The Sun. — 1844-05-24 (London, England)

BATTY. G -and Attraction. Last week of M. Plege, the great French Rope-dancer. 'THIS riv ENING, MAY 24, Will be repeated the H,sta teal Spectacle of the INVASION OF ENGLAND BY WILLIAM FHE CONQUEROR ; or, the Battle of Hastings. With all I lie effects of the Norman Conquest, Death of Harold, &c. Entire Change th? Splendid Scenes of the Circle. To conclude with tie Oriental Spectacle of THE SECRET MINE; or, the li•ndeon o' the Ruby Cliffs. The doors will open niatiy at six o'clock, and thiperformances commence at seven. Box_othee opened daily from ten till four. The private boxes have been ret'ut.structed and decorated with care and splendour. Acting and stage-mt.:age'', Mr. W. D. Broadfoot.  As the hour of final decision draws nigh, the event of the election for South Lancashire becomes more interesting, and at the same time its influences, direct and contingent, are snore justly appreciated. It seems to be taken for granted on all hands, that the great proprietors of agricultural lands in that district will be found opposed to the free trade candidate, and that such proprietors as Lord FRANCIS EGERTON and Sir JOHN GERRARD will show themselves hostile to the manufacturing interest, as to one that threatens their order with rivalry in political power. Such conduct on their parts will only be by a slight shade less suicidal than that of the feW manufacturers whom the blind prejudices of party will lead to vote against their order and their property. The agricultural prosperity of South Lancashire is the direct result of its manufactures ; spindles have ploughed their lands, and shuttles fertilized their fields. Could farmers alone support the Bridgewater Canal, consume the produce of Lord EGERTON'S mines, and bring int(' cultivation those lands which, within the memory of man, were but moors and marshes ? Can the farmer: of South Lancashire be ignorant of the markets when their produce is sold, and who are the consumers of their milk, their cheese, and their butter ? Were they unscathed during the late season of agricultural distress ? They have had bitter experience to prove that when the spinner is unemployed the toil of the dairy farmer is without remuneration, and when the loom stands still the plough cannot be profitably set to work. The landowner and the farmer in South Lancashire have just as much to gain by the extension and expansion of trade—or, what is the same thing, by free trade, as the cotton-spinner or the calico-printer. The value of Lord STAM FORDS property, in the vicinity of Ashton and Duckinfield, has increased fivefold within the memory of the existing generation. He has had no toil tt earn this influx of wealth, notcare to exercise for this acquisition of fortune. The power-loom, driven from its original seat by the short-sighted prejudices of some, and the deliberate malice of others, found shelter in a nook, where there was neither magistrate nor parson, neither church nor prison, neither barrack nor workhouse; and in this deserted spot machinery created for itself all the elements of order and civilisation, and, what was more to his Lordship's purpose, the elements of profit for his mines, and of rent for his acres. The land which would scarcely grow rushes offers now to view that most lucrative of crops—houses ; and the mineral treasures, which, under former circumstances, would not have paid the expense of sending them to market, find now a market at the mouth of the pita. The dairy