The Sun.
London, England, 1830-03-04 00:00:00

COLMAN'S " RANDOM RECORDS.?

Of Dodd, who played at the Richmond Theatre,
he tells a good story. This hero lived with one of
the actresses, and they had frequent quarrels. One
day, in the heat of a domestic fracas over a shoulder
of mutton, the landlord rushed to the scene of ac-
tion, and found Dodd and his (-here amie engaged in
hostilities.

" How dare you, Sir," ejaculated Dodd, who
was brandishing the shoulder of mutton in his
hand, " obtrude on us while we are rehearsing!"
" Rehearsing!" cried the amazed landlord, while
the broken pieces of china were crunching under
his feet, " I could have sworn you were fighting."
" No, Sir," said Dodd, " we are rehearsing the
supper scene in The Ta►ning qf a Shrew." The
landlord, glancing round the room, observed that he
had I.een tam►ng a shrew sure enough, and took
care to send in a long bill for rare china broken at
the rehearsal of Taming of a Shrew, which actually
was to be played the same evening.
'When Colman was at Westminster School, the
college baker was natned Jackson. This person
was wont to utter a ludicrous quibble on his own
views with respect to fortune:—

" If I had a garden, a field, and a gate,
I wouldn't care for the Duke of Bedford's estate;
That is, I wouldn't care for his Grace's estate,

If I had Covent-garden, Smithfield, and Billings-
gate."
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Mr. Colman disposes very summarily of the merits
of Sheridan and Lord Erskine. Of Sheridan, he
says, contrary to the opinion of all who have hitherto
alluded to the subject, " That he did not shine in
light conversation ; that he was more like a Parlia-
mentary debater; alit he speechified rather than
conversed ;" and he seems to insinuate that he too
much resembled Richardson—a lover of that kind
of disputation. " Tell Richardson where you dined,
and he would inquire, had you a good day ? Was
there much argument?' " Of Lord Erskine, Colman
observes, that he was a gifted man and a good man,
and in the early part of his career considered a
great man; but, as Moody says of Sir Francis
Wronghead," He could no hauld
The following is an excellent specimen of parental
discipline and obedience :—" Sir Charles Turner
was educating tinder his father's principles of making
him a fine dashing fellow, but under excellent con-
troul. When I first saw him, he ran into a draw-
ing room, full of company, with a live mouse in his
hand. Bite off his head, Charles,' said the father;
—the boy obeyed the word of command,—his white
dental guillotine fell upon the condenn►ed vermin,
and poor mousey was instantly executed."
In Kirkleetharn, Mr. Colman saw a man 80 years
old, who only two or three years before had learned
to read, that he might gratify a parent's pride and
love, by perusing his son's fist voyage round the
world. He was the father of Captain cook, and if
the story be true, there are few touches of human
nature more deeply affecting.

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The Cork Constitution of Monday last, con-
tradicts the ttatenient of the conversion of Ludy PA GET tO
Popery.

The Commissioners of the New Police have
allowed horses to the superintendents and inspectors of the
g y lensitive was Lord BYRON:
police appointed in Ilimpstead. Highgate, and Kilburn. So exceedin l
This is to ena'sle them to visit every prtion of their dis-
the acute of censure, that he confessed that " the deep"
on
n-of the lowest of mankind was more painful IA heatheatett:)iit:AststasiitiAlyiaorn.veNdivu.
i L LI A MS, boat-builder, of Western
very s.hort time, and see that their men are
than the applause of the highest was pleabieg."
Al:kelh ()f a j
led°ere:n was
lately
being.
digging'
in his garden, he di•eovered The late Sir STAMFORD HAVFLig,i ii Yepre •
the It Was exatt.ito dby Mr. sented to have received only two year a' boarding-school
Hoorxit, of that place, surgeon, who pronounced it to be education at Ilationermith, having bsea at the early age u
that of a young matt, about eighteen years ,t 1 age. The Isourtettit plaied as an extra cleth at the India House ; but
skull appears to have been frtetured ; and, tram all cir- was criahltd, by great industry anJ a moot retentive ore-
cuinstanees, it is highly probable that the young man had mory, to overcutne , ray obstacle and tic to great enli-
boeu tnurdstred,.....4',reaor Alined, I urace.