The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-10 00:00:00

BOW-STREET-(THIS DAY•)

DRUNKEN SERVANTEL—SamueI Clark and George Har-
rison, the former coachman, and the latter footman, in
the service of Mr. Madely, Westbourne-terrace, Hyde-
park, were brought before Mr. Hall, charged with being
drunk and incapable of taking care of their master's
carriage and pair of horses.
Constable 119 F said last night he was on duty in
Tavistock-street when he saw the defendants with a gen-
tleman's carriage and pair of horses in the rank waiting
for the close of the concert at Exeter-hall. The defen-
dants were both drunk, and the coachman so much so,
that the footman was obliged to hold him on the box.
Seeing the state they were in witness took them to the
station. The defendants' master was subsequently
obliged to drive the carriage home himself.
Mr. Hall said no doubt the defendants would lose their
situations, and as Harrison was the soberest of the two
he should discharge him ; the coachman he fined 10s.,
or seven days.

DARING ROBBERY.—EIIen Collins, a girl about 15
years of age, was charged with stealing a cloak, value
10s., under the following circumstances :
It appeared from the evidence of Mary Ann Wilson,
an intelligent little girl, nine years of age, that on the
afternoon of Wednesday last, she was on her way to
school in Drury-lane, when the prisoner came up to her,
and asked her to accompany her home, and she would
give her some cups and saucers, which she did not want,
as she was going to France the next day. The-child re-
fused, and prisoner persuaded her to walk with her as
far as Lincoin's-inn-fields, and when they got there she
(prisoner) asked her to take off her cloak, and on her de-
clining to do so, the prisoner snatched it from off her
shoulders and ran away. Witness then returned home
and told her mother what had happened, and she went
to the station and informed the police of the occurrence,
and the result was, the prisoner was taken into custody
last night at a low lodging-house in Wild-street.
The prisoner, who had nothing to say in her defence,
was fully committed for trial.

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER-HILL. —Mozart's
celebrated Requiem was performed last night, by the Sacred
Harmonic Society, to a crowded audience, the principal
parts being sustained by Miss Pyne, Miss Williams, Mr.
Lockey, and Mr. Lawler. The execution of the whole work
was careful and good, and reflects credit on M. Costa, who
has expended great labour in its production. It was
preceded by Mendelssohn's Hymn of Praise, which was
given with considerable effect. The audience was very
numerous, and applauded both productions warmly.
Mr. ALLCROFT'S CONCERT.-Mr. Allcroft's usual Ash-
Wednesday entertainment took place last night. The
bill of fare comprehended all the leading professionals,
vocalists and instrumentalists, with an interesting pro-
gramme of popular music. Nothing could be more
brilliant and successfbl.

DARIEN CANAL.—A letter published to-day from Sir
Charles Fox on the projected Darien Canal calls only for
limited remark, as its allegations are inaccurate. In-
stead of the Nicaragua Canal being intended to run
from San Juan del Norte to the Gulf of Fonseca, its
Pacific terminus will be at Brito Bay. Instead of the
estimate of its cost, even at twenty feet depth, being
10,000,0001., it is believed to be less than 7,000,0001.
(including a most unusual addition for contingencies).
Instead of the draught of any considerable number of
modern vessels being 28 feet, that of La Plata, the
largest of the West India steamers, when she arrives, at
Southampton, before baggage and cargo have been
landed, is only between 18 and 19 feet. Instead of the
work involving 100 miles of canalised river, the surveys
of Colonel Childs show only 47 miles. Instead of the
country being very unhealty, it has been demonstrated
to be one of the most favourable districts within the
tropics. Instead of the transit occupying six days, it
it is calculated to occupy between two and three days,
about 700 miles being at the same time saved in the dis-
tance to California beyond what would be saved by a
canal at Darien ; and, finally, instead of there being
" no fear that American capitalists will enter upon such a
work" as the Nicaragua Canal, the necessity of hastening
every political negotiation that would enable it to be com-
menced formed one of the prominent topics in the message
of President Fillmore last December, months after the
whole details of the Darien scheme had been known and dis-
cussed in the United States. It is useless, moreover, to enter
here upon arguments which can never have any satisfac-
tory termination. During the past century, whenever
thejunction of the oceans has been recommended, the
public have always been deterred from its accomplishment
by the perplexities created from the advocates of rival
routes contending each that his own scheme was perfect
and that all the others would prove ruinous or impracti-
cable. The question, therefore, is never likely to be settled
by theoretical disquisitions. Happily the time is ar-
rived when the undertaking must be carried out some-
where ; and inasmuch as the Americans are now every
month crossing the isthmus by thousands, we may rely
that the selection of the best line will soon be decided
from the test of popular observation and experience. At
that period the public—remembering that the New
York Company, when they obtained their concession
for the Nicaragua Canal—were willing to share it on
equitable terms with this country— will be in a con-
dition to form an opinion whether the general inte-
rests of the world were best understood by those
who would have urged English capitalists to ac-
cept the invitation, or by those who have endea-
voured to arouse them to furnish a separate sub-
scription of 15,000,0001. for Darien. Meanwhile
it will not be irrational, at all events until
the route for which this sum is contemplated has been
actually crossed and surveyed, to decline entering into
any controversy as to its comparative merits. If the
public can be persuaded that the Nicaragua acanal is not
t
likely to be made, or that, being made, the larien canal
will not be subsidiary to it either as to date of comp e.
for years been timidly hesitating at the idea of creating
comple-
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not consider the caution suggested yesterday as calcu-
lated in the interval to prove damaging in any way to
the cause of sound commercial enterprise.—Times Money
Article.