The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-22 00:00:00

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS.

The tide of prosperity, it the present flourishing did*
of affairs can be taken as an indication, has fairly set in,
to the great benefit of the treasuries of all the metropo-
litan theatres. Success like the present is the more cheer..
ing after the stagnation that prevailed during the eventful
year just terminated, in the theatrical as well as in nearly
every other profession or vocation. That dramatic enter•
tainment has received a fresh, and we trust a lasting
impetus from the gracious patronage and support be•
stowed upon it by her most gracious Majesty cannot be
denied, and that they will continue in their present
prosperous condition we have not the slightest doubt.
This is the more to be rejoiced at after the very great
exertions that have been made by the managers of the
different theatres to emulate each other in the production
of a novelty to welcome the generally prophesied
prosperous year 1849. Although pantomime has come
forth with unusual force, it has encountered such oppo•
sition from young and vigorous burlesque, that we fear in
a short time we shall have to number it among the
things that were. However, it is possible for old panto-
mime to recover his lost laurels, such as he possessed at
the time when Mother Goose was produced—he may, we
say, dare then, but not till then, burlesque even to the
encounter. At the little theatre in the Haymarket,
Mr. Webster, we see, has announced for to-morrow
evening The Stranger, and one of the most laughable
farces in the language, Twice Killed, for representation,.
with nearly the same cast as they were produced at
Windsor Castle on Thursday last, when the royal
and distinguished audience were " delighted." We have
doubt that they will draw crowded houses for some
time. The only novelty produced at the Lyceum since
the Christmas tribute is a petite comedy entitled Whet
Speaks First?—in which Mrs. Yates and Charles Ma-
thews, appear. Planch6's extravaganza, The King of liia
Peacocks, supported by Madame Vestris, Miss
Fitzwilliam, Miss J. Coleman, Miss Marshall, Mr.
Harley, and John Reeve, drawing overflowing houses.
At the Princess's the new opera by Harold, called
Marie, has proved a card, Miss Poole sweetly sustaining
the principal part. At Shakespere's home--Sadler e
Wells—henry VIII. has been admirably produced, and
draws a bumper every evening it is played. At the
Marylebone Mrs. Mowatt and Mr. Davenport appear
every evening in a new piece, of which the former
is the authoress; it is a❑ excellently constructed play,
and will have a run. At the Adelphi nothing new has
been produced since Christmas; Dickens's flaunted Masa
and the Enchanted Isle being sufficient for some time to
come to draw crowds to this very favourite theatre. A
new drama by Mr. Roberts, entitled Brigands in the Bud,
is to he produced this evening at the Olympic Theatre,
Mrs. Stilling sustaining the principal part, supported by
Compton: report speaks very favourably of this well-
sounding petite drama. All the other theatres are
doing, as we have said before, as well as the mana-
gers of them could wish.

STEAM-BOATS ON THE THAMES.

TO THE LDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—On returning yesterday to Blackwall from
Gravesend, with my lady and daughter, in the boat
called the Brunswick, a shameful race took place be-
tweet; that boat and a small one called the Emmet,
which I understand is to be placed on the halfpenny
trade above bridge.
It is all very well for a set of men to try the speed
of their boats, but when ladies are present, and a
nervous person like myself, I think such a contest
disgraceful.

'he boats were thrust paddle-box against paddled.
box, giving now and then violent shocks, each trying
their utmost to beat the other. This was continued
for five or six miles without one or the other gaining
an inch, excepting by a species of jockeying, which
when the boats carte together the shock gave first one
and then the other a few ieet. Surely such conduct
on board a boat opened for the accommodation of
passengers ought not to be allowed. Hoping you
will favour me by putting this note into your widely
circulating paper, where it will meet with the eye of
the proprietor of these boats,
I have the honour to be Sir, &c.,
Jan. 20, 1849. G. H.

NAMES OF STREETS AND
SQUARES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—It is really a disgrace to the cities of London.
and Westminster, the negligence exhibited in the
matter of having the names of the streets and squares
properly designated and marked at the different cor-
ners of the same. It is absolutely impossible for a
stranger to find his way, and even those who ar •
well acquainted with the different localities, like
myself, are often greatly at a loss to find their way.
A few evenings since, in the neighbourhood of Red
Lion-square and Holborn, I could not discern the
name of a single street; and it is exceedingly annoy
ing to be obliged to call in at a dozen shops, as
.wits_.
the case with me, to know where I was, thi2swindtears
rupting people in their business. Only a
sle._ de
since, while in one of the numerous: squat:lnm=
say,thihstiocnLotuohnj
neighbourhood of Bedford-square, a blindn_ q,
accosted me, and said he knew he was "
11
looked in
but could not tell which, and asked
beingl e time,
procure inthsa
vain in all directions, without
dbeit
a single name anywhere; Ina
able t o rneocosgnhoi;e4
there, I was obliged. to
nnoatmhesavoefocthcuersrterdeeitns
parnoys
heavy shower of rain,. from
a passenger. I will
necessary informs
eddon, which boasts of being
waitbe foara: c oI nnbscgei
could
lrda b
venture to
as there is scarcely a town on
in I, uropaes,
other city
the continent but has
perly city in Europe, is shamefully the best regulated
. defi•
cient in this respect. A PEDESTRIAN.
marked, w

-Rio JAIi.EIRO, DEC. 16, 1848 Our Exchange
et f'a~lea since last packet, and business has been donetoday at 24}d. to 240. In freights, nothing doing
i —our quotation s 30s. in the Channel for coffee; man/
English 'vessels have left for other ports, but we hero
still about twenty nor
unemployed in port. Coffee—ouPe
dolls. 2.900 to dolls. 3.000; first good, dolls. 2.700:10
dolls. 2.800. Coals, dolls. 11.500 to dolls. 13.000. Salt,
500 to 520 rein. Letters from Buenos Ayres to 24th of
November, at which date all was quiet. Mr. Bothe!one
our Minister, had landed his furniture, and was furnish.
ing a residence he had taken.

STATE ON TRIDE.—BIRMINGLIAM, SATITRD•If..•
The trades of this town generally, as compared with the
corresponding period of last year, continue brisk. At
the concluding meeting of ironmasters held at Dudley,
a still stronger opinion prevailed than preciously ex•
pressed as to the firmness (e.f existing prices. Commer-
cial travellers, now Ciirismas has closed, are resuming
their journeys, and the home trade in a few weeks is
expected to make a further advance. From America,
su far as Birmingham manufactures are concerned, the
latest intelligence is favourable. Important arrivals may
be looked for next week.
On Saturday morning an accident happened to a
boy of the name of R. Radford. while engaged cleaning
the back parlour windows of the house, 79, Cromer-
btreet, Bray's ku-road. It appears that while so en-
gaged he missed his hold and fell into the area beneath.
tie, was ithruediatelv picked up, when, upon
twit, we are happy to say that he escaped with a few
cruises.
The commercial intelligence by the India mail is
agdiu regarded es :.etislactoryt demand for cotton
OA Iliactured goods being especially active both at Cal..
cutta and Bombay. The report of the Chinese markets
is not so favourable, but there appears to be no graft
apprehension of a continued &elm%

• LAW INTELLIGENCE.
. CHANCELLOR'S COURT, York, Jan. 18.
(Before the Worshipful Ga.s.brviLLx HAncouaT VER•
NON, Chancellor.)
The court was crowded to hear the following case,
which has excited tke greatest interest in this city and

county:—
THE OFFICE OF MICE PROMOTED BY BORDER V. SALE.
Dr. R. Phillimore and Mr. Travis were advocates,
and Mr. Askwith proctor for the promovent ; Mr.
Blanshard, advocate, and Mr. Mills, proctor, for the de-
fendant.
The prayer of the promovent was that the Judge
pronounce that the promovent 's proctor had sufficiently
prove& the articles by him given in and admitted iu
this cause, on the part and behalf of Mr. Jahn Burder,
his party, and that the Rev. Rich
ofardin Hthisale,
cause, desk,
mathe
party accused and complained y
be canonically and duly corrected and punished accord-
ing to the exigency of the law, and be also condemned in

Ostia
Dr. petneelKOßSE proceeded to state that this was a
case in which the office of judge was promoted by let-
ters of request to the Chancellor of this Court, and trans •
mitted by John Border, of No. 27, Parliament-street,
Westminster, against the Rev. Richard Hale, vicar of the
Vicarago and parish church of Harewood, in the duce se
Of Ripon and province of York, and also rector of the
parish of Guldsborough, in the same diocese and pro-
vince, in answer to certain articles touching his soul's
health trnd the lawful correction and reformation of his
Manners and excesses; and more especially for that he
had caused great scandal to the church by his irreverent
and unseemly conduct in the pulpit, both before and
during- the. time of preaching his sermon, and also
by quarrelling, chiding, and brawling by words
daring such times in the parish church of Harewood.
These letters of request were sent on the 17th of
July, 1847, and the cause progressed through the
variouB stages. The Learned Advocate then went
in detail through the articles, twenty -two in number,
laid against the defendant, from which we gather the
following history of the case:—ln 1801, on the 13th of
August, Mr. Hale was inducted to the vicarage of Hare-
wood-by the then Archbishop of York, which vicarage
was then in the diocese and province of York, but is now
in the diocese of Ripon. On the 18th of November,
1803, Hr. Hale was inducted to the rectory of Golds-
borough, by the Bishop of Chester. The sixth article
charges, that during the past two years (that is, the two
years previous to the date of the letters of request, July
17, .1847)s Mr. Hale, being wholly regardless of the
sacredness ot the place and of his duty in the perform-
ance of the divipe offices, had been in the habit, in the
chiltch at' Haiewood, of making offensive personal re-
marks and observations in a chiding, quarrelling, and
brWiling manner, on many of his parishioners, by which he
had caused great scandal to the church and caused many
of his parishioners to abstain from attending the church.
The 7th alleged that during this period the defendant
had introduced into his sermons divers grossly offensive
observations-against the Earl and Countess of Hare-
wood, by which they and their family had been driven
from the church. The Bth stated that on the sth of
November, -1845, a dinner was given at Harewood-house
in celebration of the majority of Viscount Lascelles, the
eldest son of Lord Harewood, at which the health of the
Bishop and clergy was given, and thanks were returned
by the Rev. Mr. Shepherd, One of the clergy of the
diocese of Ripon; and it alleged that, on the following
Sunday, Ur. Hale in the course of his sermon, alluded
to that proceeding in words to this effect:—" I took up
the paper the other day, and saw a long account of what
has been going on during the week. I saw they toasted
the Bishop of the diocese and the clergy, when one of
my reverend brethren got up hiccupping drunk to
return thank'" The 9th article charged Mr. Hale
with having, on Sunday, March 1, 1846, used the follow-
ing words in a brawling manner, viz., " While I am mi-
nister of this parish I consider myself responsible for the
Protestant worship in this church. I have observed
lately some persons bowing and curtseying when pro-
nouncing the name of Jesus; it it continues I shall take
it as a personal insult, and will find occasion to expose
them publicly before this congregation." By the 10th
article Mr. Hale was charged that he, a few days after
the above circumstance, sent the following letter to
Joshua and Mary Ann Barrett:—" Mr. Hale is very
jealous of any Popish customs being introduced into
the Protestant worship of his church ; and as the
making bows or curtsies at the name of Jesus is one
of those, and has no authority from Scripture or the
Prayer-book, he shall ferl it his duty to notice in the
church those- who in defiance of his . admonitions per-
sist in observing them. Mr. Hale hopes that the perusal
of the enclosed tract will convince Mr. and Mrs. Bar-
rett of the impropriety of such customs." The 13th
articles alleges that on Sunday, the 15th day of March,
in the same year, Viscount Lascelles arid the Hon. Arthur
Lascelles attended Harewood Church with a troop of
yeomanry, of which they were in command; that during
his sermon Mr Hale made a personal attack upon the
said Viscount Lascelles and the Hon. Arthur Lascelles,
in these weals:—" I have got you here in the pew, and
now I will lash you;" and that during the sermon Mr.
Hale made many offensive, abusive, and unseemly obser-
vations upon the Earl of Ilarewoed and his family.
One of these was—" You are tawdry-laced, jacketed
jackanapes and popiejeys." The 16th article alleged
that, on the same hunday (March 29), the defendant,
addressing Ida conga gatiun, and alluding to Mrs.
Barrett, said, " I see that woman still continues to
insult me by -bowing to the name of Jesus. Where is
her modesty, / ask, when she knows a hundred heads
are turned to look at her? A saucy, pert intruder—
where is her husband's authority? But I doubt that
already the grey mere has become the better horse."
The 18th article alleged that on Sunday, the 17th of the
said month of January, during the preaching of his
sermon, defendant frequently referred to John Greetery
Smith, then present, as " his friend the reporter;" and
in an angry tone remarked, " Are your p. ncils ready
sharpened? Take it doe n. Bray it in your mortar mei
send it off to heed-quarters. You will get your reward
—perhaps a lunch, with a hate and a bottle of port wine;
no bad things either ; they are nut to be laughed at.
You can take your garbled notes in one pocket, and a
gallipot in the ottler." And again, on referring to the,
Apostle Peter denying our Lord, defendant turned to
Mr. Smith's pew, and said with great emphasis that he
was "a lying scoundrel." Dr.,Phillimore then referred
to the responsive allegations of the defendant, in which
he denied many of the expressions attributed to him, and
explained others in a way to deprive them of the in-
decorous character attributed to them in the articles.
The Learned Doctor animadverted in terms of severity
on the conduct of the rev, defendant, the fruit of whose
fortaertee years' incumbency had been the establishment
of five Dissenting chapels amongst a population of 2,000
pariettioneam, and concluded by calling on the Court to
pronounce such a sentence of lengthened suspension as
should teach Mr. Hale his duty, and protect his parishio-
ners ?torn the insults to which they had been exposed.
11ft:BLANSHARD was heard at considerable length on
behalf of Mr. Hale, after which the Court adjourned to
the following day.
On Friday the CHANCELLOR declared that in his
opinion a case hei been made out against Mr. Hale
upon some of the articles, sad he sentenced him to be
suspended from his ministration for six months ; that
he be condemned in the coasts of the suit ; and that he be
idnionished to refrain for the future irom the practices
alleged against hon.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jan. 20.
LIBEL —IN RE JAMES HENRY CHAPPELL.
The insolvent. an American, was opposed by Mr.
Cooke, for Mr. Minister, habitmaker to her Majesty, for
damages awarded in an ac:ion for libel.
ItAißeared that the amount of damages awarded was
405., tiathe costs of tl.e action were upwards of 1001.
Tlja) CHIEF COMMISSIONER, in giving judgment, said
the tdourt was governed by the amount given ; and,
acting on that principle, the case was not an aggravated
one. It was further complained that the insolvent had
made away with his property. The judgment was that,
for the damages, the insolvent be remanded for three
months, and for disposing of his property, for four
calendar months.
The judgmen's are concurrent from the 28th of
November, when the vesting order was made.

RiteBELL.
IN RE eEt
The insolvent, armoury keeper ?HE
la Tower, applied
to be discharged.
The insolvent, it appeared, had beentzlish enough to
iceept accommodation bills, which had
.
priion. He had a salary of 801. a year.
er of 101. got him into
On the part of the insolvent an
cif
I
for the creditors was made. a year
• His HONOUR accepted the proposal, and
strongly
g re-
commended the insolvent to abstain from
,6 len d. mg his
name" to any person.
. The insolvent was then dischargred.
.i lir. DOWSE appealed for immediate protection to An
icsolvent who bad just filed his petition. According to
the usual practice, the protection would not be issued
tintil Monday and he had an affidavit showing that an
execution Was'iaat either against his person or property.
Borne There was .oe
would be seized bproperty, and, it it was not protected,
v the execution creditor.
granted an immerusioNEß, under the circumst
The CHIEF co antes,
late protection.

corral OF CRIMINAL APPEAL.
The Court„of Criminal Appeal sat on Saturday in
cpar Chamber.
the Exgh.e Th., following Judges consti-
tuted the Court:—Lord Chief Justice Denman. Mr. Baron
Parke, Justice Coleridge, Mr. Justice Coltman, and
Mr. Barval Alderson.
.; QUEEN V. SARAH 'WATERS.
The prisoner :in this case was found guilty of having
caused the death of an infant illegitimate child ofb
which she had been delivered. It appeared that she
placed the child upon a, heap of ashes, and left it there
exposed, by which exposure its death was occasioned.
There were two questions reserved by Mr. Baron Robe,
who tried the case, but the only one upon which the ar-
gutnent turned was whether the age of the child had
been properly described in the indictment, it being al-
leged that, in order to prove that leaving exposed upon
the ashes was an unlawful act, it was necessary to show
that the child was of tender age.
Mr. CLARKE, who appeared on the part of the
Crown (the prisoner was unrepresented) contended
that the age of the person was immaterial so long
as it was alleged that the act done had been the cause of
his death.
'Mr. Baron ALDERSON said, if the party were twenty
years of age it would not be unlawful to leave him so
exposed, although it would be unlawful to knock him
down. But if the party were of tender years, for in-
stance, an infant, the act alleged would have been ins,-
gal, and therefore it was necessary that the ago should
be stated.
The Court, however, took time to consider their de-
cision.

QUEEN v. ROBERT WYNNE.
The defendant in this case was in the service of the
Pust-office, and was found guilty at the Old Bailey of
secreting certain- letters belonging to the rottmaster-
General.