The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-22 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

GROUP VI.
TAUNTON AND CASTLE CA.R.Y lIRANCU°
AND ILLEA.DER. TO WELLS, df,c.

The Committee met at the usual hour.
Mr. Gregory, C.E., engineer to the line, was 0-
amined—The length of the proposed lines was about
00"
ou,t
forty- five miles, the total cost of the lines was .582,0
The gradients upon the line were very favourable, and,
the line such a one as could be made economically and
speedily. By the proposed branch the distance between
Exeter and London would be reduced from its resent
distance by the existing route via Bristol, which vests
1934 miles to 172 miles 51 chains.

GROUP XXX.
scheme. IA. 11% AER D( Po
I e eMd thLeEcEasne of
and proceeded to call evidence in support of' the

ADELPHI THE
veter theoke,
A new three act comedy (or to
melodrama) from the practised pen of t h
most
was produced here last evening, lt
w'
Title Deeds,"
complete success. It is entitled the
turns upon
and the interest of the piece .
title
tho loss and the recovery of certain,
rcor
deeds, the property of Mr. Morant (Mr. e t a,)
a West India merchant, who is about to proceed
speaki more correctly
O
Jamaica, and who leaves the box containing the ti
tle
deeds and a large sum of money in a cab, of which he
knows not the number. The driver of the cab, Hutu-
phrey llaywisp (admirably acted by Mr. 0. 5131410'
finds the box. He is miserably poor, but he resists the
temptation for a time, and had it not been for his mother
he would have resisted it altogether. She urges him
to break open the box and appropriate its contents, and
notwithstanding the entreaties of his
tNaav
and
ofldea
hisrwBg iaetlhol )ws'hun(ims;ii:sl
purchasesmWooiloel
yg airn)
the hae cbgooitxvt
a,e
gs
he
ewaaaptyp, andoipars
aofitnenbsdu itrnhy , ding a,
friend Pettr Hush (Wright), a ci-decant author and
actor, whom he engages as tutor to his
,chil-
dren, retires into the country, where he .--comes a sporting man, and as such
be-
comes acquainted with Turfy Goodwood (Mr' ►
Bedford), a blackleg, and Mr. Philip Fustic (Mr. Boyce)
a pigeon, and the partner of Morant. He has saved sal;,
cient money to replace the sum he had found in the ihotte
and is anxious to discover the owner. Conscience has 010
its work with the mother who hasbecomeidiotic. Afort".4
comes forward to claim the box containing the title-d for
without which he will be ruined. Humphrey. seeks Zr
the box—it has disappeared. The old woman, in a cra
fit, had removed it, and concealed it she knovvS'l°,
where. There is a Mrs. Evergay (Mrs. Yates) rest,:
in the town with her two nieces (well acted by DILAof
Ellen Chaplin and Miss E. Harding). Onehiiip
these young ladies, who is betrothed to r
Fustic, is fond of drawing, and in sketching a she
of the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey by moonlight' ha
observed an old woman prowling about—struck hoY, the
picturesque appearance she introduced the figure ;cog.
old woman into the sketch. Sally IlaywisP Se
nises it as that of her mothn-law. S
is made among the ruins, and the box containing
1e(.
title-deeds is found, and all ends happily. Tile 'and
was capitally acted and admirably put on the stagel;
Peake has furnished the management With A
deeds for a run of a hundred nights.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Madame Vestris and Mr. Charles Mathews Oraci
e
menced an engagement here last evening, and appea,r,.,..
in Love's Telegraph, A Culious Case, and 7fie rn
Their reception was most enthusiastic,' and they bur,
e'
soon. all the better for their recent provincial •x
slop. The house was crowded.

MR. WILSON'S
ENTERTAINMENTS.--Last night the
Music Hall, Store-.treet, was filled by a hearty and tabile.
plauding audience, who had assembled to hear
s in
minstrel's last budget for the season. Wilson
fine voice, and gave the songs with, if possible, /nor;
than his usual excellence ; the result was, abundance °it
encores. He sang " The Skylark," by request, whit;,
again produced as great an effect as when he eve
ois eerinment on Hogg's ongs. We perceive that
n the concluding night of thes season, on Monday ne/c.,
he is to give his popular entertainment of " An hour
Burns," when he sings some of Burns's finest songs, 111,,
recites the humorous poem of " Tam o' Shanter, whic."
he gives with great gusto.
PIEBALD MICE.—Row, a mechanic, in Wil'ite
Lion-court, Taunton, has in his possession several beatr
tifully mottled white and black mice, from one of which
he lately had the extraordinary progeny of sixteen in
one litter. The breed is common in the Austrian States'
and has been imported by the Italian and Swiss Wan-
rants.—Salisbury Harald.
RAT-KILLING EXTRAORDINARY.--011 the 11 tij
inst., Mr. Joseph Jenkins, or Blaenplwyf Ystrad, lac°
Lampeter, and his two brothers, both under twelve Years
of age, killed no less than 107 rata in less than halloo
hour. The modus operandi was as follovvs:—Thc
brothers io
poured boiling water, or cold water and quiel‘
lime, into the rats' holes, and on their attemptg t°s
escape they were knocked on the head with the hat?n
which the youths held in their handc