The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-14 00:00:00

STRAIND THEATRE.

A. new drama, an adaptation from the French stage of
a piece written by M. St. George, entitled honesty the
best Policy, was produced at this little snuggery a. few
evenings ago with complete success. ,Th(!) great merit
.of
the,psece is in the drawang forth the admirable persona-
tion of the old goatherd by Mr. Farren, whose represen-
tation of the part was a perfect piece of acting, and was
equal to any of the most successful parts sustained by
this talented actor. The leading female part, excellently
sustained by Mrs. Stirling, is Theresa, a reputed widow,
a copy of the creation of Kotzebue, presented to the
public as Mrs. Hailer, in the Stranger. She is not, in-
'deed, depicted with the amiable and interesting traits
through which Mrs. Haller is portrayed, but the purposes
of the drama would not be injured by some other expe-
'dient than that of assigning the heroine of the piece to
such a mother. The other parts were very well sustained.

HER. MAJESTY'S THEATRE. -- This evening, the
inimitable Lablache takeb his benefit here, when the ma-
nagement produces Cimarosa's I 1 Matrimonio. Segreto.
Judging from the effect at rehearsal, -a success maybe'
expected similar to that which has attended the repro-
duction of "Don Giovanni and La Gazza Ladra. The
cast is a very strong one, combining the ehier:l vocal'
strength of the company: With Aiboni as F_
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rarodi as Carolina, Giuliani as Eliserrar,o-
nCatoz:l a arias
Paolina, and, above all, Lablache as Gimpart
which
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ju.tice will be done to the charming c ef
in which his rich hurhour leaves him unalipprodac,cchuedvr,efuolfl '
an artist, we heartily wish Lablache ,
Cimarosa. Considering his worth
es
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there can be little doubt, for he is, and desertedly, a
universal favourite, and to his own attraction and to that
of the opera, is added a ballet founded upon a striking
epb,ode in the career of the great Taelioni.
WAR-OFFICE RETIREMENTS.—The chief examiner,
Mr. Marshall, is about to retire upon his full salary of
1,2001. per annum and a senior clerk at 9001. per annum.
Mr. Fox Mettle, the Secretary at War, and a member of
the Select Committee of army expenditure, will have
now an opportunity of carrying out his zeal for retrench-
ment in his own department, by causing the abolition of
these appointments. The duties of chief examiner could
easily be performed by the deputy secretary at war or
his first clerk, both of whom receive high pay. These
retrenchments are the more desireable and should be
pressed by the Treasury when we see a sum of 53,6691.
10s. being estimated for the current 3 ear for the War
Office, exclusive of the amount of 17,255/. 6s. for se
perannuation and retired allowances.—Morning Paper.
Some very exaggerated reports were in circulation
yesterday respecting the alleged absence of a gentleman
connected with one of the first banking-houses in the
city of London. W e have reason to know that what-
ever the motives for bis absence may be, they are en-
tirely of a private nature, and hap no relation whatever
to the business or the funds of thefirin.—Chronkk,

LITERATURE.
!EXPERIENCES OF A GAOL CHAPLAIN.
New Edition. 1 Vol. Bentley, New Burlington-
street.
This new edition of this most popular, most inte-
resting, and most instructive work, forms the 115th
number of the Standard NoVels, publishing by Mr.
Bentley, and is -got up with all attention to typo-
graphical beauty and correctness, which is so dis-
tinguishing a characteristic of his series. The
author has added to this standard edition a new pre-
' face, containing his views on the causes and pre-
vention of crime. "Legislative enactments," he says,
" will never crush it. Nor will it be banished from
among us by the ' solitary system' or the •treadmill.'
Education, CHEAP FOOD, and employment, may do
much to arrest its progress." After paying a well-
merited tribute of respect to those "leaders of the
forlorn hope in the moral world," the promoters of
the ragged schools and of the Scripture Readers'
Society, he thus proCeeds to point out the various
incentives to crime

"1. A dense population is favourable to crime.
" Great cities, it has been well remarked, invite
all the scum and oftscourings of society to -nestle within
them. They find hiding-places there, and there they
find their pre3. Add to this, that in great cities are
to be found wealth and luxury. These hold out invi-
tations to crime, more or less seductive, and afford at
the same time greater opportunities for its concealment.
" 2. Crime in England is fed by the constant acces-
sions to our population olthe wretched outcasts from Ire-
land. The records of crime kept at Liverpool are con-
clusive on this point. But not at Liverpool only is the
propensity in the Irish character to crime borne out by
facts and figures. A
barrister connected with the
Northern Circuit ascertained that out of one hundred
and twenty-siz prisoners at one assizes in York, twenty-
seven were Irish, or twenty-five per cent.; and that out
of twenty-nine si,rious offences, nineteen, or sixty-six
per cent., were committed by Irishmen!'
"3. DEAR FOOD is a powerful incentive to crime.
•' This conclusion can be established by statistical
returns. Contrast years, of scarcity with years of
plenty:;---1805 was a dear year. Wheat was within
threepence of ninety shillings per quarter: crime rose.
The following yerr, 1806, was a cheap s car; wheat was
seventy nine shillings per quarter: crime fell. The next
year, 1807, was a cheap year; wheat was seventy-nine
shillings and fourpence a quarter: crime fell. Take
another three years, 1816, 1817, and 1818. The first
and last were cheap years: crime fell. The other, 1817,
was a dear year; wheat wits ninety-six shillings and
eleven pence a quarter: crime rose. It, then, you desire
to check the progression of crime, give the artisan CHEAP
FOOD.

"4. Another incentive to crime will be found in that
prolific source of every evil, social, national. and domestic
—the existing CAME'LAWS. Tender ground this to ven-
ture en/ LoMi is the clamour instantly raised, if the
policy of totally repealing these odious enactments be
even hinted at; but ask any clergyman who lives in a
parish where game is strictly preserved, what are the
peculiar features of his parish ? Ask him what it its
aspect in *a religious, industrious, and moral point of
view ? Ask him how the church—or any place of wor-
ship in it—is attended; and also how the public-house
is frequented ? Ask him how the marriage tie is re-
spected in his parish—if chastity is even known there ?
Ask him what the records of the neighbouring petty
sessions have to say touching CRIME in that parish? And
heed well his answer.
"5. Another incentive to crime is want of employment.
Here the farmer is grossly culpable. He treats his
labourer as a slave. Consideration for him there is
none. If corn be at a famine price, very, very little or
no advance is made on the labourer's wages. If corn
decline in value, that is instantly made a pretext for
summarily reducing the number of labourers on a farm-
stead, and consigning those who are thus turned adrift
to starvation, or to the tender mercies of an union work-
house. What follows ? An incendiary fire in the most
unprotected rickyard. VIRTUALLY who lighted it?
"6. Finally. Crime is fostered by ignorance.—But
do not the employers as well as the employed require
instruction ? Dues not the occupier as well as the la-
bourer need the good offices of the schoolmaster?"
With some of the causes the Legislature cannot deal,
they must be left to the care of the promoters of
ragged schools, and the friends of education, but
with other causes the Legislature must and can deal.
Be it remembered that whoever endeavours to make
food dear is the friend, the patron, the promoter, the
cause of crime; let this be cast in the teeth of the
Protectionist landlords whenever they come whining
for protection, and let them be told plainly that even
the benefit of a territorial aristocracy may be pur-
chased too dearly, and that it is so purchased when
purchased at the cost of increase of crime. Again
with regard to the game-laws. It is the moral duty
of every legislator to do. all in his power
to remove those laws from the statute-book forthwith.
Is it to be borne that our people are to be demora-
lised, our gaols filled, and the commission of every
species of crime encouraged in order that
our landed squirearchy may be permitted to
indulge in a barbarous sport, which, if practised
by costermongers and unprivileged animals,
would infallibly bring them acquainted with
the treadmill—e. g., a man the other day was com-
mitted for a month from one of the metropolitan
police-offices for setting a dug to hunt a cat. \Vhat
is the difference so far as cruelty is concerned between
hunting a cat and hunting a hire ? The game laws,
therefore, must be re pealed, even although the squire-
archy should turn styky and emigrate.

LECTURES on the CAUSES and TREAT-
MENT of ULCERS of the LOWER EX-
TREMITY, delivered at the London Hospital
during the Summer of 1848. By George Critehett,
Esq., FR.C.S. Churchill, Princes-street.
It is refreshing in these days of book-making to
meet with a work emanating from a man evidently
full of his subject, and Set compressed within such
limits that bot h the medical profession and the public
can rapidly acquaint themselves with the views and
opinions contained within its pages. Here is no
lengthened and tedious detail of cases, no empirical
vaunting of one remedy to the exclusion of all others,
but a clear and condensed digest of the various asyects
under which this disease presents itself, of the causes
to which it owes both its origin and its continuance,
and of the principle upon which alone a scientific
method of treatment can be founded. The book is
nicely got up, and reflects credit both upon author
and publisher.

PEDESTRIANISM.—PATNE AND Fox.—These men
met en Monday, according to appointment, at Harlington
Corner, to decide their match of two miles, for '25 sove-
reigns aside. There was a tidy muster of sp,ctators
present, and the betting opened at 5 to 4 on Fox, but
before the men came to the mark it had gone to 2 to I,
with takers. The race requires but little comment; suf-
fice it to say, that Fox gave inAfter he had tried!the first
mile, dead beat, and he was compelled to be taken to a
public-house close by, where it was tound that he had
been druvged to an alarming extent. The person who
administered the drug is a well-known runner at Bir-
mingham. The time for the first mile was nearly six
minutes.

THE ACCIDENT RELIEF SOCIETT.—The anniver-
sary dinner of this society, tor giving food, &c., to
families when plunged into distress by accident, was
held last evening, at the Albion Tavern, Ahiersgate-
street. The duties of the chair were moat efficiently
discharged by W. Evans, Esq., M.P. for North Derby-
shire. After the usual toasts had been proposed, in
terms which reflected not less credit upon the good sense
than the loyalty of the chairman, the toast of the
"Army and Navy" was given, accompanied with an ex-
pression of hope that, as well on their own account as
that of their country, their services would henceforward
be bat little required. After a liberal subscription had
been announced by Mr. R. Croxton, the secretary, in-
cluding donations of 51. from Lord Skelmersdale, 51.
from Lord Amherst, 11/. from Miss Wedgwood, 10/.
from G. B. Hart. Esq., 101. from Charles Hoare, Esq.,
101. from Lordßletchley, and 251. from the Chairman.
—Mr. George Thompson, M.P., proposed the health
of the worthy Chairman, and paid a high tribute
to his unostentatious and benevolent character. He
said he did not know how he could bear better
evidence to the usetulness of the society than by re-
cording a circumstance that had come under his own
knowledge during the past year. The wife of a person
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NLW CHURCHES IN LAMHETLL—It is intended to
erect a new church in the borough of Lambeth, which
will be dedicated to St. Andrew. An ecclesiasticAl dis-
trict has been assigned to it, and • the Rev. Agmond C.
Carr, M.A., will be the officiating minister. Another
new church, dedicated to St. Thomas, will also be e, ected
in the Borough, of which the Rev. J. W. Weeks, NLA.,
formerly principal of the Church Missionary Soci-ty
College at Sierra Leone, will be the incumbent. The
patronage of both the new churches will be vested in the
Crown and the Bishop of Winchester alternately,
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY.--The
annual examination of the Girls Mod.-1 School took
place yesterday, the Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell in
the chair. The room was crowded, and the examina-
tion appeared to give the highest satisfaction to:the com-
pany present. The acquirements of the children in his-
tory, geography, and especially in the Scriptures, were
highly creditable to them. The singing in parts was ex-
cellent, and the specimens of needlework numerous and
beautiful. At the close of the proceedings, Sir Walter
Stirling, Bart., moved a vote of thanks to the chairman,
which was seconded by Professor Pillans, of Edinburgh,
who expressed very. strongly the gratification he, in
common with others, had experienced. The children
aid spectators vivre addressed very suitably by the Rev.
and Noble Chairman.

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PUGtLISM.—GUIFFITOS AND A suAllAtis.--These
light Heights wet on Tuesday to decide their match for
45 sovereigns, and, after a severe fight, which lasted one
hour and g half, eriffilin ifas decluvd Tiotor,