The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-17 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET.

.Madame Vestris and Mr. Charles Mathews are engaged, and
will appear To-night, and every Evening during the week.
THIS EVENING will tie revived, the. Comedy of
NA TAL ENGAGEMENTS.
Admiral Kingston, (his original character), Mr. W. Farren;
Lietabenank -Kingston, R.N., (his original character), Mr.
Quo, Mathews; Short, Mr. H. Widdicomb; Dennis, Mr.
Malone- Raymond; Mrs. Pontifex, (first time), Mrs. Glover;
Miss Mfortimar, (her original character), Madame Vestris.
Ait'er which a New Drama, in Two Acts,'called GRAND-
FATHER WHITEHEAD. Grandfather Whitehead, Mr.
V. Farrell; Draron, (a Builder), Mr. Tilbury ' • Langley, (a
Retired Trader), Mr. Stuart ; Driver, (a 'Lawyer), 'Mr.
Strickland'; Bob Lincoln, (his Clerk), Mr. Webster; STap,
Mr. Clark; Edward Drayton (Drayton's Son), Master GeTrge
Webstor ; Louisa Drayton, Mrs. Edwin Yarnold ; Susan,
(Servant to Langley), Mrs. Stanley.
Te be followed by Mr. T. Haynes Bayly's Burletta of ONE
HOUR ; onr-A CARNIVAL BALL. Mr. Charles Swiftly,
(his erigiftid character), Mr. Charles Mathews ; Miss Dalton,
(bar original character), Madame Vestris, who will sing
" Love is the Theme." _ _

lowhis;-;iTI-he- added an entirely New Monopolylope,
called THE BELLE OF THE HOTEL; or, AMERICAN
SKETCHES; in which Mays. Fitzwiltiam will sustain Six
Characters.

To conclude with Mr. Buckstone's last New Farce, called
A KISS IN THE DARK. Mr. Selim Pettibone, Mr.
Buckstone ; Frank Fathom, Mr. Howe ; Marv, Miss Mattley ;
The Unknown Female, Miss Connor; Mrs. Pettibone, Mrs
W. Clifford.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING. NOV. 17,

Will be repeated THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. Prim.
eipal Characters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Lyon, H. Beverly,
Wright, Sterling, Wilkinson, Maynard, Craven, Mrs. H. P.
Grattan, Miss Faucit, Miss Murray, Mrs. H. Beverly, &c.
After which, a INew Comic Burletta, called AN I'ONY and
CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss
Bliarray.
To be followed by a Grand Burletta Spectacle, entitled
ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford,
Wieland; Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche
Giubilei.

To conclude with THE SECRET. Thomas, Mr. H. Beverly.
Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. Doors open at half-past
six, commence at seven o'clock.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Immense success of the new Nautical Drama. Mr. 3'. P.
Cooke as Union Jack is highly cheered by crowded audiences—
the novel effects surpass everything hitherto attempted, and
the ship on fire creates a complete hurricane of applause.
'nits EVENING, NOV. 17,
Will be repeated an entirely New Nautical Drama, en-
titled TBE UNION JACK; or, the SAILOR and the
SETTLER'S DAUGHTER, written expressly for Mr. T. P.
Cooke, who will be supported by Messrs. Hicks, Neville,
Smith, Heslop, Mrs. R. Ilonner, and the entire Company.
New scenery and splendid nautical effects never before attempted.
After which will be produced an entirely new Drama, en-
titled THE BLACK LAW OF MARTINIQUE; or, the
FUGITIVE SLAVE. Zarnba, the Slave, by Mrs. H. Vining.
The other Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Neville, W.
Smith, Mrs. Hughes, and Miss E. Terry, who will sing Miss
Eliza Cook's Song of the " Red Indian," composed by Mr. G.
S tansb nry
To conclude with THE PLEDGE OF LOVE ; er, a SIS-
TER'S SACRIFICE.
Places and private Boxes to be bad of Mr. J. Kerschner, at
the Box-office, from eleven to four.

HIGH. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
'Warning' 0 minutes after 1 i Evening l7 minutes after 1.

140NDON
THURSDAY MORNIIIITG, NOVEMBER 17, 1842.

Mercantile letters from the Mauritius, brought
by the later arrivals, state that the labourers
thare, ander what the writers call the restrictive
systltn, haat been saving money for some time,
and were growing rich. Such a circumstance
,seems to rouse the envy of the former masters of
the slaves, and they appear quite spiteful at the
successful and happy lives of the labourers.
They speak harshly of the system which has
prevented them from continuing to import Hill
Coolies from Hindostan, and look forward with
hope to the new legislation of Lord STANLEY.
They expect that the Noble Lord will enable
them to revive a mild and modified slave-trade,
and their expectations will not be disappointed.
Lord STANLEY, like other statesmen, has no ob-
jection to a slave trade, or to slavery, or to any
other similur contrivance, either at home
or • abroad, for debasing and degrading
one. portion of the species for the pre-
sumed advantage of another, provided only
that he has the ordering of it. Statesmen like to
reconcile contradictions, to controvert nature, to
overcome impossibilities, and they are the men
to make a slave trade decent and dignified, and
Slavery itself a condition of happiness for all
Classes. They abhor it enough when it has its
root in private enterprise, and is carried on for
private advantage, but when it comes within the
scope of a Parliamentary regulation, and the
question is to reconcile a slave trade and slavery
with the dictates of humanity and the rights of
man, Lord STANLEY is the_ law-maker who will -
not boggle at the undertaking, or, find.a difficulty
In achieving it.
In 1833—we copy and abridge Lord STANLEY'S

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own speech in the House of Commons on July
26—some merchants of the Mauritius enlisted in
their service by private agents a number of the
natives of India, whom they imported into the
Mauritius as labourers. Great abuses ensued,
and inlB3B it was found necessary to prohibit the
exportation of labourers from India to the Mau-
ritius. In 1840, on the representation of the
planters and others in the Mauritius, Lord JOHN
RUSSELL proposed to rescind the prohibitory
law, and again permit the importation of labourers
from India into the Mauritius. Lord STANLEY
being then in opposition, voted against such a
revival of a semi-slave trade, and the measure was
quashed. But in 1842, the very same Lord
STANLEY being then, as hels now, in office, was
prepared to overcome all the difficulties which
before had appeared insurmountable, and he
brought in a measure to legalise and regu-
late the importation of labourers from Hindostan
to the Mauritius. The instant he proposed to
regulate the process, all its enormity disap-
peared from his view. He flattered himself that
he had achieved wonders, and his scheme to
give effect to this new species of slave trade, so
eagerly desired by the Mauritius planters, is
now the law of the land. We beg the abolition-
ists who have employed so much time and ex-
pense to promote their object, to be on their
guard, or Lord STANLEY will certainly succeed,
as he proposes, and the Trinidad and Demerara
planters earnestly desire, in re establishing under
his regulations for harmonising freedom and
slavery, a slave trade between the western coast
of Africa and our western colonies.

Lord STANLEY supposes that his system will
work well, because it is deprived of all
that recommends slavery to any person. Ills
system is founded, "on giving no benefit to any
individual, by the introduction of any exclusive
labourers." It is all to be done by and for the
Government. All iniquity ceases, in this case,
as in so many others, the instant law-makers, like
Lord STANLEY, make a law to regulate it. "In-
dividuals are not to collect labourers," but that
abstract being, the " COLONY, Is EMPOW-
ERED: TO VOTE A SUM OF MONEY TO

PAY THE EXPENSES OF THE EMIGRATION OF THE
LABOURERS, and when these emigrants arrive,
they are to be free to choose masters, and go
where they please:" Hill Coolies transported to
the Mauritius, speaking no word of the lan-
guage there spoken, destitute of funds, as much
inclosed in the island as if they were in a prison,
" free to choose and go where they please !"
What an abuse of language. " They may
then," added the Noble Lord—which, for the
planter, is the gist of the whole matter—
" compete for wages with the freest man there."
" The whole system," he said, " was 'altered
from the, root the moment they substitufed a
public grant ;" and Lord STANLEY made regula-
lations for the trade " for individual speculation.''
Said we not right ? Even the horrid iniquities
of a slave trade cease to be vices when Lord
STANLEY can regulate them, instead of having
their root ',in private enterprise.
But suppose we can show that Lord STANLEY'S
scheme has a whole batch of iniquities more
than the private speculation? Individual
planters, looking after their own interest, have a
right, if they like, to import labourers who go
freely and voluntarily from other countries,
without the least regard to the interest of the
labourers already existing in the Mauritius.
But the Government of which Lord STANLEY is
the organ is bound to protect the labourers of
the Mauritius as well as the
,planters, and to
hold the balance impartially, betwixt bOth:
When it sets about importing labourers, there-,
fore, to compete for wages with. the existing
labourers, it turns the power, of Government
against one class of men whom it is bound to pro-
tect. It acts unfairly and unjustly. But mark,
reader, the colony is to- vote sum of money-.
The abstract colony, however,has no funds except
those it levieS onthe inhabitants. The money
will be voted out of the taxes. The taxes are
paid by all the people, including the labourers,
who.may be said to pay the largest share of
them there, as in all other countries. Thus Lord
STANLEY'S improved scheme actually makes the
labourers of the Mauritius pay for the free pas-
sage of the labourers from India, who are to be
imported into the Mauritius expressly to beat
down their wages, and prevent them saving
money. The planters, when they undertook the
work, did it at their own expense. Lord STAN;
LEY, by his law, generously relieves them from
all the odium of their selfish undertaking, pays
its expenses out of the public purse, and actually
condemns the free labourers of the Mauritius
to pay for their own, degradation and the revival
of a slave-trade begun, instigated, ordered, and
regulated by Lord STANLEY. This is the very
climax of injustice it is all the iniquity of the
system that was abolished in 1837, with the
superadded iniquity of being perpetrated by
authority, levying a tax on those who are to be
the victims of the scheme, to carry it into effect.
The whole matter from beginning to end, the
patriotic and humane opposition of Lord
STANLEY when the law was not his own, his
readiness to enact such a law when he was in
power, his fancy that by a few regulations he
can overcome the inherent vices of a slave
trade and of slavery, and the eagerness 'with
which he perpetrates, by means of a solemn
enactment, a gross injustice, which he bitterly
stigmatises when perpetrated by an individual, is a
pregnant illustration of the character of such
law-makers as Lord STANLEY, and of the rise,
progress, and nature of their enactments.

A n advertisement infbrms us that " a Great
Metropolitan Public Meeting of the Friends to
Justice and Humanity, irrespective of Class and
Party," will be held to-day at the Crown and
Anchor," to consider of the proceedings connected
with the recent lamentable disturbances in the
Northern and Midland Counties." What may
be the specific object of the meeting we are not
aware, but we conceive that it may be most be-
neficial. It is to be a meeting of the friends of
justice and humanity, belonging to all parties
and all ranks. It may- be intended, therefore,
and may accomplish .the intention of givinc, a
tone to similar public meetings to be held
throughout the country, for the purpose of unit-
ing the people, by sympathies and principles, in
which all participate. All love, or profess to love,
justice and humanity. To make those great princi-
ples the means of union, no strong party opinions,
no extreme political principles, should be suffered
to show themselves. Neither the Five Points, nor
Complete Suffrage, nor that Ultra-Toryism
which preaches the suppression by force of all
liberal opinions, should seek to be conspicuous.
The mass of the public do not recognise them as
just, and will not go along with those who do.
If these extreme opinions can be kept in abey-
ance, and the meeting be brought to pass reso-
lutions in conformity to justice and humanity, it
may do an immense deal of good.
It is called in reference to the Special Com-
mission, and there is no doubt that both justice
and humanity were violated, and law set at de-
fiance,by Lord ABINGER'S charge. On that subject
there are not two opinions. So far as his influence
went, he procured, by operating on the minds of
juries, improper convictions, and subjected per-
sons to unnecessary punishments. If the meet-
ing shall be called on to express temperately,
but firmly, disapprobation of Lord ABINGER'S
injustice and his want of humanity, it will find
an echo in every part of the cointry.
Unfortunately, and of this there can be as
little doubt as of-Lord ABINGER'S want of huma•
nity, the prisoners brought to trial at the- Special
Sessions, had grossly violated the laws. Their•
conduct was, in fact, and it is looked on as, an
attack on the middle classes. It injured their

property. It stopped their works and put an end
to their profits. the meeting, therefore, shall
be called on to ex
it will not pr
rre
s
s
approbation of that con-
duct,ca With it the sympathy of the
middle classes in anyy part of the country. They
will now, we believe, cordially
unite in expres-
sing compassion for the sufferers; theys to ad
inaydreposss-
sibly be brought to concur ins measures sui.e
her. MAJESTY to remit their sentences; they may
even contribute to relieve the di stress of their
families; but the meeting will never
general. copcurrence. in any_expreasobtain a
i
ons of ap-
proval of the conduct of the convicted.
•If those who summon the meeting possess

notions of justice and humanity of this sort, and
they propose to interest the public in behalf of
the sufferers, not because they did right, but
because they were exposed to great hardships
and were easily misled, and because they had a
Judge who appeared vindictive, they may bring
a large body of public sentiment in concurrence
with them, and may lay the foundation of an ex-
tensive and cordial union of all classes in prin-
ciples of justice and humanity, to be worked
hereafter for more extensive purposes. Sup-
posing some objects of this kind to be contem-
plated, we wish the meeting success, but we can
assure those who call it that it cannot succeed in
obtaining any influence in the country unless it be
concocted and conducted in a spirit of perfect
fairness and moderation.

THE LEVANT MAIL.
TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 27.—Although the protocol
of the last conference, which took place between' M.
Boutenieff and the Turkish Minister for Foreign
Affairs, on the subject of the late revolution in Servia,
leaves little room to doubt of the adhesion of the
Cabinet of St. Petersburgh to the measures adopted
by the Porte, and though it was with this understand-
ing that Emin Effendi, the Ottoman Commissary,
was dispatched only four days ago with a firman of
investiture for Prince Alexander Georgewics to Bel-
grade, it appears by no means certain that Russia has
definitively acquiesced in this settlement; at least, the
language that the Russian Ambassador has held on'
this point with more than one of the Ministers of .the
other Powers is far from conclusive or,sdtisfactory.
The question, he says, has been referred by him to his
Court, and in the meanwhile remains open. Never was
there a grosser mystification of facts than has been resort-
ed to in this affair of Servia. Prince Michael, who was
a mere tool of Russia, for the furtherance of her
schemes of agitation and revolution in European
Turkey, and who was in other respects a raw inex-
perienced youth in the hands of a designing uncle,
has been represented as the champion and martyr of
civilisation, which the Porte, under the malignant in-
fluence of the late Grand Vizier, sought to extinguish
in his person. The real facts of the case, which have
been thus prettily perverted, are, that the Porte has
throughout been actin purely on the defensive, and,
by the expulsion of Michael, sought only to shut the
door which has, for two years past, been open to the
inroads of Russian incendiaries. In this necessary
task it has received the strenuous and cordial co-ope-
ration of Prince Metternich, through the agency of
General Hanen. This distinguished statesman was
not to be cajoled by the flimsy pretexts of civi-
lisation, which seem completely to have imposed
on the Frank Consuls at Belgrade. He at least
is sincere in his professions of preserving the
integrity of the Turkish territory ; and it was he
who first gave the alarm of the wolf in the fold. It
is true, that in the case of Russia the cry of "Wolf"
may have been raised sometimes too often ; but this is
no reason for indulging in foolish confidence, which,
in fact, is much more dangerous to publics interests
than the worst Russophobia.
It had been determined, in the first instance, to
send Aristarchi Logothete with the firmari.of deposi-
tion to Prince GI-like, at Bucharest; but the Porte
subsequently resolved on deputing its chidf dragoman,
Safaat Effendi, who set out by the same steamer
which was to take Emin Effendi to Belgrade. The
general impression here is, that the successor of
Ghika will be M. Phillipesco, a Wallachian by birth, but
who holds the rank of Colonel in the Russian army.
A report prevails among the diplomatic body, that
Izzit Pacha, the late Grand Vizier, is about to be sent
to Syria, to replace Moustapha Pacha, who is said to
have fallen into disgrace with his Government, or
rather with Riza Pacha, who, through every change of
administration, remains apparently immovable and
omnipotent.

Rilaat Paella is to proceed to-day, by the Danube
steamer to Odessa.

Mr. Todd, attache to the British embassy, arrived
on the 24th with dispatches for Sir S. Canning. Mr.
Todd has been sent to supply the place of the Hon.
W.-Maule, whose health requires a change of climate.
The Austrian Government, at the demand of the
Porte, has sent two medical men to take charge of
'the great military Hospital at Maltepe. Thialmspi-
tal is allotted to the regiments of reds (militia),
quartered in the great barracks of Daoud Pacha and
Ramiz Tchitlik, and is fitted up for 1,000 patients. It
is under the superintendence of. Dr. Herman; an
Austrian physician of considerable talent, and clinical
Professor at the Medical Academy of Galiti Seraiond
inspector of all Turkish military hospitals in' the ca-
pital. The administration of these establishments
has made sensible progress. Advantage has been taken
of the able reports made upon this subject' to the' Gin-
vernment by Doctors Davy and Dawson, whO, had
they been permitted, would have introduced a corn -
plete reformation in the system. But these gentle-
men failed, as all Englishmen of merit or talent will
ever fail in this country, when counteracted by the
apathy of the Ottoman Government on the one side,
and by the jealousy of rival practitioners on the other.
Another addition has taken place to the Imperial
family. The batteries had scarcely terminated their
seven days' salutes in honour of the birth of Prince
Abdul. Ilamid, when they re-opened their fire to an-
nounee the fortunate appearance in this world of a
Princess, who was forthwith named Adlya (the just).
This event was rendered doubly auspicious by its oc-
curring upon the eve of the 15th Ramazan (Oct. 22),
on which day the Prophet's relics are uncovered and
exposed to the view and devotion of the Sultan and
the Grand Dignitaries of State ; consequently, twenty-
one guns instead of seven were fired five .times per
day, during three days ; making 105 rounds daily for
each ship and battery, and forming a total of nearly
11,000 rounds expended between the Dardanelles and
Black Sea upon this occasion. It is said that a third
lady is expected to afford an opportunity for further
saluting within the course of a few days ; and yet the
French paper's told us last autumn that the Sultan was
upon the verge of the grave.
French accounts have been received from Bayazid.
They are so far important that a promise has been
made by Persia to withdraw its troops from the fron-
tier, in which event the Porte has equally engaged to
withdraw the" Ottoman forces. No further skirmishes
of any consequence had taken place, but the roads
continued to-be infested with the Kurdish robbers, to
the great sacrifice of Persian traders, and all who have
anything to do with theM. This state of things,
,which
is unpleasant to the Turks, must be highly detrimen-
tal to the Persians. The Russians, however, must
profit of it to introduce by way of Georgia their own
manufactures and other articles. No new intelligence
received from the frontiers near Bagdad.
Yesterday a fine new ship of the line, built at Ereili
(Heraclea), iv the Black Sea, was towed safely into
the arsenal. The Porte has now abundance of ships,
and in case of necessity could send to sea fifteen sail.
of the line, with an abundance of frigates, steamers,
&c. If she is not an acknowledged naval poWer it
must be her own fault.

Said Pacha, who is nowhere, his not yet proceeded
for his new mushirlik, Angora. He is indebted, and
asks money before proceeding. This personage, being
supported by the Ulemah, is, of sufficient note to create
anxieties among the Ministers. Should his party
coalesce with that of Halil Pacha, efforts may be made
to get out of office Riza Pacha, after which Said would
fall from his own in3ignificance.
A few days ago the Sultan had an opportunity of
showing his personal good qualities. His barge ran
doWn a small kaick, in which were two Turkish
women and a boy. Ile had the barge stopped, saved
the whole, took the boy into his own boat, and per-
sonally looked to his comfort. The steersman, whose
awkwardness was the cause of the accident, was im-
mediately arrested and sent into exile. In former
times a Mussulman Padishah would have lowered
himself in the eyes of his subjects, by condescending
to exercise such virtues ; but. Abdul Medjid is emi-
nently an amiable man, who does not, allow state to
intercept the exercise of his humanity.
The hostile tone of some of the French journals has
created much disgust here. It is in singular contrast
with the just and impartial spirit which breathes in
general throughout the English press. The Rayahs
may surely be allowed to form an estimate of their
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