay, , and marked their high regard
fi,r the memory .0! the deceased Reformers by
carrying the moti c:.n at once.

Madrid rapers of t.lie 15th and 16th have been
received. Most of Liberal journals devote
their leading articles to the memory of General
DIEGO LEON, it being th P anniversary of the day
of his execution. Some o f the journals appearecl,
in mourning, and it is impossible to give an idea
°tithe reproaches uttered against the REGENT
on that affair. A very serious manifestation
took place in the capital .in consequence of the
day—all the most distingaished inhabitants of
the capital appeared in niourning, and the,
churches were thronged, the Inasses having been
appropriated to the deceased General. It was
reported that serious measurer; were in contem- .

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