The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-31 00:00:00

SABBATH OBSERVANCE. EDINBURGH AND
GLASGOW RAILWAY COMPANY. .
AT a• -SPECIAL MEETING of the
LONDON LAY UNION, held on Saturday, the 22d
January inst., for the purpose of taking into consideration the
evil consequences likely to result from running Sabbath trains
on the above. mentioned railway ; it was unanimously resolved:
" That it is manifest from the word of God, that the great
Creator and Sovereign of the world has never relinquished the
one day in seven which in the beginning he appropriated to
himself as his own peculiar treasure. Nor has he intimated
the least abatement of the sanctity with which the whol.e of that
day should be observed.
" That hitherto Scotland has been honourably distinguished
by the comparative sacredness with which that day has been
kept ; and which, under God, has mainly contributed to the
morality and religion of her people.
" That being ourselves witnesses of the deeply injurious and
demoralizing effects produced by railway travelling on the
Lord's.day in the vicinity of this metropolis, we should consider
it the greatest calamity that could hefal the beloved land of our
fathers, if this unhallowed Practice were once to obtain a foot-
ing there.
" That we hold the morning and the evening of the Sabbath
to be equally sacred with those portions of it usually appro-
priated to Divine service ; and consequently we -cannot for a
moment countenance the use of morning and evening trains,
even were we assured.that the evil would stop there, and not,
as we are eonvinted, be merely the precursor of continuous
travelling throughout that (lay.
" We, therefore, most earnestly entreat the Proprietors
to withhold their sanction from the baneful Resolution adopted
by the majority of the Directors, and thereby wholly prevetitthe
running of trains or traffic on their railway on the Lord's-day, as
they look for the Divine blessing upon their important under-
taking—a blessing without which no purpose of man can sue
ceed—as they desire the continued prosperity of their country,
and as they value the interests of immortal souls.
"Is the name and on behalf of the Committee,
" WILLIAM HAMILTON, Convener."

THE NEW ROMANCE.
HENRY DE POMEROY
By MRS. BRAY.
Author of " 'Whitehoods," " Trelawney," &c.
in 3 vols. post Bvo,
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The Dead Drummer. A Legend. By Thomas Ingoldsby.
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The Sultan i♦lahinoud and the Georgian Slave. By Isabella
F. Romer.
Belshazzar's Feast.
Phil Flannigan's Adventures. By J. Sterling Coyne.
The Standard Footman. By Albany Poyntz.
The February Saint. By the Doctor.
Jonas Grub's Courtship. With Illustrations by Paul Pindar.
The Bullet. A Story of Italian Brigands. With an Illustra-
tion by E. V. Rippingille.
Richard Savage. A Romance of Real Life. By Chas. White.
head. With an Illustration by Leech.
The Philosophy of Drilikin,g. With Illustrations by Alfred
Crowquill, engraved by Cruikshank the Younger.
The Redbreast of Aquitania. An humble Ballad. By Father
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Stanley Thorn. By Henry Cockton.
Some Account of a Great Singer. By a Country Cousin. With
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THE MISER'S DAUGHTER, by the EDITOR.
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A few words to Richard Bentley, by George Cruikshank.
The Three Sisters. By C. S. The Ladies' Page. Illustrated
My Moustache. By Captain by George Cruikshank.
Medwin. Sultan Stork. Being the One
Fanciful Essays : No. 1, A Thousand and Second Night.
Flight upon Flying. By By Major G. O'G. Galiagan,
Martin F. Tupper, Esq. H. E.I.C.S. With an Itlus-
With an ll'uvration by Geo. tration by Geo. Cruikshank.
Cruikshan The Snow Storm. By Charles
An Americafuctioneer " Go- Oilier.
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Christian Dutch Jew Yan- Mehemet Pacha. By W.
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nopoly—and the universal education of the millions, uncoil-,
nreted with any sect or party, as proposed in the pamphlet
entitled " Chartism," written by Messrs. Lovett and Collins.
The present Number contains the National Remonstrance.
The History of Representation, by M. Guizot, translated ex-
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THEAT4E.ROYAL, DRURY-LANE..
THIS EVENING, JAN. 31,
Her Majesty's Servants will perform the Play of THE
MERCHANT OF VENICE, from the Text of Shakspearc.
Duke, Mr. 0. Bennett ; Antonio, Mr. Phelps ; Bassani°,
Mr. Andersen; Lorenzo, Mr. Elton; Shylock, Mr. Macready;
Portia. Mrs. Warner ; Neris.a, Mrs. Keeley ; Jessica, Miss
E. Phillips.
To conclude with tkis Grasnd Comic Christmas, Pantomime,
ea led. HARLEQUIWAND DUKE HUMPHREY!S DIN..
NER ; OR; JACK CADE,- THE LORI) OF LONDON
STONE.

Doors be opened at Ha'f past Six, and the Performance
to begin i t Seven o'clock. Boxes 55.. Second Price, 2!.
Pit 35., Second Price Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second
Pr ce Is. Upper Gallery 13., Second Price 6J.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS.
EVNINg, JAN. 31,
Will be performeTHlSd EhalisE pere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S
DREAM.—Theseu3, Mr. Cooper; Quince, Mr. Bartley;
Bottom, Mr. Harley Flute, Mr. Oxberry ; Snout, Mr. Meat-
dovrs; Snug, Mr. F. Matthews ; Ilermia, Mrs. Nisbett;
Oberon, Madame Vestris.; Titania, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Puck.,
Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Rainforth.
After which will he repeated the New Grand Christmas
Pantomirre, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK
lARLEQUIN AND TUE DUN COW.

Doors to to opened at half-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7a. ; Second Price, .33. 6d.;
First and Second Circ'es, ss. ; Second Price, `2s. (3d. ; Pit, :35.;
Second Price. 25.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the
Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Bor-otHce, from Ten
till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application.
Private Boxes to be bad so'ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller,
167, New Bond-street.

To-morrow, Elena Überti, with the Pantnmimv.

iIOYAL SURREY THEATRE.
UNDER TIE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE

AND AIR. WILLIS TONES. --
The only Pantomime on the Surrey side of the water, over
by a Quarter past Eleven. Attraction beyond conception.
Crowded Houses nightly. Great-hit of " Norma."
THIS I'!:VENING. JAN. 31.
Will be acted Haines' wonderfully successful Drama, enti-
tled ELIZABETH .LAZARUS, THE JEWESS, founded
on Captain Glasscock's " Land Sharks and Sea Gulls."
After which, 3llt S. N Etst A, with, Uel ini's Music.
To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled
RARLEQUIN. AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK
FROST AND KING THAW With gorgeous and charac-
teristic Seem rv, spkordid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint
Dresses, ingenious Trieks, magnificent Panorama by Brun-
ming, &c. Harlequin' M. Huline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan-
taloon, M. Lehman; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo; Clown, Mr.
Buckingham ; Columbine, Mis, Sharpe.
Private and Public Boxes can be had of Messrs. Sams, Ebers,
Mitchell, Andrews, and Seguin, during the run of this popu-
lar Pantominie.

VICTORiA
M THEATRE.
UNDER THROYALE DIRECTION OF R. OSBALDISTON.
Continued triumph of " Geraldine!" Immense success of
" The Wild Irish Girl !" and revival of the Grand Romance
of " Ivanhoe," with all its original splendour—Combat of
Twelve, Conflagaations, and startlirg effects.
THIS EVENING, JAN. 31
Will be performed a New Domestic Drama,, in Three Acts,
entitled 11-I.F. STORY OF GERALDINE ; OR, THE
TWIN ORPHANS OF ST. PRE.—Henri, Mr. E. F. Sa-
ville ; Huntingdon, Mi. Dale ; Claud, Mr. Seaman ; Jemmy
Cottle, Mr. Gardner ; Davy, Mr. Paul; Geraldine, Miss Vin-
cent, the acknovi lodged heroine of Domestic Drama.
After which, 'III E WILD IRISH GlRL.—Shelah O'May,
Miss Vine' nt, in which she will donee her celcb-ated Donny-
brook Rant, and sing several butuourous chaunts, and a new
Medley EpiLiguer
To conclude with the Grand Romance of IVANHOE.—
II a ihne, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Isaac, Mr. Dale; the Black
Knight,Mr. Seaman ; Wamba, Mr. Gardner; Rebecca,
Airs. Lee.
Boxes, ,
Pit Is.— Gallery, 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes
only, at Half-past Eight.
To-morrow, Geraldine, with The Wild Irish Girl, and Ivanhoe.

LONGEVITY.-011 Saturday the remains of
Mrs. Mary Painter, who hal reached the advanced age
of 94 years, were interred in Limehouse Churchyard.
The funeral of this ancient dame caused a large assem-
blage of persons. The chief Inowrner on the occasion
was Mr. Bertanin Blaby, usher of the Thames Police-
court. The sister of the deceased, Elizabeth Simpkins,
who was upwards- of 90 years of age, died a few weeks
sgoat Brackleyq Aortharpntp sjiire. The two sisters
retained the ft:44o-g fac s
a short perio a
.' .ttlee until within
deFt( hs, atid -ftre natives of War-
haveickshire
lived. oltrthefetiltmernhjraAt the same family
y s©, `Q' and 400 years ; and an
Iknceitor of tiab
the. a-6,0t 105.

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THE AILWAI SUN compared to the surface of our island, has corn-
O
IS NOW RRE-PUBLISHING, pelled the mass of the community to engage in
earelbl and minute agricultural occupations, and
PRICE SIXPENCE. in minute manufactures, of which the great and
striking feature is, that man enlists in his service
a prodigious amount of mechanical power. When
we look at the many sources from which the use
of that power enables us to draw our subsistence,
we cannot fail to adopt the conclusion, that the
great progress. of knowledge, in modern times,
has been to enable man to overcome nature by
studying her laws.
If, about the sixteenth century, the importa
tion into England of the fine arts and literature
from a more advanced nation, the extraordinary
discovery of America, the influx of the precious
metals, and the improvement of agriculture,
rendered it then fit and proper for the educa-
tion of, the upper classes to be chiefly directed
towards literature as a means of improvement,
the different circumstances of society since have
required a different education for those classes.
But the system then established has been, with
trifling alteration of detail, dogmatically adhered
to; and the Universities have, to the utmost of
their power, resisted all attempts to effect changes
and improvements in education. They stand in the
same relation to society now as the monasteries
stood to society in the sixteenth century. While the
circumstances of society have required a different
education for the upper classes, our rulers have
been only anxious to hold fast by ancient insti-
tutions, the form of which, at least, has been pre-
served, but man has been dwarfed into moral
insignificance.
The simple, but noble, and correct system of
BACON and LocKE, though it be vilified by
mystics, teaches us that the mind is framed,
corrected, and informed, by the external world.We
refer to that as the ultimate standard of all truth.
It corrects, as a model, all our thoughts, when
the mind is most developed and most accurate,
therefbre it is but a reflection of external nature.
To make it that as much as possible is the great
object of communicating knowledge by the old
and the instructed to the young and the igno-
rant. What, then, can be thought of a system of
education for the upper classes, intended chiefly
to preserve a conformity to ancient errors, and
prevent the conformity of the mind to existing
changes in society? Is not that a miserable
mass of superstitous jargon and absurdity ? and
does not such a circumstance account for the
slow improvement in the education of indivi-
duals, particularly the upper classes, while the
progress of knowledge, far from being less than
in the sixteenth century, has been, since then,
rapid beyond example. There could not, of
course, be much improvement in Latin, Greek,
and logic; but in chemistry, in mechanics,
in astronomy, geography, in all the useful arts and
social sciences, the progress of the community in
knowledge has been greater in the last than in
any previous hundred years. In these ought
the upper classes to be instructed, and of many
of them they are kept in ignorance.
These observations may enable the reader to
form a tolerably correct notion of the value to
the public of that Puseyite theology which is
now causing a schism in the Church; of its value
to the authors themselves that can onlybe estimated
by their vanity and self-esteem. They are no
doubt delighted with it on account of the pains
't has cost, and the notoriety it has gained them.

'TIE CHINA SUN,

AND THE
PARLIAMENTARY SUN,
ARE STILL ON SALE,
PRICE SIXPENCE EACH.
Sun Office, Jan. 31, 1842.

THE WEATHER.—NOON, JANUARY 31.
LOYAL GALLERY OP SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Thermometer... 42 1 highest 42 1 Lowest 32
Barometer 29.85.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point P,2 Deg.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW,
M0rning......:39 minutes after 5 i Evening 55 minutes after 5.

We learn from good authority that the ru-
mour in circulation, of its being the intention
of the Ministers to levy a property tax is well
founded. If that were to be the adjunct, or the
forerunner of free trade—if it were intended as
a substitute for some other taxes—if, while
rent and public annuities were made to pay a
fair quota of the public expense, proportionate
to the vast protection they receive—and if in-
dustry were to be untaxed and set free, a pro-
perty-tax should have our hearty support. But
if it is to be levied, as we understand, in addition
to all other taxes, in order to raise the revenue
up to the expenditure, and leave the
giant monopolies of food and sugar un-
touched, and the increase of the revenue is not
to be obtained from the augmented resources of
the people, then a property-tax will deserve, and
will no doubt receive, the most strenuous op-

position.

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