The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-18 00:00:00

THE SUN,

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
the
Egleton, a well-dressed man, was Owed at
_tie bar before Mr. Tyr whitt, charged with steathig
LantitY of fine gold, the property of Mr. John New-
'lll,l, gold refiner, of Jerusalem-passage, Clerkenweli.
—4he prosecutor stated that last evening, about half-
past seven, the prisoner came to shod, and asked to
:erved with 2i ounces of fine gold. The gold having
;7_ll weighed and wrapped up in paper, was laid upon
1,1: counter, when the prisoner asked for one penny-
-1111 of fine copper. Not having the copper, which is
to as an alloy, in the front shop, be sent his daughter
When
the back shop for the purpose of getting it, and
parcel
his back was turned, the prisoner took up the
pursued of gold, and ran out of the shop. lie immediately
tied him, and after the prisoner had ran some dis-
tal:lc e, he turned down Waterloo-place, Clerkenwell-
e,
(4e, through which there is no thoroughfare,
cd ran •
Into one of the houses at the end. He waited
for the police to come up, but in the meantime an old
1? had in the most courageous manner seized him
h. en attempting to get up the chimney, and brought
42 up stairs, when he gave the prosecutor the gold and
6ed to be forgiven. The gold, which was worth 41.55.
„' per ounce. was of the value of 101. 13s. 9d. He was
'Oder the greatest of obligations to the old lady, for, in
the
opinion, if it had not been for her, he must have lost
140 Prisoner.
Mrs. Rebecca Matthews said she took hold of the pri-
loner in her kitchen, when endeavouring to get up the
le, and never let go her hold of him until he gave up
""ic gold to the prosecutor and was given into custody.
_ Other evidence having been given, the prisoner said
nothing in defence.
Mr. TYRwairr complimented the old lady upon the
ebrrage she had displayed, and said her conduct ought to
b mentioned to the judge, who would no doubt reward
He then committed the prisoner for trial at the
Criminal Court.

COURT CIRCULAR
OSBORNE, WEDNESDAY.
The Queen ttnd Prince, with the Royal children,
walked out yesterday forenoon.
Sir Charles Eastlake and Mr. Gibbs were the only
addition to the Royal dinner party.

Rer Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by a
Lady Anna Maria Dawson, arrived at twelve o'clock
yesterday, at her resider ce, Clarence House, St. James's,
Frogmore House. In the afternoon her Royal
Ottiness visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Gloucester, at Gloucester House, Piccadilly, and after-
wa!fla returned to Frogmore House.
inialr- Abbott Lawrence, the American Minister, had an
elliew with the Earl of Derby yesterday, at his offi-
eiti,l residence in Downing-street. Mr. MO had also
'1 Interview with the Noble Earl yesterday.
tr: deputation of gentlemen connected with the Aus-
t. lakiaan colonies had an interview with Sir John
snbi‘ gwa yesterday, at the Colonial-office, on the
si of transportation. The deputation con-
delpr
pi of Sir William Molesworth, M.P., Mr. Ad-
If:7, M.P., Mr. Ewart, M.P., Mr. C. Anstey,
",_•• Mr. Charles M'Lachlan, Mr. Robert Brooks, Mr.
IN walker, Mr, Edmund Gore, Mr. William Jackson,
kl" Illaaning, Mr. James Alexander, Mr. Donaldson,
lVdichie, Mr. S. Kennard, Mr. T. S. Atkins, Mr. J.
A
daekson, Mr. E. B. Boulton, Mr. John C. King (dele-
T,,fretti the colony of Victoria), and Mr. G. Morphett.
Mary Earl of Yarborough had an interview with Mr.
-;etary
Walpole on Tuesday, at the Home-office.
ga„,_4'ha Earl of Lonsdale (Lord President of the Council)
its a dinner to the Cabinet Ministers last evening at
''..r.esidence on Carlton-house-terrace.
• Rincks Inspector. General of Canada, had an in-
'tltjew yesterday, at the Colonial-office, with Sir John
ttigtOti
ott4-10,,,rd John Russell had a Parliamentary dinner party
tot:aesday, at his residence in Chesham-place. The
84,0411 Y consisted of Earl Grosvenor, Mr. Fitzpatrick,
)4„„'„! Douglas, Sir John Hanmer, Mr. Wilcox, Mr.
bC:l4ianon, Mr. Wrightson, Mr. Hastie, Mr. Strutt,
Tennent, Mr. Hutchins, Mr. Westhead, Mr. Glyn,
Ahted,
Smi th Alelgunand d, Mr. BGrht, Mr. Hardcastle, Mr. John
rig
I)!'Vetch, Mr. anger.
ka es from the Governors of the North Ameri-
Nt Provinces were received yesterday at the Colonial.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
GIMAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.— (Miles in work, 241*
—"um of Traffic for the Week ending March 7, 1852 :
Passengers, parcels, carriages,
horses, dogs, and mails ... £4,392 9 5
Merchandise and minerals t',997 9 8
Cattle 149 12 11
r Total .. £10,539 12 0
elT?nding week, 1851 (236 miles):—
Passengers, parcels, &c. ... £3,911 19 4
Merchandise, Cattle, &c. ... 3,744 110

Total ••• ... £7,656 1 2
T
Op.„ cASIIIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. (260 miles
'F.)--Traffic for week ending Mar. 14 £15,747 8 9
corresponding week in last year (260
'wen open) .. ....£13,923 411
ItI,CattSTER AND
14YHE•D
RAILWAY..-.THiffie for the
ending March 14:—
MAIN LINE.

Passengers ••• •••
Parcels, H. C. and D. ...
Goods, cattle, &c. •••
Mails ••• •••

Total

•••
MOLD.

Passengers •-• •••
Parcels, H. C. and D. •••
Goods, cattle, &c. ...

£l,OlO 11 8
98 9 7
537 4 8
.. 575 0 0

... £2,221 5 11

£2B 8 7
1 1 10
94 7 8

... .£123 18 1

Total ••• ••
STEAM-BOATS•

Passengers
Parcels, H. C. and D. ...

£169 13 9
24 0 6

Total ... ... £193 14 3
%din H CH/I'MM RAILWAY.—Traffia for the Week
-"g March 14, 1852
Passengers :
• assengers (7,466), parcels, horses,
. and carriages ... £756 911
Goods, cattle, &c. 903 8 2
Total .. 1,659 17 3
p...corresponding week in last year... 1,493 7 10
March 17, 1852.

. ---LAW C
tils lIN THE COMMON OURTS.—Yesterday
co orst Bill founded on the report of the Common Law
il
etttlititPissioners was printed for the regulation of the fees of
Ptetr; It; offices in the courts of common ,offs and to make
!It Nisi
for their payment by salary. The ces of
la this,. Prius in the Court of Queen's Bench and Associate
eixL6 Courts of Common Pleas and Exchequer are to be
ea Cued. and the duties to be performed by the Marshals
fot e said courts respectively. Fees are to be accounted
ssmat? the Treasury, and officers of the courts to be paid by
At Present,
The Treasury may abolish the Marshal's fees.
ltserreilords on circuit, a fee of 6s. Bd. is paid " for the
a ,„..' of the judge," which it is proposed to abolish, as also the
-" to the Marshal's man and judge's bailiff.
,:. Tap A
...
Vv.c) --... DvENTunEs OF A BEAUTY. BY MRs.
f 0r:44 author Susan Hopley," &c.—This new work,
ler , the pen of the clever friend of the Rev. Sydney Smith,
fs,:te of the best productions she has given to the world. A
Of 1 ittating interest (says the John Bull) pervades this tale
Gbove betrayed and humbled pride. Around the principal
tr.re, the beautiful heroine of the story, are grouped a va-
lip.3- of characters of aspect most diverse, all sketched to the
and each sustaining his or her part in the most telling
til. fanner. Without resorting to any exaggeration, either in
ui-thwo ay of ideal perfection or of caricature, the talented
picturreshZ produced a succession of real tableaux vivants,
reader's mienlhatitig life and animation, and exciting in the
nals would call forTV sympathies which their living origi-
THE COUNTESS
Countess of Derby held her —The
DERRY'S ASSEMBLY.
er first ~
rat reception" last evening at
the official residence of the
First Lord of the Treasury, in
uowning-street • The reuni
er"r!,was honoured with the pre-
sence of a brilliant circle
World, including the leading membersepolitical sad fashionable
of both parties. His
Face the Duke of Wellington hen
his company, arriving about a querctr da theethe Countess with
r to eleven o'clock. The
la_rquis ol Anglesey was also among .
present.
Mies
e Lord
ra 8
anedarlLyavdiysioterras..
Liam,
and Lady John Russell, Sir
and the Earl of Aberdeen were also
,Chancellor and Lady St. Leonards and
Thiers was among th lion. . les Sug-
,„"all arrived early. 2d•
ow e distinguished
%niers present.
.„ TEE OLD SOLDLERS OF THE
ElarraE --The
kitePrisentant de l'lndre publishes a list of ;the old soldiers of
the Republic and the
.Empire residing in the department,
ear, in
execution
fir!, to receive a pension of from 200 f. to 300 f. a y .
d 344 o. of the decree of the 14th of December last.
Eight
76`"eln are upwards of 80. years of age, an upwa
tot The category, including the men of 60 years of age, is
. Yet terminated.—Galignani.
Ito
tio num OF GOLD DUST.—.Yesterdav informa-
"vas given to the police that a man named Peter Willis,
/11!,,,w13? arrived from California, 'Where, after years of toil and
h'''"llpointment, he had collected 138 ounces of gold dust,
„..r been robbed of his entire possessions by. two sharpers,
is() threw themselves in his way, and gainedthis ea.seilny:
seibt"'efi confidence. After separately represen ing tn
es to him simple people, upon whom, as on himsTlf
panefor-
pp„_, had smiled, one professed to buy the dust of him, and
n'youced a roll of notes for the purpose. With strange un-
'tticl,sence he suffered himself to lose sight of them while pro-
tit,"g a receipt stamp, and in a moment found himself
h Polled and destitute of so much as the means of reaching
is friends in North Britain.
est,ITEA.ORD/NARY SCREW STEAMING.—The small
D.o‘ol.-steamer Weaver, lately built by Mr. Laird, left Liver-
am' for her station at Northwich on Friday last, at lh. 57m.,
miles, reached Runcorn at Bh. 4m., thus making the run of 18
lee, with the tide, in one hour and seven minutes. The
Liverpool,
is the quickest run ever made to Runcorn from
litsvHerPool, and fully confirms all the previous reports of this
4 -,e ye ~s
$u acorn
performances. After waiting some time at
a -sile.°4. rn and Weston Point, the Weaver left for Northwich,
va,.-Ttance of 14 or 15 miles, and made the passage, including
ve;4lla stoppages and the delays of passing through the se-
red locks, under two and a half hours; and when regularly
et go ,
is
work will make the run, it is expected, in two hours. A
ate. Party of engineers and other gentlemen interested in
hiolra navigation were on board, and expressed ,themselves
b'IF pleased with the trip.
r 4 Advices from Vienna mention that letters had been
state
from the Levant, describing a most unfavourable
baring
of
commercial credit, especially in the lonian Islands.
various
the preceding week about 20 traders had failed for
°llB sums, amounting in the aggregate to 60,000/. The
1147' of Macri and Co. had all suspended, at Corfu, with
gel liabilities.
an The Volunteer Rifle Clubs have, it is stated, been
gr.:bed by the new Government ; and the patriotic offer of
dee-1114°os service for national defence has, it is alleged, been
fe rlued. Should this statement prove to be true, muchh
tuetlug on the subject will doubtless be manifested throug -
the country.—Daily News.
4 RAILWAY ACTS.—A return presented to the
°ll4e of Commons was yesterday printed, showing that
it, theTh session of 1851 there were 61 railway Acts passed.
Itall increase of mileage occasioned by the Acts was 5 miles
1914 chains. The decrease of capital and loans oc-
-'4°11114 by the Acts amounted to 14,2421.

LITERATURE.
COMPLETE WORKS of SHAKESPEARE.
Vol. I. Edited by Samuel Phelps. Willoughby
and Company.
Careful and minute as have been the investigations
of his various commentators hitherto, there still re-
mains for Shakspere ample opportunity for the yet
further elucidation of his meaning in regard to dif-
ferent passages, obscure even now in one or other of
his great dramatic masterpieces. Whatever is at-
tempted therefore to this end must at all times com-
mand our most earnest and cordial encouragement.
It is extraordinary what yet remains to be done in
the way of bringing to light the interior signification
of sentences to this day cause of bewilderment to the
more discerning among the students of the master-
mind of our literature. Marvellously as many of the
obscurities in his plays have been cleared away, es-
pecially during the last seventy or eighty years, a
residue still continues to baffle the skill of the anti-
quary, to pique the curiosity of the philologist, and to
hold out new temptations to the research of the
literary adventurer. This, moreover, notwith-
standing the diligent inquiries of Payne Collier,
the industry of Charles Knight, and the persever-
ance of Halli well—those three men who in
our own generation have reduced to insignificance
the previously admired results of the toil undertaken
by the painstaking Malone, the accurate Steevens, the
gifted Schlegel, the eloquent Hozlitt, the intelligent
Ayscough, and the laborious Johnson. Aware of
how much yet demands explanation at the hand of
the commentator, we have viewed with more than
customary pleasure the progressive advance made in
the advent of the edition before us, an edition, like
many of its predecessors, issued in the form of a serial
publication. Occasionally, as the successive instal-
ments appeared, we commented in terms of deserved
commendation upon the value of the enterprise, and
may now, therefore, in noticing the completion of
the first volume, confirm all we have previously said
in its praise, corroborating in language yet more ex-
plicit in the way of eulogium whatever has
'ready in these columns, and in this instance, been
said, as expressive of our admiration. Within the
compass of this first volume, extending to no less
than 674 pages octavo, are comprised twenty of those
wonderful dramas which have conferred universal fame
on the name of Shakspere—or as the title-page of the
present edition barbarously has it, in defiance of the
orthography of the few precious autographs still
surviving, Shakespeare. Whatever notes there are—
and there are happily " abundance," though not " and
to spare"—they are collected together (accurately
numbered, for reference), at the end of each play, so
that the text itself flows uninterruptedly from Act 1.,
scene 1, down to to the final exeunt. Merely regard-
ing the matter as one of typographical arrangement,
this must be acceptable io every respect, as tending
considerably to impart uniformity to every page,
while it is at the same moment indicative of a proper
sense of poetic veneration. The annotations are, by
such means, reserved until the close of each perform-
ance, not being thrust into impertinent juxtaposition
with' the original matter, distracting the attention of
the reader possibly at the precise instan t when he
can least endure interruption, or when he least
requires explanation. Prefixed to each drama
will he found, moreover, a brief but ample
" introduction," conveying precisely the amount
of preliminary information that is desirable,
pointing out, for example, the source from which the
poet may happen to have drawn the outlines of his plot,
or the authors to whose prior creations he may chance
to be indebted for the idea of some remarkable character.
It is with exultation that we remark in the observa-
tion introductory to the Tempest a scornful allusion
made to the " absurd alterations" daringly, and we
cannot but think also, sacrilegiously attempted by
Dryden and Davenant. Here, likewise, we would
especially direct attention to the extraordinary care
displayed by the present editor of Shakspere in re-
producing the text of his writings precisely as it is
given in the original edition of the various dramas.
Subsequent interpolations are discarded as scorn-
fully as the casual erasures and abbreviations are
filled up with a hand displaying everywhere the
most reverential exactitude, or we might even say
the most minute and microscopic accuracy. Subor-
dinate, in a remarkable degree, to the literary merits
of the undertaking, the illustrations accompanying
the serial publication before us are, nevertheless, suf-
ficiently spirited, and in other respects, sufficiently
meritorious to justify commendation. Pencilled by
T. H. Nicholson, and engraved by C. W. Sheaves,
they are sometimes, as in the instance of the apparition
of the witches to lacbeth and BliDqllo, distinguished
by a really admirable boldness both of conception and
of execution. Excellent as the work is in its embel-
lishments, it is replete with other attractions besides
the pictorial, attractions (or which the lovers of
Shakspere will be immeasurably more grateful, aiding,
as they do, so very materially to unveil the poetic
splendour concealed by the 'darkening influences of
garbled copies, ridiculous false spelling, or mistaken
punctuation. For the adroitness revealed in the re-
moval of these blemishes, the public must remain
largely indebted to the pen which has thus vindicated
the genius of one who, as a writer, was the greatest
of human intellects. The expectations raised by the
first announcement of a new edition of the complete
works of Shakspere, under the supervision of one
so eminently distinguished as an actor as
Samuel Phelps—the tragedian upon whose shoul-
der has fallen the mantle of Macready—have
already been justified by the success of those portions
of the enterprise already issued, portions yielding
ample promise of their ulterior and complete realiza-
tion. Besides wandering once more through the
magic island of the Tempest, we are enabled in the
present volume to linger again over the loves of
Romeo and Juliet, over the remorse of Macbeth, the
indecision of Hamlet, and the misanthropy of Timon,
to watch the course of our native history anew
through the medium of Henry IV. and Richard 11.
and King John, and as far back as the mythical days
of Cymbeline, to laugh again, as we can never cease
from laughing, with Sir Toby in Twefth Night, and
with Sir John in the Merry Wives of Windsor,
seeing the Roman glories revived in Julius Cesar,
and the Italian in Measure for Measure, and drink-
ing in with insatiable delight the poetry, the
pathos, and the passion abounding even in
Love's Labour Lost, but still more in
incomparable masterpieces like the Merchant
of Venice, the Two Gentlemen of Verona, Taming
the Shrew, As You Like It, A Winter's Tale,
Midsummer Night's Dream. From the enumeration
and the
of those twenty dramas, as being those comprised in
the first volume of Phelps's edition of Shakspere, it
will be perceived that they have been judiciously se-
lected with proper regard to their particularly diver-
sified character. As a frontispiece, it will be observed
that the publishers have presented their subscriber
b s
with an engraving by B. Hell from the print y
Houbraken, not the least curious or the least agree-
able of the different likenesses of Shakspere. No
memoir of the poet's life being given in the present
instalment of a moiety of his writings, we presume
that the biography for the edition is reserved until
the period of its completion—a circumstance which
we are the less disposed to regret, seeing that long
before then additional light may have been thrown
upon that unhappily obscure theme, by the issue of
the new life of the Bard of Bards from the master-
band of Monsieur Guizot, a work which the students
of English 'iterative have recently seen, with no
little surprise and curiosity, announced for speedy
publication. From what we have already remarked
in reference to the volume here under consideration,
it becomes almost superfluous to add that we regard
the present edition of the writings of Shakspere as
in many respects singularly meritorious, as an edition
not very frequently equalled in cheapness and seldom
surpassed in accuracy, and one, therefore, for which
the subscribers must feel especially thankful to the
enterprise of the
publishers, the Messrs. Willoughby.

THE RIVAL cANDIDATgS FOR THE
with great dexte*Playing
PRE MIE RSHIP.
We are -
in a position to state, that Sir James Graham
is at this moment
as if the prize were
three months have elapsed in
his
his cards for the Premiership
and that he feels almost as certain
of her Majesty. and thatlis
etdhhe will be the Prime Minister
Ins:lofnaiderabhl 411
What
country
.3ut
hn:i
rtpsyomswsoeirlstelsi,miboeetnh.
b,
eitehisisasete
tdbheewith
ye
a Graham Government.
edly the ~ great
formed,Barone wpielrisulaascltesfoll.li
Cabinet, when
enough, Ireland, which has been confessedly Strangely
difficulty" of all Governments darinegss
Proved the grave the present c
en-
tury, James of several
Cabi-
nets, will not. in Sir Graham estimation,"
difficulty" at all to him. On the
jury, and which has p
prove
any contrary, he -
satisfied that Ireland will strengthen, rather than impair,'38
his Government, will promote, rather than impede,
plans. Ile grounds this conviction partly on the good
understanding which subsists between himself and th(
Irish Brigade, and partly on the course which he
pursued with regard to the Papal Aggression Bill,
which, he thinks, cannot fail to insure him the support
of every zealous Roman Catholic.
In the meantime, Lord John Russell is no less eager
to return to power, nor does he feel less confidheent
evthatt
his aspirations will be realised. 'Whether ten-
will prove that his expectations are well founded, re
mains to be seen; but of this we ca'i assure the Noble
Lord—that Sir James Graham is quietly, hut surely un-
dermining his power, in quarters where he would least
expect it. Lord Joho, we have good reason to believe,
fully relies on Sir James Graham being a member of his
new Administration, should he be called on to form one.
It is not for us to say that the Right llou. Baronet
will
will
not; but if he does join a Russell Cabinet, it
only be in the expectation that events will enable him
very soon to supplant the Noble Lord in the Premier-
ship.
We have only one more remark to make. There
is no man who, at this very hour, is doing much as
Sir James Graham to precipitate h
Derby Ministry. And, let us add,t so
e downfall 0
thatthough
,
working secretly, he is working most successfully.--
Advertiser.

Mr. Knox, M.P. for Dungannon, has been ap
pointed Groom in Waiting.