The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-16 00:00:00

MR. O'CONNELL'S HEALTH.

The following letter has been addressed by Mr. Morgan
O'Connell to the editor of the Freeman's Journal:—

" Merrion-square, Thursday, March 11.
" Sir,—Having seen in your paper of this morning a com-
munication from yoar private correspondent in London,
giving a most alarming account of my father's state of
health, and knowing the great anxiety felt by all in Ireland
on the subject, I feel bound to inform you and the public,
that the letters which I constantly receive from my brothers
and Dr. Miley are of a much more cheering nature. The
following extracts from Dr. Miley's last letter will be read
with interest:--` My dear Sir,—lt delights me to inform you
that the rapidity with which your illustrious father's consti-
tution has rallied since our arrival in this place (Hastings)
affords us a proof the most decisive and cheering, that when
the physicians promised such great things as to his speedy
and perfect recovery from change of scene and climate, they
were, beyond question, right.',. Speaking afterwards as
.to how
he passed the night, he mentions his having enjoyeduthat
and placid sleep, from which he arose so much refreshed,
as he paced our delightful drawing-room, looking out o the
sparkling waters of the sea, you would hardly believe him
the same man. He breakfasted well, and eat a hearty dinner ;
his spirits, too, were cheerful. The doctors here entirely
coincide with the London physicians and Sir P. Crampton, as
to his soundness of constitution, and the certainty of his re-
servant,
covery.'—l am, Sir, your obed,l;eatoßGAN O'CONNELL."

OF
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL v. GIBBS.—PARISH
ST. STEPHEN, WALBROOK. In the Vice-Chancellor's
Court, on Friday, before Knight Bruce, the suit instituted
in November, 1843, against Mr. Alderman Gibbs and the
select vestry of the parish of St. Stephen, Walbrook, for an
account of the receipts, by Mr. Gibbs, of certain charity
moneys in respect of the parish, was heard. The
report of the Master had found that Mr. Gibbs was
a creditor to the extent of 5001, though he claimed
1,8001, to be due to him. This sum of 5001. had
not in any portion, under the decree, been paid into the
banking-house of Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co. The
Vice-Chancellor said—My present impression in the par-
ticular circumstances of this case is, that the defendants
should be allowed to speak on Thursday morning next ; and
I think that the only decree that can be made is this :
Let the Master inquire whether any and what sum or sums
of money has or have, under or in pursuance of the
direction in that respect contained in the decree,
been paid to the joint account of Mr. Gibbs and
Mr. Whitaker, or the churchwardens and overseers f
or
the time being of the said parish with the banking-house
Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., Lombard-street; and if
°f
shall End no such payment has been made let the
Mastleler
state why and under what circumstances it has
that no such payment has been made; let the happened
event continue the accounts directed by the decraseeteirolmn any
foot of the report : continue the reservation of further direc-
tions and costs, Mr. K. Parker suggested the appointment
of a receiver, but the Vice-chancelo; said that he could not
do thin upon the present state of the pleadingi.

' This lady having completed her engagement at Dublin,
where, -says the critic of the Pilot, " we do not recollect for
years a star who has so completely won the good-Will and
sympathy of a public," appeared on Tuesday evening for the
first time before an Edinburgh audience. A first appearance,
in Edinburgh is a trying ordeal for any artiste for the Edin-
burgh audience has the character of being the most learned
and at the same time the must critical in the kingdom. To
an inferior artiste this would prove a source of failure—to an
accomplished artiste like Madame Bishop, it is, on the con-
trary, a harbinger of success; an accomplished artiste likes
a critical and a learned audience. The character chosen for
her debdt was Amine, in the Sonnambula. The Caledonian
Mercury, speaking of her performance, says—" The beauti-
ful morceau, ' Oh, love, for me thy power,' was given with
the most brilliant finish and execution, and elicited the most
rapturous applause. But the greatest triumph of the even-
ing was the concluding solo, " 00, don't mingle," which she
gave in the original language. Such a furore did the singing
of this fine composition create, that notwithstanding its re-
petition, the cheering and waving of hats and handkerchiefs
did not subside until the curtain again rose, and it was giver%
a third time." The notice thus concludes—" This lady is
now decidedly the first English singer of the day; and we
are glad the Edinburgh public have the opportunity of lis-
tening to such a splendid voice, and with all the accessories
of the musical art—full orchestra, chorus, and efficient
operatic support.

MORE THEATRICAL LITIGATION
(From the Opera-Class.)
THE RENTERS OF COVENT GARDEN THEATRE

AT WAR WITH THE HOUSE.

No sooner has the legal question been mooted of the closing
of Covent Garden Theatre against the performance of Italian
opera, than, pendente lite, and during the abeyance of that
important point, a hundred matters of public prerogative
spring forth and grow into greatness, from among the dujecta
niembra of violated contracts and broken faith. While, with
a morality as bad as their law, and a want of principle as
desperate as their undertaking, the adventurers of Covent
Garden seem to have encouraged the delusion, that time can-
cels honour,—that integrity is banished by Act of Parlia-
ment,—that the value of a deed vanishes with its infraction,—
and the terms of a lease lose themselves among the years
which roll it on to its duality,—the public—holding very dif-
ferent and more 'constitutional views—determined after the
truth, deeming honesty sacred, and quickly jealous of its pri-
vileges, begins to make the gates of the new Babel quake
under a thunder of its own, and is proclaiming a will and
purpose which defy, and will assuredly crush, inroad after
inroad upon its rights.
Our article of last week—copied in full into the public
jonrnals, and iterated by the country press—has not only
told its tale of terror to the Covent Garden contractors for the
" pig in the poke," but has set the holders of other vested
interests to see how far the infringers of one right will be
the despoilers of another.
A description appears in the papers of the alterations and
desecrations which have been made architecturally within the
house; the renters read it, and exclaim, " Why, this new
management is laying the foundation of another spoliation ;
our money consideration for the • renters' shares will be
abrogated, as the money consideration for Mr. Lumley's ex-
clusive right to the performance of Italian opera would' have
been abrogated, but for a warning from justice, and the in-
stepping of the law."

once the renters ate in arms; and the result of their
resolution is, that they will, in the event of the opening of the
theatre under the projected selp.nte, Vriwly enrolee their
statutable privileges, that the subscrib.2N ill be finite as
ready as the (I medlar to close the home.
We have received a number of letters from this class of
property-holders of Covent Garden Theatre. One of them,
a gentleman of position, who has authenticated his statement
to us, has also forwarded extracts from the statute by which
. the rights of the renters are secured. Olc of these is a provi.
sion that

" Each renter or his nominee stall be entitled to be pre-
sent at and see gratis, in ANY rAnT of COVFNT GARDEN
"FrIEATRE, 6r p►ace to be used in lieu there: f; except the
stage and behind the scenes, and except the boxes reserved"
L meaning the private boxes previous to the present altera-
tions], " every theatrical or other performance which shall
be publicly exhibited at the above theatre," &c.
This is as unmistakeable as the deed quoted in our last.
Our correspondent very properly argues, that the. manage-
ment can have no legal right to convert those public boxes,
in all of which the renters have saleable shares, into private
boxes, from which they are to be excluded. No; the ren-
ters will be legally free of the prieate boxes, as well as (by
matter of course) of the stalls:, " unless," as it is playfully
remarked, " the lessee can make out in a court of law that a
stall is a reserved box !"

With much moderation, our correspondent suggestively
hints, that " he (the lessee) should not attempt to infringe
their indisputable rights, and thereby provoke hostility and
litigation, to which he must eventually succumb."
Well, this is a very pretty quarrel as it stands ; but oye
gods, to what a consummation does it lead ! There are hun-
dreds of renters; and all of them are not, like our correspon-
dent, of the genus gentleman. Many a man of them will
have " that as is his'n " at any sacrifice of courtesy or good
taste. Many of the renters' shares are in the hands of those
who bought them for a guinea, and are now premiumising
them among the multitude upon the, temptation of a possible
contact with fine company.
In the Times they are advertised from day to day, and the
right of entree into stalls and private boxes is the democratic
impetus which sends them up. The right of inconvenienc-
ing the aristocracy is something, and hundreds would pay
for it with brutal pleasure. Imagine Lady —, a sub-
scriber, rapt in the luxury of some divine performance, sud-
dealy started out of propriety by the appearance of the
market-gardener who supplies her ladyship's greenhouse,
in the distinguished society of her ladyship's cook I Con-
ceive another Jeames, of Berkeley Square, the nonchalant
occupier of the crimson-cushioned sitting of his lordship's
private box ! Fancy a true connoisseur, arrived a little
late in the pit, and finding an unrelenting renter in his
fancy stall. And again, how exquisitely the project of
a lady's omnibus box, par exemple (and we have heard that
such an absurdity is on the tapis), would assimilate with the
notion of some fair frail renter—from one of the resorts which
the theatre—presented with a lean share by the hard-ex-
torted liberality of some stockbroker's Newman Noggs,
claiming her right of entrée among the polished coterie ; and
afterwards setting the fashions of Hart-street, from a careful
imitation of the glories of the emigrants from the Nest!
We confess, however, that while thus alluding to the
abomination of those precincts of the theatre, which defile
it by immediate contact, there is, nevertheless, one ad-
vantage of locality, which stands out in fine relief, and es-
pecially for the quelling of the renters' rows. The police
station is the resort in esse, for all practical purposes,
and now there had better be established an electric
telegraph between Bow-street and the boxes, the
station and the stalls! Or should legal assistance be
required in an emergency, the aristocracy of the
theatre will be convenient for the opinion of the
learned Baron of the Judge and Jury Club! There
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in the way of alteration demonstrates that the rights_ at least_
are to be defied, it is as wesllotoatbefolilonwt.heLnoei‘thrsbooufrhoodo
the police-office, for the row
disturb-
ance, too, may
their account take a round dozen of nightly brawls into
of the evening's entertainments; and we shall
have the critics of the morning papers writing eurrenk
calamo, "Box 49 interrupted this beautiful aria with an
erneute in alto, in whieti' it was completely lost;" or " the
obstreperous behaviour of stall 86 led to an exchange of
cards, by which a noble lord found himself in prospect of a
duel with his cheesemonger." The old O.P. and P.S. riots
—which really were riots in their way—will revive their
formidable character—not like a " giant refreshed with
wine," but" like a revolution refreshed with renters;" and
while parvenu fashionable do their pugilism in the pit, there
will be ladies in the boxes in an hysteria of consternation at
the determined presence of" those odious renters or their
abominable nominees."

AwruL SHIPWRECK, 160 PEaSONS DROWNED.--.
Intelligence was received yesterday in the City, announcing
the awful loss of an emigrant ship belonging to Hamburgh,
in the Gulf stream, while on her passage to Canada, by
which upwards of 160 emigrants perished. The vessel is re..
ported to be the barque Stephani, Captain Bruger, master,
which sailed from the port of tiamburgh on the 28th of Oc-
tober last. The calamity is stated to have occurred daring
the heavy gales on the 18th of December. The master and
four of the crew are reported to have been picked up in an
open boat by a schooner frbm New Orleans. Further ac-
counts arc anxiously looked for by the ci:-,,:nts in London and
liamburgh. —Sunday paper.
EFFECT or A MANDAMUS.—FauIkner, who was
committed at the Macclesfield County Police-office, on a
capital charge of cutting and maiming the gamekeepers at
Astle, he having been engaged with others in night poach-
ing, and who was bailed out some weeks ago, on a mandamus
from the Court of Queen's has just set out for America.
His family intend to follow him in the course of a week.
Macclesfield Courier.
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