The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-28 00:00:00

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.

UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON.
Splendid success of Domestic Drama, for which this Theatre

...._--
stands unrivalled and alone.
THIS EVENING, JAN. 28,
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,
Miss Vincent, in which she will dance her celebrated Donny-
brook Rant, and sing several hurnourous 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-
tions, Tricks, Transformations, and Effects—A new Nautical
Panorama, to be entitled " Our Native Sea-girt Isle I" con-
sisting of Maritime Views along the Coast of England. Aho,
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, 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes
only, at. Half-past Eight.
To-morrow, Geraldine, with The Wild Irish Girl, and Har-
equin Peter Wilkins.

Til II QUEEN n W A GER.—We exceedingly
rej ;
o.ee to _t.„.
r0,,,,11 „_
u4setti that. the answer to inquiries at Marlbo-
Do:pguern
cont. its morning was, her Majesty the Queen
Gold
daily to improve in health and spirits.
The
Medal, for 1841, of the Gresham
Committee,
.hhs.rently been awarded to an anthem of
the Rev. W
haver
tghael , M.A Rector of Astley, in
this county. 'Nis second time the umpires, Dr.
Crotch, Mr. Horsley,ls
prize tt the Rev. Gn
tiftenrnd Mr. Goss, have adjudged the
Worcestershire Chronicle.
MELANCHOLY "
ACCIDENT
FROM MAKING
SLlDES.—Wednesday an inquest
Hos-
pital, before Mr. Payne, on the
was
body held in Guy's n
Bay-
ley, aged 77. It appeared from the evidence
Mr. John
de-
ceased was a retired tradesman, and iv that the
c.l at No. 53,
Lower-road, Rotherhithe. About ten o'clock on the
morning of Saturday se'nnight the deceased, who was in
c,
as
good health for his advanced years, was walking along
the footpath in Adam-street, Rotherhithe, when he- ---.
fortunately slipped, and fell heavily, owing to a ell
which some boys had formed. The poor old- gentleman
was raised up by some persons near the spot, and con-
veyed to a neighbouring surgeon's, when it was ascer-
tained that he had received a severe fracture of the left
le • leg Ilt spitivitly removed in a cab to the above
11 hi
.` Rt.S.Me severe nature of the injury,
114.; , a. d's age, hegradually sank, and
• y,,; last. Verdict—" Accidental
•

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THE CHINA SUN,

AND THE
PARLIAMENTARY SUN

ARE STILL ON SALE,
PRICE SIXPENCE EACH.
Sun Office, Jan. 28, 1842.

THE WEATHER.—NOON, JANUARY 27.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Thermometer... 34 ;Highest 4l !Lowest 36
Barometer 29.67.—Wind W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning 51 minutes after 2 I Evening ll minutes after 3.

THE RAILWAY SUN cases from Stourbridge of the fall of wages,
is NOW RE-PUBLISHING, in various trades, frpm thirty to fifty per
cent. between 1838 and 1842. Mr. JOSHUA,
PRICE SIXPENCE. SCHOLEFIELD stated that manufacturers in Shef-
field and various parts of Lancashire and Bir-
mingham, are preparing to remove their capital
and labourers to Cerrnany and the United States.
To refute the notion that the employment of ma-
, chinery was the cause of the distress, Mr.
WALKER, of Wolverhampton, read a list of
twenty iron articles, in the manufacture of which
machinery was not used, but of which the prices
had fallen, between 1836 and 1841, nearly cent.
per cent., from the want of a market. All the
persons present bore testimony to the great dis-
tress and suffering of the people. Strong resolu-
tions against the Corn and Provision-laws were
unanimously adopted, and the meeting declared
that they would use all peaceful and lawful
means to procure the total and immediate aboli-
tion of these laws.
Such meetings will not, can not, and dare not
be disregarded by the 'Legislature. They warn
the landlords, very emphatically, that they are
ruining that trade by which their rent is created,
and so impoverishing the other classes, that
poor-rates, highway rates, and all other public
expenses, will soon fall, almost exclusively, on
rent.
_ While we mourn over the increasing dis-
tress of the people, we rejoice to know that a
bidder, and a better, and a more kindly spirit is
inspiring the middle classes. A leading topic
at the Birmingham meeting was the necessity of
extending the suffrage, and the impossibility of
guarding against unjust class legislation, as long
as a small section of the community only is re-
presented in the House ofCommons. That alone
was wanted, we believe, to reconcile the different
classeS, and, once re-united, they will soon sub-
due their common oppressor.
We must, however, remind the advocates of
the Charter exclusively, that unlesss they can
get food cheap and abundant, the Suffrage .will
come too late. The people are starved out of
spirit, before they are quite starved out of ex-
istence. Men, like other animals, are humbled,
by hunger, and can be enslaved by those who
possess the power to feed them. If we cannot
speedily procure a larger allowance for all, we
shall all be at the mercy of the food owners.
Labour, in the great majority of cases, is ex-
changed for food, which is the first and greatest
want. When food is scarce, nothing else is or
can be thought of but how to get food; when
food is abundant, man can turn his thoughts to
other things, can cultivate his taste, improve his
understanding, enlarge his sphere of enjoyment,
and have time to devote to political duties. Let
us try first, then, to make food cheap and
abundant.
It would be a glorious thing were the work-
men of London- next week to second the
'exertions of their fellows in the neighbouring
towns, and enable the weeping mothers and the
starving families of Bolton and Paisley to say, "the
men of London have wrought out our deliver-
ance from the bondage of the landlords." It
would be a glorious thing for the men of London
to terrify the sordid and tyrant aristocracy from
their prey by their earnest and solemn voices,
and so achieve a great triumph for humanity,
liberty, and civilization. If they unite with their
countrymen, and demand the abolition of the
bread tax, it is in their power to accomplish_ that
great object. Scandalous will it be to the men
of London if they do not efficiently aid their suf-
fering and starving countrymen and country-
women, by acting as proxies for them, and car-
rying respectfully, but earnestly, their prayers
`o the ear of the SOVEREIGN.

At the close of a case in the Queen's Bench
on Wednesday, concerning the settlement of a
pauper, the Court is reported to have said,
" Although it felt strongly that serious inconve-
niences might arise from this decision, and that
most probably the Legislature did not contem-
plate the case of lunatics when that section (of
the New Poor-law) passed, still it thought that
the words were too strong to be got over, and that
the decision of the Quarter Sessions must be re-
versed." This phrase shows that the Court of
Queen's Bench is at all times prepared to wrest
the words of a statute, if they be not " too
strong to be got over," to its own views of law.
Instead of interpreting statutes by the ordinary
meaning of words, and fairly carrying them
into execution, the Courts of Law strain them,
and, when they can, pervert or set them
aside, substituting for them the common-law
maxims of the Judges. 'Without entering into
the difficult question, whether the Common-law
or the Statute-law. be most consonant to equity
and justice, we must remark that this statement
makes the fact apparent, that there is in the
country two sources of law, or two bodies of law-
makers, who give contradictory enactments, and
who, in some sense, thwart each other. The
Judges, under the pretence of carrying the law
into execution, in fact, wrest it to their own
ideas of what the law ought to be, when the
words of a statute do not strictly bind them to
one course, and are 'not susceptible of two mean-
ings. That, under such circumstances, there
should be conflicting laws, and that the whole
of our legislation, intended to be the rule of
man's life and actions, should be a jumbled mass
of incomprehensible and inextricable mystery,
can surprise no man. The surprise is to find in
society a sound principle which enables it to sur-
vive, and thrive under a system only calculated
to engender that confusion which precedes de-
struction.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1842.

puties, it would not. Now this is really the prac•
tical question to be considered, and not the ab-
stract right on one side or the other. Now
if France, who can employ as many cruisers on
the coast of Africa as England can, is thus jea-
lous of the exercise of a right of search, what
heart-burnings must it not occasion to Prussian,
Austrian, Russian, and Dutch traders ? " But,"
say our Contemporaries, " the right of search is
mutual; the power we claim ourselves we con-
cede to others." True; but is it not very like
a mockery to offer to exchange a concession of
power with a State whom we know to be inca-
pable of exercising it? The naval force of Hano-
ver consists of one ship of war employed in en-
forcing the pillage of merchant ships in the
Elbe; now would it not be a mockery of the
present state and dignity of CUMBERLAND'S last
Royal Duke, seriously to propose the ratification
of a Treaty for enforcing a mutual right of
na-
tions found navigating the coast of Africa?
to the two search of all vessels belonging
Would not such a compact be a revival of the
old one of the giant and the dwarf ? The Right
of Search question is viewed with jealousy in
France- and elsewhere, because one nation as-
sumesit out. Were it a con-
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all the Powers ratifying
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Contemporaries en-
tirely overlook this important point, and hence
arise a series of plausible, but very egregious
blunders.

MONEY and COI-h-atclAL NEWS

THURSDAY EVENING.
The speculators have not to-day manifested any in-
creased desire to operate, nor has the market worn a
firmer appearance as far as they are concerned. The
chief business is still on account of the public. For
immediate transfer Consols have been marked 898 to
89.4, and for the Account 891 buyers, and closing at that
price sellers. The Unfunded Debt has been supported
at 17s. to 19s. premium. East India Bonds were at 10s.
to 12s. premium. Bank Stock got up to 1671 and 1681,
and India Stock to 2478 and 2481. The New Three-
and-a-Half per Cents, fluctuated from 99 to 987, and the
Reduced Three per Cents. from 898 to 898.
The Foreign Bonds were flat to-da. Portuguese
New Five per Cents. declined to 338 and -, but the Three
per Cents. remained at 24. Active Spanish Bonds were
dull at 254 to 25. Mexican realised 294, and Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 511 to 518.
The Share Market presents no particular feature.
There is still an absence of buoyancy. 'Brighton were
atl3l to 13; Greenwich at 131; Midland Counties at 20;
Northern and Eastern at 7; and Birmingham and
Gloucester at 36 discount. Manchester and Leeds were
4 to 4i; York and North Midland, 428 ; Ditto New, 161;
and Great Western 21 premium. London Joint-Stock
Bank Shares were 24 premium.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 26.—The sales
of Cotton to-day are 2,500 bales, with a very dull mar-
ket ; the business has been wholly confined to the trade,
bat without change in prices.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 26.—The transac-
tions at the Share Market this day comprised Eastern
Counties 101. 6s. Bd. ; Grand Junction, 193 ; London
and Birmingham, 169i'; Manchester and Leeds Half-
shares, 314.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 26.—We have
had a very dull market, and no alteration in prices to
report. Manchester and Leeds 72 73; Manchester and
Birmingham, 271 27k; London and South Western, 58
58k; London and Birmingham, 169 170.
By the arrival of a merchant vessel from Buenos
Ayres, papers to the 19th of November have been re-
ceived at the North and South American Coffee-house.
The British packet of the 13th states that the intelli-
gence of the death of Lavalle has been fully confirmed.
Respecting the fate of La Madrid, nothing positive has
yet been known. Two Indians, who lately came over
m the Cordillera, report that before their departure from
Chili, a group of about twenty men had reached the
first post-house there in great distress, and that in their
passage across they met with nearly one hundred dead
bodies, upon some of which they found considerable sums
in gold.
The last advices from Carmentes, to which quarter at-
tention is now directed, represent Paz and Ferre as hav-
ing retreated across the river Carmentes, upon the bank
of which Gen. Echague had encamped.
In Banda Oriental the Rivera Governmelit were taking
active measures to avert the threatening storm. Among
other steps a general enrolment of slaves was ordered to
be made.

Exchange on England 2 15-16 pence.
The English Securities opened firm, with an advance
upon yesterday's prices. Consols are 891 for Money,
and 894 I/ for the Account. Exchequer Bills are steady
at 17s. to 19s. premium.
Spanish Active Stock firm at 251 e ; Portuguese
Five per Cents., 334 34 ; Ditto Threes, 20:f.
The brig Messenger, Captain Ellis, has just arrived
in the St. Katherine Dock from Boston, United States,
and is the first vessel of a line of packets which will run
regularly hereafter between Boston and Loudon; and if
the experiment succeeds, new and large ships of the size
and model of the New York, Liverpool, and London
lines, will take the places of the present vessels.
The Messenger has made a good voyage, and comes
laden with American produce. There is little doubt of
the ultimate success of this new line, as the rapid
growth of Boston, the opening of the Railroad to
Albany, by which the vast quantities of Western
produce can be conveyed at a rapid rate ,to Boston,
the Royal Mail steamers from Liverpool, the
Eastern Railroad, which is to be continued to the Bay
of Fundy, the numerous branch railroads, all continue
to assist the trade of Boston, and we see no reason why
a line of splendid packets direct to London, should not
prove profitable to the enterprising merchants who
have started the project. •
The English and Foreign Securities are not quite so
firm as at the opening. Consols are now 891 for Money,
and 894 for the Account ; Three per Cents. Reduced.
Exchequer Bills, 1719.
89!
p;
and i titsoh Th
Activer e e-a n ds-tao-cllk a 12f,59494;
; Portuguese Five per
Cents, 334 ; Ditto, Threes, 204 ; Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. 514 ; Ditto, Fives 1014. Little doing.
The Share Market is flat, with little doing. Great
Western 854 86 ; Ditto, New, 601 ; London and Brigh-
ton, 37 ; South Eastern and Dover, 27.
Consols, Money, 894 4 ; ditto, Account, 894 ; Colom-
bian,l2l4a 22; Mexican, 294 ji; Portuguese, 334 ; Spa-
nish, 254.
In the very late advises received to-day from Buenos
Ayres, there is " food for reflection" to such of our mer-
chants as are interested in the affairs of South America.
The long and ruinous contest between the Argentine
ruler, Rosas, and the Unitarians, seems likely to be
early brought to a close. One, at least, among
the host of ambitious tyrants, whose name is " Le-
gion," has ceased to desolate the soil of America,
though, perhaps, the dragon-tooth may be too deeply
sown not to bring forth another and another.
The development of the resources of South American
States to the benefit alike of themselves and the coun-
tries trading with them, can clearly never be accom-
plished until the horn of peace is held in sight where now
the sword of war is fiercely waved; and it seems as if in
the ascendancy of one superior tyrant, such as Rosas
or Santa Anna, and the curbing of the no less restless
though less able ones, that the safety and prosperity of
such republics can best exist, at least under the present
system of Government.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Fink St ock 1674 India Stock ~... ..... ...: 18
3 per Cent Red B9l Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons 894 Ditto Old Annuities ...
34 per Cent Red 994 Ditte New Annuities...
New 34 per Cent
New 5 per Cent.. — Ditto 5001...
Long Annuities :,oexpire Ditto Small l7 pm
Jan. 1860 ... 121 Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct 1859. 124 India Stock for Acct....
Jan, 1860.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 pei (tent. Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 pel rent — 'Ditto, New Ditto 33
Brazilian Bonds. .. Prussian, 5 per cent.
Ruenos Ayres 6 per cea Russian, 5 per cent...,,,
Chilian, 6 per cent..... ,'Ditto, Metallic ...... .
Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent...-.
Ditto, 1824.. ..... IDitto, Deferred.... •
Danish, 3 per cent French, 5 per cent. —4...... e,
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange............ f c
Mexican, 5 per cent — French, 3 percent. -- • ....c
Ditto, 6 per cell`. 1637 Dutch, 24 per cent. 51
Peruvian, 1825, fper ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. .. . 101
SHABAS.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 y) 64
86
Cheltenham
WesternenhamandnaiGirweaayt( 65 paid)Western (72k paid) 14i
Great
Ditto New Shares (50 paid)
Gosport Junction Railway (50 pd)
London and Brighton (50 paid)37
London and Greenwich Railway („ 84
584
London and South Western ...........
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) .•••••••• •
32
Ditto New Shares (30 paid)
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
2
Ditto Quarter Shares (15 pig) O4
... 2
.
South East,:rn and Dover C-18 paid • .•• 7
York
aid)
tu.i. JAN. 25.
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DittonLanLdNu No
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aAurieiNsd
Di
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5n1.15
Bpßamaivi,ll:.; a.
.y. (,‘
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ............ ...
52
liothschild'E Lean, 5 per Can t.. .. ... ! .
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
sper cent.

Thirty.seven

(1340) .................. 103
Loan of City, 1:131, 4 per Cent.... .....
Society of Conm9rce, 4 %per Cent ...... "*"..
Bank of Belgium 5 per Cent... ......... 78%
fiationalSaciety ...................................
Exchange on London (short) .................. -
--Brussels Papers, Jan. 25*

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THE QUACKERY OF FREE TRADE is a phrase
adopted by the Tories. Will they not soon
speak of the quackery of the
free winds of the
atmosphere? Perhaps, too, they will describe
It is at least clear
gthroewftrheeofcpoluarnstes,(a)ts'
qtluiaeckpelrayn.ets,
.and the free
intercommunication
separated, and as
that free intercommunication between. bodies of
dinadinweiddubaylsN, paotuliit.eicaaslliyheseipreaerated, is as much or-
dained
restricting
bodies of men not politically
of the free course of the winds.
.Nature ordains
is sorry,
free trade; the supposition that fools of states-
men can mend her works, and promote the hap-
pinesstiia t
w which
li mankind Nature
regulatingblyiasmnot to
say impious, quackery.
ad made free,

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