The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-22 00:00:00

DECEMBER 22, 1849

short of water, and towed her nearly all the way from
the Straits of Barlett, Most fortunate it .as that the
Reynard fell in with her, as :ships have been at this
season of the yell- a fortnight doing a distance which
did not occupy the Reynard two days, even with the
Cleopatra in tow. She averaged a speed of 41 knots,
notwithstanding the intense heat (136 deg.) in the
stoke-hole. She would have been here some days ago
but at Ai jeer, where she arrived on the 7th, she
found orders awaiting her to call at Batavia, where
she arrived on the next day, and found the
Meander, 44, Captain the Hon. H. Keppel, just
about to sail for Port Essington, New South
Wales, and California. She had been relieved
by the Amazon, 24, Captain Troubridge, which
ship is now here, and Captain Troubridge is fur the

present senior officer in the Straits, with the Alba-
tross, 16, Commander Farquhar, under his orders.
The Albatross and Nemesis have just had 27,7001.
sterling awarded them as head money for the de-
strw:tion of some pirat€s in the Borneo rivers. The
Reynard sails to•morrow for Sarawak and Labuan,
and thence joins the Admiral at Hong Kong. The
Cleopatra sails on the same day for liong-Kong, but
calls at Labuan only. The Reynard is the first ves-
selon the screw principle that has ever doubled the
Cape, and has made a most favourable voyage, highly
promising in every respect". She encountered a
dreadful gale off St. Paul's. The following is a
summary of her woi king out ;—Total period at sea
from England (June 5), 99 days 10 hours; total
period at anchor, 24 days 16 hours ; total distance
run, 14,973 miles; consumption of fuel, 65 tons only.
Woonwrcn, Drc. 21.—The wind has blown so
strong during the m hole of the early part of the
present week that it was with the greatest difficulty
Captain Johnson, with h 4 assistant, was able to take
the bearings of the Archer steam-sloop when at the
moorings at Greenhithe. A temporary lull in the
recent gales enabled the vessel to swing round on
Tuesday, and the Gallant Captain, after nearly five
hours labour in the pelting rain, was enabled to have
the compasses satisfactorily adjusted. It was in-
tended to make another trial of the brass screw-pro-
peller on Wednesday last, and the whole of the
officers studying steam at the factory, with Mr. F.
P. Smith, of the screw-propeller department at the
Admiralty, went down to Greenhithe on that day
for the purpose of being present, but the wind was
so strong that the vessel did not leave her moorings.
The officers studying steam also went down to Green-
hithe on Thursday, with Mr. Tricket, assistant to
the chief engineer, but they were again disappointed,
as the weather continued unfavourab!e. Mr. Hen-
derson, master-attendant at Devonport dockyard,
having joined from leave, would wait no longer for
further trials of the Archer, and left Greenhithe
yesterday morning in that vessel, to navigate her
round to Devonport, where she is to be commissioned
The Tiger steam sloop, recently launched at Chat-
ham, and brought round to the East India Docks at
Blackwall, to have her engines put on board, was
only able to be taken into the dock on Monday. She
is five feet longer than the lock of the dock, and could
only be taken in at extreme high water.
The Desperate steam sloop was taken into the East
India Docks yesterday, to be fitted with her engines
by Maudslay, Sons, and Field; and the Horatio
steam-guardship was taken out on the same day, to
be towed to the City Canal Works, to have her en-
gines put in by Messrs. Seaward and Co.
The Monkey steam vessel, Master Commander
William Bryant, went down the river this morning
to Tilbury Fort, to convey a company of pensioners
to Woolwich, where they will embark as a convict-
guard on board the Bengalore hired convict ship, at
present taking on board 300 male convicts for Van
Diemen's Land.

NEW ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.

The interior of this beautiful little theatre was lighted
up on Thursday evening as for a performance, and a
large party of gentlemen assembled within its walls
by the invitation of Mr. Watts, the enterprising lessee,
for the purpose of having a private inspection of the
fittings up and decorations preparatory to its being
opened to the public, on Wednesday. It was only
on the 29th of March last that the old Olympic was
burnt down, and on its site there has arisen, as though
by magic, the present elegant structure. The box
entrance is the centre door of the theatre frontage in
Wych street. A noble staircase of fire-proof Port-
land stone conducts the visitor to an elegant saloon,
passing through saich to a spacious cloak room,
admission is immediately gained to the dress circle,
constructed to accommodate about three hundred per-
sons, and elegantly fitted up in separate seats, with
arm and back supports to each, cushioned and covered
with crimson velvet. The private boxes, twelve in
number, are arranged to contain six persons each, and
fitted up in the best possible style of comfort and
elegance; the box slips' approach is by a distinct
staircase apart from the dress circle. The stalls (the
appraach to which is by the box entrarce) are
separately disposed, to give ample room to sixty
visitors, each being superbly provided and fitted with
cushioned arm and back supports, and the whole
covered with crimson velvet. The pit entrance is on
the right of the boxes, in '4'3'oh-street ; a short fire-
proof paAssge leads to the pit itself, which is capacious
in the extreme, and so constructed as to accommodate
easily one thousand persons, and affords the greatest
facility for see.ng at every point of its ample and
commodious area. The gallery entrance is in New-
castle-street ; the approach is by a bold and ample
fire proof staircase. The gallery has been fitted up
in a most comfortable and substantial manner, and
calculated to give accommodation to eight hundrA
visitors. Four air shafts have also been constructed

(on an entirely new and original principle), two from
the pit and two from the boxes, for the general pur
poses of ventilation and equable temperature. The
stage is constructed on the most approved and novel
principle by Mr. R. J Strachan, late of the Lyceum
Theatre. The decoration of the theatre has been
entrusted to Mr. Aglio, in which he has been assisted
by ?lr. Aglio, jun., and other numerous artists; the
following outline will convey a faint description of
their joint labours :—The ceiling is divided into four
ecmpartments, in each of which is represented a
figure emblematical of one of the four seasons.
Spring, a young female crowned with flowers ; Sum-
mer, a young woman crowned with wheat ; Autumn,
a female in attitude with the produce of the grape;
and Winter as an old man flying from the blustering
winds. These four compartments are separated by
ornamental divisions in the arabesque style. The
front of the gallery tier is divide) into compartments
by gold-rteded columns, each compartment decorated
with various groups of arabesque ornaments, divided
by chiaro-scuro cupids on a blue ground ; the com-
partments contain a varied centre of masks and
musical instruments, with cameos. The box tier,
corresponding with the above, and connected with
figures of cupids, in the same style. Gold and bronze
columns supporting them, and each compartment
richly decorated. It has been a particular plan of the
artist to keep the proscenium in its decoration sepa-
rated, so as to form only a frame to the decorating of
the stage. The predominant colours are white and
gold, and the ornaments principally of the arch are
chiaroscuro, in the centre of which is a group of the
Nine Muses, with their attributes. The drop scene
is a beautiful architectural composition, and is exqui
sitely painted. The audience portion of the theatre
is lighted by a magnificent glass chandelier, manu-
factured by Apsley Pellatt and Co. This chandelier
has three hundred jets of gas. The construction of
the theatre is as nearly faultless as the confined nature
of the ground on which it stands will permit. A full
view of the stage is commanded from every portion
of the stalls, pit, and gallery. The company engaged
is very strong, including Messrs. G. V. Brooke,
Frank Matthews, Compton, Wigan, Meadows, John
Reeve, Scharf, Davenport, Ryder, and Holl, and Mes-
dames Mowatt, Fanny Vining, Seymour, Marshall,
L. Marshall, A. Wigan, and C. Horn. The gratitude
of every playgoer is due to Mr. Watts for the intro-
duction of the reform announced in the following
notification :—" It is respectfully intimated that no
charge will be made at the box office for booking
places, neither will any fees or gratuities whatever be
allowed to be taken by the box keepers. And any
inattention on the part of the servants will be imme-
diately noticed. Each person entering to either the
boxes or pit will be presented with a bill of the
night's performance." This is a reform which every
other manager must eventually adept, but to Mr.
Watts is due the credit of its introduction, and the
support which the public ought always to bestow
on those who thus minister to their comforts.

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, FRIDAY.
The Queen and Prince walked early this morning
in Osborne grounds and park.
The Prince of Wales and Princess Royal, and
younger members of the Royal Family, rode and
walked as usual.

Thera was no addition to the royal dinner party
yesterday.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left her
residence, Frogmore llouse, Windsor, yesterday
morning, at halt-past nine o'clock, and proceeded to
town, to Clarence House, St. James's. Her Royal
Highness dined with her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Gloucester, :it Gloucester House, in the evening.
Their Serene Highnesses the Duchess of Saxe-
Weimar, the Princesses Anne and Amelie of Saxe-
Weimar, and the Princes Edward and Gustave of
Saxe-Weimar, left Marlborough House, Pall-mall,
yesterday morning, for Bushy House, Bushy Pork.
Earl Howe and the Hon. William Ashley attended
at Bushy House. The Duchess and the Princess
Anne and Amelie of Saxe-Weimar proceeded to Kew
to pay a visit to their Royal Highnesses' the Duke
and Duchess of Cambridge, and afterwards returned
to town.

A deputation, consisting of Mr. Seager, Mr. Wil-
liam Niehokon, Mr. John R. F. Burnett, and Mr
Joseph Boord, had an interview with Earl Grey yes-
terday At the Colonial-office.

COEN-LAWS, or LAINDLURD
FELONY.
TO THE EDI 7 Oh Ut TILE SUY.
am not a politician, anti there fore shall not
follow the wirA2ing courses of a false-named and base
expediency ti rough any of its tortuous lunacies.
But I pro:(ss to be a Christian, to understand seine-
thing of morality, and to have a little common sense ;
and if I allow this letter to become a long one I shall
fail in my object, for no long ar►icles can be better
written tht.❑ your own excellent leaders. I vont
(without argument) to ring in the ears of a knaysh
or mistaken aristocracy the conclusions and positi, ns
to which I find all parties of sense with whom 1
converse have arrived on the subject of taxing ur
food.

We all say that, if for the purpose of keeping up
the wealth of the landowners, you raise the price o
food for the rc st of the nation, you will justly have i
revolution ; for the masses will not endure such in
famous injustice.
We say it is immoral and scandalous on the part of
the few landlow nen: (who rolliu wealth orcompt ttnc) )
to raise the price of food for the many, in order to ge;
their oa n high rents.
We tenants now say, that we are not such fools as not
to see that the ohject of the landowner, by raising the
loaf, is, that he may keep up his rent.
We all beliove that it is best for us to get ow
food at as low a p: ice as we can, and p!enty of it.
We all s.iy it is shameful, immoral, and diabolica'
for some few to wallow in their useless and banefu,
wealth, while the many have scarcely food to ea*, and
that those low should still wish further to tax our food
to keep up or increase their hoards.
We say it is no use their attempting to gull the
community with any pretension for a tax than that
they wish to keep up their rents.
Sir, we ask what right have our landowner law
makers to keep the food of the world from us?
We have common sense, and we have the Scriptures
of Truth to guide us, and we declare, Sir, with
solemn assurance, that it is as right for us to take a
part of their ill-gotten land as for them to keep away
our rightful food.
1 should like, Sir, to see the man for half an hour,
or to meet him in your journal, who should dispute
this moral position. It is time that a nation of pro
fessing Christians were not treated and talked to like
fools by a base interested or blinded landowning-
ocracy. Sir, strong or quaint as my words may be,
I write with a calm consciousness of the condemna-
tion I hurl at them ; they are not poor ignorant, mis-
guided, uneducated men, but men who ought to know
better, and if they will not take warning in time
the denunciation of Holy Writ will be ere long
thundered out to them—" Go to now, ye rich men,
howl and weep, for your miseries are come upon you."
Sir, I am not one who does not allow that it is hard
times for the tenant-farmer. I am a tenant-farmer
myself (using 170 acres), and I know in some cases
we are losing our money, but can I, in conscience,
think that the loaf of ten poor men and of five
tradesmen should be taxed to benefit me and my
landlord ? Should fifteen be ruined to save two
Monstrous injustice! Have not I and my landlord
more pride than to seek relief of the poor and of the
tradesmen? If not perish us both!
Let the landowners reduce their rents, and
Government take off taxes, and then the whole coun-
try (tenant-farmers included) can have cheap food,
and abundance of it.
1 Why should landlords, or we farmers, have our
circumstances kept up by any unjust or any other
legal means than the tradesman adopts ? My wine
merchant says business is flat, but if Government
would but give him protection, and clap a higher
duty on foreign wines, that so large is his stock in
hand that it would put thousands in his pocket. And
so may the grocer say regarding his sugars, and
various other branches of trade the same. Is the rich
landowner then the only mean, selfish rascal that is to
have a law made in his favour, and be left to make
the law himself ? Will the nation so befool them.
selves ? I repeat and conclude with the position
which I am ready to defend, that it is as morally right
for the nation to justly divide the land as for the land-
lords to keep away the nation's food.
1 am, Sir, yours obediently,
Cheltenham, Dec. 21, 1849. DALETH.

THE WELSH CHURCH.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Stn,--Having observed in your paper of yesterday,
the 6:h of a series of letters upon the Church in
\Vales, signed " Gorbonian " in which is (Mailed the
number of disgraceful pluralities held by the Dean of
St. Asaph, amounting to no less than six, producing
an income of 3,211/. per annum, I was induced to
examine the Clergy List to see if such a monstrous
abuse was possible, when I found the statement not
only fully verified, but I discovered that another
in( mber of the Luxmore family equalled, if not ex-
ceeded, his relative, the Dean, in the number and
amount of his benefices—this gentleman is the Rev.
M Luxito7e ; he is
Canon of St. Asaph
S. Rector of Llanawon .
S. It. of Whitford
Rector of 1114rchneil
P. C. of Alor.ton
Rector of Llanymytiech
Vicar of 13,:rriow.

.. . . ...... 345
739
708
669
394
3.56

Producing an income of .... 3,288
and although, it will be seen, the greater portion of
these incomes are derived from 'Wales, neither of
these pluralist recipients can read, write, .speak.
preach, or even give a blessing to the people, in the
language of the country. I trust " Gorhorian " will
continue to write, aLd I will defy the most searching
inquirer into the Clergy List to find out such abuses in
the Church of England as are commonly to be met with
in the Church in Wales. Could not " Grorbonian
give your readers some insight into the proceedings
of St. David's College, Lampeter, and inform the
public what has become of the salary which belonged
to the 'Welsh Professorship ? The Bishop of St.
David's is the Visitor of that College, but the Chan-
cellor he hai appointed for his diocese is a Mr. Mel-
ville, who knows as much of the Welsh language as
did Commissioner Lin or Queen Pomare
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

CLE RICUS.

Dec. 21, 1849.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
WOLVERHAMPTON AND BREEWOOOD
STEEPLECHASES.
THURSDAY.
Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, and 30 added. Four miles.
M Moseley's Jerry, llst (Frisby) 1
. Horlock's Donnybrook, Ilst 71b (Groom) 2
Mr. Tempest's Pegasus, lost 71b (Wainwright) 3
Mr. J. Lowe's C.,wslip, 9st 71b (Talbot) 4
Three others started. Won by two lengths. The
winner was sold for 104 sovs.
Sw. epstakcs of 3 sovs. each, and 10 added. Three milts.
(5 Subs.)
Mr. W. H. Mytton's Wee-bit, lOot, 7lb (Mr. Walker) 1
Mr. King's Lord Stafford, l lst 71b .(Bradley 2
Mr. Tasker's Tenbury Lass, 10,t 12th (Owner) 3
Mr. Davies' Camphine, lOst 21b
Won cleverly. The winner was sold for 451.
The Handicap Hurdle Race, for a Sweepstakes of 2
sovs. each, and 10 added, two miles (3 Subs.), was won
in a canter by Mr. Mytton's Mind-your-own-Business,
list 7111 (Thrili), beating Mr. Lowe's Cowslip, list 71b,
and Mr. C. Gifford, na Wee-bit, lOst 71b.
BETTING AT MANCHES
CHESTER CUP.-1,000 to 15 agst Dough—(offers to
take the rest us before).
DERDY.-9 to 1 offered agst Bolingbroke, 12 to 1 agst
Ghillie Callum (t), 1,000 to 60 offered agst Nigger,
750 to 37i sgst Voltigeur (t), 600 to 20 agst Mayers (t),
1,000 to 20 aget the Swede (t). Nothing else backed.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Albrighton hds., Mon., Dudmaston; Thurs., Running-
ton, near Hagley; Sat., The Plough, Weston-heath
—lok.
Mr. S. Allen's bds., Mon., Catershook-gate; Fri.,
Pinchestown Quarries-11.
Berkshire hds., Mon., Buckland-park; Wed., Calbam-
bridge; Fri., Buscot-park; Sat., Bagley-wood-101.
Monmouthshire hds., Mon., Clytha-lodge; Thurs.,
Blackbrook— 10i.
Mr. Morgan's hds., Mon., Viverdon; Thurs., Komi 1
—loi.
askley hds., Mon., Easton-gorse; Thurs., Pertenhall-
turnpike• Sat., Brogborough.
Pytehley hds., Mon., Cransley; Wed., Crick; Fri.,
Ashby St. Ledger; Sat., Nar.by-10i.
Surrey Union hds., Mon., Leatherhead-downs; Thurs.,
Ewhurst Village; Sat., Second milestone on Kingston-
road.

Tiverton hds., Mon., Sampford Peverell-village;
Thurs., Killerton-park-10i.
V. W. H. hds., Mon., New-lodge; Wed., Elm-green.
Thurs., Cricklade town; Sat., Barrow-Elm-104.
Dumfriesshire hds., Mon., lioddon -bridge; Fri.,
Nethercleugh-station-10i.
Pucker;dge hds.. Mon., 13arkway; Wed., Peverils; Sit.,
Great Mundt n-10i.
Somerset Sub,orlption hds., Mon.. Blackdown; Fri.,
Camhrideshire hds., Mon., Childcrley- gate; Wed.,
Shear hatch- wood; Fri., D..wning Arms-10i.
York and Ainsty, Mon., Strensall; Thurs., Pill moor
Brafferton; Sat., Skipwith-bridge-10i.
Male hds., Mon., Salutation Inn, Leeming-lane;
Wed., Tat.fie:d; Fri., Hipswell Village-10 .
C:eveland liclF., Mon., Hinderwell; Thurs., Lackenby-

whin. -
Mr. EfilCyard's parrs., Mon., High-Leven; Fri., Newton-
bridge-10}.
F. B. !Ali., Mon., Perran- wharf; Wed., Ladock;
Fri., Kennel---10e.
.Durhara County, Mon , Braneepeth; Wed., Lumley-
park; Fri., Easit gton-10i.
Baby hds., Mon, Tudhoe; Wed., Kininvie; Fri.,
,W ington- bridge-10 .
Tisdale hds., Mon., Heugh, Countess-park; 'Thurs.,
Wittirgton; Sat , Walwick-14
Morpeth harrs., bin., illepseott; Fri., Widdringtor.-
RI.
Mr. Furse's hds., Mon., Putheridge; Fri., Winscott-
moor-g tte-10.
Mr. Marshall's hds., Mon., Golden Inn, Ilighlismpton;
Thurs., Neuuel-101.

Sir Henry Seale's hda., Mon., Cot, Dartington; Fri.
Kennel.

Blackdown hds., Mon., Wellington-pillar; Thurs.,
Wellesford-house, near Langford Budville-10i.
North Devon hds., Mon., Newton-cross, near Nor-
wood; Wed., Codder-hill; Sat., Merwyn Arms-10i.
Dulverton h rrs., Mon., Skilgatz; Fri., Barnpton—loi.
Mr. Fane's harrs., Mon., Joynter's Farm; Sat., Sheep-
leys.
High 'Peak harrs., Mon., Ba' ewell; Sat., Wardlow
Miers-1 1.