The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-12 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, IEEE,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

COMMITTAL FOR TRIAL FOR WILFUL DAMAGE.—Ann
Smith, a low-looking woman, was charged before Mr.
Knox with wilfully breaking two panes of glass, of the
value of £B, the property of Mr. Thos. Henry Cockhead,
of the Queen's Head, 381, Oxford-street.
Mr. Cockhead—About a quarter to one this morning,
while busy serving in my bar, I heard a smash at my
windows, and on going outside I found the prisoner in
custody of a constable and two panes of glass in my win-
dows, of the value of £B, smashed. I then gave the pri-
soner into custody. _ _

Mr. Knox—Do you know anything of the prisoner ?
Prosecutor—About half-au-hour before she came and
knocked at the shutters, and said she would do for the
windows because we would not take her into the house.
She was a very drunken Woman.,

• Prisoner—Every time I pass his house he points me out
to people. About three months ago I charged him with
cutting my head open.
Mr. Knox—ls that true ?

Prosecutor—Yes, and I gave her money to settle it.

James Livermore, 118 C—l saw the prisoner take up a
stone and with it break two panes of glass in Mr. Cock-
head's window. I then took her into custody. Sho was
sober, and said she would pay for the windows if she had
time.

Prisoner— The prosecutor entertains an animosity
towards me.

Mr. Knox—l am going to send you to the sessions.
You people who break licensed victuallers' windows are
under a mistake, as they insure their windows, and are
not therefore injured by their being broken. You are liable
to five years' penal servitude.
The prisoner, who declined saying anything after being
cautioned by Mr. Knox, was then committed for trial.

Mrs. M'Gregor's Levee.

This is the title of Mr. and Mrs. Gourlay's new
Scottish entertainment, which was given for the
first time in London last evening at the Polygraphic
Hall, King William-street, Strand. Mr. Gourlay
has long been known throughout the United King-
dom as one of the best delineators of Scottish cha-
racters on the stage, and Miss Susan Goddard (Mrs.
Gourlay) has also acquired a reputation for her
vocal abilities. On the rising of the curtain we
were presented with a very capital representation of
a Fifeshire inn, and then we are introduced to Mr.
and Mrs. M‘Gregor, who are staying there for a
short time during their wedding tour. The lady is
an Englishwoman, supposed to be doatingly fond of
Scotch songs, novels, dances, and Scott's novels ;
in fact, everything Scotch, even to her husband, Mr.
Duncan M' Gregor, the happy man, who is everything
a newly married man should be. Their joy, however,
is interrupted by the arrival of a telegram calling
him back to his office in Edinburgh for a short time.
To amuse the lady during his absence, Mr. AP Gregor
invites a number of Scottish curiosities, both male
and female, to pay her a visit, and thus the oppor-
tunity is presented to Mr. Gourlay to assume a
variety of characters of the most amusing descrip-
tion. First, we have " Andrew Gudale, the land-
lord o' the Thistle, Scotch to the back bane," and
certainly a very entertaining fellow he is. Next
comes Miss Kitty A.PTavish, a gassiping old maid,
who is, according to the description of the worthy
landlord, " as fu' o' gossip as an egg's fu' o' meat."
She is a maiden lady on the sunny side of fifty, with
a little money and less occupation. She is in fact the
village scandal-monger. Her little secrets involve
everybody in the village, from Jenny at the mill, to
young Bob Sparke,the banker's son, a wild daerin' lad,
that gangs fox-huntin' and. horse-racin', and that
whistles "Dainty Davy" on the. Sabbath day. The
lady descants on the merits of all the people in the
village, but her visit is cut short by the announce-
ment of the arrival of Mrs. Paterson, a strapping
amazon, but " sair gi'en tae the dram." Miss
M'Tavish disappears, and then we have the per-
sonage who thinks that for a cordial " there's
naethin' like a drap of guid Scotch whisky." The
tippling widow is excellently and judiciously por-
trayed, as Mr. Gourlay stops just at the proper
point. Then follows " daft Wattey" and " Needle
Tam," the latter of which, to our thinking, is the
best character in the entertainment. " Needle Tam"
no knavish mendicant, he does not cringe or
whine, but plies his profession, such as it is, in a
manly way. He is everybody's friend, and is univer-
sally liked for his go od.qualities and nobility of nature.
He favours us with a capital song, " Kate Dal-
rymple," and, having taken his departure, we next
have " Kirsty Claver, the Newhaven Fishwife,"
and, finally, the " Auld Village Nurse." From the
above it will be seen there is plenty of character
about the entertainment; but there is, in addition to
the pranks of Master Gourlay, a merry lad of about
12 years of age, whose unexceptionable Scotch
pleases the audience amazingly. He sings two or
three songs, but here we must take objection, not
to the abilities of the little fellow, but to the taste
that selected for him, in a Scotch entertainment,
such an unmitigated vulgar song as " Slap, bang,
here we are again." It is a decided mistake, and
the sooner it is omitted the better. The entertain-
ment is an exceedingly good one, and we can con-
scientiously recommend it to the pleasure-seekers of
the metropolis.

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.