The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-11 00:00:00

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dramatic version of so much of BoZ s "I\ aster I
Humphrey's Clock" as relates to the love passages-
between Mr. Weller, senior, and MiSs Benton,-the
vagaries of Sam \Yeller, and the domestic arrange-
teems: of Mr. Daniel Quilp, was prodUced at this
Theatre last night under theftitle of Mr. welter's
watch. All the racy dialogue of the original is
preserved, and almost all the incidents. The
adapter has. judiciously woven the whole into some-
thing like an understandable phit, by making " the
widder," with whoM Mr—Weller, senior, 'came up
from Birmingham " on the rail," turn out to be
no wader at all, but Mrs. Daniel Quilp the first,
in search of her husband, and by this means " mild,
quiet,-L obedient, loving Mrs. Quilp " is rescued
froth the fangs of her persecutor, and poetic justice
is done on the demon dwarf." Mr. Salter, the
ould original whip, was Mr. Weller, sen. Those
who recollect his personation of that character in
-The Pickwickians will at • once be aware that he
was the werr4 identical coachman of Boz. His
laugh was inimitable, and his conduct in the chair
was every thing that could be desired from one
filling that important situation. On the question
of privilege he was great, and on all occasions he
was happy, except when haunted by the vision of
a" widder." He sang a parody on " Nix my Dolly,
pals, fake away," describing his own birth, parentage,
and education, which was rapturously encored ;
and at the conclusion announced that Mr. Miler's
Watch was wound up and 'going, and would tell
the time o'day every evening until further notice,
which announcement was received with loud shouts
of applause. Mr. Howard was the Samivel, the
son and heir of the old coachman, and played well
up to Salter's Mr. Weller, senior. The Mrs. Jiniwin.
of'Mrs; Slby
.:was the very beau ideal of vulgarity.
Her Manner of picking up shrimps was rich in the
extreme. Of- the Daniel Quilp of -Mr. Attwood,
it.is impossible to speak too highly. His concep
tion and execution of the character, is •a work of
high genius. Quilp, in his hand, is the Quasimodo—

the untamed, Quasimodo, we mean, of real life.
Ilis costume, his manner, his voice—for there is a
harsh' and grating Voice peculiar to deformity—were
perfect ; his laugh was withering. We hope to
see this gentleman some day occupying his proper
position at one of the larger theatres; for a certain
line of character, there is not his' equal on the
stage. He was called for at the conclusion of the
piece, and loudly applauded. The piece is well
got up, and we recommend all who admire Boz
dramatised, to pay a-visit to the Strand.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
• (LLOYD'S..)

REGULATIONS BY THE RUSSIAN GOVERN

MENT.
The following is a copy of a letter received at Lloyd's
from the British Consul for Denmark, dated Elsinore,
Aug. 3, 1840: '
" SIR,--1 embrace the earliest opportunity of communi-
cating to you, for the information of the Committee, that
in consequence of representations made by her Majesty's
Ambassador at the Court of St. Petersburgh, the Russian
Government had resolved to admit into the Baltic ports of
Russia all British vessels laden with American cotton,
without subjecting them to fresh purification in the Sound,
with the condition, however, that such vessels are provided
with certificates, either from the British Government, or
from the Consulates of Russia or Denmark, proving such
cotton really to be of the growth of America, and to pro-
ceed from a port of Great Britain or America.
" This measure is made equally to extend to the ships
of other nations laden with American cotton, coming from
America, or from any European port, not in the Mediter-
ranean.

" I am, with the greatest regard, Sir,
" Your most obedient bumble servant,
(Signed) " FRANCIS C. MACGREGOR.
" Wm. Dobson, Esq., Lloyds', London."

CHURCH OF ENGLAND.—The return not
long since sent in with your signature representing nearly
one-half of England , and two-thirds of. Wales as . desti-
' tute of resident clergyMen,' is certainly a startling docu-
ment ; but as it by no means sets forth the whole extent of
the evil, I am encouraged to hope what I have to produce
by way.oi suppfement may not be unacceptable, as show-
ing that there is to the full as little security for much
benefit from the clergy when they ate actually resident as
when they are not. This humiliating fact I propose to
establish by the example of the parish where I reside;
and though the logic may look questionable, which reasons
from particulars to generals, I shall be disappointed if you
do not see enough in this single case to bear eut my
sweeping charge ; because, though my.parish church is
not far from deserted, there is no part of the machinery of
the Establishment wanting to secure an overflowing attend-
arice—because fifteen years' experience in this palish has
taught me that no remonstrance or importunity with either
Bishop or incumbent has succeeded to bring about the
slightest improvement—and because, my Bishop, feeling,
no doubt, considerably incommoded by my representations
and importunity, at last fairly backed out of the thing by
confessing he had no power to give redress. I consider
myself, therefore, justified to conclude that in most parilhes
the same unhappy result may be more or less expected as
in my own, the difference only depending upon the mere
lcciderital character or motives of, the individual pastor.
Now, if to half the land which your graze represents as
so deplorably destitute, you.add, those. paiishes where resi-
dent clerg)men arc of little or no use, what a spectacle
we shall have presented of a, Church which would bt; re-
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ind'it'on'illit;'aiid were found in,,the outer court, when
they were recaptured and placed in solitary confinement
in separate cells.—Heafurd Times.