The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-10 00:00:00

NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE.
Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
ANNE BOLEYN,
AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE.
By MRS. A: T. THOMSON.
4thor of ,4 Memoirs of Henry VIII.," " Constance," &c.
Mnry Celburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

whether or not they will sanction a war with the
United States to enforce the doctrines of Lord
PALMERSTON and Lord ABERDEEN.
It must at once excite great suspicion in the
Liberal party, to see the right of England to visit
and search American ships now strenuously
urged and maintained by the Tory Press. It has
been taken up by the Times, the Morning Post,
the Quarterly Review, the Morning _Herald, &c.,
and it is pressed vehemently by these high-flying
monarchical Tories against theßepublicans, whom
they continually deride and depreciate. With
them it is a personal quarrel, founded on their
hatred of freedom. They press it, too, in the name
of humanity, when theyiwere the men who resisted
to the utmost of their power, through a succession
of years, every attempt to check the progress of
the slave trade, or meliorate the condition of the
slaves.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRLIJRY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, JAN. 10,
Her Majesty's Servants will perform the Play of THE
MERCHANT OF VENICE, lions the Text of Shakspeare.
Dui., Mr. 0. Bennett; Antonio, Mr. Phelps; Bassaaio,
Mr. Anderson; Lorenzo, Mr. Elton; Shylock, Mr. Macready ;
Portia, Mrs. Warner; Nerissa, Mrs. Keeley; Jessica, Miss
E. Phillips.
of
After xhich will e repeated the New Christmas Pantomime,
ca'led HARLEQL AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN-
NER ; OR, JA CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON
STONE.

Doors to be opened at Half past Six and the Performance
to begin at Seven o'clock. Boxes 55., Second Price, 2s. 6J.
Pit 35., Second Price 2s. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second
Price Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d.

. .
• THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDE-N.
UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS.
THIS EVENING, JAN. 10,
Will be performedShakspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S
DREANL—Theseui, Mr. Cooper; Quince, Mr. Bartley;
Bottom, Mr. Harley ; Flute, Mr. Oiberry ; Snout, Mr. Mea-
dow s ; Snug, ;Mr. F. Matthews ; Hermia, Mrs. Nisbett ;
Oberon, Mailanii: Vestris ; 'Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy }..,Pack, Miss
Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Rainforth.
After which will be repeated the New Gond Christmas
Pantomiw e, entitled GU'l EARL OF WARWICK ; OR,
HARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW.

Doors to to evened at half-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven. Dress lloxeg, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.;
First and second Cirees, sa. ; Second Price, ‘'s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.;
F.4=coort Price. sr.; Gaikry, Is. Ticked and places for the
Boxes to be Wee() of Mr. fhogari at the Box-office, from Ten
till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application.
Private Loxes to be hr.! so!ely of Air. Andress, bookseller,
167. Nestr- 8011. i-street.

To-morrow, Norma, with the New Pantomime.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
UNDER TIE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE
AND MR. WILLIS JONES.
Upwards of 30,000 persons have witnessed the Pantomime at
this Theatre, pronounced the best of the Season.
THIS EVENING, JAN. 10,
Will be acted a New Domestic Dtama, entitled MADAME
LAFFARGE, from Memoirs written by Herself; supported
by the entire Company.
After which, a Nautical Burletta, entitled JACK JUNK ;
or, a SEAMAN'S FIRESIDE.— Jack Junk, with Two Songs
Mr. Walton.

To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled
HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK
FROST AND KING SHAM.—With gorgeous and eltarac-
teristic Scene ry, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint
Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun-
ning, &c. Harlequin' M. Huline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan-
taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr.
Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe.
Private and Public Boxes can be had of Messrs. Sams, Ebers,
Alitchell, Andrews, and Seguin, during the run of this popu-
lar Pantomime.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
eNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON.
Enormous success, and Second Grand Juvenile Week, in con-
sequence of the thousands of Children that have witnessed
the perforrnalice of the Pantomime as Second Piece ; and
First. Week of " The Story of Geraldine !"
THIS EVENING, JAN. 10,
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, a New Grand Romantic Aerial Comic Pan-
tomime, entitled HARLEQUIN PETER WILKINS; OR,
THE KING OF THE 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 !" con-
sisting of Maritime Views aleng the Ccast of England. Also,
a new Grand Dissolving Diorama, by Childe, the Great Illu-
sionist ; and the Opening of the Pantomime supported by the
Comic ,Talent of thts--the Popular Theatre of London.
To conclude with THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER.—
Bowie:11, Me. Gardner; bimbo, Mr. Howard; Aboulifan,
Mr. James ; Irza, Mrs. Lee.
Boxes, 23.—Pit, 1 s.— Gallery, Gd.—Half-price to the Boxes
only, it Half-past Eight.

NEW STRAND THEATRE.
OPEN EVERY EVENING.

Combined Talent—Crowded Houses:-Enrapitired Audiences.
Those who wish to obtain comfortable seats to witness the
extraordinary wonders accomplished at this neat little Theatre
most not delay until a late period of the evening; numbers
during the past week have been unable to gain admittance.
JA COBS !—MA GICIA N JACOBS ! has once more made
his fame resound throughout the Metropolis. All Wizards and
Magicians who have preceded this great Professor of the Ne-
cromantic Art may now hide thei► diminished heads, and re-
turn to that oblivion from whence they came. His Ventrilo-
quism is astonishing: he imitates the voices of twelve persons,
to the surprise of everybody. The following perfortilances are
also added :—Mons. ROUSSEAU, the FRENCH EQUILI-
BRIST ; the PATAGONIAN WONDERS, theDISSOLV-
ING PORTRAITS, and Kr. J. SCATES on WHEAT-
STONE'S PATENT CONCERTINA.

Doors o;',en A Half-past Six, commence at Seven. Boxes,
9.5. ed.; Clgjdren, Is. 641. Pit, Is. 6d. ; Children, is. Gal-
lery, 6d. Close Ten Minutes to Eleven.

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• TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The letter of the Rev. Mr. Smith would involve us in a
controversy, which is interesting only to the parties
concerned.

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ROYAL GALLERY OP SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
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State, persists in visiting American ships, with a
view of enforcing, not international law, but cer-
tain recent enact.L.--,-Itsofour law, anci "of pariia!
obligation." We hold with Mr. STEVENSON that
this is a violation of the national rights and sove-
reignty of the United States, and we hope that
our people will not support our Government in a
course of proceeding which is at once novel and
fatal to the liberty of the seas.

On Saturday there was another field-day in
the Marylebone Vestry, to decide the merits of
the Oxford-street wood pavement; and we are
glad to find that the vote of the previous week
for postponing the further consideration of the
question for three years was reversed. The re-
solution, as we stated last week, was an insult
to the inhabitants of the parish, and the
Vestry seem now to be of the same opinion,
for they have changed their tone, and recorded
by their votes that the question is still open for
discussion. It would be a great relief to the
parish, and to many other parties, if this Mary-
lebone Vestry would show something like con-
sistency, and, instead of eternal talking and
voting, adopt some rational line of conduct which
might meet with the approbation of the inha-
bitants. We are anxious to judge impartially of
their conduct, and regret to state, that, as far as
we have means of information, the question in dis
pute is more influenced by party feelings and
selfish motives than by any regard to the inte-
rests of the parishioners. There will be an-
other meeting, of course, on the subject, in a
short time; and as the result is of importance to
a large community, we will watch the proceed-
ings, and report them to the public.

It excites great suspicion, too, that the party
which is so eager to involve us in war, in order
to promote the advantage of the Africans, is the
advocate of monopoly at home; and while it pre-
tends to feel for the suffering negroes, it
cruelly starves our own" people, inflicting in a
thousands instances a more lingering and pain-
ful death than ever disgraced the middle
passage. While we feel that the Tory cantabout
humanity is a sheer pretext, we cannotforget that
the free republicans, against whom they would
direct the wrath of our humane people, are the
dwellers in the boundless plains of the Missis-
sippi, and ofler to our starving multitudes the
food which the Monopolists withold from them.
A war against them would be an effectual means
of indirectly preserving the monopoly of the
bread-taxers.
Another source of suspicion is found in the
allies of our Tories. Russia, Austria, Prussia,
and France form the league which is to dictate
a new code of international laws to the Republic
whose capacious bosom yielding nourishment to
all who ask it, whose strong arms to defend
them, and cheap institutions constitute a stand-
ing condemnation of all the Monarchies and
despotisms of Europe. Is England to unite with
theni to put down freedom under the pretext of
putting down slavery ?
The language used by the defenders and ad-
vocates of this holy league, is calculated to ex-
cite grave suspicions. They want to enforce
" maritime order," just as they have established
terrestrial order, or slavery ; they want to spread
a "police over the sea," as they have spread it
over the land ; they liken a ship to a traveller,
and they contend, as the latter is subject to have
his passport overhauled on the Continent, so no
shipowner can complain if his vessel be stopped
till she has proved to the satisfaction of the cap-
tain of the vessel stopping her that she has a
right to wear the flag she hoits, as a traveller is
stopped bygens d'armes on the Continent, and is
compelled to prove that he is entitled to carry
the passport lie exhibits.
Passports are inventions to preserve order.
They are to prevent the escape of criminals, and
enable a Government to bring offenders to jus-
tice. That is their best defence, but they are a
prodigious annoyance to honest and innocent
men. Let these Powers obtain the sanction
of maritime England to establish a police on the
sea—let our people approve of the plan now urged
by the Tories in the name of humanity, of stop-
ping and examining every ship in time of peace of
which a naval officer may choose to entertain
suspicions—and very soon no vessel will be al-
lowed to cross the seas unmolested by the police
cruizers of all the tyrants of Europe. Not one
of their victims would then be able to find re-
fuge from their wrath in the United States. Not a
vessel would then be able to cross the sea to carry
on a traffic of which they disapproved. To the
commerce of England a sea police to preserve
maritime order would be a fatal enthralment. We
Let gets and papers from Madrid of the Ist inst.
hope that our own merchants and ship captains,
state that M. SALVANDY had not then left the
who would not submit to such a practice, will be
careful not to support the present claims against
capital, and was still negotiating about the deli-
the United States, lest the precedent hereafter be very of his credentials. He had received de-
applied to themselves. spatches from his Government, approving of his
From these circumstances, though some of condiset, and ordering him to persevere till he
our Liberal Contemporaries have taken the received further orders from the KING, his
side of the Tories, and of Lord PALMERSTON, we master- Upon this question, we quote the fol-
lowing- excellent letter from Madrid, dated the
vernment with great dislike, and we shall en-
look on the claims now put forth by our Go-
-Ist inst;.., which is a triumphant answer to every-
deavour to show that they are founded altoge- thing -which has been said by the French press
titer on new and erroneous assumptions. We upon the subject:—
may stand alone in our resistance to the claim The old year has ended without bringing M. Sal-
made in the name of England as vlannadio), rs, quarrel with the Spa
Spanish
Government to a con-
e
- against the The new begins with it as its most interesting
United States, but it is better to be right alone feature.. The question is still unsettled. M. Salvandy,
than wrong with a great multitude. it is sal .d, has received instructions from his Government
week,not
during the . indeed final, but looking upon his
It is rather late to begin our statement of
evfursert,or t him t.o ersevere in i
principles, and our argument at the tail of so
till he receives u
ec de rs.ellin Theg Spanish Government,t many observations, and we must, therefore, on the other hand, will not yield, and indeed cannot do so
content ourselves with observing that the claim The
hthor rt a violation of the Constitution and all precedent.
now made by England has entirely grown u M.
P saivaant miheonit statondisiisthuosipnrtettylamt uhcihs bcredentials being
out of a new set of circumstances, and being in addre ;soj to Queen Isabel, he will not present them;a to
itself a novelty should unquestionably not be the Reg ant. Were any other' person than Espartero
enforced by violence on the unwilling subjects I Regent;, he would, he says, act in the same way. Ile
of any other Government. In contradiction to stekmesba°sl:Ltt Lhdoisr coar
rhlyliqp utoitieinflitthheocfassep ao.f Cwh ellamart the
fot
e ins
hs t
ofd
my Lord ABERDEEN, we will venture to assert
and pr as ented his credentials to Louis
that it never was the practice of the British Frances then a minor of five years of age, instead of de-
navy, nor of any navy, to ascertain, by visit, livering: them to the French Regent, the Duke of Orleans.
during peace, the real nationality of merchant
To the ffirst of these arguments, the 59th article of the
Spanis It Constitution gives a triumphant reply. It dis-
vessels met with on the high seas, if there be tinetly • ratates that the " Regency of Spain is to exercise
good reason to apprehend their illegal cha- all the authority of the King, in whose name the acts of
ratter. When the nations are at peace there is , the Ivernment are to be published." If, therefore, the
no motive for examining vessels met with on
, receir tig of Ambassadors
be one of the attributes of a
Span: It Spa Sovereign, so must it also be of a Spanish Re-
the high seas. It would be a gratuitous waste gent. With the Spanish people this view of the matter
of time. Except a man-of-war be sent after sonic musts ,nd will be held conclusive. They cannot compli-
particular pirate vessel, or some particular ille- ment it away without degradation. The historical in-
gal trafficker, it is not the practice to examine I Philipstan 11" of Stpedainb,yas ISelv.erSyaolnveanhdnyowias
,nroast
hleinissaeyfnhlapeapny:
vessels met with on the high seas during peace. I didate I ir the Regency and guardianship of I. ouis XV., in
Iu fact, the right of visit, or the right of opposit' 10 a to his relative, the Duke of Orleans. It was
! thferefo tx • natural that he would wish to offend the Duke
search, is altogether a right of war. It is to is by intgo Ambassador,K CellaAmar, to
instituted and acknowledged solely as a means oOrie
credentialsstrlic oaurcnegly,
indeed, be
d be made m°
of preventing an enemy from receiving supplies, presentnconcl give reference could s'e'
and never was either practised or submitted to mutatis mutandis, it is Louis Philippe sending an
during peace. We are now at peace, and there-
tAermoba ticiltor to
tMheadid todanrr y the Regent
historicalEspar-
rodoircoiotmatisotanosooosf
fore, according to the customary law of nations. this ki iv I
a'resatyo be vSpalainid,arins the. alto
we have no right to visit American ships. . of both.: nations, they might adduce the instance of the
French , . Ambassador Rotemburg, being obliged to go
carry on a trade which we and' some other na.
But the American flag, it is said, is used to
upon Ili knees, to beg pardon of Isabel Farnese, the
-I. second • • •
is -de of the same Philipe, who gave orders to
Lions have recently declared to be piracy, and in Cellars r not to deliver his credentials to any one but
order to put an end to that it is contended that the mi at fr Louis XV. In modern precedents, as regards
the toms a. countries, Spain has much the best of the argu-
in certain latitudes where ,ships are liable to sus-
ment. .No less than five Ambassadors of France have
picion, vessels bearing the American flag may since Lit 3 death of Ferdin dan presented their creden-
be stopped and made to prove to an English tials t a the Regent of Spain. These were MIL Ray-
cruizer that they arc American vessels, and neval, J atour Mabourg, the Duke of Fezensac, Marquis
de Rum gny, and Mathieu de la Redone. Not one of
navigated according to the laws of the United
States. Now this declaring a particular traffic thesescreden etit Tss
ttoo ht:er em
Regent.a de anyi to bijeemc tai
remarks M.
r Salvandy,t in theirtlt
e
piracy is a complete novelty in the code of na- letters of these individuals were addressed to the Regent,
Lions. We are not sure, however welcome it was
Maria C 'hristina, not to Queen Isabel. True • but it
could ly have been as Regent that they were addressed
to our zeal for humanity, that it is a just novelty. to that ft ivoared lady. And again, why was there an
To kidnap the blacks, as is sometimes done by alterae 101 made in the mode o directing these letters
now ?
.3 Ospartero is Regent, if Maria Christina was so.
the Slavers, is undoubtedly almost as bad as
our practice of impressment; tobuy those who are Thetires soai
lel
eauthoritiesa
free id
tsheelye—olanaeisnelym, a
de thetrheep roenseena tnad-
already enslaved, however heinous an offence to the ea Regents. But this is not all. The converse
morality, can scarcely be called piracy. The of the pc,atetice of France is equally against its present
latter never had the sanction of the civilized pr.ocee, fit it Not only did the French Government
RAe mbassado to present their credentials to
per-
world; the slave trade, and slavery, received that !Ile gpFanr' i:l3 gent, but the King of the French did re-
sanction for ages. To class the slave trade as ceive tl to letters of Spanish Ambassadors, Miraflores to
piracy, is, therefore, a novelty, and we dont_ wit, and-
. - signed and addressed by a Spanish Regent.
whether it be proper to. enforce a noveltyY on 01
ozak ,whose credentials were given by Espartero as
others by such extreme measures as stopping Spanis Is Regent, and to whom M. Salvandy will not now
American ships at sea, and making the captains deliver kds ?
prove that they are bona fide American ships.
The Quarterly Review admits that "practically
this question has grown out of our slave trade
legislation and treaties." The Times admits
that " it has arisen upon the slave trade treaties."
"It is only a means of enforcing certain recent
enactments of partial obligation." We have
been careful to obtain the consent of other nations
where we could, to our means of enforcing on
their subjects obedience to our enactments, and
the Government never thought itself justified in
enforcing obedience, without first obtaining the
consent of other nations. Hence our treaties
with those nations giving a mutual right of
search, which would have been wholly unneces-
sary had such a right been, according to
my Lord ABERDEEN, always in existence in
peace. The enactments creating the illegality
and the piracy being .novel and municipal—not
international—it was clearly necessary to obtain
the consent of every independent Sovereign be-
fore visiting its vessels, to establish a contravention
of our municipal law. The United States was
applied to for their consent, showing that they
had the right to refuse; and they did refuse.
England, in violatioe, of the, dignity of the
United States, as an independent Sovereign

The non-patronage party in Scotland, com-
monly called the " Non-Intrusion " men, and
sometimes the " wild " men, have lately been
circulating reports of the favourable disposition
of Sir ROBERT PEEL and the Earl of ABER-
DEEN to their scheme of getting the
whole of the Kirk patronage into their
own hands. We never believed a word of
the statements, because the present Government
could not with any consistency or gratitude have
given additional power to that unfeeling section
of the Church which had cruelly deposed many
of the most worthy men on the Establishment,
and for their own selfish purposes had
thrown the whole religious community in
the north into the greatest confusion and dis-
may. The present Government may be bad
enough in some respects, they are guilty of
many delinquencies, but they never desert their
friends, and we, therefore, argued, as on a matter
of fact, that not only would the Strathbogie mi-
nisters be protected, but that means would be
adopted for depriving their persecutors of power
to do further mischief: The following letter
to certain Non-lntrusionists bears out our
statement, and will be' a " heavy blow
and great discouragement" to CANDLISH,
CUNNtNCIHAIVI, and Co. It was sent as an
answer to certain parishioners, who wished to
take the patronage from the Crown, and confer
it on a party in the parish, instigated, no doubt
by some " Non-Intrusionist " minister :
Whitehall, Jan. 3, 1842.
SDI- —I am directed by Secretary Sir James Graham
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the Ist inst.,
stating that you are requested by the parishioners of the
parish of Kettle, now vacant by the death of the Rev.
Dr. Bal .clay, to inquire whether the Government will
allow th e male communicants to send up a list or choice
of four ,or five persons, and will give the presentation to
one of the persons chosen by them ; and to inform you,
that Sir James Graham does not require any list of per-
sons, chosen by the parishioners in the vacant parish of
Kettle, to be sent to guide him in advising the Crown
as to the presentation of a minister.—l am, Sir, your
obedient servant,

(Signed) H. MANNERS SUTTON.
Mr. Thomas Arnott, Chapel, Kettle, Fife.

The French Journals of Friday and Saturday
dwell %upon the diplomatic fracas between the
Courts : of Russia and France. It is•altogether a
very ri a tieulous business. The Liberal and Mi.
nisterit papers having expressed their opinion
upon it; the Royalist journals bring up the rear,
but with a strong leaning on the side of the Auto-
crat. he Quotidienne says :

M. CA .izot, Professor of the Sorbonne, has believed and
said dr tt . Al. de I'ahlen left Paris to avoid having to ad-
dress a .e King on New Year's Day. This was a mal-
adressi :! in itself, and an engagement to commit a second ;
in fa' t M. Guizot's journals have taken care to
inform .ias that M. Casimir Perier had received orders
not to Lppear on the occasion of the fete-day of the
Empe Pm-. Now this was an aggression. A want of
taste I ell M. Guizot to an act of rudeness, and this unsea-
so/lab' e affectation of pride has appeared very singular
in aAI inister who has so little suseeptibillry when the
nation. ti dignity is really concerned. Certain, however,
it is, tl M. de Kisseleff, by way of reprisal, received
orders t o be ill on NeW Year's Day. In diplomacy, ad-
dress co us ists in believing in appearances, and acting as
if no bel ise f was placed in them. M. Guizot, then, has
conductedi himself like the greatest novice among
diplomatist s, for he has acted as if he believed that M.
de Pahleu: 1 ieft Paris for the' purpose of offering a sort of
insult to G auis Philippe. The question has become seri-
ous, for tii. Guizot has commenced with reprisals of eti-
quette, v ai d these may lead to reprisals of politics. This
it is to c pi ifide the aflairs of a great nation to starch pro: